skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people who aren’t tech savvy aren’t reading Martin Fowler’s blog. It’s okay for bloggers to write for their expected audience, rather than having to think “how will what I am writing be interpreted by all possible readers, e.g., literally everyone who can access this web site.”

As for Mastodon itself, yeah, it would be nice if it got better about its terminology and “marketing” to people who aren’t nerds, although one can argue this is endemic to open source culture at this point (cue unceasing arguments about Calibre’s wacky UI choices, The Gimp’s arguably offensive name, and so on). Those are trivially solvable problems, though.

If Mastodon is “something that people just post to with very little comments and interaction,” I would suggest that it’s long been a network effect issue; it’s very hard to get any new system that depends on user-constructed social graphs off the ground, until or unless that graph exceeds some hard-to-define node count level for a sufficient number of users. Anecdotally, I have seen a lot more activity on Mastodon over the last week; whether enough will stick to push it over that magic number remains to be seen.
I politely disagree: you just pick an "entry node", similar to picking an ISP or an email provider. You can interact with everyone in the Fediverse just fine. Having a newsfeed for your chosen "entry node" is an additional nice-to-have imho but not the defining criteria.
In this case, I think of it as a resource, because a lot of people want to at least experiment with Mastodon.
The content skews a little more fringey though. But otherwise agree.
This would have been a perfect opportunity to use a Chromecast audio, it's a shame Google canned it when it was still useful.
Looking for any mark of sarkasm here.
On Windows there is Glasswire[0] for blocking applications that phone home. Just find the offending process and block it. It's not a perfect solution though as Windows 10/11 has hundreds of things that phone home and blocking them has unintended side effects (things crash randomly if they can't talk to the Internet).

[0] https://www.glasswire.com/
I had an Indian friend tell me 30 years ago that a lot of the smog in large cities is from running motorbikes on kerosene.
This is about image processing.
I still haven't turned on my gas central heating yet once in London. This week is set to peak at 16/17 degrees too which is pretty warm for me.
Lower momentum one way or the other sounds like the best predictor.
This is my first experience with Amazon Video; I went in with the expectation that the producers would cut corners somewhere. I am glad they did it with the CGI and sets. The costumes (good guys at least) seem acceptably Gibson. Thought the Fishers were impeccably casted.. Although diverging from Gibsons original take. Indeed the onscreen personalities look like they came out of Neal Stephenson instead. Gibson’s protagonists can be a bit flat as pointed out elsewhere here. I thought Aelita comes closest to the Gibson type of character. (She was killed off early in the book) I would say so far this looks like one of the better adaptations of Gibsons works, but I can see that just transcribing the books wouldnt work.
How would female crash dummy implied anything about driving?
> ... but wow, are normal folks having a hard time.

We should stop picking on normal folks. I write software for a living and, honestly, I'm over dealing with BS software. We've swung WAY too far to the "developer productivity" side of engineering and away from "consumer productivity". It's annoying and, frankly, if I have to jump through hoops, I simply choose not to anymore.
No, monad is more complicated than that. There is a specific method that it has to have, which does not make sense on all types, and can also have more than one sensible definition for a type. "You want to abstract over it" gets you to a "trait", not a "monad".
I think the other possible effect is the maintenance construction work in the Autobahn, which can create an upper speed limit anyway.

Also, only about 70% have no speed limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn (ctrl+f "No speed limit" for a nice table)
In roughly the same amount of time I've owned about ten or fifteen cars.

Every single one of them had the dashboard controls in slightly different places, with slightly different options. Some had four-speed gearboxes, some five-speed, some automatic with three-, four-, five-, or in one case 18-speed gearboxes.

Every single one of them was basically just a car, and drove me to the same places in the same way.
Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds
Cars aren't cheap
Can you point to the provision of HIPAA that this is violating?
I remember people saying that windows 11 requires internet connection and microsoft account. Not sure if it's true.
Liz Truss, the short lived prime minister of the UK closed a major gas storage facility when she was energy secretary!
This article seems to think the CSS spec is too big, which I don’t think is the case. We should be able to access lots of rendering options via CSS. But CSS stylesheets are definitely way too big.
And of course, there is no free lunch. You run smack into the expression problem here.

The question is: do you have more places that check your conditions than types of options? Are you more likely to add a new check (and need to verify exhaustiveness) or add a new option (and need to modify every check)?
I am worried that cars are designed to pass a few really specific tests well, for example 'head on at 40 mph', 'side impact at 30 mph', but then perform much worse in a 'typical' crash, for example '37 degrees, offset by 6 inches, at 38 mph'.

I'd like to see the test methodology changed to correct this. Car manufacturers should be required to simulate what would happen in say 10,000 crash cases - with a wide variety of angles, loads, speeds, passenger types, offsets, etc. The car manufacturer should then present all those results to the NHTSA, who will then pick a few at random to test on a real car to validate the simulations.

