skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise is that the guy lacks power. Twitter has very little incentive to help him, and a strong disincentive to piss off the Pakistani government.

Wallowing in outrage is pointless as they have to cynically maneuver until they have results. Part of that strategy might involve stirring up people emotionally towards action, but internalizing the martyrdom doesn't achieve anything on its own.

Ironically, this is precisely the type of martyrdom that helps these tech companies strategically in the long term. From their POV, all they have to do is throw a performative bone once in a while and wait for people's outrage rush to ebb away.
if this is what’s best for Germany, are US and Canada loading up ships with firewood (and heat pumps) to help?
If you switch from i3 to sway you can use the serial number instead of the port to assign outputs. I think these days it's usable with even the proprietary nVidia driver.
Just an aside as we all get Old Fat and Ugly, its actually a good thing to have such a simple reminder to grep for shit out of your egress just so you stay close to whats happening on the wire.

I haven't thought about TCPDUMP in a long time, and I appreciate this man page.
It's the weekend. Give them a few business days.
How can you tell a truth from a lie in politics? You can certainly find the position you agree with and hire those guys and claim its always the truth, I guess. Unless you actually somehow know who the Indian secret services are paying. I certainly don't, even if I don't believe that this author is guilty of being a spy. This is judgment calls that a low paid Twitter moderator cannot make with any confidence.
> Agriculture is also a small portion of the state’s GDP

Be careful not to fall into the GDP trap. This is a place where free markets looking for efficiencies will cost you in p99 events. It's one thing when there's a toilet paper or semiconductor shortage. It's another when it's food, so it makes sense for governments to subsidize farm production, whether it's though cheap water or buying surplus product, to ensure a stable food supply.
IMO, it would be perfectly reasonable to include a warning saying that grapefruit is known to interact with many medicines and should be taken with caution by medicated individuals.

That's more likely to prompt someone who's medicated into looking up if their drugs are affected by the fruit.

At worst, it causes a few companies to have to print an extra line of text and it gets disregarded by users.
> You are dehumanizing atheists and, as I suspect, anyone who doesn’t follow your “ethical” god.

I'm not. We see the evidence of the direction of where the world is heading right before our eyes. The wise people already see it coming.

> thinking that all ethical people who do not agree with you are just not honest with themselves is delusional.

I said that the conclusion that those atheists had reached is the ultimate and only conclusion to reach when one is honest with themselves. I saw many atheists, and they don't think about the implication of their world view. They just live day to day as things around us get worse, then people cry and complain about how bad things are, while being blind to the true causes.

Look at the big mess of the modern day economic system. People are crying about high interest rates, student loans, etc. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity all prohibit usury (interest) for a good reason. Today people are trying to address the symptoms but not the cause, and they're failing at it. All these things have repercussions, but few people see it.
> where I currently live

Not surprised by your story, but still curious where you live? In the US, you can buy it in bulk quantity on Amazon. Mixing it with sugar was a ton of fun when I was a kid, smoke bombs that could totally white out a large backyard.
My original comment didn't make a value judgement on the rate restructuring, but it is true that I think the rate restructure was short-sighted. By lowering the per unit cost of water, they are discouraging conservation. And, the base fee is quite high for even our median wage earning households.

I believe it would have been better to have a lower base fee that does not, alone, cover fixed costs and make up the deficit by higher fees on those with high water consumption by maintaining a high per-unit water charge. The problem with this is that by not fully covering the fixed costs with the base fee, there will be seasonal variability in funding, but basic budgeting would mitigate that. And, GGP's point about such policies dishonestly being framed as, "rationing" by opponents.
Yeah, sure, maybe one day I'll have time during the holidays not allocated to "family" and "unplugging from the stress of dealing with family" and can do things like "inspect everything I'm about to give away as a gift"...
Ask HN: Which programming language would Aliens use?
If it was announced Aliens made contact with Earth, which programming language is most likely used in Alien UFOs and why?
When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (2018)
Why? I'm also a Mario Kart fan, and it's got new DLC. How to back that up?
How dare they take weekends off.
Ask HN: What is the best programing language and teaching resource for 10y child
Looking for best programing language to start with and online teaching resource for a 10+ child.
It's slightly older than Limbo, and comes from Newsqueak. The difference is that Newsqueak used keywords for the other non-variable declarations. `x: int = 123`, `const X: int = 123`, `type My_Int: int`, etc.
I do. My first post here was about scientism, which is the religion that science can explain everything.
One thing I learnt recently is that Windows 10 or below is incapable of remembering window positions. You need to buy third-party software. Microsoft finally fixed this with Windows 11.

I'm not making this up, its well documented on many internet forums, including Microsoft's own.

