skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can compete even with municipal internet. They just don't want to because then it will become a commodity market which will cause prices to race to the bottom instead of a scarce market which allows them to charge higher prices and avoid reinvesting in their network to improve quality since there is no comparable service to compare their quality against.
While its syntax may fit on a post card, I have never seen an introduction to its semantics as intuitive as this site and presentation provides for Javascript: http://latentflip.com/loupe/
This was a narrative, but not necessarily true?

Early 2020: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53431672

Late 2020: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/compelling-que...
> so much of the Python ecosystem uses the C API

Yeah, that's shame, because 1) that API is mildly awful, and 2) it really restricts implementation choices to the extent that making another implementation of the language is a problem just because of the need to fake to numerous existing C extensions that your implementation choices are the same as CPython's (when really your implementation is likely to work very differently on the inside). I guess Python people really programmed themselves into a corner here.
Flatpak is best iff the vendor is producing the packages. I have found all too often than I'm stuck on an outdated version of a orphaned, unofficial pacakge...
Sarcasm doesn't make a poor point better.
That sounds about right. Depending upon what "shutting down the Internet" means. Does everyone need to now have a POTS landline again if they want to communicate with anyone on a Sunday? But, in general, some combination of alternative systems for critical purposes and lots of things, including most shopping and other services, simply shutting down for the day.
Ohio: Google is a public utility

Also Ohio: ISPs should be entirely unregulated
What is latency? Let’s deep dive and understand possible ways to optimise it
The Real Definition of Observability
I'm not so interested in setting up WiFi, as I don't trust most of these devices on my network or connected to the internet. However it would be nice to have an easier way to connect to a WiFi Direct network and load up the "configuration" website on that network.
> The way the accountability aspect is supposed to work is that voters are horrified and hold their elected representatives accountable by voting them out. As it turns out, though, most people are profoundly ignorant and have no idea who/what they're voting for and lack the intellectual curiosity to figure it out.

It's unfortunately more than ignorance. These budget bills have to be balanced so they include hundreds of items in them. It's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. With that large amount of provisions, it's easy to slide in things that only peripherally pertain to budget.

I wish this were broken up in such a way that any changes to how things work and to laws need to be done BEFORE if required by the budget, such that the budget vote stops being this monstrosity.
> Sadly this is likely a pandoras box we will not be able to close.

Valve has tried that a long time ago too and it wasn't successful. There's still some hope.
Wild-Looking ‘Open Rotor’ Engine Could Cut Airliner Emissions by a Massive 20%
Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product
> Are you actually trying to deny that Tesla's stock price did not dropped around 25% since the start of 2021?

I'm saying that calling the stock a train wreck is wishful thinking. Crying doom and gloom because the stock is down 25% over the past 6 months when it is also up 200% from the past 12 months is some serious cherry picking. Yes, the stock was likely overvalued by hype for a period. Maybe it will continue to fall for a while. And? On June 1st it was $623. Well, in early June last year it was below $200. To call it anything but a major success is one heck of a long shot.

> a 63% drop in sales

I don't really follow these things but I'm pretty sure that's not correct.

edit: decided to read their financial statements. Q1 2021 automotive sales appears to be up 77% YoY. To make such confident statements on the direction of a company while making basic, yet enormous mistakes like this is exactly what I mean by wishful thinking.

https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/R3GJMT_TSLA_Q1_2021_Updat...
I concure. XFCE gets the job done and gets out of your way. decade. Don't care about fancy 3d animations. Happy user for close to a decade.
>Carl Hewitt of actor model fame

I'll admit that threw me for a loop for a second.
Oh yes, the Plane that is operated by DARPA and not NASA.
People have been cheating on exams long before the internet existed. The only way to guarantee no one cheats on an exam is to never give the exam in the first place. I think exams are the “good reason” the government has given the public to justify shutting off internet access, I don’t think it’s the real reason.
That’s the same thing as municipal broadband.
That only works for someone belongs to hard anti-Facebook cluster like I am. The situation is similar to hobby drones, the alternatives to problematic ones are years behind for higher prices.
Ask HN: What is your “creator stack”?
I'm surprised that Joplin hasn't really been mentioned here.

It supports hierarchical or tag based notes + to-do lists, in plaintext/markdown/wysiwyg. It supports syncing to several providers, and I sync with my personal webdav server. It has vi/emacs keybindings and supports external editors. It also has a mobile app.

