skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’ve never been, I’d recommend visiting Lake Louise in Alberta. However, when I last visited in 2019, the lake base was packed nearly shoulder to shoulder at 7am. Hiking the trail to the tea house was like walking a sidewalk in NYC at 9am, just a little rougher and steeper. I’ve heard it’s only gotten worse since Covid.

Is it selfish to want to be able to enjoy one of the most beautiful spots in Canada without it being crowded? Absolutely. But the sheer volume of people makes in a completely unenjoyable experience, not to mention the dangers of erosion/wilful destruction/litter/etc that over-toured nature spots eventually succumb to. The nice thing right now is that there are many, many places to go that most people won’t, due to lack of accessibility, lack of cell service, etc. By breaking down barriers, you open the floodgates.

I used to despise gatekeeping, wanting everyone to be able to experience as many joys as possible. But when seeing what happens when the masses get access to delicate niches, my opinion shifts. Maybe I’m just getting older and grumpier though, so take it with a grain of salt.
TIL

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+20A0

Even Bitcoin is there. And "German Penny Sign"?
Definitely not Starlink Services LLC
I've been eye balling a pair of those for a while now.

Any other quirks you're willing to share? Such as: how's the input latency (from key press to seeing it)? early signs of tear? do I need to invest in spare parts?
the projector they purchased was $800 and the 90” screen was $200. That’s $1k. I can buy an 85” 4K QLED tv for $650 (BestBuy). New TV’s of that size use about 0.1kwh, which is $50 per year instead of $100.

So she’s paying $350 more up front just for set up, and then $50 more per year just to use it. How is that “not that bad”? Seems wasteful, especially if the person in the blog claimed that $1k was “crazy expensive” for them.

$1k is pocket change for a lot of people on this forum, including myself, but if $1k is a lot to you then this seems like a strange purchase.

criticism aside, this is a cool project and i enjoyed the blog post.
One of the points that is made is that since the PDS that's being interacted with here is part of a 'Personal Data Server' rather than the Bluesky product, it ends up able to offer infinite free data storage.

This seems like one of the things that might be part of the references the bluesky team has made at time to introducing a subscription service - providing more space / bandwidth / higher quality video on your PDS seems like the type of hosting that could be offered at a premium tier.
That assumption is even more mysterious.

Why one specific handedness "won"? What caused the other one to be food? How can we be sure it was by chance?

Lots of questions.
> And it will likely be buggy with all sorts of edge cases.

I have seen this view in corporate IT teams who’re happy to be “implementers” rather than engineers.

In real life, many orgs will in fact have third party vendor products for internal DNS and cert authorities. Writing bridge APIs to these isn’t difficult and it keeps the IT guys happy.

A relatively few orgs have written their own APIs, typically to manage a delegated zone. Again, you can say these must be buggy, but here’s the thing — everything’s buggy. Including k8s. As long as bugs are understood and fixed, no one cares. The proof of the pudding is how well it works.

Internal DNS in particular is easy enough to control and test if you have engineers (vs implementers) in your team.

> manage changes to load balancers … perl

That’s a very black and white view, that teams are either on k8s (which to you is the bees knees) or a pile of Perl (presumably unmaintainable). Speaks to interesting unconscious bias.

Perhaps it comes from personal experience, in which case I’m sorry you had to be part of such a team. But it’s not particularly difficult to follow modern best practices and operate your own stack.

But if your starter stance is that “k8s is the only way”, no one can talk you out of your own mental hard lines.
>(where we still don't really know who's actually responsible)

Keffals and Fong-Jones
I do something similar, but instead keep a "date_deleted" column null by default, and the "active" column as a boolean.

That way, I kill two birds in one stone by having a dedicated column for last deletion (instead of updating a record that is supposedly deleted) and the status just as a boolean instead of some enum, or integer or string.
Trip November 2024 ISO C++ standards meeting (Wrocław, Poland)
This is exactly what should not happen. Meat is great, especially when grass fed.
> It then turn down to "soft" warfare.

