skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “semidemonic parasites” !!! Is this serious?

Words are most useful imho if they mean something.

I read "demonic" as "evil spirit" and "spirit" as "the prevailing or typical quality, mood, or attitude of a person, group, or period of time."

Fascinating perspectives are to be had if you picture the demon as its own thing with people providing the vessel. It takes quite a bit of ritual [proverbial] chanting and dancing around the camp fire for a person to swap his natural spirit for the new one.

the -ic in demon-ic only describes the thing as demon-like. Irish, greenish. I would argue they are actual demons. I see no value in using word to describe something that doesn't exist.

> Anyways, how desired is it really to weaponize the jealousy of the masses against those who have been given wealth? Any successful movement needs the buy in of some people in power. The strong rule the weak.

Yes, but no. lol

The ones in power are not the strong ones. Increasingly less so! One has to desire ruling the weak and that requires it to present at least some challenge and/or requires at least some insecurity.

A chess player doesn't desire to defeat someone who learned the game 20 min ago. Beating up a 6 year old is only interesting if you are 6 years old.

> Don’t think it’s so simple as ousting the master.

If the masses have no desire to be released. What is the point? When they do all it takes is to show them their actions have effect. (just a bit of light so they can see) Then one can return to the cabin in the woods. Entirely without leaving the shadows.
i am not siding with Uber but to claim that they are going to fail is a bit of hyperbole . the value proposition is quite simple for both drivers and passengers . for drivers you would make more income by driving more consistently , for passengers you get a cab instead of shouting like a cave-person on the street. It is true that there is an element of bezzle with money pumping and dumping over the last few years . They can be profitable as a much smaller company.
I want to deploy container images to a cluster:

Here you go:

https://bastillebsd.org/
In addition to the rest of wonderful resources, I would like to promote my project here, if you are interested in algorithmic music/live coding:

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In this demo, you can find how we can use logistic map function to create some random musical notes:

https://glicol.org/demo#chaos
Yeah, you’re right of course; my point was more that somehow we ended up with a “standard” format to store and distribute images, have plethora of tools that are able to run it, but they’re all using the same kernel fundamentals (cgroups).

But all that would be a distraction from the point I was trying to make, so I simplified it a bit.
After yesterday's post about Nix I tried to install it on my Arch+fish machine. I couldn't.

Somewhat naively, I assumed that installing it from the official channel would do the job. It didnt't. I then searched the Internet and found a very "creative" workaround for Arch users that didn't work either.

My own problems aside, I would expect from a tool marketed as something that helps you keep your environment clean to not litter my disk with a ton of hidden files and directories spread all over the filesystem.

I hope it doesn't sound too harsh. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the development of this amazing project!
So for the other 95% of the world, had someone for the metric version?

Edit. Got it https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/estimate-distance.html
Just curious, why is a camera considered somehow more privacy invading than a microphone? I would rather like to have physical switch for mike. I don’t really care if someone sees my ugly mug picking boogers. Listening in on business discussions in the next room over is another story. Let alone the contents of the machine itself or the rest of the network that “they” probably already have if they are capable of turning cameras on and off.
It's a balancing act and for me, Internet use is an addiction like gluttony. Forgive my lack of empathy, but addiction takes on a whole other quality when you're addicted to some necessity of life.

Food is, of course, a quintessential necessity, and someone who overeats or has an eating disorder needs to come to terms with temperance, moderation, and balance of lifestyle, rather than quit eating altogether.

15 years ago, it was realistic to hang up the modem, unplug the computer, get face out of screen, and get some fresh air for long stretches of time. But my reality today is that I use a device online to manage my household and do ordinary, everyday tasks, including working for my employer is 100% online. Implicit in this article is the fact that the Internet is no longer something to be avoided or removed from our lives; the article simply suggests that we can use it differently, improving our attitudes and our approach.

