skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a project I implemented for fun to try to understand how Raft works (and also get more practice with Rust). The basic idea is that some state gets synchronized between 3 browser windows (currently hard-coded) over WebRTC. It's pretty fast if you're on the same machine (I've seen ~2000 writes/second on Chromium).

It's probably not useful for real applications in its current form, but I could potentially see some use cases in peer-to-peer browser applications.
This has the same vibe as cooking a piece of beef until it's shoe leather
Telegram, as I understand it, can access your messages when stored in their Cloud[1]. They just make a choice to not provide the content of those to anyone.

[1] - https://telegram.org/privacy#4-1-storing-data
You wouldn't say "that's a stupid person" unless you were talking about a 3rd person
Would you be interested in selling/handing off your 100/person team to someone else? Am in the crypto space working on some P2E gaming middleware apps and very interested in running and potentially expanding the the team/guild myself. casey @ mpa . land
I think that you're missing that one of the co-authors of the original piece is in fact an ex-Marxist, and uses Marx and Marxian frameworks in this piece of writing.

Except the piece of writing focused on education/hierarchy/social standing rather than on class analysis.

I also never said that neoliberalism and socialism are the same thing or whatever; I said that among the average American, they don't know what socialism is, and often mislabel liberals/neoliberals with this label, nonsensically. And among the right in the US, this is a frequent talking point -- that somehow Biden is "socialist".. which is preposterous.

There is no effectively organized "left" in the traditional sense in American politics. Not even a social democratic party. Just a repressed minority within the Democrats (a right wing party) that is forced into a forever subservient position to neoliberal elites.
None…..lol A common language is expected to run as fast as it can. It is usually designed by specialists knowledgeable enough to implement a byte code vm.

AST interpreters are found in, as you said, traditional Unix interpreters, undergrad projects, and toy languages. They are an outdated concept, and rightfully so because they aren’t much more easier to develop than a byte code compiler anyway.

You could think the benefit would be AST modifications at runtime like Lisp. But even then, I don’t think that’s an exclusive feature.
Nextcloud Hub II
My advice if you’re not on the level where three letter agencies are actively interested in your comings and goings:

- Use a strong pass phrase

- Enable biometrics so you don’t need to type that pass phrase 100 times per day

- Learn the shortcut to have your phone disable biometrics and require the pass phrase so you can use it when police is coming for you, you’re entering the immigration line in the airport etc. - on iPhone this is mashing the side button 5 times
I haven't actually tried git-gui, only gitk... I'll have to give it a try, thanks :) A first-party GUI actually gives me some hope for correct behavior. gitk is broadly excellent for example and performs great, though other GUIs do some things more smoothly - exactly what I'd want in a first-party GUI.
>The thing about CDs is so many were poorly mastered, and while you can pick up CDs super cheap, finding ones that genuinely sound amazing is quite tricky.

That's the thing. The mastering (and this can definitely affect more recent vinyl releases too) and the compression and loudness wars really ruined a lot of CDs.

I for one, wish SACD had taken off. I never really got that into it (too young to afford stuff but old enough to lust after it at Tower Records and the Virgin Megastore), but the few SACD discs I have are just awesome. The competitor, DVD-A was supposed to be good too, but it didn't really take (I have a few DVD-A discs and I think one way to play them at this point).

That said, while I have bee predicting a CD comeback for several years (b/c nostalgia), I think that CDs lack the thing that makes vinyl (and to a much lesser degree, the cassette resurgence (which is often a pure retro/nostalgia play, which as an aging hipster I respect, but as a wannabe-audiophile, I cringe at)) and vinyl collecting special.

A record takes work to get to play right. You need to care for the vinyl. You need to store it correctly. Configuring and setting up your turntable is a process -- especially if you want to do it well. And then there is the rarity factor. Because only so many plants exist, there are are both artificial and genuine limits on how many copies of an album exist. And then you get the custom colorways (the number of albums I've purchased multiple times on vinyl for the various colorways is too long to mention), the fact that liner notes and album colors are huge. It's just special.

Obviously, they could do this with CDs -- and in the late 90s, we did see some record labels/bands play around with different colors and designs for CD labels, but it still isn't quite the same.

There's also something to be said about the statement piece you have by having a really beautiful record player in your house, that you don't get with a CD player.

I was a really big MiniDisc person (mostly used it as a pre-iPod MP3 player) and I wish that would have a comeback. That format was so dope and so underrated. And the collectibility factor there would be off the charts, similar to cassette tapes, but with good sound quality and a durable product.

