skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's amazing to hear! The product is mature and stable end to end. We integrate via our GitHub app, which has been live in the marketplace since last year.
But my whole point is about playing at the evening/night. I had no issues playing a GB during the day.
> The electricity production figures out of the UK are jaw dropping, last I saw they seem to have regressed to 1970s levels.

UK energy production/usage figures have been decreasing since about 2005[1]. It's not a sign of energy poverty (aside for the past year I suppose).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/322874/electricity-consu...
"They DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICS. They really don't."

So why are you panicking just because Musk bought the company?

This is laughable gaslighting. That whole thread is misdirection. Yishan is a liar and should be called out on it.

Moderation is not "easy" because it requires careful design and effort, but it is not "hard" in the way he describes it.

None of the major social media companies made any real effort to make moderation transparent.

None of the major social media companies made a real effort to come up with a solid set of content rules that most people can agree with upfront (at least in principle) and that doesn't change after every major news story.

How can they claim this stuff is "hard" when they never even tried to take the most obvious measures to re-establish some level of trust in their companies? Trust that they've had initially and squandered though their actions, BTW.

Edit:

Also, I am sick and tired of social media CEOs, VPs and founders pointing a finger at their users and saying "you, users, are the real problem here". This is bullshit. An average interaction on (moderated!) social media is significantly worse than an average interaction in (unmoderated) real life. It's about medium structure, not people. The vast majority of people are fine.
I would keep things more or less as they are now. The two changes I would definitely make would be to:

- Quietly eliminate childhood cancer and diabetes (probably most terminal childhood illnesses)

- Very very publicly remove any question about my wrathful existence.

Then I would give humanity a century to think about how they respond before deciding what my next step (if any) was.
"Pretty successful" is a poor proxy for "satisfies condition X." Kindle is known to be bad for anything where the spatial layout matters.
I am in no position to understand the ramifications of any choice I would make.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord."

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
this is such a meta shit post its amazing
Yes! They’re also better for rhythm games, like Dance Dance Revolution, because you avoid the lag from upscaling.
Well.. you can follow people on other instances.
Issue 6942 just is about the feed from all people on an instance.
Just to make sure.
> all those guns made, ships launched and rockets fired contributed to me, and a few hundred million people like me, being free now, rather than living in a North Korea-type Gulag

Would add that had Ukraine kept its post-separation guns, millions today wouldn’t be dead or displaced. To say nothing of the millions who will likely face starvation for lack of the grain Russia tramples.

There is morality in a life of peace. But peace must be recognised as a luxury bought by the blood of others.
Even in the past, I've been able to do in-place upgrades even when it wasn't officially supported, and didn't have any major problems.
Russian military spending: $66 billion

Ukrainian military spending: $5.4 billion

I have serious doubts the outside world dumped more than $5 billion on Ukraine's side. Russian made a serious error in how much territory they tried to hold as opposed to the re-positioning / fighting over Donbas that's happening now.

If the US ($801 billion) tried to conquer Canada ($26 billion), I would expect a similarly poor outcome based on Canada's size. If the US tried to annex specific oil rich areas under the guise of "protecting" oil pipelines, it's be reprehensible, but so was Crimea.
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This is less useful than it sounds because there’s no integrated night vision, unlike even the cheapest ip cams. So really only works as a webcam.
That post is like, three cuils, man.
Building a CLI Application in Elixir
I agree with your overall point that most of the big services do this correctly, but I do think we'll see more services that do this wrong as webauthn gains greater adoption. Developers are lazy and supporting multiple keys is more work than supporting a single key.

Just yesterday I discovered that Thinkst (Canary Tokens) only lets you register a single webauthn token. Thinkst is a company that makes security products! I'm expecting to see this more as adoption picks up.
I might be wrong here but it just dissecting this two principles I can see few issues:

All data is realtime and reflects the latest database state: Local state management is fundamentally hard as it's
dealing with distributed system problems. Best to avoid it alltogether.

Local state is hard because of state management available. MobX largely addresses the issue and it's not really related to distributed systems.

All database operations go through a unified standard interface, IHP DataSync in our case.

Yikes. Absolutely do not want to replace an established, transparent, "boring" process with some Rube Goldberg machine that I'm held hostage to.

This looks okay for building MVP, as most of these tools seem to be aimed at. However, companies with existing product or looking to make their APIs as a core product wouldn't want to lock it down and be held hostage by a Rube Goldberg machine. For full stack developers, it really isn't too much of an effort to create backend API endpoints separately and hooking it up to your frontend either.

