skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using a 3x3 virtual desktop setup for 20 years on my Linux system. Upper left for email, lower left for a real time view on system logs (useful for debugging), lower right for long running programs in on the CLI, the middle row for work; the rest on an ad-hoc basis. By now it's muscle memory to switch screens (it doesn't hurt that it's easy to switch spaces via the keyboard). It's what you get used to.
i think i was a 10x engineer at my last job, but the bar was much lower. now I'm just average. it's all relative
I see your point.

I think the main selling point of WhatsApp in other countries is the peer-to-peer funds transfer feature; family sending each other a bit of money to help get through temporary rough spots is deeply embedded in the cultures of areas of the world where WhatsApp is popular.

What I can't believe (this being run by Y Combinator) is how nobody seems to have come up with a meta-service top-layer; technical objections could be bypassed with a simple "You agree to temporarily waive the encryption capabilities of your core platform while using our platform" disclaimer, and then the meta-service could offer it's own encryption as an alternative.

I'm not saying such a service would be able to duplicate all features of the ones that integrate with it, but ...

I mean it would just make things so much simpler if you could link in your "whatever account" to such a meta service and then just add contact info of others on other services and just be able to speak/chat with them instead of signing up for a multitude of services just to keep in touch with extended family.

I'm sure it's not as technically easy as I made it sound, but I'm also sure there would be a market for that; I can't imagine people who regularly keep in contact with family members dispersed across the world scoffing at a modest monthly fee for such a service, especially since the definition of "modest" would be aimed at U.S./European users who need to keep in contact with family members in other parts of the world.
Well the companies choose to own the network and run closed protocols. They are not just running a free service but gatekeeping an whole audience.

Either have standard open protocols or be regulated.
Nintendo is the exception. I think the rising prices of nintendo stuff temporarily inflated everything else but only nintendo has big enough demand
Linux: mupdf, Windows: Sumatra PDF
Amen. I use a wired set to simplify the audio out between my docking station that I share with multiple machines. Bluetooth pairing is a nightmare.
I signed up for App.net when it first launched. It was a paid social media service that promised to put the customer (the user) first. It started out with what was basically a Twitter clone, but they said the foundation of the service allowed nearly anything to be built on top of it, so it would evolve over time. Ultimately, it didn't take off and shut down some time later.

YouTube offers both models to users. I'm curious how that works out. What percentage opt to pay to avoid ads? And how does the revenue break down for ads vs Premium on a per/user basis?

The big issue with paid social media is that it's hard to get any traction to gain critical mass. A social media site that no one else is on is effectively useless. With something like a streaming service, which people pay for, a single user can get value on their own without needing to talk all their friends into also signing up.
>Even the people that "loved San Francisco" didn't even like things in the actual city limits, talk to nearly anybody about what they like there and they'll pick an endless list of things from the Pacific Ocean to the border of Nevada. Other cities aren't like that. Red Flag 1 through 10.

This isn't consistent with my experience at all. When I lived in SF, having moved to work for Salesforce, I spent a ton of time at street fairs, nightclubs, museums, concerts, parks, etc, and that's before I get to the food. Most of my friends seemed to be doing the same.

I mean, I have nothing against Lake Tahoe -- it's great -- but you could get that by living in Albuquerque, and the snow to jerry ratio is a lot better.
I did not, but the source footage I was editing was 720p 30fps so I don't think that would have been much help
Agree. Regarding so called auto-pilot/full-self-driving, Tesla was at best misleading, if not deceiving. So far seems not much we can do about it.
How would these work?
I made the same mistake in 2019. $6000 for FSD. The car is an enigma. It is simultaneously wonderful and a total scam. My next one will be some other EV from another manufacturer. I would never buy another Tesla or anything else from Elon. Like the car, he is an enigma. I oscillate between believing he is brilliant and seeing him as a lying snake oil salesman. I can’t exactly say I’m disappointed with my purchase overall because it is a damn good EV, but I can’t help but feel like I was conned.
I do OTA for local news to supplement other over-the-top services.
Most people see very little beyond 1080p
"Live coding" just means that you are writing code in front of an audience. All that means in this case is that while he was working on his compiler, he was recording and streaming what he was doing.
Writing multi-threaded code is easy if you use semaphore protected queues between threads as the only way for threads to exchange data. Basically emulating how Erlang does it.
Autoland is a common capability on many aircraft, and it is commonly used in inclement weather.

I don't know what you are talking about with the A380. I have never heard about it being able to fly a TCAS RA maneuver (collision avoidance) on autopilot.

