skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FreeBSD jails don't have a one-command way to install a preconfigured jail for a specific service. And they don't have a way (that I know of) to write a config file describing a bunch of jails and services, then run that file and install all of those services on a new machine.

Docker is less elegant than jails in a lot of ways, but not having to figure out how to install each service on your own is a huge advantage.

I tried using Ansible to set all of my services up, and it really didn't work. Probably because I was using a different machine as the Ansible controller, and there is no Ansible plugin to connect to jails on a remote machine. I tried writing my own, and it just barely worked, but with a lot of bugs I could never fully track down (because Ansible's internals aren't documented at all). Eventually it just wasn't worth it to keep trying to use FreeBSD.
Hashicorp isn't going to budge here. The same argument that you've made about Terraform being the underpinnings and needing to be open-sourced can be applied to their other important products like Vault, Consul and Nomad as well. The ecosystem of those three is plainly a direct competitor to Kubernetes which is open-source.

There's really no move for them to make here. It's unfortunate.
This is the problem I have with Graeber's "bullshit job" idea. It does "feel true". Yet we are generally so useless as individuals that there is no alternative but to play along. And, if the pantomime were to stop, then we'd all just starve, right? I think his purpose was noble: "Peoples' time is terribly misallocated, and we could do a lot better by setting everybody free." But this isn't some abundant Nature that surrounds us; it's a synthetic hellscape, where the trees on which food grows have been cut down to make way for parking lots, the buffalo have been slaughtered for the sole purpose of control, and it is illegal to build a house except from Home Depot materials. We are pathetically dependent and utterly owned. So the little guy also has to maintain the illusion of usefulness to the hand that feeds. Again, without it, then he, by which I mean we, would starve.
Indeed, but this general wisdom is too vague to be useful on its own.

When I was young, I heard it many times, and couldn't make anything from it.

What's the audience exactly? How do I know them? Once I know them, what am I suppose to do? And all that stuff is contextual, so what are we talking about really?

When learning to negociate, knowing your audience is a very different thing than when trying to teach. Very few people are able to pull it off accross fields.

So I decided to write an article that targets a specific case with a concrete application and examples.

This would have been more useful to me back then.
The only person I know who couldn’t recognize a Taylor Swift song is my dad, who is a 70-year old Bangladeshi man who listens to American country and Bangladeshi village music on YouTube.
Yes, the language there is Zephyr ASDL [1]. I actually changed this:

Dict(expr* keys, expr* values)

to

Dict(List[expr] keys, List[expr] values)

in our fork for https://oilshell.org/ , and it made a lot more sense to contributors.

It's funny how "sticky" syntax is -- two contributors ALSO read * as "pointer" ! So I changed it to be consistent with MyPy syntax earlier this year, and now I think I should have done that a long time ago.

(It would also make sense to change it to keys: List[expr], as that's the Python 3 syntax for types)

---

The funny thing is that while the web page says "Abstract Grammar", I would not call Zephyr ASDL a grammar.

Python has a separate Grammar/Grammar file, that is distinct from this file Python/Python.asdl.

A grammar describes a set of strings, and that's not what ASDL does.

It describes the data structure that the valid strings get transformed to after parsing, and there is not a 1:1 correspondence (e.g. due to the difference between a CST and AST, and other post-parsing validation).

I mentioned that here: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/12/11.html#it-describes-a...

(Pretty sure "ungrammar" from rust-analyzer is nodding at this -- https://rust-analyzer.github.io//blog/2020/10/24/introducing... -- it's "ASDL for concrete syntax trees", i.e. it's not a grammar because it doesn't describe strings; it describes trees)

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=ASDL#ASDL
> They could even close source the thing and implement a load of proprietary APIs

Right, but that capability is exactly what the upthread comment is cheering for Apple having. Apple goes even farther and straight up denies competitors access to its platform entirely.

