skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a researcher who is seeking alternatives to the pressures of both academic and industrial research, one of the things I’m thinking about for my long-term career plan is to relocate to an area with a lower cost of living (bye Silicon Valley) and make an arrangement where I work part time for money (possibilities include being a contractor, doing freelance or consulting work, or starting a business that doesn’t require more than 20 hours per week to operate) and spend the other 20 hours a week on research. I’d love to be able to do research based on my own interests without having to worry about business or career concerns. I’ve come to realize that when one is paid to do research, the researcher is suddenly under pressure by the person or institution paying the researcher. “He who pays the piper calls the tune,” after all. But if I make a living through non-research tasks, then I’ll have research freedom.

The tough part is coming up with a business idea that would allow this type of lifestyle; that’s where I’m currently at. If I could make $130,000 per year, heck, even $65,000, and live in an inexpensive part of America then I’d be fine, but the trick is figuring out how to make that much money in only 20 hours instead of 40.
> simply ingesting an inexpensive consumer product is not much to brag about. maybe they're talking about art

Your broad-stroke condescending attitude towards others make you sound like you wear a fedora. If you have insecurities to deal with, don't deal with them by trying to drag others into your personal issues.
In 2023, if you call yourself a "car doctor" or "software doctor" nobody will bat an eye. If you call yourself a doctor in a way that implies that you have a medical license, people will get upset. If you call yourself an engineer in a way that implies that you have a relevant license, people will similarly be upset.

The OP squabbling about someone calling themselves a "software engineer" is just being silly. Where it matters in the US, the term "professional engineer" exists for exactly this distinction.
As with most frustrations in my career, many of the expensive bits come down to hoarding. We don’t know what will spark joy so the system has to be able to do anything at any time. This is not free. Sometimes it’s goddamned expensive.

I have in this decade encountered systems that still have to run overnight. Meanwhile I’m spending multiple developer salaries maintaining a system that might be asked to answer a question in ten seconds, or might not be asked any questions for days at a time.

Somebody save me.
mmm, in a larger organization not really, proper subsets of marcomm, marketing communications. advertising people are called "creatives" where PR people are much more devious.
Not to mention that you get it within minutes of asking for it. I've worked at places where the internal bureaucracy managed to take double digit weeks to deliver a new database instance.
How long until someone weaponises the 'installs' to bankrupt competitors? I can see this happening in the already somewhat scummy free-to-play market.
About 2001, I don't know, but Blackberry, SuperPumped, and General Magic are three other things I'd recommend watching in this general area.
Paper ticket. Eligible for tow X hours after the ticket.

Immobilizing the car is a ludicrous solution. Someone left something on your property you want them to remove- and the solution is to prevent them from removing it?
WordPress is incredibly bloated and has a terrible security history, mainly due to insecure plugins but not only.

I can't imagine ever choosing it over Django with Wagtail. It's a little bit more work to implement and maybe maintain, but the payoffs are well worth the investment.
What is this, the business version of No Child Left Behind?
I didn't want to write a wall of text here, but my single-line dismissive comment was probably worse. So here goes:

There are so many "little details" to nitpick, that in combination it becomes unbelievable. It has a similar feel to hallucinated GPT output. Or someone with a bit of half-remembered knowledge about old computers making things up for a movie script.

>a hunch (because the disk drive was ticking once?)

>creating empty file using echo

>a 0-byte program that returns to DOS instead of crashing

>5.4" floppy disks

>duct taping the drive shut

>the size of the virus (assuming the paraphrased 76 bytes is supposed to mean something close to it, like less than 100)

I spent some time trying to write the smallest possible virus that can actually infect files instead of overwriting them, just as an experiment in a VM. I managed to get the code down to 96 bytes.

It moves itself into a reserved area in low memory and hooks INT 21h. Whenever a file is written that starts with byte E9h (common for .COM programs), the virus then prepends itself to the program. So it only infects certain programs, does so when they are copied, and also may corrupt data files that start with this byte.

I consider myself a fairly good x86 asm programmer, but certainly someone out there might have managed to make a better & smaller virus. However, anything that tiny will be limited in what it can do, and likely make more assumptions about the environment it is run in (186+ instruction set available, initial register state matching a particular DOS version, etc).

It would be very bad at spreading "in the wild", and not be found on some grandma's computer.
This.

Also, this entire generation has no problems speaking about what make them successful, writing books/blogs about business, being keynote speakers etc when they would never be able to build a single business without massive financing. This is changing American entrepreneurship for the worse - in the past, the stories used to be all about someone starting a small business with no or limited seed money and slowly building an empire from scratch.
Or put everything on paper in a safe. Maybe self-sovereign transportable wealth is not for you.

And I prefer vi, or now vim tiny.
Also important to note:

Germany is a car country: most ways to work, gym, etc in the average German city are done by car. Makes it easy to drive the extra mile to the cheapest supermarket.

