skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world.

It is all so tiresome. A discussion of Arabic influences in European culture would certainly be interesting. Too bad she tries to frame the history of Muslim colonization of Europe [0-4] and kidnapping of its people into slavery [5,6] as something where Europeans are the villains, and that what little benefit they managed to extract (or steal, as she put it) from these hostile interactions indebted them to their colonial masters.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna_(1529)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devshirme
“Free software” and “open source” mean the same thing.
> ...life is harder for [individuals] who are not attractive and for those who are not athletic.

This has probably been the case for every society of conscious creatures in history.
The Industrial Engineers have completely redesigned the registration process. Documentation is running about six weeks behind schedule. Good luck.
Not an expert on this but I've both seen it and done it: fear of punishment for asking for help/admitting weakness was why I did it.

I've had a boss that used our team as his scapegoat to cover his ass whenever he fucked up. When I was fresh out of college at my first real job said boss fucked up his budgeting and blamed us for being unproductive. I offered to work extra to get us back on track and while I was successful... The fact that the project went way over budget and that only 3 people on a 16 person team was at 100% utilization made it to senior management (who was responsible for assigning out work? The boss). Guess who got thrown under the bus for it? It was eventually sorted out but that was the most miserable week of my career at the time wondering if I was seriously about to be fired for sacrificing my time to help on a project that wasn't even mine. Ever since that I made it a point to get between "bosses" and my teammates to try and prevent anyone else from going through the hell I went through until I finally left that job.

Flash forward some years, a colleague missed a key deadline and I wasn't as aggressive about offering assistance as I really should have been. When leadership came knocking I had to fight the urge to defend myself and openly admitted my mistake, because although it wasn't my task to do the work it WAS my responsibility to see it through and I was the one accountable for it. My logic was "just as it felt shitty to get blamed for something I didn't do, I refuse to let someone else take the fall in my place. Give me liberty or give me death." It stung and it stung hard. I got absolutely no reward for the honesty and got reprimanded anyway- lost half my bonus, skipped over for senior even though I had the same responsibilities as the seniors, and didn't get a merit raise that year or the year after- but I felt good for sticking to my beliefs even when the only outcome was punishment. It was even more amplified when that same coworker went on to become an analyst and later a product owner years after the incident, showing growth and confidence that may not have been realized had I thrown them under the bus like my boss did to me all those years ago.

I think this is 100% a leadership problem. If the guys at the top are too afraid to take their whooping like a man how can they expect the grunts to do it? If leadership won't formally implement a "no stupid questions" policy what do they think their staff is going to do when they NEED to ask a "stupid question?"

Nobody needs to lie to cover their asses if their asses aren't at risk just for being human, but (on the US, at least) many walk on eggshells to avoid being the goose/gray duck in a sea of ducks/not-gray ducks.
I mostly agree. But I also think it is a jerk move to change the license like this after accepting many external contributions, even if it is legal due to CLAs.

At least they admit it isn't open source in the FAQ and are calling it the community version instead of the open source version.
Shame they never finished Rage. It was a pretty good game up to the point where the boss came in and said they needed to have it out the door in a week.
Lines in 079.l that must not be indented: 24-26,33,36,39,48,57,76,90,106,119,126,134,149,150

All other lines must be indented.
They are, but unlike Amazon they don't pretend to NOT be.
Ever Wonder What a Cookie Wall Is?
All the fiber is specced as 20/10D, so should be well within tolerance
Wouldn't it be trivial to calculate the approximate location of the bullets just 11 seconds after them being fired, and therefore warn the pilot of they're heading toward that location?
Let me guess, whole organic foods and no red meat
I ended up just getting a bigger PV system and a heat pump hot water system. The clincher is - how much hot water do you actually need? Just running for about two hours at 1kW draw, the heat pump generates all the hot water I need for the next 24 hours.

So since I have limited roof space, it’s better for me to use that for PV and just use a few kWh of that per day for water heating, instead of dedicating space to a solar hot water collector.
Why doesn’t MIT dredge a lake on campus then?
Maybe we'll see the whole team at [Axiom](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/0b12cdcfd17278d7cca2...) riding around in Maseratis.
Call be crazy, but I dig the SG switches
Not resolving or responding. Kick it?
Somewhat unrelated but for those interested in early war plane history and haven't stumbled over it already, Greg's[1] YouTube channel is awesome.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@GregsAirplanesandAutomobiles
Fair! That's "healthier."
I really disagree that therapy is trying to solve a lack of community. This may work for eg depression or social anxiety. But it’s much less clear if we’re talking about trauma recovery, psychosis management, etc. a community is very rarely well equipped enough to manage all manner of disordered eating, psychosis, compulsive disorders, etc. It’s important to recognize that it can be traumatizing for an undereducated person to be thrust into dealing with someone else’s mental illness crisis!
I don't think that definition is universally agreed upon. I have had many conversations over the years where the term "scraping" referred to activities that didn't involve things like parsing HTML.
Everyone's talking about how they would smoke different cigars/cigarettes. And here I am just wanting everything in a jar timelapse in dirt...
I think the point of Docker is a reproducible build environment.
Which, given those are traditionally desirable traits, isn't that surprising.
Kind of an overestimation.

