skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some very mixed feelings about talon. I looked into it a decent bit when I started having hand issues as well, and never got anywhere useful with it.

For one, it needs to be programmed to do anything. This gets you all the options, which is wonderful, but also is a bit of a problem when you're looking into because you can't, ya know, program. And it's not a simple thing to interact with. Lots of moving parts and various behind-the-scenes interactions.

For another, there's virtually zero documentation. Like, officially none, and unofficially not much more than a few paragraphs.

And to put the cherry on top, it's a closed source mess of a program. It's not easy to get much in the way of useful information out of it. You can poke around some in a Python REPL, but that'll basically just get you the interface. And somehow, it's one of the most useful sources of information, as at least you've got something to go on. And as mentioned, Python, so you don't have much in the way of language-level guarantees to try to rely on to figure stuff out either.

Yes, there is the popular user config. To be clear, I'm not trying to be unkind to it. It managed to overcome a lot, and is very useful to lots of people for many of the reasons I stated above. But. It's also clearly got it's roots as one person's personal config that got popular. There is so much in there. It's basically it's whole own thing to learn on top of talon.

In terms of learning from it, well, it doesn't seem trivial. It's basically it's whole own thing, but also how it all interacts is all talon. You're basically learning two separate yet intertwined systems at once and have to figure out what bits belong to what. It's also got various bits from multiple iterations of talon's interface, so the same thing may be accomplished multiple ways. It's actually quite well commented in some places about this fact, which is really nice. But it does make you wonder what isn't well commented...

Ultimately I just gave up. It seems like a potentially hugely useful thing, but actually trying to use it required learning a bunch of stuff I wasn't otherwise interested in, figuring out the minutia of a complex unstable interface the hardest ways possible, and then spending a ton of time writing my own program/config.

Aside from the time involved, the amount of typing required was prohibitive.

So yeah. My feelings on talon... mixed, to say the least. Or most, judging by the above.
Yeah, and TBH this is not a good reason to forge up a completely new OS. Even though the idea itself will surely improve performance, the immatureness alone will likely offset the benefits. It'll need years of improvements and tuning, which directly translates to $$$. Worse, normal people will not test the new OS for free, which is how things worked for Linux.
Create an Inexpensive Flying Wing / Drone (2019)
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How do you pronounce JS out loud, and why is your way right and the other way wrong?
Many years ago I was a systems programmer for a Burroughs B6700 mainframe in New Zealand - this was the only mainframe at the University, everyone depended on it for almost everything. One day it started doing random IOs to random devices - garbage on a printer or a console were annoying, but scribbling over disk was a particularly bad thing, we could be down for ages bringing it back. We had an engineering contract with Burroughs and eventually they flew in the big gun engineer from the US .....

He took a stick and ran it down one row of cards in the IO processor, nothing happened, he ran it down the next row, bang! hours later we're up again, he runs it down half the row, bang! binary search with stick ensues, eventually he starts pulling cards one comes out and 3 small solder blobs fall off, they'd been sitting there on some chip's pins since it was manufactured years ago
It's the point of open source.
It's a great argument against the scale that cloudformation has, and regulation would help.

If you can't figure out that one of your clients is doing this bad things, you shouldn't have so many clients
Rubber ducking isn't just for code. Plenty of ideas seem good until they become
words.
And yet, none of this information was remotely suppressed, which suggests that the government is largely toothless with regard to these requests. Perhaps corporations acquiesce due to a gentleman's agreement, or even because they think it's the right thing to do, in which case your beef should be with them more than the government. On the whole, this feels like a "think about it, man!" kind of argument to me.

Also, these sources seem sketchy at best. Do you have reporting from a reputable newspaper? I'm not saying this didn't happen, but the way this reporting is presented definitely doesn't pass my sniff test.

FWIW, I believe that the government shouldn't be threatening corporations to censor things, but I also don't think that's what's happening here. (Though I could be wrong — waiting to read some credible investigative journalism about it.) I also don't know what the precedent is for this kind of public-private coordination.

In any case, the information still gets out, whether on social media or elsewhere.
did it work for Bluetooth mouse? I thought that wakeup from sleep works only for wired mice
Well, the New York Times belongs to a corporation too. So is CNN.

You wouldn’t want to have your media controlled by the government instead of corporations. Ask any Eastern European.
It is trans people / trans activists. They want children who think they are trans (despite 60-80% of children growing out of it) to use hormones.
when I first learned TMP every program had to be disgustingly compile time for a few weeks. Horrible stuff... but there's no better way to learn imo.
Blame Google. They demand the Duo/Chome/Goolge search/Youtube preinstall.
Do you really need someone to spell out to you why being able to create realistic-looking porn of anyone might lead to some issues...?

A less creative next generation as they don't have to close there eyes and imagine generated porn of anyone.

The second problem will be finding people that you would even want generated porn for.
Well... Oracle is lead by the most ruthless, unethical, Machiavellian business person in tech and his devoted acolytes. They probably don't gaf. But it wouldn't surprise me for Oracle to decide on some last minute resurrection of the brand and start legal armageddon. (In fact, calling attention to the situation is probably the worst thing to do...)

That said, my guess is all they really want is for it to be a zero cost pain in the ass for Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc.

(Yes... You youngsters might think Bezos or Zuck might be gunning for that title, but they got nothing on ol' Larry. He's evil incarnate. There's reasons those other two are always in the news and Ellison is not. Think about it. Pure evil.)
Have you actually tried it? If ASD thinks this would take a week to crack Australia as a nation is in trouble.

Custom minted coins is not that uncommon in Australia. There's been over 100 of them.
What's the longterm prognosis? Is this more about the rise of Indian Middle classes and overall GDP and disposable income, or the fall of the UK as a function of brexit and Tory mismanagement?
It’s been exactly forty years that I’ve been programming.

I’ve seen programming concepts come in and out of fashion and then be recycled again as something new and exciting.

I totally agree with the other comments stating that soft skills are very important.
And of course there was the IBM Stretch possibly the only computer ever fixed by giving it an oil change

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/reports/p...
I’ve seen big telco not having any internal dev - only bad management. When their partner do not deliver, or very slowly because they’re cheap, they make “escalation”…

So it’s even worse than not valuing the work. It’s destroying it.

(By the way, it’s not only telco, but also food distribution, small business…)
While I agree with you that the content on kiwifarms is not covered by free speech, you should not play law enforcement and wait for a court order instead.
There are plenty of databases without associated query languages. RocksDB, FoundationDB, and LMDB to name three. "Queries" are generally "list keys in this range" and all of the higher-level metadata you would want to query on (e.g. relations) are encoded in the key. I would absolutely put filesystems in this camp.
In the US at least, the getaway driver is to blame even if all they did was drive a car and receive payment for their driving
Very cool. Love to see how the support for different groups of people is considered in the language level!

It would also be interesting to test brain interfaces on this language some day.

I am thinking about alternative input method for my project Glicol (https://glicol.org/) quite some time. This work is definitely inspiring. I am also thinking about how can we better support the blind with some feedback. If you have some suggestions, please let me know here:

https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol
There are few (no?) modern consumer vehicles that don't have safety-critical software somewhere and you couldn't legally drive any modern vehicles that don't have working software besides.

It's literally just a cultural issue that they think of themselves as car companies first, and good software culture isn't in their corporate DNA. 5-10 years ago literally no one understood that, but most executives are starting to get onboard with the need for changes and flail their way through them.
> they donated money to Westboro aka GODHATESFAGS[.]COM

Do you have any proof of this?
Tesla does not make money without subsidy, and their car is barely usable: none of people I know just own one Tesla, they all need some ice car to back up.
Has anyone gotten to run on a 4gig card?
I dare any Arab country to allow someone to enter with an Israeli passport! Or heck, even let their own Jewish citizens live there.
Wild how fast this is moving
The proverb describes a state of mind one should aspire to. "Words will never hurt me" not because saying mean things can never do harm (it obviously can), but because I make an effort to control my emotions and reactions. Just as physical health is improved by a nutritious diet and regular exercise, mental health is improved by proper habits of mind.
They've got so much badwill at this point that it would be pointless trying to get any goodwill out of this.
Breakthrough Shows Humans Already Standing Their Own Two Feet 7M Years Ag
Exactly as expected. The more websites CloudFlare bans, the more its reputation will sink, the more enraged and demanding the pro-censorship mob will become.

I note this one more time: almost no posts talking in favor of banning stuff here specify any objective limiting principle of where it should stop. It's like an exercise of deliberately creating a slippery slope.
> If they can't understand that stuff they should not be making decisions.

That doesn't seem right. As a developer, if I were the CEO of a company, I would not be able to read progress from the legal team, or finance team, or any other team. What's going on with that lawsuit? No idea. Do I know how long it'll take to wrap that up? Nope. I can't understand any of their jargon. I still gotta make decisions about it.

I don't need legal competence in order to run the company or make decisions about stuff, and I shouldn't need technical competence either.

It's on us, as developers, to communicate clearly and give answers and reasonable estimates, so management can make their plans and adjust priorities if necessary. The process we use to generate those answers (agile, git commits, deployments) is entirely up to us and could not matter less to the business, at the end of the day.
Two-Seater EVTOL Will Be Used to Train Pilots for Flying Taxis
"Just pack up your life and move to another zipcode if you want to have a baby" is such an SF answer it's almost a parody of itself.
As far as I can tell this action by cloudfare has not accomplished its stated objectives. The site is still up at another url: https://kiwifarms.ru/threads/fuck-cloudflare.128846/

Additionally, a single deleted post (or even a handful of them) being a cause for attempted removal from the internet seems like a precedent that would kill every host of user generated content, including hackernews and twitter.
If you don't hold people accountable for their devices, what reason do they have to care about that security?
It may be newer 2 engine aircraft are net better in "MPG" terms for freight, and pax loading for Israel doesn't demand 380/747 class craft. The jumbo 747 fleet is ageing, its old motor technology. Newer jumbos are exclusively freight.

