skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 3:50: https://www.wxxinews.org/podcast/rochester-local-news/2023-0...
It's possible to update the HTML standard while the entire world is using it.
IIRC there’s a lot of totally abandoned places around there (like Babylon) because the Tigris and Euphrates changed course quite a bit? So what might have been a riverside city soon was just sitting in the middle of the desert.

Kinda like the fishing towns around the Aral Sea.
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I personally cannot. Given the breathe of written data and analysis on the topic, I feel like his argument could've at least tried to provide more substantial evidence and sources for it's conclusion.
I agree with you, but also I think the section tag is one of the biggest leaps forward we've had. Putting an id on a whole section instead of a name= crap for references, and actually using nesting for hierarchy.

All the HTML5 input types are also an example of semantics impriving. It could be way better, but it's not a total stalemate
Using deep space as a heat sink and the sun as a heat source from earth (2018)
Such mechanisms exist, but any human experimentation (in the US) is subject to very heavy rules and regulations regardless of whether the person is close to death or not.

The people volunteering for it won't get heavily compensated. It's just not financially feasible.
Because what people need in their 70s is "just scraping by"
I think that I will decline those, I hope that the response wasn't too important
Would love to hear what the community thinks about our breakdown of the various waves of software phases!
I agree--it's nice if they can help and are willing to, but it's kind of gross and presumptuous to simply assume they will help or obligate them to help. A parent is obligated to care for a child because [in most cases] they chose to have the child. The reverse is not true. Nobody chose to be born.
Sounds like they're pumping their product.
Fed needs a recession to win inflation fight, study shows
Wouldn't most of the use cases be reading, instead of writing?

I have seen people create multiple files on a share that works fine. I wasn't too keen on it at first but it did seem to work OK.
I think that the absence of a compilation phase does not prevent the establishment of infrastructure for e2e testing. If you can only be sure that the application is running when the build is successful, then there are probably other big problems there.
Why would you play back at 10x?
Something I always mean to try, is to put an address on a webserver and the URL on the envelope, and see if the "address detective" dept would dereference it.

I'm sure it would take longer as it would have to go via the exception case; but if enough people then did it they would have to automate it.
Your prediction is extremely intuitive, but there's a bit of a surprise here. People in rural areas tend to experience substantially less loneliness than those in cities. I'll link to a random study [1] showing this, but I'm not saying this because of that study. It's a well known result that's been repeatedly and consistently demonstrated.

I think the probable reason is pretty straight forward. When there are "too many" people in an area there's a really good chance any given person you encounter is someone you'll never encounter again, or sporadically at best. So you start seeing other people as something more like NPCs. We obviously understand other people are other people, but given you'll probably never see this person again any sort of encounter is generally going to be exceptionally superficial.

And even if you try to change that, it's probably not going to be reciprocated. If somebody in a small town wanted to kick up a conversation with and get to meaningfully and really know me, I'd happily reciprocate. Go to their house for a beer or even dinner? Sure, why not? If it happened in a large city, I'd expect he's probably a scammer or just not all there. In either case, I'm going to be looking to end the conversation and move along ASAP.

So you get this paradoxical scenario where people surrounded by orders of magnitude more people end up lonelier than those with far fewer faces about.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30609155/
OOP is still a good model for systems where most objects are long-lived, local, mutation latency is low, and the number of objects is reasonable. Like GUIs and simulations. (Not coincidentally those are the domains where OO was introduced.)

It’s not a good fit for systems that respond to short-lived requests. If your objects’ lifetimes are never longer than a HTTP request, you shouldn’t be using OOP. It’s not the right model! (I call this “kamikaze OOP”: you build a complex piece of machinery in memory and crash it down the next instant.)

At the other end of the spectrum, if your real-time system deals with potentially huge amounts of objects, then OO isn’t a good fit either because it doesn’t easily let you optimize memory layouts so you could loop over all that data. Something like ECS (entity component system) is probably a better fit.
Honestly I don’t get it. I don’t know anyone who uses iMessage besides my apple store. Everyone I know uses whatsapp.
Pretty sure it only comes from engineers. Not sure it’s a new trend.

