skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early 1990s when I came here, the prevailing wisdom was that its categorically better to immigrate to the US from India if you get a chance. India was too far back in the tech space, too much bureaucracy, corruption, red-tape etc etc...

In the 2020s, the consensus is quite mixed. A lot of people I personally worked with, who successfully got their visas and green cards, have given it all up and gone straight back to India because that's where the action is. It was quite baffling to me because it takes a lot of work to get these documents. But after a few trips to India, I must say it makes a lot of sense. The startup funding situation, tech jobs hiring scenario, cost of living, telecom, healthcare, no prevalence of gun culture...every aspect is much better in India currently than the US. If you have high 6 low 7 figure USD saved up, and not too deeply tied to the US, you should consider moving back if you want to tap into a potential windfall. That said, if you only have 5 figure USD, coming to the US is the better option if you can swing it. If you're already here on a visa, stay frugal & grow that nest egg. Going back with a 5 figure sum is quite risky unless you have some solid contacts in the startup space or are ok with the Indian job scene. Interviews over there are insanely competitive. 500+ LC. Kids just stay at home grinding LC all day. There are dedicated youtube channels in Hindi & other regional lang telling you how to dynamic program, backtrack, div & conquer, two pointer....its a whole different scene.
NIH budget has increased over 40% since 2015.
https://officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY22/spending-hist/Me...
As the post mentioned, even the VSCodium team cannot shutdown all telemetry. Seems some do not have switches?
US immigration policies for Indian and Chinese nationals has been a blessing for their home grown tech ecosystem. There is no path to a green card or citizenship for anyone who immigrated in the last ~15 years, and the top 5% talent that used to come over by default is now working at or founding companies at home instead. This is directly correlated to the number of tech unicorns in these countries growing exponentially in the same time period (0 in India before 2010, 100+ in 2022).
It seems easy enough to "sell" it to people listening. Location, speed based track selection.
Current industrial agriculture isn't physically sustainable in the long run for many reasons (soil loss, depleted aquifers, salinity), so the status-quo isn't a long-term option. Either we figure out how to feed billions of people sustainably, or things will get rather unpleasant in the future.

I don't disagree with you though.
I find those things mostly FUD.

In 10,000 years most the the really dangerous nuclear waste would have decayed. In addition, nuclear waste is a local problem. It won’t magically spread to a large area.

Cadmium, lead, arsenic would probably all be more dangerous than 10,000 year old nuclear waste.
> If you want to get pedantic, the source code isn't the tool used for money laundering, it is a description of the tool. An idea.

No, that's not right. The Tornado Cash contracts, built specifically from that github project, were in active use on the blockchain. That's a machine, not an idea.

You're right, that there's semantic space to talk about the distinction, but that github project was directly conflating the two. So it was killed. Now we have another project, run by a researcher interested in blockchain technologies and not someone trying to run a crypto tumbler. And now the argument seems to have some more reasonable weight.

But please don't pretend that the Tornado github project existed for some kind of abstracted idea of discussion. It was a practical project designed to be used for crypto mixing, and as such deserved to be regulated that way.
Yep, this is why we're building a time-travel debugger for JS at https://replay.io .

The basic idea of Replay: Use our special browser or Node forks to make a recording of your app, load the recording in our debugger, and you can pause at _any_ point in the recording. In fact, you can add print statements to any line of code, and it will show you what it _would_ have printed _every time that line of code ran_!

From there, you can jump to any of those print statement hits, and do typical step debugging and inspection of variables. So, it's the best of both worlds - you can use print statements and step debugging, together, at any point in time in the recording.

We record the OS-level syscalls from the browser, and replay those in the cloud against hundreds of process forks of the exact browser version while you're debugging. When you step backwards, evaluate a print statement that ran many times, or jump to a different pause point, the backend is using those many forked processes to evaluate those results and ship the info to the debugging client.

I can say that we personally use Replay to debug our own dev work on Replay on a daily basis, and it makes a _huge_ difference. I recently used Replay to debug an obscure E2E test failure ( https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/1547682026181996554 ), and a bug with React-Redux v8's `connect` and React's experimental `<Offscreen>` ( https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/1559643125865390083 ).

See https://replay.io/record-bugs for the getting started steps to use Replay, and we've got some neat articles about some of the technology at https://docs.replay.io/docs/how-replay-works-2adcccaf8f7743f... .

If you've got any questions, please come by our Discord and ask! https://replay.io/discord
*one decade
The parasite of my parasite is my friend.
I get these are huge privacy infringements and I don't like that but except for improving Copilot I don't see how they would make money from that.

On the other hand, sites such as StackOverflow and Google (possibly even Bing) can get a good guess of the others as well.
It's Microsoft.

