skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and a serf can technically leave. But they can't, because they lose access to the pertinent resource. Where else can they farm?

I don't like the media, I'm not trying to make out they're weak. My issue is that Google monopolising attention and then unilaterally taking news website's work for free is BS. They're skimming the vast majority of value from the industry with no kickbacks. They get away with it because no inidividual news organisation can fight. The only option is collective action (won't work, too much reward for defecting) or legislation.
Yeah canonical is not too fond of error checking. I dropped ubuntu because it was calling sysv style init scripts from systemd unit files and not checking for errors (similar to what you can see for lxc here https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/systemd/l... and https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/sysvinit/...).

So you would get everything appearing fine but when you dig down you find something is dying but because of their bad engineering choices it is incredibly difficult to figure out why.
The way I like to think about it is people are like molecules of oxygen: in their natural state they are "free" and perform random Brownian motion. Society is about restricting the number of freedoms to a few, so all molecules can move either forward or backward, and produce work as a result. Psychedelics let people realise once again how much freedom they naturally have.
My microwave has a knob and a digital display - so turning the knob updates the display. The knob also has "clicks", rather than turning smoothly. I like this interface - it's tactile and usable.
Conflating DevOps with Agile?! It's pretty clear the author has zero understanding of that function, and the idea "no code" has anything but a niche basis in complex systems architecture right now is crazy.
> A committee / agency to decide what is or is not an oligopoly?

This is called our court system. And they have been handling anti-trust law for a century now. And they have done a pretty reasonable job of it.

Anti-trust law is not something new. It is well established.
Most modern smartphones come with with javascript, webasm, and associated APIs for 2d/3d graphics, sound, game input, local storage, mobile/wireless network access, as well as lots of RAM and a powerful CPU/GPU. Definitely enough to make open/moddable/shareware games.

There are also widely available free 2d and 3d game engines that will run on them.
When I worked at HERE Maps, a colleague of mine was working on censorship for South Korean maps. You were not supposed to access them from outside of South Korea. There were also places where you saw different borders according to your own location.
Would you say that about

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

and

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

too?
Last i tried getting it working on fedora I gave up because it was silently failing while appearing to work correctly due to the bad systemd unit files and init scripts from canonical (see https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/systemd/l... and https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/sysvinit/...)

Better things to do in life and I got what I wanted from podman with --rootfs.
It probably doesn't even work without wifi hahaha. j/k (I hope). Remember the Juicero?
I love the fact that the computer that is my second factor, has access to my password manager, has all my banking apps on it, has access to my retirements accounts, has access to my personal investment accounts, and has access to my Bitcoin wallet is locked down and I’m not expected to side load a bunch of shady apps. The breach of my phone is a actually way worse than a breach of any of my computers.
Am I missing something? Or is this something like font-awesome put on an image?
Plus, you can generally take the the dynamic generators and dial them down to a purely static build for sites that genuinely aren't using client-side features, but you can't go in the opposite direction.
As an ex-vinyard owner, this makes little sense.

A percentage of the vines on a vinyard are constantly being replaced due to disease or mechanical damage.

There is absolutely no shortage of new vines. They can be grown from cuttings, or by laying down (uncut) canes.

But in practice, most commercial vines are hybrids which have been grafted onto Briar(and other) root-stock to avoid disease and increase yield. Some farms grow their own, but most buy them in from specialised nurseries.

The availability of new vines is absolutely not a bottle neck to making wine.
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As a mixed race "person of colour" (not a term I'm massively keen on) I'm not generally considered to be "in a position of relative social power", especially over a white European. But whatever.
If that is true then the web does not care about SEO. And quite obviously it isn't weighted particularly hard at all (probably because there wouldn't be anything left).

edit:
Case in point, except for google.com (which itself has a terrible score of 62) I can't even find out a single google service that isn't in the reds on the pagespeed index.

Even when it decided to load the mobile version.
For me the Watch has become my dumb phone with benefits.

My watch faces only really have complications for messages and calls (some have weather and workouts too) and as I have the cellular model I often leave my phone at home and am effectively distraction free.

Unlike a dumb phone I still have podcasts, audiobooks and Spotify with me (I still have a copy of Apollo which does streaming but Spotify shut it down years ago). So I don’t need another device when walking the dog.

Plus I can pay for stuff (no need to carry a wallet) measure activity (again walking the dog) and get notified of work emergencies (so if something fails I can message the client and head home immediately - most notifications are off though).
If you define `n` as "the number of vowels in the input language", making it dynamic, then yes.

