skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with everything you've said. Additionally, consistent rendering. If you've ever tried to send an email campaign and had to support all the old (and sometimes surprisingly new) Outlook clients and Lotus notes, you'll know just how painful that is.

Email must be:
* Secure and encrypted;
* Have proven identity;
* Have easy to fabricate and predictable rendering;

I feel like the ability to have forms and charts is very nice, but adds a lot of complexity, especially from a security point of view. I'd be looking at this kind of "application level" functionally being a layer added optionally on top, not being in the core protocol.
It differs from mastodon because it's on the blockchain & mastodon isn't. The problem is I don't see why that's better. Being on the blockchain also means a (less than a penny) processing fee, just as a standard BTC/BCH transaction, paid by you, so you're paying to post. The one advantage to that is users could potentially tip each other. Google, Twitter, & Facebook are proof that people don't like having to pay to use something if there's a free alternative. Plus it means having to have BCH which most people don't understand.
You may (or may not, I've no interest in expressing an opinion on it) be right in that things could have been worse if the megaphone were not removed. However from the original article's viewpoint, if Section 230 weren't there then the situation may not have arisen in the first place as the months/years of build-up commentary, articles, posts, etc would have been regulated as they were published.

In other words (to apply the article's logic) if the 'censorship' is applied beforehand by standard journalistic practices (lawyers, editors, etc) then the need for 'censorship' (and deplatforming) afterwards is notably diminished.
You can pay them money to attend classes they hold (which you can find example Youtube videos of--basically 50min TED talks), and at the end of it you get a certificate. It was modeled after the International Space University, which in France, and shares a co-founder.

I may be swayed that this is more of a "summer workshop" and not as academically rigorous as I'd like, but otherwise I'm not sure why you claim it doesn't deserve the title "University."
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Sure, but for most processes that’ll yield disappointing performance.

Any tool can be used without regard for the consequences, but knowing a tool’s statistical properties yields know-how about the consequences of its application. It’s often a matter of the costs of error / stakes of the most problem at hand. Cheap solutions are often the best for cheap problems.
The thing is that while you might be reasonable about this, there seems to be a completely baffling number of people whose argument seems to be "I don't need it, therefore they shouldn't include it". It's like.....no one is forcing you to use these extra ports? But it's very nice to have them and some people will need them. If it doesn't increase the weight or thickness of the device(and it definitely doesn't to add another USB-C to the 12" MacBook) then I don't understand why some people literally treat it like some betrayal of what the device is.
Wow, yeah. That was my first thought upon seeing the name. Definitely could have picked something better.
I feel like it's silly to not to carve out legal space for social media to be something other than a common carrier.
I would be delighted to be banned from all technology for eternity. I would wear the ban like a badge of honor and devote my life to the advancement of something more noble such as mathematics.
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Well stated argument! I always wondered why your car sometimes launched to the sky in Stunts, from 1990.

Yes, you could have for example energy limiters and total momentum checks in your algorithms. Energy can not be added in a collision. In a collision between two finite mass objects, total momentum is preserved (you can't use this with collisions with the ground). Maybe games already do this?

You could also just fudge the equations to avoid singularities, like always add +1 to the divider. This could probably cause other problems though.
Neo nazis are not using the service to degrade the service of others and cause serious harm using electricity. If you somehow found a way to use electricity in a way that ruined it for the rest of your street you would get shut down pretty fast
"We were always at war with Oceania".
Anyone still remember Apple Remote?

It used to come free with your MacBook and is to this day one of my favorite features of my mid 2012 MBP that I will miss terribly once I have to upgrade (no Big Sur support...).
Thanks, my initial scepticism is weakened.
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If it's relevant my cat is name Jingo.
This is just nonsense. They try to claim that ...

>Having a minimum wage is almost suicide for small businesses. They cannot hire the workers they need because they are not making enough profit, so those businesses will continue to stay small.

Minimum wages are bad if set by government but the Nordic system is great:

>Unions and organizers help to set wages, but the government does not get involved in the negotiation process. This decentralized system is arguably the best way to do things. Businesses are free to pay less for unskilled work (apprenticeships/internships) and unskilled workers.

A quick look at salary.com shows that "average hourly wage for a Hairdresser/Hairstylist in the United States is $13 as of December 28, 2020, but the range typically falls between $11 and $16".

In Denmark the minimum for a hairdresser is $18. A US taxi driver 50% median is $17. Danish minimum is $20,24. It does matter who sets the "minimum wage" IMO but trying to make it seem as businesses would be strangled by a minimum wage and then point to a system without it that has higher wages... I don't even..
Check out this timeline of pigments through the ages. See how the industrial revolution multiplied the number of colors available.

http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/history.html
Literal translations of phrases from Greek to English language is a whole joke category in Greek. We even translate single compound words, eg πολυέλαιος (=chandelier) to 'much oil' (έλαιον=oil)
Is there any way to send messages via Signal using an API to a previously approved number? i.e. someone accepts my chat, then I can send messages via an API?

