skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Multipass because it does actually work pretty well, but its purpose is to run Ubuntu VMs:

> Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation

Which may be suitable for many Linux-based tutorials, but not necessarily all. For instance, we deploy software to RHEL (historical reasons more than anything else) at work and might want a RHEL-based tutorial for things unique to administrating it versus administrating Ubuntu or other distributions.
Here's a video that demonstrates it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fzNuhgY_9A
I actually completely agree with you on this. I work as a Solutions Architect, one of the salesy kind. The presentations I care about, that I put time into, I will use high quality stock images. One of my recently presentations about GenAI didn't use a single Gen AI image.

But, from experience, on the more businessy side. People do like them. They flash on the screen for like 20seconds, they look pretty high quality, and are usually adapted to whatever business we're trying to smooch up to.

But they all have this horrible, gaudy, high contrasty and glossy look to them that I think is tacky.
I know, for example by blog does it too. But it doesn't change the fact that RSS is for notifications, not (primarily) for distributing content.
They do. What about the remaining 50-98% of wealth? This would do barely anything to solve the current problems related to inequality. The 99 years would just be priced in and everything would more or less stay the same.

All of that Georgism stuff makes about as much sense in the context of modern economies as the gold standard.
Well the current system is a shell script with rsync that I wrote but I'd like something slightly more sophisticated without having to build logic myself for incremental backups, potentially encryption, etc, etc
Totally. The point isn’t to make someplace a bad place to be rich, nor to prevent richness. The point is to prevent total capture of the economy by the wealthy. The fact that Singapore’s economy has grown so obscenely without the apparently corequisite skyrocketing inequality is pretty remarkable (even if imperfect etc).
I would like to add the browser extension LibRedirect[0] that automatically redirects your reddit (and others) links to your configured instance

[0]: https://libredirect.github.io/
The irony of people down voting the above and then reading this response on a VC run community platform is palpable.

What do you think everyone's been doing during the ignore unit price era?
You seem to have experience in this. Could you recommend or share any alternative approaches?
> The solution: Check the errors carefully!

The desire for "does this compile on this platform" checks comes from an era where there was pretty much no way to check the error. Somebody runs it on HP-UX with the "HP-UX Ansi C Compiler" they licensed from HP and the error it spits out isn't going to look like anything you recognize.
Show HN: Generate Multimodal Synthetic Data
I've built a tool to create multimodal datasets for demos and PoC with fully customizable data fields and an interface to evaluate data quality!
Arianism is easily in my top 3 heterodoxies. (Along with Pelagianism and Lollardism, though the moment Charismatic Catholicism is officially condemned Wycliffe gets bumped to an ignoble 4).

Not catholic, just an enjoyer of church history.
Part of Highway 1 to Big Sur crumbles in landslide
Neat! I wonder if there’s a React version of this.
> tons of discussion has moved to places like Discord to disappear forever.

This is actually even worse than the new Reddit.

Every open source or other project that links to their Discord as a main place of providing support immediately loses a lot of respect from me: Chat is a horrible way of creating a searchable knowledge base.

Besides being opaque to search engines, it effectively signs up their users and contributors for either having to maintain parallel long-term-visible and searchable FAQs and other docs, or answering the same new user questions over and over again.

Having to publicly join a Discord (unlike Reddit there seems to be no way at all to browse anonymously) just to be able to see if anybody else has had my compile or setup error is completely unacceptable as well.
Deterministic/repeatable builds can help with issues like this: once the binaries exist from checksummed code repository and are hashed, the tests can do whatever they want but if the final binaries change from the recorded hashes they shouldn't get packaged.

This is in general a problem with traditional permission models. Pure capabilities would never leave binaries writable by anything other than the compiler/linker, shrinking the attack surface.
>create a Docker image or a Vagrant box, and whenever you instantiate one of those

I'm passing X to doubt.

This is just odd analysis. Nix is strictly superior to Docker, except the learning curve. You have to really work at it to make any modern Nix setup non-reproducible.
> If he correctly reports his worked hours his wages will obviously get cut

Why do you think he’s reporting hours and getting paid hourly? This is pretty uncommon in my experience, usually people work a salaried job where they’re paid in terms of an entire year. They don’t report their hours, that’s typically considered a toxic work environment in software development. For example at AWS we take turns being on-call every couple weeks and reporting hours would look absolutely ridiculous, it would be something like 80 hour work weeks.

It’s kind of like if you and your wife insisted that you report how many articles of clothing you’ve each folded or how many dishes you put away each day. When one of you ends up doing a bit more or less, it’s not “defrauding” the other
> been cutting way back on my engagement. I have walked back through my post history and edited a bunch of them, using Yossarian's censoring rules - death to all adverbs, nouns, verbs, adjectives - or just replacing the posts with meme text or song lyrics to stupid songs.

