skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VP of community calling people a "full-time safety coomer" is... well it's something. Not exactly sure what, but not something that says "Hey, Zig has a nice community".
The man pages to NetBSD. I don't think I've seen such comprehensive documentation in all my born days. Every command, API, data structure, and concept in the base system is thoroughly documented. I managed to write a toy device driver and incorporate it into the kernel, using nothing but the man pages.
Much of it is in C# so that it can be run inside KSP.
Beware of Array Spread
Zoho feels like the Walmart SaaS of the Internet. Still, an impressive annual run rate for a boot strapped business.
My pleasure! Ping me if you run into any issues. I also exported my TOTP keys from Authy and have them working from pass as well (using the pass otp plugin).
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Django, the python web framework, even though I don’t use it anymore. https://www.djangoproject.com/

When I was still learning to code, I spent hours and hours and hours poking around the Django source code. In particular I was fascinated by the metaprogramming used in the Model and Query objects, and I ended up learning a ton about how Python works under the hood.
Puppeteer is cool, but it's exactly what OP is warning against: it's a full browser that is downloaded and run through npm. It's remarkably well packaged, but still far more error prone than a simple HTTP request, and far more likely to break on its own just with the passage of time.
Correlated.

There's plenty to discuss in depth there but let's just stick to enumerating high-level policy/programs that we're being voted for, e.g., "Vote for me and I'll give you X, Y, and Z!".

I'm trying to understand what X, Y, and Z might be.
Warp makes no substantive privacy claims.
I’ve never done iOS dev, but is there a way for me to load my own dev app onto my phone from Xcode or something. I’d like to not let 3rd parties get access to my texts.
youtube-dl targets a lot of websites other than Google properties, many of which are a lot sketchier (think, uh, NSFW streaming sites).
Bring back the Windows Phone!
But the original argument was that it was intended to tell me how generic it was? I'm just saying that I have no idea of that from that number since I don't have appropriate context. It's like a teacher telling me my kid got 10 questions right on a test. OK... out of how many? Out of 10? Or out of 100? And then that teacher being like "hey hey hey, I didn't know this was such a touchy subject. I'm just telling you your kid got 10 questions right. It's a number with some utility. If you don't like it, just ignore it." It's separately weird that the number means something different on page 1 than page 2. It's not like I lose sleep over this, I honestly wasn't even aware that the intended purpose was for it to be a "how generic is this query" marker until you posted that, so I guess I am already ignoring it. I'm just saying that if that is the intended purpose, it fails completely.
my vote is meaningless and i am sorry about that. but just wanted to let you know that what you said made sense. do not let people get to you.

most of us know that a thousand or so lines of code is not a full JavaScript interpreter and cannot be the real thing.

there is no argument or conversation to have about it.
And then one day your CDN drops you, another day your hosting service does, Google stops indexing you... You get the idea.

Justifiable or not, tales of those such as 8chan or now Kiwifarms do show that anyone wanting to host a website depends on companies.
>I no longer feel like I can speak up, for fear of illegal reprisals. Why should they be allowed to infringe on my rights? Why should I have to hide?

This is maliciously disingenuous assuming you know Keffals's background (which, unfortunately, 99.9% of people don't).

This was not just a trans content creator that randomly got into KF trolls' crosshairs. She's a toxic, manipulative liar tantamount to the KF trolls themselves, just from another angle. That's what fueled the drama to the point she got SWATed. What you saw was a tango which takes two.

That doesn't make what happened to her okay (although there's good reason to believe Keffals grossly exaggerated just about every detail), or the KF trolls any less horrible as actors on the Internet. Since no one's familiar with Keffals, though, it's unfortunate how distorted their view is on the situation.

One side-effect of that may be that regular people feel as though they're on the chopping block because armies of crazy trolls are going to target them just for being trans or whatever, and so people are more keen to aggressively police online discourse to preclude the formation of imaginary armies of crazy trolls. Which, ironically, is a situation that those regular people were trolled into by a crazy troll.
Tomato, tomato. And in this case, Cloudflare does proxy and cache traffic through its infrastructure, that's their whole business model.
Hey, this is like 15 minutes from me, and I had never heard of it. Nederland is basically the first town you hit when you go west up into the mountains from Boulder.

Thank you! I'm taking my kid there on Monday.
just read through it. it seems to be about deobfusicating a firearms purchase by making the credit purchase classification a bit more granular, and descriptive of such purchases, rather than [sporting goods store].

also adds flags for suspicious purchases, so how you conduct yourself will be reflected as well.
> Is that what I said? No. They started turning off fossil fuel power plants—and ironically, nuclear—to precipitate the move to renewables and improve their emissions scores relative to in-country energy production.

Yes that's exactly what you said. You didn't say 'the total amount of slack in the system was reduced' or 'old powerplants were turned off before having a full replacement'. You framed it as a consequence of using wind and solar.

And keeping the nuclear power plants on wouldn't have helped during the heat wave because they were all failing too.
That would be pretty cool. As far as I know the closest they have are bots but the bots mostly do super simple things. Then other less common tasks people will write their own little tool for to go manually fixup all the instances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
I think the main thing that would be cool is to get the secure hardware/fireware architecture. But of course this would be very niche and not a money maker.

I know those blogposts and its dope.
Somehow I just learned about this company recently. I really enjoyed this post. I didn’t know much about supply chains before reading it and I don’t now I’d imagine but I know more than I did. It is written in a common sense and straightforward manner. I really identify with their values and I think they shine through here.

If I’m being entirely honest, I’m a software developer and I am not quite sure what they are selling. I wonder if their compute product compares to Amazon ECS, their storage to S3, and their networking to Amazon VPC. I am not entirely sure. I am new at my job and I would love to one day to convince my company to go with an ethical cloud provider but I believe that the agency required for such is still some long distance from my current position.

I signed up for their newsletter.

Finally a bit of fun by the author. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513240
I find this incredibly shortsighted and can sometimes hinder one's career. Case in point, Consistent Hashing was "advanced", yet now it is a cornerstone and common knowledge in building systems. Paxos was considered advanced and "never required", yet it became the building block when Google told the world how their Chubby works. Compressed-sensing was a research topic some years ago, yet now it is used in advanced image processing (and yeah, the industry does need "advanced" use cases). If you track SIGGRAPH, many of the so-called advanced theories are adopted in games and CGI systems. You thought engineers could produce photo realistic waves without understanding large-scale Navier-Stokes equations? You thought we could enjoy realistic clouds, fumes, fires in games without engineers studying particle systems? You thought that engineers do not need to study complex optimization to build airline booking systems? Even for the traditional "IT", you thought SAP didn't require advanced data structures and algorithms for their logistics systems? You thought IBM didn't need algorithms and maths to help their customers optimize their warehouse management systems or help the military track their lost weapons including tanks?

Seriously, the list can go on and on for days if not weeks. And a personal lesson: I started to learn about deep learning and large-scale machine learning back in 2010 and they started to pick up steams in the bay area. Yet I thought that level of knowledge was "too advanced" for a systems engineer, so I kept deferring diving deep into the area. Boy was I wrong. Hopefully a new generation of engineers would keep their curious eyes more open than me.
Ask HN: Is Lisp code _too_ verbose and hard to read?
I don't mind parentheses at all, but function/variable names in Lisp are often too verbose, which means when I'm reading Lisp code, there's not much "white space" between the lines and function calls, so my eyes get tired and I end up being confused about the logic of the code.

I experience that even on newer lisps like Clojure, maybe even more so thanks to all the extra symbols. But surprisingly, I can pick up a Rust/Swift/etc. source code and quickly understand what it does, even if I don't fully know said languages.

Example: Even a simple calculator in Scheme looks terribly confusing to me:

http://www.lambdanative.org/
Is this meant to be a novel idea? I’m genuinely perplexed at why anyone would call this study “revolutionary”. As far as I know it’s been well accepted that car exhaust fumes are carcinogenic.
When I was 10, I got my first computer. A Commodore VIC 20. The book that came with the machine taught me programming. It was very well written and already at 11 I could program quite well. I wish we could take more inspiration from that period when writing modern documentation.
So agree. The taste level of the products is terrible but they all interoperate and it’s crazy.
> by .gov pulling a Tornado Cash on all the underlying centralized collateral locked up in DAI

I doubt the U.S. would simply blow up stablecoins. (Unless e.g. the Kremlin is buying Iranian munitions with it and nobody does anything to stop it.) That said, coming regulation will likely require elements of KYC. That could result in enforcement actions or users in back-of-mind countries getting locked out.

All of which sidesteps dollar stablecoins relying on the dollar for their stability, not anything crypto.
I bought Sofle v2! It fits my hand in a good way!
If you're doing something for a hobby, treat it like the special snowflake it is to you. If you're doing something just to get things done, treat it like the utility it is. If you're at home playing around with machines in a homelab, feel free to baby your servers.

As far as disaster is concerned, it's not that difficult to install software that really needs minimal maintenance. But it comes down to what you want out of the software and hardware that you run.
> so why play?

Projected or perceived legacy after passing is correlated with level of consumption while alive.

Always has and always will be. Roman Emperors, Kings etc. they got to be on coins and have monuments erected after them after their death, AND at the same time they were the person with the most conspicous consumption in the whole country while still alive.

Case in point: Queen Elizabeth II.
My favourite is SerenityOS: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

Not only is the code itself structured much more pleasantly than I ever suspected possible in C++, huge parts of it were also recorded while they were being written (see https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling) so you can see and hear the process that led to the final product.

