skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did they install software?

I imagine that beyond a web browser and libre office (for the occasional word doc /spreadsheet), what else do non-power-users need, that isn't some web app in the browser these days?
House of Representatives bans TikTok from Congressional devices
The plugin system is a disaster in this project. Basically, each "plugin" is just a Lua script that can (and often does) modify absolutely anything in the editor, including core data structures and other plugins.

The original Lite was an exercise in creating a minimal editor, which I think succeeded. This project tries to take that base and expand it to add a ton of features, but doesn't re-architect it to support that expansion. So instead, you have a big bowl of Lua flavored spaghetti.

On the bright side though, it does seem like the maintainers are dedicated to keeping it working. So if you're looking for a text editor, you could do worse than Lite XL.
27% youth turnout in 2022. It's the second highest in the past 3 decades for a midterm. But midterm turnout overall is usually ~40%

It's still extremely low despite breaking records.
> a number of the miners were not without skills that would permit them to work in mines, yet they persisted in working in mines.

Do you perhaps mean that the miners were not without skills that would permit them to work other than in mines, but persisted in working in mines?
I disagree, don't do leetcode. I've never done leetcode and was always able to find reasonably-high-paying jobs.

Instead, my suggestion would be to focus on improving your English. I've been on the other side of the hiring table, and poor English is a red flag, and I have no doubt companies will immediately reject candidates that don't demonstrate mastery of the English language. I'm of course assuming you're applying for global companies, and not companies that operate in your native language.
I see I've been downvoted for this. Almost like suppressing a debunking or retraction. :-)
Out of Austin, Southwest is the only airline for many direct flights.
That really doesn’t follow. Suffering bringing wisdom does not equate to those who suffer most are the most wise.

I’m not really arguing against the point you’re trying to make. But your example is illogical.
It's also possible their radar was functionally useless: while it gave good range information it had poor angular resolution, a fact which seemed to contribute to Autopilot's issue with recognising stationary obstacles. it's worth keeping in mind that LIDAR gives much higher quality data than low-cost radar. (It also doesn't follow that if their radar was useless that vision alone would be good enough)
Interesting choice of ‘snus’ as the example, rather than ‘suns’
I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about “plastic roads”.

Many countries, desperate to make use of the gargantuan flow of waste plastic, and desperate to avoid it going into landfill, are putting the waste plastic into roads.

This is called “recycling”.

Sounds like a great idea until you realize that cars and trucks drive on the roads and grind them into dust - dust containing microplastics.

The microplastic dust will go into air, waterways, rivers, oceans, food, plants animals and people.

All this is because the environmentalists have decided that “keeping plastics out of landfill” is more important than anything.

Plastic roads are an environmental disaster in an epic scale being created in the name of “recycling”.

The worst thing is that for some reason it’s not obvious that this is a disastrous idea, and all around the world people are breathlessly talking up plastic roads like its a solution to the plastic waste problem.

“In 2015, the Indian government made it mandatory for plastic waste to be used in constructing roads near large cities of more than 500,000 people”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210302-could-plastic-ro...

Mandated madness. The safest place for the fire hydrant of waste plastic is in landfill, not “recycled” into microplastic dust.

Would you like a plastic road outside your house, or outside your kids school?
It is suicidal only in very limited rare circumstances. It also kills a single otherwise short living individual unable to reproduce. The individual belongs to an otherwise large colony.

So yes, the trait has negligible impact on survival of the species and it is entirely plausible for them to survive despite the trait being super slight disadvantage.

Also, they did not "picked it". They are insects, they made no decision.
From watching a number of videos, I'm also under the impression that Autopilot is currently still so unreliable that the average beta tester of the system is overall _more_ attentive (and often more stressed) to the road than they would otherwise be, so they can intervene in questionable cases or even just override otherwise embarrassing road maneuvers.

Given that the typical Autopilot ride has multiple disengagements that also makes it really hard to judge the performance of the system properly - if you always have to have a hyper-ready human waiting in the wings to catch mistakes to produce nice stats, that's certainly still far away from what most people want in such a system. You'd need to demonstrate better safety without disengagements and without a human backup, as the human drivers you compare to don't have one, either.

Marques Brownlee demonstrated this nicely in a recent video review of his daily work commute using Autopilot.
Ineffective is an ungenerous appraisal, when we consider what the world looked like mid 19th century when this project got started, and how it does now. They were quite effective up to the demise of USSR. The entire world speaks English.

