skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a cost whenever you want to do something on the web, I'm sure I don't need to explain this to you. Are we really mad at Medium for attempting to monetize their infrastructure?

Q: Just how much infrastructure does it take to publish a page of well-written content on the web?

[SPOILER]
A: Not that much. You can serve an awful lot of static content from a $5/month VM.
Apparently Yvon Chouinard was really pissed off for appearing on the Forbes list, prompting him to offload his fortune.

Not that I will ever be in the same shoes as him, but I get it. I wouldn't want to be associated with the ruthless wealth-creating monsters on that list either. Those people have destroyed their humanity and now they are destroying humanity itself.
> Please comment if you can think of better alternatives to Medium

https://read.cash
Without even reading the article, one hundred times yes. Exposure to different paradigms and concepts is more important to absorb than syntax in this endeavour, however.
>Or just stop prohibition

Isn't that effectively what has happened when they're openly selling it on sidewalk tables..?

Doesn't sound like it worked.
How is medium.com link less trustworthy than the alternative, a domain name you've never seen before in your life?
>This puts the boot into the short-term capitalist thinking and forces the issue.

Yes, but companies where never expected to or supposed to implement these policies. It will be worthwhile to use chinese factories until the moment they are cut off.
I love this new wave of tools coming out for mouseless computer use. Chronic mouse use has destroyed my wrist so I have to avoid using it as much as possible.

I love Shortcat's approach in general, indexing the UI. However, the reliance on the Accessibility API is actually a significant downside in the real world in my experience since so many apps don't properly implement it. I feel like Warpd is a good complement to this, you could use Hint or Grid mode as a fallback when the indexing approach fails.

I wish I could use shortcat or Warpd, but unfortunately I'm on windows. Curious if anyone has any good tool recommendations for windows? Currently, I'm using:

1. Vimium for Chrome (so good, wish I could just use it across the OS).

2. Hunt and Peck: https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck has been my favorite for OS-level use, a simple version of shortcat for windows. But, it's not maintained and not as slick as some of these newer tools.
Who didn't see that coming, though?

The web has become broadly influenced and geared towards a certain way of doing things that happens because:

1. it costs money to create and maintain a substantial web property. Medium, Substack, Patreon, gumroad, ghost, buttondown, etc all run on top of services that cost money. Maybe AWS, maybe Google App Engine, plus Cloudflare, Heroku, Netlify, Digital Ocean, etc. Oh and Stripe, PayPal or some payment processor, if the site has a subscription model, too.

2. the web of the 2020s really has only one way to make enough money to pay for these services: advertising. There's only one way to get enough money through advertising to be profitable, and that's to have some portion of attention-getting, clickbaity, top 10 list content. That content generates enough 'virality' to show up on Twitter, FB, here, or wherever.

A no-paywalled, no-ads site (like Hacker News) is a cost center maintained as a sort of vanity project for a company that makes money elsewhere.

What people are complaining about around Medium is really a complaint about how content on the web is, and must be, monetized, if it is to be a money-making business, as opposed to my blog, say, which is just money out of my pocket.

It's going to take a concerted effort to break away from the current economic model of the web. Just turning up our noses at Medium or Substack and pivoting to the NEW new thing won't change anything, as the new new thing inevitably gets dragged into the web economy or goes broke.
My gut would say that you're paying 2x the overhead for a JS runtime. Of course, such a benchmark (edit: N instances of Bun and N instances of Deno) would be much more realistic/relevant.
> This is a climate scientist saying (without justification) that a century of physicists missed the obvious trivial explanation. A little humility is in order.

He's a mathematical physicist [1] that happens to work on non-linear dynamical systems that apply to climate models. You know, like the non-linear dynamics seen in a quantum measurement. Maybe don't be so dismissive. He won the Dirac gold medal for theoretical physics in 2014, for instance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Palmer_(physicist)
This looks super cool, and I appreciate you sharing -- I'm a big fan of vi(m), mostly because it's installed on lots of systems and doesn't require pulling down a config file from the 'net when you're on a new box or whatever.

