skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me that’s an insane win for everyone, including Apple. Because it completely changes the value proposition of iPhones.

Hand me down iPhones for teenagers became a no brainer since all it costs is 49$ to get a 3-4 years old phone back to brand new. And they get the blue bubbles in iMessage (which, if you ask parents, is THE social differentiator in schools these days). Having a well architected stack and great engineering pays off in surprising ways!
Twin-field quantum key distribution (QKD) across an 830-km fibre
Not dumb at all. Academia loves its jargon.
if I meant to say that, I would have said that

for anybody else passing by, the people still doing things like a LAMP stack on a single compute instances are getting the same user experience issues under load that we solved for over the last decade or so. I’m just not running into people that have looked at a system design tutorial in the last 10 years that thought “ah this is the use case where I can reject all these guidelines because I’m so experienced”
This is important. It's happening now with photos. Later it will be with DNA.
Well if the problem domain and scope is very-very well defined, developing a service as microservice is good / better than monolith. I can't imagine google map API to be developed inside the monolith app instead of running as their own service.

The problem that many developers fall on is sometimes some problem domains feel like they're well separated. However in practice those domains are tightly coupled into each other, that merging them together is better.
- I trust some custom roms more than vendors

- Bugs / perf / stability / qualcomm not providing firmware are device dependant, it's a good idea to check compatibility before buying the phone, same as when you're buying a laptop you're planning to use with linux.

- GApps can be installed easily but they're basically spyware, so maybe think twice about that.

- Magisk et similia fix banks app (no idea about Google Wallet, I don't use it)
Handheld XRF scanners can detect lead and other heavy metals. But they cost more than $10k. A lead remediation contractor probably will have one of these so they can tell what paint has lead in it, what needs to be removed. Also many government building inspectors will have these scanners.

There are lead test kits with a marker like swab. You can test painted surfaces, things like dust, it takes about a minute and turns red if there is lead. A 2 pack is $11 at the hardware store here in the US. There are also test kits you wipe for lead dust, or send paint fragments and send it off to be tested. In many areas these are free or subsidized by the local government. In the US a non subsidized test kit is around $5 to buy, and around $30 to send to a lab.

Also lead paint can be safely "encapsulated" and painted over in most cases. It is really only an issue for door frames or window frames where the paint can turn to dust, or where paint is peeling or chipping.
Point 3: New New internet!
The Internet today feels like a big box strip mall in suburbia. While visiting my home town, I looked for a local, independent hardware store. There was only Home Depot and Lowe's. Then I realize how few independent businesses were left.

On the Internet, you have Google, Amazon, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter. Much of the good content is hidden in their secret gardens (Facebook, Twitter, and increasingly Reddit).

Discovery needs to be reimagined. Google search directs traffic but now everyone has a SEO manager to get their site to the top. If we want to see the Internet like before, original content needs to be prioritized over content like Pinterest, without needing to do anything special.
San Francisco's open air heroin market
Yes, it all boils down to point spread functions. In the mosaic case, the PSF varies locally (per pixel) and temporally (in different video frames). The paper you link similarly details how they figure out the PSF. You can theoretically also do the entire thing without knowing the PSF, which is called blind deconvolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_deconvolution
Cursors are a for rows at a time. Sounds like above wants `Select *` but only magically pick the columns/fields used by the code.
Or you could hold the seller responsible for any harm caused security flaws for as long as the user chooses to use the phone.
My understanding (from growing up in an old apartment with lead and asbestos everywhere) is that, even your children aren't picking lead chips off of the wall, they're being exposed to pulverized paint dust when they e.g. play on the floor. It's apparently especially common when children's rooms have openable windows, since windowsills shed their paint easily.
Taiwan lab fined for biosafety lapses after lab worker contracts Covid-19
I miss dealing with Websphere every time I am fixing Kubernetes spaghetti.
Is that set an intersection or a union?
I guess that makes sense. But it is more work for me. And for those who don’t want to or can’t put the time into it (outside of HN) they eat what they are fed.
I once worked for a telecom company that hired a red-green color blind person to splice 9/125 singlemode fiber, and do DC power work. Needless to say it was not a good match.
Fine. Let's try another law.

