skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're hardly building websites that form "webs" anymore but more like towers with bridges. We still call it the web though.
If you put it to a vote and said we can continue to fund NASA or your taxes can be lowered by $75 / year, NASA would be done.
As someone who started working for pay before SO and GH (damnit I'm old) what I remember is that syntax errors took longer to figure out (and more trial and error), but the biggest difference to me is honestly that it is so much easier to find the right library. Back in 2005 I was coding up pretty much everything from scratch myself every time (I even remember a heroic attempt at an XML parser in C++! Backwards linking and processing directives and everything) because finding the right library to use was such a pain in the neck. If it wasn't in STL or Boost, it was like it didn't exist. Maybe it's that I'm older and more experienced (and know not to try and write your own XML parser because of all the complexity inherent in that), or maybe it's that SO and GH facilitate library discovery (with SO providing the pointers and GH providing the actual code) so much better than what came before (SourceForge etc.).

I'm not sure, but I suspect it's that it was the technology improvement more than it was my improvement.
As an EU citizen what can I do about it? Patrick Breyer's last call to action about Chat Control lead to almost nothing: only the Netherlands and Germany voted against, and barely at that.
Seems we're talking past one another. The point isn't that people can afford whatever they want, the point is that people don't directly want car-dependent suburban sprawl.

Sure, people want the impossible: quiet beautiful wilderness where you can also walk to school, groceries, concerts, and medical centers.

But the question at hand is actually how much of all the good things we are capable of having. And we really can do a lot better than sprawlville USA without the only alternative being San Francisco.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/11/3/our-self-impos...
That's one of the dictionary definitions. That's not how it's used in everyday parlance however. It's usually used to mean harassment, usually of a group.

> To harass or punish in a manner designed to injure, grieve, or afflict
These tired people could perhaps start to vote instead of complaining.
Ban encryption.... hmm, that's certainly one way to get rid of cryptocurrency and solve those pesky ransomware attacks. Good! I didn't read past the title, so I may be wrong about the actual contents of the article.
Sure but it's only you, already knowing about alternative stores, and with your specific device.
I only prefer working remotely as an alternative to an office with open-air seating. Give me an office with a window and a door, and I would quite willingly work from an office. My employer has, for over a decade, refused to build anything but open-air seating. So everything thinks I prefer to work remotely, because their own feelings taint their perceptions of my actions, but they don't ask my actual motivations and take for granted that I support their views.

Please take care not to frame everyone who prefers working from an office as people who would "impose" their views on others. I work from home rather than impose my views on others, but your argument makes a very good point. I should probably step up and begin pressuring for better office design, since that would remove a crutch that the remote-work movement is unaware it's being propped up by.

Yes, some will still prefer to work remotely, but I've done offices, and I've done remote, and it's clear there are pros and cons to each that vary per project and per team. It's time for office design to be given due credit for how it drives people into remote work, so that we can stop confusing a desire for a healthy working environment with a desire to work from our homes.
The whole chain of e-commerce rests on the foundations of strong encryption, backdooring that would open the door to digital crime at a level that is off the scale compared to where it is today. The illusion that a government mandated backdoor will remain accessible just to the government is not going to last much longer than the first experiment in this direction.

We've already seen plenty of examples of that irl.
This is a pretty good video that explains the legal/political structure of the EU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lj127TKu4Q
Seriously, any flavor of WordPress is just a breach waiting to happen. It's not a question of "if", it's a question of "when".

I understand that it's easy to use from a writer's point of view (after you get it installed, or if someone else is installing it for you), and that there are all kinds of third-party plugins and support available, but man, that codebase is a gigantic steaming pile of technical debt.
It reminds me of my conversation with my daughter about the meaning of meme. I bring up Richard Dawkins and she brings up imgur. :)
Most YouTubers are not geographically scoped. How do you know he has a small audience? His views or his subscribers?
> tool for ... single keyboard shortcut.

Why would you need a tool for that? Just add a keyboard short cut.

> apps for interacting with calendars.

Just click on the calendar that is in your taskbar already? E.g. center of your top bar on gnome or the event calendar widget on plasma?
you must not be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling
Can anyone recommend for or against buying a used reMarkable2 on ebay? I'm interested in this for daily work, happy to spend some time in SSH, and have a reasonably high risk tolerance for no-warranty. But I don't want to throw my money away.
> Not sure what you're talking about. Which other phones allow to run unmodified desktop apps?

I'm not sure what you're talking about.

We've had the ability to run unmodified desktop linux apps on handhelds since the bad old FPU-less days of the Sharp Zaurus.

That's ancient history, and the whole f!cking promise of "convergence" AIUI is to make those applications usable in touch interfaces while being capable of transitioning seamlessly back into a desktop point-and-click interaction model when you dock the handheld.

