skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some folks think it's a very big issue and have released data on their findings about robots.txt files: https://knuckleheads.club/the-evidence-we-found-so-far/

We see some problems but as an established, and respectful crawler, we are usually able to overcome most blocks at Mojeek; a international web search engine with no tracking (currently 4.3 billion pages)
If you add an app to the home screen on iOS it will open without the normal Safari navigation/controls, so it definitely feels not like a simple bookmark. Also, the "tedious" process of adding an app to the home screen requires a total of three clicks on iOS (Share > Add To Home Screen > Confirm).
An NBC journalist found me on Twitter talking about doing the digital nomad thing while working / having a family.
Something can be fairly cheap in price yet still be a premium version of it. It happens with toilet paper - but if you want another liquor example, liqueurs are often cheap yet there are definitely premium versions out there (but still cost fairly little).
In my experience, that's pretty high-variance. The perfect result - one where you get anywhere from 1.5x to 10x boost of productivity - requires pairing people who communicate well, are on relatively similar skill level[0], can focus, and who both have a good day. No distracting personal issues, no emotional problems, or other kinds of things that make you unable to focus in presence of other people. If any of those conditions isn't met, pairing up will waste time.

There's some confounding involved, of course - for example, a good rapport with teammates can mitigate the effects of private issues. But my point is that you can't just pair people up and expect productivity to improve; it'll likely decrease, and it'll likely swing wildly from day to day.

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[0] - With respect to division of work on the task. Like e.g. a long time ago I was in a gamedev competition with a team of artists. I was nowhere near as good a programmer as they were artists, but we decided to make an art-heavy game, so our workloads balanced out and we proceeded almost in lock step.
Try to reduce the number of lines of code, and, at the very least, use languages and tools with refactoring support.

I find that I am much better at delivering ad-hoc solutions when the codebase is small.
He just wanted to be nice.
Ask HN: Hosted solutions to run a personal blog?
I am currently doing some research on the topic of personal sites, and more specifically blog-like personal sites.

This is because I'm planning to write a series of posts to encourage people to ditch traditional social media and move back to a more "sane" way to share content online through personal sites.

I am currently looking into hosted solutions, things like micro.blog or write.as

I'm trying to collect as many references as I can and I was wondering if you have suggestions for services I should look into.

Thanks
"The good news: Ferrero is still inventing."

Yeah, like every sweets company they are inventing new ways to put more sugar into their products.
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I even did that to myself. I thought about a great product. I was convinced, so I wanted to build it (it would also fulfill my need). Of course then I did research if it already exists. It did. I didn't want it.
DDD always felt like a bad adaptation of the emperor's clothes for programmers to me.
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No company or professional user would use word if they did not own their work. Maybe people using word for non professional matters would.
But what reason is there to cultivate this happiness-independent-of-circumstances if not in order to be happy? But if I do not wish to be happy, then I have no reason to cultivate this kind of happiness. It is like you are trying to tell me a way that I can get free oil for my car instead of having to buy it from the gas station, when I don’t have a car, but a bicycle (or maybe a skateboard?). I have no use for this source of free oil.

And of course the happiness from getting things I want doesn’t last; if it did, my happiness would cease to be a useful signal for others of what I want, and therefore the mechanism which modulates my happiness would cease to usefully serve its purpose, which would be detrimental regarding the goal of me getting more of what I want.

Your arguments are all assuming that I terminally value being happy, and without that assumption they have no foundation.
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I've read the whole thread and am absolutely surprised. Why is nobody telling about plex's ditching of their plugin system?
Have invested a lot of time in developing plex's plugin for youtube, twitch, and my favorite streaming services, paid a lifetime fee to plex. And now the whole plugins system is disabled.

That's the only reason why I've switched to Jellyfin. It's not better than plex. It's definitely worse, but it's open, and that's how I am sure it will work forever.
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You mentioned colorette, but not that the package was a fork, only that the API was the same. It's very hard to not interpret that as dishonesty.

The author acted impulsively after you copied and rebranded his package and then started pushing it everywhere. And now that's your excuse to keep your fork.

To get back to my original post. We want people to open source their code if it's useful for the community. Your behaviour here is going to scare people away from doing that. One little mistake and then boom someone with a bigger name takes all of your work and fame.

Don't you see that this is not beneficial for the community?
So the individual dot patterns are fixed in hardware? That's clever. (A former colleague of mine has a vaguely related patent. They create unique patterns inside of chips by applying (sputtering) material at an angle, which creates chaotic patterns that cannot be copied by lithography, so the chip is in principle unclonable.)
That's nice, and I don't mean to disparage the work that went into it, but at the end of the day it's just a 2D texture mapped on to a bent pipe.

