skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Step #1 keep your CM files in Git.

My favorite part of puppet is demonstrated well by the trifects:

package { 'openssh-server':
ensure => installed,
}

file { '/etc/ssh/sshd_config':
source => 'puppet:///modules/sshd/sshd_config',
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0640',
notify => Service['sshd'], # sshd restarts whenever you edit this file.
require => Package['openssh-server'],
}

service { 'sshd':
ensure => running,
enable => true,
}

That will keep SSH installed, a service running, and the puppet config file managed forever. If you accidentally replace the config file it will be fixed and the service restarted. If you remove the package it will be reinstalled, config file updated, and service started.

Not a fan of ansible, it's more of a "run this playbook", which translates to reinstall and "run this playbook", which in environments that don't reinstall very often can be painful. Since ansible playbooks don't know the current machines state they never know exactly what commands to run.

Generally if you spin up containers or similar short term servers I think ansible is fine. If it's a larger and more complicated environment with longer lived servers I'd use puppet.

Oh, one other think I like about puppet is if you say apply X to all nodes, you can literally not run puppet (it will fail to compile the manifests) if you try to override it. Which security auditors LOVE.
Every data structure comes with costs. You give some to get others. Nothing in here should be surprising.
Or use code instead of HCL.

I joined Pulumi because I believe that using the abstraction and tooling that a proper language allows is the way to go, but anything that's not config: CDK, Bicep, TF CDK, etc – is to me a step in the right direction.

It's not that HCL is bad, and I get that it's dominant. It's just the same complaint I have with yaml and yaml templating: You will want something more than a config file at some point. Start today.
Sometimes it's the joy of creation. Utility and optimization come later. It's fun. Like a hobby.
$25k doesn't sound like a lot. Doesn't sound like it accounts for the difference in salary.
Because your comment does nothing against the original "I'm mostly seeing people who voted against this continue to grumble." comment.

People that vote are not always hush hush about who they voted for, and has nothing to do with can you pick their particular ballot out of the pile. If I tell you I voted for A but B won and now I'm grumbling about the things B is doing, there's no need for discussions about ballots at all.

Just like you don't need to find someone's secret ballot when they're wearing a red MAGA hat.
>Young people tend to get their news from podcasts and social media, which tends to not be as blatantly controlled.

This is a bad joke.
The prevalence of self-reported studies in the nutrition world is a great hint that the field of study is deeply unserious. It's full of quack practitioners who know they can get clicks by torturing the data from a poorly-constructed study, because there's always some innumerate journalist who just needs to get some clicks to make their editor happy.
That people almost always self-organize into structured organizations gives me hope for humanity. Social structures provide people with means to make life easier. They provide support and a guide on how to accomplish things without having to worry about all the details or the "big picture". And, of course, no organization is perfect. Hoping for perfection is not only folly, it is the enemy of good.
Things that worked for me:

1. Disabling all YouTube thumbnails, making the YouTube home page layout as a vertical list instead of a grid, only allowing YouTube in Incognito mode, requiring a log in each time I want to use it

2. Unfollowing/muting most people on social media such as Instagram and Twitter. Only allowed in Incognito mode so I have to log in to use.

3. Blocked all subreddits except for one, which is AskNYC for me, via custom CSS.

4. Built an RSS reader to serve a web page rendering of the content.

5. I'm working on my own content recommendation algorithm. I'm trying out things like get a random Wikipedia article -> search the YouTube API for the article title -> return videos. Which makes YouTube content feel less brain dead and more educational.
suppose it depends (https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/) but i see an awful lot of apps choosing SPA frameworks to just move forms into databases
> So did the Sacklers with the opioid epidemic, arguably even more directly than Ulbricht. Which of them is in prison?

Do you think two wrongs make a right?
> No, I used very few words to try to make it clear that enums in Typescript are syntactic salt.

They aren't. As others already pointed out, enums greatly simplify some usecases, although they brush the complexity of implementing them under the rug.
That's not how it works for millions upon millions of Americans that are not fortunate enough to work at a job that provides tens of thousands of dollars in healthcare insurance as a benefit.

This line of thinking is exactly why the "American Dream" is falling apart; we increasingly place a handicap on some Americans and then wonder why some slice of America is not advancing generationally.
Excellent! :)

I'm really happy about being able to share Kagi results. It's allowed me to slip Kagi into a few discussions to raise awareness. Also, being on bluesky helps because so many folks complain about google but they're not aware of better options.

