skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My great-grandparents were landowners in Kollengode, a village on the foothills of the Western Ghats. They operated on a system of sharecropping, which the Communist party took away (along with their land) in the 1970s for redistribution. While this eliminated much of our family wealth, most of the next generation family members weren't disturbed by it because they were proud of Kerala's reputation of having the highest literacy rates and human development standards in India due to these reforms.

Many people think of North Indians as the de-facto "business" class in India, but Kerala's long history of international trade has given its posterity a rich history of merchant knowledge. My parents started a technology company in Kerala and have seen the Communist party swing from traditional land and educational reforms to private market support. This in large part due to remittances from the Middle East fueling the state economy.

The ecological risks from climate change (e.x. the mass flooding that occurred in the past several years) is a real risk that claimed the lives of several employees at my parent's company. Kerala is posed to become the biggest success story out of India, but it needs to remain vigilant in investing in private markets and infrastructure projects to address these risks and maintain sustainable growth.
The fact is that if a company needs to lay off thousands of people then it's a leadership problem. More often than not that leadership is not held accountable either.

Large corporations are truly dystopian, in my opinion. X already proved that you can run an app with millions of user with a relatively small team (was it 50-70% less?) ... not to excuse X either as I'm sure they'll do layoffs and dance to the same tune, but the point is that corporations treat people like assets, and this is especially fucked up when they are also providing people with health insurance.

Either make every single job a contracting job and have universal healthcare, or make it harder for companies to treat people like assets. There is just something very wrong with how the economy is run and where we are headed now with AI, even AGI on the horizon.
Imagine wanting to be part of a social club so deranged they will eject you and everybody else off the premises if the person that invited you uttered some wrongthink that pissed off their sociopathic moderators.

If you still want to join after knowing that, my suggestion is to go outside and touch grass - it isn't worth it.
Kerala has extremely aggressive out-migration (including my entire family): it is a bad place to be ambitious, particularly with the France-like union culture. If India is to become China-rich or Mexico-rich, my prediction is Kerala will regress to the mean of India states. Its model seems geared towards being an extremely good place to be poor (which is a huge achievement to be clear: they dealt with COVID better than the US, universal literacy is amazing etc) but not towards getting richer.
I wear button downs nearly every day. What brands or stores do you buy from?
You should learn about a few of these things, you're pretty off on most of it:

- 'Modern' morality was only invented in the late 1700s. Not millennia ago. Millennia ago was Aristole's Nicomachean Ethics which was pretty much based around virtues. Mill's utilitarianism and Kant's Categorical Imperative were written in the late 1700s

- Quibbling about the meaning of words is basically a waste of your life. Calling words you don't like woo woo is a waste of everyone else's time. pg wrote a good essay on why: https://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
I mean, you can argue anything, but there are a multiple things required by (e.g.) the Federal E-Sign Act in terms of both capabilities and content, and DocuSign is structured directly around that, and “any email that has anti-spoofing set up” is not. You could build a workflow around such an email system that met the E-Sign requirements, but there is a reason people choose packaged solutions that already do that.
He was anonymous for what, 8hr? and it took massive investment.

That's not tractable at scale.
My mother has no idea how to call me from an android phone via phone, and instead always calls via Whatsapp.

As to reiterate that I have the reverse problem, like my mother, too:

As someone who has an iPhone and Whatsapp, often I fail to find a button to call people, and use whatever app I am currently using instead, even if that annoys me. But the UI is to complex and phoning people is a hidden/dark pattern in said apps. Or in Signal, I have contacts without phone numbers, so there is no possibility to call anyhow.
I bought a little garden on aliexpress from the guy who makes it. It's very plug and play and it does about 350-1100nm, which is pretty impressive. I used it to verify how my own DIY sun reproduction setup works. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807055520087.html

There is also this commercial one that is Bluetooth and more portable for around $150, similar spectrum range but lower spectrum resolution than the little garden one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOXryggwr_Q

https://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Wavelength-340-1000nm-Spec...

The hopocolor vis light ones are also fairly widespread and are more stand alone for about $280: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807972511960.html

My current issue is finding a 250-400nm UV spectrometer or IR spectrometers beyond 1000nm that don't go into the $1000+ range. Standard mass market CMOS sensors don't go into those ranges, so they become far more specialized parts and thus way more pricy.
> Hundreds of thousands of people migrated to the Persian Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar to work in construction, retail and services, sectors that saw a massive investment boom following the two oil shocks of 1973 and 1979.

> The demand for skilled workers increased as the Gulf economies diversified from oil-based jobs to finance and business services. While offering jobs in the millions, the migration also had a series of broad effects back home on occupational diversification, skill accumulation, changing gender roles, consumption, economic and social mobility, and demographic transitions.

