skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it’s a lot more like the market for luxury goods.

Why does a Chanel purse sell for substantially more than a similar quality leather bag from a generic manufacturer? Because of the intangible status market of the Chanel brand.

If the Chanel logo combined with artificial scarcity turns a $1000 bag into a $6000 purse, why would we not expect the Chanel logo with the same artificial scarcity to turn a $0 JPEG into a $1000 JPEG?
I’m increasingly seeing content creators use multiple channels, maybe it was always this way and I just noticed it.

For instance, Adam Tooze, an economist historian. He is very active on Twitter, runs a weekly paid and unpaid Substack news letter and has also recently taken to podcast. This, besides writing articles for magazines. He also has his personal website which I guess aggregates all/most of his content.

It’s quite daunting to keep up with his rate of high quality content creation, but I guess it helps that he’s had a few decades of experience in his field and is a professor so is used to engaging with community.
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What exactly do you mean by "developer experience platform?"
Or that right wing is bad, or that bad content is right wing
Have YOU ever read Mein Kampf? The central thesis is that Jews view non Jews as sub human servants.
I loved RedBean when I worked with PHP.

Does anybody here know of an equivalent ORM for Ruby or NodeJs?
That's an organizational problem.

If you use this stuff right -- citizen-developers should be developing their own work.

Or at most, the work of their immediate group / team.

Who's to blame when the low/no code makes a booboo? The citizen-developer. And who fixes it? The citizen-developer. And who can fix it, because they already know how to do the work manually? The citizen-developer!

And, most critically, who is then incentivized to correct their own low/no code so it doesn't break again? The citizen developer.

The central organizational anti-pattern around this is "users build + IT maintains." Just... don't do that, or allow it. Make it clear when they get this capability, that they're responsible for fixing issues, and that IT will only advise.

And have that talk with their VP up front, so that when he or she tries to escalate because they have an "Oh @&$+" outage, you let them suffer long enough to hurt, before pitching in.

And then after the incident is over, you return with "So one way we prevent this on the other side of the house is {cvs/testing/environments/etc}..." And there's a chance they listen to you, because it's a solution to a problem they just had.
There are a lot of stories about people explaining visions they received while brain dead or in hypothermia and were revived to tell the tale. In my crude estimation the brain is more like an antenna listening to a far larger realm. I've never seen anyone crack an RSA key with their minds but people do fantastically complex tasks all the time without conscious effort. I don't really see how a quantum computer would make self driving car software more effective than what we have now. If we have to compare brains to computers it definitely has an edge for multi threaded background problems over single conscious tasks.
>Citizen Browser is a national panel of paid Facebook users who automatically share their news feed data with The Markup. To analyze the websites whose content performs the best on Facebook, we counted the total number of times that links from any domain appeared in our panelists’ news feeds

Their methodology is as bad as Nielsen's old TV rating methodologies.
> Sure, that could work. But that standardized API does not exist, or if it does, it's clearly not being adopted, so it's a moot point. Where is the Indie Web in terms of adoption?

The same argument could simply made forward: the idealistic hopes of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 of an distributed, interoperable web did not materialise because walled gardens arose which then embraced and extended™ and then sabotaged the open web. Somehow I think Zuckerberg will not build his metaverse on a digital wallet which enables his users to possible leave his walled garden.
That's the thing though - if cloud office has 80-90% of functionality of common desktop office then it's completely covers open source office value proposition. And for the rest several percent of power users open office is still lacking and not an option to switch.
I think you just stumbled over your own logic.

Hitler used the same line of thinking you just regurgitated.

He branded a group of people as denying German humanity (evil usupers looking to cause harm from within) and used that as justification for the Holocaust.

I think you need a time out.
Hmmm. I'm also looking at it as a way of supporting a startup that's trying to do something different. I'm annoyed with BIG TECH at the moment.
> If I wanted I could write a smart contract for a MMO gambling game like POWH3D and publish it tomorrow. That isn't a capability I used to have - quite a few hoops to jump through to get a game onto a casino floor, or start up an online gambling website.

The previous restrictions on starting your own online casino have never been technological. It's really not that hard to set up your own online casino using non-blockchain technology. The main hurdles are entirely legal. Gambling has a ton of regulations and restrictions in virtually every jurisdiction, and many governments are more then happy to aggressively punish those who break the rules. Regulators aren't going to look kindly on your MMO gambling game just because "it uses the blockchain."