William Engdahl's book Gods of Money [ch. 18 - Theft of a Nation] addresses the period you mention and what was happening. There was also an ideological shift in this period, since after the end of Cold War, Neo-Conservatives have been (and remain) in ideological charge. The Wolfowitz Doctrine always struck me as decidedly un-Anglo given its willfully provocative stance, lacking any nuance or subtlety. In fact the behavior of US post Cold War remains somewhat perplexing, even in terms of purely American national interests. There may have been a regime change.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-ca...
It completely depends on location. Southwest is super cheap on some routes, less so for others.
There is no ‘Next Twitter,’ and that’s OK
This video seems to confuse semiconductors with "materials with a negative thermal coefficient of resistivity". Saying "this gets more conductive as you heat it up" does not a semiconductor make, as far as I understand.
I know several people who live in pain every day due to their back, one cannot sit basically at all, and they all must constantly change position to manage the pain.

Imagine not being able to finish a netflix movie in 1 sitting.

They manage it because they have to.
It would be so nice to have an AI email personal assistant.

An AI that would read my entire inbox and give me a high-level overview of what requires my attention now, and summarizes message contents for the day. Then I can write responses only to emails which I care about.
I always struggled to find a decent Keepass implementation for my friend who uses Macs. Any recommendations?
What do you think people with seizures do with their free time - hang out in a padded room all day?

There's plenty of office jobs where the risk of having a seizure at work are no different than the risks of having a seizure surfing on your own time. Hell, you could stock retail shelves at night with no more risk than when you go shopping on your own - so long as you aren't operating a forklift.
Dividoc, an Android app designed to assist with the documentation of dead bodies
How would you do it programmatically? Seems like you'd always need someone to give it the relationships.
What ever happened to "Benson from Google", who was probably the closest thing to a certifying body that the public could trust.
So what you've done here is invent a hypothetical, state by fiat that it would end poorly, then used that complete fiction to argue that we build systems to prevent fraud then point to massive fraud in the system we built to prevent the fraud that you stated we need to build to prevent it.

Like I dunno, maybe if the thing we're doing recursively fails to work we could try the other thing for a bit and check.
"We learn here that LastPass was storing your IP addresses. And since they don’t state how many they were storing, we have to assume: all of them. And if you are an active LastPass user, that data should be good enough to create a complete movement profile. Which is now in the hands of an unknown threat actor."

Scary for activists anywhere.
Good grief. Did they buy some bean bag chairs or something?
Maybe a bit off topic, but what is a good utility for "imaging" a linux system. I have a task to reprovision a system but we want to keep a complete backup of the current system so that it's possible to restore completely as if it were never touched.

This is more than just data backup as we would need need to recover disk partitions/LVM metadata, boot records, etc. as well as all the data itself.
could this result from the planet not having changed size, but the number of humans being doubled (or whatever)?
Wow, Kopia looks pretty interesting.
I first thought that it's a fork of Restic, but it appears to be independent. It has all the features that are key to me: encrypted, deduplicated, works on object storage, can mount the backup as a filesystem.

On one hand, on may think that three programs with very similar approach and features is a waste of resource. On the other hand, this is what refinement of the idea looks like: each project improves over previous attempts.
The typical answer for old behemoths: it was built because it was necessary to build it, and it won't change until a change is necessary too. Wanting that change is not enough, it has to become an almost mechanical constraint, and usually the constraint gets noticed when it far outweighs the costs (and not just a little). Or is a noticeable threat to the system's existence.
I think there must be something fundamentally wrong with many of the USB-C / USB 2.0 adapters on the market. I've burned out 10 of them already, using them to connect my old trusty mouse (5V, 100mA). The mouse works fine (20 years after I bought it!) but the adapters only last a few months at most before they start intermittently disconnecting, eventually failing completely. I'm at my wits end with this because there is no mouse on the market today with the same form and button layout.
it can, using plugins. i.e. i use schema.org's things as fileClasses, which are enforced using a metadata schema for attributes which are extensible and excludable. My ontology is based on FRBRoo and I have link visualization for ease of reading.
Fun fact: most people believe they're a safer than the average driver. Many people even believe this while driving drunk. Unless we start putting interlocks on all cars (which isn't entirely hypothetical[0]), they're just going to keep driving around drunk. Would you rather they drive drunk, or have an imperfect system that's better than drunk them, driving a car that also has an AEB (Automatic Emergency Braking) system?

[0] https://www.motortrend.com/news/anti-drunk-driving-technolog...
Is there a lightweight/fast editor that has native support for LSP? Is it even feasible to have a "native LSP editor" that doesn't rely on a plugin system, or is LSP so open-ended that you're always going to need some scripted support in the editor to make a particular language server work well? I'm thinking something akin to nvi or nano with LSP features added on.
> Gitmo exists so they can do things that their mandates wouldn’t allow.

No, Gitmo exists so they can do things openly and shamelessly that their mandates wouldn't allow.

