skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen a compelling reason to believe that the original CIA suggestions actually worked.

Let’s set asside the fact that the document wasn’t written by the CIA.

The purported goal of this document was to provide practicaly applicable advice to the regular citizen who found themselves under enemy occupation. Most concretely to be given to the French people who did not like the German occupation.

You are talking about the strategy “working” or “not working” as if these are binary things. The goal here was not that these simple steps will bring Germany to their knees but to increase the cost of the occupation. To cause enough deniable friction which bogs down the resources and make everything just a bit more inefficient.

> In my experience workers like that exist naturally

They do. And that is the point. That is what makes these strategies deniable.

> and organisations are great at just sidelining them

If that is your experience I would love to work where you worked. In my experience when someone is following this strategy sidelining only happens slowly and at great costs. One of the many costs is people comitting avoidable blunders when they dismiss real and well reasoned objections in their haste to cut through a sea of useless ones.

> to get bad people promoted into management

Sure. But that takes time. You are thinking on a different time scale than the authors of this document were thinking about. The document was published in Jan 1944. The Normandy landings happened in June the same year and by the end of the next year the war was won. You don’t have time to slowly promote bad people into management. If a dude who read your booklet bumbles about a bit and delays the repair of a train line by days that is a win in this context. Nobody expected that Germany is going to collapse on their own just because enough people sabotage meetings and plug up toilets. (That is by the way also a suggestion from the manual 5.1.b.2. Somewhat less often cited than the points applicable to office work.)
I'm not saying it's an impossible monster but I can setup and deploy a project from scratch with cloud run in ~5 gcloud cli commands while being somewhat protected from my own ignorance.
Seems like every other AI code analysis tool.
Someone excited posts about how it made 1000s of syntactically valid fixes!
Of course some are wrong and others are worse than not being there, but surely some are useful!
Surely in the coming weeks it’ll improve to make millions of potentially useful tests!

Seems like a waste of time unless you can be sure it’s spitting out valuable fixes.
> There is a reason why the Open Source community has standardized around a small set of licenses,

What are you talking about? vvvv is proprietary software (and has been for about 25 years)
I don't think the word "conscious" is generally used in a way that is the least bit scientific. So that's the first problem.

Here you combine "self-aware" with "awake" or "stream of experience" and possibly intelligence.
You want to be smart to gather attention, you need to be kind to sustain attention and transform it into meaningful relationships !
UA aside (and presumably the spirit of the UA and robots.txt is about measuring intent), Perplexity could announce an IP range to allow people to reliably block the requests. Problem solved.

Read a few comments implying that a browser UA implies capabilities, tbf they should simply change their UA and not use a generic browser UA.
Xi Jinping claimed US wants China to attack Taiwan
Also if you live in an area with low humidity look into getting a swamp cooler. It won’t make the air as cold as AC but I personally prefer it
Where do comments calling something Reddit-tier go?

>Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This.

I studied for like 12 years in the biomedical field and I don’t really understand why OP is worried about this.
When plant foods are ultra-processed, the health benefits disappear
https://archive.is/yI2hw
VMC in general, for energy usage reasons (meaning opening the windows cause too {cold,hot} air inside, open windows (with eventual mosquito net if needed) when external climate allow that.
House plants
I am speaking out of longtime experience and can confirm what the other replier here said. Rent-seeking without end, catering to companies that are too busy/lazy/incapable of attracting quality talent themselves. They just look for some keywords and have very superficial knowledge of the industry.

(disclaimer, even if obvious: sure, there are some honest good independent recruiters there, I met them as well)
Never judge a man until you've walked two full moons in his moccasins.

bows

Edit: OK well you guys two full moons have definitely not gone by since I've made this comment I'm starting to think y'all ain't as kind as you make yourselves out to be..
Strange example, you'd think you want to fix this as quickly as humanly possible, no?

Also we don't sample traces, it's a fire hose of data aimed at the OTel collector. We do archive them / move them to colder and cheaper storage after a little time though, and we found that a viable money-saving strategy and a good balance overall.
Maybe you shouldn’t talk about something you have little idea about then?
Would kindness without intelligence (discernment) be more like naïve and easy to take advantage of?

Not sure why it makes you fake, there's lots of nice, simple people that are authentic
Ah. I had focused on the lossiness of natural language much more than the rest of your statement.

> Why should it be that if people observe this it becomes obvious, and yet if put in natural language it isn't?

It's not clear to me that the general public would come to that conclusion, as opposed to the obvious extension of Hall's observation where contestants thought their odds having gone up upon being shown additional information.

To you and me, yes, it might be even more obvious because we're familiar with the core principles.

