skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with OP. Treat YC as a school where you learn and network. It is not a zero-sum game. If you made it big, you've hit the jackpot. If not, you still gained valuable experience and skills applicable to the industry and other areas of life. It's like going to a college. If you didn't find a job right out of college, it doesn't mean you've wasted four years of your life.

The expected value of doing a startup is very high when your career is just starting. You are well-educated with very marketable skills. You don't have people depending on you. If you are building something and picking up transferable skills, all while being surrounded by the most driven people (and paid), I don't see why someone wouldn't try their luck with YC (or any other startup incubators).
It seems a bit worrying to me as a frequent user of Wikipedia. I like a "free and open" internet.
Niger has opened their arms to the Russian military [1], who will do nothing but plunder them and descend the (formerly democratic) country into more poverty and chaos.

They deserve to reap the fruit of their corruption and incompetence.

1- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68796359.amp
In a somewhat reverse scenario, when I was in 4th grade (9 years old), I knew 100% that I was getting nearsighted, and I absolutely did NOT want glasses. Fortunately (debatable) we got to pick our seats so I always picked a seat in the very first row, where I could kinda-sorta-almost see what was written on the board if I squinted. And I was also way above my grade level so I was able to fake it pretty well for most of the year even when this started to fail me. My mom insisted on taking me to get my eyes checked about 2/3 of the way through the year and I couldn't fake my way through that, though, so I finally got glasses, but by that point I was used to sitting at the front of the room, so I choose front-of-room seats when possible for most of the rest of my schooling. There's probably some moral here but I don't know what it is.
I would argue it's not just about familiarity. I had the same reaction to that quote and feel the same as you do, and yet I have been using jq before I first learned and started using awk.

For a long time I had been familiar with jq, but every time I had to use it for any non-trivial task after not touching it for a while I had to go to the docs and really scratch my head. Meanwhile, I had no idea about awk, and for ages I would just see those awk one-liners on Stack Overflow as weird arcane alternatives to "simply" piping sed, grep and tr over bash.

However, one day I finally had the time and the reason to have a look at AWK Programming for a specific use that I needed, and it immediately clicked. Awk makes sense and now I can easily fall back to it every time, even if I haven't used it for ages. At most, all I need to look up is the order of parameters in the gawk regex functions.

And yet, time and time again I am baffled by jq, however much I have used it in the past. Whenever I need to parse a JSON I'm happy enough if I can use jq to get it to a good enough halfway point so that I can pipe it to awk to do the actual work.
I, for one, do not want the US to be like China.
But that’s the thing, most of them would much rather be employed at a FAANG with high pay and high tolerance for “expressing yourself” in the workplace.

I totally agree with you that they would be unlikely to not be able to get a job at some old school enterprise with a very unsexy product. Those types of employers typically won’t tolerate even a hint of a similar behavior they could get away with at a FAANG though.

Also, I dont automatically stigmatize people for having prior issues with the law. Imo, it all depends on a case by case basis. However, if I was an employer, I would feel just as uneasy hiring someone who was previously fired and arrested for staging a protest that got out of hand at their previous workplace, as I would about hiring someone with prior convictions for wire fraud and embezzling as my CFO.

P.S. Besides FAANG, also good luck to them to be able to get employed by the government or military contractors (which I assume they wouldn’t even apply for in the first place, given their stances).
Yeah it’s just wrong. Pedantic people are correct but annoying.
ChatGPT flawlessly constructs jq commands for whatever banal task you have. Game changer.
They're a gizmodo writer. An attention predator. If they cared about producing genuine values for humanity, they would not be working in attention predator journalism

Therefore don't expect their writing to improve from your criticism. It's designed to take, not give.

I like to stop reading these kinds of authors as soon as I realize I'm experiencing a memetic attention attack. Then I write a snarky comment so others will start to hate them as well.
I was like you for awhile. Was good with with arithmetic but not much more than that. After learning a handful of new languages via total immersion, I found I could learn math much more deeply!
I am not familiar with zsh, but is it really interpreted by zsh? Because the script has #!/usr/bin/env bash in its shebang, isn't it executed by bash on your system, even if launched from zsh?
This extension's default choice is Google, did you at least try it before commenting?
I get that you disagree with him. Just saying it's unfair to assume that his natural curiosity stems from some kind of trauma.
NextJS SaaS Boilerplate
This is the very definition of patronizing.
“A fool and his money are soon parted.” - every AV company’s BOD
Yeah, that is it. I found this book to be pretty good https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ and heard good things about https://www.gameenginebook.com/
As an OSM contributor, the biggest pain for me is working hard to add data to the map only for it to not show up at all or look ugly.