Having said all this, I fully expect to see Gen Z carrying around DiscMan players within 18 months.
>as horrifically terrible as Linux Desktop.

Obligatory defense: I refuse to believe this snipe extends to KDE on a rolling distro (e.g., Arch or Manjaro), where it's objectively a better UX than Windows.

(I stress rolling since new versions of DEs seem paradoxically better than old versions, so the versions point release distros like Ubuntu use are always crashier and buggier.)
Only if the birth rate proportionally drops, which seems unlikely.

On the other hand, if the birth rate remains steady then the percentage of people alive that die in a given year decreases, which is maybe the more relevant metric as it seems like there’s less death around.
The point of promoting and using privacy respecting software is not necessarily to make it impossible for law enforcement to get what they want. It's to make it somewhat expensive and require targeted probes.

You simply want it to be cost prohibitive to engage in mass surveillance on everyone, because that is an immensely powerful tool of totalitarian oppression that get really bad if we happen to elect the wrong person once.
WireCutter has really gone downhill since they were bought out imo.
On Relational Compilation
Well no one is arguing that freedom of association gives you the right to do whatever you want while associated. I can go to the bank with whomever I want, but I can't rob a bank with whomever I want. Forbidding me from being a getaway driver doesn't impinge on my freedom of association.

Freedom of association is the right to join or to leave groups voluntarily. You still need to respect peoples other rights, and follow other applicable laws while associated. There are some laws like child labor laws which do restrict people from being able to voluntarily join or leave a group, but right to work and minimum wage laws are not such cases.
>I'm going to have to owe you a beer on this one. These are all very good points that I wish more services would take to heart.

I know, right ! End of service notice email you didn't read that gave you a couple of days to think about and exfil years of work with no way to automate the thing ? Fuck that. Our users train models on data? Don't upload anything to us. We'll mount your S3 buckets like a filesystem.

Your company already has a billing account on GCP, AWS, Azure, or DigitalOcean ? We'll just link to your cluster. You don't need to budget for new compute or talk about security policies.

PS: I'm having a beer as I'm typing this. I'll drink it as if it were the one you offered. Thank you! It's delicious. Next few on me.
Inside Turbo Pascal 6.0 Units (1991)
We teach them this concept because the world is full of a-holes who won't take the bare minimum step of being a decent person to others and consider their feelings or how their words may have someone feel.

I work in a field where Things Have TO Get Done. We pride ourselves on directness, honesty, and precision. NONE OF THOSE THINGS REQUIRE YOU TO BE A DICK. You don't use words like "stupid". You phrase your criticism surgically to be specific about the idea and not the person.

Too many people don't want to learn social graces and use the excuse that they are just efficient direct and honest to justify being a dick.
"Because I don't want to" is a perfectly valid reason to not implement something in free software.
I don't happen to know the reason transition to agriculture has been horrible to humans, health-wise.

why is that said to be so?
> And a screenshot, or another camera, or a rooted phone can easily defeat that.

Not if the message has already been deleted. Auto-deleting messages are so the recipient doesn't have to delete them manually, not so the recipient can't possibly keep a copy.
Side thought after reading this.
Is there anyway to currently get a feed of high quality summarizations of laws passed by each congress?
By that I mean, as a voting citizen I want to watch what congresses law/executive orders do. I don't want to read the laws, or how they work, or any of the details.

I want the why, high level what does this change, and high level what was the opposition to this.

I feel like one of the things that we struggle with is 'uninformed voters' in a modern democracy. I try to stay informed but I need to cut off my time somewhere. Are there any ways for me to stay lightly informed with low effort on my part?
well... 99% perhaps not. mobile safari is pretty important
Not a bad idea in and of itself, but screw hover effects.

I've come to really hate everything involving hover. On all sorts of websites there's some menu bar at the top or the side where it's way too easy for me to accidentally move my cursor over it and suddenly 1/5 of the page is blocked. I really wish that these things could just be replaced with a click. If I want to view a dropdown or something with dense details, I can jolly well click or tap on it.

EDIT: Interestingly, it appears possible to intercept and nullify mouseover events.

```

document.addEventListener('mouseover', (e) => e.stopPropagation(), true);

```

Works on wellsfargo.com, making their menus work like I think they should. Obviously it wouldn't work for CSS-based hover.

