skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The combined actions of the US and Russia have probably turned Ukraine into the next Afghanistan

First of all - it's actions of Russia and Russia alone.

Second, I think this comment shows zero understanding of the war in Afganistan, because otherwise this comparison would never be made. Tldr: Agfanistan took so long and had such abysmal results because most Afgans didn't actually care about the Taliban, or western democracy, or even Afganistan as a country at all. The presence of western militaries was tolerated at best, despised at worst. Also there are only a handful of cases in modern history where fighting against militia on their own territory has been successful - so in a way what happened in Afganistan isn't surprising(hindsight, eh?).

Ukraine is listerally nothing like this. Ukraine and Ukrainians are fighting a foreign aggressor who is trying to take its land and kill its people by military force - and they have every right to defend themselves.

With the way the war is going, it's (I hope) likely that Russia will be pushed back and out of Ukraine. If that happens, the West will help them rebuild and they will be admitted to EU and maybe even NATO(I'm not so sure about that last one, but we'll see). There is literally no possibility of Afganistan scenario here.
Then we should all be able to get away with it right? Can't say there is no problem here
I have some news about fertilizer you might find disturbing.
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You don't _need_ react-three-fiber to embed ThreeJS in React component either.

The point of react-three-fiber is that it allows you to use React's declarative rendering model to render your scene.
Well, it may also go the way of self-driving cars, where it can almost replace most drivers, but not really as a few fatal accidents here and there are not acceptable. Maybe the AI could write 95% of our companies code, but would you risk it if there is a high chance that it makes the production server crash once a month or codes up a security hole that leaks your customers data once a year?
> Deciding that one's life is all about luck is a miserable way to live

People who think their entire lives is the sole result of their hard work and intelligence make my life more miserable
Ha, cute, a snippy comment from a throwaway who admits it when s/he gets it wrong.

Could it be that your presumptions about the author ("attention-seeking") is what misled you?
What a crazy farce.

White hate is a well organized American power cult wearing conservatism and nationalism as a familiar costume.

These retellings of the narrative are insidious pathological lies.

The problem isn’t democrat or republican, it is thought controlled American.

If the government wants to avoid a military recruiting crisis, politicians should not be so careless with their lives.
Agree with all except that I'd prefer square brackets because it doesn't require using the shift key.
Another issue that no one is talking about is the quota limit. Say you build a succesful product with thousands of people using at the same time. How to get around the usage limit?
Don't project your manager(s) habits onto others, please.
Karl's vids are usually longer form, he's probably not quite in his element doing a shorter video and rambled a bit.
From the preface:

"My work has depended on the generosity of free software authors. I wrote
the book in LATEX 2ε. Three cheers for Donald Knuth and Leslie Lamport!
Our computers run the GNU/Linux operating system. I use emacs, perl, and
gnuplot every day. Thank you Richard Stallman, thank you Linus Torvalds,
thank you everyone"
I feel for the guy referenced in that post, but he shouldn't have gone to work at 4AM "to finish an important analysis", no matter how urgent, especially after a certain age. It can get to you pretty fast, I'm thinking about future health prospects.
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I have five years' experience working as a self-employed developer, designing neural networks, reinforcement learning algorithms, robotics software and more. During this time, I've gained valuable insight into the porn industry that will help me significantly when it comes to my job as a Pornstar. In addition to this, I have also been involved in various research projects related to AI and game development which have given me useful technical knowledge that can be applied directly to porn production.
If know of things from the UNIX world, like Blackbox for Windows.
That requires AGI so unfortunately we are not there yet. But the future holds promise.
I see a lot of professional developers that really need to be told exactly “what to do”.

They usually mix up what “general purpose” means for business vs comp sci theory.

For business general purpose means “it is easy to add database fields, read, write, do some calculation in specific context”.

For developers it means “it is easy to manipulate data, switch database engine, switch presentation technology”.

If you use rails you deliver business value and don’t care about what-ifs. That is what professionals do.

So I have a different opinion on what it means to be professional. For me it is to deliver business outcome as fast as possible.

Please stop if you want to write high horse “quality” response because it still is business outcomes with high quality I write about.
I see, that explains why I kept seeing 1914 when researching. I just thought OP might have made a typo in the year

I knew one of my great grandparents was born in Germany, but after some digging it turns out they emigrated as a toddler well before the cutoff, so no EU passport for me. I was surprised to learn that their family came over in multiple ships in the span of a few years. And also at how many dark patterns genealogy websites use to try to get you to pay!

