skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the right to life no longer a human right?

Ah yes, China, comes to the top of the list when I think of protectors of human life. One-child policies, welding people into their apartment buildings, corralling them into COSTCOs [1] like they're farm animals being loaded into a semi-truck. Such benevolence.

> Or have a lot of us so internalized anti-China propaganda that we're no longer able to think logically?

Nah, more likely you have been drinking the pro-China propaganda like a 7-11 Big Gulp.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/xgvlm6/video_of_peo...
I'm in an architecture adjacent company and often deal with PDF drawing sets. When I get a 400 page PDF with E-size pages and I'm trying to look through a whole building to find or count something in it, I send those right over to the iPad.

Now that I think about it, displaying gigantic PDFs is probably the most performance intensive thing I use it for, and the iPad Pro is very fast at it.
Wayland has no software other than itself. It's useless.
You would be surprised how hard it is to convince a university to offer up buildings for something that large that will come with creative use of the space. There's a reason these kind of events, and at that size, are hosted at specialised venues or trade fair halls.
Reminds me of Marcan trying to make Asahi not do that on MacBooks, and so far failing (https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/issues/53). I didn't know that Windows laptops also had speakers that would burn out with high-volume playback.
The caveat with this is the forests can do ok for awhile, but then a dry spell will hit and it tends to burn down.
The thing is, the mess had to be cleaned up and the manager did it after everyone else refused. There are limits, sure. You need proper equipment to clean up such a mess because it is a health and safety issue. I can also understand why no one would want to step up. When everyone else is a refuses the job, stepping up is a good way to end up being the one called upon to do it in the future. But the reality is that people were probably refusing because they didn't want carry their weight.

But kudos on the manager. He realized that it had to be done, then went ahead and did it without ordering anyone else to do so.
The easy way to start and manage membership campaigns with NFT
Tripwire. https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8758
What is the gas app and who is this person? Can someone provide some context and background?

Google searches come up with gasoline apps and some apps for teens.
To me, this Metaverse is simply a bad joke. What did we witness a couple of days ago: added legs and jumping people in cyberspace. Reality? You sit there and have a device strapped to your head for hours. This "Get immobile in the real world and mobile in the Metaverse" does not make sense to me.

Also cultural questions: How about these avatars? Are they really diverse? Some of my colleagues do not look like models, however everyone in the MV does.

In short: duplicating real life without having any factual real life benefits is not appealing. If you ask people what they do during phone calls, many will answer walking around. Does MV consider this? Does control your movement? I don't want it.
Why are streetlights inherently wasteful?

We may not need them, but we don't need TVs.

Plus in the grand scheme of energy wasting things, why is that top of your list? Seems a weird thing to have a vendetta against.
I hear this argument a lot, but it has never made a ton of sense to me: different area are specialized for different things, and they have a spillover effect of that specialization into neighboring areas.

Dense urban areas specialize in economic output: that economic output spills over into neighboring areas (urban areas produce more economic output than urban areas consume)

Suburban and exurban areas specialize in providing labor: that labor will spill over into neighboring areas (suburbs have more workers than people working in suburbs)

Rural areas specialize in production and extraction: those goods will spill over into neighboring areas (rural areas produce more raw materials than they consume.)

This means that suburbs will consume more than their "fair share" of economic output, just like urban areas will consume more than their "fair share" of labor and goods.
I've been dabbling in personal knowledge bases for a long time now. I remember the when I discovered tags -- thought it was the best thing ever. The first good implementation in the wild (for me) was del.icio.us. Eventually I ran into all the problems that the linked thread describes. "Movie" or "movies"? "Book" or "books"?

In any case, I still think flat tag lists are better than a directory tree structure ("Content/Movies" vs "movies, movie, entertainment, science fiction, space travel, aliens").

A recent innovation that I'm enjoying is backlinks. I believe roam research was the first major player that showed you related entries via the links that you included, even though a similar concept existed forever. Then you can generate clouds of relationships and find concepts visually [0].

0: https://noduslabs.com/cases/visualize-connections-notes-roam...
I can appreciate this, I think to some degree (especially in a physical office) there is a degree of community required, and as long as there is a general acceptance that this kind of "other stuff" is either minimal or accepted in lieu of your "regular" work (as opposed to in addition to), I think it's OK.

My main concern, honestly, is not so much that the work is "beneath me" but more that I get pidgonholed doing that work. I know this isn't realistic, but I don't want come review time for people to say "it's great you do this stuff around the office/for the team/for the org" but it doesn't affect your metrics.

In some cases, I think the fear is being asked to do these things in a non-documented way means you have no evidence that you had these "extra-curricular" things you had to complete.