What's I'd love to see is a 3D star projection undergoing this sort of distortion effect. Something more like the classic Star Trek 3D star field but with vaguely realistic geometric distortions you'd see around a wormhole.
+1 Great content, written and presentations.
I had a lot of issues with Leo, mostly outlined in other comments, but one good 'replacement' I found was 4coder. It seemed to be a bit more direct in its approach.
There are lots of homonyms but they are disambiguated by context. Look at it this way: you don’t need the characters when you’re listening to someone speak, so why wouldn’t you be able to sound out the phrase from pinyin and understand its meaning?
Medium is such a PITA
Because anything electronic has a higher maintenance upkeep on the lock side. A good quality mechanical lock can work for decades even in bad conditions, and power outages have no effect at all.
Here's a demo of that effect, again via WebGL
https://harrygifford.github.io/special-relativity/
The 2nd method also has a lot of noise in it which helps to "emulate" detail.

I think you could get the blur method quite a bit further for a fair comparison, e.g. by adding noise.
Car makers actually have the same thing. Not on bumpers, but on ignition keys and ECU (and possibly more). You can't swap out the ECU without getting keys reprogrammed by the dealer.
> Plenty of staff got rich from the Uber / Airbnb / snowflake etc IPOs though.

GP said "anymore", so I assume he was talking about newer startups.
I don't buy this honestly. Even when nobody can live up to utopian expectations, to better yourself you might want to strive for more.

We heard about necessity of mass online surveillance and prisons outside of the rule of law. All because they are allegedly necessary. Of course they are not. But I guess there are Chinese and Russians preying on us and this is a geopolitical reality?

These are excuses, nothing more and fatalism because of humanities apparent weakness is not conductive to positive development nor very realistic.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
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If you're open to try new approaches, meditating may help.
There's that crazy idea called batteries. For "bigger" stuff one could produce hydrogen during the day (for fuel-cells or straight up burning in combustion engines).

But yeah i would too, not use solar-panels in a warzone.
Ok, so in practice you are saying that no good programming paradigm exists. Where do we go from there?
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Indeed, it uses WebKitGTK I think.
> Nuclear submarine deal with Australia

Thanks. WTF, I'd not heard of this, not that I read much news these days. (Sydney here.) Apparently both the main parties support it. But the public weren't consulted about this major policy shift. Australia doesn't have nuclear power, let alone nuclear weapons, and doesn't like nuclear-powered ships visiting... now suddenly we're gonna have our own, maybe. I think this will be unpopular. I've always admired NZ's anti-nuclear stance, and have never spoken to a Australian who doesn't also. Gee, I haven't felt so motivated to protest for a long time.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/australia-nuclear-sub...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/16/austr...

https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/anti-nuke-campaigners-p...

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/no-nuclear-submarines-s...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-s-fading-a...
Looking forward to reading the book, looks great.

Just a small technical issue: I just tried to buy the book on http://momtestbook.com/ via Gumroad, and Chrome refuses to autofill the credit card number in the Gumroad widget because the site is http-only. I circumvented that by copying the link from the "Buy on Gumroad" button, but it might be hurting your sales. Consider adding SSL certificate or just make the button click open the Gumroad site.
> because you would remember the dull terror of seeing your life flash before your eyes for the 40th time this year

Is this really something you go through?

In ~35 years of driving, I've never experienced this.

If you are having near-death driving experiences 40 times per year, something is wrong.
If your role is to protect data you could always require an OS reinstall before the new part becomes functional, removing any incentive from replacing parts to gain access to a user's existing data.

But the entire assumption that parts are restricted for security reasons is flawed. "Security" is done in the main SoC, the peripherals such as Face ID/Touch ID sensors should just be dumb input devices providing the face/fingerprint data to the SoC which authenticates them. There is absolutely no reason why those should be part of the chain of trust.
I fully agree. Although there are exceptions, much of the self-help industry has a similar spooky feel to me. Also, I find it hilarious that people are using apps to meditate or be "mindful". I cant quite explain it with words, but... If the first step of your journey is already in the wrong direction, forget about the rest...
> Especially with smaller applications, you might be able to beat the provider time to fix the issue, and you never know when it might be critical for you to be able to do that.

This is so true you have no idea. Several years ago I was working at a Linode customer on the Christmas Eve that they started being DDOS'd for several days.

We had been working for weeks before then to multi-host our applications just to be prepared for outages and suddenly all of that work paid off.

