skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole thread is ridiculous. The "I've never heard..." statements are merely statements about the diversity (or lack thereof) sources people get their information from.

I've lived in the Middle East. I know plenty of people who live there, or lived there, and love it. Even those who were forced to leave. I know plenty of others who work very hard to get a good white collar job there, and most who succeed did not regret it.

And this is with full acknowledgment of all the bad things people talk about.

Let it just be a signal that there's more to it than you see. Even more, people don't seem to understand how crappy much of the rest of the world is that Dubai is such a desirable place to live. I know lots of people who would have been stuck in extremely low social mobility situations in their home countries, and who only managed to go up in social class by moving to one of these Middle Eastern countries, and earning good money and by doing honest work - the last of which wasn't an option in their own countries.
No way so far.
The original Dune was also played from Paul's perspective.
Poe's law anyone?
This is built with haxe / hashlink / heaps, which work perfectly fine on linux so there should be no problem getting it to steam deck.
> True, and I think with the stratospheric income inequality it's becoming more obvious to many that working hard does not lead to success when investors and executives are capturing more and more of the value of companies. Nobody wants to work hard to be paid nothing while their efforts just further enrich the already-rich.

This is introducing some other topic into the discussion. The problem of housing price increases is unrelated to this, and more likely related to destruction of new-business formation. The American middle class has always been lead by small businesses, and new business formation has been steadily dropping for decades. Small businesses do not suffer the same issues as working in large corporations, so when large corporations make up larger and larger percentages of the workforce, they also shift other aspects related to employment and income.

> This also contributes to the housing shortage as the wealthy buy up property as real estate investments and either rent them out, leaving renters with no equity to realise into deposits for better housing down the line, or leave them empty.

The housing shortage is completely a regulatory problem where the supply is artificially constricted in ways it was never previously controlled. People often think of housing as somehow not falling into the same supply and demand price function problems as other products, but this simply isn't true. The "wealthy" could never hope to purchase all of the bread fast enough to make any real dent in the price because of how rapidly the production of bread would be increased with their artificial increase in demand. This scheme can only work with artificial constriction on supply that comes from the regulations on the construction of new residential units, because without these regulatory constrictions developers would build houses until either the investors run out of money or we are all working in the home construction industry.
If you have a lot of data then a cheaper choice would be to put a raspberry pi at your mom's house, add a few external drives, forward a port, and send backups with restic.
I think it is too blunt; the sort-of truth around the matter is that the "stuff you have to stop doing" is often entirely out of reach for most parents.

In many families, the adults are both working full- or overtime jobs, the children are at school or in school-adjacent activities (commuting, extracurriculars, homework, etc.) for 9+ hours per day, and 90% of parent-child interactions are rule-reinforcement (Did you do your homework? Did you put your shoes away? Haven't you already used your screens for an hour?)

Actual concrete advice, which is "have one parent leave the workforce so they have more time to parent, reject destructive social norms at the family level, and move away from bad social environments" is not only financially impossible for most, but for those that it is possible for may find that they still can't reach their children, because their children have already adopted a "reject-parent" identity and will continue to prefer online-and-friends over offline-and-family.

The most useful advice that I think that any parent can take is to learn about what the world is really like to a kid or teenager, not what it appears to be [1]. It is very difficult to do this, because you have to enter a mindset where a child is not a subsidiary of their parents, but rather a totally foreign and separate entity, capable of the same depths of rage, cruelty, laziness, vindictiveness, passion, joy, etc. [2] No Gen-X parent I know models their kids like this; they reserve the true spectrum of emotion for themselves and their age cohort, and treat their children as less-able to think and feel.

[1] = (http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html#:~:text=The%20world....)

[2] = As a example, I often hear parents discuss with amazement the shenanigans that their kids (even up to and around pre-teen) will pull when video games are restricted: full-body tantrums, claims of hatred, physical violence, etc. From the parents' perspective, their child is being completely unreasonable and upset over inconsequential things, but the parent is assigning their own assessment of consequence to the video games, and not accepting their child's version. To the child, these games often represent the only hours in their life when they feel excited, proud, and free; to deprive them of this gives them the short-term chemical emotions that an adult might feel if their house burned down.
> future is awesome and we're living it

This sentence which I keep seeing again and again always confuses me, because it makes no sense whatsoever.

Is this something new that people have started using to defend and assign value to things when they run out of logical arguments in their favor? I see it being used to support crypto a lot.
I personally find it so easy to forget how deeply ingrained the assumption of a working legal system is in everything I do.
lxc launch, lxc list, lxc start, lxc stop, etc....