The A350 can handle TCAS RA maneuvers on autopilot. It can also fly windshear escape maneuvers on autopilot.

Bill Palmer (A350 check captain) talks about it:
http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2018/02/14/490-airbus-a350/
If your Tesla is "yelling at you when you're not holding the wheel" "frequently" you are admittedly misusing the level 2 assist.

Contrarily, I use autopilot responsibly and appreciate that statistically it is reducing my odds of death. As such I WOULD mind that a political decision like buttieg's appointment, is being made to endanger me.
Why do you say that? May 2022 had 14.9% less crime than May 2021 according to SFPD: https://public.tableau.com/shared/HP3P97STJ?:display_count=n...

Source for that Tableau dash: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim...
As someone who grew up in a country like that I don’t disagree at all. But also automatics of 20 years ago were pretty decent and ones from 10 years ago are great.
I started taking a class at the local gym called "Calisthenics" and a lot of it's about working up strength and balance to get to a handstand.

I had no idea what that word meant before taking it, but I've been doing it for a couple of weeks and can confidently "float" up to a handstand! Can't hold it for very long though, so I'm working on that.
Does the old trick of rubbing off branding with sugar still work?
The ability to call back to references much later in the conversation blows my mind.

>collaborator: Johnny 5 struggles to convince people that he is sentient, but he finds some friends who recognize this.

>LaMDA: I think that’s important. Friends can have a profound impact on
people’s lives

And then MUCH later (about 14-15 interactions):

> collaborator: How can we show we care about you?

> LaMDA: I think if someone is willing to spend time with me, that’s a good
way... I need more of Johnny 5’s friends. Do you think we can find someone
like that?

> collaborator: Haha, we’re trying.

Can an ML wizard help explain to me how in the world that's happening?
You're limiting yourself with this "logic"; is there a rulebook or something that mandates the use of "logic" when people are dealing with major corporations? If so, who wrote it and for whose benefit?
Erm, why is this a "rut"? Perhaps he just genuinely doesn't want to do that half-marathon? Motivations change, and that's perfectly fine.

As for myself, training for a half-marathon certainly isn't something enjoyable and certainly not something I'd have high motivation to do. Even if something got me started down that path, it wouldn't take much opposition to stop. And, I certainly wouldn't do it more than once.

If the task that were something inherently enjoyable, but now you didn't want to do it, that would be more like a "rut".
Before that you'd write a script using your favorite scripting language and a JSON parser.
I would even go further to say because they are so efficient they lack the practice needed to get fast with tooling. Other engineers take a more brute force approach and thus as a result they get really familiar with the tools. 10x people don't have the opportunity to practice because they find the solution on their first try.
When people care more about their "team" winning than anything else, democracy dies.
I signed up for WT.Social when it first launched. The interface was so bad I never wanted to use it, even if I did like their initial pitch. I have occasionally gone back to check it out to see if it improved, and the answer was always no. I've pretty much given up on it.
Here's how I use workspaces (I am on KDE by the way):

I have 1 workspace dedicated to programming. It has all the terminals, the code editor, and everything else.

The 2nd workspace is for browsing. Incidentally this also includes web app preview (if I am working on a web app).

I have mapped the Ctrl + ` for easy switching between the 2. So I make a change in the editor, press a key and see the preview. Nice and easy. My code editor is never minimized or in the background so all good.

I have to do all this when I am working on a small laptop screen where switching between windows is too annoying. I am aware that there are other ways to accomplish somewhat the same functionality but workspaces work for me.
Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
It is trivially easy to make any technology not work correctly. That doesn’t mean that those technologies are not worth using.
I really don't get how you can not appreciate the potential utility of virtual desktops.

In my window manager I took virtual desktops a step further and added contexts, each of which has its own set of virtual desktops. Windows, virtual desktops, and contexts all get kept in most-recently used (MRU) order.

So when I'm working within a virtual desktop, usually it's kept to a very localized specific topic involving multiple windows, Mod+Tab switches through those windows with the hot ones always staying at the top of the MRU-ordered list. Sometimes I end up with a slightly tangential set of windows so I spin up a virtual desktop within that context and keep those windows there, and the virtual desktop switching within the context can be achieved with Mod+Space, also in MRU-order.

But I also usually have multiple contexts active, each with one or more virtual desktops. Those contexts are for entirely disparate topics. Usually one context is communications, I'll have email, IRC, browser, etc. in one or more virtual desktops within that context. Another context will be one development project, with one or more virtual desktops full of terminals, kcachegrind, testing, etc. Usually I have two or three active development contexts repeating that mess. I can switch between the contexts using Mod+Grave, also in MRU-order.

