skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and you are correct that concept of legibility was central, however going from the text now I believe that James takes specific issue with joint combination of both the exercise of state authority as well as the blindness that is implied by high modernism. Starting on page 88:

> I believe that many of the most tragic episodes of state development in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries originate in a particularly pernicious combination of three elements. The first is the aspiration to the administrative ordering of nature and society, ... The second element is the unrestrained use of the power of the modern state as an instrument for achieving those designs. The third element is a weakened or prostrate civil society that lacks the capacity to resist those plans.

I believe my comment still stands, in responding to not the book but the author of the comment, in that framework I'm describing, assuming the thesis of the book is true, then the second element is not met by the mere publication of software. Rather it is the foisting of such software upon users that is the act of power or other covert means by which choice is restricted such as controlling the bounds of publication or else the centralizing nature of capital investment in software that by sheer bad luck it turns out that perhaps we just end up with a few pseudo monopolies because software as a capital expense is ... well, expensive to develop.
BackInTime works similar to Apple TimeMachine. It uses hardlinks + new files. Plus, it keeps settings for that backup inside the repository itself, so you can install the tool, show the folder, and start restoring.

On top of that BiT supports network backups and multiple profiles. I'm using it on my desktop systems with multiple profiles for years and it's very reliable.

However it's a GUI first application, so for server applications Borg is a much better choice.
My issue when I looked into this is that, because of DRM (yay), you cannot easily get full HD video on commodity hardware. For example those Konstakang Android TV Raspberry Pi builds will only get Widevine Level 3, which limits you to 480 or 720p on apps like Netflix.

I ended up going with a full Windows Intel N100 mini-PC. Windows because the only way to get 4K Netflix is to either use the Windows app, or Microsoft Edge on Windows. [0] Any Linux would limit me to 720p. And even then others like Max do not support 4K on Windows [1]. I believe Disney+ is the same.

Another choice I wasn't aware of when I got my hardware is Kodi running as an app on an official Android box with Widevine Level 1. Kodi is able to use Android's Winevine allowing for full quality 4K playback through plugins for Netflix [2], Max [3], Disney+ [4]. It leaves you reliant on these (open-source) plugin rather than official apps for all the good and bad.

[0] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931

[1] https://help.max.com/US-en/Answer/Detail/000002523

[2] https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix?tab=readm...

[3] https://www.matthuisman.nz/2024/06/max-kodi-add-on.html

[4] https://www.matthuisman.nz/2020/04/disney-plus-kodi-add-on.h...
Autism is a spectrum, if you have to think about social interactions, you probably are on it. It doesn't mean you don't have empathy, or that you aren't a functioning human (That's why i really dislike people using "High-functioning autism"), but sometimes you have less to hide than other autists, or you're thinking quick enough to hide it better than your peers.

The fist hint for me was the psychologist who taught me how to lie (or rather, explained to me social interactions, as i did not care about it at the time), and that's as clear as it can be, but sometimes its only weird result on IQ tests: if you moved countries if often don't mean anything, but if you did not and you scores are not homogeneous accross the tests, like 4 in the high 130 and one in the low 90s, you're probably on the spectrum too.
Pipewire unifies all the apis, and is fully backward compatible. It has own API too, but you don't have to use it. You can write app using any of the apis, alsa, pulse, jack, and pipewire can work with it. You only need pipewire api if you need more control or pipe through video as well.

JACK is very flexible approach to audio (think of unix pipes but audio) and this is what pipewire is inspired by, but targets the general desktop use and not just audio production as JACK does.

Generally pipewire stays out of the way and works as pulseaudio replacement, but with the pipelines you can do a lot as a power user.

