skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice systemd solution, it seems very elegant!

To be clear, my init script is named S00datetime, not 500datetime. It's actually the very first one that runs from rcS. So the date is restored very, very early in the boot process before pretty much everything else.
And most important: Wealthy people invested into Tesla stock hype, that is where most of Musks money comes from.
The Internet as You Know It Is Dying
Yup, I switched a few years ago from i3 (X11) to sway (Wayland) and use it to replace urxvt.
> Am I too cynical?

Not at all. I feel exactly the same way. I'm also introverted, and to me "relationship building" in a corporate context often feels really contrived.

I want to bring as much value as possible to my employer, and I don't feel like I generate value by having 1:1s for the sake of having 1:1s. I jump through the hoop though, because I want a promotion and I'm concerned that I won't get one if I don't fit the norm.
> Even in those larger numbers, sponsors are flighty and often unappreciative.

Can you elaborate on what you mean? In my experience running meetups, sponsoring is an expensive and thankless activity akin to a donation
> Sorry, I've always been a dog person.

Presumably not dachshunds who will happily crack the necks of any bunnies they come across.

(Or any of the the other myriad of hunting breeds!)
I agree wholeheartedly. Technology is only good at teaching material related to technology. Sometimes the link is tenuous at best, but as long as one exists, it works. In any other subject matter areas, the kid will pick up a bunch of half-truths and whole lies.
I have four cats and a dog. I love both dogs and cats.

I used to be a “dog person,” until I fostered about 150-170 kittens (I lost count). My reasoning? If I give them up to adoption homes as kittens, I just get infinite kittens, which is undebatable cuteness with none of the “adult cat” tendencies.

Of course, then I realized that cats, while much-maligned, are really fairly incredible creatures, are extremely different from one another, and have extremely distinct personalities.

So sure, while they may create havoc for small rodents, birds, spiders and the like… they can be exceptionally loving and peaceful animals to their humans and other animals. My dog and cats cuddle together, except for one cat that refuses to accept the dog.
I have cats now, had a dog before, love both, and what you say about cats applies to dogs too in my experience.
I have to say I prefer the type of book review that you see in the New York Review of Books. This is basically 95% pure summary with a tiny and vacuous conclusion. I find the discussion at the beginning of Auten and Splinter puzzling and it makes me wonder if the author understands AS or PSG beyond a few tweet storms on Econ twitter.
This kind of zero-sum thinking - then notion that accumulation of wealth necessarily means it must have been taken from others - is extremely detrimental to society.
I couldn't agree less. Wealth depends on poverty because poverty creates wealth. You'll never get 10x Musk's without creating homeless people. We compete with each other for resources using wealth and power, which at the highest levels are the same.
>I would rather live in a world with a 10x Musk and no homeless people than a more equal world like the current one but with no billionaires.

Fair. And I think in fact most people probably would agree with you as a hypothetical. Where I think we would disagree is whether we think an economic system that produces 10x the Musks is an economic system that could also eliminate homelessness. Would the political leaders in such a system want to spend money eliminating homelessness, or spend money on the Musks who e.g. finance their elections, or provide them with well paying jobs?
Thought this was /bin/cat as a service…
If you want to understand the problems, spend less time worrying about the parts of the economy where over time you pay less and get more, and spend more time worrying about the parts of the economy where over time you pay more and get less. That's where it's broken. Health care, housing, education.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#%22Crazy_cat-lad...
Is it, though? I think you have to define what your search engine is searching to make a claim like that. Internet Archive and Common Crawl (which I will say has its own incentives discouraging the discoverability of old sites through its methodology and limitations of its web crawling) are search engines in their own right.

What are you doing when you use their services? Searching.
> Hell, that might even be slower than using a mutex?

It depends, of course, on how the mutex is implemented, but yes, this is the reality a lot of times.