It's what they do. It's been 20+ years. I'm not even old. I just don't understand how people haven't figured this out yet.
Camels fought from Stalingrad to Berlin with the Red Army.

And one very famous bear fought in Italy with the Poles.
It depends.

In some cases, I preface with a YYY-MM-DD date, for sorting. In cases where I want to link to something (like when I attribute images in my writing), I may have a title like "wikimedia-commons-man-on-a-unicycle.pdf", or somesuch.

Other times, I consider it important to keep the original filename.

I'll often rely on the container context, to provide classification.
I thought one issue is that our immune system might adapt and kill the phages, making them more of a one-time use per person. Is this true?
Come to the Netherlands and those people are exactly the people biking. The elderly have more mobility and health this way, a cargo bike is a very popular second car replacement, for groceries and kids.
And it's not like maintaining a car is cheap and such a good deal for the poor.

But yes, suburbs make a car required for most people outside of Europe, but we have to start somewhere.
Your argument does not stand with e.g. France.

In France, there's an election for each. One for national parliament seats, one for EU parliament seats.

In the last decade, the national elections were usually won by center-left (Macron's party) while the EU ones were won by the far-right (Le Pen even has a seat at the EU parliament AFAIK)
There's no hard, fast rule for when a weak PRNG is bad except in the obvious use cases - salts, etc. There's no reason you can't use a weak random number generator for generating a password. It only becomes a problem when you have a bunch of passwords, stored in the same place, generated with a weak PRNG, AND the adversary knows the PRNG and how they were generated.

It really comes down to threat surface and likelihood of attack. CSPRNGs are cheap enough to run that you can just use one all the time these days with no loss. The problem is the esoteric math they rely on means that you're giving up some control of your threat surface (unless you understand cryptanalysis with modern crypto). So generally, you can just always use a CSPRNG due to cheap execution time, with the understanding you then become vulnerable to attacks like the ECC attack where adversarial mathematicians know more than you about your own security.
Always been a fan of "Heavy Industries".
Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?
Technically, a corporation exists to distribute risk to facilitate a venture that may produce a return, not necessarily fiscal, but nevertheless valuable to the group undertaking it.

It's a perversion of the concept to jump to must produce a positive financial return. Sometimes you just need an organization to coordinate something that eases a societal ill.

That business schools have forgotten this, and that we don't remind people of this consistently is a tragedy. It cuts off entire avenues of collective organization to get things done. Some times "getting it done at minimum outlay" is enough.
Not much groupthink needed to downvote somebody who feels a single short sentence, with no citations or.. anything really, yet one that goes against current mainstream medical and scientific opinions, is worth writing.

If you actually wanted to try to convince anyone that you might be even somewhere in the vicinity of having a point, you've given up before even trying and opted for pre-complaining about downvotes (something which, on HN, almost guarantees you downvotes even if you're saying something people agree with, btw) rather than suggesting a single piece of data that would lead to any reasonable person thinking "hmm, yeah maybe worth investigating further this theory that vaccines are the cause of UK's current high excess mortality rates".

But I suspect you didn't have much choice, if there actually were a compelling argument to make in support of your claim then, well, you'd be making it.
He might not have gotten the memo CIO role is about signing contracts with paper compliance vendors instead of actually securing shit.
But can you use it outside?

Looking at unboxing videos of Apple laptops gives me goosebumps, seeing all the reflections in the screen:

https://youtu.be/eSlAJMsM6CM?t=321

The Dell XPS to which it is compared here is available as a matte version and is nicely suitable to work outside.
It's not paranoia because the threat is real. Being afraid to use the toaster is paranoia.

Unless it is internet connected ...
It’s safe in the sense that the currents are weak enough not to cause thermal damage to the brain (though it can cause skin redness) or directly evoke seizure-like activity.

The whole point is to change brain activity, and obviously one hopes it does so in a “good” way, but ensuring that this reliably happens is a much thornier problem. One of the earlier products, which was supposed to make you better at video games, actually made people slightly worse!
> Small plots of land are on average far more productive per acre than large mono cropping plantations.

the bottleneck is not exactly land, but cost, manpower, etc. that's why industrial farming dominates the food and feedstock sectors.
This is true all over the world. Some of the most valuable companies in Asia or South America are just Uber or Doordash clones for example.
In practice, I’ve found it variable.

Drivers licenses are a lifetime thing: no need to renew every X years, because it’s not your photo ID.

Another thing they do well (from a US/Canadian point of view) is identify their people.

It’s all national: very little is state by state or city by city.

Need a birth certificate or police report? Just sign in with your national ID and they’re in your mailbox in under a week.

None of this North American garbage where you need to provide fingerprints or further details because you share a birth date with a criminal or have the same name as someone else born somewhere else on the same day.