(No offense to "emacs people" but some of us like to keep it offline.)

However, I hope you told the shop you're going to be doing this OP.

I got pretty depressed due to COVID, so I ordered a lot more take out that I used to.

One of my... contacts... informed me many of what I'll call "meal aggregators" take up to 25% of the cost of an order. They also implied these services allow folks to put in so many orders, in parallel, that they overwhelm a place. Apparently once you are signed up for some of them, it's next to impossible to opt out.

So while I'll definitely bookmark this, I hope folks also consider using a telephone to order food -- it can be interesting seeing who can fall back to 90s era social norms and who goes completely insane if you try to talk to them like they're not a computer.
Reading LinkedIn for the articles seems less plausible than reading Playboy for the articles.
> wonder if the sync feature will be open source

According to [1] they don't plan to open source it due to "business considerations."

I'm not against people making a buck, but as far as I understand this isn't permitted by the AGPL, which logseq's current authors are bound to as much as anyone else. (Unless they have all past contributors grant them a secondary license.)

It's likely the sync protocol will be reimplemented for self-hosting, but I'd assume the mobile apps will hardcode the server address to encourage use of their paid sync service.

1: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/what-is-the-logseq-open-source-...
It works on Linux just fine
The answer to that is Xi Jinping, and the way he has not only adopted a level of personal power not seen by any Chinese leader since Mao but has shifted China's domestic and foreign policy in a much more authoritarian direction. This has included cutting back on what foreign firms can do, substantially increasing the rhetoric against Taiwan and making clear plans to prepare for an invasion, cracking down on Hong Kong and reversing the 'one country two systems' promise, and taking actions against the Uyghur minority that are so extreme as to arguably be genocide, amongst other actions.

The West pretty universally believed in what the Germans called 'Wandel durch Handel', or change through trade, and the idea that China would become both wealthier and more liberal by becoming an ever more important player in global trade, and give up revanchist imperial ambitions like wanting to take over Taiwan. That has been shown to have been a false belief, as rather than moderating China became stronger and more authoritarian.
> We think of quantum randomness as truly random because the states are quantized, so it’s easy to initialize a system with the exact same starting conditions and watch it follow unpredictable trajectories.

With hidden variables—which by all accounts haven’t been ruled out—it means we cannot do this.

That is to say, there’s no way you can tell you’ve set the same initial conditions.
Show HN: React Mask Editor
I suspect that link rings like that would get noticed by Google and flagged down eventually.
Indeed, he's on the superdeterminism train with Sabine Hossenfelder:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00139...
Substack meanwhile I tend to value, as they’re usually much higher quality. Medium is for Twitter style clickbait that didn’t fit in 150 characters.
Here I was thinking they re-released the Sparrow e-mail client they bought years ago and destroyed.
Definitely, if we care about the outcome of the trajectories as t\to\infty.

For certain systems, at smaller timescales, merely an absurd amount of precision will suffice [0,1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_exponent

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_time
Since when hallucinogens kill you?
Please comment if you can think of better alternatives to Medium >

https://pages.github.com/

Example:

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/12/12/a-cor...
Reminds me of how each version of Windows is "the fastest Windows ever!" while the minimum system requirements increase with each version of Windows.

However do the geniuses at Microsoft manage to make Windows run faster while only requiring faster hardware?
I evaluate each one I read individually, but I go into it with low expectations.

The platform is cluttered with low value, biased, or uninteresting content.
I frequently see code embedded as images...
I remember Linux running into a bunch of issues with boot time entropy. Some things were sometimes getting stuck on boot due to that.

Also this "lost entropy" thing has long been a bane of VM servers, which could consume vast amounts of it. I think this changed fairly recently.

