skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just more evidence of the corrosive effect that injecting politics into everywhere has had, especially intersectional politics where unrelated domains are pushed to influence each other for political or ideological reasons in unrelated domains.
You summarized things well. #2 is the primary reason that ssh in a loop doesn't work as well or as reliably as autossh (the program discussed here; it's just coincidental that my own automatic ssh script is also called autossh).
Curation.

Much like how SharePoint at most companies turn into a zombie wasteland of random unorganized documents, this also happens with Notion.

All of these types of products need their customers to effectively have someone dedicated to curation, organization and do librarian task - to maintain a good hygiene.

Otherwise, any type of team collaboration tool will get unwieldy super fast.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boeing-starliner-saga-do-n... claims "[There’s] no hazard pay, there’s no overtime, there’s no comp time". The top two threads on https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1f0hi3o/how_do_astron... a) suggest a government pay scale with hazard pay for NASA astronauts, b) point out that they are likely paid as active duty Navy members instead.

On https://www.facebook.com/AstroClay/posts/do-astronauts-get-p... an astronaut (verified account of a NASA astronaut) mentions only a small per-diem.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2264/do-astronauts... has a lengthy, but inconclusive discussion.

ChatGPT 4o-mini generates a vague "it depends" answer with no useful sources or statements that could be used to follow up with actual sources.

This is a question where I would have expected an authoritative answer to be easier to find. At least regarding your "like the military" statement, it seems like some astronauts are military, but what kind of extra pay they get seems to be hard to find.
I missed the “run your own mail server” kickstarter by a few short hours. If only Michael Lucas was selling physical books on the side…
That method is wrapping and not checking for collisions? I would not call that a problem of running out then. It's a cheap but dumb generator that needs extra bits to not break itself.
Do checkout supertokens.com - open source auth. We have tons of features and also full TS support.
sadly this suggests invalid emails for example: for kein it suggests k0.in (which does not seem to be a valid Indian domain)
That's a bit of an indictment on how poorly projects are supported. If those sponsors feel like the eyeballs they get from supporting this project is worth it, probably at least some of the owners of those eyeballs are getting enough value from the project to overbid.

Is it an artifact of the Individual/Organisation split of OpenCollective? I see the top 10 individuals that have put in $1000 or more.
Here ya go: https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow
Not a startup founder nor do I really have much knowledge in dealing with equity, but assuming that 51% of the equity remains with OP, couldn’t they give the spouse “equity without executive power”? I know I’ve heard of that concept somewhere but can’t remember exactly where from.
Class 'Inequity' Fuels Air Rage
James Lambert: "Magicka" for the Nintendo 64 [video]
And this is related to my comment how?
Clearly but whatever definition you have that doesn’t include $18349 Billion is ridiculous
Water is capable of sustaining pressures of -140 MegaPascal, or about -1400 atmospheres.[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2475
I’m not thrilled corporations are so willing to engage in a coverup.

Democracy is vulnerable to manipulation. But that’s an essential vulnerability.

In the end, it’s the citizenry which is responsible for sober decision making.

I understand the impulse to keep “irrelevant” or “manipulative” information away from decision makers, but this impulse is only appropriate when the decision makers are perfunctory.

Is that where we are? I don’t think so.
"Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years" (2020)

We show that the past three decades were among the most flood-rich periods in Europe in the past 500 years, and that this period differs from other flood-rich periods in terms of its extent, air temperatures and flood seasonality. We identified nine flood-rich periods and associated regions. Among the periods richest in floods are 1560–1580 (western and central Europe), 1760–1800 (most of Europe), 1840–1870 (western and southern Europe) and 1990–2016 (western and central Europe). In most parts of Europe, previous flood-rich periods occurred during cooler-than-usual phases, but the current flood-rich period has been much warmer. Flood seasonality is also more pronounced in the recent period. For example, during previous flood and interflood periods, 41 per cent and 42 per cent of central European floods occurred in summer, respectively, compared with 55 per cent of floods in the recent period. The exceptional nature of the present-day flood-rich period calls for process-based tools for flood-risk assessment that capture the physical mechanisms involved, and management strategies that can incorporate the recent changes in risk.

<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2478-3>
Does being a super efficient AI researcher make everything worse?
The relevant parts from the bash manpage:

> arg1 OP arg2

> OP is one of -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, or -ge. [...] When used with the [[ command, Arg1 and Arg2 are evaluated as arithmetic expressions (see ARITHMETIC EVALUATION above).

> ARITHMETIC EVALUATION

> Within an expression, shell variables may also be referenced by name without using the parameter expansion syntax.

> The value of a variable is evaluated as an arithmetic expression when it is referenced

> Arrays

> The subscript is treated as an arithmetic expression that must evaluate to a number.

