skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, it's a shame every website doesn't have to download and execute a python interpreter so it can slowly read scripts. Having the browser freeze after clicking a button would be a way better experience.

WASM is meant to allow for fast/efficient programs written in low level languages like C/Rust to run in the browser, not subject the client with slow clunky experiences because the developer only learned Python.
>>I’ve certainly seen many calls for the glorification of violence to be limited

Guns was probably a bad choice for Twitter, would have been better for YT as YT has recently cracked down hard on firearms content.

However even on twitter the "the glorification of violence" is very subjective. For example people celebrating the jury verdict in the Rittenhouse trial, who many believe was an attack on the very right to self defense, has been reported by many as "glorification of violence"

Even more recently, I have seen attempts to censor conversation, and video around the shooting / death of Chad Read.

Then you going to have a conservation around Self defense use of guns it will include violence, there is no way around that, if you are going to censor violence then by necessity you have to sensor guns or relegate it to a discussion about hunting only.
Breakthrough using extremely rare earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulium which comes at a high price and only provides a low power laser?

Wierd that the article says its low cost. Certainly not a holy grail.
Big List of Malaphors
IIRC, the AES competition specifically called for a 128-bit block size, citing the hardware requirements of that era.

(This is an invitation to invoke Cunningham's Law if I'm misremembering.)
That's probably a bit broad - there are good philosophers doing good work in the world, this just might not be one of those cases.
That's fair , I forgot how many they had vs just saying it is powering 300 apps. There is also http://gpt3demos.com/ with lots of live demos and varied things, though it's more noisy.
This doesn’t seem like a practical thing for manufacturers to implement. How common are such networks in actuality? Literally the only time I ever encountered unsecured Wi-Fi networks in the past several years were guest networks, and all of those were gated by a capture portal that would have blocked any sort of attempt at telemetry or ad serving.
I'm not sure what's complicated about this.

People "regularly posting obvious lies and bs" is, definitionally, not censorship. Censorship can only take place when something isn't said, not when it is.

> I think facts exist and people can do damage spreading lies, threats, hate, and etc.

You'd probably be very hard pressed, particularly on this website but even just in general, to find anyone who disagreed with this statement in a vacuum. But even beyond the (very much not straightforward) problem of who gets to decide what's a fact, there are people, myself included, who agree that damage is done in the way you mentioned, but believe that even worse damage is done by censorship.

The person you're responding to is clearly not referring to any effort to censor Galileo today. They are observing that he was censored by the authoritative figures of his day for spreading what was then considered "obvious lies and BS", because of the amount of "damage" he was supposedly doing. But of course, it turned out he was much more correct than the people who censored him. This begs the question of why we should believe the authoritative figures of today are any more likely to be wholly correct about what is a lie and what is damaging than the authoritative figures of yesterday, and whether they'll trample over the truth in their attempts to suppress lies.

Hopefully you can now follow where the conversation is going.
I've recently converted my personal usage to Safari as Chrome was proving buggy on the new MacBook Pro. I've enjoyed it, performance is essentially identical and Apple pay in the browser is the smoothest payment experience I've ever had on mobile web.

Although, autofill on Safari is objectively worse.
I did not read the "the" before depression and was expecting a psychological article and was wondering how one could actually plan obsolescence...
I mostly ignore the stuff not about the topic I followed a person for, but it does help me to keep my world view wider.
perfectly happy how I've phrased my criticisms. if jetbrains wants glowing reviews, then they can make a glowing product. I've been upfront where my issues reside, how they impacted me and they are well known issues with the tool. I'm not the first to make these comments nor will I be the last.

however, your tone in this thread implies you're not a neutral player in this. do you have any relation with intellij/jetbrains?
> 1. my phone is on and does a secure key exchange each time I login on desktop, in which case I have to carefully audit complex novel crypto or trust that FB doesn't snoop the key during the exchange.

This isn't a usability tradeoff, is it? If you don't care that your messages are in clear text, then I don't see why you would then be forced to audit how their crypto works to be sure that it works so that you could then use that crypto for messaging. I don't audit how my web browser uses ssl, do you?

> 2. I have to scan some QR code or some other bullshit to make desktop chat work.

> And more importantly, it's possible for me to lose my message history if I lose all my devices.

Yea, these do seem like potential usability issues and I could see these being valid reasons for them not wanting to roll it out.

That being said, they are facebook and they have a ridiculous amount of engineering talent to apply. I would be really curious to know why they think they can solve the problem well it in a few years but not in a shorter time frame or if they don't think they can achieve it in a few years and are just kicking the can down the road in the hope that everyone forgets about the can later.
This only applies to IP owned by megacorps with armies of lobbyists.
Care to back up your claim with citations? Looking at the comment history its clear you don't understand immunology so i'm not sure you get a free pass on virology.
Explosives, poisons, drugs aren’t speech. Printing the chemistry for then is protected speech.

