skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into this issue before. I was calling IRS to ask for simple clarification on the taxes.

Me: Hello, I have some question about the taxes and I wish to have clarification on-

Agent: Sorry, I cannot answer your question.

Me: Oh, then where the correct resource for me to get that information?

Agent: Sorry again, I cannot answer your question.

Me: Why you cannot answer my question? I am asking for a clarification on the taxes and IRS is the correct place for me to contact.

Agent: Because the law said so. You are asking tax-related question during tax off-season which we cannot answer nor help you. I'm sorry I cannot help you because the law prevents me from doing so. If you want your questions answered by the IRS, then you would need to wait until the tax season.

Me: Are you serious?

Agent: Unfortunately yes, there is nothing I can do at this moment. If I attempt to help you, I will be facing federal charge for the violation of the law. Your best chance is to wait until tax season.

Not even on hint of advisement to check with my CPA because that would consider helping the consumers.
> I think SMRs are a response to boondoggle construction projects...

This +10 (if I could).

Consider orbital-class rockets - another very advanced technology, and far less forgiving than nuclear power reactors. How much does it cost to launch (say) 10 tons of satellite on a rocket from plucky upstart SpaceX? Vs. how much did it cost back when only a few bloated "cost plus plus" mega-corporations were providing orbital rockets?
This is what happens when your company (notoriously) moves away from having meritocracy as a core value: you put people in charge of things who don't have the expertise to run them very well.

https://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-ceo-ditches-meritocr...
I'm not trying to blame all our problems on social media, but I think a significant confounding factor that should be considered in any analysis blaming bad unrelated outcomes on the pandemic, is that TikTok exploded in popularity right around the same time as the start of the pandemic(in the US, at least).
Why not pick, say, the Boston Tea Party (And the war that followed) as a better example of an effective protest?

Highly illegal and immoral, destructive and violent, killed some five-digit number of press-ganged soldiers and civilians, met all of its political goals...
Would you rather they signal vice?
Hey might want to review how your site looks like in safari mobile. The content seems aligned to the left only
Instagram is almost ready and it will be rolled out in the coming weeks. I don't have any plans for Youtube and Tiktok yet but definitely will include them later.

As for the mechanism to format before posting, it is a very appropriate suggestion and I have added into my features pipeline.

I am currently working on a version that implements Canva so users can edit their instagram,twitter etc photos before posting them.

I am having trouble finding users though.
The linked TED talk on the article explains it nicely. A phone book is created with a finite set (numbers,letters, words in English), but that finite set can be used to produce an infinite set. You can always produce a new result by appending to previous result.

In contrast, a musical melody is created by a finite set, and is bracketed by a duration. You can't keep adding more notes to a composition without extending its duration. Doing so makes it non melodic. If you do it enough, it becomes noise (white noise, pink noise..)
Thank you HN, this thread has genuinely brightened my week.
I don't think the line is so simple.

I agree that the "any Russian person" aspect of this makes it unjustified, in my eyes, but harming property more generally?

Well, denying someone their property is certainly harm of a sort, and if I were asked if it was justified to seize or destroy an oligarch supporting Putin's property or yacht or whatever, then I'd say absolutely.

In a similar way, there was a case in the UK recently where a statue of a man who was both a philanthropist and a slave trader was thrown into a river. This was charged as a crime, but the accused were found not guilty (commonly believed to be jury nullification).

Was this right? Well, the guy had actively limited his philanthropy where anyone was anti-slavery, people had tried getting a plaque added to the statue to explain context, but this had been blocked. I think this was a reasonable act of protest, and clearly a jury of their peers agreed.

More directly, what if they found their software was being used in a Russian weapons factory that was being used to produce munitions killing Ukranian people? In my mind, that would significantly raise the justification to cause damage to that property.

Harm, especially when it comes to property rather than people, is tricky. I don't think it can always be ruled out when it comes to justifiable protest.
Thanks for pointing out, I will get to it asap. :)
what would you rather have, 2 year of migrations or having production incidents daily?
That's not what we were talking about though? In the context of this thread, we we talking about the behavior of open source projects, not people engaging in political debates.
I found this to be an unbelievable improvement in reading for me. It was automatic and effortless. I cannot believe how much faster that helped me to read without sacrificing on comprehension.

Unreal. Reading the non-bionic (?) text on the website suddenly felt like a sluggish chore, and for the first time I am realizing that I am actively using not insignificant amounts of energy to mentally parse text.
It uses fuel that exists in a limited amount. We call "renewable" things that plug into natural flows of energy, and not things that require artificial flows.
Making Space Work for Humanity
I don't think Practical Cryptography is going to give you much of an intuition about why this article is advocating for certificates.
A Google Replacement Will Not Look Like Google
Absolutely crazy that Asahi Linux beats MacOS on even one silly datapoint of compatibility lol. Open source is sick.
Not even a full day since your email and you're making wild assumptions?
I think this is an extremely fascinating reply, and potentially very effective. Speaking from personal experience on the other end. It’s difficult to describe the energy that takes you to the store, but prevents you from doing everything else in life. Something like anxiety-constrained motivating, but taken to the extreme.
If you don't need more than 16GB of RAM the Air will more than likely be more than good enough for you.