Otherwise they can use black sites, or just lie about it.
What is this unusual definition of panpsychism? The article doesn't explicitly give a definition, and appears to be using the term in the normal sense, as far as I can tell.
Many people have never seen stainless steel rust. I have. At a slightly leaky Swagelok compression fitting on the HCl-containing gas mixture bottle for a XeCl excimer laser. The leaking HCl combines with the room humidity to make an acid that will rust stainless. And it’s brown oxide rust, induced by the stripping of protective oxides by the HCl.
That's what They want you to think.
> What you probably want to know is if your emails are safe! Yes, they are safe. All emails are encrypted in transit and at rest.

Lol - this is just what's provide by default by https and every cloud service. It doesn't make your emails "safe". If you don't know why, the are definitely not safe.
That might have made more sense to me if they hadn't followed it up by removing their ultrasonic sensors, which were functionally quite useful, since without them the car cannot see things at low speeds that are below the plane visible from the front-facing camera mounted opposite the rear view mirror.
> I'm surprised that no spaced repetition systems seem to exploit relationships between facts/cards.

In fact, the Anki community largely endorses as an article of faith the complete insular atomicity of cards. I’ve always treated that orthodoxy with skepticism because I’m pretty sure that’s not how my brain works. Nor anyone else’s, probably.
One that doesn't require root.

A lot of the use cases of those curl | bash scripts are to support non-standard installation, like with unusual distros and user-only. And unusual distros are kind of an unsolvable thing, because people that want them won't want your package manager.
Colonel John Boyd – briefings and personal papers
You've got to evaluate the entire process to really assess the "inefficiencies".

I haven't read the actual report, but this article is really poor at giving me the right set of information.

Did the program deliver on its stated goals? Was the outcome an overall net positive? How positive was the outcome? How did the errors or fraud contribute against those goals? How costly are the counter measures? Are they even worth putting in place? How effective do we predict they'd be? How confident are we that they'd even work? How much delays would have resulted from putting them in place? Etc.

I like to start at least with the question: Was it a net positive?

At the very least if it was, then it was a better decision then doing nothing. Now you can dig into the details and retrospect to learn how it could be done next time in an even more effective manner.
Can someone suggest an approach to backup container environment? E.g. running inside Kubernetes.

As I see it: I write some kind of configuration.

someproject-db is a deployment which runs a postgres db. Tool should connect to this DB, issue some kind of pg_backup command, capture output, retrieve some metadata about previous backup from S3, compute difference with previous run, compress that difference and store it to S3.

anotherproject is a deployment which runs an sqlite db. Tool should do the same but with sqlite-specific commands.

yetanotherproject-data is a pvc which has attached pv. Tool should find pod which mounted this volume, exec into that pod and retrieve pv data, again find different and store it to S3.

Of course things should be configurable. Like store difference every 15 minutes, store complete backup every week and so on.

I'm fine with manual recover and with manual configuration (I just don't want to write and test all the scripts myself).

What I don't want is some kind of magic tool which will backup the entire cluster, etcd and my grandparents automatically in some magic way only for $50k/cpu core.
Take a look at Clonezilla. Used it many times for the exact same purpose. You could run it either on a running system or use the live iso they provide.

https://clonezilla.org/
Solid example, thanks. Worth specifically noting that we shouldn't be quick to judge, though. Every one of us has succumbed to novice cockiness at some point in our lives. People who build things, like developers, gain novice-level knowledge of everything from interface creation to domain-specific knowledge to copy writing to photo editing by osmosis. I'd be lying if I said I was any different.
> develop a robust enough model of reality if it can't learn by affecting reality

This seems like comparing AlphaGo with AlphaZero, with the former learning from professional games and the latter from self-play. AlphaZero is better but both understand the game well enough to bead pros. In particular most believed for quite a while that something like AlphaGo would not be possible along similar lines of reasoning about AGI.

Or consider the thought experiment if the machine was given the ability to perform experiments and measurements in the real world of its own choosing. Would this make AGI more possible or still only similarly possible?
And yet home ownership rate is higher today than it was at any time between (1965-1997) with an upward trend. If housing was so easily affordable back "then", why didn't everybody buy a house?

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
"this isn't a drill you can run". And yet, Netflix has chaos Kong do it with regularity.

The difference between what's true, what some people will buy, and what you can get away with saying is gross, y'all.
Are you saying there aren't female coal miners? What do you think coal miners do?
That's really the that for people who will be collecting in 8-10 years. For the under 40 crowd, they don't need it for 25 years and who knows how the demographics will play out then.
Clonezilla is awesome, fast, stable, flexible, and reliable, from the Taiwan Supercomputing Centre. I used it lots over a decade ago to manage Mac, Windows, and Linux workstations and servers.
What's bothering you about your phone so much? Have you tried Do Not Disturb?
So, like, what do we think... I have a flight on Jan 3. Book a different airline now or pray they've gotten their heads out of their asses by then?
Ever since I learned how to use the Miryoku layout, I've been using vim with the hjkl navigation-keys shifted one position to the right. Those are also my arrow keys on a separate layer in the keyboard firmware. And I never looked back, this is how it really should be!
My friend CW had grand mal seizures (major epileptic 'fits' for which he had a 'brain pacemaker' fitted which was a little successful). Sadly he died after a seizure when he was home alone, about 15 years ago.