So I use that for digital notes, and a nice leuchtterm grid journal for physical notes. I generally do language studies in the physical journal and use the digital notes more for references.
Thinking in Bets Summary
Everyone looks at Washington, so state and local governments often operate with no public oversight. It can be a complete shitshow of incompetence and corruption, and nobody notices until the lights start going out, the water is poisonous, the pension fund goes bankrupt (because it was looted), etc.
backup power, backup network connection, data redundancy, security, etc factors
It's easy to put a reverse proxy in front of your service to translate old permanent URLs into whatever you're running currently. It's a table of redirects, and perhaps a large one, but it doesn't require a lot of logic to handle.
> If you accept ads

Who accepted ads? Apple is notoriously against the ads ecosystem. Search in an AppStore should not be an ad platform.
Clicked on the article because I thought it would discuss the topology of the universe, i.e. whether (a spatial slice of) the universe is open (non-compact and without boundary) or closed (compact[0] and without boundary) or something else. :(

[0]: In particular, it would be of finite volume.
Surely AG Dave Yost has something to say about this, seems right down his alley. Unless suing Google was a purely a political stunt...
Facebook is getting the blame, but it’s actually game developers who are choosing to add these ads to their games.

I’d be upset if these ads were on the Oculus hardware that I paid for in the games I bought, but if it’s just going into freemium games then it’s business as usual in the ad space. I haven’t even heard of the “Blaston” game the article cites as one of the first games to adopt the ads.
Congrats to the team, looks like some more fun things to play with!

> [floating point math is faster] thanks to optimal management of NaNs

Curious what's involved here if someone from the team can chime in.
> I work on a Common Lisp package that just builds into a command-line application

Anything interesting we might want to know about it? Is it public?
I’m considering moving from Ohio but mainly because we get taxed to shit here (12th highest overall in the nation) and yet don’t seem to have anything to show for it. From my perspective the only benefit I would theoretically get from being in a red state would be saving $ on taxes, and I don’t even get that here.

All that being said I apologize but I don’t see much appeal to Michigan lol
Who comes up with such policies?

I assure you they pay employees to surveil their colleagues.

Seriously, I do make buying decision from stories like this. Time to throw out my old printer, I guess.

China seems to be headed straight to fascism and the management should just be ashamed. I doubt they have the capacity to feel that, but that is another matter.
Please try py2many, which targets this use case. Go, rust, C++ are among the 7 supported backends.

http://github.com/adsharma/py2many
Subtitle: After a new state law that requires employers to disclose salaries for open positions, some are advertising jobs available anywhere in the U.S. but Colorado.

Measures to protect workers, such as the minimum wage, often hurt them by denying them choices.
It is particularly ironic that Gödel deceived von Neumann

about having already developed an important proof for [Gödel 1931].

The deception was discovered years after both had died.

See [von Plato 2018]
the reason for the closure is employment laws. employees simply have the right to not be forced to work on sundays or public holidays.

if you run your own business you can work whenever you want. you just can't have employees work those days.

restaurants, hospitals, transportation and similar industries get an exception to let employees work any day. restaurants usually close on mondays instead.
This is a great piece, but to go meta for a second: Rest of World is a NYC-based magazine started recently to cover social/economic issues with a focus on tech, specifically ignoring the US/Canada/EU.

It is one of my favorite magazines now for sharing a perspective on some countries I don't often think about and some that I do (RoK) but don't often get to hear about from typical western news.

Here's one of my favorite pieces recently: what the home office and pandemic work-life looks like for folks in Tehran, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Philippines, Bangkok, Dhaka, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Seoul.

https://restofworld.org/2021/heres-what-working-from-home-lo...
The Problem with Male Feminists
A bit cynical take here? What if people vote for GOP for other reasons and because there is a two party system they have to weight this issue amongst others.
No, holocaust can be used for slaughter on a large scale too, so it’s a completely accurate use of the term.
No, before we had the godkings of egypt, babylon, ..

I am not a historian, but from what I know the base of power of many if not most states(empires) was based on religious beliefs (and soldiers enforcing it). From my layman understanding, the most successful states were the ones practicing the most tolerance. But then usually some egomaniac wanted to maintain his power and went into theocracy, where the priests legitimated his power. And then there maybe was stability for a time, but seldom any progress.
Government is usually pretty bad at IT, yet muni broadband easily beats most private broadband. Just let that sink in. It shows how lazy and terrible most private broadband companies are. They're sitting there cashing checks and that's about it.
That is actually truly unfortunate, I think. While I understand the issues with lagging versions of system-installed languages, I think there is a comfort and educational value in having them available as part of the system for anyone to access without having to go fetch it.

It "lowers the friction of curiosity".

(And, it allowed our shadow IT custom request system and automation package to be built in 2014. I hope RHEL never takes this away).
Consensus appears to be that the mistakes are part of the funnel. You aren't the target!

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...
The other issue with PyInstaller is that, by default, it includes all dynamic libraries that the Python interpreter has on your machine. It makes sense, it needs an interpreter and collects what is needed for it to run.

Unfortunately this might include libreadline.so, which is licensed under GPL, making your resulting executable unable to be under a proprietary license.

There are ways to solve this issue, but one has to search and read documentation (and code, in my case -- when I was researching it the docs were not clear).
The invasion of Ukraine and assassination attempts of its own citizens in the EU didn’t help.

It’s hard to hide spycraft these days, and the daily satellite updates showing Chinese expansion into contested territory is the main news story for those countries being impacted.
You do realize that people were able to go out on Sunday and do things before there was an Internet that they could connect to and that stores were often closed. And that they could make plans in advance if they were meeting someone or going somewhere.
I enthusiastically queued up to get AZ as soon as it was offered and now I will happily be getting a Moderna 2nd shot in a few days. Your caution has not been justified, the over-caution of the governments on these matters on the other has also not been justified. That's another thing that is pretty clear from publicly available information.

I made the absolutely correct assessment that the balance of probabilities was strongly in favour of the idea that mixing vaccines would be at least as effective as getting the same shot twice. A really good example of taking a most obvious path.

There are lots of jurisdictions that have done a very good job doing just very obvious things that work. Pretending that recent challenges or flare-ups negates the enormous areas under the death and hospitalisation curves to this point for these places is another example of obvious dishonesty in your arguments. This is like when Trump said "South Korea I hear isn't doing that well anymore" when the epidemic was raging in the US and SK was trying to get a daily case count in the hundreds under control.

As well citing the powerful flouting the rules as some excuse to not have rules is doubly dishonest and silly.

Australia's "draconian" rules look pretty good to me, under the draconian rules I am living under I can't go to a comedy club - I could in Melbourne. And if my neighbour lived in Melbourne I presume that the gall bladder surgery that he's had delayed 3 times because the hospitals are full would be done already. I live in place that effectively cancelled Mother's Day on the Friday in a bout of such stupid incompetence that seemed almost perfectly designed to bankrupt restaurants after weeks of warnings from the doctors and the media that the hospitals are literally filling up. The correct path in that instance was obvious, the government refused to take it and now I am in fact still living under draconian rules that could have been relaxed weeks ago if timely action had been taken.

If you want an example of a jurisdiction that has hardly any advantages and many, many disadvantages I would point you towards Atlantic Canada - a highly import dependent economy that is very integrated with the US and the rest of Canada, strained healthcare system at the best of times, and a very old population. Look at their results, moderate travel restrictions, reasonable enforcement, high levels of public engagement. It wasn't even very hard for them to do it, they just had to make the choice and did so.
Study: A quarter of adults don’t want children – and they’re still happy
Boston startups merge to create driver-tracking giant for insurance industry
GraphCDN seemingly is an innovative service I'll be checking out, though I just wanted to comment that the app is a beautiful example of the use of Tailwind. I was a little taken aback because I was presuming styled-components but was delighted to see the well-executed use of one of my favorite libraries!
The scammers probably live somewhere where it is "easy" to manufacture such a product (including packaging etc.). However getting access to someone who besides fluent English also "knows" western culture enough to use the right tone in the letter is apparently harder. As an example in an other comment I joked about a western company would never apologize for "our faulty security system".

So it's just a guess but with those two observations I would guess the scammers are from China.
Nice option for building Python+Qt applications!

Buying the Pro version still leaves one to deal with Qt licensing does it not?
Cyber Goat – Still an awesome website from 1998
Police need to be held to a high bar. They are well paid and in a position of great authority. No officer should even think that this is acceptable.
I think Linus and 90% of GitHub projects would disagree.
Thanks for the link, many interesting articles indeed
There are so many slaves working in state owned factories it is hard to keep up:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8814835/Sydneys-new...
I do. And I just got a PinePhone as well.
Kudos for getting this out, and the rationale for adding js support makes sense. This bit:

> The pervasive Promise type and the split between synchronous and asynchronous functions in JavaScript can be more difficult to learn and use than languages such as Erlang and Go that make no such distinction.

is most interesting to me. I first got interested in Gleam as a statically-typed language targeting the BEAM VM that supported Erlang's concurrency model. Supporting it on JS VMs will be a whole lot harder I'd imagine. Without it, Gleam isn't really that interesting to me on the front end. But if they can pull it off, it gets very interesting. I'd take the Actor / CSP flavour of concurrency over async-await every day of the week.
"Cordwood" is the name for that type of construction. It was used in the Apollo Guidance Computer and by Control Data, among other uses.
He kept claiming that DNC staffer Seth Rich was the source of the leaked DNC emailes (and not Russian military/GRU hackers) and that Rich had been killed as a result.

He also released actual CIA hacking tools (Vault 7), which was a monumentally stupid, destructive act.
most visitors don't cook for themselves though. restaurants are open, so only a few people will be inconvenienced by closed supermarkets. they are probably more inconvenienced by closed restaurants on mondays.
>It is very common, especially among novice developers, to be proud of the number of line of code their application has.

My experience has been the opposite. Novice developers tend to be proud of how terse and dense their code is, and optimize for minimizing line count.

I also disagree with that author's views on this point. For example: "Simply put, it means “the less, the better”" - No, it isn't.

In my career I found that maintaining unsexy, and maybe a little verbose code is never the problem. Usually that code tends to be more easily understandable to even junior developers and therefore is less prone to bugs being introduced because developer made the wrong assumptions on what the code was doing. Code that is too clever for its own good is where bugs tend to occur.
No. Rather, the US is farther out from our military-only space roots than China.
Might be different departments working in different directions :)
Municipal broadband commonly is self funded through subscribership. It is not at all difficult to provide better value than the cable company while staying cash positive, excepting the artificial barriers created to protect that profitability.
How did Hong Kong's security forces become dominated by those loyal to a totalitarian government?

How do those 500 police officers reconcile the ethical and moral divide that separates them from the rest of the Hong Kong population?

Have is been duped into thinking that Hong Kong really wants to remain independent? I am wondering because it seems like no one in their government supports that.
I've seen quite a few people that just call all automated tests "unit tests". I wouldn't read too much into it.
I agree with you that they need to be held to a higher bar, however, I would argue that they are absolutely nowhere near paid enough. May be in major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. but for most of America, police are grossly underpaid.
The micro transaction and "pay to not wait" model is just an overall terrible experience. Mobile gaming has solidified itself as watching a series of software timers count down.
China is 1984, the western world Brave New World.
* Python
* Adobe Photoshop
* Epson Ecotank Color Printer
* Sony Alpha 7 Camera
* Canon Photo Matte Paper
* 8x8 white paper squares
* 3M permanent and removable double-sided tape
* AWS Web Services
* AVR-8 Microcontroller
* LPD8806 lightstrip
* 2016 Honda Fit
Even with git, that is not the way it would happen. The people working on the bills are smarter than that.

It is trivial to commit someone else’s patch as your own and without any history if you want to write the script. Just not that hard.
Aeschylus: Auto-Editing ScreenCast System
That's definitely of interest. I recently bought a PinePhone to evaluate, but I could see getting a Librem down the road somewhere.
How is $20 high? I'm continually amazed how much fun a $20 game can provide.

For the price of a movie ticket and a coke, you can get a dozen hours of entertainment. That seems like a pretty good deal to me.

And the $60 are AAA games where you'd easily get 30-40 hours worth. These have budgets of ~$70 million; they have to make their money back somehow.

One of the secondary reasons I've avoided Oculus is that it is a closed system; you can only buy from a single provider. You're much more likely to find sales on VR games on Steam.

Video games on Steam are the best ROI for entertainment period, right up there with a good pair of hiking boots.
foreach entry in "https://perldoc.perl.org/perl#History" do
open entry on browser
search for "Incompatible Changes" section
read section contents

Writing a script in Perl to do the above is left as exercise to the reader.

Hint, use LWP.
And the Saturn V rocket was designed by an upstanding american citizen totally from scratch :p
great, any web based tool or software you are using?
They aren't years behind but are more expensive since they arne't being subsidized to eat up your data.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-senate-gop-budg... has coverage from John Fortney
> Take pleasure in writing more code

Very common trap. Most of us grew up with a natural enjoyment of programming, so it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that our job as engineers isn’t to produce more and more code. Our job is to deliver results, not lines of code.

This often manifests as developers or entire teams that can’t stop rewriting, refactoring, and rearchitecting code that is already good enough. They might want to rewrite their otherwise working service in Rust because Node.js is no longer popular, or rework the stable React app to use hooks, or fork and maintain a popular open-source project because they think they can improve it. They prefer to write generalized solutions or frameworks from the start instead of writing a specific one-off solution to get the job done. Or maybe they just have perfectionist tendencies and struggle to submit that PR until they make just one more improvement.

This isn’t unique to developers, of course. My last company had a major problem with UI/UX designers who could never finalize their designs. We lost countless months to endless iterations and tweaks. Part of the problem lies with management, of course, if they’re not enforcing actual project deadlines and end times.
Yes.

Often even sacrificing everything to that tersness.
Integrating DevOps into Your Organization: DevOps Is a Culture, Not a Technology
I was trying to illustrate that there are different ways to 'vote' for what you want in the world.

At the end of the day you are electing your officials in Ohio and they are the ones helping to make these things happen.

tl;dr - reward good behavior and specifically do not reward bad behavior.