Any locked device must brick itself after 6 months of no patches, to ensure the safety of the network.

A few months of that, and we will arrive at the previous law.
You need to talk to the other teams. Usually the change isn’t so drastic, I often made the change myself in the other teams service and sent them a review.
Stripe: New Payment Links Features
- Why isn't Santa Cruz prepared for digital nomads?

- How's the beach in Las Palmas?
can confirm, lately also noticed blatant spam getting through, maybe last 1-2 years.
Thank you! I am searching for guiding websites and also LineageOS.
> the ability to easily add shared-memory parallelism

I’m honestly not sure if there is any popular language where this isn’t true?
>The gloomy narrative, which says that an invasion of job-killing robots is just around the corner, has for decades had an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination.

Thanks to the likes of the Economist.

Their story on how copilot will make programmers redundant exemplified the way they framed automation - as an answer to their executive readership's prayers - a deus ex machina that will let them fire half of their employees while maintaining their margins.

To be fair, there is a litany of trashy economics studies thumping the same drum. E.g. there was a famous one from Ball State U that mathematically conflated automation and outsourcing to prove that the robots already took over and one from Harvard, I think, that measured job automatability through surveys about how "creative" workers thought their jobs were.
Fun fact: many western day traders flip the colors. On actual charts, regardless of emojis. So they intentionally turn up into red and down into green.

It has nothing to do with color culture, rather that green is a buy signal (buy the dip) and red is a sell signal (sell at euphoria). This is of course a simplification of trading, but short term traders make money no matter the price movement, or at least try to.
Uh, this is a tangent, but what? Libraries have Switch games? Is this common?
I feel like this article doesn't address the reason why people moved away from the "old" Internet --- most people only care about their _content_ not the particular technology that backs it.

In the old times, you could only host content if you were really good with the technology. The people who had websites were people who knew how to set up and run a web server, and to compose the HTML content that was being served. Similarly, communities who ran BBS forums, mailing lists, IRC, etc. all needed at least some people who could set up and manage the technology for them.

Centralized services (Web 2.0) changed that. Now all of a sudden you didn't need to run your server --- you could just type some text and click some buttons to put up a blog on a shared service (myspace? blogger? wordpress.com?). You didn't need to run your own forum or mailing list or chat rooms, you could just put your community on an existing service that provided that (Google groups, FB/Whatsapp/<insert your IM> Chat). Need a forum? You have reddit. What is Twitter if not just a collection of mailing lists that you can openly subscribe to but not post on? Centralization allowed the vast majority of people to do what they wanted to do while "outsourcing" the technology part to somebody else, because most people don't care about the technology they care about their content.

The problem with the modern decentralized web (3.0?) is that we haven't focused on solving the real problem --- making it easy to manipulate _content_. If anything, setting up a Web 3.0 presence is _harder_ than it was on a centralized service, and as long as it remains harder, the new "old" Internet will always be a niche.
> One more thing that can make me happy is to see if connection cost to EdgeDB is much lower than PostgreSql

It is. Connecting to EdgeDB is cheap and we have no problem handling thousands concurrent connections.
I always thought this is because some people prefer this style.
A slightly dissonant title on the article, as the premise of the article is that the Old Internet never went away. Rather, more people are beginning to discover that the Old still exists as they reach the limits of the New and start looking for alternatives. Welcome to October! :)
How can a small website cope with GDPR compliance though? The rules that sprang up to constrain the social-media behemoths seem onerous for anyone but them to comply with.
Yeah. That sense of ownership has been lost. Now corporations own everything. Nobody wants a domain, they want a @name on some social media platform. Nobody wants their own website, they want to post on social media. ISPs have cgNAT now, nobody is directly connected to the internet. Everything is just so boring.
Original Antigenic Sin (2017)
The outrage over the vaccinated is equally as high, case in point: I was talking about intentionally catching it.
> And you know nothing about me.

