skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suspect the truth is that politicians mostly just don't care that much about science because they aren't smart enough to understand its value, or decent enough to care.

Most politicians understand that humanity is never going to leave earth and so all of this stuff is basically pointless to the actual business of governing. So we will miss out on the next MRI or microwave because we missed some new technology... so what? How does that make their lives, personally, worse in any practical way?

Humanity is going to melt down in the pretty near future here... if the Russia stuff doesn't escalate, and the US doesn't slide into fascism, there will be yet another wave of conflicts tomorrow due to extremity from climate change or something else. Water is going to become extremely scarce, habitable lands are going to become uninhabitable and undesirable tundra is going to become extremely desirable, and countries will fight for ownership of the reshuffled deck.

Humanity has passed the peak of this enlightenment cycle and is heading for a new dark age, maybe the Forever Dark Age given the depletion of most of the accessible reserves of energy and critical materials. The best-case scenario is that we wind down to some steady-state existence with some level of mechanization/etc, but the exponential growth thing mathematically cannot continue indefinitely. The Earth does have physical limits and just because Malthus was wrong about it in 1700 doesn't mean you can grow an exponential rate in a finite system forever.

Who cares about space? We're not going there. And their job is making themselves comfy and keeping things going mostly straight in the meantime. Science really doesn't matter in that context as long as someone else isn't drastically ahead of you such that it produces a military advantage, they don't care about the absolute advancement, only the relative to everyone else.

I'm not saying this is a good thing, I'm saying this is how it is.
Interesting to read that only 33%-50% of hospitals comply with the law and post their prices. If there's one thing this country needs to do it's demand transparency everywhere.

Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.
I've tried searching this and couldn't find anything related to microservices - what is the factoring problem or system that grugbrain is referring to?

Is it something to do with calculating the cost of splitting off a monolith into a microservice vs. some other method?
I'm looking forward to the day when we have bio-engineered slugs that feed off the left over food in our mouths while we sleep. If their trails can strengthen enamel all the better!
It really is a toothless law, the hospital probably makes more surplus profit from price discrimination in a single week than their entire fine for the year. The damages should be increased 100x.
Perhaps Japan does, but I'm simply saying that Anglo-Saxon moral overlords do no care about enforcing Japan's sense of moral offence, only their own, or even when written in Japanese.

People have long noted that one can get away with writing many things that would have one banned or removed on Reddit or Twitter, so long as one not do it in English but in another language. The same thing applies to Youtube's anti-swearword system that really only demonitizes based on English swearwords, not in any other language.
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> The kind of takedown that Joel makes ("reductive nonsense") is unsophisticated and frankly immature, and certainly not worthy of any more investment of my time.

This is what immediately struck me when I started watching the video.

It could be possible that everything Joel is saying is true, and yet, his presentation style comes from a place that feels like the opposite of good faith. His attitude is not one that seems to involve seeking truth/understanding, and he comes across as snarky, bitter, and with an undercurrent of some underlying agenda.

It's a style that I dislike generally, but it seems especially problematic given the subject matter - a topic that requires at least an inkling of intellectual curiosity to explore.
They pay you $500k/yr and up. Your open source project pays $50 on a good month. You have a house to maintain and family to feed. Why would you turn down such an offer?

One thing I will caution those who do take the offer, the company will use you until you are no longer necessary and then throw you out (extinguish)
Yes, it is their fault. But it is not like they decided “let us push adult content to children”. Nor is it “let’s randomly decide between adult and childrens content as that might be a great idea”

Obviously a mistake was made. But let’s be real: it was made in an attempt to right wrongs, not in an attempt to wrong rights.
right? like what was the point of beefing up this workstation if I'm just gonna run Nano?
I dont anyone can class this website as not fun and not weird!

Seeing is believing!

https://www.lingscars.com/
In my experience of using D at work alongside people who barely know how to program (i.e. smart but not culturally a Dev), and people who just didn't know D: if you have smart devs simplicity doesn't matter very much.

If anything it's easier to teach a concept than wait for a programmer to be able to see through a wall of messy simplicity.
If it has all the inherent flaws of the M2 MBP then its base config is gonna get slaughtered in the reviews.
More than the hack taking down Axie, I worry that a sizeable amount of impoverished people had to earn a living by playing a crypto-based "game", a game that is obviously not very fun and which can be considered a pyramid scheme. Ah, but it's crypto!

I know a lot has been said about bullshit jobs, and that it is a controversial concept, but I cannot find any job more bullshitty than having to earn a living by playing an NFT Pokémon like game or whatnot.

