skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, SA has supposedly been on the "brink of chaos" ever since Apartheid ended, and yet it never happens. I'm getting tired of this narrative.

I've visited once. Yes, many things seem to have gone south, but those are growing pains every country goes through to achieve a proper political and economic system.

Of course it is easy to avoid "chaos" when the majority of the people are brutally suppressed. Actually crafting a proper political and economic system is not as easy as it seems. Europe for instance had to go through horrible wars for centuries before its nations learned to live in relative peace.
IMHO a more fundamental difference is that because of pattern matching and pipelines you'll write code in a very different way and any expectation that Elixir and Ruby are similar will evaporate before the end of the very first day.

However many Class.method names in Ruby's standard library have a match as Module.function in Elixir, by design, to ease the migration of developers. Language developers take note, copy from the language you want to lure developers from.
What made you say this isn’t an African phenomenon and “is this really SA’s problem?”. I can’t figure out what that is in response to?
You are on point. I still use OpenBSD where it makes sense though—in your case it does not. All my OpenBSD systems are backed by a UPS, but a crash, while rare, could still readily cause file system corruption.
I just see it as a scale. Both extremes are terrible and the middle is the answer. So Australia is more to the middle but that still makes a good comparison. Op said that he's from a socialist extreme but that's just more to the point. There's a balance to be found and criticism of socialism isn't that meaningful compared to criticism of extremes.
The reasons in the story are mostly symptoms of financialization -- the people making the major decisions were only looking at financial metrics, not operational metrics. The operational failures were driven by financial constraints. In turn the financial metrics weren't driven by actual constraints (capital available) but by gameable financial goals like ROI.

If the business had goals of being sustainable and reasonably profitable, and was run with strong operational guidance, it could have been successful.
OP didn't suggest it was any of those terms.
at and batch are both part of the same underlying facility. The former seems more known than batch, but where you find one you will pretty much always find the other.

On many systems they'll share an integrated manpage.
There has been so much money and time spent on battery research. We are in the incremental phase of battery evolution. There will not likely be any major leap in battery cost or performance.

A battery is a box of minerals with electrochemical reactivity, i.e. it can catch on fire if something goes wrong. More energy from the battery means more minerals, which means higher cost. More reactive chemistries can reduce mineral inputs, but tend to be more expensive or less stable.

Tldr; there are no quantum leaps available for batteries. If Toyota has a giant range EV it's either really expensive or it's a research vehicle staying far away from consumers.
is openbsd good for graphics and sound work/programming?
I'm sort of confused by these rulings. So people got convicted for possessing loli manga/similar stuff that has no relation to real life at all.

I understand that it can be illegal at the State level, and that its a grey area at the federal level. What I don't get is the disconnect between these rulings and whatever is available on the clearnet.

We're not talking onion sites. Reddit, Twitter, 4chan, pixv, tumblr, Patreon whatever sites that you can just go to that shows up the front page of Google. They all contain similar content and almost none of it is taken down for illegality, at most because someone thought it was too ick and Ad money, or posted in a non-r18 area.

Even fucking 4chan is incredibly strict about ban hammering/deleting anything that is close to CP

Genshin Impact and Blue Archive are not popular because they are good games.
Using the Universe Splitter is more fun: https://cheapuniverses.com/
Read the article. It's actually way better than the jobs she had before.

Sure it would be good for people to do jobs that are on the next level up in terms of complexity. However, AI is coming for those jobs also.
Sure, but that’s in extreme cases. For small stuff like papers, permits and such - talking to the right people will get you anywhere you want to go.

I still remember handing over my passport to a guy on a sports bike in Singapore to get an extended stamp for Indonesia, and only a few years later did it occur to me how sketchy the whole situation was.
The token prefix is a nice hack, but users will find it out and then it becomes part of the informal API.
The Electro Gyrocator essentially worked that way. You placed transparencies over the CRT for the map section you were currently in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-features/ph-origins-navi...
but how much more value does it bring to other places! It's a zero sum game, that money will go to boost other people's fortunes. It has helped the piece of mind of millions not to sit in traffic!
The entire system is incompatible with diversity of thought.
This is a very weird statement:

> Furthermore, the lack of recognition (or even existence at all) by many countries means that Kosovo is less susceptible to outside influence and pressure from both East and West, which can provide a safe haven for content that is regularly targeted by state actors and similar.

I would think the opposite is true -- being only partially recognized makes you very dependent on the countries countries that recognized you. If e.g. the US wants something done it is much easier to bully a country that enjoys their protection and is not 100% recognized.
RecipeGPT – A GPT-4 powered recipe app
I just launched RecipeGPT, a small project I built this weekend. Enter your ingredients, calorie and macro requirements and time constraints to get 5 quick recipe ideas suggested with concise instructions.
But google maps provide offline maps, and have done it for years. You just have to save them in advance.
It's amazing how far adrift the industry has gone with authentication.

