skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “ Thanks to a new provision in the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill,” a couple of op-ed writers tell us in The Hill, “your car will be used against you in a court of law. Under this long-ignored provision, carmakers will be required to start monitoring drivers by 2026 using unspecified technology to search for signs of drinking.”

Anyone even remotely concerned about privacy or constitutional rights should be very worried about a government-mandated poorly-defined surveillance device "for our own good", such as this one.
Hired, Fired, Can’t Retire
the argument is that some people have value in holding dollars. if stablecoin enables getting people those dollars cheaper than they could get them before, that is good for those people.
At some point this weekend, in a backyard in DC. Politicians of all stripes will gather with business owners, celebrities and foreign dignitaries, eat hot dogs and discuss how the country will be ran.

The elites are everyone who is invited to the cookout.
A lot of katakana is. Katakana words are words or names that are borrowed from other languages typically, and written quasi-phonetically in Katakana, one of three writing systems (the other two being Hiragana and Kanji).

Since the individual sounds in Japanese are often consonant-vowel (with a few exceptions, like "n", vowel-only sounds, or the silent "u" in "su"), then it's often the case that foreign words that end in a consonant (like "bill") will have an attached vowel at the end - from my limited experience with Japanese, it's often "u" or "o". "L" in Japanese doesn't exist and is typically substituted for a rolled "r" (less roll, more single 'flick').

Many of the Katakana words are English-derived and often sound as though someone is using a fake Japanese accent to speak English. Learning a lot of katakana definitely earned a few laughs.

"Pinku" (ピンク, phonetically "pi-n-ku", pronounced more like "PEE-n-koo") meaning "pink", etc. always got chuckles out of me.

I'm just a beginner though, I'm sure someone else has more [accurate] information :)
Your hands leave fingerprints, that could be used to charge you with a crime. Better cut them off.
One thing in particular I hate about Javascript's platform is how much time you have to spend on learning the ever-changing tooling. I can write JS and TypeScript easily enough but when I start a new project I'm always fighting the tooling for at least half an hour before I can get going.

The JS ecosystem has six ways to do anything and four of those aren't compatible with your previous choices. Tooling gets extended with endless helpers and plugins to the point where I don't even know what a given command does anymore.

Python venvs and pip are easy enough to understand. Cargo and dotnet are also clear enough if you read their help pages. NPM and Yarn, however, only do a fraction of what you'd want them to do out of the box, forcing every tool out there to set up their custom system of helpers and tooling just to get them to run.
I like that saying: "I don't want an electric car, I just want a car that's electric"
Somehow the podcast library is a bit mixed up with multiple podcasts of the same name. If you look for the "Greatest Generation" Star Trek podcast, the preview indeed shows the Star Trek podcast but clicking it brings you to a completely different podcast of the same name.

Not a good look in terms of data quality here.
> is it so important that a whole part of a country is highly dependent on a private US company?

Sure, fine, that's something worrisome. But be honest with your arguments from the get-go, instead of saying a stationary satellite would be better. I'll pass on the weird condescending gaming tone.
Yes, but say you are not yet writing Rust, perhaps you should choose Zig instead of it?
Devaluing in-the-mattress savings is a good thing, hence all the many government schemes to incentivise small scale productive investment. Here in the UK that's through tax free consumer savings accounts like ISAs, but also pensions. Savings that are invested do work in the economy fund businesses, promote economic activity and aid job and wealth creation. Stuffed mattresses are a boat anchor on the economy.

Having said that, deflation isn't always the awful spectre of doom it's sometimes made out do be, especially if it's due to technological improvements or increased supply. As the article we're all notionally discussing explains, inflation in a reasonably well managed economy is generally differential and reflects shifts in the structure of the economy.
DuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoft
Software isn't immutable. The code that makes these requests has to physically exist somewhere. Which means you can find it and overwrite it with nop's.
> I don’t get why that’s surprising?