The thing about atomics is that they can appear simple to naïve eyes, but the semantics are very difficult to get right (especially if you want your code to be portable across architectures).
> I also personally don't want to live in a world where a significant portion of people don't ... understand eating tide pods is bad.

I assume this is written in jest. Do you really think this is true? If yes, you really underestimate the intelligence of an average person.

As a reminder, in most high-developed, democratic countries, about 1/3 of people have a university degree. That means the majority of your society doesn't have a university degree. To me, the point of public education (through high school) is to prepare people to be good citizens.
The Growing Scientific Case for Using GLP-1s to Treat Addiction
The haves also constitute enrollees of private schools, where the school's pedagogy is aligned with the parents'.
Original title “The Growing Scientific Case for Using Ozempic and other GLP-1s to Treat Opioid, Alcohol, and Nicotine Addiction” compressed to fit title limit.

https://archive.today/4DG1b

https://web.archive.org/web/20240603015010/https://recursive...
> since it had no unit test

But aren't unit tests the half-assed solution? They are a wonderful help if you want to deliver something fast, but if you had more time you'd probably do something else.
> the rule of reciprocit

You might be interested in Pre-suasion by Cialdini. Of special note is Cialdini’s ideas about ethical use of the techniques.

https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Suasion-Revolutionary-Way-Influen...
I'm disappointed this isn't saas.cat. That TLD is a real thing, you know. Catalonia.
A lot of people realize they have been missing this in their middle-age crises and then they go off to the Himalayas, the Oceania, the Amazon, and so on.

Our brain gets mothballed by routine and the years fly by without us doing what matters to us, or why we even got jobs in the first place. We also get convinced, with every passing day, that this is good for us. That routine provides structure, stability, safety. Then at some point, we are so convinced we don't have the capacity to doubt it anymore.

Some of us will get shocked out of it by some kind of a trigger, like a death, financial shock, physical ability changes, etc. But not everyone.
I get intermittent errors:

This page isn’t working

cataas.com didn’t send any data.

ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
Quake in 13kb (2021)
Now that's copywriting
Same. I was excited with the possibility of someone concatenating strings for me over the network.
Remember to put the frosty side of your glass "inside" the space you want to protect from casual viewing.
Such is the nature of pets. Between 30 and 80 people are killed every year by dogs. And yet they aren't outlawed. There is a threshold below which we accept risk.
>try your public library

YMMV, our public library has free meeting space, however they absolutely will not let you sign up for a room monthly.

One of the biggest issues is having a consistent meeting schedule, juggling the day/time makes it hard. You'll never find a time that works for everyone, so just pick one that works for the core participants.

I was heavily involved in running several meetings for ~20 years, and we'd regularly have 30-50 people at them.

We got space from, at various times: Businesses, Universities, NIST, Hackerspaces. Check around, it can be pretty tough to find space, especially for larger meetings and meetings that need projectors for presentations, but we always were able to find a place.
It is zero sum: there are finite goods and services in the world, and we're all competing for them. There are losers and winners.

"That's just zero sum thinking" has been the smokescreen for gullible people for at least fifty years.
Maxwell's equations are a classical field theory (no quantization). That means Maxwell's equations are one of the theories of the body called classical mechanics. So if you wanted to, you could write down the Lagrangian (density) or Hamiltonian for various experimental configurations (eg charged particle in a field) and derive Maxwell's equations (there are a couple of papers like this). Nothing stopping you from using SICM's formalism either. Would it be a useful exercise? No clue.
No, poverty does not create wealth. The wealthiest people tend to come from affluent countries with low poverty. This comment is prototypical of a zero-sum mindset.
I know you are joking, but a thought like that crossed my mind too.

Advert: Pure water from ~20,000 years ago before man.

I know homo-sapiens were around, and maybe on the east coast. But Marketing People tend to make up things so they will sell :)
Bad site cert. Some browsers won't go there. (chrome) but FF did
Most cats are chill. All creatures kill.
> Wealth depends on poverty because poverty creates wealth

This is circular reasoning and shows a fundamental lack of understanding of basic economics and what wealth even is.

