skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, the US pre-ordered vaccines without waiting for tests, while EU was more cautious. Turned out that the US was more right than the EU in that case.
Interesting idea indeed: Him pretending to not know that 1729 isn't a 'dull' number at all. I head the same idea as the authors wife: he said it on purpose!
Did eating meat make us human?
That knot of Saturn looks like art to me. Anyway hats off for being to play with geometry like that.
You mentioned Pottery Barn so I figure that's somewhere in North America.

After a childhood in the Appalachian zone, I was dismayed at any furniture I found for sale at retail in California. Usually hopelessly expensive or very poor quality, sometimes both.

I never truly sorted out that situation, so there are sure to be a bunch of places that have such. But I don't know.

The way I solved this for myself was to simply go to the mountains of north Georgia, eastern Tennessee, west Carolinas. Stuff at garage sales (now Craigslist, I suppose) would be better than any chance encounter I found in CA. And the furniture stores had high quality, mid high prices, but not as impossible as the stuff in showrooms in the Left Coast.

I've encountered random fantastic furniture at an import warehouse, or at estate sales, west of the Pecos River. But no systematic trend there.
> By blindly following the data they optised for worse customers (you want people to subscribe but not show up often).

There are other considerations. If it costs a lot more to have someone using the machines than to have someone using the free weights, you might be better off with just the free-weight crowd than you are also having the intermittent machine guys. You want customers that are profitable, which isn't the same thing as customers that only rarely show up.
It is a running joke in our team that MS cannot even implement a login page without problems.
Fantastic idea, I needed something like this last year to generate a coding blog from markdown.

What's your take on code formatting and syntax highlighting?

I only ask as I got so frustrated installing and using Jekyll on Azure that I ended up rolling my own markdown-to-webpage script that would format code snippets nicely.

There's a definitely gap in the market for something that's not quite WordPress, but better than Jekyll. Would be interested to see what you think.
No, the mailing parcels are fine. As long as they have proper employees that deliver the packages, and not a third party that does deliver, but also collects everyone's name, address, package sizes and estimated values, and projects household income, advertising cohort and then sells this to yet another third party. See the difference?

Regarding the instrinic part of the internet argument, that's just an appeal to nature. Naturally the internet is such and such, and therefore it's good (and also currently widespread). That's not a reason why that should be. We forbid plenty of such intrinsicly human things by law, because that's how ~the ruling class can stay in power~ lots of people can live together in relative safety. For example hurting someone else is perfectly natural, I think. I think it happened lots of times before it became a sort of law to not do that. And of course it happens now in many direct and indirect ways, because people want to express, for example, just how angry they are at another. Yet I don't see how we shouldn't restrict this very intrinsic thing.

Also, but this is just conjecture, I think this application of GDPR would allow third party requests IF they are not logged for example. Because then the data collection doesn't happen. In TFA, the third party is Google, and that might be the thing that makes the difference.
Cryptocurrencies are only used for speculation.

That's your best argument against regular currencies? That they're being manipulated, too? :-)
MSFT tried to brute force their way into the mobile market. App developers wouldn't take their money.
Command line is the black and white (usually) "hacker view" that you see in movies. All OSs have one easily accessible (even windows).

Think of it as a text-only way of moving around and looking at directories/folders inside your computer - you start off in some directory and can move to other ones. In side each directory you can do really basic things like just list the files there, or rename them or move them etc. Just like you can in the GUI.

Where the command line gets powerful is that as well as manipulating files you can run arbitrary "commands" - i.e. you can run programs like you can by double-clicking an icon - AND you can start to do smart stuff like sending the output of one command as the input to another.

So you can do things like sort all of the lines in a text file in alphabetical order, remove duplicates, then count the number of lines with the command line in a couple of seconds, where as in the GUI you'd probably end up pasting the text file into a spreadsheet or something I guess.

Look for "terminal" or "CMD" in Linux/osx or Windows and have a poke around by moving through directories and listing files etc, checking against the GUI as you go. Eventually you'll get an intuition for using it.

Good luck!
> The command line, network protocols, etc. There are not the realm of fancy dynamic length characters.

So how does one write, say, the backend for a reservation system managing thousands of hotel room bookings every hour, all over the world? I'm pretty sure there will be ALOT of customers with non-ascii names, not to mention adresses and hotel names. How does one write a system like twitter, where messages in every known system of writing need to be be sent, processed, stored, delivered, commented, displayed?