From another [0] comment 2 minutes later:

> There are clear obligations in Germany for how to integrate unions in a business and where/how they're able to influence business processes. How is it in the US?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31528241
You know how dumb I find this situation?

I fucking left and haven't had a cell phone plan in Canada for like a decade. My bill on TWO FOREIGN PHONES even roaming WITHIN CANADA is cheaper than maintaining a stupid Bell Rogers or Telus plan internationally.

The major sense I get from Canadians whenever I arrive back is an enormous sense of financial illiteracy. Like they just don't know or care about how badly they get ripped off all the time on so many things and will never care enough to do anything meaningful about it.
If organisations offering reward programs wanted this they would do it regardless of the existence of blockchain technology. The point is that they don’t, it goes against the point of the programs in the first place. This is the utter insanity of crypto pipe dreams. They do not necessitate blockchain, and blockchain is rarely the most technically suitable means of implementation. The issues are real-world power dynamics and conflicting interests. Completely orthogonal to the blockchain.
They are protecting your privacy. It's written right there in the start page of Edge.
I started by talking about solar collection on the roof of a building, which applies to any electric vehicle.

But Aptera actually has panels on the car. That would be useless on a Tesla, but the Aptera is far more aerodynamic and only has three wheels. They don't claim to fully recharge in a day, just to get enough extra range in a day to cover many people's typical driving needs.
Nah, it's "how many Black, Indigenous, People of Colour do you have who wear glasses and have facial scars from having fallen from a great height while screaming?". If you can't find enough preëxisting BIPOCWWGAHFSFHFFAGHWS people, I suppose you're limited to finding other BIPOC people, giving them glasses, and throwing them from a great height. (Manufacturing them the other way around might be too offensive.)
High performance RISCs also have decoders and have the equivalent of uops internally as well. Their decoders are simpler than a CISC like x86, which has a very baroque encoding.

Still the claim that x86 implementations are RISC internally is not really true.
For me it’s the condescending left wing of a lot of tech companies who want to control what information is being shared because of belief that only they know what’s truly right and wrong. See Project Veritas and the Twitter exec.

Most frustrating is the irony that they became wealthy and successful due to the systems (capitalism, police/law and order, low taxes) they now claim to hate.
Sure but it’s transparent. You don’t need to go write all that logic, against every queue, with possible bugs, handle different scenarios, etc. You just need to write the logic to process the message passed to the lambda.

Under the hood it might be polling. But it gives the illusion it’s push and it’s bloody useful.
> Using their initial foothold of OAuth user tokens for GitHub.com, the actor was able to exfiltrate a set of private npm repositories, some of which included secrets such as AWS access keys.

Keep those keys out of source control, folks. There are a lot of options for secrets management these days, and making it harder for attackers to totally own you if they only manage to crack one piece of your infrastructure is key to limiting damage from this sort of attack.
The points made about variance being a measure of structural change in society, and that it is what actually is painful about inflation, was also very interesting.
I would at the very least make an effort to validate those claims before repeating them. Linux has improved greatly in the last few years, and I haven't had a WiFi issue for a long time.
I use ubuntu or mint on my computers and stream on a roku. MY DAW runs on a different computing running Mac OS.
why not just use another init system?
I've had great experiences with runit, and they say s6 is good as well.
> Those speedbumps used to also not be there—they were put in recently

> having read through your comment

It doesn't sound like you've read my comment at all: 3 of the problems I listed are not new at all. The one that is - modules - is a result of two colliding independently standardised implementations from one language (commonjs vs ecma).

> The module fiasco is 100% a consequence of really, really bad decisions on the part of the NodeJS folks.

