skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what your missing is that it's been over for a while in a lot of places. Like there's a lot of places that by last May there was no way to know anything was going on and school started back just fine in August of 2020.
Database of popular carbon offset projects
A simple attempt to visualise popular carbon offset projects and the companies buying credits from them.
The video didn't say, but their website says it's 92,000 USD (and there's a build queue).

https://www.jetsonaero.com/
Yes, I meant to say they can claim it's licensed to then as long as they follow all the license terms.

Also IANAL but I believe they can make the claim that they are not violating the license terms since the site was not meant to be publicly available and the access that some people obtained was not authorized (and I think this is a strong argument since they blocked the access as soon as it was discovered).

One can say that the mere fact that the site was accessible, even if unintentional, was enough to configure it to be distributed, and therefore required to follow the full license terms (in fact, I think this is the position that GNU takes), but I don't think this argument would be so strong in an actual legal battle,
Rethinking the Human Healthcare Stack
That's like a 40,000 foot perspective. As a sibling comment says, what about hospitals?

The total value of the stock markets didn't seem to suffer from Covid-19. But people have.

Maybe your point is that unrestricted ransomware shouldn't affect GDP? I'm honestly not sure. Doesn't there have to be a limit? Civilization depends on trust. Sometimes there are critical points.
It's not quite a drop-in replacement for JACK yet, but I have very little doubt that it will get there.
"My point is that the nature of digital technologies is such that information is far more ephemeral and closed off than it's ever been"

I don't think I agree with that. For a lot of pre-historical research the only thing we have to go on is fossils and rock formations. Our picture about dinosaurs is extremely ephemeral and extrapolated from a very small number of things in the grand scheme of history, I don't think we can even begin to imagine the sheer number of events that happened in the total history of organic life forms that resulted in the current state of things. But knowing those things is really important for a lot of scientific fields.

Edit: Also I guess I just don't see why digital information is really significant here. It seems just as likely for a marginalized person without safety to have a physical notebook or photo album get lost or destroyed, for example.
So kill whoever does not memorize my website?
https://github.com/RediSearch/RediSearch/

https://github.com/RedisJSON/RedisJSON/
Unvaccinated Police Officers Could Become America’s Own Insurgents
I, for one.

I still own well over 1500 vinyl albums from the 1960s to 1980s. (From a tape mastering service that closed down in the 1990s, so pristine vinyl, radio stations would play the tapes made from the records.) Sentimental value…never played now.

Own lots of music digitally purchased or copied from owned CDs. Over the years most of the transferred-from-CD music has been replaced by purchased digital for the convenience of using iTunes. My iTunes library is very large. I can listen to my library for half a year without ever repeating a track.

I own 1000+ CDs. And I regularly purchase more. Often after having purchased one or more tracks from the album online.

If I find an entire album I really like, I don’t mind the expense of purchasing a CD and online content. But it has to be really good and an artist I want to support.

1. I don’t need an Internet connection to play my CD. A $30 CD player will suffice.

2. My CD will still be making its music freely available for 50-100 years.

3. There is no recurring per-use/per-month fee for playing my CD.

4. No company can arbitrarily make my CD music unavailable.

5. My CD tracks are good enough sound quality for me, except perhaps loudness war legacy tracks. Skip-free, scratch-free, high fidelity, great dynamic range. On a $30 CD player.

6. My CD isn’t part of any playlist market manipulation. My CD isn’t trying to sell me anything other than itself. It’s all about the music, man.

7. I can resell my CD if I so choose to someone else who shares my interest in my CD. After deleting any backup digital copy I may have made of my CD.

8. My CD is part of a simple musical ecosystem. I can take my CD from my home stereo to my portable player to my car player without Internet glitches or firmware updates or software incompatibilities or rights management nightmares.

9. My new CD costs $15-20, as little as $2-3 in boxed sets or used. One time, upfront. Every use for the next 50 years or more costs nothing…it doesn’t degrade with wear.

10. With CD changers, a set of my CDs can provide much of the same functions as online or streaming playlists. For a one-time $150 cost. No Internet. No hassles.

11. My CDs reflect and physically document my (hopefully) evolved taste in music. I do trust other music enthusiasts’ recommendations on what I might eventually purchase, but wouldn’t trust your average SV algorithm for immediate shut-up-and-listen playlists.

I like my CDs. I selectively want to add to my collection. And the relative difficulty in getting used CDs that are out-of-print nowadays suggests that others share my predilection. My CD collection might be worth today more than its original purchase price, or may be in the future if streaming doesn’t clean up its act.
> But my personal aesthetic

And there's where it all falls apart. Your (and the author's) personal aesthetic is not the be-all, end-all of design. You may not like how they look, but others do. And that's fine.