This post is saying to avoid OAuth and use bearer tokens because OAuth is too complicated. I agree with OAuth being too complicated, but I don't really think bearer tokens are the solution either.

Now there are jwts, and passkeys, and all these other solutions, which from where I'm standing, just look like someone else's resume-builder that I'm going to have to understand in a few years in order to do something simple and unrelated.

We are already connecting over TLS, just have the client authenticate with a long lived asymmetric key. Let me see that key in whatever web framework; I should have access to it, same as an HTTP header. Then I'll stick it in the database, maybe hash it first, if it's big. It doesn't have to be harder than that, your identity is (the hash of) your public key.
You're right! Moreover that's sort of how all exploits work if you really zoom out.
We fixed ozone depletion by the "North Korean authoritarian" ban on CFCs and some other things. It's not that outlandish.

If $thing you do affects only you: do whatever you want! Go nuts! If $thing you do affects a substantial number of other people: maybe we need to ensure this doesn't result in you imposing your $thing on the rest of us? These sort of things aren't simple: your freedom to play music at 4am interrupts my freedom to sleep at night.
See also many cases in West when politicians are voted in based on gender.

E.g. here in Lithuania we had a presidential candidate who is a women. I heard too many people advocating for her based on her gender. I heard some people going as far as saying that all women shall vote for her. Should all men vote for another candidate who happened to be man? Never got an answer :/
"rebootstrap" is the tool used today to bring up a new architecture. My understanding is that most of the process is now automated.
why should they though? They pay what the market will bear. They could pay a bit more if they would unionize successfully. Also lots of them do pay more when people take a risk and enter specialties and openly look for opportunity. You aren't going to make 100k digging ditches, but you can easily make that much as a plumber or electrician or machining expert.
indeed that would be number 1 by a VERY high margin. It's pretty ridiculous to start with "world domination" as an objective and end up 10 years later without a portable stdlib (aka foundation).

Another issue would be a coherent concurrency system. Today we have a mix of gcd and actor system, declarative task, async await, etc which when put together makes me totally unable to understand what's going on in a real world program, unless you're doing like i do in my team : i specifically ban all modern concurrency apis in favor of the old ones.

The same could be said with protocol extension + generics + class + structs.

For each problem, there are approximately 4 possible designs with subtle tradeoffs. Swift team advocates for "expressiveness". My personnal experience is that all patterns and technics will ultimately end up showing in the codebase, depending on the mood of the developer.

In the end, i've started to do like C++ developers end up doing : write guidelines on which language features are allowed, and which are forbidden.

Compare that to go, where there's (at most) one satisfying way to design the problem in the typesystem. As a sideeffect people have to think more about the problem they're trying to solve, and how to simplify it to the maximum.

The end result is that go pushes you toward simple and maintainable code. Swift pushes you toward being fancy for no good reasons.
I've used my fair share of dyes since my blue haired teenage years and I'm curious as they mention non-professional applications of dye in terms of risk. Does this mean the risk is elevated during the application phase and not the 'wearing' phase of dye use?

>We observed a higher breast cancer risk associated with any straightener use and personal use of permanent dye
The paper cites endocrine disruption, but that seems like the least of your worries.

Dyes have electron delocalization. That's why they're optically active. Those bonds will gladly participate in chemical reactions within your body. (One of the cited chemicals was a biphenyl, and looked particularly nasty.)

Chemical straightener is even worse. They're intended to break disulfide bonds, which are of critical importance in biochemical structure.

This stuff could percolate to your DNA and introduce deleterious changes.
Leading edge AI can already handle many skilled and complex tasks. Within a few years this will be widely deployed.
From a quick scan the results are a bit surprising.
One should know that dying ones hair involves 2 components:

1. developer. Some liquid that breaks open your hair follicles, containing usually 3%/6%/9% hydrogen peroxide. This is the aggressive stuf.

2. hair dye. The stuff that contains the color pigments.

The more you have to bleach the hair, the more aggressive the developer formulation needs to be. If you have perfectly black hair and you want to go blond, you basically going for the nucleair scenario: aggressively breaking open your hair follicles so that the existing dark pigments will fall out of it (bleach) so that the new pigments can enter eventually.

It suggests that black women have higher risks than white women. But also that semi-permanent dyes do incur way less risk. Semi-permanent dyes work different as in that the developer is way less aggressive, as a trade of with doing a less thorough job in getting the hair follicles to open.

The strange this is that for black women, the color of the permanent dye makes a more drastic difference in cancer risk compared to white women.

