skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure this will be an absolutely abhorrent take to the HN audience, but I've been recently wondering if perhaps a bit of censorship could be a good thing.

Not complete censorship, of course, but not complete freedom of communication either.

In the past 25 years or so we've gone from being only able to freely communicate our ideas with people we know directly to being able to share anything with anyone all over the world. And it hasn't made life better.

It hasn't improved our wellbeing, it hasn't improved our democracy, it hasn't improved our relationships... Empirically, it just hasn't worked and maybe it would be a good thing to attempt to put the genie back into the bottle.
And some people like yourself think your comment is unique and insightful.
Similar size company and over the past 2y we transitioned from technology based teams to stream-aligned teams that include engineering, product, and design within each team. The book Team Topologies is a good reference for this and fairly quick read.

In my experience, the pros of stream-aligned teams vastly outweigh the cons. The major pros are reduced cross-team dependencies and fewer hand-offs, more ownership over work, focusing people on a narrower set of customer/business problems, and that stream-aligned teams are easier to refactor and decompose as the organization grows.

What I learned along the way is that you will still have some cross-team dependencies based on technical expertise. So you will benefit from your engineering leaders explicitly and regularly discussing these needs, then incorporating some resource sharing into their plans. For instance, you might have an engineer who really knows one area of the product or technology brought into another team's kickoffs and design reviews or even joining the other team temporarily.
Microphones are surprisingly sensitive. I can listen to music in my closed-back headset at a regular volume. My desk mic can pick this up. Without boosting the audio it's barely audible that there's music, but after adding some gain you get almost the full song profile (and background noise).

I can even pick out some of my breathing from the recording.

If I turn on noise suppression and noise gate it's fine.
Agreed, the US immigration system is only just barely decent to you if you're a highly skilled scientist in an in-demand field, but when your home country is quickly catching up on offering good opportunities and can pay more relative to cost of living, it's understandable that they're increasingly choosing not to stay.

Especially if they're of Chinese or Russian origin, it's many years of fighting to prove you deserve to be here with increased scrutiny whenever it's politically favorable for whoever is in charge.

Even with India, immigration is such a grueling process, with just another decade or so of development to create more opportunities and we'll probably be seeing a similar process with Indians. India even has a slightly lower barrier in that compared to Russia and China there's less totalitarianism to make people prefer the US.
Blink twice if there's a Chinese secret agent forcing you to post this garbage.
You would like Python and SQLite on ESP32? Looks like a solved problem.

https://github.com/spatialdude/usqlite/wiki/esp32
Eventually Mum just picks up the phone because you won't get off after 8 hours and she kills your connection.

Source: experience.
> The team also conducted a survey in 2021–2022 of nearly 1400 Chinese Americans in tenured or tenure-track positions at US universities that revealed that 35% of them feel unwelcome, and 72% do not feel safe.

> Furthermore, 42% are fearful of conducting research in the US, 65% are worried about pursuing collaborations with China and 86% perceive that it is harder to recruit top international students now compared with five years ago. Of the survey respondents who have obtained US federal grants 45% say that they will avoid applying for such awards for fear of making mistakes in the application process that could lead to them being investigated.

So...what % of white American scientists would leave a European country in which they did probably not feel safe, perhaps felt unwelcome, etc., etc.?
In Filipino English, they call it a "ball pen." I suspect the reason why is the same as the Southern US.
They are within spitting distance, and thats fine. The 7900 series in particular is priced much more sanely than the 4090 or 4080.

In fact, AMD is missing a mid range die now, which is kinda odd.
A lot of early people sold, it’s hard to buy and hold when you 10x. Then people in at $1 sell at $10, those buyers sell at $100, those at $1000, and so on. It takes deep, deep conviction to sit on 10000% gains and not sell.

And those people are true believers in the tech, and IMO deserve their riches. Same as anyone who bought FB or AMZN or GOOG at IPO and held until now.

