skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The water boils at 100 °C while the right angle boils at 90.
Which is why fines should be a multiple of revenue gained by ignoring the law.
Personally I already subscribe to Nebula and Curiosity Stream, but I refuse to subscribe to YT for the above and other reasons.

I expect that YT will continue to get worse as long as they hold a dominant position, and I don't intend to wait until they're as bad and expensive as cable before resisting.

In fact, isn't the strategy YT is pursuing here (offer a service below cost to capture a market then raise costs after destroying the competition) illegal?
The downside of this is that there are two numbers to read, which does increase the cognitive overload a little bit (and also requires more UI space, in some cases). But absent any context or input, this is also what I do, including for other things like dates: "4th of March", "Mar 4th", "Mar 4", or some variation thereof, rather than "3/4", "4-3", "2023-03-04", or whatever. This is the only way to make things instantly clear to everyone, no matter where they're from or their background.
Neo Embryo:Genesis by SYS
"neo embryo:genesis" reveals a cryptic visual allegory encapsulating the nascent state of generative AI systems while delving into the profound implications of humanity's evolving bond with deep technology. Drawing from research on speculative tech and science, the project imagines a world where organic and digital realms merge, giving birth to unprecedented cybernetic beings that surpass human species boundaries and redefine our understanding of existence.
What is 2008 about this website? I don't know any websites from 2008 that look like that. What do current websites have which websites from 2008 don't?

When I visit YouTube, Facebook or Twitter, they seem extremely "busy", overrun with ads, and rather ugly, but we are used to them. I am not sure it's so bad to have a clean layout. But I am open to constructive criticism.
The problem with Tau is that it's already used for a lot of other things. I like to use π with a line through it for 2π ("pi cross"). But that's less likely to catch on since Tau for 2π is already well known.
Hmm, that's not what I recall.

Very early (2000) the goal was for Perl 6 to be a rewrite[0]. There's no way this would have been a 5.x, especially given how the Perl 5 parser works and the class of warts that were aimed to be addressed:

> Perl 6 To Be Complete Rewrite (But Not What You Think)

> Perl 5 will not be abandoned, but will primarily be concerned with bugfixes both major and minor.

> The meeting for members of the perl5-porters mailing list was the result of an earlier, smaller meeting of Wall, Nathan Torkington, Chip Salzenberg, and others who basically decided that Perl needed to be fixed in certain ways, and that a rewrite was the best way to do it.

Quickly, being free from backwards compatibility gave room to try stuff out, and given the length of that design process, this resulted in features that they found out could be immediately useful if backported in some way to Perl 5:

> First, Perl 5 isn’t going anywhere. If anything, the rate of patches and changes to the code has increased. Cleanups from Ponie and the Phalanx project continue to improve the design and implementation, and new features from Perl 6 are making their way into Perl 5.

> Second, the opportunity to do the right thing without fear of breaking backwards compatibility opened up a lot of possibilities for impressive new features.

Granted, there's the following bit in the 2000 post:

> have a clear and automated migration path, which may include a backward compatibility mode

But back then (ca 2002-2005) I was only a Perl apprentice and a very junior developer yet it still struck me that the discussions highlighted differences that were expansive and fundamental enough that "next version of Perl" meant Perl 6 would be to Perl 5 what e.g Mac OS X† was to macOS 8/9 and (in retrospect since that happened only later) significantly different in class from e.g Python 2 to 3 or MRI to YARV.

That was my perception of it anyway; probably they weren't entirely clear what was the actual goal, hence a lot of bits were open to interpretation, and it got refined and bounced back and forth around a general baseline direction over 5-10 years.

[0]: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/00/07/19/203221/larry-...

[1]: https://www.perl.com/pub/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html/

† which had classic mode to run the previous one's apps
Lots of services do not offer that ability, especially when signing up.
> Thats a job for congress.

The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to think so.
Not really, to some extent some amount of collateral damage is necessary for a free and open society. I don't want to live in a nanny state that decides everything for me.

But somehow the same people arguing for ultimate freedom and OSS are also arguing for centralization of passwords into corporate controlled infrastructure.

I'm somewhat at a loss on how to argue on these issues. You want to hand over control over your key infrastructure to big tech and you want the average population to do that as well? Go ahead. Most people on iPhones already use sign in with Apple with apples 2FA system anyway it won't matter to them.

But why encroach on me and force me to use it to protect me from myself?
Yeah, the full URL can be specified in Bitwarden clients (browser extension, mobile app) and then never touched again. The secret path only leaks if users use Bitwarden's sharing feature. It's not a "pre-shared secret" in that sense, as it can publicly leak by design.
Those who would give up essential Security, to purchase a little temporary Convenience, deserve neither Security nor Convenience.