He was quite capable, we were assistant cub scout leaders (UK) together and whilst he couldn't be solely in charge of the kids he could lead activities and games. He also took part in climbing, hikes, watersports, etc. The principle cub leader (Akela) was determined to help him take a full part as a leader and in activities; both great people. Outside scouting my friend did fundraising for epilepsy charities, playing with a rock band, and helped kids to come to terms with their epilepsy too.

CW had applied for jobs but couldn't get anyone to keep him on; he spent a lot of time playing video games. In some ways it was easy for him not to work, but he would get frustrated that he felt he wasn't contributing; that he was reliant on his parents.

He couldn't work, as others have said, because he might have a fit basically any moment and leave a puddle of blood and require emergency care. Employers weren't keen to take that responsibility on. To be fair, it was quite scary, he did have some warning that he was likely to have a fit (eg when tired) but not exactly when. He'd be walking along and simply fall face first on the floor -- he had a lot of scars on his face and forehead, but refused wearing a helmet.

He had been hoping to get an assistance dog; they can tell when their owner is going to have a seizure; the owner then can get themselves to a safer place, call someone to check on them, et cetera.

My friend wasn't the sharpest tool in the box, but was not stupid. Jobs that suited would probably be low level administration type jobs. But, he would have managed manual labour if he was paired with someone sensitive to his condition, especially if he had an assistance dog (no heavy machinery though!).

Aside: I don't see why your comment deserves downvotes. Recognising one's ignorance on a topic is the first step towards wisdom.
What Elon Musk Can Learn from Steve Jobs’s Return to Apple
For whatever it’s worth, I’ve used National extensively for years (we have a corporate contract) for business and personal, and have generally had positive experiences. The web site has been clear when inventory didn’t exist, haven’t run into the app-reality inconsistency problems.
Very cool, where is that?
Do you need to do this once, or 10 times, or 1000 times? How big are the disks?

The most boring answer is "connect the disks to something else and use `dd` to copy the full blocks from start to finish into a file".
I've never been on twitter and _will_ never be on twitter because I have zero interest in 140 character posts (now 280).

OTOH, I get the feeling people are being overly judgemental due to text being hard and 280 character text being even harder.
This sounds like the linked post: some people build the game engine, others build the game.

I think what happens is that people use a tool and they find a flaw, and they come up with an idea which will not have it. They build it, great! But then their tool also has flaws, due to things they didn't predict or trade offs - to make one part more elegant, maybe another part must suffer.

I feel often the most productive is to live with the flaws and do incremental improvements to reduce them. Creating a whole new tool is often futile - unless it's revolutionary, adopting won't be great, or won't boost your productivity that much to account for the time you sank building it.
To add on this, there is a "Buy Nothing" group. There is also a active Facebook groups dedicated to local communities. https://buynothingproject.org
That’s not the contract though. I and many others here have been paying in for years with the expectation that I can withdraw at 65.

Honestly we should allow people to opt out entirely if they can demonstrate that they are adequately funding their own retirement/disability on their own plan.

Social Security as it exists now is a Ponzi scheme.
Oh, sorry, other poster pointed out my error, lol

Was typing on phone
Not who you're asking but I do think that there's something interesting going on with human beings and organizational structures, such that agriculture is a type of Pandoras box that leads to increasing complexity of organization so long as the process isn't stopped (that is, that humans don't go extinct prematurely). I think the same applies to fire and energy; once fire is harnessed, if we go on indefinitely the desire to capture and use more energy leads to advancement over time and better energy utilization. I think that this process is tied in some way to cognition and computation as it occurs in the universe, I know it might sound hokey or whatever but I really do think something interesting is going on that we don't grasp because it's too big for our heads.
Have you read the 1Password whitepaper? This isn’t exactly an easy target for any attacker.
Musk is distracted and showing that he
doesn’t have all the technical chops we
thought he did (if reports from inside
twitter are to be believed)

Who thought he had technical chops? I don't mean this as snarky or glib. But it was surprising to read.

The rosiest take is that he's a Steve Jobs type as opposed to a Bill Gates type. A guy who assembles and rallies teams of engineers and designers around a singular vision and often manages to pull, push, or drag them across the finish line.

I'm not a fan of Musk in particular, although I am also not demeaning this sort of CEO. The ability to form/lead/motivate teams that execute on this level doesn't exactly grow on trees. And it's all but impossible for a CEO to have deep, current "technical chops."

It's just that I've never actually heard Musk credited with having technical chops.