However, the list of vowels in the function is static. So the execution time doe snot grow as the input size grows (there is only a single char as input).

O(5) = O(1) = constant.

.includes() is O(n), though.

Sounds like you might need a refresher (it's easy to get fuzzy over the years, happens to the best of us).

But you may want to update the blog post as not to confuse others more, I think people have exams coming up ;)
> Did your distinction really deepen the conversation?

Yes. For some people, it might be the most valuable thing they learn from the entire discussion. Imagine having as business discussion and mixing up P&L and a Balance Sheet. If you think it was just a pedantic correction, maybe you should reconsider.
All that useless effort for just some static pages. Can't believe how much money, time and resources are wasted by these hipsters. Why don't they solve actual problems that could help our race, instead of resume driven hipsterness.
>That's not how economy works.
>There is no such thing in general as "too many people for the economy".

I think you have it wrong as well. The size of the economy doesn't really matter. We don't say Norway isn't viable because its size is only a fifth of that of the UK. There is no point in doubling the size of the population to make the economy twice as big when each person is no better off. Especially when we are increasingly bumping up against ecological limits.
If this isn't proof that our world is just part of some teenage alien's half-working science project then I don't know what is.
Compiler hardening and exploit mitigations for unsafe Rust
This week in KDE: Breeze Evolution work starts landing
Yeah, that's quite similar with my experience. The idea is really nice and when it works, it's great. But debugging those GraphQL queries without any intellisense and writing monstrous config files eg gatsby-node.js makes me wish for something better.

I understand that because the API gets so complicated it's better to use something flexible like GraphQL. But the magic breaks down too easily in places and then you end up trying to fix some really peculiar bug (I had one where you had to put blank .eslintrc to the root to prevent the linter from linting local linked npm libraries).

I think parts of Gatsby core should probably be rewritten or done in different language to make it faster. The compilation shouldn't take that long. But I'm not sure what are the remedies for the other problems. Maybe if they focused really hard to simplify the library into its very basics, following the Unix philosophy, it could help with the creeping complexity headache that Gatsby brings.
Apple Watch also has Apple Pay, call, text, directions, music, podcasts, etc.

More and more I’m leaving my phone at home and opting to go solo watch. This has done wonders in breaking my habit of always reaching for my phone to fill in every empty space in the day.
This won't stick around for long
That's completely wrong. Humans were just as smart 3000 years ago as they were today. The difference between today and back then is that people were much poorer and didnt receive an education. Their jobs were farming which didnt require things we consider essential like reading or writing which meant they stay unchallenged for their entire life. When you look at the rich elite or rich cities in the past then you see how small the difference between us and the people 3000 years ago is. They were just as smart but there were fewer of them. Nowadays everyone is educated and "rich".

You can still find people who are just as "unchallenged" as a medieval peasant today. Look in rural places of countries like china.
Feel free to "contribute and get nothing" is completely different then "contribute get tshirt".

The people who participate are different and pull requests are different.
It's easy to do this.

Simply open up trade while driving up the cost to manufacture anything. All the industry moves to other countries, to produce the same CO2 plus a bit more for the container ships, but that doesn't count.

The grumbling about jobs doesn't count until the foreign factories realize that they can also do the product design, with engineers right next to the factories.
Good thing fb never fudged data for the purpose of selling more advertisement

(for those who don't remember https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17989712/facebook-inaccu... )
> You're trusting the person producing the product for producing a good product.

That's a generalization. Specifically, I'm trusting the person producing the product to do something that e.g. Debian has a proven track record of doing quite well: maintaining dependencies so that I have a secure (and consistent) system altogether...so well that I'd rather trust them to do it over any existing flatpak vendor, and definitely more than trusting n vendors for the n flatpaks I have installed.

> The distro approach is great, but it doesn't scale well for obvious reasons

Regarding what aspect doesn't it achieve the scale necessary? It's not obvious to me what you mean at all.

> and it makes software development harder due to downstream issues often going reported as upstream issues.

A cost of system-scale software maintenance, for sure.

> I appreciate and enjoy the distro approach for what it gives me, but there should always be a way for developers to provide packaging that works everywhere and then distro maintainers can feel free to recompile/repackage as they please.

