skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of comments deriding this article as alarmist. Excuse me if I'm incorrect in saying so, but even the data seems to tell me that alarmism is where we are at:

This articles data.

Incredible floods in Pakistan.

Heat domes over the PNW.

Fires in Australia, Canada, California.

And now a warming event in the North Atlantic unlike any other.

All of that and this is likely to be one of the coolest summers for the remainder of our lives. Its only getting warmer from here (barring geoengineering).

What about this is not alarming? As disheartening as it is, this is what is needed for action at this point.
Thank you. I appreciate your response, and the additional color you provided to another commenter.
If you are the owner of a 20th century IP there is no reason you should not want to rework it for a new market if your motive is profit. It's not wokeism to make Rohl Dahl readable to zoomers, it's capitalism.
Or before the images accompanying a comparison article between a Samsung Scene Optimizer moonshot and $4,800 Sony astrophotography rig become completely incomprehensible:

https://www.inverse.com/input/reviews/is-samsung-galaxy-s21-...

https://www.samsungmobilepress.com/feature-stories/how-samsu...

Don't want to bring too many Reddit memes over, but if the browser enhances the images on both sides of the comparison, and corporate wants you to identify the differences... what can you say but "they're the same picture"?
How would you pay it at the time of the marriage? Bring a large sum of money to an event with tons of people?
That was an unexpected turn.
The model of users paying money for the site means that there probably can’t be any discussion about file sharing or piracy at all. I remember this becoming an issue for the Something Awful forums a point time ago.
I agree with most of it and the mobile layout sucks for the marketing page.
The calculus changes. One day it might look very attractive to ecologists
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Same, I think I use grep | sort | uniq almost on the daily.
> Delete social media off your phone. A smartphone without social media is a tool. A smartphone with social media is a prison.

Given that all social media sites can be accessed through the browser, I don't see how deleting the apps makes that much difference.
He says that a new language used to pop up every generation -- and that seems to me like it's been the case -- Elixir, Rust, and Go all seem to have arisen during the last 15 years.
The lowest band my amateur radio licence allows me to use is 136kHz, which would require a dipole about 1km long and at least 50m off the ground.

You wind a loading coil on a plastic dustbin.
> If you have an algorithm that can complete it, the game is up.

This is very much already a thing, I'm sad to say.
non-coastal new england - especially VT, Maine and Western Mass are some of the safest areas based on articles I have read.
Exactly this. The amount of cost & time to make a (WordPress/Drupal/random database backed CMS website) site run well on a cheap VM is significantly higher than Cloudflare's free & paid options. Those aren't my first choice in CMS these days but a lot of the small business web still run them & migrating isn't cheap from a technical or user training perspective.

If you happen to have a popular CMS like WordPress on a cheap VM, odds are you are going to get DDoS all the time, even if you only have 100 legit views/day. Cloudflare will reduce this dramatically.

I would guess any site not using Cloudflare (or someone similar) is more likely overengineering. As always though, every case is unique & it depends.
My thesis was:

> the truth is you just don't know

You disproved:

> it doesn't logically follow that they can't have cancer

Good job, you really pwned that straw man.

Also, I want to preserve this one for posterity, because I'm pretty sure it's hilariously wrong but I have better things to do than dig through the literature right now:

> We've only really started seeing strong apocalyptic thinking in the last several hundred years.
I really wonder why by this time we don't seriously consider an experiment with a centrifuge creating an artificial gravity on ISS. One would thought medical experiments like that are an important part of ISS mission. It does conflicts with some other research topics, which is the main argument for why it's not yet done, but by now it could be done without disturbing micro-gravity too much - there are options - and the topic itself is important enough so the arguments to contrary are wearing thin.
> Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to jump to this conclusion that any criticism of your pet technology comes from a place of ignorance or pretension.

Maybe your argument just isn't that great?

I mean - look, I've worked in a LOT of languages now in the 25 years I've been writing code. Js is certainly no bastion of language perfection, but it's also sure as fuck not on shaky foundations.

Almost all of your criticism basically boil down to: JS won't break backwards compatibility for me! WAHHHHH!

Because none of your examples are really issues:

- Implicit type coercion.

happens in a lot of languages - keep a table around if you need it.

- Confusing scope binding, i.e., `this`, `bind`, etc.

this is literally core to the language - it's not any more confusing than learning about the difference between class definition vs an object instance.

- Inconsistent Array API — some methods return a new value; some methods mutate the value![0].

This is a fair complaint - but all the functions that mutate have non-mutating versions now - JS just won't break compatibility for you by removing the old ones... "WAH!")

