skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm mixed on it. Because while I do agree that the content is worth its weight in gold (there really is no other source where you'll find a seasoned developer struggling in real time to solve a problem that has arisen. You don't see that in tightly edited turorials until you are that developer) it also does make filtering through to what you may specifically need a challenge. It can be difficult enough in a curated course to find the nuggets you need and Casey's videos are basically the equivalent of searching years of security footage for that one moment where you swear you saw a yeti pass by.

> It does show his blind spot, which is that he isn't able to envision the larger span of production metrics himself - team familiarity and inertia, particular pieces of tooling and UX, etc. - but he's also trying to fill in that blind spot here.

that's fair. I did consider that factor in a later comment, and I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt (never shame someone for genuinely trying to learn). But I guess I do also find it surprising that someone as long standing in the industry and with as much of an internet presence as Casey wouldn't realize what kind of can of worms are being opened why stepping into the "engine wars".

Again, not his fault (he didn't start the fire). Just one of those moments where someone like me shakes his head and goes "here we go again...".
That's very valid. I was actually only thinking of having someone metaphorically looking over my shoulder, like in a remote interview, but literally having someone in the same room watching is even worse.
Pretty much all airplanes fit that description. I guess not literally since the core fuselage is usually continuous but just about every moving part.
If someone confiscates your passport in Dubai you can have it back within 24 hours by just calling MOHRE at 80060.

It is illegal to do this, enforcement is pretty aggressive.

As to denial of visas? At least the UAE offers these people a chance at a better life, Western countries give them nothing. A slight QOL improvement is much better than none.
Sorry for the late reply, but Ebay.com and ebay.co.uk are considered different landing sites
Noam Chomsky on the Russia-Ukraine War, Media, Propaganda, and Accountability
> How many times have you had to replace a phone in the past 10 years? Twice.

Me too! And I'm a mobile engineer! My partner only recently updated their iPhone 6s, and I upgrade when the need arises, not when there's something new and shinny on the market.
>The car is probably drawing the max 1500-2000W it can from the plug

They don't draw from the plug like that; their onboard electronics is configurable to slow charge, and thus the incandescent bulb or two analogy.

It's actually not misleading at all, after 7+ years of doing so, and paying electricity bills for such.

The technique, to your point, works well when charging overnight when rates are low and the time to charge need not be a short time span, which therefore means the average daily distance isn't outlandish.
Seeing the headline my first immediate first guess was "oh he insulted the royal family". The first sentence confirms it. There are a number of places in the world that are like this. Qatar and Thailand spring immediately to mind.

It can even go beyond the ruling family. There was a US helicopter pilot (IIRC) who wrote something disparaging about his Qatari employer on Facebook while in the United States who was arrested upon his return to Qatar for it.

You have to be aware of the laws of whatever country you're going to and respect them. Ignore them at your own peril. You don't really get to complain it. Your choices are either to go and follow and law and not go. Ignorance is no excuse.

I'd actually be way more wary of taking a job in some of these countries. To leave Qatar, for eample, you need an exit visa. Basically, your employer has to consent. This system is ripe for abuse and has been abused many times. Employers use it to withhold wages in exchange for giving their permission. Personally, I would never work in such a place.
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Stream it thru Kafka, Redis or Elasticache or something pub-sub like that and dump the resulting set?
An affluent country like Dubai could afford to treat these workers a lot better locally than they may be treated in their homelands.

I reject the premise that we live in a world of unregulated capitalism where free-markets force us all to engage in a race to the bottom when it comes to working conditions, and the modern world also rejects that with a plethora of examples: how can US workers who demand trivial things like sane working hours and health care possibly compete with people overseas who can do the same work while being paid peanuts - it's because we as a society can demand that. The people of the UAE could similarly demand that labourers be paid better and receive better treatment - it's not an unavoidable economic outcome that near slavery exists, it's a choice.
I can confirm Corby's statement and more so: many of the daeemons running on the ITS systems had names from Zelazny's Amber. And of course the DM machine was the source of Zork.
Because my friend has a washing machine factory...
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Yes. It's not a new thing.

