skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran LXD for about a year in my home lab. Unfortunately, the easiest way to get it running is by installing Snap; which I didn't do. Instead I ran it on Alpine Edge (one of the few distros that actually has it in their package manager). LXD kept breaking after system updates and I got tired of troubleshooting. I suppose that's just part of the perils of running bleeding edge.

When LXD was running, I found that it feels like something between a VM and OCI container. In the whole pets vs cattle analogy, LXD containers definitely feel more like pets.

On the host, concepts are similar to OCI containers (networking, macvlan, port mapping, etc). I like its approach to building up containers with several commands instead of one long command. You can add and remove ports, volumes, and even GPUs to running containers. It doesn't have compose files, I just used bash scripts to create reproducible containers.

Inside the LXD container is where things get different. You're containerizing a whole OS, not an application. So you end up administering your container like a VM. You jump inside it, update its packages, install whatever application and dependencies you need. It doesn't work like a glorified package manager (which is how most homelabbers use Docker). As a long time VM user I actually prefer installing things myself, but I can see this turning away many people in the selfhosting community.

I liked LXD and would've kept using it if it weren't so intimately linked to Snap. Last month it failed to start my containers after a system update...again. So I moved that box over to Rocky with Podman containers running as SystemD units. I do kinda miss having fast, throwaway OSes on that server for experiments (sometimes its nice to have pets).
Ah, thanks for pointing out that ambiguity! The point I intended to make was that people make decisions that lead to rotations and other systems. And those people need to consider their decisions' second-order effects.
List of open source companies to apply for
I suppose it depends how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I am guessing that it started with random HR woman who looks up a candidates Facebook profile and sees loads of drinking images (cf Danish Prime Minister)

But turn that into a small company that just looks for drinking references for New Yorkers at a certain age and can correlate to "unsafe drinking behaviour" - now the corporate background checks that once were just criminal record checks and university attendance can add a "gold" service - they are just getting a rating from a cottage industry provider now - but it's the same idea - count number of photos with a cocktail in hand.

I am just putting it out there - it's just there are so many options.

To a large extent monitoring and aggregating out behaviour is what "social media" advertising is - but the same thing is likely to find other commercial uses as well as the big fundamental society changing effect of all of us being able to monitor our behaviour - and do so in medical context - your behaviour monitored in the best interests of the patient.

A Nanny State with your best interests at heart.
Show HN: Lambda Cold Starts Visualizer
They are great for us developers who can vet every line. But extremely dangerous for non technical users.
> Want to know what/how/why things are broken in your organization? Ask people!

When senior engineers tell you they can't do anything without more headcount, maybe consider believing them.
This is why incognito mode has the warnings it does about “people can still see your screen”

No matter how secure the platform, if you apply for a loan through it, the loan provider will “know” you want a loan, and happily sell that data.
yes but i wont judge you for not understanding or appreciating the power and usefulness of vim. and dont bother, either. i encourage you to stick with the peasants' notepad++
Nice! I have something like this on my "self-hosted" website: https://subtlefuge.com/

And a more traditional green version of it as part of my interactive 404 page: https://corbin.world/404

(you'll see it after you type 'HACK THE WORLD')

I really like the 3d version of this one though, thanks for sharing!
The fun thing about Google, though, is that Page and Brin still have majority stockholder voting power because even though they own less than 15% of the shares, they also own pretty much all the super-vote stocks. The shareholders can't vote out the CEO (or really, vote for anything to pass) unless Brin and Page are on board (or don't care). So really, the only threat a Google CEO has is from the board.

While your argument might work when it comes to regular publicly traded companies, Google is nothing like a regular company. As a tech giant LLC, the general public can buy shares, but those shares buy them nothing except for a cut of the profits.
Because the Switch is running Factorio on top of a bit of code optimized for running games. A PC is running Factorio on top of a full-featured general-purpose OS, and most PC users are going to be running other things concurrently; web browsers, Electron messaging apps, malware, etc.

Of course, being able to target a single hardware platform with very minor differences like the Switch also means the ability to make optimizations to that specific platform without having to care about possibly breaking compatibility with others. It'd be like being able to optimize your game for people with Nvidia cards and completely ignore those with ATI, Intel, or any other brands on the PC.
Completely agree.
I am just thinking that it should be possible to make standalone units, which should be able to produce food from air. Units that do not need any infrastructure. Which is a new concept. The alternative is to try agriculture in unstable environments, or depend on continuous help from outside. Of course there is still a need for rich helpful countries to develop and build these fictional devices.
Is it causing the brain injury? Or, by affecting non-vaccinated people significantly more, is it revealing brain injuries that existed before they got COVID?
Obligatory recommendation whenever burnout comes up:
Get a copy of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and work your way through it. It was originally designed to help blocked creatives but it’s helped all kinds of different people escape ruts.
Carbon filters the smell, but not particles. You need HEPA filter for that.