And lots of things have USB ports these days, including things like commercial wifi access points, routers, switches, etc. Some of those have internal ones.
At PPB concentration?

Literally anything can seem, to somebody.
I like to keep both hands on the keyboard. Every mouse movement incurs the cost of reaching the right hand for the mouse, then moving the right hand back and re-finding my place on the keyboard. I don't like that constant back-and-forth movement. It breaks my flow and it can make my arm ache.
For the last part, I think so. You could imagine the universe as being operated on by some giant Hamiltonian operator with a basis of eigenstates, and then the amplitudes will just deterministically evolve according to the Schrödinger equation.
Equifax Used Its Own Technology to Find and Fire Workers with Secret Second Jobs
If that requires full client side re-hydration in order for those SSR pages to become interactive, then the user receives a worse experience.
Fair enough and you seem to be adding features fairly quick which is impressive to watch, but my point still stands.

These benchmarks don't make me think Bun is fast, they make me think Bun is cheating in something they don't need to cheat in yet.

Go heads down, finish adding features, run another benchmark when you're closer to parity and promote THAT heavily. Sure it won't be such a dramatic difference once you have to compare apples to apples but it'll be more honest.
All Intel and AMD chips come with a hardware RNG today: the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions.

RDRAND is kinda-sorta like /dev/urandom, while RDSEED is /dev/random with stronger entropy guarantees.

Linux didn't want to "trust" this hardware, for whatever reason. I guess there was that one time an AMD bug in the instruction returned all-zeros (or something similar). But as "long as the instruction is properly working", it is... well... working, lol.

But its not like its really possible to test if its working correctly.

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From that perspective, a hardware RNG needs to be "large" and "discrete" enough for humans to easily test and prove that its working, to create trust. Otherwise, hardware and/or firmware bugs could lead to a security problem.

EDIT: if you are at a mass produced but don't verify kinda person, then you might as well use RDSEED instructions to get her entropy. Intel/AMD probably are good enough to prevent firmware / hardware bugs. I know that VMs also have an issue here: whether or not to make RDSEED deterministic/predictable or not. Should the future RDSEED instructions be saved in a VM snapshot?
I mostly agree with your comment. However I'll also say that Google, far more than any of the other tech titans, has a very long history of deeply supporting and embracing open source. It's part of the ethos, not just lip service.
Seeing this is reminding me that I need to migrate my blog from Medium...
The closest I could find is https://web.archive.org/web/19981206175756/http://sportsweb....
Don't trust anything from the world's largest advertising corporation until you hear it from a competing source they don't own or subsidize.
> countries with the economic might of China [read: CCP] and the US could pretty easily do both [healthcare and lunar exploration]

That assumes facts not in evidence, viz., the political support (doubtless less of a problem for the CCP than for the U.S.).
I just put the ball of dirt in water and drink it.
Doesn't look like you can self-host bear.
Just like the other tech titans. Microsoft has multiple OSes, as does Apple.
"Relatively few apps bottleneck on CPU" is a very 2010 opinion. With fast intranet (100Gbps+) and SSD, running business logic can become the bottleneck in many cases.

Unfortunately, I don't have readily available data to back up my claim neither.
Best books to learn advanced JavaScript?
Assume there are only binary difficulty level. Beginner vs Advanced.

I'm a computer engineering graduate so I've knowledge about C,CPP, Python, Lots of other computer science subjects along with coding like Numerical Methods, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, DSA etc.

Of course I've forgotten many of them but if I start learning it, I can learn it again.

So, tell me books that I need for this phase. My goal is to be a MERN developer and I want to spend some good amount of time with javascript as this is going to be my language for a long period of time.
There are ordinary checkboxes? I keep sticking LATER on all my entries of todo lists
Thank for that call to action. I think that i will adopt radio garden forever!
Obsidian and Logseq are very different methods of note taking. Obsidian is basically a markdown editor with wikilinks. Logseq is an outliner.
From what I remember isn't that a tiny thumbstick? That's much, much slower then something like this.
I paid the yearly fee for two years up until 2020. There were a handful of authors and topics I liked on Medium. Those authors have since left the platform. The topics I’m interested in kind of dried up with not much worth reading these days.