If I wanted to print an image and put it on a t-shirt that would trick a computer driven car into doing something if its cameras saw my shirt, that’s not my problem. The barrier to entry is much lower too so I think it’s up to the engineers to solve it instead of trying to dump the hard problems on society.
I had also written this longer bit but felt more political, and less political science, then top comment so separated it.

Would be hard to build into this model, but it would be interesting to see how powerful self reinforcing voter suppression has been in driving this anti-turnout group bias.

The more they suppress the vote and play games the more people feel it's rigged and don't participate.

Social media both amplifies and provides a platform for campaigns to weaponize.

Deliberately targeting voters on FB to enforce messages of black complacency - using BLM as 'dejectedness' and 'complacency' of no change so that their vote doesn't matter. [2,3].

Lots of instances of targeting black and brown voters with calls giving wrong info on when or how to vote [4]. Russia copied this race baiting and they also targeted conservatives [5].

This past election saw targeted Hispanic voters, having candidates change their names in Florida to confuse the ballot. I can't find a quick source but one of these spoiler candidates even shaved their head lol to have a more similar look so far as I can remember.

To be fair there is also a history of similar racist push polling by Dems in the south during primaries too but the overwhelming suppression of voters is perpetrated by conservatives.

[1] https://theconversation.com/election-polls-are-more-accurate...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938187233/trump-push-to-inval...
[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/09/28/trump-electio...
[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/03/robocal...
[5] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49987657
> from $10.44 to $19.89.

Yeah, I thought $3000 sounded silly, and my only mistake was that I thought it was one order of magnitude silly when in fact it was two orders of magnitude silly.
So you think the billionaires, being in control of corporations that do all of the polluting, don't have the ability to control their companies?
The 16 byte block size was part of the brief for the AES competition; it was established before Rijndael was selected.
Thank you for referring to lightpaper. It really fit my need and this was my first time to hear about that app.
Then kill yourself.

Otherwise, shut the fuck up - you clearly value life.
The race to understand immune amnesia - How measles can reset the immune system
Mirror finished anything on the road seems like a really bad hazard.
Three is not "many" but this is still a pretty uncharitable response. Be sure to check the Guidelines.
> What does this mean in practice? Who are these humans? When can the network get going again? Would a consensus rule change be part of it, and what type of changes would be allowed in that situation?

We have a bunch of examples of this happening in practice. The humans are usually a mix of the developers, parties important to consensus (miners, stakers) and big ecosystem players.

> It sounds hard to manage this type of maintenance breaks in a trustless way.

When solving a problem that violates your core security assumption you are only longer in the world of security definitions. It doesn't really make sense to talk about "trustlessness". If the protocol is busted, you need to find a solution and get enough people on board with that solution that you can upgrade the protocol.

> Once you have established the trust required for checkpointing the entire blockchain regularly, wouldn't it be much easier to checkpoint every block instead and in an instant do away with all the hard problems of blockchain networks?

The checkpoints aren't trusted for safety but instead for availability. Instead you should think of them like alarms that "something has gone horribly horribly wrong, stop everything, don't transact, don't move, don't touch anything, pull the ebrake."

tl;dr Much like the fuse box in your house, my view is that checkpoints should turn safety failures (electrical fires) into availability failures (electricity is shut off).
Calibre is a powerhouse of an application. It is built for people that want really in-depth metadata curtailing and exploration. Kavita is not that.

At the moment, in terms of metadata Kavita is pretty limited. The current release is adding more metadata support (local) and attempting at downloading metadata from external sources (nothing else really does this except other tools).

It really depends on you and your library. I personally just want to be able to read my stuff and focus on things like genres and put collections and read lists together (for custom read orders), so Kavita is the best solution. If you want in-depth metadata, then you're better off setting up Calibre-web or Komga.
Sure, but the issue isn’t JavaScript, the issue is that people are building their websites as web apps and when it isn’t necessary.

Java applets and flash had the same issues.
Transport costs should be a temporary cost. It's not nothing, but transition of transportation to EVs will alleviate a lot of the carbon costs listed here.

Basically, anything done now to switch off of any power source involved construction (carbon), materials (carbon), and lifecycle costs (carbon).

Although it would probably help if we weren't using PWR and MASSIVE containment shells and instead had modular LFTRs that don't need that.

