skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone on Twitter was upset that people they follow were following someone they disagree with. I pointed out that it's healthy to make yourself aware of dissenting opinions, and that following someone doesn't mean you align with every one of their beliefs and opinions.

They seriously couldn't fathom the idea of intentionally following someone they didn't agree with.

So not only are people aware of their filter bubbles, they guard them like it's the responsible thing to do.
not a 1:1 equivalent of the "classic" extended attr but there are special flags on files.

https://man.openbsd.org/chflags
There's value to a system where everything is bolt-on as well.
Book store or game store / card shop.

It would be an investment in your enjoyment, because you will almost definitely not make money unless you're also selling food or beverages.

(I don't have experience with either of those two businesses, so take it with a grain of salt.)
I don't understand how this is better than simply sending the person a message.
There are most definitely physician unions, especially in government-operated clinics which are often union shops. I was involuntarily in SEIU for a number of years as a result, though I thought striking was unethical for a doctor myself. See also UAPD and NAVAPD.
I bike roughly 30 minutes to work. The route I take crosses a bridge at the end and a point that’s notable for having traffic jam up. In perfect road conditions, no Traffic jam, the same distance by car takes 25 - 30 minutes, plus required time for finding a parking space. In the morning/evening traffic, it’s easily 10-20 minute on top of that. For distances around 10-20 km in the city, an ebike is absolutely competitive to a car.
Thanks for the warning and look-ahead!
I heard that Sweden's high income tax actually incentivised startups, because the only way to get _seriously_ wealthy was through capital gains.

Does anybody know whether that's true?

If so, it really undermines the narrative that is somewhat dominant in Britain, that high income tax will disincentivize entrepreneurship and innovation etc etc
Train gives you free time.
In addition, programmers have a decent shot at striking it out on their own if they can't stand W2 employment or if they think they can make more money starting a business.

That's one big reason why I am unlikely to support unionization for the foreseeable future. If an employer treats us like crap, we just leave and either find a better opportunity or start our own business with blackjack and hookers. As a programmer, you can start your own business today by simply offering your services and looking for clients. We aren't nearly as enslaved to our companies as many other professions are.
In regards to government debt (since the thread was originally about it), the government's debt is denominated in its own currency and the US is in the very cushy position where the USD is core to global trade, so the government can print itself out of any problem up to the point that the USD loses the trust of the international community. For the above reason, the number that makes up the US government debt is actually meaningless and is only good for political maneuvering around "increasing the debt ceiling".

In regards to the wider US economy, creating pain via high borrowing costs is the whole reason the interest rate is being increased. People and companies see the higher borrowing costs and change their mind on borrowing to spend, demand is choked, inflationary pressure reduced. The hard part is finding the rate that chokes it enough to control inflation while not choking it so much that you cause a recession.
Perhaps, but the the Common Lisp community doesn't like pretty much anything you can name.

Great language, toxic community.
The original Monero was shown to be flawed in this respect, maybe they have gotten better since then (in theory)? I'd expect chains like Monero and Zcash to fall into the same camp as Tornado Cash, just a matter of time
Not so simple before widespread computers in cars ?
I swapped between Windows and Linux (Mint/Pop) for a while because quite a lot of JS ecosystem things were problematic on Windows. WSL2 has solved most of those problems though.

I have bad luck with Macs, getting dev tools properly installed seems as hard as on Windows and everything falls apart a few times a year. The OS also seems to break itself and crawl to a halt sometimes (>1 minute to open settings). Linux distros were stable only if I can stayed on the happy path (single monitor, integrated graphics, don't try to sleep/hibernate) with close to default config. Windows can seemingly tolerate a lot more fiddling, at least since 7.
I think StarCraft2 would launch an old replay with an old executable. If you look around, there is a directory with exes from a bunch of different versions of the game. I don't know if they still do this since it seems quite unwieldy.
Betteridge’s law response to headline: no.

Short answer: not any time soon.