From the launch site to actually have a trajectory that hits the inhabited part of the island isn't that easy. One Raptor getting hit wouldn't be enough. The whole central steerable core of engines being knocked out, and not only that, in a way that shifts the trajectory in the exact 'right' place is incredibly unlikely. Specially as the rocket would likely also try differential steering.

The flight termination system might very well have worked just fine in most circumstances. By the time it was triggered the rocket was in strange position and already flipping. We don't have official information yet but it seems likely that had something to do with it.

For anything bad to happen a huge number of very low-probability events would have to combine to lead to that outcome.
Nice!

I wish Mozilla release altstore/sideload version of IOS app with all the feature available in android.
I enjoy this simply to have sunset, sunrise, and moon phase on my wrist. The added precision from the finetune watch face is a nice bonus.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attributi... is kind of related

But it is built completely manually
Disney Exits the Metaverse
Blaming smartphones is a recent meme for a phenomenon that precedes smartphones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

>Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital". Putnam surveys the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all the forms of in-person social intercourse upon which Americans used to found, educate, and enrich the fabric of their social lives. He argues that this undermines the active civic engagement which a strong democracy requires from its citizens.
Harvard is a pretty mediocre CS school. I would expect MIT, CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC, and the other (last I looked) 30 better schools for CS to do better on average.

I don’t mean this as unkind, but Harvard is very hard to get into and very selective and state schools generally are neither. This often means the people that get in, other than legacy, are very capable people. State schools also have very capable people, but as a percentage it’s the vast majority of Harvard and the vast minority of state school students are equally as capable. This gives a leg up on the first jobs for sure - one, they’re likely to be more capable in general, and they have an achievement on their resume to prove it. Admission to Harvard IS an achievement in life.

But these advantages disappear quickly if you’re as capable or more, especially if you’re aggressive in locking in achievements and seeking better opportunities. After maybe 10 years into your career what school you went to matters almost not at all, and it’s entirely based on what you did with that opportunity. Many Harvard grads start strong due to the achievement on their resume then top out quickly in their careers because they’re just not very commercial, and many rely on their brand too much.

But you should -still- expect someone capable of getting into Harvard to be just as capable in their careers. That’s simply life. If it weren’t for Harvard, they would find other ways to differentiate.

The truth is, labor markets are not egalitarian. They reward people differently for different reasons, and their ability to compensate based on contribution is highly inefficient. That rewards people with achievements like a top school early when nothing else differentiates resumes. But it fades quickly, and it’s up to you to make a stronger resume if it matters to you.

But I think it shouldn’t matter. That was my point. Someone else doing better than you shouldn’t matter. What should matter is if you’re happy with what you’re doing yourself ignoring all other people. Anything else is petty, unhelpful, and at odds with how life and reality actually is.
I did find it super weird the first time I heard of Americans using asphalt shingles. Everything over here is either corrugated steel (often powdercoated) or tiles, apart from some fancy upmarket properties with zinc roofs.
Exclusion is not necessarily discrimination. Discrimination is a subset of exclusion, not an equivalent of it. People will be hurt by exclusion. Overuse of exclusion is a possible downside. Enforcement of bias through exclusion is a possible downside. Neither of these potentials means that exclusion is always discrimination. In most circumstances, exclusion is simply exclusion.

When exclusion is used in service to a bias and exists explicitly to disadvantage those the bias is against, that becomes discriminatory exclusion. Lichess is exercising their right to exclude here. You could construct a plausible argument that Lichess is discriminating against organizations that refuse to take a stand against sexual predation upon women and minors; I would absolutely agree.

However, “organizations that refuse to take a stand against sexual predation” is not a legally protected category, and so harassment laws do not apply. By the arguments of the top comments on this post, then, Lichess’s actions are lawful and therefore permissible.

If you’re able to identify amother category where their actions are biased against a protected group, that’s a good tangent, I suppose. But non-religious organizations don’t qualify for such protections, and so any actions taken here against these two chess organizations, are not grounds for a finding of discrimination — regardless of whether their exclusion is deemed to be discriminatory or not.
As mentioned in the original linked article the thing suppressing tropical systems so far this year is wind shear
Axis communications, exclusively.
Oh, that is quite interesting idea that I missed so far.