Incidentally, made me happy to be a Mac user. Since Apple never had that problem. Infact OS X is magical in how it deals seamlessly with unplugging/plugging external monitors (and no, I don't use an Apple external monitor).
Looks like it might be a Canadian thing?

https://blog.bestbuy.ca/best-buy/what-is-best-buy-marketplac...
It cannot be overstated how valuable it is to read Karl Marx’s later work. Among so many other things, he condemned revolutionary efforts in Russia because he viewed capitalism as a necessary stage of progression.
What you write is a very important part of the equotion. Another part is that implementing improvements to open source payment systems is not as organized as in a top-down company with a great visionary enterpreneur.

Blockchains are not practical for payments because they payments are not instantly finalized, so they can't be used for synchronous payments, which makes integrating them to a web site super hard.

It seems that the best solution for instant final debit payments is to have a network of payment channels (lightning network inside Bitcoin, but Ethereum has some similar projects as well).

Most of the talent is creating new cryptocurrencies/tokens which doesn't really help payments. The remaining talent working on payments is not that big (just a bunch of people really) split to 4 different implementations (in the lightning network case, but Ethereum's implementations also have competing projects) that are compatible but still take a lot of work just to rewrite the same thing in 4 languages.

Some of the improvements for scaling lightning network are clear, some are under research (I'm working on implementing min cost flow optimizer into one of the implementations to be able to send large payments on the lightning network, which is not possible right now, but I had to choose an implementation to work on first, as working on 4 implementations is too much).
I hope somebody has a solution for a problem that I have and can't find anything online.

I have a simple Pipewire setup. When plugging a regular 3.5mm headphone (/w a mic) it always ends up in maximum capture settings, so if I forget to open `alsamixer` and decrease the mic capture and boost levels to a reasonable level, people behind the other end of Zoom calls suffer.

If I unplug it and plug again, it resets to 100% again. How to fix this?
For those looking to skip the history lesson:

> Saltpetre was most often used to cool wines during the Regency, by cooling the water in which the wine bottles were immersed. A large wooden tub, preferably of a cylindrical shape or, better still, wider at the top than at the bottom, was the ideal shape of a vessel to be used for cooling with saltpetre. This cooling tub should be lined with sheet lead or zinc and should also have a close fitting lid which would exclude as much of the warmer ambient air as possible. The thicker the surrounding wood, the better the cooling mixture would be insulated. A cooling tub with a capacity of ten to twelve gallons should be filled with four or five gallons of water. The cooler the water, the better, so water just pumped or drawn from a well would be most effective, since the water temperature would be about 75º Fahrenheit. Five to seven pounds of saltpetre should be pulverized to the finest powder possible. This finely-powdered saltpetre should be slowly sprinkled into the water and allowed to dissolve. Within about fifteen minutes the temperature of the water would drop twenty-five to thirty degrees, within a half hour the temperature would drop another four or five degrees. At that point, the temperature of the water would remain steady for over two hours, so long as the lid was kept on the tub as much as possible. After that, the water would begin to warm at a rate of about three or four degrees per hour, unless more powdered saltpetre was added to the water.

And for the why it works:

> Saltpetre cools water by producing an endothermic reaction. This is a chemical reaction whereby, as it dissolves, the saltpetre literally pulls the heat out of the water as part of that process, thus lowering the temperature of the water. For this reason, there is a limit to how cool the water can become. Once it has become fully saturated with saltpetre, the water is not able to absorb any more.
LOL man I was looking for this comment. I cannot upvote this enough.

He needs to cowrite something with Andy Weir. One can start, they collaborate on the middle, and then the other finishes.
Of course!
You're right, the idea behind playlist is an aggregation of multiple feeds. On your playlist (or other's) you can bookmark articles, add notes to the articles. And I'm currently thinking about adding some options for filtering, I don't know if this would be useful to people yet.

And about the ability to export a playlist in a RSS format, this is a great question, actually this is the next feature I'm planning to add. I was thinking about this a lot but never got any confirmation that this would be useful or not. Maybe Symfoz would be a great aggregator but not so much a great reader, I guess it depends for people.
I think the definition of "systems" changed over time. It used to mean building the foundations of operating systems, e.g. kernel and basic userland utilities.

Now it means building higher-level userland tools and internet oriented tools. I think the implicit consensus is the lower level stuff is a "solved problem".
One of my all time favourite books too.

I'd recommend 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson if you've not read it - it's in a similar vein / world to the third part of Seveneves.
This article reads like an asylum claim. Hopefully they already have permanent legal permanent residence somewhere else, if not they will likely by applying for asylum. It could be the whole thing was written expressly for the purpose of asylum.