And sure, maybe you can more easily evade regulators by making a blockchain casino, over a traditional online casino. But to me, "creating illegal casinos more easily then before" isn't a particularly compelling use case.
Yups. From another thread:

> It got rolled back after they elected [a] mayor who got Microsoft to move their German headquarters to Munich.
I would not recommend anyone to use WordPress in 2021, though. WordPress maybe simple to setup, it's part of what gave PHP its bad reputation.
Also, it's kind of right there in the name. "Org Mode". It's not just a markup format, it's an emacs mode.

My org files quickly accumulate custom elisp snippets for automating small one-off things like rendering embedded dot with Graphviz and displaying them inline. I don't think I'm alone in that. Unfortunately, that creates a situation where, whenever I try to work with org files in other editors, there's a certain "it's like opening Photoshop files in MS Paint" aspect to the experience. Too many things that I've come to take for granted about how I'd interact with and edit these files no longer works.

Markdown, on the other hand, is just a markup format. It has lots of dialects, but it isn't really owned by anyone. That creates a very different power structure: Markdown editors are free to just try to make a good Markdown editing/viewing experience, whatever that means to that particular editor's developer. There's no looming and inevitably unfavorable comparison to the format's native editor to have to contend with.
I was just trying to get a number of key points across calmly and succinctly without wasting time diving into a long-winded academic debate about whether or not I am "allowed" to use a programming language that I have used with success for the last decade!

Not sure that I have any tips for you. Other than that it is often helpful to remove unnecessary words when communicating. This is something I have become sensitive to over the years. I used to write a lot more voluminously but I find it is harder to convey messages to people when they are confronted with a wall of text.
next: use matrix.org
I've had it happen on my DMV's 'personalize license plate' site. In order to reserve a plate I had to provide a gmail address, and could not in fact use my personal domain or protonmail account.
A markdown generator embeds markdown from a Github repo into the marketing site. This way the marketing site is kept private while anyone can easily contribute to docs.

Docs are kept in separate folders for each release.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation-documentation
> Countries as different as Italy

I found it fascinating that we had the patron system during Roman times where people made daily visits to a rich local and got paid basically for showing up and chatting. This created a useful network of connections all around. Meanwhile today in some instances we call this bribery, or organized crime.
hahaha the readme was a fun read, good to see some trolling in the NFT space too.

The only thing that scares me is the size.. how is it 20TB total? That's a lot of jpegs..
One could argue in could faith, that it's not so disturbing.

If FB encouraged a fringe community beacause they profited, they can't then entirely wash their hands when the fringe grows problems. It would look bad on their part and it's logical to hide stats.
I used Help and Manual to document my software:
https://www.helpandmanual.com/

It can generate HTML, CHM, PDF etc, all from a single source.

It is one of my favourite software tools (I am a customer and have no financial interest in it).
Again, do you extend that argument to every single government that has a famine or mass casualty event due to incompetence? You can, as I said, but do you do so?
It would be more accurate to compare Cloud Development Kit to Pulumi, is is pretty much the same thing. CDK supports Go, Python, Java, C#
This is the worst name for a product I've ever heard.
'Psicoimpact', Teatro, Autor Nicolás Francisco Herrero Teatro Escuela Central
I am so glad I am not the only one. May be I will admit I am stupid. Because every time I think back everything was simple. It wasn't easy, some things was slightly tedious, but it was simple.

Now most of the time I dont have a clue why anything works. It is blackbox feeding into another blackbox which relies on another blackbox somehow we all agree that is how things should be done so we stick with it.
I'd argue that before freedom can be a goal or a direction it's necessarily an identity first. When we think of freedom as an external thing, it's a reaction that defines itself as inferiorized to the thing one is becoming free from.

I like Snowden's thinking and think he's one of the greatest exemplars of courage alive today, and not to use his personal email newsletter as a foil, but I think he missed some key depth.

The crux I think of the culture war is whether the ideal of freedom originates from identity - or is the effect of experience. This crux is related to the tension between individual and collective good, but not defined by it. I think the line is deeper.

The peculiar aspect of viewing freedom as an identity is it necessitates - if not a belief in the divine, at least a presumption of it. If you believe freedom is an effect of circumstances, it relates you to the material world as being subject of it. If you see freedom as a state of existence or an axiom of being, it has to originate from somewhere, which implies it was made or granted - and not by humanity.

This is why the culture war isn't intellectual or about ideas or a specific "religion," but it is the exact same kind of religious conflict we've recorded for milennia, because it's over beliefs about identity. "Attacks" or subjugation of freedom isn't an attack on an ideal, they become an attack on "free people."

However, the complement or opposition to this free identity is the one where people identify as un-free, or as subjects to forces - unfortunately for us all, those forces are of the freedom-identified. Unlike freedom, this view doesn't come from divine presumption, but material physical expereince, either of real direct oppression and abuse, or via the logic of ideas in language. Their belief comes from things that mostly happened to them. It's a founding axiom of their identity, where your first words are for things that reflect your identity as a subject, slave, or oppressed. This identity requires an earthly oppressor, independent of whether it is real or mostly symbolic. For all my criticisms of it, it's a consequence of lived experience and not faith in some divine force.