In case that you would go through them and manage to identify problematic cases: can you share list?

Either here, contact me somehow or even add cases to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attributi... listing?
I gained some air of notoriety with "popular" kids in secondary school after getting in some publicised computer-related shenanigans.

I'd also imagine computery-type teenagers are often introverted, which doesn't help.
Quake 2 was surprisingly playable online even with late-1990s-era ping times.

I played the hell out of the LMCTF mod back in the old days. Great times.
> can break even

... they can't.

> they complete those reservations

... they wont.
It's a fun and cheap project for anyone just tinkering with electronics.

Like the ben eater kits - it's not really useful, but it's fun to do and then have
Stop this old person trope. Your friend network is offline. There is life for you offline.

For a lot of youngsters, they don't have a network outside. They grew up online. All they know is online.

It is really hard for youngsters to get out of when they don't know anyone outside it.
You can debug snakemake with pdb. It also has actual dry-runs to test the dag before actually running anything (with nextflow you have to test run with “stubs”)
However, in order to be a theorem, it's generally required that the hypothesis be consistent with the axiomatic system, which is not possible if the hypothesis can be proven false.
That’s not true either, as they won’t possess https certificates for whatever the domain is and your browser would flag/block you from continuing.
Louisiana breaks ground on experimental project to rebuild lost wetlands
Your experience resonates with me, but just to play devil's advocate, wouldn't a good noise cancelling headphone fix most of the problems?
But thankfully Jump had some insider knowledge.

https://beststocks.com/jump-financial-llcs-significant-reduc...
It’s a fun requirement. Life isn’t fair. Wrapping your mind around the second to enjoy the first is a life skill.
Wow! That's cool. Thanks!
> Suicide deaths rose from 48,183 in 2021 to an estimated 49,449 deaths in 2022, CDC said.
Is there a mechanism to apply obfuscation on top of wireguard on latest Ubuntu stable? AFAIK wireguard is built inside the kernel.
The difference between you and a billionaire is a billion dollars.
Um. Mongodb changed its license before AWS offered a mongodb compatible service. And since I can't get the source code for documentdb, either it isn't actually using a fork of mongodb, or Amazon isn't complying with the AGPL. I think the latter is pretty unlikely.
> Dockerfiles are not stable. A Dockerfile that built just fine yesterday might fail to build today. There are simply too many external dependencies.

> Docker is not platform-independent. Especially if you’re running a container on other CPU architectures, e.g., Apple ARM, you’ll notice that some things don’t run. We’ll see this later.

And it keeps going on about how Docker doesn't really solve the problem.
The "tetris effect" is why I had to stop playing Lumines on the PSP. My sleep was dominated by dreams of that infernal game. Incidentally though I'm wicked good at it.
Hydrogen fuel cells are a really dangerous method of storing energy. Hopefully a more inert way to store the hydrogen will be developed. Also the prospect of leaking cells poses a huge risk to climate change.
I'm not so sure.

Neovim migrated to a more modern style of C and more tightly integrated Lua as its scripting language (instead of conscript). Those are two large potential stumbling blocks for contributors.

From loosely following development over the years, I see names like chrisbra and justinmk who contribute to both projects, but there seem to be many who contribute to neovim but never contributed to vim.

Neovim also seems to have influenced the development of vim: channels, jobs, terminal mode, and issues/PRs on github (instead of mailinglists) felt like shifts in response to neovim.

I think it's also to Bram, justinmk, and other maintainers credit that the two projects contribute back and forth: many vim fixes are merged to neovim and I see big changes get brought back to vim too.
You can see it in cost explorer if you break down by one of the spend types. Went and checked it: group by usage type and then filter for service: RDS and you can see your io usage broken out in plain baa cost explorer.
Studies in Falklands' peat lands, The importance of World Wetlands Day
I've wondered whether there might be any way to dissipate the vortex in a hurricane/tornado before it hits the land.. I accept/know that it's a very large and fairly complicated thing but also maybe it doesn't really need bulk air and temperature control to alter it? Perhaps a very specific kind of large-enough knock (of air or temperature-change) to get it to destabilize and move out of its feedback loop?
It was a fool's errand to think that we were going to have 10-20x more content for 1/5th the price forever

Streaming's original premise was cheap content in Netflix. People were fine waiting 2-3 years to watch a show when it came to Netflix (Breaking Bad, anyone?)

But when Netflix became more than just reruns with a good interface and became original content, and then a race to have more original content among all the players, it was obvious that we'd eventually be back to paying the same overall as we did for cable

Cable companies and traditional media companies could've easily prevented all of this by not getting so greedy on pricing and actually caring about the customer experience. Shitty cable boxes and $250 a month broke the system.