I know you think the east side of Germany is not a good place today because what happened there more than 30 years ago.

But you know what? GDR commies said in the late 80s their regime was not a good place either because what happened there 40 years earlier! Sound familiar?
I don't think this is correct. For somewhere in the range of 3 decades, companies like Walmart have decimated small businesses. "Boutique storefronts" have not replaced the stores that Walmart et al. helped to shutter all through the late 80s until today. They exist (mostly in large cities), but the reality is that small business, compared to the way it was in, say, 1974, did die.

It might be true that things like Shopify help to resucitate it, but I'm skeptical. I also don't care about things "feeling" small when they actually vast: this is nothing more than a marketing (de|il)lusion, and does nothing to promote the kind of diversified, distributed form of a resilient, vibrant, equitable and opportunity-filled economy.
> There's also 'popular keto' which is what you'll get if you google 'keto cookie recipe'

This saddens me a lot. I'm a low carb proponent and I remember when keto was relatively new and based around real food. Meat, fat, dairy, nuts, vegetables. Then when people started losing weight the housewives got into it, and have turned keto into how to turn replace grains and sugar with fat. So no more real food, but keto pizza and muffins packed full of artificial sweeteners. /r/keto used to be cool, now it's just cheesecakes and adding butter to your coffee. I'd be surprised if people lost weight on that abomination.

Thankfully there's some more strict fringes that haven't been contaminated yet by the greater masses, and research into its benefits can continue until the soccer moms and big snack get into those as well.
small shops are dead in small towns though. Only big cities can support the diversity now. And online giants have decimated the book shops, even more so, just because online book sales are so efficient.
That's a good point. I think this is my lack of experience showing here, mixed with lots of marketing aimed at people like me. After all, you can sell a managed Postgres for a lot more than you can sell a managed SQLite.
Sure, the NRC is not approving new reactor designs, and this is a real problem. One of the quoted articles cites the cost decline in South Korean nuclear as the example that regulations matter. Missing is the context that nuclear power in SK has been moving in the opposite direction in cost in the past 15 years - quickly. Nuclear projects all around the world are over budget and behind schedule; the subsidies required to get them built keep increasing. Even China hasn't started construction of a new commercial reactor since 2016. The costs of GenIII+ designs just seem uncontrollable. I certainly do hope that GenIV designs can address these costs and trends - and an awful regulatory environment certainly makes this tough - but I have a hard time seeing how the costs can come down enough to make nuclear economically feasible beyond particular niches.
Essentially yes. It acts in lieu of a signature, and the company stamp is usually closely guarded by trusted executives.

It’s a problem when those executives go rogue and there are many cases of it causing problems for companies in China, both for foreign and domestic companies.
It appears as if the maintainers are looking at Coverity at least some of the time: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_request...

I don't know if this was flagged or not.
Cheapskate's got a pretty low-end server, doesn't want a lot of traffic.
When I develop server software I always include support for SQLite and PostgreSQL so I can run the server entirely stand-alone if I want to. Choosing whether to use the embedded database or connecting to PostgreSQL is a command line switch.

I have been using SQLite in an IoT application where the measurement of a long-running test instance has 65 million rows in the main data table and is 3.6Gb in size....and the response time running queries against the database isn't bad. I'm starting to question of I actually need PostgreSQL for a lot of situations.
Haha, when I first saw "Bolt" I thought "Hey that's a CardConnect thing!" because I've integrated with it before and will be using Card Connect's Bolt again for this project. I scoured the Card Connect website to make sure it wasn't some kind of partnership and it's not the same thing (not saying you said it was or thought it was, I thought it might be at first).