Violating RR is already "soft" warfare.
Loneliness vs. Shared Cultural Perceptions
flamebait tantrum of a post
Ironically, drug addiction is often related to early life trauma.
> I think the article is written for high-agency people, which are rare in my experience, even in tech.

While your assessment about the article may be true, high-agency people are common in niche careers. Anything that is extremely high performing (emergency medicine, Wall Street trading floor, elite law firms, entrepreneurs of any kind (especially non-tech!), etc.) will have plenty of high-agency people. Plus, this board is full of high-agency people. At this point in 2024, "tech" is a pretty much meaningless term, similar to "Europe". What does it even mean? The landscape is much too wide and diverse at this point.
absoluelty! I can't believe this treasure was hidden as a draft for three years!
On my Linux desktop the default cap seems[1] to be ~32k.

See eg https://www.baeldung.com/linux/max-threads-per-process for some runtime sysctl knobs if you want to go higher than the default limits. (Though the section 6 there seems out of date and written with the 32-bit OS in mind)

[1] as reported by the Python snippet from https://stackoverflow.com/a/64406494
He asks Mike if he can send multiple files. Mike says "sure".
NipAlert, if you count that as a word, haha
Playful Parenting; Raising sour Children, Raising Ourself; Unconditional Parenting.

Three books I feel I can recommend.
Obviously, because in our digital economy, users are cattle. Companies are obsessive about UX so the users shut up and eat grass and allow themselves to be milked or sheared. Refusing to participate? A cow that eats grass but doesn't let itself be milked gets shot, so in some sense maybe we should be grateful for the bitch-slapping...
this is provably false. the demand for generative compositional techniques fuels a lot of the Eurorack market. people pay lots of money for machines that generate musical ideas. and the history of algorithmic composition goes back to at least the 12th century. it’s niche, undeniably, but it’s not zero.
But there are billions of dollars to be made by convincing people of such things.
Gotta admit that makes total sense.
I don't disagree.

Just pointing out that there's things you can't diagnose without being physically present. And these kinds of issues aren't only existent in Telecoms or SATCOM in particular.

The user should ask for a credit/refund. The product was almost certainly working. But not meeting expectations. If not it wouldn't have been on for 8 months. Can't tell me you ran 0 bytes over it
... unless the "meat" being grass-fed is actually cows, which produce lots of methane. Not so good for climate change, at least if done at scale.

It's never that easy as "Meat is great".
Didn’t Zendesk stab a pentester recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818459
As someone who has worked on the Danish public sector I have a slightly different take on the public websites. They should never have been using things like 3rd party analytics to begin with.

I understand it’s was media and communication departments do, and that it’s natural that the people working within them would want to do so regardless of where they work. It’s their trade after all, unfortunately they bring the exact same “user engagement” mindset with them into the public sector. Well, at least in my anecdotal experience with a handful of these departments in 7-8 different cities around here. You can of course make good points on user metrics on a public website, but they should frankly work very different than they would on most web sites. On a public website it should be the goal to get to user to leave the site as quickly as possible, because the longer they hang around the more time they are spending finding what they need. That’s not what happens with these metrics in my experience, however, instead they are used to do what you might do on a news site.

That’s just one side of it, however, because the privacy concerns are their own issue. If you absolutely want metrics on a public website at least have the courtesy to build your own. It should be illegal for public web sites to use 3rd party tracking. I know why they use it, it’s for the same reason they spend a ridiculous amount of money on custom designs systems build on top of what is usually SharePoint or Umbraco. They refuse to hire the Django (insert any other extremely low maintenance system) expertise because it’s expensive on the “long term budget”, even though it would be much cheaper than 3rd party tools and consultants on the actual long term budget. Anyway, that is another point. But it really pisses me off when public websites need you to allow 3rd party tracking because they aren’t using it in any way which serves the public.