So rather than a "kick the habit" strategy, we typically need to devise time-management techniques and ways to form better habits around good, productive use of our devices, while balancing that with actual needs to unplug and take a walk in the fresh air.

That may mean that I don't obsessively check bank balances and twiddle my bill payments 3 times a day, 7 days a week. And it means that I'm not allowing every email and SMS to distract me from a task. And perhaps channels about home meal preparation and gentleman's grooming should be dominating my YouTube suggestions, above SNL and Avril Lavigne tracks.

I also need to cope with being triggered. If I have an anxiety attack or fit of rage over someone who's Wrong on the Internet, I am guaranteed to suffer insomnia and all the rest. And so we need the skillsets to short-circuit and defuse those situations, and sometimes the situation is avoidable and sometimes we need to find a way to push through it without losing our heads.

This blogger offers 15 pragmatic, common-sense strategies for coping. And it can get better. Do not believe that you can escape the Internet by avoiding it, nor can you escape real life by going online. Develop good hygiene, good habits, be productive, and learn to cope when things inevitably get difficult.
I think lisp users are more for code growing from lists, not trees
> BTW. Every new developer they get is treated with some suspicion at first, and when he learns the idioms of the system he becomes a honored member of the team X. If he fails to learn them, he gets fired or passed to another team, where he may turn out a better fit.

Oooh, that's an interesting observation. This was so long ago, before I really knew about this attitude. Since then, I've been on these teams and despise that attitude. I didn't even know that attitude existed back then, so this is indeed a possibility.

> And, in all fairness, it is kinda unlikely that a guy who is new to a codebase didn't fuck up in any way, even ever so slightly. Especially if that's a kind of guy who doesn't understand why dedicated back-end and front-end teams exist.

Hah, they couldn't find any fault with the code, the unit tests were even better quality than their own. I also submitted several other PRs fixing bugs that I discovered while writing unit tests. Their reason for not merging the code, after reviewing it, was that the implementation "didn't seem scalable" despite including performance tests showing that it was both faster and used less resources than some of the more popular API endpoints.

When I joined, they kept having GC problems and I pointed out that they were using the Desktop GC method instead of the Server mode GC (this was C# 3.x?) and they didn't even know that that was a thing. They didn't like how some frontend engineer seemed to know more about C# than them.... I imagine that it was a combination of a lot of things, me knowing more about their language than them and not being on their team, plus submitting PRs "showing them up."

This was my first time working at a company with more than 10 devs, so I was used to just getting shit done and not worrying about politics. These days, I know better.
What does that have to do with Musk? Musk never worked at Google and Tesla s self driving technology lacks key sensors compared to what Waymo and Uber were working with.
South Indian dynasties are often overlooked and under appreciated. The Vakataks who built the Ajanta caves, the Satvahan and Kakatiya whose innovations in water management are still in use today. Then there were the maverick Deccan sultanates, Vijayanagar and the mythical Pallavas and many more like Cheras Hoysala etc add to the colourful history of this region.
> Linux supports higher throughput for a while now

Really that's new...because netflix thinks otherwise.
Predatory pricing should be made more illegal than it is. No one wins when a company operates at a loss to kill incumbents in a market.

At least for markets where the incumbents have no other protections (unregulated taxi markets). This is very few of Uber’s markets and probably not those where they do best, but the principle of not being allowed to operate at a loss with investor money year after year feels sound.
How 400 people can work in deep focus in library but cannot do the same in company open space?

People go to a library because they want to do work.

The same is not true of an office. Lots of people there would prefer to be somewhere else.
Many cities in the world have cabs on equally capable apps now so that competitive advantage is gone. Nobody screams like a cave person on the street anymore
It doesn't say the games will be kept if Steam goes under. In fact, they don't let you keep games if they're removed from Steam "for any reason"

> If a game is removed from your Steam account for any reason, such as through manual deletion or a refund – we reserve the right to remove the games from your GOG.com library. (see https://www.gog.com/connect#faq)

I'd say it's unclear at best how well you'll be protected, but at least you can download and backup the DRM free installers for use even if GOG pulls the games out of your library.
Ha ha ha ha ha.