It's the asymmetry I don't understand: why is proprietary control good for one side but not for the other? Is the goal here preserving open systems and interoperability or is it just to Beat Google?
Enforcement is part of good government and good civil engineering.
As an European it is unbelievable with the kind of crap Americans need to deal with. I would expect the bank to apply a microscopic transfer fee and that's it, not a normal company deciding an arbitrary insane percentage fee. It really feels like everything is trying to nickel and dime you guys over there.
Barbie: A Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?
Unless there remains some antisceptic by-product, the flora can quickly take back over if mixed with "healthy" soil.

I would be more concerned about effectively turning the soil into clay, that is reducing the particle size too small for many types of plants. I guess mixing it with an aggregate afterward could help.

Then again, the highly processed nanoscale dirt could be an ideal building product able to supplement concrete or enabling even more durable rammed earth houses. Not sure anyone would want to live inside a 99.9% PFAS-free dirt house though.
Glenn Greenwald on Wikipedia's Neutrality
Weak Cryptographic Parameters in LUKS1
Donations don't pay for Firefox development. Chromium is a bit more than Google these days. Mozilla's largest failure to date has been their inability to attract other significant corporate interest, which Google has done with Chromium
After having some React full time for over 2 years, the first time I used svelte I was at least 3x more productive than I was in react.

That is what I got out of it.
> It absorbed resources and focus, which resulted in the browser stalling development, which resulted in shrinking marketshare, which resulted in less money from the search deals, which resulted in the ongoing job losses.

That's history revision. The browser development didn't stall because of FirefoxOS, it was slow for other reasons (look at the leadership team changes when the Quantum started).

Please remember that FxOS started in 2011. At the time WindowsPhone was quite new (first release in 2010), Samsung was pushing Tizen and Android was not nearly as dominant. Context matter. Mozilla already knew that Firefox would not be the default browser on Android (Google waited for Chrome to be ready to replace the crappy default one that was subpar compared to Firefox) so owning a platform was a logical step. It would still be better these days.
Drawing a precise boundary around "Chrome" is hard, since many people work on it part time, or are associated with tangentially related projects, like the skia graphics engine, v8 javascript engine, etc.

However, there were 767 unique authors who committed code direct to chromium in the last week:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pulse

And I would guess the Chrome team is probably 3-5x that, since many people may not be working on code, may not commit directly, or might be working on big things on branches and didn't commit anything this week. Also, that doesn't count work on external dependencies, which are counted as "autoroll bots".
> These are literally studies where WV comes in at the bottom of the list.

WV has been at the bottom of these lists for 50 years - and it has had a massive politic shift over the last 20...

It's almost as if things aren't as reductive as you think.
PayPal provided me with an electronic copy of the canceled check, as per my OP.
"About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret
> For example, pitch 17 firms with NDA protected IP in the slide deck, than your project could be considered public domain.

Do you have source/explanation where I can learn more? How can one protect against that?
It is true that it was much more popular then than it is today. But it still as far as I know never managed to gain more than a small percentage foothold. That doesn't mean that it was insignificant, it doesn't take a whole country to subscribe to something to change the course of history. But revolutionary socialism/communism did not come even close to being able to subvert the democratic process in those countries that already had a majority or coalition rule in place. Though there definitely were recorded attempts in almost every country they all fizzled out.
You didn't read the article, the title is just sensationalist that is completely wrong. Nothing you reacted to is actually real.

All that the chinese ebike companies said is that users shouldn't try to repair a bad battery. The article says every other bike repair they are fine with.
Integrated commuter rail map of New York City and Philadelphia
learned vi when I had to develop on a IBM RS6000 with AIX 3 (or 4, but we had to support AIX 3 as well) around 2008.

best shell available was ksh, and the only really usable mode was vi mode.

in addition the only worthwhile editor available on this system and customers was vi. (IIRC emacs was obtainable but not installable on customers machines, and heck of a lot slower than vi)
The point is they still could. As in the terms as written, after the push back, would allow it, but you have their word they're not going to.
Enrique Iglesias was called out by Howard Stern for crappy vocals in his concert 23 years ago (good lord!).[0] Enrique explained that they overdubbed some of his songs so much in concert that you couldn't tell he was deliberately singing off key, that is until someone gave Howard Stern a copy of the mic feed.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UWTDFaEYo
They refer to the byproduct as possible grinding compound or fill material so they aren't intending to use it as soil.

