skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Needed to make another comment. When I was growing up I became fascinated/obsessed with the counter-culture in the US, especially the architectural side of it. I still own copies of both of the two "Domebooks", along with Lloyd Kahn's "Shelter", Ken Kern's "The Owner Builder and the Code: the politics of building your own home" and other classics of that era.

But among my favorite books from that time is "Handmade Houses: a guide to the woodbutcher's art". You can find many images from the book here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=handmade+houses+a+guide+to+t...

The architecture and design is much, much more aligned to the second two examples from Simon's article: hand-made, unique, touch friendly. One might even subsume all these under the term "funky" (though this word has more than one meaning). When I was 18, these were the sorts of houses I thought I would live in as an adult.

40 years later, the idea of living in any of theses houses fills me with a certain kind of dread, because I now understand how much work it would be to keep them clean and to maintain them. I feel conflicted about this: the aesthetics are far more appealing to than any contemporary "standard" buildings. Nevertheless I do feel very aware that I would likely develop a daily growing resentment towards the way every uneven, non-smooth surface would represent a new obstacle to cleanliness. And these sorts of structures and designs really will just accumulate dirt over time, no matter the efforts put into slowing that down.

This inner conflict raises all kinds of questions within me about the actual value of cleanliness, and about the balance that architecture creates and enforces between certain feelings we might want to have within our homes and the nature of our day to day lives within them.
I am not surprised. I don't know how this plays out across different cultures, regional or corporate. I only witnessed how it went in the circles I work in here in Europe. My impression is that the group of people that clearly reacted mostly negatively to the work-from-home-during-the-pandemic period were indeed middle-managers, lowly heads of units, project managers, and those that populate the middle ranks of organisations with funny and unclear job titles. Perhaps these people are by nature of the extroverted people-person type that need extra social interaction to feel good. Or perhaps they found that their need to control others was more difficult to satisfy at distance. In my country it was also discussed at a point that many people were confronted during the pandemic with the meaninglessness of their jobs. I really believe it can be the case for many people, and not not only those middle-managers with funny job titles.
I, as a human, am following an algorithm similar to QCD for moving subatomic particles around which is fundamentally the same way a dishwasher moves particles around. Intelligence is mechanical in the Physics sense.
Probably how LinkedIn employees call LinkedIn, thinking everybody else does too...
> You write like the professors are just sitting around raking in the glory, but not doing anything while they let everyone else does the work.

I've worked at two major research universities in multiple labs. While this is not entirely true, it is more true than not.

Professors work hard, but many are not working hard on the actual research work, especially once they have been tenured for a long time.
Lol I found the almost exact same display from an e-waste shop. 960x540 resolution with optics but with analog video input instead of HDMI. I have put it on my store. Ring me up if you wanna get one.

https://maimon.shop/products/0-24-960x540-60hz-micro-display
Agreed. And it is an improvement, no doubt. But still far from perfect.

That would put a damper on the hype, much more fun to look at the handpicked results and claim the singularity is upon us :)
It is worth noting that some melodies have a sort of institutional quality -- you can hear them so much they fade into the background of everything, and you become sort of blind to the fact that you "stole" them, and for it to be only blindingly obvious once pointed out.

It's actually bizarrely possible he lifted it without realising, and even that other people approved it without realising. Because the tiniest shift of context can make people blind to the obvious.

When I was learning to play a new (to me) instrument -- an unusual fretless acoustic instrument -- I worked through a little arrangement of a very, very well known pop song, to teach myself a bunch of chords, progression moves and techniques. I slowed it down, changed its rhythm slightly. But to me it was utterly recognisable.

I played a recording to several people who knew pop really well and nobody spotted it. Even though I gave the arrangement a name that was a clear pun on the original title.

Once I pointed it out, everyone spotted it. Because it's obvious. But only if you're looking for it.

The reason it wasn't easy to spot is the shift in context. Because without crucial elements of context, it's actually only a chord sequence. (Though I really did leave a _lot_ of it in)
It's happening to you right now.
It's not communism, if your charitability/level of interest in politics/economics can afford that pedantry. :p

Authoritarian, repressive regimes founded on weak, corruptible institutions with limited regard for human rights which combine the failings of human leadership with poor information and lack of trust from everyone involved indeed suck.
Among the P2P browsers, beaker looked pretty good.

- https://beakerbrowser.com/

Although their journey has stopped.

- https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944
Are all the features actually decentralized? If not, what’s the point of X without Y if it’s just another centralized service.
I think a fairer reading of the paragraph isn't that he's claiming to have initiated work in cellular automata as a whole but that he's claiming to have been the initiator of the "burst of productivity" in the 80s.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't (my wording was poor).
I'd rather say that I am weakening the grip that some corporations have over society at large, and that the more people did the same, the less of a problem it would be.

