skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the value proposition of nushell. I'm wondering if I should also try fish.

May I ask if you switched to fish from zsh? What motivated your change?

Background: I invested some time not too long ago to read zsh docs in detail and customize my own configuration (e.g. instead of using oh-my-zsh). Since then, I've been quite happy with zsh. That said, I'm also open to switching to fish and/or nushell based on recommendations.
Until a few months ago, I had never really used BitTorrent to do anything - save for about 20 minutes back in HS almost 20 years ago (!)

(I think I was running uTorrent on Windows, it was weird and I really didn't know how to use it.)

However, in order to "acquire" [this][1], torrenting was realistically the only sensible option I had. A direct download from the Internet Archive would have taken roughly 7 hours @ 100 Mb/s. The torrent file was done in an hour.

To my great surprise, the link isn't dead, so...yeah :)

Transmission CLI FTW.

[1]: https://www.caseyliss.com/2021/2/14/a-concert-for-charlottes...
What’s the deal with all these blog posts?
China’s anti-sanctions law: how companies can avoid picking a side
Which ends up being a problem for young people who know and are trying not to be exploited. There's enough capable but uninformed people out there that it's no problem to these companies that they're missing a portion of the pool of potential employees by paying nothing or very little.
indeed. I feel it's a lot more difficult to agree with the `SV elites` (az, pg, etc.) recently, wondering if I'm too old or they live in their own rdf.
Not necessarily. I thought it was mainly about encrypting traffic in untrusted networks. Cloudflare already does it like this in their VPN service.
It's a piece in IEEE Spectrum, lots of people submit articles there.

With respect to unconstitutionality, really? Are you also able to acquire and keep on your property a functioning ICBM or nuclear bomb? Arms controls exist in the US despite the 2nd amendment.
Whatever the default is-- I guess safesearch on?

It only happened for a brief time, so I guess it was a bug in DDG. But when it did happen, it was serious enough I stopped using DDG at work completely.
I carry a Moleskine everywhere. There's a bigger notebook on my desk. I just think better on paper. I took a serious look at those E-Ink tablets, but none of them beat the price or reliability of pen and paper. You can't easily flip through the pages. They're too big. They need an account. They need software updates and long term support. They work with a private cloud.

I'd love a sketch book with layers and an undo button, but at the same time, I appreciate the simplicity and realness of a physical notebook. I can smoothe lines with my thumb, or use colouring pencils.

When I finish a notebook, I scan its pages. It takes about 15 minutes. I suspect I'd spend a lot more time building a system around a digital tablet.
Kali Linux on Apple M1
I tried to install Kali Linux on my M1 Mac and it was installed too but I was facing so many problems and it was not working properly. I tried on Virtual Box and Parallels but it didn’t work but after the latest update from parallels is good enough to run Kali linux and now it is running fine on My M1 Mac
Health care in the USA is expensive. Health care at university is cheap
Their propulsion speeds are low (today’s technology but you’d need D-D fusion or antimatter to keep warm) but 100 Myear survival time is hard to believe.

I also don't believe a species that masters slow interstellar travel would care about stars and planets. Most of the mass which could be exploited by life is floating between the stars in the form of comets and if you could "live off the land" out there you could create millions of miles of apartment buildings and shopping malls.

Why trek into an inner solar system and build yourself a space shuttle that can land full of fuel and then take off when you are settled into a space lifestyle?
Is it more or less dystopian than fewer humans being needed due to robots being cheaper?
This could also mean now major companies security teams have even more incentive to track onion routing users and to check their pattern of traffic to ensure they are legitimate Apple users and not some tor user instead of just blanket-blocking every tor user. This could make tor less secure in the long term if more open source/closed source projects (NSA notwithstanding) are started and dedicated to analyzing and delayering tor traffic.
I use DDG on my computer and phone. I like it a lot. Took me about 6 months to get used to how it searched and once in a while I still need to use !g to get google results.

That is a very easy trade off for more privacy.
> One size fits all was, is, and will never be true. Are there certain applications that benefit from being web applications? Sure. But is this a panacea? Certainly not.

Agreed, well-put.

Technologist and decision-makers have a tendency to gravitate to one way of doing things (the way they know how) and then advocate that their way is the "one true way" to solve all problems.

Rather, there are a lot of tools to solve todays tech and business problems. Best to let the use case drive the choice of tech (ie, web app versus native).
The Biblical story has the shepherds out in the fields with their flocks when an angel heralds the birth of Jesus and there is some debate about whether this would have been the case during the Winter. Christmas is definitely based on pagan traditions though, which you can see in the traditions of bringing a tree into the house and decorating it.
We just had a gain of function escape ordeal that we are still coping with.
This is it!!! Thank you.
It's actually about Decepticons?
Indeed. Thank for you stating this so clearly.