Bus routes? I've read the wiki pages in order to map them. I don't even ride the bus, I just wanted to add the data in. Why put in all that effort when the map won't even show it though?
> empirical reasoning

You've actually moved the goal posts here. The original claim was: empiricism can be justified empirically. But "empiricism" and "empirical reasoning" are not synonyms.

(You also threw in induction at some point, which is just a red herring.)

So let me try this again: to quote Wikipedia, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence. This can be justified empirically (I claim) by observing (empirically!) that people who do not base their actions on sensory experience will do stupid things like walk into walls or fall off cliffs.

If you want to dispute this, tell me how you would define the words "true" and "false" without making any reference to sensory experience.
Why do some leading geologists reject the term "Anthropocene"?
> Don't you mean "unread"??

No, they don't mean that. They mean "read", the phrase "on read" means the recipient read the message but did not reply. It's offensive to some folks to be left on read.
I thin the underlying vector databases should have decent uses in financial markets.

Since they can understand taxonomical-ish relationships, a vector db should be able to codify sufficiently large market mover strategies, assuming those strategies are remotely predictable. Once a rival's strategy is codified, it should be possible to undermine it, like some form of heuristic-based insider trading.
Are you routing a traffic from a VPS to your home? I've considered a set up like this where my home PC would be permanently VPN-connected to the VPS, but I think the problem was making it secure, e.g. making a virtual network at home to separate my personal stuff to be potentially accessible from the internet.
> Asking a friend whose initials are A and B about this, it's not something they ever noticed.

Kinda surprised, my last name starts with C and I was hyper-aware of this and how random it was probably all the way from kindergarten. Being a child and therefore an asshole, I was grateful for my advantage rather than thinking the system was unjust.
And this is the why I think pouring money on autonomous driving is a net negative for most but a small group of shareholders: a public transit infrastructure is expensive, but the net benefits are immense, and can be had today.

Every dollar spent on private cars reduces that infrastructure, and that's not just my own thinking, but also that of car manufacturers, as evident by their lobbying to derail public transit projects.
Don’t wait for me to do it; you can steelman too: It’s plausible that the consequences of an actively wrong implementation would be more costly than this delay.

Instead of just throwing costs at each other, you could acknowledge the other party’s and then argue that yours are greater. (I personally would agree with you about this.)
Those specs amaze me.

How far we have gone for those who remember 90's computing !
Totally.

And whilst I've used most provisioning tools (quite liking packer and terraform), for my own stuff I have a file with notes and snippets. Follow that file and within less than 10 minutes I've got a working server with Postgres, Nginx, and LetsEncrypt, and it's ready for Git push-to-deploy.

Simplicity is what you need, for as long as you can get away with it. Simplicity and backups.
So does any other source of thrust.
Feynman certainly didn’t say anything like that, or only the photons with certain frequencies would reflect, those corresponding to the energy differences between various orbitals.
If it's behavior that can be triggered by untrusted network traffic, it needs to be made robust. There really is no excuse.

This looks like a trivial low-packet-count DoS on every Windows machine on the network.
One important factor that the article does not engage is financialization. For financialized business, doing what is says on the sign is only a cover. This of course affects many other industries as well.
I'm not sure how bad it is if you're the one product that's down for 12 hours out of your competitive field. Maybe you're right and it's small.

But even if you neglect these issues you still need to manage your own machines, which is more time consuming than spinning up a new VM with preinstalled OS in EC2.
Even python2 is muchly preferable to bash/awk, thanks.
Just pirate things, my droogs. Tell your droogs to pirate things too. And don't just pirate entertainment. Pirate textbooks, research materials, and educational/enrichment materials too!

Long live the pirate bay

Long live audiobook Bay

Long live library Genesis

Long live sci hub
Lean into the fact that you're getting help from your in-laws, and save all of the money you can. That's a very fortunate place to be in, regardless of all the AI doomerism all around. Just save everything you can, and offset the feelings of insecurity with something tangible, like cash in the bank.

Also: demand for technology is growing. Some fancy AI is not going to handle all of those very specific needs. Trust that you'll figure it out, should you need to.
> That’s not true, but it is quite rare because of the immense number and quality of security measures that are baked into modern Mac devices.

Mac has builtin antivirus software similar to "Windows Defender" but it's hidden to spread the myth that the Mac has something fundamentally different about its design to make it impossible to create viruses and malware. It's called XProtect:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/apple-quietly-revamp...

And there are a bunch of other services running. From the arstechnica piece

> ... Apple has added multiple anti-malware features to macOS, though they're not always branded that way. Gatekeeper, app notarization, System Integrity Protection, the Signed System Volume, and access controls for hardware and software are all, one way or another, about proactively protecting system files from being tampered with and making sure that installed apps do what they say they're doing. Another under-the-hood tool, the Malware Removal Tool (MRT), behaved more like a traditional anti-malware scanner, periodically receiving definitions updates from Apple so that it could scan for and remove malware already present on your system.

