skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the only ones who do anything valuable are the workers?

Correct! Because the act of creation is where value is created.

By definition capital does not create value, otherwise there would be no requirement to have labor to do the “transformation.”

Exactly to your point I have at points had quite a bit of money (not currently true). But it’s not from “capital growth” it’s from aggressively selling my labor and capturing the majority of my labor value. That said, if you were to compare the amount of value, I’ve created to the amount of money I received, It’s not even fucking close I’ve created 1000x more value than I have captured.

Why? because at the time that I did those deals, I was not in a powerful enough position to demand the value capture, because we’re stuck in a state where the vast majority of people need to debase themselves simply to survive.

Is that the type of system that has long term capacity for multigenerational equitable success? The answer is no and there’s no way you can slice that that makes it a yes.

If, however, your goal is a infinite race to the bottom for worker self exploitation, where people will literally destroy themselves in order to otherwise survive, based on the whims of hoarded capital owners arbitrary self inflated egos about how the world works. Having been a LP in a venture fund, a Director in a large public company, and a multitime start up founder I can guarantee this is exactly how it works. If that’s the world you want then we’re right on track.
Wait until you try it out, it seems cool, but it's drudgery work most of the time.

I'm in the process of migrating the fleet from centos-7 to rocky-8, I can say for sure this is not fun. I'd rather be programming
In addition to the large number of Steam decks, there are similar handhelds from other companies that run Linux in some cases. The work Valve has done to make gaming on Linux happen, along with the high quality of desktop/mobile Linux distros lately (and the declining quality of Windows UX) has made it quite attractive. I recently put Pop OS on a laptop for personal use and am super happy with it.
Ironically an article that is perfectly indicative of the very problems it is pointing out
Probably the person you're replying to is just confused because before it was standardized some snprintf() implementations returned -1 on overflow. If you were trying to be portable and defensive you'd need to check for either error return.

Not really a concern inside musl because those implementations are probably long gone and because it's calling its own snprintf() anyway.
One thing about the web is that GPU compute is still not so straightforward to achieve, and even CPU multithreading has a bit clunky at best. For many kinds of apps, web is really not the right answer for these reasons. If all you need is a UI and some fairly minimal background logic, the web could be just fine, though.
Sometimes games dont run, and im not tech savvy enough to press the issue, but it is well worth my piece of mind to be off windows.
Sure, it falsely implies that electric cars and AI are the most important things for governments to promote. It does not make reference to functioning health care systems, pollution/environmental controls, workplace safety, or my personal favourite, more advanced political voting systems that are less prone to two-party duocracy/Diarchy (UK has this problem but thankfully solved it for the purposes of this comment by brexiting).
Is it, then, that because it isn't Stanford and Harvard teaching it that we discount the teaching?

That is certainly a theme seen outside of the topic of parenting. High school graduates in particular, who have spent 12+ years of their life in the education system, are oft considered 'uneducated'. Not because they actually are uneducated, just that they haven't received an education from a particular school.

I don't know where this general idea that we don't teach parenting comes from. Even ignoring said classes, once I had children the teachers will still lining up around the block to help me through the process. There is no subject I know of that has more teaching resources directed to it.
Working on a virtualenv without magic (2016)
Living in Europe as I do, I have to say that the north European, rule-bound mindset, and it's almost universal acceptance of government, makes it a more soulless place to be.

The things I like, wonky streets, eccentricities, unsanctioned alternative thinking and living, are mostly being legislated and engineered out of the picture, apart from a few heritage examples. The individuality that made things interesting has been bounded and contained.

In a general sense, I think European culture is homogenising itself into oblivion. The spontaneity of life is not here. (Of course, I'm speaking in ludicrously general terms!)
This reminds me of TabFS: https://omar.website/tabfs/
Not to minimize the challenges, but I think it's worth pointing out that a lot of the drones of topical interest are -not- quadcopters.

The Houthis (for example) have been using UAVs (Samad and Qasef) are prop driven fixed wing drones with total mass in the 50kg+ class (and warheads in the ~20kg class). They have max speeds of 200+ kph, wingspans in the 2-5m range. The Samad has ranges in the 1000km+ range. Obviously, they could slow down in terminal stages of attack, and I have no idea what their stall speed would be like.

These are more akin to the Shahed class drones that Russia has been deploying in Ukraine (though still much smaller), than the FPV drones we see attacking tanks/trenches.
They never left they're just called modals now.
I've heard that theory of mind issue described as "cannot reliably make predictions based on what other people might think or do.", which is more nuanced than the other definition of "doesn't understand that other people have minds of their own."

Using the first definition, about prediction, makes a lot of sense and is a useful psychological concept.

The first definition would predict theory of mind issues in unrelated disorders, which I think you do see:

- Autism: the mind's ability to process social cues is not there or severely diminished. You'd expect these individuals to be bad predictors of others because they don't get or can't use sensory information that others do.

