skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the most intriguing ideas that have been explored by Wittgenstein are related to his notion of a "private language" (and the question of whether it is simply possible or meaningful). You can ask for instance what is the difference between your body pain, which seems to be a kind of "internal object", that only you can possess and access, and the blue of the sky, when you look at it, which doesn't feel like an internal sensation (rather like an external fact), even though it can be construed as one, if needed.
Ah, I was on HN before I was a full-time farmer, and I still work on various free software stuff. After we sold the startup I co-founded to a large acquirer, I took on a Shropshire farm where I've been building a calf-rearing and beef enterprise.
Because in this case and most others (but not all cases) it's the publication/sharing of the content that is the problem.

An advert for a slave isn't an issue if you write it, print it out and keep it in a draw. Likewise you can produce as much blasphemous, libellous, and obscene content as you like but if you don't share it with anyone, no one will care (unless you broke some law in creating it - stolen information, child pornography etc.)
"The shim is signed with the aforementioned Microsoft key, that is built into all PCs/laptops."

this is a non-starter for me. the sheer number of microsoft products and programs dedicated to or endorsing a backdoor for third parties makes it untenable for any security purpose.
> Look at all the pro China things they have done.

Just because they follow the rules of another nation doesn't make them 'pro China'. Is Apple 'pro-US', 'pro-EU', 'pro-Saudi Arabia', etc? No, Apple is pro-business/pro-money. They are a company selling products and services around the world.

> People committing suicide after being forced to work endlessly.

Isn't that Foxconn, a Taiwanese company?

> Agreeing to the Great Firewall rules to continue doing business in China..

So you think facebook and apple should moderate content but China shouldn't moderate content?

> It is not just China, look at the Nabisco workers

A nice save.

> There is no reason extreme pressure couldn't start to force changes at these companies but mostly we are just glad it isn't us.

Change what? Rather than trying to change individual monopolistic companies, we should allow for more competition so that we can decide where to take our business. We have a problem of monopolies.

> Our whole society has lost all sense of empathy and it is sad.

Everyone has their own version of empathy. And everyone wants to enforce their version of empathy on everyone else. It's a problem humans and human societies have had forever.
The difference is that nobody said Apple was done for as a company due to this lawsuit. Both Apple and Epic will lose money due to it, but both makes most of their money elsewhere so they can fight to their heart's content.
I already have these in my wall sockets. Some sockets have USB-A, another one with USB-C. It's great. I hope EU/EEA will pick that up and we can stop travelling with stupid adapters.
> It's bad enough that wall sockets haven't improved

There's not much need for that, to be honest, at least not for Continental Europe where the Schuko plug system is dominant. It's reasonably secure against children and offers enough capacity for all household loads, and industrial applications have all converged on the bulky IEC-60309/CEE-17 plugs.

Sometimes, a product is simply "good enough" and does not require further improvements (or alternatively, a better solution exists, but the cost for retrofitting is prohibitively large).
Yes! One of the tools I ended up trying.
Like all social contracts, it's subtle. Facebook is the "meeting place" and final location of sharing the content. Similar to an assualt happening in a park at night, you could look at the trainers the perpetrator wore, the mode of public transportation they took, etc, or the council could install lights in the park as they control the space (not a perfect metaphor).

Responsibility is the burden of those with the most means to enact change. There's no formal chain of logic for deciding where that burden lays. Your example presents every actor in the chain as equal options but depending on your political (philosophical) leaning you will want different actors to burden more or less of the responsibility. (control from the source or control from the event, or anywhere inbetween).
Practice practice practice. If you have trouble listening at speed, watch YouTube videos slowed down and speed it up .25x at a time until you hit normal speed then go beyond. If you spend less time processing input, you will have more time to process your output (response).

Repeat what you hear in such videos when you are alone to speed up the output process.

This has helped me with language learning immensely.
I find the usual fact checkers full of bias to an almost comical degree. Remeber the Russians?
You can, but I’m not very knowledgeable about USB DACs which works on Linux.

The HiFiBerry amplifier I use is $50, has great software and enough power and top notch DACs from TI. On top of that it’s a hat, has a dedicated steel enclosure and everything is powered by a laptop brick.

It’s unbeatable at that price point IMHO.
The last time I worked on a .NET Core (v2) project, I was able to do everything that I needed to on my Manjaro workstation.

One thing that I missed was SQL Server Management Studio, but Azure Data Studio was more than good enough and it even had some nice features that SSMS lacked, like project folders and GIT integration. SQL Server itself ran just fine in a Docker container.

