skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...though I suspect there is some failure mode we have yet to see. Maybe there's a line of thought where people just get sick of every damn thing being massaged to death by PR people, and they do something about it.

Yes please! A Brontitallian Revolution!

All we need is a mass vision of Arthur Dent Throwing The Nutrimatic Cup.
This could have major GDPR implications if that's something the parent cares about. ReCaptcha is basically Google spyware that happens to provide captcha services.
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Masks are eminently reusable.

From a Twitter thread by Dr. Claire J. Horwell, Director of International Volcanic Health Hazard Network (IVHHN), Professor at Duram Volcanology – “here's a short thread to answer the question: can you wear a disposable #facemask more than once? The answer is YES. Many manufacturers state that masks should be disposed of after 8 hours but this is not true. […] Unless a mask has become clogged full of particles in a very high exposure scenario (e.g. mining, construction) or the worker is in a contaminated front-line healthcare setting, it is still perfectly useable after 8 hours, unless it is broken.”

https://twitter.com/claire_horwell/status/146640027013763072...
I have a few, somewhat contradictory, thoughts:

Firstly, ideas are worth nothing, and you cannot own them. Everyone has ideas, and they're all derived from the our previous experiences, conversations, reading, etc. As you say, it's not exactly what you described, so they've maybe (or maybe not) mixed some of your discussion with some other things, and here they are. Like every other startup ever.

What matters is how you execute. And it appears that they're doing ok so far, enough to get into an incubator, and make a run at it. Good for them, but this is the easy part. Execution is non-stop: every day, week, month, year, you need to keep executing well. That's the real value of a startup, much more than the idea.

Secondly, and kinda OTOH, if you're friends and you had a conversation in the relatively recent past in which you discussed your startup ideas, and they went off and are building something largely based on that discussion, and you weren't invited to join or even consulted, I can see why you'd feel upset.

It's a shame you missed the first opportunity to say "hey, didn't we talk about this?" when you first heard about their thing, because now you're going to look like your response is calculated, rather than natural.

On balance, I think it's worth talking about though, because (given your post here) it seems you will find it hard to just let it go, and so you need to resolve your relationship with these people. I think it's very unlikely that they'd say something like "oh yeah, you're right, hey -- have 25% equity and come join us", and far more likely that they get super defensive and avoid contact with you in future.

Good luck!
I work at Google, but this is based on stuff I knew before I worked at Google, which I heard from a coworker. I haven't checked on the project since joining. The Puppeteer TL (the guy linked in the grandparent comment) apparently had ambitions to make Puppeteer work cross browser like Playwright does now. However, the Puppeteer project was heavily deprioritized and the TL would basically never be able to achieve their vision. This made it pretty easy for Microsoft to basically take the entire Puppeteer team from Google. That coworker of mine told me also that after all those Puppeteer devs left, Puppeteer is now basically only a 20% project worked on by a few people. The number of open issues/PRs done kinda reflects that (no idea of this is still true or not)
One of the best parts of Hibiki is how you can encapsulate functionality easily into libraries (even 3rd party JS like D3). Even if the library requires JavaScript to create, using it looks just like HTML with custom tags. Once more functionality and components are wrapped into Hibiki libraries, writing simple dashboards, forms, and tools will look more and more like simple, clean HTML.

Here's a simple example that displays a scatter plot of data: https://tests.hibikihtml.com/test-d3.html (source code here - https://github.com/dashborg/hibiki/blob/main/static/test-d3.... ). The plot is just written as <d3-scatter-plot data="*$.data"></d3-scatter-plot>, data is fetched with "GET https://testapi.hibikihtml.com/api/d3-test"
Do you mean Aha! Insight? I don't see a book just labeled "Aha".

There is another Gardner book, Aha! Gotcha, which has a different emphasis than what I think you're talking about, but is excellent. I loved it as a kid. Gotcha is more about mathematical paradoxes and intuition-breaking concepts. Hotel Infinity, "who shaves the barber who does not shave himself?", the 'unexpected tiger', Zeno's paradox is included I think..., the difference between average and median, Newcomb's problem, etc...

(the unexpected tiger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox)

I'm going to have to check this out based on how good Gotcha was.
Patent what? Supervised sound localization is not novel. There exist myriads of published work on that topic. The only novelty I see in this work is the similarity between performance of their trained model and that in humans.
I want to disagree, but I can't, because you are right. Though perhaps as wearable tech grows(watches and what not), perhaps the keys will exist there also.
i love this viewpoint because your behavior is so similar to what i see among 90% of my friends, it seems logically consistent, and you seem to have arrived at it from your own reasoning/volition.

and then we have the mandates. presumably, your behavior is the same with v.s. without them. as is the case for most people i know. with the exception of my one friend who was building a japanese-style coin-operated 24/7 unstaffed arcade business in a stripmall off aurora. she ditched that a year into the pandemic because navigating the mandates as a business owner is not easy (how does one check vax cards at the door if their business only works because it’s unstaffed? once she does find a solution, how long until the next mandate changes things for her again? it’s settled down a little, but the policy changes were really chaotic through to last summer).