> Take casinos: when animals go out foraging they are playing a slot machine. Their addiction to foraging is perfectly ecologically rational.

I'm inclined to disagree here. Surely animals don't just engage on a random walk; they know where they've found berries before, or can smell prey from a distance. And describing it as an addiction feels wrong. Once the animals are full, they don't keep hunting for food at the expense of other life-sustaining activities.

> Casinos exploit an information asymmetry: people cannot see the long-run house advantage.

Sure. I have also encountered hubris in the form of people who are aware of the house's edge but are confident they can do better than everyone else. There are also betting strategies that have positive expected value (e.g. lose a coin flip? double your bet; win a coin flip? reset to $1) but fail to take into consideration that you have probability = 1 of going bankrupt in the long run, since you don't have infinite money.

> The underlying foolishness behind those who equivocate between "probability" and "modelling scenarios" is the assumption that reality itself has probabilities, and that scenarios are easy to model.

In many cases, we use probabilities to approximate unknowns. Efficacy of a vaccine? Prevents infection X% of the time, or severe illness Y% of the time. Why not 100%? We don't necessarily know (or maybe it's due to a bunch of complex factors). But we've observed these outcomes for these samples of our population, and reducing it to a single number is "good enough".
Good reason. But I think it is not the responsibility of memory allocators to do the zero work. It is what the application code should do.
Looks more like a prompting and coding issue. ChatGPT4 is not strong AGI. It's an AGI, but you need to guide it.
> This happens all the time with NATO or Nato-associated airplanes, too.

Can you provide a reference?

Even if its from the well known, press controlled, Russian news? We can then correlate the event with other sources...
T-Mobile's Deutsche Telekom plans to expand into Bitcoin mining
This is a bit of a nonsense question. The CO2 diffuses away rather quickly and there is no reason to worry about this.
So you want to be kind only for utilitarian motives, not because it’s a good thing in principle ?
1. For reading. I simplify all documents to mdown then render back to html on my readers...e-readers and rss

2. Saves context for llms and they are often trained on markdown so work best with it.

3. For search. Can search markdown much better than html with postgres

Wrote https://markdown.download to help me with these
What's SOTA open source?
I have spent a considerable about of time on this question: and it really seems there is no practical way to remove it. You can let it out by ventilating, but that’s about it.

This realization has made me quite anxious about the Keeling curve.
Also, don’t put the fan directly in the window, but a leave a small gap between the fan and the window to take advantage of Bernoulli’s principle
In practice, trying to satisfy everyone's target for perfection took forever and immediately after launch the vision of perfection was revealed to be incorrect anyway; this is the classic "waterfall" failure mode. It also (incorrectly) perceived the cost of delay to be zero.

If you are optimizing for something like "actual business value delivered over time" in most typical business contexts (maybe not SpaceX), you are better off putting a ceiling on everyone's idea of perfection, whether that's stakeholders, designers, devs, etc and focusing on launching quickly. From there, you can choose whether to continue to iterate, or move to something else, based on real world feedback.

It's not really being against perfectionism; there are just many projects and diminishing returns.
It means “not being kept up to date”. I don’t think it means “unfinished”.
I suspect this'll be forgotten about in a couple months if they attack Taiwan. Or maybe they'll do an obligatory "They're making us attack Taiwan!" press release.
I’d go further and assert that kindness usually aligns with intelligence.

Demonstrating that you’re the smartest guy in the room is an ape-like expression of dominance. The IQ is a distant second.
One thing I do is I blocklist entire countries' and regional ISP' CIDR blocks. Believe it or not: straight to firewall DROP.

China, North Korea, so many african countries who's only traffic is from scammers, tiny islands in the pacific that are used for nothing but scamming...

Straight to DROP.

And I do not care about the whining.
I probably didn't explain it clearly enough.

If the nominal price is $x at the start and needs to drop to 0 before it'll sell, then the seller can artificially sell at a price higher than $x, by simply putting his own money $n into sale, so in this case the sale happens after the seller lets the total value drop to zero, at which point purchasers have paid $x+$n and the seller has also "paid" $n. However, as the seller is paying that $n to himself, that hasn't cost him anything, but he still nets $x+$n from the paying customers rather than the $x it was presented as.

The seller can do this as long as they like if there is no bound on the auction time, he can e.g. roughly match contributions to keep the price above 0 and at the point it seems like people are losing interest and no more bids are likely, he can then "pay" the difference himself to force the sale through (remember, he'll get this back anyway).