I don't fundamentally disagree. My point is that I think it's a security risk to leave it to every developer to maintain their dependencies as they see fit, and that this is a problem that flatpaks create that a well maintained distro software repo doesn't have. It's better to acknowledge this risk and consider it to grow as you install more flatpaks than to ignore it, expecting that every flatpak vendor will respond in a timely manner to dependency CVEs; the trust I place in Debian—by necessity very high—now has to be multiplied for each individual flatpak.
If you encounter spelling errors or grammatical issues, please help fixing on https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix and https://sirix.io :-) I'm no native english speaker, so I'd be very happy if people fix stuff.
I can vouch for that. Born and raised in Malaysia and living in Australia. With USD2K in Malaysia you can easily live a comfortable, with free healthcare, safe and decent life if you can ignore the institutionalized racism towards dark skinned people. Plus an environment very conducive to running a business. In Australia USD2K is peanuts. You will struggle to survive on that amount BUT on the other hand there is good social security and decency still means something(for how long more I have no idea).
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Photons have zero mass so we know them to produce zero gravity, no?
If one store charges outrageous fees for third party brands then customers will just shop at several stores. That doesn't work for appstores.
Maybe microdosed on some stuff, listening at double speed, skipping, fast forwarding. Essentially turning it into something from Mickey Mouse, while talking about warped realities with a straight face.
Why? It's not like I'm going to have any more guests over.
I have bought Samsung QLED Q90T due to one reason only and that was picture quality. I though that i will have it banned on router and that is it. What a mistake, they forced me with nag screens to connect it to internet and drive trough bunch "I dont allow my data to be...".

Anyway, wifi cant be completely disabled without calling their support and I bet they are using wifi direct. I have it blocked now on router (which is anyway configured that unknown macs cant connect) but I wonder what can a normal ordinary user do.

Also you cant enter into factory menu without remote control with number buttons that is NOT shipped with TV.

This is my last smart TV (and last product from Samsung, phones included). Monitors only.

[1] https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/disable-wireless-amp-...
Writing an Assembler
At some point monopolies stop being the more user friendly approach by abusing their position to the point that they provide bad service for high costs, and you're forced to deal with it.

These companies were user friendly at first, but as all companies do, they are slowly squeezing the profits out of everything they can.

They are steering us towards a local maximum that ends in them taking a massive chunk of the money from everyone forever, for no benefit to anyone else, simply because they're sitting on market inertia.

People could eventually demand something like that "Wild West" you speak of, because it is the solution that fosters competition and prevents the monopolies from abusing their power.

But I think there is something preventing that from happening - the companies in charge are spending vast amounts of money on PR to convince the public that their monopoly situations are not really so bad. And, I think as a result, they've got folks like you defending them.
Wish I had time to do it. The fundamentals aren't really that hard - a dependency DAG of Tasks. Tasks store metadata, including incomplete/relative start/end estimates I mentioned. You could display it as a DAG, or in a traditional "tree structured task" form by just starting at a Task and walking in one direction to fill a tree, and in the other to fill "backlinks". Add a GANTT and PERT chart and that's it.

The most difficult part I think would be to make entering graph nodes ergonomic. In my experience, these kinds of tools live and die by the speed at which you can enter, modify and move things around in them. If you have to click a lot and type data in a bunch of forms, developer won't be using it.

Example: that time when I first compiled the list of desired features, we were trying out YouTrack from JetBrains. My co-worker liked it, but found entering subtasks annoying. I wrote a little script inside YouTrack that turned every Markdown checklist into new tickets, backlinked to the parent one. A total hack, but made a big qualitative difference in terms of working with the tool.

The key two principles for me therefore are:

- Fast to enter and manipulate data in it. Everything doable from keyboard, and little waiting for things to process (hello, Jira).

- Embrace the fact that plans and work subdivisions keep changing all the time. Allow users to restructure their tasks, warn them when they affect other parts of the graph, and just persist the changelog so that a broken graph can be easily fixed.

I have some more ideas in this space, but little time to deal with the surrounding work that's required to turn it into an application prototype.
When the memory needs to be disposed of you drop it in the tube.
The repo or the vulnerabilities?
Agreed. Though unfortunately the way we have it now is technically opt in, just through dark patterns or extortion.

Make an account? You are opting in via those T&C

Have an account and the T&C change to allow data sharing? Delete your account and deal with that pain and frustration or accept it.

Forgot you made an account? Well you agreed to be bound by the T&C that they changed to allow sharing even though you didn't know it happened.

They've made it so that legally you opted in in those dang documents that they make impossible to read. Super frustrating.
Reality is that giving you such feedback on proof of concept work takes effort, time and is work. As such maintenence needs reason to spend time with it.