> You'll never get 10x Musk's without creating homeless people

This is stated without evidence.

> We compete with each other for resources using wealth and power

The classic 0 sum theory of economics. It's a good thing economics isn't actually 0 sum because with more than 10x population growth since the 1700s we'd be fighting over loaves of bread.
Yes, my two Afghan Hounds did recently kill a rabbit. The only creature they've killed in their twelve years.. but you're not wrong, you're right. Thank you, I'll have to reflect on this.
> (and backports currently has kernel 6.7, not 6.6)

It does, but it also has 6.6. I don't recommend installing 6.7, which is EOL and out of support upstream.
Show HN: I made a Basecamp for travel planning in my last month of college
Hey HN!

I just graduated from college last week and wanted to share something I just shipped. I travelled a bunch in my last semester and was sick of using Google docs, sheets, or phone notes to organize my trip details. I realized that all travel planning has 3 things: transportation, lodging, and day-by-day itineraries. Most travel software I looked at did way too much and was always trying to sell me more than just the software.

I made RunwayHorse to 1) add a bit of scaffolding to my trip planning so that I can focus on the details and 2) have a quick and easy way to grab things like flight times, check-in info, and links to things on the go.

I built the whole thing in Rails (one person framework!), including running Solid Queue on my DB for jobs.

I hope it makes travel planning a bit less tedious for you too. Appreciate your feedback.

Varun
its a bit "news at 11" because it's always been dying, in as much as it's always been changing.

the great renaming in USENET had a ripple of "Usenet is dead to me"

honey danber and the loss of a!b!c paths for user@host had warfare.

gopher and wais being replaced by web had .. oh noooo qualities.
Why do you ask?

What's your goal, and why?

What are the potential consequences of such technology?
Here comes the return of handwritten letters scanned in for “proof” an LLM didn’t write it.

And of course then next comes a handwriting output plugin for LLMs
"Chandler has explicitly said that he doesn't see a reason to solve data races."

Er, the slide title says that solving this is highly desirable, just not a strict requirement for security purposes.

Not sure how that's the same as "doesn't see a reason to solve data races". I see lots of reasons. I just think it is possible to achieve the security goals without it.

FWIW, I'm hopeful we'll end up including this in whatever model we end up with for Safe Carbon. It's just a degree of freedom we also shouldn't ignore when designing it.
> He continued reaching into the pockets of wealthy people

I'd argue he used subsidies from the government, both direct and indirect.

Buyers get a tax credit for electric cars. SolarCity received hundreds of millions of dollars in direct grants from different state governments, I believe this all went to Tesla.

Tesla's high curb weight causes more damage to roads. Tesla's lack of unionization means that it relies on mistreatment of workers to get its cars made.

There are a lot of examples of Musk taking money both directly and indirectly from those who are not in his customer base. I won't argue whether or not Tesla has been a net benefit or not for the USA, but the result of this is that Musk can point to his company's success and marketing to pump the share price-- and he is now attempting to dump it.

The sneaky thing about inequality is that a lot of the direct costs are externalized. Musk can still appear "self-made" when he has externalized so many of his costs to the taxpayer and his workers.
The EU is a joke. Regulating themselves into obscurity.
Toxoplasma gondii is not a causative factor of much of anything other than possibly toxoplasmosis.

But you’d need to basically be eating cat feces for that.
Smarter Every Day: Bullets Hitting Bullets in Slow Motion
> that school is not always good socialization or the only way to socialize children.

Typically it is the option within reach.

We've eradicated free ranging & natural adult-free peer time. What's left are adult-built programs. They're artificial constructs and they take real time and money to be reliably available.

I had 5 kids. I spent 10x time (per child) parenting, compared to my parents. My kids had a busier life than I did but they were still shortchanged.
I've run various meetups in the past, some of which have been successful, some not.