Going back to Pakistan at this point would mean basically picking how you want to go out. Either by defending your life in one last moment before a corrupt government takes your down, or letting them beat you in prison and slowly watch your soul and fighting spirit wither away in prison until you die. I presume if that's how they wanted to go, they would have been doing this journalism inside Pakistan right now.
Sure all that money and respect and sex is just another burden you’re better off without. You should just let go of the bad thoughts that make you desire expertise, that you could become a valued member of society, and instead find the happiness and love from within yourself and go get an ice cream cone at McDonalds. Cum-by-ya. Hallelujah. Whatever.

It’s amazing the cheap cop outs people settle for faced with failure at the most superficial level. The anxiety and fear of failure ties them up and eventually they give in having earned nothing from toiling and suffering as much or more than their successful peers. Ending jealous for the utmost irony.

If only you could sit down and focus and complete one thing.
So now that the system is actively oppressing, based on the color of their skin, the smallest minority in SA it's better? Whites can't get any job in SA, neither in government nor in private companies. The only option is to "be an entrepreneur" and open your own business. Apartheid literally means separation. Everyone have the right to deal or befriend with anyone they wish, forced multiculturalism is just it, a forced thing. The africanners 50 years ago knew that ending Apartheid would mean their own genocide, but the liberals of the rest of the western world couldn't "accept" such absurd way of thinking. Well, they were right, now the africanners of 2022 have their days numbered, and SA as a whole is becoming just another failed state in Africa.
I pretty clearly did not say inspect everything... I limited clearly to children toys, and it could even be limited to the "main" present like this clearly was.

Every kid has the "one thing" they really want that year, I always see posts by parents that they "one thing" was missing a part, or did not have batteries, or like this case was damaged.
It's just relabeled Real-ESRGAN. Real-ESRGAN is still a very good solution, but I don't know if this project is contributing anything new.
Life isn’t enough for anything, I want to spend decades on so many interesting things but all I can assign to them are weekends.
I really like this and it matches my own experience. Sticking to a failing or no longer necessary project for the sake of “not giving up” is limiting and does not lead to success.
I like SwiftUI even if most of my views are still NSViewRepresentables, it makes the application structure so much nicer and I don't have to use Interface Builder as much. I know you can use AppKit without Interface Builder but it's more annoying.
I don't see why that wouldn't be possible with Pipewire. The system will provision your application with the default audio output but through the Pipewire API you can send any audio stream(s) you want to any device(s) you want.

I've played around with patchbay software to manage existing audio streams. I've sent audio to both my headset and streaming software, adding a block of effects inbetween through JACK audio software, and used a similar JACK audio interface to put audio from a voice chat app to the front left and then piped it into my headphones.

I don't know the API for creating audio streams directly but as long as you can introduce enough sources and expose every audio output as a separate sink (i.e. one for your controller) it's all relatively easy.

I doubt game developers will make use of this any time soon, though. Maybe if the success of the Steam Deck brings a new life to Steam Machines?
I have noticed a number of inexpensive small items (say < ~$7) being cheaper including shipping on eBay compared to Amazon.
Let's take one your cases: the electric light bulb.

Edison invented it. Earlier bulbs were neither practical nor useful. Edison endured years of lawsuits by those earlier useless bulbs, and they all lost.

How about helicopters? Sikorsky invented the first practical single rotor helicopter. While Sikorksy was russian, he developed the VS-300 in the US.

Electric power grids? The first was in New York City. Edison pioneered most of the technology in it. The first AC grid was at Niagara Falls supplying power to Buffalo, NY.

Don't forget about the Model T. Ford invented the mass produced automobile.

Schilling's telegraph system was a dead end, requiring multiple wires and had a needle swinging to various letters. Morse's one actually was practical, and the first line was in the US.

ICBMs - more like the Germans invented it (V2) and the Russians forced those Germans to extend it for them.

Television had many fathers. Attributing it to Russia is just silly. The first television broadcasting station was in New York. The first electronic television was invented by Farnsworth, an American.

But you can legitimately credit the Russians for the first artificial satellite and the first man in space.

I don't see Russia in the history of videotape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape

Punched cards were invented for the looms by Jacquard. Hollerith was the real inventor of them for electronic machines.
Came here to say this. Both Seveneves and Fall have long unending psuedo-epilogues which add little to the main story, but also don't really wrap anything up satisfactorily either.
Emulators.
Here's a non-conspiratorial reason: many engineers are not used to the uncertainty involved in day to day business negotiations and sales, and allow themselves to be stressed out what they see how the sausage is made. The reality is that lots of deals fall through, and that is normal. But if someone hasn't had a front row seat to that, they start wondering "are we failing?", "am I not doing a good enough job?", "is our product a failure?" etc etc.

