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ObservableHQ - particularly the discovery that I can use most of it locally and privately for free. I've tried with quarto so far, but I think there are other ways too.

What I want is a way to instantly switch between dag and tree data structures: graph for visual editing, tree for easy data entry. So something that would analyze/cluster intelligently to minimize links when converting to tree, for when children have multiple parents.
Agreed.

As an example, I buy sheet music PDFs from online stores. The stores often show the first part of a PDF and then you pay and get access to download the PDF.

It would be easy to imagine then replacing their system with this.

As a customer, I see no real difference. If I paid the store and didn't get the sheet music, of probably be stuck in credit card chargeback hell anyway.

As the store, there are probably some downsides. E.g. their own system can probably give me a unique link. That link may expire after I use it. With this system, there's nothing preventing me from tweeting the link if I wanted to.
I went in-store to get money out in person, mentioned the problems and very nicely got handed details of how to complain. I did so, with screenshots, and got something like £150 -- completely unrequested -- in my account about six months later. I think they handled the whole thing very well actually, although I'd probably feel different if I had gone into mortgage arrears because of it, as I understand some customers did...
> In theory, yes. In practice, no.

> I say this because in theory Drupal core supports postgresql 100%

> In practice, unless you actually comb through the code base if all the modules you install, you will have some that won't work. I have only tried this on Drupal 8 but I doubt much will change with 9 or 10.

Why no one mentions typo3 [1]

[1]https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/tutorial-getting-started/main...
You can like rails, but calling it boringly simple is highly misleading. I think, generously, something like "complex but fully-featured" might be accurate.

As a reference point, the top 2 rails books on amazon are 900 and almost 1100 pages.

I say this to warn those who are looking for something minimalist and quick to learn -- Rails does not fit the bill.
Exactly. Anything else in the world, you can find in the US for cheaper and higher quality.
The script takes 60+ seconds to run on an RPi and fewer than 10 on an i9, allowing for significantly faster iteration.
Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B settling charges it wrongfully seized homes and cars
There is also a safety concern with overly cheap tools.

For an example, the adjustable wrench in this article. What happens when you apply a lot of force on a stubborn nut? If the wrench experiences rapid unscheduled disassembly, you now have broken pieces flying in random directions.

In the US, the thing that most prevents this from being a problem is the threat of liability lawsuits. That doesn't apply to a tool made by a small company in China and sold by a fly-by-night outfit on Amazon's marketplace. I'm guessing Amazon is unknowingly the liable party here, but I'm not a lawyer.
It has to be 'fair and obvious' to the reptilian brain.

We are all busy. We don't have time to learn where all the buttons are, what leads to what.

I see my elderly parents confused and bewildered.

Now I see myself bewildered on new apps that I just don't care to bother to learn.

Even Skype - the UI changes so often, every time I use it, I don't know WTF is going on. I can't find how to make the call, put on hold.

On my iPhone if I get a call while a call is incoming, I'm immediately pressed to 'MAKE A DECISION NOW!' with a bewildering array of choices while an alarm and buzzer says 'HURRY!'.

When am I supposed to learn how all of that works? By 'practising' incoming calls?

Technology is exploding, it's becoming too much for all of us - trust me there will come a time where you 'do not give a nut' about learning the UX for the next new thing, and then you're in trouble.

Given this I think we need to rethink UI a bit or stick to first principles.

And anything that involves privacy or money has to stick to those principles.
Just to echo gp, America Christians have recently overturned roe. That is much worse from an individual freedom perspective than being forced by your employer to watch a video about how all white people should feel guilty of their white privilege.
What is a neon cop?
> …the expense is tiny compared to the salary and other costs of whoever is using it for 3 years

No argument there, but a line is drawn somewhere on ease of purchasing and it usually falls short of $10k.
5 minutes later the account is banned for having posted location data on the rover.
Django has run fine on SQLite for well over a decade at this point.
Hey! I work for GoLinks, just wanted to thank you for the shout-out!
We don't know enough about what happened but I disagree this should be an automatic red flag from the provider's side. I'm sure Azure has spending limits and alarms that one can set up (and probably should).

The attitude of "provider should eat the cost" is ripe for abuse. I can set up some expensive GPU instances to train my GPT4 clone (millions worth of compute) than -after getting my models- claim I was "hacked" and refuse to pay my bill. Or maybe -more benign- have some buyer remorse after setting up a public instance for people to test out my new AI product then get scared when it gets the HN "hug of death" and my bill skyrockets.
Let’s be real, 99% of uses of this will be porn or malware masquerading as warez. You do not want to be fetching those URLs. Removes any plausible deniability.
> I do think that cryptocurrency is nonsense and should be banned

A good definition for "real" cryptocurrency is whether or not it's possible for it to be banned.
My ironic favorite are the cheap screw drivers that destroy themselves instead of stripping the mildly tight screw.
> we keep ... gasoline ... for generators
Well, can't you charge your EV with a generator ?
Microsoft’s bad behaviour does not excuse Google’s bad behaviour.