The only reason I returned my Air and waited for the MacBook Pro I'm typing on now is I made the mistake of loading some games on the Air - and one game I love suffers due to my mod addiction and can really use more RAM.

And that's something that many people don't seem to realize - if you buy from Apple directly they have a two week no questions asked return policy. Obviously the machine has to work and you need to return all the parts, but if you aren't sure you could always get an Air and you have two weeks to make up your mind if it's sufficient or not.

Man, it was SO hard taking it back and waiting 9 months before the MacBook Pro's came out. So be careful - once you taste and M1 Mac it's almost impossible to go back to anything else :) At least if you decide the Air isn't for you after all you'll only have to wait at max a few weeks.
Related:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dcisotools/

Semi-related and interesting:

https://mc.pp.se/dc/ip.bin.html
Ugh. I always get a little depressed when anything about Aaron pops up on this site.

It's a clear constant reminder just how much the world lost when he was driven to suicide. He was the programming equivalent of Nicola Tesla.
The host is masterful at divulging the right amount of technical detail to keep both casual and tech savvy listeners engaged. He is also very good at finding good topics and getting hackers to talk on the podcast.
"A hypothetical scenario" is a fiction.
is ksh still relevant today? at my first job i worked on IBM AIX systems that only supported ksh, and all the old timers were convinced that bash was inferior
Nice list but i think that some of those entries should use [Lazarus] instead of [FPC] since unlike Delphi (which is a single product), Lazarus and FPC are two different projects and not everything that would work on Lazarus would also work on FPC by itself. As an example, a project that uses FPGUI instead of Lazarus would not be able to use any of the GUI controls marked as "FPC".
Slipknot fans will be able to help:

Inside my shell I wait and bleed.
JetBrains, the company behind Android Studio and many other IDEs, has "Spaces", basically MS Team clone with free unlimited Git and other developer-centric stuff (https://www.jetbrains.com/space/).
Nice features, it seems they actually found some useful things. I like the notifications.

Too bad it isn't available here yet, I will definitely sign up when I can.
Competition (as opposed to a monopolist) is not the dystopian nightmare you make it out to be. Some people even think it's a good thing.
It has been ELF for a while now.
This is pretty awesome. I've been super happy with my move to PlanetScale so far and they keep improving the product and adding things I didn't even think were possible (or at least easy/viable).
To me that’s the beauty of it: you can still just pay for the highest cable and use that one and only, as a dedicated cable for your most power hungry device. Keeping the status quo doesn’t cost more, nor is less convenient.

It’s up to each of us to decide what trade-offs we take, how we want to manage charging: buy cheap cables and find those who work, or throw money at the issue, or stick to specific brands (only by first party cables for instance), or take the time and effort to research the right cables.

You just have more choice now.
I'm sure the medical system works the same way.

In general, it's using averages and then being able to filter out people.

Investors work that way too. Let the entrepreneur take the largest risk upfront and then pluck the highest things likely to succeed.
In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves
Centralized single points of control are a basic goal of corpsec. They trade availability for security. The alternative model of individual SSH keys is theoretically more highly available, but has many single points of security failure.
> could it rescue Java Client development?

No because the industry is slowly moving away from the long fashionably hated language.

Tech centric people love to complain about Electron being bloated, the same way they do about anything that doesn't run on their 4gb memory Linux hobby machine.

In the actual non HN user world, on modern desktops, average users don't really care about these things unless they notice them. Electron will keep getting by, as it should because browser based development is the future.
With the sokol libs as platform abstraction it works quite well to develop and debug a native build in a regular C/C++ IDE and then only cross-compile to WASM. Most bugs are platform agnostic and would also happen in the native build. For the rare case that problems only happen in the WASM build, regular printf-debugging usually works well enough, or in case of WebGL specific problems there will be validation errors on the JS console from the browser's WebGL implementation).

(disclaimer: sokol author)
Normally I'd say "you must be kidding" but I've learned that people here often don't know stuff that seems very obvious.

The big change for millions of us was Firefox Quantum, which came out in November 2017.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum

Mozilla is proud of this because it involves some Rust stuff, but it was a massive loss for the extensions world. It removed (or disabled) XUL, Netscape's extensions language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

To quote from the Classic Addons Archive:

«
This catalog contains 93,598 versions of 19,450 Firefox add-ons created by 14,274 developers over the past 15 years using XUL/XPCOM technology before Mozilla decided to ruin the classic extensions ecosystem and go exclusively to WebExtensions.
»

https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive

For me, before Firefox 57, it worked superbly for me. Afterwards, of my 13 essential addons, only 2 still worked and one of those was trivial and unimportant.

