skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that Javascript in general runs with a lot more permissions than should probably be given but permissions is a very hard thing to manage. So you decide to install a node package that helps retry and automatically back off requests you want to send to your server since you're working in a mobile environment that has sketchy internet reliability... it is very hard to craft a set of permissions to allow that package to retry requests to certain addresses you'd like to retry without also letting it throw random system metrics it's collecting to an ad-server. Additionally, these permissions will be more comprehensible to review but they still need to be reviewed and reviewed by a party you trust.

That's a tall order for the open source community when it comes to a volume of packages like npm or composer.

You can logically look at lpad as a package and say "We're padding strings, we don't need to do anything with network traffic or disk reads" but building an automated system to make that evaluation and saving that evaluation in a tamperproof manner is going to be hard... and what happens if lpad starts trying to do a better job - operating correctly in left-to-right character sets and in languages where alignment is dictated by hyphens instead of blank space.

Code isn't simple and while the above statement may seem hyperbolic I think it's just because most of us accept the risk, it's highly unlikely that malicious supply chain attacks will suddenly sink our businesses so we accept a reasonable level of security in exchange for what feels like a modest risk but actually fully 100% preventing that risk? You'll need to check every usage scenario on every set of hardware and go through that code with a fine toothed comb.
As the saying goes: If I owe the bank one million dollars, I have a problem. If I owe the bank one billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
Hence the queue. By the time you need to go again ...
> Hard to imagine it can get worse from here.

He could get indicted for the FSD scamming and bring the whole thing tumbling down. If he stuck to just selling battery powered cars I'd be a lot more bullish on TSLA, but he hasn't and I think his antics represent a serious threat to the company in the long run.
Here, Reddit, and Twitter pretty much. I enjoy the content on some sites (Bloomberg, Financial Times, WSJ) but they want me to pay and I haven't convinced myself to do so, yet.
For a portable tool you can play with on a flight or in a park or on public transit, it sounds like a fun option to have.

> how do you even use those features?

It has knobs, what more do you need to make music?
The user guide if you’re curious:
https://teenage.engineering/guides/tx-6
(2017)

> IBM’s Watson, the learning super-computer that functions through the cloud and is able to give evidence-based medical diagnoses, will fail in the UK because a lack of bandwidth, according to Dr Cochrane.

Mmmmm, I don't think that's why it will fail.
The problem with old fiber is that active networks are even more of a dead-end than copper. Active fiber networks leave you with whatever tech you buried and put up on every corner; upgrading is basically as expensive as laying new line. It seems to me like in the 80s and 90s active networks were favored (see e.g. OPAL) - which would be far more useless today than copper, as copper's capabilities expanded hugely over time as more sophisticated modulation techniques became possible.
Strange to compare a globe sprawling megacorporation with a refugee child.
Well, there’s environmental damage incurred by going back and forth between China and the U.S., which could be reduced/eliminated.
Win32s applications (like Win16 applications more generally) run in a shared address space with cooperative multitasking. They're basically async applications within an OS-provided runtime.
> The government can simply write off the student debt

And now those people have 1.75 trillion dollars more to spend on the economy instead of paying debts which creates inflation which is effectively a tax on everyone with cash and bonds. There is no free lunch with the economy, just distortions.
HN, Hackaday, Patently-O, CNBC, old.reddit.com
I want to spend for Financial Times, but haven't just yet.
M1: it's not just WWII tank, but an invasion machine against the cafe and its hapless operators and patrons.

Mouhaha!
The best is when they start making “dad” jokes of their own, back at you. I had no idea 4 or 5 year olds could do it but they can.
Could Your EV Power Your House?
Does anyone know what they used to produce their API documentation?
There’s something about this that smells like “anyone can now operate a bank without a charter or being subjected to regulatory oversight” that’s maximally distressing and I think it’s incumbent upon the founders to clarify their intent.

A proliferation of loosely regulated banking entities was the basis for an economic disaster over a century ago in the US when fractional reserve logic had yet to be formalized. I’m sure that Column enforces reserve requirements, but this has the stench of something that could enable some analogous calamity in the financial (and therefore real) world.

It was no less esteemed a figure than Galbraith himself who noted that there’s really no such thing as innovation in finance - it’s just people finding ways to run the same kinds of scams over and over again.

What’s to stop someone from using this to create a ‘virtual’ depository institution, issue bad loans against deposits that it attracts with the promise of extraordinary interest, monetize the loans for personal enrichment, and then crash and burn when the aggregate default rate of the loan portfolio becomes unsustainable, sticking the FDIC (and therefore taxpayers) with the bill? And that’s just one of many possible fraud scenarios.