Pro tip for anybody also interested: there are free sites for genealogy although their SEO is often poor, and they use clunky interfaces from like 15 years ago. Often operated by governments and perfectly capable of describing in words how to manually do a join, but incapable of automatically doing a join.

I found aad.archives.gov useful for Ellis Island records - if you search the manifest id from a record you can see the ship name, source, and year. And you can filter by last name + manifest id if you find what seems like partial data (the person you think is missing may have had their name recorded differently). There is some German emigration data also available but as you might expect it’s pretty patchy - nonetheless I was still able to find my great grandparent in their polity’s emigrant records.
Remember that Windows 3.1 is a shell, not an operating system. You need to install DOS first.

https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-3/31

And your choice of DOS:

MS-DOS 6.22: https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/622
or, PC-DOS 2000: https://winworldpc.com/product/pc-dos/2000

A good choice for early PC emulation is 86Box: https://86box.net
I'm trying to do the opposite. Unfortunately you lose the German one if applying for another country's. Unless its a EU country. Guess which country is no longer in the EU...

There is apparently a way around it but that may require lawyers
I have never seen it. Probably the first sitcom I watched was... Friends.

Different generations watch different things.
> Uh, how do you plan to use dumb bombs like that in a conflict like Ukraine?
That would require you to be able to fly right over the enemy airfield, they'd need to have no air defenses whatsoever.

Eeeeh that's exactly what happened in the beginning of the conflict... they (Russia) had paratroopers in Kiev day 1
In those cases, if SA doesn't care, is to renounce the SA citizenship in front of German authorities and just get a new SA passport later. A lot of people with German and Turkish passports (also technically not allowed) do so. Trick is to not carry both at the same time. Or to apply for security clearances.

Edit: There are countries in which you cannot loose citizenship, Afghanistan comes to mind as of a couple of years ago.
> correlated to progressivism

how?

also, there are better correlations to crime, than cop hatred, like darn communism is the first i can think of
>> EU/NATO expansionism & Russia pushing back

I'm sorry, what? How can anyone write such absolute nonsense?

Russia attacked Ukraine. Ukraine wasn't going to join NATO, it was explicitly stated and agreed upon years ago. Finland and Norway weren't going to join NATO, because they had zero interest in doing so. But Russia attacked Ukraine, so they applied into NATO, it's a direct consequence of Russia's actions. That's not Russia "pushing back".
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We do not need to downplay the hypocrisy even if it was obvious.
If things really kick off in Europe then I'm not sure it matters what continent one is on...
Ok, I HAVE to add. The whole story revolves around a really bad password. Yet, the takeaway is "GO FOR 2FA", which is utter bullshit. Strong unique passwords (and a good password manager, if you can't remember) will suffice and won't lock you away if you ever lose your cell service.
Not even factual trivia
I'm interested in how large you think the database might grow? One of the biggest benefits I can see in a site like this is the possibility of discovering 'hidden gems' that aren't well know and thus hard to find, but of course you'll only find what's in the database.

I'm working on different product that involves processing book content, and trying to plan for the computational requirements of millions of books and it's a lot, but I'm guessing running an language model over them would be several magnitudes more demanding.

Good luck, seems like a really promising use of AI!
Pretty confident you could automate this all the way to a phone screen. Insert resume and job titles you're looking for, auto-blast out a thousand applications, AI response to the recruiter, then adds it to your calendar.
If the gamma rays are at 662 keV [1], you'd need about 8cm of rock [2] to block 50%. For comparison, sunglasses typically block 70%-80% of visible light.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137

[2] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7248/4e8995c811d31837199d7c...
Every single "weapon of mass destruction" is fundamentally bad technology, just for one ultra-easy answer…
So the US doesn't only have bad cops, it has bad police departments. The rot starts from the top, then?
OTP allows multiple versions in concurrent upgrades across a cluster.

Additionally: testing, performance profiling, and debugging are natively supported.

Recommend reading:

"Designing Elixir Systems with OTP: Write Highly Scalable, Self-Healing Software with Layers" ( James Edward Gray, II, Bruce A. Tate)
I got $1,000. What am I going to get from you? Nothing is not an acceptable response.
Moreover, those alternatives are generally located in Asia, not the US, so that's probably not a likely job change for most. Maybe they could move to one of the new Samsung/TSMC fabs being built in the US though.
I used to use this in the olden days, when Netscape Communicator ruled the Internet and the webby company I worked for had their servers in my mate's kitchen in the flat upstairs, with a whopping 128kbps leased line.

