skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from "not ancient" Java has everything you want! I'd consider the best tooling (Intellij), static, strongly typed, has enums now (sealed interfaces), composeable error handling, null safety with new module flags, etc. Not sure about the community, but the maintainers I've worked with seemed nice enough. I imagine the community has a lot less ego than rust/go due to the general perception of the language.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40218197
As for the office? That's an easy one.

Yes, looking at that office building from 1910 is pleasurable.

However, using that office building from 1910 kinda sucks.

Your electrical outlets are generally terrible and in weird places. Your toilets are tiny and cramped. Those marble floors and steps are a terrible slip hazard with even a tiny amount of water on them. The AC and heating are generally unreliable and probably noisy because they are individual to a window or office rather than central. Elevators are probably various levels of functional. etc.

Something built in the last 20 years with that kind of style would be quite pleasant. Something actually from 1910? Not so much.
There's always someone who wants to blame capitalism. It's an inbuilt survival instinct to collect as many resources as possible. It's just only humans that have the technology to destroy while doing it.
I see you have studied the human as well! Now do religion ;)
What future though? And it’s easily replaced by a hardware button on a phone. I expect Google and Apple will release theirs this year.
The built environment is a bad example. Because Victorians are cute and twee, you can't renovate or demolish them without exorbitant costs and delays. Because brutalist structures are not cute twee, despite being more rare and historically important, you can do whatever the fuck you want to them. So if I were building a home today, and I wanted to ensure that the buyer of this land would get the most value of it, I'd hope that the architecture of my home is just interesting enough to bring me and my community joy, but not so distinct that someone new coming into the community isn't bogged down by B.S.

If the author was more serious about this thread, maybe investigate why people don't have as many pictures of their family hanging on the walls as they used to. Sentimentality, not "decoration," is the thing we lost.
What facial recognition are you talking about when people jump over the turnstiles and walk into the open gates without any regard for police officers that stand nearby and just watch this happen? MTA is a joke. I keep wondering why am I even paying for the subway?
You do realize, I hope, that if you give even one person A GPL/AGPL version of your software, they can then redistribute it to anyone for any purpose. There's no such thing as "GPL for non-commercial use".
I don't get this line of thinking. Should suicide be allowed too? That would make this argument congruent, otherwise I can understand it.
Yes, but that isn't necessarily a feature of option types. Is it the case that similar sugar for the tiresome Go pattern couldn't achieve similar benefits?
Many, many daemons run under their own users. Just because a single human is using the system, it doesn’t mean the system has a single user.

Also, people noted HPC, and other still very relevant scenarios.
> The Linux file system was also not designed for that (although it doesn't prohibit such software) I guess.

There's no 'the' Linux file system. There's plenty of file system to choose from.

And, in fact, it would be relatively easy to write a write-only filesystem with FUSE. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace)
Feels like someone stuffed splines into decision trees.
I am actually not against marijuana, nor am I a socialist. I am just pointing out its role in this case. Incidentally, I am against alcohol very much as well.

I do not believe the government should regulate what goes in our bodies. I am just pointing out the way the government is using it as a tool.

Frankly, I really don't care whether the government criminalizes drugs or not.
This reminds me of the software engineer who built his own GPU: https://www.furygpu.com/about
> They drew attention to their cause, you're talking about them. You're talking about their cause.

You almost got it. We are talking about them… but not about their cause.

And therein lies the gold: they found a cause that they can use to scream look at me me me.
Where in the link [2] does it say that most Israeli Jews are of European decent? Just over half are not Ashkenazi (mostly Jews from the Middle East, Western and central Asia and Ethiopia). Additionally about 20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinian. Less than 40% of the total population are Ashkenazi.
Your comment suggests that you believe crash-only software to be inherently less reliable than the alternative. But that is opposite of the stated goal and supposed benefits.
8 Instances of Minecraft at once. 60fps cap limit for all of them with VSYNC enabled to maintain smooth frame times.
Chunks in each instance were set to 6, which is still wild to me that even though Minecraft is running on different threads and cores, technically the Steam Deck was rendering 48 chunks at once.
Had to install a ton of performance mods, such as Sodium, to maintain great framerate.
Only dips we had, were people purposely lagging the game by flying really fast in spectator mode when they died, which we promptly asked them to not to do that.
You would usually use Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) such that comparison between countries is possible, because as you pointed, comparisons in absolute values between countries are not useful.
Just a random thing I remembered reading this: Red Dot design award for Philips LED Street Light [1].

"low-cost", "thought-through functionality", "easy to install", "low maintenance costs", "highly durable and wear resistant", "exudes an air of elegance that gives it a timeless appearance"

Maybe the order of things they mention here tells something about our priorities? Aesthetics comes last in the list (but it is still there).