I don’t care so much about the paywall. It is the low quality of content that pushes me away.

Writers saw an opportunity to make money on Medium. This gradually dragged down the overall quality of writing on platform, and likely the reputation of the platform itself.

These days whenever I do click through to a Medium article, it rarely delivers on its title.
Pretty much every web application backend is like this? For efficiency it skips recreating the entire OS process, but serving a single web request is exactly preparing some parameters, the app thinking for a bit and then coming back with a response.

Web app abstraction frameworks like Rack (Ruby), WAI (Haskell) and many others work exactly like that: they allow you to supply them with a function taking a HTTP request and returning a HTTP response, then run that for each incoming request. Nothing magical about that and it works extremely well in practice.
It's in this article: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2007....
Very doable. Although on systems like Fly where you attempt to build one container to run an app, it’s a bit overkill.

What I dislike most about php-fpm is the logging mechanism (or lack thereof). You need to configure it to capture stderr from php processes and then have PHP send logs to stderr. Sorta wonky.
I did worry that my comment might incorrectly imply that, so I deliberately reworded it to say a particularly restrictive "Secure Boot" setup, but I guess that's still ambiguous.

You're right, Debian "supports" such a set of restrictions, in the sense that a manufacturer could build devices that would comply with these hypothetical laws while only using vanilla Debian packages, but my point was that such a device wouldn't really feel like Debian, since the moment you installed an unapproved application (or removed a mandatory application) half the functionality would stop working.
> Incidentally, these protections exist because of several breakdowns in drug safety in the past, notably Elixir sulfanilamide and Thalidomide.

Those protections are immaterial when the patient is going to die anyway.
Billionaires giving away their wealth and dedicating themselves to philanthropy started with Carnegie.

Gates getting a large group of billionaires to donate half was also over a decade ago. The half always made sense since the other half could still be dedicated to productive capital that contributes back to philanthropy half.

I guess when it’s the environment and not trying to save hundreds of millions of lives through eradicating malaria and related health/development investments it gets treated as uniquely special?
Most application / API servers do pretty much that, they only to mot terminate the OS process.

Moat interactive applications can be seen similarly, they just do that in a loop, for every event coming from the user.
The article seems to distill the concept of quantum uncertainty into this statement:

there is an inherent uncertainty
about what happens to a quantum
system when we attempt to observe it

Is this a good way to put it?

I'm not sure if with "quantum uncertainty", they refer to the same thing as Wikipedias "uncertainty principle" page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

The Wikipedia page sounds somewhat different (and harder to grasp) to me. It talks about predicting future states of pairs of physical quantities after knowing the initial conditions.
Am I the only one who initially thought the guy in the video* was Alton Brown (of Good Eats), somehow rejuvenated?

* Adam Conover, with whom I wasn't previously familiar
Agreed. But the problem is not on "fast" but on "brand new". Sometimes, these are equal (because new things often advertising itself as fast alternative). Rare times when this is not equal, fast can be a good choice.
If companies can't tell if an employee has a second job due to their still excellent performance, should they really care?
Exactly, so China exports goods valued at less than markup, and pockets the markup, resulting in a net cash inflow. This is what is referred to by the “trade deficit” between the US and China. The deficit refers to the fact that China is exporting less valuable things and pocketing the money, and not buying back as many US goods, resulting in a deficit that net moves capital to China.
Replying to my own comment because I just remembered this as well...

I definitely saw a case of them overfitting their neural networks lately.

