skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why store hydrogen when you can use the metals? I mentioned zinc as that's most mature technology, but almost all of them can be reacted with oxygen to get back energy.
I had given up on universal apps before finding tamagui. We’re rebuilding our app experience with this now and seeing the optimizing compiler work is beautiful. Native feels speedy, and the flattened classes it produces for web makes the experience feel first class. SSR friendly to boot.
Neither of those are verbatim copies, do you have an example of a verbatim (i.e. exact, non-transformative) replica?
ConsenSys is to IPFS
as Blockstream is to BTC
Absolutely. I saw a lot of bad advice from people who thought it was only exploitable when misusing the API, similar to SQL injection, and I can see why they would think that. Unfortunately, they were wrong.
One thing that I came back to time and time again while consulting is that most operational problems are, in whole or in part, language problems, in the Wittgenstein sense. I worked with a lot of clients to define and document “linguistic boundaries” in their organizations where terms could abruptly change their meanings, and then used that to help silos communicate more effectively with each other.
How much value does centralization / federation add?

99% of rides are local users, and of the remaining 1%, 99% of those are from a hotel, airport or local's place. In other words the concierge can call you a cab, the airport can vet the taxi stand or a trusted local can book you a ride.

IOW, the solution that might win is something like NYC's drivers cooperative. If it's the best for local users, that's enough to win and non-locals have an inferior experience.
Everyone wants this but no one really wants this. The reason these restrictions exist is because of food quality issues, conditions at the pickup, wait times, courier feedback etc. Every food delivery co at some point did deliveries from certain places and went on to restrict them because for one reason or another the experience was not great for the customer / fleet or the merchant. At least that's how we did things at Postmates
My wife is a 28J in US sizes. Panache is your friend. Amazon Wardrobe will let you get up to 6 at a time and return whatever doesn't fit right. At least the situation is improving--she used to have to get custom only.
It’s improved based on a heuristic for you based on whatever area you tend to drive in. (Maybe interventions is reported by the car after a session, but it’s still a small sample size.)

At the end of the day, you still don’t have the feature you paid for, you’ve paid to be part of a (very risky) beta test. I don’t think that’s how most people buying FSD planned on this going.
I can't put my finger on it exactly but there's something about this story that isn't making sense.
Yes, that would have been much, much better. Better yet if you could trace it back to the authors so that in the case of attribution licenses you could have properly attributed the code.
Sigh. Big business vs. the little guy.

I recall when I took basic accounting, we learned that common payment terms were "2/10, net/30" meaning "2% off if you pay within 10 days, and it's all due within 30 days."

So it was common practice to wait 30 days (or more) and still take the 2% off.

This is in no way blaming the victim, but "for a total of $216,000 in debt" I would hope I'd just say, "no, we're not doing that." One of those hard calls that nothing in business school can prepare you for.
I know of several families (the parents on both my side and my wife's side) where reading the newspaper over breakfast is normal. Only these days the newspaper is often a digital subscription on a tablet or phone.

It's another small step to browse social media (after all, that's how a lot of people get their news) in the same way, or over different meals than breakfast.

All in all, I share your observations, but I'm also not surprised if other people have to make that decision consciously.
Slightly off topic, but whenever I see talk about perceptually-uniform color, I'm reminded of this classic post about graphing library colormaps:

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/10/16/how-bad-is-your-col...

(which also links to https://matplotlib.org/2.0.2/users/colormaps.html)
I don't believe it's "the food business" as much as "suppliers" in general. I know non-food industries that operate this way, and it's common enough that accounting classes I've taken covered some of the basics of these.

Advertising or informational industries (e.g. non-tangible goods industries) seem to operate differently, as you've said.
Go really isn't a great language for numeric or scientific programming. It's type system, for one, is incredibly inflexible / composable.
> Squabble over whatever details you want about performance or who had to do what R&D but F9 is clearly in a different league.

Falcon 9 First launch attempt 2007 [0]

Shuttle First launch 1981 [1]

I wonder if there's an advantage to having 26 years of watching someone else before designing yours? You also act like the rockets from the shuttle were not reused. They always (except for 2 instances) came back with the shuttle. The SRBs were also recovered, so it's not like these were wasted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
This is not true. It’s perfectly possible for the US government to use YouTube in a privacy act compliant manner.

https://www.dhs.gov/youtube-privacy-policy-and-notice
I think they mean React Native API.

"<17kb, 0-dependency. Every React Native API, typed, without bloat on the web."
It probably went something like "we can do $5.00 per unit, sold in cases of 6"

"Ok, we'll order 6000 at that price"
is this the parallel to passport js?
probably

„Can you move 6000 units?”