The safety rating would be some average of performance of all the 10,000 simulated test cases, with a scaling penalty applied if the simulations didn't accurately reflect reality.
Your comment is supposed to be sarcastic, but it is still pretty limiting to try and cover the entire statistical distribution of human bodies with just two crash test dummies.
I feel there's a difference between copy-catting an upstart vs. a competitor that already outclassed you. The latter is kind of admitting defeat :).

But regardless, what's really annoying here is that this new mode of interaction is pushed so hard that it hides away and starves out the "traditional" one. It's like these companies don't understand we're no longer in an era of a single social networking platform. I don't come to YouTube or Facebook to get more TikTok - I'm fine with getting TikTok on TikTok, I come to YouTube for actual longer-form videos, to Facebook for posts and groups, etc. Seeing YT, FB and IG pushing "shorts"/"reels" in my face only makes me visit them less.
If we speak of street photography, I have another favorite: Rollei 35 S.
But it is usable only for zone focusing.

Hassies are cool, but SL66 is a workhorse which is unbeatable. For medium format street scenarios, twin-lens Rolleis are light and easy to operate.
Would be great if they figured a way to add (buy) more games later, without buying new mini-console.
Broken security model/sandboxing aside (which is inexcusable), the use of C/C++ expands the attack surface - there are some excel exploits though that take advantage of C vulns like buffer overflows: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18087
Well, the original article was about Microsoft. Since they're the OS vendor too, I discounted that as being reliable for this use-case.
There may be better questions, but we aren't only allowed to ask the best possible question.
Ah Thanks. I was going off the image in the linked article

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877930
Yes. iOS sends videos as 3gpp, Android as MP4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/rjg47l/google_mess...

Neither is great but Android MMS is much better. And of course RCS is better still. And Google Messages let's you automatically upload videos to Google Photos and let you share them with a link. The affordances to send high quality video are significantly better on Android.

(I don't use any of the above, instead preferring to use Signal.)
I don't understand the "sedimentation" item. How does "accumulating other bugs" cause a bug to go away?
Youtube banned the archivist Jeff Quitney a few years ago. This particularly stings because a lot of wikipedia articles still cite and link to videos he uploaded.

You can find (most of?) his videos here now: https://archive.org/download/Jeff_Quitney_me
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You're right. Alternatives that tick all the boxes that C does, and are also safer, do not exist.

This guy is just doing the typical religious yelling about people doing their jobs (writing kernels, drivers, browsers, games, etc) with the most flexible tool for programming we've developed to date.

Maybe one day Rust will become dominant. Maybe someone will overhaul the aliasing rules of C, write some similar lifetime tracking tooling, and it will live on for another 50 years. Who knows. The reason people still use C and C++ isn't because they're good languages (or even that people like them, as the comment states), it's that until recently there have been very few viable alternatives, and for some domains literally none at all. They've largely been the only option for a long time.
Seems like a good use-case for the chromecast audio (RIP). It lets you stream to it over wifi and connects to the receiver with 3.5mm to RCA cable
All arguments made to why Ukraine should be supported (sovereign country, up against the big bad guys, etc.) except for "they are white" (which as on the media in my country) are also true for the invasions of the US of the last 50 years.

Only then we supported the US.

> You are assuming that the underdog is always in the right here.

I do not assume anyone is right. I understand that in geopolitics "might makes it right". I do not pick sides either. I just do not think my govt should piss off Russia by supporting Kiev: my problem is the shitty policy of my govt.

And oh boy did they have some good propagandists ready to to teach us all how bad Russia is. Tax payer's cash put to good use /s
Is disagree. I have no idea how to do CSS after five years of web programming, except using trial and error.

Reading "what is new in CSS3" did not help much, but at least flexbox means I don't use howtocenterincss.com any more;
while grids became my go-to for all problems, with four attributes that do something about margins and centering but I ignore them out of a lack of memorization.
Well you sort of answered it - I don't have a problem with people crying in a stressful situation - just don't like the idea that we should coddle insecure people because they have confidence issues. Also 19 is a teenager - I prefaced my comment with it being understandable for younger people building their self image/novices.

Snarky comments forget that there are people behind those projects - but there's this implicit assumption that any contribution is a good thing and it should be encouraged. Poor contributions that are not called out just are traps and time wasters for other people - as someone who had to dumpster dive on NPM in the past - no contribution is better than a poor one because poor ones waste time and create noise. It might make the author feel bad but it's better for the community.
The shadow DOM in web components helps with this a lot. (size/complexity of stylesheets)
People should be watching this very closely. The series of events is quite worrying, I won't say anything is certain. What it looks like is someone leaked (possibly fake) Alameda's balance sheet.[1] Basically it said that Alameda has a bunch of incredibly illiquid tokens that are part of the FTX ecosystem (specifically FTT and some other shitcoins) and they have massive liabilities in FTT.