Going over a single lane bridge that's an exit ramp, the car started decoding the "other side" of the concrete barrier as oncoming traffic lanes...when there was nothing there.
Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I Not as great as it seems.
>SK Rental Car, Home Plus, Market Kurly, Olive Young and Starbucks all released notices on Sunday about shutdowns of some of their services using Kakao features for billing transactions or gift delivery due to the incident.... The near-blackout of Kakao services began on Saturday at around 3:30 p.m. following a blaze at SK C&C's Pangyo building in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, where the company's data center is housed

I know Starbucks is important to Korean people, having looked at the English translation of the lyrics to Gangnam style, but is loss of Starbucks really "mayhem"?

(Maybe someone from South... Korea... can let me know how this is impacting folks? My phone is acting up and I'm still waking up, it's early in my time zone.)
Why the $100 per ton target for carbon removal may be 'pure fantasy'
One Data Point Can Beat Big Data
No? I was providing an example.

Every database I’ve ever dealt with has fixed memory limits that get set.

Otherwise the database server will OOM even with swap if it doesn’t limit memory consumption and how much it loads, on any machine, with a given large enough database. And the size of the database is up to the user.

It’s a fundamental part of the problem.

Speed and reliability to some extent are literally core requirements of database servers, so any database software that doesn’t do it is going to have a bad time.
The Lorenz Attractor pictured is a trajectory through pase space for a single initial condition; the key result from Lorenz (and from Smale with his Horseshoe maps) is that for ANY absurdly small epsilon you can find two initial positions within that epsilon that end up seperated down the track in time ...

ergo, your:
> since it requires drawing two real numbers within some absurdly small epsilon of each other.

just won't do.
He even wears a Patagonia fleece just like the rest of us.
It protects the user's privacy against attackers other than Google.

To be fair, this is an entirely reasonable threat model for a lot of people. For instance, if you're a reporter in an authoritarian country, Google is almost certainly not colluding with the attackers who are literally trying to kill you, and using a Chromebook and Gmail is probably the best option out there. Your threat model is "Don't die," not "Don't be subject to surveillance capitalism."

But it's also something we should collectively be pushing back on. The motivating example for these products is "intelligent ambient systems," i.e., things like Nest hubs and doorbells that capture audio/video all the time. These products probably shouldn't exist at all, and to the extent they do, they should process data locally and discard it as soon as they can.
Too many click baits articles
Feather – open source icons
> You ABSOLUTELY talk to them. Estonia made statements like that as well. You ABSOLUTELY talk to a neighbour that has 377 your surface area in land and the worlds biggest nuclear arsenal. What's wrong with these people?

I understand what you're saying, but what do you expect countries that want to be left alone to say when the president of that huge country goes on TV and talks about going back to old borders? How do you talk with a country that is influenced by people that say your country, your language, your culture, etc, shouldn't exist?

These countries still have a memory of what it was to be under Russia's rule. They know what happened to them after the Soviets and the Nazis made their deal. For many it's a "if we're going down, then let's go down fighting kind of thing". The bully may win the fight, but they'll go home with a black eye.
If the click causes a state change, it would be complicated to pre-render (but not apply) it before click.
My first thought when I saw this was "stocking stuffer". It sounds a little bit pricey for DIY, though. The Python game sounded interesting, but my initial impression was that it would be way too advanced for beginners. Am I missing something?
Kong 3.0 vs. Apache Apisix: API Gateway Trends
> ISP monitoring is illegal in many cases

Er, maybe in the EU? Since I've had an ISP mail me a notice that they were planning to monetize my traffic, I can assure you there are jurisdictions where it clearly isn't.
> And the exception highlights an unhealthy reality of our wealth-obsessed, capitalist system: It often requires more intention and effort to give away money than to passively amass billions.

Lol what?
> This is a climate scientist saying (without justification) that a century of physicists missed the obvious trivial explanation.

As far as I understand, and even though the article doesn't call it by name, he is making a case for superdeterminism. Which hasn't been missed, but has it's own Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism

In fact, Bell (of Bell's theorem fame) himself discussed (super)determinism as a way to escape Bell's theorem.