The Wikipedia article even has pictures for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval

https://xkcd.com/1053/
ya that's just a description of how to use twitter tho. what's better here other than there being a lot smaller of a pool to draw from?
Honestly, I rarely play the game with 9 tiles. It's much more fun to unlock the entire map and work with a bunch of smaller satellite towns connected to the main one, local rail transport, perhaps a few villages with farms etc...
fun fact: the app was built by HN user grishka, who previously worked on VK and Telegram Android clients. He’s got upset with the state of social media and turned to Mastodon/ActivityPub
They are trying to exclude certain type of sellers - so yes
These kinds of articles are expert at using obfuscatory pseudo-intellectual language to launder ridiculous assertions. Let me cut through the nonsense verbiage:

> Educational success and biological essentialism are social and cultural phenomena, not genetic phenomena. True, genes help shape people, and people make up social and cultural situations. Likewise, grammar helps shape sentences and sentences make up Harden’s book. But we can’t reduce her contention that genetic differences cause social differences to the syntactical rules of an English sentence.

Translation: "it's complicated, therefore genes are totally unrelated to social differences". Key in this word salad is using "cause" to imply "sole cause" - an implication reinforced by the article's title, instead of the reasonable "an important contributing cause". Plus of course the tired guilt by association, counting on the reader to conflate "guilt" with "falsity".
When you disable the default behavior of the browser's back button, are you being a 1x programmer, or just rude?
"--no-preserve-root" made me laugh. for testing unescaped calls to rm?
It's AH so... more hype when they want to advertise it?
Out of dozens of fairly lame attempts by others, this may very well end up becoming the most serious competitor to YC so far.

It'll all come down to who they get to run it, how well they run it, and if they can consistently get the attention of founders. A16Z certainly has the brand and money to make a real go of it.

I wonder if they know what makes YC special and if they can offer the first head-to-head alternative.

Edit: After another quick look, seems like they may just be targeting executives at existing successful companies, in which case they're not likely to create a legit alternative to YC at all. Oh well.
I was never able to find a non-gaming PC laptop with:
1. AMD processor
2. 16:10 120hz high refresh display
3. 9+ Hour battery life
4. 32gb ram
5. Less than 5lbs
6. Powerbrick that didn't weigh more than an Atari 5200
Ideas never come from teams but from individuals. Teams implement, help to refine, other team members improve upon the idea with their own ideas. But the act of creation, is something done by an individual.
Teams are not good at innovation, design by committee can only give us mediocrity
Where does a system like https://picterra.ch/ lie? They seem to provide a way to tune algorithms for your images. Are those "algorithms nobody want", or is that helping niche use-cases (by allowing customisation)?

Disclaimer: never actually used their system, just saw presentations about it, which show how one can train an algorithm to count... stuff.
I'm probably old by HN standards, and I've been fortunate enough to have and use a personal computer since the mid/late-80s. Throughout that entire time frame I have consistently seen the market be a race to the bottom. While that has been detrimental to my engineer's mind and my artist's soul, I also understand it completely. Without that race to the bottom, computers would never have seen as widespread of adoption as they have. There's a democratization to moving downmarket.

The unfortunate effect, though, is that even many brands that were upmarket at one point have moved downmarket to build their business model around volume as economies of scale and commoditization have taken over the industry. I remember in the mid-90s when IBM stopped supplying mechanical keyboards with PC desktops, where other manufacturers had stopped long ago, thus removing another reason to pay the premium for an IBM. I can tell you as well that the current generation of Thinkpads are a far cry from the T60 and X30 of yesteryear.