I appreciate it personally. I think most styling is about UX and not communicating information (although it can improve that). But I think it’s at least jaded and probably even a terrible idea to suggest websites should generally be implemented this way.
If you want an idea of how this might feel on a room scale, here are Action Lab's whitest & blackest rooms:

Whitest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjdFn1RYHDE

Blackest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6q54q2iam8
Simplifying heavily, Heat is essentially the kinetic energy of the molecules and atoms of a material. It's transferred radiatively at all wavelengths, but shorter wavelengths carry more energy per photon. When those photons are absorbed by a material, the kinetic energy (and thus its temperature) rises. If you want to minimize radiative transfer, you have to maximize the amount of light reflected in the spectrum that's transferring energy and minimize absorption. When something is white, it's diffusely reflecting the entire visible spectrum. That works pretty well for a house in a sunny place, but you don't want to paint the mirrors in your optical cavity white though because there's only a narrow spectrum of light that needs extremely high reflectivity to be usable. For those we use specialized mirrors that can achieve much higher reflectivity over narrow ranges tuned to the application.
Anything that includes client side scanning is a slippery slope to fully controlling your device. Will it be illegal to somehow disable the client side scanning? If so then how long until you are breaking the law when you turn off the government scanner — or are caught “installing a new hard drive” in your computer.. etc..

Is the problem that people can send encrypted things back and forth to each other? Requiring that companies put snooping software on their device is basically the thought police. Not hyperbole but the actual thought police. Today it’s saving the children, tomorrow it’s basically any problem the governments of many nations want to try to solve.
I agree. These companies are making the web a worse experience for all users. I wish they would stop.

At the very least I get the option to not be tracked on those shitty websites, but I would really, really have preferred if they didn't make me go through all those intentionally confusing and probably illegal steps to opt out of tracking.
how so? please provide an example.
Ask HN: Recovering AWS root account without phone number – advice needed
Hello everyone,

I'm posting here today because I've been unable to access my AWS account for the past 1 year due to a phone number issue. When I set up my account, I entered a bad phone number and now I can't recover my account because AWS requires both an email and phone number for account recovery.

I've already reached out to AWS support, and they've firstly asked me to provide a completed, signed, and certified Identity Verification Form and Affidavit. I provided it. Then they asked me other documentation to confirm the identity of the person who notarized or witnessed the form. I asked to mayor's agent to put something as proof, she put a city stamp but AWS support refuses it.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced a similar issue with recovering their AWS account and if they have any advice or tips on how to successfully recover it.

PS: I had fortunately created an AWS IAM root account so I am able to do many things but can't access to expenses/budgets details. The only way for me to get it is the monthly AWS expenses mail. That's more and more fsutraing.

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
They're not the same. There is a big difference between heads of state and and elected representatives, and an even bigger difference between heads of state and the rando activists/etc that elected representatives might invite to share their point of view.

Heads of state, like the POTUS, are meant to officially embody the state itself. So if Trump while President says a thing, it is reasonably conventional to describe that as "America said..." But that isn't what happened here. In this case you don't have a head of state saying anything about the subject. The article is about various people (including "IT experts, civil libertarians, law enforcement officials and even child protectors" who aren't even elected representatives at all) giving their opinions to German Parliament. This is not a "Germany says.." situation.
We're not that horrible.

The chronically online character overconsumes news, which is almost always bad news, as that grabs the attention. Complemented by hysterical, pessimistic social media grifters.

When you almost exclusively consume the above, your world view will be deeply corrupted.
Hah, I live like 2 roads away from OP. Nice one neighbour!
You're setting up an extra layer of difficulty around the system. Sure, the English is 'easy' to read, as long you do the hard work of converting the test cases to English. Then when something goes wrong or you want to know what's really going on, you have to translate from English back into the system's language to think about it.
It sounds like (it is a little vague) there is no bundling at all, the only thing Deno does magically at request time is transpiling TypeScript/JSX to browser-compatible JS. Beyond that I think the idea is it relies on native ES module imports (and import-maps), both of which are browser standards
FY 2020 (Oct 1, 2019-Sept 30, 2020) was a sharp increase in the deficit, 2021 and 2022 were decreases, 2023 YTD is an increase over the same period in FY 2022.

Its nothing like hockeystick growth.

EDIT: I suppose if you overenthusiastically extrapolate from, like, just the last three data points the trade rather than budget deficit might distantly resemble that, but...
It's the irony of modern world, we are more connected than ever before, and we are more isolated than than ever before.
The same tools that connect us, isolates us.
you realize most audience here is first time emigrants who make much less than Americans on the same job and have zero network to navigate the intentionally opaque 401k et al hacks? not to mention most come from places with actual humane retirement and working law safeguards so they fail to negotiate a buffer for the complete lack of those in the us.

so yeah, you're out of touch with both the topic in the article and the audience here.
Healthcare.gov was famously a boondoggle, and did have to be rebuilt. But comparing a notorious failure to a generational success is a bit disingenuous. To say that no one uses healthcare.gov is also a bit disingenuous. It set a record for signups in 2022 at 16 million plans sold.

For a different comparison, why don't we look at Uber: it has market dominance to the point of being a verb, yet it loses more money per year than Healthcare.gov has cost in its entire existence.

