skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their 'lack of new features' however is, as far as I understood, somewhat intentional.

Um that sounds great but I don't see how a simple thing like a "right-click menu" endangers longevity? All their talk of simplicity and yet they allow you to add a whole spreadsheet editor? I suppose adding editors is simple stuff that's why they have so many. Maybe longevity = less work?

Features are not bad. Some features are necessary. Some features enhance the general user experience and even make things simpler. Stagnation is not longevity, it's just slow death.

As for pricing: sure, the long term plan is appealing but they ask $9/mo? Which is the most expensive note taking app out there, I think.

You buy for 5 years or 20 years but what if nothing in the service changes in 20 years but your situation/use case changes drastically as is normal? What do you do of the additional money you paid? You can't get it back.

I don't think 5 year commitment speaks of longevity, that's just marketing. Longevity would be them taking the money after 5 years, not before.

I personally love monthly models because I spend exactly the amount I need and I can stop/pause when I want and start it again when I want. Its freedom and there's no commitment. That's why I added only 1 monthly plan in Notesnook.

A service should ask you to commit long term because the risk is always too high. Instead it should allow for multiple ways to get your data out in case it ever goes down. And if it goes down, you can be sure that you lose only 1 month of fees.
A follow up question on this:

No Civilized Person Accepts Slavery So Why Do We Accept Animal Cruelty? [0]

To experience that deliciousness, other sentient beings have to suffer and be killed for you.

Most of humanity doesn't need meat anymore to survive, so why is it morally acceptable that this suffering is inflicted on other sentient beings just so we can experience some fleeting pleasure?

Or asked in another way, is human pleasure more important than avoiding the suffering of these animals (plus all the other biosphere damage the animal factory farm industry causes).

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[0] Richard Dawkins answers this question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4SnBCPzBl0
> the land

What about people who owned a flat? Have they got compensations restoring entire value? AFAIK no in general.

Or even a noticeable part of original value?

One of my friends recently got compensation (after 60 years old legal battle initiated by person who died before it completed). But that was for property that survived WWII and got confiscated after it.

> And descendants of the original owners get compensated

In other words value of original property went down (especially given opportunity cost).

And they were quite lucky, in similar cases many lost without recourse.

But overall I agree with the main point: real estate is one of best stores of value, some of it can survive even that.

But describing it as never, ever loosing value is not true - in many cases it lost part or all value, permanently, without compensation.
The ludicrousness of being forced to watch YouTube in 480p on a 4K TV
> descendants of the original owners

Indeed. I believe that succinctly sums up the outcome of the investment for the actual person who did the investing.

For most people, the word temporary is not a good description for situations that persist until after you’re dead.
Sounds like (3) is the only strong argument for using PHP in this case. In particular, as a developer you should care about elegance (2), and python (flask) could have solved all other points as easy had they not already been using PHP.
As far as I know, the PCIe-based Atheros 802.11n cards don't have any firmware at all - just hardware state machines controlled by the open source driver.
I was sceptical about the header before, but this post has actually made me more confident about using it.

> Here’s how not to opt-in to Google’s FLoC:

- Don’t load untrusted third-party content that might get classified as an ad (only applies during the origin trial)

- Don’t call document.interestCohort(), and don’t load third-party scripts that might call it either.

This reads like the web dev equivalent of "don't dress inappropriately". What's easier? Reworking half your front-end to meet some vague criteria and half-guessed heuristics of Google's as tagger and praying none of your transitive dependencies is calling a particular method - or adding one well-defined HTTP header?

> Given that non-standard header usage has failed in the client-side fight against surveillance capitalism before, I’m not too optimistic about trying this again from the server side.

That paragraph has it backwards. DNT was a header that browsers* were sending to sites* and that ad-networks were expected to comply to on their own - without any consequences for not doing so and even though this went exactly against all economic incentives.

This new header is sent from sites to the browser, and only a single party needs to implement compliance - Google. And they have already signalled compliance.

It's absolutely possible they will start to ignore or undermine the setting if too many sites are using it, but how about we cross that bridge when we get there?
Btw, what happened to Nick Szabo? He was very active on Twitter (mostly posting weird stuff) but suddenly stopped About a month ago.
That looks like way too much charcoal to me, which might explain why I always have heat issues in my kettle! But it gave what looks like a perfect result.

Pity that finding a full brisket, let alone with the fat cap intact, is a hard feat in Australia. And very expensive if you do.
It would be cool if he tracks Ever Given for the rest of its natural life.
Soyuz as a rocket just had a failure in 2018. Russian Space program had massive issues with reliability. Soyuz as a capsule has a fine safety record but most capsules have a good record. Lets remember that somebody in the Soyuz manufacturing drilled a hole into it and hid the fact, this was only noticed when ISS had a pressure lost.