— Frankmin Benjalin
Distributed Blockbuilding networks via secure knapsack auctions
There's an astonishing amount of things in the world which are not too hard to do, would be really useful and/or popular, yet no one really thought of making them. This also applies to software, BTW.
Or Gitlab pricing.

Why are companies isolating themselves from smaller clients?
I also don't see that sourcing as changing the minds of the untrusting, but as avoiding to lose the existing trust.
Japanese firm believes it *could* make a solid-state battery...

The key word here is obviously *could*.

Add one more to the pile of claims and beliefs floating around that have yet to transform into viable products.

I have been a Toyota fan from way back. I have owned a number of their vehicles. But in my mind, they lost a lot of technical credibility when they tried to apply political influence in a short sighted attempt to steer the marketplace toward hydrogen.

This was really just a thinly veiled effort to prolong the marketplace viability of the internal combustion engine --- to the detriment of the global environment.
Tragedy of the commons.

There is no stigma to being a parasite so that’s what people do, with justifications as above. Just because it isn’t legally required doesn’t mean it is ethical to not do it.
> Comparing something as vast and broadly reaching as "Cloud" is a disengenous comparison to something as specific as a tool like Google Analytics

Is it? Tons of cloud people I know are very narrowly specialized and certified on AWS or Azure. They certainly don't ever apply for jobs using the other...

I'm sure they could retrain. But I'm also sure they don't want to.
Well kind of... They used it to clean the tube using magnets.
It’s a 501c3. At the very least, the IRS believes that it serves a public good.
With a SaaS application, we use it for monitoring customer activity to drive support and sales renewal activity, to determine which features particular customers are using, to determine how they are using it, and how these things are changing over time. It's a vital part of everything we do from a product and sales perspective.
Lol. That’s 99.9% of all users especially if you consider privacy a subset of security.
Autofonce, GNU Autotests Revisited
Reverse engineering the Bing AI sidebar in Edge browser
I used to control the passwords manually, but now I just rely on the Firefox password manager. I have it on my notebooks and in my smartphone, it syncs all the passwords, generates them and that's basically all I need. It completely abstracted the password handling away from me, and I have not types a password manually for quite some time. I hope that it's safe.
I don’t think it’s fair to say that you need “infinite budget” to pay $100 per month? I pay more for several products and have a quite limited budget. But tools making me more productive or help my business is definitely worth to pay for.
I'm thinking that GDP is best used for longer term periods and not for a goverments' short term term, 4-10 years. For example, a goverement could be recklessly spending money that could have an effect on GDP but that doesn't show the whole picture.

Regardless, GDP is always useful so def one of the right metrics for economic performance in general.

Def I need more studying on the subject my self.
Fun student project, but let's say you do spend millions of dollars on R&D to get this into production and released into the wild to target lantern flies eggs.

* What percentage of eggs in a given area is it expected find and destroy? If it's anything less than ~100% then you are guaranteeing that within a few generations (years) you will be dealing with a population of lantern flies naturally selected for traits that thwart this robot predators hunting strategies.

* Taking the cost of R&D, production, deployment, and operation of the first generation, how much economic damage was mitigated before this generation of robot becomes ineffective and needs to be "evolved" to deal with this newer generation of lantern flies?

Imo, human beings can't compete in the game of Life with these kinds of strategies and we'd be better off selectively breeding and/or genetically engineering existing predators to preferentially target lantern flies and their egg sacks, instead of building fully autonomous robot predators from scratch.
might interest you both that not all bytes are equal
I'm not nitpicking, what I've said is the difference between GPL compliance and not. This next version of yours is different to Red Hat's EULA in the same way.
Yeah, I don’t see a reason for any AI to be able to translate all concepts to human thoughtspace. If an AI is able to have exponentially more possible thoughts than a human, then only a tiny subset would be understood by humans.

It’s be like trying to fit GPT-4 onto a floppy disk.
Open source developers are not being paid. They published under licenses that allow zero cost and businesses won't pay.

If you want to write open source code for living, you have to find a business model that works. In this case, it is even under permissive license.

* code freeze - code is under open source license only a certain time after commit/release. Maybe add "support", aka you get security fixes in timely manner.

* open core - put some features behind commericial door.

* go ImageSharp way of split license. That one is fun, because MS deprecated/killed (throws exceptions on attempt to use) official image/font library and that was was intended replacement. Rather blatant offloading of costs.

This has been rehashed several time (core-js recently https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02...).

