skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost for a computer, the gear you needed to get "online," and the cost to do so is insane. It's crazy how we're buying $1K phones every year, and have Apple Studio computers or whatever, but this is NOTHING compared to what was spent before!
As a parent of 4 and 6yo, who NEVER used tablet and their lifetime usage of smartphone can be counted in minutes I'd like to point out different fact which seems to be completely forgotten besdises the social aspect/addiction - child eyesight is developing and while before you saw myopia at university students (caused by extensive reading of materials), you can see it often at small kids nowadays (I just read press release from Czech opticians days ago that 70% of pre-schoolers are using smartphone daily) caused by staring at screen (from short distance) for long periods of time.

FFS people, don't you value eyesight of your kids? I ruined my eyesight by staring at smartphone displays in last 12 years (it was also my work for few years), so I am very vary what can smartphone usage cause.
The phone in the tweet is "Assembled in India" different from "Made in India"
There are no other channels for small sellers. Etsy has spent their time on the top aggressively purchasing all viable competitors and shutting them down in order to maintain their lead.
it would be very easy to introduce a malicious Maven package

From the perspective of a cybersecurity researcher, this is just not true. At a minimum, it's not true in the same way.

Node executes arbitrary code on install. The best an attacker can do in Java is execute arbitrary code at runtime, and even then, only insofar as the developer has directed the securitymanager to execute arbitrary code.

This is a massive difference that I believe people need to be at once more aware of, and more wary about. Don't believe the hype. Don't let people on the internet telling you there is no difference lull you into a false sense of security.

If you work on a machine, or on a project where security is important, check your dependencies people.
Mack’s are amazing! I only just discovered them recently
I really like how they do their cookie banner. It's visible, very clear, but not too distracting, and if you just scroll down it disappears.
There's a press release, if you prefer it.

https://www.socialdemokraterna.se/nyheter/nyheter/2022-04-11...
Imagine if cars were invented today. The bar would be much higher, probably halfway to how pilot licensing works.

(Of course this had some substantial downsides.)
Not free, but if you're into fashion, Women's Wear Daily is the go-to source for news in that field.

It's been publishing fashion news every day for over 100 years.

I think it costs around $300/year. But it's important enough that a lot of fashion-related companies pick up at least part of the expense for their employees.
Etsy, just find other sellers, right?
I miss its version of blame (time-lapse view) and wish there was a git gui that matched it.
The alternative is the doormat strategy that failed before. Putin will not stop until he is stopped. There is no way to do that without incurring the risks so the logical choice is to not let him take strategic positions before incurring the risks.
The stomping noises upstairs in my old apartment were from cars? And cars pumped Tejano music through my vents? (Didn't actually mind that one. They were very loud, but during reasonable-ish hours) I guess what I thought was a screaming child in the hallway was also cars. Crazy.
Do Chomsky has much credibility on the topic of Finland, Russia, NATO and Ukraine? Mearsheimer was litigated and relitigated on HN lately a lot.

OP used Mearsheimer as argument from authority. It is ok to respond to it with "nah, that man does not have authority".
This used to be a more common thing, including on the mainland. It's still depicted in TV and film, sometimes. There's a (probably intentionally goofily anachronistic) political ad van featured in Steven Universe, for instance. There's also one (in the "present day", that is, 1985) in Back to the Future.
A lot of memberwannabes rely on Article 5 of NATO, but as Nigel Farage asked himself, do you really believe NATO will start WWIII over a small country?! And how is these countries joining NATO benefiting the existing NATO members? Obviously, Russia has nothing more to lose given the sanctions, so, the only thing left is a direct NATO conforntation, but it seems that the West is more afraid of such conflict than Putin, who believes that this is inevitable and that if you're faced with an inevitable flight, it's better to strike first.
Have you heard of the 'Highway of Death'? Iraqi forces were retreating on that highway, on their way back to Iraq. Coalition forces did not want to permit that, and slaughtered them. Thousands of vehicles destroyed, hundreds+ soldiers killed, thousands more captured.

I can't say I feel much sympathy towards the Iraqis here, but it does seem a tad bit vindictive.
Iraq was able to "complete" its invasion and decapitation of military command & control in two days because the Kuwaitis were massively under prepared. After that you then need to consolidate your position and that would be days if not weeks of deploying troops and their equipment deeper into the country.

So after seven months of occupation there's probably a heap of logistics required to extricate and decamp your forces & equipment that likely isn't going to happen even in 10-15 days.
Of course you are allowed to change your output - but independently and in reaction to your own circumstances.

Collectively agreeing to simultaneously stop selling in order to force a change in the cost of your inputs is in most cases not legal.

