skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You probably don't have a problem that this solves.

> They find software repositories and package managers confusing and overengineered.

The screenshot is literally a mishmash of technical jargon with little to no relation to each other.

sound.enable defined boolean asset resource enabled.

What problem does it solve, exactly?
Yes, Le Roux did for sure.

“Around the same time, Le Roux was working on a gaming engine for an online casino he intended to launch in Canada and Romania.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
I don't pay over a buck for them. And a loaf of bread is two bucks.

https://jacksmarket.net/weekly-ad/
The Jacobin is a socialist magazine, so guaranteed to annoy many in this forum but even from my leftist point of view the argument for Facebook being a utility in need of public ownership is flawed.

But equally, it is correct that this is not a problem market forces alone will solve and the improvements & policies in-acted or suggested thus far do not seem to solve the problem either and have mostly served to allow Facebook to say they are trying without actually affecting their business model & profits.
I have a Windows VM on a NixOS host for gaming, was really quite convenient to set it up, I set it up on a separate drive to be able to boot native too but I ended up never really doing it, so I will reconfigure my 2 drives as a Zraid and have windows on a Zvol instead.

NVIDIA works great, but if I were to buy new hardware I'd go AMD (maybe Intel when the time comes)
KDE provides that already in NixOS. So yeah .. we do see it all the time :)

This config is for a different layer - one a non-technical user probably wouldn't ever modify in most OSes. Hence, the value.
One of my favorite "just why" moments in Teams: let's say I have an image, `foo.jpg`.

I share it once and it gets uploaded to Sharepoint (as `foo.jpg`). This happens even if you're just sharing a funny image in a private message. It gets uploaded to Sharepoint. Ugh.

Anyway, let's say I share the same image again. Teams says "hey do you want to overwrite `foo.jpg`, or keep the existing one?" I select keep. Teams now creates `foo-1.jpg`.

We're already off to a bad start, but bear with me. Here's where it gets amazing:

1. I share `foo.jpg` a third time.

2. Teams says "Do you want to overwrite or keep?" I select keep.

3. Teams then again asks "Do you want to overwrite or keep?", because `foo-1.jpg` is taken. I select keep.

4. Teams tries to create `foo-2.jpg`. Return to step #2 until an unused integer is found.

That chain of dialogs can continue for a while for common file names on large teams.
A squad can be a small 'company' of people without any legal status per-se.

Like a bunch of devs sharing a flat who got a contract to fix a website.

Group identity + shared space + common purpose.
If you're looking at going even deeper into SSH tunneling and port redirection, I recently made The Cyber Plumber's Handbook free: https://github.com/opsdisk/the_cyber_plumbers_handbook

I made it free to the HN community a few years back [1]. There is a paid interactive lab portion (details in the repo) if you are looking for hands-on experience.

Book Overview

This book is packed with practical and real world examples of SSH tunneling and port redirection in multiple realistic scenarios. It walks you through the basics of SSH tunneling (both local and remote port forwards), SOCKS proxies, port redirection, and how to utilize them with other tools like proxychains, nmap, Metasploit, and web browsers.

Advanced topics included SSHing through 4 jump boxes, throwing exploits through SSH tunnels, scanning assets using proxychains and Metasploit's Meterpreter, browsing the Internet through a SOCKS proxy, utilizing proxychains and nmap to scan targets, and leveraging Metasploit's Meterpreter portfwd command.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19946941
Methinks the answer is right there in comments:

"For those on Android 11 that have issues with /sdcard/Android/data (permission issues) I've found another method. If you download FTP server (by: The Olive Tree) here on Google Play, setup the login info, etc you can access /sdcard via FTP When using FTP from the Linux environment do the following: (Ensure the FTP server is running) run the command: ftp (device ip) (port) and it'll ask you for your login info After you login you'll have full access to /sdcard."
lol ... bless you
Analysis of Virtualization-based Obfuscation – r2con 2021 workshop
That's exactly what Australia did, except all of the FUD led to older Australians choosing to forgo AZ due to the perceived risk.
> 'just solve problem'

Exactly that. If one developer cannot solve a problem and the other does. Is that InfinityX programmer?
A second point, there is a huge Asian tech scene that feels very under represented here. I’m going to guess that’s more to do with there probably being cooler Chinese language versions of HN out there… but I don’t know.

There is just as much tech/innovation/startups happening in China… but you wouldn’t know reading HN.
Only until I have to open Task Manager to see what's hogging my memory.
Most of these just require forum and not a chat community channel like Discord, where everyone keeps asking the same question, because things are not easy to search or organize.

But the reason people aren't making forums, is it is not as easy for community owner to make forums (need to get cloud storage, then configure something like discourse forum, get a domain name etc.)