The gist of it is: Companies are not going to pay if they don't have to. That is the reality and it's not going to change. Plan accordingly.
I use to teach my computer science students to touchtype in Dvorak, despite of our mother language does not even use Latin letters. Usually it takes 6 to 10 hours if there is no a strong QWERTY habit. I am sure they are gonna game these few hours in their first year of actively using keyboard.
Yeah I get that, I was looking for personal subjunctive opinions.
I am getting:

> This blob took too long to generate. But you can view the raw file.
> Pollution is a huge problem, but climate change is literally an existential problem

100% agree. If there's a choice between a small amount of pollution vs a large payoff to cut carbon emissions, it's definitely a good idea. For instance, any pollution that comes from the production of solar panels and batteries is probably something we should accept, because the payoff is a large cut in emissions.

But we're not talking about pollution directly in the cause of cutting emissions here. We're talking about separate pollution which is avoidable and has nothing to do with cutting emissions.

The point is, if we use all of this phosphate to make better batteries it would be great and have a good impact on emissions, but most of it will be spread on the ground and let run into rivers because that is the main industrial use of phosphates
sometimes those are farms of people doing multi-account product placement/opinion spreading
I'm an enjoyer of anonymity online and would rather not doxx myself. However if you have a specific question, I'd be happy to answer. I use js/jq for the front-end and php for the backend. Once you have your own CMS, turning it into a SPA means turning your index.php into a index.html that is php free and relies on ajax calls to change the content. So at minimum you need a mainbody.php and a head.php that accept inputs. After that it's just onclick actions on buttons that trigger the ajax function changeMainbody(targetPage). Or changeHead() after a user loggs in. On the phone app side you use the regular WebView, to avoid any cross-origin blocks and problems. Alternatively you can run it locally and pass the cookies as inputs - depending on the app needs. Should be safe using https, right? I fully expect to be scolded by someone with 20years more experience, but I guess that's how you learn.

Of course there's more to it, depending on the app needs. In my case it also auto refreshes the contents on a js timer.

What UX regressions did you have in mind as troubling?
Things like resetting one's password if forgotten? Well all those things need to be turned into their own ajax calls and php scripts as well and sometimes reworked to fit mobile users needs. For resetting passwords specifically I just copied what Twitch.com does.
I have never had a problem with Authy in that regard.

Yeah, I share my 2fa with every device and defy the purpose. I know. But if you have access to any of my devices I sm already compromised.
If you could trivially implement Matomo (a project that has been developing over 16 years) in JS, please open source it. Would love to get rid of the PHP in our stack.
In life, people often say unjustified things about people they don't know, and I fear this branch of the discussion is only noise.

But I choose to believe GP is serious, and you might consider that if your best retort is a variation of "but if you got what you wanted, you'd move the goalposts", you might be replying to a valid point.
[The monkey's paw curls, and another social network from Facebook appears]

(This seems to have been written shortly before Threads showed up)
To get the process started for a specific company, submit a complaint to the supervisory authority of the country the company is based in. Contacts: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en

As an example, the article mentions these specific audits were triggered by complaints by NOYB.
IMO, people learn language by seeing/hearing it used. And the internet is rife with misuse of language.

My particular pet peeve is using "weary" instead of "wary" or "leery". I've started to hear it spoke in youtube videos now, too, so it's not just a typo.
> No, you just said the web site is responsible for publishing the header, which means they have legal liability.

I can see the difference. Website has the liability for not adding the header.

Parents have the liability for not “enforcing” checks on devices a child might use.

It’s a clever proposal but more details will need to be thought through.
Coins are basically dead in the US, and paper money is halfway dead too. It’ll all be digital soon.
If the restaurant's idea is your idea, it is a good business.

But the real money is not on the monthly fee you will charge restaurants to update their menus. That you can give for free.

The money is in automating their purchases and delivery of ingredients they need to run their restaurants. If you already know what they serve and have a system running their backend, it's easy to do that.

And everyone in this business knows one of their main pain points is purchasing ingredients: it needs to be done frequently, fast, from a good supplier, preferably close to them, and at a good price. It's a hustle. They spend a lot of money, time and energy doing that.

There are fast-growing SaaS companies in Brazil making a lot of money in that area.
Its a private institution and a 501c3. I believe you are saying it benefits from federal tax savings. Please clarify if you mean something else but in any case being a 501c3 doesnt make their education services a public good. Subject to additional compliance for receiving federal money, absolutely.
Completely agree with this approach - recently I find that most of the tests I write are so-called 'integration' tests. I find these tests not only get more code coverage for fewer tests, but they more closely represent the real or implied external specification. In other words, they do a better job of verifying 'is the code correct' rather than 'is the code we wrote the code we wrote'.