I'm fortunate I haven't had that happen to me, but it's a fear I always have at the back of my head whenever these sort of requests happen.
Ask HN: Non-IT Job is slowly killing me, becoming a dev is a year?
TLDR: CEO smokes cigarettes at my non-related IT job (first one ever) with no WFH option, want to become a dev if possible remote by studying/developing my skills on the evenings within a year

I recently finished my 2 year education in an unrelated field to IT (Logistics), and was very lucky to find my first job at what seemed to be a pretty nice company straight out of vocational school.

Well, as it turns out, the CEO of the company smokes cigarettes in his office, and I can smell all of the smoke from where I work at. I tried talking to my manager about this, he told me he can do nothing about this, considering the CEO is the owner of a multi-million dollar company. BTW, I am from Western Europe, totally illegal. If I rat them out to the authorities, even anonymously, I am sure they'd take vengeance on me.

I'm at a complete loss right now, second hand smoking is as everyone knows deadly, and it's taken me a LOT of work (networking, studying, etc...) to get this (first ever) job. I'm in my early 20s.

I will start wearing a FFP3/N100 mask from now on to work (even if they're not fully effective) and do everything I can to avoid the smoke/odor.

Quitting is almost a non-starter because I'd be unhireable in a field where there's work but there's not that much work. Plus, who would hire someone who quit his job 3 months into it?

I actually went to college for CS for a year, but ended up dropping out after failing all of my subjects due to what I believe lack of a work ethic (I mean, I literally even failed a non-CS related subject). I'm also not that bright, I am not going to lie.

So, to avoid all of this... or at least give it a try at avoiding all of this, I would like to become a remote (or not!) dev within a year, by doing everything I can (projects, learning how to code, networking, etc.) in my evenings.

I know this is going to be hell of earth for me, but I have no alternative -there is no guarantee another job within the logistics industry doesn't have something similar to this.

Please, tell me, what should I try learning to accomplish this, I don't care, web, programming, databases, etc... It is a matter of life and/or death (eventually) for me.

Thank you.
Dr. Karl Voit did his dissertation designing a tag-based file system. I don't know what the status is today, but the dissertation itself may be a decent place to start your search.

https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml
"but only to be high enough relative to wages elsewhere to compensate for the cost of commuting."

True, but then the implied issues with not living in the city you work in become moot if truly compensating for the commute and cost of living outside the city.
Directly? No. By suicide and future complications due to having their life upended/destroyed yeah.

The CCP should have purchase novavax for the shot (they still should given China’s low jab rate) and allowed the majority of people to live their lives. Covid for the majority posses little risk.
In Sweden you can set the jurisdiction for civil disputes in a contract.

Which is what everyone is talking about here.

For criminal, there is only jurisdiction in Sweden if the crime happened in Sweden. I would need you to link me a case where Sweden criminally convicted someone for copyright infringement who wasn't Swedish and wasn't in Sweden.

For example, I am not Swedish and do not travel there. Sweden has no power to enforce its laws against me. No matter what I do, I shouldn't be able to be convicted of criminal copyright infringent in Sweden.
A human that watches a Hollywood movie and then goes on to recreate it frame-by-frame with, idk, everyone has cat ears and go "nah this is all my original creation" is an idiot. A human that watches a Hollywood movie and then goes on to create existing works within the genre, with some homage (say, a specific hat, or a specific framing of a pivotal scene, or a specific lighting choice) to the original movie that inspired them, is learning.
Nah, good heavens I won't return it :) I have a workplace M1 11in model, but its late for me - so I am going to try this fun project tomorrow.

But thanks for generously replying with so much detail. Much appreciated.
The title subliminally suggests that we've lost 26 years of life expectancy. Many will perceive it this way. This very reasonably can be considered a form of clickbait.
I associate infosec with code. I associate content moderation with humans. Where things get challenging is when code is doing content moderation. The executive privilege I extend to human content moderators to discuss in private and not to explain their decision becomes a totally different thing when extended to code.
I live pretty far from my parents, and I really want to set them up with a nice video conferencing setup so we can chat as well as in person. I started to spec out a nice setup with open-back headphones, 60 Hz 1080p camera, nice microphone, low latency screen, the works. But this would cost at least $1k, and I'm sure it would be difficult for them to operate. Plus it would be hard to use in certain situations like with children or while eating.

So I've decided to get them the iPad Pro. I'm trusting Apple to focus on things like screen latency and microphone/speaker quality in their products. Plus it should be quite easy for my parents to use. It just seems to me like the iPad Pro is the best product for setting up non-tech people with a decent videoconferencing setup.

Has anyone else solved this problem, or have thoughts on using an iPad for video chatting?
I reformatted and uploaded the game to a US-based print on demand game publisher. If you can't print your own and need a copy before the author has them back in stock or don't want to ship from the UK, here you go:

https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/the-unix-pipe-card-game

Full disclosure, I will make about a dollar from each purchase.
Seven suggestions to enhance the effectiveness of AutoML solutions
Sure, but investigators need to treat this subject with reverence. Unlike pretty much every other discipline on earth, this one has the potential to disrupt billions of lives from a single mistake.

