skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the superficiality is fair for a personal blog post.

I don't think the author is criticizing the Indian family system as a whole (his other posts are an indication of the opposite) but is lamenting on the ease with which educated Indians find removing themselves from their family to be easy, which is not as prevalent (anecdotal) in Germany. It would make sense, because in the West people are where the opportunities are, unlike say an Indian or Chinese immigrant.

> The more I travel and experience new places and cultures, the more I realize absolutely nothing is that different in a fundamental level. By my estimation 80% of all people are fundamentally capable of great evil in the right circumstances, and no religion or family dynamic changes that, it can just successfully suppress it at best.

I agree with this on every level. The more I travel, the more I see that people are motivated by the same things beneath the veneer of culture and religion. This is a feature I believe, makes me empathize with people who are different from me rather than seeing them as "alien".

> A mother in law sending a tomato plant every year is no more or less loving than a mother who meets their son once a year for thanksgiving, or a grandma eagerly FaceTiming her grandkids across the world every weekend barely able to understand their fast American English.

This is a point I would differ with however. Being in close proximity with people does effect the nature of relationships we have with them. In the latter case, neither the kids nor the Grandma will have the emotional cohesion required to form a solid bonding. I can speak this through experience, video calls with relatives did not enhance my relationship with them but only deteriorated. Again, anecdotal but I think physical relationships fare better than emotional ones any day.

> In the end, all we could wish for is a world where everyone minds their own business, forms whatever friends with whomever they want, and live and love they wish to without prejudice. That’s probably the best deal we can get from this world.

Fair, but I don't think the author is passing any judgements. But most immigrants do not have a choice in the nature of their relationships, money is usually the motivator, not inter-personal relationships.
This is not about content moderation. This is yet another instance of a CEO with no guard rails antagonizing, for no discernable reason, the revenue source for something he bought for $44B.

Elon can pile up $44B and set it on fire if he wants to. But he does have co-investors, even if most of them don't care if they ever see their money again. He does have creditors who do care.

At what Twitter would be valued today, the creditors effectively own it. Depending on the schedule for debt service, and Twitter's ability to pay, they will have something to say about the quality of leadership at Twitter.
The way I see it, people deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their motivations but corporations don't.
Ideas that don't have good marketing.
Another Arch/AUR-compatible distro with a more automated install process is EndeavourOS. Last time I checked, it was closer to vanilla Arch than Manjaro. But I've mainly used it for spinning up VMs to work remotely. For a long-term workstation I still feel better sticking to plain Arch.
Now you know. Also, I like how your username is an anagram of "A kale I is"
One thing is motivation – to show that it's possible and many solo devs are running profitable interent startups.

But also, you can read Q&A-s with the founders about how they started, got their first customers, etc.
I haven't used a slow cooker for years once I got a dutch oven. First a Lodge, then a used Le Creuset 5.5 quart for less than a quarter of the price new. It looked like it got used on campfires, but it cleaned up nice. I have no reason to believe the LC won't last the rest of my life, but if it didn't, I wouldn't hesitate to pay full price to replace it, for the versatility and sheer joy it brings me. (I can't compare it to the other big names, but compared to a Lodge the straight sides/larger cooking surface are a "no going back after having" improvement.) It may be my favourite physical thing in my possession.
Which attacks are you referring to, out of interest?
There was one I looked into building to solve a problem, which was gasket printing. If you are having motorcycle or other engine repair done, waiting for a gasket can take a week or sometimes more depending on supplier location, and it's something printed from gasket paper.

A website where you can print aftermarket gaskets on demand, and even do it with CAD files or derive them from edge detection in photos would make its money by shipping faster than OEMs, and without worrying about inventory. Retooling an existing custom sticker printing business would do it. Unit margins are like 100x the cost of the paper, and shipping cost margin is the other one.
To be clear, a 100k business only requires 170 customers paying $49 a month.

There's always underserved customers that are somehow dissatisfied.
Foxconn iPhone plant in China rocked by fresh worker unrest
Call me petty but I'm not reading a full article in monospace font . I don't care if it looks cool it's not as easy on the eyes.
You could still defend returning fighters / bombers. The missiles on the MIG21 could still be decent if allowed to carry them. Ukraine alreday used western anti-radation missiles successfully on their MIGs.
But that fresh licensed driver is still liable for their mistakes, even deadly ones, is Tesla accepting legal liability for mistakes that occur while "FSD" is enabled? And by that I do also include accidents and injuries that occurred even if "FSD" shuts itself off a few seconds before it hits the diver/bollard/stopped fire truck/etc.
The Russians found that when they put their artillery pieces near a nuclear power plant, the Ukrainians don't shoot back. Funny that.