As I noted, MS engages with anticompetitive behaviour and is undergoing investigation for that again.

The items you reference with browsers may be cause for concern as well. A crucial difference is that MS is _not_ a market leader in the browser space, they are a poorly performing underdog. So while concerning, it’s less of an issue than if Edge was doing well.
Germany returns looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
It's because of the name attached to it.
Yah I was wondering why Google would, via RIP-off, kill a site focusing on things AI is threatening.
x86 has very little to do with driver hell in itself.
I strongly disagree. Cheap tools are a pain to use, and break when you need them most, and perpetuate throw away culture. If a good tool is too expensive to own find a rental or buy used, otherwise buy high quality.

High quality is a joy to work with and will serve you a long time.
> I think it's pretty messed up that Californians had their rights suppressed and chilled so that Newsom could score political points

Their rights were never chilled. It didn't affect consumers at all, and the law was never enforced before it was (swiftly) struck down. The law didn't harm anyone.

Texas's law, on the other hand, is actively harming people now, and this harmless California law is an attempt to help them (and fix a potential loophole in the Constitution).
Are you playing on a phone or using a high DPI monitor? By default HTMLcanvas (which most game engines use to handle text) does not take into account high DPI scaling (I would guess due to performance).

This isn't inherit to JS game engines, but I will say text quality is not usually something that game devs focus on unless text is important to their particular game.

Here's an example of a workaround to render more crisp text https://github.com/danman113/gfx-utils/blob/main/src/canvas/...
> Then get to work. One rule: you will ship at that deadline.

I think the happiest moment of the past 12 months for me was starting a job as a VP Eng and asking the CEO what they wanted most from the Engineering process. It was basically what you are saying. Pick dates and ship on those dates. Cut things if necessary, but regular shipment of improvements is the goal.
We couldn't communicate with the most advanced primates from a million years ago. A civilization a million years past ours would be unlikely to want to talk to us. The average star in our galaxy is a billion years older than our sun.

Based on what? Just because a civilization is extremely sophisticated doesn't mean we have nothing to offer.

We still study primates and ants. Hell, we even desire that we could communicate with chimps and dolphins.

Communication is impossible with primates and ants simply because they lack the hardware to engage in abstract communication.
nah, at this point RoR is boring (in a good way), and it's a good thing.
Big oil behind conspiracy to deceive public first climate racketeering suit says
Just because you say it's wrong, doesn't mean it's wrong. Let's use Stanford's Plato pages as a definition of the gaze:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-aesthetics/

"The phrase “male gaze” refers to the frequent framing of objects of visual art so that the viewer is situated in a “masculine” position of appreciation. By interpreting objects of art as diverse as paintings of the nude and Hollywood films, these theorists have concluded that women depicted in art are standardly placed as objects of attraction"

This clearly aligns with my definition of the gaze as essentially male attraction to women. Fine, you can add some additional constraints that it's positions that the woman that conform to "masculine" definitions of beauty, but I certainly would disagree that it's necessarily negative for a female in that position or as a whole.

Would you argue that women who produce sexualized content like from OnlyFans or Twitch streamers wearing scantily clad outfits, are not part of the male gaze? It's intellectually dishonest to keep saying, "it's different" despite not addressing any of my statements.
A serverless, versioned, local-first data syncing back end
100x this. Most companies with large layoffs had pie in the sky valuations due to pandemic money printing. They were never profitable. VCs with wads were searching for next 20x in three months
Hey, HN was just talking about him yesterday!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057496
Phenomenal news. Hope to see more of it across the globe.
Reminiscent of how things like license plate readers are legal, but maybe only because the legislators didn’t imagine a day when every person could be surveilled constantly, retroactively, everywhere.
A similar thing is happening now with private equity.

The common case these days is to keep a company private for as long as possible, relying on private investment to grow huge. Only once you've maxed out rapid growth do you go public. Rather than going public being something you do to raise capital and keep growing, it's primarily something you do cash out and dump your shares on the plebs who are left holding the bag on a stalled out or even potentially a dying company. As in the off hour trading, insiders and rich people capture most of the gains.

This is why actively trading to try to beat the market as a part time hustle is purely a suckers game. The game is entirely rigged against retail traders.
This has been my mantra:

"There have been 3 great joys in my life: sex, food and music. Of these music has proved the most reliable."

but your comment makes me want to revise it:

"There have been 4 great joys in my life: sex, food, music and good tools, and of these, music and good tools have competed fairly to be the most reliable."
Wordpress worked just fine with nginx when I was self hosting sites 6 or so years ago
> It doesn’t seem like there are good answers on how to resolve this issue sadly.