This is down to the courts now.
Everything else is irrelevant.
Well it is a good message but a tad poorly researched and underdeveloped thoughts.

Being stuck in a "compulsion loop" online is not healthy for your mind. It doesn't matter if it is Twitter, TikTok or even Hacker News. What I'm seeing online now and those around me. Online behaviours that take the form of addictions are not healthy and should not be a part of a healthy persons lifestyle. And I wish that it would become a trend.
I've made a UI editor for React that allows you to edit any element visually but commits changes right to your code the same way you'd do it with a code editor.

https://github.com/impulse-oss/impulse
I don't see how that addresses OP's problem, which is poor and confusing documentation (I felt the same too). Everytime I hit a snag and searched for an issue, there were never a comprehensive and centralized source of solution, rather a bunch of pages each with different holes in information sprinkled with outdated advices. I share the feeling that I was reverse engineering things that should just be plainly documented.
And we should remember that there are no angels in a war (or as it seems even after it).

Here's an Atlas Obscura entry about the mass grave of an estimated 6,000 Confederate soldiers detained by the Union as prisoners of war in Chicago: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/confederate-mound

Even the number of people buried there is not known with certainty. And there seems to have been quite a few petitions to remove the monument with the 4,200 known names entirely. [1]

[1]: https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
This only occurred to me now in reference to Uber and other serial offenders, and I don't know what the situation in other countries is, but... In Switzerland there's actually a law against unfair competitive practices, and it has a clause prohibiting you from constantly or repeatedly (i.e. not as a one-off clearance sale or whatever) offering goods or services below cost! Wonder how it would go if you were to sue one of these companies operating here under that...
Oh you own Apple headphones alright too until they die a year later in forced battery death.
The German state of Baden-Württemberg mandates PV on all car parks (>35 cars) and all new private and commercial buildings since 2022.

https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemi... (German)
I see neural nets as extensions of human thought - they explore the fuzzy depths where we can't grasp directly, like a microscope or a telescope enhance vision. They are enhanced correlation engines.
Mate gives me a warm feeling of being at home where all is totally understandable and nothing has changed since 10+ years ago when Gnome 2 was a king.
Unfortunately Adobe has sucked all the fun and creativity out of Flash/Animate and there is virtually no worthwhile ecosystem surrounding it, not to mentioned the countless bugs. I still rely heavily on Animate CC in my game dev workflows, but think time is far better spent on other tools. IMO Godot looks like it is shaping up to be the closest thing to a modern Flash.
I don't mind billionaires whining -- it's what they do.

But I am surprised to see this fluff reported on the wire. Maybe it's always been there but doesn't usually make it to HN?
If somebody designs a system that does 90% of what Nix does and by stripping the hardest 10% manages to make it usable, that thing is going to be incredibly successful.
Where Nickel fits to this? Will it replace Nix or co-exist?
But it's there though ? Office 365 works on Linux since it's accessible through a web browser.
Cargo WAPM
And even before apps became common-place, in Europe it was common to call a dispatch and ask for a cab at an address.
Looks like if you go to prison "with money", even a few hundred bucks/month would take you very far. The same crap in most parts of the world.
When I chose to shop at a farmer's market-style grocery store, it came as no surprise that 99% of it is processed, loaded with sugar, preservatives, and all the same tricks you'd find in stock at a 7-Eleven. A "health food store" is still a supermarket with different brands.

I'm beginning to get a feel for which brands can be trusted, vs. which ones are purveyors of junk food.

Your rule of thumb is 100% correct, but I needed to pace myself. As a sedentary, novice cook, I couldn't handle hours in the kitchen prepping everything from scratch, 3 times a day. I was so exhausted, I had to use an electric scooter inside the grocery store! Healthy food is labor-intensive, and it seems like there is an intrinsic direct correlation to that. Healthy food even takes more work to digest!

