skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few (passive) implants. I had cataracts, and I have lenses implanted in my eyes. What was horrifying was watching myself slowly go blind over several months before I got the implants. I got a foretaste of what my life would be without them, and, yeah, I'll take the implants.

I also have two stents in my heart. I was going to have a heart attack within five years. Again, I'll take the implants, and be glad for the chance. I can still run. I can still climb stairs, and I can do it without fear.

None of these are intended to augment me (though I see better at distance than I have since kindergarten). They're intended to let me live normally rather than degraded.

And in both cases, no, the implants didn't freak me out at all. I basically never think about them, but when I do, it's with gratitude, not revulsion.
You have to precise recent multiplayer games with anticheats because that's probably the last category of games firmly locked on windows.

For old games, you could even argue that wine has a better compatibility story than Windows itself nowadays with the amount of stuff they broke in Win10 and Win11.
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The options for that are:

* dnsPolicy: Default

* enableServiceLinks: true (the default)

Then you can use MYDATABASENAME_SERVICE_HOST from the environment and there is no CoreDNS in the path at all.
NAT doesn't get the hate it deserves for stopping people from running their own servers.

I remember being being 18, making my first websites using the LAMP stack and not understanding why my friends were unable to access them from their homes. I knew the basic workings of the IP protocol, but hadn't read about NAT, and the responses online talked about "public and private IP addresses", which made no sense to me -- "Aren't all IP addresses supposed to be public? Isn't that how the protocol works?"

Even after learning about how NAT works, I had no way to work around it, as my ISP blocked the router's web interface and I was unable to do port forwarding.

I would bet that there are at least dozens of millions of people that didn't pursue a career in IT because of NAT. We should ask ourselves if collectively allowing NAT to be what it is was a good decision in the first place.
I've switched over to the Ansel fork which addresses the uncontrolled feature creep in Darktable. Mostly happy with the opinionated removal of cruft. Had to learn some new tricks, but overall my editing process is now more streamlined and pleasurable.

https://ansel.photos/en/
Intel actually had trouble getting 14nm off the ground and it was late to ramp up, that should have been a signal that past progress might be coming to an end. I believe that when things got difficult managements response was to try to catch back up by going crazy on the 10nm jump and it went horribly.

What was more shocking is how long them seemed to be in denial before putting contingency plans in place.
It’s an explicit endorsement of a Nazi viewpoint while hiding behind “free speech” on a platform that has no obligation to allow unfettered free speech. They in fact, do not. Pornography is not allowed on their platform. Pornography is free speech.

This is no different from Musk/Twitter.

They clearly endorse a subset of free speech, again even though they're under no obligation to do so. They endorse and _actively support by monetary means_ Nazism.
As a parent the part that sucks is there is good that can come of this, but it's not on the major free-for-all platforms.

My kids are involved in some activities that use other social media-like platforms for sharing information with kids and parents, posting videos/photos, and even includes some group chat features where everyone can interact. It's been great, but 1. it's a small, controlled group and 2. there's active moderation that's possible due to the small size.

My youngest has learned to draw, and is really, really good at it, due to some amazing content on YouTube. They love to sit for hours drawing both following along and using it as inspiration for their own art work. But we all know how must of a disaster YouTube can be.

My life has also been heavily influence (good and bad) by having access to BBS and early Internet chatrooms and forums begging around age 10. I was lucky in that my father was involved in the 80s and 90s telecom boom so I had access to a lot of things (with and without my parents approval) before they became mainstream. I think overall it made me a better person getting all that crap out of my system early.

I don't want my kids to miss out of opportunities like that, but I also don't want them being sucked into the algorithm-driven shitfests of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc.
That's going to be a long way off since it's a Java project and fairly well integrated into Android's APIs.
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First bits of a Haiku compatibility layer for NetBSD
Each hack was going into a company Slack server and saying "hell o i am the admin gibe me password". I'm not impressed.
For $50, I bought a used Acer Aspire 5 Full HD 1080 laptop (MD Ryzen 3 3350U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz), 4.00 GB RAM, 118GB drive with Windows 11 Home. I upgraded it to 17GB RAM, 2TB drive with Ubuntu 23.10. Screams past both my Windows and MacBook laptops with "superior" credentials (and prices). I hardly ever use Windows or macOS any more.
Mass hysteria, media sensationalism.
Maybe monetisation at all is not the answer: at the turn of the century, people were willing to blog, and blogged well, without asking to be compensated for their logorrhoea.
iMessage is an entirely separate service. It’s inactive until you activate it. It costs nothing to not enable. My dad refused to turn it on until last year but his iCloud account functioned without issue so he wasn’t “punished” or dark patterned into turning it on.