This isn't HEPA, but far superior option to your typical 1" HVAC filter. Higher MERV, less restrictive, lasts multiples longer:

Honeywell Home FC40R1011
Having been in similar places emotionally more than once, the one thing that helped significantly was hard exercise (running, weight lifting). Another trick that helped a little was facing the work I dreaded at a set time first thing in the morning, e.g. going in early to a coffee shop and grinding through work for like an hour.
you will need openssl for https,probably even need it for cross platform,that alone is a non starter for me.
Vim
Ffmpeg
Zsh, fish,
iTerm,
Awk, perl, Ruby...
It's reasonably priced if you consider it both a game and a learning resource. If you already know vim fluently and just want it as a clever puzzle game, $25 is a reasonable purchase price but steep for a 6 month license. I have bounced off it several times over the years, after initially clicking the card icon intending to pay.
It's hard to believe because I worked there and worked on this stuff (data and ML side) and know that they aren't.
Messing up the heat treatment isn't a design failure, it's a construction failure. The design specifies acceptable parameters for the rebar. If the rebar is within those parameters but the bridge fails because the parameters were wrong, the designer is responsible. If the rebar was out of the specified parameters, the contractor is responsible.

If I'm reading the article right, "design" would encompass interaction boundaries as well as things like CPU/memory requirements, information storage, and security.
Nitter is an excellent alternative. The only thing stopping me from 100% using it, as I have for Reddit->Libreddit and Youtube->Invidious is the lack of some sort of timeline. I tried setting up an RSS feed for it, but I mostly use Twitter to follow artists I like, and it wasn't easy to browse. Fortunately, there is a pull request for this feature (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/363) but it's been sitting for a while.
It sounds like a gas lighting attempt to paint employees as selfish and entitled children worried about losing their toys. Most people don't care about that stuff, it's all superficial anyway. Things like this usually means employees asking about why benefits are cut for them and not for executives.

Further down in in the article, if readers made it that far, it implies just that:

> Pichai dodged employee questions asking about cost-cutting executive compensation. Pichai brought in total pay last year of $6.3 million, while other top executives made more than $28 million.

The later on:

> Bret Hill, Google's vice president of "total rewards," fielded a question about raises, equity and bonuses and how they will be affected by the changes. He said the company doesn't plan to deviate from paying workers “at the top end of the market so we can be competitive.”

Which leads me to believe employees know what they're talking about, and the swag question near the top is just clickbait. Employees actually want real answers, and they got none.
Like I explained, it's difficult to understand Rust's language design - especially why it has multiple string types - without understanding C. Really, it's difficult to understand the decisions of most languages, without understanding C.
> You don't have to care about your job. Most people have about four good hours of work in them. Just do your four hours, and take the rest of the day off.

OP says they're young and recently got a high-paying job at a recognizable California company. This isn't good advice.

Working half days every day may work for certain senior people in slow moving parts of a company. However, getting a high-paying job in California at a big-tech company and then putting in half days will get you PIPed and removed really quick.
> There can't be a "replication" problem for IQ. There is no theory of intelligence provided, there are no independent valid and reliable measures of it, and there has been no work to show IQ measures it.
The argument is just, "I rekon intelligence has something to do with quizes like this, and look, there are correlations in people's answers!"

Is your claim now that there is no such thing as intelligence? If we accept that premise then sure the whole field is bunk, because you can't measure something that doesn't exist. However I consider such a claim as ludicrous as saying that there is no such thing as strength, so if that's your position then I don't think I have much to learn from you.

Meanwhile, the g factor[1] is a theory of intelligence that basically says people who are good at one kind of cognitive task will also be good at other kinds of cognitive tasks. Is that entirely satisfactory? I've already said there's room for improvement. Nevertheless we have to start somewhere, and given the complexity of the array of phenotypes we associate with intelligence the g factor isn't a bad start.

> any even plausible scientifically-grounded theory of intelligence would pretty clearly invalidate IQ as a measure of it.

This sounds like an easy claim to support. Since you are enthusiastically anti-psychometry I assume you've done the research. What do you mean by "plausible scientifically grounded?" Would you please give a supporting example?

> HN isnt a place to give a lecture course on statistics, causal modelling and the scientific method. But the vast majority of people I'm aware of with serious work in those areas, regard this entire field as pseudoscience. It is only researchers within this field who believe otherwise, and they arent professionals.