Worst of all is that cookie banners are explicitly a private industry way of dealing with their refusal to respect “do-not-stab”. Public websites could simply put their bullshit into their privacy page. Of course nobody would go there and turn on 3rd party cookies, but why should the public care?
Contrary to popular belief, k8s is not Google's tech stack.

My understanding is that it was initially sold as Google's tech to benefit from Google's tech reputation (exploiting the confusion caused by the fact that some of the original k8s devs where ex-googlers), and today it's also Google trying to pose as k8s inventor, to benefit from its popularity. Interesting case of host/parasite symbiosis, it seams.

Just my impression though, I can be wrong, please comment if you know more about the history of k8s.
>it’s the oldest country in the world if you measure by (codified) constitution

I think a better way of phrasing it might be "a continuous system of government". Germany certainly existed before the late 1940s, but the system of government was obviously very, very different.
Then those who are affected should consider moving to another country or even a cheaper country.
+1 for this, any time I or a colleague have a wireguard issue that smells of "you're using it wrong" I come back to this set of articles (don't miss the links to separate detailed posts for each configuration!)
Yup, and to add to this, the large majority of this meat is produced for export, and it's sold super cheap, I personally believe a good way of solving this is only giving EU support to non export farming, eg if you receive EU subsidy the good shouldn't be allowed to be exported, or those taxes would have to be repaid.

As currently we're destroying the nature, and waters due to this extremely intensive farming and as others have mentioned Denmark is producing 200-300 % of our domestic need + it requires significant import from south America where it wouldn't surprise me if this import lead to significant deforestation.

I know China is also working on increasing their domestic production[1] which is one of the primary markets that Denmark is exporting a lot to , It was 85000 tons last year[2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/business/china-pork-farms...
[2]https://effektivtlandbrug.landbrugnet.dk/artikler/marked/103...
IIRC abuse correlates closely with the price of registration for the first year, and poorly or not at all with how open the registration policy is.
There's a much better discussion of college admissions in Malcom Gladwell's new "Revenge of the Tipping Point".
Tailscale will fallback to tuns servers which are dumb "cloud" relays if direct connection can't be established.
I remember in the 00s Firefox or Opera had an nice feature to load pages exclusively from cache. I used this feature a lot to check all pages I had surfed through when my parents blocked the internet access to encourage me to get back in reality. Ohh sweet times..
Please explain how you would solve the iterator invalidation problem using only C++ and RAII. Thanks.
They make batteries, regular cars and hybrids and the cost of labor is lower
Just don't use proprietary spyware where you are the product
> Look for example Peter Norvig, 100% hands on technical type, but in a high management position.

Just one time in my career, for about one year, I was tech lead on a small, wildly talented team. When you are "managing" highly-skilled, highly-motivated people who are paid very well... you don't have to do very much. Talk to them for a few mins a day. Be available they have questions. Else, it runs itself. Probably, the biggest enemy of success on those teams is intellectual boredom! I assume that Peter Norvig does very little day-to-day management. Instead, he is working in the same way that I was. It is much harder to be a good manager when you don't have all of the stars aligned: less skilled, or less motivated, or less well paid.
See https://irenezhang.net/papers/demikernel-sosp21.pdf for a more thorough paper on the Demikernel from 2021. There are some great ideas for improving the kernel interface while still allowing efficient DPDK-style pipelines.
I'm a professional driver and have been since the 90s.

The day will one day come where the shitty proprietary map providers that pay auto manufacturers to foist them on us get ousted and we can have a USB-C connection to the car's system display for our screen mirroring as standard.

In-vehicle audio and navigation is utterly useless. Costly updates, unfamiliar GUI's, distracting bells and whistles.

There are two SatNav's I've seen used by colleagues:

GOOG maps (thanks for messing up timeline last week, shitheads)

TomTom trucks (I drive large vehicles these days)

I'd love to have a screen that mirrors my phone, on the dash, not obscuring the windscreen, with connections to the steering wheel controls and the speakers.