The biggest thing I learned was that you if you start it, you have to drive it. If you take a few months off, don't expect anyone else to pick it up and run with it, even if they offer and you give them the keys to do so.

Nowadays I don't have time for anything too involved. Instead of meetup.com, I "run" a small private group (which is me with a mailing list and a google calendar invite) of remote IT workers in Inner North Melbourne (AU) who catch up for beers once a month (email in my profile for details) It's surprisingly better in some ways. The group is tighter, and there's far less stress.
> Apple's solution did not involve any spying.

Spying by your own device is still spying.
If you have a source for this, consider updating the registration restrictions reported at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ngo_and_.ong.
Mmm, and every now and then, a bull terrier or german shepherd or mastiff or pointer or rottweiler or great dane or somesuch turns and kills a child, or even an adult. Usually a child of a dog person. At the risk of upsetting them.

(And that’s before you consider the number seriously injured by mauling. About a third of all people have been bitten by dogs at least once)
Oh, absolutely :) I try to keep up on Slack, but I need to get back to going to the in-person events again. It’d be cool to reconnect there sometime!
> [...] My car informing me that one of the tyres is low on pressure [...]

Thank you for putting this in a larger philosophical prospective. For I have something on the next level, a car that tells me "a tire has low pressure", but does NOT tell me which tire it is. I did the best I could to understand why my beloved car would do this, but gave up and had to interpret it as a deliberately malicious act.

My suspicions were confirmed when 1 of 4 sensors (inside the tires) had failed, and the technician read the diagnostic and proceeded directly to the tire in question. I had been desperately holding on to the remote possibility that the car really didn't know which tire has low pressure or which sensor failed, but it told the technician but not me.

I am wondering if it would be best to give the car to the technician to ensure my personal safety. How would the next aspect of this dislike manifest? Most scenarios I can think of result in the car's own suicide, but perhaps it will run me over? Please help.

Signed, LOW TIRE PRESSURE
No, goods and services are not finite. This is just patently false. How many automobiles existed in 1800? How many jey liners existed in 1900? How many smartphones existed in 1950? The pool of goods grows in absolute terms.

It's not just goods, services too grow in absolute terms. We invented radio in 1900 (ish) and introduced a wholly novel set of services. Before photography, in order to get one's likeness recorded you had to sit for a portrait painter. After practical photography was developed, portraits became much more accessible. I could go on.

Humanity is increasing the pool of goods and services in absolute terms all the time.
PlaceKitten(.com) is also a similar handy service.
Double blind when you have mind altering substances is hard.

Maybe they need a confounding effect from something else?

But if in the end, the combination of MDMA and therapy works, the fact that double blind couldn't prove it may matter less, if some other acceptable basis of measurement can be drawn up.

Maybe double blind in assessment of pre- and post- treatment mental states by independent health professionals on test scores, satisfaction surveys, or whatever?
Excellent.

I propose we inscribe the Doom and Quake source onto twin golden platters[0] and send them into outer space with the next interstellar probe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
No, you can't. Machine learning doesn't work that way.

You can keep the false positive level reasonably low for copies of already known and flagged images. You can't do it for new images.
Wikipedia explains the basics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del
and the related articles on gradient (slope), divergence (flow across a boundary), and curl (circulation)
This would be especially useful for OSes with a limited standard distribution. Post a file(s) and get a response with non printing chars etc.
> Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!
Murderous cows and sheep slaughtering the insects on the grass they chew to death isn't quite the same degree of carnage as Rambo the cat though, are they?
How do you address the competition that comes from the free and open-source Cat Distribution System (CDS)?
It's true the the economy is not a zero-sum game, but it's also true that many aspects are zero-sum. Maybe some portion of Zuck's wealth does genuinely come from his innovations, and otherwise wouldn't exist. But I think it would be hard to argue that all of it is - if he had been hit by a car his first day at Harvard, maybe MySpace Tom or friendster or the Winklevoss guys would be stinking rich.

