skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in the trades relatively speaking in the midwest are easily far more wealthy than engineers in the bay area, and they have no such delusions of grandeur seemingly. They seem to understand that an electrician is an electrician and an engineer is fungible. That is why many of these engineers are unionized as well because they understand labor is replaceable and needs to advocate for itself. The coasts have much to learn from the corn lands it seems despite the prevailing narrative being the opposite.
This was interesting:

An "onion-csr-01" MUST NOT be used to issue certificates for non
".onion" Special-Use Domain Names.

Clients prove control over the key associated with the ".onion"
service by generating a CSR [RFC2986] with the following additional
extension attributes and signing it with the private key of the
".onion" Special-Use Domain Name:

* A caSigningNonce attribute containing the nonce provided in the
challenge. This MUST be raw bytes, and not the base64 encoded
value provided in the challenge object.

* An applicantSigningNonce containing a nonce generated by the
client. This MUST have at least 64 bits of entropy. This MUST be
raw bytes.
Tried installing it here in Switzerland but we’re not included. I wanted to check out an app only available there for controlling qbittorrent remotely - a class of apps apple doesn’t allow in their store.
You're mistaking complacency and lack of innovation for maturity.
That’s why the bill gates story got so much public attention. It’s surprising. Their Harvard kid is doing what?
I live in Bangkok. So I'm over here searching for abandoned Buddhist temples lol
Nobody is seriously claiming that all work on earth can be done by individuals. Obviously the master blacksmith that designs and leads the outfitting of the entire king's army with superior weaponry thanks to his personal leadership and expertise and care ... is not hammering every sword himself. But to call it a team sport is also highly misleading and to say that he hasn't been x10 is also just flat out wrong.
> No corporation can force you to do anything, take away your freedom (the US has the highest incarceration rate of any democracy) or your property (see civil forfeiture). I can much more easily avoid a corporation than the government.

Avoid Tesla, and give me the steps you follow.

> Because eventually, the other side will do something you don’t like.

Yeah they might do equally egregious things like:

1) staging a fascist takeover of the government

2) a powerless idiot's idiot wife might dislike a music genre 30 years ago

The problem isn't government, it's a populace that is alergic to useful government.
If you're starting a cult, always build instead of buy!
Often 55-60% in Australia also.
The CEO posted something, and then the official Proton account also followed up with a multi-post writeup of how democrats were all captured by big tech as if the appointed person in question wasn't a former tech lobbyist.

I don't think it should follow them forever, but for a company a lot of people are looking to to protect them against US government intrusion, picking this time specifically to @ mention Donald Trump and praise him appointing a big tech lobbyist and then have official company account defend him is certainly a bad look even if it mostly got deleted.

Things like email security and VPNs are 99% a business of "do you trust this company to defend you against a nation-state as best they can" and injecting themselves into what, for them, is international politics at very least shows questionable judgement.

If it was a post now about the action against Microsoft, sure. But preemptively praising someone's appointment feels very "kissing the ring" in a way that I don't want my trusted security company to be doing.
I'd recommend going with postgres if there is a good chance you'll need it, instead of starting with SQLite and switching later - as their capabilities and data models are quite different.

For small traffic, it's pretty simple to run it on the same host as web app, and unix auth means there are no passwords to manage. And once you need to have multiple writers, there is no need to rewrite all the database queries.
I agree with you in general, but there are network effects at Apple that are helpful to the consumer. For example, iphone-mac integration makes things better for owners of both, and Apple can internally develop protocols like their "bump to share a file" protocol much faster than they can as part of an industry consortium. Both of these are network effects that are beneficial to the consumer.
Can the same argument not be made for forced labour?

Is the US not lowering it's capacity to innovate and grow it's economy by preventing the use of forced labour(even in other countries)? Why should these "guardrails" stay in place if the argument is "the reality is they are right that guardrails only serve to hurt us in the long run, at least at this pivotal point in time"?
I don’t think the comment was meant derisive like you and the other commenter are interpreting… relax?
I can’t overstate how much my judgment has improved over the past ten years.
WOW.
Even more incredible?
I’m not done yet.

If I knew then what I know now…
I would have saved myself a whole lot of trouble.
But, alas — such is the way of things.

I suffered so I could learn.

And I wouldn’t have grown if I didn’t suffer.

Suffering creates the desire to heal.

It’s a noble desire.

Because true strength begins with humility.

Why do people seek transformation?
I see it so clearly at the Zen Center.

