skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awful, yes, unreliable no. What was unreliable was the network infrastructure - coax ethernet, or even worse frozen hosepipe and/or token ring. It was a happy day when twisted-pair, star topology ethernet was introduced.
seems reasonable to hypothesize that the Ukranian town might have named "from Poland"
LibreLingo: A community-owned language-learning platform
It's been interesting to see someone I've all but begged to consider talk therapy jump gladly into using chatgpt as a life coach and therapist
XML, as the name implies, is extensible. An important aspect of Hyperview is that developers can create their own high-quality UI elements that can then be referenced by the backend using XML tags. These are things we can't do with a subset of HTML. In the Hypermedia Systems book, I showed examples of extending the XML format to add things like swipeable rows and toast messages: https://hypermedia.systems/book/extending-the-hypermedia-cli...
My experience of rural life in north-central BC says that the kids mostly don’t come out fine. The people living out there by and large have rejected society. Child abuse was rampant. A kid in my elementary class slept with farm animals to stay warm because the family was too poor to afford electric. Another was raising her siblings because her parent would fuck off for weeks at a time. Poverty, malnutrition, sexual abuse, abandonment, beatings, untreated injuries & illnesses, my classroom had it all.

Most adults who fuck off into the hinterland are not well-functioning, responsible, productive people.

Your 40k town and “sufficiently large base of other kids” do not describe rural living IMO.
> I recommend finding better news sources

I’d suggest you find better new sources because I have seen the videos of the people being hauled off by the Russian police for holding a blank sign where as your example does not even exist.

Here’s an example

https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1502761903046774786
Can't brute or rainbow table a salted HMAC, even if the keyspace were 10^10-10^13 because 1. nonces and 2. sufficient number of iterations, mem/cpu/gpu/asic-hard, scrypt-style.
I don't recall insulting anyone. I am not insulting people if I call COBOL (or JQuery) antiquated, that's my opinion.
@sacnoradhq: what did you the person building the build system in the first place? Or the one that actually builds the runner instances themselves that everybody else leverages?

What you’re suggesting is certainly the ideal case, but there are lots of things that can happen between where you are and where you want to end up. Saying that somebody isn’t a professional developer just because they haven’t reached the ideal state yet is bullshit.

It’s also easy to go around telling other people what they are or aren’t when you haven’t had the responsibility of building these building blocks yourself. You’re the user of them, not the creator of them. Have some respect for the giants whose shoulders you’re standing upon.
Great to see a Maggie Appleton reference!

She also did a talk on Tools for Thought in April 2022:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uhvFGPUE0 (she's the first half of the video)

And she has an unfinished blog post on the topic as well:

https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought
NetWare was reliable as long as you used high quality hardware and didn't run any third-party applications on the server. It didn't support real memory protection or preemptive multitasking so if you tried to run a database or email application on the NetWare server itself then it got shaky. But the core file and printer sharing features were fast and rock solid.
Martyrmade. I knew nothing about the history of Israel.

If you like Hardcore History, you'll like Martyrmade too.
This, exactly. Thank you for putting it so succinctly.
- ZSA Moonlander mechanical ergo keyboard.

- Sublime Text

- Proxmox

- wasabi s3
Yes it's just unique for the 'user' of the Algorithm.

I think you have a valid point in multi site leaks if the attacker was focused on my account. I will think about it
I completely agree. Sadly, the people in charge don't seem to care.
Dark Sky users can use the Apple Weather app
Not meaning to hurt any feelings here, but are you aware that people in Sweden have been filing taxes, accessing medical records etc. online for years with the help of nation-wide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID ?

As for REAL ID, it just seems like a requirement for the plastic ID, which seems to be weaker than the old EU requirements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...
They’re new users.
> How can we know the difference between speech that incites real violence and mere hurtful language

Easy. Speech that is hurtful aims at portraying someone as lesser compared to other people, speech that incites actual violence tells you to do something about it.

