skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand that analogy. I've never been to a supermarket without some degree of security, and laws form a deterrent. Sure, we could say that violates my freedom to take what I want (and it does) but trading some liberties are what allows us to have a civilised society where we don't all steal from each other.

> The propaganda is so pervasive that we believe that people must be made physically unable to steal, otherwise they definitely will.

Are you suggesting that if tomorrow YouTube removed all their DRM and turned into a paid for only service, that content would not be freely distributed to non-paying individuals? Hell, content with DRM is getting torrented all the time.

Again, and I want to stress this, I'm not saying it's 'right' or defending YouTube's business practices. I just don't see how either business model can be reconcilled with the Free Software principles.
I don't understand why ReScript is trying to sell itself as a language for React. React is already "kind of" functional, has a rich JS/TS ecosystem and there are fantastic alternatives such as Elm.

I think this would have huge potential in the backend space if it had good interop with Node.js and TS, with perhaps a functional framework similar to Elixir's Phoenix. Elixir proved it can have fantastic integration with Erlang.

* More robust applications with the Result type

* An actual integer type (for 64-bit database keys, Prisma uses BigInt)

* Finite state machines for stateful logic, games, websockets (enums and a sound type system)

* Benefit from the JS-centric serverless ecosystem

We've already been "compiling" or "transpiling" JS for years, most of written JS code has little in common with what is actually run.

In its current state, I don't even want to imagine what it would be like to set this up alongside ESM, TS, Prettier, ESLint, Jest, Storybook, ESBuild, Vite, (insert cool tool here). I've already spent literal days trying to setup a "modern" Node.js project, only to give up and go back to CJS for simplicity and import older non-ESM versions of packages[1], wish I wasn't using Node.js, then remember how many things I miss from JS when trialing another language.

[1]: https://github.com/ai/nanoid/issues/365
I think the perspective here is a very interesting one. Typically, such transactions are seen as between a user and a service provider. There is an agreed-upon protocol, and so long as everyone sticks to the agreed-upon protocol, the exchange can be successful: this is the basis of Email, the Web, etc.

Taking aside advertisement for a moment, what you're suggesting is that the level of control should go as far as which clients are allowed to speak a given protocol. This would be similar to the landline system during the monopoly days, where you were only allowed to connect an officially-approved phone (with a correspondingly high ongoing rental cost) to the copper lines.

From my perspective, there is no 3rd party involved here: there is an API surface which is developed and supported, and there is a client/customer who is interacting with the service through that API. Advertising either needs to be implemented into the API (good luck--see the demise of RSS), or the 1st party needs another business model.
In a few words, PM Truss's first economic measures indicate that she's ideologically-driven and has no idea what she's doing. Namely, cutting taxes for the rich in hope that maybe some economic boost will "trickle-down" to the middle class and the poor. This idea is utterly discredited in economic circles.

The UK central bank, the BoE, is forced to take measures to counteract what Truss and her government are doing !

The market is also strongly reacting against Truss by selling the pound.
Cypht – open-source Webmail Client
You said "This is why we don't bomb Ukranian cities". That was a lie.

Oh now you're moving the goalposts and trying to redefine what you said and divert the discussion. But what you said of your own free will (or is somebody holding a gun to your head?) is up there in black and tan for everyone to read, and even if you ninja edit your own words, you've been quoted enough times that nobody's going to forget what you said.

Your claim that "you can't win otherwise" when you unilaterally attack a sovereign country actually means that you should not unilaterally attack a sovereign country, not that Putin didn't bomb Ukrainian cities. It doesn't prove your lie, it just proves how inhumane and aggressive you are.

If you can't win otherwise, then you should just fucking well lose, instead of unilaterally starting a war, bombing cities, and killing innocent civilians, then mendaciously lying about it, because you should not have attacked The Ukraine in the first place. Then you wouldn't need to lie about it, huh?

Your rebuttal that "The cities where the actual war is going on. Not all the cities..." is bullshit because Russia brought the war to them. The cities that PUTIN UNILATERALLY ATTACKED are being bombed. Not bombing some cities doesn't justify bombing others, or invading a sovereign nation.

Putin DID bomb Ukrainian cities. And you said he didn't. So you LIED. Not just a little white lie. A huge mendacious lie that attempts to justify and cover up war crimes. That makes you complicit.
That's a defeatist attitude. Most people I know have never been in a car accident (I actually have; I just remembered. I hit a bike when turning right when I just had my license; never happened since, fortunately. Nobody was hurt). But I live in a country that cares about safe traffic design; that matters a lot.
If I'm allowed to close my eyes or mute the volume when an ad is playing why shouldn't I be allowed to get a machine to do this for me?
The pound is low against the dollar, as is the Euro low against the dollar.

The pound dropped in value a few days ago, but the price has recovered since then.

The media chooses to focus on the drop rather than the recovery, because the drop coincided with a government announcement of some pro-growth economic policies that mainstream pundits disagree with.

If you speak to people in the U.K. many would agree that paying less tax is a positive thing, especially during a global cost of living crisis. But some people on the Left are angry that the wealthiest are also getting tax cuts.

What a lot of those people don’t realise is that the wealthiest 1% are paying 28% of income tax receipts - and this percentage has increased over the last decade.

In my opinion, I’m glad to see government reduce the tax burden on productive workers, as this stifled well-paying jobs, growth and investment.

I speak from personal experience. Due to the insidious tax policy of withdrawing the personal allowance when income reaches £100K, there is a marginal tax rate of over 60% at that income level. For that reason I chose to quit my job as a software team manager in an investment bank and instead went to work as a developer in a startup.

I decided there’s no point in working long hours in a responsible job helping other people advance their careers if I keep less than 40p of every pound I earn at that point. I may as well do less responsible work that I enjoy instead.
Save webpages offline in MHTML format: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-webpages-offl...
Teachers unions in the USA are very strong.
This is really cool! We really need a freedom loving metaverse alternative, thank you for building this!
Parallel builds of C++.
Spam is by definition messages that the recipient does not want to receive.

Whether or not the recipient wants an email is an orthogonal concern to whether Google promotes it. When Google places email in someone's Inbox, as opposed to Spam, Google is promoting that email.

That is not a spam issue, that is a censorship issue.

Alright, it's a censorship issue. Censorship on one side; genocide on the other. Ideology or pragmatism.
Perhaps because that kind of person only uses a computer for work, and never for themselves.

If their career won't see any benefits by improving their computer skills, they have no reason to care about inefficiency.
Indeed. I have been making my TVs "smart" since around 2001 so that I could watch content from my computer on the TV. I've done it all from DivX CD players to a home theatre PC to network streaming boxes.

Back in the 00s I had a nice setup with a networked media player (connected via SCART back then) that could play my DivX/XviD DVD rips from a network share.

These days I have a NAS running Plex with an Apple TV 4K (2nd gen) and use Infuse for playback that happily plays back 150GB 4K HDR Bluray REMUXES over the network instantly. Also it is accessible anywhere I have internet so I can access my whole media library on a phone, tablet or laptop while away as easily as I can Netflix.

I use my LG "smart" TV like a dumb TV. I don't let it have internet access as it doesn't need it for how I use it although it is connected to the network but it has its own blackhole VLAN just to stop the "connect your TV to complete setup" message it always shows.
A bit unrelated, but I always get sleepy from coffee for some reason.

Even yesterday I was just yawning and almost falling asleep between sets at the gym, even though I drank an espresso right before the workout.

I had a normal 8 hours of sleep that night too, so don't think it has to do with sleep deprivation.

Is this something anyone else has issues with?
Am I the only one who is blown away by what looks like a PCB chip assembly machine in a personal residence near the end of the video?
If that was true it would be fine. But that is not what they are getting.
If I change my mind after voting for X but I can't change my vote, do I still deserve the consequences?
Very helpful.

Maybe a mention of using https://validator.w3.org/ would also be helpful to check that all the html is correct and complete.
In my previous company, as a prank, we setup a well-hidden raspberry pie to play back choking laughter in the office, whenever a coworker made a push to gitlab...
That's a fair point, more precise phrasing would be "If you prefer a command-line interface, ..." which should be sufficiently vague to make almost everybody happy.
The site is pretty silly, in case of a dirty bomb there is probably no way to have advance warning and your best bet is to sit tight and wait.

In case of a single or limited nuclear strike if you live near a target you won't have time to do anything, you will get a 5-10 minute warning all you can do is shelter and hope all the warheads are successfully intercepted. In case you live further away from a target there is no chance you can get everything you will need in the hours before the fallout reaches you while everyone else is trying to do the same, sidebar splitting up as the site suggests is terrible advice.

In case of a full nuclear exchange the same applies you just can't have hope that the interceptors will work.

If you really worry about a nuclear attack you have to prepare before hand, have a shelter set up and have it stocked with food and water for about 3 months, from what i have read the hard stuff breaks down in a few week and in 3 months or so you will be pretty safe to come out.
You don't think serious people can be awfully opinionated about the tools in their profession? It's not like it's something unique to Java or even programming. A lot of professionals have dogmatic beliefs about what ideas, tools, etc. they subscribe to and a lot of time is wasted in bickering about it, whether unjustified or not.
Using absolute links is the complete opposite of what you should do. If the page you are linking to lives in the same path, there is no reason not to link to it relatively. It makes the path structure more modular.
> ...of which we have knowledge now.

For a start there is Göbekli Tepe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

Göbekli Tepe was nearly as long before cuneiform writing as cuneiform was before now.

It's not really about cities. It's about cultures that wrote stuff down.
SponsorBlock on my TV would probably be the biggest single value add feature I could do. I pay for YouTube Premium because it is cheap so it is worth it to remove the YouTube ads but it is frustrating how much sponsored crap there is in the videos themselves these days and SponsorBlock is wonderful in the browser.
It would be absurd to not have re-evaluated the targeting lists given the rise of the internet, fall of the iron curtain and the ability of “tourists“ to travel from Russia to the USA for over 20 years… while many targets are likely still valid and thus unchanged, much has changed, best example I can think of while waking and on my phone is Cheyenne Mountain, famed Cold War bunker veteran of many movies and tv shows and now a less important target than it used to be, it’s still a valuable target but perhaps one not worth the size of nuke necessary to crack it open given the damage a much smaller weapon could do at Air Force and Space Force assets stationed at Peterson and Vandenberg
Never heard of books?
Nullsoft had a tool called Beep[0] to do exactly that for fun purposes.

[0]: https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/
There is plenty of freedom out there. If someone wants to be a Nazi/Antifa/Climate Skeptic (not you but the usual suspects) and try to stir up murderous crowds/riots/etc then do it on your own platform. There is Gab, Stormfront, Fox News comments, etc for that. There is no lack of platforms out there. All you have to have are the $$ and the grit.
Seems like you guys are having a little trouble with underestimating your adversaries.

Why don’t you check out the source I mentioned in my original comment - any recent WotR or Geopolitics Decanted podcast with Michael Kofman, Director of Russia Studies at CNA. Then please do come back and let us know whether you think he’s full of shit. Will be waiting for your considered thoughts with baited breath.
> I've never been to a supermarket without some degree of security

And I've never seen a video streaming site that just gave you links to download the videos. They all have some degree of security, but no supermarket ever tied my hands behind my back on entry.

> Are you suggesting that if tomorrow YouTube removed all their DRM and turned into a paid for only service, that content would not be freely distributed to non-paying individuals?

