skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assumption that perpetual nothingness is the expected state of thing seems wrong, there is no evidence of such thing, everything we know about is never truly created, every process we know is a transformation, from "creating" computers to "creating" children, therefore what we are really asking is what were the first transformations if we could look into the past.
Um... No, it doesn't.

> I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook.

This is exactly what I don't want to deal with. Sure, I could use a ci service but this is a typical case of over-engineering a simple problem.
I want to run with this sentiment to a certain extreme:

This reminds me of Cloudflare blocking that pro-nazi website at the DNS level - not because the content was illegal, but because of social or other reasons.

What this means is even your own domain and web server can be censored in devastating ways, based purely on personal or cultural disagreement.

Of course I'm not supporting nazism, but it's a dangerous precedent for the free and open web to moderate and censor people when you are not legally compelled to. Even if you are, the laws of your country might be unjust.

Not blocking != endorsing, and to say it does is thought policing.

Thanks for this post. I won't be posting to Medium anymore.
Blocking cookies and never logging in has solved that problem for me.
Cute. Might be a good novelty thing you’d give a child, maybe with Linux installed.
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Gotta love HN; I click comments and am met with screenfulls about grapefruit.
Since you mentioned Rust and since this is turning into a "suggest a static site generator" thread, I'll mention Zola: https://github.com/getzola/zola , although I can't say how well it works for photo galleries.
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Granted, APIs aren't updated often, but when they are, generated clients can save a lot of time. I can update a generated client in half an hour and be very confident of its correctness, whereas a manually constructed client would take hours to update and test.

Of course, the generated client is not very convenient, being a 1-to-1 mapping with the API. You build a high-level client with the more common operations on top of the generated one.

It's possible to do this in a way that gets you the best of both approaches, with some up-front planning.
Cursed Problems in Game Design
For a moment I thought you were talking about DataGridXL, but your comment is on the canvas grid?

I actually made quite an effort to make DGXL work on touch screens. It's not there yet. It's basically read-only on touch for now, but you should have no problem selecting cells and copying values.
I thought the toaster oven reference would give it away. ;-)
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They ARE much more efficient. Smaller is possible (think the electric fiat 500), but it would also not be as safe.
Yup, you may as well say how can unicorn exist. First prove they do.
* I find it quite unusual in practice for genuinely new symbolic notation to be used by an author. Maybe that just reflects the fields I read about most (information theory, Bayesian modelling, harmonic analysis).

* Usually you don't come across a journal article or even blog post with a single isolated equation. So any new or unusual notation can be explained once and reused many times.

* Even if you did have an isolated equation with unusual notation, I still think it's more clear to define the notation and then show the equation rather than spelling it out it words! (I'm sure you could find terrible counterexamples!) The visual benefit seems so great to me that it would be worth splitting it into two parts. A bit like a diagram or a graph can make things clearer even if it needs a bit of explanation.
The question is what does it really mean to have 'your own platform'? Does it mean that you need to have your own server at your bedroom? Or is it enough to rent one at a server room, or a shared host or maybe just rent some web space? What with your internet connectivity? Or just electicity - do you need to generate your own? You always depend on someone and in theory that someone can take your blog down.

I think the reasonable answer is that you need to pay for all your needs and not rely on any free services. Then you can rely on your providers.
also noted in https://existentialcomics.com/comic/321

I find the unreasonable effectiveness of formal systems to be this: just as the shaman crosses into the "spirit world" and uses their experience there to predict happenings in our world, we can turn statements about bridges and dynamic loads in our world into formal statements, arrangements of symbols, and manipulate them mindlessly according to a formal system, yet the resulting safety margins do indeed predict happenings in our world.

(A city once gave an engineering school the contract to demolish an old bridge. The date was agreed upon, but that afternoon the city had to sent representatives out at lunchtime to insist that even though it hadn't been formally specified in the contract, their intent —and the neighbour's expectations— had always been that the bridge would be blown up all at once, not that little bits be blown off all morning to see how much structure could be removed before collapse...)
Soft/shadow banning. The idea is to make the spammer believe that he/she's still in the platform and they may only realize about the low engagement they have, so they may consider abandoning the platform.

If you mention them that they're banned, they might just use another account and persist in their spam.

The problem of this approach in this case is that user was not an spammer.
I find similar solutions experientially two-faced and frustrating. Imagine the matchmaking engine was a person behind a desk that you interact with. If he consistently told you one thing and then did something else you'd be displeased.
This is seriously awesome!

