skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While from a professional IT and security perspective it makes sense not to pre-install what may be an arbitrary language in a dated version providing unnecessary extra attack surface, things are different from an educational perspective:

Installing a Web server AND a database AND a programming language may well be too much for the impatient & low-attention span generation before trying out a 4-line "hello, world!" Web page, so some folks may never try to get into programming (which today is typically Web dev), full stop.

(Putting on old grumpy man voice) These kids today couldn't enter 15 pages of machine code in hex from game magazines as we once did. (end ranting voice)
It’s a fine app for the mac, but the big impact is really on iOS where you won’t be randomly opening your files in Safari.

Also path interpretation is different when you’re in “file” mode and “http” mode
ahhh, gotcha. that really went over my head
Indians can tell based on looks, skin color, how they talk, etc. One of my close friends is Indian and you can definitely make a pretty good guess based on a factor of all of these.
I had SAM on my Atari 800. It was notable that it turned off the display when talking. My understanding was that was either for code performance, timing consistency, or both.
Let's ban porn at least, because it's harmful to women, both personally to those involved in this industry, and societally in the misogynistic attitudes it normalizes.
It also makes no sense. Straw man refers to building scarecrow to argue against.

Making your scarecrow out of steel doesn't make them a better arguing partner.
It seems the websites with the most poor-quality, ad-filled, possibly incorrect information are the ones trying to game the system the most. If you're someone who just has a blog or website and is focused on the content, this turns ahrefs into a 'cartel' you must pay into if you want your own SEO to be on the same par as those spending all their time on seo optimization.
Tor workshop – Sysadmin 101 for new relay operators – June 4th 2022 – 19:00 UTC
I agree with the skepticism of fluff books.

Regarding technical books, I'll repeat a stance of mine: I spent over a decade in university, and learned a ton. The majority of which I never used. The majority of engineering/technical courses I took as an undergrad? Never once utilized for my job. When you start including grad level courses, the ratio looks much worse!

Reading just a few books on communication and negotiations has proved more useful than the majority of technical courses/books I've read - easily! Reading psychology and understanding what motivates people and how they behave was more effective at understanding dysfunction in the work place and did more for my career than the majority of technical books I've read.

Tech folks are addicted to tech, but sit down and start enumerating: How many technical books that you've read were of actual use to you? When you read your next technical book, are you doing it because you enjoy it (entertainment), or because it'll be useful to you? If the former (which is the case for most tech people), it's no better than reading a fluff book is for others.
/pol/ is always right.
> There's various stories of how tank-commanders saw an enemy's ATGM, fires back with the main cannon, and pops their thermal-smoke grenades to avoid the missile.

I call bullshit. Yes, a Javelin at maximum range takes 10 seconds to arrive, and that theoretically gives the turret time to traverse to target and return fire… Assuming the commander saw the puff of smoke appear and reacts instantly… with perfect knowledge of the distance of the engagement… and full confidence his countermeasures will be 100% effective…

Naw. Too big a risk to take out 2 dudes who just expended their only means to hurt you, and are already on the move anyway. His attached units can go after the ATGM squad.
If that's the only problem theb I dont think there's much of a problem.
I believe bonjour .local domains and DNS work on Windows by default, right?

If so, that's a great way of sharing files from iOS to Windows on a local network

Edit: just downloaded and tested, it works on Debian Linux out of the box, zero conf stuff is installed by default, I guess. This is very cool. The app is stupendous in every way. Major kudos.
Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff
I row on a Concept II.
Yes, the cops have very little comprehensive knowledge about the law as they are not required to know. Enacting an arrest, the way American cops do it, is probably as low skilled as it gets.
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
As with most supposed Google killers, it suffers from the small issue of being terrible.

Right now I'm in Los Angeles and looking to buy a roll of film. When I search for "where to buy film in los angeles":

- Google gives me three top Maps results, all small photo stores relevant to my search, a Yelp results page, some relevant reddit discussions with recommendations, and then sites for some individual businesses.

- Yep gives TripAdvisor results for movie theaters, Fandango, ZipRecruiter results for film jobs, film studios, and some more theaters (and also an article about rent control for some reason).
US immigration policy also selects for high earners, the highly educated and skilled and the already wealthy, those belonging to such groups are also likely to be upper class in their home countries already.
It is not bullshit, the discrimination came from other Indian manager who has higher caste than Dalits.

https://www.bloomberg.com/letters/2021-03-18/caste-based-dis...
>Considering that CO2 is not the only thing, and we have problems with microplastics, we should consider that impact too.