In many ways streaming is actually worse (broadcast of high def video is way more efficient than point-to-point individual streams, aggregation of all content into one UI was better than now having to bounce between apps) but in many ways it's better (Rokus and Apple TVs are lightyears better than 15 year old recycled cable set tops, and even if the total of all streaming ends up not being that much cheaper at least you can pick and choose what you get instead of a bundle)
“Did you live through 2020, 2021, and 2022? It was kind of a mess.”

Would be my response. I wouldn’t want to work for someone that asks that kind of question anyway.
Thanks for the correction! It seems more complicated after looking more into it.

According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename , reserved characters are:

HFS:

> :

HFS+:

> : on disk, in classic Mac OS, and at the Carbon layer in macOS; / at the Unix layer in macOS

APFS:

> In the Finder, filenames containing / can be created, but / is stored as a colon (:) in the filesystem, and is shown as such on the command line. Filenames containing : created from the command line are shown with / instead of : in the Finder, so that it is impossible to create a file that the Finder shows as having a : in its filename.

TIL about a 'carbon layer' and 'POSIX layer'
I've baked a ton of different SQLite tricks - including things like full-text indexing support and advanced alter table methods - into my sqlite-utils CLI tool and Python library: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io

My Datasette project provides tools for exploring, analyzing and publishing SQLite databases, plus ways to expose them via a JSON API: https://datasette.io

I've also written a ton of stuff about SQLite on my two blogs:

- https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite/

- https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite
“Therapy” provides many modalities, and generally they are based on pathology, which I feel is very limiting when you look at the broad scope of psychological wellness. One niche which it can end up filling is that of the (paid) friend. If that is missing in your life, you now have an ill-fitting surrogate for genuine companionship. It’s really not the purpose of therapy, but it is often the reality.

While I think that close friendships are important, I feel like that still falls well short of community.
You are a very skilled technical writer. One way to discern this is asking at a given point, "What question just likely popped into their mind after what they have read?" (you don't have to be right, just close) ... and importantly, "Do they need a little break from the main outline?" Your brief tangents in light blue are a perfect answer to both questions. Your terminal examples show what things really look like, or how they appear to people who work with the code every day. Your narrative glue shows impeccable grammar and flow. Don't try to change your style one bit, let it change itself over time.

Never went to college or high school. When I was 17 in 1981 and had been already been deep diving into several different types of computer systems over 3 years, I would have died to read what you have written, just the way it is written. It would have answered so many questions directly, fortunately I sometimes had other peoples' code to look at (and Vector Graphic actually included commented Z80 assembler for their entire BIOS in the manual, many pages!) but when you are short on examples to look at, that's when the real disillusionment sets in. I love today's world, one is only a few keywords away from great examples. The challenge is to present them in a way that someone reading puts it all together and becomes excited about understanding.

Great work!
Great summary. Just wanted to say that the Q2 OST (at least the base game) was made by Sonic Mayhem while the Q1 one was made by NIN.

Both are great OSTs, Q1 is a "ambient-horror-esque" styled album [1] while Q2 OST [2] is practically industrial metal made using synths.

[1] https://youtu.be/5n8iU7abqkQ
[2] https://youtu.be/svRkAEoT5Hc
> Once you’re ready to test the mobile version of your extension, create a collection on AMO and test it on Firefox for Android Nightly

Just in case anyone missed this, it seems that Android Firefox STILL will not allow anonymous installation of extensions. Even if you wrote the extension yourself, and want to install on your own device.

Only workaround is to only install approved extensions, or be forced into registering on AMO. if I am wrong I will be happy to hear it, but this upcoming release doesn't seem to offer any meaningful change in regards to user privacy and control.
I'd love to hear how that plays out after a decade of use. It's something I've considered experimenting with for a future ADU/guest-house on my desert property, but it seems too troublesome for my liking.
Let’s remember to be nice to each other
We built our OSS company (Apache 2.0) with Nomad at its core. We provide game server orchestration with a handful of services around it, which could be misconstrued to be considered providing a "competitive offering to HashiCorp." Needless to say, we'll be freezing our Nomad version at the last MPL version because of how vague the license is (intentionally).

We also use CockroachDB which uses BSL, but we're not providing a remotely competitive offering.

I'll likely continue to recommend HashiCorp products (Nomad, Consul, Terraform, and Packer) to anyone who asks my advice, but it's disappointing to hear this change.

We maintain a rudimentary SBOM for anyone curious: https://github.com/rivet-gg/rivet/blob/main/docs/infrastruct...
> “Sold by QRYGGS, fulfilled by Amazon.”

Do you think we can side step the issue by only buying stuff that’s “sold by” Amazon or one of its global subsidiaries?