Why would anyone sit still for seven whole days?

Because good things don’t come easy.

Because we want freedom.

We want to be unburdened from all our pain.

We want a joy that cannot be found in the outside world.

And we work hard for it.
In fact…

This is the most serious business there is.
The energy in the zendo during sesshin is like Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness taking that final exam.

Do or die.
And I get it.

For most of my life, I surrounded myself with people who didn’t deserve me.

Pretty much across the board.

Maybe there were some exceptions, but I can’t think of them right now.

There was a massive boulder on my back…

And I swear to God…

I just put it down a few months ago.

It was a curse.

A nightmare I could never wake up from.
No matter where I went.

What I did.

Who I dated.

What country I was in.

How much older I got.

Nothing changed.
The same pattern repeated itself.

I’d put in all the effort… and get nothing back.

A one-sided game.

And let me tell you…

That shit drains your soul.

Most people don't want change.
They SAY they do…

But when faced with the fire? They run.
I think it’s likely the latter, not the former. If they didn’t like coal ash they’d have voted for someone else.
Thank you. Every software is essentially being built by a few greats fighting against a dozen morons. 10x doesn't even get close to reality.

We're currently in deep shit because a long term dev was under the assumption that you can only instantiate objects once. He built an insanely complex system around the belief, which shipped. Our users used that system to write configuration files that now drive a machine that cost about half a billion dollars. So we can barely change anything because the data must be supported for 25 years.

The cost of such fools is orders of magnitude higher than their salary. I'm convinced that the world would be a better place without bad devs. Everything would be faster with less people, too.
But non-root users still have their own crontab, which you don't need sudo to edit.
https://archive.ph/LlbSj

Here's the archive. Do you really think I'd write up all of that just completely making it up?

Most of the rest of it is from a reddit thread here: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2nz9v/on_poli...

Throughout, he doesn't really give any actual justification for why he thought the original post was correct or remotely well informed. I haven't seen anything from him that acknowledges that he's praising an ex-lobbyist as being good for antitrust, or any explanation of why he'd think it was actually a good appointment for his asserted values. The only stated reasoning was "democrats bad, republicans good". There's no discussion of the role Musk and Thiel and Bezos played in electing Trump. There's no discussion of any Biden-era anti-trust action and why he'd think Trump's folks would do more.

It's hard for me to come away from it with a positive opinion of the CEO's decision making and judgement.
> Some of them lived in a hacker house on Howard & Rausch St. in SoMa, where I remember meeting Justin Kan, Drew Houston, and Brian Chesky for the first time. Twitch didn’t exist yet, Dropbox was still new, and Airbnb was struggling with growth.

Wow, small world! We may have overlapped. I was really close to Howard & Rausch around the time and was walking around, one thing led to another, and I briefly talked with Brian. It was a fun time and the paint was still very, very wet.
That's not fascism, that is the dysfunctional status quo in literally every single country in the world. Why do you think companies and billionaires dump what amounts to billions of dollars on candidates? Often times it's not even this candidate or that, but both!

They then get access, get special treatment, and come out singing the praises of [errr.. what's his name again?]
Really liked this read. Is anyone able to explain how the backup.timer runs the backup.service? It wasn't obvious to me where the trigger was defined. I guess it's just inherent to what that unit type does, and the fact that both units are named backup? What is the name for that "package" of units that make up the whole backup program?
This is what happens anytime a field gets large in terms of job applications. Replace software engineer with anything else to that measure and you see the same things with wealthy families being overrepresented in the cohort because they always have an edge in getting the best credentials due to not having to work any part time jobs and having mom and dad (or even a paid advisor) actively working on your behalf to vet potential internships or other opportunities for you. You are essentially out numbered 3:1 or even 4:1 or more, and you can't work a full 1 part anyhow due to the aforementioned other obligations life has saddled on you.
I think we should be protesting Liu Lijun too. This being said she was on student visa which makes her case weaker.
> The DMA designates six tech companies as “gatekeepers” to the internet — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft — and limits these technology kingpins from engaging in anticompetitive tactics on their platforms, in favor of interoperability.

DMA seems like a no-brainer for those that support users’ freedom. Since DMA came into effect almost two years ago, can anyone comment on its effectiveness?

Side note, I’m glad the EU takes normal people’s rights seriously. Wish the US was a leader on this too.
If the models are so good that "who should pay to use copyrighted work?" is not a relevant question, doesn't that mean that all money that would previously go towards artists is now going towards OpenAI?

