skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is you start out with knowing what this person did and you reason from that if it is ok to kill him.

But if you whack him what the international public would see is an american missile in a smouldering crater in some civilian suburb. That is an act of war. And not the shadowy kind which is already happening. That forces the Russians to also react in kind (otherwise they look weak.)

The Russians would also work hard to spread misinformation about what you did. They would say you got the wrong person, or that you got innocent bystanders. Probably both. They would also say it was an extrajudicial killing where the executive played judge, jurry, and executioner in one. And you know what? They would be right.

And even if everyone agrees that you got the right person, and he was a bad one, and there was no collateral damage in your initial attack it can still lead to innocent deaths. Let me tell you about Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 [1]. What happened is that the US assasinated Major General Qasem Soleimani. Undeniably a military target. Arguably a bad one. Iran in retaliation lobbed some ballistic missiles to a US base. Due to luck nobody died there. All is well, isn’t it? No, not really. The iranian air defence following their retaliation was understandably on full alert. Somebody panicked and mistook a civilian airliner for an incoming american cruise missile and shot them down. 176 innocent civilians are now dead. It is a tragedy.

Did the US killed those 176 civilians? No they didn’t. The proximal fault lies with the panicking Iranian air defences. But these are the kind of forces you are playing when you are talking about drone assasinating randoms.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlin...
I’ve been doing a lot of backend stuff recently with Dart after coming from a Node / Ruby background and I can’t begin to describe what a breath of fresh air it is. Insanely high quality of life improvement for development.

The experience is very similar to what people here are describing that they wanted from Swift.

Also in a similar vein to Typescript, it’s another language I can now comfortably use and share between front and backend but with a very different and I think for most use cases better set of trade offs.

Honestly I think it’s the most underrated modern language out there at the moment because people still only associate it with Flutter which is unfortunate.
The Chinese EVs won't be sold in the US for a long time to come if ever.
It appears no-one have adressed the issue of wifi/bluetooth support, so I will weigh in.

I have installed Debian derivatives on both a Macbook Pro 2008 and a Macbook Air 2017 and had issues with bluetooth/wireless.

The solution was to identify the wireless chip through the terminal, download the specific DKMS module for that chip to a file on another computer, transfer the module over to the Macbook via USB, blacklist old module, install new, reboot.

This have worked flawlessly for me so far. If you want a tip on a beginner-friendly distro with decent Macbook support, try Pop!_Os.
Hello everyone, I am an independent developer. Inspired by character AI, I found it too formal and uninteresting. In fact, the purpose of chatting should be to release one's own desires. Therefore, I created an AI-based virtual companion chat product: VMate AI

It has the following characteristics:

1. Many real or anime characters are pre-made for you to choose from.
2. AI generates characters and creates virtual characters with one click
3. Immersive experience without any disturbing factors
4. AI generates dialogue background stories to make the dialogue interesting
5. During the chat, you can talk to the characters and ask them to send selfies

More interesting features are under development, welcome to experience it!
People worry about price dumping waaay out of proportion to how often it is a problem.

Usually when there is a deep-pocketed entity stomping out local competition they are using regulatory capture as their main tool (this is what Comcast seems to do) and the problem is competition has been made illegal.

In situations like this, my default assumption is that it is illegal to lay competing cables until proven otherwise. We had a similar situation of massive monopoly provider in Australia back in the early 2000s, the economics didn't stop new companies laying new cable to compete with the incumbents. That all died when the government launched a new national network though.
I never wrote anything about stopping slavery. That is purely your interpretation. Please try to give more a charitable reading to what another person might be saying instead of going to the most extreme that seems easy to debunk.

Especially silly as I was specifically talking about agriculture. Yes, most of my food was not produced by slaves. Some might but that would be the exception.

It is sad that we couldn't talk about my actual points.
I'm an infrequent programmer, of the Turbo Pascal and descendants kind. The OOP I learned was only used to deal with GUI elements, or perhaps databases, but not for each and every line of code ever. I've always felt this was the appropriate use for it. Like ingredients in food, you need balance.

The push towards "functional" programming mystified me until learning that it's really, really helpful when you've got threads running on multiple cores, which "rewrites the software laws of physics", according to Kevlin Henney. Once I got that, Rust made sense... I hate it, but at least it makes sense.

I get the reasons for preferring immutable data, avoiding globals, etc.. but sometimes you just need the global variable, and have to jump through the hoops to support it.

Note that you could take the article, and replace "Object oriented" with "Functional Programming", and it reads about the same, and it'll be relevant in a decade.
Hey! We killed the auth flow from our extension, we used it to get an idea of how many people are using it. The extension works entirely local and connects to your database through your machine. So there's no need to self-host anything!
You're talking about an opinion of a bunch of early hackers as if it was a common world view of everyone in the crypto/blockchain space. It's not (sadly, IMHO). There are many who are exploring merging government regulation and crypto currency.