As it happens, I too have come to the same conclusion. I've been using Macbooks and old refurbished Thinkpads for personal computing devices for several years now. Luckily if you build your own desktop, you still have many high quality options to choose from in assembling it, but for laptops Macbooks are the name of the game, everything else is just grossly inferior from a craftsmanship, aesthetic, and build quality perspective. Frankly, I think companies stopped moving downmarket and started staying in place while cutting costs as much as possible, and somewhere along they way they just stopped caring. Apple is the only laptop-producing company left that seems to care about it's products, and I hope they stick to it.
Kinda funny to see this promoted on a site hosted by Y Combinator.
> its not just Planet that is hung-up on this same failed business model

There’s a new one like every picosecond.” It’s “delivery, but for dorm rooms” for space tech.
I am pretty sure in case they thought you were actually connected to actual terrorists you would be with a bag over your head and on your way to god knows where before you could say extraordinary rendition.

The fact is countries detain people all the time for a variety of reasons. I am not saying it's right, it just is.

In general it's a bad plan to put yourself in the hands of your opponents, especially if they are not very big on human rights and the rule of law.

Hostage diplomacy is very much a thing[1]. In general though I would think for most westerners it would be rather safe to visit the UAE, I think it's fairly aligned to the west and unlikely to detain people just to make a fuss.

[1] https://tnsr.org/2021/11/caught-between-giants-hostage-diplo...
Someone can manually spam you, and I don't think that should be allowed. That is a separate topic and discussion. Unless you are arguing that your employer should not be allowed to check your LinkedIn status.
Accepting applications from absolutely anyone "over the transom" is the biggest innovation behind YC's success. It's not a small thing, and something major VCs have historically refused to take seriously.
Are you implying you'd get arrested? I remember attending a Palestine/BDS protest in NYC a few years ago and nothing happening to me even as a canadian (muslim arab) visitor.

I agree though that the restrictions on supporting BDS in some parts of the US are completely absurd. And I always find it funny that conservatives turn a completely blind eye to those laws (especially since it's in Texas! Pretty ironic). Yet the same laws often also apply in europe, and they are usually a lot stricter so my original point stands.

>Hervieu pointed to a recent ruling by the Court of Cassation, France’s court of final appeal, which upheld the criminal convictions of 12 BDS activists who burst into a supermarket in 2009 wearing “Boycott Israel” shirts and handing out fliers that read, “Buying Israeli products means legitimising crimes in Gaza.”

>The legislation means that what BDS activists regarded as political statements denouncing Israel’s violations of international law could be – and indeed were – treated by French courts as an "incitement" to hatred.

https://www.france24.com/en/20160120-france-boycott-israel-b...
> Expecting Stallman to help someone make money with proprietary software is like expecting a vegan advocate to help someone kill cows more humanely.

Many vegans are actually doing exactly that: enacting laws to improve the living conditions of animals. In the Netherlands we have the "party for the animals" in parliament for that. While their long-term goal is the elimination of meat, they also realize this is not realistic/practical in the short-term for various reasons. In the meanwhile they've been fairly successful in putting the topic of animal suffering on the agenda, making meaningful proposals to improve things, and hopefully coming closer to the long-term goals

I happen to be vegan (well, mostly anyway). Yes, you have the "extreme" vegans you might encounter on occasion, which me and my vegan friends tend to dislike as well, but most are significantly more pragmatic than you might think. It's just that you hear less from them as they're not as "loud".

If a farmer was to walk up to me and ask me "how can I improve the welfare of my animals in my factory farm?" then I'd do my best to make meaningful improvements, even though I think factory farming in general is unethical.

Now, back to Free Software: in broad lines I agree with Stallman, but just find his approach unhelpful, and I don't think that can just be hand-waved away with "but [he thinks] it's unethical".
> Only one of them control the state, and that is and has always been Castilla.

More BS. Are you saying that the Catalonian politicians in the government are spies from Castilla? Maybe disguised under evil twisted castillian moustaches?.

Please, lets be serious. I can see politicians from each coin of Spain in the government.
As someone who had a few pre-smartphone PDAs: Smartphones absolutely are high powered shit. On paper they're amazing but the ecosystem limits you to scrolling instagram and only a handfull of accepted IMs (iOS struggles with XMPP and IRC for example, something even my hacked DS could do fine with 4MB of ram and a 60Mhz ARM9.)