I'd genuinely like to hear an elaboration on this. You may be right but just stating doesn't make it so (your two referenced articles are just people who dislike JS railing against it for its own sake, nothing really constructive)
Or just pay 5$ for a VPN instead of 20$ for netflix&co and pirate everything. Suddently the OS stops mattering. What was the point of netflix blocking HQ Streams for linux users? To prevent piracy? How ironic
Why didn't they release it in a better format, like CSV? We could then easily turn it into a C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
I'm on Doom Emacs, which uses the current Org from Git, and uppercase for ‘BEGIN_SRC’ works for me just as lowercase, which I normally employ myself. Maybe it didn't in the past, but at least it's fixed now.
There's https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
> As an absolute layman to this field, the Friedman’s "inflation is ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’" has appeal to me in that it offers a (simple?) solution: "government austerity" as noted in the article.

Government austerity is bad policy and has been for just about all of its history:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...

(Of course this doesn't mean spending should be done without thought.)
Tesla doesn't spend money on marketing because Elon/his Twitter/his antics are the marketing. Not sure why you'd trust him at face value to begin with. He's not your friend, he's a door-to-door electric vacuum salesman trying to sell his wares.
> We donated future royalties on secondary sales

So you donated nothing?
These brands are like the ship of Theseus - you'll never get the same thing twice.
If I was still using windows I would totally block everything and run a wsus server in a VM that has a vlan and firewall config.

The issue is you can only control your firewall at home. Whenever you are out you are pretty sure that MS and Apple bypass any rule you'd put on the local firewall.

I prefer running sane operating systems.
Linux can have crappy font rendering.

I can also have gorgeous font rendering. I would mess around with some live distros to see what you prefer.

This is how my comment looks to me (on linux): https://i.imgur.com/wvruFyX.png
I’ve heard you can do this quite well in Chicago and Minneapolis (the latter via skywalks[0])

Probably because of the brutal cold you have around the Great Lakes.

[0]: https://minneapolis-2021.s3.amazonaws.com/images/hotels-minn...
Banks do it every day. It is what happens when someone repays a loan. Likewise money is created when that loan is created.
Going to only 12V power to the motherboard doesn't actually make them much more complicated, or any more complicated really. Like half of a modern motherboard design today is just power supplies anyways, as all CPUs will do voltage scaling to save power. It's not like your CPU takes 3.3V input directly, most are running in the 0.8-1.5V range, even DDR4 is 1.2V, and the CPU is the majority of the consumption on the actual motherboard (high power graphics cards usually have their own 12V input connector, the PCIe edge cannot transfer enough).
I will definitely be buying one of these, would never buy a Tesla due to quality and service concerns.
Exactly. These days, the only remaining difference between RISCs and CISCs are simpler fixed size encodings and a load-store architecture.
Great article and great collection of links!

I have taken up coding simple SVG icons by hand, and it's easier than it looks. Also, a great feature of SVG is the <defs> element, which lets one define shapes anywhere in an HTML page, and reuse them anywhere else (ie, not inside the same SVG).

So for example one can have an SVG element at the top of the page that lists a bunch of symbols in a global defs element, and reuse them at will some other places, without loading anything externally, or copy-pasting anything.

Used shapes can also be transformed: different colors for fill or stroke, scaled up or down, rotated, moved, etc.

> Good news, you can achieve fractional ratings with only CSS and inline SVG. Samuel Kraft explains how it works.

The technique presented in that other page is overly complex and convoluted.

Fractional stars can be done very simply in pure SVG with gradients. Here's an example of a grey star filled at 40% with red:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 60 60">
<defs>
<polygon points="30,0 10,60 60,22 0,22 50,60" id="star"/>
</defs>
<linearGradient id="gradid">
<stop offset="40%" stop-color="red"/>
<stop stop-color="grey"/>
</linearGradient>
<use href="#star" fill="url('#gradid')"/>
</svg>

In order to change the fill one just needs to manipulate the offset attribute of the first stop.

