skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The decking in the article was rhetorical. And I admit I was speaking exclusively of the forests in northwestern California. I have no idea what anyone does in British Colombia.
That's why I think such OSS packages should use licenses that force large companies to pay (moderate) fees for maintenance. I assume such sums of money won't even tickle them.

Imagine 10 large companies, each pay $1000 a month for critical packages they use. For each developer, that's $10,000 they can either use to quit their current job or hire another person to share the burden.

We need to normalize this.
> First, there's the whole "VM" part. You are constantly reminded of the border between your machine and the VM: having to explicitly start/stop the VM, SSH into it, set up port forwarding, figure out a core count & RAM size which is large enough to be useful yet small enough to work on everyone's machine, having to set up rsync wrappers because the NFS host mount is unusably slow...

What are you talking about? I used to do all that you're mentioning in the Vagrantfile, via code. Granted, ruby code (which doesn't help), but still in code.

> Second, it doesn't really deal well with change. When you're working in a team, you want everyone to have an identical environment. Vagrant is great for setting it up, but it doesn't really have a solution to changing it. Want to add a package? Nuke the VMs, start from scratch, and hope nobody runs into install issues.

Uh, adding the vagrant file to the code repository, maybe? So that maybe you can decide if a package goes into the vm via a code review? Maybe using the provisioning methods, so that changes can both be reviewed and git-tracked.

Like, have you actually read the Vagrant's documentation ? Or are you one of those people that criticize stuff just because the getting started one-page tutorial doesn't solve 100% of their use-case ?

I've used Vagrant in a team in the past, and it feels like either you have no idea what you're talking about or you have used it only briefly without actually reading any documentation.

> Docker, especially with docker-compose, provides pretty much the same but better.

There are some things docker cannot do, and some things vagrant cannot do.

They're completely different pieces of technology that happen to be able to do similar things (and happen to be used for similar purposes).
I like using Giphy and my IP address and private data aren’t something I can directly monetize.

So I’ll keep using Giphy and Giphy can figure out how to monetize my IP address and private data. No issues here.
Yes. It is very difficult to avoid getting snared by FB and other social networks. I try to block traffic on my network but have no real idea of how effectively it works for me.
Not the original poster, but Cinny is better than Element
How to get deep technical expertise
I deleted my Reddit account long back after they blocked VPNs. I used old.reddit.com usually from DDG or Google search results. Now this is fucked up. I am not able to access Reddit through either VPN or Tor. They are dead to me now.

I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from appearing in search results. Anyone has any solution?
> Microsoft Building $100B 'Stargate' to Transport OpenAI into the Future

I guess Windows bugs are low priority. /s
In my personal (empty) blog my privacy statement starts with: "Unlike all others I do not value your privacy."
I will just paste the rest of the whole privacy statement here:

This website does not collect any personal information about visitors. My server is configured to not keep any logs, except for error logs, which do not include IP addresses.

This is the whole content of my privacy page. 25+ pages that other websites use, i managed to shorten to 2 lines.
Not sure why you are bringing in ICOs in discussion with USDC/stablecoins and international payments.

> The revenue has to justify the legal headache involved with processing payments in under a minute.

See how AML regulations just harm law abidding citizens?

Please explain how defi bubble is supporting it.
I don't associate myself with that particular group of people, nor did I in any way condone such behaviour, nor do I support long-termists and so on.

My comment was mostly calling out the hypocrisy of some EAs, Long-termists, and the likes. It points out the myopic, self-centered, irrational, and too self-important view, the often exhibited messiah complex, and of course the absence of humility.
> Let's not forget that (European) immigrants were mostly wanted, so as to provide needed workers.

Sure. I’m talking about the long-term effects of that deliberate policy choice.

> Again, the "movie" is that over generations, those people became fully assimilated into American society and values.

Quite a bit of evidence shows that core cultural values, such as levels of social trust and attitudes towards the nature of government, are durable across generations: https://cis.org/Richwine/Still-More-Evidence-Cultural-Persis.... Scandinavian Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans to this day exhibit differing levels of social trust that mirrors those of their cousins back in Europe. The waves of immigrants didn’t “fully assimilate” into American society, they changed it into something entirely different.

An overlooked aspect of Donald Trump—who is barely a third generation American—is that he was the last nail in the coffin of British America. British American culture is no longer prevalent enough to sustain even one political party. The Trump GOP has dropped the distinctly British American idea of limited government and replaced it with a cult of personality that can appeal to immigrant Germans, Italians, and increasingly Latin Americans. If Trump acts like a Latin American dictator it’s because that’s what it takes to get all those people from disparate cultural backgrounds into a coalition that can get close to 50%.