That's all I've ever needed. Docker is overkill if you just need to run a few containers. There is a point where it makes sense but running a few containers for a small/personal project is not it.
> The game will be updated and expanded during Early Access based on your feedback.

Stopped scrolling at that.
Pictured was a mobile phone blocker. Presumably the kids were using their phones over cellular network.
The ACLU is a shadow of their former selves today. Could they hope to achieve something like this now?
The second elephant is don't split training from inference. There is no such thing as inference in biological systems. All these efforts are futile as long as we do not get rid of the GD.
Starship Tech seem private still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Technologies
Train Panorama
I know you're being downvoted, but when I was young, my parents were able to turn off mobile data between set hours through our carrier (Verizon Wireless). It might have required paid parental controls, but I don't think so.

They claimed it was to make sure the phones didn't chew through our small datacaps at night in case things went down, but it had the effect you were looking for.
What do yall do during a three day weekend? I try to get outside and avoid screens.
Technology Journalism is interesting, because those most qualified would almost always be taking a huge pay cut to contribute.

Those technologists that work in a field of interest only publish in illegible patent speak or keep trade secrets.
I searched for a source to credibly defend that statement and have found none. I'm open to being shown otherwise.

Some studies will bin people by BMI or some metric but fail to do any analysis on whether people aren't fatter within the bins. E.g. if the bell curve shifts right, the average weight of people within the slimmest band will still be heavier than before; even if the maximum BMI/weight is still capped at the same upper bound. And the deltas on sperm counts within healthy weight ranges are very small in most studies to begin with.

edit: searched in the past; not the few minutes since your comment*
RIP Anandtech. It was the first tech news site I followed as a teen and got me into hardware, letting me peer behind the curtain of these mysterious machines we all use. Probably responsible for me choosing computer engineering in university. Many good memories of flashes of insight, wonder and amazement.

Haven't been frequenting the site as much since Anand left and I felt the site's days were numbered. They still had good content coming out but with Ian leaving, I think most (all?) of the old guard has left and this is probably the final nail in the coffin.
> USB-A devices

Are fairly rare, unless you are talking laptops/desktops (and other hosts), hubs, and wallwarts.

USB Micro-B is the most common on devices that aren't USB-C.

Micro-B devices connect to A hosts with an A-to-Micro-B cable, but you can connect them to C hosts with a C-to-Micro-B cable just as easily.
The Geekwire articles on the investigation are interesting: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/former-aws-real-estate-manager...

They have a transcript of a recorded conversation between two parties to the alleged fraud (not including the person in the linked Medium article) who are communicating their concern that this what they're doing is "federal, FBI-type stuff", so they seem to be well aware that they were doing something wrong.

It's baffling that they not only would have recorded this conversation, but then kept it around for the FBI to find and enter into record. Unless, of course, the person who recorded it did so intentionally and offered it to the FBI in exchange for something.

Crime is strange.
It doesn’t take 2 minutes to move a scooter 3 feet. It takes about 10 seconds.
> If it had a touchscreen built onto it it would be one step closer to being self sustained.

Until there are proper standards that we can rely on to last for decades plus for automatable home devices in general, Home Assistant will never be truly self-sustaining. Almost all of its integrations rely on unofficial API access, those APIs change often enough to requiring patching etc. Finding a cheap reliable machine to just run Home Assistant has never been the problem either.

Home Assistant doesn't try to solve the elephant in the room: the complete lack of any standards in the industry, instead it tries to patch over it through regular software updates to keep everything working together.

No matter how good you have Home Assistant today, you are just one bad release or API change from any of the hundreds of smarthome product vendors breaking it - it is completely outwith your control. It doesn't happen super often, but it's often enough that I'd think someone a little silly to include it as part of a home sale process. Almost zero of HomeAssistants integrations are supported by the vendor, some vendors are even actively hostile towards efforts to use their APIs in HomeAssistant.

I'm secretly hopeful that the new standard, Matter, finally solves some of this for the long term, especially with Google/Apple buy in, but will probably be years before we see Matter devices hit mass market:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)

> https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/
That seems way too low. If you rob a bank and give the money back later with 4% interest, you still go to jail. This should just not be legal. Or make it 100%/mo interest or something stupendous to discourage it in all but the most extreme cases.
OPs entire post history is trolling, with multiple flagged comments, and saying Russia can do no wrong. Not worth doing anymore than down voting and ignoring
In the context of a job where somebody is paying you to develop software, the entire point is to produce economic value. That’s why you’re getting paid. Your entire job reduces to economic value.

There’s an argument that “teaching and learning from each other” produces more economic value in the long run, but you reach diminishing returns pretty quickly on that.
> If you're trying to make the software perfect, you're likely doing something very wrong.