I am also saying that there are a good number of people that think this is not a problem, so I don't want to waste my time and energy trying to convince them otherwise.
I was hoping this would be a browser with better IPFS/IPNS/Tor/I2P support, but sadly it's just another Bitcoin project. They seem to use IPFS, so that's nice, but the cryptocurrency side makes me very wary of this project.
There are plugins that do this, but I think trying to choke off the signal is more effective than just adding noise.
Experiencing corporate America is also pretty revealing and useful since most tech jobs in India still require interfacing with US based companies.
Speaking from my personal experience - which includes involvement in unionization drives, that has never been true. I think this is supported by the evidence.

Maybe if you're talking about immigrants from Western Europe. Otherwise, no.
USA: Debian[0]

Shanghai: Windows 11

0: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/890219/79e54e3aab20bd87/
I don't know... Somewhere less totalitarian that doesn't force you to starve at home? It's not like they can keep covid out and if you're vaccinated you'll very likely be fine if you catch it anyway. Although I did read that the Sinovac vaccine was not as effective as the mRNA ones against omicron.
They also don't lead by example in their software.

In basically every single text field/area in Windows, `CTRL Delete` deletes the current word and leaves the space before it, so if you type "Hello Hello", hit ctrl delete, and then type "Goodbye" your result will be "Hello Goodbye".

In Windows Mail, for reasons unknown, it deletes all the way to the last character of the previous word. So if you type "Hello Hello", hit ctrl delete, and type "Goodbye", you get "HelloGoodbye". It's baffling. Why make a unique UI element just for this that's inconsistent with the rest of the operating system?
PCB Thermal Design Hack Gets Hot and Heavy
A lot of brokers work on commission that they get from the landlord. At least where I live, you don’t really pay for a broker as a buyer/renter, but I admittedly don’t know how that works in Luxembourg.

A lot of brokers specialize on ex-pats, too!

To expand on my point about knowing the local area, brokers know things like “what kind of person likes to live here?” Is it a young and trendy area or a quiet family neighborhood?

(Admittedly, that information can be based on biases rather than data.)

It’s something to think about. I know you might be looking to save money, but where you live is going to be a major purchase decision. Plus, spending time on your own apartment hunting platform isn’t technically free, your time is valuable.

In any event, I’m sure with the kind of skills and dedication you have you’ll find a place in no time.
Human Flourishing or “Living Naturally”: Alex Epstein’s Case for Using More Oil
I had a discussion with my (natively French-speaking) in-laws about this some time ago! Essentially, native speakers rely heavily on short pauses in the pronunciation of numbers, causing 3420 to be pronounced "trente quatre vingt", whereas 3080 would be "trente quatrevingt". Relatively hard to pick up on as a foreigner, but second nature to native speakers.
All the world religions are against lying. As an atheist, Sam Harris looked into why no lying is allowed with virtually no exceptions. https://www.samharris.org/books/lying

Tremendously good book and I bet he could expand upon it further. So never lying is already the standard. What makes it so important for kids?

>As a parent, though, I’ve discovered that there’s a fine line between omission and deception.

Not a spectrum, this is a binary evaluation.

>They can’t manage their own expectations and output if you’re always narrating the story for them. Sooner or later, you have to get out of their way.

It's more important.

Imagine a world where a child lives with a single parent who compulsively lies. Even these people won't lie 100% of the time but the child would have a world view of inverse of their parents. The child will know and understand they are regularly being lied to and then they start questioning everything. There are so many lies that they even question the truths they were given.

They are then on their own through adolescence and tremendously confused about the world. Their lack of guidance is than damaging to their morality structure. Near late adolescence is when it will break. They will realize that they are on their own and have missed a key stage of development. They will then need to self-construct their own. They will not allow social norms to be this construction. In some cases this will be good for society. Someone comes along and discovers a social norm that is wrong and that's how it changes.

This is something that may always be with society. I believe this is something that does have to be proactively addressed in schools where parents fail to 100% of the time tell the truth.
This is a philosophical argument depending in your stance regarding ideas being something that can be owned or not. Machines or music doesn't really make any difference.
I know from observation that international students are often involved in grad student unionization efforts, especially in leadership positions -- anecdotal but generally noted by anyone else paying attention.

The rest is, yes, a theory I have that I don't currently have the data to back up -- and the theory is not just about union density in countries of origin, although that's part of it.

But as far as that part, just for some quick napkin math sanity check, if we're talking "countries from which workers come to USA" -- let's choose Mexico for example. First google hit (this is just a sanity check) says "Approximately 90% of Mexican production workers in industrial enterprises that employ at least twenty-five employees are unionized."