It looks like there they were employed across the value chain and the peninsula, some (many?) of which I do not think typically practices modern-day slavery.
Love Kerala, highly underrated tourist destination IMHO compared to the more traditional Indian destinations.
THe "thin blue line" that keeps otherwise good cops from snitching on bad cops is the whole issue. You won't go far as a cop if your intention is to root out corruption.

Did you know, in the US it is possible to be overqualified to be a cop, if you are too smart? The system wants jackbooted thugs, rather than intelligent policing.
Comes in handy. I was doing PS3 hacking a few months ago and most of the tools that were made for that work better on Windows 7. My main computer is an M3 Macbook Pro.

I tried using Windows 11 but it was so annoying. Not only it is huge, but also Microsoft was able to screw up the Windows OOBE process and overall Windows experience so badly. I don't want to setup a Microsoft account just to run these old programs. I mostly wanted a disposable Windows 7 box but I didn't even know if I would be able to make it work with virtualization (emulation maybe).

Wine actually worked great for me sometimes, but it was a bit of a hassle as well.
I'm aware of these sites. But they are usually behind a paywall or it's hard to find a "download all" button. And I wouldn't use their API per request either.
I wrote a lengthier post, but in writing it I realized there's a simple way to cut to the heart of this issue. Many workers in various fields (tech, legal, medicine, and more) now tend to make substantially more money than many business owners, and often for far less hours worked. In this world how does the notion of capitalist vs worker make any sense? Let alone with the stereotypes Marx depended upon for his arguments?
Kerala is a very empty place. People emigrate parmanently or stay outside for decades. Elderlies live on their own. Schools and home remain empty. It is just intuitively sad. One should read this interesting piece- "Kerala: A ghost town in the world's most populated country" [0].

Many laborers from my state- West Bengal travel to ameliorate the labor shortage of Kerala. Because their laborers are in the Gulf. The unskilled labor wage in Kerala is almost twice of my state.

There is a common phrase in Bengal- "Kerala money" to explain big, well-made houses in villages mired with poverty. Many people, mainly Muslims migrate en masse to Kerala to earn a relatively much higher income and save the money to build big houses and buy motorbikes. We call that "Kerala money".

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64936519
I just rolled my own mocked Celery objects. I have mocked Groups, Chords, Chains, and Signatures, mocked Celery backend, and mocked dispatch of tasks. Everything runs eagerly because it's all just running locally in the same thread, but the workflow still runs properly-- the output of one task is fed into the next task, the tasks are updated, etc.

I actually pass Celery and the functions like `signature`, `chain`, etc as a tuple into my service layer functions.

It's mostly just to test that the piping of the workflow is set up correctly so I don't find out that my args are swapped later during integration tests.
Maybe, but if so, it was an appropriate use.
Why does such a tool need an API and an external connection? I use `arbtt`, which is local-only.
Best placement for this plastic is to be in a composite of other materials like cotton fiber.
Manufacturers can have different graders of products for full retail, different price point department stores (Nordstroms vs winners vs ..), amazon, Costco, etc.

Imagine meeting price points, within a range of supplied products.

I'm sure denim experts could expand on why some jeans still last and others wear out.
Adhoc was the coolest thing, I still miss it. One day in 2002-ish, I was showing a friend some photos on my laptop and noticed a crowd had gathered over my shoulder, and there simply wasn't enough room for everyone to get a good view.

"Fire up adhoc, set it to this ssid, vnc to this address"

Two minutes later, my photos are on five screens around the coffee shop and everyone can see.

Adhoc just worked, and that's more than I can say for a great many things before or since.
I think it's part of the same phenomenon that it's no longer safe to take for granted that a more expensive product with a premium reputation will be better.
That shakemap looks really suspicious, relative to the damage being reported in Thailand, especially Bangkok. 600 miles away (~1000 km) and the shakemap's reporting numbers like 3 to 4 on the intensity scale. When they reported the skyscraper collapsing in Thailand, at first I thought it was Chiang Mai near the border of Myanmar, not Bangkok 600 miles away. For Americans, that's like the big one hits the Cali fault, and skyscrapers are falling down in Salt Lake City or Phoenix.

Wonder whether that's just automated simulation output, rather than actual measurements from stations? Numbers 3 and 4:

3 - Felt noticeably indoors, especially in tops of buildings, yet many do not even notice there's an earthquake.

4 - Felt indoors by many, felt outside by few. Sensation like heavy truck striking a building.

Bangkok's reporting sensations, crowd behavior, and events more like a 6 to 7. Everybody runs, furniture moves, plaster falls, considerable damage to poorly built (partially finished) structures. A 3-4 is like, you barely notice, or think a really heavy vehicle just crashed or something. Not, everybody in town runs in panic, describes all the ceilings collapsing, cracks in walls afterward. [1][2][3][4]

Expect there's probably going to be some re-evaluation of the magnitude and scale of the earthquake based on what was actually reported by observers, cameras, and damage afterward. They're reporting slight damage and cracks even in relatively well constructed buildings.