(I happen to agree with you; I grew up in houses with fake shutters and thought they were a silly design choice. But I'm not the final word on design, and I suspect the author is not either.)
Today I learn that a ring scientist is a thing...
Maybe as a compromise I could pronounce "muh-git", as in "emacs has a good client fer usin' muh git".
Quite overly aggressive. If you're not buying every record just for the sake of buying every record, and mostly just buying a record because you love it, vinyl is by no means for rich people. I'm in the same boat as you - modest income, collection double your size because I've slowly built it out of love over many, many years.
When I read this article, it makes me think about how people who are obsessed with their fields of expertise get worked up about things which seem unimportant or obscure to outsiders.

If your reaction to his complaint is "ha ha, who cares about fake shutters, it doesn't make a difference" then think about what arguments about code or branching style mean to people who don't think about working in a repository every day.

"Well, that's totally different, because..."
I'm not missing the point, I just don't agree with it.

There is an intrinsic economic incentive in breaking the console's security, because there's an untapped market of 50M devices out there already. If I have an Xbox One already, am into the idea of piracy (perhaps I bought my Xbox One near launch expecting the same kind of piracy scene the previous Xboxes had), why wouldn't I spend the cost of modchip?

There's a market for the kind of cracking and it's only because of the stupidily good job Microsoft did on the security that you're not seeing a homebrew or piracy scene (and thus not the seeds for an emulation scene).
Breathe, you're going to be OK.
Intel and TSMC are all using lithography machines by ASML, so what is the difference? Are they using the same lithography machines? Is there a difference in production processes used at TSMC vs Intel? Does anyone know any details?
I think the plus side is also the experience that the format brings. Vinyl present itself as an alternative "romantic" experience compared with subscription services and just like books it has something inherently more relatable as something physical. The waveforms may be decreasing its quality each play but just like every object in the world which is nice.
Frankly, I don't get why people are still rooting for the literal evil that is Intel. These guys did everything in their power to halt progress and milk everyone for as long as possible. They should've paid 10x in dages for what they did.

I know the Stockholm syndrome is real but try to not fall for this guy's bullshit.
Yeah that was a lot crazier than I would have imagined snd I do a fair bit of YouTube. I cleared my search history after that though. Yeesh
Intel is an ARM licensee, and has made and can make their own ARM architecture based chips, if that's what the market wants.
“Here it is not about how you feel: it is about whether you make sense” claims specialness and, yes, I took the bait. Sorry.
That is because you are assuming every company other than Amazon is playing by the rules, which is equally absurd.

Barring better information, I can't really say one way or the other. Ot isn't a terribly unreasonable hypothesis- running warehouses is basically Amazon's core business model, paired with AWS.
Fastmail's been great for me, I love it. Unless I can find a similar premium domestic (US) offering that's near feature parity, and not a trillion dollar megacorp, I couldn't imagine leaving them.
I guess? If I have a video player or a game/emulator in the foreground then I think it deserves direct access to the audio device and I just don't like the idea of a userspace sound server in the middle. For a music player or whatever other random stuff, sure, mix it however, send it over Bluetooth, who cares. I've given up fighting PulseAudio, though, and with one audio device I can't have it both ways.
>Github is testing the Copilot AI. How much longer before some architect tells an AI to stitch together code that fits some sort of functional spec.

You should register for the Copilot beta. It's pretty eye opening.

Basically it generates bog standard terrible code, because thats the majority of code. It can "Hello, world!" in most languages. Maybe it's useful for particularly boilerplate heavy languages or librairies, but for the most part it's more like StackOverflow copy-pasting except the code is worse.

So quite a long way to go.
China's Race for AI Supremacy [video]
Check out gestures[1] if you get libinput working with Wayland or X. libinput for X has less features and gesture support, though.

[1] https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures
Agree.

The real bottleneck (or better, root cause) is not that the ports are full of containers. But where should those containers be in the first place.

The issue is not, fundamentally, "container parking space is temporarily constrained", it is: they should be elsewhere (read: China or wherever) and they aren't
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics
I don't understand how displaying some text and images eats gigabytes of memory anyway. Web browsers had that capability since Netscape and we barely had megabytes to spare. We have thousandfolds more memory now and have gained... what, exactly?
Thats how it works for me working in Mexico in a US company. There are several PEOs like Globalization Partners or via.work (these last are Ycombinator alumni I think).

I get all the legal benefits from being employed in my country and the advantages of working for a US company.
The formats have different qualities.

I buy records because I like physical objects and reading the liner notes. I've been listening to music, sitting in the midst of a pile of records, since the 70s.

But I buy CDs too -- mostly used -- because it's a great, inexpensive way to get high bitrate music.
I’m glad you said 2004, when Zero Mission came out, instead of 2002, when Fusion was released.