"The association with permanent dye use among black women was evident for both dark-colored dye (HR = 1.51, 95% CI: 1.12–2.05) and, although less precise, light-colored dye (HR = 1.46, 95% CI 0.91–2.34). Among white women, breast cancer risk was associated with use of light-colored permanent dye (HR = 1.12, 95% 1.01–1.23) but not dark dye (HR = 1.04, 95% 0.94–1.16)."

For me, this leaves the question open if one is comparing apples with apples, as I don't see the formulation for the developer accounted for.
The USA has 401k which is the same as super in Australia. Social security is another thing altogether comparable to the dole but you have to first pay something in to ever get a pittance out. I'm not sure you should count it.
Tribalism is often encouraged by invaders and colonizers. Divide and Conquer is a classic tactic. See Tutsi Vs Hutu for one notable example in Africa. And this was a known strategy in apartheid South Africa.
I agree, and find it quite overstimulating too. I’m not even sure what it’s trying to show me.
You could host BitTorrent seeds or something. Nobody is coming for you internationally over that.
> I can navigate anonymously without cell signal easily. My car has a GPS in the dashboard which, at least for the maps and routing, doesn't go online at all.

I agree that this is indeed possible. The problem is with the propaganda that says that you should not agree to such a low standard of only being able to see the map and route your trip based on road connectivity and nothing else. Modern route planning takes into account inherently real-time information such as accidents and other roadblocks, which is only available online.
This is either a joke or a scam/honeypot designed to fool gullible westerners.

Kosovo definitely is a corrupt country, but it doesn't mean you don't have to keep your criminal activities on the low. If you attract the attention of the western agencies, they will absolutely go after you. This isn't Russia, they're west-aligned and they don't want to annoy their western partners too much.

Also, this site doesn't even seem to be hosted in Kosovo: https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query?searchtext=192.71.1...
Mark Roper's videos on firework construction might have had military value 1000 years ago

but I'm afraid the Chinese already know how to make them
"There Are No Successful Black Nations" was the original title of this article in Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/09/why-black-people-must-h...

It's an uncomfortable title, but it's a truth that must be confronted. How have once downtrodden countries like Korea, China, and large swaths of Eastern Europe been able to turn rags into riches while most of Africa has so far failed to?

GDP is not everything of course. But even on measures of safety, why is Africa so much more violent than equally poor Laos or Cambodia?

South America shares some of Africa's woes, so perhaps it's not a uniquely African problem. But it seems less bad, and the region has produced success stories.

I've heard it said that Africa has yet to have its naissance. Maybe, hopefully, that's it and things will get better over time. But with the current corrupt institutions and leadership that looks to be a gargantuan task.
Hi I like it very much, it reminds me of Firefox Focus (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/...). Please add optional toolbar buttons to force web page text size increase/decrease like in MacOS Safari. You can consider it an accesibility option for us older people with worsening eyesight. Thanks!
I worked on a Phoenix project for a few years. We had to write our own libraries to access some services from Google and Stripe which have libraries for other languages but it was not difficult. We have to implement only the few HTTP calls we need and we can choose the functions that suit our application instead of learning somebody's else tool.
Typescript is very nice. Too bad the JavaScript underneath is so… unprofessional.
My workplace technically makes extensive use of chatbots. Groups that support internal products have it spit out suggestions before a real human gets notified.

Because it's integrated into slack, you can see it gets ignored 100% of the time.
Reactions to Google's Web Environment Integrity Proposal
-- Duplicate --

Transformers: The Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution.

HN: Discussion - (7-comments - 2023-07-23) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832797
People vote for the ANC in SA because there isn't an alternative party at the national level. Once you vote for the party, the party then decides who will lead.

Even the article notes that the first 15 years of ANC rule saw significant development, as does HDI data [0].

The issue was that Jacob Zuma essentially destroyed RSA thanks to his corruption. And the only reason he became President was because he headed the ANC's intelligence department from the 70s to the 90s, and as such had dirt on everyone.

[0] - https://countryeconomy.com/hdi/south-africa
Which vpn was no-log-but-logging? I was shopping around for an alternative after mullvad blocked port forwarding, but it seems like no one else is as trustworthy. Not that I need it for my “attempt to port forward smash ultimate from within crummy hospital internet” purposes, but hey, principle of the thing and all that.
This is a good point because in elixir metaprogramming you can actually have some things happen at compile time. The frameworks use this for performance in a few places.