Making do with a vent/suction holder is frustrating.
Naturally the option would be to be more supporting of Linux OEM laptop vendors.

Apple always has been a desktop company, the forays into the server space never were that serious, and in what concerns UNIX, mostly an implementation detail of the userspace stack that actually matters, even in the old A/UX attempt.
This doesn't seem to be a global phenomenon. I've not noticed such things in my country.
They had to build themselves because third parties gave longer timelines.
> I'm going out on a limb here, but if this is the viewpoint of the people who raised him, then I'm not surprised he cheated.

At my child's elementary school and now middle school the teachers openly ecourage using AI chat for schoolwork, to help the kids understand the usefulness and the uselessness of it.

I think that's great. AI isn't going away, so pretending students won't be using it at all times, both now and in their lives, is pretty naive and hopeless. Better to embrace it and teach them what it can and can't do.

From the article:

> the students had indiscriminately copied and pasted text from the AI application, including citations to nonexistent books (i.e., AI hallucinations).

They should not be punished for using AI. They should, however, just get a very bad grade for "including citations to nonexistent books". Which would also be a good lesson in why AI is useful but you can't trust it at all without validation.
Sounds extremely inefficient for a language.
Low carbon farms balance would be: "low carbon" profit + subsidy - small carbon tax

High carbon farms balance would be: "high carbon" profit + subsidy - high carbon tax

If ["low carbon" profit - small carbon tax] > ["high carbon" profit - high carbon tax] (e.g. if the carbon tax is high enough), farms have an incentive to lower their carbon emissions.

The subsidy is here to make sure ["low carbon" profit + subsidy - small carbon tax] > 0
Russia plotting to use AI to enhance cyber-attacks against UK
I've been kicking around the idea of a messaging platform with a 1-hour delay built in. Get us away from the habit of continuous availability that we've developed since the smartphone became king...
> functions are bound with the same syntax as constants

Apparently, the author hasn't come around to understanding that functions are just another constant.
Twitter links no longer load at all on my iPhone. Can someone post an archive link or something?
I recently took a step back from my career to go on a sabbatical, and it’s been a surprising journey—both liberating and challenging in ways I didn’t expect.

In my latest blog post, I share what I’ve discovered about how time, priorities, and creativity shift when you’re no longer tied to the grind. This might resonate with you if you’ve ever thought about taking a sabbatical (or just wondered what it’s like).

I would love to hear your thoughts or experiences if you’ve been through something similar!
Cows still need water from somewhere in those areas you’re talking about. If the land is particularly poor it also won’t produce enough feed and will have to be supplemented with feed that requires water and energy to grow somewhere else.
I do notice how every Uber driver has the vent holder.
Yeah, but trying to contribute design work to FOSS projects sucks— firstly, a whole lot of project maintainers think that UX and UI design hurt usability because they “dumb things down” to make them look pretty. Secondly, the workflows for code and design are completely different — you just can’t break design work down into a long series of modular pull requests like you can with code. I’ve encountered very few maintainers that don’t see that as a fundamental shortcoming of design and designers rather than a plug that needs a different adapter. Either way, you do a ton of upfront work for people that are suspicious of your motives and assume you’re incompetent, and it will either get totally ignored, or rejected out of hand. I’ve contributed somewhere on the order of 5 figures in coding hours to various FOSS projects and have a degree in design, and I still only contribute pure code features to FOSS projects.

I’m quite pleased to see that Gimp has undertaken this commendable step.
Their advertising model certainly is a problem. But it isn't the only one, there are more and more users that demand other users be removed because of their opinion. When social networks started to listen to a few of them, they made themselves hostages to more demands. Platforms like Twitter or reddit certainly suffered from this.
> which can't sort the numbers they don't see

Then you sort at the point you can see the numbers and discard them later.