Me disagreeing with gay marriage (I would never, but let’s entertain that notion) is very different from me saying we need to forcibly imprison homosexuals as criminals.
northern lower 50?
I’m sorry, but if you start your complaint by saying Looper is some brilliant thing that sets the bar, or whatever, I’m not going to be taking you very seriously. The plot for that was so full of holes they literally had to invent a gun that only works if the target is about two feet away for the movie to not end in the first 15 minutes.
Go to your purchase history here (substitute .com.au for your local site):
https://www.ebay.com.au/mye/myebay/purchase

You should see a button that says "Return this item" for your faulty product.
Click it, go through the prompts and complain that it wasn't as described. In the description field, write "broken". If the seller hasn't set up a proper RMA process, the system will automatically generate a return label. Once you lodge the return using that label, you win the case (regardless of hwo well the fault was described by the seller). The seller will also be billed for the label.
Using GitHub actions to brew coffee
yea, would also love to see this
Building an application that works with TUI, web, and desktop is possible but there are some differences you need to keep in mind. The TUI renderer has a different scaling factor than the web renderer. One pixel is one character and Widgets have start with a capital letter with the web renderer, but for the attribute and elements that the TUI renderer supports the goal is to behave as close to possible to the web implementation. There are some differences that will likely remain because of the differences of the terminal platform, but we would like to continue working on minimizing these differences in the future.
Not very visual for a visual guide.
Pigeons may be dumb as bricks but I’ve never seen one hit by a car. When I’m driving I think I’m going to hit them but they always bail. Credit where credit is due!
Cute. My parents' house has, for a few years now, been plagued by crows attacking the windows in the early hours of the morning, dive-bombing them, standing outside them screaming, pecking them, etc. If they're not attacking the house they're on the roof or in nearby trees screaming.

The closest to a solution has been to cover every window with outside blinds to at least stop them smashing into them.

I stayed with them for a few months and was woken up by this every morning without fail. Honestly, it was pretty distressing.

I love birds and feed them in our garden (so do my parents!), but I wouldn't want to encourage crows to follow me around after that. I'm always in two minds about this tendency for humans to...humanise...animal behaviour.
I dropped moderate coin on a budget 10 GbE PoE+ switch to power some Ubiquiti U6-Enterprise APs (does 6E and > 1GbE). The trick for residential use is resistor hacking the fans to avoid a 1U jet engine in the closet.
The FAQ answers this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
One of the best times I spent working is when I lived a 15 minute Caltrain ride, and a 15 minute walk from my work in Mountain View. I could, and often did, make the drive in half the the time for less money, but not driving also meant no time lost in traffic, waiting for other people, or dealing with all the risks of driving. Afterwards, I moved to Houston where driving is mandatory. Even though my commute wasn't as long and I worked more remotely, my mood and life satisfaction took a fairly large downturn.
Sweden has about 2x the number of per capita deaths from Covid vs any of Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway. You can't simply blow that off and not acknowledge that you are making a tradeoff.

My anecdata shows that the children who fared well through all of this didn't need group interaction at all. A small number of peers (<4) and a teacher or two were completely sufficient for children up through almost teenage years. In fact, those students are WAY ahead of where there would be even before Covid.

Small groupings like that for children would have been completely fine through Covid.

The problem in the US is that we, as a society, lack the collective will to fund something so obviously, ridiculously beneficial like that for an extended amount of time.
The consequence is enterprise sales, Apple used to compete but mostly exited that market years ago.
That sounds incredibly dystopian, those poor kids!
Probably an ancient cam that didn't follow the standards
I tend to agree, but you can also run your own servers.
> The question is why would you want something like that?

Some of us want stable software that feels fast and responsive and doesn't lag on high-end machines while using 2GB of RAM despite being extremely simple
Static files can be relatively large, like pictures, or sounds, or even videos. At busier moments, the p99 latency can become pretty bad if you only have one virtual NIC serving them.

Also, geography: ping time from Singapore to the US can never be negligibly short, which is pretty noticeable during TLS handshakes.

But yes, likely these considerations do not matter for 90% of websites (not 99.9% though).
One of my personal rules for life is that wherever possible I avoid businesses which are big enough to have call centres, especially if those call centres are in another country. Obviously that's impossible for a lot of things, but I try. The small local ISP I use, for example, is totally worth the additional cost. I can call them, and there's no "press 6 for support, your call is important to us" nonsense. A couple of rings, and I'm stright through to an expert who has the knowledge and authority to fix my problem right away.
Yes, robotics and automation is an interesting field
No use arguing with someone who doesn't understand the geopolitical ramifications of a Putin-entrenched Ukraine.
I never said that. I said that it has demonstrated a lack of understanding, not that it is fundamentally incapable of understanding.
Do you have other investments you hold that you feel comfortable sharing?
Unfortunately for Microsoft, condumers are as wedded to legacy apps as enterprise customers are. A lot of Steam's library immediately vanishes if you lose 32-bit support for example.
Crazy to me that this is downvoted. It's the core truth of our debt based economic system.

Our economic system will explode violently in a default cascade without population growth or productivity growth and we haven't been able to figure out ways to consistently increase productivity, which is to say we need population growth to sustain our way of life.

