skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of comments here seem to not know:

1. If you don't have your YouTube activity history enabled, the algorithm doesn't remember what you've watched and you'll probably get clickbaity/junky recommendations.

2. If you have set your history to expire after some amount of time, it will start re-recommending videos you've already seen once it has forgotten you have watched them.

You can set both options here:

https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols/youtube
Likes, hearts, and flattering comments are bad for my brain
Not this quickly.
But, we plebes will still be shamed for our straws.

In reality, it's the massive industry that has no reason to be clean.

And it's the transportation infrastructure in the USA that favors cars over everything else.

And its massive deforestation across the world.

And it's massive CO2 causing evolution of H2CO3 in the ocean, systematically destroying oceanic life.

In reality, it's capitalism, hockeystick required growth (as opposed to sustainability), bad/no planning at larger governance levels, and obsolete-by-design goods that used to be durable.
Getting over the Waterfall
Here's my site. I work at a communication school. I've noticed we often get the usual suspects into the comms industry - so I'm trying to help fix that a little bit (for free) (https://adamhorne.com/outsiders/)

As a designer I would find myself messing with the design all the time, I told myself that I had to use the default WordPress theme with a tiny amount of little CSS tweaks (font size, color) and that that it. The good thing is that it updates seamlessly.
Redis everywhere!
Rant:

Ugh. People still don't grok the privacy situation wrt law enforcement. Here's me trying yet again trying to convey my understanding.

Our prior legal notions are moot when the "dragnet" is the entire planet, encompassing all people for all space and time.

Folk understanding of legal notions like probable cause, reasonable doubt, burden of proof, innocent until proven guilty, alibis, etc. no longer apply.

Identifying suspects and checking their alibis is obsolete. Law enforcement will use big data to rule out non-suspects. Then whoever is left must be the perp.

In the case of Zachary McCoy in this article, LE found a match. What I'm saying is in the near future, LE will rule out non-matches. So if LE can't establish an alibi for you, globally, you're a potential suspect.

Reverse strategy, same end result. But bigger scope.

In the mid-aughts, law enforcement was already using warehoused demographic data to solve cold cases. Imagine how much better they can do their job today. (And yet so many crimes go unsolved. All the downside of forfeiting our privacy, none of the benefits. Infuriating.)

ACLU's objection to Apple's CSAM effort hit HN's front page last week. Perfect example of preparing to fight the last war.

The ACLU, like most everyone else, still hasn't internalized what's happening/happened.

Forgive me, I still can't articulate my notions about privacy very well. Despite 20+ years of effort. Even when I try talk to other privacy advocates. When I try to simply example the technical capabilities of various players, and what that might mean, I'm dismissed as "paranoid, sweaty kook". (Actual quote from a local newspaper.)

When I write that I don't know what privacy even means any more, I'm dead serious. My only kindred spirit, matching my pessimism, has been Shoshana Zuboff (author of Surveillance Capitalism).

I remain open the possibility that I am in fact insane.
I think I still have my Slackware 1.0 CD in a closet back at home from around 1993/94.

I went on to work at Red Hat in 1999, those were fun times for Linux :)
They should contain a warning label, like cigarettes do
I hate to be that guy but what the guy is doing is adding "complexity"; he did not create zero-cost patterns or abstractions that reduce 10 lines of code to 1 while allowing for fine-grained customization of any step.

As someone who builds apps for a living, the 90% of the time is spent on the "last minute" customization and fighting the stack. This is why I pick widely used stacks. They might not be better but I have higher chances of finding someone else who had a similar issue.

Also I'd never use something that hides what is pushing/pulling from the server let alone configure the database structure for me. That would be really fun as I already spend 1/2 my time debugging what went wrong and finding it. Working with a black box is not going to help in any of that.