I dual-booted my 486DX4/120 between Windows 3.1 (Windows 95 was out but who could afford that much RAM?) and some early Slackware.
I've read about it, it's referenced everywhere, I've seen YouTube videos of the actor refusing a hug from a fan.

But I never saw an episode of it when it was on, or 20 years later. It was just not available.
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/01/30/report-reveals-pol...

Nice try. But even if we disregard the impossible commands, how good would you be at obeying commands when fearing for your life?
I would bet it's not.
Based on the same starting point (phone in pocket) how many steps are there actually?

UI Option:

- take out phone

- unlock phone

- leave current app

- find and open control app

- find icon to toggle action

- lock phone

- put phone back in pocket

NFC option:

- take phone out of pocket

- bump phone against NFC sticker

- find NFC sweet spot

- put phone back in pocket
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> I can all but guarantee that you're using, daily, some tool that is free. Why aren't you paying $5 a day for it?

Because nobody has been crafty enough to capitalize on that market, or is unable to provide a sufficiently convincing alternative that would attract people to it.

For example, I can get by with something like mRemoteNG for tabbed SSH sessions: https://mremoteng.org/

It's kind of quirky but works. Someone else might appreciate something like the excellent MobaXTerm more, which adds multi-execution capabilities, a GUI for port forwarding and much more: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

Sometimes free tools also become paid, see Docker Desktop (for business) or something like Lens: both are proof that, it feeling like a rug pull aside, many people will pay for what even was formerly a free tool.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, you have developers that can't capitalize on their software and the projects aren't sustainable: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

On a more positive note, this is why Open collective, GitHub Sponsors and other crowd funding solutions are nice, since now you can throw money towards whatever projects you support and think deserve to exist.

> You've gotten more value out of bash, grep and related tools than IntelliJ is ever worth to you, and yet if I came up to you and said "here, use my replacement grep, bash, etc for only $5/day" you'd laugh.

Someone might laugh, but there's a project out there that attempts to commercially create a terminal replacement: https://www.warp.dev/

Many would find the idea offensive (such a core part of their interaction with the computer having paid aspects), but that's just the world that we live in. Not all IDEs are free. Not all OSes are free. You don't even own software nowadays, more often you just rent it. If there is profit to be made, someone will make it.

I think that the free software movement has its nice aspects, but people will absolutely pay for whatever makes their lives easier or more pleasant.
And 80 years on it's the UK where the corrupt rulers are getting worse day by day and racist rhetoric is on the increase, even from their own home secretary (and previous home secretaries were busy doing harm to the Windrush generation). There's history, and there's the present, and future trajectory..
Despite this particular story which is probably a "matryoshka" of propaganda inside a propaganda inside... you are one step away from discovering the reason for the frequent appearance of Chekhov and Dostoevsky in HN
:)
Creating cards is great, but for those seriously deep in the anki game (eg 20,000 active cards or 20 new cards per day for years straight), there isn't enough time to create all the cards you need to learn and pre-made decks are king.

I imagine if you need to learn that much material but the pre-made deck isn't there, this gpt integration might be very helpful.
Does anyone here not apply to new jobs if they ask for a cover letter ? These small scale companies in India have the fucking balls to ask for a cover letter along with a resume for a job that pays 15,000₹(182$) per month.
Author forgot to mention that Rizal was always high on hashish and a serial womanizer. We have Rizal subject as part of the college curriculum, my most hated subject.
Ha, not if they won't let you make an account without one in the first place. Looking at you, OpenAI asshats.

The only ones I've seen still use SMS confirmation are banks, not so much because of advertising because they already have just about every shred of info that's possible to get about you without sequencing your DNA, but because they're too cheap to overhaul their systems.
On the bright side, you've learned something important.
TeamsLobby, please invent me a plausible excuse for avoiding this meeting and deliver it to the other participants, then disconnect me.
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Self Hosted 3rd Party Authentication Service?
Looks like Okta, Auth0 etc. all require you to send user creds to their servers for authentication.

