skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you already hear of [Voulez](https://www.usevoulez.com)? It lets you create image templates using web technologies.
Nope. But if you're holding a hammer ...
> Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough.

This is why I don't enjoy technology anymore. The zealotry is just too much. Rust is a very useful programming language, but it's just a tool, you use it when it makes sense.

The article on the other hand argues that national security itself depends on people adopting Rust, because it's a memory-safe language, unlike other languages. But managed languages like Java have more memory-safety guarantees than Rust, and languages like C, Zig or Rust unsafe are meant to be more powerful than Rust to let you build your own abstractions, since there are many ways to manage memory. One size does not fit all when it comes to safety, liveness and performance.
That would look really cool, though!
Use the energy and drive on your own projects.

Those projects will open you new doors or opportunities.
> I recognize that this is just a comic strip

Which is why I really don't like people who are disguising their opinions in a fictional story: You can do all sorts of shady rethodic maneuvers, such as presenting your opinion as some grand truth in-universe or - like here - putting it into the mouth of a character and absolving yourself from actually explaining it further.

Bonus points for adding another character who is impressed by the first character's statement to give the opinion an air of profoundness.
I'm afraid the couple of writing servers I'm mostly active in are pretty niche and not public, but there are bigger ones that should be good as well. For example, I have heard good things about one called "Bookdun"[0], which is actually focused on writers helping each other to finish their books. They have sprint channels where a sprint bot helps run the sprints, but also other challenges encouraging people to get words written. I have never tried any "writing challenges" aside from sprints though; the other stuff sometimes feels a bit too distracting and gamified for my tastes, so can't speak to those.

[0] https://www.bookdun.com/
Experiment Nebula Mesh – Part 2
Not to be rude, but you don't work much with manufacturing or robots, do you?

Even if, and especially if, a mfg process is highly automated, it takes myriad layers of expertise to get it right. That is the LAST thing you want to ship overseas to your adversaries, which both increases their expertise in the field and your dependence on them.

Economically, it is long-term-stupid. Strategically, it is suicide.
I have a related observation, based on my own behaviour and my experience, which is near extinction of electronic/electrical appliance repair shops where I live. And I wonder if it's related to we getting used to instant gratification.

Growing up in India in the 90s, if I discovered a new song in radio/television buying a tape was nearly a month long affair. From that I went to instantaneous access to nearly any song in any language. I'm not complaining, I absolutely love it. However this need for instant gratification is sort of leaking into physical objects, so to speak. So if a physical device malfunctions I want to get it instantly working again which is almost impossible so I reach out for the next best thing which is to buy a replacement.

And in the 90s it was totally OK for our home appliances, like TV, mixer/grinder etc., to be taken to repair shops. However, I've seen a gradual decline of such shops. It could also be due to decreasing reliability and repairability.
The negative externalities of fossil fuels justified some level of relative subsidies. Either by taxing pollution or direct subsidies of nuclear power.

Even ignoring global warming smog and acid rain have been known issues for a very long time. On top of this many countries lacked domestic supplies of fossil fuels.
He's the new punching bag, and guaranteed vehicle for clicks. Something or someone had to replace Trump.
The advantage of using Arial/Arimo on web pages is that it is the only font which is installed on pretty much every single desktop computer or mobile phone. If someone wants a font stack which acts the same everywhere without the overhead of downloading a font, Arial is the only choice (While Android phones do have Tinos, it doesn’t have the same metrics as Times New Roman; go figure). Windows users have had it since the 1990s, Apple has licensed all of Microsoft’s core web fonts, and Linux/Android users have the Arimo font with the same metrics — and it’s a single apt-get command to legally install the actual Microsoft Core Web fonts, including Arial, on desktop Linux.

Using Helvetica in a font stack with Linux has issues because many desktop distributions use the Ghostscript Helvetica equivalent font which has vertical alignment issues. Other fonts are often times substituted with different fonts which both change the look and metrics of a web page.

The reason why compatible metrics is important is that elements using lettering have the exact same size on a web page, so there aren’t issues with a font overflowing or otherwise looking wrong when it looks fine with Arial. Substituting Arial with Helvetica might break how things look in a web page which assumes Arial metrics.

Personally, I wish every computer out there (or at least every browser in widespread use) came with Noto Sans, Noto Serif, and Noto Sans Mono so that something like “font face: Noto Serif” would look and act the same way everywhere, but Arial is as close as we get to that.
I didn't read the whole thing, but my favorite part was:

> Jason: Day zero

> Jason: Sharpen your blades boys [dagger emoji]

> Jason: 2 day a week Office requirement= 20% voluntary departures
Why support one OS indefinitely when you can support five concurrently for a decade each!
> If stocks are so over priced, can anyone show an example of a fund that's making a killing off of these mispricings?