Realistically speaking the amount of microplastics being generated from drink bottles is negligible in first world countries. Over there, the overwhelming amount of plastic waste is properly managed (recycled or landfilled), which means they're not sitting in rivers degrading and generating microplastic.

> But we did just that, before china banned import. We ship that stuff over to china "for recycling" and they burn it. Same with e-waste in africa ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-... )

Again, it's more complicated than that. The importers are actually trying to recycle the plastic/e-waste. It's just that through a combination of incompetence/malice, that some of the unrecycleable waste gets improperly disposed.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/7025017...

>China had plenty of capacity to handle plastics and lots of cheap laborers to sort the recyclable materials from the nonrecyclable. By 2016, the U.S. was exporting almost 700,000 tons a year to China alone. Overall, China imported 7 million tons from around the world.

>About five years ago, the Chinese government started to worry about all this trash coming in. A lot of the plastic was contaminated with stuff that made it difficult and expensive to recycle – paper, food waste, plastic wrap (which is not recyclable). And some of the plastic was hard to recycle and thus not profitable to import.

I suppose your statement is technically true in the sense that yes, we do ship plastic to china, and yes, they burn some of it, but that statement is still misleading. With the same logic you could also say that we send people to hospitals to die.
Reddit post – Anger at Coinbase rescinding offers after saying they wouldn't
The police union is the biggest problem. It’s the only union that needs busting.
I'm not sure mood lighting is going to do much for the duct tape on the ceiling (or what your ceiling will look like when you take it off)
An Indian friend of mine several years ago explained it quite clearly to me: Who do you think has the resources to get an education, get an H1B, then travel halfway around the world? The guy whose parents are sleeping in the hallway?
Is mac OSX still shipping python 2 then? Yikes.

(it's python -m http.server on python 3)
From their About Yep page: "We built Yep from the ground up so that we can give 90% of ad revenue to content creators."

And yet there is nowhere around the site explaining how creators can claim that "revenue".
Sundar Pichai is a brahmin. He is smiling from on high.
>Something I have never understood is why people want to write web-apps in Rust.

The vast, vast majority of web apps are the same CRUD endpoints and background job queue processing. I would label Rust as mature enough in this regard; I've written quite a few of these and am not left wanting in any regard (short of a clone of Django's automagic admin, but few things get close to this anyway...).

When you accept the fact that you're taking in some data, shoving it into the DB, and returning a response, the rest of the Rust ecosystem becomes pretty damn nice - deployment is an absolute breeze compared to some of the other ecosystems (Ruby/Python). I don't need to mess with Docker, I don't need to deal with broken package managers, I can just replace a binary and call restart.

It's amazing.
Porn doesn’t cause violent behavior. Neither do video games or heavy metal as proven through high n studies.
No, but reddit should be banned anyway for having such a high concentration of cringe
Not a single person arguing against you has ever said it's the only way.

You just can't comprehend the fact some people think it's more convenient to use a voice triggered device when cooking than have numerous conversion charts or multiple measuring devices (especially in kitchens where space is at a premium. Let alone messy hands).
Probably because /pol/ has the most activity and therefore training data.

https://4stats.io/
Rahul is a focused founder, really top notch and works hard. They have a great product and I hope they can navigate this.
I'd like to invest. Are they raising?
India’s online education startups are struggling to survive
But my understanding is that skin color and first names do not reliably signal caste differences. That's exactly what I think those of us who aren't familiar with caste find confusing - it seems like caste ought to be similar to social class, but none of the markers of social class I'm familiar with seem to be relevant in caste, whereas things that are totally irrelevant to social class in my circles (last name, vegetarianism, details of religious observance) seem to have great importance.
Horrible? I unironically find it fairly cool, Anon.
For context, Coinbase said they'd not rescind offers. They're not rescinding offers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/v3tmk9/these_comp...

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/v3u4ll/coinbase_o...
You don't know anything about religion X. Does that mean work is a good place to discuss religion X?

Social, political, religious, or just generally ideas that are likely to make people uncomfortable are, generally, not good things to talk about at work. I shouldn't have to worry about my well meaning coworker wanting to save my soul, win my vote, or whatever. My coworker and I need to work together to solve the problems of our business - those other topics don't help us coordinate and might hurt our ability to coordinate by sowing dissension.