> Also, why do I need to count columns like a cave man in 'sort -k 5' instead of doing the obvious "sort by size"

awk can sort the columns for you. Plus, ls can already sort by size. Try "ls -lS " for biggest file first, or "ls -lSr" for smallest file first. Add "-h" to make human readable.

> A problem that would disappear with... structured data!

No. A problem that would disappear with "a small if block which asks which environment I'm in". If you're in a shell "-t" test in sh/bash will tell you that. If you're coding a tool, there are standard ways to do that (via termcap IIRC). Standard UNIX tools are doing this for decades now.

IOW, structured data is not a cure for laziness...

> so use the other "some" that can?

Yes, because their authors are not that lazy.
[edited out the swipe]

Do-notation-like 'await' is not for calling functions, it is for acting on their return values - to suspend the execution flow until the task completes.
I use `insteadOf` instead of ssh alias because my workplace use GitLab orgs. So instead of typing the full URL like:

git clone gitlab.com/acme-corp/project-name

I could use:

git clone work:project-name

But this kinda broke `includeIf` since it store the `insteadOf` remote url directly. I then had to convert existing repositories to use the `insteadOf` url.

I wrote a little bit about it here:
https://bentinata.com/log/git-insteadof-includeif
You are correct, but my point was that it seems to me, that even though engagement algorithms aren't really a thing in the Fediverse, such filter bubbles still appear via self-sorting and de-federation. So yes, perhaps algorithms are to blame for filter bubbles in centralized social media, but removing algorithms doesn't remove filter bubbles, because people create it by themselves anyway.

TL;DR: Blaming the algorithm (correct or not) doesn't actually matter in the end, because filter bubbles happen with or without them.
All Americans have DNA samples stored at an abandoned mine in West Virginia. The code to open the door is the first 5 digits of Euler's number: 27828.
Nomad was amazing at every step of my experiments on it, except one. Simply including a file from the Nomad control to the Nomad host is... impossible? I saw indications of how to tell the host to get it from a file host, and I saw people complaining that they had to do it through the file host, with the response being security (I have thoughts about this and so did the complainants).

I was rather baffled to an extent. I was just trying to push a configuration file that would be the primary difference between a couple otherwise samey apps.
A better option would be to just make tracking illegal, and heavily fine companies that are found to be doing it. And make it strict liability, so intent doesn't matter.

I can dream...
Derek would like a word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ
And if you get stuck, since it is all about rows and columns, just sketch it out in Excel.

Not using formulas in Excel but just using it as a rows/columns editor.

This makes it visually clearer.
Not played with this yet, but https://github.com/firezone/firezone is another example.
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I still do use Craigslist a lot, along with Indeed. I also look up local places I want to work for and look at their open positions directly.
> Free speech is the upside of X

lol, you seriously believe that a network fully controlled by the world's richest man, accountable to no one, is a bastion of free speech? I presume you have a bridge to sell me as well?
Lots of people in the comments are talking about Starlink as if it was a civilian project, it's not, it's military. Similar to mercenaries and perfidy it's not presented as military, but it is.

And as such it's an action against every other state. Much like the War on Terror, some NSA activities and so on it's the US making aggressive moves against everyone else.
No problems here. I use YouTube Music or the Podcasts app for audio and Apple Maps or Google Maps to navigate (prefer Apple Maps because it pauses Podcasts while talking). Always wired and mostly in German cars: I tried VW, BMW, Mercedes, Opel and Suzuki.
You might be onto something but we need a proper "evolutionary theory of bootlicking" before we get carried away.

Its pretty clear that the all-too-common in space and time hierarchies, oligarchies, command-and-control pyramids etc. rely on trickle-down privilege to sustain.

But the feeligs of disgust and disbelief at how a person can diminish themselves in the hope of some crumbs falling their way must also have strong evolutionary basis?
But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) panned out and that's a closer analogue.
Then you need to choose the safe space option. Under no circumstances should you opt to advertise removing content for others. Because your justification with "circular logic" could mean anything. This is the safe space option.

That more free platforms employ spam protection is no excuse.