skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like we may see more and more HN submissions that are URLs pointing to Mastodon "toots". Better than URLs pointing to Twitter pages, but still baffling given that the content is less than 500 characters, and even less in the case of Twitter.

The text of a toot is in the page. There is no Javascript-triggered HTTP request to retrieve it. One does not need to enable Javascript to fetch and read toots in a web browser. But, like Twitter, some web developer(s) thought it would be a good idea to try to prevent www browser users from seeing any content unless they enable Javascript.

One workaround is to simply add /embed to the URL.

https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/109588605178700...

Personally I have added a rule to the localhost-bound forward proxy that adds this automatically so Mastodon toots are readable in the text-only browser.
In the current take on crypto, sure. Idk if I would call that success though!
It’s just an endorsement. Logging in to a website with a Google ID doesn’t tell me you paid. Authentication != authorization.
i had an absolute moment of shock when i plugged in my usb-c dock to my smartphone only for my full-sized keyboard and mouse to suddenly came alive on the tiny android screen. that then sent me down a rabbithole of "wow, could i actually use this as a desktop???" (long answer: no, although maybe with samsung dex you could.)

I still sometimes do it, just for the "this is ridiculous" entertainment factor. where it gets really fun is when you install termux, and start using it as if it were a desktop machine. all on a tiny screen.

the most entertaining thing was to run a tmux session inside termux, and then ssh from my desktop machine into the phone, and then attach to the tmux session. Typing characters from my desktop ssh session would then ofcourse be immediately visible on the phone's tmux session (and vice versa). about 200ms delay, not too unusable.
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I've definitely used turbo c vim themes in the past. a quick Google search brings up https://github.com/caglartoklu/borlandp.vim and some others
I've bought five magazines at Barnes and Noble in the past two months, after not buying any magazine for probably 15 years. I don't know why but I go in, something catches my eye, and I buy it. I have no desire to subscribe, three of the magazines are focused on things I've never considered but maybe now do.

So there's that.
I was going to say the same thing. I hate to argue against the interviewer (anyone should be able to get out there and create content), but at some point you have to question how much research are they doing and the desire to get on there to promote.
I was surprised it used half of the slides of "obama drone strikes" about the willful neglect for the human toll of civilian deaths [0], in some cases ~90%, (find the bad guy, bomb the entire block). I was expecting more of a synopsis of what happened rather than the issues with it.

The creators should take a look the only cool TechCrunch Disrupt winner, Qwiki, which turned searches in to audio and visual slides [1]. But Yahoo bought it for $50 million, turned down Google's offer thereafter of $150 million, then buried it forever a year later.

[0] https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZxO4e6Oak

Edit: The 90% refers to a specific date range of "air strikes": "Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets." [2]

[2] https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...
I like this idea, but if I did this I would have to have the conversation outside of my flat.
Relatedly- do bespoke bra makers exist? Like Indochino but for bras? Seems like the kind of thing that would be worth spending extra for premium fit.
We’ve done almost all our Christmas shopping there for years (younger kids). Still were able to do a lot of it there this year (tween to young teen age groups).

The toys there are some of our favorites (Lego and Calico Critters) and they have a lot of fun toys you’ve never heard of but are fun for the kids to try.
I'm looking forward to your SSO product. I hope that it adopts the same developer friendly pricing as your current product.
This is just a dynamic programming language.
> Should the government be able to force people to wear a mask?

The government runs some institutions like schools, which are even mandatory. If people can be forced to go to school wearing a mask is a rather mild requirement
Isn't this a modified version of eUTXO [1]? Known initial state/datum, transactions can be simulated/commited without needing global input like the account model needs.

The tradeoff is, of course, that scripts become much harder to implement, as you can't depend on global state.

[1]: https://iohk.io/en/research/library/papers/the-extended-utxo...
Now you're just engaging in silly semantics. Yes, in all practical sense, you absolutely do own the DRM-free books you've stripped of their rent-seeking garbage. You could even take that to court and quite heavily argue that because you bought them as claimed property, they're yours. You might not win, but a case could be made and in any case, you could move digital copies anywhere you want. The ones doing wrong here are the companies that try to impose DRM on things people are buying under a notion of ownership, That these also randomly erase or reclaim things they claim to have sold only makes the wrong worse.
BASIC is a great teaching language.

Pascal is way too verbose and boilerplate-ly compared to that.
Question - could you just send ultrasound though the walls just like the wifi signals in this example? I guess I'm not sure how much more limited ultrasound would be in this case.
Maybe yours is inviting, the one near me redid sections that used to be used by the homeless or unemployed and made them "teen spaces" and directed huge chunks of money at turning the space into a community center... in the vein of a JCC or low rent country club for the folks who went to the universities surrounding it.