Anyway, into heady territory here, but on this freedom/culture issue I think we've tried everything else.
If we're doing pithy aphorisms, I'd say instead that identities are irreconcilable. We can co-exist, but we cannot fully know or understand each other, even if the greatest thing in life is the little bits we do get to know and understand about others.

I'd say that recognizing freedom as those parts of others we existentially cannot understand and treating it as unexplored opportunity for growth goes a long way to reconciling the interests of those who identify as free, and those who do not.
> Early PHP was not intended to be a new programming language, and grew organically, with Lerdorf noting in retrospect: "I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." [0]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think PHP gained mindshare in the early days because Coldfusion (CFML) was neither free nor open source.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
Is there a way to buy into PGP identity-based controls for crates.io packages? To say, "I trust the keys in this whitelist, so trust packages signed by those keys."

> Thirdly, using cloud developer environments such as GitHub Codespaces or Gitpod. By working in sandboxed environments for each project, one can significantly reduce the impact of a compromise.

That's appealing but expensive. I wish I could effectively sandbox a local developer machine. External boot drives, maybe?
Half of my Twitter feed is profile pics of NFTs being displayed prominently.

In a pre-digital pre-social media world you’re right. But in the modern world where people spend more time socializing online than in meatspace, digital goods become easier to display than physical ones.

I think a lot of HN doesn’t get this because they don’t spend much time on social media. But for someone like Steph Curry, putting an ape in his profile pic gets a lot more exposure than a Van Gogh on his living room wall.
I don't see that. The article doesn't mention regulation at all.

The conclusion of the article (literally as well as figuratively) is that Facebook needs to provide "...independent access for researchers to check the math..." (last paragraph in the article).

This is buttressed by the quotes from Frances Haugen in the article:

These findings chime with recent revelations from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who has repeatedly said the company has a tendency to cherry-pick statistics to release to the press and the public.

“They are very good at dancing with data,” Haugen told British lawmakers during a European tour.
That’s obviously not someone being serious.
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> Excel is the original low code solution

I'm surprised how infrequently this comes up, given the massive usage of Excel in the business world; low-code/no-code is always discussed as if it's something new. Non-programmers in corporate America have been building excel applications for decades. You'd be surprised and a little scared by how many business critical processes depend on an excel workbook stored on a sharepoint somewhere.

Interestingly enough, Excel in many ways is also a sort of functional programming for the masses. Excel functions are (mostly) pure. Columns are sort of immutable, and you tend to build applications as collections of smaller functions composed together as you might in Lisp.
It's only important in the context of somebody responding to his writing by claiming the right have no right to be concerned about cancel culture.
You can have password protected rooms or host service on an untrusted platform. In a corporate environment lack of e2ee is a deal breaker.
Date your posts!

Mention versions and dependencies where possible/practical.

Show me the code!

Point to relevant source material.
Material Mkdocs

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/
Depression 'has doubled' during Covid Restrictions
Cargo-crev is that sort of web of trust, but it's really in it's infancy.
I imagine that's going to be tricky with their own state-run media outlet distributing vaccine misinformation, like this.

It seems to be a frequent tactic to say, "This hurts us but it hurts you more. Therefore we win because you're too weak to take that." As far as I can tell, it seems to be pretty effective.
You could very well be right.

But just like every other kind of control mechanism it is easier in the present to focus on the visible symptoms than on the root cause, and some individuals are a bit of both. Bannon and Stone serve(d) as lightning rods but there were a lot more people active than just those two though much less visible.

The OSS and later the CIA did more damage to the world through their meddling than we will be able to fix in several generations, and it isn't over yet. I'm not quite clear on whether they really believed their motivations were pure or if they were just very cynical in the way they went about their business. They have set the stage for confrontations for many years to come, and that's the world over, not just in the United States.

The problem is that the world now needs a stable United States, one that is able to project power across the globe in a predictable and efficient manner. You can't have a policeman on the block for years and then suddenly have them abscond and leave a power vacuum. Such changes should be made gradual, not suddenly or chaos will ensue, there are a multitude of wanna-be dictators waiting in the wings to take over should the United States stumble or fall.