There is a reason why people steer to React/Redux. The world is not a Todo list app, and most of the time you need some creative work and you need something agnostic that can be programmed. Coupled with GraphQl, you can have a nice separation between your front and back ends and test them appropriately.
> That's an issue ;) So you don't give yourself an opportunity to review your decision and your principle just comes unchallenged.

I didn't say that I don't think about it. I actually give it a lot of thought, which is probably why I despise the idea so much. I'd rather die an asshole who was a decent programmer than Yet Another Startup Baron who lost their life savings to a nothingburger served in gold foil.
Godfather of Harlem
One pet peeve of mine with climate change articles is that in the US Celsius is often used.

A&W tried introducing a 1/3 lb burger, and it failed horribly because the average consumer couldn't understand that 1/3 is greater than 1/4.

Now with climate change, that same person is going to shrug off 2.7C because "2.7 isn't much". Re-frame that as 5-10F, and that person is suddenly going to be much more interested, because a 5-10F increase in summer temperatures anywhere in the US is meaningful.
The Most Heated Tech Job Market in History: Advice for Software Engineers
I'm not sure how much this generalizes. I'm a city dweller and just gave away my car in July after basically not using it for the past five years. I can still walk to all the same places, they're open, the trains are still running, and I haven't had any trouble getting a rideshare driver to pick me up when that is needed.

I imagine the impact depends heavily on localized lockdown measures, and they apparently aren't nearly as strong in Dallas as wherever you live.
Also 1995 or 96 for me. I had read about Linux on the web and attempted to download a floppy version and install it, but to no avail. Then I saw a book with accompanying Slackware CD in the bookstore. Best investment I ever made. I /devoured/ that book and got it all working. The desire to have my own free UNIX on my PC probably drove me to learn faster than I have before or since. The rest is history...
So, how would you report it? You can't point at two hurricanes and say "this one was caused by climate change and this one wasn't", you can only say, statistically, we should be seeing one hurricane instead of two.
i've been sharing 25mbps with another person and the occasional guest for the past couple years, often including multiple video streams at a time. there have been some relatively rare upstream buffering issues (as most issues are with wifi), but overall, it's been just fine.

gaming doesn't seem like a good case for making a general bandwidth argument. sure, if you want to spend your money on bandwidth for it, go to town, but the general populace doesn't 'need' it. video at least is used for communication, education, and other non-recreational purposes.
> Are there any big efforts towards a modern BASIC?

It depends on how you define big and how you define modern, but I feel like freebasic probably counts
> In order to get there, we will have to reduce the amount of apartments per sqkm and even more so the amount of office space and shops. This will work in two ways: It will naturally reduce traffic and free space for car parks.

This sounds like prioritizing cars over people. What's the point?
+1 for FreeBASIC, very underrated language with many expected modern trimmings.
It's been studied over and over. Lower taxes mean more economic activity, and less tax evasion.

An article in Spanish

https://www.elindependiente.com/economia/2021/04/25/madrid-d...

Another one

https://www.libremercado.com/2021-08-03/el-efecto-laffer-de-...

En concreto, la región de Díaz Ayuso recibió de la caja común apenas el 23% de lo que ingresó en 2019.

Meaning that Madrid out of the 100% taxes it collects for the State, only 23% end up in Madrid. But that's still fine, because of the higher economic activity.

Madrid has been accused of "tax dumping", by having way lower taxes than other regions, and still:

Tanto es así, que Madrid aporta en torno al 68% del sistema de solidaridad interterritorial (más de 4.000 millones) frente al 25,5% de Cataluña o el 6,6% de Baleares.

Meaning that, even with low taxes, Madrid funds 68% (+4 billion Euro) of the inter-region fund system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
I generally agree with your thesis (especially WRT this article) but create-react-app is a terrible example. I converted a fairly large handrolled webpack project to CRA, and it actually fixed a lot of broken things.

For most single page apps, create-react-app occupies an abstraction level "sweet spot". Webpack is too low level and changes too quickly.
I am by no means a finance or investing whiz. But the first thing I like to do is skip ahead to the cash flow statement.