Now, lots of people say "Oh that's fine if FTT crashes, it'll probably wipe out Alameda's creditors not Alameda because those loans will be secured against the worthless FTT anyway". But the real concern is if those loans are actually provided by FTX. So if FTT collapses Alameda's creditor gets wiped out... which is FTX, and who knows how protected your FTX deposits are if FTX gets rekt. So that's the concern, but up until now there was no indication that Alameda could have any reason to liquidate. But now comes this.

What looks like the only other holder of FTT in any real volume is now going to dump. So now Alameda and FTX have to either find half a billion dollars to step in and support the price of FTT while Binance exits, or they don't at which point FTT will fall through the floor.

If FTT falls through the floor most likely Alameda is underwater and therefore their creditors are in trouble too, and who is the least secured creditor? Anyone holding stable coins or cash on FTX. So what happens? People panic, they start transferring massive holdings out of FTX because they're worried about default risk, at which point FTX needs cash to process withdrawals and so not only do they now not have the cash to defend FTT's value, those loans that FTX likely made to Alameda? They'll likely need to get out of them, causing Alameda and FTX to become forced sellers of FTT and completing the doom loop.

Given all of this, it does seem a little bit like Binance's CEO publicly declared a run on FTX- which is wild. It may even mean that Binance become unable to dump their FTT successfully.

[1]:https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-...
How do you know there are no outside efforts to log linux activities? There's a lot of source code to go through and is it possible there are callbacks even within OSS that most people are not aware of?
I once worked for a PA "contractor" and the thing that blew me away the most was how not one of the self professed audiophiles could reliably tell the difference between a universal audio preamp with flat presets and a 1.50$ crapbox I built with some scrap op-amps and a soldering iron.
No. There would be no difference in performance if it returned an Option and required the caller to unwrap. That's what `[]` is doing internally anyway. As are all the other functions I linked that are documented as panicking - they're doing tests manually and `panic!()`'ing if those tests fail anyway.

As I said in the original comment, the reason these functions panic is that the common case for them is where the caller is using parameters that ought to be valid already (either hard-coded or already checked). So it would be less ergonomic to require the callers to handle an error that they know won't happen.
I hadn't seen this - very gross move by ikea.
"There are two types of consultant and I'm the good type." - Every consultant I've ever met.

We're not bad at our jobs. We're bad at finding jobs. It's a fit thing. If you want the real two types: It's specialists and jacks-of-all-trades. Specialists are pointless to hire because yeah, they should just be employees. That's why I'm a jack of all trades, the good type of consultant.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33455993
I understand coming from Twitter --where artificial choices are manufactured in order to extract value from things like outrage and fear-- it might be overwhelming to experience real choice for the first time. We made a tool for that, so lets help find you an instance youll enjoy :) dont worry, you can shop around for the right one, your choice isnt set in stone at all.

https://instances.social/
Yes, but if you compare the collections, every one of those have a different set of games: whether the Steam version, the PS3/360 version, the PS4/Switch/xone version, and the two "official" Minis (there were licensed, unofficial "bad" ones before) also have per-region/language differences.

I'd be curious to see a Venn diagram now.
I don't think so. New CSS features are pretty low overhead to learn, and save me a ton of time. I used to use all those black magic tricks they mention at the beginning of the article, and it was way harder to create layouts back then. Not even close. Adding more features has mostly just made it easier, so it's worth the tradeoff.
Rosetta 1 has been available for 6 years between tiger and lion, and rosetta 2 already been introduced two years ago.

Since the performance upgrade between intel to apple M is less critical than power to intel, that there is less incentive to move from intel, and that apparently apple uses it an opportunity for virtualization compat', Rosetta 2 might be here longer, but i'd be careful on any assomption :)
Not just policy, but immunity. Barring mass covid parties, it'll take China 1-2 years to get immunity on par with the rest of the world.
Not an expert but I think synchronising the signals might be challenging if you hack it yourself. I know Airplay 2 has the feature to pair speakers so perhaps if you can get Airplay 2 working on rpi then it might work. But in my experience the rpi experience is sub par; it was working great while it was working and then all of a sudden it stopped working.
Are you the legal department? Do you know what your legal team does with it? Do you really trust your management team to be good stewards?

The only upside to patents as originally formulated was they actually traded an implementation blueprint for exclusivity. A worthy trade. Many patents don't even do that anymore, and devolve down to "draw the rest of the owl" tier parking lots on ideas. IP attorneys have done nothing to skew away from this outcome.
Golang only has a GC, it doesn't have an option to manage memory in other ways.