The answer is either “nothing” or that Column doesn’t really matter as a company because the theoretical customer base is vanishingly small and it doesn’t solve the truly important problems in banking.
I'd say the internet forgot how to let itself become browsed.
On the How I Built This podcast, a lot of the interviewees had startups/projects that failed. I recommend checking it out: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this
Yes. I mean if it was centos / alma or debian, I would be scared we enter into an era of discarting perfectly capable hardware, but Fedora has always been packed "with the lastest but stable enough".

I'm not a UEFI huge fan (I've use boot-repair a lot of times since its creation), but I can see why maintaining a legacy bootloader could be distracting.
For me it was freezing frequently when downloading emails, and became unusable over time. FairEmail was a bit better, but the UI is awful unfortunately. In the end I've ended up with the Google Mail app - not my first choice but it works well with multiple accounts and is easy to use.
What's your take on the utility of researching and implementing feature-sets like what fsflyer was asking for? e.g. optimization techniques and tricks based on current country-specific tax codes, such as carefully timed roth conversions, ACA subsidies, social security claiming strategies, etc. Are you more in the camp that hyper-optimized strategies based on the tax codes of today may not be worth the effort to develop and maintain since there's so much inherent uncertainty with long-term planning?
Another take from the Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-says-he-lives-in-a-50...
I live in the absolute arse end of nowhere Portugal - the nearest city is 60km away, over mountains, and the entire district (~50x50km) has a population of 3000.

They have symmetric gigabit fibre in all of the villages, for €20 a month.

In my apartment in the U.K., in a city of 300,000, the best I can get is 0.25/15Mbps - for £80 a month. It craps out completely every evening, down to 200kbps or so, as everyone streams netflix at potato quality.
power chords ... call them chords without thirds.

Not a guitarist, but I always assumed "power chord" referred to lots of doubling up over octaves, not the absence of a third.
Is this a classic story, perhaps on the tcl wiki:

On site with a customer, the question of creating a GUI interface came up. A few engineers left and, after a bit of time in another room, came back with a proposal already demo'd in tcl/tk.
It could also be more like Alibaba and double or triple the 37B profit Softbank's Vision Fund made this year.

I would not bet against Musk.
There is definitely a trade-off between brevity and efficiency/practicality. A classic example is "The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems":

> An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms

Spoiler alert, the "algorithm M" is a brute-force search; the "low-order additive terms" in its time complexity come from brute-force searching for provably faster programs; if one is found, we restart with that. All the time spent searching for proofs is independent of the input size (e.g. it depends on "sorting", but not which particular list we've been given); hence it's technically just a constant 'warmup time'!

http://hutter1.net/ai/pfastprg.htm
I know that Win32s requires that the EXE have a RELOC section, so it must be built with relocation enabled.

I hope you don't need to go all the way to /NODEFAULTLIB though, that kind of configuration is a big headache to build on.

Is there a .lib file for "msvcrt.dll" that will work with /NODEFAULTLIB? If so, I wonder if there is a Win32s compatible binary for that.
I've never heard of this! I've seen millions of ads over the last few years, why haven't any of them been for this! I will check it out, thank you!
All the funds raised would become loans to Twitter -- So Twitter as a company would repay those loans.
Great thread, thanks.
This sounds quite familiar to my experience with my 3 year old. He tells jokes back to me that are just as absurd and we try to one up each other. Since he’s learned a good deal of vocabulary and matching and opposites, he finds things that unexpectedly clash hilarious

knock knock … porcupine who? Porcupine bulldozer - makes no sense why those things belong together and that’s what makes it funny. Then we’ll laugh and he'll ask me knock knock and come up with something just as ridiculous.

For me, it’s totally a bonding experience. I get to see what makes him laugh. Try to stump him. Sometimes come up with one spontaneously that surprises him. And generally, be my kids best friend at this age.

I’m also a serious adult. I don’t joke around with my friends like I did in my youth. My hangout sessions with friends are all calendared weeks/months ahead. I have friends, we joke, but it’s different and not side splitting type jokes; more like chuckles. Before my son, I couldn’t tell you how long it had been since I laughed to tears (10+ years probably). So this helps me rediscover my humor, bond with a kid like I did when I was a kid when I built my strongest friendships and relive my youth in a way.

I’m in 40s with a 3 year old kid and what I don’t quite understand is, don’t dads of all ages do this? Is it really a 35+ thing? Or is that because when the kid is a teen is when they start thinking dad jokes are cringeworthy instead of funny.
Oh Ok. I first read it and was expecting something like "Will continue....".