It's depressing.
Or Australia. Border agents here can now compel you to hand over your phone and credentials.
You literally can own keys. What.
Tell HN: Nextspace (NeXTSTEP-like DE) stopped development as author in Ukraine
AFAIK, NEXTSPACE is the only NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment that is (was) actively being developed (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace). The author had been working on this project for more than 5 years and he had been pushing code almost every single day.

Unfortunately, he had to stop development since Russia invasion of Ukraine, as he lives in Kyiv, Ukraine. He said he was OK and would like to continue development "after Ukraine’s victory" (https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/discussions/412). But that was about 4 months ago.

As someone who really likes NeXTSTEP and hopes NEXTSPACE to succeed, the current situation is sad.

Just wanted to inform the crowds at HN about this.

:wq
I haven't used this workflow before, but I see the value in keeping it. Hopefully tasks has it's functionality expanded to trigger on location. Maybe in some future, trigger on an arbitrary set of initial conditions.
1Password is fantastic for teams. What does it lack?

LastPass is garbage though, I agree.
Interesting! Any knowledge of a corresponding female social phenomenon being similarly characterized?
Perfect page for Links+ on my OBSD powered crappy Atom N270 netbook :).
We empirically find that most developer searches fall into a few categories consistent with this paper [0]. The author explains these categories nicely in her blog post [1]. It sounds like you're describing 4/6 of these categories: ad-hoc how-tos, understanding an API / recalling forgotten details, and troubleshooting.

We currently do well at answering "ad hoc how-to" questions and are working to improve our answers in the other categories. This could either look like augmenting our existing natural language answer, or building a separate view specializing in official documentation or errors.

[0] https://elisehe.in/i/googledrivendevelopment.pdf
[1] https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/the-hidden-insights-in-develope...
Does anyone know how to go about getting home water tested? Is there a place you can send it, or kits to buy? 23andMe for water?
I got hypnotised
Good to know.

I think Apple's announcement (and as I've learned from this thread MS's and Google's similar programmes) represent a significant step-change. A single defense attorney performs this action on a case-by-case basis, and they earn "single human" levels of income from it. They (to some degree) use that money to make themselves comfortable and perhaps share it with charities and make investments. All the defense attorney's in the world combined still, probably, have access to a fraction of Apple's budget, and a fraction of Apple's audience. Defence attorneys don't always win all their cases.

Apple have the kind of money that makes 1000s of attorneys envious. Apple use that money to make infrastructure and client devices and then sell/share that technology with billions of people. Most of Apple customers buy their phones on loan agreements over some contract time-frame. It's "cheap", and the protections are automated.

I'm tired and getting rambly about this now, but I intuitively feel like the combination of state-level power (albeit exercised with a very narrow focus), and the way so many people live their (digital) lives interacting with a "noosphere" that crosses international borders are facets of a complex phenomenon we have not witnessed before, and which will merge with other related facets and then emerge as something really different. I accept I'm getting very fuzzy in my thinking here. I'm leaning into my inner sci-fi author (who's not come out for 30years and wasn't too talented when it did).
Oh dear. Maybe I should be clearer.

1) The scale of the existing kerosene system is a liability to your scheme such as it is, not an asset, because both need to exist in parallel. You cannot reuse it. Costs are additional for any transition period, and can easily be high enough to make transition impossible.

2) The scale of the kerosene system is thermodynamically irrelevant. The relevant scale problem is that you need double-digit gigawatts available to planes on demand and on-site. That's the whole game. Where you put the solar, wind, or nukes to make that happen is your problem, not mine, but I can guarantee you that transporting XXGW into a single site over transmission line starts to look silly. "Do it at a thousand places on the grid" is a non-starter. That's why I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed that on-site was naturally beneficial for your scheme. My mistake, it won't happen again.

3) However you do this, you are doing this in addition to the power generation capability of the rest of the grid. I've talked about one airport. Taking the UK as a whole you need to have a proposal which, give or take, doubles electricity generating capacity for the entire country. That needs more than a dismissive "not a novel observation" jibe. The scale of that challenge means that it's on you to propose how to achieve that as part of the scheme. You have not made such a proposal, rather you prefer to accuse me of misplaced outrage and dishonesty when you have failed to clarify a critical part of your idea adequately. You're handwaving about manual work and implying, I have to assume, that one can take the vast flow of money currently spent on manual labour and use it to bulldoze any inconvenient laws of physics which happen to get in the way. I wish you all the best in that particular endeavour.