We already had all of our data ready at another provider and the infrastructure hot so it was just a matter of flipping some configs and waiting for DNS propagation. I still ended up working 20 hours that day just monitoring everything and calming people down but the alternative would have been working straight through New Year's.
If you are talking HTTP to an endpoint that you have no idea whether you are authorized to, and it happens that they have some ToS document stating "do not use unless", then it could be construed as 'unauthorized access'. This unauthorized access could be argued as being illegal under the CFAA.

The argument is iffy, hinging on the difference between just talking a little bit to a random IP on the one hand; and talking HTTP to a specific site whose ToS you could have been aware off. That second case was recently relevant when some company (I think linkedIn?) managed to stop people crawling them because, even though the IP endpoint is public, the ToS of the site did not authorize crawlers.

All this said, I could see the argument that it is illegal. As a bad analogy, suppose you just checked every door in the city for being locked, and if it wasn't locked, peeked in to record the door shape. That feels like trespassing.
> others might literally have their life depended on the service working

If your life literally depends on a service, make sure to pay for that service. Also, make sure to have a backup.
These are additional suicides attributed to FB/Insta, right? We can and should blame FB/Insta for those.
very basic common sense stuff, like understanding the business domain/keeping in close contact with the people who do.

Much of DDD is common sense, what it offers is a way to be explicitly common sense. The important factors, the way I see it, is to explicitly make sure both developers and stakeholder have a shared mental model of the business process that maps to the domain in question, they all agree on which 'jargon' terms map to which parts of that model AND that that model (with the agreed upon terms) is explicitly represented in the code.

Keeping in close contact with the business domain people is most useful if you actually understand each other. Too often I've seen developers and business people using the same 'every day' word when discussing a problem and only much later do they find out that their obvious understanding of that word was very different.
simultaneously, yoga & meditation were translated and shared in earnest with western audiences. It’s not all new age wu.
I am fed up and bored to death with the perpetual tooling renaissance we are having, I love programming but career software is often anything but the good bits of programming. I am interested in transitioning to tech leadership so Im not burnt out on software bullshit and can enjoy coding on personal projects at home.

It sounds a bit like you have a good gig that you enjoy, good for you, but you can't extrapolate like you are. You are being a bit ignorant, frankly, grossly generalizing a career it sounds like you don't understand well.
FYI, this is the "space laser" part of the "jewish space lasers" of Marjorie Taylor Greene that left everyone laughing about how (wrongly) absurd space lasers are and forgot about the anti-semitism.

She basically said that a system like you've mentioned was tested, misfired and started wildfires. It was then covered up by some Jewish guy on the board.
Can you link to an example to someone making such a claim? Just so I'm sure I understand what you are referring to.
There are reasons why you believe this if you disproportionally own more than thousands combined. Even just for yourself you need some justification. What better than to declare humanity evil, constrained by its nature? Makes you sleep better at night and can justify anything you have done. It was just your nature.
Foliate has gotten really good! When I tried it out very early in the development cycle it was quite buggy. I was using Calibre's viewer which is mostly great, but does take a while to start up. I think I can switch to Foliate when I'm reading on PC now.
The mass-market alcohol industry is almost entirely based on branding and bulk ingredents. (A considerable fraction of the so-called top-shelf market is as well.)

I'd had some exposure to that through a former life, though this classic comment of Animats drilled home just how sordid the whole thing is, through Frank-Lin distillers, who buy bulk grain alcohol by the tankerful, delivered to their own private railroad siding, and service over 3,500 accounts.[1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059821

Baily's Irish Cream has virtually all of the standard addictive food / consumption elements: booze, sugar, fat, and chocolate. If they could work out how to add salt, heroin, and cocaine, they'd have the full package.

Some years back I looked into just when various well-known alcoholic beveridges or other branded concepts came into being. Virtualy all are from after the beginning of the broadcast-based mass-advertising era, with the exception of Captain Morgan's Rum (which dates from US Prohibition).

You can trace this with startling clarity through Google's Ngram viewer. Smirnoff Vodka in particular stands out, it appeared out of nowhere in 1950:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Smirnoff+Vodka...

Yes, the label dates to the 19th century. And yes, it had circulation in Russia earlier. But as following the Google Books links will show, a series of submarines (many in Life Magazine) appeared in print in 1950 to popularise the brand.

I'd researched a number of other brands at some point (probably in a Reddit comment, not readily searchable), but you can do this yourself. There's a notable influx of new brands in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and aughts. And many apparently "venerable" brands are far younger (at least in general market presence) than their marketing would have you believe.