And btw. network protocols and backends work with arbitrary data all the time: Audio & video streaming, networked gaming, sensor readouts, images. Even plaintext webpages are often transmitted in compressed form. So if these systems are the "realm" of arbitrary bytestreams to encode everything from classical music, over sha-hashes, to gifs of dancing dogs, they may as well encode a few hundred different systems of writing and some smiley faces.
Quadratic equations are now a standard part of British secondary school mathematics.
Despite living in Europe and having some great car brands - that we are somehow loyal to - I was considering buying a Model 3 to my father. The UI and the single control screen is a huge turn off - he can't operate it. it's really bad. So bad, that he is actually unwilling to learn it - it's more like a hassle than convenience. So.. Tesla 3 is a no-go.
LibreOffice also opens up Wordperfect documents. My wife had a church project and one of the teachers had Wordperfect. Office could not read it. So we coverted it in LibreOffice.

Also LibreOffice can edit PDF files so no need for Acrobat Pro.
Who is pushing/lobbying for that type of legislation? Isn't it a case of regulation helping the incumbents?
I agree in theory, although it makes me wonder why - according to this discussion at least - it hasn’t happened in practise.
Gatsby generates a React app, and it embeds that in a set of pages, and renders the content to a set of JSON files as well. When a page is requested the pre-generated page downloads, using only HTML+CSS to display the content for that page. If the user has JS enabled the React app runs and attaches itself to the links in the page to take over how they work. When the user navigates to different page it downloads the content as JSON, and renders it as any other React app would. I think it can also preload content as well.

So in a sense you're correct, it does generate a React app, but it is also true that a Gatsby site works like any other SSG'ed website when you don't have JS enabled. Arguably it's the best of both worlds. It's classic progressive enhancement.

The downside is that it makes the code more complex.

Gatsby does have other rendering options as well - https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/conceptual/rendering-options/
I have no problem reading this. You just didn't learn how to read cursive I guess.
New Zealand?

My Dad's old Subaru Legacy used its display to show Japan rotating around as we turned corners, us always in the sea.

I'm onto my second 2005 Mazda MPV (they're great cars). This time I've replaced the head unit with one of those nasty cheap Android things. Basically a confused tablet with some extra hardware, running any mapping or other app you want.
Who did you brother work for and what did he do?

My reasoning is that it's pretty easy, that almost anybody could do it, and that it's a lot less likely to change anyone's life for the better.

Let's take an example, who had more impact: the guy who made a cancer detection model twice as accurate or the guy who coded the Vue.js view to display the results to an oncologist?

The embedded engineer who made some machine use twice as less energy or the guy who coded the website selling those machines?

I feel like I'm wasting my potential.
I chose webdev because it was the fastest path to easy money in tech and I really regret it.
I did read the article. My reply was about its conclusion. The article itself advocated a toolbox approach of creating useful tools first that could be written and tested independently and then assembling the application from those. But this has little to do with anticipating future changes, more about of flexibility of assembling the application itself. I.e. the conclusion was not warranted.
I mean, a basic Godot package is 1/10 the size of a basic Unreal package. And it scales to quite a few objects/triangles. There is an eventual drop off point, but where is it? Somewhere close to the highest fidelity 3D games. But there's a ton of factors. Also opportunities for more optimization if you drop into C++. Not sure anyone has truly found the limit because it's mostly small studios working with it.

Different engines are efficient for different amounts of objects/triangles. Godot is unquestionably the most efficient for basic games.
I'm aware of that :)

I'm just trying to decypher that cryptic sentence from the OP.
The biggest issue for me is that while there are plenty of problems with the extant VC model, it breaks fundraising into a number of discrete checkpoints. At each checkpoint, you must justify your valuation to a progressively more informed and sophisticated investor who has to put their money where their mouth is. This process is repeated until your business is able to list publicly and provide liquidity for the founders and employees. The incentive structure is for you to build a business and grow that business over time - and hence the intrinsic value of the equity.

IxO tokens are totally different. By providing liquidity on day one (before you have anything) and opening it up to anyone of any level of sophistication is an abject disaster. These tokens aren't linked to equity, they aren't linked to business value, they don't provide voting rights. They're just fun little tokens.

Once you do this the token is the product.

The founders, employees, investors all get their liquidity on day one (and even with vesting schedules on tokens, VCs have been selling their interest in their un-vested stakes). There's no incentive to build a business. The only incentive that exists is to pump the token at all costs. Your only incentive is to build a "community" and "enthusiasm" and spend your entire budget on marketing. Anything you spend building a business is a complete waste and sets you at a disadvantage relative to your peers.

It's been almost 14 years and to date not a single business built around tokens has actually become successful. Not a single one in 14 years even though if you ask any crypto advocate, they've got a list as long as your arm of industries ripe for disruption.

I posit this is because the incentive structure doesn't exist.

There's nothing new here, either. These are simply the blue sky securities that were outlawed when the SEC came into existence following the Great Depression. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_sky_law
It turns out it’s been a long term indicator of covid as those that eat it have no sense of taste.
You've got some issues you need to sort out. Don't cut yourself on that edge.
I would either buy an iPhone or a cheap Android phone (like an Oppo or Huawei) and flash it with CalyxOS [1].