If there are many stars it can be tiresome to attach a different gradient to each star; what I do in that case is define 8 gradients from 10% to 90% fill, and reference them as needed for each object that needs to be filled to approx. that percentage.
"Over the past 10 years I've had multiple contracts where I billed my client 40hrs a week, though the work only took me perhaps an hour a day..." - how is that honest and ethical? I freelance and bill hourly, if I work one hour then I bill one hour. Just because the client is happy doesn't mean they should be overpaying. Maybe you're talking about a retainer situation?
Consistent with my experience as a customer of other Broadcom purchases.
The problem with ESO is it's moreso an MMO and less like playing any TES game. I have played it a little bit but its not as immersive as regular TES games feel.
Really interesting, are you using it in production now? I would love too just not sure if its stable enough yet?
Been using organice for years. To me, it’s by far the most usable solution to interacting with org files on a mobile device.
We've mostly negated rust proofing improvements by using road salt that's more effective at getting everywhere and using salt in more places (you'll notice that the white crusted post-snowstorm hellscape was not a thing in the 90s or '00s). OEMs have gotten good at using plastic cosmetic trim to cover the initial rust points (wheel arches, rocker panels, etc, etc,) so that instead of needing attention after 10yr the problem can be ignored until a much later date when the rust finally makes it out from behind that plastic (and your car starts failing safety inspection if you live in an applicable state).
Investors, customers, and workers are fed up with delivery apps
Well, I disagree with everything you say (especially calling this gatekeeping). You simply are unwilling to learn about the tools you're working with. I'm sorry we couldn't work it out. Best of luck!
It's fine, they don't drink as much.
Where is the joy of learning a new language if not for learning new concepts? It just does not make sense to me. Learning a new standard library and build tools and all that stuff? Is that much fun?

People want to learn a new language for reasons: perhaps they want to learn new concepts, perhaps they want a language that's faster, perhaps they want a more mature ecosystem, perhaps they want to increase their employability. There aren't people who "want to learn a new language" as their ultimate end goal.
Cicada Language: A New Dependently Typed Language
There you have it. Still unable to refute any of my claims.
why would uops similar to VLIW? because they are very large and potentially encode control bits for multiple execution units? I never thought of them like that, but it could be a reasonable way to view them.
No, but I don't know what percentage of pickup owners have to do those things often enough to justify owning a pickup. On the other, my tool van is my mobile workshop. Tool banks on the sides, workspace and storage in the middle. If I need to haul a bale, I'd just hook up a 500kg trailer. I'd argue that most van drivers take full advantage of the van, while truck drivers only do so infrequently, and having a truck just because they can.
> I refuse to believe that (e.g.) the IP address of login.live.com as resolved by OneDrive is always different from same as resolved by Skype.

I could believe that, actually. There are reasons you might want to always host different services on non-overlapping IPs -- DDoS mitigation, traffic prioritization, service isolation, limiting impact of unscrupulous ISP / government content blocks...
Wouldn't any legitimate charity return money that was donated through coercion? If someone stole something and gave it to me, and the rightful owner asked for it back, I would give it back. I guess it would just look bad asking for them to return it but most people would understand.
I had always understood "character actor" in the opposite sense, i.e. one who played the character and not himself. But yes, a lot of actors make a career playing the same character over and over.
Both of those inspired me to write what amounts to an homage, specifically about web development:

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2021/01/easy-peasy/

. . . and, as I note in the opening:

> I do **not** pretend this is in the originals’ amazing league.
> Inflation, in all theories, doesnt measure the change in quality of the product either.

Actually it does. See The Canadian Consumer Price Index Reference Paper by StatCan, chapter seven, "Quality Change and Adjustment":

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/62-553-x/2014001/chap/ch...
Creditors definitely do lose money when they price debt at 2% but inflation runs at 7%.