As a separate issue, do the longer term holders pose a threat to the crypto ecosystem? You are so naïve - the traditional economic and banking system is the same! Except for centuries! Do I sound conspiratorial? Well, you said crypto has a “cabal”. Pot meet kettle.

At least in crypto it’s open source, and the addresses and balances are public. A fundamentally more equitable system at its core.
More of the former than the latter.

Idea/Problem -> Innovative Solution -> Commercialization??
Some papers if you're interested:

"Modeling post-implantation stages of human development into early organogenesis with stem-cell-derived peri-gastruloids"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...

"Pluripotent stem cell-derived model of the post-implantation human embryo"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06368-y

"Transgene-Free Ex Utero Derivation of A Human Post-Implantation Embryo Model Solely from Genetically Unmodified Naïve PSCs"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.14.544922v1

"Post-gastrulation synthetic embryos generated ex utero from mouse naive ESCs"
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00981-3.pdf

This last paper uses a very interesting "roller-culture" system where mouse embryos are removed from the uterus and grown in test tubes.
- Once this is commercialized we no longer need women.

We already "don't need men". Other mammals have been cloned or heterozygously created from bimaternal parents, and only females are required for either of these processes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45801043

Also I imagine you'll still need a womb to grow the embryo? Ovaries are not a womb, so "commercializing" this alone doesn't obviate the need for women.
How does event-driven programming even work?
I heard about stuff like this years ago, and how the CIA could get passwords by pointing long distance microphones at people's windows.

I suspected that the famously terrible Treasury Direct website with its on-screen keyboard was a half-assed attempt to prevent this sort of attack.
The toilet situation is actually doing pretty well at this point.
Area 51 FBI Raid (2023)
Interestingly, it is not easy to find numbers on how many transit riders are commuters; rather, the surveys and statistics are all about things like the percentage of workers who commute by public transit.

Malls are not typically places where transit riders are encouraged to park. In fact, I believe that anyone who isn't shopping in a store at a mall would be subject to having their vehicle towed. There is no designated transit parking in malls. There are, however, designated "Park and Ride" centers with dedicated parking spaces that are not used for anything else, and are patrolled by transit security. Riders need a transit pass to park here, and overnight parking is generally not possible.

Malls want transit centers because they wish to attract more shoppers without cars, not clog their own lots with people who aren't shopping there. Capitalism, remember?

Anyway, I can safely concede that commuting is the top usage of public transit because it seems to be assumed by the sources. However, I do see students at rush hour. The HS and university students have deals for passes, and so if I board the bus around 8am or 3pm, they are dominated by the HS students (for a very short ride). Around 5pm, plenty of university students are boarding, if I find myself on or near campus. Evening classes are becoming really popular now, so some are even coming in at that point, to attend a class from 6-9pm or so.

In fact, there is a special class of passes for the university students; it was the first foray into NFC "tap" passes on the farebox. These students ride the train a lot, and they really crowd into the free neighborhood shuttles. To the point where some of the shuttle routes are practically exclusive for students, because, well, nobody who commutes to work rides a neighborhood shuttle because they hardly pass any places of employment.

The main selling point of the neighborhood shuttles is that they connect riders from their neighborhood to the main transit system. That's the theory. But in practice, due to their lack of fare, the homeless will fill up any space not taken by students, and head to the library, or park, or whatever.
You're probably well aware and quickly fixed the issue after the photo was taken, but I just need to say it's a really bad idea to have ANYTHING in an infants crib that they can use to block their airways like that.

Glad to see she's doing well and hope you have good times with her once she's home!
I think you’re vastly overestimating the degree to which the us government wants to keep them here, and I’d be far from surprised to see caps put in place for Chinese student visas within the next five years.
> Burnout involves the loss of the capacity to relax, to “just do nothing”.

The best thing about these burnout discussions is that everyone just makes up their own definition to fit whatever symptoms they want to talk about.

The WHO has a pretty clear definition that I find a lot more useful.

