skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We once celebrated the Web and the idea of ephemerality, portability, “view source” and inspect,

Back when the web was mostly traditional websites and documents, not apps.

> And are mobile apps running in locked down OSes truly “native” either? Whether they’re written in WASM or Swift, if they are locked behind an App Store subscription, whether they’re downloaded and stored on the device filesystem permanently or downloaded on the fly and cached as needed is irrelevant as the end user still lacks control and you still end up with an uncrackable walled garden.

They're native if they're running on a native runtime, which is optimized for the device and has full access, instead of the more limited browser.

> Likewise, why is a world where most people learn JavaScript any better or worse than a world where most people learn Swift?

It's better if one language doesn't completely dominate the application space. Same issue when Java was all the hotness, and people thought everything was going to run on the JVM.
I don't think it follows that fiat is more democratic.

Mining is not (and cannot be) a perfectly private thing that the wealthy and powerful have full control over. Ultimately, they operate at the pleasure of governments. They are subject to political whims. A nation state could theoretically nationalize all miners in the country if the political capital to do so existed.

What makes bitcoin unique to fiat currencies, is that it is democratic on a global scale between organizations and entities that control energy production and the technological capacity to produce efficient computation. And how these organizations use their voting power is still ultimately driven by the politics within, whether that's democratic or otherwise. It's not "one person, one vote", it's "one hash, one vote". The distribution of voting power across the globe is a constantly evolving thing that depends on how much electricity and computational efficiency different localities can muster.

This is why I personally think bitcoin will be the next global reserve currency. It automatically gives proportional voting power to countries based on how effectively they can summon computation, rather than how effectively they can summon violence and destruction.
The Inquisition proper wasn't huge, but it was part of a general pattern of religious persecution. Pogroms had been going on for a long time before it was set up.
This is exactly the argument against blindly trusting an experimental vaccine that hasn't gone through long term testing, whose possible long term downsides are unknown, especially for those whose risk from Covid are so minuscule (young, not overweight or other comorbities). But this prudent and nuanced view is drowned out by the neomania to trust the science...
Can you run debian or similar on the synology 420+ so that when synology dies, merges, abandons the 420+, is bought, or just changes their mind that I can switch to something with updates?
> Whether you like or hate Facebook, it's hard to see Zuckerberg as anything but a failing CEO at this point.

> Despite all of that, I hear no critic of Zuckerberg as a CEO.

Your perception on both of these points is wildly out of whack from reality.
Millions of Android Users Scammed in SMS Fraud Driven by Tik-Tok Ads
WebCodecs is available since the latest Chrome, so it is now possible to use hardware accelerated codecs from the browser. Instead of uploading & downloading GBs of data and paying for someone else's processing power, you can do everything locally as long as you don't mind a few limitations.

I am working on a project using this approach:
https://vidmix.app

(still plenty of minor bugs, I was planning for a proper Show HN soon)

Also because both the preview and the rendering is done with WebGL the result is guaranteed to match what you see while editing, unlike with some cloud-based editors where a different stack on the rendering backend is trying to replicate what the browser is doing with js+css
> but what about the opposing viewpoints like those from law enforcement?

You're right, I may be ignorant of the issues that support the need for weakening encryption, but the fact is that I can evaluate the other side of the equation. And if the side pushing against encryption is making terrible arguments, I can see how terrible they objectively are.

> Do nuclear scientists define nuclear energy policies or do they provide advice to those that define them?

Similar thing: the arguments against nuclear power are idiotic and typically plain wrong and based on irrational appeals to fear.

Just like the previous issue, if a decision has to be made, it has to balance the pros and cons. Even if I can only properly evaluate only one side of the equation and find it lacking, I can certainly have serious doubts as to the legitimacy of the choice presented. And that's one side more than most people can grasp.
Show HN: Cronspeak – Vocal Reminders on a Cadence
https://www.cronspeak.com/

I created this site with the purpose of giving me reminders while working to get up and do some small exercises.

It only works on desktop.

I hope some of you can get some benefit out of it too!
> Good job, you seized a car-full of drugs and some dudes who mail drugs, do they think the global drug market has felt real hit?

There's a great interview on YouTube with a former drug enforcement officer, whose department spent 7 months to bust a large drug ring. He said it took two hours before other dealers had moved in.
I have never observed this level of optimism in the wild before.
He isn't saying that 100% of requirements must be understood up front, but that each stated requirement must be 100% understood by the developers. Not really understanding a requirement means you don't understand what the customer is asking for, and are likely to go build the wrong thing. It's a communication failure between the developer and the customer, and while I'll happily blame the customer for that, I also see it as my job to figure out what was really meant.