Not sure what you mean by modifying unmutable blockchain, that never happened. What happened is that people stopped using that blockchain and switched to another one.
Critique of the TechCrunch Article on Google's Call-Scanning AI
This was from before modern AI. It's not relevant any more. In fact it's remarkable for just quite how irrelevant it has become in such a short time.
yeah well if their cost to lever up is suddenly 6-7% instead of 1% some perceptions change
Wonderful travel down the rabbit hole.
Is that enough for just the TCP ACKs?
One alternative could be to add a separate column that can be used to keep track of insert order. But they would need to consider the costs before they do this, as it could impact the insert performance.

The true "modern" cool kids solution would of course be to create a service that listens to WAL, inserts it into a Kafka cluster that is connected to a pipe for inserting into Elastic search. Much more fun and resumé friendly than optimizing a query. I bet the author of this blog would get a much larger audience.

Bonus points if the ingestion service was written in Rust and run on a serverless platform
Just because it was possible for the soviets back then, doesn't mean it's trivial today.

Rocket fuel is also not exactly easy to come by.
In practice NICEs threshold is what any insurer would do

This is what makes Americans getting upset their insurance rejects coverage for medicines so ironic.

Single payer systems do the exact same thing. The difference is in the UK is the option is just isn’t brought up in the first place because the doctor already knows it’s not paid for.
Maybe you mean something different by "cropping", but drawing a rectangle followed by ctrl+c then ctrl+n is fairly quick / good enough
Dunno, man. It's an old Mac-mini, single disk (the SSD is explicitly called out) fairly obviously used for private stuff. You can wring it.

In a production environment you cut you losses and restore from back-up. No-one wants to deal with half-baked recovery operations which might or might not yield a consistent state with (a little) less, but unknown, data loss.
What would you rather they do? Let themselves be stolen from? Personally hunt down the people that wronged them? That's what happened when certain gangs lost money on crypto. This is a lame "gotcha" whether you like crypto or not.
Venus is much closer to the sun. Think about how much difference the seasons make, and that's just planetary angle.
> I prefer cold weather and want highest standard of living possible. I want to settle down and raise a family of two kids.

While the on-paper taxes in Sweden are high (and salaries are lower) you get back more than in the Netherlands, especially with kids. I can compare my quality of life with acquaintances in the Netherlands and ours is definitely higher, having a similar background.
I think my journey is fairly typical: PC -> PC+iPad -> Mac+iPad

Rather than “allow” an iPad Pro to run macOS, I predict a variant of the MacBook Air with detachable keyboard … when detached, it’s just an iPad. This would need macOS to continue to get incrementally better with good support for iPad apps and a way to support constrained macOS apps in something like slideover windows and a lot of thought about touch support for macOS apps.

The latest M4 Pro is already there hardware wise.
> R is also thriving in bioinformatics with Python trailing behind as an afterthought.

Maybe this is sub-field dependent, I'm a bioinformatician who hasn't touched R in about 5 years, and everything is now in python.
A professor in software performance who surprisingly doesn't consider himself a figure of authority rants about sociology and epidemiology, using a specific corporate fashion trend as a starting point.

Did he get refused access to conferences over his anti-mask stance?
Deaf people I know certainly wouldn't want to be wearing a headset, say, in a restaurant. But a phone app or tablet that can do live text-to-speach would be good enough in many cases if it can separate voices into streams. Anything like this available?
Problem with backend dev is that it's 99% about plumbing between components written by someone else ( db, cache, queue, other web services , etc).

In that sense, the most important property of a language is its popularity: it will ensure connectors exist, and are used enough to be working fine.
Remember one or two AI generations ago (a few months), when image-gen AIs weren't usually able to produce coherent text, and that was touted as proof that they don't really "understand" what they're doing and will never be generally capable?
While Remix seems a bit more reasonable than some other js frameworks, they all share the same problem: fundamental architecture.

What's even weirder is that they could copy the structure from dozens of other frameworks, some of which are nearly 20 years old now, which have solved pretty much every possible problem already.

But no, just throw views,data, io, auth checks etc. everywhere and hope it builds.
Even the western roman empire wasn't really roman anymore. The emperor was not Italian, not based in Rome, and often with a disdain toward Rome, the vast majority of the army wasn't Italian either.

But the eastern roman empire was probably even less of an empire than it was roman. The definition of an "empire" is to rule over many kingdoms. When you are reduced to your own territory, you really aren't an empire anymore.
What's new (versus when the story broke years ago) is:

> A 47-page report summarizing Ebury's 15-year history said that the infection hitting the kernel.org network began in 2009, two years earlier than the domain was previously thought to have been compromised.

