skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please stop posting like this to HN? You've done this sort of haranguing a lot and it's not in the spirit of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812936

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812863

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656610

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656527

Please review the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note that they include: "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."
> he now has to find where to buy 150,000 non standard size batteries for the things being made.

Non-standard you say? Clever. Now the guy who sold him the electronics just made a whole bunch of money not only from your friend, but also from the a batteries buddy.
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Would you be open to having a video chat about these things? I have a distant appreciation but not a full grasp of many things you mentioned and would love some insights.
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I don't support pan-India NRC. But what makes you think that the requirements for a nationwide NRC will be same as that of Assam?
The other thing I want to mention is your negativity towards chasing money. It's... well, it's a tell for someone who either is rich or is trying to sound rich. For most of us? The money and security is the first goal when choosing a career. It has to be, for most of us.

I mean, sure, if you are (or are trying to pretend) that you are wealthy enough that you don't need to work for a living, I mean, that's great... I'd love to be in that position, and I understand that for some jobs, you've gotta pretend like you are when you aren't. but note that to those of us who aren't, uh, "financially secure," it comes off as bragging in a particularly insensitive way if you pull it off and we believe you are rich, or insincere if we know you have a car payment. I mean, sure if you only work with other people who are super rich, it's different, but be aware that you are usually in mixed company.

I personally think that seeing genuine joy about being wealthy is nicer to see than this "oh, money means nothing" - I mean, I want to be rich too, of course, and I can understand that you enjoy your fancy new car or whatever; that's not insulting me, even if I can't afford the car. But saying that there's something wrong with picking a career for the money is insulting me and everyone else who doesn't have a large trust fund.
"It's the only explanation that's limited to that." Indeed, and that's what makes it the simplest explanation. People posit matter, which nobody has ever had a direct experience of, then can't find a way to explain how consciousness comes out of it. Starting with consciousness is much in line with experience and solves the problem.

I think it's reasonable to assume that an "external" world exists, but it doesn't mean that it's not all consciousness : as Donald Hoffman posits, what we perceive is the combined output of other conscious agents. I don't see how that means the death of science. I suppose you meant physics, which could indeed be seen in this context as a rather convoluted way of studying consciousness, but I'm not so sure : it would become a study of the regularities of consciousness.
Only every single time I try to push a door I should be pulling open.
When I say open source means no expectations of support I obviously talk about the license the software comes with, not the overall idea and goals that are common in the open source world.

You want support! Great, it exists and can even provided by multiple different actors, with or without expected quality of service, and that's great! But that is not included in the license, you have to find another arrangement on the side. Maybe you can ask nicely and they will do it for free, maybe they'll ask you to pay them in beers, maybe they'll ask for a specific contract detailing everything. Same goes with features, you can ask for new ones but that is not part of the license. That's it, that's all my message was about.
I'm basing the second sentence in the narrowness of the exceptions to freedom of speech in the US.

If the government were to try to impose restrictions on "untrue" speech in areas outside defamation, particularly in politics, I would view that as a major assault on the 1st Amendment.
Also quite expensive, since the Danish government provides a lacklustre funding for filming, according to Danish film makers. Even Danish productions often goes to places like the Czech Republic to film, because financial advantages are much better there.
Of course im sure there have always been critics but the bar is not any instance of criticism - thats an awfully low bar. its the wide shift from being nowhere in mainstream consciousness to pervasive.

As an uniformed reader of mainstream media and social networking sites, China was just not on the radar a few years ago. Politicians didn’t talk about it, people didn’t talk about it, news didn’t talk about it.
the problem here is who gets to make the decision. people can make the decision for themselves. they just can't make that decision for others.

it's a question of where to draw the line. people make different decisions when their own life is on the line vs others.

if it's your own life and you still refuse help, fine. that's on you. but if it's your childs life then you don't get free reign.

in new zealand it is illegal to hit your children, while some groups advocate such acts as appropriate punishment.

more generally, in many countries it is illegal to allow your children to come to bodily harm. in germany, the view is that this trumps freedom of religion. that is, freedom of religion is limited to yourself, but does not allow you to make choices that can hurt others, even if they are your own children. there is no tyrrany in that.
Kite Autocompleter
Out of curiosity I decided to give Kite a try tonight. The state of autocomplete in vim is just bleh so I thought it was worth the risk.