“return to normal” as a phrase is a bit ambiguous. does it mean everyone goes back to living how they did two years ago? or does it mean everyone, within each area of their life, has the option to return to what worked for them then, while keeping the parts of their current lifestyle they prefer? obviously, we can’t grant that level of optionality to every area of life without bifurcating society (e.g. separate schools for in-person vs virtual), which doesn’t sound great. but we can grant that optionality in lots of areas of life that are already adept at catering to different preferences — e.g. restaurants (if you want italian food, go to an italian restaurant), entertainment venues, gyms, and really most small/medium businesses.

i’d love for my friend to be able to open her arcade some day, and i know there are hundreds of other individuals in a similar position as hers trying to bring new things into our community. i think it’s reasonable that we allow a “return to normal” in the areas of life that are already adept at catering to different preferences, and leave the mandates only for those areas in which there’s less optionality (e.g. public transit, schools — for now, etc).
Calling it a “deprecation” when it’s been removed entirely seems like a misuse of the word.
Ask HN: Do companies still have 99.99999%, or similar, uptime SLAs or OKRs?
It used to be all the hotness to make these kinds of uptime guarantees. Is that still the case?

If so, how do you even prepare for that? If Facebook couldn't protect themselves against some DNS misconfig causing a 7 hour outage, what chance do you have of true 5-9's uptime at your smaller company?
I suspect the opposite.
While the theoretical number of combinations is huge, the amount of information given by each guess grows faster than the number of real words of longer lengths.
They've since edited.

"EDIT: other commenters response to this comment made me go look up some original research on the topic. As a result, I fully retract what I've said below. I found several papers that report substantial restrictions of airflow from wearing a correctly fitted N95 mask."
I think that is the trade off for higher than average salaries and one heck of a foot in the (tech) door. I do have a friend working there now, he seems mostly content with it. I doubt he’ll be switching anytime soon.
Great article but I've got one question. If they have to read the assembly created by the compiler to understand how to write Rust code that the compiler could optimize, why didn't they directly write assembly code?
I always have to throw Brunner in - Stand on Zanzibar is the closest imho
Mysterious energy source unlike anything astronomers have seen before
Have you considered the possibility that running budget deficits is the problem?
The cynic / conspiracy theorist would argue that the DART mission is evidence that something big is headed our way.
Paramotors are great, but they’re absolutely as bulky as a jetpack and at least as loud as a lawnmower.
> If screaming Karens are going to insist on in person learning

In defense of the Karens (ew, I feel gross even typing that) remote learning absolutely was the disaster they say it was. It was really, really bad. It's hard to exaggerate how bad it was. And I mean specifically for the kids, not for the parents (it also sucked for them/us, obviously). We can probably recover well-enough from a semester or two of it, but without some top-down moonshot level effort to make it better fast, continuing it would have been an actual catastrophe. I doubt anyone else with school-side insight into how it went would claim otherwise. It was bad.
Whether people currently wear a particular type doesn’t indicate whether they are effective.

If people knew that they actually are effective, more would wear them.
There's some good comments on the blog post about why he thinks doing it through MasterClass brought a lot of value that wouldn't be there otherwise.
Is WordPress Hacked?
When I try to send wp an email request for help, the wp help popup acts erratic. It's unusable. When I try to send in feedback, I find garbage Russian.
Here's an interesting review which makes something similar to that case:

http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/14/14432.html

The main thrust:

> More broadly, though, Huxley is arguing for people to continue leading the sorts of lives that make for high art rather than those that make people content. His chief complaint about the Brave New World is that people have taken the dizzying highs and terrifying lows that lend "nobility" and "heroism" to life and traded them in for the creamy middles of happiness. For that argument I have less sympathy. By which I mean fuck that noise. The notion that suffering is ennobling is a particularly destructive piece of social engineering, and the suggestion that other people should suffer because Aldous Huxley enjoys the "over-compensations for misery" that the artists among them produce is pretty vile.
As someone who never touches drivers or hardware directly, these sorts of stories are just wild to me, I love reading them. Congrats to Alyssa and the team; as usual, a very interesting write up and impressive work.
> Secondly, it is massively against a breach of ethics to intentionally withhold care from people because of a moral judgement.