It's why deflation is the boogeyman. Deflation is basically a win in a society with zero debt. Deflation is a humanitarian crisis at 130% public debt to gdp and whatever ~300% total debt to gdp we are at.

But population growth is a net loss for most of us. More plastic waste. More energy consumed and emissions created, more space taken up etc. There's already more than enough of us by any metric except the amount of gdp growth required to keep our economy running.
> 2) Android apparently doesn't support CalDAV! I tried, but I couldn't get an iCloud published calendar to show on an Android phone, not even read only.

I have been syncing my Android calendar with NextCloud using CalDAV for years.

I use DAVx⁵ - https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid
> Are there examples of such speech, incitement to violence, that you see as appropriately prosecuted?

Yes, but Americans often don’t like them very much. In Germany, we routinely punish people for wanting to forcibly overthrow our government.
I'm not sure if keeping China out of the name is prudent or not, but keeping with the intention perhaps "Regional covid-19 surge raises odds…" is a decent neutral ground
> The only fraud you still get is friendly fraud from buyers.

Nope, I've had 3 different sellers run the exact same scam on me.

Each time it was an item not even close to as described -- e.g. damaged and used when advertised as new, an old inferior model different from the one advertised, etc. No problem, I can understand people make mistakes so I ask for a return and they send a prepaid label, I ship it back.

But turns out they've manually entered a totally different tracking number in eBay's system for the return label tracking info. I ship the item back but obviously it never shows to eBay as delivered or even sent in the first place, and there's no way in the user UX to correct the tracking info to the label you sent.

The only way to resolve it is to call eBay, except that's almost impossible because it has to be a callback initiated through a link on their website, and if you've called too many times before, they stop showing the link. (Turns out there's still a way to do it, clicking through several links in the support center, as long as you're not logged in so they don't know you're the one "using up" their phone support.)

Because the actual return label is in their message to me, a customer service rep eventually decides I'm right, they can manually see that label was delivered, and so they'll initiate a full refund but it will take several days. But every time, the refund doesn't go through. You have to wait a couple of weeks, call them again, explain the whole process again, and then the refund will go through on the second attempt. (All 3 cases, it required the second try.)

Three times, three different sellers trying to offload junk on me instead of the actual new item, and using this "wrong return label tracking number" scam so not only does it not get refunded but they get the original (albeit crappy) merchandise back too! Definitely a full hour of work to deal with eBay after each one to get the return fixed and actually refunded, and I imagine most people can't even get someone on the phone to do it. (Chat and messages simply didn't work or get responded to, or they were unhelpful autoresponses.)
Having spent some spare time working on a package manager for OS X Tiger / PowerPC, I’ve had to learn to take “runs anywhere” with a giant grain of salt.
That's what Canuckistan calls America. ;)

And they don't have many snowmobile issues in Florida.
Not a Google employee (any more) but familiar with the culture from past experience.

The mindset is that the company's costs must scale non-linearly against revenue for the company to survive. As a result, engineering solutions that require zero humans are preferred over hiring humans. Sometimes humans are acceptable in the short-term (usually if it results in more revenue).

Why do employees allow company leadership to allow this to happen? Internally, I think stuff like this does get raised and actions are taken to address the "bugs". But I think there is also an attitude that Google is not going to change course because they believe this is a better approach in the long run. "What's a few inconvenienced users when you can solve problems for a billion+ people??"

From a business perspective, I can understand it. From a human perspective it sucks.
This kind of comment contributes nothing to the discussion, it's just cheap outrage points.
I'm aware, I already did that. And yes, I got my money back. That seems completely beside your "it's near-impossible to scam people since 2008" point though? Unless your position is "it's only a scam if it succeeds"?
Would it have been better if I said that they were not sending notifications that the system thought were low quality? Predicting the quality of a notification is not trivial.
https://youtu.be/hv1Hnmt1GBo

You're 'search engine prompting' needs some work, next time try "tédio Brazil song" :p
There are some, the most promising of which to me are slint (runs anywhere, includes custom IDL), druid (from the xi-editor folks) and xilem (new architecture, from the druid folks)
I don't want to join the dogpile against the woman criticized in the article, but yes, it has to be mentioned that she has written some batshit crazy stuff about how theoretical physics is imbued with white supremacist ideas. Stuff that would make Alan Sokal cringe. For example,

> Ultimately, the discourse about the quantum gravity model of string theory provides an example of how white supremacist racial prestige asymmetry produces an antiempiricist epistemic practice among physicists, white empiricism. In string theory, we find an example wherein extremely speculative ideas that require abandoning the empiricist core of the scientific method and which are endorsed by white scientists are taken more seriously than the idea that Black women are competent observers of their own experiences. In practice, invalidating Black women's standpoint is an antiempirical disposal of data, in essence turning white supremacist social structures into an epistemic practice in science. Therefore, while traditionally defined empiricism is the stated practice of scientists, white empiricism -- where speculative white, male testimony is more highly valued than reality-based testimony from Black women -- is the actual practice of scientists.