People notice this shift, but because we have this mistaken notion that “white people” are a single group, we overlook what it means. It gets framed as the “death of the Reagan GOP.” It is, but more accurately it’s the death of the British American GOP.
Although I hope something similar will exist, I do believe the push towards promoting bullshit and shallow content is too strong
Ask HN: What is a good company for business insurance?
By using mitm, basically "pretending" you're the site the victim wants to connect to and trasparently connecting to the actual upstream site. Basically decrypting the traffic locally for inspection before sending it back out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack. You don't need a root CA, you just need to poison the DNS to point to the mitm server and just present any old valid cert for the domain so it doesn't trigger a self-signed warning or whatever.
I appreciate the point you're trying to make. However, my general experience of attempts to take "useful" parts of of religion and then sanitise them for secular mass consumption is that they're at best useless and at worst harmful.

Sure, there might be some proximal benefits to (say) meditation but these are things that were done in a larger (often spiritual) context and I'm not sure that pulling them out of that is wise.
Semantics dear Watson: it's the inner joy that's internal.
I don't know, something about that is offputting to me. When I put pictures in my presentation they are things that I relate to in some way; not just some passive eye candy. The assumption that I need visual drivel to hold my attention is condescending to me.
> No, I'm doubling down on challenging the author to be more audacious:

You've edited your comment since it was originally posted, but as a reminder, this is what I was responding to:

> If those communities and apps already respect their users, then do they need this author? What difference would they make?

Which is a pointedly ridiculous thing to say. No, you were not calling on the author to be more ambitious, this is silly.

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> b) be more ambitious - building or contributing to yet another 3rd party Mastodon or Matrix client (both?) is just more noise in a crowded space going after a relatively small audience.

Donation of time and effort to make platforms more attractive that you are ethically aligned with is not just "noise in a crowded space".

As if FOSS tooling was a crowded space!! These projects are desperate for volunteers, and lack of developer time and resources is one of the biggest handicaps that these projects often face. It is unquestionably valuable for people to volunteer effort in this direction.

It might not be flashy, it might not give you a giant userbase. But some people have different metrics of success than that, and high-impact activities often aren't flashy. You bring up building new projects as an alternative to donating to existing efforts. Yeah, that sounds very attractive and flashy, but there are a half-dozen FOSS platform alternatives to every proprietary service and we don't actually need more of them. What we need is for people to focus on a couple that already exist and make them as good as possible. It's less sexy, but it matters more.
I still listen to a lot of prog rock as well as classical, more than I did when I was a teenager or in my 20s. But I also occasionally listen to current popular music with my teenage daughters. Some of it I like, some I do not, but myself and my daughters all agree that they would like to hear some big change in popular music. Not saying it should be a return to something like grunge, but it would be interesting to hear something different like that style was.
This is awesome. I love the way exercise of this - it’s both meditative and skill building.
Okay I think I buy that. I don’t know if I agree, but trying to argue for a position against it has been sufficiently illuminating that I just need to chew on it more.

There’s no doubt in my mind that experimental learning is more efficient. Especially if you can design the experiments against your personal models at the time.

At the same time, it’s not clear to me that one could not gain similar value purely by, say, reading scientific journals. Or observing videos of the experiments.

At some point the prevalence of “natural experiments” becomes too low for new discover through. We weren’t going to accidentally discover an LHC hanging around. We needed giant telescopes to find examples of natural cosmological experiments. Without a doubt, thoughtful investment in experimentation becomes necessary as you push your knowledge frontier forward.

But within a realm where tons of experimental data is just available? Seems very likely that a learner asked to predict new experimental results outside of things they’ve directly observed but well within the space of models they’ve observed lots of experimentation around should still find that purely as an act of compression, their statistical knowledge would predict something equivalent to the semantic theory underlying it.

We even seemed to observe just this in multimodal GPT-4 where it can theorize about the immediate consequences of novel physical situations depicted in images. I find it to be weak but surprising evidence of this behavior.
Sure, if you don't already own a house you have a choice of renting or buying one, or not having a house but still needing somewhere to live. What would you propose as an alternative?
My first question reading the article was "wth is vagrant?". I use Docker to containerize projects all the time.
I thought we all quit when they disabled API access and ruined Apollo. People are still using Reddit?
Okay, my fault for forgetting where I was posting. What I meant to say is this:

When you are amongst the trees, one redwood (sequoia sempervirens) forest located in or near Humboldt County, California, looks very similar to any other redwood (sequoia sempervirens) forest located in or near Humboldt County, California, unless one forest or the other is very new growth or very old growth or similar extreme circumstances, and assuming you visit the two forests at roughly the same time of year.
> Why would you? The shittier the platform, the shittier the content.