In this case https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828021...

The income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow are connected; sides of a triangle.

Each of the three views alone is potentially misleading. But for an initial impression and quick gut check I like to start with cash flow.
Possibly, but 2.9 is still not as bad as 3, 5, etc. There's never a 'too late to do anything worth a damn' moment.
If you mean GTK3/4 supports system themes, then no, that's false, it has never really supported doing that. The theme was meant to only be changed by the app, users changing the theme was always consider unsupported. Of course you could previously attempt to override it by setting an environment variable but this could cause any number of things to break because of missing or incorrect CSS classes. These distros were warned about this issue a long time ago.

Just to clarify: The reason for this is not because GTK's CSS classes themselves are not stable (you are correct that they are stable). The issue is that a theme's CSS classes cannot possibly be stable with respect to any given app's CSS classes, unless the app has explicitly enabled that theme, which is not possible with the current API. If you are using the environment variable then apps do not even have a reliable way to check which theme is loaded.

The feeling with GTK4/5 seems to be that GTK itself should only supply some basic default styles and should not bother handling theming at all. Instead that should be handled by another library which knows more than GTK about which CSS to load and when. This is what is essentially being done with the libadwaita theming API.
Yap,

Someone likely would just docker/vm to partition that 80 cores into micro-service handle httpd proxy and app, db backend.

Those app/VM can easily be converted to app running pi modules.

20 pi modules likely have much better DDR, SSD, Network bandwidth. Probably scale from 2 pi to 200 pi as easily as typical vm setup - and it comes with GPUs for free for those need them.
I manage two teams and we use it for "everything" and have as part of our team values to use Gitlab fully.

We are on premium, the ultimate features would be an easier way to replace Jira but we manage with epics, milestones and iterations.
I tried both Yggdrasil and SLS in 1993 when I was still in grad school, ran SLS for a while on my 386 PC (with no floating point). Lots of floppies and slow downloads in those days.
Mobile phone culture is really disturbing in this regard. The amount of annual-upgrade-onto-the-next shit with devices that can last years and years. It’s not the problem in itself, but it highlights an aspect of consumer psychology that really damages the planet and probably our mental health too.
I always wonder if those big platforms commercialize recommendations. I'm pretty sure it happens one way or another with the music app. The auto generated playlist always have some artists that I really dislike and would never listen, but are pretty popular.
> site:www.washingtonpost.com

> Blacklisted false

> site:www.wsj.com

> Blacklisted false

> site:www.rt.com

> Blacklisted false

> site:www.nytimes.com

> Blacklisted true

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I paid for it recently. So far it's been a mixed bag for me. The core works as intended, but little annoyances can add up.

I love that the design is small and light, but almost none of the languages is use are supported by Pygments for highlighting so someone browsing the code may find it off putting (GitLab I can use gitattributes to select a different but compatible Rouge highlighter). I like that NixOS is a first-class compatible image, but GitLab offered more in build options (run certain tasks only on tags, run this job on a cron, etc.). I love that I can push any markup I want to the ‘README’ of a project, but I wouldn't have to if Markdown wasn't the only option (MD's so limiting without admonitions, definition lists, block titles, ToC, etc.). Project discovery has a lot to be desired, but at least it doesn’t have gamification like “stargazers”.
Cars are a hidden drain on society. In part because, like you said, its a $10k-$30k admission ticket just to participate in society. In fact its worse than that, because people don't see the hidden costs. When you pay for an Uber or a train ticket, the full price of your transit is up front. When someone gets in their car, they aren't thinking about all the effective price of owning the car per day. They just see the immediate marginal price of things like gas and tolls. As a result, they have extremely skewed view and make deeply irrational choices. Eg people see the sticker price of using Uber and think its "obviously" more expensive than driving yourself. In truth, if there are public transit options most of the time but you would still sometimes be stranded without a car, taking an Uber up to 3 times per week is cheaper than owning it yourself.

