skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it seems likely to me to be an overzealous AI decision, given the background noise of anti-vaccine disinformation on youtube these days I wouldn't be surprised if they've turned up their algorithms at the cost of more false and marginal positives

What's strange however is them seeming to use this to try and 'strengthen' the online safety bill which in it's current form would already be damaging to free speech online (adds massive liability for illegal/'harmful' content if it isn't removed quickly so companies will most likely block more content as a result)
This is a government which is in the process of criminalising protest under a deliberately vague 'public nuisance' clause. They only want freedom of expression for their views and not for those that oppose them.
I started developing professionally on airgapped networks. At night, I was searching stackoverflow for the ideas I had, best practices of what I did that day, how to do things securely, etc. During the day, I cannot access internet because there was just one workstation with internet connection for about 20 devs, DBAs, sysadmins, etc.

And also you cannot copy-paste, so you needed to optimize what you do. Otherwise, you have to write down the exception you had you don't know, then wait for your turn to use the workstation -add log on ceremony with smart cards, etc.

All of those nights, it turns out, I did extra.
FYI: more than half of US bridges are non-redundant. Even the smallest crack from corrosion can propagate and bring it down. And they're all corroding.
Yup. Scaling marketing without accurate LTV's is normally a terrible idea. I've seen so many startups go bust because of mistakes here (especially if you have a long sales cycle/top heavy revenue (like most f2p games)).

But, as you said, the incentives point towards terrible outcomes, so this keeps happening.
China: Key price measure rises at fastest rate on record
Good thermal management. Doesn't throttle down to unusable speeds under high CPU load or combined CPU/GPU load.
Welfare states as lifecycle redistribution machines
Check out global co2 emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

Up from 5 bn tons a year when nuclear power started around 1950 to 35 bn tons now. I think the Elon Musk type strategies have more promise. Not to say we shouldn't have nuclear but it still has the same problems it always had - slow to build, expensive, unpopular.
Biometrics are the worst passwords: easy to get without your consent, and hard to change.

Biometric identification is only an "improvement" for political police across the globe: it makes people ok to give their fingerprints away, and opens new (back)doors into people's devices. Fingerprint readers are Stalin's dreams come true.
Very nice article.
I´ve spent quite some time optimizing a solver for https://www.pathery.com/, but due the insanely large search space in the larger puzzles its quite not as easy.
Can recommend that for anyone looking for a challenge.
A middle way would be to stream assets from the internet as needed, but run the game locally (basically the internet becomes the hard disk, and the hard disk just an additional cache level). This may require designing games for this asset loading strategy from the ground up though (on the other hand, this was always the case that games had to designed around the limitations of their storage device, especially in the game console world).
Senate joins Big Tech antitrust fray
I hate this "argument":

> The problem with design patterns is that it's far too easy to "apply existing solutions" to problems that don't exist.

If you use "something" (in this case design patterns) wrongly, it's not "something"'s fault. It's like saying there's something wrong with the car if you are drunk, speeding and crash it.
If you are okay with <a small loud contingent on the internet> hating you, then it's probably a good career choice.
are there any in the us? Is it a sustainable business?
Hate to say it, but most likely the reason is "just because".
I'm guessing they assume people will use 4k now and 8k a little later. Anyone not on those is using HD at the amazing 1920x1080. Phew! They sell TVs. Do their TVs commonly support those 1440 resolutions?

Related gripe about Sony: they lost my business when they scrubbed the dev kit for the ps vita. I wanted my own games on there. Even preordered a book. Then when I finally had time and some tutorials and discovered I needed a key but the key server had been taken offline. So Xbox it is and not so much Sony. I don't buy anything Sony now. Its been so long but I'm still salty about it.
The only useful reviews on Amazon in my experience are 1-star reviews. But the absence of 1-star reviews doesn't imply a good product, so I've frankly just stopped buying stuff from Amazon that isn't clearly a name brand and not replaceable by a counterfeit. The idea of trying to buy even something as simple as a cable on Amazon based on reviews fills me with dread.
Was this a Seagate drive?
> the platforms are kind of incentivized to make the learning less efficient

Any successful platform is not, because by definition they have enough ads, and so want to focus on driving conversions for advertisers so that demand, and hence revenue, increases.