The easy test is to ask yourself if it makes sense for an individual seller to reduce their output in the absence of any other changes. In this case, the answer is no. Only when they all collide to do it at the same time does it work.
It's very deeply embedded into their psyche as “this is the only way to do it, anything else will kill you.” And I'm not talking just about older or more rural people either, I know young hip professionals from Belém (pop 1.5m) who will not touch maniçoba made in anything different from the traditional way.
It doesn't make sense to build this 'capabilities' feature into the program itself. It feels a bit like taping your mouth shut in order to lose weight.

It doesn't make sense for a program to not trust its own code any more than it makes sense for a person to not trust their own thoughts.

There is no need to pollute your code like this. It should be implemented as an external tool which analyzes dependencies when executed on demand. A company could just run this tool as part of their CI pipeline before code is deployed or executed. It could be a default hook which runs automatically as part of npm install. It should not be part of the code itself. It's ugly and adds unnecessary overhead and complexity.

It's possible that an external tool executed at compile-time would not be able to verify modules which come with C/C++ bindings, but I think it would be difficult to stop these anyway (even at runtime). C/C++ bindings will always be less secure because it's harder to understand what's going on if you don't have access to the code. C/C++ is too powerful; you can do some crazy stuff with buffer overflows which would be difficult to detect anyway even at runtime. The solution is to try to stick to modules which rely only on native Node.js functionality and not on custom C/C++ bindings.
> Did they ever get over the idea that a version control system should try to prevent two people from modifying (or "checking out") a file at the same time?

Checking out is still a fundamental concept of perforce, and it's the reason it's so fast. Not all files need exclusive locks, that's usually reserved for binary assets (and is a selling point of perforce as it prevents an unsolvable merge conflict later on). When I started using perforce 13 years ago, every editor I used had either a perforce plugin, or an option to "checkout on edit or save",

> Oh, and cloning a repo so you have a second copy of it for an experiment took ages because you couldn't just 'cp -a' the directory, you had to "enlist" in all the files with the server...

I don't really see the problem. doing `cp -a` on a large git repo can be an extra 30GB if not more on disk. The tradeoff of a very uncommon operation (duplicating a repo for an experiment sounds like a great use for shelves in p4, or branches in git) taking longer for performance on the golden path seems like a really good one to me.
No offense but all those examples of film camera pictures look extremely grainy.
GP here, exactly. Also how does one manages these mutable states? And these volumes?

Most of these hosts are managed with Ansible, which the Top-Poster was criticising so heavily as "an anti-pattern".
Everyday Astronaut has some videos about rocket lab [0] and small sat launch demand [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcuOSXjevGs
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Sfw58jApo
Maybe a "special operation" of sorts?
Huh.

I now want to take a standardized IQ test, three times - once with sober, once mildly intoxicated by cannabis, and as intoxicated as possible while still being able to focus on the questions.

I'm very confident that the time it would take me to answer a given question would increase about linearly with my level of intoxication, but I'm not at all confident that I would arrive at a different conclusion.
The invasion of Ukraine changed everything.

Also: If Russia tries anything with the baltic states, it will almost inevitably attack parts of Sweden and Finland just to safeguard its flanks.

There is no upside to appeasing Putin anymore.
There's a lot of mass-produced crap and plenty of overpriced stuff on Etsy, but it's not too hard to find real creators. I recently bought some nice wooden guitar wall hangers, made by some guy in Pennsylvania. My wedding ring was made by a guy in Luisiana. I felt both were reasonably priced for something not made in an overseas factory.

Edit: My method is something like, search for what I'm looking for, flip through items to try to find things that actually look like a person made them (i.e. not made of metal or plastic, unless the shop specifically specializes in those; not identical to five hundred other listings), then look over reviews and search for the creator online. Most creators maintain their own web presence outside of Etsy, too. It doesn't seem that onerous to me, you'd want to do that research anyway for a nice, hand-made item, wouldn't you? I don't really understand how people get scammed by drop-shippers on Etsy. Do you just click "Buy Now" on the first listed item you like the picture of?
The fee increase literally only harms the sellers. I use Etsy at least about once a month - I'm a huge fan of custom knick-knacks such as this lovely 'fix your hearts or die' 'Twin Peaks' pin in support of transgender equality:

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/542366240/fix-your-hearts-or...

There's a lot of cosplay items, etc - Etsy is an incredibly unique market that looks like it needs a replacement with accountability towards it's community.

Sounds like maybe my next project, tbh. :)
I would love to see an Etsy alternative that is verified handmade goods rather than reseller junk.
For buyers it probably varies a lot but there’s a lot of anime/video game/tabletop gaming stuff. I know it’s the first place I look if I want the sort of things I might otherwise buy at a con. (Think pins, custom dice, etc.)
Any suggestions on direction that I can get from the HN crowd would be much appreciated. I've been wrestling with the best way to do this for a couple of months now.
I have been a frequent flyer with El Al (Israeli airline) both before 2001 and some years after that. I have not flied recently to Israel, so I do not know if their methods have changed, becoming more similar with what is typical for USA and Europe.