- Schizotypal personality disorder: they experience intrusive thoughts. They might be bad predictors of others because they assume that everyone else gets intrusive, paranoid thoughts on a regular basis.
Conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl are spreading
Yeah, "everything being in the browser" is probably a big part of the reason I can happily daily-drive a laptop from 2012 with a resolution of 1366x768 and 8gb of RAM (ThinkPad X230 running OpenBSD). All the other non-browser stuff I do is like, coding and terminal stuff (other than gaming, which I have a different machine for).
By answers are you referring to search engine results? Or tab/bookmark search filters?
This is such a weird sentiment to read given that it's conveyed over possibly the most artificial and de-humanizing communication channel ever invented, the internet. I mean if we want to get all dystopian, what kind of world are we living in where millions of people spend millions of hours pushing buttons all to mindlessly scream into an unfeeling void full of nothing but computer generated letters that you hope maybe somewhere at the other end might be a real person who's being genuine with you, but is also just as likely to be a dog, a person getting their jollies off trying to rile people up or a bot. At least with the Vision Pro, to be experiencing the dystopian future, you have to be in the same room with another actual human being. On the internet, you can lock yourself away from all human contact and you might as well be communicating with aliens for all the humanity that sans-serif fonts on a plain background with user names like "fuzzbunny382" have.

I can certainly see how you can find it uncanny, or just plain dislikable. But I feel like "genuinely sick, actively dystopian idea" is overstating it by a bit.
Absolutely.

Appearance is an important factor when dealing with customers. I consider it an important measure in an interview as well. I'm not prejudiced against any specific appearance but show me some effort, to match the respect you should be showing, in applying for the job.

Equally personality is important. You'd be working with other folk, for other folk, interacting with customers mangers, subordinates, peers and so on. Frankly if you're a dick you won't be a good fit with us.

On the other hand there are companies that love hiring trouble makers and misfits, so by all means you do you, and more power to you.
I don't enjoy anything that isn't containers nowadays so I don't envy you at all. I hope it goes smoothly.
Acquaintance of mine had a benign brain tumor removed maybe a decade ago. It’s subtle but their personality changed a bit.

They’re aware of it too, they talk about a feeling just a little different.

It’s normalized over time, like they just are who they are now, but of all the things to experience in life I bet that’d be a wild one. I appreciate our personalities can change over time but the overnight shift is fascinating to think about.
Did the same, after a year I decided I wanted the extra space and havent looked back. If a game doesnt run, well, I didnt need that game, personally.
This is blog-post level material. As a citizen of the EU, I have lots of complaints of over-regulation, but the fact that telco monopolies have been prevented and costs have been kept low is not one of them. I haven't met anyone that actually cares about 5G, it would be a meaningless investment in most of our cities. The EU even forced Apple to finally adopt USB type C in the Iphone.

Europe does have significant problems in helping its tech sector, but don't expect good details from this article.
>European mobile customers as a result pay only about a third of what Americans do. But that’s why European carriers invest only half as much per customer and their networks are commensurately worse, Strand said: “Getting a 5G signal in Germany is like finding a Biden supporter at a Trump rally.”

As usual these articles just go off vibes. 5G coverage in Germany is at 89%[1] compared to like 70% in the US. The obsession with market caps and gigantic firms and the complete absence of the effects these firms have on democracy makes sense if you're in the US-China cold war mindset that's present in the article but we do not need to compete on this.

Being German I remember this same discourse from the late 90s when Britain was praised as the economic frontrunner, we all must be like London, huge and innovative in finance, etc. Today Poland is wealthier than Britain minus London, and UK productivity is 30% lower than in France or Germany.

Small and medium sized private firms were allegedly unable to compete, we should adopt the cutthroat US managerial chase for profits was the tenor at the time, yet weirdly enough it was precisely the Mittelstand that survived the China shock.

[1]https://www.rcrwireless.com/20230926/5g/german-telcos-rapidl...
And just think, its training material is all this upvoted - and then believed and repeated - BS.
> Why do we need special configuration languages? Why not just use existing languages?

Sure, or you could turn around and ask:

Why do we need languages at all? Surely we can express everything with assembly?

Or, shouldn’t one language work for all cases? Why not just use C everywhere?

And the answer becomes obvious: some languages are better at certain tasks than others! Then, a “configuration language” is just going to be a programming language that is best suited to generating configuration.

The same way that C or Rust have different use cases than C# and Java.
Seems cumbersome…I’d rather run a script locally
Humans are nearly all mimics, at least 98%+. They are LLMs. It's a survival optimization (energy spent copying the existing vs creating/innovating/distributing). It's only fitting that we'd create LLMs in the human mold.