Edit: This story from ChannelNewsAsia in Singapore has camera footage from somebody on the ground near the skyscraper collapse. Visibly shaking the camera holder. [5]

[1] Intensity, Text Descriptions: https://sciencefest.indiana.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/m...

[2] Semi-common Cone Chart with Energy Comparison: https://basecampconnect.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/eartq...

[3] Japanese Chart with Pictures: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*Ca_yV0l_zkWiFtg...

[4] Another Picture Chart: https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...

[5] ChannelNewsAsia, https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/massive-quake-kills-nea...
PV, yes indeed makes a difference and quickly. But I've not seen much culture war on this. (There was however a group on my street protesting, simultaneously, wind turbines and 5G…)

Heat pumps are also good, but (as far as I can tell) burdened with a high sticker price. Great option when you replace an existing heating system at the end of life or a new build (we've got one in our new build), but I wouldn't say they are a "quickly" making a difference.

You're right about them being a culture war item though. I've seen political posters around here by people upset by them.

Batteries are cheap these days, but I think we're still a way off from manufacturing at the scale needed for "quickly". The factories are going up pretty quickly, just not fast enough given the context of "can we stop giving any money to oil and gas producing countries we no longer like?"

I think the hard part of batteries isn't culture war at the moment, it's that people are still pattern matching the term to AA's and drawing false conclusions about what's possible.
So why did you feel the need to post that next-token prediction is not the reason this behavior emerge?
I bet "unknown unknown" is a pretty popular make and model in their database.
The Germans. Hmm. So this was about the Green Party, not about the Germans. But still, I’ll bite.

The Green Party is anti-nuclear and it’s debatable whether that’s positive or not. But they also are staunchly anti-coal and other carbon based energy sources. The greens have pushed constantly for renewables, both to achieve strategic energy autonomy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

The Germans have introduced the first legislation to subsidize renewables, in 1990, in 2000 under a red/geeen coalition renewed as EEG (Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz) that taxed fossil electricity and guaranteed a fixed above market price for producers of renewable electricity. This is widely regarded as a major boost for both solar and wind energy. We did, however, drop the ball a little when the conservatives came back to power. We still do range in the midfield when it comes to pet capita carbon emissions.

We certainly could do better and I wish we did, but blaming it on nuclear power is fairly simplistic. If you look at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/energie/energieverbrauc... for example, then you’ll notice that our love for ICE cars is a major factor - cars are one of our major sources of carbon dioxide emissions, far more than nuclear plants replaced with gas plants.
Software engineers can engineer ways to engineer more than certified engineers apply existing ways of engineering.
There is clearly some benefit to cumulative returns of the sort measured in this study. Signaling that leads to "the rich getting richer" reduces friction and transaction costs, allows resources (capital, attention) to be allocated to those who can most profitably use it. So to some extent we would want the rich to get richer.

But there is some point where snowballing success becomes counterproductive and enables rent seeking laziness.
A lot of projects and teams have been successfully using all tools mentioned in both CI and local dev envs. Portability and reusability of this “glue” stuff is a nice indicator of engineering maturity and culture within those projects and teams.

Low pro teams and individuals will happily abuse any new tool.

Mature teams stick to local-first CI - i.e. be able to run pipeline locally - and then translate to whatever is being used in their build and test infrastructure.
I can believe that its easy to bounce off software because of a million paper cuts. But the problem with them trying to address every one of those proactively is that GNOME is a huge undertaking and they do their best to move at a fairly slow pace (now, after the 3 transition, which was akin to ripping a bandaid off ... go fast, piss the person off, but then the bandaid is gone).

I don't know if the CapsLock -> Escape switch is on a roadmap somewhere, but that is a little bananas. That said, my partner comfortably uses GNOME every day to browse the web and manage some files. Has she EVER wondered how to remap CapsLock? No. The people who do want to? Google can give you the answer pretty quickly. Not saying it's good UX, but GNOME balances a lot of use cases, and as this thread suggests, I think they've actually (with a LOT of complaining from engineers and power users) kept that balance pretty damn well to the point where I haven't been surprised by GNOME is a long time, and seems to slowly and progressively get better.