As far as international students, the top countries are China and India. China is it's own thing where unions exist in a completely different context. First google hit for India says "Over all, in India, 34.13% of regular non-agricultural workers are trade union members" -- this is of course much higher than the US. (First google hit says 10% USA, although that may be general not "non-agricultural").

The US is very low in unionization rate compared to most countries, most countries on the planet are going to have higher rates.

But I'm definitely not going to convince you of anything in this HN thread, it would require actually doing some research, like probably original research,, probably including sociological qualitative research actually talking to immigrants and such, not just the off-hand googling I am willing to put the time into now. It's just a theory I am sharing, yes. It would be an interesting research topic... for a grad student in some social science field. :)
Thank you for pointing out the information density, it is useful as it invites exploration and with the aid of the highlighter, things should be very easy to drill into what interests you at the time if you already have an idea of what you are looking for.

For people in your situation, the filtering tool will be very useful as you can display only the links containing certain keyword you specify.
The windows registry is somewhat like this - a huge extensible data structure containing all the config of a system. Not really portable though (or is it? been a while since I dug deep on a windows box)

Also NeXT/Apple .plist files worked like this.

And looking at modern "DevOps" tooling, we have YAML, or tools that transform YAML into templates and config loaded into other systems (Helm, some parts of Ansible, etc.)
>How is it obvious you're a man, other than that you just explicitly said so in your comment? It's not mentioned in your HN bio, and it's not obvious from your username.

I've gone my entire life without be confused for a woman. So I would say that constitutes a good deal of empirical evidence.

>It seems like you view this as a political partisan issue and it's an important part of your identity.

Being a man is part of my identity, but I went my entire life without "being a man" being a political partisan issue. I didn't make this a partisan issue, a fringe group of leftist have. And if any part of this is "part of my identity" is that I have no desire to bend to some fringe activist groups demanding compliance for their latest "current thing".

>but it's not the logically-obvious thing you are claiming.

It's logically obvious to everyone who isn't on the fringe left. Is water wet?
As someone who just jumped through all the hoops to find a new apartment, the pain is real. I think the main issue is that the incentives are misaligned from the perspective of the seeker. Where I'm currently at (the Netherlands), the market is dominated by agents. Using an agent makes sense from the perspective of the apartment owner — they will take care of managing the ads, initial screening, arranging viewings etc. Given how many people contact a single viewing, you definitely don't want them hitting your personal inbox or phone.

From the agent's perspective, it's good to drive people to their company's website rather than one of the big aggregate ones. Having more people visit it means they're more likely to do business with that company specifically. Getting people to visit your company's site is pretty straightforward: they put up ads there earlier, often so much earlier that by the time you see an ad on an aggregate site, it's already fully booked for viewings.

And that's how we end up with dozens of different company sites, each crappy in their own way, and in the middle of it all, people trying to find a home pulling their hair out, refreshing a bunch of different websites every few hours.
I think the key is the progression. If you see how a melody is formed, then it’s more likely to be organic. If you are just copying something, there is less of a progression as when you’re video recording, it’s already almost “done”.
That's a matter of scale: all revolts you've cited was made by few and often repressed even with exterior help. A hunger revolt is at nearly-country scale, no one can stop it. And China have already an extreme food issue because to develop industries they have to sacrifice food production and there are not much fertile lands around so they need to mass import foods from distant places, so general hunger unrest are very likely in the near future, not only in China of course, in the west we are not much in better shape for most countries, but certainly China will suffer much.

About sympathies consider that all armies in the world so fare are made of Citizens not drone, so they are humans against humans, a dictatorship can't count much about army loyalty under certain conditions, and that's one of the reason all governments that can push so much toward drones and isolated cohort of people, to avoid having a "social society".
Others have pointed it out but I've got to reiterate: if you don't like Bangalore, just go to another city? There's thriving tech scenes in Hyderabad, Pune and Gurgaon, and in none of those cities are North Indians unwelcome. I can also personally vouch for fun out of work activities in Hyderabad and Gurgaon.

(And while I don't mean to deny your personal experience, I've never faced any trouble in Bangalore despite not being a Kannadiga.)
The Radio Sentinel app is our new solution, a combination of several offline heuristic detection methods designed to minimize false positives. It can detect not only IMSI catchers but also binary SMS, silent SMS and some SS7 attacks. You can read more in our followup article: https://armadillophone.com/blog/radio-sentinel

LTrack is one of the stealthiest IMSI catchers I'm aware of, because it's almost entirely passive, and the victim never actually connects to the attacker. Radio Sentinel can detect AdaptOver style attacks that use empty paging requests for the DoS and downgrade attacks.