The methods used by Israel and by USA (the USA methods being imitated by most other countries) for checking the flight passengers did not have any resemblance.

After 2001, Israel did not make any change in their procedures, because there was no reason, their procedures were much better than what was invented then in USA.

While USA has relied on spending much money on improved machines for scanning people and luggage and in harassing the passengers with things like taking off the shoes, Israel did not rely on machines, but on ancient low-tech methods, i.e. well-trained professionals who questioned the passengers.

The main test that you had to pass to be allowed boarding were 2 separate discussions with 2 Israeli security agents, to whom you had to explain the purpose of your flight. The 2 agents asked mostly the same questions, but with various variations in content and order, so you had to tell convincingly the same story twice.

From the point of view of the traveler, the disadvantage of the Israeli method was that it was slow, a lot of time was needed for the discussions with the agents.

Nevertheless, I prefer that method, because it was much less stressful for me than having to do a lot of unpacking, then undressing, and then dressing, and then packing, while having to be very careful to not have something lost or stolen (I usually travel with a very large number of electronic devices, many of them small and easy to loose; I have also seen once how the laptop of another traveler was successfully stolen before entering the scanning machine, without anyone noticing how; I do not know whether the thief could have been identified later, from the security camera recordings).

In many hundreds of flights with El Al, I was subjected to a body search only once, while on the airlines embracing the USA model, many travelers now do not remember any more the times when they did not have to pass through a body and personal luggage security check.

The only one case when I had to pass through a body search was because I happened too be extremely tired and I wished that the discussions would pass faster, but of course, my noticeable haste had the opposite effect.

The flight was late in the evening and all the day I had been extremely busy. I had literally run through the city the entire day, to complete various errands in time from the flight. After much effort, I had succeeded to reach the airport just in time, but I was exhausted and I just wanted to reach the airplane ASAP, to finally be able to rest.

However, the security agents noticed that I seem to be in a hurry, and they thought that this is suspicious. Therefore I had to also pass through the body search, but like I have said, they did not do such searches on everyone, but only when they had grounds for suspicion.
I'd like to take a cat to a space station like they did in some Heinlein books.

One would think they'd learn to deal with weightlessness better if they had a few weeks to get used to it rather than a few minutes on a plane.

Don't know what you'd do for the litter box though.
The Chinese supply chain barely existed, relatively speaking, 20 years ago. It can be rebuilt the same way it was built: piece by piece. That’s what’s happening. Whether it’s a good thing geopolitically remains to be seen but diversifying does seem smart for the Apple.
> Russia themselves asked to join but were rejected.

"In 1991, as the Soviet Union was dissolved, Russian president Boris Yeltsin sent a letter to NATO, suggesting that Russia's long-term aim was to join NATO."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93NATO_relations#....

A lot has happened since then.
"I'm just asking for evidence" indeed nicely demonstrates the asymmetry of time investment. Next, if I dig into the research and adequately answer the question, the next remark is that the experiment didn't run for the full ten thousand years; you don't seem to trust today's knowledge anyhow (judging by the comment above). I'm a bit done with being the one who opens up Wikipedia or digs in hard-to-get-through papers to provide evidence in response to people who are just asking questions. You can accuse me but you've not given evidence of anything yourself. You're also putting up a false argument, claiming that proponents (that includes me) are saying it's gonna use magic free energy. I've actually looked into that before to figure out if something like Climeworks pollutes more than it captures.

Do you have any evidence that the CCS options we have today don't work? Either because it uses orders of magnitude more energy than claimed or because the carbon is released way sooner? (Heck, I'd be fine if it stores the carbon long enough to move the problem from 6 years* to 600 years so we have time to develop fusion or, failing that, fully renewable tech. Anything closer towards 6000, let alone 10'000 years, is pure profit.)

* based on https://carbonclock.hugotiger.com/ (but feel free to pick 2030 or 2040 or whatever you deem to be true)
"when low-tech concentrated solar in the desert can get the job done"

Every attempt to do this in human history has failed, bar none.

There is a reason they build an LNG plant next to every solar plant they build.
Open Syllabus Explorer
You have the correct etymology, but the convention is for "Neural Network" in ML and "Neuronal Network" in Neuroscience for we laymen.
About 10% of truck drivers own their trucks. Maybe that 10% will be able to handle the vast majority of truck traffic.

…but not if the tech is controlled centrally by large companies who take most of the profit from it.
> If you (to continue the PostgreSQL example) needed to upgrade the version of a dependency in the container, you'd publish a new artifact and use the same volume mount, performing a data migration as you go.