Same for the end user who wants to be part of multiple communities, has to remember the URLs of multiple communities, has to have multiple logins and passwords and needs to create an account in each of them.

If someone combines discord + discourse (basically an app, that has all your forums on the side bar with just one login, and people can create a new forum for anything, similar to how you can create a discord server) then I think we might end up going back to forums with more meaningful discussions and all information related to some issue in one place.
I love the idea of distributed web stuff - Dat and IPFS.

I reject efforts to try to force Blockchain into it.

Can someone explain like I am 5 what the benefit of Blockchain is for something like dat or IPFS? Seems like they work just fine without Blockchain
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Cellophane
Mostly it’s income tax, which is 43% until around 180k in Japan but 51% from 80k in the Netherlands.

Japan isn’t necessarily cheap (though childcare is), but there’s a wide range of options. The Netherlands has sort of settled on one default, but is now slowly making that default (family home) impossible to achieve for the average (and if things keep going like this, even above average) person.
Do you think Apple would argue that they can’t put USB-C on a phone? Or have they already? I haven’t seen it and it wouldn’t make much sense.

The only consumer oriented argument, which IMO isn’t bad, is that a lot of people have Lightning peripherals for their phones that they’d have to replace. It’s really the only explanation that can explain why they’d change to USB-C on iPads but not iPhones. With laptops and iPads using adapters with most peripherals you’d use there is not a problem. People don’t tend to use something like a FLIR camera with iPad, and such a camera would be extremely flimsy to use on an iPhone with a USB-C to Lightning adapter.

I’m not arguing that Apple shouldn’t switch to USB-C, but I think this is a decent argument why delaying it has been good for a certain subset of customers.

I think they were hoping that they could go all-wireless for consumer iPhone and USB-C on Pro iPhones. They didn’t want to switch before that because they don’t want to send the signal that peripheral makers can rely on USB-C for all iPhones. But wireless charging tech hasn’t progressed as fast they hoped.
I saw you being downvoted but I think you're onto something.

There is an element of jealousy from the old media contributing to the fray. And one of the main ulterior motives is that traditional media used to live from ads that they are now losing, or have already almost completely lost, to Facebook.

I still don't like Facebook, but its conflict with other media companies isn't a morally pure drama.
YouTube is bigger than Disney and Netflix combined.
Encryption at these data rates was only recently within the realm of feasibility (wrt cost).

You can always encrypt traffic that needs it at higher layers; most of these sorts of links were not themselves bulk encrypted.

MUSCULAR, for example, allowed the spies to tap WAN links between Google sites, which were at the time unencrypted as it was only Google-internal, even though it went hundreds of miles out of the buildings.

Those links are encrypted now. Google SREs were not happy about being hacked by the NSA.

I was told by SREs that they weren't encrypted before due to the CPU overhead that it would entail, as Google moves a lot of data. Once the threat wasn't theoretical, they were encrypted quickly.
> defined boolean expression reference true.

“Defined” means the configuration is set, as opposed to unset or undefined

“Boolean” is a type, so the setting can be either true or false

“Expression” is the value of the setting, in this case true

“Reference” is a button that opens up the documentation for this particular setting

If you keep telling yourself nix is hard then it will be hard
My comment from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805302

In short: don't try to write Kotlin in Rust! Some of these points are limitations of the languages, but most of them are you not knowing what idiomatic code is, or all the languages features. That's fine, everybody is still learning. But don't call your article "What Rust could learn from Kotlin", the one that could learn here is you.
Right, this is no different than having a random die roll in our brain have a chance of influencing every decision we make. Randomness washes away agency, it can’t add it. I'm not denying there's any randomness at all, quantum mechanics is a thing.

For me free will us about agency. The important thing about a decision I freely make is that I as a free agent am the cause of the decision, not external influences or random effects. That actually demands a high degree of determinism, because it means I, my state, my memories skills preferences and biases determine the outcome. Otherwise it’s not _my_ choice.

The catch 22 on that is that I don’t get to decide my state. I can’t choose my genetics, the way my neurons connected when I was a foetus, etc. We are all stuck with who we are. It’s this line of thinking that for example converted me from a retributionist to a reformist on the issue of criminal rehabilitation. I just can’t stand firm against the implacability of the logic. I have no choice.
A benchmark must always perform the exact same computation for the same reason that all tape measures must be the exact same length.
I'm not sure if there is a rigorous definition of what "choice" means, but couldn't we define it as "the microscopic quantum processes that occur inside a person's head (and/or body) which lead to particular outcomes which the person has some expectation of and desire for"?
Already tried and failed many years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
Some do https://www.defundbbc.uk/