Just editing fucking textfiles and copying it back to a normal PC (that isn't a mac) is a real bitch. Especially if you don't have an internet connection. It's almost as bad as a ti84+ honestly, just a nicer screen, a couple cameras, and the ability to send IM and email. In fact the TI84 could do things iOS can't, I had compilers on mine.

EDIT: Somehow I missed that you mentioned the battery. Smartphones have some of the worst battery life among any PDA I've had. iPhones can stretch out a few days (maybe a week if it's just sitting in a drawer near a tower) if you use them sparingly but it's nothing like the Palm Pilot or the grayscale calculators that could easily last a month.
This is a different company (Rocket Labs) so they wouldn't get to reuse SpaceX's capture methods. This method appears like it would allow them to use commodity helicopters instead of having to develop and build their own drone ship tech, which has the additional hassle of having to maintain a boat and have a dock they can use to haul the rocket. I'm guessing this is for their "Small Launch" offering so the heli option makes sense at that weight.
Doesn’t surprise me seeing how low Macron went to suppress the Yellow Vest movement. There were routinely videos of protesters being floored and beaten indiscriminately by Macrons security forces in one incident.
If it's illegal to confiscate passports in Dubai why is it so widespread and commonplace? Is it like smoking MJ in most states - it's "illegal" but unless cops want a reason to arrest you they'll just ignore you and keep on driving?
Or even share their opinions on other people’s posts in a news aggregation site? ;-)
This is utterly wrong.
Twitter isn't a news paper. You shouldn't be getting your news from randos on Twitter.
One does typically prefer Linux experience for a _Linux_ sys admin, but don't get me wrong that's just one of many screening question. That said, if someone doesn't have enough Linux experience to know how Linux differs from *BSD or Solaris or whatever they have time on, that seems like a valid exclusion to me. I don't tend to put any stock of claims of being able to be a quick study unless they've obviously done some interview prep on the subjects they're unfamiliar with. Best way to show you are a motivated, quick study is by being a motivated, quick study.
You're right sorry i'll change
Hmmm? The nearest Palestinian flag that I can think of on display in my neighborhood is just a few blocks from my house.

Do you mean that the U.S. treats Palestinian activists poorly for visa purposes?
> I dont' even think it's the biggest problem with EVs(batteries are)

agreed, and this has been a great conversation.

It makes me realize, i wonder if there's big money to be made by pushing the narrative that "the grid" can't handle EVs, since for average distance trips the grid impact for our ev really has been on the order of an incandescent or two running through the night, and we align with your average stats.
I used lineage for a couple of years. In practice, you need to install a google play middleware to get certain apps you need, Eg, the password manager or authenticator you need for work. After installing these, I wonder if the lack of sandboxing means my phone is basically owned. Facebook famously spied on / hacked jailbroken years ago for example.

Does lineage in that case really provide better privacy? Honestly curious. I use an iPhone these days out of uncertainty
If you want privacy, don't install anything Google or microG. Surprisingly many apps from Play store (via Aurora or sideloaded) still work (not all features though) - but if you want privacy, don't even use Play store via Aurora.
Ehh, ya know, that is just a polarizing characterization. Most people just don't agree with what is happening to them. It does not mean most of those people that support their freedom and right from persecution would travel there or that it supports their views directly. Genocide isn't cool, ya know. Freedom limiting social systems aren't either, but that is a separate issue.
SAIL was the Stanford AI Lab. Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy founded the MIT AI lab; John was recruited by Stanford and started a lab there. It was in the lovely DC Powers building in the foothills -- despite what you would think "DC Powers" was actually someone's name!