The whole notion of the "Irish pub" is mostly a post-1980s marketing gimmick (inspired strongly by the US TV series "Cheers" AFAIU).

Mostly, though, you're just paying for the label.

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Notes:

1. I've written my own brief here: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/bztu6ot3xumpeiiiygdzaa Further background at http://www.frank-lin.com/ https://www.webcitation.org/5jjmHRr9C http://web.archive.org/web/20061018134019/http://www.packagi... https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/top-st... and http://web.archive.org/web/20150907040248/http://sourmashed....
I don't sacrifice my health or family life for money or any prideful work. Thus, I set my boundary to avoid burnout.
Have you measeured their area? Betcha they're at least twice as big as the smallest ones on the market -- whichever vehicle those are on -- so 50% of these is still more visible lit-up area than 100% of those.
Interesting, how does this compare to WinMerge?
First, employees stop caring for their employer's goals.

Next, they are upset when MailChimp sells and they don't get their options (apparently believing that receiving options is their sacred right protected by God, Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human rights).
Emacs pull all that off and then some, but people trying to copy it's success sometimes miss that this versatility depends on two factors:

1. Emacs being an incredibly flexible computing substrate, a well-documented platform for software working with 2D text data as its core abstraction - on top of which all those use cases are supported, through both first-party code and third-party packages.

2. Emacs user base being self-selected to contain people willing to tolerate less than perfectly polished UI, various UX quirks, and who understand this is a hacker's tool, that can and should be modified until it fits the user like a glove.

In other words: this success story takes both more work than it seems, and a specific attitude of the users.
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Simple dynos can be replicated with Dokku and Ledokku as a GUI. Just get an Ubuntu VM on Digitalocean, Vultr or whatever, install and configure UFW, fail2ban and automatic security updates, install dokku and you're set.

For managed databases with replication however, Dokku still leaves much to be desired...
If you were born in the US, and are of sound mind and body, you won the lottery.
IIRC there is a JSON6 format which adds features and improvements on top of JSON5.
I'm sure the author's claim about mutual exclusivity will be disproven by some of the absolute madmen posting here, but I'm definitely one more point in favor of his hypothesis. Even though Lisp holds a special place in my heart as the first language I really learned, I always found that macros beyond the standard stuff like let and cond weren't worth the trouble and ultimately made my code harder to read. Monads, while also a significant abstraction, simplify the logic of the program (and its syntax) far more effectively imo. I'm less timid reading somebody else's Haskell code, while I'm terrified of anything I wrote myself in Lisp a few months prior.
Have you tried watering down some cream with added dried cocoa powder?
It's easy, if you invest in weapons who could potentially stop the other side from delivering the "atomic-payload" you force them to make them "better/different", this is how you start a race without even touching your actual arsenal.

And that's why the US should not place anti icbm stuff near the russian border (turky, poland enc).
If it lets me avoid a circular definition, I’m willing to tolerate a bit of ugliness in my definitions (at least, provided that it can be shown to be equivalent (under assumptions of some results that can also be proven under the awkward form) to a nicer framing).
> I am surprised that no one has tried to build something like Sinatra for Clojure. From what I can see, nothing would keep Clojure from being able to make something like that.

Sinatra is a framework rather than a library (Sinatra calls your code when requests come in rather than you calling the library code when requests come in [we call you VS you call us]) and so generally doesn't get a lot of mindshare in the Clojure community, where small, composable libraries are preferred.

Normally I see people using Ring (http request/response abstraction) + Compojure (routing) + Ring-compatible HTTP server (something like http-kit) for those purposes, and is what I normally use myself as well. Works well and once you've grokked the architecture of plugging those together, it becomes easy to hunt down issues and switch out parts whenever you want.
Many do marry their best friends, or consider their spouse their best friend.
AWS doesn't offer 5-nines uptime on Compute.

It's S3 that is 5-nines availability.

AWS's published SLA for Compute (which includes EBS) is 4-nines.

https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/
The point about anaesthesia is a really good one, I hadn't considered that -- if the mind were outside the brain then the most that anaesthetic could do is sensory deprivation rather than loss of consciousness.

> There is no outside.

This is unknowable. To take my example from the other comment: there is nothing within the Doom video game universe to indicate that there is a real universe outside. You can go as far as you want in X, Y, or Z and you'll never break out of Doom and find yourself in real life. But that doesn't mean there is no outside: the mind controlling the player is outside the Doom universe.

(But anaesthetic can't work within the Doom universe, because the anesthetic has no way to reach the mind.)
This can be achieved by signing the parts and once a phone is reported as stolen, the respective parts get disabled.

Trivial solution for someone like apple.