The "ease of use" and "familiarity" distinction reminds me of talks by people such as Rich Hickey who distinguish "simple" and "easy":

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

> Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
They bought a warehouse robot company Kiva Systems in 2012. They have lots of robots.
What if all this is because we took a giant environmental credit that we won't be able to pay back? It's hard to argue that child mortality dropped, literacy increased and so on, but at the same time we are facing existential threats due to warming, lack of water, loss of biodiversity and so on.

We are also enjoying a relatively peaceful period (despite what's happening in Syria and tens of other places) on a global scale, but history shows that every single global conflict gets more deadly. Will we survive WW3?

Let's not prise the day too early.
I like to imagine post-apocalyptic scenarios sometimes and mastering retro tech restoration would be a game changing skill :)
I have been using DDG as my main search engine for a few years now. I occasionally try out other search engines, but I haven't been to Bing (directly) or Google for many months at least. DDG is "good enough" for me. If I can't find a reasonable result to my query, I work on modifying my search terms or just give up.

Having said that, my main concern is that someday in the future DDG will be sold to some less ethical company and I'll have to abandon it (having to start the search for a new search engine of choice all over again).
Keep state on the server. Start with zero javascript.
It seems pretty clear that they're trying to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Robotics#Acquisition_by...

But I guess thus far they've found that just burning through human labour is more cost effective. Perhaps upgrades to labour conditions/wages via unionization, regulation, etc would change that calculus.
Not with current tech but let’s say 5 years from now can’t a country or even a terrorist organization deploy hundreds of autonomous drones with charging stations that will effectively shoot everyone on sight?
It’s like a school massacre but at a city scale or worse.
Sure eventually everyone will go inside or underground but there is still incredible damage to be made in the meanwhile.
You can equip these with heat vision and they will even hunt you at night.
This is also incredible tech for hunting fugitives.
In the US the population has enough handguns that they can probably fight these off to some extent but in Europe it would be impossible.
If only there was a way to store a user's information so that they could be identified with some sort of a login process that would indicate that they are a current valid member. It would also be impressive if this same system would allow the user to indicate that they are currently abroad to allow a temporary exemption of geofencing.

Obviously, this is something licensing agreements do not allow for, but it seems like such an obvious user friendly concept that it will never be allowed.
Hey there, can I call you? I have some questions about the future!
If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999
There's also an abridged html version, and slides for a presentation: http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/.
We don’t routinely test for strep, neither do we routinely order blood cultures. Without seeing the entire picture, it’s hard to otherwise comment on the care this patient received.
About forty years ago, a housemate lost his job, he said because Reagan put a hiring freeze on at EPA. He told me that it made people deeply uncomfortable at parties when they asked him what he did and he said, Nothing. This was in Washington, where I still live.
Interpreter Generators: A Brief Look at Existing Work
I’ve switched over to DDG as my default search engine across all devices/browsers. It’s not as good as Google - but it’s perfectly good enough for 95% of searches.

For that other 5%, it’s usually programming-related queries where everyday words take on new meanings. Since DDG doesn’t tailor search results, it has a harder time with some of my uncommon word usage.

For those, it takes two seconds to append “!g” at the end of the query to go to Google; it’s barely disruptive to my workflow. I’ve noticed myself doing that less and less since I switched in January. Perhaps a combination of DDG getting better, and me getting better at tailoring my queries for it.
Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to Clop Ransomware
Maybe if they stopped their hire-to-fire strategy?
>It's an unusual twist on clearing the market

From my experience in the retail/restaurant/hotel businesses, it is a usual twist. It just gets articles about it because it is Amazon and it lands clicks.

These are jobs known to have a lot of turnover and the employers make no effort to reduce turnover, from a combination of their customers opting for cheaper prices at competing businesses with high turnover and employers having (historically) the upper hand in the supply/demand equation for that type labor.
Unfortunately the ad blockers are not usually able to tell the difference between first-party ads and network ads. In practice both from an ad server.

I think there's actually a great opportunity for someone to create an ad server that only serves first-party ads with no tracking.
As horrible as this sounds, I like the "real world consequence" part of it. Maybe this would lead to people reconsidering their participation in those war games.
The issue with the article here is that AP asked the government about research concerning this issue instead of, you know, a dental institute.

Which is akin to asking McDonalds about research on asphalt.
This is interesting. I think overall I approve as it benefits people by default.

It does mean you now have to trust Apple since that's the first hop. However you're already doing this when you spin up your AWS Lightsail Wireguard instance, say. AWS can see ingress and egress traffic and so you just need AWS to not be part of your threat model. Same here. Though I dont see this as too much of a problem since it applies to devices and services where you've already made this explicit choice.