Understanding each requirement fully does not, unfortunately, imply you know everything there is to know about the desires of the customer, but at least you are on much firmer ground than if you only barely know what you are supposed to be making in the first place.
The cost for the connect plans is what confuses me. For what you get, $5-$8 per month seems oddly expensive. I don't really use any of the features in the full connect plan. The cloud syncing is convenient, and I'd be willing to throw some money their way for it, but $5/month is a lot for what amounts to 8GB of storage.
Can you run debian or similar on the ts-932px so that when synology dies, merges, abandons the ts-932px, is bought, or just changes their mind that I can switch to something with updates?
Increasingly I see the idea of thinking of college in any other terms as a deliberate meme designed to make people pay extremely high prices and put them in a debt trap, and that the sources of that meme like it that way.

Before college can be creating well-rounded citizenry or provide "excellent life experiences" or any of the other things people want of it, it must first provide a good ROI. This is a necessary foundation. If it is not doing that, then all the other fancy things are merely digging the debt trap in deeper because you're paying for all these things while failing to obtain a method of paying them back.

As a culture, in decades past we were used to college generally being so cheap that providing a good ROI wasn't that big a deal. It's much easier to get a good ROI out of something cheap. So we focused on the higher layers and were able to neglect the fact that the higher layers were always built on a foundation of the fact that college in general was a good ROI. Consequently we have come to misinterpret those higher level things as the purpose of college.

But it is necessary that these aspirational benefits be setting on a good foundation of good ROI to not be abusive to the customer.

It is not and must not be considered some sort of betrayal to be worried about ROI for college. It must simply be seen as an understanding of the fact that as the costs have changed, the way we must analyze college has also changed. It was always true, it's just now it has manifested in a larger way.
Watching them work is not enough; you must do the work too.
Attackers Hijack Craigslist Emails to Bypass Security, Deliver Malware
MIT Sloan Management Review drops their paywall through Oct. 28.
Elimination diet, sure. I meant evidence that the specific foods listed in AIP are inflammatory. I'm not contesting that it works.
10% looks low to me. I know a lot of people that drink, but very few of them are free of drink problems.
Lots of funny suggestions here. I used to have facebooksleaze.com [1],
on which I posted links and a money quote from news articles about
facebook. Within about two years it was DoS'd by someone who knew how
to do it without disturbing a couple of other sites hosted on the same
server and who didn't exploit anything else on it. Is there a way you
can set up a honeypot and sue the attacker for a billion dollars?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150225074006/http://facebooksl...
Maybe using an underscore might make sense? i.e. {2_small batches}?
Better Manage Notion Content, who sees it and how you get paid
Thanks I wasn't sure why wasm was mostly limited to C++/Rust right now but the memory makes sense.

Flutter is great except for Dart - another language.
The point of the bugout bag, from my understanding, is to assist in an unexpected and sudden departure from home. Earthquakes certainly fit the bill, I hadn't considered tornadoes but sure I can see that.

I don't know how many of the other ones realistically call for a bugout bag. Big storms have days advance warning - you don't need to be ready to leave at a moments notice, you need to decide days beforehand whether you're evacuating or boarding up your windows. Most civil unrest does not warrant evacuation in the United States, and if it got to that point, it would probably not be a sudden and unexpected departure.

Maybe I should clarify: In my previous post I wasn't so much against the idea that someone should need to possibly evacuate, as that you need to prepare to make a sudden and unexpected evacuation from society as a whole (like a "take the bugout bag and make a run to the woods" situation)
Above-ground storage tanks for gasoline are quite safe and reliable. The laws aren't that tough, and most of the compliance requirements are satisfied by having double walled tanks. I struggled to find an instance of fines above $50k that didn't also involve gross negligence.

I know it sounds scary, but most of the fire stations, hospitals, business parks, and schools you drive past will have a few hundred gallons of diesel or LNG stored on site for backup generators. Your city or county public works, taxi yards, and larger post offices will have on site fueling. Large construction sites will usually have on site fuel, or a truck that comes every day or two.
Not sure it's any open (Kobo devices usually are hackable), but Kobo Elipsa[0] is feature par with Remarkable 2.

[0] https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-elipsa
You are not a precise person.

You now say "That is not the part of your statement that I was saying is incorrect."

But your first response was to say that I was "Completely untrue."