I don’t pay for TV license (out of principles) and I’m annoyed I cannot legally watch SpaceX launches live on YouTube.
3D Labeling Without a Depth Camera
Let’s Go Brandon: The new viral meme taking the internet by a storm
CA has a lot going for it. but people are fake and no one will really help you unless there is short term money to be made or potential huge long term upside and you have funding or they have known you for 20 years. culture and arts is constrained compared to what you find in europe. food and quality of groceries is indeed really great. the high pay only comes if you work for FAANG or were lucky and got an exit from a startup. and the cost of living and taxes are sky high leading to constant stress. finally, VCs only invest if you do something that falls in their current interests or group think AND if they know someone who knows you etc. the same as anywhere else where there are VCs, with similar adversity to risk.
I feel exceedingly stupid for never having thought about something so simple.
Yes, it seems like there are very few efforts that work towards seamless visual<->text code editing.

Even for things like React apps where you have pretty clear composable building blocks in the form of components, I only know of Utopia[0] as an ongoing project.

I've worked towards having a React-based interface for OpenJSCAD with Landau[1], where one of the goals was having an editor like Utopia to make most of the editing capabilites available in a standard 3D editor interface that edits the variables in the code.

[0]: https://utopia.app/

[1]: https://github.com/landaujs/landau
You say this but I know way too many people who have English as their first and only language who make silly mistakes. And when you mention the correct way to say/write something _you're_ an asshole. No, I'm trying to help you!
Matrix has had Spaces since May to let you group channels (rooms) together: https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/

Voice rooms are coming soon fwiw.
I see yes it makes sense for Iceland with such a low population to still be part of the EEA.

Hope it works out for you.
It was a frequently requested feature before we implemented it (or a frequently complained-about bug, depending on how you look at it), because many users use their 'upvoted' list as a kind of bookmark repository.
All good points. Just compare:

(lambda x: x + 1)

(function (x) return x + 1 end)

For arrow syntax I like this:

((x) -> x + 1)

but reducing the number of keyword characters from 17 to 6 is already a big win.
Each to their own. I think I'd tackle this sort of solution (based on the skills I have) with a Raspberry Pi and a POS receipt printer:

Connect Pi to Printer. Have web-server (in lang-of-choice) listening for as POST payloads. spool the payload to a file. print file. Depending on use case, parse the payload to insert required ESC/POS codes (which seem to be a subset of the old Epson Printer ESC codes) for formatting.

Tbh... there's probably a way to have Linux present it as a network printer so that other OSs can print directly to the printer.
Taming the BPF Superpowers
Presentation (at correct time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj0PBFjLm1U&t=5730s

Slides:
https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/947/att...
Wow! Just … wow! Super cool! But how far has this gotten?
Memory leak when accessibility is allowed but not activated
This story says everything about the state of media today: If there's no blood, find the next best thing. Anything for a click. It's disgusting. Particularly when you realize it is this way for nearly everything. Which means you almost never learn the truth about anything being reported without doing your own digging.

Never mind that this was a historic event where each of the four people on that flight represented something good about humanity. No, they have to talk about someone getting sick and a toilet fan issue.

And, never mind that they raised over $200 million dollars for St. Jude Children's hospital. No, what matters is a toilet! Who are these people?

<rant mode off>

If you want to learn more about this historic event, I highly recommend the five episode series about it on Netflix. It is excellent.

Here's the mission website:

https://inspiration4.com/

I thought is was remarkable that they did not make this about SpaceX. Elon Musk barely shows-up in the documentary. It is all about the people, their stories and the mission.

I am also particularly proud of this moment because we worked for SpaceX on a related contract for a couple of years (can't discuss details).
Terraform Module Patterns
I'm all for putting work to find things out and I agree with you, but for the sake of argument:

Say these are really relevant 200 years down the line, maybe even 100 or 50, does it really make sense to calculate them now, given that computers 50, 100 and 200 years from now will outperform ours by orders of magnitude?

Looking at this as reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor_chronology

Say you grab a CPU from the end of the 70s and get it working until now, that'd be about 13*10e15 operations, or about a month of processing in a modern 5GHz CPU. That's 40 years to a month.
Serious reply, why not?

Why would you not want people to produce software for Linux?

Pride? Too much respect for a long standing feud?
I never heard of this term used like this before. Is it basically what’s depicted in the show Friends?

If not then what is the difference?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends
Spider needs to learn: there is nothing to gain and earn in my domain. Except pain, and entering another turn in the circle of life.
“Man muss aber nicht an jeder Mülltonne schnuppern, um zu wissen, dass sie stinkt.” (Loosely translated: you don’t need to sniff on every trash can to know that it smells.”