I can say that Bolt is pretty easy to work with from my experience. I have a wired Bolt reader (IPP320) sitting next to me as I type this (I've worked with it through my employer) and a wireless/BT VP3300 in my bag (which is what I'm going to use for my food festival stuff).

Nothing beats Stripe's docs and the community around it (both in info/SO-answers and in things like SDKs) but CardConnect and Bolt are easy enough. That said I wish their onboarding was streamlined. I had to be in 4-5 meetings with them before I got credentials to start coding and I'll have to be in a few more before I go live. I think you can use their UAT or similar without an account but I wanted to make sure they'd accept me before I started working on it. Super nice people, it just doesn't compare to a few clicks with Stripe and boom, you are off to the races.
Serious question:

What VALUE does Meta provide Humanity?

Clearly, META will provide a new marketplace for virtual bullshit... what REAL additive value does META add?

Makes the wold a better place exactly how?
To be fair level 5 self driving car failing is much more catastrophic than a browser being hijacked. But I generally agree with your sentiment.

Unfortunately the only way to find these modes of failure is to have them actually fail. It's impossible to design and release an error free system without real world usage from real people.

It doesn't mean we should just give up and go back to HTML1 though. It just means exploits should be fixed as soon as possible to minimize damage.
Unfortunately TypeScript is doing all of type-checking synchronously mostly due how it needs to build a global symbols list first. There are some hints that they might move towards more parallel processing but it requires a lot of major changes

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/30235
Problem is, I've been fooled by Apple, Samsung and Google. I'm running out of people to buy phones from.
How to obtain evidence from a closed system? Sadly, large multinational corporate behavior in the field of walled gardens (or vehicular safety, or financial practice...) has often tended toward perverse and scheming motivations, so a reasonable degree of creative cynicism is not uncalled for. We humans are, after all, creative and greedy little bastards.
The problem is that you can't use shared-memory parallelism in TypeScript. If you could, then the most straightforward way of speeding up the TypeScript compiler would be to parallelize the compiler, not to port it.
Or have an unfortunate habit of hosting their sites on mind-numbingly inefficient architectures. E.g. vanilla Wordpress seems to run 500-1000ms TTFB on a standard shared hosting plan.
Nope. In China, if you have control of the company stamp, you have executive control over the company and can use it to enter legally binding contracts.
I'm hopeful for a solarpunk future.

https://i.redd.it/k51q3zw8hn981.jpg
Lots of writing systems that humans have invented are pretty bad, and their digital implementations are sometimes even worse, but Unicode has to live with all of them.

Before emoji were in Unicode, it was difficult to display Japanese e-mails correctly on anything that wasn't a Japanese mobile phone.
All you have to do is not collect any data. Don't set any cookies.
Not all development fits nicely into day-or-two chunks. Forcing all your work to fit nicely into this type of mold is an arbitrary restriction that serves no real purpose except to check all the necessary scrum boxes, give the illusion of extra productivity, and allow for micro-management. It ends up being completely antithetical to thinking deeply and long term about the the code you're writing.

I've worked on teams that run the full gamut here. Those that did scrum and enforced "an every task should be one or two days" did not ship more or higher quality software than those that didn't, and the development teams were consistently more stressed and less satisfied with their work.
Thanks to the hard work of the W3C, soon we may come full circle: https://www.w3.org/2021/04/pressrelease-blink.html.en
Truly we have built our house on sand when devices depend on a steady stream of security updates to remain safe. We are in the bleak dark ages of computing where the idea of shipping bug-free code is laughed off as a fantasy.
I've certainly used modem drivers from Win 95 in Win Me
Verizon FIOS residential fiber.

(I've never had an ISP that allowed hosting HTTP servers in its TOS. But I've always hosted HTTP servers, and I've never had any issues. FWIW Gemini servers are also servers.)
It's interesting how 9-5PM M-F now seems unreasonable in our industry. What a time to be alive.