Austria is much better for using public transport or the bike. In this case you won't make the extra way to stop at the cheapest grocery. And in the areas in Austria where people use cars population density is so low that not a lot of competition between supermarkets exists
None of that is a given with central custodians, which very often already have to comply with regulations concerning money laundering, embargo enforcement etc.

> (instead of the awful SWIFT)

SWIFT is a real-time messaging network.

International transactions being slow has almost nothing to do with legacy technologies – it's partially outdated processes (batch processing facilitates netting, and netting preserves liquidity!), but overwhelmingly that we (or at least the regulators making the rules) want them to be slow enough to be able to intervene in case of financial crimes.
I think the courts will view it differently when if he was fired for not submitting to pressure to commit fraud.
I never said you said that I said it.

See, I can play that game too.
Citrix?
1) Lots of Wordpress (WP) sites. This makes it quite easy to find devs (to maintain the website in the future). There are also lots of plugins making it easy to add functionality/features.

But easy availability of plugins leads to high probability of hacking. Put another way, a WP site needs constant monitoring/upgrades of the plugins to avoid being hacked. This means $$ out of pocket for website owners but money for developers.

2) Personally, I don’t recommend WP. I prefer Python/Flask (I’m more familiar with it) or Django. You can build the site and essentially forget about it.

In addition, I prefer separating front end code from back end code (for WP, you use PHP which combines both html and server side code in same file)
I see now, thanks for clarifying. You're clinging to the independent legislature theory even after Trump's picks agreed, it's batshit stupid. Despite the profoundly idiotic nature of the theory, it still does not support the efforts of Trump to overturn the election through fraud and violence, which the Republican party has given its full-throated support to. But yeah, folks are still pretending that it's the Democrats who hate the constitution and rule of law. Good show.
If I register a TLS cert for gitlab.donalmacc.ie, its publicly logged.

From this thread it seems the fix is to register a wildcard *.donalmacc.ie and use that cert.
I have used both Django-CMS and Wagtail. Wagtail is much more user-friendly and extensible. You can create Wikis, Blogs and regular content pages with models and maintain it all through a friendly CMS interface that rivals Wordpress.
Do those older UI standards deal with responsive and touch elements?

I agree that it's high time for a set of "web app UI framework" primitives and best practices, something like Material or MUI but actually a collaborative standard. It's stupid to have to reinvent basic cards, modals, wizards etc. from scratch every time.

But the web has also rapidly evolved alongside newer needs and form factors (phones, geo stuff, real-time multiplayer, etc.) in a way that a lot of older UIs didn't explicitly account for.

And also, WASM right now doesn't really have a UI layer. And Canvas doesn't work that great with responsiveness.

Not that I disagree with what you said; it's a great goal to aim for!
it's not uncommon for labs to ahve a grad student working on a skunkworks project funded by a previous, unrelated grant. They generate initial data, which is shown in the grant application. But often the grad student is still working in parallel with the extremely long grant cycle to get more publishable results and can sometimes even get to a full paper before being funded.

I think of it like speculative execution and pipelining.
polite society? human civilization?
I agree on the parts about being more willing to share ideas and healthily accept criticism about them, but in general this article feels like it's presenting a false dichotomy: that you must either state things metter-of-fact or stay silent.

It's possible to share a belief while expressing an appropriate level of uncertainty about it, and this is something I really wish more people did rather than blurting out falsehoods with confidence all the time. There's no harm in adding "I think ... is likely" or "AFAIK ... seems the most probable" etc. Reserve direct assertions for things you are actually sure about. And then if you're wrong about those things, reflect on what led you to be more certain than you should have been and try to prevent it from happening again.

I think everyone should strive to never be 100% certain about things that end up being wrong.
Yes and it is always worth paying attention to as often items on some kind of offer and so advertised within the store may not be the best value possible for the item.

Toilet rolls are a great example. Sometimes you see the 24 pack "on sale" or "buy one get one half price" yet the cost per roll (unit) is higher than if you were to buy a 16 pack. Yes you would have less overall toilet rolls and that may be an issue for you but you are paying less per toilet roll.

Laundry detergent is another common one. Look at the price per litre of the item "on sale" and compare it to the not on sale sizes/packs as well.

People generally/instinctively expect/feel that if you buy the bigger pack you get a better deal and the companies certainly make you feel that is true but you have to pay attention as more often than not the best deal isn't the deal they're promoting.
The reality is none of us knows the whole story. We are getting one side of it. It's entirely possible the problem is with the guy asking the question and always has been.

Assuming good faith, honesty and a reasonable degree of accuracy on the part of the OP, looks to me like he should probably plan his exit. Not necessarily drop his resignation today, but start making plans.