Is there plan for non-English blog posts? Dev community is mostly in English, but many blog posts around the world are in native language. Some blogs write in English and non-English and it's very hard for me to find content in my language.

This also prevents me from registering my blog on diff.blog as my blog contains English and non-English content.

Hope the best for your project!
I recommend https://gohugo.io the speed of rendering makes it possible to write your posts with a close to realtime rendering response. It also has a big community and lots of themes available.
Map - I have map on my bicomp.

Strava - I can upload my route to Strava from phone connected by BLE.

Mirror - yeah, it will be nice to have. Currently, I use my ears for tracking cars behind me, which saved me lot of times. I had moped mirror mounted on handlebars for about month: it was good, but I broke it very fast. Also, I had tiny mirror on pole/stick?(non native speaker) manually soldered to left side of my glasses with metal frame: it worked good, but I look dumb when I wear them, and they were hard to store, so mirror was scratched and damaged in few days. I plan to make new version, using flex leg from another glasses with metal frame, so I will be able to fold mirror.

Music player - I use cheap Chinese open-ear headphones(Atlanfa, cannot find them online) with built-in player and FM radio. I use them almost every day. They are open ear, so I hear road very well, especially with reduced volume. They work for about 2h with FM radio on, which is enough for me.

Notifications - my bicomp can display notifications and call info from phone attached by BLE, and my headphones are alerting me too about notifications and allows me to respond to calls. However, I have problem on my bicomp (Dash M50) with notifications with emoj: they are truncated after first emoj. Sometimes, emoj is the first letter in the text. :-(

I ride for about 25km daily to/from work in hilly area.
I hope those of us who don't like looking at logos have the option to turn it off. Unlike the chrome unwelcome omnibox popups for fedex and the like.
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Great question. I think Jexcel is a great effort. There's also Handsontable. I think Jexcel and Handsontable are pretty similar: they have a lot of features, but also a lot of the same errors: performance suffers and sometimes the DOM or CSS gets messed up after a user drag operation.

I wanted to tackle the performance & reliability issues mainly. My thinking is that most users won't probably need formulas, merged cells, HTML markup. DGXL really shines for larger data sets. Excellent for numeric data input specifically.

Also, I think it implements Excel/G. Sheets controls a little better: when your users are Excel-experts, but keyboard controls work just a little different then they're used to, that's quite annoying. My goal is to stick as best as I can to the original controls.
I guess that the issue here could be GitHub policies, maybe they don't like your post 'because reasons' and you're in the same situation as with Medium (I understand it's not as common).

The ideal case is that you own the platform.
Why shouldn't there be something when once there was nothing?

Because our everyday experience and intuition dictates it?

Our everyday intuition cannot hold a candle to the quantum world.
Hell, our everyday intuition cannot hold a candle to our macro world and to our human everyday affairs.

Why should I concern myself with an open question first asked thousands of years ago?

It is just a grim reminder about thought and knowledge and its limitations, our abstract thoughts helped us become the most successful species of our planets, but being too caught and too serious about our logic and thought is just so silly.

I mean, I get it, it is just an itch that we love to scratch because the thknking itch sensation helped us so much before, but there are just itches we cannot scratch away, by scratching we just make the itching worse.

So, I think I should just enjoy life, embrace and trust my functional humanity.

If some great insight comes from science, great, but I highly doutb it would ever come, and even if it did, how would that change human condition?

Perhaps some great computer in the future will be able to "answer", but I think the answer will most likely be so unspeakable and not a coherent answer, sort of like Alpha Go's way of playing GO, probably cannot be summed in a coherent GO strategy book.
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Yes it is unusual :) I guess VR support itself is something I couldn't have done without a game engine and I know Unity well so it made sense.
Hi, you can use DGXL for free, as long as you keep the branding link visible and have no need for support.
Yes, for many (most?) non-technical folk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
Types of Application Security Testing
a date picker would be super annoying to use if you would have all the state in the store. that are probably 40 variables. assume you open the date picker can can move threw the tabs of the month and you are not interested in changing this from outside.

if you have no state in the component that would not be possible. you can also not wrap this with an other component that can hold this state because you don't want components with state. that means all behaviour that requires state would have the state in the store this will just be crazy
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Meant "TimescaleDB is great and my team is using it"...
> this is still a terrible thing to do.

What’s the alternative, assuming the blogger doesn’t want to give everything away for free?
Remind me, how many times have Michigan and Illinois gone to war with each other since joining the union?