And almost every time there is a cruise missile attack the nuclear power plants have to go offline as a precaution (not even because of them getting targeted though, which also may happen in the future).
Hm, but if you could do it yourself---why not roll your own? Why go to work for someone who is going to cap it and give you your cut? Why not just continue being a lone roller?
One of the authors of the post here. We prefer sticking to the facts rather than speculating the account was compromised without having a solid proof. Someone on /r/netsec also had an interesting theory that this might be an intentional backdoor[1].

For what it's worth, the project referred to in the post is free, open-source, and unrelated to the commercial offering.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/z30465/comment/ixlj...
This makes perfect sense product wise, if I'm searching "bakery" on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me and not the generic location-agnostic google search of it, just like I would if I was searching on map. Matter of fact, this is actually something I do a couple times a month, search then clic the maps tab to see localized results then from them click the website result to find their webpage.

As a techie I hate any direct change to the user-agnostic absolute search, but as a user I get it.
Both use convection. But the difference is the circulation. Convection oven pushes it over the food where as air fryers push it on the top of food. Later being much more effective. It does actually make a difference.
- "The instance is moderated quite effectively"

I can't assess this, but imagine that the users' perspective and the moderators' can be very different. The moderator can invest hours a day into their community, and feel accomplished if they succeed in removing a shock image in five minutes. I commend that. From the user's perspective, it's an outrage if a single one shows up on the timeline. The tolerance for these things is approximately zero; it's not sufficient merely to work very hard and have a very fast response rate.

Fediverse is re-learning hard moderation lessons from like 20 years ago.
Are you saying that organized production is the precursor to a wealthy market economy? That would mean a lot of text books would have to be rewritten, especially the ones that assume barter out of nowhere and then magically introduce money.
The problem I have with Pawn Stars is the main cast is so insufferable.
I thought "NoMachine on X" was a joke or slang, but it turns out NoMachine is free remote desktop software (Linux, Mac, Windows, Raspberry Pi, ARM, Android, and IOS) [0]. Looks like they make money with enterprise sales. Thanks for the tip!

[0]: https://downloads.nomachine.com/
My prediction on Metaculus from May 2021 was Aug 2027. Today I still think that they will need 4-5 more years.

They seem to be going at about 2x improvement rate every 6 months.

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11608/self-driving-taxis...

My very rough guess is that they still need to make it some 10000x better.

log2(10000) ∗ 0.5 year = 6.64 years

The improvement needed also roughly matches Tesla internal expectations.

According to CJ Moore, Tesla’s director of autopilot software:

> The ratio of driver interaction would need to be in the magnitude of 1 or 2 million miles per driver interaction to move into higher levels of automation.

So, my current prediction is Aug 2027:

- 5% before July 2023

- 25% before Aug 2025

- 50% before Aug 2027

- 75% before May 2030

- 95% before Apr 2034
I think what we need is unix/shell-like GUI.

CLIs all have the same consistent user interface. Positional arguments, flags, and text output. On unix-like envs they also have pipes. This is why people like them. This is what makes people productive in them.

Sure, modern GUIs have a few shared UX paradigms, but largely they are all different.

I wonder how the unix philosophy applies to GUIs? Or what the early developers thought about it. How would piping work in a GUI.
> Let's not buy into them, and see the problems as what they are: challenges to solve. Because, just like any of the crisis' of the past, if we don't solve them, they will blow up in our faces.

Unfortunately, without fear and the resulting public pressure, nothing will change. That used to be what drove change in the past: scientists raised the alarm, activists followed up, politicians acted. When acid rain was an issue, politicians regulated sulfur content of fuel. When the ozone layer got a giant hole, they regulated CFC gas production and usage (by almost completely banning both). When species got threatened, they got under special protection statutes, some of which more-or-less globally banned trade of them (e.g. ivory, whale and dolphin products).

Today? Scientists have raised alarm about a lot of the issues I listed. Even the rise of Trumpian authoritarianism, the threat of Putin invading Ukraine or Putin using gas dependency as a weapon against Europe was foretold. But politicians openly sharted on these predictions, they did nothing at all to prepare, and as a result societies were caught pants down. Even on this very forum we're discussing on, people are regularly acting like COVID isn't a crisis or that following libertarian "free speech" interpretations is harmless and won't lead to problems despite evidence to the contrary being available just one Google search away.