How does new art get created for the models to train on if OpenAI is the only artist getting paid?

I'm not saying I even agree with your proposed future, but if it were to happen would it not be a bad thing for everybody but OpenAI?
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Fascinating but I'm having trouble understanding the big picture. This runs a user process in a VM with no kernel? Does every system call become a VM exit and get proxied to the host? Or are there no system calls?
Of course its better to hear from actual historians/look into it yourself, but this is a super cool way to at least learn a little bit about history while also being a fun game.

If people dont want to spend time deep-diving history but are still interested I think this is an absolutely awesome way to start/learn. I would just suggest adding more ways to learn about the event itself with links to source material/wikipedia etc.
You should learn more about the political landscape. It will clear up a lot of these questions. And I mean that sincerely. If you see everything as left or right it’s quite confusing.
Man that still feels like it was ten years ago. 17, really?
This is one of the coolest articles I’ve come across on HN ever. Also - it’s true steam punk (sorry).
In my reading, what it means by "What’s more, in line with Georgist theory, the tax was supposed to credit owners for improvements they made to the land" is that those improvements are excluded from the tax, IE that the tax is on unimproved value, exactly as you say.

It's true that calculating the unimproved value is difficult. There is no obvious "ground truth" except in rare cases where the improved value has been destroyed and the owner will need to rebuild for some reason. And while there are probably enough such cases to get an estimate of the average in a large city, just taxing against the average would be distortionary (a burden to those with a below average plot, eg distant from metro stations or other amenities) . And to make a more detailed estimate makes the process subject to political maneuvering.
I think that would apply to many of those 10x'ers were talking about here tho.
> Counterpoint: this requires root

Counter-counterpoint: No it doesn't? Running `crontab -e` as a non-root user will edit that user's crontab, and running it as root will edit the system crontab. Cron can be configured to deny users their own crontabs, but every common distro I'm aware of defaults to allowing user crontabs.

> You could write a script to automate it, if it's such a big deal

Or I could not bother with that and just use cron?

> another counterpoint: systemd supports creating transient timers

What is this a counterpoint to? That the author's particular use case of running a backup script once a day is a task better suited to cron than systemd timers? I'm not sure how transient timers are even relevant here, much less a counterpoint.
I have used porkbun for all of my domains for a very very long time. They are absolutely top notch. just like bunny CDN.
everything's so partisan and not nuanced today - tons of people go with the idea "the [political party] are 10,000% correct, and nothing you say can make me think otherwise!!

i don't like any one party or group unconditionally. while I have a leaning, nuanced opinions on issues can be a good thing :)
Both software and physical engineering can hide junk. It just depends on who is looking. There are plenty of products made that are junk. If you start to understand how products actually come to fruition in the business world, you will see that most of what we buy or sell or see marketed is actually junk. This is because engineering both in software and in the physical world is rarely, if ever, incentivized to seek out a perfectly optimal solution. What is able to generate profit sufficiently over costs, today with today's economic context, is what ends up getting shipped in both cases. That might change tomorrow and suddenly the product is not viable due to the costs of the junk associated with it. We talk about legacy code and how it is junk we are beholden to, go ahead and look at the engineering behind car designs and you will see there are legacy engines, legacy car platforms that people are similarly beholden to no different than legacy code people are afraid to touch. And that is just that one sector. Legacy engineering is present in everything you can conceive of due to the fact no one is paid to go off into the woods and optimize optimize optimize, only to ship by a deadline even if it a stinking pile of you know what. That is for sales to figure out.
Reminds me of Gemini saying C++ code was not suitable for under-18s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39583473
> Systemd Timers provide much better control over how the cron job is run

Yes, they do. And as the very first sentence in my comment says, I like systemd timers when they're appropriate. None of the features you've mentioned were used in the author's solution, which is the sole thing I'm arguing against.
I work in one of large tech companies, and I can attest that while the idea seems very neat in theory (esp if your schemas are typed), and even if you define an api for defining new building blocks, sooner or later people realize that they need to dynamically adjust parts of the pipeline, and they write components to dynamically set and resolve these, and then other components on top of these components, and then complements for composing components - and now you forced yourself into implementing a weird and hard to debug functional programming language in yaml which is not a place someone wants to find themselves in :'(

one lesson I learned from this: any bit of logic that defines a computation should prefer explicit imperative code (eg python) over configuration, because you are likely to eventually implement an imperative language in that configuration language anyway
Ok, but do you want American politics discussion on HN or not? Why the purity test?
I've noticed something, and I don't know if it's too much of a generalization but I see it a fair bit, so maybe it's generally true.