Is the Camera app an antitrust issue too? Any bundled application?
> Women are indeed saved by childbirth. Men too.

saved from what?
It was a choice not an opportunity. They decided to do that to boost asset values.
I would say three, if you count StarLink separately from SpaceX.
I have a similar story as many on HN do. I had been stringing 10BASE2 coax around my "home lab" for years before I realized people will actually pay me to play with my toys. Of course I then sunk all of that money into more toys for the home lab.

I now have a lot of friends with kids and some of them are teenagers. I've had some concern in my mind for a while now - their total knowledge of tech comes down to asking for a wifi password and watching prank videos (or whatever) on an app. When you ask them what they want to do when they grow up they say "influencer"... The most technical thing they know how to do is reboot "the router" when the internet is down. The second diagnostic step is to yell that the internet is down.

They're great kids and I'm not criticizing them but I've had some concerns that there might not be anyone around to keep the lights on when our generation is gone. In our day using a computer and getting on the internet had huge barriers to entry but that came with the benefit of an explosion in tech talent.

My point is it's great to hear there are still some nerdy kids out there getting under the covers!
This is the cyberpunk dystopian future I signed up for :P
Is it rational for a rationalist to want to be a parent, knowing that having a kid rewrite your utility function? (so said parent would accept sacrificing their life for saving the life of their child)

It looks like the futurama brain slug parasites that someone explained me about last time I asked: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Slug

It's even less rational for a woman, given the many damages it causes to the body (something he discusses in the article)

I often see having a kid "creates a joy that couldn't be experienced before", but the same thing could be said about drugs: you want to preserve your utility function from such deep influences, so you try to avoid getting addicted to drugs.

If one wouldn't rationally chose to get addicted, why chose getting a child?

The only reason I see is in the title: as a psychological protection about death (the pun on "in the long run, we're all dead")

In case the person finds no other meaning in life, a cheap way out is to create one by reinterpreting the path-dependent set of random events (I wouldn't be here if my parents didn't have a kid, etc, and neither would the human race), choosing to continue this chain and call that "meaning"

I'm not convinced. The whole article seems like an elaborate rationalization (especially the part of lack of sleep and lack of free time) to try to convince the author and the followers as noted in the meta:

> I think it’s a conspiracy. All the pronatalist influencers get together and say that pregnancy isn’t so bad. Young women believe them, and so the human race survives another generation

YES
Look, Elon had a good run but he's no messiah.
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> guess it depends how you define Holocaust

True. I think it’s most broadly held as the industrial liquidation of the Jewish people (alongside other undesirables). Everything else was sadly precedented.
Fine-Tuning or Retrieval? Comparing Knowledge Injection in LLMs
No the error is the users/management Clearcase and Java just don't work together using winking etc. So the users should use something else.

Clearcase assumptions still worked for C/C++.

Clearcase could also act in the way svn, PVCS and CVS did with a checkout to a local disk and that way there would not have been the issues the OP talks about. (We did that for some projects not because of Java but because we were on Windows). Clearcase was still useful as it had good merging and easy branching 10 years before git.

After git and mercurial came out then yes Clearcase was not worth the money and collapsed.
This project helped me get my first job after college.
I probably need a hip replacement sooner rather than later (at an age that, though not really young, is very young for that procedure) and it's a bit of a factor. Replacing a part of your skeleton with titanium, ceramic, and plastic seems both drastic and technologically somewhat amazing, but the thought of replacing my natural parts with something that can wear, fail, and need further possible maintenance is hard to accept. Eventually the pain might force the issue however; my OEM part isn't really that great either I suppose.

It probably also helps that it's a relatively simple, mechanical part. If I was editing my brain, that would bring up all sorts of philosophical problems that would probably paralyze me with indecision.
Show HN: Try on real Christmas jumpers with AI
Hi HN,
I have been developing a stable diffusion based product to enable trying on real clothes based on one picture. I thought it would be fun to make a little demo with crazy christmas jumpers!
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Reytheon shadow marketing campaign to increase funding for advanced sensors and hypersonic cruise missiles.

"Senator, we can't prove the UFO reports are not Chinese hypersonics, and you know how your constituents feel about that"
This is great! One small suggestion: I'd love a shortcut to be able to insert the current date/time. Or perhaps track the time a block was created, and have an option to display that somewhere small on the UI for each block? I find it super helpful to have the date when search back through old notes like this.
> Thanks, I've bought a license now.

Thanks, that's awesome!

> Is there a publicly accessible changelog anywhere?

Not at present. I'll definitely do one for future releases. I added a reminder in my Makefile, too :) . Thanks for pointing that out.
(This is why we're talking about steel again.)
> Web Components give the basic blocks of writing those frameworks easier.