Until very recently it was well understood that certain topics are better off not discussed at work. This is not a dearth of curiosity but a surfeit of common sense.
Given that plenty of prisoners already speak Spanish fluently, it seems really stupid to worry about them learning any, or god forbid, figuring out how to translate to English. Hire some guards that speak Swahili.
To: Emily Smith, CEO
Why it's not possible to synchronize turn signals
Workplace is part of your life, and the collective decision also affect how the employees' life outside work. Work and life never split.
>I set a rule for myself that I'll spend up to one minute trying to save an allocation. Beyond that it's not worth getting sidetracked.

This! Though I modified my rule to mostly being "I'm punting this to the weekend as a fun exercise", since I often find stupid enjoyment in seeing if it's possible.

Programming in Rust can often be a very good exercise in telling yourself to stop trying to be clever.
what's more desirable: having all of the extremists congregate on one big website or shut that website down and have a diaspora of different, smaller sites that are even more extreme?
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31611379
I actually think the opposite is security theater. I think the security question is a bit of a wash in general, but I think that in this case, yes, the Microsoft product is likely more secure. How many full time employees are working on VS Code versus VSCodium? FOSS software is not this paragon of security. And the existence of VSCodium is due to telemetry that basically reports nothing, can be inspected, and can be turned off. I don’t see where the security threat is.
Critical Atlassian 0-day is under active exploit. You’re patched, right?
I imagine Grammarly is. And then they spend all that revenue on YouTube ads...

https://www.grammarly.com/browser/chrome
> This was pointed out at the time, but was unfortunately ignored.

I have a hard time believing that was accidental :-( It seems essentially impossible to believe that British politicians would be unaware of Indian caste issues, so I would have to assume it was viewed as too dangerous / too low political benefit to address.
virus in the air is dependent on effective filtration, rather than bulky particulate matter by volume.. the virus is highly contagious (few particles matter a lot)
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> My point is more about the notion that the activists represent the views of the minority group.

But aren't often those the people who need that sort of representation the most? Even if 90%[0] of Indians aren't discriminated against, the 10% who suffer discrimination absolutely deserve representation and redress.

[0] Apparently 90% of Indian immigrants in the US are high-caste, so funny how that statistic might seem to line up. This of course makes sense, since low-caste people are probably less likely to be able to obtain the education and financial resources necessary to move to a different country.
Does Money Buy Happiness?
Happiness increases with income, up to a point.
Why is this desirable? You want a low-skilled officer to be the person who decides, on the spot, whether or not you're going to have an arrest record, face arraignment, and spend tens of thousands on your own legal defense?
OK, then answer the simple question AnimalMuppet. Do you believe wizards can shoot fireballs out of their hands or not?

If you are up for a more serious question, how about, do you believe humans can walk on water or not?
The paper does discuss such relationships, but "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)" is an extension to the protocol to allow a participant to choose from more than two (i.e. Crush / No Crush) possible opinions about someone.

It's in the section titled "Ternary Responses", and covers the use case of a participant wanting to express "Maybe" as an opinion.

Oh, actually, I might have worked it out. It could be that "More Than Two" is designed to be somehow the reverse of "Less Than Three", which represents a heart.
Four big trends in cloud-enabled network evolution
Many years ago (10+?) I ran into some complicated travel issue related to my booked travel on Travelocity and I CC'd the CEO on my email trying to resolve it. Got an email back fairly quickly that seemed to be genuinely from the CEO CC-ing some relevant person and my issue got resolved.

Probably wouldn't happen today but who knows.
There’s another dimension to this that people outside Google don’t understand.

There’s a lot of disengaged Googlers specially in the traditional AdTech part of the business.

Career progression is very slow and the performance review process which has been in place for god knows how long was so damaging to individuals, on top of consuming an amazing amount of time 2x a year as people desperately tried to piece together “packages” proving they’re better than mediocre, that it’s been completely replaced with a new system.

My point being, there’s lots of people bored, feeling like they can’t “win” and with a high degree of uncertainty as to what metrics will have an impact on their career prospects or the company.

combine that with a culture of speaking your mind and potentially a feeling of superiority for being special enough to work a Google… you get some very disparaged but entitled people who I think consciously or not, are trying to denigrate the company.
Pho. I know exactly what to expect and what I want to order walking into any Pho restaurant in the country and they're all owned and operated by different people.
Why don't you have more realistic sounding voices? These sound like that annoying TikTok voice.
I don't trust Ahrefs at all. The whole SEO industry is tainted, and Ahrefs is not a good part of it.