It's basically just an Android thing to be a linux-based handheld that actively obstructs running conventional desktop linux software. And even in that world you can coax it by adding the missing userspace bits, isn't there an android app that does just that (termux)? https://github.com/termux/x11-packages/issues/144

Anyways, this feels like a pathetic strawman discussion at this point, I have better things to do today, cheers.
Jay Last
The goal is not to fight terrorism, CSAM or drug dealing. Not with the encryption laws, not with the data retention (= recording which customer used which IP address/CG-NAT port at what time) laws.

It's about control of dissent, about data mining, about preventing unrest. We have seen tiny glimpses of what can happen with France's Yellow Vests... and there is massive potential for unrest: socio-economic differences (wealth disparities), prices of must-have goods (energy, food, housing), corruption in all its forms, political ineptitude and incompetence, discrimination issues, climate protection measures (Yellow Vests) or the lack thereof (Extinction Rebellion), and sadly also measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic (e.g. the current riots in the Netherlands and Belgium, the near-storming of the German parliament).
It's impossible to answer the question for someone else, you have to address things like, what are my real values and priorities in life, not just work.

But some lessons learned. Manage your money carefully so you're not always in a inflexible spot, and manage your stress levels carefully. Pay attention to what is affecting you and why, and be good/take care of yourself emotionally so you're not always in stress/reactive mode.
Both the style and purpose of Spirit of Innovation remind me of the Mew Gull, a pre war King’s Races winner with the side goal of beating the Luftwaffe to having the fastest aircraft:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Mew_Gull
I don't see how the rest of his point doesn't stand, though. How are they going to implement this? How are they going to "increase friction"?

This is an impossible task. There is no way they will be able to enforce this. It would literally require them to stick their dirty fingers into every piece of software built in the EU.

They can attack large corporations like ISPs and such and force them to do certain things, sure, but there is no way they can "ban" any kind of encryption with any real success, because, as the OC said, it's basically trying to outlaw mathematics. Forcing ISPs to perform deep packet inspection or whatever won't change the axioms of mathematics or fundamentally alter computer science so that they can suddenly break encrypted data coming from their clients.
The commute seems like a huge part of it (but maybe I'm biased, always hated a driving commute). I have a few coworkers who (when talking about housing, this was always in good taste) would nudge me to move out by them, because I could have a much bigger yard and "it's only a 40 minute drive to work."

Now they're the ones who realize they hate their commute and want to stay full remote forever whereas I'm more than ready to get back into it.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this dichotomy, but it's fun to watch.
Hiring manager here.

Knowledge has a half life. If you have taken 6 months off, and have an interesting story, this is not a big deal. (For example, I took 8 months off to live in Istanbul. I had two interviews and two offers when coming back, one of which was completely outside my network.)

However, I had also just taken a month to do a functional course, and had worked half-heartedly on a startup that went nowhere. I had a story.

The longer you take off, the more of a story you will need, even if that's "in the last 3 months, I built a small toy to get myself reacquainted with React and Python" even if this is a Rails omakase shop.

Or, that story may be something completely different. All I care about is "can you hit the ground running?"
More so in Rust than in many other communities was my perception. Far more trans women per capita in that community than Linux kernel dev.

Still a general underrep of women.

e: Oh I see - your comment wasn't in good faith at all.
Mainstream economics argues that the market tends toward equilibrium, not that it equilibrates instantly, and that the structure of specific markets controls the speed of that process. Modern semiconductors are fantastically capital intensive, and so respond slowly.

An Intel leveraging their position to under-invest and earn outsize gains from their leadership position in x86 ... would lose business to competitors (like they have been by AMD), innovators (like they are to Nvidia) and substitutes (like they have to Apple Silicon).
Who benefits the mosts from end-to-end encryption?

I feel journalists and in-hostile-nation citizens are a smokescreen for more monied interests.
> I didn't read past the title

Then maybe you should?
Pretty much all of them are bad/evil in some way, but some are worse than others.
To me, it's like the word "hacker."

I mean, we're on a site called "hacker news." If any non-technical person looks over my shoulder and sees the title of this site, they automatically think cyber criminal website. Because that's what "hacker" means to a majority of people. Heck, even to a lot of technical people.

"Crypto" is going down the same road. Sure, we know the difference. But most people think "Crypto" is Bitcoin. Period.
DuckEngine – A 2D Game Engine for the web
DuckEngine is a fast, performant, and easy to use game engine for the web!

v2.0.0 has just been released which is a complete overhaul of how DuckEngine works!