> Of course not. But a pressure to drive the per-launch cost downwards will indeed lead to shortcuts being taken. We won't actually know how safe the vehicle is until it's launched successfully a great number of times.

SpaceX Falcon 9 even reused is fully certified for humans, for the highest level of NASA Science payload and for all military missions. Those are three very difficult to gain certifications.

Falcon 9 even reusable has already launched more then most rockets in history and is overtaking even the Ariane 5 shortly.

SpaceX knows more about these things then anybody in the world. Re-usability and the certification for it have been worked out.

> I'm not so sure that's how this works. Starship was never considered as a lunar-bound vehicle

Wrong. Starship was always designed to be able to land on Moon, Mars and Earth.

> and whatever lander module they're going to build will be a brand new design, designed by folks who've never built a lander before

The engine and control structure are the the same no matter where you are. Its not a brand new design, its Starship slightly updated.

> There's no way launching satellites into LEO or even visiting the ISS (also in LEO) builds any sort of experience for landing on the moon.

No but landing on earth does.

> NASA certainly is, by having a single design.

Congress is cutting corners and NASA does the best it can.
The rules for traditional README files are documented here:

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/distp...

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#index-READ...
I totally agree with your comment. I think design is one of the reasons Linux Hasn’t been able to take over the desktops despite offering so many distros to choose from.
I love making fruit jams. I taught myself how to make Mango Jams, and I've since made Orange Marmalade, Peach and Apple Jam, and Orange and Strawberry Marmalade. The funny thing is I don't really enjoy eating that much jam. I love bottling it and giving it to friends and family.
Interesting have someone somewhere found a method to handle images like this?
People are starting to adapt corporate PR and marketing jargon as sign of professionalism.

Another way to make yourself appear silly influencer is to use words like "I" and "My" in headlines ("I made a thing", "My thing hobby", "My thoughts on .."). Obviously it's you. But people don't know who you are and generally they don't care. Pushing persona makes everything look like social media marketing.
We dont TRUST more. We accept it because yes, the ideologies / lifestyle of our allies are not openely opposef to ours.

Id rather live in a democracy that promotes human rights and work life balance, than in China where people work like 12h a day for no reason and massively torture people who are a bit different
Do you meant that this is patented?
Bitcoin has two well understood and valuable use cases:

1) Bitcoin can do trustable and reliable transactions with unlimited amounts of assets across the world in 10 minutes. What else can do that? It's the perfect settlement layer for large actors.

2) It doesn't inflate, which makes it a perfect store of value. Even gold inflates.
We absolutely should be doing a lot more about climate change, but this is something we can do in parallel. (There is some climate cost to rocket launches, but compared to our total economy it's very small.)
Reminds me of when people wanted to use rasPi for ZoneMinder but it turned out it was too slow for traditional Motion application. They turned to Hardware h264 encoder producing nice motion vectors and we got this Motion detection for free by leveraging hardware encoder https://billw2.github.io/pikrellcam/pikrellcam.html
This is a wildly under appreciated comment.
I guess authentication via https before ‘connect-ip’ would work. Or, authenticating with headers in the same first ‘connect-ip’ request, if the server responds with ‘invalid method’ when not authenticated.
100 mb download? No, thanks. Long time ago I implemented a small application to store my passwords and personal notes, using Imgui, and it has encription and everything I need: < 5mb. I should publish it.
I'd love to learn about the financials. How much did everything cost? Was it worth it?* How does one reason with the expenditure?

*I do understand that Tom Neill created this while bored at home. I also understand that if created via modern methods, this project could have cost him next to nothing, and thus only benefits awaited him. I'd love to learn more.
Thanks for the input. Infact I have made a list, but most of them are not accessible to play around with. Any easy hack that has enabled you to do this?

Also there are hardly any good solutions that exist for the SMB market.
A reality we need to change with one discussion, one petition vote, one voicing your disagreement at a time.

Mountaineers do not stare at the peak of the giant mountain all the time, they look in front of them and take the next step. So should we. Don't be discouraged, things can change for the better again if enough people wake up and become aware of specific maldevelopments.
Bert Hubert wrote on this subject last year. The trouble with Huawei is a symptom of a much bigger problem: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/
Cars Make Your Life More Expensive, Even If You Don't Have One
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Well the internet was a lot more useful, and pleasurable, before targeted ads were a thing. So I’d quite like to know how you came to that conclusion as well
> What else exponentially grows until the death of its eco system ?