I invite you and others to share their points but just from the get go, perhaps I'm older now and have become wary of the next shiny solution favoring boring tech, the problem you are solving appears to be a non-issue for most live world existing API/Frontend products, as well as full stack developers (for ex. scaffold crud generators are a thing). The cost of moving faster by taking on hidden technical debt especially in a core, essential part (the api) of the product by a 3rd party looking to remove that have typically ben risky. Also, I couldn't quite understand what was happening underneath the hood so might be good to share more technological risks/debts that is implicit.
Weird, to me it was pretty obvious for weeks if not months what was going to happen. I actually was not surprised at all when it did. Very disappointed, but not surprised.

If you are in the U.S. it's probably easy sitting on top of the world economically wondering why people fight. That's what I find amusing about HN. Life is great making $300k/year at FAANG. Why do people fight?
It would change human psychology too much I think. Genuinely today, other people are not you since if you die, you take with you your entire experiential existence and they continue unchanged.

If your mind continues to live on after your body dies, then what is humanity? A hive mind?
Pardon my ignorance, but would I spend time learning something like jq or zq when it only takes me a couple of minutes to develop a script using some high-level language? I've had to process complex JSON files in the past, and a simple Python script gets the job done, and the syntax is much more familiar and easier to memorize. Is there a use case I'm missing?
seems super useful
> I do not know if the new "World Order" is going to look like he predicts but if it does I think it will indeed spell the doom to Open Source like he predicts.

As the saying goes: Hard times make strong men.

Strong men make good times.

Good times make weak men.

And weak men make hard times.
> Unholy one liners are not limited to shell scripting

You’re mostly proving the parent’s point here. Yours isn’t a one liner, and even in Bash people don’t write multi-line for loops in one line. I don’t know what you mean about the first two lines being overhead; this doesn’t work without them, and you have magical options “shell” and “text” in there that matter. Your script doesn’t pass the result to another process, so you need another line. This also splits output on spaces, it should be more generic. Doing that involves another module (regex), another function call (or more likely several), and several more lines.

Compared to “last -a | grep tmux | process”, your script is much closer on a log scale to 30 lines than 1, even if the parent’s 30 is a little exaggerated, and even if we use the 5 lines you showed and not the ~10-12 lines it really would be.
Make it US only, watch it die in 3,2,1.
The great filter? You mean when the sun expands and burns everyone?

I feel some of us have a small shot of escaping it with hibernation and a spacecraft that can last millions of years. Doesn't seem too far fetched for this tech to be realized.
Yes, Python comes with 100% overhead from Shell. I have packages inside either the system or virtual environment tools. Honestly I err toward sh/bash because I write it, ship it, and forget it!
Warp drives are possible now. You're welcome. Now get off of my lawn. I AM THE LORD.
A big challenge would be to solve for cattle smugglers in some states.
It's funny because any other time you'd be right, except now. The Steam Deck came with no Windows support and they've gradually been offering drivers for Windows (see Linus Tech Tips video about missing video, audio support on Windows).

For once Windows users spent a few days in the shoes of a Linux user.
To me a telemetry opt-out is a small price to pay for what PowerShell brings to the table, but to each their own.

> There might be other components, now or in the future, that also send data to Microsoft

Of course. Do your due diligence on whatever you install. No tool should be exempt from that.
I guess so, but I'm not sure picking or bumping residential locks is heard of where I live. Last time I was burgled they used a crowbar to force entry by breaking the lock. Even that's rare. The overwhelming majority of burglaries here are opportunistic based on unlocked doors/windows.

There's a LockPickingLawyer video on YouTube [1] where he shows you a simple modification that seizes the lock upon picking attempts. I would do this, but unlike him I only have one entrance door, so in the event it is seized I'd have to break in.

[1] https://youtu.be/7JlgKCUqzA0
2 of these 3 things, I have done multiple times on a Mac. Mounting NFS is natively supported in macOS and has been for nearly a decade. Mounting SSH is supported by 3rd-party tools, yes, but they're the same cross-platform 3rd-party tool you'd use in Linux... sshfs, which is built on top of FUSE, which is something you can install on a Mac and is not installed by default in most Linux distributions (although fair enough it's installed by default on Ubuntu).

The only thing I wasn't familiar with is MTP, which is apparently a Windows-specific protocol that Microsoft forced into the USB standard in later versions, and as far as I know across decades of using Linux, BSD, Windows, and macOS across multiple computers on the same network with shared peripherals I've never even used this protocol.

What's the complaint again?

OS choice is mostly a personal preference. As far as I am personally concerned, FreeBSD is the best OS possible to use, and macOS is second best. But I don't write blog posts telling people that their preference is incapable of doing things my preference is capable of doing, and if I were to do so, I'd at least do my research first to make sure it was correct.
FWIW, I view time and space as the source of causality.