There's lots of talk of 4-day work weeks or starting a business. Or like you say -- to just exit out completely.
making 180k in the US is not uncommon for senior level people in medium CoL places. I make more then that at a small startup. If I move to a larger company I'd make more and even more so if I get a FAANG job.
I had pretty similar story when I was at Apple, as an SRE. I haven't been in the company for long time, so just before he was making prep for putting me on PIP, handed my resignation, with a salary and title bump.

Sometimes you just join to a company thinking "It's X at the end of the day, how bad it could be?", from the first hand experience I can say it can be absolutely terrible. So if you directly interview with the team you're going to work with, like you do in Apple, and if you didn't feel like you would enjoy working with the people you saw in the loop, trust that feeling. It possibly tells you the truth.
Also associated with "black friday" where many retail company annual incomes surpassed annual costs
sounds a bit like how asynchronous programming is a 'virus' in that once you start applying the pattern, so much upstream and downstream code needs to start implementing the same pattern.
Gemini really doesn't exclude anyone. It's not exactly difficult to use a Gemini to HTTP proxy and you don't lose anything except for access to some weird experiments with the client certificate features.

I mean, ignore away, but I don't think its fair to say that the sole reason for Gemini is exclusion of people.
I saw this somewhere else and then went to submit it... I was brought here, at which time I realized I have already even upvoted it :/

I think I need some sleep.
We like big, light, thin and waterproof phones.

It's only natural to want something comfortable to use which you can see clearly on and which doesn't break your nose when it falls on your face in bed. A minority (me included) would prefer smaller phones with a massive battery, no matter the thickness - and yet I can't stop marvelling at how cool my new big, light, thin phone is. If my phone didn't break in 3 years I'll think about buying a battery on eBay and replace it (or get it done by someone, if I'm not capable of doing it).

SUVs are appealing because they're big and cost a lot of money. It's often a display of superiority and wealth. Those people would drive a tank if they could.

People are not buying SUVs or phones because of advertising, but because of their intrinsic qualities (whether physical or social).
> What about the spreadsheets, the computers, algorithms, industrial control systems, Python scripts, voice recognition systems, data pipelines, software powered gig economy, algorithmic traders?

At first I thought you were bringing these up to point out that the robots create other jobs, because robots don't just spring from the earth fully formed and ready to run forever. They require an army of engineers to build/operate/maintain them.

> We're always focused on the some day maybe robots, but automation has been changing society and (I'd argue) increasing inequality for decades

Inequality is a political problem. I'd rather we tackled that for what it is: bring on the fully automated luxury communism and free us from our mindless toil that can be trivially performed by mindless robots. We have nothing to lose but our drudgery.
Yes, you do. It's a natural right, not limited by either the constitution or copyright law. You cannot distribute your copies, that is all.
There aren't any magic health foods. There are a lot of ways to eat a healthy diet. Most of them are based on a lot of vegetables (in different varieties), whole grains, pulses such as beans, and (if you like) some meat and dairy. The last is optional but makes certain things easier.

It doesn't act like a video game power-up. It just provides adequate nutrition without overdoing any one aspect. It fills you up without giving you too many calories (the main thing that people overeat).
I lost 90 lbs on a keto diet, with no ill effects that I'm aware of.

I no longer do keto and have maintained my weight.

I don't give others diet advice but I went from obese and inactive to healthy and fit, and keto was an essential part of that transition.
But Spotify isn't stopping you from dedicating that time and doing that work if you still have that desire.
The thing that is missing in the DIY website space is discoverability.

Fix that, and you might have a chance of competing with big corporations.

(In the old days we had "web rings", but I'm afraid that's not going to work today)
Started eating keto. I am reaching levels of focus that I have never experienced
Would nuclear winter cancel out global warming?
hint: no
When you admit to needing to learn something in the same breath as throwing shade it completely undermines the shade you were trying to throw.