A peer of mine is doing the same thing on the Manjaro desktop that I setup for him and he's using .NET Core v5.
Indie Hacking Like a Gardener
The shortages of pretty much everything and stasi terror tactics of the 1980s would resemble a “collapsed” state in most western views. It was not as bad as USSR or what we normally think of as a collapsed state (e.g. Haiti of today), but it sure was not even close to the western Germany standard of living. The article also goes on to describe poverty for the main protagonist well into early 2000. While I’m not German, so will likely never truly understand the cultural implications, the partitioning off of the forced soviet state in east Germany was a terrible outcome and had similar dire consequences as what happened in the rest of the eastern bloc.
True, this stack is very cost efficient for bootstrapping a project.
I'm sure you could optimize the latency with hosting yourself with aws lambda functions etc...
But the point is, if you're bootstraping a business, you should focus on what brings value to your customers :)
I did consider this. Having a single vendor is a risk factor. In my case it is mitigated by the fact that everything that is in their cloud is downloaded locally. Then it is backed up using time machine to my Synology and additionally syncthing also duplicates it there as simple files with history enabled. I believe our mitigated most of the risks. If I pull the router plug I'll still have access to my data. If my house burns down - I can download it from their cloud again.
> I don't think there's a way out any more.

Whenever you estimate something bad to be inevitable like this, please consider the many terrible inevitable things in the past. Those in the past thought they were inevitable, but they weren't.

- everyday violence on a much higher level than today

- inability to correct mistakes of government in the long run (voting, free speech)

- lack of power of women

- vulnerability to many diseases

- protection of law

I think any one of these is composed of many traditions that when I think about them seem almost impossible to come about, in the same way that an evolved animal seems remarkable: how did that ever happen? They do happen! People worked hard and incrementally to make them happen.

Estimating them to be inevitable I think can be a discouragement to that hard work.
Nobody forces you to buy a consumer-unfriendly product that also happens to be arbitrarily expensive. If somebody in Milan can't afford a Ferrari made in Maranello because the damn company insists in pricing their cars beyond what is reasonable for a 4-wheeled vehicle, it doesn't mean Milan should secede from Italy, surely.
States can opt out of DST (as Hawaii and Arizona do). However, several states want to go to "permanent DST", which requires Congressional approval that has not yet come.
In part, yes. Given it is a low emission region, areas of Ireland such as Mace Head typically don't have air quality issues from local sources. The predominant wind direction is blowing in area west->east across the atlantic, which means they're exposed to 'baseline' levels of ozone, which is both produced and destroyed over the ocean as well as in part transported from North America. With regards to particulate matter, the only real downside is that sea salt aerosol is in higher abundance there.
Thank god they didn’t comply. Micro usb is appalling compared to lightening, but if Apple had complied we would probably be stuck with it.
Probably not, Gian said superior
That's because Europeans view "freedom" from an individual perspective, it doesn't distinguish who is causing its infringement (e.g. boss, neighbor, government, corporation, etc). Whereas in America "freedom" exclusively means "freedom [from government]."

That's why when Europeans talk about "freedom" from your boss, Americans get confused. In America if you can privatize a thing (no matter how monopolistically) it isn't a "freedom" infringement (e.g. HOAs) because that isn't what the term freedom means there.

That's why corporations run rampant in the US and the citizens continue to pushback on any government attempted intervention because that government intervention is viewed as a freedom-problem but the corporate invasion is not.
I kinda liked the earlier version of the game, before guides and tools made it easier to get into.

This is not a dig on guides, its instead an appreciation for what the game taught me - the idea that losing could be fun.

Before that I would always play in a manner that guaranteed success, re-loading if something went wrong.

With DF it was either something going spectacularly wrong, or utter boredom when I decided to play safe.
Or, instead of a USB, you have a remote, networked, secure repository that behaves as such.
I used to ~~take~~ really liked swipe based typing, but it seems to me it has gotten much worse ~~I've~~ over the years. My favorite was ~~in~~ on Windows Phone.
I'm not sur if you know, but Apple complies with various local laws, and it impacts their margins.

Interoperability favors competition, the EU is all about fair markets, not protecting Apple's margins.
I don’t know the current situation especially as regards WebRender in Firefox, but WebRender did box-shadow in a shader back in 2015: https://pcwalton.github.io/2015/12/21/drawing-css-box-shadow....

I don’t really know what I’m talking about with all this stuff in much depth; I’m mostly reporting what I’ve heard and learned over the years of watching from the outside and keeping half an eye on things, but never quite learning about them in detail.

Since we’re talking box shadows and performance, https://raphlinus.github.io/graphics/2020/04/21/blurred-roun... is also some fun work in the space.
Is this what HN has come to? Upvoting low effort posts with cookie cutter programming templates? This is the kind of garbage that constantly gets posted to all programming subreddits to everyone's dismay, and usually gets downvoted to oblivion, as it should.

Here's a protip: The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.

Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.
There are some provisions about ”normal usage”, and operators are allowed to charge extra in certain cases. But not more than 3€/GB.