But if food is frozen or canned or shelf-stable, caveat emptor indeed.
Sam's is a wholesale club known for marking down prices. Amazon.com is a retail store. I wonder how many other businesses this effects?
I keep having the recurring idea of building a pyramid, or other monument. Ideally somewhere deep in the woods so it wasn't discovered for many many years..

Getting stone, building it, could take years even with a lot of volunteers - and of course the moment you have an army of labourers the idea of secrecy goes out the window!

Still it's a fun daydream.
That was the thinking behind the GULAG program, yes.
If that would be a problem then use second section: "This feature is out of scope and not planned"
I think "chronically online" would be a better fit
But isn't prison special and exempt from our distaste against slavery? How could it ever not be akin to slavery even if they were paid?
Globalism.

The oligarchs in the west decided to outsource key industries to developing countries to increase their profit margins.

Now they're scrambling to fix those mistakes.
> as if it was some kind of religion

I don't know of a religion where you have to go through hell before reaching heaven.
Poll: Have you ever used the included Apple stickers?
China’s new railway tunnel squeezed by tectonic crush in Tibetan snow mountain
Harman Air (previously Adobe Air) is still around, but stay far away from it. It’s on life support and only a single developer at Harman maintains it. Despite the awesome efforts of said developer (who has improved things far more than Adobe did in the final years) the toolchain is broken in many aspects.
Way more. I love my siblings more than I love myself. I love my friends more than I love myself. I'm not good at self love and self care, but it's a bit easier if I tell myself that I do it for them.
It's a neat idea, though I can't see myself using a tablet made of printed plastic. It takes a lot of work to get the look and feel nice and right with 3D prints and the example prints don't look very appealing to me. I'd probably turn a leftover motherboard in a small server/desktop (because the old motherboards aren't exactly cheap).

Does the main board come with quality of life improvements such as a rotation sensor? Maybe something like GPS? I feel like it should be doable to print an expansion slot with the missing hardware included, perhaps inserted into the slot that's currently useless. You'd need to make your own drivers, though, and more importantly, get Windows to load them.
Have you been able to find non-manufacturer chargers with a ground connection?

Until now, the only USB-C chargers that I've seen with that are Apple, DELL, and HP (haven't come in contact with Lenovo, etc).

I was looking to buy a second USB-C charger for my HP laptop, but since it has a metal case, the ground connection is a must for me.
No, it becomes background noise at best, unsufferable at worst.
> Have you any source for that being the reason?

Not a particularly good one.

> That doesn’t imply a leaked key to me (I’d consider that wording dishonest if it actually is describing a leaked key)

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Even if they did announce a leaked key, I don't think it would go in that paragraph anyway. So that paragraph wouldn't be dishonest no matter what.

> but rather an increase in the sparsity of the ID space, presuming they were using encrypted sequential IDs.

The reason you do that is because you're worried about key leaks, isn't it? I can't really think of another reason.

And then they felt the need to pull the emergency lever and hide all videos on the old system.
Can’t find it in the AppStore :(( looks like some regional restrictions are set
>for passengers you get a cab instead of shouting like a cave-person on the street.

Maybe I'm a cave person but to me just waving to hail a cab or just entering the first car in line at a taxi stand seems much more convenient than having to fiddle around with a mobile app and wait until it arrives.
USB-C has solved about half the power adapter problem and could solve most of the rest with some more adoption.

Why do we not have universal batteries? In fact, we could probably just use USB-C directly. We are good enough at making small things that we could just choose a standard size, lile a Gopro battery, power bank form factor, with a male C connector sticking out one side.

Would it be slightly wasteful to throw out the whole pack with all the electronics? Yeah kinda, but better than throwing out a whole device. Plus, it would guarantee any battery powered device can be run without a battery at all plugged into the wall.