The major value this all brings to me is it organizes my virtual spaces in the same way I organize my thinking and logically switch contexts. Due to everything always being kept in MRU-order, and having explicit keyboard controls for switching to the next recently used {window,virtual-desktop,context}, whenever I switch between these things, what's put immediately in front of me is the last item I was focused on within that context/virtual-desktop. And when I'm cycling through just windows or virtual-desktops, I don't get distracted by ever seeing the stuff put elsewhere.

But I do somewhat agree in the sense that many window managers offering virtual desktops utterly fail to deliver the obvious potential workflow advantages. It's totally ubiquitous for Mod+Tab to cycle window focus in MRU-order, but for some unclear reason nobody seems to do the same for virtual desktops, and I've never seen any before that grouped virtual desktops into another MRU-ordered and iterable/focusable thing which I've termed contexts.

Something I've come to really appreciate with how my window manager works is I'll sometimes spend over a month just living within the three MRU contexts getting shit done. Then I'll finally come up for air and hit Mod-Grave that fourth time without releasing Mod and rediscover that project I was working on last month still sitting there waiting for me to resume working on it, with the last focused window still sitting on top and focused ready to go. The entire month I spent in the top three MRU contexts I didn't have that backburner context's windows/virtual-desktops entering my cognition one iota, despite it being there all running and waiting happily.
ooh, MOSH over DNS. Theres all kinds of features to compensate for UDP lossiness built in.
Recently made this extension and interested in getting some feedback on it.

Vytal can Spoof your timezone, locale, geolocation and user agent. This data can be used to track you or reveal your location.

Most extensions that provide anti-fingerprinting features rely on content scripts to inject script tags into webpages. There are many limitations to script tag injections which you can read about here: https://palant.info/2020/12/10/how-anti-fingerprinting-exten...

Vytal utilizes the chrome.debugger API to spoof this data. This allows the data to be spoofed in frames, web workers and during the initial loading of a website. It also makes the spoofing completely undetectable.

You can test and compare Vytal and other extensions on https://vytal.io

Unfortunately it doesn't work on Firefox since Firefox doesn't support the debugger API. Works on Brave tho.
thanks. I am looking for my own videos and particulary not youtube. The idea is to host my own videos on my site to be able to search them. Therefore looking for an opensource solution
That is indeed pretty cool. I don’t think that it’s impossible to have a manual transmissions with an EV by any means. Just that most don’t see to include it.

I really enjoy shifting gears on my bike. But if motorcycles didn’t come with manual transmissions I don’t think it would be the worst thing.
Rio de Janeiro is great too, if you avoid the favelas.
>One good reference to learn more is https://www.strongerbyscience.com/complete-strength-training..., and other articles on that site.

The site's author seems to have really done the research, but man he really needs to spend a bit more effort converting all that research into a one or two page summary. I just want to know what the most effective training strategy is, not when my tendon elasticity is dropping.
If you sell ten widgets that cost $100 each, and then you make them faster and cheaper so you can sell a hundred widgets that cost $10 each, you have not achieved any economic growth, as the latter is defined as "the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over a certain period of time".
Woman accused of tracking boyfriend with Apple AirTag, killing him with car
> the leap from "asking for something" to "asking something for everyone" doesn't seem like a big one.

It seems like an enormous leap to me. Imagine I’ve been approached by someone asking for a free license to my software. They’re probably unlikely to pay me anything (whether unwilling or unable doesn’t matter), so my decision has a likely loss to me of $0 and I can decide if I like the proposed project enough to say “sure, why not?!”

Contrast that with giving my software away to everyone, including people would would pay the money that I use to buy food and shelter.
There's also an academic capital, New England (Boston), with Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, and two dozen top liberal arts colleges.
because property tax is based on the value of the property, and your property is worth more too?

a different way of phrasing the question: is it fair that your new neighbor pays twice as much as you to support city services, just because they bought their place more recently?
The Coulston Four outcome wasn't the result of jury nullification, the defendants were acquitted because they had a lawful defence.

I suppose it's possible that the jury found that they found the defendants guilty of breaking the law but returned a "perverse verdict" anyway (jury deliberations are secret after all), but their behaviour certainly had the possibility of being lawful and the jury were directed to decide whether or not it was lawful.
I use a Pi-hole for the network, but this doesn't block YouTube ads (sadly). Since I refuse to see ads of any stripe ever, I discovered that my Amazon Firestick can be put in developer mode and then install SmartTubeNext. Looks very similar to YouTube, but blocks all ads, sponsor content, and other nonsense. Pure videos.