And when claiming a tax credit, that should make it straight forward, because it will be difficult to make the claim multiple times by varying your demographics.

Tax returns are bloody simple if you’re a non-billionaire: log in and verify that, yes, the information that the government already has about your income and housing situation is correct and click Accept. Done.

More Difficult to cheat on your rental property taxes since every property needs to be declared as an own-use or income property, with further details required for the latter.
What do you think about regulation like the GDPR?
FYI Kpop is "very" popular in some segments of American culture that you just might not cross over with. I experience it frequently in the "Team Fight Tactics" ecosystem which is an E-Sport run by Riot Games (of League of Legends fame) that for some reason contains a very large Asian American population (in relation to their % of the population) and all of them frequently stream Kpop to large audiences. The largest streamer for this game "K3Soju" is one of the top 10 streamers on Twitch frequently pulling in over 20,000 viewers. All of these people are very active on Twitter. I point this out because I doubt things like this going viral on Twitter are necessarily the result of bot networks instead of just the result of corners of the internet that we don't encounter.
Huh, just a couple of centuries back maybe 90% of world population was self employed. It was not the greatest risk but simply a way of life.
You might want to check out a Hatsune Miku concert on YouTube because humans are actually entirely redundant if you can just generate the song. (You'll probably want to mute the audio though, otherwise your ears might start to bleed)

There is a 3d avatar dancing on the floor. The holographic technology in the context of concerts is incredible at this point.

As a matter of fact, its likely going to be in favour of AI if you consider VR headset etc, as the coming generations will be able to interact with the virtual artists, giving the producer am even easier time to get money from the consumers.

I'm not looking forward to that future to be honest.

Example: https://youtu.be/PlQIdq5mv_k

/Edit: After thinking about it some more: I think I agree that the potential music generation isn't going to change anything by itself. It's just another building block that will enable the music industry to eventually remove real humans from the equation. while we're slowly progressing on that path, the music generation alone won't push us to the logical conclusion.
Okay but companies don’t just add telemetry because it’s a fun and exciting engineering challenge. They do so for legitimate engineering and business reasons.

These solutions have privacy nuance they are not black and white/evil v good
Not big (a few GBs?). But being able to query is one easy way to get join and statistics.
I imgine the paedophiles are also concealing their activities in physal form too? It would then be reasonble to have a police officer strip/full cavity search everyone on their way in/out of their house.
Anything growing up through the gravel is a weed. Anything growing more than a few inches tall under a tree near the house, with the potential to be a fire ladder, is a weed.

I think that most of the "weeds" are beautiful, I have pictures of many of their flowers on my walls. But I can't afford that beauty near the house in wildfire country. And I'd like to keep my gravelled areas clear, including the driveway and around the structures, and asphalt or concrete aren't options.
I see what you mean, yes it does make it difficult to prove a trend between periods with high rates of COVID infection and low rates of COVID infection.

But proving such a trend is problematic regardless of what the criteria for a COVID excess death is. Simply because during a period of high COVID infection a lot of people are dying from COVID before they have the chance to die from other causes.
I was just replying to ipnon's comment in the abstract here -- it wasn't specifically about Parsnip, and I don't mean it as a subtweet or anything like that.
Linking to a Twitter thread is a little indirect, but Kim Zetter is a reporter on the infosec beat, and if you scroll up, you can see the link to the CNN article she's discussing. Also here's a video that includes the lawyer saying it out loud. https://mobile.twitter.com/donie/status/1562020176278716416 (@donie is the first person to talk in the video.)
David Lynch Theater
How is PyCharm WSL2 support these days? WSL2 is the biggest reason I switched to VS Code 1 year ago.
How does Sourcehut's free software consultancy work?
People like slimline cases for some reason. Like more recently, the PS3 was released in a newer slim case after the initial larger case.
The original Surface from 2012 was the first mainstream ARM Windows device.
Those are great machines too! And what dreamy keyboards.
Thanks!

Re the forums -- I think I recall a comic about this phenomenon. I thought it was an XKCD, but I can't find it. Product forums that keep on going, decades after the product ceased to exist, all hanging by the thread that somebody, somewhere forgot to cancel the payment for web hosting...
"You can't run the corporate governance system on permaculture! People managing a small plot of land and getting an abundant amount of clean, good food won't fly."

I have seen quite some permaculture farms, but abundance of food I have never wittnessed, compared to conventional (organic) farming. Rather big talks and low yield.

Don't get me wrong, I believe we could feed the world without the need of mass scale poison, but not while blinded by dogma.
What's the alternative? Blocking extensions from accessing the Internet? How are you even supposed to do that given extensions already have (completely justified) access to the filesystem and can invoke executables?

There certainly is a valid argument for Internet access, for example for documentation lookup, schema validation, database editing, etc.