...Tell that to the programmers writing robust, highly-tested systems for aerospace/flight applications, which have to be designed to be as safe/'perfect' as that can be, since mistakes can not only cost millions, but be directly fatal to end users.

I can accept the proposition that the general commercial end goal of software development is the product, rather than a _perfect_ product.

But your claim that one's striving to achieve perfection in software is "very wrong" is a questionable statement, and ignorant of the 'engineering' aspect of software development.
Should be doable via a user script in e.g. Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey. It would avoid 30 million links for bots but would allow the feature for power users.
Perhaps it is human nature to want to inflict harm on those we perceive to be causing harm. This rarely leads to the best outcome. So I would love to hear from cooler heads that could improve the following idea and take the pointless retribution out of it:

It is not enough to kick over a scooter. We need to tag repeat offenders and increase the severity of the response. For instance, paint one handlebar grip on the first infraction, then the other grip on the second, then a seat, headlight/taillight, etc. A scooter that has been tagged enough can have the tires flattened, spokes broken, etc.

Clearly, there are numerous flaws with the solution above. It's really a terrible idea. To some degree it shows the flaws with kicking over offending scooters.

Alternatively, you could hire enforcement officers to issue citations. That also has flaws. You could build a system that allows random citizens to document offenses in a credible way and then have authorities act on repeated offenses. Also not without problems.

Perhaps coloring the scenario differently might help. Imagine, for instance, that a certain neighborhood house is popular with the neighborhood children. The children frequently ride their bikes to the house and leave their bikes strewn in the driveway, the front yard, and on the sidewalk. What would be an appropriate series of responses? How could you build a system that protects against a grumpy neighbor abusing whatever escalation mechanism you devise?
> it's fairly clear to me that the author failed the interview.

What's important here is how he "failed the interview": He was probably never going to pass it. They'd already "failed" him beforehand for being an Open Source freak; the whole charade was just to string him along.
this kind of stuff shouldn't be exposed to the open internet. use an internal network with vpn or at the very least look at something like Cloudflare Access.
That is just cheap cynicism replacing any real insight. You can do better.
Very unfortunate that the wife's career got screwed then by her husbands alleged fraud.
When I was on a college campus I always had to resist the urge to pick one of these up and put it on its back.
> I never understood the obsession with sending heavily armed police to break down doors for some trivial white collar crime. If there is no immediate threat to life, it can wait. You would think that with all the financial and digital surveillance, the government would be able to do better than physical search, asset robbery, and intimidation. I pay my taxes so the cavalry would come during a violent crime like robbery and kidnapping or physical damage/larceny of personal property. It seems that police are useless when it comes to the urgent crimes and instead waste their time pursuing cases better left to a non-armed government division.

That because we live under capitalism first and democracy second. So when capitalist ask government to jump, they ask how high.
The 11 slides that finally convinced Boris Johnson about global warming
Halfway down the article you find:

> Cornelius undoubtedly committed fraud. ... He did, however, admit that he used money for riskier endeavours than those for which it was lent. The bank provided credit for short-term needs, but it was instead used to fund unauthorised longer-term projects such as the Pakistan refinery and investments relating to the Plantation.

I am sorry, but play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Currently, I cannot think about anything else other than "noscript/basic (x)html" /IRC to get us out of this, at least for sites where such protocols are "good enough" to provide their services to users over internet.
But how? Enlighten the "javascript web" brain-washed devs to make them realize how toxic what they do is? regulations (at least for critical sites)?
And how to deal with the other sites: those which devs are scammers and perfectly aware of how toxic they are and keep doing it.

In my own country, for critical sites, I will probably have go to court since 'noscript/basic (x)html" interop was broken in the last few years.
Doesnt the US Government basically serve as a VC for any defense start up? I'm simplifying it but... Fill out contracts until you land one and then hire and build like crazy.
You seem to be trying to make the point that is should be completely obvious what the point of safety is.

And yet so much (not all, but a substantial part) of what that book is about has very little relationship to language safety. Rust will not protect you if there's a backdoor left in the system. Rust will not protect you if there's no password, or absurdly weak passwords. Rust will not protect you if your entire system design is predicated on a perimeter defense with no internal checks. Etc. etc.