Long answer: Maybe, in the long term. Node is really entrenched in orgs and 99.999% compatibility is probably a must have before they’d would consider switching. Also, don’t underestimate the strength and persistence of Google’s V8 team. Year over year incremental performance improvements may prove to be enough to ensure Node’s dominance for another 10 years.
I think nowadays such jobs come with the stipulation that you pay them the cost of the training if you quit within x time.
This transcript doesn't mention it specifically but the most accurate prediction they're referring to is likely the anonalous magnetic dipole moment of an electron [1] where theory matches experimental value to at least 10 significant digits. The article talks about 12 decimal places so maybe they're referring to somethign else?

At the other end of the spectrum is the s-called vacuum catastrophe [2] where the predicted and actual values for the energy density of a vacuum diverge by as many as 120 orders of magnitude.

As for the incompleteness of QFT, this is well beyond my knowledge. I really wish this were an article instead of a transcript though. Transcripts are such poor means of conveying information.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_magnetic_dipole_mome...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem
Should probably clarify in what ways (or for what) it's supposedly better. That's quite the inflammatory statement.
The entire list can be summarized into "Just use the latest versions of Microsoft everything, and uninstall all 3rd party software" (how convenient, I bet they also recommend using OneDrive). They even explicitly recommend against any 3rd party security software.

Yet however 7-zip gets the boot because it apparently is not compatible with a 3rd party "Anti-Exploit" software (Malwarebytes) ?
> “This entire comment is very misinformed.”

Could be the reply added to most of HN comments about Bitcoin/crypto.

Thanks for replying.
As a long time Linux user, I recently got confronted with the Windows group policy editor.

You can use it to disable (blacklist) all the Windows crapware (xbox, etc).
Or in the extreme case, whitelist only specific files.

I still prefer a text config file over the GUI, but this thing is insanely powerful.
Node is a small team too but what features in particular are we missing?
> I'll add that really ALL of his 'Cartoon' books are worth a read.

Definitely, or at least every one of them I've seen.
20% on LTCG above $500,000 is still a hell of a lot cheaper than 39%+ (tiered) on income above $500,000 or whatever.
I strongly disagree, and I would suggest if you feel that way you have an abnormality such as autism.

Human interaction is fundamental to being a human, and people should be expected to desire it regularly.

I do, however, agree people shouldn't be dependent on their office for that. I have no desire to make friends with coworkers, unless it just happens to occur organically because we like each other.
> Fixed points, diagonalizations and eigen… are all the same thing.

This is true in a moral sense, but not literally. Fixed points are eigenvectors for a particular eigenvalue \lambda = 1 (together with the 0 vector, which is always fixed but not an eigenvector, by fiat). (Over a field,) eigenvectors corresponding to non-0 eigenvalues are not fixed points, although they lie on fixed lines; and they can be made fixed points by re-scaling the original matrix, if that is convenient. I don't know an obvious way to think of eigenvectors with eigenvalue \lambda = 0 as fixed vectors.

A matrix that is diagonalizable has sufficiently many eigenvectors, but a matrix may have eigenvectors even if it is not diagonalizable.
Cargo bikes cost between $2k and $5k, can be easily stolen, take as much space to park as a car, and carries one person.

Cars carry 5 people and can cost between $5k and $10k.

So cargo bikes are really no match.
7-zip is infamous at this point for having security holes, and iirc it still is compiled without things like control flow integrity or stack checks. It at least has ASLR now.

