skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue it is, and it should be so even in the US.

Even if Netflix's intentions had been perfectly benign - and even if they didn't specifically target this category but only did so emergently through some unsupervised algorithm - they now have a way to find out for all of their customers whether they are closetted gay.

Imagine someone like Trump or Desantis or even worse coming to power. People like those will certainly find such databases helpful, and they won't care at all whether the data is ostensibly about viewing preferences or directly about sexual orientation.
Why is a federal rule undemocratic but a state rule democratic? If the federal government ran with that as part of their platform that would be democratic, no?
Hm, Estonia doesn't have a bad track record of successful tech companies (Skype, Wise, Bolt, et al) given we're talking about a 1.5M citizen state. In addition, civil services there are embarrassingly well organized.

Saying this as a German: If you take Germany's tech and civil services sector, you're absolutely correct.
This is not a decision that 'humanity' took, only poor planning of cities which now many people take as just the way things are, their lifestyles largely determined by a very few number of men 70 years ago. There are many places that do it better. Bicyclists are often forced by law to take the unnecessary risk of riding with cars (e.g. by making it illegal to ride on sidewalks).

I have to admit that personally I find there's literally no topic like bicycles that gets people to jump from logical arguments to just spewing hatred (or total disregard) and your comment is just the precursor to the literal dehumanisation that cyclists face on roads.
If you head northeast from the Gog Magog hills you will stay over land. The longest you can go in that direction without exceeding 75m elevation is I think about 200km, going just to the east of Peterborough and Lincoln, over the Humber to a liitle place north of Market Weighton called Londesborough, roughly halfway between York and Hull. East of Lincoln there's a long valley that's very nicely aligned so that our line can slip between the Lincoln Edge and the Lincolnshire wolds.
You are confusing cause and effect. They left because Communism ruined the economy and collapsed.

Capitalism is what is starting to drive some people back into eastern Europe now.
> The Geometric Algebra of 32D is actually a 2^16 (i.e. 65536) dimensional vector space.

Rather a 2^32-dimensional vector space. :-)
It's codified censorship.
So you oppose freedom of speech, you oppose property rights, you oppose the right to protect children. Because you oppose basic rules in society, I support violence to fight you
Desktop PC gaming may have spelled its own doom with these GPU prices. I have a 11900K, 4070 and 990 Pro but my next system may be one of those handhelds. I tried to get a fair price on a GPU for a very long time. I won’t be doing that again.

On needing a 4090, I think the problem is 4K. These games are getting pretty advanced, and 4K is a very large number of pixels. I like it for the additional horizontal real estate. But I don’t like it for gaming. I would stick to 1080 or 1440. 1440 on a 27 inch screen at the average desktop view in distance is a great all around solution. That said, my next monitor is probably going to be 4K. I will just be playing a lot of games in 1080P on it.
> df -x tmpfs

findmnt -Dt notmpfs

> lsblk -e 7

findmnt -iS 7:0 (excludes mounted loop devices, not functionally equivalent to lsblk)

> mount -l -t btrfs,fat,exfat,ext2,ext4,iso9660,ntfs3,ufs,vfat,xfs,zfs

findmnt -lt btrfs,fat,exfat,ext2,ext4,iso9660,ntfs3,ufs,vfat,xfs,zfs

> mount | awk '$5 !~ /(autofs|binfmt_misc|bpf|cgroup2|configfs|debugfs|devpts|devtmpfs|fuse|hugetlbfs|mqueue|nfsd|nsfs|proc|pstore|ramfs|rpc_pipefs|securityfs|squashfs|sysfs|tmpfs|tracefs)/'

findmnt -O rw --real

findmnt -lnt noautofs,nobinfmt_misc,nobpf,nocgroup2,noconfigfs,nodebugfs,nodevpts,nodevtmpfs,nofuse,nohugetlbfs,nomqueue,nonfsd,nonsfs,noproc,nopstore,noramfs,norpc_pipefs,nosecurityfs,nosquashfs,nosysfs,notmpfs,notracefs

Or simply invert the target filesystems with --invert instead of prefixing "no".

That counts as the majority for me.
I'm an experienced nontechnical cofounder. Good advice in this thread so far but I wanted to weigh in with a verrrry clichéd pointer: that a lot of friction around expectation management, program management, resource management, etc. gets a hell of a lot easier if you have rapport and can be candid with each other.

Here's how a conversation – that could turn into a huge argument – can go if you're candid with each other. I chose this conversation because it happens all the time and if handled incorrectly can be nuclear.

CEO: "Board says we need to launch by the 1st."

CTO: "That's an unreasonable timeline given our current resources – but here's the ways we COULD hit that deadline."

CEO: "Okay, so either you need a) more time, b) a deeper bench, or c) expectations adjusted with the board."