For some strange reason their sentence wasn't immediately obvious to me these services are staying.
I would rather buy another Analogue Pocket over one of these.
She's hated by certain segments of the UK population - particularly the media class - but that does not seem to translate broadly:

- She won three general elections, the last two of which were landslides

- She was the longest serving prime minister of the 20th century

- In 2008 a BBC poll for favourite post WW2 prime minister put her at number 1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Dark Style Changes
Back up in case tweets are deleted: https://archive.ph/Whuhd
I had an original gameboy. So it's not exactly the same type of torture, but in 2022 not having backlighting is kind of a joke.
How do you find good Discords? I've browsed around because I hear great things and feel like wherever I go there are just young kids (< 20 years old).
That’s generous, I would probably play for up to an hour, or less.
The article is reposting of an old article whose sole source is a single person, Peter Cochrane. This same person is presenting a narrative where he was right about everything, but was ignored by politicians. He's now a consultant.

No corroboration from other sources or evidence is presented... It all just seems extremely self-serving. It's basically, "I was right about everything in 1979! Here is an alternate history where everyone listened to me and today things would be great."
Disney has to justify that to the shareholders. Good luck.
We built everything in house!
> Imagine a police department that fires everyone after 8 years total work experience, unless they are promoted to chief. It sounds ridiculous, but we typically hold on to researchers for a 5 year PhD + a 3-5 year postdoc. After that the expectation is that they should run their own group.

I love this analogy.
Why doesn’t anyone make a legal application or service that exclusively uses crypto?
As someone who has used both Linux and Windows extensively (and dealt with hardware and software problems in both), as well as guided at least a dozen different Windows users through some setup and use of Linux - this is completely, categorically false.

The closest truth is "some users find it easy to install and/or use Linux some of the time" but saying that it is "trivial" to run Linux in general is incorrect.
I ordered one of these almost solely because I thought it'd be really fun to develop for.
I like the comparison to the iPhone, because for all it's done, the iPhone has effectively likely annihilated a generation worth of fun gadgetry. Nearly literally every available cell phone is an iPhone clone.
Whenever I hear that song, I wish the intro would just go on and on and on.
This is the John Gruber article you're talking about (from May 2019):

https://daringfireball.net/2019/05/playdate

I just read the article expecting (based on your tone) to see Gruber making grand predictions about the Playdate being a massive success or having a massive impact. But no, it's very clear in the article that he's just personally excited about it. He doesn't make any grandiose predictions or even really attempt to persuade other people that they should be similarly excited about it. Clearly he just thinks it's neat for a small software company to develop their own affordable consumer electronics hardware. He's even explicit about thinking the product will likely be playing in a relatively small market: "Panic is almost cheating in a way because they’re tiny. The Playdate platform isn’t competing with the state of the art." I don't see any reason to roll your eyes about this one.
A good joke is all about the execution.
100000% agree. I would have loved to get more practical stuff in high school, and less fluff. Woodworking is a lifetime skill, and contributed to my understanding of spatial organization, practical math, fractions, and precision. Plus now I can make stuff.

Cooking as well. I worked in kitchens for 7 years during and after college, and wouldn't trade that knowledge for the world.

I only mentioned woodworking and home ec since they were gender-assigned by the school, not because they were less useful.
Faking a Positive Covid Test with Cue Readers
Baffles me too. By the same logic, Apple should not be able to sell phone cases without including a free phone in them.
> I have always seen monopolies as harming consumers and more competition as being beneficial, but this is an interesting observation.

They mostly do, and infrastructure tends to converge to natural monopolies. The trick is to regulate the hell out of them. For instance in France the former government owned telephony monopoly was forced to provide access to competitors to their physical network, at regulated prices. And to follow up on that, today an ISP can create new lines to link a new city or neighborhood, and they have exclusivity for a fixed period of time - afterwards they're forced to provide regulated access to their competitors. As a result, we have a healthy competition with good prices (usually between 30-50 euros depending on package, max speed, TV options) and good speeds ( multi-hundred Mbit, up to 1Gbit is the norm in most places - there are even villages with hundreds of inhabitants with fiber deployed everywhere, and proud signs "Commune fibrée" on entering them).
That’s what I thought too until I learnt that a sizeable group of German speaking people calling them selves just that lived in Serbia for centuries before being expelled after WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_of_Serbia
Agree on all accounts, except for paper working when wet. :P
Maybe 2 or 3 years? It's just a bummer I heard it after becoming a dad, because I've had an unending love for bad humor as long as I can remember.
Lost me at "no backlit display".
Thanks, but no thanks.
Same for me, although I'm the worst when it comes to that. I've done roughly the same thing with flagship gaming consoles and even an expensive custom-built (my me) gaming desktop.
haha I remember talking to one of the engineers on the enterprise management team at WWDC back in 2015 and he was surprised that anyone used it at all. It really did work well and it did its job.
I've got a Pyle mixer that will do the same for approximately $80
I can only speak for myself, but I tell dad jokes 100% for the "Oh, my god, that's so embarrassing!" response, and really no other reason. The bigger the sigh / groan / more exaggerated the eye-roll, the better.
Very much similar to Helmut Kohl in Germany: https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehe...
The reason to display a feedback modal is that the digital marketing establishment says they work. They even acknowledge that popups are annoying and can cost a few visitors.
Great article on the history of performance fabrics. The last bit leaves me wanting to learn more about innovations to make them more environmentally friendly.