It destroyed my browser and drove me away from using Firefox after nearly 20 years, dozens of computers and ½ dozen different operating systems.

Other cut functionality:

The best cross-platform FOSS email client, by far, is Mozilla Thunderbird. Mozilla has repeatedly tried to kill it.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/30/mozilla_thunderbird_h...

Mozilla also has cut off Seamonkey, the original Mozilla Internet Suite.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Mozilla code is the one remaining FOSS WYSIWYG HTML editor, as included in Seamonkey.

It threw it out.

So far the following forks tried to maintain it:

Kompozer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/

NVu: http://www.nvu.com/

BlueGriffon: http://bluegriffon.org/

Mozilla has no real idea why people use Firefox or what they want. It has forced wildly unpopular new features on people, such as the Australis theme.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/974802

It's forced telemetry that kicked the entire browser offline for millions:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/18/foxstuck_firefox_brow...

And yet it includes a huge complicated "developer mode" that 99.9% of users never want and never see.

Mozilla's Boot2Gecko became FirefoxOS which became KaiOS, the fastest-growing mobile OS in the world.

https://www.kaiostech.com/

Mozilla abandoned FirefoxOS.

KaiOS is proprietary. Mozilla licensing should make that illegal. Is Mozilla enforcing it? No. Who wrote the license? Mozilla CEO Mitch Baker.

Salary: $3 million in 2020.

Also 2020: Mozilla fired 250 people, quarter of its workforce.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/11/mozilla_staff_layoffs...

Summary – cut functionality from Mozilla products this century:

• XUL extensions

• Email, both integrated and standalone client

• Newsgroup reading

• FTP support

• XMPP Chat

• Web editing

• Native FOSS mobile OS

• Multiple themes.

And so on.
The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms - Godfried Toussaint

> ..The structure of the Euclidean algorithm may be used to generate, very efficiently, a large family of rhythms used as timelines (ostinatos), in sub-Saharan African music in particular, and world music in general.

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_rhythm
> Such ecosystems come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the address space.

is that really a reason not to use it? nobody is using i386 anymore that is updating to the latest openbsd.
https://tailscale.com/kb/1148/tailscale-vs-nebula/
No, this is incorrect. Most USB-C cables don't contain any parts more complicated than a resistor (used for cable direction detection). PD negotiation is handled by a microcontroller in the charger, not the cable.

The only USB C cables with any sort of active components in them are electronically marked cables for >60W charging, and USB4 ("Thunderbolt") cables with active transceivers. Everything else is purely passive.
The term “virtue signaling” is a pet peeve of mine. Like the word “problematic” it’s too vague and broad to be useful. The implication seems to usually be that it’s all talk and no action. But if we’re talking, as we are now, that’s completely separate from my actions. Like, if I say “pollution is bad” and don’t do anything in my life to reduce pollution that’s virtue signaling, but it’s not if I’ve dedicated my life to reducing global pollution? How are you supposed to know what I have or have not done in real life during this convo.

So either virtue signaling applies anytime someone expresses an opinion about something moral, in which case it’s a useless truism. Or it’s meant to express doubt or challenge someone to prove that they take action, in which case who owes you proof?

Putting a statement of support for a cause in your open source repo may or may not have any direct impact, but it is personal expression - and in general I am for personal expression.
With respect, I believe you have a common misunderstanding of 12-step programs... AA is not an inherently religious organization, nor does it require any religious/supernatural beliefs.

I'm an atheist, and I've been to years of AA meetings. There is no requirement of religious belief for participating. The concept of a "higher power" is an important part of dealing with our narcissistic ego defenses, but it's not necessarily a religious concept. God just happens to be a convenient implementation of a "higher power" that works for a lot of folks.

Now, there are plenty of people in AA, attending and running meetings, who DO have religious beliefs. A lot of AA literature is written by people who have religious beliefs... The people who founded AA had religious beliefs. So I think it's understandable that religion appears a lot in the mix.

Plenty of modern AA groups explicitly address the "God not required" issue... Maybe it helps that I live in a big city, but I've never had a problem with being an atheist and participating in AA.
That’s an aritificially hostile take, isn’t it?

Most people read “the pandemic” as the global event that started around the beginning of 2020 and certainly that’s how this article and it’s title are using it.

Even if you don’t read the article, it feels like a leap to assume that they’re suggesting that the virus itself somehow made people drink more irresponsibly or made people collectively more vulnerable to alcohol. Has anyone suggested that? Would anyone?