> [[ expression ]]

> The shell performs [...] arithmetic expansion, command substitution [...] on those words.

Given that reading, that both subscripts and values of variables in arithmetic expression are treated as arithmetic expressions, and that command substitution is peformed after arithmetic expansion in `[[`, I kinda expected the following to work:

$ x='$(echo >&2 what; echo 0)'; [[ 0 -eq x ]]
bash: [[: $(echo >&2 what; echo 0): syntax error: operand expected (error token is "$(echo >&2 what; echo 0)")

I don't see in the docs what it is about array subscripts that makes them special with regards to command substitutions in arithmetic expressions.
The exciting thing about this idea is if you can correlate, say, economics with the works of ML, that means a computer program which you can run, revise and alter can directly give you measurable data about these complex system interactions that mostly have existed as a platonic idea since reality is too nuanced and multiple to validate concepts formally.

With the idea that there is some subset of logic that sits below economics that is provable and exact. That is a powerful idea worth pursuing!
> Every database, Relational or Nonrelational, requires approximately the same level of management and maintenance

I disagree with this statement.
Surely there is a difference on the effort for "management and maintenance" if your database requires the operation of independent server processes.

Going to extreme examples, do you really believe it makes no difference whether you use SQLite or Oracle?
Nowadays? It's so bad and cringeworthy that my young sons picked up on the STEM girlie nonsense and are actively rebelling against it and running with whatever they have. Leaving the coddled scrubs behind.
Why do you and GP think so many FOSS projects choose to use Discord like this?
Octopus arm anatomy, molecular makeup revealed in new maps
That sounds like it was a problem with the communities you engaged with.
The awesome crystal repo is also a good:
https://github.com/veelenga/awesome-crystal
Biggest issue i have with mosh is that it you cant scroll up the history. It is kind of a deal breaker for me.
Not only you swiftly dismissed most of my comment without even trying, but you have no backing evidence for why declaration has to reflect use (K&R has no rationale for that AFAIK). And even that principle doesn't imply your claim; it only means that syntax changes to the declaration and uses have to be synchronized.

> On the other hand the various extensions of C (eg. Objective-C, Concurrent-C, Handel-C etc.) are proof of its versatility and extensibility and hence its enduring relevance.

Most popular enough languages will eventually have tons of extensions, most of which would be obscure and not known to the general public though. I'm not even sure which "concurrent" C you are talking about (there had been multiple extensions of the same name in the literature, none of them ever gained traction in the industry). Have you ever actually seen or used suggested extensions firsthand?

Also extending a language is actually kinda easy and doesn't imply some kind of quality. You seem to value your own decade-long experience, but I had been also a programming language researcher decades ago and I know that because any PL researcher will make new languages all the time. Or let's put in this way: Brainfuck has been extended and adapted so many times [1]. Does that make Brainfuck "versatile and extensible" in your definition? Is the enduring relevance even a necessary consequence of such qualities? Think about that.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Related_languages
More awesome young men for my company to hire!

I used to try and make my team look like a Star Trek crew. Not anymore. Competence over anything.
This is great, but unfortunately it means you have to work with something different than Python (in developing, in deploying, etc.), doubling your dependencies.
someone decided to ddos it with profanity so I'm pushing an update now so its not global viewable anymore.
These things are really nice and I enjoy using them very much, but we depend now so much on shadcn and ready made templates on top of that; almost all of those are react (and next). The world needs far more open source (fully, not those 'pay to a for all the useful components and templates'; not because I don't want to pay, but because of the licensing; we reuse all things internally, so 1-site license etc are just not options) html/tailwind, htmx, htmgo, clog etc templates with components.

edit: typo
Firstly, no they won't. That's silly.

Secondly, how would such an archive work? Who would pay for it? How would it be safeguarded in such a way that it can be read by 'far future anthropologists' but not the people paying for the storage?
Unless not until the oil and other essential stuff run out.
Indeed. Decentralised currency is at least a technology that can power the individual at times, rather than say governments, big corps, etc especially in certain countries. Yes it didn't change as much as was marketed but I don't see that as a bad thing. Its still a "tool" that people can use, in some cases to enable use cases they couldn't do or didn't have the freedom to do before.

AI, given its requirements for large computation and money, and its ability to make easily available intelligence to certain groups, IMO has a real potential to do the exact opposite - take away power from individuals especially if they are middle class or below. In the wrong hands it can definitely destroy openness and freedom.