Note how they both provide possible solutions to the conundrum they're in, and neither is about who said what or who fucked up planning or whatever. Solution oriented, we're both in this together, here's how we get out of it. The only way you get to that pragmatic, candid level of conversation is if you both trust each other and know that the mission is bigger than either of you.

When you have a small team, those after-work drinks or lunchtime xbox sessions or that #dankmemes Slack channel become super important in building that rapport and subsequent trust.
I built a successful SaaS business for 12 years (~2,000 customers). Never once did we do something for a single customer. User consensus should drive your roadmap.
The whole idea of user consent for tracking seems a bit like "clean coal". Isn't it just nonsense? Why would any user ever consent to this?

Users only "consent" when they are tricked into it or have a gun to their head.
Try "socially acceptable brainwashing".
The post was about not wanting to spend time constantly upgrading.

Sometimes life is too short to upgrade all my apps to latest standard or framework, no matter how great the new things are.
I hope they could be more backward compatible.
Agreed. The account should be banned
i installed `yt-dlp` once with:

$ wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp && chmod +x yt-dlp && mv yt-dlp "$HOME/bin/"

(actually this command is in my "install script" that i run when i install a new distro)

when something doesn't work, i run `yt-dlp -U` and 8 times out of 10 it automatically upgrades itself to a new version with the fix, if it still doesn't work i wait a few days and usually the fix arrives :)

note: `$HOME/bin` comes first in my `$PATH` so that programs like `mpv` always uses the newer version of `yt-dlp` and not the obsolete version installed by the package manager.
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
That matches my perspective perfectly, in a much clearer way than I've been able to express. As much as we may think we could change one event in the past to fix one problem today, it doesn't work like that.

We are, as you say, pining after the chance to re-roll every event since that point in history, in a futile attempt to try and fix one small problem today.

I think there definitely are situations that would warrant the desire to re-roll your entire life. But I'm nowhere near that point today.

Your point about forward-looking regret has definitely given me something to think about.
Not everyone thinks it is desirable to have "big tech" companies. I see their existence as a failure to balance the market. Heck, as a swede I find Spotify too big, but they are a bunny compared to the big US tech companies.
https://archive.is/yZSxB
This parable is linked in the article, actually. Also Derek Sivers (CD Baby) posted about it in 2009 and I rather like how it's presented there: https://sive.rs/horses
What could be a product only for such a specific niche?

All dentists is Cervelo market :) Even if you really really want to target specifically Chicago dentists, you’re probably better off doing a presentation at local dentists’ union or something along those lines. Or just doing old good cold calls.

As for 19 year olds, just advertise in whatever is popular among such crowd? If 18 or 20 y/o sees it, it’s probably not far off, eh?
> Nowadays Nix and Guix are available, and they're fundamentally better fits for this problem.

No, it's not. First of all, reproducible installations for HPC nodes is a solved problem (we have xCAT to boot, for example). However the biggest factor is the hardware we use on these nodes.

An HPC node contains an Infiniband interface, at least, and you generally use manufacturer provided OFED for optimal performance, which requires a supported kernel.
Many non-technical people like to look at things that already exist and interpolate or extrapolate. "Well Facebook does this", "well I can buy GTA 5 on a shelf at Walmart for $60 (or something)", "people do this, I see it" and they have no idea of the level of effort and investment behind these things, they assume because it exists and is affordable you could erect something competitive or some similar feature set for marginal cost.

Under managing expectations, you need to have a little heart on heart and try to bring some reality to the ideas. People don't come up with ideas in a vacuum, they look at inspiration from examples, connect things, add/remove them, and mutate them.

I've also worked with a lot of engineering disciplines outside of software and people think because something is virtual in nature (it is "just software") it's significantly easier or cheaper than doing things with real physical capital. That isn't always the case. They also assume it's significantly easier in general, it's not civil engineering and you're not building bridges. Sure, you're not, and software isn't as commited as concrete in some senses but that doesn't mean erecting it or changing it is free, as designing and altering design for a bridge isn't free either. In the past year I've has someone handwave a theoretical issue as "it's just math" to some underpinning needed that has essentially remained an unsolved problem in mathematics for 60+ years...

I could go on... but the most important aspect is to talk through the ideas and try to find any empirical evidence you can to get people to understand the level of complexity, scale, and amount of capital groups commited to make something they think is trivial and only need a handful of SWEs and a few months to throw together as if it were a PowerPoint that can handwave reality away.
Hm. This is a normal practice for companies that do mostly ITAR work.

See also NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/careers/working-with-nasa

"Other than extremely rare exceptions, you must be a U.S. citizen in order to work for NASA as a civil service employee."