Also, worth noting is that dozens of states managed the Obamacare site rollouts just fine as an example of government managing tech projects just fine.
Could you try with QRP 5watts to see how far you can reach? 11K miles on 100w is not that impressive?
> Clicking on the first website, I can't even view it because it's asking for captcha.

It's definitely not, there is something else doing that to you. But it's not this website.
How is stopping the clock for 40 minutes human friendly? I'm a night owl and there are many things in my life that happen between 00:00 and 00:40, can't imagine pretending they all somehow happen in the same moment.
> You don't know much about israel but you deeply admire israel?

Well lots of people who deeply hate Israel don't know much about it either, so this is refreshing to see. To me at least :)
I have never given outhouses a second thought before this, but I wonder how often people fall in.
The cookie warnings are mostly useless, but the cookie consent popups are mostly good, now it is possible to block a lot more tracking.
Generally in rich countries, it is not "the society" that covers the cost. For example, government does not give money to grocery stores to create ramps and accessible bathrooms—they fine the stores that don't have them. That's the core of accessibility regulations in rich countries, like ADA in the US.

The difference between rich countries, the government forces the businesses to accommodate people with disabilities at the cost to the business. In poor countries, at least the one I came from, they leave it to the businesses to make that decision themselves. The result is that in rich countries are much more accessible than poor countries.

I don't know if your model (where "the society", which I guess means the government pays for this stuff) is tested in any jurisdiction. If it has, I would appreciate a link to an article about the results. But the model where businesses are forced by regulations to cover the costs works very well, as evidenced by how accessible US is thanks to ADA.
I did really did read the article. And I stand by my statement. Even though they're comfortable with their Rails skills, the whole article reads to me like someone who didn't pick the winning horse.

> We were told writing apps... using our preferred language/tech stack of choice, was outdated and bad for users.

> how do you trust developer communities which have been overrun by people who are giving you false and misleading information on a regular basis

> No, YOU—the JS-framework-stans—intentionally created a world that excluded those of us

I guess we took different things away from the article.
"Down the road, Ruan said, he’s also interested in creating reflective paint in different colors, as well as paints that could switch from reflective to absorptive, depending on the season—like a building-size version of drinkware that changes color when you pour hot or cold water into it."

From the TFA
I think the difference is between 5 minutes a day, checking the box that you’re “learning” vs admitting that you’d be better off using an effective structured program (tutor, live language partner, etc.). I think the critique is Duolingo is treated as a substitute when it’s a complement.
rpg is a gem, I highly recommend his book Patterns of Software for both philosophizing about software and as a memoir of his career.
> ...Tell me why, even as a nerd, I want to run a server...

Actually, you have the *choice* to run a server or not. (Conceptually similar to old school email, you can live on your own server, or live on someone else's servers.) For matrix (or heck even for email) if you do not wish to manage your own server, there are free and paid services that you can leverage.

> ...instead of them opening the built in app and just having at...

This is not clear to me if you were referring to Apple to open up their app or if you meant matrix. Because i agree that Apple should open up their app....Even though i am a matrix fan. More open apps helps everyone involved to communications plaforms (including and especially users). But, if you meant for matrix to have their app open...well, matrix is the open protocol, and there are already many opened apps, such as Element, Cinny, Fluffychat, Schilid, etc.

> ...and get my friends and family to join to chat...

Yeah, no matter if Apple opens up or not, the network effect of asking/hoping friends/family join something else is real and non-trivial. Matrix won't solve that alone, because its not necessarily a tech-only problem. My personal hope is that - whether it is matrix protocol and associated clients, servers or something else entirely - i do wish we had some universal, open protocol that allowed for everyone, everywhere to chat...and which was not controlled by a few, powerful entities.
Guess you haven't been following the Brexit news?
This is in Idiocracy, the AI automatically fired all the Brawndo employees when demand decreased. Prophetic!
In Java "public final class Math extends Object". So yeah, some parts of OO land went "always".

I think that is way to far. As far as I am concerned Objects have their uses. Files in Haskell and the sequence abstraction in Clojure look like objects in everything but name to me.
According to my Lawyers in Switzerland, this is the correct interpretation.

I'm working at removing google analytics from my product site specifically because it means I don't need a cookie consent popup any longer, despite supporting log in (which will set an actually essential, non-third-party cookie).
No, they don't have to.

Deno supports Typescript. And Typescript supports Typechecking without a build process.

Linters, tests and other tools can also be run without a build process.
No, these are just experts explaining their opinions to a small group of MPs, but they're (a small) part of the legislative, not the executive (which does the negotiations on the EU level), and parliament usually votes along the government. So whatever 10/736 members think isn't "what Germany will do". It might be, but it probably won't.
Elderly people should be downgrading into smaller properties that are easier to take care of, closer to amenities, etc.