“Yes we can move 6000 units at 10$ per pound”

“Sounds great, get them going!”
I recently rewrote my website and product screenshots is still a todo. Just follow the App Store button for screenshots.
I don't think that's entirely true. When I've tested codepilot it also knows something about the context in which it's working, so it can use relevant variable names in it's suggestions. To me that's a step beyond rote regurgitation of other code.
> Exactly what, in the year 2023 C.E., is C great for?

Writing readable code. I'm a huge fan of Zig and Rust too but at the end of the day they just aren't C.
That’s actually a cool hack

1Password becomes One Thing if your password is your thing
> ownership is a concept in dire need of revision

GP did not limit the scope of their opinion on ownership to IP.
Hm, ok, I wasn't aware that the 020's already had a full MMU on board, thanks for the correction. Probably they made too many assumptions about being able to mess around in other processes address space to enable it by the time they got it.
>Starship is intended to have no refurbishment between flights - refuel and fly again

Surely this entails a host of quality checks between flights? What is that cost estimate at?
I agree. I feel a bit uncomfortable with the premise of this article. It's quasi deifying the tech execs.

"CEO Evan Spiegel grew up without TV, and credits the technology restriction to his success".

Sigh. Only if things were that simple. I'm sure it was one of hundreds of factors that worked in his favors.
land surveys aren't just done for fun, they're done for legal compliance. and if the law you need to comply with requires something to be measured in feet, the surveyor needs to provide a measurement in feet.

until the NOAA and NIST have the power to rewrite all the zoning laws (at the federal, state, and local levels) that say roads must be X feet wide, or structures must be set back X feet from the property line, or utilities need to be buried X feet away from something, the reports that surveyors produce will need to include measurements in feet (or at the very least, there needs to be an official conversion factor between metres and feet, which is what is being discussed here).
50s women had washing machines (unless they were poor Appalachians, like my grandparents). But really when we're speaking of the 50s we're almost explicitly formulating it in terms of white suburbia.

I am speaking solely of the social situation, the psychology of the times, which in part can be summed up in one word 'conformity' (oh, and not to forget segregation, anti-gay and anti-communist hysteria, etc).

Technologically speaking, if I had the New York Library (or equiv) and a typewriter, I wouldn't take it as too much of a step down.
It's 101 that wholesale buyers order by the case and for producers to specify the casecount and price, and for errors like this to be caught when the prices/etc don't line up. This is equivalent to not knowing that URLs can redirect, or that http:// and https:// aren't the same thing. Distributors work with 1000 brands each and don't have time (or margin) to babysit.

Also, when a company gets a much larger and different customer, I would expect any CEO to pickup the phone and talk with peers about how to manage the process. Brokers are outsourced commissioned reps, not shareholders.
To control a string of LEDs, something like Forth (or some other p-code virtual machine) is going to be just as good as C. PIC microcontrollers have always had BASIC as an option for example.

But many microcontrollers these days will likely have a TCP/IP stack, perhaps even crypto, even if it is to control a string of LEDs via MQTT or Modbus TCP.
I can’t replicate, trying various devices in simulator and private tabs… I’ll keep checking
I worked for a web agency a while ago, where they embraced DDD and like the first few meetings with the client were only focused on creating a ubiquitous language and defining common terminology in order to avoid misunderstandings, it takes a bit of bootstrap but it's the best way to work with people who are not technical. Probably food distribution could make some use for it too as far as I can see from the post
What problems have you been having?
If it writes what would have been open source dependencies based on open source code you no longer have to license that work or your own. Also coders might not want to open source original work for fear they are just going to feed that beast that will ultimately kill them. Sort of a chilling effect if they cannot chose to contribute to that cause or not while also sharing code as open source.
> It’s why you can easily find literature written hundreds or thousands of years ago in multiple languages with little effort

Little effort, because someone else put in the effort to keep and disseminate it. And we only know of the surviving material, we have no idea how much was lost.

Take the bible for example. It's a classic example of stories from millennia ago making it to the modern world. But its journey took the concerted effort of millions of scribes, translators, and so forth to make the journey. And it has not done so intact. We can even see how the Bible's been changed by comparing just the last two major revisions of it: NIV and KJ. Language aside, there are some pretty major ideological changes based on interpretation. And thanks to some miraculous archeological finds in the dead sea scrolls, we can see how the bible has drifted even further from its original roots.

That's not information being free, it's information degrading and being re-purposed - often re-created - for specific ideologies and beliefs.
I think you're imagining what you wish should be. You've been to the Vegan Society's website, though... veganism is not pragmatic and is quite strict/dogmatic, that's the whole point, otherwise it would be generic vegetarianism.