4) Either you generate H2 on-site with huge amounts of equipment, or you pipe from elsewhere at pressure. In the former case "drop the equipment where you need it" takes vast tracts of land next to the airport, as I pointed out, in addition to the space the airport already takes up and in competition with the housing (or whatever) that's already there. In the latter you manage high-pressure hydrogen over considerable distances. It's just not true to say there's no difference. Elsewhere you've tried to dodge this dilemma, but you do actually need to pick one. You can't say that the storage and transport problem is fine because you can generate on-site without acknowledging the amount of space that takes up, and you can't restrict piped supply to low pressure because of the sheer quantity of H2 you need to transport.

We're done here. The scheme's not practical, you've got no adequate response to the problems with it, and I'm past caring any more.
It doesn’t strike me as a problem in a simple list widget as shown in the article. Presumably you can click on the list item to see the person’s full name. That’s just an example of “click or scroll here to see more of this content” which is literally an unavoidable design pattern on any given display.
That's not what "I'm not going to touch this anymore" means. Cheers.
Geothermal is decidedly limited. The deep-bore technology Homer-Dixon discusses is highly ambitious and would be tremendously expensive.

There are extensive geothermal power facilities, however, and a surprising amount of the readily-accessible generating capacity is already utilised throughout the world, the primary exception being in the African Rift Valley.

What Geothermal offers that wind and solar don't is high-reliability dispatchable peaking and night-time base-load power. Those loads are low but relatively predictable. There's a challenge with geo in extracting too much thermal energy too quickly, and fractional use on an as-needed basis might result in both longer-term utilisation per site (before the rock is cooled below practical usable levels) and more reliable generation capability for a given site.

A future low-carbon / renewables energy regime will be based on a mix of sources. Geothermal is an excellent option for that mix.
This is my experience so far. Once I felt the total control over layouts at any size, I had zero fears about losing all the other benefits you get with css frameworks. I can figure out svg icons, modals, etc on my own. The #1 reason I used bootstrap up until now is to deal with complex layouts and breakpoints. Flexbox handles most other cases without much drama too.

I am currently running a 100% vanilla JS+CSS stack for a responsive web app. I have never felt this much power before. Everything is so immediate and obvious now.
I'm not saying it's a bad game, I have it and did like it, I just thought it was a missed opportunity in many regards.
You're dying on a weird hill here. Deciding on a name is a multiplayer game. It involves the author and the general public. We're collectively trying to converge on something short, memorable and snappy. We respect the author. But not too much.

I wrote a blog post last year with a working title of "CRDTs go brrr". I renamed it to something more boring before posting it, but "crdts-go-brrr' still shows up in the URL. Universally when people talk to me about that article, they use the original title. Not whatever I renamed it to.

What do I do about that? Do I get angry about it? Do I demand people stop using the catchy title I invented for my writing, then shied away from? No. The wisdom of the crowd has spoken. I accept it, learn and move on.

Matt Godbolt hosted his tool at godbolt.org, and everyone started calling it godbolt. Then he labelled it "Compiler Explorer" and ... everyone kept calling it godbolt because we remember it, and its in the URL, and its frankly a better name. Its telling that everyone (including you) knew what I meant in my comment. If I said "Compiler Explorer", I bet more people would have been confused. (I would have been confused!).

So yes, call me whatever you want. Exercise your freedom of speech boldly! But obviously, if you pick a name that other people don't recognise, you won't be understood. And if you insult me, I'll feel insulted. Its your right to do that, and my right to react however I like.
I think a large portion if not the majority of the Linux community is just one that prefers choice and customizability over being given whatever that "just works", but not exactly to one's preference. Loss of choice is a loss. For example, there may be users that use WMs like Blackbox, StumpWM, or Xmonad that they've heavily customized throughout many years, and now they're essentially being told that their setups will eventually be incompatible with the changing ecosystem. i3 users got lucky for getting a port (sway), but there are lots of other WMs, and lots of other related tools useful for customization like xdotool, perhaps not all portable to Wayland.
> There are a few like NDTV and Dainik bhaskar, who routinely face sanctions by governmental bodies for not sticking to the governmental narrative.

The founder of NDTV is a communist, his sister in law and her husband are members of the 'politburo' of one of the communist parties in India [1]. NDTV is effectively a mouthpiece of the left-wing Congress and Communist parties of India.

[1] https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/who-is-brinda-karat-al...
> Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

A lot of it is. In California for example you can go look up any public employee's compensation at https://transparentcalifornia.com/
As an ex-Ruby dev,

I don't need an ORM, I don't need ActiveRecord, and I don't need MVC.

I want the framework to be out of my way, which is what FastAPI and ExpressJS provide.

Ruby itself isn't attractive, as a scripting/dynamic language it's worse than Python, therefore no point in using it.