The argument of the post is that they should but don't really, and some new building blocks should be added to help with that.
Every time you get an object from somewhere, which needs to be preserved and modified at the same time.
Do you mean other than these plans? https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/PB_03.1-AppxA_...
Very interesting article. Given that most of Elon's fortune comes from owning a big share of a car company, I think it's understandable (but unethical) if he uses his huge media influence to sabotage a public transport project.

IMHO currently a Hyperloop will require much more investments than what is reasonable to expect, but in 20 or 30 or 50 years if the human progress continues new technologies will make it viable.
> There are huge elevation changes in a seismically active area and its not clear that they'll ever figure it out.

That same issue applies to any high-speed project that's not air travel, regardless of if it moves along asphalt or rails and if it runs on or below the ground.
They keep rehashing stuff. I've heard Mr. Pope say this many times over many years, but it's never been the subject of an ENTIRE news article. It seems to suggest that if we could just get our leaders to stop believing in this silly "God" thing and start believing they are little green men from Mars instead, we could finally make real progress!
Germany sees record drop in property prices
Because the second sentence mentions the Bible? Or some other reason?

If it’s the former, I’m a Christian but I don’t just close out articles if they’re written by Richard Dawkins or quickly proclaim that they’re an atheist. There’s still a very real chance that they have some wisdom to share. Just because people share a different religious view than me doesn’t mean I can’t learn from them.
> There are a LOT of senior people at firms that prioritize Ivy league graduates who did NOT go to an Ivy league school.

95% of college graduates didn't go to an Ivy league school, so that would be expected. But how easy is it to get into a hedge fund from Harvard compared to say UVA? In my profession, having an Ivy league degree confers a tremendous advantage. Out of the sitting Supreme Court Justices, all but one went to either Harvard or Yale.
The explanation from Substack: "...we don't think that censorship ... makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse. We believe that supporting individual rights and civil liberties while subjecting ideas to open discourse is the best way to strip bad ideas of their power."

Agree or disagree, but that is a principled position.
It might, but does it come off as pretentious or genuine? It doesn't read like he keeps a thesaurus next to him to sound smarter. Keep in mind he's been doing this for a very long time as well. Also he's well-versed on the subject of rationality, so I would argue that he's probably more rational than most people.
If using Python & Matplotlib, consider using XKCD style to communicate that a graph is imprecise and should be read that way.

https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/showcase/xkcd.html#sph...
http://archive.today/E7Z3j
Heaven forbid someone has a radical new idea for fusion power or to reduce carbon in the atmosphere or to cure cancer. They may just keep it to themselves knowing the reaction they'll get.

I think it's a sad state of affairs when someone simply puts an idea out into the world and says "We think it will work, but needs more input" and people get extremely angry and spew vitriol and hatred towards them simply for sharing an idea.

Back in the day Musk and SpaceX engineers put out a white paper about Hyperloop. In it they laid out as much of the work and calculations they had done, and they said "We're pretty sure this can work, but it's a first draft, and it needs more input and refinement and testing and all the rest. We're not going to do that. But hopefully others will pick it up and run with it."

Then some test tracks were built to foster student input/learning/ideas (Great!), then everyone called Musk a scam artist and says it was a crock of shit from the start.

I wish we lived in a world where new ideas were encouraged and discussed in a productive manner so that we can all learn and improve the world around us. Of course not all of them will "work out", but that is the whole point of learning and trying new experimental things.
Anytype is good, worth to check it!
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4 Yemens not 2

Aden Colony was it's own thing until the emergency. Basically an middle eastern Hong Kong or Singapore

The southern Emirates were their own thing until the late 60s

Hadhramut was it's own protectorate until 1967.

North Yemen (where the Houthis are from) was in the midst of a civil war between Commies and Zaidis. The Commies won, but the Zaidis got the last laugh by overthrowing Saleh and starting the Houthi movement.
Interestingly, prices in the neigbouring Netherlands have been rising again for the last 6 months.
> I for the life of me can't figure out how countries end up in situations where a large subset of said population is not only armed by effectively uncontrollable by the government.

Every "country" was once like this, it was the norm not the exception. Look at Feudal Japan for example. The nation-state is a modern invention (it's a social construct with associated institutions to enforce it) that requires a bunch of preconditions that obviously aren't going to hold up if you apply enough stress. It doesn't help that the national boundaries of many countries in the Middle East were drawn up arbitrarily after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. These aren't naturally emerging countries. They're arbitrary borders that contain warring tribes within those borders. Such as the Kurds who are split up among 3 countries.
Im describing a pattern of US involvenent in the middle east that has killed millions of people, actually.