Now, I'm not so stupid as to believe that we shouldn't do all we can, and that can include language safety. But by itself, that doesn't have a lot to do with the huge end goal laid out in the book, which might be summarized as: be able to build computational systems and networks that are extremely resistant to unintended access, utilization and modification in pursuance of personal, political or national goals".
They can now.

https://www.saudiembassy.net/tourist-visa
The author Didn’t say that pointing out flaws is bad. But that we shouldn’t rush to immediately point out a flaw when we don’t have the full context behind the issue. This is more to be applied for improving interpersonal skills, but I think if you are in a small team where you are plugged into what’s going, pointing out flaws doesn’t have to be overthought.
Sure, but a month's rent is something like 0.5% of the cost of a house. If they simply offered 1.5% more for the house to get the one they wanted would anyone say "No person actually looking for a place to live would do that"?

$10k on the base offer or $10k in "free rent" is $10k either way.
Truck driver drives by Newark airport frequently with a GPS jammer:
https://www.cnet.com/news/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-accide...
I know what you mean, It depends a little bit on your topology.

If you have a secure network then it’s perfectly fine to expose the docker port on the network in plaintext without authentication.

Otherwise you can use Port forwarding over SSH.

To set up networked docker you can follow this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/protect-access/

I’m on the phone so can’t give a detailed guide.
New Studies: Beauty Does Not Buy Happiness
February 18th in Stamps: Victor Emmanuel II, Volta, Martin Luther, Michelangelo
Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are
Real question: Do you think that Space X (PR) employees primarily manage that Wiki page? It seems possible. No, I don't think that is weird or sinister. All of it could probably be verified with an afternoon of YouTube searches! It seems like something that Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell would publicly discuss / support. Both are quite intellectually direct in their public media appearances (less b/s than most corps).
So they get the worst of both worlds because you either didn't want to draw a line on them playing or you get some weird enjoyment in your kid having a shit time?
Weird behaviour honestly
The tricky part is that some of the money could be associated with a crime, but not all of it. It seems like there should be some effort made in advance of the trial to figure that out and only freeze an estimated amount that is contested initially. A final figure can be determined at the trial. The part that is not frozen can be used to pay living expenses and for a lawyer. You could even have a trustee or something supervising it there is some uncertainty.
Yeah people are very image conscious, as long as you look like robocop nobody is going to wear that stuff. It's fun to goof with, and maybe gamers will be okay with it in their basements and dens but it's not going to be "Ubiquitous until it's Inconspicuous"™.
Is anyone writing a Python interpreter in Rust? Or an OpenSSL fork? Cert parsing libraries at least? I know there is a project to rewrite coreutils into Rust, seems that would also be a good demo. I don’t think the kernel drivers thing has landed yet, but it is also an interesting project.
I submit files to VirusTotal [1] all the time. The files are tested against roughly 60 AV tools and through sandboxed analyzers that explain some characteristics and behavior of the files.

[1] - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload
Don’t remember who said it but “technology writers either know about technology or writing, rarely both”.
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Hilarious. You continue making assumptions about everyone here. You don’t know my media and you don’t know what I know. You assume I’m talking about Arab countries while I just mentioned “poorer countries”, as if you’re the only one around.

I’m talking out of my own experience in Africa, Asia and South America. I don’t go flashing out money around and I know exactly how I’m seen and how I’m treated in every place I’ve lived in. And no, I‘ve never been in a resort and I live in local housing trying to learn the language. So kindly go f yourself.
>One is that it increases the load on archive.org. (There are a significant number of bots, and adding 30 million new links for them to spider is no small thing.)

I mean, Wikipedia did it and archive.org survived. That has to be a totally different ballpark with regards to backlinks and traffic than niche HN.
I'm just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude. But I'll give it a shot.

You come off as having an inflated sense of the value you provide while being very bitter that you're not recognized for it. You seem to project the meritocracy playing out in your head on the "inevitable future."

The work you do is no doubt challenging and you seem to find it very rewarding in and of itself. There are presumably few people that choose to do this work, but you need to keep in mind that does not mean there aren't lots of people capable of doing it.
I've heard of all the kinds of concepts they invent to have sex while saying they didn't. They'll show up as untainted by impure thoughts and behavior in surveys, but they're having it.

One recurring thing in particular: religious men who have sex with men and consider themselves abstinent/faithful to their wives because "it doesn't count."
Maybe try this:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17338366/amazoncom-inc-...

and this:

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/201743.U.pdf

With 500 filings you really see how justice is different for white collar folks!
The Israelis have some quite functional border protection bots I think. https://youtu.be/v2nfPUxWlMc?t=40
Msoap/tcg: TCG – terminal cell graphics library
It has quite a chilling effect once you pull back the curtain. It really doesn't matter if you might be proven right in the end, nothing can replace what is lost in the interim.
Having grown up in a house with DSL, I can say that this works. When YouTube only plays in 240p it's a lot less addictive.
yes you can since version .7 or something like that. deno compile. I use this quite a bit for CLIs.