And yes, whoever jumps in here with their own papercut story, I know there is pain in not being the primary audience for software. But honestly, at least I'm in the same Venn diagram with my partner. The primary audience for macOS or iOS now appears to be ... I don't even know anymore. Used to be content creators, now it seems like even Apple doesn't actually know who uses their computers.
most basic thing the international law requires is for combatants to wear a uniform (a major reason why hamas is to blame for deaths of palestinian civilians), not to mention indiscriminate targeting of civilians, hostage taking, rape and torture, use of religious, medical and educational facilities for war purposes and more or less anything that is called armed resistance represents.
Yes, especially AfD in Germany but in other countries too:

https://www.politico.eu/article/robert-lambrou-alternative-f...
A time traveller from 1945 would probably assume the side snapping off Sieg Heils to be fascist
This would help, but you can also use a more aggressive approach to cursor rules: https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/

Using file pattern matching and automatic attachment makes it much, much more sticky in my experience.
Tech firms can’t just do that, someone in the relevant government (either state or county, depending on how the courts and their supporting administrative services are organized in your state) has to both have the motivation and funding, then either in-house or outsourced solutions can be sought.
If I made a gift of "The Turner Diaries" to your local school library, would you "censor" it?
I know in advance if I want a conversation
My complaints with Deep Research LLMs is they don't go deeper than 2 pages of SERPs. I want them to dig down obscure stuff, not list cursorily relevant peripheral directions. they just seem to do breadth first than depth first search.
The price doesn't matter because we all pay it.
https://archive.ph/uPhhB
Looks like we can have plastic straws shamelessly now. And plastic cutlery as well.
Yeah, I tend to agree. The main reason that I use AI for this sort of stuff is it also gives me something complete that I can then ask questions about, and refine myself. Rather than the fragmented documentation style "this specific line does this" without putting it in the context of the whole picture of a completed sample.

I'm not sure if it's a facet of my ADHD, or mild dyslexia, but I find reading documentation very hard. It's actually a wonder I've managed to learn as much as I have, given how hard it is for me to parse large amounts of text on a screen.

Having the ability to interact with a conversational type documentation system, then bullshit check it against the docs after is a game changer for me.
XML, and other X[x] standards, are just horrible to read. On top of that, XML was made 10x worse by wrapping things in SOAP and the like over the wire, back in the day.

XSD, XPath, XSLT are all domains where I'd argue that reading/reasoning about are way more important.

When troubleshooting an issue, I don't mind scanning XML for a few data points so I can confirm what values are being communicated, but when I need to figure out how/why a specific value came to be, I don't want the logic spread throughout a giant text file wrapped in attribute value strings, and other non-debuggable "code". I'd rather it just be in a proper programming language.
I suspected something list this, so these always scared me.

Actually, magic always scares me. I was putting together an LTE internet gateway from a Mikrotik device flashed with OpenWRT and was confused about how the SIM card slot on the main board interacts with a mini PCIe LTE modem. I looked at the mini PCIe pinouts and discovered the modem is actually USB (mini PCIe has pins for this) and mini PCIe has pins that are wired to the SIM card. I later ran into an issue where the card wouldn't work, but if I tape over the USB3 pins, it would drop to USB2 (still enough bandwidth for LTE) and work.
The over engineering here is commendable for something that provides most likely marginal value whilst still needing more api calls to summarize everything you do.
Another compilation - https://x.com/VertigoWarrior/status/1905613070636122443
Oh, in this case indeed.

In my hometown you can still find weathered down stickers over a decade old opposing fracking.
The arguments I've heard (even though most are wrong, they are still brought up):

- the energy they produce is too unreliable

- their production creates more pollution than they save

- the lifespan is too short to be worth it

- they require too much land that should be used differently
quoting from the 'Hazard' section:

> The length of fault running 260 km (160 mi) from 19.2°N to 21.5°N, on the Meiktila segment, is designated a seismic gap due to the absence of major earthquake ruptures since at least 1897. At least 2 m (6 ft 7 in) of slip has accumulated along the fault corresponding to a magnitude 7.9 earthquake.

Science did pretty well here with the magnitude. Wonder how much more research is needed to be able to predict an event let's say a full minute before it happens...
Cadillac and Tesla emulate panopticonic cells, which resolve the presence of an external observer. CCTV footage is confined to local area networks that is pulled from LRP time-stamp headers. Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) on a narrow-band, Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) protocol can identify vehicle fragments, meta-data, from dynamic time-stamp servers, like "that is a red Tesla."
You're entitled to feel whatever you want about how Amazon behaves. It will not affect how Amazon behaves, even if presented in a very inspirational way. Inventing a 2400 year history of discussion of "private cooperative endeavors" that change "countless times," however, is not inspirational. Be specific about what has happened, when it happened, and how it has changed things. Point out when random people's feelings about "the arrangement" have mattered, and when the "cynical" opinion about that was wrong.

Or better, face the fact that Amazon responds to power, not to you. People who post just to call other people's opinions cynical, without adding anything of substance, could be replaced with AI with no loss. You don't know anything about people's dreams.