If people don't even know and understand terms and philosophies/ideologies then there is nothing that can be discussed.

In any case, best wishes for the new year.
> people don't use the right words and terms

Your examples are people "being helpful" by "figuring it out for you" when they don't understand all the specifics. Yes, that's an annoying problem any specialist deals with.

The article is about something that should have had clarity in a contract. It's the kind if situation that should involve lawyers.
I apologize for accidentally creating a meme here. (I got angry when I saw the recent "ProxyNotShell" vulnerability in the media...)

It is an interesting exercise in the power of language though. The name "Log4Shell" was literally picked because there wasn't a CVE and people running searches for "log4j RCE" were seeing a vuln in Log4j v1 from 2016. There needed to be a unique identifier that people could search for and tag on Twitter.

The name just... sort of got picked arbitrarily while I was very tired after doing many hours of security research and reading through Enterprise Java code lol. (You're right that "shell" was used to express RCE, ala Shellshock or other major vulns.)

I think the subsequent vulns (Spring4Shell, Text4Shell) just use the format of the name to be more catchy and ride the coat tails of Log4Shell's notoriety. (Like a meme!)
I remember in a corporate finance class in college, we did a lot of calculations comparing prepayment to net 30, net 90 terms, etc.

The game is to maximize cash flow, though in the end, it doesn't make a lot of difference except in very thin margin businesses. But the general wisdom is to always try to take maximum advantage.

I always felt that it is a silly strategy considering that it strains your suppliers, provides little financial benefit, and big corporations blow so much money on so many other things that could easily be addressed before worrying about setting up net 30 payments.
I noticed that some PMs (and now also engineers) use “tab” in place of “page”. So “adding a tab” means “adding a page”. I was very confused by that and still have to double check what they mean each time.
The Dymaxion Bathroom
> What kind of brave soul wants to trudge through and maintain log4j in their spare time for zero compensation?

It's not clear to me as an outsider what exactly the Apache foundation is doing for these projects. It feels like Apache is willing to accept code donations from anyone and is willing to attach the foundation's name to code that isn't widely used, actively maintained, or may just be abandonware.

I have soooo much more confidence in CNCF projects. The conditions for graduating as a CNCF project include criteria like that your project must be in use by multiple real companies, have maintainers who are (paid) employees of multiple different companies, and get a professional security audit.
Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++-compiler 0.9.6
I have just released version 0.9.6 of Shed Skin, a restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler. The highlight of this release is the migration to Python 3.

For more information about the release:

http://blogfarts.blogspot.com/2022/12/shed-skin-restricted-p...

Project homepage:

http://github.com/shedskin/shedskin
Yeah! I was all Wow! Everything is here! So comprehensive! I’ll use this in class!

And then it turns out, at the bottom, to be homeopathy apologia. I hasten to add, in apparent good faith.

https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/memory_of_water.html

It’s hard to describe the acute physical subjective percept that I experience in my gut when I read (apparently? superficially?) evenhanded consideration of published data that flatly contradict an entire paradigm.
Co-creator here; but endless.horse was entirely Colleen's idea.

It's wonderful seeing this pop up occasionally. As boing boing once said, it's not called endless for nothing.

We personally use https://secure.endless.horse/ as a quick check our internet connections, especially when there's a captive portal.
> We know that upper respiratory infections often precede heart attacks and strokes. Preventing or reducing the severity of influenza provides a protective factor particularly for stroke

So it is really just a secondary benefit to protecting against the flu. One could say that wearing a mask reduces stroke risk for the same reason, or washing hands thoroughly. Anything that reduces the chance of getting the flu.
For Christmas, I bought my kids a physical set of encylopedias [1], usually $600, but black friday sale for $400. My son wanted to know "What are the top 30 soccer teams in the world cup all time?". Instead of googling it, which would have given him a listacle article with random facts and other clickbait, the encyclopedia had:

* Winners and runners up for the past 15 world cups
* a break down of soccer per continent, comparing and contrasting them

He then went and totaled how many wins different countries have gotten....

For a family like mine which can afford $400 for a set of books, this has been an amazing purchase which is a far superior first step to "pull out an ipad and google it".

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0716601214
A better solution is just to drive your own car (or bike) to pick up your food.
Or he was successful despite the restriction! There's really no way to know just from one sample.
There may be some evidence of people gaming YouTube algorithms to funnel people deeper into conspiracy theories, but Netflix and History channel aren’t on that platform so you might instead get funneled into watching X-Files or Unsolved Mysteries.
> The innovation here isn't about reusability at all, it's about the economics of reuse.