LLMs are to human mimics what AGI will be to human creators/innovators (and then some of course).
Edited to make it fit (too long otherwise) to my best of knowledge. First submissions for HN so I thought a summary would be better. Won’t make that mistake again.
> He mentioned it in an application to an Ivy League university, but did not know to call it a cyberdeck. They refused him admission because he did not know that term.

> The lesson is: There are millions if bright kids who reinvent things, but are denied even admission to college because they are not part of the in-crows that knows the jargon.

If it’s any consolation, the chances are they would have met the same response even if using “cyberdeck”.

Millions of otherwise similarly qualified people have been rejected from Ivy League universities because there are only a limited number of sports each year and many more applicants. Despite what one may think, unless you really stand out (do something national news worthy, legacy, or come from a family rich enough to get a building name after you) there is definitely luck involved in getting the right admissions workers to notice your application. One project in an admissions packet usually won’t make the cut.
Fragment Specifiers in Rust Macros
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/world/canada/canada-schoo...

And, in the end, the conclusion of the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission was unambiguous: “Children were abused, physically and sexually, and they died in the schools in numbers that would not have been tolerated in any school system anywhere in the country, or in the world.”

From the 1880s through the 1990s, the Canadian government forcibly removed at least 150,000 Indigenous children from their homes and sent them t o residential schools to assimilate them. Their languages and religious and cultural practices were banned, sometimes using violence. It was, the commission reported in 2015, a system of “cultural genocide.”

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Should that not be taken at face value?
I've used Tampermonkey for a couple of moderately complex things and it does work well... I didn't come across a particularly nice way to use an external editor or integrate it with a normal dev workflow though, I wonder if anyone has tricks to share?

I'm fairly satisfied with editing in VS Code, using a tsconfig.json with strict mode and checkJs turned on, then using JSDoc for typing. The ugly bit is the manual copy-paste into the Tampermonkey code area each time.
No, they aren't. PFAS are/were used [1] in the creation of Teflon, which is what defines GoreTex.

You're being confused by people who try to argue that Teflon is as PFAS.

[1] there are other ways of making Teflon, and the industry has been phasing out PFOA for a long time.
Introduction to Thompson Sampling: The Bernoulli Bandit (2017)
For me, there are regularly situations that I get a message on my phone but it is not convenient to get out the phone. Looking at the watch is then quite handy. Similarly in a noisy environment I sometimes miss a notification. The buzz of the watch is nice.

Navigating with a phone always feels a clumsy. I find that also more convenient with a watch.

When it comes to heart rate, it is just convenient that the watch can constantly monitor heart rate, stress, etc. Sometimes you feel a bit off an wonder why. If HRV is suddenly lower then it might be good to avoid a hard training session.
A SLA would. I would just use multiple backups. One self-hosted on-premise and two off-site. Then the two off-site can have egress costs. Wouldn't matter. The self-hosted one would be the primary one to backup from. And it is going to be solid, usually. For example, a Synology NAS would suffice.
This was my experience doing consulting/contracting for most of the 2010s. Clients would want both iOS and Android, and we’d release with full feature parity. In every instance the iOS apps brought in 2x-5x the revenue, even when our Android apps had more active users.
I love the dedication to the vintage OS. Is that a hackintosh?
The featured proof about the sum of Fibonacci numbers divided by 2^n is beautiful.

When I started reading the proof I thought it was a mistake, a mismatch between the theorem to proof and the linked proof. I didn't expect using Kolmogorov axioms to prove this kind of sums. I really enjoyed reading it. I just learned something new today, thanks!
Some of what you cited directly relate to well-being like healthcare and other items are inputs but unrelated like the political system. For those that directly relate: it’s pretty unclear that the EU as a whole does better on environmental protection or workplace safety than the US. Can you provide a source?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39253511.

Wikipedia submissions are fine in principle but HN gets a ton of them. It's best to post from wikipedia.org only if there isn't a good, interesting web page on the topic from a less visited source.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If you don't bother to make even a quick scan then I question your earlier statement that you "would like to understand what this means".
time to hit all the nail salons in California to see if they have that disclaimer up
For some reason, 5.25" floppies always never failed me. But 3.5" floppies had always been a source of problems.
Vail Resorts Sparked the Great Northeast Ski Revolt
I have a number of thoughts on this.

> If autism is the impaired ability to ascribe mental states

First, autism is not the impaired ability to ascribe mental states. Earlier in your post you more accurately described that as a symptom.

There are attempted theories that get more to what autism "is", that it's a heavier weight on bottom-up processing, processing distinct details more and holistic things less. Another (congruent) idea is related to a "narrow tunnel of attention" and to using more of the brain to attend to a more narrow set of stimuli and thoughts. (You can look up monotropism for more info on this idea.)