Generally speaking, non-religious people understand church to be a building. Whereas religious people understand that the people are the church, the building is just a building.

Now granted some of them are really nice buildings, and some are really old, and you can be both religious and really like the building, but the two concepts are still separate.

In other words, to the religious, the use of the building for non-religious purposes is "shrug".

Whereas to the non-religious the idea of turning a church building into something else is some kind of desecration. (Obviously this isn't the case for this article, but I noted the first question as him getting that response, and also the immediate rebuttal that he's starting a cult.)

Anyway, I thought it an interesting, if tangentially observation. And as with all generalizations there will be lots of exceptions.
Must be why every company pays its fair share of taxes right?
so what are those bubbles? divs with a border-radius of 50% that transform X and Y with random values? how is this implemented?
This company has directly funded the ruin of the world order. Before the election (after Elon said he was funding no one) and again for another $100m after the Trump car salesman schitick.

These folks are directly responsible for breaking Pax Americana and beginning a horrific insulting trade war. Yes, the retaliatory tariff is the smallest most modest response here. These people have tried to burn the world. Response is necessary.
Ah thanks anyway! I’d be after a pdf note taker that allows me to scribble on pages then later review scribbles :)
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Apparently some of the variants do ....
Add sync=1 to your fio O_DIRECT write tests (not fsync, but sync=1) and you’ll see a big difference on consumer SSDs without power loss protection for their controller buffers. It adds the FUA flag (force unit access) to the write requests to ensure persistence of your writes, O_DIRECT alone won’t do that
Except it’s not a myth. Many of us have encountered the perceived more productive developers that ship barely passable garbage.
I wanted to de-Google, and initially I was using Kolab Now for about two years, and that was terrible, so I was looking for something to replace it, and someone told me about Proton. I have custom domains mapped to it, so if they piss me off enough I could migrate to another service easily enough.

I like having slightly increased security, but I'm not delusional: if I were doing something that I was worried about the government seeing, I probably wouldn't trust any cloud service blindly.

I got in early enough to where they gave me a boatload of storage, a bit more than a terabyte, so that's kind of nice to have as a backup for my photos and the like.
> Running `crontab -e` as a non-root user will edit that user's crontab, and running it as root will edit the system crontab.

Running it as root will edit the root user's crontab (in /var/spool/cron), which is separate from the system crontab (/etc/crontab), which has a slightly different format.
The UI could use some work i was confused as well, the actual think you're supposed to click is the 'Place your guess' button at the top, but the styling doesnt really let you know its the main action of the page.
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I don't like they are designated as "gatekeepers".
> I guess it's just inherent to what that unit type does, and the fact that both units are named backup?

Correct. If there's no `Unit=` specified in the timer unit, it defaults to the service unit of the same name. See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

This is also a common pattern for the socket units of socket activated services
Lol, that was me. I added some more conditions later because others still outprompted me

edit: actually it looks like a bunch of people copied me, verbatim. So it could have been others
I always longed for a book/course on mathematics where topics are in chronological order:

1. ... (mathematical topics at the beginning of history of which I am ignorant of)

2. pythagoras theorem

3. ...

4. euclid geometry

5. ...

6. algebra

7. ...

8. calculus

9. ...

10. set theory

11. ...

12. number theory

13. etc. etc. (you get the point)

Maybe there's already something that lays out topics like this. I haven't searched too hard.
So what was different with Klein? He surfaced the information so widely that it couldn’t be contained by the “machine”?
Good news on that front! https://discuss.python.org/t/pep750-template-strings-new-upd...
It makes no sense to memorize the formulas when most any statistical formula you'd actually use has a package or three that can run it in a way that's already probably reasonably benchmarked and not prone to you fat fingering some error rolling your own.
Thanks, I edited to assume the best interpretation of the thread.

Since I want programming to be inclusive and not have a bad rap publicly, when a peer says “software is better than all other disciplines because of X, Y, Z” I want to convince them otherwise.

As a leader and teacher with more grey hair every day, I feel this responsibility
I think you are describing free markets, not capitalism. Capitalism means accumulation of capital through any means possible. Sometimes monopolies are examples of capitalism.
Who put you in charge of naming?
Studies have found genetic evidence for population movements. You could make an argument for the Welsh having overwhelmingly Brittonic ancestry.

https://peopleofthebritishisles.web.ox.ac.uk/population-gene...