skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None lives today who saw Caesar's dictatorship.

It's also funny to brand Caesar as an evil dictator. He was a revolutionary with very benevolent tendencies, both toward the masses and to his enemies. Dictatorships like Sulla's, which came before, were the brutal ones. What the people back then saw Caesar as was as a populist hero fixing a crumbling, broken, and corrupt system. Later, the people of the Empire would think back of the Republican era as one of horror and chaos -- because that's what you get with mob rule.

It's all very relativist.

I think, in the far future, people will regard the Nazis as a point on a continuum and all current governments today as not that far away on that continuum -- not like we do, thinking Hitler was the devil.

Also, both Caesar and Hitler were products of their environment. Normal people responding a certain way to their circumstances. Maybe it's more productive to regard that environment as "evil" than raising people up to Anti-Christ status when the environment churns them out. In Caesar's case, that was a broken senatorial system and a provincial military system not designed to deal with how large and ambitious Rome started getting; in Hitler's, it was how brutally the European powers treated Germany after WW1 and the nearby rise of communism.
It took me 6 years since I started coding to get a proper job as a software engineer. Before that I had created dozens of websites (some of them got revenue through ads) and many delivered successfully many freelancing gigs. Which at least half of them led me to work for free as it was very common to get scammed in the beginning. The market was almost nonexistent at the time in my country and remote working was a luxury not even discussed yet.

It is funny that we think that this beginning we had it easier than the current "I've done 1 year of coding bootcamp, where is my 6 figures job" mindset.
Here's the funniest misbehavior I got out of it: https://www.myshelter.net/istanbul.png

(I added a green rectangle around the desired information.)

Nevertheless, good job so far!
All world countries are operating on fiat currencies, that are inflated away at similar rates.

"financialization of housing" is basically the same thing as "FED". Absent value retaining money, flooded with worthless paper, people look for anything scarce they can park their savings in, turning a social necessity (housing) into savings account, and give into incentives to make it artificially scarce (like NIMBY). Historically (before fiat money) housing was a poor investment. https://www.lynalden.com/most-investments-are-bad/
Apologies, you are correct. I haven't considered emigrating to the US for years and forgot the specific details. Most of my recent knowledge just comes from my friends who live there.

Iirc you can indefinitely keep getting renewals on your h1b while waiting on the green card queue - and this queue is many decades long for people from certain countries like India and China.
For the life of me I can't visualize how this would with in practice at all.
Feels like a conspiracy when you run into these super simple, realistic use cases of generic but progressive ideas.

Things kids can think up, that we can most certainly do that would put us insanely ahead but ... we just don't?

Like, why do we visit the moon but not have people stay there at all? Why are there no structures there?

Why do we ignore the Earth's mysteries a lot and go directly to Mars?
What is your go to market? (Who are your customers and how are you going to monetize them)
Isn't this guy quite literally a primary source?
Member of ransomware gang sentenced to more than 13 years over 2021 attack
What I said was that the first holy war of unix I remember is the DJB vs everyone else.

As far as I can tell, as odd as DJB's designs may have seemed, they were and are ... way better than what was and still hold up today; most of the following "lets unix better" designs seem to just adopt some of DJB's designs, typically poorly.

Systemd certainly seems to have cribbed elements of daemontools et al, but seemingly none of the notion of "least privilege" ...
Looking at the map, I vaguely recall it is about the same location where the meteor struck that caused extinction of dinosaurs.
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I think that's because our screens all have 2x pixel density, so the icon is actually a half-size 32x32 image.
WordPress does have bunches of caching plugins. Some VPS hosts (shout out SiteGround) also have multiple layers of server-level caching that they will apply automatically.

You can take most WordPress websites from multi-second load times to 750ms or less (in fact as a regular exercise I set up fresh WordPress installs on dirt-cheap VPS hosts and see how low I can get them while still having a good site. 250ms to display is not uncommon even without CDNs)
But they are excluding recent (maybe also current?) hardware, unnecessarily.
Why do you want to limit people’s property rights for looks?

