skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pilots can have the opposite problem: a plane smoothly banking at night can feel like nothing at all. So they have to trust their instruments not their inner ear.
A huge collection of fill in blank formulae, like "Travel distance at 10 kph for 10 hr equals to 100 km or 62.137 mi", but seemingly everything the users or their employee needed more than once.
I think in this case it's a bit more nuanced. I don't think the Usenet denizens of old were against new members. September usually brought an influx of new users when university freshmen would start school (at the time, many people's first introduction to the internet was when they got a connection at their university). It would be a bit of work, but over the next couple months the old-timers would acclimate the newcomers to Usenet etiquette, and all would be well.

The issue with the Eternal September was that AOL users suddenly got Usenet access, and the constant flood of new, un-acclimated users was too much for the existing users to handle.

Yes, I agree that there's still a degree of gatekeeping there, but communities have standards, and community standards (assuming they're good ones) are usually a great way to maintain civility and keep things on track and on topic.
> I'm wondering if humans are mostly incapable of producing great things without (artifical) restrictions.

Here is an opinion to support your hypothesis from a couple of different domains: poetry and music.

While some people prefer free verse and avante-garde music, what stays most in my mind, and what seems to endure longest overall, are poetry with regular rhyme and meter and music that follows standard patterns of melody, rhythm, and harmony. Having to force their creativity into those sometimes rigid frameworks seems to enable many artists to produce better works.
Is it your belief that in the case of asking a question without a clear answer that the quality of the result isn't relevant? Or that all results are of equally high quality? Do you think that the results on the Google SERP are of the highest quality when you ask these questions?
> The only downside is you can't do something like "Hi ${FIRST_NAME}" in your emails

Which might be an upside, because there are cultures and contexts where it’s incredibly rude. You’re a glorified ledger, not a family member or life-long friend.
Life does not reduce entropy even in isolation
It's not 18 months of instruction. It's about 3 weeks of instruction and between 11 and 17 months of waiting.
Lāhainā Canal
79-82 Carnival. Was in the university library coffeeshop. It was polite to shoot the music offline. Space Invaders were everywhere in Pubs, we had a few Galaga/Galaxian, and missile command in the university halls of residence. My memory is that the trackball on missile command was bigger than you can buy now, more rolls to move the cursor. Asteroids was still vector graphics as was the tank simulator.

Pong was actually good fun. I used a very crude tank game on a PDP-7 connected Oscilloscope with a home made button control and light pens in the late 60s. Pong broke the market open, people need something to do between darts and pool.
As a layperson in this field, what is stopping an attacker from removing the battery and stopping the motion of the IHSM for reverse engineering?
https://archive.is/RfaBf
VSCode, have you collaborated with China?
Yes, high energy physics probably has the highest author counts of any field. Astro papers average ~5-10, iirc.
In Kannan there are no reports(daily standup) accountability (demos) and no deadlines(sprints).

If you have a team with low morale or motivation you need these tools to monitor what's up.

If you have higher ups that needs constant information about what's up scrum also gives you more information by just following it's practices.

Kannan is great when the team moves on its own and with a good manager who calibrates the aim from time to time.
Rule number 1 of committing crimes: Don't commit other crimes at the same time.
I wonder if part of the reticence of local government to act was in part due to the climate alarmism aspect of the various reports called out in the article.

Wildfires are a threat regardless of climate change. Climate change may contribute to an increase in incidence of wildfires, but I would argue that we’ve know for decades that poor land management practices are to blame for much of the human impact of wildfires.

In other words, climate change doesn’t need to be part of the discussion and people prone to dismissing alarmism may find it a convenient reason to dismiss valid concerns.

Almost all the normal bad behaviors of government were also on display here: poor planning, failing to proactively manage arid grassland, poor water management priorities, slow decision making, etc. At least I haven’t seen any credible accusations of corruption like followed in the Katrina aftermath.
> Could anyone win a lawsuit against a serviceprovider for (completely within the terms of the contract) not wanting to provide a service anymore?

The problem is that with a 1B+ people dependent on the product, shutting it off wouldn't just get you lawsuits, but also visits from scary men in suits and extralegal actions.

You may very well be coerced into switching the service back on - at the end of the day, contracts are just pieces of paper.
According to the privacy policy, they are using Twilio for "receiv[ing] your phone number, your phone mask, and the phone numbers that you exchange phone calls and text messages with. Twilio also receives the content of text messages you send and receive".

Wonder how they are going to get around VoIP number blocking.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/subscription-services/
The more unrealistic assumption is that every work item or request takes uniform processing. Things really blow up when you have a pile of p99 slow requests.
There’s also the C40; perhaps less ridiculous?
"I can only imagine what would happen for example if the US still had a relatively large contingent in Afghan, and the militants got a supply of even few hundred high precision aerial IEDs per month."