> Quantum chromodynamics is a colorful name for a theory that uses color as an analogy for physical properties that have nothing to do with color. Unfortunately, QCD came of age in a time when Black people were still using a moniker given to us by white people -- "colored" -- and to this day, textbooks still sometimes call it "colored physics". A Black feminist physicist working in the 1960s would never have used this language, which -- though it lacks the same social meaning -- recalls for me the Third Reich-era phrase "Aryan physics"... What I'm saying is, I love the idea of QCD, but the language is a hot mess.

> Black thought can help us free science from the white supremacist traditions of scientists.
I recently moved to Spain and got 1 gig symmetrical for 20 euros a month, and my ISP just sent an email saying 10 gig symmetrical is available in my building now for just 10 euros more. So tempting just to say I have 10 gig as I really have no use for it..
My argument would be that it caps out at a certain point where more money stopes equalling higher win%, I have played a lot of high level magic tournaments and budget was never really something that impacted the meta game at the higher levels.

I always compare it to something like golf, my nearest golf club is 1500€/year, the equipment would probably be another 500 or so, does this make golf a play-to-win game or just an expensive hobby?

E: Ironically the thing thats most pay-to-win about magic is the way tournaments used to be ran, being actually competitive at a decent level involves 1-2 trips to different cities on the continent a month, with the occasional trip to a different continent thrown in. In my competitive years I spend like 1k/year on cards, pulled in 2k/year in winnings and spent probably 8k in flights and hotel costs.
Better advice would be to move the rock so you flush out all that slow moving water behind it, that is what happen when you disrupt a market. Not very good for the people there though.
Anyone who writes C/C++/Rust, like I do, can benefit tremendously from Mold. I use it daily. Each time I hit save and need to run my program, Mold saves me about 10 seconds in linking time. That time adds up quickly, and prevents me from getting distracted.
>I think the workers on Ellis Island often made up last names

no, ship's manifests (prepared at the point of departure) have been a standard in the ocean-voyage game for a long long time, and those were the lists used by immigration, not handwritten lists based on what they heard.

see here https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/07/02/name-changes-ellis-isla...
Let's not overlook that evolution is an economic process. There's an opportunity cost to every mutation. There may be an evolutionary path that will lead to non-sacrificial bee stingers, but to change that would be immediately detrimental to the species and so it is never pursued. Or at best, provides no immediate benefit which would allow the mutants to out-compete other bees.

Natural selection isn't goal-oriented and can't look to the future to measure a potential benefit. It's essentially throwing everything at the wall and see what sticks deployed at scale. The bees have found a local optimum that happens to tolerate bees dying when they sting and there's no pressure for that to change. If the economic formula ever changed where dying put them at a disadvantage, then the evolution engine would kick into high gear.
Is this from a book?
> Rust is a replacement for C++ not C.

I disagree. We're finding that it's a great replacement for C++, C, C#, and Java. It even fits to replace or compliment scripting languages like JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.

> Rust macros are a disaster.

Better than C macros or no macros at all. Could it be better? Certainly.

However, I don't think that Zig comptime is capable of the very important things that Rust macros enable.

> The whole kerfuffle around async and what had to be put into the compiler shows that Rust features don't compose well and don't allow the language to extend to unhandled cases cleanly (see: Pin).

Actually, I consider Pin as a triumph of the Rust way. By adding a simple rule (do not move this) you get enable a bunch of useful properties. And it only affects things which need it. It requires some understanding of you're working with it in unsafe territory, but the API surface keeps things safe for the average user.

> #![nostd] still doesn't handle alternate memory allocators all that well.

I don't know enough about it to say otherwise.

> My wishlist is C with just a bit of the Rust borrow checking and safety. I suspect that Zig or D will be able to get 80% of Rust's safety while only gaining 10% of Rust's complexity.

All of your problems with Rust are being worked on. Most of the missing features and pain points I see bright up are really just cases where the language hasn't filled the whole multidimensional space where orthogonal features interact.

Based on pace of development, you might see Rust fill out before Zig or especially D fulfill your dreams. Especially if you want actual memory safety.