There's even a third option - on a time limited auction, maybe the money raised is already higher than they think they'd ever realistically get if the auction was repeated, or sold elsewhere, but still not at the $x threshold, the seller can just pay the difference, knowing they'll get it all back themselves anyway.

In every case, the seller is in complete control of when, or even if, the sale actually happens and for any price they want, regardless of the originally advertised price. There is no scenario where allowing people to bid to reduce the cumulative value of the auction (your "haters") can ever be fair on the other bidders (your "lovers").
Being too kind can also be negative, I prefer honesty and reality above the rest.
Then that's an argument for pancognition. I.e. that everything is on some level cognitive, even if it's total cognitive capacity is remain immobile (rock).
'I want to know why all the shops have gone'
Eicrud: A CRUD/Authorization Node.js framework to fight complexity
I made this framework in an attempt to reduce complexity in large web applications.

It focus on data model first and CRUD access to this data.

You defines the access rules for you data, it's easy to keep track of it. Let's say you have an object UserBankDetails, it's obvious it should only be read/modified by its owner or admins: you can write that in simple terms. Now you have UserProfile, who contains public info like the biography and socials of the user, let's make it readable by guests (everybody).

Once you defined you data with its access rules you get an operational CRUD service that will cover 80% of your needs.

For the 20% remaining you can create commands, which follow a similar pattern of DTO/authorization.

Now another thing that increase complexity in large applications is the microservices pattern if implemented wrong. Eicrud handles that with a simple configuration: you can group your CRUD services into microservices and they will call each other over the network. If something goes wrong with you architecture you can easily go back to monolithic.

I really think unnecessary complexity is the root of all problems in web development, let me know what you think.
Your point 2 would make for a very interesting blog post worthy of HN submitting. :)
Listening and focusing on solutions is being smart though. If you’re only looking for people who are ‘respecting you’ and ‘show empathy’ you might not find competent people with whom you’re gonna produce useful things to trade with the rest of society
Yes, if you're an expert at designing PCBs, I'm sure it's not hard. It's objectively hard, though.
They are practically useless in reality. You’d have to live in a greenhouse for them to absorb your CO2 basically.
What does it mean for a thing to be good in principle?
> Basically, a classic case of trying to use the opensource monika for marketing purposes,

vvvv does not claim anywhere to be open source.

> whilst trying to retain the ability to make money off the popularity when/if it does happen.

vvvv has been around for about 25 years. I would suggest to do a bit more research before jumping to conclusions.

BTW, they do open source quite a few components under proper OSS licenses: https://github.com/vvvv
how is focusing on solutions a kind act?
I can't help but think about powerthirst when I see PR blurbs like this:

Nvidia has once again solidified its position as the undisputed leader in AI innovation with the release of “NEMOTRON 4 340BILLION"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
"security" is a term that has to be defined in relation to a threat model. If your threat model is an attacker with a static IP hammering your server, fail2ban does provide some security against that sort of attacker.
Up until the 80s and early 90s, small consoles were programmed in assembly code due to performance optimizations. It never made sense to me that a space probe from the 70s would use anything but machine assembly code.
Polar opposite advice frequently posted here is How to Ask Questions the Smart Way: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

No single article on the internet has irritated me as much as this. Being a 'hacker' does not mean someone gets special privileges to be a scumbag.
Is there evidence that CO2 levels in the air matter to human health? Humans can tolerate a fairly wide range of blood CO2 levels. We have a buffer system in our blood, and we can use our kidneys to pick up the slack when ventilation (via the lungs) is suboptimal.
I too think that being too x, where x is any adjective, is a bad thing. I much prefer people being just the right amount of y, where y is any adjective.
You could say that hiding or refraining from giving critical feedback is not kindness.
IMO you might be looking at the wrong signals, OTel is quite successful today and I had zero breakages or compatibility problems for at least 2 years at this point.
You clearly don’t have a CO2 monitor.
Can confirm, the freelance market went from very easy to extremely hard in the last two years. Much fewer positions and of course then a lot of candidates for any opening. I think a big part has been the interest rates and companies subsequently being tight with budgets. Many have changed back to permanent positions.
serv-u and cuteftp baby!
The Monty Hall problem is confusing because the three-door case is the only time that the host opens just one door. It looks like a coin flip. If you ask the question with 100 doors, where the host goes and opens 98 other doors, the answer is obvious!
This is literally just a framing issue. Note first that people generally believe in universal human rights, e.g. states shouldn't be allowed to do horrible things (e.g. genocide) just because they would be asserting their national rights.

Further the action of a single state often influences other states, as is especially true when it comes to the internet which is global by nature.
I think the advice given by the author is a bit simplistic and obvious, but not wrong. I just wouldn't sum it up as being "kind"

As someone who works in a "kind" culture (Taiwan) - there is an infuriating flip side

If everyone is constantly worried about being kind, it becomes very difficult for people to say "unkind" things.