You're just proving the point I made: "People deploying Postgres, Redis and/or Minio on k8s or openshift are facing a totally different set of problems which are already solved by mutable state."

When one does what you describe, they now have to deal with downtime, etc...
The winds seems to be changing quite quickly and both the second and third largest parties have now stated support for NATO (if Finland would join at least).

While the biggest party still hasn't voiced their support, they aren't completely against it and there seems to be hectic discussion behind closed doors.
We have a log processing system that performs entity resolution and merging of data. It does this without synchronization, out of order, in parallel.

What that means is we may get N records referring to the same 1 entity. We incrementally build that entity as records come in. Regardless of the ordering of the updates, we always end up with the same information in that entity.

In our case this is for security analytics. This lets us process data from arbitrary sources, with arbitrary ingest cadences, and build a single graph of entities and relationships. Every property has a merge strategy.

The exception to this is that we also have immutable properties. These are contract based - we store the first write and assume that the value will never change, and it's up to the client to only mark immutable data as immutable when that is correct.
NATO membership is only open to democracies who respect other sovereign countries, and they must be invited by the existing members.
The main argument is that other nations have some say in your foreign policy.

You can argue that this is always the case to some degree, and it's better NATO has some say rather than Putin and Russia just rolls over you.
The person you're reacting to was correct. They're reacting to someone who is spreading information they well know to be false.
Great link, thanks. I grew up just outside the park, but live across the country now and watched this for a little nostalgia — and I learned a lot.
Hey now, there's some amazing macroblocking techniques lost to time from saving images on 3.5" floppy disk
Two years later a cousin shows up and says "Jim sent me this hard drive with this piece of paper, I've realized it holds the private key and by extension, I own that property."

This really gets to the "there is no advantage to having this data on the blockchain since it doesn't solve any of the problems that currently come up with titles, creates new problems, and complicates existing solutions."
I have also been playing around with film photography. I am old enough to have actually developed film in college so it's not a new novelty for me.

For whatever reason I got the idea into my head that I should get a medium format camera (perhaps it was the youtube influence). I've always wanted to play around with one of these cameras, so I dropped $350 on a Yashica Mat 124-G TLR camera.

I wish I had done this years ago because film photography is now a rich man's hobby. The prices of everything is shooting through the roof right now.

Cameras that nobody wanted now cost over a thousand, film that you could have gotten for $6 is now $15 per roll. Fuji and Kodak either discontinue their film options or raise the prices of existing ones.

Let's do the math (based on my local camera store):

- 1 roll of 120 Portra 400: $14

- Develop and scanned at high resolution: $41

- Sales tax: $3.64

- Total: $58.64

When you shoot medium format you only get 12 shots, which means that each shot costs around $4.88 dollars!

Did you know that it actually costs more money to have a lab develop black and white pictures than color? Which means that if you want to save money you need to develop your own photos and scan them yourself.

Which means buying more stuff and having to deal with chemicals.

Oh and by the way, apparently all home film scanning options are considered to be junk compared to scanners used at the lab. So you either need to spend a lot for a fancy scanner, or rig up some elaborate contraption where you take pictures of your negatives with a DSLR.

Thinking about this gives me buyers remorse.
As a buyer, I don't even know if I can find actual small seller goods anymore. its all existing shops having another sales channel. Sometimes horrible quality trinkets from industrial shops.

The unique value proposition of etsy is almost invisible at this point. Just like shopping Amazon these days...
I think the issue is more the code that uses the capability itself. Like, if I can just read the capability straight out of the object that owns it, or monkey-patch the definition of some other object it calls into so I can use its capabilities indirectly, then you still lose. That's what I meant by playing defense all the time. If you give a bit of sandboxed code a generic utility object, it can all go wrong.
Life with Longer Genetic Codes Seems Possible – But Less Likely
> There might also be a way to enforce those permissions at compile time instead of at runtime.

AIUI, a compile time capability is just a custom unit type, perhaps using PhantomData to depend at compile time on some generic type or consteval parameter. Then ordinary type checking is enough to ensure that this gets "threaded" correctly throughout the code, as required. 'Narrowing' a capability is just a one-way type conversion, e.g. via .into(). Since you're doing this via a unit type that carries no information, everything should disappear at runtime, with no effects on the ABI. You'd effectively be using the type checker to prove things about what your code is allowed to do.

(It turns out that there's a (2021) article expanding on this: https://www.hardmo.de/article/2021-03-14-zst-proof-types.md )
Agree! I felt like puppet missed an opportunity to be an IaaC for cloud providers/provisioning, especially with containers. From my experience, developers switch to other tools (terraform, ansible, etc) to fill the gap.
At any time that someone with no personal knowledge takes a contrarian position of fact, this has been achieved.

It's long past time to try to protect the world's energy anti-vaxxers.
I'd be careful extrapolating too much from a literal reading of state laws.