Federalism, in principle, is no bad thing - but it should keep to regulation and overarching legislation while letting states largely self govern (i.e. the EU model) rather than top-down tactical governance, which is where the US has ended up.

Ultimately, it’s a question of identity. Americans call themselves Americans. Europeans call themselves French, Dutch, Greek. That shared identity is the key to preventing war - everything else is just a means to that end.
Steal this idea: a Shazam of mathematical notation. In an app you would draw (or take a picture) of a mathematical symbol you don’t recognize and get a link to the appropriate Wikipedia page.

My biggest pet peeve with mathematical symbols is the difficulty of looking them up when you don’t know them already. If I’m reading a text on a topic I'm unfamiliar with, I can at least google the keywords I don't know. This is difficult with symbols.
The author confuses ISPs and business

The state of ISPs in the US is dire. There is almost no free market.

The EU has a much better market for ISPs. but thats nothing really to do with GDPR, its more to do with competition rules in the late 90s early 2000s. The roll out of 4g is a prime example. In the EU, countries rolled out actual 4g. In the US they were renaming LTE as 4g, instead of rolling out actual 4G.

As for business, yes EU companies appear to need to go to the states to get funding, thats primarily because the bar for funding is much lower in the states than it is in the EU.
Appreciate that perspective, makes sense. But it's still fundamentally injurious to the other person, and furthermore, in an uneven power dynamic. Also, your power doesn't automatically mean you're right. I wonder how to solve it.

Maybe shadow banning is quite fair and necessary and the answer is for people to educate themselves about it and go to other places where it won't happen to them. #rollyourown

These matters are not simple at all. I'm still trying to decide on whether Fb ultimately is a 'public square' vs. a 'private publisher', as is basically the whole world.
Headline "200k lockdown deaths" claims the opposite of the study it is based on
What makes you think that philosophers haven't heard of it? Here's the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on it: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory-intuitionisti...
Most of the negative commentary us around the protection of the forward edges, while this blog is about the backward edges. The grsec post notes that implementing full support for the backward edges involves handling a number of special cases, but doesn't criticise its effectiveness if that work is done.
I think that is probably the most poorly written Wikipedia article I have read in a while.
Which ones are daft?
Google had an interesting project (Ara, IIRC) for a modular phone. But indeed, no-one solved the issue of the weight and thickness. Even if these were solved, the cost would probably be another issue.
This has what dota 2 does. Every win / loss is worth the same points, the games are extremely close in terms of player rank, so and it's a team game so you get more variance than just your individual skill. Players eventually settle close to 50 percent win rate
Hi, it does not use canvas. It uses HTML. Sure, DGXL contains one or two canvas elements, but they're used for measuring strings length and drawing cell background colors.

The actual values are all in HTML. The benefit is that you can use CTRL+F and values are found and selected. You can zoom the page and text will remain crisp.

The values are not in a <table> tag however. <table> values are sorted y,x (rows first, columns second). DGXL sorts values x,y (columns first, rows second). I have to admit that I am not sure what that means for screen readers: I am not an accessibility-expert at this stage. What I do know is that HTML is better than canvas by default in this regard.
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Just allow me to change the battery myself without having to unglue the display or some brittle glass back and I'm fine.
Thanks for the advice! Makes sense. We are doing something similar (aggregate on single table and join later). But still looking a solution to compute aggregated increments when there are counter resets.
This is also how some problems are solved more efficiently in Operations Research: solving the dual of the problem instead of the actual problem.
Hi! Will be supported soon, possibly this week. If not, next week for sure. It's in the testing stages!
> and also Medium pay content authors really really well.

This to me is the key thing, and what Medium's stated goal was: to re-think the way we pay for content. You may feel fine giving away your content for free, but it's perfectly reasonable for people to want to be paid for the value they create, and I like Medium's model way better than advertising.
you could try something like https://mathpix.com/ and then look up what the LaTeX symbol is.
Incidentally, the example of roman numeral multiplication you chose is actually fairly easy. Just break it up as (XI×V) + (XI×I). Then since X×V=L and I×V=V (Romans would have these memorised just like we memorise multiplication tables for all the decimal digits) so the first multiplication is LV and the second is XI, which add to give LXVI by simply interleaving the letters.
Does the smaller binary execute faster?
Hi, you're right. At this time it's not supported, but we're working on it. Probably next week. The other features are still a definite "no" for now :-)
"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100%

i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude".

i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zuby because transgender activist mock Zuby and Zuby reply with "Ok, dude".

the cancel culture in the West is destroying people from speaking freely.

the cancel culture in the West is the reason why you must own your own content. there are many people on the internet who doesn't agree with cancel culture and want to see your content but due to powerful tech company like Twitter. they can't see it because Twitter act like a publisher but don't want the responsibities that come with it.

the current Western society is in a very sad state.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - Evelyn Beatrice Hall
everyone pointing out the due specs isn't wrong. its not that impressive from a specs standpoint, this is not an 8 bit micro labeling be damned. just a run of the mill arm emulator. but there is merit in the sw
During congress rule, CBI was referred to as a "caged parrot". The CBI did not act unless forced by the Supreme Court.