Literally is an overused word, but it fits here:

A covenant is literally a property right!
I use twitter daily and the site is a shell of its former self. It's slow, prone to bugs, filled with bots, the amount of real users has cratered, user reports go nowhere, there's no support team, the ads are now bot accounts posting crap like "Today is a good day, be sure to make advantageous", there are no new features besides previously in-flight projects pre-Musk, they've actually removed a lot of features (like Circles, block lists, etc), and much more. He took an otherwise functioning social media service and forced it into maintenance mode. He also fired all of the people that keep the user base alive so now it's flooded with bots (which he presumably likes so he can boast about engagement being up). So yes it's still around but it's dying and the skeleton crew he has left can't do anything.
In other words, he destroyed it.
> Or, why aren't Martians from Earth.

Mars's gravity is much lower, so it's much easier for an impact to accelerate rocks to escape velocity.

I agree with the rest of your comment though.
I'll undo one of your downvotes, I guess. I've never heard of this guy in my life, and I'm not exactly poorly-read. No idea what the connection with HN is.
Running in a circle like this would temporarily give the impression of higher gravity which would affect all muscles.
Is this .Net?
Oh, it seems to rickroll people with a referrer from this site :)

Copy-paste or manually type the URL to get around that!

Edit: They seem to be redirecting with a 301 permanent HTTP response, which seems slightly obnoxious since your browser might cache it. I can't visit the site anymore from the browser I'm using here, so maybe try a different one or incognito mode.
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That sounds surprisingly close to how a toddler might reason, only difference is the toddler can eventually see the flaw in their reasoning if you press them long enough while the LLM doesn't have the architecture for learning in real time yet
I've heard the focus on owning properties is partly driven by how the Chinese government has placed limits on how much or how profitably Chinese citizens can invest in other options. (Deposits in a bank earning interest, stocks, etc.)
It would look a lot like the circular running track in SkyLab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiMq-fdRhLo
Does any of the study of the sun's magnetic activity apply to controlling the plasma in fusion reactors?
I have a wrapper for the many ways you might convert something to a text document in the terminal.

https://github.com/reagle/pandoc-wrappers/blob/main/doc2txt....
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> It seems like this should select a number in the range with no bias. Is there something I missed?

Yes. There are many values of N that aren’t divisors of UInt32Max.

As the article says: “However, no algorithm can convert 2⁶³ equally likely values into n equally likely values unless 2⁶³ is a multiple of n: otherwise some outputs will necessarily happen more often than others. (As a simpler example, try converting 4 equally likely values into 3.)”
I hope the answer is yes, because the current feed algorithm sucks.
Hrm.

People exist.

I also remember when flat earthers were a satire until real crazy people showed up.
Nice job. I guess YouTube is not included in the streaming services?
Humans are evolved to be in a small tribe of 50 or so people they know.

They see Shaq holding a product, they "know" Shaq, so their brain automatically puts the product into the category of something they've seen someone they know using.

How effective this is is a matter of debate.

I guess this is why companies are so quick to drop celebrities that do something unpalatable. Because then the product would go into the category of something that someone I don't like uses.
As I've seen it demoed I'd get one as like a raspberry pi or microcontroller peripheral. But $700?
Plagiarism and fraud may happen in many schools but one would certainly expect more honest work out of a school costing 5-10x more than the competition. What are people paying for, if not a great reputation?
CommaAgents, LLM AutoGenish like system for building LLM systems
I've kinda been working on this tooling for linking up agents and having them work together. I am hoping to make a more "hackable" or hookable system than autogen. There are probably a few projects out there like this by now. But I've made some good progress on the "hub" allowing people to share their models and styles of LLM interactions. Curious what everyone thinks and if there are any suggestions. Thank you!
Then we can argue they were not performing their job duties instead. How long should one be allowed to protest on the clock?
I'll believe it when I start seeing cars that were built in the 90s floating around like toy balloons.
Elon is exceptional at one thing: driving hype.

Except Elon seems to have confused this with "driving innovation." The two __can__ correlate, but do not need to. Like I think it is fair to say that Tesla did push the other manufacturers to start pushing electric cars, but it is hard for me to argue that Tesla led the way through innovation. Not that they didn't do innovative stuff, but that the contribution here wasn't all that large.
If Google and Meta aren't capable of providing the truth, what makes you think you can? Most "truths" online are just constructed lies or biased information. Wouldn't you just be chasing a single perspective based on usage?
This design is Apple's choice, including their approval process.
OK, so they messed with the tree and caused a segfault...
Sounds like you will be a good fit.
I switched away from Mint because of a nightmare after losing an iPhone and having to pay for a new eSIM. You only get 2 eSIMs per year.