One thing I wanted to raise: please keep the Kagi homepage as light as possible. It's tempting to keep adding little things and over time you get a big mess.
For music, typically Bitwig or Renoise for sketching out the song's structure, export to audio files, then mix + master in Bitwig. For lyrics it's usually vocal chops with Splice + Renoise or using ChatGPT for a rough version that's tweaked by hand.
Why doesn't the Windows blue screen of death prominently identify the company...
I can't imagine getting assigned this task and not getting depressed, "bullshit jobs" smacking you in the face
Yeah, I thought it was interesting that nobody really questioned the relevance of intent over appearance.
By the numbers though I wouldn’t be surprised if the number one issue coast guard deals with is drunken recreational boaters.
It's a great thing that they can throw half a trillion at something that may not work. Every great tech advancement came from throwing money at something which might not work.
Big shades of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas in GP comment
That's an amazing video, the first 30min Youtube I've seen that is densely packed with usefulness and without any fluff (in pace, audio and visuals).

I wish he had vocals in his comparison set.

I did love to see five different U87s tested. They have such a great reputation, and we used them so much when I was producing but it's amazing to me how variable they were from mic to mic. Knowing that I would avoid moving forward unless it's my own, that I know.
Why did you leave all the important parts out of the quote?

I already noted that there are agencies that handle labor regulations. You left that out.

This committee had nothing to do with labor regulations...
I think they want to confuse us.
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I find it hard choosing a good UI library for Rails app, so I created a curated resource hub for Rails developers. It currently focuses on UI-related libraries, with plans to expand into areas like background jobs, admin tools, and more.
> Who cares about the planet, anyway.

Maybe at some point they are going to AI themselves out of climate change. Well.. except for the part where they don’t believe in man-escalated climate change.
nice - reminds me of the excellent "Computer Organization & Design" by Patterson and Hennesy https://a.co/d/9U9Adl9
Good catch, thanks! I fixed it.
It seems that the Salt Typhoon investigation would be better handled by the NSA anyways..
It's almost like you can't really make generalizations about what good human groups look like.
> No, not talking about a specific case. I am talking about crypto in general.

Aha, you're talking about one part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. There are other parts of the ecosystem that don't go willy-nilly breaking regulations just for the fun of it, probably Coinbase is one of the best examples of that.

So while your comment probably speaks to a lot of people, I don't think you can generalize that the entire ecosystem is out after breaking sanctions and launder money. You probably realize this yourself too, bit sad you don't include that in your comments though.
That's "Hemingway" ;)

I think the original sentence was already pretty weird, since I wouldn't say "My shelf contains no books." making it hard for me to judge what is not weird.

However, "Does your shelf contain a book by Hemingway?" sounds equally correct to "No, my shelf contains no book by Hemingway."

And equally correct to "My shelf contains no books."
M4 Pro full on: when CPU and GPU draw over 50 W, and Low Power mode changes that
I'm sure this won't be instantly undermined by the reality of VPN's and countries that don't care about these sort of laws. And naturally teenagers are not at all DRIVEN to seek out this sort of thing, with lots of free time and strong social networks that pass information along.

Just like banning piracy had the intended effect of eliminating piracy.
> I have no idea how my kids are going to make it.

Brother, I feel the same way. The education system is broken, public discourse has degraded to illiterate thuggery and madness, and today's children and young adults are facing crushing economic rent-taking.
> fact that a handful of individuals have half a trillion dollars

This is disputed [1]. In reality, a handful of individuals have the capital to seed a half-a-trillion dollar megaproject, which then entails the project to raise capital from more people.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-pours-cold-water-on-trump-back...
I grew up in the commercial fishing industry and then worked in the tug boat industry. Many USCG regulations that were vehemently opposed by the old men save lives every day.

This is a classic Chesterton's Fence. Those who don't understand the origin of the regulations will continue to have strong, uninformed opinions about them.

Many crew working on boats have safety gear only because USCG requires it. The owners of those boats would not expend the money without the regulation.
Your story about a park going from "public" to "private", with the manager tricking the volunteers into making something that is no longer public and pocketing the money, is a false analogy for multiple reasons.

1. What do you mean by "open"? If you're talking about the company, the park was private -- fenced off -- from the start; there was no "bait and switch". This is the part which is worth 1.8 billion dollars: the brand name, network, software and system.

2. What do you mean by "open"? If you're talking about the content licenses, then the park is still open and public to this day. This is valuable too, of course, but no one will buy CC-licensed content for 1.8 billion dollars. It's just in the commons.

Basically, while both the website and the content are valuable, the 1.8 billion dollars you're complaining about wasn't used to buy the content. Anyone can get that for free. It was used to buy the website, which has always been private and proprietary.

Your story would make more sense if StackExchange was a non-profit started by a group of volunteers which somehow got turned into a for-profit and sold to the benefit of a single person, or if they somehow re-licensed everyone's content into proprietary. But neither happened. And that's why it's a false analogy.
> Great. Another person complaining about something they can just choose not to use, criticising a pet project as if it is intended to be something that will change the world.