[1] https://calyxos.org
Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to have ICs that aren’t space-constrained be modular in these applications?

In a phone or laptop, obviously it would take too much physical space to have such components be changeable, but for vehicles and machinery couldn’t you regulate that common boards/chips/memory be easily accessible and interchangeable to a standard? (Kind of like how you have a fuse panel for your car or a fuse box for your house).

I get that this wouldn’t solve this issue, but it would certainly help by making parts that are susceptible to supply shocks be easily recoverable and reusable.
close? it s the internet dude
Yup - my old LSE e-mail was via outlook.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

"A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation."
Crypto Pump and Dump Telegram Groups
> The language tries to prevent you from interacting with a `Role` object that's not fully initialized.

I remember that after reading the Rust book, one of the first things I tried to do was to load a struct from a file. Like pseudocode:

struct MY_STRUCT my_struct;
read(file, &my_struct, sizeof(my_struct));

2 lines of code.... It should be simple, right? RiGhT?! Well, the first stackoverflow answer involved unsafe and a bunch of other stuff I didn't understand. And also I thought that as a beginner I shouldn't start fiddling with unsafe right away (otherwise, what's the point? I'm trying to move away from C). Then I learned that structs are not laid out as declared (OMG!), etc.

So, thinking this went beyond my skills I left it aside and tried to make a nice console logging library for my projects. It should be simple! I tried to create a variadic function and you can guess how it went.

I am out of luck with Rust.
Elon is weirdly good at getting regulators to just let him do things.

FSD beta. The yoke steering wheel. Like a quarter of everything SpaceX does.

Does he just have really good lobbyists? Is his force of personality just that good? It’s kind of fascinating.
Every static site generator can be used like that. You can run them all locally to build a directory of static HTML files that you can rysnc (or FTP, or git, or whatever) to a server.

How you generate the content is a separate question. It's quite common to use WordPress as a CMS (because the content people already know it), and then pull the content in to something like 11ty or Gatsby to bake to files and put on a server.
Wrenching 5-year battle with Lyme disease
>and the software is at the very best mediocre and somehow getting worse (trying to figure out how to save a Word document locally these days is NOT easy)

This is a great example of hostile UX. It appears designed to encourage people to use their cloud services, since they offer OneDrive as the first option in the list, and something like 90% of users choose the first option in a list.

IMHO, what Google and Microsoft are sorely lacking is an obsession with UX. It is what drives Apple to maintain the hardware integration, and it works. Google and Microsoft are making inroads here but it just feels very half-hearted by comparison.
AlphaPlot: Publication quality 2D and 3D plots
I worked on Let's Encrypt and I think Let's Encrypt is definitely not a NOBUS.

However, exposure to certificate misissuance risk, including intentional misissuance demanded by a government, is based on relying parties (users) accepting a particular CA, not based on subscribers (web sites) choosing to use that CA. If your site's users trust signatures chaining up to the Let's Encrypt X1 root, there is nothing you can do to stop those users from accepting any potentially-false certificates for your site issued under that root, even if you had nothing to do with the issuance of those certificates.

A famous example of this is the DigiNotar and Comodo attacks, where someone who wanted to help the Iranian government spy on people caused misissuance of certificates for the domains of some major web sites. Those web sites were not customers of DigiNotar or Comodo, but the attacks worked anyway.

In the NOBUS scenario, some part of the U.S. government decides to exploit its jurisdiction over Let's Encrypt (or one of the dozens of other publicly-trusted CAs located in the United States). (Edit: or, it contrives to get insiders working in those CAs to help it bypass their issuance rules and safeguards.) Just as with the DigiNotar and Comodo attacks, this attack would work regardless of whether the target web site is a Let's Encrypt subscriber or not, as nothing technically prevents Let's Encrypt or other U.S.-based CAs from misissuing certificates for any domain name whatsoever.

CAA doesn't stop this because the CAA standard specifically says that CAs should check it for issuance, but browsers should not check it when accepting a certificate. (One reason for that is that the CAA records could change over time, so a CAA record could have permitted issuance when issuance took place, even if it doesn't permit it now.)

CT makes it possible to detect this, regardless of what jurisdiction the misissuing CA is located in or what the reason for the misissuance is, if the subscriber is monitoring CT. Thanks, CT inventors!

In conclusion, although it's somewhat counterintuitive, even if you fear that the U.S. government will try to attack your users through the PKI system, you could choose to use a U.S.-based CA, without significantly increasing the risk of an attack.

There is also a publicly-trusted CA based in Norway which offers free certificates using the same protocol as Let's Encrypt, so you can use the same client software with it:

https://www.buypass.com/products/tls-ssl-certificates

Their free certificates are more limited in various ways than Let's Encrypt's, but if you're running a single site, they should work great.