Some of the code is quite gnarly, which is to be expected from a repo containing an entire operating system, containing everything from the kernel to a bespoke web browser.

However, as SerenityOS isn't trying to be a UNIX clone, its C++ oriented APIs are a nice breath of fresh air compared to the barebones C that Linux and friends use.
> The word "lie" is kinda hysterical, don't you think?

No, it’s 100% accurate. Your response is delusional and a poor attempt at manipulation.

> What do you expect -- the engine collects all 2 billion and puts them in a queue somewhere, just so that the one person in 500,000 who actually tries to see them all can?

If it isn’t possible for users to see those results then you should only display the number of results that can be accessed. That would be “not lying” in this case.
In 1982, I went to Czechoslovakia (this was before the divorce and before the fall of the Wall), and walking around the streets of Prague, people constantly whispered to me, a visibly foreign person, "Change money? Change money?" Dollars or German marks were what they wanted, and I could have gotten a much better exchange rate than the official one, if that was what I wanted.

Now? The author's comment that most people use a cueva to handle the crypto for them, rather than managing it themselves, is a real-world datapoint. It means that cuevas are vulnerable to surveillance and control.

> The way I explain this to myself, it seems that the key characteristic that draws Argentinians to these relatively centralized cryptocurrencies is that the government doesn't control them, rather than being completely decentralized in a way that no one controls them.

The government doesn't control them now. What do you bet there are armies of programmers working for the government, figuring out how they can?

So if I lived there, I'd probably be using crypto, too, but I'd always be afraid it's going to vanish someday. Not by the government devaluing the peso, which Argentines are used to, but by some unforeseen technical snafu.

So I'd probably spread my bets around, having some US $100's, some bricks, and some of other coins, making sure not to have all my eggs in one basket.
I have a soft spot for Musl libc just for how clear it is considering it's one of the most widely used libraries in containers and has to perform well in the real world.

https://musl.libc.org/
Tobi Lutke @ Shopify
I suspect that the PHP documentation has been the most effective.

I know everyone likes hating on PHP, but the docs actually work very well.

Part of it is because the language is basically a big standard library of functions, and those are easy to document, but the integration of user comments into each page has also been extremely useful to me.

Inside Macintosh (Apple's original system docs) was very good. Apple's documentation has steadily degraded, since. The documentation for SwiftUI is basically worthless.
I would argue that Wikipedia's process does a decent job of maintaining topics on matters that are not contested; when matters that really matter become topics, they end up being locked down because the process does not support the kinds of civil conversation which can tame otherwise wicked issues. I'd like to think that's a fixable issue.
To give a quick primer to people who would be tempted to only comment on the title, the issue with using plants for carbon sequestration is that they are a temporary sink. Plants use the atmosphere carbon to grow and that carbon is then released when the plants die and is decomposed.

So if you want to sequester more carbon than currently you need to either: have more plants or slow down plants decomposition.

Multiple ways exist to do that. Reforestation is one. A promising one is to farm algae which grow quite fast and either bury them in arid places, deeply submerge them or use them to recreate peat bogs. Another one is to augment the amount of decaying organic matter in the soil. This can be achieved either through change to how we farm or the article presents a project to use GMO crops with roots engineered for mass and slow decay.

The field is both promising and fascinating. It’s probably never going to be a panacea but everything that helps should be investigated.
> You are wrong. I grew up in the south and we absolutely talked about things that were basically biblical in nature. The source of morals, right and wrong. We are way past that now, with cons in florida openly passing a law that says you can put up "in god we trust" in the school.

Okay, but that’s not “the Bible” that’s “biblical in nature”

I’m simply making the point that the explicit parts are not taught. Anything related to sex for instance, or even any stories as far as I’m aware.
What's the value proposition of DAI with KYC?
> Argentinians have also learned to not trust banks, even with accounts denominated in other currencies. In 2001-2002, the government enacted something called "el corralito", shutting Argentinians' access to their bank accounts for almost a year. When they could finally extract money again, they found that (a) their USD deposits had to be exchanged for pesos and (b) pesos had lost 2/3 of their value.

That couldn't possibly happen in the West. Its only those silly Argentinians that have to worry about this sort of stuff... right?
Will this work on ARM? Wanted to try this on Oracle Cloud
I never understood why so many of these Reddit viewers have no JS in them (well it's generally a cultural preference among a certain crowd, but still feels irrational.) I usually open a forum like Reddit and have it open all day, I'd be fine with loading a SPA and having it make background requests to fetch API output and render them in page and give nice functionality, as long as the code is open and there's no ads. I've been building this myself because both Libreddit and Teddit don't use JS.
I think that once users realize how difficult it is to transfer passkeys between their PC and mobile device, they will just ababdon them. The only risk I see is that passkeys will be synced between Android and Chrome.

I really hope that there will be an API for Passkeys like there is an API for password managers on Android.
A good solution would be to legislate. Mandate by law that after a certain period of time (starting from the point on which the servers get shut down) the developer has to supply the corresponding server source code.
Ask HN: Other hotmail users getting spammed?
I'll be the first to admit hotmail's junk filter has never been great but in the last few days it's been hopeless - receiving 4 or 5 emails a day in my "focused" inbox that are 100% obviously junk just from looking at the subject line (full of extra punctuation characters etc.). Anyone else seeing the same? I'd even pay to keep my hotmail account but with better junk filtering but it doesn't seem there's such an option...
Indeed. I just remembered I was using their DNS service and disabled it because clearly they can't be trusted.
I visited an exhibition about photography and the third Reich. Very interesting.

The new medium gave the illusion of capturing reality, because it looked much more realistic than paintings. But in the end it suffered the same biases.
That’s literally not true
That’s the one I’m sure
Speeding up the kernel testing loop
Thus my self-publishing goal - to sell more than 12 copies. Well 14. Don't want to be superstitious !
The goal of youtube-dl is to download a video off of YouTube for offline storage.

This isn't something YouTube particularly enjoys. They would rather you keep coming back -- every visit is more ad revenue for them. If you have an offline copy, you don't need to visit YouTube anymore.

YouTube has an incentive, therefore, to make it more difficult to download (or "scrape") their content.

I'm not particularly sure of the specific details, but apparently YouTube has added JavaScript (a programming language that executes in the browser) as a hurdle to jump over. A simple python script doesn't have enough brains to execute JavaScript, only enough to realize that it exists. (Clearly, youtube-dl is sophistication enough to have jumped over it.)

These are the conclusions I come to, having written software for about a decade.

1) Once you give information to someone, be it text, pictures, sound, or video -- they will do whatever they want with it, and you have no control. Oh, yes -- it may be illegal. Maybe unethical. But the fact of the matter is you do not have control over information once it leaves your hands.

2) Adding hurdles to make it harder to access the information does little to stop someone who is dedicated to accessing it.

3) Implementing a subset of JavaScript in such an elegant and tiny manner is quite impressive.

How you interpret these facts depends on your worldviews. If you are a media and content creator, you will view these facts differently than a politician, and a teenager.

As an engineer and amateur philosopher, I certainly support the rights of content creators to be paid for their work. And yet, I fear that more and more, content creators want to lease me a right to listen their music, instead of own a copy of it.

I used to own CDs, DVDs, movies, and books. What happens if Amazon or YouTube decides to not serve me anymore? Anything I've "purchased" from them, I lose access to.

Further more, if I create a song, I used to be able to burn copies of CDs and distribute it on the street corners. Now, you have to sign up to stream on Spotify. This is a double edged sword -- I get a wide audience, but Spotify will do whatever they want with me.

This troubles me.
3:01:50 is when the world changes.
Can someone more intelligent than me explain how multiple dispatch differs from function overloading?
Is the text of the article available anywhere without a subscription?
I had a Garmin Forerunner (I can’t remember the number, 425 maybe?) circa 2007. IIRC it was one of the earliest on-wrist GPS devices Garmin did. Most of the time it would only take a minute. There would be occasions where it took much much longer. Increasingly so by the time I retired in 2018.
Worry not, HN: there are plenty of upstarts building interesting tools and platforms drenched in personality. UI centrism will continue to refine itself forever, but that still leaves plenty of room for fun apps to shine.

An example I bumped into just this week: https://www.artbreeder.com/

P.S. "visual design doesn’t involve UX design" is not a common designer belief. "UI !== UX" (the reference I'm assuming they're making) means something else entirely.
...and then you have kids.
I forget if there’s a term for this, but I once read (and subsequently discovered) that a large portion of disagreements are simply because people are working with different definitions for things.

This seems like an example of that: depending on how you define “book” these claims are accurate or not.
Do you mean this one or some other one?
https://archive.org/details/Personal_Computing_On_The_VIC-20...
The original Inside Macintosh: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=50

and the Human Interface Guidelines: https://archive.org/details/applehumaninterf00appl

Lots of overview material explaining how it all fits together, as it was a big change from the past.
I feel much the same about django rest framework
I don't see how that answers the question. Or are you saying that the answer is "to consume a lot"?
Speaking of "lots of designers": while everything else looks very realistic to me, that tram (I think it's a tram) in the motorbike chase scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuZQTud7YE&t=85s) looks very odd. A low floor tram in the 1920s? Is that based on any real model? Also, the overhead wire seems to be just hanging there in mid air while the poles that are actually supposed to support it are off to the side...
As an indie maker and author of Deployment from Scratch, I completely avoid AWS despite me using it in most professional endeavours. The reasons are simple and basically stated in the article, but I would add that you don't want to end up with a bill you cannot pay.