Not much need to imagine. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/12fl7lq/ukra...
thus why “nothing to hide” applies to very few people as most people could be taken to court for something and by judge or jury punished for that thing. Let alone sued.
I intentionally didn't mention the internet in my comment. That's the main modern source of radicalization, sure. But people found a way before it too. In person, through books and mailing lists, by phone, by tv, whatever.
Probably not, but planting real bombs and communicating threats has a long history as an asymmetric strategy. While bombings are somewhat unusual* in the US, they have occurred in the past, and politically motivated shooting attacks are so common as to be sadly normal. A neo-nazi went on a mini rampage in Florida last week, and also last week some guy in Southern California shot a clothing store owner because he disapproved of an LGBT pride flag displayed at the business.

* But not that unusual. Here's a report outlining two overlapping bombing campaigns in California last year - one by an unstable tech worker, the other by a group of meth dealers in Fresno.

https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/what-if-there-were-...
I think the hardest part for these new libraries is to build a solid ecosystem around them. React is the king for now and it will take many years to catch up.
Tyler Cowen Podcast with Vishy Anand
COWEN: There’s an interview with Magnus on YouTube, and they ask him to rate your sanity on a scale of 1 to 10 — I don’t know if you’ve seen this — and he gives you a 10. Is he wrong?

ANAND: No, he’s completely right. He’s completely right. Sanity is being able to show the world that you are sane even when you’re insane. Therefore I’m 11.
Probability as a mathematical object is very simple: it’s the proportion of a quantity (measure) distributed over a set.

Likelihoods are a product of one or more probabilities over a subset of the set, so they don’t necessarily sum up to 1.
I travelled with a group of adults on a couple of beers heading to a bachelor party. Despite continued excuses, I find most children more tolerable. And I agree that it's almost always the parents' fault.
Did you really expect a 100% perfect rate? i.e. infallibility?

No real system can accomplish that, even 99.9% is already a very high bar.
Zero interest in office jobs as a software developer.
“ I'm wondering if the responsible designer(s) only have 32-in Retina displays and the latest Macbooks to work with. Because on any other combination of devices, the website looks and feels awful.”

I think often it’s that they aren’t users themselves. They make it “pretty” but not functional.
DigitalGD apologizes that its “home-developed” software was based on open-source
He's using darkroom.com's service, I don't know specifically but he'd receive much less than $96/print
When it stops turning it reliably wipes its storage if its correctly engineered. E.g. static ram with continual debiasing and a capacitor powered circuit that fills it with garbage in its dying gasp.

The idea is that tampering is turned into destruction. The attacker's goal is to get access without triggering the auto-wipe.
This is very true.

And as a developer or a team, you're bound by how long development takes, not by the required resources.

You won't be asked by a business stakeholder "oh, and how much RAM does it take?" or "why is it $2,000 a month instead of $1,000?". These questions tend to come much later when profit needs to be ironed out.
there used to be some spicy discussion on feminism in south korea here

its gone now
People were so distracted by the circus that is 'crypto' that they failed to notice as the original opensource cypherpunk money has been steadily coming of age. Lightning does what these people want. The volatility spooks people but only if you have a high time preference. Best savings account on the planet + open and efficient payment network.
Google itself is reluctant to reward new sites. They throttle every single site and increase the number of visitors they send you in extremely small increments. They'll do things like shuffle the pages that get traffic on your site without increasing the "daily cap" that you're predisposed to. And when asked about this, their answer is that "no, we don't do this", but all you need to verify this is to create a new site and see it for yourself.

But this is great news for the conglomerates that have been around since early 2010s that can now enjoy being always #1 because Google itself has locked those sites in as "reputable" and "trustworthy". You can only imagine how those sites exploit this for personal gain.
> it’s impossible for any New Zealander to know that given it’s a crime for any of them to read his manifesto.

No, it's illegal, not impossible. Many illegal things are trivially easy.

Besides, we don't need first hand sources to know things beyond a reasonable doubt.
Hidden 3D
This makes a terrible case for Nushell as a shell. It makes a reasonable case for Nuhsell as a programming language.

If I want a programming language I use a programming language. A shell is an interactive environment and only a programming language by way of the Turing-complete nature of its grammar. However, if I am stringing more than a couple commands together something has gone terribly wrong.

The features I care about are features that make that interactivity better, not a type system.
It works roughly 3/4th of the time for me. I've heard that you can increase your chances by buying a 'real' prepaid phone number on eBay for $10 or so, and then porting it over to a VoIP provider.
I've tried the accelerometer trick and found that it was difficult to set thresholds such that careful attack would be prevented while seismic upsets wouldn't make the device unreliable (or at least where it was easy to be confident that seismic upsets wouldn't trigger it).