It also had a PDP-10 and a TV system but of course it's own implementation of both the TV hardware and the PDP-10 O/S (WAITS)

I can't find a picture of the building unfortunately -- it was really cool.
My personal experience has been that the most interesting people I now chat with on Mastodon either 1) left Twitter long ago, or 2) deliberately stayed away from it. For instance, if you're into infosec stuff, Mastodon is a wonderful place to be.
The thought of writing anything in sh is horrifying to me.
I always assumed it was a paid product placement spot.
As another example, I used to work on a site that was roughly hotel stays. A regular person might search where to stay in small set of areas, dates and usually the same number of people.

Bots would routinely try to scrape pricing for every combination of {property, arrival_date, departure_date, num_guests} in the next several years. The load to serve this would have been vastly higher than real customers, but our frontend was mostly pretty good at filtering them out.

We also served some legitimate partners that wanted basically the same thing via an API... and the load was in fact enormous. But at least then it was a real partner with some kind of business case that would ultimately benefit us, and we could make some attempt to be smart about what they asked for.
> I think modern smart phones are an unbelievably awesome value. Battery, display, wireless and processing power have advanced at such an unbelievable rate that we have something in our pockets that far exceeds predictions of 20, 30, 100 years ago.

From my quotes file: "It's amazing what we can build, it's baffling what we have built." (jrumbut, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25168187) Yes, the hardware is amazing, and the software is sometimes amazing in what it can do, but... If you have gobs of bandwidth (courtesy of modern WiFi and LTE) and loads of RAM and storage and CPUs that scream (seriously, for a while my phone had more cores than most of my laptops at a close clock speed) and a high-quality touch-sensitive screen and a solid OS that makes it easy to use the system even on that tiny screen, but you use it to let apps bloat like there's no tomorrow (Facebook comes to mind), show ads even more efficiently, spy on the user at will, and deliberately make things worse so people will pay more (ex. YouTube), what have you really gained?
This reminds me of a statement about yachting, roughly: if you want a cheaper hobby, you could always learn to enjoy burning $100 bills.
Is there some regulatory hurdle that deters these companies from offering an end-consumer solution to individuals?
Unless you're trying to be obtuse, it shouldn't be too hard for you to understand why.

Just because a culture or people are not perfect doesn't justify their oppression.
The Touch Bar was a good idea. Replacing the F-keys with it was a _terrible_ idea.

If they would've just added the bar above the normal F-keys, everyone would've either embraced or ignored it. But taking away function keys was just too much for pretty much everyone - especially ESC (which they rectified in a later iteration).
sure. but working in aeeospace is cool.
> There are two ways for a war to end: One way is for one side or the other to be basically destroyed. And the Russians are not going to be destroyed. So that means one way is for Ukraine to be destroyed.

> The other way is some negotiated settlement. If there’s a third way, no one’s ever figured it out.

The third way is for the war to be too costly to continue for the agressor. I believe the USA is aiming for that by giving massive aid to Ukraine. I am a bit surprised Chomsky forgot about that one since it’s how the USA usually loses the wars it loses.
Yet my battery life mysteriously cut to 1/4th its old value (half a day, down from 2 days) after a recent Apple update. That is pretty “shit” if you ask me. It’s like a malware attack that is trying to extort $1200 out of me
My Anecdotal Laptop History:

2006 HP Pavillion - dragged around the world. Felt a bit cheap/plasticy but never had any major issues.

2013 Macbook Pro Retina was a champ, a bit dated now. Saved me from massive back-injury when I fell on some ice and acted as a shield. Put a huge dent in the corner. Speakers rumbled a bit after. Unusable now due to MacOS limit.

2015 Asus Zenbook Pro still quite usable. Windows 10 still happy. Keys felt a bit plastic/motile but still decent to type on.

2022 Dell Latitude 7520 just arrived, extremely light and peppy. Overall has a very utilitarian feel with a backspace key and function row. Nice big trackpad. Hope it lasts a while.

Now the only funny thing is if you add up the cost of all the non Apple laptops it equated to the same cost as all the others combined.

Pavillion ~$800, Zenbook Pro ~$1299, Dell ~$1699, Macbook Pro Retina: ~$3700

Definitely got my eye on a https://frame.work/ soon for personal.