From my own experience, the tendency for polyester to be smellier than natural fibers relegates it to my workout clothes. Most of the time I'm wearing cotton.
They can focus on hard journalism or they can be profitable but they can't do both. Fox is incredibly successful and charges many times higher rates for cable carriage but running a fine-tuned outrage machine.
Yeah, the article mentions that towards the bottom, with some generalization about women telling funny stories rather than "jokes". In my family, my mom was always the "straight man" and my dad, his sisters and her sister and mom all told terrible puns/jokes; where my uncles on his side were practically humorless. Gender tropes are weird.
There were some fairly large fiber rollouts in the late 80s/early 90s (OPAL, Optische Anschlußleitung). No copper meant it was impossible to deploy DSL, and available optical networking technology wasn't cost-effective during the first years of DSL rollout. Rumor has it that the old OPAL infrastructure can be used for GPON today, but that became available only much later. For many years, your best hope as an OPAL customer was that the incumbent eventually deployed copper.

I'm not sure if OPAL deployment at a much larger scale would have created a sufficiently large market for optical networking equipment and bring down prices much earlier. Probably the number of impacted OPAL customers would simply have been larger.

(The copper cable mentioned in the article is actually TV broadband cable, and that had much less coverage than the copper phone lines eventually repurposed for DSL.)
Could this sync-feature be opt-in instead of mandatory?
TE have also designed a phone. It’s coming out soon with their partner Nothing, who are committed to affordability:

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/nothing-phone-1

They also were the design firm behind these ear buds too, which are pretty neat:

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/nothing/ear-1-trul...
German corruption indirectly affects the stability of the European Union, as they with France are de-facto most important players now. In the "new EU" countries, whatever Germany does wrong or hypocritical will surely be weaponized by euro-skeptics.
It's a corrupt country but its economy is big enough that it can shoulder a parasite or a dozen. Developing countries and eastern Europe does not have this luxury.
It's easy to look back with the benefits of what we know now and realise that this was a monumental mistake. But that's an unreal, and unfair, bias.

Back in 1990 the internet wasn't significant, and the bandwidth requirements for it fairly meagre, even for those using it. The first release of an HTML spec was 3 years away. It was a novelty more than something fairly fundamental to modern life and businesses like it is now.

Fibre optic had a number of interesting advantages, but it wasn't a fundamental boost for Joe Average consumer. On top of the monopoly concerns, it was also going to take some significant amounts of disruption to daily life, digging up roads, replacing cables etc.

Before you could make phone calls, send faxes etc. After you could... make phone calls, send faxes. Maybe slightly higher fidelity.. but so what? Things were a little better and nicer in the distribution centres, but again, so what?
Oleg Gordieskey
Copper is still trash though compared to passive fiber... and expensive to run. Loads of electricity and amps required to use it and a lot of fine tuning and interference management and maintenance.

A ton of costly, endless work when you can bypass all of that by laying some passive fiber...
BB bonds are several years max, LISTERINE is forever.
Yes, I am a Georgist.
Frankie Boyle on the subject: "Three Million for the funeral of Margaret Thatcher? For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."
The Playacting over Masks Needed to End
Once we got a quote for getting fibre at an address that is about 500 meters away from the Googleplex in Mountain View. Ultimately it was more cost effective to set up a FedEx schedule to mail SSD's across the globe.
better is still better.
For far less than $21 billion of investment I, or many other people, could redevelop and scale an entirely new social platform that would outpace Twitter, and I could probably do it multiple times over until it succeeds... The goal seems rather "Captain Ahab-ish" in nature...

I think the story is quickly turning into more of a hype effort than actual advancement.

Twitter would still need time and labor to be re-worked, which in itself is a massive undertaking. It looks like Twitter has multiple problems in scaling beyond it's current state, and that's why it has only made gradual changes over time for many years.
ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
I agree. But what I'm saying is that it will take a few months to execute. I was just trying to expand on the above discussion and why his sales didn't make Tesla stock crash but selling out of the blue would.
Yeah it doesn't seem to be comprehensive. There are certainly USB-C chargers in the database, but maybe only the ones that are also sold with lightning cables?
It's a weird niche device with weird niche games, I'm not planning to buy one but I'm happy to see people doing something interesting instead of all chasing the same mass market. There's a certain retro appeal to the "shades of gray like a gameboy" screen without the part where it's impossible to see in 90% of lighting conditions.