So you don’t see that you are being part of the problem?
Tell HN: Windows 3D Pinball (Space Cadet)
Someone reverse enfineeredSgineered 3D Pinball for Windows (Space Cadet), with playable versions now for for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and more. I've been having a blast with this.
Any library that works with file formats needs binary files.

A lot of them malformed (or output is slightly different than standard output), because they need to ensure they can work even with files generated by other programs. Bugs like ' I tried to load this file and it failed, but works in XYZ' are extremly common.

These formats are often very complex and trying things like'zeroing out a high bit' doesn't cut it. Youvwould end up with binary code encoded in source.

Edit: one of simple improvements github/other forges could do is show content of archives in a diff. The payload was hidden in a archive test file and it would be displayed in a diff instead of "binary file change, no idea what is in it"
Note: unaligned doesn't always mean cache-line splitting. Unaligned 64-bit loads & stores within a cache line incur no performance penalty on modern Intel architectures IIRC.

Also, reading a cache-line in shared MESI state should not cause false sharing degradation, only writing.
> I'm more annoyed by the usual phrasing of these things as life changing and revelatory.

Maybe it's time to unstick yourself from these patterns. Life changing and revelatory can be as much evolutionary as revolutionary. There's no need to narrow them down to their extremes.
The last line resonates with me as the discord I hang out in is my only source of good recommendations anymore. Almost all of the good stuff I've seen in the past years comes from there. My algorithmic feeds by comparison are all high-viewcount trash for idiots. That onion article from years ago about the lowest common denominator dropping at an alarming rate has only gotten more true over time.
> I applaud the project author for not being scum.

If I were a user of their project, which is free mind you, and they stopped it without a decent shutdown plan because after 2 years they could only get 800 users and they would rather use their life in a different way, I would not think of them as scum. To think someone like that is scum would be pretty toxic in my book.
> That's not success, and certainly not a "big success" which is the author's self-reflection.

Again, the author is not obligated in any way to align themselves to your definition of success. And them disagreeing with your definition of success is not the same thing as them being confused or not having thought enough about what they want. It might just mean they disagree with you.

> I think they set out to make a big impact. That means growth

No, not necessarily. Growth can be a component of impact, but they are not synonymous, and many highly impactful projects never see a lot of attention or direct growth -- they enable other projects to succeed or fix some of the many diverse pain points that subsets of users for those projects have.
Honestly, the centerpiece of the article is this:

> In plain, simple terms, you need to: do the uncomfortable thing.

That’s what the advice boils down to, and it works, and it’s not a hack. It’s growth. There are lots of sophisticated techniques to help you actually do “the thing,” but if your best judgment is that the thing is the right course of action, then you ultimately do need to violate your feeling that it is wrong/dangerous/scary and let your feelings catch up later.
Vagrant/VirtualBox was a heavy heavy part of tech support workflows 5-6 years ago, since it gave you a way to effectively script consistent, quasi-reproducible scenarios _including reproductions of wacky customer network and storage topologies_.

That's not as important anymore, I think, since wacky network/storage topoligies are now mostly wacky k8s topologies in stuff like helm charts. But I imagine that old use case isn't completely gone.
This doesn't include the SDK, which is bundled with their commercial offering and its license explicitly prohibits production use
> if our data is worth money then companies using our data without consent are stealing from us

By that reasoning Pepsi is stealing unsatisfied customers from Coca-Cola and should be put in jail. In other words, I don't think this is how capitalism works.
Choosing a back end database: SQL vs. Document vs. Columnar
Or once could say, "Rest assured, as we gradually erode the sanctity of your privacy, the time will come when all interested parties will have sufficiently profiled you. Eventually, you will be distilled into a simple element within a behavioural prediction model. At that point, we will be anticipating your actions even before you are aware of them. Then you won't have to worry about being watched."
Will 'digital resurrections' let us bring back the dead? (2018)
Stripe shuts down my $5M wishlist platform with 90K payments and 11K users
Hey guys,

I'm the founder of https://wishlistpage.com/ and just heard that Stripe is closing my $5M business on April 27 for "accepting crowdfunding payments" after assuring me in October 2023 that "crowdfunding is absolutely supportable".

In the last 60 days, we processed over 90,000 payments worth $4.5M for over 11,000 content creators. So hearing this news sucks big time.

What's funny is that they are still in good terms with my largest competitors:

- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/

- https://ko-fi.com/

- https://throne.com/

I guess there is not much I can do, because Stripe Support is very shallow and not helpful at all. All their emails look like auto-generated copy&paste answers:

"Appreciate the DM here! We completely understand the frustration with receiving different information and we'll be sure to have that original interaction looked into further. With that said, after taking a look at the account ID's supplied we'd be unable to share more information or amend the actions taken. Again, we apologise for the confusion and understand the frustration at this situation but do truly wish you the best moving forward."