You won’t find them until the market crashes.

The ones who make a killing will simply be the ones who timed the crash correctly. The road is already littered with funds/managers who have timed the crash incorrectly.

> Why would active management have failed to find and exploit these mispricings before?

There is no efficient “buy and hold” way to short the market.

The ways to invest/bet on the market going down are either time-limited or have the potential for margin calls.

Most downside market bets are most efficiently used as balanced hedges rather than pure bets against the market (at least imho).
Generally the sequence is something like product research, product ideation, then product development where engineering gets involved. Engineering is quite aware of the impedance mismatches that can occur and try to voice them as soon as they become aware of them.

The best advice I can give is for product managers to be aware that products are not produced in a vacuum and to get input/validation from engineers on feasibility or other possibilities and iterate. This applies to everyone except say Apple where they can re-invent everything all the way down the supply chain.
Perhaps a function but I don’t think I would go so far as to say primary. They also lugged their stuff around and handled all of the boring parts of life, like opening doors, writing letters and so on, that they didn’t want to deal with.
Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein, for some perspective.

On the former Soviet Lunar prison turned colony, electricity, water, and air are,by necessity not free.
Just to not forget the “past”: Trump was banned from twitter due to inciting violence, see https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

There is an objective truth out there, no reason to return to our echo chambers. Some people are angry at Elon buying twitter because a subjectively good platform might just die in a short time, because everyone who had even an ounce of try at managing a platform knows that “unmoderated free speech” is just shitposting.

Also, I don’t see how death threats, n-words and the like would contribute to any discussion.
Assuming the fediverse becomes popular enough there will no doubt be large websites that finance themselves with ads/subscriptions.

After all git is a decentralized system as well and big silos like GitHub exist.
DOJ seizes Z-Library domains, went TikTok viral offering 11M+ pirated textbooks
I think most of us are missing where things are converging:

1. Easier to do ads as overlay on vid clips than 12 character content
2. User base is getting to trained to expect and WANT short vid clip content
3. Ease and reach of story telling via short vid clips
4. Move off of social graph to AI graph
5. Automated moderation but open where you can see what posts
were moderated and why pertaining to the rules of the SM platform.

What we are seeing is the move to Social 2.0.

1. Mark Z has the problem of how to turn FB into instagram and AI graph
@. Youtube has smaller problem of just adjusting their feed impl to AI graph
3. Twitter has the most work out of the three in that it's their full imp and infrastructure that has to change to get back to revelance.

True P2P has never ever won in the market of over almost 40 years. But people keep rehashing the same way of doing and structuring P2P both tech wise and business wise and losing.
Oh I see, this is very helpful. Thank you.
Exactly. Prepping is not just stocking tuna cans and staying a nerd. It’s being physically fit, having a network of neighbors, and so on.
I enjoyed it, although not as much as most critics. I found it took a few episodes to hit its stride, and enjoyed the first and second seasons. At its heart it's a character drama, so if you're watching it only for the science interesting moments are few and far between.

Later episodes fall victim to lazy "a major catastrophe is about to occur, engineering team comes up with moonshot solution just in the nick of time to save the day" more often than I'd like. And the lesbian romance storyline seemed forced. I could barely finish the third season as it really went off the rails.
In my experience, preppers miss or outright avoid the last part. Humans survive as communities. There's too much work involved and not enough redundancies with just a few people. Extreme preppers are anxiety induced hoarders.
Any clues how they get the cell numbers?
> I'd imagine that creative engineers who can ensure clean water supply and working electricity (or other smaller services) would be more valuable

In the World War Z novel, there's a section where the head of rebuilding in the US is speaking and talking about the new power structure in post-Z society as they look to rebuild.

He talks about how it's the blue collar workers: carpenters, farmers, plumbers, electricians, and their skillset that end up becoming the new key individuals in society because of their ability to build up from a collapse. It's not just hoarding guns and ammo. Those can be dealt with and they are dealt with by the military. Even a smaller military still has enough resources to take care of the local militias (preppers with guns and food).

But if you REALLY want to survive and thrive post collapse, it'll take practical skills to re-build.
If you have genuine adhd, you are not going to be the best at money management. You will likely also not hold high paying jobs because of the executive function requirements. They probably need to be 21cfr compliant in order to qualify as a medical device. I only did part 11 and clinical analyzers so I don't know about medical devices such as an app.
Agreed. Also all BSDs have different characteristics.

Linux it self can't use GPLv3 shows that it is not innovation supporting License
It is a matter of luck(and patience). And the right augments, you cannot plan for, but rather have to adopt when you find them.
For example a drone recovery arm will make me buy it, even if I do not have a drone control system yet.
Hull repair is also a must buy(if you can save up drones), and so is weapon preigniter.