Most life forms?
It gives you an interesting feeling when you enter 50 billion and there are still some people out there who have even more.
Of course they knew, because KPN is unable to run its own network, they outsourced everything. This has been knows for years.
Economically it's much more like gold than a ponzi scheme:

Gold: Asset that goes up and down in price according to demand. No central body controlling it. Some utility as jewelry though we could get by without that. Massive dollar and environmental cost from mining the stuff.

Ponzi scheme: Fraud where insiders take money from investors and use it to pay other investors. Collapses and the fraudsters run off or go to jail. No mining no utility.

Bitcoin: Asset that goes up and down in price according to demand. No central body controlling it. Some utility as a payments system though we could get by without that. Massive dollar and environmental cost from mining the stuff.

Gold has a certain permanence as the only element in the periodic table that has properties that has made it the #1 jewellery metal for the last few thousand years and probably the next few thousand though while Bitcoin was invented ten years ago and may well get outcompeted by a better invention/currency.
positive sum land ownership?
fast, simple, scalable, modern, high performance, easy to use, enterprise-grade, secure, production-ready, new generation, lightweight ...

These are common words I see in the first paragraph of readmes. If people can avoid these, they’ll write better introductions. No marketing, no subjective words. Otherwise, I feel like someone is trying to sell me that product.
There are uncountable Bitocoin copies, but none of them are worth anything because of Network Effects, also called Metcalfe's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

The value of Bitcoin comes from the same place as the value of any network. The amount of connections in the network is the value of the network. E.g. any social network. A Bitcoin copy has no connections in it, so it doesn't have any value.
> We have no idea how much his house is worth or how desirable that location is.

In case you care to know:

https://www.property24.com/for-sale/simons-town/western-cape...

https://www.greeff.co.za/results/residential/for-sale/simons...
> Success is almost by definition a hindsight measure.

The same goes for natural selection. "Survival of the fittest" is always defined retrospectively. You'll never know what is truly advantageous at the moment. The only possible strategy is just to try anything.
Um , Taleb was a supporter of BTC a couple of years ago [0] and has owned BTC and is now selling it [1]. I think what he did falls in the category of "When facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

[0] https://news.bitcoin.com/black-swan-author-pulls-a-180-nassi...

[1]https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1360276917992230919
5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
That's fair, I think I was being, yep (in order to try to pick apart and perhaps critique what are widely agreed as successful achievements).
> a token that can be sent to anyone, semi-anonymously, completely out of governmental control - would be laughed out of the room, a silly theory

You realize that this a) doesn't constitute a fundamental societal concept and that b) sending secrets outside of government control isn't even a novel idea?

> and fundamental development of the society.

There's still nothing new or fundamental introduced by cryptocurrencies, and they rely on existing concepts old as time to even function outside their bubble.
Isn't ipsec just TCP over TCP? UDP might be better, but the TCP solution works today, no need to wait until HTTP/3 gets widely adopted.
You have a weird view of academia
That just confirms that they can launch and fuel the starship lander on their own schedule.
Maybe this occurred because rulers wanted people to identify with their nation (and pay tax and die defending it) instead of their tribe. Or maybe it is just because nations used to all be ethnically homogeneous. It certainly doesnt serve us well these days though! Very confusing
Huh. We shipped commercial products based on this sort of thing years ago...
We are a bit lacking on the documentation side currently. However, there is no new protocol. It says "XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF & Argon2" because that's the core part. Everything else is standard.

I'll write up a doc on how encryption + syncing works though. And I have full plans to open source the security related parts of the app.
I was very impressed with this algorithm when I first found it and am very happy to see this implementation that seems really polished.

What are the performance implications of this? Would it be possible and or a good idea to implement this in WebASM?
Probably Akamai injecting something into the page for DDoS protection.
I want to respond before you're downvoted to hell.

I certainly agree with you that not everyone's proud of India's diversity. It's been more of an issue lately where we've a separate "Personal Law Boards" for certain religious groups and at the same time we call ourselves secular.

If India has to really become a secular nation, it has to make sure that it treats everybody the same without any specific laws for specific groups.
Honest, successor crypto-currencies, who work for their money will have to fight the fallout once the scheme collapses and people who lost everything demand government to regulate "rogue" currencies?
Distrust will also prevent a whole generation of investors to invest again?
I know it's sacrilege but I actually prefer the pressure cooker version.
I’ve accidentally made a fortune on Bitcoin when, for a while, I had set up a small e-commerce payment flow to accept BC and forgot about it.

I noticed when it broke because transaction fees at some point escalated to €50 or so. Looked up the address and there had been a few dozens transactions on it over the years, paying €100 with 20 BC or something like it. The total was a little over 900 BC. I found the private key in an email I had sent to myself.