Science denialism has become commonplace, and I think this is what depresses me the most about our future. We have so many tools, almost every person on this planet has access to the entire knowledge of humanity in their pants pocket, and yet so many people refuse to do so for ideology, religion or out of simple foolishness and arrogance.
This will kill and injure people in persuit of at least one of Tesla's profits or technological progress. It's interesting to see the USA still on the side of reckless with human life in favour of progress. I don't believe Europe would take the same stance, which I suppose is a balance between short and long term thinking.
That would imply money doesn't result in a nash equilibrium and that it is not very neutral.
Yes, they mention those, then go onto electronic toys in depth, and especially teaching the ABCs and numbers, which all seemed pretty inconsistent.

I don’t much care about what the article says. I care about my sanity and my kids playing nicely.
They were proven right in court in every prior case. This isn't new.

Not that this is relevant anyway. This incident is not related to autonomy at all.
Poker is not gambling anymore than the stock market is. You pay your stock broker in the form of fees and you pay the casino some fees.

Specifically you pay Steve Wynn or the Bellagio for the fact that they are hosting the game and providing fair and impartial personnel. So you avoid getting scammed at a table where people collaborate to screw you over.

Professional poker players are great at smelling newbies and inject themselves in games where their skill level is way above others at the table.

They manage to do so because if you think about it poker is the best environment to do this. You would not start a fight against a 6ft5 bodybuilder but Phil Helmuth you would never pick him from the crowd.

Most importantly the rich guy from Russia or the Gulf will never be able to pick him and avoid the table he is sitting at. Once they sit they already lost
Like clockwork this is now buried. We wouldn’t want to upset a potential source of funding, would we?
Introduction: What are JavaScript functions?

JavaScript functions are defined using the function keyword followed by a name for the function and a pair of parentheses containing zero or more comma-separated parameters (or arguments). The function parameter list will be in between those parenthesis ( ). The parameters are optional and we might call them variables inside the a functions. The body of the function is enclosed in curly braces {}, which may include one or more statements inside them.
Have they? GitKraken & GitLens are pretty popular, commercial offerings, and they have been on the market for years.

[0] https://www.gitkraken.com
True. Maybe there's a viable middle ground between Ubuntu & Arch.

Perhaps with a focus on the audience (e.g. a web dev distro), it becomes viable to make sensible compromises on both (easiness & simplicity) that result in a good combination for the user.
I use updown.io, it's cheap enough that I pay for my own instance and monitor a couple of work things as well as my own site. It's reliable and works.
depends on your wallet but RTX 3080 or RTX 3060 are good graphic cards with which you can create these images. If you just want to dip your toes and not spend much you can use Google Colab and rent out googles graphicscards either for free or for $10. Here's a link to a google colab that you can just run for free and that is used a lot https://colab.research.google.com/github/TheLastBen/fast-sta...

P.S. if you want to buy a graphics card, make sure to have at least 12GB VRAM
Even in ML, it's common knowledge that the long tail of papers demonstrate brittle effects that don't really replicate/generalize and often do uncomparable evaluations, fiddle with hyperparameters to fit the test data, use various evaluation tricks (Goodhart's Law) to improve the metrics, sometimes don't cite better prior work, etc. etc. Industry people definitely know not to just take a random ML paper and believe that it has any use for applications.

This isn't to say there are no good works, but in a field that produces >10,000 papers per year, the bulk of it can't be all that great, but academics have to keep their jobs, PhD students have to graduate etc. So everyone keeps pretending.
Exactly. If you trust people you will often be rewarded by friendship and future help. If you trust cooportations they just exploit that to maximize shareholder profit with no value to me.
There are subreddits for you, like https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/

Especially due to "Europe did not really want to be involved in the Ukraine war but did so only due to immense pressure from US"

Yeah, "immense pressure from US" when you see your closest neighbors being killed by russian butchers.
Imagined from the same fold as COM (which you are likely talking about) was CORBA, an international standard for "object" interoperability.

Guess what came out of that?

It's one of those systems that's perfect (as in perfectly abstracting away everything) but notoriously and impractically complex. COM is only slightly less so.

The downfall of all the object-oriented approaches is that we don't really think about objects, but instead of actions ("functions") we perform, which is much simpler as well. Basically, you don't see bread and say bread->eat() (or at least your doctor will tell you not to :)) but instead look for something to eat() and then stick bread in it once you find it (eat(bread)).
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You can install Debian the same way you installed Arch (manual, CLI) via debootstrap. It's not really advertised, Debian really wants folks to use their installer.

I built a tool that does this, you can look through the code and see how I do it--it's just bash spaghetti. Download a Debian live ISO (or use my tool to create an Arch-like minimal live USB) and you can install it however you want.

https://github.com/candiddev/forge
What’s work life balance anyway? I don’t really want a job where I work for 8 hours (plus 1.5h getting up and ready for work, plus 1h break) and then have 4 hours of life in the evening.