So, the question is, how much of his wealth did he actually create versus simply grab from others? When it comes to MySpace Tom the answer isn't super important, but it is very important for the masses of poor people who make up the vast majority of the planet.
> Cats murder birds and other creatures for no purpose other than personal satisfaction.

They do this in large part because we've intentionally bred them this way. Domesticated cats exist primarily for pest control so they are incentivized to always kill substantially more than they consume. When kept as working animals, their primary purpose is to hunt as many rodents and other pests (which when the job involves protecting grain, this often includes birds) as possible.

> except in net when in confined spaces with their owners

> Sorry, I've always been a dog person.

The same in large part applies to dogs as well. The difference is that while a cat may be kept outside entirely and kept free running, dogs tend to be more tethered to their owners.

This is especially true when you don't live on a giant property spanning acres. In these cases your dog generally is confined to your property and often comes inside for the night. And when leaving the property they are kept on a leash. Cats can be the same way as long as you either (a) select for temperament or (b) raise them from kittens.

Our cats stay inside but we go out with them on a leash from time to time for them to walk around and enjoy the wide open world. It's a decent bit of work to train them to do this but in all fairness the same applies to dogs with the exception that we already expect this of them so we go through the process of leash training them more or less by default.

TLDR: Cats and dogs more or less have the same sets of appeal. Cats have their own dedicated roles as work animals but as general pets their appeal is largely the same. IMHO the main difference is that cats tend to have clearer boundaries than dogs and at least when neutered they tend to keep up hygiene a bit better and smell less in general. Also cat biscuits and purring are weirdly cathartic.
I got a 504 timeout. We probably gave it the HN Hug Of Death.
All predators*
Might not a change in leadership and back to old Canadian liberal ways do that job more effectively? A standing army manufactures reasons out of thin air for its existence and expansion, like any bureaucratic organisation. Mandatory national service just puts that on roids.
> "It's okay to half-ass something, when all you need is half an ass".

Going to mule that over.
Professionally, I use https://http.cat
John Pennyquick
In few districts of Tamil Nadu, children are named after him, he gets the same respect as gods.
I don't think many highly trained professionals, scientists and professors do online talk show quizzes. You're basing your argument on a sample strongly biased towards mediocrity.
Back when I flew more often (I've since quit altogether, because nothing I do needs teleportation and because I feel like I've used enough jet fuel thus far), including some round the world trips, I would sleep, read a book (this was before phones and ereaders), get up and walk around, look out the window, daydream, maybe watch a movie (or just start one, or effectively watch most of one playing in a seat ahead), maybe chat with a seatmate.
I like the act of mass transit, in part because it's so final; if I forgot to turn in a term paper, oh well! Can't be helped, I'm on a plane now, just relax.
I agree with you for what it's worth. I'd rather live in a world in which I can dream my dreams than one in which Soviet Cube #77385 and a dingy metro are and will always be my life.

Playing devil's advocate though, I'm not sure that most people are really that bothered about billionaires, to me it's always felt like a stereotypical lefty trust fund kid thing.

Most of the issues surrounding inequality seem to come about with things like e.g. transit vs driving, big house vs apartment, good diet vs bad diet, etc.

Basically just living next door to people that you* will never be, because I'm not sure that realistically we can give everyone a house on an acre with two cars on the drive.

you*: Not literally you or any individual, it's not that hard to make it out of poverty, but collectively not everyone can/will.
Games have always been one sector where squeezing out every ounce of performance is the goal. And, unlike web devs, game developers test their products on inferior hardware, not just the latest and greatest video cards.
Some of the best are in fact also painters.

https://paulgraham.com/hackpaint.html
Being great only matters if you need external validation. I want a life I appreciate. If there’s anything to win it’s the game of having a good time.

All of the suffering people impose on themselves, on their children, on their society, to be great and envied is wasted. Be successful as a means to be happy and have excess to share with others.