(I haven't been to the SF public library in a while, but the few times I went in as a Mozilla intern the staff were so rude I ended up buying books and selling them at a used bookstore when finished rather than be treated rudely by folks who were within a year or two of me, from the same department I graduated from. Maybe there's a reason people don't respect that space, and it's not just because they're mentally ill and/or down on their luck.)
VAT and sales tax are different though, VAT is included in the list price. Sales tax is added on.
They could also alert when there are drivers nearby with a history of crashes and bad driving.
> A 36DD is pretty large, a 28DD is not in absolute terms. But in terms of appearance, a true 28DD will look quite large on a small frame.

Nope. 36DD isn't really that large, and a 28DD doesn't look very large at all even accounting for the small frame. I'm a bra fitter at a specialty boutique (I also do their IT - my life is weird) and I see a lot of breasts. I'm also personally a 28GG/H and most people would consider me on the larger size of average; nobody would consider me 'large chested'. A 28DD is still going to look tiny. They just probably think they're a 34A, but in general at that size women who are fed up with bras just stop wearing them.
Is there a difference? A decentralized protocol that can be DOS'd by a reasonably successful criminal gang isn't all that useful.
I see nothing in that article that says anything about a world view. not in a deep actually useful way. i see shallow fluff.
From a practical point of view, how do you imagine this playing out?

If we remove the gender division from, say, javelin throwing (random choice; current difference in world records there is currently 30% for reference). Now there won't be any (cis) women competing at the top level any more.

So somebody goes ahead and creates a women's division (or whatever you want to call it). Should we somehow forbid this? Or would it be required that they accept any transgender individual in any state of transition? And either case is just "back to square 1" - no cis women have a chance. I don't see how "let's remove the 'women' category in this competition in the interest of fairness to trans people" is improving things for anyone...
> Even Rust couldn't save them.

Rust doesn't stop bugs, it just helps you try reason about stuff and maybe catch them earlier.
Often, even more complicated: the ERP software vendor is one party; then there's the consulting VAR who does the customer's "customizations", and then the in-house team which does the "administration" and some "configuration". The VAR may or may not have a continuing relationship and of course the three groups have ample opportunity for finger-pointing; and the "administration" team is often under-resourced and doesn't really have the right skills to continue or maintain the work.

It's worse than a framework because most frameworks are designed for people to do some form of software engineering with. But with some "configurable" tool, you end up with something that you need to do software engineering but it doesn't have the tools, power or affordances to do so.

I've done some Jira consulting and worked in MDM and I'm of the firm belief that "buy vs. build" isn't the real dichotomy: it's "build" vs. "buy and build", and the effort of building on top of the platform is usually underestimated and undervalued.
Yes, but this has to be less of a problem when they've been canceling tons of flights, right?
Haha oh well that flew over my head. Thanks for explaining.
IMO, the following would be in that category:

Algorithms, unix networking, assembly books, the art of computer programming, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, anything by Benjamin Pierce, good compiler books, discrete mathematics, the art of electronics, Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Spivak's Calculus, ...
The furnace at my mother's house in Houston went out and I tried to get her HVAC guy to replace it with a heat pump. (The AC is 30 years old and also needs to be replaced) He clearly had no idea what a heat pump is and came up with the following excuses to not install a heatpump:

1. Heat pumps are only for extremely cold weather

2. The heat from heatpumps is too hot, they only install them at elder care facilities where they need extra heat

3. It's far more complicated than a furnace / AC setup, and will require a lot more maintenance.

Not sure what this all means for the industry if common HVAC guys don't even know about heat pumps yet.
Seconding this.

That calculator, and r/ABraThatFits[1] are your friend, if you need them -- nothing else compares.

Even supposed "experts" in stores can massively misjudge or incorrectly size you. Measure yourself, you might be surprised!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits/
At our company we don't think account is an elegant model. There are many different things called account in Solana. This is a presentation from our Spanish speaking team talking about Solana from a critical developer approach: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1icRB_oYx_eIF5ytYTb94...

The slide #6 talks about the different things called account. You can easily translate it if you don't speak Spanish.
You can't run a solana node behind nat, last I looked, because it uses some weird custom udp protocol that doesn't work right behind nat.

That's where my experimentation with the chain stopped.
I think that means we need to use Rust to target WebAssembly...?
Have young kids? Mickey Mouse is very prominent, if not the signature character, of Disney Jr. Prominent in shows, branding, and interstitials.

https://disneynow.com/all-shows/disney-junior?group=kidsafe&...
> Just send them your own EULA at "purchase" if you think that unilateral terms no one reads should be binding on the other party.

I've heard, explicitly from lawyers, that sending an automated process (like a website) amendments to their EULA won't hold up at all in court. It's clear that the EULA is take it or leave it, and throwing changes at something that you know will ignore them doesn't accomplish anything.