And I wished I would be confident that they would not fall but right now looking out across the next 25 years or so I would not put better than even money on that not happening, way too many things that should not have happened have already happened.
Yep, I'm a big fan of Excalidraw and am a contributor there too. I also re-implemented the pen tool in Excalidraw to use my digital ink library, perfect freehand (https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand), which is used extensively in tldraw.

tldraw is a separate project. The big difference is that Excalidraw renders to HTML canvas while tldraw renders to a regular DOM tree. There's a trade off: canvas can have better performance on some machines, while my approach with tldraw makes it easier to implement more complex embedded content. I wouldn't expect any changes, so use whichever you prefer!
You get a certificate of ownership for your clothes - but you don't actually hold that certificate, it's a digital record in some database.

I mean, it's as valuable as what others believe it's worth, and like any common object with the word 'supreme' on it, there's people who consider these things valuable.
> Be assertive and opinionated even when you aren't as sure.

this is terrible advice.

Anyway, this post reminds me of the subplot in the show Succession where the son-in-law thinks he's going to be promoted to CEO (from some meh position) and is strutting around like he's king... but in reality it is his wife that is on that track... and everyone is mocking the SIL behind his back.
Most adults who received the shot including the ones interested in the data would be dead by 2076.
> If it becomes common, people just accept the minor incompatibility and move on

If LibreOffice becomes more popular people will receive an odt document, MS Office will format it funny and it will be their fault for using weird software.
I don't use ZFS or QNAP but Linux has its own native dm-cache and bcache implementations for creating hybrid volumes out of SSD plus hard drives.

I would suspect that QNAP is using one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dm-cache

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcache
As is the second link, as many DOIs have.
Hm, depends what part of Office 365 you need, the offering is truly gigantic. If you need something like Word Online, there's some stuff floating around (search "open source google docs" to find them). As for the rest, Exchange Online, Sharepoint, especially how it's all integrated, I'm afraid there's simply no alternative.

Nextcloud offers some integration in that regard.
Be careful as this syntax can potentially introduce SQL injections.

PHP's parameterization features in PDO can be abstracted so you can turn this into:

$vars = array(":userid" => $userid);
q("select name from users where id = :userid", $vars);

It's still pretty concise and is much safer.
‘Everyone is welcome’ – Microsoft security panel offers different perspectives
Five ways software engineers can manage perception
The Dr. Stone manga provides an interesting perspective on how you'd bootstrap that chemistry kit.
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The standard model and particle physics has become basically a religion for some scientists.

> “As for the question ‘What are we?’ the Standard Model has the answer,” says Saúl Ramos, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “It tells us that every object in the universe is not independent, and that every particle is there for a reason.”

Because this makes no sense unless you're operating under some sort of belief system.
Who cares if content is right/left wing. Who cares? A liberal democracy is all about having the freedom to discuss things in then open.
Yep, these all come from events.
In addition to missing FIPS, I wonder if LibreSSL supports kTLS. That could be another reason to stick to OpenSSL.

The only ssl libs that I'm aware of that support kTLS are OpenSSL, and a hack I did to golang (modeled on https://blog.filippo.io/playing-with-kernel-tls-in-linux-4-1...).
What a great story... sounds like the guy learned how to like the smell of his own farts after being fired by an exploitative (typical startup bs) employer.
What exactly does not work? What Distro were you using?

Serious question because my experience is that I install Linux Mint and everything just works. Updates never break anything. Why should they?

The only arguable pain point is maybe graphics drivers but honestly installing proprietary ones is just a few clicks these days. Plus you don't need them for office work anyway. (Maybe also some power saving features on certain lesser known laptops? As a ThinkPad user I always enjoyed great support.)
Looking historically, you have a bunch of options for a pre-IC computer; there were lots of pre-IC computers. Transistors, of course, or vacuum tubes give you a useful computer. You can build a computer from relays, but the performance is pretty bad. Memory is also very important. Magnetic core memory is the way to go if you don't have ICs. None of this is going to help you if you went to the dark ages.

As far as mechanical devices, mechanical calculating machines didn't arise until the late 1600s and weren't reliable for many years. It's unlikely that you'd be capable of building a mechanical computer until the industrial revolution. Note that Babbage was unsuccessful in building his machines even in the late 1800s.

If your goal is to build a Turing-complete machine of some sort, even if totally impractical, you could push the date back a lot. But that would be more of a curiosity than a useful computer.
For what it's worth I have about 200 Linux Laptops and VDI (about 3:1 ratio) and the support burden is much less than Windows.

Need to perform an update on the fleet? Click a couple buttons to version a repo to dev, old dev to test, test to prod, schedule a remote execution of `yum update -y`, wait. None of this will it won't it work song and dance of Windows updates.

Need to perform a config change? Branch the ansible playbook repo, test your changes, merge to master, pull down repo on foreman, and schedule playbook execution.

No bullshit, all text files, all standard protocols. It just works as I would hope Windows would.