You can google up similar examples at other contractors that mostly do ITAR work. When there are exceptions its mostly in the form of alternative facilities in other countries (which usually require you to be a citizen of those countries).
github.com/vladvasiliu/foo works fine, if that's what you want.
Get misled by a TikTok "influencer" and go join a street gang or be forced into prostitution in other parts of Europe? I wouldn't call that "escaping" anything.
Reddit has also removed the report disinformation option.
Since face swapping tools crop.up frequently, what is their pitch? What are the non-abusive use cases for face swapping?
It solves OP's problem. Why is that bad?
To be fair among people with appropriate qualification, there are many more americans who think USA is an "evil capitalistic empire" than immigrants who would support in any way the country they have escaped from.

Also Soviets got lot's of technologies from communist sympathizers in US, but in the end that did not help them much.

So letting SpaceX to handle its trade secrets the way it wants, and hire whomever it wants, is the best way to go.
As discussed recently[1], Debian provides yt-dlp in backports[2].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211579

2. https://packages.debian.org/stable-backports/yt-dlp
Surely the other side is public opinion. If corporations convince the public that the regulators are going to make their life worse, the regulators lose.
Life is all about choices. Which tech to invest in is a hard question, for me the answer has always been 'as little as I can get away with' while at the same time studying the whole industry for opportunities and things that I believe will have long term staying power.
I see it less as us storing too much, but rather that it's impossible for us to tell what will be truly of historical significance (and thus worth preserving) in the next 10, 20, 50, 100 years.

Think about it in terms of art. Social media has exploded with various digital artists of all kinds. With the tools available to us these days, I'd also posit at least some of that art in a few hundred years would be considered beyond even the renaissance masters.

However, the sheer amount of it available today compared to the past likely means most of it will be lost to history.

Taking the same logic in reverse, how many masterpieces in history were lost because they weren't important to store, or their creator went undiscovered for their entire lives?

The same can be said to all sorts of knowledge and insights. Given that digital media is largely some kind of knowledge storage, we'll likely lose a ton of those too.
To add more context, humans are 100W biological machines. Brain is ~20% of that power - 20W.

The greatest form of general intelligence at 20W.

A MacBook Air is ~30W.

https://www.jackery.com/blogs/knowledge/how-many-watts-a-lap...
A lot of these comments are saying they get sick days. I’m a senior dev in the US and only one company I’ve worked at in 24 years has given me sick days. One company justified the combined bucket of vacation / sick days by saying it’s more fair to employees that have chronic illness because they don’t have to tell anyone. One company only gave 10 days total (vacation and sick) until you had been there 5 years.

My current company gives me 20 days (combined vacation and sick) but we only get 6 paid holidays.
There are a few inaccuracies in your analysis. You're applying the levels.fyi median for Germany, which will skew heavily towards jobs in Berlin and Munich, towards Leipzig, a city in East Germany with way less high paying jobs. While levels.fyi doesn't provide a median for Leipzig, only 2 out of 25 entries there are (slightly) above $82k, so I greatly doubt that $82k is a reasonable number for an average engineer in Leipzig.

If we compare the median numbers for Portland and Munich, cities that actually have enough entries to have percentiles on levels.fyi, then the median compensations are $164k vs. $84k. That's $8.7k vs. $4.2k take home. Looking at Numbeo, the equivalent of $2.5k in Portland would be $2.1k in Munich, so that's $6.2k savings in Portland vs. $2.1k in Munich.

To me, that seems pretty significant.

There are two other aspects that can widen the gap. First, at the higher percentiles, the compensation in the US grows much higher than in Germany. Second, US engineers have the option of getting a significant increase in compensation by moving to the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC, whereas in the EU you can't really go much higher than in Munich.
That’s very true as well, tech is more iterative now. I also think just having less time due to being a parent now also wipes out a lot of interest or motivation to check out new stuff
No More Speculation: Exploiting CPU Side-Channels for Real
Corollary A: As I get older, it is seriously hard to stay interested in video games: more and more, it feels like playing with little toy cars. I have more and more a hard time accepting the "lore" which pretends to be "serious"... which is actually clearly made for teens/young adults, and often lack coherence even at following the "rules" of their universe or abuse in a cheap way the deus ex machina.

Basically, I need something beyond that, which gives me a strong emotional response and/or a feeling of social interaction. I found some very "art"-y games which give me such emotional response, and some online multiplayer games (for instance dota2... until they don't hide AI based bots... because sometimes...), or "strong community based" solo games (for instance celeste)

Corollary B: As I get older, I am aware that some nasty human beings are using technology to "take" over big critical parts of our every day life: that's why I am adamant on interop between Big Tech and Small Tech. Tech must stay in user control and not be used to control the user for "others". For instance, why most if not all administration services should be provided to noscript/basic (x)html browsers (as they were before Big Tech brain washed/corrupted administration tech executives with their grotesque and absurd web engines).
Randopenpi – Project suggestion generator using public APIs
I built it using chatgpt and https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
New tech after 40 is boring. 40 is young. New tech after 60 can be scary, it doesn't have to be but you are going to have to relearn a lot of stuff and that gets harder with age.