>The process left an inert powder suitable for being a grinding additive or non-hazardous fill
This has been my experience as well. Our pentesters didn't really find anything. It really felt like box ticking. The deluge of people from hackerone found all sorts of little gaps they missed.

In the beginning we got a lot of false positives. Things like people creating two accounts and giving them both access to the same resource (a common task in our platform), and filing that as a bug. Probably half of our reports were like this, the other half were real bugs.

Over time the reports have dropped off, but still trickle in every now and again.

I definitely think the bug bounty was much more effective than the pentest at discovering vulnerabilities.
Yes, indeed. She also got lucky, depending on the speed that that happened at, a blowout in a turn can be really nasty.
ChatGPT Tests into Top 1% for Original Creative Thinking
Kris Parker on Hacker News. The planets have aligned.
U2F/FIDO2 based SSH keys on Windows
Archaeologists uncover Europe's oldest stilt village
Northern Sweden hasn´t really had that great a summer, colder July than normal, the far north of Norway seems to have had a good summer though.
The US famously has the most difficult-to-alter constitution of any country. There's about 200 countries globally, political scientists generally agree we have the single most-difficult to change one. So sure, it's 'possible' in the same way that I could potentially make an NBA team, sure
Sadly I don't remember anymore. I ran into plenty of them 3 or 4 years ago (every week or so), then I stopped using Firefox altogether because of that. At work, some coworkers were using Firefox last year and it broke various third party libraries (especially graphics heavy ones). Rather than trying to fix the bugs, we just decided to deprecate Firefox support altogether because its usage was down to like 2 or 3 percent. Those resources were better spent on, say, improving mobile usability and performance for everyone.

Edit: I wish Mozilla would just fork Chromium and add/delete whatever privacy things they want, like Brave. There's no reason to maintain Gecko anymore.
I don't understand the comparison. With cannabis companies, did the overall sales go down or did certain companies capture the market?

Because if it's about certain companies capturing the market, I'd put money on Disney
Yes, we do. It’s a succinct prompt that assists with communication and engagement. I’m sorry you’ve had a bad experience.
It's probably using SMBus -- a standard protocol for exchanging information like state of charge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Bus

If it's not, then I agree that the proprietary shit has to go.
I know someone who has diagnosised but untreated schizophrenia. She was admitted to the hospital after she started having thyroid problems and they also administered schizophrenia medication while she was in. The change in her behaviour was positive and dramatic and allowed her to start accepting help after being scared that men in white coats would take her away if she ever let on about her illness to anyone. Now she has been out of hospital for a while, unmedicated again and back to her old behaviour including talking to people who aren’t there and having bad episodes. Maybe some medications are off the mark but whatever they used for her absolutely worked.

I realise a sample size of one anecdotal piece of evidence is hardly scientific, but I’m getting rather tired of the constant mouse model studies, with barely related parameters.

I wish there was a better way to do medical research, in actual human beings. Unfortunately it seems historically that actual human medical research is mired in the suffering of the (generally unwilling) participants.
Usually it's inside the wall (you can do this with USB outlets, too, which I recommend if you've already got 120v power).