It's so hard to talk nuclear, because it's so hamstrung by old designs, and the old interests (fuel reprocessors and reactor makers) soooo want to pretend there isn't other designs that threaten their current monopolies.
The author of the article has a lot of balls posting not one but two AI-generated pictures of the people he supposedly interviewed. The one of "retired U.S. Army veteran Brad Thompson" is particularly egregious. https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/content/images/Brad-Tho...
There's zero explanation in the email for why he resigned. He's re-iterating the point that the company is fine moving forward with the rest of the board, the new CEO and the existing team, but no actual reason as to why he left.
Happy with solo keys (also open source and hackable)
Thank you! I was thinking of John's reviews when I wrote that comment actually, I wasn't aware he wrote a whole article on it.
Agreed, auto-dimming is rough. I turned it off. 60% constant brightness for work, uncapped HDR mode for play.
Yes, often it is a bad equilibrium. When prices rise, taxes rise, and often people who were able to live somewhere no longer can. They're forced to move, eventhough they'd rather stay. This also happened in the bay area, where people were involuntarily forced out of their homes.

See for an example: https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/03/23/after-decades-in-wic...
I think Brave is a good model for developing alternative, independent revenue streams. They're helped in large part by having a community that understands the need for it, a lot of the vocal Firefox fanbase seems to want an independent browser engine and service backend run and distributed as donationware.
Ugh this is way worse and actually seems far more likely and easy to accomplish than the public wifi thing...
> The KDF point doesn't really have anything to do with AAD, right --- all you're saying here is that you need to KDF the ChaCha and Blake keys. I guess you're pointing out that GCM and Chapoly effectively do this for you in library implementations. Which, sure.

The motivation for the KDF point is just to ensure we're not using the same key for two different algorithms. This condition almost never leads to any practical security risks (unless you're, I dunno, mixing AES-CBC with CBC-MAC?), but it makes people who care a lot about security proofs happier if we avoid it.
This comes from Footnote Number 4 [0], which was literally a footnote in a case where a Justice articulated what the Court was already doing in analyzing its cases. The Court generally applies one of three levels of scrutiny [1]:

* Strict scrutiny - The Government must prove there is a compelling state interest behind the challenged policy, and the law or regulation is narrowly tailored to achieve its result.

* Intermediate scrutiny - The law must serve an important government objective, and be substantially related to achieving the objective.

* Rational basis review - A challenger must prove the government has no legitimate interest in the law or policy; or there is no reasonable, rational link between that interest and the challenged law.

While I don't believe the Supreme Court has taken up a case of light signaling, it is likely that the Court would apply strict scrutiny due to the clear First Amendment considerations. If so, thus the government would need to prove that it's narrowly tailored solution to a compelling state interest. It would need to answer questions such as: is it okay to say flash your headlights for road hazard? Would the state prohibit the defendant from telling others at a gas station about the police officer? Etc. I'd suspect that it would be a hard case to win for the Government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Carolene_Prod....

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/challenging-...
I'm certainly very disappointed that so many old "just because" sites describing quirky one-user (the developer) technology are forever gone, including the tech.
Archived: https://archive.ph/8CipJ
You have some false equivalences in your argument.
Haha I tried this last week with PWAs, but they weren't able to provide the level of control I needed to achieve literally this idea. So it looks like native-ish code is in my future for iOS and Android :(

But you can download files and use native readers already.
> From the get go, Bitcoin supporters like Hal Finney envisioned "Bitcoin Banks" that provided access to the Bitcoin blockchain to the masses who can't afford to use it directly.

So we replace a (in-theory democratically accountable) central bank with a cabal of banks?

How is this better? This is like replacing the Federal reserve with the agreements of LIBOR traders.
I haven't used Fenix before (it does look nice!), but I can definitely do all of the above in tweetdeck and did so in the past before raising my walls by following only specific users.
my bravia is so dumb it's got a 100Mbps ethernet port, and the USB port is USB 2.0 so the best wifi is bounded by USB2.0! yay.

I think they just don't want people stream high bitrate stuff directly
I never argued who thought about this idea first it's just where I met it. There is value in gathering good ideas. Could you please point me to the books about clean code before Uncle Bob? I'm interested.
Thanks for the reference. I'm currently studying type theory and the Curry-Howard correspondence, and this seems to be an interesting bridge between that and traditional imperative programming.

As for the second part, do you know off the top of your head if [not checking whether the proved behavior admits abuse] was the issue that resulted in "millions of dollars" worth of coins being stolen in the various debacles we hear about? I have an inkling that almost every time, it's actually this.

The only one I ever looked into was the 2016 DAO[1] hack and I didn't get the impression that it was because they didn't check their code for spec violations, rather they just designed a system that allowed someone to do something bad. I have no idea how we can prevent this, even with all the power of theorem provers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
My solution to scope creep was to put the "generic static site generator" part in a separate library (modeled after Metalsmith), so that I can leave md2blog as featureless as possible.
> To get the modern cultural connotation, substitute "Thales" or "Solon" for "Einstein" or "Abraham Lincoln".