Features

* AABB (Axis-Aligned Bounding Box) Hitbox Based Physics Engine
* Multiple Scenes
* Fast & Performant
* Sprites & Spritesheets
* Many GameObjects
* Plugins & PluginManager
* Multiple Cameras with Effects
* Animations & State Machines & Cutscenes
* Hitboxes and Colliders
* Keyboard, and Mouse Inputs
* DPR / Mobile Scaling
* Advanced Particle System
* Effects and Presets
* Button and Text UI
* Groups
* Tilemaps
* Fast & Performant
* Small Package Size
* Lighting
* Preloader
* Textures
* And a lot more..

https://github.com/ksplatdev/DuckEngine
This reads like a premature encryption death notice. Encryption isn't going away anytime soon. Ban encryption and you essentially ban using The Internet in any meaningful way. That said I don't trust Whatsapp to NOT read my messages since it's closed source, and there's no way of knowing if your messages are truly private & secure.

GCHQ even proposed a 'ghost protocol'[0] so they can play Mallory in your comms. Infact I don't even trust the phone itself, since they /ship/ with Google/Apple-sponsored malware and phones are being hacked all the time.

Messenger apps are strange because they all have different caveats to each, and I've tried them all. For example: Signal requires a phone number, which by design, can leak your 'meatspace' identity. Some people don't like that, so they use Matrix (which has its own caveats too).

Personally, if the authorities go after messaging apps, it's not a big hit for me, since I don't use them heavily. I can see why businesses would take a hit since they want to protect business secrets, and protestors would take a hit & can't organize etc, but it won't affect me heavily. YMMV.

[0] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/06/gchq-j06.html
This person? https://archive.fo/f10KK
Yes?

https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers...

Is 3W is small enough for ya?
Agenda-Paper: Show your agenda on an e-Paper display
The memory controllers required by OMI and one of the on-chip I/O processors (possibly for PCIe). Both are only available as blobs: https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro...
> The only reason they have not done so, is because the US government haven't told them to.

Source for that please.

> US supplied fighter jets will conveniently not allow firing on sources of secret US codes transmitted.

Source for that too please.
It’s not just memorization of the rules, in a game like Go that would only be a tiny fraction of the memory utilized. Remembering large numbers of examples assists in recognizing patterns and developing strategies.
This made me question my belief that DOS is an operating system. If it cannot run programs with (fake) parallelism and doesn't have virtual memory...
Many keyboard apps can predict your next word. Download a matrix with 20k English words, showing the probabilities of each word. Arbitrarily choose the first word. Consider the most likely next 8 words for your current word and choose one of them in a way that encodes your 3 bits. Continue until all your data is encoded by groups of 3 bits.
This is a pretty cool idea. Thanks for investing time into making these. There's a few unsolicited (That's the way we do stuff on the Internet :P!) usability/UX improvements that I would like to suggest:

The stability of the compiler endpoint/service is really finicky, and it performs poorly (those could both be related to load issues, maybe it's just front-HN-page syndrome). Not sure if it's possible to replace it with another one or try hosting your own perhaps?

The code transformations are really unpredictable. Sometimes it asks me to copy/paste code, sometimes it starts with its own version of the code. Sometimes the next step "undoes" my fixes (I know Rust so I was "rushing" ahead with some changes, which is my fault). There's a few ways that could be done here, but IMHO the best would be to have a "use this snippet" button and to just not touch the code from the previous step. If the lessons have chapters and you want to set up the editor for the user, that's fine, but make sure it's obvious someone's moving onto the second chapter of the tutorial. At the end of the day, if you choose to just have manual copy-and-paste (the least ergonomic choice, IMO), that's also fine, but just make the experience consistent and predictable.

The layout is extremely disorganised on the page. There's a giant disconnect between the console, the editor, the run button, and the hints, and the test results. There is no well-defined user flow on the page, interactions feel very erratic. I can't offer any ideas here for how to fix the layout, because it will get very wordy. To sum it up though, the page needs more structure/hierarchy. This will also create space on the page, so you will be able to use some whitespace/negative space to create hierarchy too (it's a bit of a chicken & egg problem lol).

Lastly, the "checkpoint" doesn't always pass when it probably should, because there's no hint as to why it didn't pass, apart from a compiler warning. The compiler warning is important and should be fixed, but a couple of times it was simply because the injected snippet came with "previous" problems that distracted from the step/instruction at hand.

I can't really comment on the quality of the tutorial since I stopped after 16 steps; I couldn't keep going any more because I was incredibly worn out by the poor UX. Proceeding to the next step was was always some struggle in relation to UX, and not the content of the tutorial.

With that said, some things for content until step 16, I think some concepts are a bit inaccurately explained, but I suppose one could let that go because you wanted to keep the tutorial short.
It varies so much from client to client. Bigger projects tend to go better than with penny-pinching SMBs, but occasionally small clients are really fun to work with.

Better yet is not to have direct customers and sell a product, but that's much harder to get right I think.
> 9/11 happened because they let it happen

Respectfully, you're nuts.
Saudi Firm Launches World’s First Handheld Ultrasound Device
Starlink is the only thing that will keep SpaceX from imploding while they wait for people to understand their value.

