skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's no additional cost to Opal (no servers to maintain etc) to necessitate a subscription

This is where you might be wrong. I know nothing about the Opal company, but it seems increasingly true that you cannot get VC for a startup without a business model that shows a continuing revenue stream. Business models where the consumer only pays for the product once are dead in the water.

So you may be right that there's no additional cost to Opal, but a subscription might be required by their funders for them to be in business in the first place.

It's still ridiculous and I refuse to buy such products.
> The only difference between languages is Latin versus Cyrillic.

"a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"

There are definitely more differences between the lexicon and grammar of those languages apart from the alphabet they are written with.

Not very big differences, mind you. But ignoring them altogether or making them bigger than what they are enters the realm of politics.

Anyway, the english wikipedia article does a decent job capturing a few key differences in the dialect continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_standard_Bosnian...
I sometimes wonder if we'll discover a Kardashev Type II civilization, harnessing the power of their sun via a Dyson sphere. And then, upon first-contact, realize they are using all that power to mine Bitcoin.
The ideas themselves were not earth shattering, its the technology behind the ideas and the drive of the teams behind that to make the 'dreams' a reality. Also not having some soul sucking hollywood producer trying to make every character and scene 'edgy'.
I'll offer a counter, perhaps, unpopular opinion. I too, have found myself at times mentally fighting against what appears to be a tidal wave of modern software techniques. But I don't do that anymore, these days I try to embrace them using an ecological perspective. They won't all be great ideas, some will prevail while others fail, some will even survive well while at the same time layering complexity and loss of performance on the industry. However, I now see them all as being necessary experiments to further the technological advancements of the industry. Even if they are bug ridden, security nightmares, they all work to provide selective pressure and refinement by the industry in the aggregate. Upon close inspection, it looks like a mess, but if you back out and see it akin to our own bio-diversity and natural selection processes, you may begin to appreciate the wide variety of techniques and talents we have to choose from and that over time we should expect a refinement of our abilities.
if 50% of the people in the hospital are unvaccinated, then 50% are vaccinated. how are unvaccinated people stressing the hospital system?
No, I'm recognizing that the economy is connected. Many of the best renewables — especially those which are available 24x7 — are things like geothermal or hydropower which have finite capacity, and non-trivial ramp-up time.

Proof-of-waste systems like Bitcoin are uniquely inefficient due to the way the network adjusts to increase the difficulty — an aluminum smelter uses a ton of power but they don't build new ones in excess of market demand for aluminum — and they're easy to ship around the world. That means that demand always goes up and any time some place has cheaper power for a non-trivial period of time someone will probably ship a bunch of mining hardware there.

This is a problem because right now we need the entire global economy to electrify as soon as possible. That means things like industrial processes need to be relocated to cheap sources of clean electricity because you can't just plunk a coal power plant next door, etc. and there are also challenges with peak power demand requiring upgrades to electrical grids or other equipment. Having so much power dedicated to something which has never found a useful purpose is a source of friction we don't have time for.
I ran this game on the local political establishment in 2015, and it was scary effective. I assume they are more resilient today, but at the time entry-level social media advertising techniques were able to have a massive influence on politician's perceptions of their constituents's concerns. I wasn't surprised at all by the impact social advertising ended up having in the 2016 election.
I own this website MyFreeOCR.com you can use it to convert images to text. It supports 100 languages and many different formats (pdf to text, tiff to text, bmp to text, jpeg to text, bmp to pdf, jpeg to pdf, and more.
I would like to get feedback and feature request from you.
Currently we are looking into developing an OCR API. Would that be useful for you?
Minority phone maker? Apple is the biggest corporation on earth...and make up the majority of smart phone sales in the US. Yes they would have to give up a competitive advantage. That's the point.
> If agreeing to union demands did not in some way cost the employer something, why would it need to be bargained out of them?

It costs them control and social status. A lot of people have egos that don't like yielding either of those, even if it's otherwise a win-win exchange.

Middle management has a huge incentive to produce short-term resume-building actions at the expense of long-term gains, so you should be able to quite fruitfully thwart those executives and produce gains for both the company and the rest of employees.
This comment was chief's kiss. Bone apple tea!
I actually sat in a meeting a few years back as a consultant - with 6-7 other consultants and 1 or 2 employees of the company we were assigned to - all billing $150 to $500/hr - as we discussed which cost center we could bill the $35/month SAAS tool we needed to use for the project we were developing.

We probably spent 3-4 years with of those SAAS fees in that one 45 minute meeting discussing which cost center should be billed.