Agencies are often super shady though, on that we agree.
Love it. Have an "always-on" raspberry pi with usb drive just running syncthing in my home network. That way, I don't have my data "in the cloud" somewhere, I don't have to open my home network for external access to my NAS etc, and always have an up to date "source" when I start syncthing on a tablet or mobile (where i dont have them running all the time).
WW2-era ballistics charts were mostly done on one-off analog computers. A knowledgeable operator had to make adjustments daily.
And then there's Saul visiting the witch of Endor, who summons a spirit for him (which she does,) and it wasn't treated as an evil act at all.

And there's a lot of magic in the apocrypha (which, despite having been removed from canon, does reflect the diversity in Christian belief at the time) such as the angel who teaches astrology and spells to drive away demons in the Book of Tobit, or Solomon using a magic ring to control demons in the Testament of Solomon, or the wizard battle in the Acts of Peter.
Generative Art based on physics and nature, Krakow.
First I started with Processing, then switched to Python.
On the technique:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344327257_Generativ...
Examples:
https://opensea.io/collection/grzegorz-kepisty-art-collectio...
https://society6.com/gkep/prints?sort=new
How to get Diagonal Difference hackerrank problem solved
Number two in my list. Hard to open? Hard to reach some parts? memory/ssd soldered on the mainboard? Go away.

Number one is immediate global availability so I won't have to deal with the customs or pre-order. Sadly the the Framework fails both.

Excellent hardware compatibility (full Linux support) is "number zero". I can only possibly forgive the finerprint scanner for being unusable on Linux (because these are not really necessary and the reality is they mostly are so I accept this).
AMD CPU & Repair-ability. Framework looks promising, but I'm not eager to buy an Intel processor.
Added email to hacker news profile, also got discord and other chats, just hit me up with ur Id/handles/invites via email
Do the other search engines work fine because you pay them directly, instead of them being ad-funded? Because that's the argument the GP was using.
I got inspired by a video, Paint like a Sculptor by Sinix on YouTube. I got reinvigorated to do art, so I got a tablet with a screen and started learning to paint in Photoshop starting in may. I'm on a nearly 150 day streak of drawing or painting something every day! I think I've had some good results as well, though I've got no link to share.
> Extra is finishing those two screens, but then researching a new library for form validation that might reduce the boilerplate code. Or it's learning ways to protect against common security vulnerabilities from data entry.

How about making sure your code doesn't "work by coincide". Ensuring you don't have any dead code, etc. I recently cleaned up a bit of code by straight up just deleting 80% of the lines. It still worked, it still did essentially the same thing. It wasn't a refactor, just deleting lines. 80% of the code before was just leftovers from someone's experimenting to get it to work, as soon as it appeared to work it was, commit, force push, go home (I'm kidding about the force push, probably). That's not good enough.

So I agree with the article, once it works, you're half done.
Top open source business intelligence tools
That's true of course, but I guess my point is it's better if you have it. I realized this since I know a lot of illustrators, and when I first started seeing them at work I saw a lot of them have the same setup: Macbooks, EIZO monitors, Wacoms etc. At first I thought it was a cult and group think, but eventually I realized they save a lot of time on figuring out what to get. There are probably better things than what they have, but what they have works good enough and that's fine.
Thin, quiet, fast, and a good touchpad.
How do you login to your email?
> It's incredibly inefficient for people to drive their car to a store and pick up items that take up like 5% of the total space in the vehicle

In a well planned and funded city you'd have public transport to transport people to stores where they can look at and try out items before committing to buy them.