I don’t think framing it as a moral judgement is correct. We don’t have the capacity in our medical system to keep this up forever, and the electorate has signaled they don’t want to pay for increasing the systems capacity. Cutting off the purposely unvaccinated is just triage
I really enjoy Alyssa's writing style.
I'm not really on board with letting the general public fly around wherever they want. People have enough difficulty maneuvering in 2 dimensions to the extent that 30,000+ people die every year in car accidents. Flying would be much worse.
That would be something I would do as well, however since this is a work email, it's managed by a third-party, outside my direct control; we do have a way to report (forwarding) spam email, but I think that is also limited.

As I mentioned, I only get a few a week, and they usually fall into 1 of two categories:

- newsletter/promotional events type emails; they're not typical phishing/spam emails (like specific keywords, bad grammar, weird URLs, etc.), and so they look 'legitimate' and the headers usually indicate they have a 'low' spam score, so that's why they make it through. One such persistent spammer is "HRTrainOnline", for which SC reports go nowhere right now.

- recruiter emails; again, they don't get flagged as typical spam. Usually for these I stop getting emails from repeat offenders after ignoring them long enough, or after enough SC reports[1].

Because these don't score as 'spam' so much (but they are spam, since they're unsolicited/unwanted repeat emails), they keep getting by whatever filter our reports are feeding.

As to the reason I use SC for reporting them: I want the upstream service(s) (ie. emailing services, etc.) to be made aware they have users that aren't following the law/best practices/their TOS, and take action against them.

[1] there's one persistent Facebook recruiter that just kept emailing despite being ignored and reported through SC for months; finally on yet another email (following one promising they were "emailing one last time") I lashed out making it clear I had no intention of ever considering working at FB, WTH they even got the idea I would want to, and that they must be a really poor recruiter for resorting to pestering people to get responses.
Okay, but be realistic. If I quit my job tomorrow, it wouldn't be long before I could no longer afford rent. What you're proposing might be true, but that's currently not how society is at the moment.

No, this person wanted to teach philosophy, not be philosophical themselves. Please watch the interview.

A lifetime of sleep walking dogs could lead to enlightenment, if that was the case and this person did believe that then they would have said that their passion was walking dogs because it provides them with philosophical thought.
> Avoiding getting something that offers little benefit and offers even small risks makes sense to me.

It's not that simple: vaccination is more consistent at producing an immune response and it's stronger. The confound in both cases is that it wanes over time, so comparing someone who was vaccinated a year ago to someone who had COVID last month — or vice versa! — is telling you more about the elapsed time than anything else.

Getting boosted, even after having been infected, is a cheap and easy way to reliably keep your immune response high without unpredictable timing. It's much less risky than getting COVID even if you could organize the equivalent of a “pox party”.
Web 1.1 because it's irrational
> Libertarian solutions, as you propose, are no more idealistic than mine, but I don’t put my faith in them because ultimately we are social beings.

Libertarianism is not opposed to organizations, it's opposed to coercion. If you want to get together with ten million of your closest friends and create your own not for profit Facebook to be run in the public interest, libertarians would not stand in your way unless you try to force everyone to use it or pay for it etc.

That means if you want to build something you have to convince people to support it, and not everyone will. But that stands in the way of what you want to do no more than saying that the US can't fund development of the internet without people in China paying US taxes.

You don't need everyone, you just need enough people to exceed the price of doing what you want to do. If you can convince the majority of Americans (<5% of world population) to raise their taxes by $5 to fund something, how is it any different than convincing any other arbitrary ~5% of the world population to bring it into existence voluntarily by contributing the same amount? You were already doing it using a small minority of everyone. It doesn't always have to be the same set of people.

> My only issue with Mastadon is that regular busy working people with families to raise on depressingly low wages cannot justify the effort to participate.

This is the fundamental problem with all of it. It's the same reason they can't self-beneficially participate in the political process -- no time to become informed, so too easy to make self-harming decisions. And then you get heuristics like "always vote for X party instead of Z party" that most certainly do not actually fix it.

Maybe the solution is greater specialization. Instead of everyone funding everything and then having neither meaningful control nor understanding of any of it, have different people choose what they care about. A million people decide they want to support cancer research, and so they spend real time figuring out who is doing the best work and then give all of what would've been their tax dollars to that. A different million people decide they want to support development of communications technology, so they take the time to understand how communications technology works, and they're the ones to support that with their time or money.