That's fair. I am just upset with a general shift away from simple, accessible cross-platform GUI libraries to complicated web apps.

Literally any GUI toolkit has a textbox widget. You could make a cross-platform qt text editor in 100~ lines of Python.

> as much as I like Firefox, that doesn't seem to me to be NotepadJs's doing.

Well NotepadJS chose to create a PWA that can only be used in Chrome and Opera. Though like you said, it's just a pet project.
This is a tired trope. Above, user "sneak" alludes to the infamous "Who will build the roads?" gambit. Below, users invoke it.

Reasonable people will disagree about their preferences. Some will even find polite ways to agree to disagree about ideology. Consider if the Federal Government nationalized toilet paper production and distribution. Perhaps in a few years, posters on this forum would assume that they could not perform these basic tasks without the state's support.

Just because something is currently a function of the public sector, does not mean that it could not be achieved better by the private sector. The entire thread is filled with hyperbole. The efficacy of either approach is not being discussed. There is very little substance here. Instead there are two to three sentence zingers thrown around. Most of this has been discussed at length by authors who specialize in the field.

>When students are taught about public goods, roads and highways serve as the default example in virtually every economics class. The cliché question every libertarian has encountered—“Who will build the roads?”—is predicated on the idea that without the state, private actors will have no incentive to construct or finance roadways because they will be unable to monetize them (or, at least, unable to do so sufficiently to meet the needs of the community). This assumption is accepted with such a degree of faith that few scholars have seen fit to even question whether and to what degree private roads have been constructed historically.

>But in the early years of the new republic, Americans underwent what some historians have described as a “turnpike craze.” The term “turnpike” specifically refers to roadways constructed and operated privately. Early Americans, wanting to connect their communities to the developing market economy, eagerly subscribed to turnpike corporations for local roads. In fact, turnpike corporations were among the first for-profit corporations in the country, and dramatically widened the population of shareholders at a time when corporate stock was rarely available to the public.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-will-build-roads-anyone-who...
Despite Silk Road explicitly banning CSAM, and the feds not charging Ulbricht with it when you know they would love the positive PR if they could?
Individual insurers pay out tens of billions of dollars in claims every year, frequently have non-profitable years, and are the counterparty on pretty risky contracts.

There are lots of problems with our current approach to healthcare, but insurers aren’t charging you way more than the cost to counterparty on that contract should be.
The law can't save us.
Closing up all facilities in the only city with a unionized workforce isn't something I would call spite. Example-setting is what springs to mind. A company that loves money sure wouldn't love a trend of spending more of it.
The typical sentence for attempted murder-for-hire in the U.S. isn't a double life sentence plus 40 years without the possibility of parole.
If it is preachy it uses very few words to preach. In fact it only mentions Amazon once, and that's to highlight the average pay of an Amazon warehouse worker.
Imagine a world if more of the centi-billionaires were more like Gates trying to cure diseases and make the world a better place.

I’m not advocating for the compelling of folks to be forced to give up their riches (Ill gotten or not) just imagine if people were better versions of themselves.
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He actually sold a ton of drugs too.. you don't need to raise these questions as unknowable hypotheticals, it's literally a google search away to find out. The first sales on the site were trashbags full of mushrooms that he grew in a cabin in Texas.
What regulations of this committee do you think saved lives that other agencies did not?

The USCG, NMFS, NIOSH, and OSHA regulations are still there.

When you were growing up, was it earlier than 2018?

This committee didn't exist before then.

But yeah, maybe we should add 20 more agencies just to be safe...
I’d suggest a WordPress blog with ActivityPub installed, so your posts live on the fediverse too. This allows two way interactions and makes it easy for people to follow you from whichever way they find easiest (ie on Mastodon, or an RSS reader, or even email if you have that set up).
The blog post at the top of this link is actually my blog. It’s been fun to see the comments today that were written on Mastodon, but appeared in the comments of my post. That’s what the two way interaction that ActivityPub provides and I’m always happy to see it in action.
I made a video about this a few months back if you’d like to learn more https://youtu.be/t4pmWufYRr0?si=pfQQwb6pxUxIM6pq
> This is, in fact, a generalized experience

Your article is from 2019. We're now "wealthier than previous generations were at [our] age" [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/millennials-personal-fi...
What is HCL?

Comparing to yalm and such, I'm assuming it is using a templating tool that presents a "not programming" front? If so, I think I'm 100% in agreement.

It is complicated, I think, because declarative is nice. But the idea that you have to forego all execution to get declarative code is frustrating, in the extreme.
That counts as doom scrolling to me.