Wondering if there's an option to self host some of these services so we can keep the data within our system.
To add, I use some uBlock Origin rules to make the home page blocked or empty. Blocked if you access directly, and empty if you navigate to it from another YT page (since SPA navigation is not blocked with uBO). Then another picker rule to block the recommendations sidebar. This one is a bit more fragile since they can just change the hierarchy and class names.

||youtube.com^|$doc

youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"]

www.youtube.com##ytd-item-section-renderer.ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer.style-scope
One of the smartest things I did was to place a wireless wall switch next to my bed.

A quick press turns off all the lights in my apartment, for when I want to go to sleep. A double press turns some of the lights on with the lowest brightness, so I can grab a glass of water or have a quick pee in the middle of the night. Holding the wall switch puts all the lights at full brightness for when I want to wake up.

If you work from home, a macropad or Streamdeck is also recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTJSREjWH7Y
>Technology isn't inherently good or evil, it's neutral.

Broadly yes, but this severe simplification glosses over the some technologies having more potential for abuse than others.

A machine gun has more potential for evil than a dessert spoon.
Why are you booing this man, he's right
"in capitalism"...

What about integrity in socialism, communism, fascism, confusianism, feodalism and all the others?

In other words drop the silly "in capitalism", it is as vapid as the old-style "in Soviet Russia" reversals.
And what looks to be a touch-and-go at the end of the journey as well just to round off the flight.

Very nice.
Tech Nation’s fall must not mean the end of UK’s global talent visa
Indeed, and while China is an obvious one because their fertility rate is now so low and their immigration policy has been very strict, a whole lot of countries are going to have to figure this out very rapidly.

With respect to immigrants having more children, that's true to some extent, but with the caveat that 1) immigrants tends to have children at similar rates as where they come from, and that means you'll see immigrants from fewer and fewer places are likely to have a fertility rate above replacement, and 2) fertility rates among people of immigrant background tends to normalise to their surrounding environment within a generation or two, so it's a short term boost.

But back to China, it will be very interesting to see how they react to this. Odds are there'll be increased pressure to have more kids, coupled with carrots, but that they still won't be able to avoid allowing increased immigration. Then that raises the question of this means they'll start making paths to permanent residency or citizenship easier, or if they'll go the gulf state route of importing a near indentured servant class. The latter might be hard to sustain once other countries also start competing for the same labour sources.
This looks awesome, great example on how to use GPT-3 for fun and learning
That is probably why it is considered legal to sell the product, yes.

The high frequency buzzing you feel in your hands as you place them on the computer when the incoming power is not a proper clean sinus wave is unpleasant. Stoping that buzzing would be a good reason to ground the adapter even if it not legally required.
Remember: if you helped develop it, you're responsible for it. If it kills people, you share the blame.

So, what's the possible scenario for that outcome? Well, look at the upcoming elections in Nigeria. The BBC writes: "With an estimated 80 million Nigerians online, social media plays a huge role in national debates about politics. Our investigation uncovered different tactics used to reach more people on Twitter. Many play on divisive issues such as religious, ethnic and regional differences." ABC News writes: "At least 800 people died in post-election violence after the 2011 polls."

Adding deepfakes into this mix can trigger violent reactions. Should that happen, the creators of deepfakes are obviously to blame, but also those who enabled them, and that includes the original researchers, are responsible. Ignoring that is just putting your head in the sand.
I remember having to write an essay in high school about playing & the human being. Then I assumed that playing is a privilege of the kids and young adults. Now, later in life, I've changed jobs not only for a better pay, but also because I started feeling that everybody was becoming too serious at my last workplace.
Either that or I've lost my perspective, and to be honest I've always felt that I'm a bit too serious and that was alarming to me - I give too little space for playing and too much space to passive entertainment.

I've felt the vicious cycle the article tells too: not playing enough made me dull, depressed and that in turn makes you loose the appetite for playing.

It was a good reminder, thanks.
Ask HN: Full stack for hardware touch screen device
If I wanted to build a relatively simple touch screen device that has some hardware functions (eg turns on and off 3-5 components with 1-5
settings per component, perhaps like an automated espresso machine), what software and firmware stack would you use?

Looking to get started in this space but don’t want to reinvent the ship. Ideally a system that lets you get started quickly and iterate from there.
Huh? San Francisco is the second densest city in the US after New York.
Previous related story:

Tech Nation shutting down as UK government pulls key funding:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34613408 (85 points, 73 comments)