Without time and space:

Everything would happen at the same time at the same place.[0][1]

[0] A universe in a single event.

[1] Every word in that sentence should be individually in quotes.
Yes, but fortunately, your efforts will pay dividends when parsing all the 'z*' boutique formats that it supports, zson, zst, zng, the list goes on. /s
From the few I've watched, most of the time he just seems to end-run around the supposed security of whatever it is. The double-crescent-wrench trick is a classic, "here take this super expensive fancy electronic lock, watch what happens when we just snap it in half with two tools I can fit in my pocket."
The maker controls the tools, the tools do not control the maker.

You're asking "but why not let the tail wag the dog?"

The tool works or it does not.
Women serve in the military and police force too…
I’m not sure that the army would simply collapse without men. It’s more likely that women will continue to fight the same wars, while men stay at home and raise the next generation.
I find the per-capita military spending very interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

1 USA 3806.4 2020 Estimate[3]

2 Israel 2507.6 2020 Precise

3 UAE 2020.4 2020 Estimate[2]

4 Singapore 1855.5 2020 Precise

5 Saudi Arabia 1652.2 2020 Estimate

6 Kuwait 1625.3 2020 Precise

7 Oman 1317.8 2020 Estimate

8 Norway 1312.0 2020 Precise

9 Australia 1079.9 2020 Precise

10 Qatar 1011.0 2010 Precise

I can understand Singapore needing to protect itself against aggressive neighbours and all the Middle Eastern countries (including Israel). But Australia, who are they planning to fight? Timor? Papua?
The military mainly funds military innovations and that's the only area where they are the unique provider of solutions. Too bad things like radar absorbing coating or pre-fragmentation of shells are useless for civilians.

Famous innovations from ww2 like radio, radar, and computers all had civilian precursors that were then expediently targeted with funding to develop further. That is not really a testimony to the unusual innovation powers of the military, it's a statement about the political power of war as a means to concentrate resources.
Regarding yishan's thread, and moderation philosophy in general, I don't think that moderators should feel responsible for any actions their users take after being exposed to ideas. If a user decides to perform some real-world criminal act based on something he read on Twitter, we already have laws and enforcement mechanisms to deal with that. Morally the individuals themselves are responsible for their actions, not Twitter.

To deal with harassment and SPAM, there are perfectly functional tools like rate limiting and user-initiated blocking. These don't need to be applied based on post content. Note that saying something unpleasant once isn't harassment, and that posting something people disagree with isn't SPAM.
I can't imagine working with the "fear of god" or "panic" over stupid shit like this.

Then perhaps you can't quite imagine the I-banking lifestyle then. It is very much, if not fear-, then security-driven. Let's just say it attracts a certain personality profile.

That's why they make go across town to some doctor's office and pee in a cup before they let you in, for example.
>These unjustified exclusions can have real clinical implications, too. For example, most asthma studies exclude morbidly obese people, as morbidly obese asthma is notoriously resistant to treatment and there aren’t good explanations as to why. However, once asthma drugs are approved, they’re approved for all asthmatics equally. As a result, morbidly obese people get prescribed asthma drugs that were never tested on people like them [1].

>[...]

>[1] This is literally going on today by the way. The FDA approved Tezpire as a breakthrough drug for asthma in December 2021. Tezspire excluded morbidly obese people from their efficacy trials. This fact is not mentioned anywhere in Tezspire’s labeling.

Wow, I had never heard of anything like this before. Does the FDA have a justification for why there isn't a requirement to mention significant exclusions like this?
The only thing that supports current rule of law around the world is might of US military. If you cut spending of US military to 0 then tomorrow we would be living in a different world. Because structure of the whole world is anarchistic, there is no police that would enforce rule of law, there is no one you can call if other country invade you. Of course because of USD hegemony as world currency, supported by its military power US gets unfair advantage but I'd rather live peacefully in the so called west under US influence than under Russian or Chinese.

Thinking that we can live in beautiful world in peace without wars and military is delusional and unrealistic. There was hope in 90s that we can bring liberal democracy to all countries around the world and there would be no more wars. We all see how it went on middle east. People thought that war is unrealistic before WWI then they were super optimistic and thought the same thing before WWII. Unfortunately history proves that world is running in cycles, latest cycle is coming to the end and as it was with Dutch empire and then British empire and before with other empires, new challenger emerges that is challenging status quo, this time it's China and US is on decline as world power. Unfortunately it's only a matter of time until the clash happens.
Well, I posit that down that path lies HN's dreadful gender ratio. I'm not OK with de facto exclusion through tolerating low-grade harassment at scale, even if the intent was benign. I think that's a much more serious consequence of "assume good faith" than gets acknowledged.