Client (a fortune 50 company) didn't see any issue with this.
You're going to need a cite here. This WAS an issue, but articles abound today from carriers and Apple on how to remove a phone number from the iMessage service.
Paraconsistent logics find structure in our inconsistent world
Pharma companies are making profits and there is a revolving door between regulators and industry, so your dismissal of profit motive is a joke.
Medicare may restrict access to controversial, pricey Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm
Article says a Cessna pilot was told to land. That is not just a little hassle in the name of safetyism, it is a diversion from the flight plan for no rational reason.

From article, '... captures the controller telling the pilot of a Cessna to land ...'.
I did not mean to imply they should. Rather to refute the common view that self organized private militias are allowed or even somehow encouraged and have some kind of official status.
> The entry barrier to programming needs to [be] high!

I strongly disagree with this sentiment.
I think the author's view that frameworks like Electron offer "no value over a native desktop application what so ever - well, perhaps with the only exception that now a 2 year old baby can make something shiny that you can click on with your mouse." is missing the point that a "2-year-old baby" making something shiny you can click on is an amazing feat, and an example of the power of the democratization of computing technology.

I do agree that tech stacks are increasingly obtuse, and not something any one person can carry in their head. I do agree that this is problematic.
However, I really believe that the more individuals get access to a technology and have their barriers to using it removed, the better odds we have of letting someone with great ideas execute those ideas.
> Furthermore, most people's salaries don't increase as fast as the value of dollars deceases.

Yes, they do. Real (that is inflation-adjusted) median hourly wages have overall pretty much been even since the 1970s; dropping a little bit through the 1980s and early 1990s and rebounding slowly since.

Individually, people generally move up in relation to the median over their career, so with the median generally flat (and recently tending to be slightly positive), they tend to get higher real wages over time.

(Now, wages haven't kept up with productivity, and that's a real problem, but it's different than the one you are inventing.)
I really like this idea. jq is great too, but the jq language just seems to be too different from anything else for me, so it only works if I use it every day, which I don't. But I guess an issue is that I'll still need to use jq in order to get my data into the suitable array-of-objects format for dsq?
I have very little faith in their big picture.
That would be nice, but would they still need to deflect or at least detect infections-in-progress?

This seems impossible to achieve if you are locked up in jail.
You said you were shocked by people rejecting classical liberalism. I offered some of the reasons I've rejected classical liberalism.

I don't think it's possible to evaluate an idea purely on its own merits, without considering the people forming, executing, and effected by it. I don't think it would be meaningful if you could.

That may be irreconcilable with your worldview! That doesn't give you a view into my mind or soul and tell me what is or isn't important to me. It's possibly that I don't value what you consider to be The Truth.

Honestly the idea that there even is anything resembling a single objective truth on complex issues is a lot of my fucking problem with liberalism right there.

I'm not trying to say that some people's ideas should matter more than others. I am saying that that is already true in the structure of the world and that we have a responsibility to acknowledge and account for that.
Sure. My case is not larger or heavier than the protection that others might want, though. My kid’s iPad from school is bulky and heavy from the case. Personal iPads in my house are barely heavier than without the cases.

Bezels are wide to accommodate hands, though, not cases. Good cases can obscure nearly none of the bezel.
I don't understand why anyone thinks this argument is some kind of checkmate. This is the equivalent of screaming you're a sovereign citizen when the police ask for your name.

Governments have this general monopoly on the use of force, which is why they tell you you can't do things like sell heroin. If you disobey them, they will send men with firearms and make you stop.

Governments can obtain their consent in a bunch of different models and lots of people argue about which ones are better.

A "world wide ban on crypto" probably is not going to happen but more and more countries are banning it. I suspect many more will continue.
Victor Alert: 15 Minutes to Armageddon: The Memoir of a Nuke Wild Weasel Pilot

Major General Lee Downer, United States Air Force Academy, 1964, served 33 years active duty in the Air Force-14 years in Europe, 2 in the Pacific. Commander, at Squadron and Wing level, he flew almost 4000 hours in F-4, F-111 and F-16 fighters, including over 150 combat missions with the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing based at Danang, South Viet Nam. In 1991 he Commanded Air Forces (AFFOR) and the 7440th Combat Wing based at Incirlik Air Base during Operation Desert Storm. A fully qualified "Gypsy" member of the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron 1969-1973-Hahn, Zweibrucken and Spangdahlem Air Bases
I think you misunderstood the author.

"The data needs to be exposed in its original form; any additional translation step will ensure that most people won't bother. The beauty of this technique is that you are already using SQLite because it's such a powerful database; with no additional work, you can throw it on a static file server and others can easily query it over HTTP."

The author believes (IMO wrongly) that there's lots of web app data that can be exposed via SQLite-over-HTTP without translating it into SQLite, because it's already in SQLite.