Do unless you see them engage with past pull requests like that, assume they don't.
Garbage collection is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes!
I had a microwave like that as well, and it was absolutely fantastic! One big wheel to set the time, and it was 100% deterministic, so you developed muscle memory for setting it at different times. Loved it, never been able to find one like it since.
Germans with a more cynical outlook might tell you that the German bureaucracy is gobbling up staggering amounts of taxpayer money for doing barely any job at all, and basically leech off value creating jobs to fund their generous benefits. That is, if you want your job to be actually impactful in some way, you'll end up a "slave" funding some civil servant's lengthy yearly vacation as well.

I'm not quite there yet though.
Not true. You can just wipe a blister number pad and you're done. They're designed that way. With knobs, better hope they're detachable.

Agreed that a knob should be a part of a computer keyboard - as a generic analog input device, not a mousewheel equivalent, though.
> I second that. I have had my Series 4 for 514 days. I currently have a 514 day Move streak and 72 perfect weeks (All Activity).

I used to second that, until I got to 689 days and then the heart rate sensor stopped working on my watch.

I now have a longest move streak that is pretty hard to reach again, no way to reset it, and my motivation largely got destroyed after 2 weeks of no rings closed at all, due to Apple refusing to provide me with a proactive replacement for what was clearly a hardware defect. After nearly 2 perfect years.

A couple of months later, Covid happened, and I now have a pretty poor end result, as the rings no longer matter having lost the ability to continue streak tracking (the only way to see your streak is if you're setting a new record).

I think the lesson here is beware on relying too much on this crack for motivation. If you're not developing the appropriate discipline alongside it, and just relying on the crack, you may find you fail like I did when the crack disappears.
Tomb Raider a successful gaming classic gets a Cola Powered Gamer review
Its still good enough to last all day under any usecase though. What I found with my pebble watch is it would always go flat on me in the middle of the day because I didn't have a real charging schedule. With my AW I just stick it on the charger when I go to sleep and it will never go flat on me.
How did the Google car get there? Or was it that backpacking Google camera from a few years ago?
The scary thing is that sometimes bad actors don't need to hack anything. They can just buy the service. Imagine if Saudi Arabia bought Grindr.
Worker conditions are certainly better, but life is expensive and bureaucracy is annoying here too.
Nation states can just buy the service instead of wasting time on "hacking".
I am hoping for the glorious day when I'll see TVs side-by-side advertised for their "smartness" vs "dumb-doesnt-steal-your-data-or-show-ads" respectively.
so Factorio is a Turing machine?
Surprised they didn’t try Eleventy. I was just reading how a Mozilla team converted their extension documentation to it from Jekyll because it has support for Jekyll’s template language via a plugin.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/10/to-eleventy-and-beyond/
Why is the market share of Firefox in Germany so much higher?
H-1B rule changes ending the lottery fast-tracked by OIRA
99% of what people need to do their jobs is also available on other platforms and as Web applications.
That's one thing I enjoy about Scandinavia - we have a very collaborative culture, where the community is above the individual. The concept of "gaming the system" is extremely frowned upon, and everyone should strive to be the morally best person they can be.

But if you're financially or materialistically motivated, there are some drawbacks with this, though.

- Higher taxes

- More compressed wages (an Engineer with a Master's Degree will for example "only" earn around 1.5-3 times what low-skill minimum wage workers earn - compared to other countries where this multiple could be 5-10)

- A bit less entrepreneurial spirit

With that said, I enjoy living here. Life is comfortable, and there's no endless pursuit of getting richer, just for the sake of becoming rich. Retirement is not the be-all and end-all goal of life here.
Modal realism. A mathematical structure is "real" to its conscious inhabitants (if any), and merely an abstraction from the perspective of those who are not, i.e. the inhabitants of other mathematical structures.
in sigapore, connecting to someone elses unsecured personal hotspot is illegal. it's like entering an unlocked home.
Just reading this stresses me out. I have a habit of checking my phone every half hour or so for notification, but that's it, almost everything is turned off (vibration and sound) exceptions being my wife and kids. Half hour checks (or hourly) is enough for just about anyone. The human race got by without smartwatches for a million years or so, we don't really need them and they just sound like an interruption strapped to your wrist.
According to

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film)

there is no need for deliberate conspiracy, because of bad incentives, immanent to the structure of our current systems.

Of course that does not necessarilily exclude deliberate gaming of the system.
If you have an Apple TV, then whatever you can access on any Apple device through the browser is on your tv.