There’s value in reading things that fall outside your preferred narrative. But that’s not an excuse to value everything, no matter how far removed from reality it is.
It really is a beautiful sounding instrument and I would argue the greatest musical invention of the 21st century. Here is a taste for the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747hJQNJpeg
This is a common misconception. In order for a Proof-of-Work algorithm to be useful, there must be an opportunity cost (penalty) to mining on the wrong chain. If the mining algorithm pays off anyway it cannot be used.
The quote and your observation are compatible. I would also observe that predictive determinacy does not preclude choice.
Millions and millions of people died from the common cold before 2019 too. Every year.

It boggles the mind that some people live to old age and never find out some basic facts of life. (I.e., that the "common cold" is actually a very nasty disease, especially for people with comorbidities. Before 2019 we downplayed the danger because we understood that there's nothing we could do anyways.)
> GCHQ ... only pick up encrypted 'garbage'?

Maybe that's why they chose to be known by an acronym for "Garbage Collection Headquarters"
I found this Amiga Hardware Programming playlist by "Photon of Scoopex" quite nice (I was actually expecting that it's this one), it also jumps right into action by writing a little 'wait-for-left-mouse-button' 3-liner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&list=PLc3ltHgmii...
Airflow is really nice and awesome solutions for simple workflow and tasks. But when we use Complex DAGs with too many subDAGs then real pain starts. Real issue with airflow is -
1. scalability
2. Scheduler delays.
3. security ( Open source airflow ) -
A ) Airflow uses single super role that has access to resources for all its orchestration jobs which is potential compliance risks.

B ) Lack of granular roles and security groups which leads to rely on trust that no airflow users mistakenly make any changes through UI

I feel there is some undocumented dependency between scheduler, celery and web server which always hit performance issue of ETL job.

Also We see more reliability issues on the platform as more workloads are added.
>> this is science where the aggregate of evidence and analysis is used to support provisional hypothesis.

Except those few occasions where a single experiment/paper/observation can throw out an entire field. It is rare, but science remains open to the possibility that even the most treasured law can be invalidated by a single, repeatable, experiment.
> the most effective mechanism, by far, for a bad actor to deploy capital to successfully alter the beliefs

TV works better.

> One day, through VR/AR/AI agents, they will even be able to turn your children against you

Again unless your kids hate you, I doubt that's going to be the case. AR is far more likely to give the user "Perfect Memory" which will have all sorts of interesting side effects to how we manage forgiveness and growing up.

AR has a whole bunch of vectors that will fuck with the fabric of society, but this isn't one.

> ethical framework is put in place to restrain their actions. (Regulation won’t work, it is the wrong solution to this problem imo.)

Ok this is an interesting one. Laws are ethical frameworks, its just their values tend to lag society's values.

Facebook's "ethics" are codified here https://transparency.fb.com/policies/community-standards/ they are, much as it pains me, quite good. If I was going to write a guideline to civic engagement, this would be a good thing to base it on.

Facebook's problems are threefold:

1) nobody likes them so _anything_ they do will be negative. They could pay off all medical debt for the US, and it'd still be a negative action.

2) They don't enforce the rules evenly, some of this is down to scale, others because they don't want to piss off noisy operators(ie trump, modi, etc).

3) people are fucking stupid in groups.

Don't get me wrong, facebook have trespassed on a number of occasions. In practice to the same level as google/apple/amazon etc etc.

>You should resign if you do.

so that facebook can stuff it's self full of people who lack ethics? thats going to end well isn't it.
Say what you will but I quite like that the MSM is having a field day on Facebook/Instagram. It's about time.

Sadly, I don't think this will even push many to leave it.
They don't need to pimp you out, they just need to listen to rich interest groups.
Because we have Certificate Transparency the evidence if this was happening is publicly available (whereas without CT it's just given to everybody connecting to this hypothetical bogus server)

So, where's the evidence? Without CT you could imagine that the spooks are snooping on everybody else and that's why you don't have any evidence -- they knew you were too smart, but with CT you can go look for evidence they snooped your grandmother's online bingo or your second cousin's Trump fandom forum, and well, seems like there just isn't any.

The Russians don't care if they're known to be doing crimes, that's why they sent assassins to England to murder an ex-spy and then offered the most stupid transparent lie about the men being "tourists". But the NSA is kinda sensitive about this stuff, they like plausible deniability. So, why would they choose a method that provides a signed paper trail proving they did it?
I think it does have one but it's not very good? Could be wrong about that.
That's like asking "what problem does apt-get solve, exactly, with its technical jargon, when I can always download the software I want using Google Chrome?"
If ye like that ye might like this

https://youtu.be/Cd6lxwjX2Bk

Video of a guy evaluating a weird early cheap optical mouse from 1996 + taking it apart and figuring out how it works.