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...
That was before fountain pens became almost exclusively hobbyist. Also, Americans don't say "biro"— that's something that I've only heard from English people or people from Commonwealth countries. Yanks would probably just say "ballpoint."
Cult of the Dead Cow wants to save internet privacy with new encryption protocol
> we no longer need women

Most of humanity is female. Women are the majority. If we’re getting rid of one of the sexes you’d better hope not everyone gets to vote.

Seriously, the idea that women are only useful to society as baby incubators is the most jaw-droppingly sexist thing I’ve seen on this site in years.
I run almost all of my devices as “dumb” terminals for most purposes.

I can work in my office at my workstation. I can walk out to the kitchen and sit down with my laptop and open the lid and be _exactly_ where I just was. I can move across the country and work from my laptop, a friend’s computer, a library, or anything else I run across along the way. My house can burn down and I can go to an electronics store and buy a new laptop and continue typing in the middle of the line where I left off when the smoke detector started beeping and I ran out of the house.

Separating the device I’m using from the work I’m doing makes the friction to move between devices near zero or zero.
We make them run for president. … again.
only getting 69 MB/s with my crappy Go code:

package hex

import (
"bytes"
"encoding/hex"
"testing"
)

func Benchmark_Hex(b *testing.B) {
src := bytes.Repeat([]byte("00"), 100_000_000)
for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
hex.Decode(src, src)
}
}
Show HN: Plot Maps Locations on a Map
https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/overview/

onion service picks nodes which will act as introduction points, signs them and uploads the descriptor to the DHT

client finds that record on the DHT, picks a random node (from all of Tor) and gives it a secret, then encrypts a message to the hidden service (via one of those introduction points) with the key

hidden service makes its own circuit to the random node the person picked, tells the node the passphrase, and then the client & service do some E2EE communication (though, at the rendezvous point it's just the single handshake / one layer of encryption... so being a rendezvous node is a big job, just like HSdirs or guards)
sounds like you're the secret agent if you doubt the scale of their theft.
Guess what, you don’t own anything on the internet. Nothing is private. Everything flows through a domain name, and you never actually fully own a domain.

All these comments about “shouldn’t have done it on a private platform”. Well, new flash, the internet as a whole is a private platform.

I sincerely hope you have a problem like this in the future so others can mock you over your misfortune.
Sadly not much in the simtel archive. Does anyone have a better link?
At this point I wonder if browsers couldn't be adjusted to this, and have link behavior on any element that indirectly behaves like a link.

For instance if a user ctr + cliks a button, have the navigation happen in a tab window even if the URL change is pushed by a JS module down the line.
Let me try to give you a sense of Tim’s ability to captivate people’s interest in the mundane all around us and inspire people to want to know ‘how’ even more than you thought was possible. I grew up in an engineering household in the 70s/80s. Dad was an ME that worked on some pretty revolutionary stuff (VTOL aircraft) and he brought home a computer in 1983. I was immersed in engineering 24/7, knew I wanted to be a programmer by 13 and was deeply interesting in tearing things apart to see how they worked. Then in my freshman year in college I stumbled on the secret life of machines bbc series and it absolutely blew me away. Tim had a way of deconstructing the everyday things around us (fax machines, telephony, washing machines, etc). I thought I had an already abnormal passion to learn how things worked and Tim showed me another universe. His deadpan, matter of fact, understated and expert ways of presenting things inspired me in ways that made me what I am today. I’ve been fortunate to work with world class engineers at FAANGs for the last 15 years and I can easily say that Tim is _the_ engineer’s engineer. Thank you Tim.
It isn’t going to happen because you lack sufficient wherewithal to deliver the violence necessary to make it happen.

In the very best case significant land reform happens through the plausible threat of violence. But typically, actual violence is required and military operations are the most cost effective means of land reform at scale.
I know this isn’t a support channel, but is there a way to use Kagi with Firefox Focus on iOS without having to go through the login flow each time? I’d be happy to open some intermediary app or something.
Problem: We need to outsource the software to India.