I think the specification from elsewhere is all about the business value that the code delivers. At the end of the day, the business doesn't care about how exactly your code is decomposed into classes/functions/etc, the business cares about 'can I register a customer' and 'are customers prevented from writing to resources they only have read access to'. Of course there is some requirement for the code not to be a complete mess, as this has impacts delivering features and reducing bugs down the line, but with tests that sit closer to the value the code delivers than the structure of the code, you're free to refactor and the tests will tell you what you've inevitably broken. I find this considerably more valuable than unit tests.
It won’t work just like that because those who you want to follow on Twitter have a big following and are invested in the current platform. You’ve got to get big accounts to switch. This Instagram approach may work.
Sure, I was just pointing out a clarification for GP since a lot of people aren’t actually aware that you can use 2FA without an internet-connected device. Maybe they already knew it, maybe not.
You’re referring to making gay marriage legal?

In any case its the Supreme Court”s case to rule on what the law says. They cant just conclude legacy admissions are unlawful because they are bad. Congress can.
Thankfully we know #5 is false through a cursory examination of history.

After all, the US Air Force successfully provided air support to our ally’s during the Bay of Pigs leading to a free and prosperous Cuba.

If we look to the Middle East, our Allie’s, the Taliban, share great relations with us to this day after we supported them in their endeavor to build a stable, prosperous, and free society after overthrowing the Soviets.

And how could we forget our friends in South Vietnam?
DEI is mainly a tool for wage suppression, not sure why many people fall for it...
The Civil rights act did put restrictions on literacy tests used as a form of indirect discrimination. So there's some language for things outside of direct discrimination.
Higher education is in no way monopolized by private universities.
Bond Villain | When Powell devalued bonds, he destroyed the economy by Balaji
But we have moved to that. I don’t remember the last time I used cash. Maybe to pay at a farm stand in the country.
I want whatever solution that my parents, wife and coworkers will actually use so I don’t have to help them.

I try to explain that if they’d just commit to using a password manager, they just won’t have to think about it anymore, but it’s like pulling teeth.

I’m sure one day we’ll have some sort of standard that replaces passwords (maybe it’ll be passkey) but until then I’m prepared for the continued death by a thousand cuts of password related IT.
> they just sweep the problem under a corporate rug and ignore that people will still use them inappropriately.

Can you expand on these 2 points? I'm still trying to wrap my head around passkeys and these are some of the arguments I see around but never quite explained.
Perhaps by design. If you care too much about how much information you share, then Instagram / Meta aren’t interested in having you on their platform.
And I learned something. Just threw it into deepl to understand the translation. Thanks for pointing it out. Would have tripped me probably.
There were and are good reasons not to use Erlang. It's much (like an order of magnitude) harder to find developers who know it and almost impossible to find developers who can use it well (e.g know what a gen_server is). Much Erlang code I saw at Ericsson were technically written in Erlang but very much resembled imperative style code you'd find in a Java project. Erlang is also not very good at interacting with the surrounding system which is pretty important for a SoC.

I left Ericsson many years ago, but I bet that they are still using ClearCase for version control, FrameMaker for documentation, and that there are still five managers for every developer. Pretty sure they are still drinking the kool-aid, trying to put AI in their exchanges glued together with TypeScript.
The Enhanced Games – a drugs Olympics where cheaters can prosper
I'm pretty sure drug cartels, and more generally organized criminal groups, are pretty viable financially, at least short term.

example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel
100 USD per developer per month is 1/2 of our whole infrastructure cost at my company.
You could get GitHub enterprise seats for 1/4 of that.
Dealing with sales, contracts and licenses also has some non-zero opportunity costs.
It's nice that you were lucky enough for it to work reliably, but it's not a universal experience.
https://archive.fo/aAhKO
It still helps as much as it sucks, because it tells overt racists where the company stands. And lawsuit avoidance means enforcing it.
I haven't seen this angle discussed, could you explain further?
You can have a very secure facility that only uses a "house key"-style entry flow for the user. The key will look really weird (see Medeco and Evva for examples) and the building will have some design compromises - few entry points, no openable windows, etc.

A password, in theory, could work the same way. Except that the normal password UX involves people remembering the password, which entails a huge security compromise.
That's a good point to highlight: 20/20 is not perfect vision. It's simply a benchmark for "good enough" vision. IIRC there are physical limits around 0.4 arcmin. People with good eyesight sit somewhere between the two.
Ask HN: Are offtopic threads going out of hand?
Do you think it is a problem that many HN discussion threads are not about the topic of the article, but about something tangentially related? Or are the offtopic threads valuable?
I think that it would have to be demonstrated that the legacy admissions process is a proxy for racial discrimination, i.e., put it in place as a stealthy race-based criterion.
I wonder if you used it, in order to think that it was not monetized outrage, Twitter for me was like the french revolution, one guillotine a day, without trial, where the population was judge jury and executor
I’ve literally never had to provide such proof, and I would say I use the internet quite a bit. Any example websites?
Care to elaborate?

Because nowadays anything can be a startup idea.