Paradoxically that's the way some people find salvation. They have to
hit the bottom. Instead of making their experience of digital abuse
more palatable what they need is more YouTube, more Facebook, more
Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram. Until something inside snaps and their
soul pukes.

I'd totally get it if the author realised they were just prolonging
users' misery. As Nietzsche said; "What is shaky, push it!"
I’m like this. I barely graduated school and failed out of college in the first year with a GPA whose square root was higher than the actual GPA. I had always been placed in accelerated classes only to be kicked out once I fell behind. I needed time to understand things, but in all modesty once I understand something I seem to understand it better than everyone around me. Until then though my mind is blank and I literally can’t force myself to do anything on the subject. I just stumble and can’t remember anything when asked. Some subjects are faster than others but some took a year or longer to understand. When mathematically inclined friends took algebra they flew through it and graduated high school completing calculus B AP with a 5, but it took me a year of failing it and being tracked before I finally clicked. But once I understood it other math courses were a breeze largely because my algebra understanding was beyond everyone else’s. But I was tracked and getting off the track in math is almost impossible. I likewise had challenges in geometry and trig until I “got it,” all of which meant when I finally hit calculus and got the concepts of differentiation and integration I took off like a rocket and never looked back.

After failing out of college I went out to the valley and was very successful. I went back to college in my late 20’s using a loop hole to transfer into a top CS school. I knew myself better now and studied all the time knowing I wasn’t stupid just learned differently. On things that weren’t yet clicking I would relentlessly keep studying it and practicing and trying until it did. I graduated highest in my class at a top public engineering program - which gives gentleman F’s to 70% of original freshmen unlike private schools.

My daughter is the same way, so I found a private school that is very careful about differentiating learners and letting them move their own pace. I was suicidally depressed about public education growing up as it ground me down for being different. She is thriving at the stages I fell off the rails.
It's ironic to me to say that C has no standard library while at the same time libc is one of the most important libraries that most programs on an installed system can't go without.

So it has one, but it's small. It has a few useful functions, for example system(const char*) which was used by the exploit.
800 people might not fix the whole tech ecosystem (it is impossibly broken which so I can see why the author would like to just go work on something else). But if you got 800 people in a room to say thanks, I bet it would feel pretty cool.

(This isn’t intended as a full counter argument against your broader point, which I’m still not really sure either way about, I just wanted to note that sometimes we have small effects and that’s OK. We’re only individuals after all, it wouldn’t make sense to expect every person to change the world in some sense, it would be chaos).
Do you mean NanaZip?
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the article.
Since I can't reply to a dead comment:

As long as people are respectful and follow the guidelines, sure.

Edit: your other replies are not respectful and seem to violate the guidelines.

Edit 2: Anyone can be respectful to anyone else regardless of beliefs. Choosing not to be respectful doesn't say anything about the beliefs, it speaks as to the person being disrespectful. This will be my last edit/reply.
Been like this for over a month on old.reddit for me... Tis a shame.
Is the author another voluntary or paid PR of the WEF "in 2030 you'll own nothing"? Because well, people do works for themselves AND their families, to leave a legacy behind them. Cut this and you only get people interesting in their own lifespan and no more.

The result is a failing society who do not try to evolve anymore and in practice you'll get some who own anything and all the rest their slave.

NO THANKS.

Instead we MUST incentivize ownership, making people works again to improve their life, modern society have chased to do so and as a result they can't evolve anymore because knowing the target is sharing economy, "in 2030 you'll own nothing" (meaning clearly the WEF et al. want to own anything) means "I do not want to work for nothing".
> Ken's article doesn't mention it

See footnote #5 :-)
> Hassabis said that one or two more critical breakthroughs were needed before AGI was reached. But he added: “I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened in the next decade. I’m not saying it’s definitely going to happen but I wouldn’t be surprised. You could say about a 50 per cent chance."

What was Hassabis saying about hype, again?
How can we be sure our compilers are safe when they compile all of other tools. Imagine smart compilers that compile decompilers to omit the secrets of our compilers.
What I meant was that two redwood forests in the Pacific northwest will look very similar to each other at the ground level. If you want to find another forest which looks similar to the one that the Star Wars scene was filmed in, they're all over the place.
Exactly this. It's a disingenuous white lie.

'We value [your lack of] privacy.'
Had them here in the UK, used to get a free TV license for the inconvenience. My mate always pressed the same button despite what channel we were watching though, so there is that...
>isn’t Vagrant dependent on VirtualBox?

Added a footnote suggesting a workaround with Parallels for any confused ARM Mac users out there, searching desparately for this fabled Virtualbox program. Appreciate the catch.
> There isn't much of a reason for Mexican nationals to immigrate illegally when USMCA and NAFTA harmonized the visa process

That's not entirely true, there are may reasons; my friend has a startup in TJ working with professional cross-border migrants because of the immense pain it is to migrate to the US, mainly costs associated with living expenses but also the delays in approval. Hell, even getting his wife approved to come to the US, as a Mexican national married to a US citizen with a dual national child cannot enterthe US aas freely as you are making it out to be.