Russia never getting a friendly welcome from the rest of europe after the collapse of the soviet union has to try to work with the only other neighbors they have, and havent had nearly as many problems and incurring far less wrath from the arab world as we have.

Chinas MO is not to start wars, and to date has not started one, they try to capture countries with debt financing. Depending on whether these debts become exogenous and tools to control the political leadership, as is the case with the US, China too may face these problems, but does not currently.

We created what iran is today, and we feed it with every sanction, intentionally.
This is literally a joke. A callback to an article called The Demiurge's Older Brother written many, many years before the current AI hype. Also, Scott has been beating the drum of surprisal minimization for years and years now, see articles like [1] and [2].

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/21/repost-the-demiurges-o...

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-...

[2]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-t...
The story of the 7-11 video shot at 2:30am in 1987 (2014)
Around 16 years ago, Wordpress security was just not up to snuff yet, and my popular Wordpress-based site kept getting hacked by pharmaceutical spammers and the like. After several such incidents, I wrote a "wrapper" that loaded before Wordpress to scrutinize incoming requests before a lick of Wordpress code was executed. It had blacklists, whitelists, automatic temporary IP blocking, and that sort of thing. There was no reason for visitors to upload files, so any non-admin POST request with a file upload was automatically smacked down.

It wasn't pretty, but the hackers never got through again, and that clunky thing is still in service today. I coded it to quarantine all illicit file uploads, and as a consequence I have many thousands of script kiddies' PHP dashboards from over the years.
One domain that a little OO seems to map to without too much pain is GUI libraries. The first OO-flavoured API I ever used was Sunview, the early GUI I used on Sun-3 workstations with SunOS. It was a beautiful API; I was never tempted to mess with the verbose, complex "Intrinsics-based" toolkits that followed it. It carried on with xview; that's what I'd try if I wanted to write a GUI in C today.
I see them all over, on various social media.

Are you claiming I'm lying?
It was in the s4me discussion. I think the more interesting question is why you put so much stock in a study you admit is exploratory, which you havent checked for validity.
Or you can't, for example because you already signed a 20 year root with SHA-1. Nor does it matter in this example and many others.
It seems quite clear that Musk dislikes public transport. He's publicly stated that he thinks it sucks and is inconvenient. If you think public transport is a bad idea and you have the means to kill the project, it stands to reason you'd give it a shot.

I don't disagree entirely. Public transport is kind of rubbish and, all else being equal (travel times, cost, availability, etc.), I'd prefer to be in my own car as it drives itself directly to my destination. However, it's a question of whether it's possible to build a city around cars without it turning into a horrible traffic-filled hellscape, and so far Musk doesn't seem to have found an alternative solution. Certainly, there's nothing better on the table that works with current technology.
Something like Neuralink will do this.

For a small subscription, we will implant good memories into your brain. You will have common shared memories with our other gold tier subscribers. Your corporate family will be just like cousins, people with whom you share a bond, a common history, memories, and subscription fees. You can always ask them for advice and they will know you. If you're travelling to an unfamiliar place, we'll hook you up with a new cousin.
To back this up, Stratfor is the Zero Hedge of geopolitics.
I don't think those two things have to be independent of one another.
Seems far-fetched that Musk would try to derail one single railway construction project to benefit his cars and industry- the impact of that project on his economic interests seems too small and indirect.

But I can imagine Musk being outraged at the idea of spending an enormous amount of money to build a project that is already old and uninspiring by the current standards. And it's not like Musk's perception of how public administrations waste money by applying the same old schemes again and again is entirely naive and wrong- he revolutionised the world's space industry based on those perceptions. He probably wanted to say "hey, with some imagination and research you can build something new and better for less".
Fun fact, like 80% of the kids at that particular day-care are there on "scholarship." Not sure exactly what that means, being as how they're not likely to be there on intellectual merit at this age, but it looks like care is partially or completely subsidized by the government. I'm for affordable care, but it seems like the same perverse incentives that have caused the cost of college to go up like they have.

Ultimately, our solution was that I now take the kids to work with me. I run my own business, and it's not really conducive to having kids there (light industrial/light manufacturing), but day-care costs were literally more than half my wife's take-home pay, and she's a PhD mathematician in a tenured position at a state university. My productivity suffers, but due to the economic downturn from the coronavirus pandemic, we actually come out ahead.
Most ISPs I've encountered (various places in the USA) do allow port forwarding or even replacing the ISPs router with one of your own. I'm not sure NAT has been a massive obstacle for most people interested in networking. And without NAT, we would have had to use IPv6 or something even worse. That would probably have turned off a lot of aspiring network engineers too.