Keep in mind, I don't like Python either, that's why you can trust my opinion since I don't have bias for either or.
Or even that it’s the same factory. The big stores/companies have factories around the world producing and that can lead to lots of variation.

Some high end tailored clothes even sells you the entire bolt of cloth in case you want to match it later, because everything the same the bolts will vary slightly over time.

This is also why so much clothes now is stretchy.
> the whole point of the private right to action is so that anti-abortion groups can target individuals in order to create precedent-setting cases.

Fairly sure this is wrong. The point was to create a mechanism to sue various people "in orbit" around an abortion without involving state officials. This was supposed to "immunize" the process from any Roe v. Wade-related block.

With Roe v. Wade now struck down, Texas can basically do whatever "it" wants w.r.t abortion, and the federal government cannot intervene. SB8 at this point is possibly (just possibly) a way to reduce state spending on abortion legal cases, but not much more beyond that.
What Really Happened During the 2003 Blackout?
There are a lot of bad actors in the security space. DDG, for example. Companies like perimeter 81 I don't trust based solely on the fact that Israel regularly and frequently acts nefariously. Bitlocker replaces good drive encryption you control with something that can be unlocked by authorities. Plenty of PRISM compromised companies offer security...
So can I still be tracked using SS7?
Backgammon.
Above and beyond that, it's an explanatory page for the specific context and usage.

(Which is an agreement with and amplification of your point.)
The problem is they aren't self driving yet, and they are deploying tech as if they are.

Besides, when cars drive themselves people will just use their phones the entire drive and entertainment features might not matter beyond the basics like Bluetooth audio.
Last year, one of the district heating pipes in my fairly new apartment block (7 years old) start leaking where it enters the building. Once discovered someone from the heating company came to turn off our supply, and then the next day they came to dig up the pavement outside and fix it.

On a side note, it seems like a very bad design choice to have that place be the room where all the electrical meters are. However even where there were large puddles of water over the floor it didn't cause any issues.
> Especially our government. Spending. Salaries. It all needs to be public.

This is especially useful for valuable gov't employees that want to negotiate a higher salary :) Totally fine by me, but just be aware you may not realize the second order effects. The primary people that care may actually just be the employees for pay fairness
> Perhaps more importantly, I see no mention of any facility for network monitoring.

CalyxOS intends to build a comprehensive netmon: https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS/calyxos/-/issues/349

Right now, they've got an ebpf-based firewall: https://calyxos.org/docs/tech/datura-details/

> TBH I can't really tell how it differs from either Calyx or Divest.

The lead developer is pretty active on github and fdroid forums: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/10105
The interesting bit is the hop from the devs local machine to the validators.

With so much money at stake I am surprised there was not more isolation.

Or a second authentication factor?
Return "dead" Christmas tree in January? https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/woman-returns-dead-christmas-t...
The Wayland developers do this because they absolutely do not want to be involved in the perpetual fights between desktops. Getting into that is a lose-lose proposition. So they focus only on the small subset of things that every desktop agrees on. Users that aren't actively working on an implementation in a desktop unfortunately don't have any place in this discussion, practically they just have nothing meaningful to contribute. It's not feasible without some implementation "sponsoring" the relevant code. Piling more features into upstream Wayland to please these users is not going to help anything, the implementations will not be able to use it and it will just complicate things for no gain and create more fragmentation. This is not specifically a Wayland thing, it was also the case in the X server if you were developing a new extension, you needed to gather feedback from the WM implementations before doing anything.

If you want to make it easier to develop alternatives to GNOME, it would be best to start putting more reusable features into libraries, and getting all desktops (including GNOME) to use them. That way you have a common baseline that everyone can depend on. That may seem counter-intuitive but it is the only way, libraries provide implementations and it is actually the implementations themselves that are the important part to users, not anything that upstream is doing. The simplest example is something like Mesa. All the Wayland servers want to support hardware acceleration, so they all implement the relevant extensions, and then they're able to support applications that talk using the Mesa libraries.
The disconnect here is that Apple already monopolizes the devices, the service, and the application distribution platform. Now, they're expecting you to be satisfied with them monopolizing the security controls and monitoring on your phone.

We expect so little of our phones with respect to our desktops when we know full well there's no legitimate reason to do so. Particularly now, if you're imagining that one needs security against state level actors.. then the notion that a single vendor is required to simplify the ecosystem and broaden adoption is directly in conflict with this future you have declared we are now in. It's literally the weakest possible model of defense available.

This isn't the perfect being the enemy of the good.. this is Apple monopolizing yet another aspect of the platform for themselves at the cost of true innovation.