For zips the windows built in support might be adequate, but I've yet to find a safe 7z unarchiver :(
Ooh seems cool. Reminds me of the ATC game on iOS way back in the early days of iPhone.
It's not the first time we hear about people getting electric shock from their Macbooks. And not just in India.
it should be true for the majority of countries in this world that allow their citizens the freedom to do contract work, whether with a local or a foreign company. some may require registration as a sole proprietor of some sort, but not all. the primary difficulty is figuring out income taxes.
Brainwash SF RIP

https://brokeassstuart.com/2017/12/12/eulogy-brainwash-cafe/
i'm using a 35k row excel daily without any hiccups. Sorting, Vlookup, running formulas for all rows
I've been using Roxterm with AwesomeWM. I don't like borders, tabs or menus on my terminal. I just want it to pop up with a key combo (Meta Enter) and disappear with a Ctl-d. Bang bang. I bounced around for a bit and settled here. I can't recall all the details but Roxterm just seemed to be the one I could config to my liking on AwesomeWM. Arch moved it to the AUR a few years ago. I guess it's fallen out of favor for some reason.
I've been designing a language since 2009 – friends and I implemented a beta
I think the meaning here is "better <to be> compared to a BSD", as in it's closer to a BSD than a Linux in terms of design and ethos.
There's a 'run as' mechanism built in and accessible via GUI inside of Task Manager (File -> Run New Task) and the command prompt ('runas'). You can also open an Administrator Command Prompt.
Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot
> they still need a supervising doctor even if that doctor is only a warm body.

This is a good thing for standard of care: it's a chain of accountability. Medical supervision is supposed to set local policies and quality gates across a range of different providers. This also extends to EMT's in the field, for example: their supervision says what drugs or procedures they can use, which affects what the ER is expecting when patients arrive.
The AMA controls medical school certification, and size, and therefore controls the number of new entrants, keeping earnings high.

It doesn't organize medical doctors for working conditions, salary and benefits negotiation, insurance, or most of the other features of a union. A hospital chain doesn't negotiate with the AMA on behalf of their surgeons and hospitalists.

(It would probably be a very good thing if interns and early residents had a union supervising working conditions.)
It really will. After riding in a friends Tesla I realized that the mixture of OTA updates, unauditable firmware, and the rise of subscription add-ons for cars means that in the future it will likely be necessary. With phones, the cost is cheap enough (sometimes free) that people won't jailbreak. When you realize your car can be remotely shut down for using aftermarket parts or driven back to the lot autonomously for missing a payment suddenly it's not just necessity, it is duty to jailbreak the car.
I think Pawn Shops should be included in that list as well. People are going to need the money to pay for that stuff.
question. if you feel that faint buzz on your chassis with a 3 pinned connector, does it mean that your ground isnt grounded?
Having the global reserve currency is a pretty big difference too. The base economy of the Lebanese government is Lebanon, the base economy of the US government is the world.
Somewhat related; the Po/architect/techlead ( transcends titles) dude on my team , who is a great guy technically and team wise, is completely unmanageable when it comes to day work. Whichever issues he is assigned to he will not do... instead he will do some other stuff none ever though of or asked for (good stuff tho but won't see value or impact until at least half a year later), but if you assign a crystal ball gazing task to him he won't do that either, hell do something that should have been done 6 months ago. Management really got into work tracking ... So it's a constant cat and mouse game. He just wants to cash a check and do whatever he wants to do.
I have a pan I've been treating similarly, for a similar length of time, and I doubt a teflon pan could be any slicker. I used to scrub it out with salt, if anything got stuck on, but I haven't had to do that in a while.

I recently found that you can get a jump on the process by polishing the cooking surface. I took an orbital sander to a new skillet last month, from 60 up to 180 grit, and it works great. Seasoning with six rounds of flaxseed oil was a complete failure - it all flaked off immediately - but the pan cooks pretty well anyway, just the bare metal. Of course I oil it lightly after cleaning to keep it from rusting, and it is starting to develop a nice patina.
Now if I could just boot this from a cartridge I'd approach the last time programming was truly joyful for me.
> Two hundred miles north of New Orleans

At that point, calling the fluid in the Mississippi River "water" is stretching the definition. It is rich and chunky with the flavor of all the land it fell on as rain. It'll put hair on your chest and crayfish in your pockets. Drink enough of it and you'll start to call them crawdaddies.

Sure its not hard to filter, but what will you do with all the silt? Look at how much effort we spend now dealing with all the silt right there. Without trying to handle it as part of water extraction.