First, the installer works very well. It was completely glitch free on Ubuntu. But... The tired old trope of "curl https://url -O - | bash -c" showed up. Being somewhat paranoid, I worked around this.

This is what makes me nervous. The installer is completely opaque, you cannot see what it's ding behind the scenes. Sure, it shows you what files it installed where but that was the end of the supplied info. I immediately turned off telemetry. I then configured a few things in vim to my liking.

I started with some python code I've been hacking at here and there. Once I configured it to find the system python3 libs etc and started writing code it worked nearly perfectly. I was somewhat impressed.

Then, I decided to see what it did to the system...

It has an open connection to an AWS machine. I knew at this point I was done but I decided to snoop a little more.

It's not very easy on resources and spins up the DGPU so my battery will get eaten in ~2 instead of ~4.5ish hours.

It wants you to log in, even though it supposedly keeps everything local now.

I found no documented way to shut it all down outside of kill -9

So, I cleaned it all off my machine and cleaned up the mess it left.

The reason I've posted this is because I want to see how others reacted to it. How will any money be made giving it away? Are we creating another little baby google? The world needs less rent-seeking, not more...
Feelings often don't make sense, but you can't 'logic' feelings away that easily. Or I can't, anyway.
I once heard about a mob killing a foregin engineer doing volunteer work at a rural school because a rumor spread on some IM platform that he was abducting children.

India sure is different. This action might have a very different context than what we Westerners assume. Or not. Maybe a local can explain if there is a difference.
How about Farsi/Zoroastrians and Christians? Either you include Muslims, because all south asian muslims can also be claimed as indian ethnicity historically, or you disinclude everyone based on that argument.
Amstrad CPCs ran CP/M, but it didn't run on CP/M per se. CPCs had another OS in the ROM called AMSDOS.
> You knew from the moment you walked into the laboratory that their data handling practices were inadequate and prone to being hacked/leaked. How?

The laboratory is divided into small rooms where the patient talks with the nurse and/or doctor, each room looks something like this [1] along with a computer that is connected to whatever system LifeLabs uses. When I arrived for my appointment the nurse left me alone in the room for approximately 15 minutes, the computer was on, and the user session (which I believe was created using the doctor’s credentials) was still alive, I could have done a lot with that computer while the nurse was outside checking the other patients.

Later, the doctor came to do the initial physical checkup and then left for another 10-15 minutes to talk with another nurse. This gave me more time to “snoop around” and in fact, I took the opportunity to take a picture of the computer screen [1]. Ironically, you can see in the picture that the doctor uses a Post-it Note to cover the webcam, which means they do care about their privacy but not the privacy of their patient’s.

You may think “this is not LifeLabs fault but the doctor’s fault” but this is how social engineering works and as people say “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link”.

> You tried to explain this to their secretaries and nurses.

> Why bother when it's obvious they can't/won't do anything about it?

> Why not contacting their management or IT?

Yes, good point, but this doesn’t disprove the rest of my anecdote.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%27s_office

[2] https://i.imgur.com/c0tXTEK.png
The Cloudflare TRR endpoint is mapped to a subdomain that indicates the user agent, i.e., browser, was distributed by Mozilla: mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com. The IP address for the subdomain is the same as for cloudflare-dns.com. Would this subdomain be leaked in SNI.^1 Presumably it serves to enable someone, maybe Cloudflare, to track queries as coming from Firefox.

Will the endpoints for other TRRs have special subdomains.

Perhaps another "privacy enhancement" would be to avoid using a browser-specific subdomain.

1. ESNI is still experimental and if I am not mistaken it is disabled by default in Firefox.
Any Indian citizen knows how poor documentation is in India.

People born after 1970, those who have born and lived all their life in India, those who hold school certificates, voter IDs, even Passports, can only prove their citizenship by providing documents of their ancestors.

How can anyone justify this?
This comment breaks the site guidelines against insinuations of astroturfing. Would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here?

