skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some regions Herenboeren caused a segregated society on the level of apartheid in South Africa.
X-chromosomal Elon?
This is a very funny list.

"Sane defaults", are you going to be arbiter of sanity? With the #3 recommendation, "set up systemd for me", I'd rather not have you at that position.

Most of the bullets you wrote induce a "...why?" thought in somebody that has ZFS experience. Why would you unify zpool and zfs? Why would you want automatic weekly scrubs on as default? Do you realize what ZFS scrubbing is and when is the time to perform it?

I'm a bit agitated by your writing I must confess. You want ZFS to exactly reflect your basic use case so you don't have to move your little finger (automatic naming, automagical configuration). It's not meant to be a hands-off filesystem, you are expected to understand encryption in ZFS in order to use it.

But the most annoying thing is that you did see a steeper learning curve, and want to avoid it. Why don't you write your own ZFS provisioning tool? Why are you still using /dev/sda and not disk-by-UUID or something more 2023? Etc.
You end up paying more in the latter instance.
WASM is used to package add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which I've always found an interesting example of WASM in a non-web context.

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/WASM...
how so? rclone is more like scp to me only.
I can see why American restaurants vary considerably. The original looks quite plain - meat, basil on rice. Not gonna sell well on a picture menu in an American Thai restaurant?
> There are 60 times as many privately owned guns in the EU as there are in Montana.

> There are 5 time as many guns in the US, but 20 times as many murders.

gonna need a fact-check on these claims, please, because initial googling reveals these are, at the very least, false or misleading

I live in the Northeast US and very few people have guns here.

Incidentally, even if it is difficult to purchase a gun, it's trivial to order a crossbow or airbow, which has just as much 1-shot stopping power (although, of course, after that 1 shot, reload can be a problem, less so with the airbow)
> Deeply profitable companies will fight tooth and nail against these regulations even if they are full aware of the damage they are causing.

There was an article recently about health labels on food in Mexico. The food manufacturers were not allowed to print cute mascots on the packaging for certain foods aimed at children, and had to place a warning label on certain foods. In the first case, the manufacturers switched to transparent packaging, and printed the mascot on the food itself (so that it was clearly visible). In the second case, the manufacturers basically made the front and the back of the packaging the same, but put the mandatory warning only on one side (so store employees would put it on the shelves with the warning on the back). I wish they would pursue ways to make food healthier with the same energy.

ETA: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/hacking-food-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37245593
Hopefully he'll have more success there than at Twitter.

Bet the NDAs he has to sign have more teeth this time.
What sort of activity level are you expecting from a stable project?
Just edited a link to the doc ^^
rclone has a "mount" command.
"private security professionals"

Why would they have any need for their billionaires after society collapses?
Edison the doer, more than the creator
FastMJPG: CLI tool for MJPG video with low latency on constrained hardware
No. The problem is that as a messenger company you have to comply with different markets at the same time. If the biggest market (the EU) would punish you for breaching privacy and a small market (the UK) wants to punish you for the polar opposite you can either:

- develope a seperate app for that small market and break that promise (and have the headache of figuring out just how to treat communications that cross the border of those two markets)

- choose the bigger market, retreat from the smaller one and let the small market decide if they really want their special deviating regulation if it now means: "Those politicians took your messenger away" and there is no EU-buerocrat that you can blame for it.

Notice how this doesn't even require any particularly strong political stance by the messenger organisation? The latter just makes more sense from the standpoint of an organization that cares about it's use of resources.
> But a single man adopting is considered as pervert

Is this evidence or assumption? Not challenging too hard just wondering if you've actually been called or treated like a perv or if it's something you assume will occur
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/
The UK, unlike continental Europe, doesn't have either domestic registration or even exit passport number tracking. The EU has a much better idea of how many people are legally in Schengen than the UK does about EU nationals.
> It was really hard to take any of that personally.

Indeed. When companies abuse their customers, customer service is not only the only way by which a problem can even hope to be resolved, but it is the job of customer service to do so. They are representatives of their companies, the interface between the customer and the service their company offers.

Now, I don't sanction abuse, of course, and pulling guns on people is insane, but that's not what you have in mind here, and knowing how tortured and stretched the definition of "abuse" some people have is, I will say you do sometimes need to be somewhat aggressive and push to escalate your problem to get the customer service rep. to transition on their script's finite state machine to a helpful state and outcome. In those cases, don't blame the customer. Blame the corporation.

Corporations often like to drag their feet to maximize profit with all sorts of ridiculous and unsavory tactics. It's like being automatically enrolled in something by default and burdening the customer with unsubscribing; on average you can steal at least a little money from those who don't unsubscribe, or do so only after a couple months have passed. The time and burden of doing so (a form of theft), and the lack of genuine consent (Pacta sunt servanda, buddy!), doesn't seem to be accounted for.
Disinformation is built around half-truths and outright lies.

