skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest fuckup last time was relying on the general public to voluntarily do the right thing. It felt like we were in a leaky boat at sea with half the population trying to plug the leaks as fast as they can while the other half were deliberately drilling more holes.
What if your GitHub is empty because you philosophically don't believe in the F/OSS movement?

What if it's empty because you don't want to feed even more code into the deep learning grinder?

Hell, what if it's empty simply because you're selfish and you don't like sharing?
If you still have a Github account in 2024 then you are obviously part of the problem.
you present a very interesting specific example of Instagram which is completely unrelated. story time?
You're probably joking, but OSes like damn small Linux, knoppix, and puppy Linux can be configured to boot to ram. They're often used as a rescue os
Yes, I'm pretty sure about that. The difference in case handling protocols at the start compared to later in the pandemic was pretty staggering. Medical politics is a different beast.
I meant things like Tamiflu, but good.
As opposed to todays algorithmically generated SEO spam? I find the AI generated SEO spam at least comprehensible. By and large the useful information retrieval age ended 10 years ago.
The Golden Fleece award was a shameful disgrace for the presenters and their supporters, a bunch of ignorant fools, and should be taken as a badge of honor for the recipients, most of whom did excellent and important work.
Hangeul is an 24 character alphabet, with 14 consonants and 10 vowels. Each little square is a syllable made up of consonants and vowel combinations.
I've just use a Debian arm virtual machine and be done with it (M1). If I'm going to run a VM regardless, may as well go with a full fledged one.
Docker for Mac is just unusable. They're not really adding any value there.
I opened an account with Yotta before they pivoted more heavily into the gambling aspects, because I wanted them to succeed and bring prize-linked savings account[0] into the mainstream. But I also wasn't born yesterday, so I'd only deposited money that I could afford to lose.

And lose I did: they were only able to recover less than a dollar. I'm not even going to bother claiming it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize-linked_savings_account
Point is, right now we've regressed compared to "later in the pandemic."

When the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee is recommending against N95s for respiratory illness, that's not a great sign.
Why not podman?
what sorts of problems do you imagine this causing?
Society is going downhill on a double black diamond slope. The people who don't trust our institutions aren't going to trust this- why cater to them?
If Docker isn't open enough for you, check out Podman (now with extra CNCF).
I'm absolutely sick of seeing Mick West's analyses get trotted out every time some of these more concrete pieces of evidence get presented.

For one thing, he makes arguments in bad faith and with poor use of honest analysis. Consequently, many people have done a pretty thorough job of debunking his own debunking efforts (you can easily find some of these through both a YouTube or a Google search).

West takes a very classic debunker approach (not that I don't say skeptic, but debunker specifically) of prima facie deciding that the inexplicable can't possibly be the case and thus guiding all of his arguments, rather dogmatically, to showing how it isn't the case, regardless of the quality or plausibility of what he argues. It's a dishonest and tedious way to view the world, but couched in enough rational sounding discourse to seem solid.

Many people give such arguments more weight than they deserve because, well, nearly any aspect of examining the UFO phenomenon is at least associated (often very unfairly) with the most extreme of quacks and cranks and thus bias tends towards giving more weight to a seemingly skeptical interpretation, regardless of its specific qualities.

I've communicated with West on this subject even and noticed quickly that when questioned on the weaknesses of specific arguments, he simply doubles down on his base statements, but without addressing the precise counter-skepticism being thrown at him. This does not make for honest reasoning and good faith..
#1 (forced choice) is also a problem with mail-in voting (along with a number of other issues).
Don’t we have them? I only casually use containers, but what about podman, runc, systemd-nspawn, LXC etc?
Merging actually seems quite simple given an external coordinator. All you need is some periodic process that can observe the state of the clock, find gaps, and communicate the merge with one of the adjacent nodes. It is something that can be eventually consistent. Splits could occur similarly. Sure you have to ensure single writes from the coordinating process, but that’s easier to solve bc of the relative infrequency that the coordinator needs to run, leaving lots of time for consistency in between updates.

The key assumption I’m making here is that nodes communicate much more frequently than nodes are added and removed from the system. We’re optimizing for the latency of the former at the cost of latency of the latter.
My kids (10, 7, and 5) try going outside to play every day and all of the neighbor kids are tucked inside doing whatever the hell it is kids do nowadays.

I lived in a very similar suburb in the '90s and had many, many other kids to play with outside every day. Bicycling, sports, adventures, you name it…

For them, I am 100% positive that 2024 does not beat 1994. They all seem so ridiculously lonely.
I think the author was referring to vitriol such as

> “Fuck Chan Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a label and motherfucking crew,” he wrote in a since-deleted post on X, formerly Twitter, to his 408,000 followers during the early morning hours of Saturday. “Die slow motherfuckers.”