This is no different from Windows Defender
Yes, however this story is from before that, the early DOS era. No standards for UI or drivers etc.
Not even that much. A flipper can do it
Lol, have you ever been to Europe? iPhones are definitely considered premium and there definitely are networks that are more expensive but offer better reception. In Germany, that would be Telekom, in Switzerland, it's Swisscom.
Don Bluth's Garage Band
I think that this unification simply took place because Google Android in the future will only be the top layer and Fuchsia OS will manage phones, etc., so such a merger is needed to prepare for new changes.
I'm the first in the list, which has some advantages, but I do get tired of always being the first person to throw themselves on whatever grenade is lying around.
For Kindle, there are wireless page-turner attachments. Supposedly you can use a Bluetooth dongle to connect to a standard Android remote clicker, after jailbreaking. Jailbreaking my Kindle was a very frustrating project, so I gave up on that in favor of using an android device, so I could read lying on my back as you described.
https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/112298184382504522

> Codeberg was down for some minutes, because a component of our storage system has crashed.

> The problem is resolved now and the service recovering.

> (An MDS of our Ceph cluster has crashed and degraded access)
Please note that at no point I said that you specifically cheered, so no need to project. It’s a threaded topic.

As you noticed, following constitution is apparently not an option here. Being unconstitutional and ignored, there was at least some hope for improvement, but codification gave us a clear answer that elected representatives are, at best, only selectively interested in supporting constitution.
The Constitution grants the president unlimited spying powers? That's news to me.

Whether the FISA vote can fix all the problems isn't the point. The problem is that current surveillance practices looks illegal to begin with.
>Just read the wiki

note, there are two wikis now.
Switzerland too, in 3 languages -- although the amount of content drastically reduced over the years: https://www.teletext.ch/
This is, flatly, nonsense. For example: Executive agencies conduct warrantless border searches unrelated to commerce around the clock.
Is it only 1/3? What’s about the rest? I thought the whole sum is a big weapon transfer instead of a money transfer.
I like the pragmatism in this comment, I think I can unify an RPi with a NAS. My concern was keeping important data backups separate from other experiments, though maybe I'm overthinking it.

Thanks for etckeeper, it looks really interesting, I didn't know about it.
>with zram + dynamically sized swap files

Any guides to how to set up that as painless as possible?
Do these people know who you are?!
Sometimes the truth is sensational. I hope you know you lost at least one long time follower after your recent stretch of engagement farming. You’ve fallen off. Good time to lay off the tweets and look inward.
I've been running my startup for more than 3 years in cloud credits, and now we have 2 more years in another provider ($250k). We've been careful not to use a vendor lock in for a "expensive" service.
> is that gaming financial markets is the only real application of anything scientific

medicine (living longer, curing disease, vaccines, etc), cheaper energy, cheaper transportation, cheaper construction, cheaper food, better communication, new forms of entertainment, just off the top of my head.
>Not quite

I just mean to say that Dennett denies that there is anything that is "ineffable, intrinsic, private, [and] directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness". But my point is that this is a particular philosophical term whose existence and nature is being disputed, and that this is being done on philosophical grounds.

>Yes, I know that's the idea. But you can't get past the anthropic principle.

Well, the anthropic principle is more relevant for fine-tuning arguments, the question here is more whether or not there can be brute facts, but that aside, my contention is just that this dispute is not one that science adjudicates.

>Actually, scientists don't spend a lot of time debunking flat-earthers.

I mean, sure, because the scientific arguments for the roundness of the earth have been laid out and there's not much more left to say, but cases don't generally get so neatly closed in philosophy.

All of this is really just to say that there are areas of discussion where it's philosophy rather than science that has to be our instrument for adjudicating disputes. Maybe this area of discussion isn't interesting to you, but that's fine, not every subject in academia has to be interesting to you.
> It must be exhausting being married to a woman who wants to 'buck tradition'. Why didn't she buck tradition and just name your kids 'Aa, Aa', 'Aaa, Aaa', etc and be done with it? Heck why not go all the way and let them go nameless.

You managed to combine snarky reductio ad absurdum and a gratuitous attack on his wife in three sentences. Why wouldn't someone be annoyed by that?
Banning is an overreaction though
The dials on all the "medium-end" digital cameras I've owned always worked reliably despite many years of regular use, as do mouse scroll wheels, so I gather you're correct about cheap components.

Come to think of it, the scroll wheel on my Logitech G502 — three-way clickable, switchable between free-scrolling and traditional mode — would work well in sort of handheld hardware scrolling device, and an electromagnetic scroll wheel of the sort used on some newer Logitech mice would work even better, as it could be configured in a free-scrolling mode with variable friction.
The person you are responding to was referring to sideloading the app itself, not files used by the app.