Maybe I'll make this into an extension.
Sea of alternatives and I have never heard about one.
There's absolutely nothing stopping a consortium of news outlets from adopting the W3C recommendation ActivityPub to push out microposts directly from their own content management systems, with an existing audience open web audience.
I have had some success. It helps that many of the people I regularly contact were willing to migrate, even after some time. Most already used WhatsApp, so the friction to installing a new app was less than someone not accustomed to using a dedicated app for messaging.

But most of my American friends that don't have international contacts still just use SMS because they are not really accustomed to an app such as WhatsApp and so on.
In some sense, you can already make this observation when looking at early industrialization, in which in particular coal smoke was a pollutant in places with factories. We look back at those times now, and think it to be ridiculous that people lived under such conditions, but surely (or rather, hopefully), people in the future will consider it ridiculous, that we lived our lives amidst combustion engines and their exhaust pollutants. In particular, I think people will find it absolutely ridiculous that we tolerated Diesel fumes in densely populated areas. So I agree with your point.
> I've become so disappointed in the environmentalists response to it. They simply resort to zealotry over their one "true" solution without any practical considerations. For example, the one "true" solution that they consider as only acceptable is replacing all cars with full EVs

I'm not sure where you get that from but it's not at all what I've been experiencing. Yes, the overarching goal is to reduce green house emissions but how to get there is quite diverse and usually laid out in details in for instance the green parties' platforms, e.g. https://europeangreens.eu/positions/climate-energy, https://www.greenparty.ca/en/platform/green-future and contains more than just individual mobility. Similarly, Greenpeace: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/issues/climate-change-impacts...
> do not use face or fingerprint to secure your phone

but can't they force you to put your password in that case, instead of your finger?
The only reason scaplers exist is because people are willing to pay a higher price than what the scalper pays for the good. The fact that people are willing to pay the higher price shows it was priced too low.
Answer: it doesn't matter. If a relatively small number of people (say, 10m) stop using the US dollar, its military isn't going away. But if the same number of people stop using POW "currencies", the energy impact could drop drastically.

And if we were charging for underlying infrastructure costs, then Bitcoin would have to put in its share. Unlike paper/specie currencies, Bitcoin is entirely dependent on a functioning global internet. There are an awful lot of long-tail scenarios under which Bitcoin becomes effectively useless and therefore valueless.
Four years old now, but here's a good long read on how an entire industry's review sites may be acquired or strongarmed into being invisible shills: https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
> This presumes that the metrics they optimize for are intended to represent usefulness to actual users and not, say, ad revenue. Even if they do intend to optimize for usefulness, this doesn't mean that they have metrics that accurately represent that.

They have multiple levers, of which user search quality is a big set. There is always trade-offs and a balance that must be found, which aligns with company vision and strategy. Having these levers allows business-decision makers to direct focus top-down (on a certain set of users, on producing great ad numbers, etc.).

It is clearly hard and important to design these levels and find the right balance, given a rapidly changing company and user-base. So a lot of expertise and power is invested to measure the right things, and to find the right balance (an incorrect/risky balance should also be adjustable with other levers).

So for me: either Google is trying really hard, but essentially failing. Or they have the best of the world, with all the right context, designing these levers. While hard and sometimes wrong, I do not expect to contribute anything which may improve their lever settings. If someone does know, Google would like to hire them.

So while true, that accurately measuring things with proxies, is really hard, and sometimes done wrong at companies. I do not think Google gets this wrong, or at least, gets this to be the best of breed. If their metrics still cause long-term search engine quality loss, would show them to not know what they are doing. I think they do know very well, better than me at least.

I would agree too that the balance of levers right now is in line with Google's strong market position. Search engine quality could take a small hit, if justified with extra adsense income. But when search engine quality noticeably start going down, then all other metrics will suffer. You should have teams with sole focus on improving quality. Other teams will have to realize that favoring their lever over the search-engine-quality lever must lead to worse outcomes for Google in general.

About product searches, I myself was not able to do this satisfactory 15 years back. It improved. But need to stop viewing things as a single lever, a single metric. To say search has become "worse" in general, is to exactly fall into the trap of not accurately measuring and losing too much nuance/details for competing objectives.
So download a binary instead of building it from source?
>This happens _all_ the time on the Twitter app search bar.

Hit the nail on the head there my friend. Super annoying.

I wonder why their search is so slow though. Any ideas?
In regards to `-p` -- Lazygit does this. You can press Spacebar to stage individual lines and then partially commit or stash the staged stuff.