Israel imposes far higher safety pre checks on pax. Maybe unit transfer costs in the system as a whole through their enhanced security simply scale better in lower units of pax as a single arrival?

Or maybe this reflects some local issues around noise, pollution, or when just some bizarre muscle flex by a specific segment of the political weirdness of the Knesset?
What's the difference with outline[1]? It is a very similar service with markdown support.

[1]: https://www.getoutline.com/
We in tech are the only ones smart enough to fall for all the well-paid productivity sinks, when was the last time your physician had a scrum master?
One of my friends was Near's partner and was devastated by what happened. Near is gone... :(
So he ran a DDoS network that wasn't behind Cloudflare, but used Cloudflare to stop his website being DDoSed by competitors, and this means Cloudflare was helping him DDoS others?

No, it means Cloudflare was helping keep his website up, in a neutral manner.

In other words, exactly what Cloudflare have stated their policy is.

Now if Cloudflare allowed him to run DDoS code on its Workers, then yes, that's Cloudflare helping him.

Very false equivalence.
I'm probably much older then you. My advice is stop thinking you are lazy. If $50 million is enough for you to be comfortable for the rest of your life then take that - nothing is more valuable than time. You'll find something rewarding to do with your time. Even if you just enjoy your life, it's fine!
Maybe, what difference does it make? It’s a billboard.
What is hypocritical? I'm sure there are many sites that I'd like to see Cloudflare take down. If I don't list every single one of them is that hypocritical?

Kiwifarms just comes to mind for me because someone I know kill themselves and the site took a serious role in that. I'm sure I'd be disgusted, and advocate for the takedown of, many sites.
Because @hosh is looking for something to quickly take notes, I must caution against Standard Notes due to it's lack of Android sharing integration. A user cannot simply share from an app into SN. The problem has existed for several years and requests to have this feature restored have been consistently ignored. The only option for Android users is to copy text, switch to the app, and paste it in - this requires more effort than most other competing note apps.
Accelerating an internal mass towards the speed of light increases mass in such a way to produce displacement of the encompassing mass. The mass conversion is translated to heat.

Enormous energy expenditure might be available through true fusion. Work out the potential of the electron volt translated to joule of mass acceleration, to the acquired mass as approaching the speed of light.

For example, how heavy would an ounce of material become if accelerated to 80% of light speed? Enough to displace the weight of a ten thousand ton craft by how much?
My experience with eSIM has been with my Apple phone. I have an app that basically does this - it's Ubigi and I've generally been happy with it. I installed it from the App Store.

As to why Apple themselves don't have such an app, I would have to assume that it's because they don't see reselling of mobile data as a core competency nor a profitable business line.
My vote is “Jizz”, because it’s phonetic.
Which will eventually become JizzScript, infuriating everyone bothered by ATM machines and PIN numbers.
So that's a no, you have no examples. Got it.
The thing that bothered me with joplin is that you can only import/export plain md files and not just use it to work with already existing folders and files (at least when I used it the last time).
It won't shake up the fundamentals, and knowing the fundamentals is probably more valuable than ever in a sea of spam images.

AI does point us in an exciting new direction though. This stuff is baby steps and currently at day 1 of germinating a whole new kind of fruit 20yrs down the line. And that's all it needs to do, to be revolutionary. We need new tools and directions.
I just have a provider (Google Fi) that works worldwide. I have no desire to negotiate a deal with anyone. Each spend point is a pain point. Prefer a single aggregate plan. I put my money in and I go anywhere in the world with my phone. Works great. Been fine for me for over five years.
I love the semicolon rule, I think that distinction is extremely important and too often gets muddled

(though in Rust's case I think it's more accurate to say it distinguishes between "statements and expressions" than "procedures and functions")
Isn’t DDOS pretty illegal? In my opinion, selling illegal services is a strong case for CF to kick them out because they quite clearly break the law.
Any sender you like would be more correct.
Ideas from the gmail ads team regularly get shot down by product because it would make gmail suck too much and piss everyone off.

I feel pretty bad for the ads team honestly. Like, their job is to basically just ruin products. Literally no one likes anything they do, ever. Their justification for everything is always just "You have to let us do this because $$$" and no one respects that, even though everyone knows that it's how the world works.
Those are odd definitions of neutral.

More properly, they want to b political in some way without people being able to criticise them for it. "Neutrality"
Great post! I would like to add, that Diess seemingly understood at least the strategic importance of this and invested heavily. The execution is (until now) just very bad. The German brands don’t “get” software the way e.g Tesla does. Funny enough, Musk said that Tesla is not even all that great in Software (exclude FSD). It’s just everybody else is so much worse. There is a great divide between them who feel software on a visceral level and those who don’t
No, that is not what eugenics means. That's what the strawman version of eugenics means (even 80 years ago it was a bit strawmannish, now it's even more so).
It really depends on the business you run. If you run the local electric company, and you read in the paper that some guy in your service area has been doing terrible things, do you turn off his power? Cloudflare sees their anti-DDoS services as a similar infrastructure-level service, and while you might not agree with that (I'm not sure I do either), it's not immediately unreasonable.
Just say the letters? Jay Ess in english, Jota Ese in spanish, etc…

What other way is there ?
Wow! GPL-licensed, Free as in Freedom, encrypted note taking! This is great. I think I'll probably end up self hosting this just on principle, but I signed up for a year just to show support! The fact that the Notesnook community is on discord is a little annoying, but other than that, I have no qualms with this, can't wait to try it out.
I've been playing more games online lately and I've found two things:

1. Lots of really nice people. I just spent an hour playing a game with a man in Brazil and we used Google translate to chat and teach each other our respective languages while we played.

2. It's actually really easy to get angry. Like, I'm an adult and even I have to be like "hey it's a game chill" to myself - I've never blown up at anyone but... holy shit, it's kind of insane how bad some people are lol. And it's frustrating. Like go to the objective, the game is literally blaring that you should go there, why are you going elsewhere????? over and over again.

With regards to gaming it's just a sort of "worst case" for human collaboration. It's fast paced, high pressure, and communication is both the most important part and also by far the hardest. It is absolutely no surprise to me, whatsoever, that anyone who plays a lot of video games might get angry easily.

Also, as someone who grew up very "on the internet", there's a lot of bitter and angry people out there. They're kind of relatable in a way. Like the whole "I want to fucking die" meme is sort of a meme but also sort of real and relatable, but when you smash that into your brain every day it stops being a meme, and I think that's the case with most irony poisoned internet discussions.
Even if they take an unsuspecting taxi?
Wow that's new that you have to configure something correctly so it works.....
Twitter hosts Antifa types who use it to recruit and coordinate political violence. Takes about 2 minutes to find an example, so they clearly don't moderate this stuff:

https://nitter.net/zelda_in_black

Let's disconnect Twitter from the Internet!

The same people gravely concerned about an infrastructure website being neutral are perfectly fine being on a social media platform that's used for coordinating all kinds of sketchy shit.

"Whataboutism!!!" is the only reply one usually gets when pointing it out.
> the labour aspect is removed

It's worth pointing out that for Apple the labor cost is essentially zero. The factory workers in India/China/Vietnam are being paid around $2 an hour¶, and they would be installing RAM anyway. So charging $450 for an extra 256gb of RAM that probably costs Apple around $100 to $150 has zero relationship with the labor cost. It's pure profit.

¶I live in Vietnam and I know Samsung factory workers are paid about $200 a month here. I assume it's similar for Apple. China wages are a bit higher.
Eagerly awaiting for the consumer data storage solution that doesn't involve doing any business with a company.
True, although I feel like none of those products have made positive product-oriented changes in many years now. Gmail at least is spiraling down the product toilet, which makes me really sad.
I think you have to be really in denial if you think that, on average, gamers are not a more toxic community than others. I think it's not that video games make people bad or something like that. But you probably have some demographics - like young men, for example - who have a lot going on in their lives and aren't always well equipped to handle it. The internet desensitizes everyone and I think that that can be a really bad mix with some people who spend time online and might have a hard time in their actual lives.

Online harassment would presumably be cathartic for some of those people. People lash out for a reason and this is just lashing out at scale.
Fork it and fix it, see if your branch gains traction.
Apologies, wrong link, should be https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/22/namina-forna-l...
I think that it's morally wrong to push the burden to end-users. If anyone should be accountable it must be the companies producing the devices and software.
What a weird argument.

Cloudflare is like a fire department that still fights fires in the homes of known pyromaniacs. Whether or not they set the fires themselves is irrelevant to the job of the fire department, if someone needs to stop them it’s the police.
Explain this to insert regime when they block your GitHub repo or make using your software a felony. You are proposing to act on ideology, while such mitigations are rooted in pragmatism. You often can’t have both.
a) Calling a person evil should be reserved for those that commit truly heinous acts. Not simply being a tough, shrewd businessman in an industry where you need to be.

b) Oracle's CEO is Safra Katz and has been for a while now. And pretty sure she has a lot more on her plate to worry about i.e. existential threat of AWS/Azure/GCP than fighting some meaningless lawsuit.