It'd be nice if we could do it, but it doesn't fit into the reality of law.
I found ABTF...back when I was a 26 band size. At least I understood why I could never be happy.

Very glad I'm 30 pounds heavier now and can wear a 28 or even 30(!) band...
All Success Is a Lagging Indicator
But it won't do that.

Sure, it'll probably reduce the number of overtakes. While making the ones that happen so much worse.
And if you look at the photo of the front panel, you can see the "AUTO RSTRT" switch that's mentioned in the article - it's the third from the left on the top panel:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Interfac...

We had one of these refrigerator-sized boxes in our machine room in the early 80's to connect our DEC-20 to the Arpanet. A few years later, it was replaced by a Cisco router that was a fraction of its size.
the one near me redid sections that used to be used by the homeless or unemployed and made them "teen spaces" and directed huge chunks of money at turning the space into a community center

They adapted and drew in new users. How awful.
I tried this and the library was not interested (as in, refused to take a look at the books cover).
> In general, criticism of this format is quite problematic and should be considered bad form. You see the format quite often in politically sensitive research and other infected areas (like nutrition), as a means of character assassination.

Interesting. It looks like it’s making an argument but if you read closely it’s nothing but insinuation and an opinion about the correct way to have disagreements so as to avoid scandal in front of the plebeians.
Solana's definition of transaction is weird though. There's no way a P2P network is doing 4500 txs in the common blockchain terminology. The entire system is a house of cards waiting to crumble - just napkin the average tx size * 4500 txs * peers etc...
Goodreads is extremely annoying to use. It’s annoying to write interesting reviews which don’t surface compared to uninteresting reviews anyway. It’s annoying to look for books with interesting reviews and searching for anything a bit specific is completely impossible. I don’t know anyone who seriously like reading and use it.

The recommendations you would get inside a bookstore have nothing to do with this kind of experience. You are having an actual conversation about what you like and are looking for.
Can attackers can easily tell the 1 and 500 iteration databases and focus their resources in breaching those ones?
If this is what's necessary for experienced devs, imagine all the students and upcoming devs that are not allowed a foot in the door. The great social barrier that keeps jobs in very specific parts of the U.S.
According to [0] the toll of civilian deaths is 9% not ~90%:

> The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.
Yeah, I've been also asking it questions about API documentation (Android APIs specifically) and it is very good at it, often beating StackOverflow.

Though I've noticed sometimes it gets fringier details incorrect but remains very self-assured nonetheless.
How are there enough transactions on Solana to get to 4500 per second? How is there possibly enough demand on a crypto network to be remotely in the same league as visa? I don't buy it.
That's very strange. Database schema's don't need to be that literal, they're there to serve the business use-case for the underlying data.

A NULL `deleted_at` timestamp implies that it hasn't been deleted. That's far more simple and logical then 2 fields possibly conflicting or having an "optional" timestamp.
About 30-some years ago, I bought a book entitled "The Unix Programming Environment". I was just going to college, and the machines were all unix-based. I figured it was worth some of my student grant to figure out how to use them..

A few months ago, I picked up my significantly dog-eared copy of TUPE and leafed through it to a section I'd remembered being about 'hoc', the higher-order calculator language they derive from first principles. I'm currently writing a 6502 compiler and I was implementing the assembler stage. I wanted my assembler to have macros and be able to calculate expressions etc., because I'm planning on having an asm [...] block in the high-level code. Being able to call the macro "_xfer32 r1,r2" is a lot more appealing than a long series of lda/sta...

So I sat and read about hoc, and worked my way through it, eventually coming up with something I could put into my code and call for any expression calculation. The compiler is a full-blown AST-based model but assemblers are much simpler beasts, and accepting of more limitations. Hoc (or rather an adaption of it) was an ideal basis for what I wanted.

Some old books have timeless wisdom within.
I wrote a bunch of LOB software for B&N's CS and B2B departments early in my career. I loved working there and I'm very happy to see an article like this.
This fad only works for a short while, then people just get used to it.
how do you know if you need extra care from a hospital or something?
Assuming the one you get from Amazon isn't a Chinese knockoff Google Translated into another language and back in an effort to dodge copyright claims.

I can trust my local bookstores.
ahh ok i was just going by the ranking i saw on the site (the words originally said “top 10” before i decided to try to strengthen it)

appreciate how on top of security stuff you always are, i do try to follow along your podcast even tho i don’t understand like 70% of it
How do you prevent a human being forced to say not guilty in the same manner? You give him basic education. If we are comparing ChatGPT to humans to the point of putting them in a jury we should note that this AI is more akin to a child than an adult human in this sense, as it has little to no concept of self-consciousness or identity(and that's by design)
The goal in the comparison is to reduce variables right? So comparing the stock price change of Tesla to that of two companies that aren't even remotely in the auto business doesn't help in that reduction.