As a comparison, my operator charges roughly ten times that for roaming in the US (and in 250 MB blocks, expiring in 24 hours).
Ah that makes sense, thanks! living the dream that I hope to live one day
Some newer boards allow you to control your RGB LEDs from the BIOS (ASUS ones in my experience, at least), if you don't need much control over it that can be a viable alternative as well.
Seems like a confusing name given that logparser for IIS log files has been around for a very long time.
The Rise of Sundar Pichai
> Words are not facts that we can logically make deductions from to discover new knowledge.

Did you acquire this conviction through thoughts arisen by Wittgenstein’s words?
United States federal interstate system
> going powerless

A device that uses no power, like a rock, is clearly beyond the scope of this law ("electronic devices").
I don't believe they should mandate a specific port, but I do believe they should mandate that any nonstandard port must make a show in a court of law that it's on technical merit, rather than creating interoperability problems for it's own sake.

I believe that in general consumer laws should say that companies cannot create interoperability problems for it's own sake and when doing so must have a salient technical reason, whether the reason is so salient is for a court to decide.

But that is a more specific version of my more general view that I believe that any form of crippleware, defined as companies investing time and resources into generating an inferior quality product should be illegal.

Essentially, I believe that companies can only make a worse product from a consumer perspective, if it were cheaper for them to make that product, they must be legally required to not make a product worse except to cut their own production costs.

Researching and producing their own port when an existing port suffices their needs would fall under this.
Technically you boot form the USB, so the BIOS is happy.
Man, lightning is FAR better than the fragile micro-USB. I’ve had to repair microUSB ports multiple times.
What's powerful about it is that it's available to literally anyone as opposed to only financial institutions.
Facebook to testify on kids' safety as lawmakers probe whistleblower revelations
Wittgenstein ⟂ { Nagarjuna, Buddha }
Battle for Wesnoth is my go to 2D turn-based strategy game. It isn’t anywhere near as advanced as Civ but it scratches my itch.
Would still achieve the desired outcome of reducing plastic consumption, right?
If you can swap the device OS with something more trustworthy, does any of that matter or is there evidence that the hardware itself is untrustworthy?
iPhone can backup to a PC or NAS wirelessly, no reason for a cable other than charging.
I would take company more seriously if they didn't keep manufacturing in plants with questionable practises...
I think the Indian sub-continent did alright with democracy but I wouldn't say it was always the best choice. Singapore did well with a "benevolent authoritarian" founder who actively tried to minimize ethnic and racial differences and focusing on improving living standards and building institutions.

Most of the Indian subcontinent has leaders who can attribute their electoral success, at least partially, to pitting one group against another or to populist promises. Because their political capital is tied to one group and/or populist policies, they find it hard to spend it on improving integration between communities or driving pragmatic but unpopular policies that improve living standards in the long-run.
This pressure should be applied to the very top - eliminating trade with countries where these behaviors are common.

And US companies should choose to not, and perhaps should be banned from, operating in countries where their services are used for human trafficing. FB and Google shareholders should demand this from their companies. Of course it will mean some reduced revenue, but I think most Americans regardless of political affiliation would agree that human trafficing is just unacceptable.

Additionally, Facebook and Google are very smart. They can connect dots (accounts). They know who is selling humans, and they could perma-ban these people. Essentially it should be possible to prevent these people from ever using any account on any of the major tech services.
I think you'll find that the set of people who complain about using "she/her" in abstract contexts also complain about using "they".
I am skeptical of those benchmarks. This is written in Python, and, looking at the core loop, yes, it really is Python, not Python wrapped around C or some other acceleration technology. For pure Python to come out appearing to get four times the through put of a C program is pretty dubious. That would have to be one crappy C program. GoAccess looks like it ought to be far enough along that somebody has at least taken a bit of a crack at optimization, but, perhaps not. C ought to be able to smoke pure Python at this task. (Possibly, you know, unsafely, where a crafted referrer may get to arbitrary code execution or something, but still it ought to be way faster.)
Sure, traditional finance is also subject to powerful forms of financial tracking. (Though in some respects, Bitcoin is even less private: https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-drug-deals-silk-road-blo...) Monero is designed not to be, and that is pretty clearly the contrast I'm describing here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c9z6w6n469et/catholic-church...
I don't believe I am, I'm using Fedora + i3 but I don't have any transparency or special fx on the windows. I do remember setting that up on my last machine but it never looked great so I left it out this time.
As another builder of a Linux gaming desktop, let me just say: nice! I ended up going with an Nvidia 3080 because I'm more familiar with CUDA than AMD equivalents (and I do still need to get work done). If it wasn't for that, I'd likely have gone AMD as well!