In standard English, the verb "substitute" would have to have the names reversed: "substitute 'Einstein' ... for 'Thales'" as opposed to the other way around.

Or change the verb and preposition: "replace 'Thales' ... with 'Einstein' ...."
Looks very interesting, and definitely solves a problem. I wish there was a way to preview some sample designs without having to sign up – NewGlue from Stockholm does this quite well, I think: https://newglue.com
Hunt for the ‘Blood Diamond of Batteries’ Impedes Green Energy Push
I agree with this. The original title is ``What toilets and sewers tell us about ancient Roman sanitation''.
In a universe with no center, why is utilitarianism of ephemera a desired goal?

What immediate value did Newton offer given the technology of his time?

A data set of our preferred language constructs could help us eliminate cognitive redundancy, CRUD app development, and other well known software tasks.

Why let millions of meatbags generate syntactic art on expensive, complex, environmentally catastrophic machines for the fun of it if utility is your concern? Eat shrooms and scrawl in the dirt.
> My car has more controls for the lights alone than my first vehicle had for everything. Literally.

As someone driving a 2021 Subaru who grew up in a 99 Integra and an 01 Civic. I don't see this at all? The controls are extremely familiar for the lighting, except my new car has a no-friction option: I turn on the "Auto" setting and it automatically puts on DRLs or full lights for me given the lighting conditions. It even turns on my lights for me when I pull into my parking garage at midday.

How exactly could this be made less complex?
Did you actually read their comment before replying or are you just here to troll? Because your comment here is even more nonsensical than your previous one.
A world where ReSharper hadn't existed would have the same old craptastic minimal refactoring tools that VS 2013 had. I'm glad JetBrains is pushing Microsoft to improve
TypeScript: Creating a Dynamic Interface
Adding money to the equation doesn't fix problems. It's another situation of "the mythical man-month" where you can hire as many people as you want, but it doesn't make the problem go away faster. Take MacOS for example: it's an operating system that has thousands of people working on it, backed with decades of R&D as well as hundreds of billions of dollars. That doesn't make it any easier for Apple to support 32-bit software, add Vulkan drivers to their system or make a decent first-party software distribution system that doesn't scalp the developers selling their software. Every organization has their own goals and ulterior motives, if Firefox got 100 million dollars tomorrow they'd probably use it to add a second "Pocket" advertisement on your taskbar and lock the rest away in a vault somewhere.

Open source software walks a hard line on freedom. Nothing is stopping you from charging a dollar for your Linux software, but nobody will pay for it unless you're offering some kind of actual utility. Similarly, if Google started charging a dollar for their browser, I imagine there would be a lot of disgruntled people looking for new browsers.

Money is not the solution here, it's the problem. Hiding away code and restricting access is the opposite of freedom, and while you're welcome to disagree with the principle it doesn't change the fact that there's thousands of open source projects floating around, many of them best-in-class. Do you think Hacker News would exist if every CSS component charged a dollar so you could support the developers, or every coreutil you used had a 50-cent tax after every invocation?
Perhaps, the signage market is generally targeted to equipment that needs to be rather durable and live in a wider temperature range. So typically they have better power supplies, steel rather than aluminum frames, and in the case of LED back lights a longer lasting LED (typically by under driving it IIRC).

That said, I think there is solid market for "monitors" which are just the display and an industry standard interface.

Sometimes you can get a "tunerless" TV which has fewer smarts.
These things do not change the fact of undefined behavior and even experienced programmers build a lot of critical bugs.
The point is that prohibition has never worked. It creates a black market that borders and distances do not solve.

It always goes back to talismanism. The gun itself is the problem, not the shooter. This is fake and the real reasons are always just one thing, control.

The poor attempt at renaming gun control to gun safety is illustrated that not one “gun safety” group has ever put on a gun safety program. They all push for prohibition in one way or another.
these are all terrible names and acronyms
Well this is the thing I find baffling about the most intense of the COVID vaccine and lockdown skeptics who go on about "new world order" type conspiracies.

We are coming out of one of the most lenient -- in terms of public health administration -- periods in the modern era. The mental health system up until the 70s, 80s, was frequently used to just "commit" people (even unruly "hysteric" housewives) without regard to liberty at all. Vaccination campaigns were done on a huge scale, and rationing was a part of life for many people in the west not just during the war but in post-war periods as well.

[Some] people may have lost sight of what it truly means to live in an (even mild) emergency and what kinds of decisions we need to make as a collective to solve certain problems.
I liked the random number generator as a gift. Another way of giving something random...
The article even has a graph that shows that stockpiles are very high. The doom seems to come entirely from projections due to China reducing production. The article doesn't explain why other countries cannot step up production to meet demand.

The article's quality is poor. It wasn't worth my time to read.