Solution: Put a way overpowered computer in the product so they can program it.

Ridiculous problem with a ridiculous solution. Are they allergic to any level of correctness? Sometimes I'm ashamed to be in this industry.
I have no love for the banks. But crypto is open source in name only. The deflationary nature of it ensures that expansion of adoption is exclusively to the enrichment of current holders. It’s a glorified ponzi scheme, posturing behind sham principles of openness and inclusion.
Seems a poor fit for “government outsourcing…censorship.” Government didn’t do anything to cause it to happen. It looked to me like some companies exercising their first amendment right to choose what they allow on their wholly-owned websites. Nobody was stopped or even discouraged from setting up their own websites to spread their hysteria. But I know Elon Musk thought that was censorship. Idk maybe they didn’t require much constitutional knowledge on his citizenship test.
New Reddit also messes with text selection with unnecessary JS crap. Wherever you select some text, they show an "Embed" button that prevents you from dragging the text to a new tab to perform a web search.

Thankfully this behaviour can be blocked with uBlock Origin by adding these rules:

www.reddit.com##+js(aeld, mousedown, isSelectionOutOfRange)
www.reddit.com##+js(aeld, mouseup, shouldShowButton)
Losing badly against the status quo. The trend is in the wrong direction, even though in absolute numbers the US is still winning the talent war. But not if it keeps changing this way.

Immigration is no small feat and when the US govt throws suspicions at immigrants and makes their life difficult, it becomes an easy choice to call it quit, admit defeat and just go back to a known quantity where you'll be treated better.

I bet you if the US attitude was opposite, the vast majority of these folks wouldn't go back.
MrBeast: How the world's biggest YouTuber made his millions
I would advise anyone who wants to master VIM (and NeoVIM) to get used to all the different ways to move through a document. Here's a good wallpaper about that:

https://www.rosipov.com/blog/vim-movement-cheatsheet/

Ever now, after decades of use, I try to incorporate the most efficient methods of moving around the document and around the screen. Sometimes, when I've just held down movement keys (such as 'hjkl') to get to a specific location, I'll go back to where I was and, for example, use the find character command instead as practice.
Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation_...

I believe that’s the use case for the Navigation API.
And here I thought burn out was the inability to do something. Learn something new every day!
There is still time, we are very, very far away from "we can genetically modify everything".
I feel like you are at an inflection point of understanding. The fiat economic system, which has been the global system since the gold standard went away, is a glorified Ponzi scheme! You are so close
The same VCs who caused some banks to fail because they all copy what each other is doing?
yeah. for a few years, but especially recently, every time I re-enter the USA, I cannot help but think, for a long time, how it feels like such decline is so visible everywhere.

It feels quite dispiriting. I'm not sure I'd go to china as my first choice, especially as I don't speak mandarin or cantonese, but I'd _love_ to leave the USA. There's many great options I'd consider. Maybe in a year or two, I'll be hailing from outside the USA!
That's awesome and I want to start doing this too. How do I learn which substances and tools to use for which materials?
I think it's worth to mention Braid here.
https://github.com/BrucePay/BraidLang
I'm on board, but if 10-gig costs $500/month, I'm going to have to reconsider. 100 Mbit (symmetric) for $40/month is a bit closer to what my budget can handle.
There’s nothing wrong with this, RPi is a great platform for hardware startups because it’s one of the very few platforms with a good, well-documented Linux distro, a million HATs for easy prototyping, and a community to help you out.

It was never meant just for education and hobbyists, Raspberry Pi Foundation absolutely supports the commercial use case, and their newer products like CM4 even more so.

I’d wager you never tried to launch an embedded Linux-powered product, because if you did you’d quickly realize that building custom images from obscure Linux and U-Boot forks is just not fun. Raspberry Pi solved that for everybody, this is why it’s popular among startups even though it’s not the best hardware around spec- and cost-wise.
Yeah, that TVM Vulkan autotuning is incredible. And its not even using the matmul Vulkan extension, I dont think.