Secondly, in my experience and others I've read - autistic individuals seem to often do much better at understanding each other. I mean this in two ways: autists are often better at understanding other autists than they are at understanding neurotypicals, but also in many cases autists may be better at understanding other autists than neurotypicals are at understanding autists.

With this framing you could just as well say neurotypicals lack a theory of mind. Largely we don't do that because there are more neurotypicals than autists.

Of course that's not the full reason and it's not fully symmetrical. If there were a 50/50 split in the population then I think autism would be less of a disability for folks in terms of this theory of mind stuff, but it would still be a significant disability for anyone who struggles with all the other consequences of autism.

But it is still relevant that this "theory of mind" stuff may be a misleading way to talk about it; by default I would expect everyone to have an easier time with a theory of minds like their own. And thinking about it this way also helps inform neurotypicals with autistic loved ones that if they expect their loved one to work hard to understand them, they could do the same.
I thought you were joking. I thought I was playing along with the joke.

I'm so sorry.
Been using GNU/Linux exclusively for 15 years now. I'm so happy that more people have seen the light. Welcome to the free world! I wouldn't enjoy computers anywhere near as much without it. I was ready to change career completely when doing web dev was effectively impossible without Windows in the dark IE days. Luckily I found a career in science where Linux was widely used.
> There's a reason your iPhone/iPad defaults, every fucking time you try to save a file, to iCloud storage and the "default storage location" option was removed from preferences.

I assume you're right about Apple removing the preference, but I just shared a photo, picked "Save to Files" and it defaulted to Cryptomator. In case it's helpful to know, you can also turn off "iCloud Drive" as a Location.
I remember I bought a box of floppies in the early 2000s. From that box, I don't think I got a single disk that had zero bad sectors. At that point, I moved to thumb drives, CD-R's, or email for my data transfer needs.
Starting pay in the field isnt worth my time, unfortunately, so I have spent the last few years of my twenties agressively pursing linux knowledge on my own time. Only hitch is that im spinning the wheels but not moving!
My blue collar friends aren't passionate about their jobs at all - it's long hours, physically unhealthy, and bad conditions/pay. But at least what they do is real and meaningful without having to craft a weird narrative for themselves about how passionate their life is making better buttons and faster queries.
Your paranoia is warranted. Like i replied in another thread up, there are a couple thing you can do. Use multiple browser/profiles. Keep a separate profile or two with no extensions for banking, shopping, email and other important stuff. You can be install a couple addons in your 'general browsing' profile. In general install only 'recommended' and security-reviewed addons with firefox.
Well, an iPhone. How marvelous. I cannot even replace the battery or screen in 5 minutes. I have an Android smartphone which is easy to repair (Fairphone). It is a dealbreaker for me (although I'm glad Apple have been improving lately, and also software support for other Android devices is going better). Therefore, I cannot dabble into the Apple Watch ecosystem either. And you know what, it actually seems like a neat device (sans the repairability). And I am also a happy user of macOS and I know I'd like tvOS just as well as my Nvidia Shield (who forced ads down my throat in an Android update and pointed fingers at Google).
It's like I'm flying through Space Armada in Star Fox all over again.

"whoop whoop...wing damage"
>On desktop (Apple M2) it pretty much feels instant to me.

Why are you lying? It's not quick, let alone "pretty much instant". Neither on my M3 nor on my gaming machine. Actually I think Avalonia's start-up time is the worst out of all GUI frameworks I've used so far, including Electron.
Not protecting Foxconn, but I suggest you to compare their work conditions with other Chinese companies, where the competing mobile devices are manufactured. Problem is China and its borderline slavery labor conditions.

Thankfully, Apple started moving out to India and Vietnam.
Because otherwise, files can contain characters that aren’t on any of its lines.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...:

“3.206 Line

A sequence of zero or more non- <newline> characters plus a terminating <newline> character.”

That’s consistent with:

> echo test | wc
1 1 5
> echo -n test | wc
0 1 4
What are these new roadblocks?

From a North American perspective, the only thing I can think of that has changed is Google now requiring DUNS numbers for business accounts (while Apple has required them for a very long time, for business accounts).
This reminds me of how weird it was for everyone to be talking to themselves in public when Bluetooth first came out.
And now i can eat peacefully
Chrome has controls to not allow an extension free reign on all sites despite it asking for them. Allow only on specified sites. it's not a default for some reason, but if the extension doesn't have access then it can't do anything, bad or good.

Of course it doesn't help that it's a finance site that disables paste for which I need an extension to reenable, but at least I'm not letting the rest of my extensions get at my banking web session.
To be clear, I asked this question because I was considering the claim "a lot of times litter is not from littering." It occurred to me that, if this were true, you would expect culture to have less of an effect on the amount of litter in a particular city.

I suppose tax dollars and trash can technology would also be a plausible explanation, but it leaves me less convinced.