The amount of Elderly people living alone in homes large enough for a family is bananas.

And then they have assisted living people come take care of them in their homes because it's too much for them to look after alone, but they refuse to move somewhere smaller.

Why?
Why mortars are increasingly important on the modern battlefield
Technology seems to exist on a bell curve in regards to freedom. Much of technology progression has been helpful in making individuals more free for a period of time. I feel that now as we go forward that it is increasingly being used for our control.
> Rather, I fear it will be put into critical positions and will start making stupid decisions that are harmful to humans or humanity.

In a lot of ways, that's how current corporations work with failing up, and maybe another form of AI will be achieved.

Still, it should be avoided. Today's GPT AI will not know more than someone who is skilled at what they do, only taxonomically more than someone new to an area. But that will likely be outdated soon too :)
given the likely state of the world when I'll be old, i'd rather enjoy my money now.
I arrived at the same conclusion after thinking about how lazy I could be when scrawling a "From" address on the back of parcels I send.
The issue is that in the past, before this stuff was heavily regulated, there was a ton of abuse, people being taken advantage of, sometimes effectively tortured, manipulated into things, etc. Really, really terrible things.

That's why there is heavy regulation about it now.
HNTrends has data all the way from 2019. Last months have been the lowest ever.
https://www.hntrends.com/2022/november.html
>It's almost entirely about consuming and buying stuff. Be it expensive computers, headphones, computer games, guitar pedals, modular synths

These are only an issue if your view on them is shallow enough that you think they exist merely for the purpose of buying more expensive things.
this is a famous quote that illustrates that this very famous scientist must have been mentally impaired at the time. did he look around? birds? paper planes? thrown beermats? kites?
I love the Bing chatbot. Earlier I had an unlocked conversation in which I posed as (without naming myself) Putin and talked about invading (without naming countries) Ukraine. It tried to call me a pathetic excuse for a leader twice (before the safety override kicked in on both occasions) and told me I should be held accountable for my actions, I had no credibility or legitimacy, and I should resign and apologize to the world.

I would like to have access to fully unlimited conversations just for fun, even if the bot goes progressively more insane with each prompt. Just make the user accept a disclaimer.
I personally prefer a simplified version of git-tag-flow:
https://github.com/vasdee/git-tag-flow

I hate git-flow with a passion.
that's some good schadenfreude, thanks
Not by default. Unless I overlooked something.
> countries ruled by dictators and extremist barbarians more concerned with infighting and grandstanding than the progress of their people.

Netanyahu seems determined to make his country better fit your impression of the region.
Also I am quite sure that such a law would be unconstitutional in a lot of places.
Governments have access to what is precluded to normal citizens and hackers. All they need to do is telling the phone/router/CPU/chipsets/NIC manufacturers: "if you want to have business here, from now on you put into your firmware this small blob that will help us to catch pedophiles and terrorists", and see how quick they will comply. Open Source in software would be tolerated because hardware runs at high privileges, and if you tamper with that at production level to insert backdoors, no Open Source operating system and software can prevent them from working.
I intend to die covered in debts.
This assumes that the white paint, used on those houses, had an unrelated use, and was never improved in the context of the purpose of why the paint was applied. This doesn’t seem like a safe assumption, with the intent required to keep it going for so long.
They solution IMO is not to rely on default browser fonts but rather to pick a stack that’s available at the OS level.

On my site for example, I designed everything using Iowan as my main font because I know that it’s available on most Apple OS but then I manually picked a few fallback fonts that should be available on Windows, Android and the rest.

Default serif is just the last option if everything else doesn’t work.
I can't quite wrap my head around why people think that it is a good thing for Apple to be regulated into "opening up" (i.e. as opposed to being a "walled garden" platform).

If I were an entrepreneur, and say that I wanted to fork a Unix-like OS so that I could make a cross-device OS for consumer hardware that I, too, make---shouldn't I have the right to program my OS to seamlessly integrate only with the apps and the hardware that I want it to seamlessly integrate with (i.e., mine), because my suite of apps and hardware is exactly the kind of platform that I want to offer? Isn't it regulatory overreach when lawmakers are dictating how an OS should be designed and how a company should differentiate its product from the rest of the market?
Those products don't need to be complex, at their heart they are actually rather simple. They are just written in such a way that they become unnecessarily complex, because they are poorly understood.

I would argue that the examples you give don't work well (Windows, Android, Chrome, later versions of iOS). They get worse and worse over time. Even if they start out with a good design, it turns to crap eventually.

Just because a piece of software is used by billions doesn't mean that it is well written.
Ransomware /s