Actually, the article highlights the internal working group of 84 employees that spent months evaluating Twitter's ability to suppress this exploitive material , concluding that Twitter had major problems in this area and submitting a list of recommendations to fix them that were mostly ignored.

> Aside from enabling in-app reporting of CSE, there appears to have been little progress on the group’s other recommendations.

> Employees say that Twitter’s executives know about the problem, but the company has repeatedly failed to act.
> Given that 4 justices have to agree to hear the case, I'd expect the court would simply decline to do so.

Very possible. The court is essentially an imperial force now, as some spectators have said.

It's worth a try, at least.
Oh, for sure. It'll be interesting, though, to see if there is a "next Twitter". I suspect that Twitter is a creature of the era in which it started, and so that there is no next Twitter in the sense of a global town square. I think it will be more like email's slow slide, with different needs causing fragmentation into different tools and spaces.
I'm far more excited by the innovative Helion fusion design, which unlike the NIF is intended for commercial use, and is in an advanced stage of development. NIF seems more like a way to conduct military related nuclear physiscs research rather than intended/suitable to ever be used for power generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

Helion seems far more practical than the Tomahawk designs such as ITER, which seem they'll be too expensive to compete with solar/wind.
also try mamba which is much faster than conda https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
We need legislation because PM's pushed to profit by CEO's just cross the line far too often. It's hard to explain but when you see it, you understand. It's the game we create. We don't even need to point the finger, because usually it's not 'someone's fault' is just stuff that happens. Many of these decisions are made even without deliberation.

It'd be nice to have 'best practices' oversight instead of lawyers but we're not that sophisticated yet.

And we don't really have a way of contemplating 'scale' aka once companies reach a certain size, their impact is greater and we have to be more careful.
I agree there are some system design headwinds, but don't think they are the leading problem. In my opinion, the biggest problem is that both parties have a vested interest in not resolving the issue. There are common sense policies, especially when it comes to abortion, that Congress has had the political power to pass and sufficient public support.

Unfortunately, the topic is too valuable as a wedge issue to solve. As a result, neither party will accept Common Sense abortion law like what is generally seen in Europe. It is not extreme enough for either the left or right.

Because it is such a political football, the general public is also grossly misinformed on what the actual abortion policies are in Europe. When you look at them in detail, they are very much a compromise, not an unlimited right to abortion, and often more restrictive than the Roe standard.
We could have blinking red lights in our palms for that occasion
The Dutch bicycle-network is safe enough to not have to wear bike helmets. We have a really nice system of seperation of car/bicycle/pedestrian traffic. In addition, a lot of tought is given to design roads in such a way that car traffic automatically adapts to the correct and safe speed that is needed.
I created one of these tools when I interned at Crystal Ball (before it was acquired by Oracle. On the on hand, it really was as slick as you'd hope - like, since we used Project for the calculation engine, and Project integrates with Outlook's calendar, you can see that if Alice is the only one that can complete a task, that task can't be done while she's on vacation, etc.

On the other hand, I never had a chance to see it used for real (honestly, I'm not sure it ever was), but I'm not sure it would help. The results are hugely sensitive to the distributions, and the whole point is that even the distributions are difficult to estimate - you just don't know what you don't know.
I think there’s a missing comma between those words
People at the last place I worked (US) wanted to. When I brought up that people in Latin America aren't really on-board with the whole latinx thing, the pushback I got boiled down to "they shouldn't be using gendered language". Yeah. I didn't want to get into a whole "that's mighty colonial of you" debate. It was kind of a weird place to work.
> Which is not really much different in Canada either. Where else than Canada can you find the highest number of taxi/Uber drivers with a law/medical degree?

Cuba?

In all seriousness, it's by design. It's one of the side effects of using a point-based immigration system... that never checks for employability!

The Canadian system will just blindly grant points to someone if they possess a university degree, no matter how employable it makes them. Then it fills the yearly quota with the highest scorers. Contrast this to the United-States where an employer has to demonstrate it cannot find a qualified American worker at market rates AND that the immigrant it wished to sponsor is qualified to perform the job.

Let's be honest here for a minute and acknowledge not all foreign degrees are created equal. Academic dishonesty and corruption make certain countries and colleges known diploma mills. That's, sadly, not something Germany can fix.
To be fair though, that's the poem it produced when the entire prompt were the words "ode to a space lizard".

It's like with describing a commission: If you just give basic info, then there is a lot left for the artist to guess, and they might be inclined to err on the safe side.

I often got better results when I included more info in the prompt.