Virologists were the first ones that jumped to say Covid wasn't a lab leak, yet what they should have been saying was, "we'll get to the bottom of this and then, even if wasn't a lab leak, work to make sure that outcome never comes to pass."

Instead we got a blame game, accusations of racism, and everyone not in their field was called stupid or incapable of understanding the situation if we asked for more light to be shed in the subject.

Also, what happened to the scientific method? There was a whole lot of certainty being prematurely thrown around.

This hubris won't do.

I don't know how Covid came about, and at this point the only reason to know is to prevent the next one. But no matter the case, whatever is next better not be from a lab.
Can you link some resources about it then?
I agree the website is very bad, currently. Maybe this page has better resources:

https://essif-lab.github.io/framework/docs/ssi-standards

But there's quite a lot going on... the work on SSI is being coordinated by the W3C Working Group on VCs (Verifiable Credentials) and DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers).

https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/

https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/

I don't know of any real-world usage yet, despite the fact that the specifications required for things to work and be used by real people already exist, and that there's a lot of DID methods (over 80 last I checked) registered, but as people have noted, most are based on blockchain (but not all... there's stuff like the peer, git, jwk DID methods that do not require blockchain)... but I have to say that, in this particular instance, blockchains may actually be a proper solution for a real problem (that of looking up public keys and metadata for entities/users in a distributed, highly-reliable manner).

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-spec-registries/#did-methods

If you want to look for related stuff, look for things that users would need to have to use SSI, like DID wallets... Some random examples I found by quickly searching:

https://www.abtwallet.io/en/

https://www.didwallet.io/

https://igrant.io/

https://www.dock.io/dock-wallet-app

https://identity.foundation/ion/

The OpenID Connect Standard is being extended to support self-issued OIDC (SIOP) which allows OIDC to interact with SSI constructs:

https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...

So, yeah, there's a lot of stuff being created around SSI, but admitedly, almost nothing practical yet... Hence why I was hoping to find something where this work could be very helpful, like logging into Codeberg :)
Think live performance instead of DAW work. Using a sequencer, effects, or additional soft synths on the ipad along with hardware synths is much nicer than fiddling with a mouse or trackpad.
I would say they've used code they host to train an AI and they charge for a fraction the GPU time required to train and customize their model. they're selling you their model, not the code it produces.

if this is indeed how they charge for Copilot, and I don't know if it is or is not, then they will need to show that they have done their due diligence in making sure that code is not reproduced verbatim when a user requests that it not reproduce code verbatim.

I'm quite sure that GitHub can defend Copilot in court. That's part of the process of offering a new feature to customers; making sure that it is legal and defensible to do so.

All of the armchair attorneys here who think they know better than GitHub's attorneys when operation of the service puts GitHub's ass on the line is ... I wish I had 1 percent of that confidence. I would be a thousand times more confident than I am now.
Rocket is another nice Rust web framework.

You can choose your own template engine instead of having to use one that's provided (like in ASP.NET MVC). There are a multitude of template engines available in Rust.
I will give you one statistic to get your head going.

I studied theoretical math (long time ago, not in the US). At the university I attended, there were 17 applicants for each admission. My class was 125 people of which about 30 were men and almost a hundred were women.

During first 3 semesters, the class went from 125 to 70 at the end of the first semester, 35 at the end of the second and 20 at the end of third. Out of those 20, 15 graduated in the end, of which 11 were men and only 4 were women.

Now, the rest is subjective view of what happened.

I noticed that most of women that were admitted had really good grades all over (you had to have max points to be even considered) but were not super interested in math. My feeling was that most of girls either did not have a plan at all or their plan was they will be teaching math.

When girls organised, this was either for extracurricular reasons or if it was about math at all, it was to share notes and work together to solve problems that were required by the prof.

And finally when they were learning the material my subjective feeling at the time was that they depended more on rote memorisation. And as everybody knows, theoretical math is worst place possible to be relying on your memory alone.

Most guys on the other hand almost immediately organised into one group of people who actually liked math for math's sake. This might be potentially explained by the fact there was relatively few of us but I don't think this was the only reason.

Now, I cannot speak to how good some of those women were at math and whether they were treated fairly. I was young and I did not pay much attention to it at the time.

But it is interesting to me how much girls were overrepresented in the initial population even if they did not seem to have a strong drive for mathematics -- purely because they had stellar grades and they just could choose any place they could go to.