Personally I think pipewire is one of the best things that has happened to linux, and since it shims all the previous audio apis instead of trying to tape the existing solutions into the package, it actually removes bloat from your system and you don't have to write weird libasound config files anymore.
Amazon is the internet too. The us-east-1 outage in 2023 took down a lot of stuff.
Yes, I'm working in the UK for a medium size company and gets the same as my friend that works for Google(he does get slightly higher bonuses)
But I work 35 hrs a week while he works 45 and fly abroad every two weeks.
https://archive.ph/3cy9m
I found this to be a good introduction and a well-chosen domain to demonstrate modelling.

The term “anchor” feels kind of weird to me, but the explanation is so concrete/grounded (like an actual anchor) that I guess it works well enough.

The concept of defining the attributes via a question is solid, great way to get clarity quickly. Too often we jump to a minimal column/property name without defining what question we’re trying to answer, and thus not shaking loose any ambiguity in the mind of the customer(s).
That’s why I curse at Torvalds too every time my Linux machine breaks. He made it too open!
Seems... large? I was expecting something substantially smaller than a flip foldable phone.
Yes. I do not need another book as a CV, which is currently the most viable business model for authors of non-fiction.
I think there's biological proof that baldness with men isn't that bad "image" wise.

As far as I know, baldness is with women and men... And the reason why you don't see many bald woman is..
> not very compatible with Shannon's usage in any but the shallowest sense

The connection is not so shallow, there are entire books based on it.

“The concept of information, intimately connected with that of probability, gives indeed insight on questions of statistical mechanics such as the meaning of irreversibility. This concept was introduced in statistical physics by Brillouin (1956) and Jaynes (1957) soon after its discovery by Shannon in 1948 (Shannon and Weaver, 1949). An immense literature has since then been published, ranging from research articles to textbooks. The variety of topics that belong to this field of science makes it impossible to give here a bibliography, and special searches are necessary for deepening the understanding of one or another aspect. For tutorial introductions, somewhat more detailed than the present one, see R. Balian (1991-92; 2004).”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0501322
You do. It's about 15% of the first 5775 EUR of your monthly salary. Officially it's split between employer and employee, so on your payslip you see only 8% if you are not self-employed.

Co-payments are very low though. Dental is partially included. Kids are included, wife/husband also if they are not employed.
It is shocking that there is no category for Investing/Saving
I wasn't convinced that Deel provided value, though it seemed that that by subjective or semantic means you had reasonably come to the opposite conclusion. My attenpt to boil that down to something pithy didn't do much good, and after your response I felt like the discussion was providing more heat than light, so I used a humorous reference to indicate that I thought we were mostly naysaysing each other.

You haven't changed my mind but you may have changed others' and you did make me think. Let's have an even better discussion next time.
This is the best insult I've ever received.
Alcohol is in separate category along with tobacco and marihuana and it spending on it increased the most in the most affluent group.
Also chicory is pretty good. I thought I hated it because the few times I tasted it it was just cheap industrial chicory.

In fact, once you find a nice quality brand, it’s actually a delicious coffee replacement.

Not really the same taste (but a nice one too) but it sounds like the likeliness of the color and of the bitterness does the job of tricking my brain into considering it’s the same thing, at least "emotionally".

Now I just like them both and I can swap them when I want.
You could also be interested in https://runs-on.com.

Must be installed in your AWS account (1-click cloudformation template), and then you can use any instance type offered by AWS.
What are your tested free-T levels after HRT? 500, 800, 1000? Age 38: That is pretty early, in my experience, unless you are using it as "HET" (hormone enhancement therapy) for bodybuilding -- basically, medical doctor-approved anabolic steroids.
My blog has some of my recipes, and some of my friends appreciate that. Otherwise my blog is a beacon to other nerds on the internet, extra material for people who are curious about me. People do check it and reach out, so it works.
Oh and on one more thing I hadn’t addressed. I’ve seen teams try to “swarm” on a problem, with varying levels of success. It’s easy to be cynical and draw allegories to storming a trench. If we just all run together, maybe one of us will make it to the other side…

Sometimes this comes from a place of wanting to improve the bus factor, or minimise siloing.