E.g., here that could be: What is a space lizard? What's so amazing about it? What should the general emotion of the poem be? Should it be of some particular style? etc etc.
While I'm glad to see them supporting a DB backend other than MySQL, I would also like to see a PostgreSQL backend get built.
You say that as a joke, but I actually think it's a very relevant point. People keep pointing to mistakes the AI makes in order to make an argument that there will always be a place for people doing that kind of work. The website in this post also does this. But often they fail to take into account that people make mistakes all the time as well. And the success rate of AI is only going to get better.
They wear high visibility vests
Submitted title was "A Killed by Google RIP-off focusing on things AI is threatening". We changed it.
Isn’t this a bit like saying that cars will never replace horse-drawn carriages, as they max out at 5mph, but might be useful for cleaning up manure?

Or perhaps Ke Jie who claimed that he would be able to beat AlphaGo, after seeing Lee Sedol beat it in one game. AlphaGo won easily.

This is not a criticism per se, everybody else in this thread is also assessing AI from its current capability, when OP asked about future capabilities.

There’s far too much complacency.
Wells Fargo to Pay $3.7B over Consumer Banking Violations
I think you've gotten downvoted because it wasn't true when Rails 1.2.0 was released on Ruby 1.8, it wasn't true 10 years ago, it wasn't true 5 years ago and it still isn't true today. It's a meme, a synthetic reputation, one based in FUD, with nothing to back it up. Countless businesses have been built on Rails. All successful code regardless of language and framework evolves to fit emerging needs.

Also, the onus isn't on any community to 'prove' to outsiders that their thing can meet the demands of skeptics. It never will, they will find another reason, and then another one after that to fuel their FUD.

So when you write what you did in this thread you're not really, in my view, contributing to the conversation. You're just repeating something you've heard and this far in, it just feels grating.
Right timing of launch if we consider Gumroad's price increament.
Clearly a feature, not a bug.
I've added it. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!
You aren't using anything against anyone. It is completely transparent what you are doing and the only thing it is effective at is making you look silly. The fact that you think that I am pro-naughty-word-censoring because I brought up a simple comparison and posed a simple question makes your adherence to critical-thinking look hollow since you seem to eschew it. I am happy to be proved wrong by having a thoughtful discussion if you would like, instead of carrying on in the manner we have.
>They did rule against some of the attempts to do an end run around that end run so to speak by allowing aborrtion providers to pre-

What a weird description. Texas passed a law that was, under legal precedent at that time, unconstitutional. Plaintiffs sued for injunctive relief by listing the state officials who would enforce those laws. The Court decided that they couldn't sue those officials, and then further blocked them from every other conceivable legal remedy.

I'm not sure how allowing states to write vigilante laws that punish people for Constitutionally-protected activity is a good thing, nor how asking the courts for relief of that would be an "end run" or how "not allowing that is [fundamental] to the functioning of the legal system," assuming "that" refers to some kind of remedy blocking enforcement of an unconstitutional law?
As evidenced by a link to AlternativeTo on their own site, this space has a lot (145+) of competition [0]. At some level, I worry about using things much more complex than a text file, because of portability and longevity. It's enough of a pain transitioning between Google and Microsoft (and back) every few years based on various jobs.

I have files from the late 1980's that I can still read, but only with Libre Office because Apple's supplied apps can't read old MacWrite files.

Some people swear by OneNote or Notion or Keep or various mind mapping software, but keeping things cross platform and simple is a challenge. I was never an Evernote person, but it sounds like that turned into a bit of a debacle. These tools work for now, but will they work 5 or 10 years from now?

[0] https://alternativeto.net/software/obsidian/
Trademark was found via a Hackernews thread? You guys are good :) We have three trademarks that we've defended successfully before. Would encourage anyone wanting to try to use go/links, to just sign up to https://www.golinks.io ... it's completely free to use, forever and you can get started in a few seconds. We're trying to get go/links everywhere and are happy to be at the forefront of that :)
Look up "phone free" and you'll find the references. What it is: It's a strong fabric case that locks you out of your phone with a very strong magnet.(defaces the object you have) This prevents you from answering the phone, making calls, using the camera etc. Have a medical/police/medical-staff being called back emergency? Good luck buddy, no one cares about this.

The company who is doing this is Yondr. They've been doing this for years. They've been doing this with musicians, comedians, courtrooms, and even at schools. I'm amazed that they have been getting away with this for so long.

Yondr has had a lot of astroturfing over the years so it's harder to find the people who have had a bad experience over the years. You'll see non-normally participating people pop up in every comment section that mentions the phone ban: "well i like that everyone isn't on their phone" etc. Also, you'll see near promo news pieces on this. Additionally there has been no public comment with this that I know of, which is super auspicious from the US or Europe. (Just did the research Placebo and Bono have enforced this in Paris.. a bit brave considering the bataclan)

EDIT: Dang, yes I said the a word (ends with turfing), this is not a statement thats happening here.