But people who are uncomfortable running mains will often be fine running "low voltage" lines like ethernet.
After reading through several of your comment chains on this thread, I suspect something like a yubico security key with PIN protection enabled may be your least-bad option for travel with a second factor. The USB A ones are flat and thin and so easily carried whether in pockets, wallets, on a keychain, or even on a temporary necklace. The hardware is supposed to be somewhat resistant to key extraction, and the PIN means someone cannot instantly use it if taken from you.
Somebody should point out to them that there's an error in their Parameters:

https://www.hashicorp.com/bsl

The "Licensed Work" parameter should refer to what they are licensing. Right now it reads "The Licensed Work is (c) 2023 HashiCorp, Inc."

I don't see how a corporation itself is copyrightable content to which a license may be granted.
Where does this data come from?

I use Firefox because I am privacy-conscious, as a result I have telemetry turned off. Do people like me show up in those stats?
100%, because Google is using Linux?
Oh, thank you for sharing this :) I was not aware. I wish it "converted", but it is at least a nice starting point.
Based on my notes from reading The New World: Volume 1, 1939-1946 by Hewlett and Anderson, approximately 1/6th of the Uranium used for the Manhattan Project came from Canada, 1/7th from the US, and the rest came from the Belgian Congo (most of that was actually shipped across the Atlantic before the US entered the war- it was stored on Staten Island for safekeeping before US entry and the creation of the Manhattan Project). I don't know much about the US uranium, but I do know that the Belgian Congo uranium mining was also done under a racist colonial system that exploited the locals and gave them inadequate protection or understanding of the risks they were taking. Postwar US Uranium mines in Arizona and Utah also used Dine (Navajo) and other native peoples with similar levels of racism, exploitation, leaving thousands of people sick etc.

There are surprisingly strong parallels to the current 'Race for Lithium' and 'Race for Rare Earths'- hard-rock mining is a terrible business all the way around.
Daniel Spiewak has posted a perspective before. The TL;DR is that Loom makes the implementation of CE/ZIO more straightforward, but it probably won't replace the effect systems themselves since they offer a lot more than just "light threads":

https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/sa927v/comment/htsoy...
>It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working

Well yes. Full employment is considered a social good, so voters and governments encourage it, so the system finds ways to figure out jobs for people to do.
The last one [3] shows exactly what happens when you don't leave social media.

You don't want that one.
I'm the founder of https://approximated.app, which is a service focused entirely around making this easy, affordable, and reliable. We have a 30 day free trial if you want to check it out risk free. It works with any lang/framework/hosting platform so that you're not locked in to anything. If you have any questions, there's a 24 hour chat widget and email where you can reach an engineer or myself.

Cloudflare SSL for SAAS is also another option, though (and I'm biased here) there's quite a bit locked behind their enterprise plan, which jumps the cost up significantly. We have an article describing the differences here: https://approximated.app/approximated-cloudflare-comparison
(Obviously biased towards us, but also backed up by links to their docs for each point)

Finally, you can build and self-host your own service to do this if you want. I'd recommend https://caddyserver.com for it if you'd like to go that route. It will handle a lot for you, and is very well designed - we use a customised version of it under the hood. That said, it's still something you'll need to host, sort out dynamic config updates, and monitor. Custom domains, especially securing them, can have a lot of unexpected issues crop up at random times.

Caddy will do a lot to try and deal with those, but if you're doing this for very long or at any kind of scale, you'll run into some pretty obscure issues that are usually caused by external factors (like a CA suddenly revoking a bunch of certs, or changing the way certs can be verified). It can be stressful trying to figure those out while your custom domains are down, and they're usually hard to predict. A paid service will almost certainly be cheaper, easier, and much more reliable unless you dedicate engineers to maintaining it. For instance, Approximated starts at $10/month, or about the price of the VM/VPS you'd host Caddy on anyways.If you're going to be scaling up, we also give automatic volume discounts for every 1,000 custom domains.
my ide... VSCode checks string literals for things like this.
I mean, just because an array of symbols is generated mechanically doesn't inherently make it meaningless, because meaning arises from the execution of those symbols (in case of computer programs; or interpretation, in case of human language).