The truth is that it’s hard to bake in this level of redundancy, and still be effective, without rigorous and brittle process, or without genuinely motivated team members who trust and appreciate each other, who are invested in each other’s success. Either way it takes a lot of time, and a lot of training and personal growth for the team members involved.
https://brokenclipboard.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/media-cover...

It's been done. It doesn't matter that you can't see the abs on 50% of the women on the Olympic team. Some think they'll get the physique of a professional body builder who's been abusing steroids for a decade anyway.
> Those smartphones, cars, etc. are all made by a relatively small number of suppliers on

And Windows doesn't run at all on 99.99999% of them, and never will.

> Buy a consumer Walmart PC running Windows and it is expected to be plug and play with nearly any graphics card, USB scanner, printer, etc

There isn't a single graphics card you can buy in a store today that doesn't work with Linux. In the mid-2000s there were USB scanners and printers that didn't work with Linux but now finding a USB scanner or printer that doesn't work with Linux is extremely rare.

This argument about compatibility is an extremely stupid argument.
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If Windows could do what Linux can out of the box VoiceMeter would not exist.
Von der Leyen commits to Green Deal, reassuring EU clean tech industry
Nixpkgs is the largest and most up to date package repository according to https://repology.org/

I'm honestly curious what packages you have a problem with
As unlikely as men suddenly becoming uninterested in shapely boobs or butts.

Both men and women are wired to find a good head of hair attractive.
Yeah, agreed, love the Plain Bagel and the generally sane takes from that channel.

"Get rich" is definitely too broad of a target and probably has too many connotations with "mansion and luxury cars" when, as you identified, what I meant with that statement is closer to "financial goals" or, more tangibly, something like "comfortable retirement".
Your quote from the article, is a link to another article, which provides the answer:

> The cybersecurity software vendor said in August that it reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue after selling its product for just a year and a half.

So that's 18 months after formal launch. Since we don't have their financial statements, you can only guess wether this is the value of signed deals or a review of actual recognized revenue for those 18 months. I suspect the first.
no you're misunderstanding me.

I'm saying that the macro's purpose is to read the source file and produce something at compile time. It's not a "normal" (read: runtime) function, as this feature cannot be implemented using a function that only executes at runtime.
I wholeheartedly agree, but the frustrations are quite understandable. If you want to do something somewhat advanced and you have to care about Jack, Alsa, and then the Pulse or Pipewire layers, it's quite overwhelming (why would you have to know the Linux audio history to work with it).

PulseAudio was quite buggy when it was considered ready for general public by Ubuntu.
I kept using some scripts to do what it could theoretically do for 2/3 years, and then it didn't have any quirks anymore.

Now that it is replaced by the pipewire stack, audio bugs are back. For instance, on a laptop if system audio is set to 'output' instead of duplex, switching between speakers and headphones does not work, and volume change would sometimes get stuck. And sometimes it duplicates the streams on another system, which can be solved by killing the daemon.

Even with this less stable state, I agree that this is nothing compared to how bad the situation is in Mac or Windows world.
In the professional environments I've been in, basically all people have given up on the system properly switching their device parameters correctly. So calls often need a few minutes to reconfigure audio. Same with external screen switching.
A major differentiator is that Intel CPUs with E cores don’t allow the use of AVX-512, but all current AMD CPUs do. The new Zen 5 chips will run circles around Intel for any such workload. Video encoding, 3D rendering, and AI come to mind. For developers: many database engines can use AVX-512 automatically.
I think it's worth mentioning that Ctrl-A is ascii 1, Ctrl-B ascii 2, etc, as it is in Unix today.
I think that's including their current Wiz holdings?
>It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat.

Totally opposite of my experience when I was last using them. CL was absolutely full of scammers trying to send me cashier's checks for stuff. FBM had people who were real people, who actually came with cash to buy my stuff. FBM's UI was absolutely terrible, but it was worth it to avoid all the scamming on CL.