> When a user noted that Tan seemed drunk, he responded he was. “You are right,” he replied, “and motherfuck our enemies.”

> Tan also posted a picture of a private liquor cabinet — containing two $350 bottles of Balvenie and Macallan whisky and two $32 bottles of Roederer Estate sparkling wine — above a plaque emblazoned with his name: “Garry Tan ‘SF Social Media Troll’ Twitter Menace.”[1]

[1] https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/garry-tan-death-wish-sf-sup...
The issue of morality and character wasn't just raised by Democrats and the "fake news" media. It was also raised by Republicans who directly served in the administration. When your former VP, chief of staff, military leaders and scores of former cabinet officials say issues of character made him unfit for command, I think people should and ought to have taken that very seriously in both the primaries and general election. This is before you even get to his numerous legal issues both civil and criminal. It is unfortunate that so many still choose to see this through only a political lens.
He’s a contrarian, not a conspiracy theorist, but that led him astray when he became the goto guy for reporters looking for a real doctor (well, surgeon) to represent the anti-vaccine mandate side. That still puts him ahead of the solid anti-vax side but suggests that he’s likely to make the same choice again in the future – it’s addictive to think you’re on to something everyone else missed – and I would imagine it’s especially a risk if that means getting on the bad side of a famously vindictive boss.
Spellcorrekt got me: "Omnibox".
All indications are we are on the verge of systematically dismantling the last 74 years of public health institutional capability in the United States. So, perhaps, not even that.
There's politics, and there's what happens in the trenches. But I agree that it's a bad sign.
Is the Crypto Conference Circuit Good for Crypto?
You don't need that knowledge as i just went to GPT and asked it ...

"I need to create a dropdown for a website can you help me make it?"

And then I asked,

"How do I make what you wrote above work?"

It detailed the things one needs to do ..copy/paste each block of code in three separate notepad files and save each one accordingly (index.html, style.css and script.js) all in one folder. Once that's done double click on the index.html to run the dropdown.
I guess the thing that bothers me that this is mainly a personal conflict between two people. And now some "committee" is butting in a month and a half later – I don't know, I'm not sure that's helpful.

Kent is obviously well-intentioned and acting in good faith. He is also rather difficult to the point where I wouldn't be surprised to see bcachefs removed from the kernel at some point. It seems to me that mediation and help to deal with his attitude would be far more constructive and appropriate, not punishment.

I suppose that sums up why I don't care too much for the CoC stuff: it's too much focused on "punishment", and typically results in a committee deciding who is and isn't deserving of it.
You're probably referring to the Strategic National Stockpile. There are approximately 55 million doses of Tamiflu on hand as of earlier this year, though the ASPR generally keeps this number under its hat. In the meantime, there is an H5N1 candidate vaccine, and it would probably be able to get to market fairly quickly (compare with the H1N1 vaccine rollout in 2009).
I once got my 1993 Buick Skylark to 100. Once the paint started chipping off the hood, I decided that maybe 100 was a speed I never needed to see again.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to design a Twitter clone that can prevent this at any cost? it seems like a pervasive issue in every single social network.
The observed distribution of inclinations of long-period comets are why it's called the Oort cloud and not the Oort belt..

Short period comets are relatively close to the ecliptic, while very-long-period comets have evenly distributed inclinations suggesting that the objects in the Oort are more or less spherically distributed.

Discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud#Development_of_theo...
I'm well aware, and tomorrow it will be even more advanced. That only reinforces my point.
Doctors, firemen and cops are obvious examples, but I've called plumbers at 2am because of a burst pipe flooding the basement. I've called locksmiths well past closing time due to lockout. I've called landlords at all hours for apartment emergencies. Society needs on-callers of all kinds. It's not surprising that some people are vociferously against holding the pager, and I sincerely wish those people success in avoiding it. But someone will always have to step up and they should be appropriately rewarded for it (I've been on-call and was considered lucky to have gotten overtime for it, which I think is strange because it's just a well-aligned incentive structure that any smart company should have)
Uhm, I would not be surprised if Trump's administration outright bans vaccination and masking this time around.
> At that point the only thing at risk is fraudulent use of said POA, and whatever funds are held outside of actual accounts

Which exactly the reason why the FDIC didn't intervene in the article: the Fintech startup didn't deposit the unaccounted(!) millions of customer funds into FDIC-insured accounts. The law should be tightened up to prohibit claims of FDIC protection without meeting the reporting and deposit process requirements.
But think of the shareholders!
Yes, all fueled by ridiculously abundant/cheap oil. This is something that might not happen in Earth's history ever again, not to mention the climate change issues (which at least weren't clear until much later, 80s rather than 50s for oil depletion issues).
Yes, several. A particularly interesting one is Scantegrity [1]:

> Scantegrity is a security enhancement for optical scan voting systems, providing such systems with end-to-end (E2E) verifiability of election results. It uses confirmation codes to allow a voter to prove to themselves that their ballot is included unmodified in the final tally. The codes are privacy-preserving and offer no proof of which candidate a voter voted for. Receipts can be safely shown without compromising ballot secrecy.