- `['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt)` …lol?!

You know damn well what you're doing Mr radix. Variadic languages have some edge cases. If you don't like it, use Number like a sane person:

['1', '7', '11'].map(Number)

ParseInt is usually not what you want, but again... JS won't break compatibility for you - that doesn't mean the foundation is shaky...

It just means that some parts are older than others.
As a VR hobbyist dev I'm divided on how I feel about the device. Price thing is already well discussed, for me it's a tool worth investigating if I should invest time in the ecosystem.

Without a doubt, the Vision Pro hardware is a marvel. Having the 3D capture camera in a consumer device would feel like living in the future. The headset design is top notch and seems comfortable. I do have slight worry about how these devices will look like after a year of use.

The holographic eye reconstruction screen. A bit unsettling and strange design idea. We're messing around with people's eyes to make the headset friendlier?

The frosted glass user interface is classy, aesthetically pleasing and very well put together. Lighting and soft shadow interaction with your environment is amazingly well done. I felt the UX the current user experience seems rather lackluster and limited to a 2D format. The first iPhone also had an old fashioned interface, so my guess is they are building the compatibility bridge for the first release. Maybe the next iteration would be actually spatial and not just panels floating in space?

Moreover, the over-reliance on swipe and tap gestures is a point of concern. This design decision is focused on media consumption and limits the overall versatility of the interface. Feels like a very low-bandwidth control method.

A significant drawback, for my use at least, is the lack of control over the hardware. Developers are restricted to building Unity applications within a sandboxed environment, which is a privacy feature intended to prevent apps from accessing the eye gaze point. Good idea, better than what Meta's doing. But too restrictive and frustrating for a developer wanting to run their apps on the bought device.

Apple is once again marketing an expensive device-platform that caters mainly to larger corporations looking to offer their own 'immersive' experiences. Everything about this screams 'coorporate'. I would like to be proven wrong with some creative apps, but those will probably come through the web browser or streamed from Mac, and not as approved native apps running in gimped Unity engine.

Nevertheless, the Vision Pro sets a new benchmark for future headsets. Maybe AR/VR is slowly entering the mainstream?
Difficult to say.

I picked up a bunch of info from perl.org: https://perldoc.perl.org/perl#Tutorials

Perlmonks was a good source for certain specifics.

Doing is better than reading IMO. Open files, parse log data or such with regexes, sort them into a hash, and return that by reference. Perl has different ways of doing things that aren't common in some languages such as how it deals with binary data (see pack/unpack).

Coming from python, I would say forego the delving into OOP aspect of perl as it is more of an afterthought than a core feature. Focus on understanding data management with scalars, lists, hashes, and the core functions (Perl has native functions for things like sorting which are quite useful).

I managed to go from C to perl over a weekend but it takes hours of practice to improve.
reddit (and big tech in general) doesn't want users to have experiences that users like, they want users to have experiences that advertisers like. Ideally there's some overlap there (otherwise why would you use a service) but usually companies making money from advertising lean towards the ideal experience of the people who give them money, ie, not third party app users
>Most Linux distributions have an option within its installer for enabling LUKS full disk encryption. If this option isn’t set at installation time, you will have to backup your data and re-install, as encryption is applied after disk partitioning but before filesystem creation.

If you have a live CD and enough spare disk space, you can create a new LUKS partition and dd / filesystem-specific-backup-restore your existing partition into it. You don't have to backup and reinstall.

If you're already using systemd-gpt-auto-generator to auto-detect the root partition, you just have to make sure the new partition has the expected UUID. Depending on your setup you might have to regenerate the initramfs though, say because it didn't already contain `/usr/bin/cryptsetup` etc.

>openSUSE uses a unique ID to count systems, which can be disabled by deleting the /var/lib/zypp/AnonymousUniqueId file.

Deleting it will not help since it'll get recreated by the next command that needs it. Empty it instead.

>Encrypted /boot [...]

>- openSUSE uses LUKS1 instead of LUKS2 for encryption.

>- GRUB supports PBKDF2 key derivation only, not Argon2 (the LUKS2 default).