Sideloading in the context of installing apps on mobile operating systems has a distinct meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading

> When referring to Android apps, "sideloading" typically means installing an application package in APK format onto an Android device. Such packages are usually downloaded from websites other than the official app store Google Play. For Android users sideloading of apps is only possible if the user has allowed "Unknown Sources" in their Security Settings.

> When referring to iOS apps, "sideloading" means installing an app in IPA format onto an Apple device, usually through the use of a computer program such as Cydia Impactor or Xcode. On modern versions of iOS, the sources of the apps must be trusted by both Apple and the user in "profiles and device management" in settings, except when using jailbreak methods of sideloading apps. Sideloading is only allowed by Apple for internal testing and development of apps using the official SDKs.
> Wait, I'm sorry - philosophy has no audience beyond its own practitioners? Just look at all the people interested in philosophy in this thread. I'm willing to bet a large sum of money that the majority of people who have implicitly expressed interest in philosophy here are not practicing philosophers.

That depends on how you define "practicing philosophers". The vast majority of people who do yoga are not yoga masters. But no one gets value from watching yoga. The only value in yoga is doing it. This is not true for e.g. music. You can get value from passively listening to someone else play an instrument. It's not necessary for you to to it yourself.

I would claim that the vast majority of people participating in this thread fancy themselves armchair philosophers. It is indeed fun to argue about this stuff. But that doesn't justify paying anyone to do it as a profession.

> You yourself like Dennett's work, don't you?

I've already said that Dennett is a notable exception, and one of the things that sets him apart is that he bases his work in science more than what is traditionally called "philosophy". He's more like a massage therapist than a yoga instructor.
To clarify: is the referenced advice (public wifi bad, change passwords) pedantic and/or wrong, or is the statement (this advice is outdated) pedantic and/or wrong?
Unfortunately a lot of modern TVs have bloated slow UIs, and want to default to showing their "home screen". This makes them much worse experiences for "just show HDMI input".
That's really cool. My son plays viola da gamba, in addition to cello, and has had to learn how to tie frets.
I want a browser filter that just removes the word. It almost never adds to the content, it's just a styrofoam filler word.
Yeah you can’t update these phones. Things just degrade if you do. Happily running iOS 15 on my iPhone 12.
Funnily you've mentioned, I explored this route and found one 'normal' web hosting that provides an SVN repo. But in my case, I need a Git hosting to collaborate with friends on private stuff (I don't like an idea of my code being fed into an LLM by GitHub) and a VPN for travels, so VPS is a requirement, unfortunately.
Use Tailscale for this
I like the IEEE Spectrum Video Friday blog posts. A regular fresh list of demos is not an overview, but it is an easy way to catch a glimpse of the long tail.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/video-friday
I would think about buying cheap land in Italy for farming and go for farming for bio olive / oil or wine.
Thetawave: A physics based, space shooter game made with Rust and the Bevy engi
That’s what turned my law enforcement career into designing cellphones for a carrier.
doesn't that mean any company that does business in China should share the same security concerns if not worse than TikTok? I would be much more concerned about hardware that is being made and/or assembled by Chinse companies in China that a smartphone app
as if the output of the other command also isn't available?
I use a single old PC at home. Put debian on it, install docker and unattended upgrades.
Create docker compose files for all services. Make sure to use 'latest' everywhere and run watchtower to update all images regularly.
While i expose a select few services to the internet I connect to most of them via VPN.
In the local network I'm using pihole for local DNS and since I use a wildcard let's encrypt certificate I have ssl for everything which makes it nice to use.

Haven't had to touch the system more than once a year or so when I got an alert that unattended upgrades couldn't install something.
> You want to be able to embed your spreadsheet into a document, into a slide presentation.

I mean, MS made ActiveX and it was a security risk:

https://www.wired.com/1996/11/will-activex-threaten-national...
Tell HN: You can't search your WhatsApp without exposing yourself to metaAI
Now when you search your WhatsApp you also give that info to metaAI.
> so it's interesting

Not at all. I don't think German labor law ever applied to American residents working in the US...
SVE2 includes BDEP and BEXT which should let you do this absurdly quickly.
Lawns are bad but greenery is good.

We can recognize the need to not recreate Kowloon in the context of a housing shortage.
Imbalance of power is almost universal, but the abuse of it isn't necessarily so.
My YC idea. Somebody build it
I'm not really in a position to apply to YC, so I thought I would post my idea and see if anybody else thought it was interesting and would like to run with it.

I'll post it as a comment, and if anybody else has an idea they would like to give away, I would love to read it too!
What are those better ways to spend time and effort?
An array of records, or just 1 record per line, also works nicely with jq.

For that matter, it can even be imported in like duckdb and handled like a table :)