I think there's gonna be better luck looking elsewhere, desalinization looks like about as much effort and less distance to move the results.
I don't read that sentence to mean it's better than BSD, rather that Oasis is more like BSD than a typical Linux distribution.

"It is better compared to" is an idiom meaning "the comparison is more apt to".
Question you should. For decades I've been trying very hard to avoid such statements because what do I know about "errybody" or "most people". I find it very off-putting when someone uses these levers in a conversation
I feel the name should have been "Shinobi" for maximum pun-ity
Electric Regional Air Mobility
I would split the cost and share the shop. You described my perfect setup.
Ideally, as more jobs are automated and less work is needed, a robust welfare state would provide people with income so they wouldn’t need to do jobs that exist purely to employ someone.

Many people who work such jobs are mothers who wish they could spend more time with their children, adults who wish they could care for an aging parent, students who should have more time studying and socializing, etc.
It makes sense that machine learning would be applied to personality types to correlate them against things like financial performance, level or field of education, personal health, etc. Here is one example of a data gathering exercise carried out by Myers-Briggs and Goldman Sachs:
https://www.themyersbriggs.com/en-US/Connect-with-us/Blog/20....
The FutureSelf AI seems to take this a step further, to assisting people who sign up to the service with suggestions (presumably exercises to develop specific mindsets, or adjust their psychological state?) that will help them progress to an overall happier state. As a tool, it is possibly of some use, depending on how much effort one puts into it - perhaps not too different to buying a course or a book on NLP. Those who get the benefit of it will no doubt swear by it and encourage others to adopt it, too - people are very keen on anything which can augment the level of their physical, mental or psychological performance.
I can't even piece together how this could be true.

A family probably only needs one cargo bike. An brand new _expensive_ cargo bike costs around the same as the yearly cost of a car.

If you think your car costs less, calculate your TCO.
Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning
Many thanks for publishing it, think about releasing it as open source my daughter had a blast modifying the source code. Adding a little sister mode making it almost impossible to beat.
I used this before, pretty impressive how much it can pull off
You’re misreading it. The author means that it’s more similar to a BSD than to a typical Linux system, as the previous sentence makes clear.
I didn't know anybody saw MOTW as a positive. I hate it and I don't see what problem it solves.
Building PC cases and accessories. In fact, the hardest part is not even the money (which I don't have lol but I'm reasonably sure I can secure it even nowadays), but finding a work/business partner. I simply can't handle working alone anymore, not even on stuff I like.
The two solutions I know are Premiere Pro's built in one called "Optical Flow" and Topaz AI's which is baked into their upscaling software. Premiere Pro's is not as good, and causes artifacts, but is more accessible than Topaz's which is very GPU heavy and costs more money if you don't want a watermark.
Not only are you estimating the astounding ingenuity of farmers it's not hard to make a convenient interface for a jailbreak.

Often times even replacing a tire is so expensive on a tractor after paying the highwaymen their fee the probability of bricking the tractor is probably not even factored in. John Deere more-or-less bricks your tractor anyway. So, arguably, it's no loss if you brick it given the alternative could be not putting food on the table because you spent 3 years of checks on repair or you'd have to buy a new one anyway.
Yes, I agree with you.

I wish pervasive theft wasn't creating a business case for more of it

see i.e. https://www.techdirt.com/2021/08/05/home-depot-tech-will-bri...
and many related articles.
Health care, logistics, law, finance, retail - there are a number of major industries that all still use Windows as primary. I have a good friend working in tech for Walmart, and another for a major hedge fund; both are Windows shops.