I think you grok that, but I don't think the title is clickbait.
Typewise (YC S22) is hiring Product Designer for AI writing assistant
For folks that are working on a product right now, given the incentive structures behind venture capital, are there genuine reasons to pursue that kind of money? Let me rephrase: How many folks out there are searching for for some kind of niche business with enough to cover expenses and had some profit in a small scale?

I had a short experience with the music industry and the whole enterprise + VC sounds the same dynamic between artists and record labels back in the day, where was not enough to play in local bars and have a steady presence there, but everyone wanna to be Metallica or Anthrax.
That's the pb OP is mentioning quite early : the benchmark didn't make sense.
Latvian here.

You are right about the taxes in the Baltic countries - in all three you can get ~20% effective tax (minor differences between the countries). And they are really similar otherwise.

Most people in a similar situation to yours pick Estonia. It is the most focused one on tech, supporting startups, and overall the most developed one (relatively speaking). Also seems to be the most expensive of the three.

Lithuania has the most business-oriented culture in my experience. Otherwise a nice and chill place.

Latvia is maybe not the best in the above regards (though, not too far off either), but I would say it has the most stuff going on and things to do overall.
The Worlds First AI Powered Race Was a Big Mess – A2RL Abu Dhabi AI League [video]
Do VCs need regulation? Should we ensure equity for diverse founders?
We're talking about an acquisition, not the original company making the reversal.

Red Hat used to routinely open-source acquisitions. Sun also did— that's how we got OpenOffice (and by way of it, LibreOffice). StarOffice was proprietary when Sun bought it.
Perhaps you wrote the trip routing algo as well?
Communicating through words is a big weakness of mine and writing regularly is something I'm trying to do for several years now.

This guide is great. I hope it will help me to actually establish this habit now.
What are examples of these (very profitable) use cases?

Producing spam has some margin on it, but is it really very profitable? And else?
And I do say it.
Gratification: Some Thoughts on Developer Experience
Not if they are a bonafide super genius, then it's entirely possible.

That's the minimum bar without traction however. A regular genius isn't that impressive.
IP over Thunderbolt 4 between two Mac Minis
How do you find it compared to Java or Kotlin?
Sounds like my Kobo Glo from 2013.
“I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” “I am a 10 out of 10,”
Solid is pushing it. Its ok. Its still miles behind Go, Rust, C++. Partly because swift-lsp-server itself is lacking in functionality.
Something with higher order processing requirements.

the rp2040w has wifi, micropython and a bunch of GPIO, all running at low hundreds of megs. Great for motor controllers and that sort of stuff. I use them a lot for the sort of things I would have used Pis for.

However thats because its python. If you want rust, or javascript, then the pi is probably still a good option (I know there are native ports, but they are not as common or easy. )

But if you want computer vision, or, can't be arsed with micro based programms, then pi is where its at.

The other type of application is home assistant. I have an N100 running HA in a VM. It would have been easier with all the home security stuff to have it running on a pi directly. (yes you can use esp32 as binary sensors, which is what I do, but its expensive to have things that aren't wifi.)
Patented and licensed, so not coming to a neighborhood near you unless mandated by local government. Because while people want their neighbors to use it, in enough cases they won't pay the extra and rationalize it somehow.
So by your standard if I embed a windows emulator that runs a windows app I have created a Mac app?
If COVID taught me anything it's that it doesn't matter where you go looking on the political spectrum, be it left or right, you'll always find enough people that are fine to be the judge, jury and executioner.
> Personal experience but ..

Sure, and that's your personal experience. If we were going by my personal experience we would get a different picture - that tobacco was highly addictive (though easy enough to quit in the end) but there was no issue at all with cocaine. Yet when we look at the harm profile of cocaine, we can see it's comparatively pretty bad and pulls people into spirals of addiction and self-destruction.

You can't really say "LSD is worse than booze" as a sweeping statement that you consider applies to everyone, and then use as justification your personal lack of issues with alcohol.

> I knew quite a few people that used it daily

No offence, but this is why the plural of anecdote is not data. Your sample bias here is extreme - people who were idealogically inclined to take acid daily as an almost pseudo-religious sacrament are not a representative sample.
sure object oriented paradigms were taken to an extreme, much like the AI mess we have to wade through now, but then the author goes and links some research paper pushing his agenda of masks not helping to control/contain viral outbreaks. gimme a break, why do we have to share a planet with these people. theyre everywhere.
My primary concern with "anti-theft" features is that in a lot of cases they cause e-waste due to people forgetting their accounts/passwords, or giving away their devices without "properly" resetting it, often both at the same time, causing the receiver to not be able to use it at all.