So trust me when I write, from a beach on a Corona-free island in the Atlantic: Taleb is right. BC sucks. The only thing worse than BC are the greedy halfwits promoting it.

As an experiment in economics, Bitcoin is pure genius. The inventor quite obviously deserves a Nobel. Due to two flaws (its inability to seamlessly scale and its environmental impact), and due to its community which specifically failed to fix those issues and just generally failed in life, Bitcoin ended up as the red-hot carcass of a spent star it currently is.
Yeah, shipping off to Mars would be a hard sell for most people in that situation. I find it easier to imagine older couples or groups of friends who are all facing similar mobility issues going together rather than a solitary person going by themselves and leaving everyone they know behind. It would also be a long, rough trip. Which implies that maybe having a senior center on the moon or even in a rotating space station orbiting the Earth is a more attractive option.
The alternative hypothesis is activation, that is that low doses of radiation are actually benificial to organism. There seems to be some evidence, and that's why people sometimes deliberately inhale radon. Cf https://www.bad-kreuznach-tourist.de/en/health-resort-therap...
The Occult Technique
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I don't recall Taleb calling others idiots much in his book.

I do recall Taleb admiring himself, though. A lot.
And not only such. In the end this is how marketing works, there is always the feeling to be left: the feeling to be part of the in-group.
It's interesting that novels tend to be written in the past tense, while screenplays are written exclusively in the present tense. I write both, and I don't feel strongly about it; the usual way is fine by me.
- preinstalling excellent software like McAffee for virus protection
Hardly. It’s been around for longer than Chrome, and Chrome has copied many of its features.

In terms of what it does well, it’s far better than Chrome. Fencing alone makes it better for almost everyone.
Many practitioners are unaccustomed to using probability in diagnosis
> The company can issue shares suppressing the price.

> The company can do stock buybacks, increasing the price.

It's not obvious that these should be true.

There are more or less shares around, so we have a change in supply, but the company also has more or less money, which should counteract that.

Likely to vary depending on whether or not people believe the company can usefully spend and grow that money.

(Not sure what the actual evidence says on this.)
This disingenuous argument the author is using should make you question bis other points too, even (especially) those you happen to agree with.
Yes, I am using https://newscatcherapi.com/. I was in close contact with them and they helped me out a lot. I think they are also opening up their api to more developers so make sure to check them out!
Creekstone Farms is the name I hear all the time when it comes to restaurants looking for high quality meat
That's just the abstract of the linked article.
> Dash: Enterprise-grade, one-framework-fits all solution. Unlimitied design flexibility & great scalability.

This is hilarious because the official documentation[0] suggests that you use hidden divs to store data as json if you need to share it between callbacks (which is more common than they would have you believe). And good luck serializing data structures with complex types in them.

Python frameworks are all fun and dandy untill you look under the hood or try to push the envelope.

Personally for all my dashboard needs I have found R's Shiny to be the best.

0. https://dash.plotly.com/sharing-data-between-callbacks
Its not the same. K8s are not about your own body. Medicine shouldn't be outsourced completely - anyone stands to profit from learning about it and doing some experimentation with safe substances.
> eating used to be extremely dangerous

You're talking a very long time ago. Shouldn't that be already disregarded from an evolutionary POV?
I often hear: investment is good, gambling is dumb, speculation is risky.

In my opinion, in most people's dictionary, these things describe the same things and when we use these words, there is no good, measurable way to classify them, we just act on our instincts, yet when we use words like investment, we feel safe and clever.

Good point about the currency part, I don't think BTC is going to be a good currency, it's expensive, slow, traceable, public.
I agree in general, except for `production-ready` which I deem useful information. Of course, it is only the maintainers‘ assessment on the state of the project and thus needs to be validated further by myself. But IMO that adjective signals that I can expect the author to be happy with the current API and behavior and can assume it will be relatively stable; probably battle-tested.
I wrote that up here: https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-websit...
Yes the articles were quite similar! I thought I had read this new one already, but site author had just done his own article first.
Preface, an opinionated library for functional programming in OCaml
> My pet peeve with README

DHH had a funny line around Dropbox's "mission" in his 2019 railsconf video (linked to the direct point in the video): https://youtu.be/VBwWbFpkltg?t=2818

Dropbox's official mission as of 2019 was: "We're here to unleash the world's creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working"

And DHH's remark was: "For fuck's sake Dropbox, you host files and make them appear on all of my computers"

Funny enough since then they changed their mission to be "Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working" based on https://www.dropbox.com/about but it still doesn't come close to explaining what they do.