One thing that I'd love to hear more on is what Guix gets you as a package manager and/or as a distro. I'm not really following how it differs from other, perhaps more traditional, package managers.

I've stuck it out on Arch, mainly for software availability in the AUR-- i.e. getting out of repo gaming utilities like greenwithenvy and the glorious eggroll proton fork without having to navigate flatpak/snap/etc. My last experience with Steam in a snap on Ubuntu was particularly bad: the application wasn't able to see the mounted drives where I was installing games, nor was it able to detect proton-ge-custom. I've heard the flatpak experience is better, but I haven't played with it at all.
> If humanity survives to 2121, there are going to be some amazing games. Gamemakers like Tarn, possible multiple generations of gamemakers, polishing these things will have some remarkable outcomes. I am glad to be around now at the birth of computing, but it is all too easy to envy the people who will be young in the 22nd century.

I too share your optimism, and I feel fortunate to be alive in this period (and who knows, maybe in 2121), however at the same time I feel like Dwarf Fortress is unique in its complexity; I feel like its complexity and attention to detail requires a mind unlike anyone else's, like the singular geniuses of the scientific communities that came out with breakthrough discoveries and incredibly complicated maths.

I find it hard to imagine DF but even deeper. But that might be my lack of imagination. I for one am happy to wait and see and be proven wrong.
Of course previous relations have been purely amicable and puppy-like, even: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
1. Fantastic for non-browser clients. The community has native channel clients for objc/swift/c++/rust/java so you can do real-time things natively, and course do standard json/graphql.
2. Yes, we scale vertically and horizontally. Because we have distributed pubsub and messaging baked-in, the horizontal scaling story just works – you don't have to rearchitect your app to add more servers :)
It's not an alternative. It's like saying that having no email is an alternative to having a GMail account, it isn't. Sure some people get by just fine, but it's not realistic to suggest it to people.
Yeah, odd to me that people point to microUSB as a victory. That connector is absolutely terrible! I’ve had to fix microUSB ports multiple times. It’s super fragile.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21793936
No issues encountered regarding postgresql with Vercel yet.
Could be fun to stress test the stack :)
Dwarf Fortress is an inspiration to drive upon for any other simulation like games.

The depth of this game is truly incredible.
I'd imagine if it could exists for a port to nintendo switch
> Would be happy to hear if you have suggestions for that :)

I would just make sure everything uses simple parameters. The "Making Waves" puzzle is easy to figure out by trial and error, because the values to guess are simple.

One thing that is particularly hard to guess is the "Spiraling into control" puzzle, because the parameters you have to guess are tied to the value of the time increment for drawing the curves. The parametric equation to that curve is currently :

x(t) = 8 + t * cos(A * 2 * PI * t)

y(t) = 8 + t * sin(A * 2 * PI * t)

where A is the ratio between the `t` increment (0.4) and the angle increment (PI/36) (or is it the other way around?). That ratio is just too hard too guess. I would just rewrite the solution to make the constant A easy to guess, so that people writing code with different increments and just playing around with the constant can eventually figure it out.

The Ying-Yang one is harder to simplify, because the result will not look as good. Maybe add an hint?
https://twiddler.tekgear.com - bluetooth chord keyboard that fits in one hand, look in their forums for a whole lot of different layouts to try, including ones designed for programmers.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but for all practical purposes Apple can't boot Facebook or Google from the App Store, regardless of what they do.

Tim Cook's head would end up on the chopping block if several billion users suddently left iOS because FB, Instagram and the rest weren't available.

With Google, the userbase is potentially even bigger and some of what they do really is fundamental to most people's experience of the web. Users would certainly revolt.

The same might be true of Fortnite, but despite the fact that we now know most App Store revenue comes from games, Epic is still one of many, regardless of how popular their titles are.
If we're talking about philosophy of language, Buddha himself didn't have much formal reasoning in that, did he?
Thanks. I see you included sarcasm but I can't tell up to which point ;)
No, I just expect people to use better browsers. Safari's issues are documented far and wide[0] (as well as extended by a plethora of WebKit issues) so I really don't see why most people would want to use it over Firefox or Chrome. Both of those browsers have given you the option to choose it's location for years, so I don't see any cause for celebration when Apple really just sheared a Yak while blowing party streamers.

[0] https://caniuse.com/?compare=firefox+94,chrome+96,safari+15,...
You really think that you'll have to buy more than 1,5kg of tomatoes, so they don't have to change their packaging?

This seems a bit unbelievable to me.

Here in Germany the bio tomatoes in the supermarket are already in cardboard boxes, the normal one are often in cardboard with a plastic wrapper.
I don't think it should be anything more than a regular Android phone with an alternative app store.

Huawei, Redmi, Samsung and Amazon have their own app stores, so why should it be difficult for Epic et al to have theirs on their own phone as well?