Even if it is "Open" AI, for most of society their ability to offer labor and intelligence/brain power is the only thing they can offer to gain wealth and sustenance - making it a commodity tilts the power scales. If it changes even a slice of what it is marketed at; there are real risks for current society. Even if it increases production of certain goods, it won't increase production of the goods the ultra wealthy tend to hold (physical capital, land, etc) making them as a proportion even more wealthy. This is especially true if AI doesn't end up working in the physical realm quick enough. The benefits seem more like novelties to most individuals that they could do without where to large corps and ultra wealthy individuals the the benefits IMO are much more obvious with AI (e.g. we finally don't need workers). Surveillance, control, persuasion, propaganda, mass uselessness of most of the population, medical advances for the ultra wealthy, weapons, etc can now be done at almost infinite scale and with great detail. If it ever gets to the point of obsoleting human intelligence would be a very interesting adjustment period for humanity.

The flaw isn't the technology; its the likely use of it by humans and their nature. Not saying LLMs are there yet or even if they are the architecture to do this, but agentic behaviour and running corporations (as OpenAI makes its goal on their presentation slides to be) seem to be a way to rid many of the need for other people in general (to help produce, manage, invent and control). That could be a good or bad thing, depending on how we manage it but one thing it wouldn't be would be simple.
It's a UK website. In common parlance in the UK, they are interchangeable.
Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws
Well, considerting annoying push for "let's resolve the issue on discord" it's very annoying. With things like github issues you can search for a problem and find a solution. Even ancient mailing lists most of the time have archives. Not so much with all those fancy "realtime" :/
What is the reason to run 'sleep 20m'?
Satires that changed our view of the world
Author Pedro Domingos shares some absolute classic satire books that are his favorites. He wrote 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire which is a fun one too :)
I find, for a little extra productivity, that liveview [0] even adds a bit more effortless building personally. No plumbing endpoints is great with all written in Go.

[0] https://github.com/canopyclimate/golive
run_in_executor is pretty powerful for running sync code in async code, but my use case was more making async code utlize the cpu better. I think, just using run_in_executor would add a lot of complication and changes to how you use async await. But great point none the less!
Books to take you on a journey to unknown lands
Roc, Exercism, Forth
This is exactly the subthread of this conversation I’m interested in.

Is what you’re saying that capitalism breaks down resilience problems into efficiency problems?

I think that’s an extremely motivating line of thinking, but I’ll have to do some head scratching to figure out exactly what to make of it. On one hand, I think capitalism is really good at resilience problems (efficient markets breed resilience, there’s always an incentive to solve a market inefficiency), on the other (or perhaps in light of that) I’m not so sure those two concepts are so dialectically opposed
Crazy to think that all that technology was built by people using slide rules.
I interviewed author Rick Jervis on five of his favorite books that take the reader on a journey to an unknown land.

He has some great picks, and his first, The Wager, was the #2 most loved nonfiction read of 2023 -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/nonfiction
But they don't actually work, because there are many ambiguities. Is <= "less than or equal" or an arrow pointing to the left? And in the other direction too: is ≠ "!=" or "/=" or something else? And as soon as you allow 3 or more characters to build ligatures, your number of ligatures explodes, but you still miss some.
For example it doesn't matter if <= is an arrow or LTE and => is an arrow, in a <=> all are wrong, same as in a >=> or a >>= or...
Okay but this is where I get confused. Why does Discord need a single database system when discord servers are independent, right?

And the volume of traffic per Discord server must be human-processable or what would the point be? A Discord server doing 800k writes per second makes no sense.

So why not a RDBMS per Discord server, and if you want to ship all that out to a warehouse for analytics you do that as a separate problem?

Or is it that spinning up a Postgres instance per Discord server ends up being significantly more expensive than these mega distributed database systems?
Too bad they are going to remain on the surface. Maybe next time they will set up all the hydroponics in a lunar cave. There are shaded areas in craters that supposedly remain a constant 63F (17C) year round.
Super speedy. It is in fact about half the speed of C. It has a GC so that’s probably the main slow down, but hey, no memory errors or raking your brain over a barrow checker.
Hmmm. That would indeed be better. Seems like an interesting experiment to try and implement virtual threads for python!
link to pdf of dossier here

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/api/v1/file/fc39e78d-f510-49...
Linux does not support 10 bit colours. Also DCI P3 is still not standard instead of sRGB.
> My point being that bureaucracy does not inherently need to be so bad

Indeed, and my point is that it's this bad on purpose. The nominal reasons are the ones you listed and more, but they're just a front.

> And with the rise in compensation, so did the cost of construction (because "non-tradeable", but I disagree that it is inevitable as such, because labor can be imported) and therefore the cost of housing

This is pretty much exactly what I wrote, minus the fact that it's non-tradable because of another restriction.