Does anyone know a good payment processor that has no problem with "crowdfunding payments"?
Yeah I meant being told all of the three above.
On the fediverse it currently is eternal September.
It's a little bit more complicated than just sending a hash of the password, but there are ways to authenticate using hashed passwords without sending the password over the wire, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agr...

Even so, these protocols require the server to know your actual password, not just a hash of the password, even though the password itself never traverses the network. So a compromised server can still lead to a compromised credential, and unless you use different passwords for every server, we're back to the same problem.
> If you can show any examples of consciousness regularly/usually claiming to have omniscient knowledge of all that is, or even someone other than yourself saying that consciousness regularly/usually does so, I would be most interested

And if I do not, can you still be interested?

> in my studies of what's written and said about it, I have never come across this view before.

Consider what exists now, compared to what existed at the Big Bang. Then do today vs tomorrow, also taking into consideration whether inactivity or non-exploitation of the realm of possibility plays a role.

> A simple search should be sufficient to establish that the most common usage of 'consciousness' is as being an aspect of perception - and more specifically, the subjective aspect of it.

Consider what common perception (which manifests at runtime as Truth) was of African Americans, or gay people, 30 or so years ago.

> Furthermore, I am at a loss to figure out how this claim could have any relevance to the sentence of mine that you quoted in your first reply to me.

"...but consciousness itself, at least as it is usually conceived of, does not."

It isn't possible for you to know how consciousness is commonly conceived, but your consciousness would have you believe otherwise. Consciousness is shaped by culture, and your culture has taught you to think this way, it is the proper way to think here in 2024.

Maybe an analogy would help:

Consider the aggregate (adjusted to remove affects of population size) quality & power of human cognitive capability before and after the enlightenment, comprehensively, but also with respect to a certain phenomenon: faith based thinking. Then, consider where we may currently sit on an absolute scale, and what the distribution of faith based thinking is (actually, opposed to virtually) throughout the system. How likely does it seem that humans have produced the perfect methodology, even without considering the state of affairs we see all around us?

Basically, I'm kind of asking (teasing may be a better word) that physicists, and science in general, to expand their theories to include explanations for their implicit claims of omniscience, or stop engaging in it, or at least stop taking cheap shots at and claiming (without proof or even substantial evidence) comprehensive objective superiority to other competing frameworks/methodologies/etc.
They serve programmatic ads like anyone else.

That's all this means.
It is also a folly to equate Buddhist traditions with Self help book sellers. Siddhartha Gautam Buddha was just one of the 6 other prevalent Dharmic masters and there enough original material from many of those traditions. The Dharmic traditions arose over centuries through a healthy collaboration of diverse set of people over a vast geography.
How much is a "typical top 10% inheritance" in the US? According to this, it's under $175k, which hardly guarantees a lifetime of luxury: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/weal...

(That number does seem low to me, since it also claims that families in the top decile (excluding top 1%) have ~$4mm in wealth.)
Good luck. The U.S. market is kind of the opposite, hard to find a job these days even if you're good.
The Original Sin of Free Software (2019)
Damn shame, there are some fun, very above board subreddits that I wouldn't care to be on without a VPN. Granted it would be easy to migrate them as well. And in fact, those same communities are probably on Discord.
Only tangentially related to the article, but Agda does allow termination checking to be disabled on individual functions: https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/language/termination-c...
> Haven't you ever seen "they're giving our kids speed!" posts on social media?

Yes, I have seen those posts. Have you seen the post you're responding to?

I made it very clear that I'm aware there is some social stigma around Adderall. I'm saying there is a much more severe social stigma around illegally-obtained amphetamines.
I meant the AI stunt IBM ran with a computer winning Jeopardy and then IBM followed by selling AI services that were by all accounts unrelated to the thing that won Jeopardy.

In the corporate world we had CIOs and Operations leaders naively but legitimately making decisions based on their belief Watson was going to replace service workers. Now it’s OpenAI, Copilot or Generative AI broadly.

Yet what the corporate world has to show for all the hype is the same administrative burden and many failed experiments, POCs and strategic projects. Oh and a new generation of believers and snake oil sales teams.
Do you think living with my parents due to disability could be an issue?
There's no package manager and it's not practical to use other people's code. It's fun to play around with its SIMD ergonomics though. Definitely worth trying on a quiet weekend
Any non-state entity exists at the blessing of one or more state entities with power, money, and help.

The "fact" that this question is never asked by "news" organs is very telling. It is a very hot topic on the other side of the geopolitical fence, this patron of ISIS ..
Debug it with a binary with debugging enabled on a debug dev system. Just like you would any other immutable firmware appliance.