Talking about mortgages misses the larger fixed rate bond market (government and company long term debt).
Say someone implemented oauth or whatever fancy auth mechanism in a dockerized software and had the problem that the environment variable containing the secrets were not passed through the layers to the application server, and so the developer (as they didn't have SSH access to the machine or the container) was forced to build in a lot of logging to discover where in the path the secrets got lost. Then the developer forgot to remove all logging incantations.
Do you use a tool for that? Or just the browser?
So once again, another one cannot refute or answer my questions.
Don't forget scalpers. The market on Amazon is clearing for Pi 2 W Zero boards at a mere 2600% profit over retail price (higher prices are not selling), so people whom actually want to build something with a Pi are competing with people whom compare a 29% APR credit card vs 2600% per unit profit margin and buy everything they can get for resale.

Its classic hyperinflation market. Too much money chasing too little product. The only way to crack the hyperinflation would be to boost interest rates on credit cards over 2600% making speculation unprofitable or for the endusers to abandon the marketplace and let the price crash or boost the manufacturers production until they flood the market down. The CC interest rate thing would not sell well in an election year LOL. The manufacturers cannot outproduce the demands of the entire financial industry money printing press. The only option is market abandonment.
Indeed I bought a while ago one of those pci-e cards that comes with the same BT/wireless that Apple uses, it wasn't that hard to make it work but if it works out of the box, then better, also I think the intel wireless chips are one of the best ones out there.
As someone who works within an operations team, the telemetry that is seen within MEM/365 is extremely useful for detecting issues and providing overall health of the environment.

While MS does not help itself with some of the more invasive tactics, some of the telemetry is super valuable in detecting issues with drivers, updates and many other things.

Even the episode of MS08-067 https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/57/ has some interest bits on early telemetry.
I guess even in Germany a union can't just show up, with no demonstrable employee support, and start dictating that the company listen to them?

You say 'comprised of their employees' - who determines this? You need a secret vote at least, or some kind of voluntary indication of support. You need to know people aren't being coerced.
Huge well done on launching.

I can see a significant amount of scepticism in the comments, and I think that much of the feedback is valuable and important, such as the lack of a 'point of difference', interface, value-add above existing solutions, etc.

But, a little disappointed with the pessimism in the comments in general. Someone has gone out of their way to build something from scratch and, regardless of whether it ticks all the boxes at the moment, I think that deserves positivity and a big 'well done'.

Projects rarely ever launch 100pc perfect -- or even 20pc perfect. It is best to launch, adapt, and iterate.

Note to poster: try to imagine that all the comments here start with 'Well done for launching, but something you might want to think about is...' Lots of the points are valid and require your attention, but they have been presented in a defeatist and negative way -- as if your launch is the end of matter and, as a result, it is all doomed to failure rather than providing a springboard to change, improve, and pivot as required.
Beginners just run angular/react/vue cli and restrict themselves to first-class compatible dependencies that can be installed with one loine. This way, quickly creating something useful that is good enough is easy for the novice.

But yes, the plumbing the cli controls and sets up for you is insanely complex and overengineered.
required to use windows for work (the software I produce must run on desktop windows machines), and only have my personal PC to do work with. I'd like to have money for a second machine but I don't.

The thing with the linux community, is that once linux covers 90% of the perceived use-cases for a desktop/laptop/workstation computer, it really feels like it should be enough to see a big switch. We can relax, right? But that 10% of use cases where windows is the /only/ option is the other 90%.
In issues for Orgzly, support for org-crypt was mentioned as a wanted feature, so I guess that's what some people use. However, it sounds like it encrypts text inside files, maybe on per-note basis.

On desktop, encrypting files is usually easier done in separate software, like Veracrypt or the multiple Linux filesystems. However, it's rather slim pickings for that on phones—Cryptomator is one that does that (iirc), but it's actually not open-source for phones.
I’ve been doing a lot of stuff in the UE4/5 Slate framework lately which uses a declarative construction syntax - the amount of boilerplate to enable the required declarative syntax is frustrating and would love to have it automatically done.

But truthfully I’m not a fan of doing this kind of declarative DSL within c++, it’s just not a pleasant experience and would rather use yaml/toml or embedded lua for the data driven interface