The fact that most goods that are returned (and a disturbingly large amount of goods that haven't been sold but incur high storage fees, see https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2021/Trotz-Neuregelu...) are actually destroyed is what makes the environmental balance so bad.
In the countries I've lived (Europe, both south and north), financial waste doesn't come from things you pay in cash, but from things we have not paid in cash for decades (rent/mortgage, car loans, monthly services, expensive travel...).
New machine based on the C64, nearing production release.

https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/about-faq/
Particularly with anything that wears. Batteries, fans, keyboard, flash storage. and maybe ports, need to be easy to replace.
In a similar vein, here are my dweets: https://beta.dwitter.net/u/sigveseb/top
Many of the organizations we had the pleasure to work with were at the beginning of their quest for a digitalized product. MVP (Minimum Viable Product) was a vital part of that early effort. Here are the 7 lessons from developing MVP apps. Enjoy!
While he is certainly an excellent developer with great productivity to boot, LOC is an obtuse metric. For example there is a package-lock.json commit which is almost 20K lines. Otherwise I totally agree.
ORM in 1 Minute or Less
An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain
Platforms all over the internet, including google, are about to experience this. With the economy going fully online everyone has an incentive to game the system, and algorithms cannot deal with millions of users doing this. They 'll have to hire human staff to do the reviewing, which does not scale.
Producing less would be a real sign of saving our Planet and make a difference, but instead everyone is pacing for the opposite! Humanity is lost i think!
> "Govnt must stop the erosion of free speech online. That starts with looking again at the wholly inadequate proposals in the Online Safety Bill”

why don't they (govt) open a public video site for anyone to upload to, so they don't have to mess with private sites?

forcing private entities to host things they dont want to sounds like a huge can of worms
Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Arrays are a separate type.
- unix-based under the hood so normal dev work is easy peasy

- low maintenance so I have more time and energy

- popular so app ecosystem works

- unbreakable

For work I haven't seen a competitor to macbook pro's in a decade.
ArXiv Is Down
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/arxiv.org
Alright, since you can't even come up with a single one it's pointless to spend any effort on extraordinary claims that have no backing beyond your own strange imagination. And no, a single social spending figure doesn't constitute an ideological era of social democracy. It's an absurd and frankly pathetic suggestion. If you actually interested in an objective look at this you'd have an easy time googling up mountains of work that goes against your claim of an social democratic era, but that would obviously be off-brand to a free market fanatic trying to justify why the last 30-40 years of neoliberalism is finally starting to crack.
In the early days of the “sharing economy” I gave a Taskrabbit cleaner 4 stars, thinking “they did a really good job!” But they called me nearly in tears asking what they had missed to get five stars.
> The complaint: "I train people just for them to leave" is stupid, ask yourself and them WHY they leave and then up your incentives.

Also worth considering: what if you don't train them and they stay?!
Wrote a case conversion that processes UTF-8 directly last year for Ryzom Core. The tables look like a mess, but it massively improved performance over the code that was replaced. Case changes seem to be called more often than I expected in the game. I do wonder if there's any cleaner and faster way.

https://github.com/ryzom/ryzomcore/blob/core4/nel/src/misc/s...
Perhaps a note about grounding techniques form psychology should be added here, as many of the exercises may cause anxiety or even psychosis.

If you happen to feel uneasy try this:

Look around and take a mental inventory of things around you: "This is a lamp. This is a table. This is a room..."
A friend mentioned one, and then I googled and found multiple articles about them, but none in Wikipedia — except in Czech.
Doom Rendered via Checkboxes
Sadly, YouTube is among Google best products. Myself do lots of cognitive load to avoid google services when possible, but yt has not rival amount quality of content and application. Im even paying for premium now. I'm paying with my dollars because there is no alternative except maybe the internet library..
I think it's simply that (and this is from my memory only):

Node.js was THE first back-end JS thing, and its "micro" philosophy kind of set the precedent for everything else that follow in that space. It was the time when people started to feel Django/Rails are cumbersome for some of their needs, too, so the MVC approach never caught on for JS devs.

So I think it's just popularity. Pick whatever tool you deem suitable!
We Tried Out the New Bangalore Cafe Where You Pay Only for the Time (2016)
"Freedom is the reason the UK has had such a long an illustrious history."