The author is saying that since lots of web apps use SQLite for their production database, they can easily "throw" their SQLite DB onto the web. But, in that case, you're out of luck if you use Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or any of the popular key-value datastores like Mongo, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
I do not believe it is a bad faith argument.

At the end of the day, trucks are there to illustrate a point that people may not agree what is considered 'good','efficient' or whatever qualifier you want to add. Trucks - those humongous behemoths intended for largely for contractors, but bought people with more money than sense for reasons that are not 'good','efficient' or whatever other qualifier you would want to add to crypto - are largely inefficient for a family unit. Some could easily argue that those should be banned for personal use as their gas-guzzling abilities are a MUCH greater threat to climate change than the entirety of crypto mining operation.

But do I suggest people are mandated to only get one Prius every 5 years? No. Do you know why, because the concerns of the people may be real, but we have not, as a society, yet decided that it is ok for those concerns to override individual choices.

You are right about society. You are wrong about the argument.
> We need to run ... That should be a standard OS feature

You don't mean this should be included in _every_ operating system, right?

I'd say the overhead would be too high for that little protection benefit, at least for a portion of computers.
Several of the insurrectionists did have guns. The protest began peacefully, and turned violent following Trump's speech, where he urged the crowd to "fight like hell". These people aren't normal like you and I. They are extremely impressionable and subject to radicalization. Listen to the Channel 5 interview with the QAnon Shaman on YouTube. Does that strike you as someone that is capable of functioning in civil society?
Why do you think deflation is bad? Wouldn't it be great if things got cheaper over time such that you would buy fewer products with better quality?
I thought this was going to be about blockchain, or something else hypey like the Metaverse.

Instead, it complains about stuff like Electron.

I think the author is wrong that the technologies he complains about are all that bad.

Also, there was no world in which a traditional Unix system was a good experience for a regular person, and it's never going to happen.
Trump's and Giuliani's incessant campaign can be seen as domestic terror: "to intimidate and coerce a civilian population", "to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion". The capitol "tourist visit" were boots on the ground, and can themselves be seen as both terrorists and victims of terror. They were intimidated and coerced by trump ("your country will be taken from you unless you fight like hell", etc.) into themselves using force and violence to coerce congress into overthrowing the vote certification. Ultimately DOJ and the courts will settle this discussion.
There are many business that run their own payment infrastructure, BTCPay is the most popular. It is better for the network if people DONT use centralized providers. We all have the power to use decentralized infrastructure.

Bitcoin works the way it is intended, that is peer to peer payments. Everything else is just ecosystem, which can be replaced. Coinbase is important as an on-ramp for users for now, yes, but their importance to the network is peripheral.
This was a great line, and sums up Google's chat history:

"If the company really wants to do something about iMessage, it should try competing with it."
After seeing how pretty Windows 11 applications are, I've been trying to create Windows desktop applications using Go or Rust but I have no idea what the Windows GUI API looks like and am unable to find/create bindings.

Linux's GTK4 is pretty easy to use, it's like vanilla JS and it's easy to get started.

Microsoft made it really hard to get started, and I gave up not long after I started.
Yes it was a riot. No evidence any cops were killed
Other thoughts: pure blue is a colour that is representable even in very old colour computers. It's also the only readable pure colour. (I'm guessing, human eyes see it badly, so it intrinsically looks "dark" at full brightness.)
It is, but since you don't control the receive buffer size in the browser, or the TCP window size (or, with many web frameworks, the socket buffer size in the server!), you can't rely on socket buffers giving you timely feedback. By the time the server's send buffer fills, there is already masses of stale data buffered in between you and the client.

In my apps i do indeed detect the socket buffers filling, just as you suggest, but pretty much only as a way of detecting completely wedged clients.
They have created an environment that takes an SMS protocol that users think is standard across all cellular devices, and is apart of their monthly phone plan, and instead uses their own protocol (but only for their own devices.) That is hijacking. What other word is there? The average user has no idea that their SMS is actually being rerouted by Apple into their own system, they just know the bubble color is different. Some often assume that because their desktop iMessage doesn't always recieve messages from Android phones that the Android system is broken, when in fact it's not. So you are rerouting an open standard to your own platform, and you are giving users a false impression on reliability of your competition...how is that not hijacking?
Many laptops have a thunderbolt port which serves a similar purpose. On TB4 I get 15gbps in practice, and I can bridge it to ethernet using either a dock or a PC (I use a mac mini with a 10g port to bridge TB to 10ge).
Work has already begun to lay undersea power cables between Singapore and massive solar arrays in northern Australia.

https://www.dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/trade-investme...

https://suncable.sg/
This still doesn't explain why they cheaped out on the media engine side.