We are working on further improving Radio Sentinel to also detect suspicious "Attach Reject" and "Identity Request" messages used by LTrack. We're also adding methods to detect connected messages without a MAC, and repeated overshadowing messages, as described in the Detection section of the AdaptOver paper. Unfortunately LTrack was published just after we released the initial version of Radio Sentinel so it wasn't added, but we're continuing to improve it.

One big downside to the AdaptOver/LTrack style attacks is they require a signal at least 3dbm stronger than the real tower, which is not always feasible when dealing with noisy environments. This is a downside compared to traditional IMSI catchers that the victim directly connects to. In the AdaptOver paper they mention that even if the victim is 1km from the real tower, the attacker cannot be farther than 70m from the victim.
i use it as a backup of my thoughts.
It discourages the ones suing because they'll be less sure they'll win.
I really dislike the "scroll to continue" UI. Buttons would have worked much better!
I am so sorry to hear that and that India has become so right wing. It’s absolutely disgusting that you have to be in this situation: your Nation of birth is yours just as much as anyone else’s. Considering all the secular bs that they teach in school, this makes me really sad and disappointed.
Exactly, I think a lot of people just like to virtue signal and get angry at the term. I'm pretty neutral on it myself. Expats are people who leave their country but still consider themselves as wholy citizens of that country, immmigrants leave their country and want to build a new life in the new country and often keep their culture, but also adopt that of the new country; expats don't really want to do that.
This version does something like that. You can save your playlist in a text file and even the HTML file will still work if you save it. It doesn’t matter where on the net you link. Any MP3 will play.

https://www.locserendipity.com/SongSearch.html

Want to remove static? This one has a low pass filter built in (but skipping tracks doesn’t work): https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html
I think they mean micromanagers. I thrived as a middle manager of a remote team that was always distributed across three time zones. I’m not a micromanager and I built my team with that in mind, so my focus was hiring, onboarding, long term planning, and mentorship.
Glancing at the front page of that site, I see a lot of questions that most parents I know would respond to by saying "you're worrying too much", or something polite which would really translate to "lol wut?"

As I'm sure you know, but which bears repeating: parenting.stackexchange.com, or really any other online community, is not representative of most people. Communities like that are self-selected and insular. Even open communities create and reinforce their own perspective. There are kinds of questions which become acceptable to ask, and kinds of responses which are acceptable to provide, but only within that small shard of reality.
Maybe the aesthetic is nice. But I’ve done enough cooking in the woods, over a fire, or in tiny apartments to know what cooking in a spot such as that is actually like.
Do many companies offer vertical promotions when hiring? I'm not sure if a company will neccessarily want to hire someone who's never had worked at EM level to do EM's job. I mean, obviously it can happen if they can't get legit EM candidates, but I'd assume they'd be their first pick (them or promoting from within).
Because it pays out so little or what?
> So when I say that structured concurrency does not suffer from the colored function problem, what I am saying is that callers, and programmers, do not need to care what functions do underneath when they are called

Thanks for clarifying what you meant with your original comment in the article. I completely agree that this is a very big advantage, as opposed to not using structured concurrency.

However, it seems that you are conflating two things with this assertion. For example you say:

> The reason is that, in structured concurrency, when a function spawns a thread, you can expect that that thread is joined before the function returns

While structured concurrency gives you this guarantee, this is orthogonal to whether a function the thread runs is "red" or "blue".

"Red" functions exist in a language because you want blocking to happen on userland so it's cheap to unschedule the task that is blocking.

Structured concurrency doesn't remove "red" functions from a language. They do make the ergonomics of using such functions much easier on the caller e.g. python's trio library [0].

To actually "remove Red functions from the language" you can make the user think they're just using plain "blue" function techniques for blocking.

Go achieves this by only allowing use userland threading.

Java's project Loom [1] achieves this by making common suspension/yielding points (e.g. IO) compatible with both userland and OS threading.

To me, this is what solves the colouring problem i.e. you only have one colour and keep using and writing your code as you always have been.

Structured concurrency, much like you said, is the added bonus that helps reasoning about the lifecycle of tasks a function may or may not spawn.

[0] - https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

[1] - https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main

(edit note: my phone messed up quoting)
> What do you mean? Just get 30% of your members to sign a petition and you can hold an election to change unions. That is literally what organizing is.

> If you can get 30% of your members to go on a "wildcat strike" against UC Santa Cruz & UAW, then you can get 30% to sign a union replacement card.

Are you speaking based on California public sector union law or the federal National Labor Relations Act? The federal NLRA doesn't apply to state public sector workplaces, including UC Santa Cruz, with that being handled by state law.