Comments having divided opinions on a divisive topic is the most common thing on the internet. There's no need to torture Occam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The top menu bar, in particular, doesn't feel like a chore to reach for like it does in modern macOS.

No multimonitor on Mac plus either. Nothing about a menu on one screen and the thing it controls on another makes much sense :(
Trusting trust. What if the logs lie about what they're logging?
Maybe Retro forth is worth looking into in this regard (I haven't really used it myself, but the conception and minimalism around it are really appealing):

http://forthworks.com/retro

http://forthworks.com/retro/book.html#using-in-a-pipe
In Tudor England, there were times when Protestants / Catholics were persecuted more than, say, Jews. I know very little about contemporary politics, but that conclusion doesn't necessarily follow.
Yes but initial hanshakes would look foreign compared to regular port 443 traffic.
They don't have 'notoriously bad performance' because of DNS or lack of some sort of global DNS caching. That just isn't the case. Firefox also didn't honour systemwide proxy settings for a decade+, nobody really cared because it fundamentally didn't matter. If the DNS thing was that important, somebody would have complained about it before. Nobody (statistically) ever did, any more than they did about the proxy thing.
> That's why I recommend nested VPN chains. You just need to trust that most of the VPN services in your chain are not working together for an adversary.

In general in cryptography, it's possible to combine secure things and get a less-secure thing. I don't know if this is the case for VPNs. Have you analysed the issue in depth?
Reading more and more will never get us anywhere. What can we do with what we know now is worth sharing.
Well said. Hinduism has historically always been one of the most diverse and heterogeneous religious on the planet! And that's what made it incredible resilient in the past; it simply reflected whatever local groups worshipped/beleived, and it could vary wildly between village to village.

Hindutva is simply a way for a group of people to power grab by forging "us vs them" bugs in human nature.
But why would I need a map like the one in the article in the first place then? All I have to do is locate the station I want to get to and consult the list of lines leading to the station.
Fuck the economy!
From what I've seen and heard from afar, US is a pretty expensive and stressful place to be in. In fact, I wouldn't want me going there because I'm a pretty conservative guy myself and I think everyone should stay in their own country instead of crowding places where opportunity presents itself. Grass is always greener on the other side, so I'd rather chill at my home country and do remote work.
The problem I have with the 2S is that the button clicks are really noisy - I had to swap out to another mouse in my office, since the noise was just too great.
We weren't too happy with Mattermost and moved to Zulip after a while at my place.. it's a bit nicer, but I'd still pick IRC if given the choice.
Haha. You and I have a different view of education.
Can't recommend this highly enough. First time chords ever clicked for me.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1302D94F247600CD
Eh, I have to point out that AWS has many services that receive such scant updates that they are effectively dropped products.

There are a lot of things that AWS produces which never receive adequate polish or timely updates. I’ve been in betas for more than a few new offerings and was stunned at how incomplete and buggy these offerings were. More than a year later, they remain in a half usable state.

Google dumps things it’s not committed to making great. AWS maintains numerous things which are half usable, poorly documented, and incomplete. It all depends on the context, but in some ways I prefer drops to half-assed products.
They say about brewing beer it's 90% cleaning and 10% record keeping.

I'd wager it's even more extreme with a distillery, since, in addition to a bad tasting batch of gin, people may actually be killed if the output is a faulty product, containing too much methanol.
This is hard to believe, as in this thread and everywhere, the only software used to tout Forth is low-level stuff. Even if Forth was able to be squeezed into a high-level language, it doesn't seem to have any advantage, or, in fact any differences from existing ones. What would a high-level Forth bring to the table that Java or e.g. Clojure don't have?
Well, yes, but you also need to include vendor x's driver and patches for that thing you have on your embedded system, and you have to consider whether you want each of the eleventy thousand configuration options.

I'm not complaining. IMO it's much easier to build the kernel than to fix whatever bug I'll fix next, and I say that without knowing what that next bug is. Just explaining why it's harder to build the kernel than to add some third-party blah via one or a few lines of Gradle, which may be his basis for comparison.
Thanks for sharing.