[1] https://www.red-dot.org/project/lumistreet-33931
Doesn’t this make sense? If your actions of copying content disrupt or prevent the content owner’s commercial practice, then it does seem like infringement.
You're on an unusual website for someone who does not support any technological development. You're not in favour of caveman technology even? Clubs and fire? Going to be a cold winter.
I agree with that. That is why I think we should be much more cautious about technology, like the Amish.
Yeah, the IKEA model makes sense for a lot of reasons. But I think the broader aesthetic landscape draws that into question too - I can understand bland architecture or interior design, I have trouble understanding the relative simplicity of music, fine art, or fiction from the past 20 years along those lines.

I think it’s clearly related to the demise of postmodern aesthetics - the intentional gaudiness/kitsch of the 60’s-90’s has kind of fallen away to a reinvention of MCM aesthetics: vaguely space-age, sleek and refined, high class, rather than the scattershot pastiche of postmodernism.
I haven't had time to really try to write anything in it, but https://gleam.run/ looks really good too. Like Elm for backend + frontend!
It could just be as simple as it’s a lot of fun. I smoked pot for a lot of years, not because I had a hole in me or anything, it was just a very fun way to go about the day. I haven’t smoked in a decade because long term usage led to mild agoraphobia for me but went away a couple of months after I stopped.
> If the source code originally used AGPL, isn’t it still contractually obligated to ensure those rights to its users, including any new source code added to it?

This guy really has no idea how copyright and licensing work. The AGPL places no obligation on the one distributing the original source code, it only places obligations on those who want to use or re-distirbute the code. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about this.

If you don't understand such a fundamental point about licensing, you really really shouldn't be making a fool of yourself speaking about it in public.
I agree in the sense that decorated objects "evoke a response" whereas "bland" becomes invisible. There's nothing to dislike, equally nothing to like.

Catering for a big event? Pretty sure the food will be bland. Can be too spicy, or use "strange" ingredients. When did you last see duck or venison as the options?

As individuals we can un-bland our spaces and some do. But public spaces are designed by committee so always revert to blandness.

(In an effort to combat this some public spaces commission sculptures from artists. When unveiled there's always bad press, because finding people who don't like it is easy. 10 years later it's "part of our heritage".)

Creative things evoke a response , and in governance responses are to be avoided.
Nobody was going to pay $200 for that app w/ 85 gazillion LLM wrappers already out there, so they need some other form factor to get traction.
https://whereto.stream/movie/8810?provider=hbo

Why does it claim that mad max 2 is streamable on hbo in denmark? Decided to watch the trilogy this weekend and had a laugh that only the first and the third was available here
HPC admin here.

Yes. First, we use user level container systems like apptainer/singularity, and these containers run under the user itself.

This is also same for non academic HPC systems.

From schedulers to accounting, everything is done at user level, and we have many, many users.

It won’t change anytime soon.
People constantly shit on Musk for how he runs his companies, among other things. But if his legacy is to create competitive industries in areas where there were previously none (this, EVs, reusable rockets, etc), that's a great legacy indeed. Even if Tesla, SpaceX, etc go bankrupt tomorrow, you'll still be able to get satellite internet or buy an EV, and that's largely thanks to Musk.
What's the strange part? "Recessive" and "common" are different concerns.

Having five fingers per hand is recessive too.
It is funny how pirating is still by far the most convenient method of them all. Streaming services is becoming much like cable tv was and the various tiers of service. I simply use Yandex.com and type "x" movie stream and then can watch anything I want at a moments notice. I tried to pay for netflix and currently still have amazon prime but netflix stopped allowing my kids to use the account at their moms house so canceled. I just taught my kids how to stream free movies instead.
Is there a way to read this sequence of messages as a coherent whole in the correct order?
Well, there are some interesting discussions here (sometimes). I don't believe in echo chambers but about talking with people about ideas.

I don't advocate for a complete shunning of technology, but rather a cautious approach towards it, somewhat like the Amish but with Christianity replaced with a reverence for nature.

We will never stop using basic tools and fire but there has got to be a better optimum somewhere that uses less than all the wasteful stuff we're doing now.
In the past, decoration was much more expensive than plain objects. A craftsman would have to spend extra time adding this (e.g., paint some pattern on a plate).
So such objects would be a true signal of your wealth.
Nowadays, decorated stuff costs almost the same to produce. It's now only an indication that you have a really old tast for style.

There might be even a reverse factor: fake products. In my eyes, golden stuff always looks cheap. If someone in my bubble would suddenly wear a golden watch, we'd make fun why they got it from some guy on the street for five bucks.
`systemctl list-unit-files` is too difficult?
This should make your blood run cold. Executive Orders were never intended to be the avenue through which novel law was established. The Executive has absorbed so much of what was the purview of the legislative branch it isn't even funny.
The eye catching hardware is what made this project interesting. Would we be talking about this at all if it was just an app?
Yes, we are moving more and more towards a system of immutable deployments.