There would be a strict, and yet fallible, vetting process on the extension marketplace to make sure every extension complies with whatever rules are defined.
> This seems to be true even in the open source builds like VSCodium.

Which is ironical given that you should be able to completely strip any telemetry code if the complete source is available ...
Perfidy could still happen in a tightly controlled system, where only a small number of people could view or modify user data, in a way that requires multiple individuals to sign off on it, and both the access and the modifications were internally logged and audited.

But that turns into "there was a sizeable conspiracy to fabricate evidence", as opposed to "a random person out of 2000 got bored, had a grudge, decided to have a laugh, and was acting alone".
> Reddit is trash full with bigotry, nazis, racism and stupidity.

Do you go to political subs and sort by controversial all the time or something? Do you browse using /r/all, /r/popular, or just not logged in?

I spend a lot of time on reddit, and to claim it's full of nazis and racism isn't really true unless you're going out of your way to find it. I'm not denying they exist, but they're just not as common as you make it out to be.
Alleged whistleblower publicly attacks company's reputation... A okay, I hate big tech companies.

CEO of company defends organization and says previous employee has ulterior motives... Not okay, I hate big tech companies.

See a trend here?
So I guess this page on their website is fiction?

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry
I fled an extremist Jewish cult in Guatemala when I was 15
Can you use it in an office?

My m1 is unusable at 80% of the comfortable angles, and not at all at the optimal one.
I personally dont find this to be true, its not only resale value, this might apply to expensive things, but other more daily things like phones, phone covers, etc, always have black/white as the most selling color.

This IMO is just a social change, people just like monochrome colors.
I literally ignore the front page 99% of the time and just go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
The answer is that Duolingo doesn't teach you grammar, which is why a bunch of startups have popped up to teach grammar specifically.
It's not evident NLP is the solution.
I generally agree with your points but would point out that when I exported all my evernote data a few years ago it came to about 15gb, mostly because I use a lot of photographs and diagrams in my notes. I don't know anything about this note platform but if it allows multimedia embedding then the data can balloon quite rapidly.
IMO it's because they've done very smart pivots / rebranding (VSCode, Github, NPM, even the Surfaces) and people who even know start thinking "new Microsoft"
I had to deal with this recently. Apparently these are "standard templates".

I hired a lawyer to rewrite that section to have a clearly split for side stuff and the company's stuff as well as the other invention assignment sections. See github's for an example of a fair agreement https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement). The company accepted it and everyone was happy.

If the company doesn't accept that they have no business taking ownership of completely unrelated stuff you do outside of work hours find another company to work for, they clearly don't care about you as a person.
Do you have a source for that? I thought the half-life in soil was 90 days. Certainly would be perplexing as to how various Roundup products work for months to a year.
Is there any AppArmor profile for VSCodium that denies it all internet access on Linux?

I'm too afraid to run it.
> It's not unusual to hear a UK expat in Australia say they left the place because they could not stand the depressing weather.

Note that by definition that is a biased set. Some people's concept of fun is limited to high intensity sunshine on a beach, personally I like the weather in the UK which feels quite balanced compared to many countries, and ideal for a lot of outdoor activities... Although this year it's been a bit on the hot side, probably not by comparison to Australia, which is why I can't imagine living in Australia, i'd constantly be too hot to want to do anything more than sit on my arse and drink beer.

It's possible people who find this weather depressing are in a depressing setting of suburbia where only intense sunshine could possibly make it appear less gloomy - maybe they just needed to get out and enjoy the wilderness more.
Thanks! That really does help. The world of Javascript is a largely closed book to me, and I think I like it that way. Opening it is unlikely to bring me much happiness.
You are correct, I didn't read the whole thing completely.
Hell no. NHS as a public service is currently fighting for its life. Opening up to private enterprise would accomplish the goal of killing and/or privatising it even quicker.
IIRC the whole relationship got off to a bad start when Intel failed to deliver 64 bit (x86-64) in time for the first MacBook Pros. Apple had to ship OSX on 32 bit only to replace it a year later when Core 2 Duo came out.

Given Tim Cook's known zeal for delivery I hesitate to think how bad things must have become later on.
It's a fair price for a free product.
Sounds like install rogue extensions is on the user. lol
Collecting data without informed consent was an ethics issue always.
I love VSCodium.

I wish they could find a way around some missing plugins, but it does what I need it to.
Yeah, but Mudge already sent a "whistleblower" complaint to congress / FTC so this isn't your standard publicly-amicable executive departure.
Being in charge of security usually means two things:

1. You find out all the problems.
2. You can't fix all of them (many reasons here, not all malicious) and are setup to take the fall.

Rinse and repeat.
Are you saying that is how VAT works? Because I have no idea how any could keep track of all that.