Failing that, they can just design a new futureproof chemistry-independant smart battery from complete scratch.
Are they losing money or just not making as much as they could?

In this scheme it seems they provide product to certain retailers for cheaper and drop shippers use this to arbitrage a profit. Are they providing products to these stores for less than it cost to make them?

The solution to me seems to be to raise the price on these retailers...
Cursed-for: Adding C-style for loops to Python
What Steve Jobs learned from Buckminster Fuller during their only meeting
No. Camino was not a good alternative browser.

Camino was (is?) a Cocoa wrapper around Gecko, an engine for which OSX was a second class target, that steadfastly refused to use native components for basic UI (to this day there are basic OSX behaviors that gecko seems to struggle with), and was certainly not generically embeddable in other applications - Safari came with the WebKit system framework remember.

OmniWeb was similarly nowhere near the level of compatibility with real web content, and while obviously made by a Mac centric company, couldn't be used as a system component.

KHTML then has additional advantages - lower memory footprint, better responsiveness, designed specifically to be a component that could be embedded in arbitrary apps and used for non browser purposes.
That endpoint has to be unique for the client, otherwise someone else could abuse this API and when you filter out an attribute the rogue user depends on, you break their application.
> I couldn't.

Did you tried the method shown in Nix's site?

https://nixos.org/download.html

>I assumed that installing it from the official channel would do the job. It didnt't.

"Official channel" you mean from repos? That's a problem of your distro's package then, isn't it?
What does `terminally online` mean precisely ? What's the definition ?
I don't spend too much time online. Proof: I didn't read that blog post, because it is faaar too long.
> How much can you be certain that your Boeing job was not the reason for your high performance, and that you are not just projecting your current self and state on mind onto your past?

Because I started there as a newbie along with the formula pluggers. I could see what I could do vs what they could do. For example, one task required coming up with the spinning moment of inertia of the jackscrew assembly. A plugger sat a couple rows away, and looked at it, and asked "what book did you get that formula out of?" I said it wasn't in a book, so I used calculus. He just stared at me. He was a nice enough fellow, but didn't seem real interested in engineering, and would try to get by doing as little as possible.

I discovered that an undergraduate degree at Caltech conferred math skills that other universities put off until masters. Because I'd fix the math work of some of them, too. Over time, I was trusted more and more with more advanced work. The pluggers weren't.

I was an average student at Caltech.

I have little idea how Caltech compares today. But I've run into the formula pluggers in diverse engineering areas ever since. They would have all flunked out of Caltech.

I'm not sure why you question the notion that being able to understand where formulas come from is far more valuable than just memorizing them.

I'm sure there are other great universities that educate engineers that actually understand what they're doing rather than plugging in a formula. But I have no personal experience with them.
There are people who work full time and after their monthly expenses are paid hardly have anything left over, but prisoners should just pocket it all?
We're far from the days of getting a free Redhat CD in a book, just popping it in a drive and restarting to have it start a Linux install. You're lucky now if you don't have to enable USB booting, register a hash/key, turn on a 3rd party cert or just turn turn off secure boot to get a USB drive to boot.

I think it was too easy.
Sticking somebody in isolation for two years as described in the article, staring at bare walls, is far worse than physical punishment.
This was my grandfathers calculator, which he used for some business calculations (he was a "master ('Meister') craftsman" painter in East Germany, responsible for a team) into the 1990s even after he already had an electronic calculator.

https://i.imgur.com/jBDUHPp.jpeg

Does anybody have any information about this machine? I used to be able to do simple calculations with it, but nowadays I don't remember anything at all. I guess using trial and error I might be able to do additions and multiplications, but I would not be able to use even a fraction of that machine's capabilities. Sadly, there's no (surviving?) handbook.
Uber was founded because the same was true in SF; however then oftentimes the cab only arrived after an hour, if at all.