Those two statements contradict themselves. That should teach me not to argue on the internet.
I feel like you're saying the same thing as the author? The things you've listed are daycare, not school... And the author's point is that we shouldn't make it more difficult for children to be in daycare-like settings by requiring that those settings be more like school.
bad idea to put adult burdens of conscience and politic on children -- let them be children for a while
Especially considering Dropbox is $10/mo (Annual billing). If you're in Apple's ecosystem, you can get 50gb iCloud storage for $1/mo.
> It makes my flesh crawl to see college reduced purely to ROI, but at least they're honest that that's what they're doing.

Every choice a person makes has an implicit ROI calculation. It is good to make them explicit to make them accurate, to prevent from being disappointed due to erroneous calculations.
> I believe esbuild was started first

That seems incorrect.

- "put on github" - evanw committed on Jan 15, 2020 - https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/commit/23c40b1b6a76a8626f1d...

- "initial commit" - kdy1 committed on Dec 22, 2017 - https://github.com/swc-project/swc/commit/0f9532dd5d379292cc...
Another comment of author is also their another blog post.
You're assuming that's what I meant, but no, not at all. One does not make cocaine without violence through some degree. As you noted, somebody making acid is probably not killing anyone. But association with a criminal gang, even just through trade, definitely morally implicates them more than street dealers.

That said, they will not break my door down to try and rob me. Street dealers have done that in the past. This is a selfish perspective sure, but street dealers are generally a much bigger danger to me than being murdered by Colombian drug lords. This is what I meant by "apples to oranges".. organized criminals are much worse morally (the law agrees here), but pretty unlikely to actually do anything to you, since they are organized and do not wish to attract attention.
My flesh is crawling because ROI doesn't have units of dollars.
Oh right, never contemplated such a thing to exist.. but there it is in Google. I wonder if worries about electronic media becoming unreadable over time are overstated
Well, some black markets have been successfully disrupted.

It’s hard to get relatively-safe but difficult-to-smuggle opium and heroin due to supply disruption, so now the market has almost entirely shifted to fentanyl which is easy to produce and ultra potent (therefore easy to smuggle).

Yay?
What's the deal with buying an expired patent? Doesn't expired mean the patent is not valid?
Supabase is headed in that direction and already works for most simple CRUD like apps.
I was hoping for hosted postgreSQL database support as part of Next deployment.
John Adams had it right in a letter he wrote from Paris, France in 1780 to his wife Abigail who was back in the US [1].

> I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelaine, &c. &c. &c. -- if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

We've just gotten a bit stuck at the middle step.

[1] https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L178005...
Thank you!

(1) - I'm not sure. I don't think I'm an expert here. But if you've got 15 years of anti-spam experience, we'd love to have you join us as a member :-)

(2) - Thank you. Fixed!
This is nice as a more opinionated version of create-react-app. helps solve some of the problem with the fragmented react ecosystem.

It does seem a bit complex though, perhaps something you would use on large projects only.
China's New Maritime Patrol Ship Looks Like a Cruise Ship Inside
I think this may be carelessly worded in the article. It was publicly accessible, but I don't think it was intended to be publicly available to anyone who wasn't developing it. Am I misremembering the reporting on this?
Hey Lee! Loved the new features and your session on edge.

One further-future question - would react server components ever be able to execute on the edge or will those always run from the datacenter you've deployed to?

And regions - Cloudflare Workers offers 44 regions in North America and Vercel currently offers 4. Does your team have any plans to add some more edges around the world to bring the speed benefits closer to end users?

Thanks to you and your teams incredible hard work on all the new features. Next.js has been a blast to use the past 5 years. Looking forward to the next 5!
In general, leaking a company's secrets is going to be a civil matter, and to the extent that it's a criminal case a prosecutor would be very unlikely to press charges if the company isn't asking them to. On the other hand leaking classified government secrets is always a criminal matter and charges are almost always going to be pressed.
This document is actually way more interesting with the comments, kind of an inside look into the legal process
When assessing e-book / e-ink options earlier this year, what soured me on reMarkable was its anaemic onboard storage (16 GB) and lack of extensibility. I'd written the company regarding plans for expansion. When reMarkable II was announced ... and continued to have only 16GB storage, I passed. Note that the price differential between 16 and even 128 GB storage is only a few tens of dollars.

The notion of a Linux-based tablet was appealing. I hugely dislike Android. However I purchased an Onyx BOOX with 64 GB onboard storage. It is a fairly customised Android build (and largely de-Googled). This provides access to several useful apps (Firefox, Pocket, and Termux most notably), as well as built-in Bluetooth support meaning external keyboards can be used. (reMarkable supports this only through a hardware connection.)