And wiping an iPhone via iCloud erases the eSIM. So my phone died, and I couldn't track it. I wiped it remotely. As I had some issues with restoring backups I exhausted my 2 eSIMs in 1 year.

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The article talks about them on the progressive journey to generalized graphs.
ok, I obviously don't know all the issues this team is dealing with, but it seems to be the goal of what they were doing was this...take the base data in one ES instance and split it out into several ES instances.

The way do do that is to go back to the data of record and repopulate the different ES instances (or new datastore). I can't strongly enough suggest people do not use ES as a database of record.

RubyConf 2019 - How to lose 50 Million Records in 5 minutes by Jon Druse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbxmf_TxA-s
Ours also had Fox Pro, and we did all of them (one per year). They also had optional Novel, Linux, UNIX and Mac courses (with certifications). Late 90s - early 2000 were a hoot.
> Similarly, there probably isn't single person on the planet that could fully explain how a modern computer works in detail.

This will be the downfall of modern society. When nobody remains who understands all the tech we rely on it's only a matter of time before the whole house of cards comes down.
The stated problem is some people can’t effectively work from home.

My goal is to get the best candidates. My reasons are selfish - I can get great people cheap if they have circumstances problematic for other employers.

So I got a 5 desks in a small town in the middle of nowhere, and about 15 people in that region utilize it.

Everyone wins: i spend almost nothing. The employee has a great job, doesn’t have to drive 90 minutes, and doesn’t have to disrupt the family life.
https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/5.0/History.md
Covenant is the equivalent of a Eula poisoned into software you've purchased. If you own it you ought have the ability to disable the Eula. A covenant is weird because it more often than not is contract entered unilaterally by some dead guy with himself somehow under the fiction it is an agreement with the land itself, it's not clear who the counterparty even is.
I was struggling to find the word that was appropriate, but you nailed it with insufferable. I can't imagine responding with such disdain for developers and users to a sincere request.
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> "rabbit r1 is not an Android app. We are aware there are some unofficial rabbit OS app/website emulators out there."

Using Android for this makes a ton of sense. Lying about it does not.
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That makes sense, thanks. So the claim here is that exposure to a force similar to Earth gravity for "a few laps a day" would prevent/reduce whole-body deconditioning?

I guess that makes sense too, since a few reps of weightlifting every couple days is enough to trigger muscle growth and bone densification.
I think it’s disabled by default on all distros I’ve used. You could add an entry to /etc/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/ if you want.

(It’ll still offer public keys by default in the exchange, but that’s “just” a privacy issue, not a privilege escalation problem.)
I mean you simply went off showing you don’t know what you are talking about, then ask a stupidly basic question and when it gets the snarky answer it warranted claim the other person is an ass?
Getting paid for something you made is not scummy.

If you want to get paid, asking for payment is the most honest thing you can do.

If you expect to be paid, requiring payment is the most honest thing you can do. It also means you don’t deal with people who would never pay you.

Hoping is not a plan.
What’s the difference between pyinfra and fabric? Fabric seems to have overlaps especially for agentless execution.
Just use KDE and avoid Gnome.
They are far outpacing inflation and wage growth. It's just greed. Gross profit for 2023 was $14.6 B, up 10% from 2022.

https://cdn.financebuzz.com/filters:quality(75)/images/2024/...
Exciting: the possibility of alien life

Also exciting: Our ability to observe exoplanets, and our scientists efforts to create models that glean useful information from those observations.

From what I can glean in some short searching, the "signal" for the presence of dimethyl sulfide is relatively weak (2.2σ per the paper's abstract), and depends on assumptions about the planet's overall atmosphere that might or might not turn out to be unwarranted.
What this have to do with go modules? Any standard lib should have the ability add a new builtin module under a different namespace regardless of how third-party packages of managed, right?
The people who go to protests are probably liberal arts students. They can miss a bunch of classes and still bullshit their way out of it. And a majority of students at most schools are studying bullshit majors like that.
> selling books via a telnet interface.