I cant find much (good) documentation on it..?

I have a system that needs to send alerts from an enterprise system, and we need a more secure way than Telegram...
You are right.
The way I use it is like you say.

My backups consist of compressed and encrypted archive files, which are then processed with PAR, to add redundancy that will allow the recovery of any corrupted files from the archive.
It’s amazing that a person can write this and not feel any remorse for the pain they caused.
I love this and have considered doing it myself. However, what worries me is whether using a single power adapter will shorten the life of devices which require different levels of wattage. Sure you can use the same USB-C cable, but the benefit is largely diminished if you have to carry a bunch of different power adapters for each device's unique wattage.

Or am I worrying about this unnecessarily?
On game scripts (literature, not programming), a lot of ideas
were shaped before in text adventures/interactive fiction.
ZMachine-Inform/Tads have several games based on sci-fi and weird
tech environments, such as Babel, or Spider and Web.
And the reverse happens, too. H.P. Lovecraft->Alone In the Dark->Anchorhead.
RAM is the feature I care about and Apple has always been stingy with RAM.
Just like I bet most will fail a pub quiz using C17, C# 9, Java 15, F# 5, VB 16, Python 3.9 as base input for the question pool.
> See California Champagne

You mean the labeling that the EU agrees (if reluctantly) to be legal?

https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/loophole-california-champagne...
If he knows so much about scaling he should know that, in most cases, the crappy quality of most server side code is irrelevant because it can be compensated for. If he was the amazing businessman that he pretends to be he would make a convincing criticism as to the lack of funds that led to inability to handle the load, not an immature and idiotic remark like he did.

You know why he has been married so many times? My opinion is because the guy is a fucking dick. I am married and remain married. Zero divorce? Why? I'm not a dick.

Sending a rocket to Mars is useless. Self driving cars haven't improved the world for anyone. I'll agree that the advancement in tech is good over time, and that the change in regulations is positive, but I don't think Musk is the humanitarian he is thought to be.
> I know Angular seems to not be popular right now

In terms of being in widespread use, I believe Angular is either #1 or #2 (competing against React). It's certainly not a 'cool' choice, it's a boring and stable choice, but there's a lot of value in that.
It is somewhat anecdotal, but I had one of those and it blew out 2 usb-c docks. The first one went kaput about a month after I started using the magnetic adapter and I chocked it up to bad luck. The replacement fried about a week later and I put 2+2 to together and removed the adapter and haven't had any trouble over the last ~1 year.

All I can say is that I am glad it was the dock that fried not any of the laptops that use it...

That all said, it was pretty glorious when it worked -- a single magnetic cable that did dual 4k monitors, charging, videoconf setup, network, license dongles, etc
This reminds me of DeepinOS though it's intentions are a bit different. The obsession the Chinese people have with iOS is insane though from a UX/UI it seems justifiable given user demand on this front. Simple gets the job done.

It explains why for ex. Xiaomi themes it's mobile OS (MIUI) to appear more iOS-ish.
> Yep. And corporate/enterprise environments should (not nearly enough do) do exactly that with devices owned and managed by the enterprise.

Sure! But the fact that they should (and many have been) already be doing just that does not change the fact that the technique imposes a third party listening into supposedly two party encrypted exchange. It's allowed, but it is still MitM.

> Any personal devices or those owned by contractors, clients and other external actors should not be allowed access to internal corporate networks. This is neither a particularly new or controversial idea either.

Whilst I agree, recent trend to push for more BYOD where the device is owned by the contrators, employee or an external actor, but still allowed access and controlled by the enterprise does tend to blur the lines quite a bit, especially as most tooling has been lacking decent isolation between "enterprise" and "private" on the same device. MDM tooling tends to want to administer the whole device and apply the stricter "enterprise" policies, with a pinky promise that private life is going to be respected.
My guess is that the leads in the new MagSafe correspond to USB-C power rails, and if you plugged in a charger into the machine's USB-C port, it would charge just the same.

I mean, if I were Apple, I wouldn't settle for anything less.

Dongles are expensive and cumbersome. If Apple is adding back legacy ports, good on them.
Sure, but so long as anyone cares to continue this silly debate I'm happy to oblige them. My hate is stronger than whatever silly arguments you all seem to be able to come up with to prove Musk is great.
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Just carry around a first-party Apple charger that matches the highest draw among your devices. Using a higher-rated charger won’t hurt anything.
The electric utilities have a government created monopoly, and that truly justifies their obligation to serve everyone. AWS has no such monopoly nor obligation.