The app limitation thing is a shame and hopefully there will be an API at a later date.

The exit node choice based on exit-locality kinda makes me think Apple either:

- Want to restrict this service being (ab)used for geolocked content (Netflix etc)

- Want to speed up the service by providing the closest exit node (Performance)

Of course given all the FBI cases, you also have to consider other possibilties for the creation of this service.
> Otherwise how come that would even be legal to run?

Why wouldn’t it be? I was under the impression that what isn’t forbidden by law was legal by default. AFAIK, running a VPN platform isn’t illegal.

> If someone commits a crime and government cannot find evidence, because Apple gives shielding, then isn't that making them hypothetically an accomplice?

I hate this argument. It’s lazy and can be used to accuse anybody in any context, and shut down discussions that we should be having. By that standard we are all accomplices for some crimes.
> This breaks DNS resolution for company-internal domains.

Why would it? The WWDC developer video clearly states that it’s only for public domains.
Thank you very much, it's now clearer to me how it works.

Regarding the objects themselves, the way you describe them makes me think of Javascript objects & arrays: you don't need to know the exact shape of an input object, as long as it has the specific properties that you want to work on. Same for arrays: regardless of their content, the language allows you to use the standard ops like map() or find() (and it's then a matter of you providing adequate functions to access the contained elements)
To clarify-- I didnt mean low quality, just zero quality.

so if I searched for "How to move my email list to Aweber" I would get a page that was a copy paste of the Aweber home page, with my search term randomly sprinkled in.

And it wasnt just 1-2 sites. Sometimes, the top 3-4 would be spam, and even Aweber's own help page would be pushed down.

Seemed to me someone was doing some sort of dynamic search stuffing which was fooling DDG, but not Google. But the dark SEO was so obvious, I'm surprised DDG (or Bing or whoever they get their results from) fell for it.
I've started using DDG last month and fallen back to Google for a few searches as the results are just better. DDGs results are often "good enough", but not quite on point as Google is. You can literally type in a question on Google and get an answer. DDG requires more thought of what you type in and you have to scan more results. First page is usually good enough, but I find myself changing the keywords more often than I did on Google. Overall I'm quite happy with it and use it on a daily basis.
I've been working on a WebGL project that had extremely low frame rates to start with and refused to give up until it rendered in real-time because of this talk. It's one thing to make something useful but I think the real measure of success is if it's useful and the value is created in real-time like you've done. Congrats!
Yes, I’m aware of the AI vs ML distinction. How I see it, the Taxonomy is:

Intelligence > Human Conception of Intelligence > Artificial Intelligence > Machine Learning > Deep Learning
How silly. How can such a ban be enforced? Will Al Qaeda and ISIS sign the treaty? Will Assad sign it? Will he respect it any more than he respected the ban on chemical weapons?
Apple is in crossfire:

(a) There is pressure from many governments to give backdoor for surveillance. Or just comply with subpoenas that are against human rights.

(b) Complying with local laws generates PR damage. It makes privacy and ethics as a brand strategy look disingenuous.

The solution is, of course, to generate truly secure system where Apple can't make backdoors. Those services may not be available in some countries, but then it's just missing service, not a compromised system.
My oldest, 3.5ish, is just starting to get into the little LEGO sets. To say I’m not beyond excited to uh… buy more kits for “him” would be a huge lie.
You could say tech fosters a dependency on itself by people to sustain itself.
Maybe more? I believe the issue with the human race reaching the singularity point isn’t the world post singularity, but the transition period leading up to it.
Autobots, transform and roll out!

(I share your disappointment fwiw)
I took it to mean that it was a new type of shell from the perspective of unix/osx users who were presumably their target audience, and who are an audience who might either not know what PowerShell is about our discount it is just a "windows thing" and therefore not relevant to their life. So "new" in the sense of "new to you".

You could probably point to just about any technology that claims to be new and pull it apart and find that it is mostly derivative of existing technology and ideas
yeah I was thinking about how difficult it might be to spoof your location prior to the Apple Router, and have it come out the other side nicely laundered
A machine intelligence. Just turn yourself off for the trip.

Generally I'd say that the notion of a Von Neumann machine is so obvious and so effective that there's something really wrong in our guesses on how widespread intelligence is.
> Strictness of punishment does not directly correlate to deterrence.