I say this as someone who leads a team that handles the promotion and enablement of engineers into a role where they have a lot more visibility into sales and strategy, and have learned that they really need to have someone reassure them until the point that they realize that things are working out just fine.

That being said, I'm not sure of the wisdom of inflicting that stress on employees that don't have a need to see the Backoffice negotiations. Is there anything productive they can do, other then getting stressed?
On mobile.

https://ibb.co/RY6HBPF

Is this just Google placing ads on any page I go to outside of the control of the destination site? If so, holy bejeezus I had no idea this was a thing.
Why is it the grapefruit juice company's responsibility to let you know about your drug interactions? The cost to reprint labels is non-negligible and a tiny warning on the back is only going to be read by someone who ALSO reads their pamphlets with their medication. You're attempting to fix end user carelessness with bureaucracy which never works.

Eventually this argument will move on to putting big bold warnings on the front of food, and then giant warning stickers like we do for cigarettes. At some point we have to allow people to have responsibility over their condition. Not only is the number of people affected by this small its also asinine. If it is a problem, make it a legal requirement to get drug counseling at the pharmacy before you can pick up your prescription. Otherwise it's a solution looking for a problem.
You’ll be fine. My experience with their support has been great. Seems to be the case with others as well.
That's quite nice.
I love these kind of netrics being openly shared.
the only one that stumped me was the employee satisfaction, weird thing to measure.
Actions matter more than words, and in that field Go has already proven itself, regardless of what the priests of the holy church of system programming might preach at the pulpit.

In fact their holy C can only be used for the daily activities, when going outside the ISO C Bible, tainting itself with unholy compiler extensions.
I do not have a phone. Can not steal what I do not have. Problem solved.
YES!!!!

They should.

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My grandmother was an ER nurse her whole life (a candy-striper, etc, malpractice insurance investigations etc...)

she was on some medications and grapefruit was a staple morning breakfast for my grandmother and grandfather... Grapefruit, a small sprinkle of either sugar or salt and a glass of O.J. - every morning for like 40 years....

Nearly killed her after she was on some medication that had a poor interaction with grapefruit.

and these were medical experts!

So, _YES_

EDIT: The point is: that even if youre a medical expert, you're still susceptible to this problem, and SHE WAS AWARE but the thing was that a medication she took at like 75 years old, was NOT properly warned about...

Jeasus folks, even brilliant people miss shit like this at times.
Hopefully they'll still be running on Interbase, like back in '96.

https://web.archive.org/web/20011118011732/http://www.cert.o...
Anathem if you can convince them the to stick through the beginning and learn the words.

Absolutely not Cryptonomicon unless you're sure they're libertarian and male. I reread this recently and I think it aged very poorly for women and liberals because what was once a quirky set of characters in the modern part of the story are now a widespread and polarizing demographic today (our free thinking hero has to deal with some very exaggerated wokeness, and spends a few pages explaining that women aren't as obsessed with tech because they're so good at everything else).

This is not the author to start people who aren't into sci-fi on though. I really love some of his books but I think anyone who can get through one of them is probably already a sci-fi fan. There's more immediately fun books that people can get hooked on like Vinge and Brin or more literary and less tech-describing stuff like Ursula le Guin that appeal to wider audiences and from which they can look for other books with the same themes
Yes be completely open with all employees.
I like about 2/3 of Stephenson’s novels and Anathem took some work for me to get into. It really gets moving several hundred pages in and then the last 1/3 makes it all worth it.
Spoiler Alert

The idea that rich people have access to more compute power in the cloud, and can experience more compute cycles per minute (and thus have more experiences in a metaverse!), is exactly how I see a dystopian universe based on cloud computing developing. When I read that part in the book, it blew my mind.
Poke the bear, and the bear might poke back.

Interesting that this person's conception of free speech allows him to call a parliamentary no-confidence vote a "coup", but doesn't allow government-aligned forces to say he is inciting violence.
definitely Javascript.
Count the number of "authors". Anything above 100 is absolutely garbage
More then 10 is probably irrelevant and unproveable.
Something similar to cigarette package warnings, like "this food interacts with many medications, please read the leaflets carefully".
They are probably using private APIs to retrieve your day. Fintech is federation of walled gardens that you need to have business relationships with before you even know they exist.
How Do You Build a (Digital) City?
I'm posting this to raise awareness of the flaw in Paul Graham's recent tweets:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1563667483961176064
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1563753214838771714

If our software identifies blacks as gorillas, this is a bug and and NOT a case of the software telling us that the emperor has no clothes. And as ridiculous as Paul may find the manual tweaks to be that get software to stop saying that, there are very good reasons we wish to make such tweaks.