The CAG is a very different body - it is much more independent of government, and did raise issues around 2G spectrum allocation and many other areas during Congress time. I mean, the UPA had a minister running an entire TV station out of BSNL lines running to his home, so really it was pretty blatant and hard not to catch.

We should not confuse this type of corruption with doing favors to business which does not show up in government books, and is not easy for CAG to catch.
> "Elected" merely means "chosen by vote".

Yes, and the President of the United States is not chosen by a vote of the citizens, but by a vote of the Electoral College.
Really? What browser + OS are you on?
As it's the security council, I think a functioning military would also be a requirement. Germany and Japan don't have this.
No but the smaller the binary, the smaller the download size. Also it results in smaller docker containers, which is a popular way to ship go binaries.
> I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.

But that's on the project, not Medium; and if they want to be paid for the work that goes into their documentation, what's the problem?

I mean, seriously, Medium is $5/month, for loads of advertising-free content. Why not just subscribe?
One needs to trade off whatever risk there is of fallacious reasoning based on authority with the epistemic dangers of not having the appropriate awareness of, and respect for expertise.
If that's too much for you at this time, you can always use the free version. As long as you display the branding link.

Right now the free version has the same features are the commercial version.
No evidence? Says an entity from within the universe bound by its laws. The question transcends those limits. You talk about transformations, how is there even a law that defines what a transformation is. How does a law come into being, how does it enforce or is enforced, how do X laws work together in harmony, why do laws remain constant...
You imply you can differentiate between nothing and singularity. But how?

On the other hand nothingness itself can be a cause. Is it different from any other cause?
the year is 2289. Russia fully occupies Venus. USA controls most parts of Mars. China has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system.
Europe is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
So much empty space on the pcb/closure, you can fit in few more ARM boards.
Someone needs to invest in developing improved mental models for quantum computers. Much of the development of classical computing (particular from a user perspective) was driven by metaphors: memory, stacks, pipes, files, folders, etc.

What are useful metaphors in the application or use of quantum computers?
Why lava tubes should be our top exploration priority on other worlds
Great idea. I'm a fan of this app/site for finding the Latex command for a particular symbol:

https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html.

Then just need to look up the Latex on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
Interesting. Wonder how you can get cell level control for styling when you are rendering text nodes. Positioning elements by line-height may not be the best way.

Canvas can be made fully accessible and screen reader friendly. See how Google Sheets has done. But yes, its not natively accessible like HTML.
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It’s not satire. These are exceptionally pragmatic suggestions packaged up in well-written prose.

Worth digesting
Germany and Japan have functioning militaries; they have legal restrictions on their use, but those restrictions don't, IIRC, obstruct their participation in anything that the Security Council would decide.
I disagree on the GDPR one. It's the only piece of legislation that protects my data online.

Prior to GDPR any data that you create wasn't yours and was freely sold, traded and aggregated. Even if you asked Google, Facebook or whoever for YOUR data to be sent back to you; they wouldn't be obligated to.
LOL You clear have no idea how Yelp works. Yelp employees and their friend will leave you bad reviews and ask you to pay (extort) in order to remove/hide them. Louis Rossmann (Search YouTube) has proof.
She couldn't afford to buy an apartment at the time, opening the coffee shop was way cheaper (about 1/6 the cost).

In the country she's in, it's big news that rich people and celebrities are buying expensive real estate and flipping it shortly after making millions without doing any actual work.
If the content is of any real value, I'd be more than happy to pay for it with money. 10 bucks? Sure, here you go. A much better option than getting emails such as "20 lessons I learned from my job interview" or whatever.
It is the new "zone transfer" without the IP addresses :)

There are companies that use private (not publicly resolvable) domains for which they create public certificates for internal hosts, that get published via CT.

Nice for OpsSec sleuthing.

Edit: how to find these "private domains"? Often public certificates contain more than one DNS names, of which one might be "private". YMMV
I get the feeling on some sites that the end goal was to have a site, not necessarily a working one.