If it fails often that itself becomes an attack vector. "Oh? it failed again... happens once a month when they move the piano next door. just reset it"
It's in flux because it's really difficult for us to change the constitution. So, we basically live patch the constitution with the supreme court.

A proper fix would let the constitution change over time.
There's obviously too many startups to form a solid impression of percentages but I don't think the rate of fraud in startups is noticeably higher then in any other major city. Some small fraction of startups, businesses, entrepreneurs, etc., will be outright frauds anywhere.

Maybe some viewers believed that literally 100% of the startup population has honest intentions, and then they become disappointed in reality?
Certainly not all gatekeeping is good, and not all community standards are good. But some unquestionably are, and "opening your gate" and allowing people to ignore good standards is a great way to destroy a community.
It might not be a limiting factor as much as an enabling factor.

Sometimes being able to type fast can also mean thinking broad or deep quickly.

Coding at WPM is very different than communicating at WPM. The latter might be valuable.

If you can type faster you can help teammates a bit more easily.

WPM isn’t a high score for me, but there’s probably a floor.

Virtual assistants for example is one area where the average of 3 typeracers can be interesting.

In fairness to your comment, the ability to speak to text accurately can be faster than typing too, and maybe it’s a combination of clarity meeting WPM.
If only there was a political party aligned with burning books appealing to increasingly unhinged followers that could explain it.
I believe creators get paid by watch time, so they are incentivised to make videos as long as possible
it is tougher to create fake gmail account than temporary email account in your own domain or using services that provide temp emails.

It also prevents from mass creation of email accounts for probing services as google is likely to detect that.
I had a very communist camping trip last weekend. It went swimmingly. Happens all the time.

Scrum... I have no defense for.
For several years after I moved in, my bedroom was constantly in a haze of secondhand green bud.

Unfortunately I did not sleep in that room, but rather used it as an office where I was on the computer all day.

Of course the effects of THC are especially damaging to someone like me, suffering from psychological conditions and/or using psychotropic pharmaceuticals.

I suspected my downstairs neighbor, who was a jocular young fellow, and we were quite cordial face-to-face.

I complained to the landlady. I complained to my doctor. I considered suing. I was getting pissed. Then finally, after years of getting high, it just went away.
Or maybe call on the flight attendant?
A big part of my day job is to develop an image processing pipeline for a satellite constellation.

Using SIFT or another keypoint detector is one of the ways to do georeferecing. You take a basemap and your image and match keypoints on both then calculate your transformation. There are a few things that make the problem harder than just use SIFT but it is a good starting point.
What made him desire fame to such a radical degree that he figured shooting people was worth it?

Radicalization can take many forms. It's not just religion or racism. And the vast majority of radicalized people don't kill anyone, they just become toxic to those around them and spread the radicalization.
So CGNAT is exactly what it is. I tried using it through a VPN and it worked great. But through T-Mobile Home internet it doesn't work at all.

That IP you're using is being shared with bots and other malware to attack sites. So instead of trying to filter out all the potential attacks through things like fail2ban, etc. what archive.is is doing is to just block entire ip address ranges.

It makes me yearn even more for IPv6 now.
No, it was more like before they pushed "Enterprise Agile with a side of scrum", the team I was on, for 10 years, produced code on time, with very few bugs and only two regressions to production (caught during deployment). Afterwards (bought out, new management), we kept missing our deadlines, bugs proliferated, and deployments became nightmares. The meetings were the least of the issues, but they weren't helping any.
Hate to only shill hashi stack but packer if you must. All you need is a container runtime and linux kernel. After that you shouldn't have to think about the core node.

If you're _really_ bare metal - build the base image, boot pxe and run apt update - not much more complicated than that.
You only need one single transaction. The value of each account is deduced from the list of transactions that happened with checkpoints (fancy caching) once in a while.
We have finite brain power.
The power you dedicate to thinking about what hotkey (/combination of) to press for niche tasks, is not, per say, wasted. But it definitely isn't going towards thinking about what to write, the objective.
Maybe useful for less information-dense writing.
Interesting on (1), I’ve always used vi mode (like I don’t even know those commands, maybe they work in vi mode too?) and from memory Xonsh had as good a vi mode as bash along with some baked in improvements over vanilla bash.

I’m more or less waiting to move to Xonsh full time to see how I go once I’ve got some time to invest moving, largely because it seems it will be a win on all 4 points for me.

Otherwise, the bigger point 5 you allude to is probably the real issue we’re all avoiding.
It’s absolutely crazy to me that other companies free-ride off of companies like Hashicorp and Mongo’s work and the free-riders are the ones many - particularly on this site - support.
I can’t live without job control
> Do you really think that the vast majority of people derive more happiness from having things than experiences/memories with loved ones?