With them, it becomes managable, even on hard - with luck. If I don't have any luck, I can also die on easy.
https://quillandpad.com/2019/05/01/lagavulin-16-year-old-whi...
Everyone who is serious about their health and has the means should be invested in reverse osmosis filtration at home with KDF and carbon pre-filtration even if you have "good" water.

Drinking huge volumes of water on the order of a gallon per day is important for general health and water is the main way most people ingest carcinogens due to sheer volume.
To understand how error correction works and to learn more about Hamming codes & Reed-Solomon, 3Blue1Brown and Ben Eater were invaluable. 3Blue1Brown and Ben Eater are by far some of the best educational content creators within their fields, mathematics and computer engineering respectively.

I would strongly recommend anyone interested in the topic to check out any of these videos:

How to send a self-correcting message (Hamming codes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jsijhllIA

Hamming codes part 2, the elegance of it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3NxrZOu_CE

And any of Ben Eater's five videos on error correction: https://eater.net/crc

As an aside, Ben Eater does all of his videos and demonstrations using an 8-bit computer he has built step by step in videos on a breadboard. Very impressive and inspiring.
We could apply the same rules as China and only allow foreigners to rent land from the government for a lifetime (I think it was 80 years) and disallowing foreigners from buying land.

Otherwise, you might end up with a situation like London where the locals become tourists in their old neighborhood. Or do you think any normal person can still afford to live there, after vast amounts of foreign wealth were brought in and prices adjusted accordingly?
Just to add some ”inside baseball” to this thread, I work for Rakuten Symphony so can give my take from my perspective, be they right or wrong. The open discussion and different points of view is what is so healthy if something wants to get stronger.

We are breaking apart the traditional monolith deployments in radio base stations, that are deployed at a very large distributed scale. For example we are deploying 30,000 edge nodes to do real time processing of radio baseband signalling, 23,000 of them in the the next 10 months. Now these workloads have more in common with high performance computing than they do with running standard business application systems, so we are aware we have to modify the kernel to make it cope with the real time requirements. We are removing the monolithic model because we know we can reduce the costs and increase the deployment optionality. And the existing enterprise OS licensing model was prohibitively expensive at this scale. And then our open source choices were changed.
We are happy to contribute our real time learnings back to a community since that helps us help the community to help us. What we have done is not for everybody, and others need to make their own choices for their own reasons. But we believe it is having those choices is what creates a healthy industry. And we no longer had the choices we wanted, so we want to contribute to making them for others.
Not completely wrong, but you could justify all kinds of planned obsolescence with that reasoning: "Sure the device technically still works, but it's too costly for us to bear the maintenance burden, so we have to brick it"
This was a whole genre on classic Macs, too. https://happymacs.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/the-eyes-have-it-...
> I eat well due to this mess but I know it's all so so so wrong.

That's the point - I do this too. I like the fact that AWS jobs pay well. I'm fair and I always point out to my clients that AWS is expensive and it will cost them more in the long run, and the vendor lock-in is considerable - but they don't care as "everybody is doing it." Well, that's fine with me, I also like to eat well.
What’s wrong with having an opinion? They did not harass anyone or force their tastes on anybody. Quite the contrary, that’s a hack so that Gruber can be happier on the same web as everyone else. I see snobbery and (a heap of) sarcasm, but not gatekeeping here.

Yeah, it’s not a masterpiece. That’s fine, people are allowed to have fun and not everything needs to be perfect.
In theory federated social media seems like a great idea. You can hand-wave a lot of impossible moderation problems away just by not being so damn big. It seems like I could join for music and geeky history without being inundated with The Current Thing ragebait culture. I'd try that out!

In practice it's still a desert.

The problem isn't how to sign up, it's that with the exception of a few active communities, there's not much going on once you do.
There are frequency multipliers, optical mixers and optical parametric amplifiers, which can multiply, sum or subtract the frequencies of laser beams.

A well known use is in the green laser pointers, which contain a frequency doubler and an infrared laser.

However any frequency conversion device increases the cost and reduces the energy efficiency.

It is very unlikely that it would ever make sense to multiply the frequency of such a laser with enough stages to reach visible light, because that would increase the cost much above the alternative solutions that exist for tunable lasers in the visible range.
The question is "Do Pigovian taxes hurt the poor?" Not "Is sugar the same as sugar?"
Even participation isn’t really a good unto itself. Most people can successfully body double to a stream or Youtube video and so one person can provide the “passive” service to millions of people.