I once had such a job and it was horrible: I worked as an amazon warehouse associate, basically just receiving packages, sorting items, putting a barcode with asin on it, done. Loop this for 8 hours plus some additional pressure from team leads.

In the evening I didn’t even have the energy left to have any kind of “life“; and I really hated that job, so it was even more exhausting and tiring.

Now I have a job which really fulfills me, and I don’t even see it as work anymore. I have no issue with staying late, and I actually want to stay late often in order to get my stuff done; also still working at home and researching stuff in my free time. But now I don’t really have this clear border what some call work-life balance.

My opinion might not be agreeable for everyone, but maybe this viewpoint helps someone else.
I went to the first channel (@ChuckCook) and the first video I clicked had the car trying to jump an open Drawbridge...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKAX-F1t9U

I feel like "Safety Score" was the only thing keeping this "FSD" beta to somewhat responsible adults (e.g. risk of losing access). When that they've opened the floodgates, how long before people are reading a book or on their phone while their car "self drives?"
As a fellow ADHD-er, the way I handled this as a student was to customize my note-taking system. My whole life people had told me how to take notes in an extremely structured way, and insisted they must be detailed. That required so much focus like you that I couldn't learn. So when I was allowed to stop taking notes, I did, and my grades slightly improved.

Then in university it was too much information to not take notes, and I started on my own again, in my own way. Most importantly there was almost no structure, and very little detail. Never take notes in full sentences, just keywords that are semi-digestable to you, and in math there were lots of equations and diagrams. Secondly I got a tablet with a pressure sensitive pen. This allowed me to still take hand "written" notes that looked and felt like my real handwriting, but I didn't have to deal with trying to organize my notes in real space, which inevitably would end up crushed at the bottom of my backpack or strewn around my room; digital notes are self-organizing.
There are a lot of things to criticize about Twitter but it shows a lack of imagination if you think the worst possible thing you could do with a 160MM+ daily active users is give them short form conversation dynamics, and that the other possible outcome is “it burns.”

It is absolutely possible that Twitter turns into a 4chan-esque cesspool of vitriol and hatred but at massive scale due to a gradual frog boil of 160MM+. Not to say Twitter had none of this, but again, it takes little imagination to worry about it getting much, much worse.
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This product is my attempt to give you a tool to find those problems and fix them for your team.

As you can see it's free to download and use and will stay that way. Would love to hear everyone's feedback and what might be missing from it. It was created from my personal experience, as well as multiple feedback rounds with other senior developers and agile team members.
Let's say you get murdered by your spouse.

Should I be able to make a FOIA request for all of your personal data on all of your devices?

You and this judge are placing your own curiosity above common sense.

What on earth makes you think Seth Rich's private data are considered "public records", that's just nonsense.
I like zsh, and I want to mention the fish shell auto-completion.

I start typing anything contained in a command in history (not necessarily the beginning) and can flip through the searches with up and down arrows. It is nicely highlighted, and the default, so I do not need to spend too much time fiddling with settings.
> At some point a vehicle is going to do something atrocious

Multiple people have already died[0]

[0] https://fortune.com/2022/10/19/tesla-cars-involved-in-10-of-...
Debugger is also an interesting example. In IntelliJ, when using the debugger I've often use the command line interface too. Sometimes I have been debugging something and I wished I could use a Node.js script to automate some stuff. Or I wished I could pipe the output through a Node script. The way the debugger is implemented in IntelliJ makes this a little difficult. Certainly not as easy as piping. I think this is because it uses the gdb machine-interface API which is different to the text command one.

For source control, IntelliJ does actually print all the git commands it is running which is nice.
Wanderlust of the Ancients
The eyes of Amazon: A hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system
There are people who have been cocoa farmers their entire lives and they have never tasted chocolate. Kind of absurd.
By the mid-1990s, tens—if not hundreds—of million of people had mobile phone subscriptions, and those who didn’t clearly understood the tech offered humanity a profoundly new ability: communicate anywhere, all the time.

What’s the crypto equivalent?
People on HN seem to love to “dunk on” others over some technicality.

I see this a lot from engineers in real life too.
Government employees who are UAP witnesses may soon break their silence
No, the freedom fighters tend to be pretty dumb too - see Jan. 6th.

Whether they get called freedom fighters or terrorists depends more on their race and religion than their capabilities.
Sounds irrational, but it looks much more beautiful for me. My brain says, you should like Haskell, mirroring my experience that static languages with a strong type system are much better for big projects. But my heart knows, I would always prefer Lisp.