Fusion is the previous game in the mainline Metroid series, but…I never liked it. It felt slow and clunky compared to Super Metroid. The SA-X scenes were uncompromising and required memorization to get through. It was also more linear from what I saw, with seemingly arbitrary access restrictions instead of solid level design, but I never finished it so I cannot say for sure.

Zero Mission was “the original Metroid game, remastered with modern features and new content.” As a huge Super Metroid fan, it was exactly what I had desired when I bought Fusion.

Dread takes the “unbeatable adversary” mechanic from Fusion and greatly improves upon it. The EMMIs are smart and deadly, and they have killed me dozens of times, but it never feels unfair like the SA-X did. I haven’t finished it yet, but it feels like it’s taken the best parts of the best 2D Metroids, current gaming sensibilities and expectations, modern hardware capabilities, and rolled them into a great game.
I mean, not "fall apart" as such. I assumed it was part of the premise from the start that we are sharing subjective preferences here, not laws of nature :).
I don’t really like Facebook, but what is Facebook supposed to do? That’s what I don’t understand. What duty did they abdicate here? I read the article but didn’t see any evidence that people on Facebook beforehand stated they would break into the Capitol.
Freedom of speech has utility for 2 reasons:

- It's the best method for approaching truth (for several reasons, one being challenge)

- It allows disputes to be settled ("fought" might be a better term:) without recourse to violence.

If Nazis are willing to fight their corner without using violence then I'm happy because their arguments are easily beaten (hence, why they needed to use violence to gain power in the past).

The problem that social media companies have wrought is not giving people too much free speech, it's siloing opposing views away from each other because it makes some people uncomfortable. Without challenge, speech becomes dangerous, it is not free it is restricted. It's essentially a form of blasphemy law, its effects are just the same, but now we can have several different streams of negative thought growing unchallenged alongside each other because social media has been chopped up into silos.

Insane people can't get into power as long as they can be challenged, that requires free speech. As long as these silos exist there is not free speech and we are in greater danger of insane or authoritarian government.
I still don't understand the actual root cause after reading that thread.

Is it too many full or empty containers?

If full is the root cause a lack of truckers?

If empty then why aren't boats picking up the empty containers when they leave?
I see you chose to ignore what prompted the rant. Is it deliberate?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire
It would probably end the restrictions (to which the "I've got their plan figured out"-contrarian will reply "No, I bet the tyrannical governments have worse plans").

The scientific literature says the vaccinated have lower viral load and are less infectious, if the load on hospitals and careworkers get reduced, what would prevent the relaxation of the restrictions?

Currently careworkers have been under extra pressure for 18 months, imagine a car engine being revved too hard and too long that suddenly blows, and apply this analogy to them, obviously not the entire industry in a day, but maybe over a semester...
Because it's fun to.
"If all of a corporations data is being held to ransom, there is no choice in the matter, they must pay"

This sounds reasonable at first, but I think it might be leaning on anthropomorphizing a corporation a little much.

I think of them more as a machine, or a biological cell or microbe.

While it may be a machine optimized for survival, I'm not sure that they all are or that they must be.

An organism can self-destruct if that's what it's programmed to do.

And an organization in theory should be able to maintain processes that result in orderly self-destruction in certain circumstances, where it's appropriate in the wider society.

After all, companies typically go bankrupt rather than devolving into gang warfare, right?

A "humans first" society should not be prioritizing the survival of human created organizations above all else.
We went from fotolog to Facebook to Instagram to tiktok in a decade or so. In a few years more it will be something 3d we can't completely envision, who knows in a few decades. In each iteration language changes faster, cause memes are language.

In 500 years this will be gibberish. Who knows if people will even know how to read?
IBM PS/2 Keyboard Modification
You have a very curious view of childless/single people. Gosh, this must be the first time I've seen someone use "avocado toast" other than a parody of these kind of views.

And ironically, I actually spent many years volunteering as a scout leader and some youth computer initiatives shrug
Committing node_modules and reproducibility are somewhat not orthogonal though.

You can get reasonable degrees of reproducibility by choosing reasonable tools: Yarn lets you commit their binary and run that in the specified repo regardless of which version you have installed globally. Rush also allows you to enforce package manager versions. Bazel/rules_nodejs goes a step further and lets you pin node version per repo in addition to the package manager. Bazel+Bazelisk for version management of Bazel itself provides a very hermetic setup.

Packages themselves are immutable as long as you don't blow away your lockfile. I used to occasionally run into very nasty non-reproducibility issues with ancient packages using npm shrinkwrap (or worse, nothing at all), but since npm/yarn got lockfiles, these problems largely went away.

These days, the non-hermeticity stuff that really grinds my gears is the very low plumbing stuff. On Mac, Node-GYP uses xcode tooling to compile C++ modules, so stuff breaks with MacOS upgrades. I'm hoping someone can come up with some zig-based sanity here.