It is also a bit tragic they got penalised for this choice. I blame the education system which treated math as rote memorisation problem up to this point and never explained to us that this is not mathematics.
How is “trash”? Apple is still providing security updates for devices back to 2013 and even without iOS updates, you can still use third party apps that either support your OS or you can download the “last compatible version” as of a couple of years ago, I was able to redownload Netflix and a few other apps on my original 2010 iPad.
> Socializing with others

What a dystopic world we live when where "work" became the main, if not only, source of socialisation.

I use the hours I shaved off by not commuting for real socialisation
nope it doesn't include the adapter, its a $9 extra purchased on top of the pencil, also the adapter is female on both sides so the dongle doesn't plug in directly to the ipad, it requires a cable
The Wire Intends to Review Its Reporting on Meta
Even with the increase in prices, electric heating is still much more expensive than gas heating (unless you use a heat pump, but then you're not mining anything).
The pencil comes with that adapter.
How much spyware have you seen gunking up the default experience on an iPad? Compare this to a typical consumer laptop.
Ever tried meetups&co ? There is a life out of work
Yes, I want repositories / libraries that steal code taken down, just as GitHub Copilot should be, so I don't unwillingly steal code.
Ask HN: From Spreadsheets to Data Warehouse
I am a spreadsheets guru/nerd.

At work I have build a spreadsheet based system where we download csv files from a few systems and with a series of spreadsheet, we enrich the data, and compile business reports.

But the entire system is now taxed by the size of the data files and the complexity of the reports that keep piling up.

I want to migrate to a small Data Warehouse; but I need to educate myself.

From the research that I have done I need to learn SQL and Python. I am willing to put on the time.

So, these are my 2 questions for HN:

1. What's the best and inexpensive way to learn SQL and Python online. Low cost is fine since the company will pay for it, but the budget is limited.

2. Is there an online class that is hands-on, so that I can actually build my data warehouse as I am studying?

Thanks in Advance.
yes. i use that too.

here is a stupid habit i formed years ago.

when i start my machine, the first firefox window i open is the normal window + containers for email and some other website.

i open private browsing window.

then i go about with my day. any website i have to sign in, like hn, the passwords are saved in firefox so it is just a 2 step process usually. sometimes some website asks for an otp, email or mobile which is a pain but fine.

i can access youtube or whatever, amazon or something else and once a window has too many open tabs, i create a new window and pick up the work from there.

i like how i can close the private windows and everything gets logged out automatically. No stored prefs, no history, no records on my machine, no recomendations say on youtube based on my previous search history or browsing history. Same for amazon. I can search for any darn thing all day and i don't sign in unless i have to actually order something and if i do, i sign in, order and sign out.

This has served me well since 2010 at least and firefox with ABP+noscript at first but then ublock origin....

i am not really concerned about "isp tracking" or google analytics, i have a pihole installed which takes care of most of the things.

>all private windows share state with one another
yes. my understanding is that is a feature because as i said, i can open youtube and continue the thread if i open too many tabs (unless i want to close all of them) . the upside of this is, unless one window is open "ctrl+shift+t" works on firefox but not on chromium based browsers and private window. that is a 100% useful feature because i do not rely on browser history for my surfing so if i make a mistake, ctrl+shift+t and i am back.

edit: i log in to HN 3-4 times a day because of this. sometimes once, sometimes 4 times, depending. that is not a bother
Yes. It has spread. And was very non-virulent. And they got valuable data on what to do when H5N1 does become transmissible in Humans.

However, had this Virus escaped, it would have fizzled. Showing airborne transmission does not mean the Virus would spread among ferrets and Humans under normal conditions. Mammalian H5N1 viruses might have already existed but failed to survive subsequent passage and thus did not evolve to become transmissible enough. Such lab experiments only add a minuscule risk to the much bigger risk of such a Virus occurring naturally.
Org mode approaches this by making hierarchies and inheritance optional. I personally like both, but I acknowledge (as was mentioned in the tweets) that hierarchies can get to be very convoluted if you don't work to maintain them sensibly.
You can still use it for Netflix and a few other video apps and you can download the “last compatible version”
I love it when I'm halfway through something and take a second to pause and wonder why someone put so much effort into it, and them I appreciate that they did. This is amazing.

One thing that surprised me the first time I learned it is how 'dense' air is under normal circumstances. The 'mean free path' is the mean distance that a particle travels before changing velocity (typ due to collision). The mean free path of atmospheric air at standard pressure is ~65 nanometers, with ~2x10^19 (20 billion billion) molecules per cubic centimeter experiencing about 10^33 collisions per second. This is roughly the volume of an adult's ear canal.
Yes, apathetic, emasculated, underpaid employees are being used to examine your cart/checkout.

I have lost count of how many items I forgot to pay for at Home Depot.
Bokode
"genocide"

That word you're using, I don't think it means what you think it means.
Have we become so entitled as to believe private enterprise should allow free commercial use of their property?
Why would I be disappointed?