> Scantegrity II prints the confirmation codes in invisible ink to improve usability and dispute resolution. As the system relies on cryptographic techniques, the ability to validate an election outcome is both software independent as well as independent of faults in the physical chain-of-custody of the paper ballots. The system was developed by a team of researchers including cryptographers David Chaum and Ron Rivest.

It works with the common "fill in the bubble" paper ballots that can be counted by simple optical scanners (or by hand). The only extra hardware you need to add it to an existing "fill in the bubble" system is that you have to use a special marker to fill in the bubbles.

Here's a paper giving details [2].

Here's a paper proving coercion resistance [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/502.pdf
But that's what it looks and feels like. Partisan neener neener.

We don't withhold mercy because someone doesn't believe in receiving help, or because they play for the opposite "team". We do our best to help anyway.

A doctor doesn't withhold treatment because a patient believes God is responsible for healing them. We don't stop trying to eradicate Polio because people distrust vaccines. It can be a thankless uphill battle, but that's the human condition, and it's important to retain human empathy.

We shouldn't gloat when someone dies from Covid, just like we shouldn't gloat when someone dies from HIV AIDS. We're all in the human experience together, sharing this infinitesimal overlapping moment within the lightcone. It'll be easier to push together instead of treating everything as a tug of war. Sometimes that means being nice to people you disagree with.
They are motivated to be hired (the alternative is no money, possibly no home or good).

They aren’t dumber than the folks who really want to do engineering and make neat stuff, just differently motivated. And if those two groups get in an office politics battle, the group that isn’t distracted as much by engineering wins, right?
I’ve noticed the problem on Twitter has gotten a lot worse after Twitter added monetization.

My guess is bots are used to simulate realistic fake users to eventually pump other Twitter posts for the revenue sharing?

I’ve noticed not all bots are pornographic / mean spirited / etc. They just make a lot of low value content that crowds out comment sections.
They could also be descriptions of musical scales, or maybe weaving patterns, base-encoded numbers perhaps....who knows, really? Also Egyptian writing goes back perhaps 5000 years. That is a Semitic language so it stands to reason that it too would likely fall in the same category. Anyway I do love these kinds of archeological finds nonetheless. Interesting to see if Gobekli Tepe yields even older instances of written script? (If they ever get around to a proper excavation, that is! IIRC the site is currently not open to researchers.)
You’re absolutely right. We are heading for scary waters. We’ve basically voted to dismantle every pubic institution and we will likely lose a lot of that institutional knowledge.
It's the brand name. When you need authentic pottery built to last, look for CHON on the cylinder.

Customer: *checks cylinder*, hey, this isn't CHON, it's C𓅓ON!
>His article on threads from 1995 was highly influential on me, and I remember it to this day. More recently (2018, revised and expanded in 2021), he published a book on software engineering practices called A Philosophy of Software Design which is, in my opinion, the best in its category.

Would you have a link?
For future reference, here's a well articulated description of what went wrong in the US:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1diXKxuoDOQ (see 22:35/23:00)

The video is about the popularity/rise of RFK Jr, however at around 23:00, the author does a retrospective on covid policy in the US. You don't need to watch the entire video, just 5-10 minutes starting at the timestamp above. Here are a few of the points raised in the video:

1. The risk-benefit ratio of the vaccine was different across different age groups and there was a mandate for young healthy adults which was scientifically unsupported.

2. Transmission rates were unaffected by the vaccines (studies referenced in the video at 23:38), yet mandates remained in effect. The point he was making here is that the US was slow to respond, and this had detrimental effects to people's livelihoods.

3. Paul Offit, who is a well known figure in virology, himself didn't comport with the CDC policy regarding vaccination. The point here is that even well regarded experts disagreed with the CDC.

The video goes on to describe how masking recommendations differed across countries, especially for young children. So yea, there's no need to wonder why trust in public policy has been eroded in the US.
Oz was a professor at the columbia university medical school until like 2015 and he was by all accounts an incredible cardiac surgeon before swerving into being a professional crackpot. He's still a crackpot though, and for quite a long time was both a crackpot and a professor at a prestigious medical school.
SIGBOVIK is wonderful. Take a look at the older proceedings too!

It’s my dream to publish there someday…
I should add the whole exchange is worth a read, but it’s enhanced by a little bit of background knowledge like above…
Do you think colleges thoroughly check the background of each applicant, such that they would discover this?
It might be that visible and permanent disability from polio was actually scarier than abstract death, simply because the former is a lot easier to visualize and generates a larger set of hypothetical "what would I do next" challenges.
I love these. Been a fan of minimal bash stuff.
Here's a proof of concept for a intra-cluster load balancer in 40 lines of bash done during a hackathon I organized to promote distributed infra with Docker, Mesos, etc. about a decade ago https://github.com/cell-os/metal-cell/blob/master/discovery/...