While I can see a justification for the lack of 4K H264 encode support (kind of pointless for a card at this level of performance), removing the AV1 decoder and H265/HEVC encoder is something I don't understand.

This makes the card completely useless for both game streaming and media creation for no discernible reason.
> No, you chose to put Apple between you and your carrier.

Right, because the other option was to put google between me and my carrier - which comes with a ton of stuff i’d be upset about (e.g. terrible privacy protections) but you’d blame me for “choosing” because you don’t actually care if I have a choice you just want to blame me eye rolls
If you use CGI, you can have it just as easy with any language.
I feel Julian doesn't give Offshore the credit it deserves - a wonderful short novel.
Ask HN: Is the US still the best place to live?
Are the (significantly) higher salaries worth it?

If you could take your salary and live in a different country, would you do it?
Codebases are sensitive to entropy, they degrade over time as they are changed, and it takes active effort to push back on technical debt. On a young project there is not much technical debt. On a small project you can have a quality release where you pay off most of the technical debt all at once, which is doable. On a large and old codebase the only way to push back against accreting technical debt is continuously and incrementally, reserving a slice of the budget in every cycle specifically for quality work. Most organizations do not do this, because that time rather gets spent on features instead. And that’s why as codebases get older and larger they degrade. Because they become unpleasant to work in, the older and more experienced developers leave for greener pastures. The more of the core team leaves, the bigger incentive to leave. Eventually the project is mostly staffed with people of lesser skill or lesser tenure (contractors passing through, juniors) and the practices start degrading as well.

And this is where you come in, on an old ugly codebase with perennial quality problems and bad development practices, stuck in a hole and trying to dig its way out. Eventually it will get replaced by a fresh new project by a fresh new team, who just know that this time it will be different.
You're overthinking it. You can have a few in the know coordinating the direction while the eager idiots follow. It's happened time and time again throughout history.
There is nothing stopping Apple from implementing RCS. They can continue to go their own way with Apple devices, and support RCS for interop with non-Apple devices and for users who would rather not route their messaging through Apple.

That they choose not to support a standard protocol as a competitive advantage is exactly the problem.

Imagine if you bought a 4K television that had AppleTV built in, and then you find out that the 4K feature is only available if you use the built in AppleTV interface, and HDMI is limited to 1080P.

There is a case to be made that such anti-competitive behavior is illegal.
Lol no, then the estimators learn to pad their estimates in order to maintain some semblance of an orderly process and management just ends up managing having completely screwed up their scheduling measurements as a predictor of anything. So that practice leads to management in the dark about wether a project is actually at risk for completing on time.

Edit: if you want trust and fast quality execution you can help the team develop best case, median, and worst case timelines.
tick talk watches exist largely for this reason, though it requires hardware per person (child), and isn't open source or cheap.
When you solve a problem, you deprive someone of one they can manage / extract value from, and so they invent new ones to manage. Problem solvers aren't actually that clever, they're more like beasts of burnden or working donkeys (asses) who have become wise to how they are being managed, but this doesn't change the fact that they are still asses. Most frameworks are new ways to favourably manage solved problems, and pointing out this fact without understanding it's on purpose is what a smart ass would do. (I am very much a smart ass.)

When it clicks that most people are miserable because it works for them and most problems are trivial but for it being someone's job to manage it and ensure it's never solved, you can probably find some peace.
Yeah... I looked into that a little, but I've always avoided React like the plague. Looking at JSX just drives me up a wall, and I'm not into the idea of the React Native pseudo-DOM. Oddly it feels a little like Flex/MXML which also annoyed me to no end.
Copy paste from the website:

On HackerNews someone gave a plausible explanation for the timestamps: They are regenerated when you download the PDF with the result.

This explains the inconsistencies in the timestamps – but not in the confirmation codes – because they remain the same.

And the inconsistencies also exists in them. The confirmation codes are ascending, so the result from the 16th should have a lower number than the one from 22nd. However, it is the other way around.
"Every sufficiently-complex system eventually includes a badly-implemented email / lisp / kafka (/zmq/etc)"

Something like a combination of Greenspun's Tenth Rule[1] and Zawinski's Law[2]. Plus whatever would include your queueing system of choice.

Though honestly I've seen more bad queues than emails or lisps. By an order of magnitude or two.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
> iMessage cannot do SMS/MMS either.

From a user perspective, the Messages app can. I want SMS/MMS seamlessly integrated (like when my cellular data connection dies, the bubbles go green), like the Messages app does. If WhatsApp cannot, then it's definitely missing a huge piece of usability.
Hmm well certainly in education the deadlines are realistic. But it's because they've done the same task before.
> When you improve the efficiency of the hardware, software starts to demand more CPU cycles, since there's less of an incentive to optimize.

Or rather, there’s always more work to be done.