>Online dating seems miserable!

I met all my girlfriends on there in the past couple of decades. The latest one is working out wonderfully. Sure, there were some bad dates and some not-so-great people, but you'll get that anywhere.
> So from November 1st 2021 onwards, the UTC offset of each country will be fixed – but there may be countries which currently always have the same offset as each other, and will have different offsets from some point in 2021. (For example, France could use winter time and Germany could use summer time.)

It’s worth noting that this did not end up happening. Maybe a 2019 tag could be added to the title?
Quick google brings a bunch of articles clearly establishing that 2dDR stimulates angiogenesis (through increased production of VEGF), ie. the angiogenesis effect seems to be real. Whether angiogenesis will always produce hairgrowth effect and to what extent is not clear, yet it seems that in many cases it should. Anyway, i don't see how better vascularization of the head skin can be anything but a good thing (i'm not a doctor, just speculating), especially say after hair transplant, and wonder whether it may be also used for some face skin issues or like in my case - for cold hands :)
> Its because we have testosterone.

If you mean that men with baldness have more testosterone than men with hair and that due to the higher testosterone concentration men with baldness have lost their hair, I have to disappoint you: Men with baldness do not have a higher concentration of testosterone on average. The hair roots of men with baldness are more sensitive to testosterone, another cause of hair loss. In your context, men with baldness have another weakness. Sorry.
Finasteride does not suppress your natural testosterone production. Your free testosterone levels might actually be increased. As precursors are no longer converted into dihydrotestosterone but into testosterone...
I agree. This is more contribution than leechers who download the torrent then just never seed any of it at all.
Taxes are the rake in the economy.
Damn, thanks!

Why the hell did I never try this? Maybe because typing ascii table into my favorite search engine and clicking one of the first links was fast enough
2 hours for commute / eating / hygiene
.. promptly forget that you did this, or where you put the file containing the custom shell function, etc.

Ctrl-R serves a mnemonic purpose as well.. it helps you document your workflow and processes at the shell, and not hidden in some file somewhere.
I've developed ModelClash, an open-source framework for LLM evaluation that could offer some potential advantages over static benchmarks:

* Automatic challenge generation, reducing manual effort
* Should scale with advancing model capabilities
* Evaluates both problem creation and solving skills

The project is in early stages, but initial tests with GPT and Claude models show promising results.

I'm eager to hear your thoughts about this!
If you really want a beard, you can use minoxidil to PERMANENTLY increase your beard thickness.

If you combine it with microneedling, you can see incredible results in as short as six months.
Why do medical tests always have error rates?
Is it really "a condition", though, or is it just a natural variation in how male bodies are?
I'm pretty amazed that "conspiracy to cause public nuisance" is an actual crime in a developed nation, much less that it can carry a 5 year jail sentence.
Houston to Austin only takes a couple of hours to drive. Flying would be slower, more hassle, way more polluting and more cramped.
Steroids have a lot to answer for when it comes to perceptions around exercise in general.
I wonder what happens if you combine 2-deoxy-D-ribose with Minoxidil. Double results? Or similar effect...
don't want to harp on this but the discourse is not from the lens of how it will affect the industry, and there are other threads opened for the same.

i suppose that this is one of the said exceptions then.
Meaningless.

Being born in Roman Hispania isn't the same as being "of Spanish origin" or "latinx". Being born in Africa doesn't make you black. Elon Musk is the richest African in the world.

If Shaq had been born in China, would he be a good candidate to portray first sovereign Emperor of China?

A black bear born in the arctic isn't a polar bear.
The "Correlation" Between Statistics and Eugenics
I would say there is also a third:

AI being thought of - by the Parasite Class - as an effective replacement for many employees, thereby eliminating the employment that most people depend on in order to survive, all the while it wildly hallucinates entire industries straight into the dirt.

