skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> since Julia software is not really supposed to be running public facing services the security argument is moot anyways

1. both Julialang.org and Juliahub.com run Julia as far as I understand

2. even if your premise were true, it wouldn't be acceptable for the Julia project to condone pwning of Julia users
I don't see any reason why determinism should have anything to do with conscious experience.

Can't you conceive of a deterministic universe in which you have internal experience just like you do now? What specifically makes those two things mutually exclusive in your opinion?
Or better still be a regular member of the community. Nothing raises my hackles like something posted and commented on by a group who have hardly a karma point between them.
Peak HN:

First comment: cool. I had experience with these.

Second comment: Where can I get one?

Third: I used this machine which has nothing to do with this conversation.

Fourth: Why would you use that machine when you can get a reproduction?

Fifth: You can't reproduce supercomputers.

I'm fairly certain at this point that the internet is just a bunch of people talking past each other.
I think this might work in a country like the Netherlands where school shootings aren't a constant fear and teachers are generally entrusted to ensure safety of children while they're in school. In America I think some parents would freak out because of the potential of the child being unable to reach out to a parent or vice versa during an emergency.
Of course, no where did I talk about my team. This is just my personal workflow.
There’s also this symbol from a language called Tamil that looks similar:

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This is hotly debated.

Smartphones are very useful, but the effect that the constant flow of information stemming from smartphones has on children, and the distraction they cause in an educational setting, are absolutely not a natural part of humanity, and should be scrutinized more than it is.

One can argue about this until the cows come home, for example I didn't even finish school and some of the smartest people I know learned very little in school aside from social skills.

But schools have the difficult job of catering to at least a majority of children.
Mechanics are in business to be profitable.

Specialized items require specialized tools. Specialized tools, like all other tools, require maintenance and they change.

A shop dealing with domestic produced automobiles can significantly reduce profit-bleed by not servicing vehicles that require special tools, special diagnostics, special machines, etc.

It's simply a math equation. Do I serve enough of these vehicles daily/quarterly/yearly to make these expenditures profitable for me? The shops you're referring to answered no to that question.
This'll probably sound silly but like everything else on the site I do it manually. I take notes of major changes I make to the site and write them down on that page.

I couldn't wrap my head around Jekyll* or any other service you can self host, so I figured that I could still put my stuff out there by making each page like it's 1999.

I realise that it's not the best option for the future, the other day I decided to change how the title tags looked, thus I went ahead manually changing it on every page. Without some script to fix that for me, it'll become a larger task with every post I make.

* I've only recently installed Linux on my ThinkPad – a process I'm procrastinating writing about – and my head's been a tad too scrambled at the moment to focus on it.
Maybe this is why you've been ghosted so much.
Thanks for sharing, kind stranger.

I live in a relatively (for the US) bike-friendly city (Tucson AZ). There's a lot of cycling infrastructure, but sometimes you have to ride on a 7-lane stroad with distracted/aggressive/inebriated drivers, many of them in vehicle types that are especially dangerous to get hit by. I'm envious of places that don't have the USA's car culture.

I'm curious how you'll find living in Netherlands as an American.
Please tell me more about what you think is elitist here.

My personal situation is possibly the least background elite possible and even I know that first principles are important in a field that is shifting -- which happens to be most fields, just tech is a bit faster at churning.
I dont think so as Kate Middleton future Queen of England found out.

******Warning******
NSFW pictures of the future Queen of England at this URL -->
https://theoutsidersadi.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/click-here-...

The (UK) press get around the law, by reporting a story and then relying on the reader using search engines to get the information from other jurisdictions like I have just done here, located in UK, EU google servers, and where ever the wordpress server is located.

It kind of makes me think, what is the point of law?

You need a lot of money to fight these entities and fight them in multiple jurisdictions where relevant laws exist.

What also makes a mockery of the legal system at least the Royal lawyers is, whilst Kate Middleton has some injunction to block press publication in the UK, they cant stop the search engines from publishing the data to users in the UK, as I have just demonstrated with the link above and the search term "kate topless holiday photo" and then clicking the images option!

Now what if I meant "kate beckinsale topless photo" instead of "kate topless photo"? I just got someone elses topless photos without even expecting them, ie the future Queen of England.

Are the Royal lawyers from the stone age, do they not understand search engines or do they buy the targeted filter bubble narrative highlighted by Eli Parsier in his Ted talk?

I like German privacy, they even stood up to Google and the Streetview project, however Google have edited me from their Streetview images where I'm giving their car the bird as it drove past me so there is some human oversight, but they still have that data and refuse to hand it over via GDPR DSAR requests.

To many big entities including the Police, fulfil GDPR DSAR requests by relying on being able to identify the individual using todays existing systems.