HN is a place for satisfying intellectual curiosity. You would be contributing to the site's reason for existing by giving an abbreviated lecture actually showing that you have a point rather than just appealing to unknown authorities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
Huh. What could go wrong?
If I remember right, I was adding a new device and misread the dialog for which way to sync the files. I ended up setting it up so that an empty directory overrode a full one. It was pretty immediately obvious what I'd done, and I was able to recover from a backup, but that brief moment of panic after realizing what I'd done definitely got my attention!

This definitely isn't a criticism of the SyncThing project, I just made a dumb error, but it is a lesson on not "testing in prod" or entrusting important data with a non-professional (such as myself).
Google can in theory read what is on your screen (assuming you use Android) regardless what app with what encryption you use.
LOL. Imagine your executive class are such worthless leaches that you have to ask your rank-and-file employees for ideas on how to improve the business.

Oh, you'd be an American (really global) corporation.
You are right. It is not a technology problem. It is a problem of incentives. The people writing the software don't have the right incentives to make it pleasant to use.
> The idea that good and evil are up for grabs, and that Christian faith has no say to define it is bigotry.

Good and evil are very straightforward, you don't need any book to learn it: just do as little harm as possible, and help when you can. That's it.

The other kind of good and evil, the one encoded in government laws, should not be involved with religion. Religion is notorious for being biased towards its members, it's not a trustworthy source of justice.
Wails is great! I've been working with wails v2 on Windows, and it's been a great experience. Built and delivered a Windows desktop application in Go + AntD for a customer really quickly.

It's a little complex app dealing with Win32 API's directly from Go and the binary being just 10MB is amazing, which can be compressed further with UPX.

Though, UPX-compressed Go binaries has a very high rate of being flagged by antivirus software (especially MS Defender).
Does anyone have good resources for creating "generative assets" like this?

I have a decent handle on js but I have no idea where to start in terms of tooling. For now, I've been trying to build basic eye tracking to apply a "block" of color over eyes with an animation in said block on top of a real-time video stream.

Elsewhere, automating mouth animations from audio / even moving a character in a random motion when audio input is provided.

Any advice where to start would be greatly appreciated!
Ask HN: What are the ways/softwares to remove background from image?
Hey guys,

What are the ways/softwares to remove background from images?
Let's say, we have a set of images of an object from which we want to remove background. Automated would be a +1.
In the last episode, doesn't Bubbles see a couple of the kids from the highschool going to buy drugs and recognizes a younger version of himself and his friend from the 1st season? That whole episode was about the cycle of drugs, violence and poverty repeating itself.
> I work on a product which just clones other similar products with a slightly better price point, so it’s hard to really care about the goal

I think this sums it up perfectly. Try another job first. There’s a saying - “a change is as good as a rest”. Worth trying!
Developer doesn’t know what to do with a donation that size and might also have some legal problems moving those funds.

https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1572350419594268673
The idea is that you may discover the topics you don’t talk about that week still come up as much as those you do.
> What defines "bad" or "good" here?

Bad = morally wrong, or "not okay" as you said. Specifically, you seem to be making the claim that all porn, even non-exploitative porn, is morally wrong in principle, the same way murder and rape are morally wrong (although less so.) This is what I'm challenging.

> and I keep forgetting about the harm that comes to people who profit from the industry.

What harm is that? (In order to sidestep obviously wrong things like human trafficking, let's use the example of the friends I mentioned who record themselves having consensual sex and disseminate the video.)
I guess his take on germanic tribes might have been accurate. The first recorded "law" in the Nordics is monetarily punnishment for accusing someone of being homosexual. (Quoted from distant memory, don't take my word for it).
Drone CI with Podman
Wildfire smoke is both particulates and strong odors from VOCs. A MERV13 particulate filter (HEPA is likely overkill) reduces PM2.5 and a carbon filter reduces the odor carrying VOCs.
> And I hate it enough to want to do a quality job of it and automate as much of it as possible so I can do something more interesting with my time instead.

How does this work in a full time job where you hate what you are doing? When you automate something, you're not freeing up time to do whatever you want. You're just freeing up time to do more of what you don't like, isn't it?
We should all get real-time access to police body cams. After all they have nothing to fear if they're not doing anything wrong, right?
> i firmly believe i'm beginning to see the Great Malaise everywhere!

Indeed. It's in the air. I think we underestimate the trauma of living through a pandemic for the last couple of years. There's a collective, societal trauma that we're witnessing. It's causing people to rethink what they value as well as leading to upheaval in various spheres (personal, cultural, political...)
> I assume there are at least both basic and thread-safe versions of basic types like string/list/vector/map ?