Of course it’s referring to the totality of the experience: the virus, the anxiety, the necessary closures, the precautionary mandates and other parts of “the response”, etc etc
Now I want an Iron Maiden thread. :)
PHP is the easiest to deploy, for sure - just buy a classic webhosting for $2/month.

But I'd not optimize on deployment ease. I'd go with Node.js, TypeScript (or your preferred stack) and Dockerize it for development ease.
Eighty-Column Mind
> one could do it to anyone else they disagree with, and that might understandably make people uncomfortable

That's why you audit your dependencies and have tests right? Right?
Thanks - was watching the show and hoping someone made one of these
That's a great idea. The only problem would be determining the correct set of things to be protested at any given time. So I'd suggest grouping them into flavors - say US liberal or US conservative flavors. You just choose the one you subscribe to and then let the service decide whether to insert say BLM or anti-CRT messages at any given time.
> What I'd like to see is something that abstracts as much as it can but still allows you to make something look like a native app on that platform.

Yes, I’ve long thought this as well.

I think it’ll take an entirely different approach than cross platform UI libraries typically take — rather than implementing widgets itself, it would have the developer provide a somewhat loose “UI spec” document that then gets compiled into a UI befitting each target platform. Not only widget appearances and behaviors would vary between platforms, but also window layouts. The only exception to the rule of not implementing widgets itself would be where one platform lacks a widget to avoid least common denominator problems (for example, WinUI and GTK have nothing resembling Cocoa’s miller column NSBrowser control, so those platforms would get an implementation of that view built from other native controls).

It wouldn’t fit every use case since it wouldn’t provide down-to-the-pixel control but it would work for a lot of software.
I don't think it's too outlandish to have taken a look at the measures taken as they were being proposed and then taken and say to oneself, "this is going to have nth-order effects, many of which are easily predictable, and we should weigh these accordingly." instead, anyone who approached things from this perspective was shouted down, told they were participating in killing people, etc. etc. these nth-order effects range from personal (alcohol-related deaths, children socializing/learning to read faces poorly, effects on education, effects on mental health) to economic (independent stores closing while big box stores flourish).

all of these things and many more were dismissed at the time in favor of taking radical actions which have yet to be proven to be effective. (but they had to be effective, because if we didn't take those actions, things would be worse now, right?)
I saw it as "reading with less effort" and "faster" is kind of a shorthand for "less likely to get bored waiting for my eyes to catch up".

I'd be more likely to read a longer piece of text (average content, not something I'm deeply interested in) if it was "easier" to read -- I get through it faster, or have to make less effort to get to the end.
Umm, please correct me if I'm wrong but I think you're confusing SSH keys with SSH certificates. A SSH client key can be reused to create short lived SSH client certificates. You can keep using that SSH client key to encrypt data, sign data, login to GitHub etc. There's no such thing as "short-lived keys", there's short lived SSH certificates.
> Hannibal evaded Rome until they almost captured him, but he successfully killed himself so they never got him alive.

I'm not sure if I'd put this one in the "W" column.
. . . and of course, if you already have a lucrative clean-money life, there's not much point to risking it all to get involved in dirty money activities

It seems the best way to do it would be to be sponsored by the FBI or whatever in your country - use your expertise to setup a honeypot system with their prior knowledge and you'll feed them data when it is setup... they get info feed to collar criminals, no cost to their budget, are they going to care if you make your cut along the way?

[note the "It seems" — I have zero experience with what the FBI may or may not require for such an operation]
So you wouldn't define pre-release tech startups as commercial? Ok. They have investors who hope for profits, call them what you like.

None of these projects are LFTRs. They're generally uranium-fueled, which retains the safety and cost advantages of MSRs without the radioactive chemical engineering of LFTRs.

Terrestrial Energy, to take one example, has been doing well with regulators in Canada, and plans to operate a 390MW plant in 2028: https://www.powermag.com/terrestrial-energy-launches-390-mw-...

So yes, years away, but not that many years.
I mean even base models will normally be fine for 4-6+ years depending on your work. Also Apple computers hold their value unlike any other computer in the industry. Go look on eBay or similar for what 4-5 year old MBPs are selling for, I think you'll be surprised.
EU Moves Forward with Bill to Protect Consumer Privacy
Thanks. Math illiteracy aside, the effort to privatize public schools is as old as integration. They’re not tricking people aside from decades of attacks against all social services except policing.
It's also "showing me stuff I may want when I least want to be aware of it". Stop the distractions already.
Wow, there's a blast from the past. Here's another piece [0] by Ratliff about trying to go off the grid while orchestrating a manhunt for himself. It scratches the same spy-crime-opsec itch that the other links in this thread do, and left a lasting impression on 8-year-old me.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2009/11/ff-vanish2/
Are there any instructions on how to build a full docker image with all dependencies and plugins?
Raymond Smullyan
I had the same suspicion -- I think they'd do better to have different snippets of text across the different examples.