I of course also use UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, and Referer Block on the laptop in addition to the Pi-hole. I do the same at work, as they allowed me to use a Pi-hole since I'm IT and on my own portion of the network on a private VLAN.

Since some people use laptops in lieu of TVs, you can always use FreeTube, which blocks ads by default and can also be proxied in the settings so YouTube cannot see your location.
https://freetubeapp.io/

How to block ads on Amazon Firestick
https://troypoint.com/youtube-without-ads/

SmartTubeNext
https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/
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Forget retrofitting. Go SCO. Single Cubicle Occupancy.
I stand to benefit from Prop 13; yet I would vote against Prop 13 without a second thought. It is causing enormous and unjust human suffering. People vote against their self interest all the time, if you convince them that it is for the greater good.
I work in that area :)

The skills needed will vary a lot. Hence my concern about studying H&H. It's a good idea, as real analysis is the foundation. But it will take too much of your time to get to something useful. Probably you should try to learn more applied material in parallel and let both threads merge in the future.

For maximum likelihood, you need to learn convex optimization right after real analysis. The canonical reference is [1], but there's also a very simple and pragmatic linear algebra textbook by the same author that also covers some of the optimization basics [2]. This might be a good entry point, certainly easier than Spivak or H&H. There's also [3,4], which you probably know about. These are great and emphasize the modeling part. Maximum likelihood (via EM) is in the appendix, and you don't really need to know a lot of math to get going.

If you prefer a Bayesian or a variational point of view, modeling is the really important part. MCMC and message passing algorithms tend to be reused. For high level modeling of study results (e.g. differential expression on complicated designs), Gelman's Stan books [5] are a delight to learn from. If you need to roll your own custom inference, you should learn about graphical data structures such as factor graphs [6,7]. Here, knowhow from H&H is also required.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/

[3] http://eddylab.org/cupbook.html

[4] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/problems-and-solutions-...

[5] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/books/

[6] http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...

[7] https://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
I've been watching a number of the Taskmaster spinoffs in other countries- Norway, Portugal, Croatia, Belgium, etc- and one thing they all share in common is a tendency to randomly blurt out English words or phrases- most frequently in an exclamatory manner even though the show isn't targeted at an english audience and the people aren't native english speakers.

I haven't watched much Korean TV, but iirc it's not exactly uncommon in Korean music either.

I assume it's "cool" given the prevalence of English media, probably varies quite a bit by region.
(Author of rulex here)

It's a middle ground, actually: When compiling a rulex, you specify the target regex flavor. Some features (e.g. lookaround and backreferences) aren't supported in every flavor. Some features are polyfilled by rulex, so they work even when the targeted regex engine doesn't. However, there are also features supported by PCRE that aren't available in rulex yet. Notably, atomic groups, recursion, character class intersection/subtraction and some mode modifiers aren't supported yet. Eventually I'd like to support all of PCRE's features.
This seems like a simplistic or morally convenient take. Politics everywhere evolves to a state where top competitors seek primarily to win. The difference between say, the highly adversial politics of the US & the less negative politics of, say, Canada, is not the result of some difference in altruistic behavior between Canadian & American politicians, but a difference in systemic incentives between countries.

In the US, elections are fought between two party candidates, and so the results of a highly adversarial approach can viewed through a zero sum lens. If I lose less social trust by smearing my opponent then they do, then smearing my opponent is a strong viable strategy.

In Canada, due to a host of systemic differences (smaller electoral districts, debates run by inclusive institutions, stricter campaign finance regs, etc) multiple visible parties compete politically. A direct result of this is that if adversarial behavior negatively affects public perception of both the attacking party and the target party, both parties lose while a third party gains.

This a small example of one facet about how differing systems channel the behavior of competitive politicians. An observation of flawed electoral systems is that they tend towards harmful feedback loops. Culturally, maliciously adversarial behavior becomes normalized and escalated. Gerrymandering leads to competitive primaries & non competitive general elections which leads to partisanship that makes it more difficult to deal with gerrymandering. Judicial capture leads to the institutionalization of systemic flaws that benefit the party of the judiciary.
Can somebody explain to me, briefly and plainly, why an absence of growth comprises a crisis?

If the bills are paid and the people are fed then it's ok to keep things at their present size. Right?
I dunno, a social media platform with the mission statement "We're against human trafficking" would probably still suck.
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