And private fora are not town squares. The rules for actual town squares have to be lenient because government suppression of speech is problematic. The relevant freedom for private fora is not freedom of speech, but freedom of association.
It's clearly a retro throwback for an older generation who grew up with more primitive handhelds. And/or a tinkerer's toy, to see what kind of things can be done with a crank input.

If you want a cheap, simple distraction for your kid, there's a ton of used Nintendo DS units out there with an expansive library of games.
> There's no way CRT manufacturing could come back right?

Probably not.

> Is OLED manufacturing easier?

Define "Easier".

Is it easier to manufacture a transistor or is it easier to manufacture a vacuum tube?

If you were stuck out in the wilderness with nothing but rocks, sticks, and a pile of sand and a team of engineers you would probably have a much easier time building a primitive CRT display than a OLED one.

But if you have a goal of having to manufacture a reliable display at minimal cost then OLED wins hands-down.

Depending on your constraints one is 'easier' then the other.

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Old CRT displays were nice (inherent advantages in terms of resolution, refresh rates, color depth, view angles, and color accuracy), but they were fragile and required significant amount of labor to construct. It is unusual for CRT-based televisions to last decades without requiring repairing and tuning.

Where as modern modern flatscreen displays are much cheaper to produce, are much more efficient in terms of resource usage, and are much more reliable. People tend to replace flat screens because they become obsolete. However they replaced tended to CRTs because they stopped working.
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It's unfortunate that there are so many dishonorable oath takers. Freedom can't survive centralization, nor tolerating dishonorable people.
> military expenditure in poorer countries is often detrimental to growth, whereas in wealthier countries it is more likely to be beneficial.

I wonder how much of this is that as a very best case for poorer countries, the military expenses are an attempt to guarantee minimal sovereignty and stability. Poor countries which are well-protected client states of a larger power may not need to spend anything on military.

Whereas for wealthy countries, marginal increases in military spending are generally towards force projection. This is often used to decrease costs associated with international trade…so there’s potentially a direct return on additional spending.

For example, our leadership in overthrowing[0] the government of Guatemala to ensure continued access to unconscionably one-sided contracts for the United Fruit Company (now “Dole” fruit company).

The USA still gets >85% of our pineapple from Costa Rica and Guatemala, which was secured via direct forceful subjugation as well as military spending to quietly support favorable factions.

I don’t think all our wars are directly profitable to the winning belligerent, certainly the GWOT has not given USA access to enough resources in the Middle East to offset the cost. But these indirect benefits of forceful interventions absolutely do at least subsidize our military, and may often make the marginal spending above the minimum necessary for sovereignty, profitable.

Small countries generally can’t leverage this “marginal profitability” so all their military spending is purely a cost center. Potentially necessary, but costly.

Even if the wars in the Middle East greatly increased our GDP through deficit spending, or lost money but enriched the powerful owners of defense companies, those profits came from destroying unbelievable amounts of value in other countries. Completely demolished infrastructure and millions of deaths.

I wonder how much richer USA businesses would be if that money had been poured into schools post-9/11 instead of into literal destruction of value overseas. People born then would be graduating now with greatly increased skill and ability. USA businesses would have far greater access to top talent, at significantly lower cost.

I wonder how much richer the world would be if we’d poured that money into creation, building, and education instead of into destruction and partial reconstruction.

Obviously I also wonder how much value the world might be missing out on from the intellectual capacity of South Korea if USA hadn’t spent money on a military intervention there.

The money for the global war on terror was enough to immediately build 50% more schools (reducing class sizes from 30 to 20), pay all K-12 teachers $100,000 (in 2006 dollars), and buy every K-12 student a new high end MacBook every year.

Lord knows how much internet, highways, railways, port facilities, and manufacturing facilities we could have built with that money. Perhaps we wouldn’t have a shipping crisis right now.
> The tool works or it does not.

That's the point. macOS works just fine without wobbly windows. We don't need the extra complexity of wobbly windows.
Why isn’t best practice the default?
I didn't realize jq was missing a maintainer, it's one of my most used CLI tools.
Language/Framework/Text Editor/OS flamewars or evangelism.
I write a newsletter called 10+1 Things, having close to 1000+ subs.

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I miss wobbly windows. It's not something I have on all the time but they're fun.
They were all the rage back in the mid 2000's, especially on Knoppix but I don't see any tutorials for doing it in modern Linuxes. Can anyone point me to one?
Ridiculous, and necessary :)
Apple is removing outdated apps from the App Store, even if fully functional
I am in the US. It was a free repair (covered by the warranty), and I didn't realize the bootloader lock issue until a couple of years later. (I was running stock firmware at the time - it's only been since google dropped support for the phone that I tried to upgrade to a third-party firmware.)