I'd really like a viable Linux tablet. I'm keeping an eye on Pine's offerings. But reMarkable appear to be headed in an unfortunate direction.

My interpretation is that reMarkable are crippling onboard storage (much as Google have on Android devices) to drive adoption of cloud-based services, whether for surviellance (in Google's case) or subscription revenues (in reMarkable's).
You can use CouchDB installed on a desktop PC and tell PouchDB to use that instead of the web browser's IndexedDB for offline-first apps.

This approach gets you pretty close to native app speed.
The implications seems to be that 'It was a long time ago, it didn't happen and if it did happen it doesn't matter'. An impressive amount of cognitive dissonance. It's not that people aren't trying to re contextualize the past all the time, the 1619 project for example. There is also much still kept secret 50 years on and it would be nice to learn more. Anyone who isn't pushing an agenda would agree with that. Personally I find it extremely distasteful that people here are still trying to bury this.
All high skill workers already left Germany. No good developer will ever work for 32000 Euro after tax per year if you can go to Switzerland or USA and make tons more money and have higher quality of life (weather in Cali is a lot better than Germany and everything else is also better)
Your replies seem to come from a good place, and you have some good questions, to which you wrongly presume you hold the answers (ie. you presume you have the right models of the world). Neither does anyone else in general. I cannot do justice to type the frameworks here into a chat, but just an invitation to challenge your own world views (if you indulge ) ...

Do elites and their followers comes from the same strata of society and hold the same values? What is the role of intellectuals in a state? Does income really play the decisive role for them? What else besides income people cherish the most, and how is this weighted in different strata of society?

In your parting remark on the libertarian "fantasy" you want to voice your emotional judgement, to which you are entitled. Im not too much into labels without functional concept.

"...idiots who believe conspiracy theories". Do you know some professional (medical or academic) who believes (COVID in this context) conspiracy? I do, many in fact. I also know academics who teach PhD level physics and publish in top journals, who believe that the earth is 6000 yrs old. I can hardly consider this person idiot in a conventional sense (of cause N. Taleb would have his own view of this).

[I had to skip the election part and the "..because other people bear the cost of individual decisions" part. Too long to expose and investigate this to a sufficient detail. Enough to say that we would disagree right from the premisses, however, those are minor issues, or particulars if you will, which stem from the prevalent assumption of a world view.]
How we designed themes for the terminal – a peek into our process
Definitely get that it works as a backend as well. I guess I am imagining a frontend-agnostic platform that is more backend-centric, rather than targeted directly for frontend web development.

Ideally I just get an endpoint from my backend-as-a-service (Supabase style) I can pop into Vercel as an environment variable, and use it as well in my moblile apps, public api, etc.
Yep, I'm using Vercel + Supabase for a SaaS right now. Easy, fast, cheap, and effective.
Thank you! I helped set up the Brazil Election War Room -- the first election war room inside of FB. It was intense! There is a special place in my heart for your country <3
Those are very valid points
>If the person is a mature, informed, and energetic business go-getter, and they actually manage to start new ideas while they attend school, and then establish vital bonds with other go-getters they meet, they can potentially gain a lot from a college experience.

I could not disagree more. What this person gets out of college is nothing more than checking the "has 4yr degree" checkbox you need these days. College will do nothing for them other than check that box. Their own accomplishments will be what carries them through life.
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“The design’s militaristic look with smooth surfaces, sharp corners, vertical ribs around the base and the use of a dramatic black color with white product graphics was unlike anything done before at Apple.”

This really wouldn’t look out of place on the Death Star, or even in Vader’s meditation chamber.
Aren't the growth of most companies tied to some third party? At the very least most companies can be negatively impacted by a third party decision. Just look at the chip shortage impacting car productions.
I assume that Gatsby generates the different widths/formats at build time. How well does that scale? Like if you have a thousand images, what's the build time like?
That's true, sort of. Some elements can have such long half lives they are effectively stable, and can be treated as if they are. For example tellurium 123, 128, and 130; and Bismuth 209.
Also missing from the article is an explanation of why they spent $12k defending against an expired patent?
Perhaps in a sense, but not in the sense that one can run it without an internet connection many years in the future.
So this is a link to a blog post on the frontpage of HN detailing the analysis of how to get a post onto the front page of HN because "a great post can save months of organic growth and give you that much needed bump of early adopters" while at the same time saying nothing about the actual product or service they're working on, other than "we are in stealth mode but sharing some cool stuff about DevOps and Security". Seems like a missed opportunity, unless their business is figuring out when to post to HN for it to be most likely to become "viral".