If you don't like it, you might be politically aligned with a progressive value: Regulate monopolies not speech.
> Still think Deno is DOA, then

Never has there been a community as obsessed with the new hotness as the JS one. People will use it just so they can say they do
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Jenkins uses groovy for scripted build Pipelines, works pretty well and makes Jenkins a bit more fun to use, if that is even a thing.
That's an odd claim. What's your source?

As a longish time Matrix user I've never experienced scalability issues due to federation. The federation actually works pretty well. Scalability from Matrix comes/came due to the fact that some servers were too popular. Though that is actively being worked on: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-sca...
Kinda confirms Scott Adams' assertion that the large majority of people do not have personal opinions per se (at least not to the degree that they think they do); they choose an "opinion package" in the sense that their main choice is which media package they choose to consume, and are subsequently assigned their opinions from that; a far more economical heuristic for having a range of complex opinions, than having to weigh each one of them individually.
> Ever managed to understand Gradle complex files?

Well, there is a funny annecdote I can share.

In some presentation a guy was showing how you can implemnent some non trivial functionality for a Android app. He was very proud to demonstrate how it can be implemented in just few lines of code. Then he showed casually just for few sec the gradle file for the demo app, which was about 50 lines. We were joking how simple and easy things can be as long you are gradle magician.
I don't need any self analysis to know why I have so much hatred. I'm well aware to begin with.

What you should be considering is what on earth made me this way.
It looks like the author started from this conclusion and then came up with a contrived and weak reasoning to end up there.
Nice now they replaced slow build times with nightmare maintenance/refactoring capabilities.
You'd think the semantics of "4xx is the client's fault, don't bother retrying without changing the request" is pretty easy to understand.
Not permitting several weeks’ notice for a “last time buy” is crappy, though that’s fairly unusual and not a well understood action in the consumer segment as compared to enterprise, so I’m not sure that you or I could personally have gotten any in any meaningful way. They’re still available in-channel (NewEgg and Dell both have them at normal-seeming prices) right now for consumers who need them, which is effectively a “last time buy” in the consumer segment. I’d be surprised if Dell was not given a last-time buy notice.

I’m not nearly as convinced that “Intel once stopped selling Optane drives for consumers; you can’t trust them” is anywhere near as likely (nor valid) as “Intel has made major mis-steps in microcode resulting in serious degradation of performance after the sale for mitigations, seems to be struggling with their next process step change, and is facing major pressures now not just from AMD but now from ARM and Apple”.

In some sense the Optane decision is like the Google one. “Should I bet something important on this technology that isn’t making the company any money?” is a very fair question to ask.
I have an original PDP-11/5 front panel (and the remnants of the PDP-11 rotting in the garage. How hard would it be to wire it up?
> Recommended specs will include 16GB RAM only for synapse, SSD storage, etc.

What? If you want a server for 200+ users, yes maybe. But 2GB of RAM is plenty for hosting a few active users federating in large chats.
Actually I think that in the long term most languages with automatic memory management will just adopt some form of affine types for high performance code sections, and that will be it.

We will keep the productivity of the existing eco-systems and tooling, with an additional tool for the 1% of use cases that it actually matters.
It's always the other side that polarises things.
The company has an account on Bilibili[0], where its Chinese name is specified as 鲸鲮. 鲸, romanised as Jing, means "whales" (the animal). So JingOS would be "WhaleOS".

(鲮, romanised as Ling, is another water animal known as "mud carp".)

[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Za4y1n7pY]
The Pleiades[1], also known as the Seven Sisters:

> It is among the star clusters nearest to Earth... and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.

Only six stars in the cluster are visible to the naked eye yet mythology from several ancient cultures share the idea that one of the seven “sisters" is hidden. The article The world’s oldest story?, originally published in TheConversation [2], states:

> The star Pleione... was a bit further away from Atlas in 100,000 BC, making it much easier to see.

These two stars now appear as one to the naked eye which the author proposes is the source of the hidden sister. This dates the story to 100 kya.

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

[2] https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronom...
I just love what the esp32 can do - in the right hands!

It is such a capable piece of kit for arduino prices - love the 8 bit arcade builds people have done. I bought a few esp32 when lockdown started but having kids means the time I thought I might have now has evaporated. But wonderful to read what others are able to do.
Hello HN!

I'm happy to share with you my own static site builder, YASSB (Yet Another Static Site Builder).

I have been developing this tool for quite some time now and I had been thinking of open sourcing it for some time as well. Covid finally gave me the time to do so (I guess it's the bright side of the pandemic).