We kind of waste our time by verifying with science for new surprises. We live for <60 years, we have to manage our time with something that is impactful. So verifying anything with science is not worth our time (thinking -> googling -> starting threads). Instead, simplify the facts and write it down on paper. Keep accumulating your findings, you will come up with your own more connected theories. Occasionally, prove your theories wrong to build a stronger base knowledge.

My message is just a reply for "Is this scientifically verifiable? Of course not, not with current means"
Controlled environment agriculture = greenhouse. There are two scales of this operation: small scale low-tech option which require just thermostat and fans and then you have big scale high tech versions that costs many millions of dollars and come with all the controllers built-in.

For low tech option there is just not enough margin and leverage to make it worth spending your time on it. For high tech options you are having millions in debt and another million or two in running cost (labor, seed, electricity) and with margins in single digits you are probably don't want to risk playing with your recipes. Safer bet is to outsource your tech needs to the companies that have teams of people working on just one single problem.
I think the reason a Kotlin to Java converter does not exist is mainly because there's simply no demand for it in the Kotlin community. In my experience it's a one way street and people generally have no desire whatsoever to go back after they start converting Java code to Kotlin. There's nothing particularly hard about it; it all compiles down to the same bytecode.

People keep bringing up Scala as a "purer" language. This seems to be true in the minds of Scala purists mainly. I've done Scala, IMHO it's a very messy language that seems to result in unwieldy code bases that was made for wannabe functional programmers that need a halfway house on the way to a proper functional language (like Haskell or Elixir).
You having no idea being the key point.
Yeah, it's disgusting. I'm not sure how "1 year" of "fraud protection" coverage and the like became the defacto response of corporations who suffer breaches.

Also wonder how motivated they are to do security right if insurance covers it: In an interview, LifeLabs CEO Charles Brown said the company had purchased cyberinsurance, but did not provide details on the coverage.

It makes me sad to see Marriott, Equifax and others skipping along with stocks at near record highs and little long-term impact from their incidents.
A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat (2018)
Could you go in a bit more detail on your thoughts about this—would love more insight
This looks like a PR move after their really bad recent press.

Open Sourcing is just seen as easy guaranteed good PR even if it is just something less important (client).
Argh, does this web app really engender such feelings of hopelessness in you or is this an act? I'm sorry either way.

Don't believe the hype! The +1C is a lie, propaganda. ;(
But the logical conclusion of that premise (if we want to be formal) is that what ACTUALLY makes US grad schools great is equivalent to what incentive these students have to become US citizens.

I would propose highest salaries in the world as that incentive. There is nothing fundamentally superior about American culture or politics to many other countries, so that seems like the most reasonable conclusion to me.

Thus, do you really need to worry about retaining talent after you have assessed the true underlying incentive? The simple answer is no. Americans getting paid more than anyone else, game-theoretically, guarantees the smartest people will not only try but absolutely find a way to live and thrive in America.

Speaking of incentives, if we know that is the main driver of smart immigration then one can wonder what is the "true" incentive behind published "research" like this.

For example, conclusions like this:

>U.S. policymakers can ... control whether the United States remains an attractive
and welcoming destination for international talent.

are simply not true (at least in attracting the truly best and most desirable candidates).
Navigator.sendBeacon is broken (extensive browser stats included)
CS is not just about {IT, web frameworks, mobile apps, javascript, python, java, SQL, noSQL}

CS is not just work at Google, Facebook, Twitter and San Francisco software unicorn startups.

CS is universal fundamentals of computation, algorithms, data structures that can be applied in multiple areas.

With a CS degree you can work in biochemistry(simulation), genetics (bioinformatics), mechanical engineering(finite element analysis, modeling), Hollywood visual effects (simulation, graphics), medicine (scanning software, visualization), Oil & Gas exploration (data analysis, visualization), semiconductor engineering (algorithms, design automation, simulators), automation (computer vision and machine learning).

CS is not going anywhere - it is fundamental to modern technology.
Apps for a better GitHub workflow for DevOps
Personally I find vim autocomplete to be nice with plugins like YCM or COC. I have a TabNine plugin which does eat up a ton of ram, but that is because I've disabled the networking capabilities. If you want some good autocomplete experience try some of the language servers.
Druid upgrade walkthrough. Resulting in 10x+ drop in error rate and tail latency