It's naive to assume that Windows isn't prolific. There's probably no good way to quantify numbers, but it's a major player still and likely always will be. WSL certainly helped keep that a reality.
I played around with the Qemu image and I really liked it. I wasn't even aware of some of the software they chose, like Velox.
Or Kennedy Approach on the C64:
"United three two six, say heading and altitude" "This is United three two six on one eight zero at four thousand feet"...even though I knew damn well what his heading an altitude was.
Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play Store
I'll second this. I treat WSL (2) as a Linux box I'm working on, which I can access via a terminal and \\wsl$ (and VS Code, crucially.)
How Brains See Music as Language
ffmpeg can do this and it has a few filters for doing so. The basic -r for setting doesn't create frames it just repeats them and often makes things worse. However the framerate filter does work and you can use it like this:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 "framerate=fps=90" output.mp4

It will interpolate frames. There are a variety of other options you can use to tweak it, take a look at https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#toc-framerate for some of the other options you can play with, you separate them with a , and they use the same Key=value format. There is also another filter https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#toc-minterpolate which seems to do a similar thing but I have had issues getting it to work in the past and I am not sure how they differ.

If you have a Nvidia graphics card then you can use hardware encoding and maintain all the existing audio and the complete command would like this:

ffmpeg -i "in.mp4" -c:v hevc_nvenc -preset slow -crf 20 -c:a copy -filter:v "framerate=fps=90" "out.mp4"
> the big tragedy it's that is focused on freight transport

I don't see the tragedy in that. Tracks in the US are privately owned and freight makes them more money than passenger rail. Don't think we'd gain anything by artifically changing that. Even in Europe planes are usually faster and cheaper than rail when traveling between countries.
> I've been trying to avoid sequels, reboots, and other Millennial nostalgia-based movies going to a mainstream theater, and I found it nearly impossible. Accidentally watched Uncharted not realizing it was based on... a video game of all things. It wasn't good. Nothing else was good either the past 2 years.

Same, but for a different reason: I saw too much of how the "sausage gets made", and watching an artistically shitty Marvel blockbuster just doesn't provide enough entertainment to "zone out" of the human suffering that goes into producing that stuff.
Those diesel engines are crazy strong. You feel the earth around you rumble when one of them rolls by.
I might be going offtopic... but, what is a 'best buy' (cheap, but good enough) 3d printer for a hobbyist, that is compatible with opensource/linux stuff (like octoprint,..), and has the most "effortless" experience (so, more printing than calibrating and modifying stuff)? Preferably atleast pla and abs.
Silent Hill was pretty decent IMO
No idea about the situation in Sweden but generally speaking I'd say it depends a lot on whether "income" in "income tax" also includes capital gains.
> avoid insecure software like 7-Zip (which e.g. lacks Anti-Exploit and MOTW support), Open/ LibreOffice, Firefox, True/Veracrypt, ...

This is such bad advice that I can't take the rest of this guide seriously.

Edit: The rest is even worse than I was expecting. E.g.:

> execute/ open new files with one-day-delay because after one day, the malware is not 0-day anymore

> use the only browser on Windows that natively supports hardware isolation: Edge
((better compared) (to BSD)), not (better (compared to BSD)) :)
It wasn't the 3D that was the problem, though, even though the 3D was obviously not native and the digital mattes were fairly flat. It just wasn't good visuals even in 2D.

That said, Dredd 3D was a high mark in 3D because it was almost all native, especially the component effects photography (the Slo-Mo scenes in particular blew me away). The few upconverted shots stick out like sore thumbs. Upconversion can be done well - see T2 3D, which was mesmerizing - but nowadays 3D conversion is now just another VFX workflow with the same drawbacks.
But these are all arguments about GitHub. Your original assertion, which is the one that I am countering, is that git will be ruined by MSFT. It will not. Github may very well be ruined, but that could be said about it anyways, since it has always been a profit driven company, even before the MSFT acquisition.
I might invest in creating a porn index fund, that sounds interesting
I ran a really non-scientific test before on startup speed between Oasis vs a slimmed down direct kernel booted Debian with systemd.

Obviously I'm writing this because Oasis absolutely trounced it.

So; Oasis is currently my go-to for small deployed VPS's.

(here's the video if you actually care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Aw5SSqYFo you'll note that the systemd one was delayed by the network on start- some people are going to argue that this is an artificial delay, but this is the truth of a startup and oasis had already booted before the delay anyway)