I like it better than git's built-in `-p` because you don't have to rely on git chunking things up the way you hoped, or spend time splitting git's chunks (hunks?) to get the specific line you wanted to stage.
It helps Telegram is HQ'd in the UK and the operational center is in Dubai.
Person A calls you. I intercept the call, so person A is calling me, and then I call you (spoofing so I look like Person A). When you pick up, I pick up, then I transmit what you're saying to Person A (and vice versa).

How do you know I'm intercepting the transmission? Does the emoji sequence verify the call, perhaps?
Interesting, hadnt heard of Desqview for years. Think maybe it got X server and client mixed up?
There's a button that says "Button" :)
User Health
This is kind of my point. Should we condemn the Magna Carta as well?

We should spend less time whinging about the people who did better than their fathers and more time doing better than ours.

The people allowing themselves to be consumed by "hate your neighbor" propaganda and mistaking that for a protest movement are getting played. Fight who's above you, not who's beside you.
Is there any real difference between a 'bot and a corporation? If you hired people to scalp items, would this bill allow that? If so, what's the point?
Personally I think that it was just too awesome for most people to appreciate due to stupidity and lack of knowledge.

Being able to run X Windows programs an DOS and Windows 3 is amazing. I am sure there are lots of ways it could have been taken advantage of. The majority of potential customers were just too dumb though.

There doesn't always need to be a good reason for something to be unpopular. Sometimes, it's just because the flock of sheep were going in a different direction. Maybe they were going that way because the shepard got a bribe.
I remember running DesqView (without the X) in the early 90's, it must have been on a 286 (is that possible?), I only got a 486 around 1994.

I remember being impressed by the fact that I could run multiple applications at the same time and switch between them. I think I ran a BBS at the time (a combination of Frontdoor and something else... the memory is thin).

I vaguely remember excitingly showing my parents, probably my mother, "Look! I can run multiple applications and switch between them!!!", and she gave me a confused look of "what the hell is this boy going on about".
I wondered the same - I mean, we've all seen the effectiveness of anti-robocall legislation. All folks will really have to do is avoid using the bot inside the US.

It will just wind up being a bill to show that "we have done things! We passed the bill!"
Yeah, I also mentioned how I wasn't sure how well founded that argument is.

On the other hand, especially for man pages that are not huge, you can get a good grasp and overview by just scrolling linearly through the man page. At least for me, who tends to think very visually, I then have the impression I got a better feeling for the structure and covered content of the document than if it was hierarchical. (Again, this breaks down once the document gets too large.)

Overall, that annoyed "oh gosh, I just wanted a quick scroll through the man page" feeling when encountering a man page that was just a stub for the info document probably comes from somewhere after all.
I only use news.Google.com to search news articles, which it's somewhat okay at as long as it isn't a political related search (which it is extremely biased at). Otherwise I find google pretty much sucks at search anymore and don't even bother with it.
Probably not, except cost. It would be too expensive to compete with the national providers and then you would still need to interface with them for any service outside of the city. It's possible, just not the intended use case and not a logical use.
VLC is a good point I forgot about it. AFAIK OBS is sponsored by streaming platforms - I think it's another case of comoditizing the infrastructure.
We never managed to meal plan a couple of days in advance...

I'm a little envious of founders who think this way. You've taken a problem you faced and turned it into an opportunity, which is awesome. Faced with the same problem I am certain I'd simply have tried to learn to "be more organised", and likely have failed and carried on with the same problem for a long time. Even if I thought it was a problem lots of other people face I doubt I'd have actually executed on an idea of solving it; I don't see my "failures" as viable problems to turn into businesses.

There's a lesson here for me (and probably many others) that you don't always have to look for big problems or complex problems to find viable startup ideas. Sometimes it can be something simple that just bugs you. I wish you the best of luck.
Yeah. They are especially bad around things where you can hold inventory with no penalty for canceling later. Which ends up in a lot of "Why can't we have nice things?" rules later.
You can also achieve the same mode by appending .compact to the URL.

Ex.: https://reddit.com/r/asoiaf/.compact
Right. As a thought experiment, assuming a 75 year lifespan, what if air pollution causes EVERYBODY to die one day earlier than they would have otherwise?

Is the death rate 100%? Or is it .00365% (1 / (75 * 365))?

But an age-adjusted metric can give non-intuitive results. Thanos' snap, randomly killing 50% of everybody, would have had a 25% lives-lost-equivalent.

How you calculate death rate has real consequences in how you evaluate something like Covid.
If only we could use software to query the text of the bills.