I'm sure the inhabitants of the many countries the British invaded and continue to hang on to would disagree.

The Online Safety Bill he mentions in his outrage at YouTube taking down his speech is itself an attack on freedoms.

He's also part of a political party working to criminalise protests they disagree with.
Such a shame that Angular doesn't benefit from using such tools:

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/42#issuecomment-9339...

So I'm currently stuck with a build that takes minutes, even though in principle it should require only seconds.
I built a static site generator mostly because I wanted to dick around with some concepts in hypertext, like automatic backlinks and a very explicit filesystem metaphor.

I also primarily target the Gemini protocol, so the web presence is a bit of an afterthought and that probably shows as well. I deliberately included every limitation of gemtext into the HTML rendering of the documents, including no inline links and no inline images. It does do some special rendering but very little.

It's backed by a git repository with gemtext files that get rendered into HTML. There is also a gmi->gmi conversion for gemini, as I introduced a few non-standard tags to instruct the page generator to add stuff like generating feeds for the blog part and so on.

The result is weird and not at all intuitive. I also realized this is basically off-brand Confluence except not as hard to navigate and 1000 times faster.

But yeah, the main point is experimentation. Testing ideas and seeing what sticks. Some of it does, but not everything. Like I have no headers for my web sites. My thought was that it's just a part you scroll by, a piece of pointless self-promotion. I wanted to elevate the content above all else. Turns out it's pretty confusing when you do that. Books have a cover for a reason.
I have friends who used to be in the music instrument journalism industry, and the common approach was to only review what they liked.

They got a guitar or synth that was bad? They would just tell the manufacturer they would rather not say something bad.

Of course, after a while readers started asking questions, so the answer was to review products from companies not advertising in the magazines.
> You misunderstood the singlenton pattern. It's not about "Managing and sharing a single instance", it's about only being able to instantiate one instance of a class.

Not quite, you're confusing a particular way a singleton is implemented with the whole purpose of a singleton and why there's a need to restrict a class to have a single instance to begin with.

To illustrate your misconception, you can instantiate a regular class as a global variable and specify that no other instance is allowed in a project in the project's coding standards to enforce this at the code review level, and you still have a singleton.

The whole point of a singleton is that only one instance of a class is used across the system, regardless of whether this is enforced by any technice or not.

Don't confuse a specific implementation with the purpose, and requiring/expectinv only one instance of a class to be available is obviously not an anti-pattern.
The 15W doesn't account for hardware. As soon as you add in hardware (and redundancy), you're looking at a lower budget.

If i was to self host something similar, i would use a server (could be RPi4) with a set of 2x6TB drives in RAID1(for availability), and a remote backup somewhere (so another 6TB drive). The hardware cost of a single 6TB (Seagate Ironwolf 6TB, €202 at Amazon) harddrive could pay for 3 years of Family 365.

So we're looking at 6 years of Family 365 to buy the harddrives alone (and 9 months more if you buy a RPi 4). I'm not counting the backup drive as you'll need that as well even if running in the cloud.

Assuming a lifespan of 5 years, and an operating power of 5W average, you're looking at 44 KWh per harddrive per year, so 2x44x5 = 440 KWh over 5 years, or €194 (at €0.44/KWh).

So the total cost of running your own setup over 5 years would be:

€404 2 x 6TB harddrives

€194 power consumption (not counting server power)

Thats €598 for 5 years, or €119.5 per year, and that's also assuming no hardware breaks down.

Compare that to the €60 that Family 365 costs per year.
It works by concatenating html files with some minimal replace. So it's easy to edit and update.

If it ever becomes too slow, maybe I look into using xargs -P or adding more '&' between commands.
Journey of an Ethereum Validator
Open-source tests of web browser privacy
> two fast external storage ports

At least 4 USB ports (2-3 USB-B, 1-2 USB-C).

At least one of them full USB-4 Thunderbolt unless the computer is very cheap.