- It's hard for people to give you important critical feedback

- People will not give their half baked thoughts (which are the start of good discussions), and only bring stuff up when it's already a problem

- People have a complete inability to tell you "Hey when you do that thing A and B, I really don't like that"

The end result is that people end up masking a bunch of stuff in an effort to be kind which results in

- People having huge blow ups when things boil over

- Insane amounts of office gossip and people saying shit behind each other's back (bc they can't say it to your face and resolve it)
it bans the bad ips, isn't that worth running?
just a few people are going to miss the smartest in the room, but everyone is going to miss someone kind

How is the goal of having people miss you related to achieving business goals ? On the contrary if the smartest is able to produce a lot, people are going to miss him

On that topic, I’d rather have people trying to not become offended for little things, seems easier than faking kindness for personal benefits
I looked all over for something like that before posting. It's not there for me. It is there in the source.

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I just don't see it in the UI. At least...until I returned it to the default zoom level. I like to run at 120%, and it goes away above 110%. It also goes away (along with the pined sidebar) if I press the button and go back to 120%.
If you want to store markdown in your database but you want to user to use a basic wysiwig/content editable editor it can allow you to not go through the full blown markdown editor.
You're not wrong, but I'd say fail2ban still has value for junior operators seeking to reduce load and increase stability. If you don't know how to harden SSH, fail2ban is offers a much friendlier way to reduce the volume of logspam, CPU burn, and network traffic. It's just a pity that it's understood/documented/pitched as something that substantially increases security.
use a vpn that does not advertise its presence, like wireguard.
why try? just be
If this phrase can mean anything, it doesn't mean anything anymore.

Ie. you could also say that egoism is being kind to yourself etc.
Well, on OTLP they seem to agree with you: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/otel-arrow/
No, please, I come to Hacker News to get away from platitudinous, short, vague LinkedIn advice.
While I think the points the author makes are sage advice, I think the blog post would have been a lot stronger against criticism if they had added a paragraph similar to the following:

"That is not to say you shouldn't come prepared and knowledgeable to meetings you attend. You should provide clear value to each and every meeting you attend from a knowledge perspective. However, the human value of kindness is far more important in the eyes of attendees."
ElasticBeanstalk is wonderful. Each to his own but for me it was the answer to the question "I agree Kubernetes is overkill for me .. but then what should I use?".

I certainly didn't want to be manually creating instances, installing Java / Node / Docker, starting / stopping services and doing deploys manually because that's also annoying work :) Elastic Beanstalk + the Github actions deploy plugin is dead simple and just works.
Good that does not sustain itself is quite sad - you can see the efforts going down the drain. Aligning good and sustainable (utilitarian) is worthwhile imho.
There's a comment downthread discussing something similar; I haven't tried it though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695179
You can’t use Duolingo alone.

I find it works better for languages with simple grammar rules Swedish/Danish/Norwegian

I was able to jump from Duolingo straight to young adult books, and became conversational from there.

Languages with complicated grammar rules, you don’t get the support you need for the grammar foundation and is only really helpful for learning vocabulary, not necessarily how to form sentences.

You need to have multiple sources of learning, not just relying on Duolingo
No, it's not a platform, unless you want to redefine platform to mean "something with lots of supporting tools", instead of "something that other things run on top of".

We would have to call pretty much all languages platforms if so. The list of things called out is not unique in any way to Go.
In general, the kindest people will be the ones who have the maturity to not be offended
Have a fresh air intake installed on your HVAC system.
> Size is not a metric

You are simply wrong. Being condescending and wrong is a fatal mix.

Size is a unitless dimension. A category of metrics, if you must. OP's word of "bigger" can be applied to population, area, weight, importance, memorability, and yes, valuation.

Can be, and frequently is, among humans. Zero humans are confused.

> Pedantry is the easiest way of

... demonstrating that you're a jerk. Nothing else.

> this pedantry absolutely is fun to me

Got it. My mistake for assuming good faith.

> I wouldn't be here otherwise

That's the most disappointing thing I've read in a while.
Watching this, I wonder if we’re doing the same DNA data gathering to them. If not, why not?

I think it would be super easy to get people’s DNA by sending teams of researchers around to collect samples from trash cans on curbs. Obviously, it wouldn’t be as easy as hacking 23andMe or some health centers.

The end part about catching criminals is pretty neat. I do wonder if the genetic specialist collects the rewards. I guess she’s a kind of bounty hunter.