So if you had different behavior for ex and exs that would cause developer confusion.
Well, basically in the 90's fans of the ZMachine interpreter from Zork/Infocom
created games with amateur tools and a really easy OOP lang called Inform, which the latest OOP iteration it's Inform 6 and they made jewels such as Curses!, Jigsaw, Anchorhead... surpassing the quality of the infocom games, even creating an eigth (v8) version of the Zmachine, surpassing v3 and v5 editions from Infocom. One of the games features even time travelling puzzles having to fight with yourself and your previous steps you did in the game. That could make an LLM parser explode. Yet, you have the Inform6 source code at https//jxself.org/git/devours and you can compile and run it with inform6 on systems as small as a 486 or a Pentium with the inform6 compiler.

Later with Inform 7 they created an English like language, describing the game by just using English like sentences.
Emily Short created Galatea with Inform6 which is more a conversation experiment than a game, think of Eliza but with stereoids, having even "feelings" and "topics" on the conversation. Depending on how you chat with a statue and what topics you uncover, after a long chat you will reach one ending or another.
OFC the topic and the feelings, previous chat... it's dynamic and not pre-generated like a graphical adventure menu.

Then there is Counterfeit Monkey, where you can turn an object into anagrams of others in order to solve clever puzzles, and the object count it's really big.
That could be really hard to implement with an LLM.
And let me guess, it will be used to intelligently identify and track users? Fecebook is desperate now on how it can harvest mosre data from anyone even if they decided not to use any fecebook products..
(is(((it any) harder than) this?))
France is roundabout-land ! (And I agree it's a good solution).
Remember (contrarian right twitter) France has fallen but South Africa (Vis a Vis BRICS) is a-ok
No kidding. It even compiles under Windows with cl run.c, no need to go hunting around for getopt.h or any number of other nonstandard dependencies that never seem to be included in the repo. An uncommon and welcome sight.
Read the article. The other job options for her were worse.
JWTS (and related token type approaches) are a solution to the whole: how do I avoid spending time doing authn on every request?
“ … drink water, not just soda; ”

Right. Yes. Well, I for one have complete faith in our ability to solve this climate crisis. /s
There are many, many pedophiles out there. I'm also convinced of a conspiracy theory that a lot of dark web traffic and hosts are created/operated by secret parts of the gov to de-legitimize the need for anonymity. I believe this because it would be too easy with the access to that material and no oversight. Just muddy the waters so nothing in there looks worth protecting.

</tinfoil-hat>
apparently SA is on the brink of not doing what the USA tells them to do, resulting in USA media panic on unrelated and long-standing topics
> It’s pretty bleak and pessimistic for one thing.

So, two objections:

First, "bleak and pessimistic" or "realistic"? There are a number of rights that we guarantee specifically because we don't believe there's a good way to police bad actors without harming good actors.

Our entire justice system is built around occasionally taking the worst outcome and refusing to convict people specifically because we're so scared of how easy it would be to abuse a system where people had the power to correct those injustices.

"State power can be abused" is not really uncommon sentiment for any political group in the US, and it's a big part of our country's DNA. I'm not sure I'd phrase that as fatalistic or unhelpful, it's a big part of the backbone of our current democracy.

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Second, it might well be that the problem is solvable, but even if that's the case it doesn't mean it's wise to give abusive regimes more power right now. Having optimism about our ability to build a society that does not stigmatize mental health and does not use mental health as an excuse to harm minorities, oppressed groups, activists, or social outcasts does not preclude saying "but we clearly don't have that society yet, and right now it would be a giant disaster to give our current society this level of power, and we know from history what a society that looks like ours typically does with this kind of power."

I might be optimistic that my kid will be able to learn to drive some day. I do not express that optimism by buying them a car when they're 10 and letting them start it up and start driving down the highway unattended. I am optimistic that Flatpak sandboxing is going to eventually be good. I do not express that optimism by throwing out all of my VMs and using Flatpak as my only sandboxing tool right now. I understand that my optimism about the future does not change the current state of the world.

I am optimistic that transgender rights are going to eventually improve over time, including in states like Florida and Texas. But I am realistic about how those states are run and managed at this moment, and I am realistic about what those states will do if granted these powers.

Optimism does not require naivety.
Eastern Standard Tribe is a weird one because its predictions turned out to be rather short-term, half of the ideas seem obvious now and half seem foolish
Is it dishonest when an IC car manufacturer advertises a range, but the fuel light comes on before that?

If you use a tank full of petrol each day, your car may not last 10 years. If you only do 1 mile a day, every day, it may not last 100k miles.

All mechanical things have usage patterns that are worse than others. You just get used to the tradeoffs.
Quite so. I’m currently reading Algebra Driven Design by Smart McGuire. It’s a valuable perspective.
- VMS Empire, for war sim a la XConq or Advance Wars but in terminal.
- Word game, from Boggle to Hangman to Wordle.
also they aren't mutually exclusive lol
By the time your battery needs replacement it will cost a fraction of what it costs today. Battery prices have been falling fast as the volume production of these batteries have scaled up.