If you read a sentence (whose source is unknown to you) and it has meaning to you and affects you, what difference does it make if the sentence was written by a human or a machine?
“Forever chemicals” is intellectually lazy nomenclature.

Flonase, Lipitor, Xanax are all PFAS.

The range of half-life for untouched PFAS ranges over many orders of magnitude in hours. For long half-life components, energy (like this anrticle) and catalysis can break them down in seconds.

Smart waste management is all that is required to minimize risk. Fear of manufacturing will just move the tech to China where the environment will be worse off.
> Taylor Swift doesn’t understand supply and demand

I interpreted this as a criticism of Swift's attempt to generalize her experience to the rest of the artists in the industry.

As you say, Swift and her marketing team have a solid understanding of what her fans will accept. However, to have her say that her tactics are applicable to musicians who don't have anywhere near her sort of following comes across as tone-deaf (heh) at best, and disingenuous at worst.
Long before that, even (although you could argue it's a different type of grocery delivery):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwan%27s_Company

> The Schwan's family maintains 100 percent ownership of Minnesota-based Schwan’s Home Service, a privately held, independent entity traced to the company’s home-delivery business launched by Marvin Schwan in 1952. Schwan's Home Service sells frozen foods from home delivery trucks, in grocery store freezers, by mail, and to the food service industry. As of 2022, Schwan's Home Service will be rebranded as Yelloh.
Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes
My understanding is that OFAC was aware of the whole Russia sanctions dodging via Freedom Holding affiliated entities at least as early as Q3 2022, but that it curiously decided to not do anything.
A startup that can get rid of Health Insurance companies butting in between Doctors and Patients and existing only for catastrophic events (cancer etc). Get rid of Insurance premiums, copays, deductibles and all the other crazy stuff. Let patients pay out of pocket directly to Doctors. That would bring down the cost of healthcare like crazy. Yes I know this will require some legislations etc and I am a nobody in this field but man I would love for this to happen. Hate the Health Insurance bullshit with a passion.
> If you just send the ticket to whomever is the easiest to target (regardless of guilt), then it’s more about revenue than safety.

If you lend your car to someone, you are taking responsibility for the way they drive that car. If you can't do that, you shouldn't lend them your car.
> We'd need the Linux Foundation or some other large neutral standards body to fork Chromium

Why is the answer always more chromium?

And for a userbase nominally so positively biased towards open source it is weird to see how google gets a pass on pretty much everything, while mozilla/firefox has this incredibly carefully curated list of offenses that is maintained and spread by the community, doing most of the work at ensuring that firefox never goes anywhere. There's a lot of Linux proponents here who are doing all the heavy work of carrying water for Google when it comes to chrome dominance.

Yeah, so every time you actually restart firefox after it updates you probably get an ad for mozilla VPN. Okay compare that to Google literally being the central advertising and spyware hub of the entire internet. "I'll just have to use the worst option possible, because the alternative isn't 100% ideologically pure".
I assume he's a really talented developer, and IBM/Redhat assigned him to a more pressing task. It sucks for desktop Linux, but I can't really blame IBM/Redhat for assigning him to more pressing issues.
yeah and, strangely, part of the value in a legendary player's "rookie card" is that it's devoid of all that useful information, because nobody at the time knew yet how good (say) Homer Simpson would be in his career
I have long believed that speed cameras are for revenue generation, not safety.
Non-academic here with an honest question.

Is there still scientific value in many of these journals? Or has it become a career-boost network similar to LinkedIn?

The handful of pHds I know all work in private industry and don't publish anymore, despite working on some interesting studies in the tech space
3000 engineers * $200k average total comp = $600M. It's in the same ballpark as mozilla's total revenues.
Indeed, the History of Documented Unix Facilities [https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-man] says a vi(1) man page first appeared in 2BSD, and vi is implemented (as part of ex, with a 1979 copyright) in 2BSD src/ex, with the main routines at src/ex/ex_vmain.c: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-2-S...