It's absolutely true that if he ups his game, he may find things improve and he can work with this person effectively. Or he may not.
> Bitcoin (e.g.) is actually much more like gold in that the amount of it in circulation isn't determined by any law, policy or intervention.

How so? Bitcoin is a set of political/economic ideas about money encoded into software by a group of humans, who are historically known to sometimes change their minds over time.
Some of the links in the presentation "fail to redirect" ... Is this a Google Groups issue?

Examples:

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=sci.crypt.re...

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=sci.crypt/FG...
> There is, but not nearly as restrictive. Stores can be open from at least 6 to 20 any day of the week other than Sunday

I just looked up the corresponding law for Austria, and they are allowed to open from 6 to 21 on weekdays, and 6 to 18 on Saturdays. Doesn't really seem more restrictive?

> and in most states in Germany, Sunday trading has been at least partially permitted.

Not really. For each Bundesland there are a couple of cities where a few stores can open, but they are a very rare exception. Example for tomorrow: https://www.kaufsonntag.de/datum-termine/september/17-09-202...

And keep in mind that even for those cities it's not all stores. I checked Cologne as an example, and there it's for example only stores in the district Köln-Lindenthal.
Writing rendering and collision code honestly is pretty easy compared to coding a game. Difference is that rendering, collision, etc shenigans is "solved problem", theres lots of papers. Game is the creative part, and there is no solution.
>According to Graeber, the jubilee year was introduced by Nehemiah (who had just returned from exile in Babylon, where he learned about it) not out benevolence, but because too many slaves meant the state had too few taxpaying farmers.

Given the paucity of surviving texts from that place and era, that sounds like a chain of unsupported assumptions worthy of an evo psych paper.
Why can't America teach writing?
Pretty much, stuff like this is annoying and just like "spread the word to end the word" it is abjectly retarded.
The "on the order of" on my comment is load-bearing.

I've found a lot of things from 400 l/pass*day to 100 l/pass*day, and 20 km/h to 40 km/h.

The higher speeds tend to come with the highest fuel consumption. But I couldn't find good info on the correlation between them. So, they probably consume a few times more fuel than a SUV, and closer to 10 times more than a jet, but I can't get you any precision at all.
Here's how considering trade-offs went for the people in the article:

"I don't like cruises. Cruises also cause harm. Let's ban cruises."

They're okay with banning cruises because they don't like them. Well, I don't like parties, so let's ban them too.

It's easy to "give up" things you don't enjoy, but you don't get to decide what other people enjoy. Maybe cruises to other people are the highlight of their life. You don't know that. You can't know that.

Every reason you give to take something away that people like they will eventually use on things you like.
> These are expensive servers, crossing into six digits, but not $200k.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865967
Cable TV Is on Life Support, but a New Bundle Is Coming Alive
It's probably far more acceptable to throw down one of those quotes as a manager or executive than as a lower-down-the-ladder employee.
More wars, fewer ads? The counterintuitive dystopia.
> For CSV? DuckDB, Datasette, awk, pawk, and tons of others.

Those tools are either line- or table-oriented, and thus don't handle CSVs as a structured format. For instance, is there any easy way to use AWK to handle a doc where one line has N columns but some lines have N+1, with a random column entered in an undetermined point?
> Oil is heavily subsidized.

It’s really not. Articles and “studies” that spread this line always rely heavily on an esoteric (read: deceptive) definition of the word “subsidy”. First, some guy does a purely academic calculation of all O&G externalities and declares that this number represents the “correct amount” of taxes that O&G should pay. Next he takes the difference between actual taxes paid and his imaginary number, and calls this meaningless, hypothetical number a “subsidy”. In reality, where we don’t get to redefine words as a matter of convenience, the oil & gas industry is not “heavily subsidized”, but in fact generates huge amounts of tax revenue.
Hah! I remembered about 20% of the road miles in SF. Not bad for a town I've never lived in.
So your argument is that a software developer can use the term software engineer because no reasonable person would assume that they actually are an engineer?

Bold strategy.
Just from the abstract I learned two concepts. Granger causality and Downward causation. Do scientists actually know these concepts like the back of their hand and are able to read that abstract in perfect clarity?
I'm learning PROLOG for the funsies. It's really easy for making things like expert systems, and it's reasonably performant, has lots of libraries, including native ones, good FFI binding.

Care to join?
The author needs to take a look at the Icon/Unicon programming languages where failure is an option. It allows for certain kinds of thinking (programming) that is far more clear than otherwise.
It's not about "solving" the problem. It's about taking away something people enjoy that you happen to not care about. If we take this to its logical conclusion then everything you do for enjoyment will also call under the umbrella of "no utilitarian value".
Not true. Most people in germany have a supermarket in walking distance to their home and the bime infrastructe is often critizised but actually good compared to most cou tries
> we have a strong division between state and industry

Lmao
Being wrong is often directionless and flat, with excessively repetitive work.