Say you own a $36,500 car for 10 years. I'd call that a bit more pricey than normal, but also a bit longer than normal. You can buy cheaper but the lower quality won't last as long so let's just use these numbers for now. When you work it out, owning such a car will cost $10 per day just to have the privilege of letting it sit in your drive way. Tack on insurance price per day ($4.50 per day by some quote I looked up) and effective maintenance costs ($? per day) and you've already spent over $15 each day before even leaving your garage. Even in your costco card example, say you treat it well and made a $5000 car last for 3 years. That's still about $4.50 per day just for the privilege of having it plus the insurance (maybe a bit cheaper for the cheap car?). The "costco car" option is still more expensive per day than taking the metro, and that's before you even left your driveway!

Cars are a racket!
Let's be very clear. Every mitigation strategy discussed will have massive downward pressure on the population. You don't get to make it harder/more expensive/impossible to generate food and energy and also have the same amount of people.
You'd probably then need to actually get permission from the news publishers
I was hinting about the time it took them to actually do something. Anything.
To me it was very compelling before GitHub actions and only slightly compelling now.
this is a model 3, it doesn't have radar.
I play a japanese gacha game and there is no password. If you want to login they send you a code to your email and then you use that (valid for 30 seconds). I'm not a security expert but I always liked that for some reason
Using the word "ugly" marks the opinion as inherently subjective.
> There's not the will. Literally 40%+ of voters are completely opposed.

If this is a reference to either party, people who identify with either party all actually are suffering under the status quo, and would be fine with making changes if the changes also take them into account and increase their QoL.

So no, I disagree, the divide is barely there and has been fabricated.

I'm an anarchist, I've had successful conversations with essentially everyone on every side you can imagine. The problems are the same. Just that US has allowed media to drive a "us vs them" mentality.
Which is funny because Chrome is dropping 3p cookies soon as well.
Weed farmers are using drones as crop cops
It seems like the poster is asking about PureBasic and it's competitor (PowerBasic). These are modern Basic languages that run very fast and compile into small executables with solid library support. I believe the two front runners are both commercial products, but pretty cheap (a lot less than an annual subscription for most IDEs).

I don't think they were referring to QBasic or VB6 or anything like that.
I'm not 'quoting' any numbers. I don't own a Tesla. I don't trust lane assist technology, the probability of catastrophic failure is much larger even compared with dynamic cruise control. I'll steer the wheel thank you very much. I'm not a techno-optimist, rather the contrary. I would like independent verification of the safety claims Tesla makes, or any other claims made by vendors of safety-critical devices.

What I am saying is that selection bias has exploded in the age of viral videos, and this phenomenon doesn't receive anywhere near the attention it deserves. We can't make sound judgements based on online videos, we need quality data.
> and it's not like getting gmail address is particularly difficult

Last time I checked I couldn't create a new gmail account without a new phone number.
Best decision I ever made was installing an extension to get rid of the recommendations (they're such crap - I wish they would actually try to recommend me things with a high likelihood of me enjoying rather than whatever propaganda youtube wants me to see).
How close are Tesla's programmed to come to pedestrians? An obviously safe distance, or an "I didn't actually touch you" distance?

I've been mostly looking at the OSD---it doesn't look like the car noticed the pedestrians until after the driver had taken manual control.
I guess you're talking more generally, but this specific problem of car shortages is due to chip shortages. It doesn't have anything to do with any public policy measures. Factories may shut down briefly overseas, but the enormous demand surge for other electronics is the biggest culprit.
The issues you stated could be suburban or even rural issues, not just urban issues. In other words I think you might be conflating the difference between an agrarian economy with a modern economy with specialization, not urban vs rural.
your pseudocode there mixes DB fields with UI components. On the one hand, you have a FK field and, on the other, a TextAreaField with monospaced set to True. Is this a description of a table or a view...?
You can see his right hand reflected in the display, it was just idle during the event.
My local Hertz in the UK has sky high prices and plenty of new cars. They have no high mileage cars. They’re just profiteering.