If someone cant be identified, like my giving the Google Streetview car the bird in their streetview data, Google will say no data exists.

Yet GDPR law doesnt address developing and future technology which will be able to identify me giving the Google Streetview car the bird if they run facial recognition over their streetview data.

So the GDPR DSAR is useless law as is, although I havent read it, but I suspect Google's privacy policy is as well.
Show HN: Visualizing the Impossible
https://raagnair.com

Nothing fancy, just some evidence that I existed.
Turning my hobby into a job made me hate it. Wish I'd become a plumber.
Let's meet again in 20 years, when developers discover dynamic languages again.
Whatever the default is in this Nikola theme - https://themes.getnikola.com/v8/hack/

I tweaked the theme just a bit, to add the faux scanlines, URL mouseover highlight, and background green glow (trying to mimic an old CRT). But pretty much everything else is just whatever the default was.
https://michaeldemar.co but I don't write enough :')

- https://michaeldemar.co/blog/rescind-playbook

- https://michaeldemar.co/blog/fill-your-cup

- https://michaeldemar.co/blog/ikigai

are my favorites to-date
Am I the only one who detests the term 'creative' as a noun? It seems to have come into being in the last few years and I just hate it. It feels like if you're not a creative then you're not creative. We're all creative in some way, so calling yourself 'a creative' is just daft.
Sure can! I'm not sure how the touch menu is supposed to be operated, but radial and hotbar menus are available for sure.

The UI is quite clearly designed for use with a touchpad, so your mileage may vary, but it works okay in my tests.
I hope you’re not lurking on some network switch with that nick ;)
Do you see any potential trademark conflicts you may run into against Google due to Codey[0]? I don't know which was announced/branded first, but I imagine a big co like Google is tough to win against even when you're in the right.

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...
Outer Wilds gave me plenty of enjoyment, but isn’t a favorite. I got through nearly the entire game on my own. Near the end there were two sequences (the collapsing ground area and the sandy/thorny area) where I knew roughly where I wanted to go, but making a single mistake meant restarting from scratch, then sitting and waiting about eight minutes for the stars to align so I could try again. I finally resorted to a guide to navigate those two paths.

Later, I found the final sequence so frustrating that I gave up and watched the rest on YouTube—and was glad I did, because that ending would not have landed for me, at all. It reminded me (to its detriment) of Majora’s Mask, a game that actually did a good job of convincing me to care about the NPCs and their situations over the course of the story.

Funnily enough, Outer Wilds has been on my mind lately, because I just played through Tunic, a different (and for me, much more enjoyable) take on the “play the game blind” concept.
https://akalin.com

I write very infrequently, but my favorite posts are:

- Why is the Quintic Unsolvable? - https://www.akalin.com/quintic-unsolvability

- A Gentle Introduction to Erasure Codes - https://www.akalin.com/intro-erasure-codes
> Pay €1-10 per month for no ads or consent to ads.

This is explicitly and very clearly called out as illegal in Article 7 (4):

> 4. When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.
The second chance pool is a pretty good example of just how mercilessly random getting on the front page is. Lots of cool and interesting stuff just slips by and gets drowned out the first time it's submitted.
When I was in high school, I used to use `make menuconfig` that way. I guess I hadn't thought about extending that comprehensive review process to contemporary kernels. I imagine that most people compiling their own kernels today are doing it for the sake of specific, targeted tweaks that they are aware they want in advance.
https://blog.erethon.com/

I try to blog about things that I feel I have a good understanding and get into details. Examples:

- https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2023/06/21/what-happens-when-a... I recently had my Matrix server die on me and this documents my journey on bringing it back from the dead.

- https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2022/07/13/what-a-malicious-ma... An exploration on the powers of a malicious admin in Matrix

- https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2019/11/06/infrastructure-as-c... Old blog post that needs updating on how I manage my physical servers and spawn VMs using Terraform and Ansible to have an IaC setup without the "cloud".
AKS and AKS Engine uses Ubuntu. From an Enterprise point of view, Ubuntu LTS and RHEL are more attractive.
https://keeb.dev

My post recent post is on how to make a KVM hypervisor from scratch starting with Basic Networking.

Details here: https://keeb.dev/2023/07/03/Virtualization-from-scratch-Sett...
Yes cloud services make it trivial to set up and run software offerings. They are designed so it is easy to enter and hard to leave. And they make things unnecessarily complicated and expensive over if it grows to any non trivial degree. By then you're stuck rationalizing your previous choice because it would be very costly and complicated to move away. I'm glad you haven't had these problems, but it doesn't mean they don't exist. The issue is, when you have one of these 'good to have' scaling problems after going all in on cloud vendor hype, it's too late. So random internet strangers who have seen the issues that lie ahead try to warn other people. Some will arrogantly say they see no problem, full steam ahead. That'll just mean they will have only themselves to blame if they ever find themselves in this quagmire.
Most popular post https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/
https://blog.dijit.sh

Mostly I rant about things and it becomes a jumbled mess of crap. My issue is keeping things short.