I have developed this tool because I was frustrated with existing mainstream static site builders. I wanted a tool written with web languages, that I could just run with my web development tools (node, npm, etc.).

For this reason I have developed YASSB in TypeScript (shipped via npm in JavaScript), and made it support natively all the tings you would expect both from a static site builder (e.g. Markdown with FrontMatter) and in modern web development (e.g. JSX/TSX support).

To make this tool accessible I have curated some in-depth guides on how to use it [1], and the docs on how YASSB works are available with many comments [2].

As you would expect, the landing page of the project, as well ad the guides and the docs are all generated with YASSB.

I'd love to hear in the comments what you think!

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[2] [https://yassb-foss.github.io/docs/](https://yassb-foss.githu...
It depends on the state level, but I believe in most (if not all?) you need to take at least one year of anorganic and one year of organic chemistry
Convincing your manager to build cloud-agnostic solutions got a lot easier if that's what you like.
It's a user interface, therefore it has to be familiar. What if cars all had the steering wheel in a different location?
I think they're referring to the ability to post illegal content, which can't be blocked.
>The new keyboards are utter crap! They are still crap

Hold on, are you claiming that the new scissor switch keyboards have similar reliability issues to the older butterfly keyboards?

If not, then this is really just a matter of taste. You can't please everyone with keyboards. People do genuinely have different preferences regarding feel and key travel. It honestly seems hyperbolic to describe a keyboard that most people find completely functional as "utter crap".

I personally love the feel of the older butterfly keyboards. I also think that Apple fixed the reliability issues with them in their last generation. At least, I've not had a single keyboard issue with my 2019 MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
As someone fairly well-versed in the email ecosystem, I don't understand this proposal, like, at all.

- Is it even federated? It seems like not--it seems like it's proposing a protocol for organizations to use to run their own messaging service in-house?

- If it's not, this doesn't really get at either the _interesting_ parts of email--the universal federation--or what makes it _hard_. (The reason email has spam, authentication, and confidentiality problems really boils down to the difficulty in securely establishing authoritative identities; this is why protocols like DANE, DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and MTA-STS are tacked on top.)

- If it is, the documentation is woefully underemphasizing this point. :)

- The proposal (as others have noted) seems to mix application features with message delivery. This doesn't seem useful.

- Instead of using encryption, the proposal says that "To prevent theft of correspondence (in the event of a compromised account or server) the messaging service must store only messages that have not yet been delivered". This is...a really problematic design choice.

- The proposal suggests a bunch of reasonable application features which many email providers (at the MTA or MUA level) do already support (like "blocking anyone", "selecting [who] can correspond with you", etc). Email is fully compatible with these features!

- Conversely, the proposal suggests some features which are not obviously satisfied by the proposal itself, like "always know from which site a message originated." Again, where is identity even discussed?

To be blunt, this proposal doesn't seem like it was written with an eye to what's actually challenging about email. The fact that SMTP is not JSON is really not a significant problem; the focus of this proposal is just in the wrong place.

To make this more constructive, I would suggest reading the IETF SMTP WG archives to understand the kinds of problems implementors and spec-authors face.

I'm frankly pessimistic about the prospect for a wholesale (non-incremental) replacement of SMTP, but even as a design exercise, starting with what real implementors struggle with makes sense.
Elm is an absolutely amazing language. Congratulations for finding that job!
As for learning: most books/resources are outdat d but thats not a problem: learn to use the compiler as your guide. You will find that you can change any code fearlessly by following the compilers guidance.
> To-do lists are for things that aren't a real priority, otherwise you would be giving them your full attention and the tracking would be unnecessary. At most, it's helpful to track administrative minutiae. If you give something your full attention, tracking will seem like a non-sequitur.

This is not true for humans with deficits in memory or attention, which is a common problem in a world of constant distraction.
Even when the majority of the articles and techniques is geared towards people with underlying problems that should be fixed first, it doesn't mean the gained knowledge and functionality is useless to everyone.
One of the things I learnt in actual chemistry classes was that organomercury compounds actually tend to be really toxic compared to elemental mercury. Unfortunately, there's been a fair amount of misinformation spread about this online in the name of fighting anti-vaxxers, often involving misleading analogues with stuff like chlorine and sodium.
It's not easy to take available data to confirm or reject such a hypothesis Mr. Fnoord.

I would guess this particular iceberg is at least 90% above the surface. It appears to be bog-standard industrial policy which in large part does not necessitate secret stuff. I make this conjecture partly by reference to other industries in Japan, whose comparable government support could certainly not be explained in that way.
It’s not so much repeating tasks but working in the same task over multiple time slots.
For those unaware, QQ is a desktop IM service by Tencent
Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost