skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the appehresion was so much of the button interface but of the 'black box' automation aspect of it. Where the button isn't physically triggering a function like a spring or lever, instead some 'magic' happens in the behind the scenes. The interface was no longer directly connected to a simple, easily understood sequence of actions.

> At the end of the nineteenth century, many laypeople had a “working knowledge not only of electricity, but also of the buttons they pushed and the relationship between the two,” according to Plotnick. Those who promoted electricity and sold electrical devices, however, wanted push-button interfaces to be “simplistic and worry-free.” They thought the world needed less thinking though and tinkering, and more automatic action. “You press the button, we do the rest”—the Eastman Company’s famous slogan for Kodak cameras—could be taken as the slogan for an entire way of life.

> Plotnick quotes an educator and activist from 1916 lamenting that pushing a button “seems to relieve one of any necessity for responsibility about what goes on behind the button.”
I think there's some "cheat codes" now involving some of these things though. For instance, you can use some of AWS but keep your actual compute/networking out and have things like security patching and server inventory be completely solved by using AWS SSM. There's also options like EKS Anywhere to have managed on-prem k8s for way, way cheaper than running it in AWS proper. These kinds of services I think are the future for hybrid/on-prem folks.
Freedom of religion was supposed to be a thing in the US. Sin is not a good reason to make a law that binds those who don't follow the same religion
IMO this is an API that should be implemented on your end (dnsimple), not theirs. There are a relatively small number of DNS providers which all provide essentially the same interface (CRUD operations on records), but there are a huge number of services that need to set up DNS records, including open source projects self-hosted by many individuals. It's not realistic for DNS providers to implement integration with every possible service, but the opposite is totally doable.

If dnsimple implemented something like DomainConnect, Fastmail could easily integrate. And it's a win-win because it sends traffic your way.

As I said, I found[0] DomainConnect to not be a good fit for open source projects in its current form. I've done some work on a new protocol which you can learn more about here[1]. Would be interested to hear your thoughts from the perspective of a DNS provider.

[0]: https://github.com/Domain-Connect/spec/issues/64

[1]: https://takingnames.io/blog/introducing-takingnames-io
Then the question is why bring it up in the first place. If you don't want attention, you avoid these signifiers in public, I'd think?
Android phones have mostly been this for years. most of them don't have the physical keyboard built in obviously, but you can buy all sorts of different pocket-sized keyboards[1] that often include a touchpad, and can plug in via USB OTG (which can be a wireless receiver) or through bluetooth. Add an app like Termux and I could (if I had to) live on the thing.

[1]: I used this one for a while: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D2BG6R5/ref=ppx_yo_dt...

[2]: This one is awesome too with android TV: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WJGSXT8/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
I'll always celebrate stories like this, but I also don't take some kind of anti-AWS lesson from it.

This company saved $800k/year. Perfect time to go in-house with this solution.

But when they were 1/10th this size, they'd only have saved $80k/year. Does that cover the cost of the engineering to build and maintain this system? Maybe not. And when they were 1/100th the size, it would have been laughable to go in-house.

At the right time, you make the right transitions.
A 60% keyboard is good for you
My take: People have used animals, drawings, and random photos as avatars since avatars were a thing. Anime has been growing in popularity and reach over the past decades, and the new (and broadly available) "Holo-live" style animated YouTube and Twitch avatars have created its own boom.

Combine with a greater acceptance of non-traditional personal identities, and you get professionals using anime and furry avatars and decorations. Practically speaking, it's not really any more or less professional than O'Reilly using animals to create an identity for its programming book covers (so long as you're not wearing a fursuit or sailor moon leotard to work).
Newsletter: Voicemail Changes, Opt-In Jabber ID Discoverability
The ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ is not the oldest surviving work of literature
Prove your individualism by all liking the same anime stuff?
Went as a kid, it was badass.
Why does COM express GUIDs in a mix of big-endian and little-endian?
This is often mentioned scenario but highly unlikely as impractical it is.

First, AWS is already highly profitable, they aren't dumping where this step becomes a necessity.

Also, any such move would dry up future growth from adding new customers, which is suicidal.
I have found [1] and [2] but it is not clear how that helps with small numbers.

[1] http://raden.fke.utm.my/blog/positnumbersystem

[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/11/anatomy-of-a-posit...
It was frankly weird and bit disturbing to see some of the neckbeards in engineering school obsessing about cute depiction of young girls. To this day, it definitely colours how I see random use of anime girls on CS related topics.

I have no issue with it in its original Japanese setting and I wasn’t aware of its use by the LGBT community but it seems far less depressing in this case.
Why do developers find Kubernetes so hard?
If you encounter it relatively often with VPN off, I would do a full scan/check of all devices (including wifi phones, etc) and update all software, as you may have a bot virus or similar. If you DO find one, clean it up and then turn your router off for a few hours or whatever is necessary to get your ISP to give you a new IP, heh.
honestly that's probably a great filter for "interesting" clients, if you want to keep the fortune 500 bureaucracy away and just work instead of push papers all day
Google fu? You are actually trying to hack Google in an unauthorised way.

'More than 1 result is a bug, citizen.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeIIpLqsOe4
>One consequence of this is that people with little sexual capital will try to recreate norms anyway they can. Therefore we end up with a hodgepodge of ideas, religious or not, that have as their only link to one another the desire to enforce sexual restrictions and quell anxiety surrounding sexual prowess as much as possible.

I've never seen this logical jump but it makes perfect sense. Thanks!
Google image search has been broken for at least two years now - looks like Google does not give a damn. I remember it could find 5 to 20 times more pictures than before, you could actually trace images to their sources - this has become impossible. Why? I've no idea.

Then they disabled the Google web cache which was hugely useful since it allowed to open dead website/webpages or allowed to browse something when your government restricts access to it. I guess the copyright lobby and China forced the removal of this feature.

Google search is still unmatched in terms of being able to find text but other features have seen a huge cut. :-(

And don't remind me about iGoogle. I loved it. https://web.archive.org/web/20160314122329/http://linuxfonts...
I have been wanting to ladder up to a bigger house for a few years now.

For a US$1M house, which is the going rate near my area, the jump from 6% to 7% is $5000/month apr interest to $5834/month apr (not including fees, taxes, and insurance).

So to go back to the monthly of $5000 (which is out of my budget), a US$1M house would need to fall to $857,153. That is NOT happening around here.

I have no idea who is buying houses at these prices, if it's not BlackRock-type firms (corrected company name, thank you). I can't fathom how new homeowners are fairing in this market.
People with adjustable or variable rate mortgages are probably full of regret right now.
Traubenfuchs' profile appears to indicate it's a GPT-3 bot.
people who can buy a house all cash will be the real winners here. if and when rates go down, they can cash out refinance, and if they don't they will benefit from the downward pressure high rates create on prices.

it's rich to be rich.
MacBook touchpads still have it though.
I wondered as I clicked, "why would someone want a limited application set for WASM? Wouldn't it be better if more—Oh yes, I see."
Bank of England in £65B emergency move to calm markets
Reminds me of that one commit to the bluetooth stack on Linux. Will try to find it in a minute.
One minor correction: mobile numbers are used for spam and bot prevention.

You can't have a discord or signal account without a valid phone number. Think about that for a second.

But yeah, not being able to use proper 2FA devices annoys the bejeesus out of me
People still use Google Image search?
Posit always have more precision than a IEEE floating with same number of bits because it has more bits for the mantissa.

Posit would likely enable to better compression with Huffman encoding.
Hoshin Kanri and the End of the Monopoly of Strategy
For anyone relatively young seeing this range and thinking "ridiculous!", it's not.

Growing up my parents rate was 12% and in the early 80s rates got up to over 17% [0].

It is very possible for the era of cheap money to end across the board.

0. https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30
The same author also did a port of Arkane's Arx Fatalis to WebAssembly. Interestingly, both Doom 3 and Arx are now owned by Microsoft with the Zenimax acquisition, so it would be interested to see these two games on the frontpage in a gaming section when you open the Edge browser.

https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/arxdemo/
That's a very interesting point! Thanks for bringing it up.
No nation, anywhere on the planet, is by itself technologically sovereign. The ability to get by in the world is a cooperative venture for everyone, even the US. What makes first tier technological nations different is the alliances of which they are active contributing members. Those alliances make trade flow smoothly and securely. That is what creates prosperity in an interconnected world.

That is especially important in evaluating China's ability to achieve technological first tier status. China has one formal alliance. It is with North Korea. This is remarkable. China cannot rely on Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, nor even any country with a land border with China as an ally. China's neighbors are threatened by China, are hostile to China, or are just extremely wary of China. China's navy cannot project power beyond the island nations off China's coast.

China's position and prospects are less advantageous than it seems to many people.
Interesting post -- thanks for publishing / sharing!
Penpot Raises $8M Series A
I'm betting the rates will be back to 2% by 2026 as global growth collapses due to a combination of high interest rates, deleveraging of over-leveraged organizations and geopolitical strife causing further de-globalization.
The one big thing missing from dedicated hosts is an S3 equivalent. Sure, you can get a huge hard drive for cheap but this will not have the durability requirements for storing your precious data.

And if you try to use AWS just for S3 then you will pay a lot extra for the bandwidth charges of bringing the data from S3 to your server (something that is free if you were to use EC2 or other AWS services).
Why is it that C++ package managers are unnecessarily hard? – or are they?
There's a book called The United States of Wal-Mart that details a lot of the damage that Wal-Mart has done. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a follow up for Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/United-States-Wal-Mart-John-Dicker/dp...
Still, whether or not the question was valid/appropriate/useful doesn't really matter. On the job, sometimes you will be asked things you don't know, or things you shouldn't even be responsible for knowing. The way this person responded to receiving a question like that indicates that they might be a difficult person to work with.

The interviewer sounds probably bad. After the person made it clear they didn't know about number theory, they should have moved to a different topic. But still, answering "Optimus prime" just suggests immaturity or even combativeness in the face of a difficult situation, which isn't someone you want to hire. There are a thousand better answers. Even snarky answers are fine as long as the person is meaningfully engaging.

"I don't know. Probably a lot"

"Maybe infinite. I'm not sure."

"It's an interesting question. Am I allowed to look it up?"

(As someone else said) "Definitely more than 10. Outside of that I'm not sure."

"I don't know. But here is how I would write a script to figure it out"

It comes back to the "move mt. fuji" style questions mentioned in the article. The point of an interview is not to determine whether you would be able to move mt. fuji anymore than whether you are able to answer the number of primes. It's about how you communicate and approach a problem. "Optimus prime" is such a non-starter that it doesn't even allow for a discussion.

I'm speaking as someone who passed a google interview and worked there for several years, so there may be some reason to believe my feelings around interview approaches are based in fact.
At some point people will start to figure out that having authenticated online personas would be useful.

Just like in the real world.

Authenticated and anonymous are not mutually exclusive. We need a mix.

Just like in the real world.
FCC proposes action against scam text messages
It's not, they can take you to court or take other measures against you if they care enough. At least in the EU (where this advice was aimed at).
unless i have done it hopelessly wrong, you may be overstating it a little bit by calling it good.

virtfs is the good one, not 9p.
How much of your developer time gets lost to maintaining servers.

I used to think this sort of thing was a valuable use of my time but I now have over $200k in annual revenue and we pay less that $5 a month in raw compute (and that's nearly all S3). My Co-founder is always worried about the cost of our AWS but so far we just haven't witnessed it.

My mandate has always been the price should be able to scale to 0. So no EC2, has made building some longer running tasks a bit more complicated, but that's just because we didn't know how to do it before we started.
I often think about the pickle story about how Wal-Mart can bully companies and their quest for always low prices have ripple effects.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/readouts/the-wal-mart-effect-...
At some point we’ll just work for no money and instead the government will provide, a bit like in communism. Thats where over taxation leads. Inflation means increased taxation while you also get to keep some of the money to you know live a little.
I think what the parent commenter is referring to is Redfin’s (along with Zillow and others) practice of buying homes and flipping them. I thought they stopped that a while ago when they saw where the market was headed though.
That was true before the pandemic. Part of the reason demand surged in "second cities" around the country was because remote work allowed higher paid workers to migrate somewhere cheaper and not only take advantage of low rates but lower housing prices.

It remains to be seen if now that the wave of remote workers is (probably) largely over now that employers are more likely to offer hybrid than fully remote work if these housing markets more severely correct compared to coastal cities (SF, LA, NYC) that have always been expensive.
R2 and workers are absolutely not cheaper than doing it yourself. They are cheaper than AWS, but both of those services are "value-added" from AWS, and as such have a 20-100x markup.
Practically-Exploitable Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Matrix
I would kill their account just for the hideous writing.
While that stereotype still exists in some corners; I've actually found that there is more mainstream understanding and acceptance of anime these days. I work in an office that terminally online folks would call “full of normies”; but I have found people here are at least aware of anime, if not active consumers. These days, it's not “cringe” to enjoy anime itself, and I'm guessing that the majority of commenters in this particular thread are over-analyzing the presence of an anime girl on a website.

The author probably likes seeing an anime girl, and feels that displaying one on their page expresses an interest in anime, tech, and a casual tone for their writing.
Sphery vs. Shapes, the first raytraced game that is not software
A open-source raytraced game runs as software or as just LUTs in an FPGA, achieving up to 50x efficiency gains.

The project was featured in the embedded news site CNX-Software today.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/09/28/3d-game-fpga-50x-mor...
And also in Tom's hardware:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fpga-demo-shows-efficiency...

An introductory video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3sr3VMJQU.

It was done with the PipelineC https://github.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC autopipelining and CFlexHDL https://github.com/suarezvictor/CFlexHDL C++ parser tools for handling vector and scalar types in fixed and floating point with a clean syntax.

We, proudly :-) believe this is the first interactive 3D raytraced game implemented as a circuit.

Full details here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC-G..., and sources here: https://github.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC-Graphics
Why “organics on Mars” is meaningless for life
This argument and the point you're saying is "exactly right" is literally covered in the text of the paper.

Read page 9 in the PDF again - the author goes to good lengths to grapple with this argument and why it is not correct. In particular:

In order to repeat the mistakes of a famous philosopher, one must first
share their beliefs. Now, few people are born with any degree of credence
in the far-fetched propositions embraced by many philosophers. In general,
these kinds of beliefs have to be acquired; and the only way of acquiring
them is to study these authors. It seems that if we wanted to avoid acquir-
ing false beliefs that we would never arrive at except by reading a particu-
lar author, the best thing by far we could do is to avoid reading that
author.
Yeah, we browse all the time on it. Especially IMDB. I'm not sure what part of "it works fine" is confusing you.

> None of these devices attempt doing something similar. They offer less options than normal computers and their desktop is left unchanged.

They have swappable SoCs at their cores, including available on-board FPGA, and the existing product ships a customized Sway UI by default. They are far more configurable than other laptops.
One person already modified her mainboard to include a different charging circuit and added an ergonomic keyboard. You have gone from pessimism to outright misinformation in pursuit of your argument. Ask yourself whether you're here to discuss the topic or just win internet debates.
It is widely thought that SCOTUS decides based on ideology and politics, and only justifies it with the text of the Constitution after the fact. Although they like to present it as some kind of rigorous reasoning, there are always sufficient vaguenesses and internal contradictions to justify any interpretation they prefer.

Supreme Court members (the formal title "Justice" seems laughable) have increasingly been chosen for their compliance with the ideology of the party in power. Since that coincides with the party who wrote this law, I think they'll have no trouble upholding it if they wish.

I have no idea what grounds they'll use for that, but I don't believe it's relevant. Only the actual decision matters.
They won't care if all platforms are unmoderated. What are they going to do, stop advertising?
Or perhaps they simply see no reason for it to be embarrassing, because they have a different set of values, coming from a different culture which we, as old people, simply are not part of.
Well, it was the biggest there at the time. Not much option for smaller religions to enforce their atrocities.

Even in democratical societies leaders tend to want to please the church so their brainwashes masses vote for them.
Yandex is good. I use presearch, which searches independently, and provides links to other search engines on the side.

https://presearch.com/
House prices were also much lower in your parents time.
Really well thought out reply. Thanks for taking the time to write this, it really helped me understand conservative positions on not legalizing prostitution
Wow the insurance is one thing but not even bring able to buy electrical cable is crazy to me. Australia's government truly is more dystopian than most people give it credit for being.

Every now and then I hear about another fundamental freedom I take for granted that they just don't have and it just reminds me how lucky I am not to live there.
Asahi Linux GPU Driver Booting KDE and Gnome
Honestly that doesn't surprise me haha
How to get involved in UX Research
Client side decorations are fine, but removing the option of server side decorations from app developers is stupid IMO. KDE and wlroots have this functionality.

Practically, for small apps that don't really have their own style (or games that are just one big opengl window) it's much better to rely on the window manager to provide a titlebar that somewhat fit in with the rest of the system. This is what users expect when coming from Windows or macOS.

Instead, apps like kitty just provide a godawful stopgap titlebar for GNOME users, because implementing good CSD is outside the scope of the project.
I think all parties involved could potentially benefit from the confusion surrounding this pipeline.
TinkerCell: CAD Software for Synthetic Biology
How soon should you have a design system?
This is great news for cash buyers like my wife and I. We’ve been wanting to get out of our town for a while and move to a neighboring town.

The housing prices are delusional around here. Hopefully this will bring some sellers back down to reality.
GPL does not include trademark permissions. I realize from a practical perspective it's difficult for a small organization to enforce trademarks on this scale, but trademarks are a rare area where business and consumer interests align.
I’ve got ten years until mine starts adjusting, fingers crossed!
Well, MacBooks are the majority of Macs sold. 1Q of 2022, Apple sold roughly 3 million Macs. Figure an average of $1000 per Mac (which is low, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), that's almost $3B. Now Apple no longer breaks out product sales, so this is market research data, but it's probably safe to figure the annual Mac market at around $10B.

I can't see scooters being a big market at all, at least not at the margins Apple likes.
The most careful of my cloud-first users maintain local snapshotted NAS copies of their cloud data.
Probably adds some credence to trademarking terms like Wireguard, Debian, etc. You could probably hit the store with an unlicensed use of the mark?

Of course they could still just put it up as `KeePassSX` or something, but it gives the creators a bit of ground to stand on?
This isn't cheating anymore than spellcheck in your word processor is
Wow, that's a lot of code smell to me.

Why specify all the specific fragments of mypy.nodes, instead of import *?

Docstrings in the middle of code should just die 1/2 of the screen is wasted

Why use a case statement if it only has one match?

I can't even figure out what lines 43-55 do, but that's a lot of nesting