The article says nothing about it but I hope people realize that there has to be a feature to securely wipe and reset the device.
The problem is not with the programs representation , although even that can be a problem. The problem is that your software needs to run on hardware which has real performance and behaviour.

Objects are larger than raw data, their this usually means that less data will fit in caches, therefore performance can suffer.

Everyone says that this kind of thing doesn't matter, it.all adds up, and it matters to me.
Profitable companies attract much more VC interest and even competition.
I chose Amused and it gave me Get Out. I chose Relaxed and it gave me Exhuma.
Convert Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC from Bluetooth to Zigbee
I am not sure how "they couldn't stop it" is an argument against migration being one of the major causes of the fall of the roman empire if not the leading one. Other causes being ineffective tax collection, ennemies adapting and learning from roman military techniques, and a general collapse of will, where the brightest and most capable ceased to want to serve aggressively in the army and administration for glory.
>I guess "VC was wrong and nobody really gave a shit" doesn't have the same ring to it.

This is a good point. When something looks like Jason Lemkin posting something ridiculous on social media, it is actually an opportunity for us to learn of both his fame and the normalcy of his opinions, as well as to be reminded of the high portion of VCs that are good human beings.
If we talk about "stealing" - there was a huge effort to make people believe crypto is worth of investing as some "new money super technology that makes everyone rich", right? Were the risks higlighted? Not really. The richest person in the world (E.Musk) shills an inflationary unlimited bitcoin clone as something valuable (DOGECOIN) - this is fraud on a giant scale. I would love to see him calling out the BS in crypto "industry" - he didn't and instead did dogecoin thing. I frankly don't believe he is some kind of tech genius after this. And this is ok, right?

Do simple people know that they put their money into useless "technologies" that are fundamentally fragile and they are at risk of losing everything as soon as there are advances in computing (breaking sha/ecc, doing 51% attack)? They don't. So, that's really stealing, on a grand scale. This 21 million should be an award for the hackers, really. Unless ETH wants to change the "immutable blockchain" once again ))) noone cares these days anyways
I think the next revision is going to be more interesting. Remember, this was their first go at a product in this space.
How to Build a Stable and Robust Zigbee Network
The actual NIMBYs here are those who can afford lobbyists and lawyers - might not be who you're imagining.
I can't think of a way to do a bonded/lagg over 10g Ethernet which would be better than this, with macs.
You mean the Pinephone? I've used a Nexus 5 running Ubuntu Touch for about a year, and it was quite a pleasant experience, discounting unmaintained Canonical abandonware at every corner. I did have to write quite a few apps, but turns out Qt offers an excellent workflow. I'm actually thinking of returning to it, once I reverse-engineer Viber's protocol, so I won't drain my battery with Waydroid + GApps. Honestly, SSH with some Unix scripting gave me some of the most integrated experiences I had in computing.
Any business that needs up front capital needs to get it somehow. E.g. develop a medical device that has years of development, testing, and regulatory lead time. Who pays the salaries and for the laboratories and studies?

It's either: only allow companies that are already big to do new things, which they often aren't geared for in various ways, or have a mechanism to allow capital into new businesses from outside, that comes with certain expectations. You're free to decline both the capital and the expectations, of course, because this is a free agreement made between two parties.
Plus major defence contractor.

Doesn’t matter how many they kill with their negligence it’ll just be a slap on wrist
Valve has a market cap of about $8B though. Quite big already.

Also, I don't understand games at all :)
Most consumer 1TB SSDs with 600TBW should last at least within 10% or so of 600 days at 1 DWPD. If your ZQQTIAN or KingDonxi Amazon specials, populated with Micron QA rejects or SpecTek super economy grade or random e-waste upcycling chips failed in a month, that's on you.
For however conservative Utah is, they are very community oriented so in practice, they seem to implement some fairly socialist policies. They were real early in housing first and they have a pretty nice built-out public transit system, a bunch of coops, 3x the average of credit union membership ... things like that.
How long has the Save for Web been "Legacy"? I feel like it's been there for a long time.
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
I have two questions relevant to me:

- Will the purchase include upgrades?
- I have most of my media on a NAS. Will this app be useful in my case? Would I be indexing a network drive?

Thanks!
Can it detect and classify near duplicates?
I always wanted to build something similar but only to detect similar photos and remove duplicates, as multiple backups and groupings is not manageable without a cloud service having a blind trust. Imagine I have 4-5 albums of 20 year old events and don't know which one was original vs color-corrected.
From 5 years ago,

Project MKUltra (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165137) - Oct 2019 (121 comments)

Stephen Kinzer wrote a book about MKUltra:

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (https://www.amazon.com/Poisoner-Chief-Sidney-Gottlieb-Contro...)

And these two articles talk about the book in brief:

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...)

When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control (NYTimes) (https://archive.is/cRmWm)