It's about both.

SpaceX showed that the 1st stage of a rocket can be reliably reused in production. Which is really important from an architecture perspective because 2/3 stage rockets are just more efficient than 1/1.5 stage rockets (mostly due to the propellant mass fraction term of the rocket equation).

To give some examples, the payload mass fraction of some reusable rockets is:

* Shuttle(partial reuse): 1%

* Falcon 9(partial reuse): 4%

* Starship(full reuse, in development): 2%
Searched for alternatives but did not find any, sorry
This is based on pretty old info, which probably comes from an offhand statement by Musk, so big grain of salt, but I think they’re hoping to get it to be on par with a jetliner, which if I understand correctly is just a maintenance schedule based on # of flight hours. Not sure if that’s going to be feasible given the difference in the violence of the flight profile.
Thanks for the link, interesting. I'd still recommend making a submission for js-framework-benchmark, otherwise it's kinda like preact signals, where the performance aspect of them is kind of a marketing aspect really, and they don't actually improve the score much at all in js-framework-benchmark, hence, presumably, why they haven't submitted an implementation yet. The more data the fewer doubts.
Nix journey part 1: creating a flake
I've always suspected SQL syntax sucks but I'm too much of an SQL noob to be fully convinced.
This might be fast for JS, but Rails is the GOAT for MVPs.
Did we know each other? (Oracle, 1991-98). I wrote two articles about it on my Substack, https://albertcory50.substack.com).
Sorry; that was my extrapolation from other X1 Carbons.
I mistakenly thought this was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-pose (apparently NSFW) in 3D graphics.
The quote does not make that assertion…
Sure. But debugging sure isn't. Null, null terminated strings, data races, segfaults...
Which side of washing machine? And what type of washing machine?
They were relying on a consultant.
photography is actually a very good example of how this talking point breaks down.
there are a great deal of laws and social codes around where you can and cannot film and take photographs. photography is explicitly disallowed in most museums and art galleries. filming in public requires permits and waivers in many places, especially if the filming is done with a commercial interest.

'but how is capturing an image with a camera lens any different from capturing it with my retina? both are simply methods of refracting light and translating that information into a storage medium. the camera is just remembering* like a human remembers and we mustn't let luddites regulate this revolutionary technology or we'll impede the progress of the camera becoming an even more better rememberer'*

the social ramifications of the camera are still being reckoned with to this day and yes, cameras very highly regulated compared to pretty much any other human method of expression or transcription, in fact we are still coming up with new things you cannot film eg the recent crop of revenge porn laws.
Apple made that interpretation regarding their app-store. It is also the reason why GPL software is not accepted on the store. Authors would need to give apple a full copyright transfer agreement (or exemptions of the GPL terms), including any dependencies, and that was simply more costly than just banning GPL from the store.
I'm not a professionnal, but i've worked with kids for years before going into CS and development, and i have a surpising advice:

Screen are OK.

What you want is your kid to experiment. Constantly, with different things. Even doing nothing for some time can be stimulating, if you're with them. TV, radio, music on the background is a good idea (maybe mixing the medias a bit). Having stuff to look at (animated images!) is nice.

The danger is cutting off social relationships and contact, and as long as you're present, this won't happen.

And consider youth summer camps.
You're probably in group 2.

Why do you support local farmers? Like on a deep level? Deeper than "well they're my neighbors" Why do you support your neighbor over some guy in Nebraska? Probably because his culture an interests align with yours whereas the same is not necessarily true about the guy thousands of miles away and all the parties between you and him. You'd rather be slightly less dependent on the long supply chain than the short one.
Yes, but at some point a purchase order has to be drafted and a contract has to be signed. Those things should be spelled out in detail.

I'd think the big company would almost demand that or else the coffee roaster could ship 6000 zip lock baggies with 10 coffee beans in each. I know that's an absurd example but a PO and contract protects everyone against that and that's why any reasonable company doesn't proceed without defined terms.
That's more what I would call "strategic misinformation".

Ok, ok, it's a scam, but a very common scam! Similar to the white van scam. They really should teach people about these scams in school.
Well, Toyota (the company) certainly is.
We also support HTTPS over at https://secure.endless.horse/
NYT op-ed: Privacy at all costs is dangerous
It’s basically a financial tabloid. They all do this—pump out worship of the rich and successful that gets eaten up by the masses of temporarily embarrassed millionaires that read it and try to emulate what they do.
If you want to try the author's WPA passphrase utility, the flake URI is in the article!

nix shell github:woile/wpa_passphrase_rs
I travel a decent bit. Not sure where you are, but almost without exception things are much, much better than ever before outside the us.