I used to believe in this, but SF proved it wrong. Simplify writing up or catch-and-release has caused the city's crime rate to go through the roof.
No a comment its a question. Do you use ad-blockers?
Or Kitten for that matter.

https://kittenlang.org/
My only issue with DDG (which is my main searchengine), is that they often ignore keywords (google is catching up to them though… do people really enter random terms that they don’t want to search for?), annoyingly without telling you that they ignored the term (google does), and even worse, sometimes this happens when you force a search term with "’s. That’s almost exclusively the reason I need to do !g. And as bing doesn’t have the same issue, it has to somehow be them actively sabotaging my search.
Very nice! I've toyed with Joy a bit and I feel like concatenative languages are, uh, important. Stabel seems like an awesome entry in the space.

Have you seen http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ ?

(Also s/mayor/major/ )
First: hi, and thanks for all the dask :waves:

Conda - yes, because it has less strict versioning for setuptools based packages. pin-ing versions, no - because you end up with fsspec[s3fs] requiring a version incompatible with any other recent package requiring boto3.
I see this as requiring considerable work. For JSON, I don't see the payoff (relative to more expressive type systems). JSON was designed to work within different constraints. All in all, this suggests moving beyond JSON.

Sometimes the new ways are best...

I often find that redesigns / rewrites can be transformative. The same benefits less often accrue to incremental changes.

Practically, in my experience, when a group (or organization) is not under a severe time and budget crunch, redesigns seem more palatable. The results are more likely to be simpler, even if they are not as familiar.
Hello OpenCage. Jan from Deepnote here. Thanks a lot for increasing the limit! Very much appreciated.
Would you have a link?
Look at the Reuters article they linked. iCloud backup is the issue. Usage of iCloud backup and Android backup are probably very similar (in percentage terms), why would you expect that Android backup is used less? They are pretty much equivalent features, except that one is end-to-end encrypted and the other is not. In both cases, photos are handled separately.
Yep, exactly that.

I utterly agree that other direct-to-consumer options are in the same boat - but Apple is quite heavy-handed in it's messaging about, well, messaging being encrypted and private and no-one (including Apple) being able to read your messages. That's only true if you don't backup to iCloud.

I would expect most people on HN to be aware of all of this of course but when you're so strongly selling your privacy protections as part of your brand, it's a pretty glaring window to leave wide open.
Older technology is extremely practical for teaching (yourself or others) because it's (mostly?) simpler than what exists today.

For example writing an emulator for an older 8-bit CPU will be a simple problem overall to tackle than x86.

That said, sometimes using modern technology is better for teaching since there are more tools and resources that exist today to help you learn today's technology than there are for older technology.

So it depends. But it's definitely worth not completely ignoring old technology when learning a topic in case the older tech _is_ easier to learn because it's simpler.
Sometimes older technology is easier to develop for, mostly because there's more documentation, more stack overflow discussions, better understanding of quirks, ect.
Some types of high productivity are easily visible, some aren't.

The dev who can whip out tons of stable code is easily measured. The dev who fights to stop an unneeded re-architecure or veto feature requests that would have maintenance overhead unjustified by their value is harder to judge. And yet that veto may be the equivalent of 2-3 FTEs savings.
We commented about the "queue to send to svix" in the post above.

> Deliverability to user endpoints (servers) is very different to deliverability to Svix. User endpoints fail all the time and for various reasons, and each of them can fail independently. This means developers need a robust and scalable delivery system that can deal with failures on an ongoing basis. While with Svix, outages are rare, and are dealt with as incidents. The same way you would with SendGrid, Twilio and other API providers.
A non-trivial amount of Boston Dynamics' funding came from DoD. Pretty sure Google was not interested in sustaining those contracts but without them it was likely a net loss.
Yep. That's one reason you see people sort of standing around worksites. Got someone down in a manhole or crawlspace? Someone has to be monitoring and communicating with a worker in a confined space for exactly this reason.
It's hard to command control over the physical reality when you are willingly absent from it.
Does anyone know what "Indigenous National Embedded Hardware and Software" means? Domestically developed maybe?
That's quite contrived in my opinion. How can people uploaded into a simulation maintain that level of control in the physical world for any durable period?
Most Dangerous Roads in the World in Hindi
> Moreover, some of the comments are literally about starting drugs a week or a month ago

Yes and note that you know that. We're aware that long term things might change, so we point out that we're only a week in. Use your judgement from there, add as many pinches of salt as you like.

Additionally people new to a thing are WAY more likely to talk about it than others, because it is new and novel and interesting to discuss. See also: vegan, keto, crossfit, peloton, etc. Old timers tend to jump in when there's misinformation, but aside from that they stick to the sides.
A Brief and Biased History of Computer Architecture (Part 2)
Doesn't work in places like Phoenix where it's 100F at 10pm and doesn't dip below 80F or 90F before the rising the next day.
Dang, please consider saying something in the guidelines about these kinds of comments?