I would fully agree with the original author that CAs should be held to more scrutiny, that it's kind of sad that they typically can't provide extremely high-assurance or meaningful verification, that other systems for encryption and authentication are useful for their own purposes, and that it would be good to have more alternatives to Let's Encrypt based in more jurisdictions.
> I'd have to look up what the "/" in "M/L" means in the 5th reply (I didn't)

M/L means that M is a field-extension over L. A concrete example would be C/R (the complex numbers over the reals).

Algebraic number theory, in particular Galois theory, studies field extensions by looking at the group of symmetries: the field automorphisms of the larger field that fix the smaller field. For the concrete example above, the Galois group is a group with two elements: the identity function and the function that maps i to -i and keeps real numbers fixed. It's not a coincidence that the dimension of C as an R-vector space is the same as the size of this group (or that the degree of the polynomial that has i (and -i) as roots has degree 2).
Would you consider MakerDAO to not be successful?
Not all browsers send Referer headers. These days it's only useful for doing log analytics and hotlink protection from the browsers that do send the header.
> his argument would either be mute

It’s “moot” by the way.

(A term who’s etymology goes back a very long way: https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/ja... )
i'm very embarrassed to admit this, but i literally just discovered this. thought ufw was literally last defense. gotta run to fix this

(luckily, all just pet projects with no sensitive stuff - still…)
the feature to have the window open itself fully after a long-pull of the button feels safer to me in certain situations - means I don't have to spend a few seconds with my dominant hand off the wheel

(and also more convenient in other situations where I need to quickly open the window and actively drive at the same time, e.g. toll booths, drive thru's)
I have been thinking a lot about this exact point lately. Very interesting but hard to answer.
Oh yes, I do. Like I want wipers working at a constant interval.
> There are so many _symbols_ used in mathematics. It's all as if they're spells written by wizened greybeard wizards and passed down to apprentices throughout the centuries.

That's exactly what they are!
Static Site Generators (SSG) are not new. The SSG blog software Moveable Type launched in 2001 (written in Perl) and preceded WordPress. It featured a friendly browser-based editing, and a publishing experience suitable for all users.

This article omits an important aspect of popular SSGs and the 'Jamstack': they are not easy-to-install or easy to use by non-technical users.

Some of the most popular SSGs are surprisingly complex despite claims to the contrary. (A simple contact form is impossible in many SSGs without embedding third-party services.)

Also, the love of Markdown is not shared by anyone who isn't a developer. Step outside of basic Markdown and it becomes unpleasant to use and cumbersome. It's even harder for non-technical users - try adding a table using Markdown.

Outside of developer circles, SSGs have had neglible impact on non-technical users.
I wait until I'm stopped to wind up or down the passenger side window, having an electric equivalent would save me.. actually 0 time. You have to stop at a toll booth to pay the toll, you have to stop at a drive thru to pay and collect your order. It's purely a convenience mechanism to save perhaps 3 seconds of time in the event it's really super hyper critical it's rolled down before stopping (for whatever arbitrary reason).
Allow me to share my own SSG, and let me now if the documentation is clear, please :) https://github.com/imdario/zas

There are some issues to iron, but it's functional.
For a given value of "zero"; the packets are still copied from NIC buffers and wrapped in sk_buff.
Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return
Doesn't help that engineers switch companies for promotions and leave behind spaghetti code
When the GitHub purchase was happening, there was a lot of noise from both parties about how the companies would remain separate and GitHub would keep the things which make it appealing to developers; it therefore seems disingenuous to me to consider any of the positives of GitHub to be attributable to MS.
If they are going to do it by forcing people of opposing views to listen to each others arguments and having to respond to these arguments (and not to ponied up straw man arguments), or worse, just having two camps of people who shout past each other, then, fine by all means do it.

Any other option should just be called what it is: oppression by censorship.
I guess it's mostly about convenience and reliability.
They won't withstand a direct hit. They're hardened but not against that. It would have to be inside a mountain like NORAD.

The plan was always to get them off the ground before most of the enemy missiles hit. And perhaps to withstand a nearby attack, as targeting tech in the 60s was not very accurate yet. But these days that won't work anymore.
I think the reason for this is that what is called “science” is really academic scholasticism.
FTR I'm just a hobbyist, and I've been hoarding chips and boards too (though probably not in quantities that affect anything)
Not quite. You need bigger feature sizes to get good yields and good voltage resistance and performance over wider temp ranges, so a modern design would still need to be built on large-feature nodes. The car industry did cause this, but they caused it with their whims, purchasing practices, nasty contract terms, and general fucking over of suppliers, not with their allegedly outdated designs.