More interesting than my blog is the discussions that happen because of them: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Interesting ones include:

* Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22109969

* My Manager spent $1M on a backup server I never used: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35001272

* I don't trust Signal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36386884

* How to survive an open office: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20469470

(the final one seeming much less relevant these days, thankfully).
Yes, I think my comments are effective, but I don't think they are pleasant.

It seems like you think it's wrong to give great advice that might hurt feelings, if that's what you think then I think you're wrong and possibly causing more harm in the long term.
> Movies and songs are copyrighted and can’t be rebroadcast or copied without license. But viewing is perfectly legal and does not require a license.

That's exactly the point: “publishing” something only gives you some limited rights (an in certain jurisdictions like mine, most of these rights are limited to individuals only, and organizations are excluded).

> And you can certainly start a DVD-renting business without a license from copyright holders (assuming you bought the DVD)

Not in my country, again.
I really hope you never hold any power. I recommend you a nice movie you can watch called videodrome.
We probably need better, consistent terminology for different types of "not all the freedoms of open source but not proprietary secret source either", the way "open source" means something very specific.

The Wikipedia page you cited opens with "Source-available software is software released through a source code distribution model that includes arrangements where the source can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but without necessarily meeting the criteria to be called open-source."

So by this definition, "source available" is a superset of FOSS, but not specific enough to imply what the user can and can't do with the source code. It makes sense to name classes of license within the "source available" umbrella that spell out what freedoms are restricted/preserved.

The Big Time license is not specific as to whether the covered software is provided in source or binary form, and is easily applied to source code distributions. Probably the reason I associated this license with "source available" is the primary license author is a prominent U.S. lawyer involved with open source and I'm pretty confident it is written to be applicable to source code even if it is not explicit about it. Similarly, the BSD license doesn't require that the license be attached to source code - one could release binary-only software under the BSD license.
Why does Julia get her own plotting library? Unfair.
It's amazing that society still puts so much stock into these types of impossibly confounded studies.

Ok, so they found that people who are top earners are no more satisfied with their jobs than bottom earners.

Might this be because top earners tend to be the types who neglect other aspects of their lives? Or who are hypercompeitive and are unlikely to be satisfied at any level, otherwise they would have stayed where they were?

Or maybe the higher the pay goes, the higher the concentration of high self discipline people willing to endure things they don't like for money. Etc.

And we are supposed to wave away all of these confounders because of controlled marshmellow experiments done on random students?

I'm sure Harvard meta studies do the best job possible distilling insight from these studies. The problem is how insightful these types of studies are in the first place.
Hi there, my blood is fine! appreciate the cut and thrust, even if no one is watching. I would have preferred if you had started in good faith and critiqued the facts etc rather than jumping to "who is paying you"

I think I said it in another post, but my only inspiration for writing about this is that I have been following DSM for years (I first wrote about it here https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2018/03/19/si...), reading papers and talking to people. Based on what I knew when I started reporting this several weeks ago, I thought it worthwhile to try and compare the impacts of land vs seabed mining. I found a rough comparison was possible, and that's the heart of the piece

Might respond more fully later, but am clocking off for now. The final thing I'd say for now is that all the hype and narrative I see runs in the other direction, against DSM. Those who are against it are chock full of nonsense claims like this will disrupt the global carbon cycle or destroy fisheries, when basic science shows that it won't (or, if you don't like the casual use of certainty, that it is very very unlikley)
Not everyone has $$$ to spend on a subscription service and they would locked out of content. Ads are necessary to promote accessibility of content in my opinion.
I was tempted to answer the title with "domainname checks out", but that wouldn't do hackernews any justice.

Although imho it seems really random what makes it to the frontpage i agree that there is always an interesting mix of blog posts, news articles and technical content.

Maybe it also depends on the time of the day (different audiences active, having a slightly different taste)?
This is the Bugzilla issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1832791
https://paul.totterman.name/
The village/community would be the most successful support model.
The nematodes have helped me, but not eliminated them. I have a lot of plants.
While I agree in principle and I am also not an expert by any means, I think it should be possible to inject a finite amount of substances that eventually cause a change to the composition of the human body to make it functionally immortal, in theory.

I think this can be reasoned from three observations:

1. That it is possible to change the DNA of the cells of a living organism by injecting substances in said organism (as evidenced by genetic advances in recent decades?).