I mean, yes, the Parasite Class will get their comeuppance for their greed and arrogance and hubris and stupidity. But not before the majority of working-class people get driven into abject poverty and destitution from job loss. It will hurt the common man _long before_ it hurts those who truly deserve the pain, and if rolled out too fast and too far, may even trigger economic or societal collapse.

And while this is quite similar to your № 1, I feel it is materially different enough to stand separately: the paranoia here being that average working-class folk cannot turn aside this diesel locomotive because they have zero control over it, and the Parasite Class that does control it being so obsessed with obscene levels of profits that they are eagerly driving everyone off of a cliff just to get to it.
Thats fine, but do you understand the point that, by putting these utilities into a shell script, you're negating the ability to search for common commands through history, and now also need to load up your working memory with the name of the script, where it's located and so on?

I do put bigger/heftier utility functions into shell scripts - its just that I, more often than not, forget where they are and have to go searching. But with Ctrl-R, the flow does not get interrupted.

Anyway, not arguing for/against either technique - they are both appropriate when needed.
Interesting.

How about edits, changes of time and location, who's signed up and to which revision.
I'm in some B2B business. I don't know a single company where the limiting factor is the roadmap. Everybody is using AI to push even more stuff out.
depends on the content length tho, I can download 1 GB of data in 100 seconds but if I am watching it for 20 minutes (which is not unreasonable at all given that torrents for 20 minute TV shows are generally around 1gigs at 1080p) I have 1200 seconds to upload that 1000 MB of data back. That's about 7Mbit upload which is not crazy at all
1-1.5g. Who do you know consumes 10 to 15 cups of coffee per day consistently? I'd suggest very few.

>5g. Now, who do you know consumes more than 50 cups of coffee per day consistently? I'd suggest none.

If you scaled up oxalic acid daily doses in the same ratio as for the caffeine example then in the first instance the person would almost undoubtedly have kidney stones. In the second example the person would be dead. Right, at that dose Popeye's spinach meal would almost certainly have killed him.

At least the 'caffeinated' person, whilst off his head, would likely be still alive.

Even water has a LD50 rating. As millions attest, caffeine is one of the safer less harmful chemicals that plants use to defend themselves with. Almost every other organic molecule that plants use to ward off insects is more toxic.

Here's a few we actually eat:
www.mashed.com/1299947/most-dangerous-vegetables/ There are tens of thousands of others that you'd want to keep well away from, Nux vomica, Manchineel, Death caps, Atropa belladonna, etc. By comparison, in the danger stakes, caffeine doesn't even get off the starting block.
Sure; I have a Walltaker[0] (hi Gray) client with Buttplug support[1], it buzzes when your wallpaper updates! But my magnum opus was software akin to Edgeware[2] - basically, based on a Yaml config, it'll show you local or remote porn in various ways. That would have Buttplug support had Github not nuked the repo and ignored my reinstatement request for 4 months. I chucked it on Codeberg[3] if you're curious.

[0] https://github.com/pupgray/walltaker

[1] https://github.com/dogkisser/walltaker-engine/blob/8bc374162...

[2] https://github.com/araten10/EdgewarePlusPlus

[3] https://codeberg.org/rocketcookie/goonto
”man ascii” has as much guarantee to work on a POSIX system as a command called ”ascii” seeing neither (specifically a man page called ”ascii”) are part of the standard.

So you will either get command not found, or man page not found.
Writing Tests with LLM
Oh great, just what my cat wants: crunchier mice.
Thanks, yes I do know about that, but sometimes I want to have a bit more control over the for .. do .. end loop .. and also I'm rather a bit more of a fan of using the directory structure to remember repo's than a git config file somewhere, you know?
Actually producing value is so last millennium. Ok boomer, you add value. We don't do that here. Unless you make TikToks endlessly aspiring to be a societal net loss kardashian, why are you even breathing? Writing text? Can't the computer just do that, somehow?
Fighting against nature is sort of the main activity of humans.

Also, don't project your own experience on others.