Like the idea that "State Approved Monopoly Media" isn't mostly confined to autocratic regimes like Russia.
If you covered all land with nuclear powered greenhouses we could have enough food for a trillion people. Not that we should, but it's a thought exercise showing that food isn't the limiting factor for population. I'm really glad that we've found another limiter, because imagining life on an Earth with a trillion people.
rclone mount is my go-to now for sshfs functionality - better performance, stability and caching options
I'm confused, why most people here refer to "South Asian community"? Isn't caste system relevant only to non-muslim part of a single country?
Your empty claims hold no water. You stat you don't consider it hard to justify Rust's use, but you still failed to provide any suport, let alone a coherent argument, justifying it's use.

I get fanboys want to support their pet tech stack no matter what and in spite of all evidence, but hand waving over the problem doesn't lead to progress. It just pushes an irrational belief that helps no one, and just showcases a need to lose touch with reality.
The way it works is that ticket price of 10 EUR only really covers the cost of printing the ticket :) Everything else costs extra, which means that if you, for example, want to take some luggage with you, you would need to pay around 100-150 EUR
tab-bar is what I've wanted for so long without knowing it!
Theme parks vs sandboxes.

NMS has added some story and it’s really good if you like to role play for a lack of a better word.

Like with every Bethesda game I’ll wait about a year for bug fixes and mods to fix the game then will try starfield.

Hopefully it would also run better since 4090 can’t get 60 native at 4K and 3060 can’t get 60 at 1080p low native.
It might not technically be a desert, but saying it's "far from" is incorrect too. Semi-arid climate zones are as close to deserts as you can be without actually being a desert. For recreational purposes in particular, people tend to look mostly for open water or mountains, sometimes forests or canyons. Miles and miles of "scrubby prairie" lacking any of those might as well be a desert.
It's because you need to be logged into Twitter to see more than the single linked tweet.

I don't care about who runs the web site, this change in behavior is a horrible experience that's different than any other link on HN.
> I live in Europe where literally nobody has guns except police and heavy criminals that only really use them to shoot their rivals.

Come on, this is totally untrue. I grew up in rural Ireland and it's very common for farmers to own guns. Hunters too.

Check here [•] - Finland, for example, is only a couple of percentage points behind the US in number of households that own a gun (42% vs 37%).

The difference is in the culture, not gun ownership. In Finland, Ireland, and every single developed country in the world (and most developing countries too) except for the US, privately owned guns are for hunting or for killing pests, not for threatening humans. That's the difference.

•https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_of_households_with_g...
Both impressive and scary
https://archive.ph/J8xh6

subtitle: "Officials doling out billions of dollars for broadband in rural America are struggling to decide when a new hookup costs too much"

'Nebraska’s Winnebago Tribe has long been stuck with sluggish internet service. The federal government plans to fix that by crisscrossing the reservation with fiber-optic cable—at an average cost of $53,000 for each household and workplace connected.

That amount exceeds the assessed value of some of the homes getting hookups, property records show. While most connections will cost far less, the expense to reach some remote communities has triggered concerns over the ultimate price tag for ensuring every rural home, business, school and workplace in America has the same internet that city dwellers enjoy.

“The problem is, money is not infinite,” said Blair Levin, a senior communications policy official in the Clinton and Obama administrations who is now an equity research analyst. “If you’re spending $50,000 to connect a very remote location, you have to ask yourself, would we be better off spending that same amount of money to connect [more] families?”'
lowest price from the dropdowns...$43k
> semantic location of variable declaration

This can only work if the editor internalizes the corresponding language. That does not scale for all languages available.

That’s exactly what the language server protocol is all about (and certainly what parsers like tree sitter are there for). Emacs can connect to those and acquire semantic analysis capabilities. The degree to which such a semantic language features will work for you will also depend strongly on the language, of course.

If you use a commercial editor it’ll jump start you for the popular languages. But, say, you wanted to program in Raku or Scheme you’ll also going to need to fiddle around.
Suppose we put solar panels in space. Then we would be entirely unconstrained by the amount of energy received by the earth. Heat dissipation would also no longer affect earth. Given our current trajectory with regards to spaceflight, it seems plausible we will be doing large projects of that scale in space in say 300 years, enough time to meet such exponential growth targets.
> Why are they excavating a pauper's graveyard?

Others have commented on the graveyard issue, but the pauper issue is more interesting to me. Do you feel it is more enlightening to investigate the tombs of the wealthy?