I don't want a search engine that pays "creators" (a search engine finds things, if they want to monetize it it is after it is found). I want a search engine that runs exactly as many ads as are needed to pay for itself, nothing more. Preferably with an option to pay for myself as an option. I'm guessing that means https://kagi.com/ but I would like to see some more competition.
Oh, I always thought it was The Featured Article
earlier discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602288
The C64 version did the same thing, at least by default (I think the command to change it was ]LIGHTS). It was slightly faster and thus better quality since the VIC wasn't causing bad lines.

In some ways I like this resurrected SAM more than things like Rsynth. RECITER seemed like magic at the time, though now with a linguistics degree, I prefer raw SAY with phonemes.
I am mildly amused that you decided to skip over the questions and refer me back to the website, which I already indicated am not perceiving as an authority on the matter.

Still, as a show of good faith, I did just that. Needless to say, I was not impressed, but I would be more than happy to discuss my contentions.

Separately, I also allowed myself to dig deeper under ESI-0307843 that funded this project and one of the first things that came up was an evaluation of the website.

You will note that under 'expectations not fulfilled' some complaints do stand out(1):

-"There are no clear definitions of terms or comparisons of biological race v. social race, ethnicity, etc"
-"I expected to find more scientific studies about races, at least as a complement."
-"Maybe some more information about the concept of ethnicity and 'clear' definitions"
-"I expected a professional explanation given to a public audience as happens with so many effective professionals associated with museums, freshman teaching or public programs in the social sciences and humanities."
-"Everything was about self-reflection and self-confirmation about American
conceptions and categorization. I expected a step beyond that."
-"I expected to find a mention of R. Lynn's Race Differences in Intelligence
(Washington Summit Publishers, 2006) for an important exposition."

(1)https://www.informalscience.org/sites/default/files/RaceWebs...

Can you show me the same good faith and engage in a frank and honest intellectual debate?
Oh cool! I did this in unity for a game jam. I called it Lexicode. I used conceptnet numberbatch.

https://greatfilter.itch.io/lexicode

I am learning c# as I learn unity, so it's very rough. But I am proud of the hint system I devised.
Apartheid is the prevalent social and political movement in Quebec right now as well. As the world shifts to the Right (for whatever reason), this sh*t reappears. Or reasserts. People always hate "them".
A police officer trained as a social worker is going to bring with them a whole new set of preconceptions and biases. Giving social workers arrest powers does not seem like an improvement to me.
I don't know enough about vedic culture to comment on that in particular. But I will say from what I know of American history, a lot of people who genuinely believed they were doing right by society with the phrase "different people have different talents and that is what helps society function" has led down some very dark paths here.
If it turns out that 90% of (you name the group) are not discriminated against, but 10% are, does that mean that we should ignore that discrimination? Almost by definition, minorities are the generally the ones who are discriminated against.

This the discrimination problem -- if you are not in the minority, it is much more difficult to appreciate how common it is.
In case my sarcasm fell short of the obviousness for which I had aimed:

I do not work for a bike lobby, nor do I have any direct interest in the outcomes of these policies except extending the life of my kiddo and his friends.

I have no specific axe to grind. It's just absolutely obvious to me, from extensive travel through 49 of the United States, that children face dramatic and unprovoked hostility from the infrastructure through many of their cities.

The streets feel like they are literally made for cars instead of people. If you don't get that impression, then I really wonder what makes our perspectives so different.
I consider a population that rejects benefits for itself to be immensely confidence inspiring. To have the general population consider overall system productivity and stability and not just blindly vote for your own profit is pretty amazing.
>> Apple was not immediately available for comment. It has previously said the inappropriate use of dated international standards stifles innovation and that forcing users to change to new chargers could create a mountain of electronic waste.

USB-C is superior and allowing users to reuse usb cables (i.e from macbooks) could reduce a mountain of electronic waste.
Thanks. Interesting, isn't it. I'm thinking we're at the point where a significant amount of progressives are starting to (silently) reject the absurdly toxic way in which social justice issues are handled.

I would totally expect my post to be downvoted and seen as some Elon Musk style power trip. Or perhaps people think I'm right-wing, or do not care about these issues.

All false. I'm progressive (center-left by northwestern European standards). The policies are to remove regression so that true progress can be made. I find positive discrimination and equity insulting to minorities, you're basically saying that they're lesser beings. My bigger pet peeve though is activists, in particular the type perpetually victimizing themselves, creating division, creating a culture of fear and silencing. I find that insulting to actual victims.