That's good! We don't patch executable binaries these days: we just compile a new one from source, when we made a change. Similarly, more and more we just build new systems (or their images) from source, instead of mucking around with existing systems.
In a few years we will look back at this period in AI with niche hardware startups and companies pouring millions into chatbot UIs and think how early it all was.

The future lives in a thick fog and someone has to venture through. Bless the first to try and find it, but they’re all missing
Re-posting from 7 years ago...

[1][2] "The top 6 countries [2] with the highest Muslim populations are not (temp) banned, yet somehow it's a "Muslim Ban"."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13515783

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150406003902/http://www.pewfor...

[3] archive.org wayback needs a backup
Can’t wait to hear what you think of the UK’s “smoke free generation” laws…

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-to-create-...

When you ask your government to look after your health, don’t be surprised when then start banning stuff that’s bad for your health.
Unfortunately different people often want different things.
I don't think people do psilocybin and LSD to escape from reality. I'm not even sure how that would work, given how I understand tolerance works for those drugs?
Had to check it out for myself. "The American Libido for the Ugly" https://www.thoughtco.com/libido-for-the-ugly-by-mencken-169...
I think most people agree that weed shouldn't be a schedule 1 drug, but I believe that the movement to decriminalize will have unforeseen consequences on our society. Marijuana use leads to cognitive decline and exacerbates psychiatric conditions even in healthy individuals, full stop. The literature on this is clear. Whether the tradeoff is worth it or not (the increased pleasure, for the decrease in cognitive ability), should be up to the individual to decide.

The problem I have is that no one is talking about the potential consequences when they're talking about legalization. My 70 year old mom is going to parties with her friends where they all have a new habit of smoking marijuana because "it's legal and safe". Regulators, politicians, and advocates only hail the positive effects of marijuana and no one is talking about the cognitive risks involved.

The reason probably is because I think most people agree that it's stupid to send people to jail for smoking marijuana. But they're conflating the idea that decriminalization is good with the idea that marijuana then must not be bad for you. And this is wholly not true, and I wish more people were talking about this.

Btw, I know I will probably get downvoted for this because marijuana users don't want to face the fact that they might be dampening their long-term cognitive potential but please go do a full review of the literature—you will begin to share the doubt that I have.
> You absolutely DO want all of those log levels.

I agree, this is a very clear fact that's readily understood by anyone with any experience developing and operating a service.

It's weird that we see claims arguing one of the core tools of troubleshooting isn't needed, without providing any sound argument.

Among the long list of arguments that can be presented, I'm only going to point out one which might be obscure: cost. Cloud providers charge a premium for data generated through log ingestion, and the more logs you generate the more you pay. Most of the time needlessly so.

One strategy to work around that is only logging error/critical in production. That avoids the invoice caused by all other log levels, which dominate the whole event dump. However, when the shit hits the fan you will want as much info as you can to help you quickly troubleshoot problems. With the standard log level hierarchy that's as easy as tweaking an environment variable in prod to output additional log levels. If you want to, you can drive the level down to dumping tracing info. Modern production-ready logging frameworks even support filtering log events based on the namespace/package/class level, for this very reason. You pepper your code paths with the relevant log messages corresponding to adequate log levels, and once you have your infrastructure sorted out you have all the tools you need to adapt your logs to the operational needs you have.

You absolutely cannot do that with simplistic info/error logs.
I agree, though I was really surprised to learn this when reading Go code. Much easier to skip over than I was expecting it to be
May be unrelated or maybe not. I believe my Gigabyte motherboard for AMD 5950X to be the cause of instability.
> "Whom in this room would you boom?" is not ungrammatical though.

Try polling some people on that.
Which US based weed companies are publicly traded?
haha that reminded of a quote Osho.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AeO-dKGBLs
I can't assess this, but I do worry that overnight some algorithmic advance will enhance LLMs by orders of magnitude and the next big model to get trained is suddenly 10,000x better than GPT-4 and nobody's ready for it.
Case in point: Eichler houses.

When I was young, they were cheap and cheerful and derided as "little boxes made of ticky-tacky".

Now that they're going for a million+, they are "mid century modern" and cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Eichler#Eichler_Homes
Are there places where suicide is criminalized?
Almost all CUs use the same company to provide the ATM network. The fees between them get zeroed out in part because the transaction stays in house.

It’s probably better to say “nearly all CU withdrawals” because they don’t have a perfect monopoly.
Containerisation (either with containers or via VMs) doesn't have to be expensive.

In principle, you can have just exactly the binary (or binaries) you need in the container or VM, without having a full Linux install.