Were you referring to unsafe pointers and calls to Cgo?
On the upside, all the basic properties and selectors work now across browsers. You don't need to know about hasLayout, mysterious 3px margins or inline-table hacks. If you don't follow the latest hotness of the week, you can develop in one browser, then just quickly check in a couple of others, and 99% of the time it's fine.
Motorbikes in general, especially the cheap 125 cm^3 that are ubiquitous in the developing world, pollute horribly - especially relative to the power they generate.

I wonder when electric power trains will get cheap enough to replace them. Today, a rather bad electric-assisted bicycle is about the same price - so no one will buy one when for the same price they can get the rugged underpowered noisy smog-spewing mule that bears all the light duty transport imaginable and that everyone knows how to maintain.
The fascinating thing about the Roman world is that they did so many thing so well, and that those things were done by a very small number of smart people. Rome over time produced a surprisingly large number of those people.

I suspect one main reason is they had documentation.

As an example, one of my favorites is reading the water system survey this guy did when he got stuck with the job:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/...

I mean, that's fucking good documentation. Sure it took 400 years before someone wrote it down, but he was also reading through existing docs for a lot of this.
Hi, I have added dynamic option. There's button "Add child". It works :)
https://json-form.com/demos/demo-acme-booking-dynamic.php
Excessive government transfer payments and money supply growth mean higher demand and higher prices. Without them, companies that raised prices substantially would lose sales.
And the owners what the market wants. Really you, the consumer, is responsible!
In the US most of the biomass is tilled into or left on the field to reduce erosion, and some is bundled and used as fuel in electrical generators.
What are you basing this on? It could have been any other possibility
Consultants cost a lot more over the long term and aren't as productive as full-timers. Part of the rationale behind hiring a consultant is you can cut them whenever you want your books to look better and it's less admin overhead.

If you want stability, get on a project with ample funding from an org whose profits are consistent even through recessions. Whether you're a contractor or not your position is probably safe. I wouldn't want to be in a startup going through a recession.
I read that recently and when I saw this headline I wondered if the author had gotten similar treatment from Ikea...
Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists, It’s in Dispute
The number of circulating CD34+ cells varies by individual, and by age.

I volunteered for an unstimulated collection when we were validating the process of stem cell collection at my work. I was at the upper limit of normal, but I technically had enough in CD34+ cells in my circulation to do a transplant even without stimulation, and I was in my early 30s at the time.

A single CD34+ cell can probably make a lot of RBCs. (Ok, to be pedantic, I'm not 100 percent sure they are really CD34+ cells, I was taught that CD34+ is a marker for myeloblasts, and the cell population you would probably want are the CD34- hematogones as they are self-replenishing. The article didn't seem to say either way).
> What I want is Little Snitch on steroids built into the OS where every process, including all native ones, including UI apps, are blocked from network connectivity by default, and the user gets an easy monitor of outgoing traffic with TLS/SSL inspection built in (you'd need some OS API to enable that).

If you want to you can do that with Linux.

Sure you'd need to use the CLI, and a combination of tools but you can pinpoint every packet to an associated process and if you add your self made cert to trusted certs, then you can decrypt TLS as well in most cases.
Isn’t MVP the canonical example of attempting to get some payout while specifically not doing all the work? It is by definition unfinished, and so not doing all the work yet. And the idea is to hit the threshold yeah, but what makes a product minimally viable is notoriously murky and difficult to pin down. “Viable” is pretty much always a subjective metric, it depends on your financial situation and runway. From experience with my own startup, there absolutely was a distribution of behaviors for different MVP effort levels, and the product was never 100% done, but we had paying customers, and doing more of the right kind of work increased the number of paying customers.

Phase change in physics certainly is an example of a narrow peaky distribution, I’m just not sure how often that kind of distribution is a reality for human behavior, which is what the top comment was reacting and referring to. I can think of a few and was just arguing they exist in another thread elsewhere when it comes to pricing and consumption for scarce-resource high-demand economics. So they’re out there, but I’d be pretty hard-pressed to agree that these are common enough to make claims that they’re equal to distributions with lots of variation. It feels like the top comment was making an assumption, arguing that the Pareto principle is a made-up idea that’s just as common as other made-up ideas, but that’s not really true.
> stores are owned and operated locally

You mean franchised. And while perhaps not the dictionary definition, in practice it is the literal definition of a franchise that every instance looks the same as every other one.
Stupid idea of mine: can we start burying our paper rather than recyling it? It means every sheet of paper requires cutting down more trees, and hence putting more trees (indirectly) into the ground. If you then re-plant those trees you capture more carbon.

I presume the paper doesn't add enough to create soil and just rots.