No, I'm suggesting that not everyone would steal it, in te same way that not everyone shoplifts now. In fact, I will go so far as to say that the convenience of Netflix over torrents is so great for the average person, that they'd keep paying even if there was no DRM on Netflix, because

> Hell, content with DRM is getting torrented all the time.
What do you mean by a copy of legislation? Why would it be useful?
It seems super easy for someone to fake these identifiers sent back to projects like Folding@Home...

People might do it just for fun, or maybe to manipulate the share price (make performance better or worse than expected), or maybe even for marketing.
I wish more projects existed like this for other manufacturers. It really bugs me that you buy a "smart" tv knowing full well they've already dropped support for it and wont release anything other than essential bug fixes.

Hisense TV's suffer from this massively (the ones running VIDAA).
It isn't simple because Mastercard literally runs the interbank payment network for the UK.
It's appealing to people who don't want to drive because they don't want to have to deal with other drivers and who don't want to use public transit (even if it were improved) because they don't want to be exposed to yucky poor people.

The requirements for piloting this being more expensive and bureaucratic than for driving a taxi are a plus because it means you only have to deal with a pilot (well-groomed, stylish, sexy) and not a taxi driver (nasty, smelly, weird accent).

Much like all "privately owned public transit substitute" startups, yes, the target demographic is obnoxious rich people.
Shannon was actually involved in the first wearable computer, so maybe he wouldn’t have found it so far-fetched!

https://www.engadget.com/2013-09-18-edward-thorp-father-of-w...
The aurora supercomputer is delayed 4 years...given the progress in compute I wonder whether it will be obsolete on arrival? In 4 years a lot of new competitors should have emerged, right? If my GPU would come 4 years late I would not be getting what I paid for (state of the art equipment). Or does intel continuously adapt it to new architectures?
Not impressed by that article, it's sensationalist and fairly uninformed. Not terrible either, it's just typical newspaper science reporting. Sounds good until they write about a subject that you know about and then you realize it's actually pretty bad.

> Espresso is always – always – extracted with a water pressure between 9 and 10 bars.

No, it's not. Especially amongst enthusiasts experimenting with pressure is extremely common. Although it is true that many machines are locked to 9 bars, it's also true that most cheaper home machines are set to 11/12 bars, and high end machines are starting to allow you to customize the pressure, even changing it throughout a shot.

It's my experience that most espresso folk would say anything from 6-12 bars is an espresso, although going over 9 is usually frowned on.
Cool. Consider embedding speech recognition features too!
I'd say it's a pretty standard caffeine effect.
My original MX revolution is around 15 years old and the scroll wheel still works fine. I did have to solder in some new microswitches for the main buttons, but that's not unexpected for the amount of use its had.
As a content creator Mr Beast only acts as a conduit for what we, the audience, are willing to pay for. It's not he who is the monster but us.
You can download libgen books through torrent:

https://www.libgen.is/repository_torrent/

But it's huge.
Aurora was supposed to be intel GPU for most of the performance. And in general supercomputer means very fast network between nodes as otherwise most of the time is spent in communication. And finally it's amdgpu holding the performance crown for hpc, not nvidia.
It's the nature of the thing, OLEDs can't display perfectly uniform colours. It's most visible on greys.
Note,

From my ADHD way of controlling my ADHD the ideal way to stack caffeine with other stimulants is to take 70mg or less daily with the ECGC component of green tea in the form of Cacao to get both Caffeine and Theobromine

!. Theobromine is a weaker stimulant that has a lot longer half life than caffeine.
2. ECGC from green tea changes the conformation of the adenosine receptor, i.e. blocks it thus raising dopamine levels.

It's the way I get away with a lower L-DOPA dosage and that higher concentration lasts all day just by taking a tablespoon of cacao and my green tea extract in the morning.
FUN FACT: yt-dlp (the new youtube dl cmd line app) also has sponserblock integration so it can automatically download files and strip the ads from the video file if you specify the "--sponsorblock-remove all" argument. There are other arguments you can pass to fine tune this, check the docs.
Sure if you have old hardware capable of decent media playback it isn't a bad option but old hardware is quickly the limiting factor for higher quality media such as original HDR or Dolby Vision BluRay video streams.

Of course not everyone cares about that but if you're going to spend good money on a nice 4K HDR TV I suspect you want to actually be able to watch HDR content.
You might want to look at some "elder self-hosting sites" (i.e pre f*book) like https://www.dreamwidth.org where you could easily set up an internet presence without fluff.
There are plenty platforms out there besides meta; numerous places, fox comments, stormfront forums, gab, truth social, 4 chan, reddit, your own blog, twitter. No one can say that there aren't other platforms.
Save webpages offline as HTML (resources inlined, even things like iframes and web components) https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Theanine never did much for me. I tried several brands.
> Work out standards, lobby for them etc.

Back in the AT&T monopoly it required a third-party device (the Carterphone) to actually be released on the market for their anti-competitive terms to be challenged and eventually struck down in court.

> circumvent the compliance of meta

How? If an idiot user gives their credentials to a shady third-party, it's the user's fault for compromising their own data, not Meta's. If a user were to print out pages of the Facebook web UI containing private data and then start distributing them in the streets, would you also blame Meta, and not the user? What about if the user writes down the private data manually, and then distributes it? Etc.

> essentially proxy all user data

What's wrong with proxying? Plenty of mobile e-mail clients for example do proxying as well because there's just no way to maintain a persistent connection or do regular polling on mobile devices due to network & battery life constraints.

Is there any evidence they captured or misused the proxied data for beyond what's needed to provide the service?

Also keep in mind that a vast majority of Instagram data is public by design - people put it out there because they want it to be seen, and it can be seen by anyone accessing the web interface. The people who ultimately own the data often don't want it to be private.

> who on earth would fund that?

Someone who's actually interested in setting the legal precedent that would allow this behavior and invalidate ToS preventing it?
Being around local government conversations in California, public and private, for mostly unrelated reasons, and only privately being interested in bicycle and pedestrian policy, I became enormously disillusioned and depressed about the chances of making real change. There was a sense that anyone arguing for good bicycle infrastructure was seen as akin to a militant political extremist who should be excluded from any real conversation: I once waited while a planning hearing for a major project was delayed for around forty five minutes while the simple request from a father that a single bike rack be put near a public park was met with a sea of concerned residents who seemed to describe him as everything from a likely outside invader, to a paid activist, to someone who should be investigated by CPS (Where was the mother of the children? Why wasn't she at the meeting?), to someone who wanted to make the park a place where murderous teenage bicyclists would run down senior citizens trying to walk on pleasant paths. Bicycle infrastructure was only really discussed in terms of getting funding, then placed in pointless locations, or left in endless planning. What seemed like a wilful misinterpretation of Vision Zero was used as an argument against any pedestrian safety improvements other than speed limit reductions and speed bumps, with a seeming focus on suburban single-family-home residential areas where, entirely coincidentally I am sure, residents were upset about traffic noise. I actually heard a transport commission member argue that the city should not consider improving crosswalk and pedestrian intersection safety, because Vision Zero showed speed limits were better for preventing fatal accidents. Even simply asking if police would increase pedestrian patrols instead of driving on pedestrian paths in even small parks in street patrol cars was met with enormous hostility.

At best, bicycle and pedestrian topics would get a question or two at local debates, usually along the lines of "Do you walk, or take public transport, or ride a bicycle in the area?", almost always answered along the lines of "Yes, of course, in [some rare situation], but I can't normally because it isn't suitable transportation when working". But as locals would primarily vote based on somewhat arbitrary senses of feeling and intuition, without considering direct local questions or any research, nothing really changed.

The same projects and funding, which out-of-the-way places to add patchwork bike lanes to, and whether those bike lanes should be painted, or maybe just "bike route / share the road" signs on the side of the road, are probably being discussed now, a decade later.