See eg Unikernels like Mirage.
If it is voluntary, repeated, and the person of sound mind, I can't see why the government should prevent a terminal patient who is in constant pain from dying with dignity on their own terms.
> Following your suggestion with population-adjusted equivalents, USA should have 9946 candidates in this year elections, if you believe that "convenience doesn't change things all that much".

That's not how the population adjustment works. If the threshold is that 0.4% of the population has to endorse a candidate, then 1000x population does not mean 1000x candidates.

Maybe you could find 9900 people that have 1500 supporters. But those people aren't trying to get on the ballot because that's a tiny amount of support in the US.

> With such difficult barriers of entry, we effectively bar majority of the population from running for office. I don't think it's either fair or truly democratic.

Not any office, specifically a country-wide office has these thresholds. And I think they're just fine.

I think a bare minimum threshold should be 0.1% of the population. Why would you want anyone below that level to be on the ballot? People that are going to get 0% of the vote are just wasting space. It's not undemocratic to tell them to get more endorsements.

That's not to say there couldn't be improvements, but it's hard to imagine more than 10-20 viable candidates.
I wonder if after all that work, we might automatically reduce the proof and discover a simpler one that could have been included in the “margin”.
Question: If this change goes into effect, will it effectively open up banking for all the cannabis related/cannabis adjacent companies? Seems like a really smart move to bring them into the financial system.
Sure i could do this on debian, but like, i wont. Some software comes packaged with nice scripts to provision new users for running systemd services, but a lot do not.

For me and my home network, if the default security mode is “manage users yourself”, i chmod -R 777 on all applicable files and call it a day. Nixos lets me be lazy, as all nixos modules (that I’ve ever used) have their own user setups with minimal permissions by default
Yeah he employed a few versions of that phrase. I heard him use it in this (excellent) interview, which is the only recording of his voice.

https://youtu.be/QpGzpqU-b04?si=Lhpsz4N30zV1Hqi0
Can you share some more use cases you've seen it working?
Eagle screeching in the background.
ChatGPT is really good at suggesting 20 names for <vague description of thing>. Try it out!
> you can imagine who works at them

You might want to be more careful then. This empty space is a well known rhetorical device used to allude that you're making a negative judgement about people.
So it's not really something intended to be efficient and useful, it's a conversation piece.
Being used to the world of software, where only ignorant and amateurish systems don't handle the 400-year rule in the Gregorian calendar, it's eye-opening to find out that people are paying thousands of dollars for a time-keeping device that needs the date to be manually fixed five times a year.
Scientist who gave world the Covid sequence is locked out of his lab by Chinese
Lock in of some kind is inevitable. I say this on many levels

Pick one and get going
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth, doesn't it? Why haven't they taken action until now? People aren't children to be appeased by such gestures.
I think you can also configure the journal per unit right? Don't remember how exactly, at the very least you can stream logs to a different system.

There are also services which will just use their own logging convention for some reason. Honestly it's easier just to go with journalctl for everything you can.
Excuse me, but I do want to live in a world where death is inevitable and will choose that option at any time. It has nothing to do with helplessness, it's pure reason and engineering considerations.

The current system with auto-refreshing humans has got us very far and obviously it works really well. Not only it solves biological problems like cancer (which you can argue eternal humans will solve themselves) but most importantly it solves scientific, engineering and social problems.

It avoids dead-ends, it can't get stuck, it iterates relentlessly over infinity of alternatives to find the one that brings us further. A mistaken scientist dies and so does his theory. A tyrant dies and so does his regime. A liar dies and no one maintains his lies.

Starting life afresh, without decades of mental baggage is a blessing. Carrying it with you forever is hell for you and for others who will have to endure your presence.
A lot of telcos used to have phone numbers you could call that would just say the number you're calling from (like with a computerized voice). I forget what this was called, but it was talked about in phreaking community or so on. Not sure if these "caller identifier" phone numbers are still around today though.
simple but pretty useful for me! btw is it a mistake not posting the repo url?
I’m using a DigitalOcean Droplet and running a Dockerized application inside it. Can easily take the image to another provider if I want. No lock in.
First they came for the decoration, then they came for the colour.
While I would like to see the decriminalization of all drugs, I do not think President should act like an emperor and just pass EOs. EO are not meant for this sort of actions. Remember, next president is going to be Trump and he can pass even worse EOs.
No, it won’t, as the federal government has repeatedly pressured banks to cut off banking to legal, but ‘undesirable’ industries (as well as cannabis). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
With tattoos that they can't even appreciate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lmojePnA0&t=71s

(chicas, he's not into the botox; dudes, she's not into the glasspacks)

[yes, I'm too old; I'm sure you all can properly update the observation for me]
nice work and congrats on the launch!