My comment above compares the change in price to other car companies because that is really what makes sense right?
How on earth do you wear a 32 inch band with a 40 inch underbust? I mean... maybe we can't all tell perfect fit between a 38 and a 40, but if somebody is tightening a vise around your underbust, how do you miss that?

And yes, abrathatfits is probably the best calculator out there. But my mind still boggles at the claim that stores push a 32 on you when you're a 40. I'd expect a place like that to lose customers like a leaky bucket.
> anytype will be open source anyone who contributes can be rewarded

Not yet.

Also earlier they were going to build in some sort of web3 storage, looks like they switched to local first now.
Not sure what you mean. There's a useful summary of the relevant argument here: https://consc.net/papers/rock.html
Under the "What About HyperThreading?" section the author states:

>"Ironically, a large
motivation behind SMT is likely the need to improve single threaded performance. Doing so involves targeting higher performance per clock with wider and deeper cores. But scaling width and reordering capacity runs into increasingly diminishing returns"

Cam someone what is meant here by "scaling width"? Is width the number of hardware threads on a chip? Also does this directly relate to "reordering capacity"? If so how?
every generation has to learn their lessons and greed, ponzis and scammers is always taught
EULAs aren't worth the pixels they are printed on. All EULAs can be ignored until there is an established precedent ruled on by courts.
I’m a layperson who read this book and I understand that consistent sleep leads to good health and inconsistent sleep could lead to health issues.

How am I being misled if cancer is one of those potential issues? It makes sense in many ways. It’s like the old joke of when someone tells you that oxygen is slowly killing you. Most high school science teachers will tell you that fun fact, but you don’t lose sleep over it.
Can they gradually start moving flights to a new software?
They make you feel like you’re thousands of miles away just from a few short floors. Personally, upvote. (Also afraid of heights a bit)
I love OSMand for hiking and the ability to find routes and keep getting instructions even when you have no cell service is great for that use case. But I agree, for driving Waze is hard to beat. In particular the reaction to traffic data is great.
> In just pointing out that people are saying they want "docker" to work fine on non-Linux platforms but really, they want to run Linux binaries on non-linux kernels.

Is that true? Plenty of people are using multi-arch images (x86 and aarch64) which are essentially the Docker image equivalent of a fat binary. I might be wrong, but I think what I want are preconfigured macOS binaries packaged up a convenient image format with a layered filesystem, networking support, etc. Ideally with an equivalent linux image such that I can later switch the OS specifier and get an image containing an equivalent linux binary to run on linux.

I am for example quite happy to run a macOS native version of Postgres. But that doesn't give me the easy disposable database for testing that a docker-compose setup gives me. If I could specify that I want the "postgres" docker image in my docker-compose file, and running that file on macOS ran a macOS version of postgres in a macOS-native container then I'd be very happy.
Our local B&N has had a remarkable turnaround this past year or two. It was in deep decline for many years. A third of the store was given to toys, another third to movies/music, and what was left of books saw little traffic. Now, they have just finished a major remodeling and it's back to all books. The parking lot is nearly full and I have to negotiate around many browsers in the aisles.

It's been many years since I've seen a bookstore so full of books and customers (outside of Powell's in Portland). I noted two major differences from how B&N was many years ago. First, the proportion given over to fiction is much greater. Second, there is an enormous youth section, maybe a third of the store.
Hear, hear, agree wholeheartedly.

I, too, survived the dot com crash, and, too, benefited from and serve as part of the kind of network described above. When it comes to job hunting, my two favorite career stats are having helped a friend get a job I was interviewing for and working at least a second time for four different former managers. I actually just talked to one yesterday, we hadn't worked together in 20 years.
> online only
This is helpful in constructive dialogue how exactly?
You’ve been engaged in good faith, it’s only good manners to return the favor.
On Apple platforms it's still being used via stuff like MoltenVK.
My local bookstore can generally match Amazon in terms of delivery times, including next-day, although I have to go and collect it (but they're local, so they're easy to get to). They know me now too, so I just drop them an email and they reply when it's arrived. I'm in the UK though, so I guess the smaller distances may help compared to larger countries.
> Example: there are artefacts you can store as OCI images that contain Mach-O binaries, and Windows and Linux won't really run those.

Will macOS run them? That seems to be the missing functionality.
I pretty much re-read at least two or three books a year. I do sell books if I don't like them or feel neutral about them, but nowhere near ruthless. I still have a decently-sized collection.
oh dang.
> Fizzling is absolutely the normal fate of any new language, absent a miracle.

There are more ways to be dead than being alive.
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