I likely lost it, but I had a redundand and distributed reverse SSH tunnel based colo-to-cloud transfer tool.

Shell Fu and others have good collections of these https://www.shell-fu.org/
Have you tried out Orbstack?
I don't understand what the fraud is. Did they substitute themselves into the identity of their dead relatives? I did read of such a case for the world's oldest women

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/03/worlds-oldest-woman-122-compl...
My understanding is that there is also some stockpiled H5 vaccine from years ago. Supposedly it's not a perfect match for the current strain going around in cattle but it's pretty good.
He is removing copyright notices from it, which...yeah not at all legal.
Only complaint is that my home network assigns IPv6 addresses and that fucks up external dns lookups for pods in Orbstack.
Plugins as code that is integrated with WP are still required to be GPL-compatible. Unless you want to connect to your plugin through some layer of networking and a GPL licensed proxy, your plugins need to be open as well.

Specifically running something as basic as register_activation_hook() means you're linking with WP-provided code.
Half baked thought; what about a linkedin style connection graph where your feed is only populated by those in your network, and it is trivial to see and disconnect from whoever introduced the bot into your network. Would a community self regulate if bots became actually contagious
I still think a serialized ballot is the way to go. Upon verification of identification at the polling place, a ballot is printed with a random serial number and given over. Those serials are kept until after the count, and any serial number not in that master set should be examined for fraud.
Don't ethics and reputation go hand in hand?
significantly less of a problem on bluesky than on twitter. First there is a mass ban which scales well (one can ban entire lists of bots). Two there is no gamed algorithm that bias engagement towards the ideology of the owner of the platform... In other words, you have significantly more control over the content
> more votes than anyone had ever received prior to that.

That fact falls into a whole class of "new records" which sound impressive but are usually meaningless, because it's closer to the default outcome.

In this case, the voting-age population was (yet again) going to increase, so each "new record" in votes cast becomes boringly-normal rather than unusually interesting. The same also happens with certain dollar-amount records, which are not adjusted for inflation or overall economy growth.

A similar phenomenon to https://xkcd.com/1138/ , except it has to do with trends over time rather than geographically.
I was curious if the Yeti would appear, I assume it is on the to do list. Great game. Keep going with it.
Those undercut the claim, not support it: there’s no promise that it’ll be over, only a request to slow the rate of spread. Moreover, that was not a promise from medical experts but from a presidential candidate running for re-election arguing that the economy was doing so well that it made up for the other problems with his administration.
There's lots of companies with leadership that prioritises ethical approach. It's sad that people don't realise it these days / think it's that uncommon. (I've read this opinion here at least 3 times recently)
Yeah todolist for the back country
Whether a plugin is standalone or a combined program (and therefore a derivation) is apparently a matter of debate. Sounds like if you so much as use a data structure defined by WordPress, then by distributing your software you're really distributing a modified version of WordPress. [My read of 0] This is intuitive enough for me, if you can't use my plugin without WordPress, then really what I'm shipping is WordPress + my changes.

However, some plugins are distributed with a "split license", the php that integrated with WordPress is GPLd, but JavaScript, css, other assets are under a different license. [1] I don't think this has been tested in court one way or another. Matt of course considers this heresy [2]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLPlugins

[1] https://www.contentpowered.com/blog/wordpress-plugins-free-g...

[2] https://ma.tt/2015/07/licenses-going-dutch/?utm_source=perpl...
My decompressor:

curl ftp://path/to/original.dat
Mortality isn't the only measure of danger.

Like 80% of COVID deaths were over age 65. For young people with no comorbidities, COVID was mostly benign. Magnitude aside, that's more or less a normal disease.

Polio was paralyzing thousands of healthy children every year with no end in sight. People freak out way more about something like that.
direct link to youtube video: https://youtu.be/atcqMWqB3hw

Well done, the "Guitar Solo" at 1:14 killed me lol.

Thanks to modern technology, as a civilization we can now efficiently convert the energy we harvested into memes.
Egyptian writing is old but it is not (primarily) alphabetic.
The article is not complete. I could not find any comparison of the new alphabet to the known ones. Is this close to Phoenician or Aramaic?
Christ, please bring back universal masking and distancing. That two years without so much as a sniffle in our house was magical.
Nah, they should have prioritized building some sort of PaaS solution like CloudRun, Render or Fly so they can sell that to enterprises for $$$. Instead they did half-baked docker swarm which never really worked reliably and then lost ground to k8s rapidly
I’d be happy to admit I’m wrong, it’s a neat idea. What are some examples you could point to?
Does it require root access to the machine I have a user account on?