Yes, the first point is because of the second point. There isn't a security difference between LUKS1 and 2 when using PBKDF2, so sticking with LUKS1 means you can't accidentally switch to non-PBKDF2 and end up with an unbootable system. But yes, switching away from grub as the next point talks about is ideal. And if you switch to UEFI boot with UKIs in /efi then you won't need a separate encrypted /boot anyway.
All I can figure is difference in perspective is because such a large part of the potential of i-devices (or phones and tablets more broadly) for creation involves using them as a tool to get something done in the real world, and/or for the kinds of creative tasks that get overlooked by the hackerspace crowd (running an Instagram, say, involves lots of creation; tradespeople and home DIYers routinely use phones and tablets to help get things done in situations where a laptop wouldn't be a useful alternative; that kind of thing). Desktop computers are mainly good, outside of industrial uses, for creating more stuff for computers. I-Devices shine when most of your task's not on a computer, and the computer's just one of many tools at your disposal. If "creation" is making stuff for computers, they seem bad. If "creation" happens in the real world and the computer's just a tool to help with that, and nothing more, they're pretty appealing. A smart slab of glass packed with sensors that can become different tools. Super handy, and a "real" computer couldn't replace it.

For most creation-oriented tasks I do that aren't computer-centric, I'd much rather have an iPhone or iPad than a laptop. They're great tools for creation & work, just not so much for creating stuff for computers, certain exceptions aside, and for those they're mostly just about as good as a laptop, or even not-very-good but usable in a pinch, not better.
AppArmor policies can be few hundred lines. Do people write these from scratch, or there is a repository for good policies?

Couldn’t package managers install and enforce such policies?
What I find interesting is that you call someone out on not knowing a term, then you're being called out, then you respond claiming you know the term and explain the term… And at no point did it occur to you to actually duckduckgo it and make sure you're correct.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

If anyone would say it and mean it, it was probably this guy. He was quite the activist before he committed suicide.
Anonymous Sums from Scratch
It'll all be ready when the ratified V hardware arrives.
Married to the Eiffel Tower
With the cost of popular cloud vendors, Cloudflare is essential. The first bullet points is enough to drive people there.

You can also manage all of your internet infrastructure (domains, dns, etc) under a single dashboard that doesn't suck. Pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Even with Linux you have to be careful. Some distros have pulled shit like sending local searches to remote servers so that they can push amazon ads at you (https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do). We have to watch everyone like a hawk these days.
Not fully true. There is a way to open command prompt and skip the account login and the entire setup

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-witho...
And they’ll follow the same curve that India did and China before them and so on but I’ll bet the time scale will be greatly compressed because they benefit from all of our experience and technology and having so many more countries ahead of them on the curve who will invest in them.
> STOP. OVERENGINEERING.

Please tell this to every junior/cloud developer/architect when it comes to microservices.
Videodrome made flesh.
Is it open-source? Is it based on open protocols? Does it support federation?

If the answer to any of these questions is no, then your product is irrelevant.

It's nothing personal. It's just that I'm sick and tired of centralized solutions running on somebody else's computers. At least this product makes its business model clear (a $2/month subscription fee for interacting).

But hey, I'm a guy who used to run phpBB forums on a Pentium 1 under my bed 20 years ago. Back then there were tons of those forums, most of us didn't ask users for any subscription money, there was no centralized gatekeeper, and everybody was happy. All of us used to curate our own small gardens and the model was sustainable at all levels.

Can I just get that back, with some federation protocols on top to allow multi-instance interactions? Seriously, everything else is pointless, it's a waste of time, and it doesn't make the digital world any better. I won't jump from a centralized platform to another, and probably nobody should.
* Reddit enters the chat
> Honestly, I can't believe it that here it is 2023(!!), and there still exist sites that can't figure out reliable cross-browser video playback.

Ah! I was telling myself the same thing last month (how is it possible in 2023 that things which seemed solved _years_ ago, actually still do not work?), when I was trying to watch some recording of a sport event. The site proposed several players (generally 3).

3 different computers (Linux_A, Windows_A, Windows_B).

Linux_A with browser_A: only player_A worked OK.

Windows_A with browser_B: player_A some days worked, some days didn't; player_B and player_C worked OK.

Windows_B with browser_B: player_A gave audio but no video; player_B stuttered; player_C didn't work ==> no success with this OS+browser combination

Windows_B with browser_C: only player_C worked OK;

We can note that among those combinations, we had two systems with the same OS and the same browser, and yet the behaviour was completely different.

> These sites should just give up, provide the URL to the raw video file, and let users play them back in whatever way works for them.

In general, I agree I'd also rather _not_ have web players.

However, in the specific case I am talking about, the videos were more or less 6 hours long, so I'd rather not download the whole high resolution stuff (and likely see the process fail), but be able to skip parts and/or watch/download a few parts in lower resolution and other ones in high resolution.
This is exactly what needs to happen to get Microsoft to stop doing things like this. How many sites not working properly does it take for someone to switch browsers? Maybe as little as 1, if the user really wants or needs to use that site.