The most annoying is the tech that is forced upon you.
> In 2022, around 16,000 Albanian citizens applied for asylum in the UK, making up 16% of all asylum applicants.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries...

What's that?

Let's be real, there is no reason for any country to be granting Albanian citizens asylum. There isn't a genocide going on, it's a (relatively) free country:

https://www.equaldex.com/region/albania
Oh is this because of poly?
I never built any AI stuff though and I feel a bit the same, I watch people in my group screw around with it, nothing really special has happened except it has been talked about and hyped up endlessly. The CTO even sent a mail around saying to expect a 75% productivity boost within the next few weeks, it never happened...
I switched to Cybersyn, same functionality as LTN but way less complexity setting it up.
What I hate about new technology is that it's not really new.

When someone says X is the modern framework for doing this or that what he really means is that X is a cleaner re-implementation of W. But the only reason it's clean is because it doesn't support all the things W did.

If X is successful it will eventually add the features that will make it as messy as W was. At that point Y will come along which is the modern (trademark pending) way of doing it.
> Having your boss being able to see what you're looking at and what you're doing is not a very comforting thing.

That's an issue for all 3 types of work. In office, remote, or VR-office remote. Boss can already anonymously see your screen in all 3 variants. Not all companies do that, but it's a general issue, not a "VR office" issue.

> I kind of feel like this would make the obesity epidemic much worse.

I've had a much different experience. I am able to do quick kettlebell sets and a few pullup sets through the work day when I am remote. In office I don't do that. And spend 2-3 hours commuting (sitting) on top of that.
Totally agree, this blog makes no sense at all.

"If a server isn't on the list, it's like an application being tossed out because it wasn't fully filled or the business idea is illegal."

Seriously, what?!

"DMARC establishes your policy as a sender for what should happen to your messages if they fail DKIM or SPF."

... only if they fail DKIM AND SPF (and alignment). The whole blog doesn't even talk about identifier alignment, which is a big part of DMARC.

Maybe an AI wrote the article and got stuck trying to use a weird analogy about a "competitive accelerator program" for email security? :)
Code is a liability. Anything you choose to build requires continuous maintenance and care. Fixing things in the design stage is 100x easier than in production. Vigorously debate whether you should build something at all. If you can get something off the shelf that is well maintained and well supported, that’s usually the best option. Old and boring technology is the safe bet. Don’t get distracted by shiny objects. Continually ask yourself what your customers want, and validate those assumptions. If you’re not 100% sure, it doesn’t get built until you are.
Restored video shows JFK celebrating the San Luis Dam
> I want to do it all on my iPad. I hope that one day I’ll be able to.

But why, though? The author never bothers to justify this. If you acknowledge that your tablet is so anemic that you have to bring your laptop with you, why not save the weight of the tablet and just bring the laptop?
I'm impressed. I wonder what made the author created that.
Putting yourself or a friend in a movie scene, for example.
It was relevant one post ago. Now the topic shifted to politics like a good twitter shitpost.
I think you're missing the point.

Nowhere in the article does it mention that someone was driving the car. It's just an inanimate car with no driver. It absolves any responsibility to the human behind the wheel.

---

Luckily I got hit by a driver.

Luckily I got hit by a car.

I got hit by a driver on Sunday

I got hit by a car on Sunday.

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No less catchy. It's why there are media guidelines around reporting on collisions.

https://www.rc-rg.com/guidelines
As a European, most people I know have a very vague idea of what EU is or does. They know it's a trade union and that you can get across the borders easily and even work in other EU countries, but beyond that it's a blur. Like if you ask them what the difference between the EU parliament and the EU commission is they wouldn't be able to answer. They vote because "I guess you should" but don't really know what they are voting for.

So even though they might be elected, you can't assume that their actions represent the will of the people (I should really say peoples, plural, because Europeans don't really consider themselves a people either).
I only have Twitter, and that's https://twitter.com/Lazer

But I use it less and less these days. Eventually I might just host my own one-user ActivityPub server, but more likely I'll let myself fade away from social media and just post on my blog once in a while.
Preach. This happens to me all the time and keeps happening.

There's a lot of Unix/Linux stuff that I wish I could UNlearn, I'm aware of other tools but muscle memory keeps me using worse things.

(honestly, I also feel this way about vim as well as 'writing in cursive')
Reading this, I came to realise that my problems with imagining elementary particles don't even start with the famous wave/particle duality - I'm having trouble visualising the "wave" state on its own already.

I found the idea of visualizing particles as "clouds" somewhat helpful in that regard.