Enterprise raised their already high prices even higher. Their fleet looks about the same as pre pandemic too.

Edit: and hertz aren’t content with their high prices, they also recently added a fake 15 minute offer expiry countdown on the booking page. Absolute scumbags.
> we can drop 4 lines into an JS/TS repo and have it publish

Could you talk a bit about this, or link out to any docs they've got for this? I'm curious about setting that up
www.ft.com gets 'no such domain'
YouTube still recommends stuff I hate all the time, despite me explicitly trying to tell the system I'm not interested.

To pick an example, my YouTube recommended section is full of videos of people reacting to the things I actually like to watch. I don't want to watch people reacting to the things I like. I just want to watch the things I like. I try to tell YouTube that by saying "Not Interested" to all of the reaction videos, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
This is why everyone is afraid of major sudden changes. We know that our industrial and commerce systems are nicely oiled to deliver constant outputs, and people like me are afraid that changing any part of it may trigger a cascade of bankruptcies of companies of a certain type, which in turn could provoke a famine somewhere else.

Imagine if all those grains stayed on their fields, it would trigger both parasites to develop where those fields are, corrupting entire valleys for years, while not either being able to feed the people they were aimed for. Which is the food equivalent of your car example.

If anything, the Covid proved to me that the world is much less oiled and tuned for some constant economic circuits than I feared. It is in fact quite reliable, if we don’t mention the debt we’ve put our children in.
Reading this, I'm seeing how some people might get so defensive about criticism. "How can you be so stupid" can scar you in ways to make you upset instead of accepting to do better. Sure, they're teasing the children, but in a way that the child can laugh with them and learn instead of shutting down to protect the self.
There are some pretty clearly known positive feedback loops as well - mainly that ice has much higher albedo than water, and that ice covered areas that today are net emitters of heat will become net absorbers if they lose more ice. Specifically Greenland is known to already have become a net absorber, meaning that there is no way nkw to prevent the eventual permanent melting of all of Greenland's ice.
On FreeBSD OCI Containers
Paul's Math Notes for the foundations.

https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/
From page 135 you have what it may be consider one of the most ambitious founder-performance compensation plans ever. The latest tranche, to be observed between 2027 and 2030, will be granted if the share price of Gitlab reaches $500, or 26x the price per share of the most recent fundraising (Series E at $18.6294 per share)

Here is the text if anyone cares fo cmd+F:
"The following table indicates the price hurdle and the corresponding performance period in which that hurdle must be achieved and the service vesting date upon which the corresponding vesting is contingent"
Reminder that Tesla will kill critical videos of FSD, but still to this day has not taken down the fabricated "full self driving demo" from their own website since 2016: https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...

Tesla (and fanboys) say that they are clear about the limited capabilities of Autopilot and FSD when in reality, they indirectly support all fan-videos by letting them live on YouTube while DMCAing critical videos.

They want you to believe that FSD is more capable than it truly is.
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IIRC, functional programming already offered const-ness and type-safe concurrency.

Do you think Rust might succeed here where FP couldn't really make much of an impact?
Inspired by a scandalous fraud case in scientific publishing, i wrote a paper applying Goodhart's Law to scientific publishing ("A Much-needed Security Perspective on Publication Metrics", published at the Security Protocols Workshop 2017). That was a really fun paper to write!
Basically, how can you systematically start cheating at publishing - and how could you catch that?

The most fun was challenging the audience - security researchers all - to think even more outside the box than usual for them.

I'm still (slowly) forging ahead on ideas spawned by this paper. Bringing the ideas of catching crooks to reality was not as straightforward as hoped. Then again, when has any project ever gone as planned?