That, and lawsuits (as others have mentioned, this easily could have resulted in violating HIPAA and other laws) could help stop behavior like this. But fines are the price of doing business for many companies, so outright blocking Edge may be even more effective.

I want competition in the browser space, but Microsoft simply has not offered that in over 15 years. IE obviously was worse than Chrome and Firefox in many ways, the original Edge still had worse W3C compliance and performance than Chrome and Firefox, and the new Edge is just a Chromium fork. They seem highly interested in getting your data, but not all that interested in actually creating an good product.

I'm not even sure why Microsoft is doing things like this at this time. If they wanted to increase the number of Edge users, this is not the way to do so. Are they content having less than 10% of users on desktop and just want to milk those users for all they can? As others have said [1], even if this was done locally (so that there'd be no privacy concern), this is is a terrible feature to have on by default due to the risk of inserting false details.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295837
Platforms like reddit are in no way similar to personal property like a house that you live in.

A better analogy would be, imagine you rent your house to someone else. You make a rule that tenants may display political messages in their windows, but only for one political party.

That would be illegal. You can prohibit all signs if you want, but specifically choosing what signs someone gets to display violates their first amendment rights and could trigger a fair housing lawsuit. It doesn't matter that you aren't the government and that you own the property.
I've been writing CSS since 2009 and though it's always been a love/hate relationship, I didn't feel this way until last week. Not sure how new this is, but "dynamic viewports" are now a thing in CSS. The "dynamic viewport" is the area not obstructed by the browser UI.

Literally the only reason I can see for this to exist is because iOS Safari obstructs the browser UI with its stupid toolbar. So we're building new additions to the language purely because Apple builds user-hostile features for their mobile web browser. Lovely.

</rant>
I agree that the Imperial System is superior to the Metric System just from the point of view of human usability.
The insult was a low blow, I agree.

This user literally attributed the bailouts to the wrong President for malicious reasons (see the political posts they make elsewhere). That seems like misinformation to me.

I appreciate you walking the line here, you have a hard job, but I just can’t be here watching evil people try and warp reality with actual lies while “nothing can be done”.

Meanwhile his lie is still up there and my tiny insult and fake violence is missing. I guess we care more about feels than reals here?
An opt-in shitcoin ... that attempts to approach the advertising market in a new way, which I find genuinely interesting. And I'm an anti-advertising zealot.
Saidit has a (mostly) compatible API by running a fork from when Reddit was still open source. It isn't a drop-in replacement but most of the core API endpoints are the same. Things like modmail, live threads, collections are exclusive to Reddit, for example.

Not sure the community is welcoming or even interested in the potential growth, tbh. But it exists.

https://saidit.net/dev/api
The comment above is a completely original thought. It was not memorized and pattern-matched.
I don't expect the Vision devices to really drop much in price in the coming years. To lower costs, they'll have to go with lower quality displays, or cheaper cameras/sensors and less battery life.

If you look at the iPhone, it hasn't gone down in price much if at all.

I think we're at least 5 years away in terms of tech capability to provide the level of experience Apple is looking for at an "SE iPhone" type price point.
It is weird when people let go of themselves when asked this question. I was in line for a TSA check. Latin woman in front of me had a hard mobile call (I don't speak Spanish, but I got the gist). I asked her is she was ok. 5 minutes of crying and Spanish. I gave her little side hugs and listened with compassion. It was a rather odd experience.
Why GTP-2? Seems like a weird choice unless it was made long ago.

I believe chirper.ai is using Falcon now, as I saw they funded one if the finetunes.
How does that work with a app like Discord, which is more like a huge group of villages and not one big village? Will they be able to continually grow by adding more servers without destroying the community? Is that model more sustainable?
I have no idea where you live, but that does not really reflect what's happening in my country (France).

Criminality rates are roughly stables since the 80's (https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/sites/default/files/...), French cities in the 80's were definitely not ‶crack-induced hellscapes″ (and if they ever were, it's definitely now, just visit Paris or Marseille by night), and safe for pollution, I don't think they were notably worst or better to live in than now.
What goalposts? Just because you didn’t personally experience something doesn’t mean it prant exist/didn’t happen.
Pharma Looks to Outer Space to Boost Drug R&D
What sentence might Trump get, if found guilty?

I am not a lawyer but I would guess none? As a former president he is allocated secret service for life. That may not be delegated to the prison system or at least that is my understanding. More likely and feasible would be heavy fines I think. Multiple presidents have committed felonies and AFAIK none have served a day in prison but the history buffs here could probably find something that I did not.