You could also in some cases have a debug container you pull in on demand, say if the host OS is an appliance-style k8s runtime like TalosOS.
Somehow my opponents nonsense words kept beating my nonsense words. Even though they were within 1 length of each other. Can I see a rule summary? I did the tutorial but I don't want to do that again.
With climate weirding accelerating, I'm getting concerned that it's only a matter of time before this road continues to collapse in new sections and it will no longer be feasible to keep repairing it as we are now. I'm also worried that sections on both sides of big sur could collapse leaving thousands stranded.

Anyone have knowledge about any studies on these scenarios?
One of many viable methods depending on the application, yes.
Spying on people is just generally creepy, I don’t know, but I bet if I was hanging around outside in your bushes with some binoculars, you’d have some entirely reasonable questions for me.

It is also bad to contribute to this ecosystem, you and I might be boring people with nothing to hide. But, there exist lots of vulnerable people out there, and we should not provide a market for services that make it easier to infer things about them.

Unfortunately it is hard to compete with “free*.” So, these spying companies have gained a dominant position in the market. It is, I think, generally accepted that it is fine to regulate entities with dominant market positions.
I imagine media properties could pay Giphy to promote gifs of their properties. Probably wouldn't be that bad of an advertising strategy for a new release!
Untill the entire scope of this is identified I suggest activating the kill switch

https://bcksp.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-to-disable-xz-backdoo...
The org i work for at $dayjob is in the midst of a poorly-managed migration from Jira to Azure DevOps (ADO)...and I've had a tolerate/hate relationship with Jira for some years now...It often felt like it has too many distractions (what other people might call "bells and whistles"). So, when i recently started using ADO, i thought, eh, this is close enough to Jira, why all the fuss from some of my peers about missing Jira features and such? And, then I realized ADO lacks auto save (but Jira has it); freakin' auto save! Of all the things that i guess i miss from Jira; this is one of those seemingly minor features that i guess i grew to depend on while using Jira...So, yeah, i guess i hate Jira a little less. ;-)
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I got a 404 error, so here's the Internet Archive capture of the page

https://web.archive.org/web/20240331100215/https://hiandrewq...
The "pantheism" ascribed to Spinoza (as alluded to by Einstein) is my favourite.

(and Dirk Willems my favourite martyr, although I do find it highly apropos that Barbara is the patron saint of the РВСН)
It's all fun and games until your data gets used against you. But by then it's too late.

There are many historical examples, but a great contemporary example is states using this data so they can prosecute you if your pregnancy ends[1]. In general private collection of data should be regarded the same as government collection of the same data, since all this data is subject to subpoena.

[1] https://www.thirdway.org/memo/the-new-front-in-the-battle-fo...
NewPipe seems unaffected. Quite interesting.
It takes a bit more work to find something that is less, or not privacy invading.

Consumer products want to keep the consumer consuming.

One can start by learning yunohost or sandstorm and self-hosting.

Buy a car and put your own smarts in it.

Don't connect your TV to the internet and connect your own box to it.

You can find streaming box setups that are pretty locked down running a more secured version of android.

Unfortunately the "I've got nothing to hide" crowd made it easier for this kind of tracking.
> Any programming language can be written to be complex and unreadable.
The question is you as lead developer, reviewing a commit with a complex and unreadable code snippet, what would you do?
Is iCloud Private Relay not Apple's VPN?
Charming outlook. I can't imagine that mental model leads to any frustration except it seems when you are compelled to offer your hard earned course correcting unsolicited advice (and without compensation no less). Here's some advice too - if you want to be edgy don't point it at someone actually out in the arena closing off with the same self-respect and craftsmenship they more than likely took into it thinking it was something that needed doing. Honestly your statements remind me of this "Jigar Kumar" character in the xz fiasco [1] which is a perfect case study of the thankless expectations involved with maintaining an open source project that probably also started out of the sheer belief that it was a useful idea that needed doing. It's people like them who built the web and not just to click farm for attention measurements if you can believe that. Without the long tail of value those people still contribute free of charge to the world there would be a lot less product market fit for people like you to chase after.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39879710
Neutron star jets move at one-third the speed of light
Newton died a virgin, averages are defined by average people, don't stress on their anecdote and don't put your value in what women think of you.
My (subsidized) FireTVs (as in, built into the TV) require an internet connection for HDMI-CEC to work (I use Apple TV via HDMI.) I do not sign into my Amazon account, and using PiHole, I block almost all traffic originating from the FireTV (one or two domains are needed as to not cause some error dialogs or break features like HDMI-CEC.) The FireTVs are consistently some of the chattiest devices on my network, trying to phone home thousands of times per day, and even more when the HDMI input is active. It’s pretty gross, but I should have known better when purchasing them.