MLC's 4 bit quantization is "dumb" compared to llama.cpp, which reduces perplexity (and also explains some of the speed difference), but the biggest missing feature is CPU offloading (which would allow you to run 70B reasonably well on a 4090).

I think the holy grail of local llm inference is llama 70B, run in TVM, split between the GPU and IGP. It feels like we are inches away... All the pieces are there, but there are no front end devs connecting those dots.
> After pulling out of the market they leave their trash, that were assets a few days previous, scattered amongst the city as technological blight strewn across the landscape, left to rust.

Nothing in the source suggests these are “strewn across the landscape”. Your comment is basically made up outrage bait. I live in Seattle and walk a few miles a day and haven’t seen any abandoned Spin scooters.
incoming flame war about how the raspi 4 was overpowered and they should have just used a button sized 8052, written the software in assembly and ran it all on CR3032 battery.
iMessage is a huge part of Apple growth in the USA, as the needle has just flipped to over 50% of US users on iOS I think it will rapidly accelerate.

Not being on iMessage for many Americans is MUCH stranger than not using Facebook.
When I was an asshole little kid I would pull these out of disposable cameras and use them to Tase people at school.
Yeah, but if you work with a central repository, when using local git clones the clones are hanging off the local repository, not the central one.

Sure, you can change back origin to point to the central one again, but you still have to do a dance to sync branches among your local clones (and I’m not sure what happens to the hardlinks).

worktrees just naturally basically are “views” of the same local repository, which may hang off a central repository (or not).
On the flip side; what exactly does US society provide to Chinese (and to a lesser extent, Indians) ?

They're constantly demonized by the media. They're treated as essentially 'devil-worshipping' orientals ('Communism' for China; 'Hinduism' for Indians). They have to deal with 60s-era racially-motivated immigration laws that limit the same number of Green-Cards for Norway/Sweden (and other tiny 5-million large countries) as that for each of China/India.

On some level the Americans (and Westerners) can't come to terms with their own glaring hypocrisy. They are intense ethno-nationalists but will pretend to be anything but, and claim their own culture is universal and anyone who doesn't subscribe to it is the devil's pawn. (To wit, the LGBTQ flag is now a more obvious fixture in front of US embassies).

Asians are too, but they aren't obsessed with it, nor do they over do it due to not having a 'religion' hang over them culturally (other than ofc. when they're 'saved' by some occidental import; Buddhism etc. are not 'religions').

Indians atleast have to contend with essentially a vestigial-colonial state that is essentially a kleptocracy which just happens to be run by people who're 'liked' by the 'global elite' because they're, very much like zealous RW Xtian nuts, destroying India's historical 'pagan' culture and language (India's constitution for instance denies Hindus religious rights, unlike that for Xtians/Muslims; and imposes English on a large population that barely understands it).

China (like imperial Japan) too was 'liked' when they were destroying their own culture/traditions for 'secular Xtianity'. Not anymore I guess.
Link to source code?
What if the password is typed twice? You can easely figure it out then.
I love Clojure as a language but I can't bother to deal with the JVM ecosystem most of the time.

Is this something I could use as an alternative?
What gets me is when fancy-pants JS devs disguise complexity and features nobody has asked for behind native html looking controls like select menus.

I see this most often with the city and state inputs, where city is a text input and state is a drop-down/select menu.

As a Texan, I will type my city, tab to the State select menu and type "t" followed by another "t" then tab to the next form element.

But what I'm seeing lately is a text input (search field) dressed up like a drop-down menu... So my t , t input results in a text search for a literal "tt" instead of selecting Tennessee then Texas. It's so aggravating.

Now if someone chooses to click the triangle in the drop-down menu, and scroll through the states, the element would work as expected... If you only wanted to interact with the element with you mouse.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.