Needing, and bankrolling, several hundred launches over several years will gradually get people used to the idea of bulk freight to orbit, and some will find other plausible uses for the capability, and shepherd the idea through fundraising channels. It will take time.
I bought mine new. As someone who keeps there todo lists hand written, I use it every day several times a day. It’s also my e-reader for PDFs of research papers.
You should listen to the feedback you got last time you posted this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002174

Nobody wants to sign up before having tried your service.
If there is a silver lining to this cryptocurrency madness, it could be that it's educating the public on just how great cryptography really is.

These attempts at outlawing encryption of any form should be met with a lot more pushback from now on.
The original title is:

Jay Last, One of the Rebels Who Founded Silicon Valley, Dies at 92

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Only Gordon Moore is left alive of the original "traitorous eight."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

https://archive.md/2xil6
Which is why VW, Mercedes, Citroen, Fiat, are all bankrupt and their shareholders live under bridges. Or wait...
Dont know, just i'm supposing it has to be on the roadmap for the next product revision. Otherwise I would be having one.
> The illusion that a government mandated backdoor will remain accessible just to the government is not going to last much longer than the first experiment in this direction. We've already seen plenty of examples of that irl.

Unfortunately, our beloved decisionmakers are gerontocratic, completely incompetent and bought out by corporate interests that also don't want encryption (e.g. copyright industry).
Britain launches review of bias in medical devices
Getting an ID card checked by security at the door of a secure establishment allows the people inside that building to know that the holder truly is who they say they are. Inside that space the person has access to confidential information and they do not need security to constantly verify their credentials.
..and yet ID cards can be copied and faked - so why do we do this?

This model is how a fingerprint can be used as a shortcut to deliver certain privileges. The user must first pass security by entering their password, and then later numerous safety triggers are in place to require that password again. Meaning that once a person is validated a stand-in can be suitable rather than fully evaluating each and every time.

Back to fingerprints: copying a fingerprint has numerous barriers that these exploits frequently ignore. First it needs to be the correct finger, it must be clear and complete enough to copy and finally it must be used at a time when the device will accept it. While such barriers may be insufficient for a secure environment, this approach provides more security than, for example, a person repeatedly entering a pincode into their phone through the day - something that is both easily observed and remembered (and worse too if it's a gestural passcode.)

To relegate fingerprints as only this or that throws the baby out with the bathwater - appropriate rules and context can make it a useful security improvement over the status quo. That doesn't mean it's perfect or that it has to be.
Hmm, I'm already using NetGuard on Android, which creates an internal VPN where I can block and log network access of other apps.

I'm curious how DuckDuckGo' s solution intends to work, will they do this too? There are no other options I could think of, as apps are confined to their sandbox otherwise.
'literally literally'? (Oh god..)

While I'm here there's also 'I guess' (suppose), 'I feel like' (think), and 'So' (I'm about to start a sentence).
Is there a danger they're going to weed out people who would be responsible for their future success? As I understand it, Apple does not pay as well as some of the other tech companies like Facebook, who are also more permissive about remote work. And at the end of the day, Apple isn't doing anything particularly revolutionary (at least these days) that would have talent only targeting them. Even if Apple continues printing money in the short term from existing products, aren't they setting up for a long-term problem?
Assuming you are not being sarcastic:

Wine is imitating the windows libary interface. It literally is an emulator: "To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation".

Wine devs had to to the renaming because people incorrectly read it as "it runs in a virtual machine" for no reason.
GDBFrontend v0.9.6-beta is released and needs testing
I suppose Cider in Doom Emacs means I can keep using the vim keys I already know.
Why modern consoles can’t just “run any older executable”
Sadly we in Europe haven't had a lot of Assanges or Snowdens. I think this plays into the marketability of these proposals too. People think it's just the US doing it and it isn't so bad here.
By "let it happen" i don't mean it was intentional!! don't get me wrong!

I am saying they weren't prepared for the fact that such event could happen

And this is the same as expecting states to not apply surveillance despite encryptions

If we are not prepared, then it can happen

And if we don't want to be prepared by choice, then we let that kind of event happen
Yeah but if the only problem was Tylenol style toxicity with unneeded levels of overdose they'd never have abandoned the tech for drugs. They'd have just determined that the safe dose was larger than the needed dose and slapped a warning label on it.

The articles are quite clear that they didn't want to make this decision but felt forced into it, because many years of investor funding had failed to bring a single drug to market. Vaccines were the Hail Mary move to save the company from extinction, even if it made investors unhappy. Then COVID came along and suddenly, vaccines were big business and nobody worried about toxicity anymore.
quite a few of us in the UK did indeed vote to enact change