2. That the DNA of an organism has an extreme amount of control over the composition of said organism (as evidenced by the amount of diversity in all DNA-based organisms and species and also by the known fact that changes in the DNA of an organism also change how it evolves).

3. That biologically immortal species already exist (e.g. hydras?).

That said, I'm pretty sure we're extremely far away from achieving this (unless we can create superintelligent AIs soon).
Facebook suffers fresh setback after EU ruling on use of personal data
You have to watch the ad. Switching channels or looking at something else? That’s theft.
I wonder if there's a distinction between doing what you love as work and doing what you love as hobby. I love software development and I especially love software development as work. I actually prefer to solve other people's problems than my own.

Perhaps some of this discussion is just talking at cross-purposes because the fundamental thing that we're discussing is not the same.
Now do Office, and I'd say goodbye.
There is one very simple reason. Fuck authoritarianism, especially when education is mandatory. Consider that a lot of people have public schooling with atrocious quality that is quite frankly quite useless, because it is mostly nationalistic, xenophobic, white-supremacists, elitist, classist, patriarchal etc. propaganda. It is actually not even useless a lot of the time, it is just harmful to a person to listen to these lies, so it's actually better if kids can drown out this propaganda by looking at a smartphone screen.
> Once you start to demand that schools become more entertaining than the most addictive thing the world's entertainment technologists can dream up, you've kind of lost sight of the mission of a school.

People aren't idiots. Kids aren't idiots either. They want more than mindless entertainment. A school computer with Scratch can easily compete with a platformer on the phone. School in general is in a good position to be empowering, but the system prefers to be oppressive instead.
For a Quirks & Quarks interview on a related subject:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/hammerhead-shark-breath-hold...
https://www.dylanpaulus.com/posts

Programming topics ~1 a month with some big gaps in there. I got inspired by Hanselman's "save your keystrokes" (https://www.hanselman.com/blog/do-they-deserve-the-gift-of-y...), and most posts revolve around questions I get.
I do literature reviews for Information Retrieval domain (Recommender Systems, Search and Ranking, etc.).

https://blog.reachsumit.com/
Wow, I was under the impression that this had long been implemented already (as it's already in btrfs and other commercial file systems)

Awesome!
Ah. That is the SPXP JSON profile of the "bridged" profile from Jack on Bluesky. On a mobile phone that has the HeyFolks app installed, try the following deep link:
https://heyfolks.app/profile?uri=https://bridge.spxp.org/at/...
This seems to fall into the 'simplistic, not simple' school of thought. You can have a relatively simple website if it doesn't do anything and if it cuts corners.

Take your dark mode, which is just about the only nontrivial feature I see on this page. (One could also criticize the low contrast of the appearance and other problems, but that's less relevant to the simplicity thesis you're claiming.)

First, your dark mode is implemented wrong in the lazy corner-cutting way of doing JS post-load instead of the correct way of CSS body classes; so you get the 'flash of white' unavoidably on every page load - just what every dark mode user with their phone to their face at midnight wants to see! (If your solution doesn't work, it doesn't matter if it's 'simple' or 'complex'.)

Second, you implement what is like 3 lines of JS (setting localstorage & dark-mode) by pulling in what looks like an entire interpreter for a custom 'hyperscript' https://hyperscript.org/ language which seems to mostly just offer some sugar over JS; now, maybe you use 'hyperscript' elsewhere for reasonable purposes, but surely pulling in a 96kb (uncached) library solely to run

def saveMode() if first classList.value of <html/> contains 'dark' set localStorage.kkColorMode to 'dark' else set localStorage.kkColorMode to 'light' end end

init if localStorage.kkColorMode is empty set localStorage.kkColorMode to 'light' end if localStorage.kkColorMode is 'dark' add .dark to <html/> end

is a bit against the spirit of this "simplicity is the ultimate perfection" enterprise...? Personally, I feel like I see some easy perfection to add right there. (And is this hyperscript stuff also why the HTML doesn't validate?)

Third, this binary toggle is a bad way to implement dark mode because it ignores system/browser settings, so if a user has, say, enabled dark-mode on their smartphone OS, they still get served light-mode until they manually enable it; note that some systems change it based on local time/ambient light too, which is quite nice... if websites & apps respect it instead of overriding it. And since localstorage expires and users switch devices, they would have to do so repeatedly. Is this a good thing? A user probably would disagree with the developer who is touting how 'simple' the dark-mode implementation is because they cut corners in handling system settings/auto-dark-mode...
It passes minimum (AA) contrast recommendations but fails enhanced (AAA) contrast recommendations. I also wouldn't settle for it on a site I'm responsible for.