100% USB-C with no USB-B is a serious annoyance. Lack of a head-set jack is an extreme annoyance I would only excuse if the computer is really great otherwise.

Built-in Ethernet port is very nice to have but not necessary.

Built-in SD card reader is also very nice to have. I actually dream about every computer to have such so people would just use SD cards instead of USB-attached thumb-drives.
I'm using unity to do 3d midi animation,
have an ok setup going, lacking artistic vision :)
More noisy?

That would be a BIG, BIG, and i mean BIIIIIG downside for me.
They seem to automatically unprovision the server when not using them. The mlnly prices listed are

"price estimate based on average usage of 160 hours per month."

If you chdkc the hourly price
They about twice as expensive as hetzner clouds offerings
ad 1) Have US developers ever rallied together?
ad 2) can US not outsource just as easily?
ad 3)/4) disconnect or supply and demand?
Your theory does not appear very convincing.
Yes, exactly.

In the forest, a dead pine, if standing up, (called kelo in Finnish), can last for a pretty long time. The bark will be stripped, branches will drop off and it will turn grey. But the trunk stays there standing. It's dead and dry and there's nothing for any animal to really eat. It's too dry for fungus. Termites don't exist in northern climates.
I'm a 3D artist doing 3D animation (non-character) with Blender. I've used Max, Maya and Zbrush in the past, but it was a long time ago, since then Blender has been all I needed.
I probably should learn some C4D and Houdini to be able to get a better job...
Not sure AMD is any better, but Intel is pretty bad. They're basically a huge monopoly who constantly pushed for anti-features.

Want to own your device? No you don't, Intel does via Management Engine and other universal backdoors. Want to own your system? No you don't, you "need" Intel's microcode to fix all the bugs Intel had on release day [0].

Also, i heard recent AMD processors have tight PCIe integration (> 20 lanes), which if you need a dedicated GPU or network card is a huge bonus, but doesn't matter if you don't.

[0] Yes, i've witnessed with my own eyes CPUs that would fail to boot an OS without Intel's proprietary mirocode.
A lot of ports. A few usb of a few flavors (add one more if one is needed for charging) plus hdmi plus whatever I'm forgetting. Personally I'd even prefer a built in rj45 port.
Do you realize that the "horse paste" meme was launched directy after Joe Rogan got Covid and cured himself by taking Ivermectine? Makes you think, doesn't it?
"UK hospital data shocks the world: 80% of COVID deaths are among the vaccinated… COVID deaths up 3,000% after vaccine wave."
I'd say Ember.js is the biggest example of this. Their whole premise is "batteries included", you don't need to think about a lot of stuff. Things like a router and such are built-in.

When you do need to start adding libraries, they have strong installation hooks so most of the time it's one CLI command everything is scaffolded/wired up.
> I'm sure the inhabitants of the many countries the British invaded and continue to hang on to would disagree.

The political systems of every one of those countries are freer today than they were before the British “visited”.
I'm now trying to imagine an episode of Star Trek where the whole crew have Yorkshire accents.
This particular government is very fond of opening cans of worms, but is always surprised and upset to find worms inside them.
Did this happen to you?

This seems like a very contrived example of a problem.
It’s why I use Argos in the UK instead of Amazon now. I was looking for an electric blanket yesterday and the top 50 items were all dodgy Alibaba type stuff with 100s of 5* reviews
Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System
> (for the fingerprint reader)

Wait, Framework has a fingerprint reader? Hope it's not built-in. That's a strong security anti-feature to have in an otherwise good-looking laptop.
It would make a lot of sense for the UK government to encourage UK-based PeerTube websites (and other federated social media such as Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy, etc), and to make sure all UK government content is uploaded on such sites.

Then once they have done that, and these sites have lots of users and traction, mandate that Google, Facebook etc also federate using ActivityPub. If they don't, block their sites.
Avoid these topics: Religion, Politics, and Staying-in-a-cafe-after-ordering
not sure if it's rude to ask, but have you had any buyers of your nfts?