I think this is the whole victim becomes the perpetuator thing that is all too common in the Human Condition.

They welcomed Ukrainians fleeing the war with open arms, I helped feed and help them find legal resources to get processed in the onset of the war in '22 into San Diego, but when it's 'lesser then' like Russians/Belorussians or other Latin Americans, SEA or Arab nationals fleeing war, famine, or climate change the prejudices were obvious.
Not sure why this is on HN. Council of Nicaea is a favorite flashpoint for conspiracy theory people. But in reality it wasn't all that special. It was just one event in many that shaped Christianity. Basically its like a ISO Standards meeting. Lots of old guys making obscure arguments based on interpretations of obscure text about things that essentially don't matter outside of a bunch of nerds.

The connection between their arguments and the actual resulting Christian practice is tenuous at best or more likely irrelevant.

And all things considered its pretty late in the formation of Christianity of the Church. By 325 the church was pretty unified on the most important things.

Its just more famous because we have slightly better documentation for this history. We have almost nothing for the first century. In the second century our records are incredibly spotty and fragmented. It gets a bit better in the 3rd and 4rd century.

There is so much interesting 'Christian' history of the early 2 centuries that people are totally unaware off. If you want to see into some of that strange history, you might want to read something like: "Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE"
Don't kill and don't steal seem pretty useful and are embedded within many if not all secular laws.
Mk 1 Grenade
Full Metal Jacket was entirely filmed in England. That scene was filmed in Norfolk Broads in eastern England.
Never let an explanation ruin a terrible pun.
Imagine working without any requirements at all. I have to open the figma to know what I'm supposed to do, oh and this is backend development. Also, they might decide to change how things work mid sprint, multiple times.
Satellites only look at the surface (and maybe clouds).

Weather balloons are extremely sparce.
A quite interesting read. It gave me Prolog vibes.
There is no clear 'early Christianity'. By the first time we have any evidence, there are already many different interpretations.
Yeah getting statue avi vibes from them.
> If this is a good faith argument, it doesn’t feel like one

The argument is based on evidence and reason, not emotions.

> then it’s predicated on ...

This isn't a hypothetical scenario -- these people overwhelmingly use fossil fuels rather than green energy.

> It also ignores that the wealthy have the resources ...

Nobody knows whether an astroid, nuclear war, or a super volcano eruption poses as much, if not more of an existential risk than climate change. And given multiple existential risks to the Earth with finite resources, we cannot fall to silly appeals to emotion when allocating these resources. If climate change activists were honest, they would be arguing for why climate change is more of an existential risk than the other existential risks to the planet. Instead, they prognosticate the end of the world rely entirely on sophistry to get their message across.
I don't understand why it's such a big deal that "other companies have my data"

What data? Where I live? My phone number? My interests (that I typed in online)? What kind of products I like (that I scrolled slowly past/engaged with)?

Where does the narrative come that "I as a user deserve to use all of these platforms for free and I don't want them or any of their marketing partners to have 'data' on me"

Who cares? Why do people become so obsessed with protecting their 'data'? What makes you so special? They go through great lengths to avoid it. How does it affect your life knowing other companies have 'data' on you?

If you want insurance, insurance providers literally need data on you. Same for credit with banks/lenders. Same for renters/landlords, etc.

But we draw the line on "big tech" social media?... Why? Where is the negative harm?
> Running any project with 800 users for 2 years as a hobbyist can be reasonably called a success.

That's not success, and certainly not a "big success" which is the author's self-reflection.

Unless the author's goal was to run something for 2 years, accumulate 800 users, and then shutting it down.

> This reads a lot like how VC people will come into Mom and Pop shops and say

I think they set out to make a big impact. That means growth, but doesn't imply commercial success.
Maybe if I was a teenager again I would spend the time to figure out how to use Lemmy, but at this age:
I go in, curiosity takes me to “instances”, I see a million. Click a few, many are dead and I start wondering “wait, I have to navigate through this sea of non descriptive URLs that tell me nothing about the instance to get to the data?”

And even if that’s not true, that’s about where I drop it, because it seems like a big climb for something I already know won’t work as a Reddit replacement because there is no way my friends will be convinced to put this kind of effort, and because it’s hard to discover.
2023 was one of the safest years in commercial aviation
Not an issue of OpenSSH, but some GNU/Linux distros patching and linking OpenSSH against xz.
Wrong. Satellites only look at the surface and maybe clouds when available. We have almost no data from above the surface. Very few weather balloons.