Mining people for concepts is an incredibly slow way to progress.

Being right often requires order of magnitude less time. Nobody notices.
> (for WP, you use PHP which combines both html and server side code in same file)

Laravel fixed this with Blade templates, and this repo[0] brings it to Wordpress.

0: https://github.com/roots/sage
If you arrived at a store and the self-checkout was broken, would you just walk out without paying for your items? Since parking is their business I would never do something which look like stealing without some kind of protection like a recording from someone at the parking when I called. It’s just not worth the risk, otherwise, and you can always park somewhere else where you don’t have to worry.
What's different about the posted article is that it is based entirely on the premise that the next step after failure is nothing (or moping). So their path is to pretend it doesn't happen by using different words. I can kind of see what they're trying to do.

The comic illustrates a much better way of dealing with it by acknowledging it and overcoming it.
When someone says "A is B" you should hear "I think A is B", that makes everything much simpler since there are very few things people are certain about.

When making a stronger statement people say "I'm certain A is B".

Edit: Take your post as an example, it is about twice as long as it has to be since you add so much padding to mark uncertainty. Humans are uncertain about most things, if you say something I'll assume that is what you think and it isn't the whole truth, that is what everyone does, just learn to not be afraid of being wrong and just do the simple thing that is easy to read.
1) If you just need a website, not any custom functionality but just the basics (i.e. a glorified blog), then Wordpress is fine. Pick a good WP hosting company and they will take care of a lot of the security stuff. WP is secure if kept up to date, and you're not using third-party plugins.

2) If you need what is called a CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) website, doing something more like a spreadsheet, but with more complexity than a spreadsheet can handle, then Django makes this as easy as it is possible to be. However, you will have to do a lot more programming than with WP, where really you shouldn't have to do much programming at all.

3) If you need even more customized functionality than CRUD, then Flask is easier to customize. For example, you need to make a real-time auction site, or connect to a machine learning library to train up new models every week, or some other really non-standard thing. There, Django's features that make CRUD easier, will just get in your way. Flask is more lightweight, meaning it provides less but is also much more flexible to do non-CRUD websites.

If you are doing what a typical small company needs, then you should go with Wordpress. It can do everything you need, there is an abundant ecosystem of companies to host and maintain it for you, and all of the extra power that Django or Flask would give you, are not going to be utilized. Wordpress is fine security-wise, if you keep it up to date.
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I thought it was about self-custody via a web browser extension. Did I misread the article about Mark Cuban losing funds and then sending some to a custodian?
And bonus double hit. After payment, blackmail
You're aware that (Open)SSH can have its behavior, including port forwards, modified at runtime after launch?

See e.g. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssh section "Escape Characters" and "~C' Open command line. Currently this allows the addition of port forwardings ..."
how could light ever be early?
Eating insects: The UK seems more reluctant than the EU
Highly recommend this video of plane boarding methods by CGP Grey

https://youtu.be/oAHbLRjF0vo?si=iOaHZItfadtxv_nq

The end is the real kicker, how we deplane is the worst method.
I miss times when there were sensible smartphones still available with proper keyboard...
Academia, you dug this hole for yourself. Way too many faculty care about number of publications in Nature or Science and scientific merit takes a back seat.
Yes, I can call it OS cube
I'd think the same. That's why in some law forums you are expected to write your questions in the manner of "suppose the hypothetical case that person X did Y, ..." instead of "I did Y, ...". So people are only talking about a theoretical case, and not give actual legal advice.
Use Wordpress (or Wagtail) as a headless CMS to let your client add and edit content, and hit the endpoints to hydrate your templates in your front-end framework of choice.

My workplace has multiple WP sites and Shopify stores, and I'm thinking of trying to consolidate all of these under a single presentation layer, probably with Gatsby.
A ufologist claims to show 2 alien corpses to Mexico's Congress
> “Fail” is almost never the right word for what is happening. It’s so final, so negative, and it’s a dead end: What do you do after a failure? Mope?

What about it is final or a dead end? "Failure" just means that an attempt was made that did not have the desired outcome. That's not final, you can make another attempt (usually)

> Words have meaning. They can explain what’s really going on, and suggest what should be done next. The word “fail” accomplishes neither.

Words sure do have meaning and "fail" implicitly does both of those things: it means you should try something else, and what you tried didn't work. It requires additional work and analysis to understand why it didn't work and what to try next, but an attempt not achieving an outcome is a fact and reframing it with different words doesn't change that.

The proposed alternative words don't even come close to having the same meaning, and most are in fact things that themselves can fail or succeed.
The tree has severe distortion when dragged from the edge. Still an interesting idea.
I am always torn between reading and not reading. I think reading energizes me regardless of whether I can effect change on the topic. Simply having awareness can be beneficial on some level. But I do see your point about prioritization and opportunity cost. It’s hard to balance.