In principle the amount of funding that goes to each thing is the same as it would be if everyone is funding everything, but instead of 100M people each paying $1 to a hundred things, you have a million people each paying $100 to one thing and a different million people each paying $100 for another and so on. And then it becomes self-balancing, because if a problem gets worse, more people start paying attention to and caring about solving it.

And don't say nobody would do it, or explain why a government would fund research instead of letting some other government do it. People do it because they want to live in the world where it happens. Or they don't, but then why would they vote for it either?
Most likely because getting major browsers to adopt further changes can be challenging.
If you can argue that remote attestation doesn't provide additional security, then i'd love to hear that argument. but it seems like a fairly clear-cut case that it does provide additional security, and i don't think it's reasonable to accept a lower level of security for the sake of allowing unverified builds of open-source software.

there are specific contexts where you want to distribute information as widely as possible, and in those contexts it makes sense to allow any software versions to access the information. but for contexts where security is important, that means verifying the client software isn't compromised.
Sure they could, but projects at big companies move so slowly, it would take them months just to staff the team, get a manager, a designer, and project-manager, and engineers assigned :) . Not really trying to restrict it, I want people to use it (even for free)! I just also want to be able to launch my startup
When everyone lies the only thing spies can collect is lies.
I don't personally think Argentina should have access to credit. I was politically active while down there, never at the federal level but I think most of my mates agreed that renegotiation of Argentina's debt under the premise that it was not legitimate was a good thing, and also that the federal government to stop relying on international credit was also a good thing.

What I'm saying is that the effect of not giving access to credit to a government that is already massively indebted internationally has a similar macro effect to economic sanctions. It's basically reducing the profit you can make from international trade.
Those are fairly different though. With Taiwan Ukraine-- the involvement would be clear: Country A invades Country B. US intervenes to fight away country A. Losing here would be a HUGE crediblity blow.

It's very different from "nation building" (which has been proven time and time again to be a waste of time, money, and lives). Losing here is more of a factor of fighting ideologies vs. a distinct adversary.

In terms of training and military hardware the US is pretty much unrivaled even by China. But that knowledge suddenly becomes less relevant if it becomes clear we won't use it when it matters.
Absolutely, it’s the primary issue.

But when you can’t get access to international capital, can’t effectively tax, and are unable to cut spending, you’re left with an inability to address that issue.
Does it mean we can have open source nvidia gpu driver as well?
Assuming this[0] is the Solid you mean, as a potential disambiguation for folks.

Are you able to comment on your perception of Loop as an implementation of the original vision for Fluid?

[0]https://solidproject.org/
Julia docs do a (surprisingly) good job of being clear and explicit about this: the docstring for `reverse(AbstractString)` says:

> Reverses a string. Technically, this function reverses the codepoints in a string and its main utility is for reversed-order string processing [...]. See also [...] `graphemes` from module Unicode to operate on user-visible "characters" (graphemes) rather than codepoints.

Properly reversing a string of flags (or any other grapheme clusters) is just a `using Unicode: grapheme` away.
Buenos Aires is the best place in the world to miss when you want to feel nostalgic. (Argentinian, moved to Valencia 1 year ago)
Generally, animals don't eat things that aren't food. They have taste buds and olfactory senses, just like us, and eat things that taste and smell evolutionarily "good". For me, cigarettes smell bad and taste terrible (I tasted one when I was about 7), and I doubt it's much different for birds that are omnivores. I suppose one possible path to them actually eating cigarettes would be if some was accidentally ingested, then they became addicted.
Some companies I've worked for have "disaster recovery" drills periodically. Those should involve restoring backups. From that you should have a timeline of how long it takes to perform a restore.

If it takes weeks to perform a restore then that should be a major red flag and be addressed.

Of course, if a company has the kind of security that allows them to be hit by ransomware, then they probably aren't diligent about their disaster recovery scenarios.
That's probably what they would have done if starting from scratch, but Remix is built on top of React Router which is a 7-8 year old project with its own idioms.

Also, Remix is for React developers. It's expected you will use JSX, components, etc.

Personally I have a toy client-side router for Svelte. Links that need to trigger client-side navigation simply use a Svelte action:

<a href="/" use:link>Home</a>

https://github.com/PierBover/roots-svelte-router
That's not newspeak because the quantity of vocabulary on the right is higher than it is on the left. The ability to express concepts with the words on the right is larger than on the left, whereas the point of newspeak is for it to be smaller.
My job is completely detached from the processes and people that ensure there is food on my table. There is no slack to pick up because there is no contribution. Most software developers are in the exact same position. There is no "contributing" in programming casino sites, optimizing trading algorithms to make fat cats richer, or developing aaa games. Society would be better off if we didn't work.
if I got blood on a $2k shirt, I'd probably bother to clean it