Where records exist, they are more likely to be about the wealthy, not the poor, who were of course the bulk of the population, as now. The records we have for them are almost all archeological, for who would write about ordinary things? Sometimes there are baptismal or other church records, but not always, and other regions may not even have the local equivalent.

And apart from simply adding to the corpus of historical record, we can learn things that might not be recorded about the rich: famines, levels of violence, climate issues, etc that might be recorded in the bones or other relics (fragments of wood, metal, etc).

There’s lots of intellectual value to be gleaned from the remains of the “paupers”.
I always wonder about things like scaling and sustainability with these movements. Do we need to move some labour back to agriculture with changes they want? And were will the pay for those jobs come from? As surely they should be well paid jobs, right? Right?

So what will be the affordability at the end for food in general?
just see a kind of typo
there is a space on your rss URL
https://muhammadraza.me%20/feed.xml
Oh! How about a USB-C device that detects its orientation this way, and requires you to replug it in the different orientation twice before it starts to work?
You either live in a lower income area (i.e. the hood) or you live far from the city center — 1, 2 hour drive.
You're meant to put a piece of black tape over it so you can LARP as a 1960s combat photojournalist.
WASM offers much less security mechanisms than OS services + containers.
the keys prelude pushes you towards with guru-mode are not the ones on the home row (hjkl, which is justifiable) but keys originally chosen for english words: n(ext), p(revious), f(orward), b(ack). It's mystifying, these aren't ergonomic at all, but just memnomics to help teach navigation _in the absence of clearly marked arrow keys_. So if anything, rather than being for gurus, these are keys for beginners.

Dug out a quote from Guy Steele on why the key bindings in emacs got this way:

[...] not being a human-factors guy at all, I
didn't think at all about convenience for touch typists. I was
principally concerned with mnemonic value. And so that's why Meta-C and
Meta-L and Meta-U stand for capitalize and lowercase and uppercase.

(from Peter Siebel's Coders At Work, quoted here https://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2015-August/008498.h...)
I prefer Go’s imports via Git
That thread is not substantially incorrect; the data really isn't very well correlated. You can estimate using things like "number of mobile phone users" or "internet users", but that leaves out potentially large numbers of people. The census and the electoral register are basically voluntary (yes, the electoral roll is mandatory, but not meaningfully enforced at all).

Agree that the account is sus, starting from the anime pfp.
"So we should X?" is usually a signal that you're about to not track/engage with what someone said. I'm reminded of Cathy Newman's interview of Jordan Peterson where her only retort the whole time was "So you're saying that <something he didn't say>." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54 -- A classic, even if you don't like the guy)

For example, they are talking about cows we farm into existence at the tune of 1.5 billion global population, not a few million wild animals.
I have absolutely no idea what any of it was, but sometimes the most boring things can be the most extremely sensitive.

For example, you can’t get much more boring than a payroll system. Now consider the fact that the CIA must have a payroll system. Its payroll system would be just as boring as anybody else’s - and yet, it is hard to think of anything the US government would consider more sensitive (except maybe nuclear launch codes). If your name is Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinyong, or Ali Khamenei, a copy of the CIA’s payroll would be utterly priceless.
I was interested in dense vector search in 2004 and a bit depressed at how the indexing algorithms weren’t that good, Around 2013 I was involved with an actual product which was a search engine for patents.

The thing about vector search today is that it is an absolute gold rush, Pinecone had the right idea but the wrong product (sorry SAAS is toxic), many of the latecomers are… late, and will find the whole startup and VC process will cost precious months when customers want to build products right now.

Note for that patent search engine we had a quite a different idea than is fashionable today, that is, like very old TREC we care about the quality of results you got 1000 or 2000 results in in the assumption that a patent researcher wanted to be comprehensive. When I was first into IR it was in the context of “how is Google so much better than other search engines?” and one part of it was that based on the way search engines were being evaluated at TREC, Google was not a better search engine* because it was so focused on the first page.

It has come full circle now, I have talked to people recently who complain that current TREC evaluations are too focused on the first few results.
The case of the criminal doppelgängers that started fingerprinting
The higher the pay, the higher the competition. Those $150k+ jobs are extremely competitive if they're remote. Senior only. No junior or mid-level.

The average developer looking for a remote job can probably expect closer to $110-140k as an individual contributor in a fully remote job outside of major cities. I'd say this is the majority of the volume of job openings.

Of course there's a minority that pay way more, but as mentioned, competition for those positions is extremely high. The only reason to pay $150k+ is if a company is looking to hire people extremely quickly and the company wants to pay at a level that makes it very hard for employees to jump to another job to earn more.