Were people just that trusting back then, or had they figured out some kind of pre-SSL way of securing things?
Uber has been "out" of the self-driving game since end of 2020. The post T.K (Travis Kalanick) era has seen major divesting and shifting of the balance sheet away from longer term bets like self-driving in an attempt to reach profitability & shielding Uber from more risk. Here is a short history of self-driving @ Uber.

August '15: Uber announces its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to establish the Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) in Pittsburgh, focusing on self-driving technology research and development.

May '16: Uber begins testing its self-driving Ford Fusion vehicles in Pittsburgh, marking its first public demonstration of autonomous vehicle technology.

August '16: Uber acquires Otto, a self-driving truck startup founded by former Google engineers. This ended up with a lawsuit over stolen IP that was a large setback from what I remember.

Sept. '16: Uber launches its first self-driving ride-hailing service in Pittsburgh, using a fleet of modified Ford Fusion's. Safety drivers are present in each car to take control if needed.

December '16: Uber starts testing its self-driving cars in San Francisco without obtaining the necessary permits from the CA DMV. The DMV revokes the registration of Uber's test vehicles, forcing the company to halt its operations in the city.

March '17: Uber resumes its self-driving tests in Arizona, taking advantage of the state's friendly regulations for autonomous vehicle testing.

March '18: A fatal accident occurs in Tempe, Arizona, when an Uber self-driving vehicle strikes and kills a pedestrian. Uber suspends its self-driving testing program across all cities in the aftermath of the incident.

July '18: Uber resumes its self-driving tests in Pittsburgh, with additional safety measures and limitations on the vehicles' operating conditions.

March '19: Uber receives a $1 billion investment from SoftBank Vision Fund, Toyota, and DENSO for its self-driving unit, valuing the division at $7.25 billion.

June '19: Uber resumes its self-driving tests in San Francisco, having obtained the necessary permits from the California DMV.

Dec '20: Uber sells its ATG division to Aurora, a self-driving vehicle startup, in a deal valued at $4 billion. As part of the agreement, Uber invests $400 million in Aurora and retains a 26% stake in the combined company.
This is a newly published paper (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3828/...) but it concerns observations made in 2021. i.e., it's new analysis of old data.
This seems like something that customers can potentially sue for. AWS is overcharging them and not correcting the bug once they become aware of it.
> I'm not sure where it gets the known good hash from without making an HTTP call to the originating URL, though

Hmm, yeah. I was thinking about reducing the amount of data transferred but it's the actual number of requests that's the problem then it won't help.
Takes 3 seconds to disable
JSDelivr is experiencing certificate issues
And hapi! I remember switching to that one from express. Learning it was written by WalMart kinda confused me at first.
I thought /dev/payments was their second name. Weren't they /dev/creditcard or something like that first?
Just because you find something immoral doesn't mean it's cowardly.
dang, could you correct this URL?
Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard
Yep! It’s a bit old and 720p-ish but there’s a movie, I think it was even on YouTube at one point.
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I used to like Linode, until I started using zfs.

Their backup is not at a block level just because they can optimize it for their benefit which limits the partition be formatted only in unencrypted ext3 or ext4 to be able to use their backup service.

https://www.linode.com/docs/products/storage/backups/#additi...

I don't like them sweeping through list of files daily and their backup service choked having millions of files a few years ago while I was still with them. Backing up at a block level will never impose such limitations.

So, their backup service which is one of the reason to use a cloud with hefty 20% added charge, is pretty much meaningless if you're using zfs. Haven't checked all but a provider taking backup at a file system level should be totally the minority.
> Hitler's vice chancellor from 1933 to 1934 and the man who pressured Hindenburg to appoint Hitler to power

Are you saying that supporting Hitler before the war should have been a war crime?
Yes, they are, but that's not related to the version number. Things like that also happened before on a smaller scale with windows 10 updates.
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yep - professional sports teams expect to underpay market rates for technical talent b/c they assume they'll always find people to fill the roles. They're expecting charity. If you like sports / tech / math - just do it as a hobby and get paid what you're worth at your day job.