Here's how it works algebraically. Let C_x be the coefficient for the amount spent on x by consumers and P_x by producers:

Rent = RentTrueCost * RentOverpriceFactor
LocalSalary = Rent * C_Rent + TradablesPrice * C_Tradables + NonTradablesPrice * C_NonTradables
NonTradablesPrice = TradablesPrice * P_Tradables + NonTradablesPrice * P_NonTradables + LocalSalary * P_Salary

=>

NonTradablesPrice = (TradablesPrice * (P_Tradables + C_Tradables * P_Salary) + RentTrueCost * RentOverpriceFactor * C_Rent * P_Salary) / (1 - P_NonTradables - C_NonTradables * P_Salary)

Notice the "zooming effect" from P_NonTradables and C_NonTradables. The more local producers and consumers rely on non-tradable goods and services, the bigger the increase in local prices resulting from a small increase in RentOverpriceFactor. That's because the supply chain has to pay the "rent tax" at every step. From the carpenter, to the carpenter's waiter at the diner, to the carpenters that built the diner and the waiter's house, etc.
It makes sense to me. The number of people who actually create useful open source software is so vanishingly small compared to the number of people who use OSS, it seems obvious that we should optimize for their time, not the other way around. I agree with you that using mailing lists or GitHub issues or whatnot would be globally more efficient, but if I’m working on a product, I’m going to work in the way that is most efficient for my time. I owe my “customers” nothing because they are not paying for my work. We keep seeing discord as a means to communicate about products because devs see it as the best use of their time. The fact that so many people use it should be an indictment on the alternatives, not the devs who choose to use discord.
This reminds me of something my mother told me she aimed for when she ran her catering businesses: she always wanted 1 serving of pie leftover at the end of every day.

If she had 0, she ran the risk of turning customers away and losing money. Any more than 1 is excess waste. Having just 1 meant she’d served every possible customer and only “wasted” 1 slice.
That is still different than mechanical tension.
YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood
https://archive.ph/Il30i
I see that Cellebite (the essence of parasite company BTW) does not work for Samsung S11 and beyond (so 2019 and later). I have a Samsung S22+ which has a few years.
No one is spending 900 on earth exploration.
NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover: Never used, one previous owner
https://archive.ph/2QINr
I got to work on a crystal project years ago and loved it. I was exposed to a bunch of people who were really into crystal and it made me come to the completely incorrect conclusion that crystal was up and coming and I’d be able to find more work using it.

I was wrong. I’ve never encountered it again. It was a great language, super productive. I helped some people develop a pet insurance service. So weird. I’d work with crystal again for sure.
The efficiency results in abundance not possible in less dense areas, you are waiting for things that are simply not available elsewhere.
I really wish these companies would be consistent about their policies. It feels like they pick and choose when to enforce them, often times seemingly in line with their employees’ or leaders’ biases. For example what constitutes a ‘hacked’ item? The JD Vance dossier? Biden’s daughter’s journal? Trump’s tax returns? Hunter Biden’s laptop? Diplomatic cables from Wikileaks? Why are some of these given a pass and others censored? I don’t care for the completely subjective claim of “newsworthiness”, which is clearly a shameless excuse for biased application of policies.

Stepping back - the degree to which suppression of information has been normalized is disturbing. We’re seeing this all over the world today. Brazil with secret censorship of social media content and users. The EU with DSA. Australia with the recently proposed misinformation bill and fines for social media companies. Canada with various censorship measures. The US with government agencies aggressively pressuring private companies to perform censorship on their behalf. And of course private companies acting in near perfect coordination to shut down information sources. The most recent example of that is probably the ban of RT (Russian state controlled media).

Individuals should be allowed to communicate freely, access information freely, and decide for themselves what to make of that information. They should be able to decide what is factual. They don’t need protection, and the claims that they should be censored for their won good is at worst dystopian and at best a way to keep people from seeing information that undermines those in power. We need a massive revival of free speech values, globally.
I love web dev using rust! I use sveltekit and proxy all requests to /api to a rust backend (though it works with any SSR framework). This is nicely configurable for the vite dev server. Then I basically have all the business logic on the rust side and all the presentation logic on the SSR side to get the best of both worlds. This gives me two things:

1. A development experience with instant visual feedback for the frontend. Even more so when using tailwind.

2. A stable, safe and performant backend.

The downside is that a node process has to be running and doing the ssr, though that is an okay trade off for me because my project is mainly the api, having a reference implementation of the frontend is just a nice extra.

I've also experimented with implementing the reverse proxy in rust itself and using a unix socket and other IPC mechanisms to push the data to the SSR layer.
> No answer is given, because there is none.

case closed, guys, we can all go home now.
It is a rescue mission
http://tiny.cc/y3unzz

fix basic performance. make these all green. then repost for feedback