Source: My company hires engineers in the $120-140k range. We often talk to candidates who at first say they want $175k. We tell them we respect that, and to come back to us if anything changes. More often than not, they come back 1-2 months later asking for the job and happily accepting $120-140k. In the current market you really have to be pretty amazing in order to command $150k+ for remote jobs. For in-person jobs in SF or NYC, getting those salaries will be easier but you'll be paying extremely high COL.
Create the pool using `/dev/sda` etc then:

sudo zpool export tank
sudo zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -aN
If we forget about everything else needed to put that paper specification on a real motherboard.
He seemed like a great guy on Ali-G.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bYjGHRX9dE
Citation needed for not behaving like you expect on first touch. I very very much doubt that most people's first touch of writing javascript included writing contrived syntacical-gotchyas like `+!!NaN * "" - - [,]` (example 25 on jsiswierd.com)... unless of course they are perl coders :)

Yes there are a few weird things around true/false evaluations and other syntax "gotchyas", but they take at most 5 minutes to grok the ones that actually come up in normal day-to-day coding, and many of the other things that people like to flag up (like scope in blocks/functions) are often the same in statically typed compiled languages too - there was a blog post from golang just recently about a "common mistake" around scoping of variables in loops etc for example (sorry cant find link). Don't even get me started on Python's weirdness.

What I am saying is there are many ways to shoot yourself in the foot in any language - you'll "get burned" in anything that you don't really understand. First-touch of rust without really knowing the language that well? First-touch of c++ without really knowing the language that well? Have fun not getting burned with those until you have studied a proper rust/c++ course that tells you precisely all of the traps. It turns out that you need to know about a programming language to use it effectively.

And for what it is worth, modern ECMAScript does not need a transpiler - it executes directly in the browser without any molestation. Typescript requires transpilation to javascript before execution, but you can get a long way without typescript if you want to without sacrificing too much besides types (and tooling these days for standard ECMAScript is excellent)

I think that maybe perhaps you are confusing javascript with browser-based frameworks like React? React and NPM are a total dumpster fire of awfulness, but they are not javascript.

I'd encourage you to give modern, native ECMAScript another go.
Code Quality Improves Developer Productivity
> I am fully aware TypeScript exists, and there are transpilers where the syntax (modern ECMAScript) and rules are more appropriate to current times, but these aren't "native" of the browser. You must still transpile to the hazardous old JS.

I fully understand the reluctance or just sheer annoyance of having to set up a toolchain just to end up with JavaScript. I've written an absurd amount of JavaScript since 1995. And yes, it is quirky, and awkward, and at times seemed downright ridiculous. ES6 at least was somewhat of a paradigm shift towards normalcy. Granted, JavaScript was created "in 10 days" and then simply became the de facto language of the web.

But after I started working with TypeScript, and enforcing linting rules through ESLint, and working in a proper IDE for it like VSCode, there is simply no going back. And it's not just the development that is so much better. With tools like webpack you also easily get tree-shaking, bundling, and minification, which are all good things for the users.

For very small sites with a single developer, sure you can just write JavaScript and call it a day. But anything even slightly beyond that and I would take the small amount of time to setup a build environment. It's not that difficult, and once it's set up properly it should stay out of your way and help tremendously.

I'm full stack lead on an enterprise Angular project that happens to require all of this stuff, but I would use it going forward for many less complex, non-SPA projects as well.

After 20+ years I don't necessarily loathe working on the front-end anymore.

That's not to say I didn't have to be pulled kicking and screaming into this world at first, while yelling "get off my lawn!". That may have been the case.
I started out with a Duo 280 which had the 68LC40 no math co-processor was my memory.

I also had the duo dock on my desk which had a large screen attached and 2 Nubus card slots.

When I traveled it had an ethernet module that plugged into the expansion port.

The duo was my favorite Apple laptop form factor.
A half baked standard with lots of missing features.
I'm always surprised that people think farming isn't like any other industry in capitalism. They will aim to make as much profit with resources they have available.

If doing farming differently would certainly net more, they would do it. So I take there is some component that is forgotten. Be it scaling, labour input or available market for higher priced products.
For starters I don't believe that people even understand or agree what "vector" even means in this context.
Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job
That is a political argument though, not a mathematical one.

And a technical counterargument would be that even computer science is used to solutions that aren't perfect, but whose likelihood of failure is a function of effort, so they become practically usable once you push the likelihood of failure to the region around "would take more than age of observable universe", etc.

Examples include: efficient primality tests, UUIDs, asymmetric cryptography itself.
Hardly the best in anything.
That's some magical thinking, thinking that you don't need hardware people because you wrote some software.

All the same gear is still there, its control functions are just ceded to Amazon panels. And integrated to the point of even removing some PLC like devices.
Presumably some kind of Makefile or similar build automation config file would be in the repo to define which versions of which tools to use to do the build.
Which is solvable by having enough voting stations spread out, and making voting day a national holiday or done on a sunday.