As for committing node_modules, there are pros and cons. Google famously does this at scale and my understanding is that they had to invest in custom tooling because upgrades and auditing were a nightmare otherwise. We briefly considered it at some point at work too but the version control noise was too much. At work, we've looked into committing tarballs (we're using yarn 3 now) but that also poses some challenges (our setup isn't quite able to deal w/ a large number of large blobs, and there are legal/auditing vs git performance trade-off concerns surrounding deletion of files from version control history)
There is an open NPM “audit assertions”[1] RFC which would allow the compromised package to be nested one dependency deeper, and would allow the hijacked ua-parser-JS package to assert that it’s unaffected.

Should this proposal go through, it’s quite possible this would have gone much further. It would have allowed the attacker to wait for detection, and to silence any propagation of that to users of the otherwise legitimate package.

I had to bow out of the conversation because I didn’t feel like I could engage it in a healthy way—I’m way too personally affected by my own experience dealing with dismissal of serious security issues—but I think folks here might be interested in it given this compromise.

1: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/422
I was also very young and did not have a good enough grasp on money yet, but for us, in Germany, I remember the 1541 disk drive for the Commodore not being cheap, but still everyone I knew with a C64 got one, so the cost must not have been too prohibitive. The "Datasette" tape drive was much cheaper as I recall, but because of the disk drive's propensity I only knew one person who had it (and probably barely used it).

Depended a lot on the region I guess. I hear that in Britain for some reason the tape decks were much more common. But Britain kind of got an "alternative history" of home computing anyway, owed largely due to their computer literacy program and (partly) resulting British micro industry. Many of those products barely made it to the continent, some not at all, so it's hard to compare.
Which of the two chief executives tagged in this Twitter thread is supposed to have the legal authority to unilaterally overrule Long Beach’s zoning ordinances? Surely it isn’t newsom, but I bet Biden has even less authority.

This is not a judgment on the merit of the idea bc the zoning rule seems dumb but what’s the point of proposing a “solution” which it isn’t clear either man can actually implement?
Gas is getting to 2008 levels where I live, surely you would notice that if you have two vehicles
Railroads are literally a textbook example of a natural monopoly. In fact they're typically somewhere near the top of the list in any textbook.
> "First time?"
Can cargo ships with empty containers actually sail back? In the past we shipped tons of alfalfa to China, partially because meat (and thus cow feed) is worth more in China, but I was under the impression that the main purpose was ballast for the ships because they can't sail without enough weight in them and alfalfa was the cheapest bulk weight they could source.
> He's also targeting getting Apple back

I doubt he seriously is, I think that’s just rallying the troops by setting an aggressive, aspirational target, acknowledging the humiliation and trying to use it.

Which is what he should be doing so good for him.

It remains to be seen if he’s another Lisa Su. The odds are against it but I’d be excited if he could pull it off.
I hadn't realized that this was the case, but if so it would absolutely track.
It appears to have C++, Lua, and JavaScript bindings[1] to a mostly-C++ core. The C++ bindings includes "Chromium's base library" for "string manipulation and filesystem operations"[2], rather than relying on the C++ standard library. I'm not sure if this is justified, and whether it replaces C++'s std::string (good enough for UTF-8) and filesystem (probably not the best for handling non-ASCII UTF-16 paths, but I didn't test).

[1]: https://libyue.com/

[2]: https://libyue.com/docs/latest/cpp/guides/getting_started.ht...

> Please note that there is no documentation on the base library, you have to read the header files on how to use it.

> Though the base library is undocumented, there are few guides to help you learn it:

Ahh, like capnproto's kj.
Trump's Truth Social Hacked Within Hours of Announcement
> I have no problem with non-functional facsimiles of things.

I needed a damaged tile floor repaired once. But the tile was not available. A local artist said "no problem" and with mortar and paint was able to very convincingly fake it.

Faux finishes and Trompe-l'œil are really incredible art in and of themselves, and are a lot of fun, too. I have a Trompe-l'œil mouse running along the baseboard in my house :-)
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.md/1yfdT
> Most healthcare workers are required by employers to get immunizations for other infectious diseases, such as measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. Why are some resisting the Covid-19 vaccine?

Well, sans J&J's jab, the mRNA based jabs are new "technology." That is, they are not the same type of vacinne as those listed. This is clear. This is the science.

The fact that so many - especially in the media - push a narrative that pretends otherwise only gives the hold outs more reason to do so. When someone doesn't trust you and the reaction is "here, let me spit some half-truths at you" is never a good sign. If the science is good there should be no need for propaganda.

Note: I'm not taking sides. This is simply Humanity & Empathy 101. Simply put, trust is earned. You can't force feed it.
This is the primary reason I use the fastmail app instead of mail.app, because it uses the incoming email address as the reply address.
Why does the empty container have to be taken back to long Beach? Couldn't it be taken literally anywhere else?