Having this kind of content plentiful and available 24/7 is really helpful.
This is an unhelpfully reductive definition of computer. The name computer used to mean people who compute things, but it’s also entirely reasonable to call a device which performs computations a “computer”, including tools like an astrolabe, slide rule, or nomogram.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
I have tried all three and much comfortable with NetBSD.
They stopped to throttle, but that's not necessarily permanent. Also for which instances will survive and how they will operate and how they will finance will play out. In the moment there is a lot wild west of people figuring things out and experimenting.

Similar to email - for a long time somebody in a university basement had been running those and now it's google, Microsoft and a bunch of smallers or selfhosted where you can pick the offering you like.
It's easy to predict a crash is coming: there's always a crash coming at some point in the future. Harder to get specific about when and what magnitude it will be, with dates, metrics, and numbers. Since you ask people to cash out and sell their positions, are you confident enough to be specific?
Until this is turned on by default it's not sufficient.
Recently my old MBP (2013 model) stopped working, with a mysterious kernel process taking up max CPU to grind everything to a halt on every boot. Fortunately I had its files backed up to a disk in Linux-compatible format (ExFAT32?), so I finally decided to wipe it clean and install Pop!_OS. https://pop.system76.com/

It gave new life to the laptop - I'd recommend trying it, you might be able to get more mileage out of the machine.
https://www.newsprovenanceproject.com/

Mentioned on page 206, "The Perils and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence" of the book.

https://c2pa.org/ seems to be the latest iteration of it.

> What is the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)?

> The C2PA is a Joint Development Foundation project to collectively build an end-to-end open technical standard to provide publishers, creators, and consumers with opt-in, flexible ways to understand the authenticity and provenance of different types of media. C2PA opposes efforts to make content provenance measures mandatory.
How British spooks have verified video:

http://hummingbirdclock.info/about

"The UK national electrical grid delivers power across the country. This mains power supply makes a constant humming sound, yet there are tiny changes to the frequency of this sound every second. Most recordings made in the UK have a trace of mains hum on them and this can be forensically analysed to determine the time and date they were made, and as a result, whether anyone has edited the recording."
> How do we consider this okay?

You’d be amazed at what we (as in people) can convince ourselves is OK.

Everybody’s guilty of something — especially the people most likely to be reading HN. Eating meat, living in big houses, ordering stuff from around the world, having a bunch of kids, driving a car everywhere, flying in a plane on vacation.

We’re all guilty and we all want to think we’re not.

“But I recycle…”

“But I have to drive…”

“But corporations are worse…”

“But eating meat is natural…”

“But a house with a yard is a better environment for kids to grow up in…”

Some or all of these might be true. But it doesn’t change the fact that you’re responsible for your actions, whether you can justify them to yourself or not.
Isn't the point of the guns that kind of person stockpiles specifically to prevent people taking them? If you're already at the point where you're violently taking things, then they've pretty effectively made themselves much less appealing targets than like, supermarkets or great depression survivors.
A mastodon instance like this does not need to be "successful" in order stay online.

People are interested in what the government has to say and mostly multipliers (aka Journalists) are reading the actual news.

It's good to have a accessible publication Plattform that is not subject to US policies (private or public ones), just in case the environment in Twitter gets undesirable.

I assume running this servers costs roughly nothing and they can shut it down at any time.
Other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454205 ("Crows found to be smarter than we think")
> I don't think that massing a collection of guns and canned goods is necessarily the best way to survive after societal collapse.
> Instead, it will be the people who manage to build new societies from the rubble. I'd imagine that creative engineers who can ensure clean water supply and working electricity (or other smaller services) would be more valuable

The guns are the foundation for all the other things.
> Substituting Arial with Helvetica might break how things look in a web page which assumes Arial metrics.

Arial is designed with the same metrics as Helvetica because Arial is a copy of Helvetica.

Replacing Arial with Helvetica is just restoring things to the original-not-encumbered-by-licensing-decisions standard.

Some people may prefer Arial due to familiarity etc (a distaste for quirky capital Rs?). Some people may not care. But Helvetica is the original.
Not according to the ESA[1], NASA[1], Portugese airspace authorities, or our captain. Or my dad, for that matter, who works for NASA (some of his projects specifically involve space debris cleanup). But thanks for your input, random internet stranger.

[1] https://www.space.com/nasa-esa-space-chiefs-condemn-china-ro...
I thought once you have a blue check mark you get to filter out all non-blues, no?
Personally, I don't want everything to become 4chan, but I do want there to be places like 4chan in every field. It's an invaluable stopgap, release valve, and censorship circumvention tool.

We are far better off in a world where 4chan exists, rather than being banned.
Like Bill Burr said, you are just gathering stuff for the biggest guy on your street.