If while I'm watching short form content like Reels or YT shorts etc, I realize that if you asked me what I watched 2 scrolls ago and I couldn't tell you- I'm doom scrolling.

This is the case almost every time I open instagram.
Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails
> You're right–I didn't think about fresh, prepared foods.

If only that. What about lead salts added to spices for better color (red pepper, curcuma)? What about all the other billions of ways to cut costs and make food unsafe, who is going to check for that in the absence of governments? "Increasing liability" is incredibly naive, the perpetrators don't care about that if the chance they are not caught is high enough, which it is if food chain monitoring isn't continuous.
Each essay should be written independently of the others, as I understand it. I wouldn't try and weave them together.
> If you had an AI assistant that could help you put together a jigsaw puzzle, would you use it?

It depends.

Is the puzzle a modern commercial jigsaw puzzle? Of course I wouldn't use it.

Is the puzzle a unique ancient Sumerian tablet that was just accidentally shattered and in pieces on the ground, but I need the information on it immediately? Absolutely.
I agree. The lengthy sentence likely was such that it stood as a deterrence to other upstarts / would-be drug marketplace kingpins.
>But if Google Groups doesn't send out to USENET, is it just its own closed system like Yahoo Groups used to be or something?

I do not know as I never used it after they killed the old dejanews interface. But Google did cut it off from USENET sometime last year.
Vtk is fine as long as you’re trying to build a visualization that looks like the ones Vtk anticipates you wanting. It becomes a pain when you want to draw things Vtk doesn’t expect. I do not recommend trying to embed it with complex Qt widgets, for instance, and it’s much better for surfaces and volumes than it is for abstract data.
You're right. Lower Decks was much less subtle about this than prior shows. Should've remembered since I was the one to bring it up.
This is a really excellent analysis and you will see it in a lot of prosecutions once you learn about it
The New State of the Art in Agent Memory
A problem that only exists in OOP codebases. Just don't do it and avoid the issue entirely.
Thank you for posting these links, and for the inspirational tone :)
Bryan Cantrill (and Friends) on Blogging
Fair enough. I guess I was still thinking of "doom scrolling" as being specifically about scrolling for negative news. But from reading some of the other comments it seems that a lot of people feel like the definition has shifted. I can buy that.
In my experience frequenting those boards as a former atheist, the vast majority of the militant atheist types were harmed more by their inability to compete in the standard hierarchies of society than they were by any particular Church or faith.

Most of them are angry at "The Man"—God just happens to be "The Man" at the very top.
I don’t feel like having the nth argument about whether we are better off today than in 1980. Agree to disagree, i feel that the facts are obvious, especially if you subset to the population whose parents were in the US in 1980.

i think if you gave people a legitimate choice to go back to 1980 (and take their friends let’s say), we would see the revealed preference. certainly if you did it for a year and then gave them the option to come back
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With the use of a sensor or film sensitive to infrared light, and optionally the use of deep red/orange lens filter to block out all the other wavelengths.

Rollei still manufacturers infrared 35mm film, I think it used to be used for aerial surveying, because green foliage is also reflecting lots of infrared

For digital cameras a lot of sensors are already sensitive but it's undesirable because it shows up as false colors, red hot things will appear pink or purple, so digital cameras have internal infrared filters. Go on eBay and search infrared converted camera, lots to choose from, iirc it's a pretty simple surgery if you're the type to take things apart and put them back together

Here's a nice guide for more https://phlogger.co.uk/how-to-shoot-colour-infrared-film-by-...
I've never thought it was anything but that. Work hard and be rewarded, that's the American Dream.
Yeah, I am explicitly asking about meshes, which is why I said that and also referenced photogrammetry. Sometimes people know what they're asking for help with.

Thanks for the links. Going to check them out this morning.
Deportations are a thing, and ethnic cleansing is not a new idea. It's not always so easy to know what people hold in those situations.

Still, fair point. All the more reason to care about privacy.
I explained several ideas to eliminate fraudulent reviews in my comment, that you didn't address. The main thing is to make a review coupled with a purchase that involves a large cut to the platform, so each review is very expensive. Secondly, don't take reviewers themselves seriously unless they've also made a large overall number of purchases to a diversity of sellers- making becoming a credible reviewer also expensive.
I recommend this essay often to people, especially in a start up. When someone describes their organization as being "flat", it's often a red flag because it means that there are unwritten power structure that newer employees will likely be excluded from.
> Historically, many anti-drug / anti-cartel leaders are actually members of a rival cartel, and want to use law enforcement to fight their wars for them.

For reference, Rudy Giuliani was lauded as the anti-organized mayor that brought down the Italian mob in New York, but ultimately was flagged as actually being an upper echelon of Russian organized crime who worked to establish it by eliminating competiton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani