skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitlbee does wonders for inter-communicating with people.

Also, mocp and mpv as audio/video players. Youtube-dl works with mpv.

Config:

cat ~/.config/mpv/config

sws-fast=yes
sws-allow-zimg=no
#zimg-dither=no
vd-lavc-skiploopfilter=all
video-unscaled=yes
ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?420] [fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best

More lightweight tools:

- Mupdf for cbz/PDF/epub files.
- ImageMagick/Xpaint for image creation/modification.
- Sxiv as the image/gif viewer.
- Sc-im/visidata for spreadsheets.
- Groff+ms||groff+mom/Ted for documents. By "groff" I mean eqn/tbl and so on.
- Gnuplot for graphs, or grap from troff/groff.
- Already said, but swirc+bitlbee. Get the libpurple build of bitlbee, you'll get lots of supported protocols with that build. Yes, telegram-purple does work.
> With about 130 million users, bitcoin is now at a similar inflection point where the internet was in 1997.

Bitcoin doesn’t have 130 million users. I’d be surprised if it had 130 thousand users.

Bitcoin has 130 million speculators with FOMO.
You can simulate any quantum computer on a Turing machine, though it generally takes exponentially more time than with a real QC. Whether this means they are the same thing or not is a matter of semantics.

But what is clear is that there is no computation that can be done on a QC that can't be done on a TM.

The role of non-determinism in computation is more debatable. There is even a notable MIT professor (who coined the term Actor model) who claims that real computers, like the Android phone I'm writing this on, are in fact not Turing machines, because of non-determinism / parallelism. He also claims that Godel's incompleteness theorem doesn't apply to actual mathematics, so I would take his words with a huge spoonful of salt.
We’re not a big tech company, so comp isn’t quite what it is at Amazon, FB, etc. but, it’s solid. 100k+ salary, annual grant of restricted stock units, good health and other benefits etc.

Having said that, there’s a contradiction in claiming that college grads can’t find jobs while suggesting that a company offering six figures can’t find people because of comp.
With the runway?
Some additional context previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671055

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27585602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27535584
Controlling Marantz amplifier using Arduino via “Remote” socket
Maybe it's different in the USA, but I feel like public school was a complete waste of my time.. I'd read through the entirety of all the textbooks in the first couple of weeks of the school year and learn everything a kid my age was expected to know. Then I'd sit in class for 5 hours a day for 9 months, reading pulp sci-fi, shuffling a deck of cards, or just moping with my head on my arms. I came out of it with such a bad work ethic that I almost flunked out of college in the first quarter

My cousin is home-schooling her daughters, and they're all years ahead of kids their same age while only needing to study ~9 hours a week. They have two full weekdays devoted to social activities with other homeschooled kids. It looks really amazing IMO
My point is that there is a place for technology that is not-mainstream and that there are plenty of (successful) projects build on things that are not mainstream.

In my opinion "mainstream" is not a good factor to select technology on. The factors you mention can be important, but then select based on those not on "mainstream" or not. If you need longevity, pick something based on that, if you need tons of resources, select on that, but not a lot of projects need to live 20 years, and plenty of people prefer well written docs over an abundance in stack overflow answers.

Also mainstream does not mean longevity. Take for example Python 2->3, that was quite stressful to say the least. Plenty of once mainstream languages and technologies are dead or slowly dying, it's very hard to predict.

Continuing on the longevity point, it might be good to note Erlang/BEAM — that Elixer runs on — is older than most languages you mention, still actively used, maintained and developed. So I could very well argue Elixir/Erlang is as safe a bet as any of them.

Lastly I don't think it's true that Elixir is niche enough that this should be a discussion point at all. If you have giant companies running and backing Elixir/Erlang, it's pretty safe to say its battle tested enough and will be around long enough for a lot if not most projects.

Mainstream isn't everything, I wouldn't overestimate it, there are better ways to choose technologies.
It's true. But most movies that people actually want to see, are.

I worked in a video store, back when there were such things, and can attest that the vast majority of people wanted the new thing and ignored the back catalog. It was my job to get them interested in the back catalog. I didn't do very well.

I joined Netflix because they had that back catalog available. But now that I'm old and grumpy, I've seen most of what I want to see in that back catalog, too. There's a ton of stuff in that category of "I'm sure it's great but I just don't want to work that hard". Also... most of that back catalog is crap, just under Sturgeon's Law.

Sadly, Netflix has figured that out, and gotten rid of most of its back catalog of DVDs. I hope the real film buffs have some other place to go get it.
It’s not a zoning issue, it’s a WFH issue. If they build more housing, more tech workers will just buy it. The pool of people who earn more than local service industry folks and have location flexibility is extremely deep now, and it will only continue to grow. Pre-COVID had a proximity requirement to the high paying jobs that prevented this sort of arbitrage.

It happens in every market where the wealth is generated outside of the local economy. That’s the
Econ 101 that zoning activists misunderstand. For a more prominent example, see New Zealand.
Are you speaking to the reliability of the launch vehicle or of the satellite? The launch itself is typically not a primary cost driver of a satellite mission. Complexity may be, due to constraints of the fairings but the manufacturing and quality checks drive quite a bit of the cost
Respectfully claiming to have given evidence to someone else, is not, in and of itself, evidence. It is merely a unsubstantiated claim.

On a personal level, my gut is screaming that somethings fishy here. I'm reserving judgement until it all plays out in the courts.
Facebook has had the same policy for a while and didn't run into that problem. It's more about getting talent in the door and keeping current with market.
Man, chill the harsh, it's just a game...
Google just really hates their Android TV users. I realized I simply can block them on my phone which actually works!
Trace a line from that to this basically

https://wellbeing.google/

Great technology should improve life, not distract from it (3 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17023917
I'm more interested in your tech upgrades and what snags you hit, I suppose on an IT level.
Today, I am re-reading "Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar".

http://www.tomswift.info/homepage/atomicar.html

It's my favorite of the Fabulous Swifties. Keeping the dream alive.
I resorted to holding the up-arrow key to trigger loading of a bunch of slides, then holding down-arrow to get back to where I was, and finally getting a smooth transition experience.
That's pretty much the only productive work you can do with it. And even that is crippled. Can you export the files you create to an external hard drive and import it on a PC? Can you hook up an external monitor that doesn't just mirror the iPad display? A real Photoshop port has been promised for years and is still not available. I would like to do some real programming that doesn't require SSH or VNC. Why can't I run virtual machines?

So, yes, you can do some creative work in this limited environment. But it's nowhere near the flexibility a real computer would offer. And that's a shame given how powerful the actual hardware is.
Freeman was right after all.
The F-35 was framed as a way to save money.
In short, making streaming architectures work require great central planing, a grand architect in the sky, or they fail miserably. I think that is an argument against streaming architectures ;)
I was more thinking about smaller GA planes, but it’s probably a similar situation. They’re designed to slam into the ground with a plane on top of them over and over again, so they’re probably more than strong enough.
IIRC, SpaceX is getting $2.89B from NASA for the Artemis lander, which proposal is based on Starship. Although, the GAO put that on hold recently, after complaints from BlueOrigin and Dynetics. Hardly surprising, I guess.
You understimate what we accomplished with 512MB of RAM
in early 00's. Use a lightweight DE, or no DE at all.

I use cwm+st under Void and OpenBSD and it flies.
of course, they are not employees
Like Ceuta?
Bear in mind that the smallest data plan is a pathologically bad case. For instance in New Zealand 40GB is $80/mo - so almost exactly 1USD/GB. So 1.39MB is $0.00139 but is listed at $0.05.
> No head of state is in control of the military.

In the U.S. the office of the President unifies the roles of head of state, head of government, and Commander in Chief of the military. This is not merely a ceremonial role.

As the saying goes, the exception proves the rule false.
Marketing contributes to decisions about what features to build next, and they use engagement to vindicate their recommendations. They also use engagement to brag about the success of your products and new features within your products when trying to drum up interest in your company's offerings.
Writing my comments in the snarky tone of the article.

So the article boils down to “a bunch of these vulnerabilities aren’t applicable to my app which is built using a specific NPM package”.

Congratulations. Welcome to the world of practical information security.

As a security engineer, we’re lucky if your favorite package manager even associates vulnerability information with your packages. Never mind that you’re pulling in code at build time from who-only-knows-where that almost certainly wasn’t security reviewed. But that’s for another post.

Now you have a package manager that is kind enough to tell you that there might be a vulnerability, and you’re upset because NPM did not have specific logic to understand the mechanics of one of the packages it manages? And the upshot is that you have to apply judgment and attention to each notification? Is that a tear in my eye- no, wait, it’s just an eyelash.

How many packages are there? I’m sure the NPM guys have nothing better to do than to build context awareness for every package in their repository.

In all seriousness, I would love to see context awareness in vulnerability reporting. But expecting a package manager to understand that because of your specific choice of framework, that the DoS could only be conducted by an admin of your app, seems unreasonable to me.
Why should we skeptical that the NSA is doing the same thing that it's been doing for the last decade or longer? We already KNOW that the NSA spys on everyone.
Solitude in a Digital Age
You are already brain damaged, so no need to worry about that condition because of covid.
Apparently, my website's heaviest page costs 0 to 1 cent. Smaller pages are a fifth of the size.

It bothers me that many similar websites (i.e. text content) load 2-5 MB of data for just text on a page. Pretty much everything past the first few kilobytes are useless to the reader.

These websites fall apart when you're not on a recent Macbook with a wired gigabit connection. Developers forget that people browse the web in the subway, on intercity trains and on crappy hotel/airport internet.
Funny, because Yarn does do what you expect here and I absolutely loathe it.
I think it might be a complicated thing to add cleanly for all possible use-cases in the implementation. I remember, how knots in my head formed, when I thought about implementing nested inline markup in a markdown parser. For example if you have nestings like: A B C b c a (where the upper case letter marks the start and lower case letter the end of a markup)

The main implementation of reStructuredText is a custom parser, which might be a hassle to modify to accomodate all cases of nesting, including duplicate ones like: A B A text b a a.

But perhaps all the difficulty in this stems from making the symbols used for starting an inline markup the same as for ending it. Otherwise it would be trivial to count opening and closing "parentheses".
hence I'd like to play it :)

If there is a settings panel that I'm missing, that would be great. Though I also noticed it's a lot better at lower speeds (since the actions are visible with 2 weeks delay I had it on fast-forward at first, more arcade style for a first run than weigh-and-deliberate style)
> Finally I said, "Look. We shouldn't be trying to make our customers spend more time in this product any more than LG does trying to get us to spend more time in our refrigerators." It fell on deaf ears.

Considering how hard it is to find decent, non-smart appliances these days, it seems to have fell on deaf ears at LG as well.
What even is a bitcoin "user"? Like, seriously, are we talking about people transacting with it for purchases? Or just accounts that have some share of a coin in them? What are we even measuring here?
All those European tax payers are certainly getting their money's worth
godspeed jwst team! find me an alienz!
I’m not sure which country’s “peak” you’re referring to, but in the US the peak was over Q4 2020 to Q1 2021. By this point doctors had already realized the issues with ventilators.
> only Erlang gets it right... [ X || X <- Xs, Xs <- Xss]

I don't have much experience with Erlang, but that also seems wrong:

1> Xss = [[1]].
[[1]]
2> [ X || X <- Xs, Xs <- Xss].
* 1:13: variable 'Xs' is unbound
3> [ X || Xs <- Xss, X <- Xs].
[1]
It's like putting a warning about gambling addiction on the wall of a casino. It doesn't accomplish anything, and it's just there to make the company look better and foist responsibility onto their victims.
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My knowledge of the usage and value and improvement on quality of life for people using cryotocurrency in nations experiencing massive hyperinflation come from one of my closest friends from Venezuela, who I talk to every week for hours (I'm sitting next to him right now as I type this).

Where does yours come from? Because what you're saying directly contradicts his reported experiences for both him and relatives and friends of his. I'm sure you have an equally credible source on the ground of at least a comparable market that informs your view on what does and doesn't affect the lives of people in those countries?

To your point, many Venezuelans do store their wealth in Crypto, and only convert the amount they need to spend that day to Bolivars. That is the use case.
What city are you in, if I may ask?
And you’d need to have it designed to be serviceable once deployed. I’d imagine there would be a few assumptions going into the design process, “once deployed humans won’t ever need to get to that..”
Digital Wellbeing on Android was one major example of something that seemed to have come from this. I believe iOS also built something similar.
It's not really that crazy. This package is a small amount of code, but it's important code (the same goes for this package's dependency is-number). This package shows up in the dependency trees of some popular packages, which is probably where most of the weekly downloads come from.

If you're writing straightforward application code where you already know you have a valid number, then this package probably isn't for you. You can just do num % 2 === 1.
I'm indulging this conversation because HN is really just another forum to discuss general leftist ideas but I'll throw out a "what does a Vice article on taxing the Catholic church have to do with entrepreneurship or technology?" in case anyone else wants to comment.
HN algo biased towards crypto ;)
I really don't know where to start with this. The short answer is no.

The long answer is Stalin's supporters said the exact same things. And it's not a surprise -- Xi is borrowing a lot from Stalin's centralization playbook, including "restructuring" the PLA (i.e., purging generals who weren't loyal to him personally and ensuring he has a Party loyalist on every ship) and developing the rank and file (to replace the Party leaders he purged in "corruption scandals"). However, this time around, those of us outside the system smells the b.s. a mile away.

China would be wise to remember that Stalin came thisclose to losing WWII because of these changes. Purging military leaders may make them loyal to you, but it doesn't make them good at their actual jobs.
Speaking as an anti-growther who has been in this situation, this almost never the case. Inflated housing doesn’t help them at all, it just drives up all ancillary costs of living and causes property taxes to rise. They are anti-growth because they bought a specific location for a specific reason. If you go through all that to find and invest in your ideal community, you don’t want it to be bulldozed and changed into high density shit with bad traffic, long lines, crowded attractions, higher crime, more noise, etc.
That argument only holds because it was purported to replace different weapons systems that were needed for mitigating a threat. The threat is the primary motivation and cost reduction is secondary. I.e., if not but for the existential threat there's no need for the JSF or any system it would replace.
Only if they tax all churches equally... including the Church of Scientology which has a history with the IRS.
> We do somehow need to get back to advertising the old fashioned way rather than this surveillance capitalism arms-race.

Old fashioned ads were targeted based on the thing they were attached to. For instance, if you read the sports pages of a newspaper sold in your city, you probably got ads of presumed interest to people in your city who are interested in sports.

To restore that kind of system, you would need to focus on those kinds of issues: making advertising first party, distinguishing between parts of a site without distinguishing between users.

But once you've done that, you're still left with first parties that can spy on you and use that data in non-advertising ways, or even presumably for direct marketing (if you have some kind of an account).

I think it's better to focus on the surveillance. If they can't surveil you, then they can't use surveillance advertising. As you point out, focusing on leaks is irrelevant because I don't really feel better that only Google knows everything about me. Focusing on advertising doesn't stop them collecting data, it just limits how they can use it. If we don't want the data to exist, collecting it should be prohibited.
Anything unusual about your network configuration? Accessing that URL does not show a login page for me.
Have you adjusted your pay for inflation? The rent prices have nearly doubled in ten years, so if you offer 100k today, it's like offering 60k in 2011.
They measure (estimate, really) based on how many wallets/address exist on the blockchain.
Why not go to the logical conclusion and ban advertising?

Why not have a yellow pages of cool stuff with proper discovery mechanisms instead. Anyone who's interested in new stuff can go and see what's new, what's happening, like reading the news.

Remember when you'd check the app store on your phone for cool stuff? Just have that, for everything.

Advertising is mind pollution, it's exhaust fumes for your mind and it's a giant industry that wastes everyone's time playing zero sum games too, ugh.
Those variables are linked. Offer higher wages and more people will decide to participate in the workforce. The actual supply hasn't changed much.
The point is that if the feature is going to constantly produce false positives, it's useless. I concur with the author, I never check those warnings anymore.
I'm in agreement to get a ham license in addition to doing CB. However, I don't recommend modding your HF rig to do CB. Ham radios often have weak modulation so your CB-mars-modded HF ham radio will probably not sound as good on the CB band as a real CB. Also, if you want to join in on all the CB fun you may want to add some fun things to your rig and a full size CB will have a lot more room inside inside for extra boards than a ham radio.
MSNBC has claimed in court filings that they (specifically the Rachel Maddow show) are purely entertainment and that the public should not expect their broadcasts to be statement of fact.

Why would you expect any of the other cable news networks to act differently? In fact, they don't, because Fox did the same for Tucker's show.
You should do more research! Many people living in countries with crumbling economies are actively using bitcoin. Venezuela, El Salvador, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Eastern Eruope, etc etc.

You may be asking "what? bitcoin too volatile!" well, it's all relative. In a lot of these places the national currency is even more volatile, or even worse, there is no financial structure for people to save and invest. Bitcoin changes that.
There is no way to justify stabbing someone, but to blame it on ‘the hacker known as 4chan’ is a bit ridiculous. 4Chan is a website, it does not physically abuse people.

This began with idiots stalking this developer at his home address. There are laws against stalking people. Those laws need to be applied to these people so they see, hey, if I act like an idiot and go stalk someone because people on a website are egging me on, I go to jail, so I’d better not do that.

And if they’re to stupid to see that, they are in jail so they can’t stalk people.
:shakes-fists: why doesn’t everyone understand software engineering as well as the software engineers. Wait, let’s force it on them, what could go wrong?
But in the paper they explicitly test the possibility that the undocumented instructions could be speculatively executed and have visible side effects.

They found that the instructions are actually executed, but they couldn’t jump to arbitrary microcode (a side effect of one of the undocumented instructions) because of a single lfence ucode op. They proved that at least on the atom processor they could unlock, the speculative execution of the undocumented instruction calculated an offset and placed it in internal registers even though the instruction was executed from the “green” (normal) operating mode.
I suspect that is no more the case than it has always been. While the overall job market demand might be very high now, I doubt that the proportions of demand for entry-level and senior roles has changed significantly.
Science confirms it: Open offices are a nightmare
or "top grade"
And in reStructuredText you can make any place in your document a "source" and any place a "sink" of a reference. Is it the same in AsciiDoc, or are only special things like listings etc. referencable?
That's hilarious and disgusting!
ProtonMail's security audit report [pdf]