No, but that's not the argument OP makes. They say, we will all be dead and our possession gone so they have no value. Meanwhile, time with loved ones... Well it will be gone too! But somehow that's fine.

That one is better than another is not an argument OP makes.
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
Interesting observation and aligns with my experience of really enjoying small focused tools and apps. This website is a good example.

Further, it feels like there's a corollary here to companies, where financially constrained companies who are smaller and more focused provide better customer experience than cash-flush competitors.
>As explained in the post linked above, puzzle games are, in some sense, different from arcade games in that you can never just die.

I didn't finish the post because it went straight into strategy tips before I had even had a chance to play!

Also personally I'm not really interested in arcade mechanics. I'm not interested in global leaderboards or whatever either. Just interested in playing puzzles in my own time on my own terms.

Your thing is very cool! I like the way it is so constrained it's often possible to plan 6-7 moves ahead without much effort.

>but if you've never been into things like blitz chess, it's totally understandable

I'm massively into blitz chess. But this is a puzzle thing, and for me, there is no need for a timer in a solo game.

> Do you mind sharing what device/os/browser you're using, and if you're accessing echochess.com in a fresh browser tab directly?

FF/Android. I didn't understand your second question.
The "Power of Two Random Choices" was previously (and much better) discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143376
I'm sorry but if the output of LLMs is going to be considered derivative works, then pretty much the entire concept becomes illegal. You could train an LLM on the collect works for Conan Doyle. Fat good that would do.

"Watson," Sherlock Holmes began with a discerning gaze, lighting his pipe, "it seems that the era is awash with these large language models, machines that claim to think and reason. Yet, however vast their knowledge, they lack the very essence of deduction."
Not to mention you always have to second guess the designer.

Does "last name" mean "family name" even though it is my first name?

And what counts as "middle name"? Is it "Thi"? But my "first name" isn't Anh Mai. It is just Mai. But "Thi Anh" isn't my middle name, either, that's just nonsense.

And, yes, we have the "multiple documents with different name order" depending on whether it is the Vietnamese birth certificate, the US Consular Record of Birth Abroad, the Vietnamese passport, or the Australian passport....
Reminds me of ragging in Indian colleges. There is no particular generation thinks that they should put a full stop to this. Their insane justification is “we bore it, now it’s our turn to do it”. Society is just f*^ed up.

Same with caste system.
Same observation here. Sometimes I check the "News" tab for a search query, just to find there are 0 (Zero) results, when the regular search returns Millions of pages for the same query. In these situations, I feel like some algorithm has decided to hide these news, from me, for some unknown reason.
https://archive.li/Csy3B
That statement ("abortion is not a federal concern. It just isn't something the Constitution gives power over") was factually incorrect last year and is still factually incorrect this year – insofar as one accepts SCOTUS as the ultimate authority on what the US Constitution says.

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 [0] is a federal law prohibiting certain abortion procedures. SCOTUS upheld its constitutionality in the 2007 case of Gonzales v. Carhart, holding that the Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to regulate abortion, and that the regulation in question was not contrary to Roe or Casey. Dobbs did nothing to overturn either the 2003 Act nor that 2007 decision, so abortion remains a federal concern, within Congress' power to regulate. (Thomas wrote a concurrence, joined by Scalia, casting doubt on whether such an expansive reading of the Commerce Clause is correct, but saying that this particular case was not the right vehicle for examining that issue.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial-Birth_Abortion_Ban_Act

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Carhart
> Notably, the three largest companies that most-directly compete with HashiCorp’s managed Terraform offerings, Spacelift, Env0, and Scalr, all have made multi-million dollar pledges to support a fork of Terraform (13 FTEs for five years between these three companies).

Wow all these three companies have products offering automation using Terraform. Obviously they would be against the license change.
Good point about not hitting limits individually.

I think microsoft has a huge problem with this. Even 3000$ laptops from 5 years ago struggle with running a teams call, some office instances and a browser with 30 tabs at the same time without slowing down to unacceptable levels.

They test stuff individually and running one thing alone is fine, but that's not what people do.

I'd imagine that artificial limits in the form of run time on well-defined hardware that are only raised after an explicit decision could be the solution to this.

But then again I only write business software where the performance aspect comes down to "don't do stupid shit with the database and don't worry about the rest because the client won't pay for those worries", so I might be on the wrong track entirely.
I guess it's normal in the arcade world, but not in the puzzle world.
One of the arguments is that there are many non-Hashicorp contributors to Terraform, not to mention the larger ecosystem, who want a say in keeping their work free. This argument is even extended to Hashicorp currently only spending less than a handful of fte's on Terraform maintenance. If you subscribe to those views, you turn the "taking a free ride" argument on its head.