To my knowledge, no. If you want to push to a vector from multiple threads, you "wrap" the vector in a `Mutex`. The difference between C++'s std::mutex or std::lock_guard and Rust's Mutex, is that the compiler refuses to let you touch the data protected by the mutex unless you have a lock acquired on the mutex.

> Is there any provision ...

Yes!

1. In Rust, types can implement "traits".

2. There's two traits that control thread safety: `Send`, and `Sync`
Basically, any type that "implements the trait" `Send` is safe to send across threads. And a reference of any type that implements `Sync` is safe to to send across threads.

3. `Send` and `Sync` are "auto-traits", which means that if you make a data structure out of primitives that all implement `Send`, your data structure will also implement `Send`, same for `Sync`.

4. There are a bunch of thread-safety primitives that you can use (like `Arc` (atomic reference counters), `Mutex`, ..etc) to build thread safe data structures.

> how does that work in terms of compile-time errors?

The compiler will not let send a type across threads if it doesn't implement `Send`, and it won't let you send a reference to a type if the type doesn't implement `Sync`!

That way, if you avoid using the `unsafe` keyword, and the compiler agrees to compile your code, you can be sure you won't have data races!
Like most macOS games, it most likely is an x86-64 game that Apple's x86-64 emulator does an admirable job of emulating. As far as I can tell, very few Mac games, even new ones, are proper ARM builds currently.
Ubuntu gui > windows by a large margin
Its like printers
A month's worth of earnings isn't trivial for any company. Agree that Google can weather it easily though.
Mortgate rates went from ~2.5% in 2021 to over 6% right now for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and the housing market is doing just fine. When rates go up, people lower prices, but not by a lot.

Ultimately the price of housing is determined by supply, not interest rates, and supply is still historically low.
From a literature POV this theme alone is very shallow for a decent story. Probably this is why it's not popular in sci-fi.

The only exciting to read literature experiment in this area I know of is this novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_(novel) which barely fits in sci-fi genre.
Low latency optane ssd's are incredible for so many reasons - really hope those don't become discontinued as well :(

Many here seem to miss how deeply complex SSD's are and how truly different optane is from most consumer and enterprise SSD offerings. Most consumer ssd's only optimize for sequential reads and writes and at that max throughput, not latency for random access. Glossing over a lot of detail, but this is where optane truly shines.
The control is the topic you pick that you don’t discuss on WhatsApp or messenger. The idea is random differences between topics should average out over many trials.
> Absent security issues, what's the value of the last N releases of Chrome? How far do you have to go to get something of value that changed?

IMO something of value changes with every release. For example, in the most recent release (105) Chromium gained support for container queries and the :has() pseudo-class. Container queries allow web devs to change how styling is applied the contents of an element based on the size of the element itself. That's a major new tool for web developers & designers. 105 also supports the HTML Sanitizer API, which relieves the need to use libraries like DomPurify to protect against XSS attacks.

If you're interested in digging into what changes in each release, Chrome has a blog post series called New in Chrome[1] that summarizes changes. And to dive even further into changes, the Chrome Status[2] site allows you to filter platform feature changes by release milestone.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/tags/new-in-chrome/
[2]: https://chromestatus.com/features#milestone%3D104
“Our residents and small businesses want us focused on keeping San Francisco safe for everyone who lives and works in the City,” Breed said in a statement. “This is a sensible policy that balances the need to give our police officers another tool to address significant public safety challenges and to hold those who break the law accountable.”

Oh my god, the mental gymnastics here are mind-numbing.

Why not just fix the plethora of existing fundamental crises plaguing the city which are directly to blame for rising crime?

Fraud is at an all-time high too, do I get a live feed of the private offices of high-ranking financial executives?

I know the playbook, I know this is Police State 101, but are we really so lazy and pathetic that we still accept this answer as citizens?

When will we finally remember that police and lawmakers are our public servants and not the other way around? This should be cause for protest across the entire tech industry. We can afford to take off work.

What are we going to do about this?
The CEO's stock is tied to that performance. The better the company is doing profit-wise, the more payout the CEO gets. That's why it doesn't make sense for us, the ground employees. But makes perfect sense when you look at it from who calls the shots. Always follow the money!
It is an intentional feature that has been pursued as such by government policy for decades.
i did and refused the covid vaccine.
I am sorry to hear that you're a "recovered" libertarian. As a scholar of history, I will keep my guns, and die for it if I have to.