skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who the hell would steal airbags?

Someone who didn't want to pay $400-800 per bag to get their banged up car back on the road.

Who the hell buys used tires? Who buys used catalytic converters? Who puts mismatched fenders on their car?

People who need a car to get to work and don't have a lot of money and, in the case of bags and fenders, may (wisely) not have collision coverage...
For single person projects, this makes a ton of sense. As you start wanting to divorce the iteration of one from the other, things do start to look a little different. And if you have the constraint of "no webserver," many static site strategies come into play.
Meanwhile as someone who had to deal with writing code for Solaris and using Sun's compiler, I think I've achieved my goal by seeing my last SPARC turn _off_!

But yeah, nuclear fusion is cool.
I haven't used conference submission systems for a while, but IIRC the ID gets assigned on submission of the first revision, you can just submit a blank document as soon as the system opens.
At least with some websites, you can eventually get through. I managed to get through the one at adobe by complaining incessantly about it and asking for a human for probably 20 minutes, and was routed to an actual human who solved my problem of not finding the download link for an old version of some of their software by giving me a direct download link to this version in about 30 seconds. If the process had merely started with the customer service representative rather than the bot, I'd be raving about the experience of solving my problem in moments.

I'm starting to think I should write my own bot who can do the 20 minutes of back and forth with the customer service bot. Then ping me when its time to actually pay attention.
For context, he is the same guy that went viral yesterday[0] excited with optimism, now saying there are other more possible explanations for the results besides superconductivity

[0]: https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684044616528453633
I agree, and tools that try to make something complex (nftables) simple and easy to use (UFW, Firewalld) should make that possible.

Different lists are a powerful nftables feature that is used in many system services and applications for things like routing and specialized forwarding. You can't just disable that without breaking tons of software.

Instead, tools like UFW should make it clear which ports are or aren't open and what firewall rules actually apply to the current system. They exist to save users from nftables and eBPF programming, and they should work as advertised.

Ufw advertises itself with "Ufw stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, and is program for managing a netfilter firewall" not "Ufw stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, which lets you add some firewall rules but doesn't manage all of them so you need to be extra careful if you use it."
I read the whole thing and still don't know what Buddhists do to their children that the author finds so.. worrying? That was also unclear.
In my experience you don't use nested arithmetic often enough to make it annoying. Most arithmetic in computing is basically `count := count + 1`?

What is more annoying to me is looking at an expression that mixes arithmetic and logical/comparison operators and mentally trying to recover the parentheses. Because precedence is not just PEMDAS: it involves all binary operators in the language, including logical and bitwise ones.
You're supposed to be thinking and talking about UAPs!
The entire world is choking and the US economy is just chugging along.

I don't live in the US, I had a friend recently disclose that she uses a food bank more than once a month.

If some politician came along and offer a MAGA approach to my country I'd vote for them.
Even if this gets debunked it's already probably noteworthy enough for an article.
gone quickly
At least linear types means you'll never forget it. It also solves the problem of what to do when your destructor needs to error (e.g. closing a file).

The big downside is the verbosity of covering every branch of your code with your explicit close calls unless another mechanism is provided.

And it doesn't seem like succinctness is a top priority for this language.
Discussed in 2018, "Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons"
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> A great problematic side effect of the web being so ad-driven is it leads to confusing the user interface, which can host ads, with the information.

Whoa there, let's start small first and maybe make buttons that look like buttons and links that look like links first... small steps.
Ask HN: Why nobody cares about David Grusch’s UFO revelations?
Dallas has two LAN groups that host decent sized parties.

Quakecon, the most formidable, is back this year in early August for the first time since 2019. Several thousand seats.

And LAN All Night which is a few hundred seats, more quirky, but friendly. Two LANs a year.

LAN parties are still really fun. In the age of online gaming, it still helps to go in with friends and have some idea of what games you want to play for several hours at a time.

If you're a game or but never have experience a LAN party, it's worth hauling your shit out to one! Bring a sweater.
So, it turns out that what females find sexually attractive is… sexual attractiveness? Someone phone the Nobel committee!
Thanks for your hard work. I've actually been periodically checking on the hypermedia systems book, and glad to see it's finally been released. Do you have any plan to sell the ebook on a more open platform? PDF or EPUB on leanpub/smashwords/gumroad etc? I can read it online in the meantime, but I'd be happy to purchase if it were more generally available to non-kindle readers.
It doesn't look fixed to me. Only the homepage shows up on DDG from searching site:techdirt.com

Google has 100k+ results for the same prompt.
I mean… I guess there’s that.

They fixed the problem so it shows ability to. Maybe the issue is “detect what parts we should do ourselves”? How do we detect censorship beyond blog posts like this? Can we diff various indices on a regular basis?
Most famous discovers of famous phenomena do not get 7 figure consulting gigs. Did any discoverers of high Tc superconductors, quantum hall, topological insulators, blue LEDs, graphene get rich? Not as far as I know.
Am opposed to brave due to their owner's donations, but they are a good product so this is good
>My take away is a bit different: if a user lands on your site/app, they don't want to talk to a chatbot.

But part of that is Siri, Google Assistant, et al. often just say "here's a website" when you ask a question like "Hey Siri, does Walgreens on Blob Street have the FreeStyle Libre 3 in stock?"

But in what TFA describes, Siri would do something like

>I need to ask walgreens.com, is it OK to send your question to them?

Yeah ok

>Walgreens.com says yes the Blob Street Walgreens has the FreeStyle Libre 3 in stock
What is most frustrating about this is that they insist on mailing the QR code card to you after you pay up on the carrier website. (as-in postage, in an envelope, arrives in 5 biz days).

Why not just show me the QR code on my computer right after I pay your fee? It's quite ridiculous.
> restic fails to be able to grep using Windows reliably

That is news to me. I backup almost a million files spread across 4 Windows devices, with heavy use of --files-from and --iexclude and it seems to work. What am I missing?

I agree that restic filtering options are pretty limited. Too limited, really. But what's there seems to work?
Spoiler alert: It doesn't include a ChatBot friend...
not qualified to explain the levitation, seems to be some sort of self-stabilizing magnetic field due to zero-resistance current.

But there is plenty of magnetic levitation right now without power:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2Z9QAP

also, balloons.
Your bank will likely have it soon enough.
>... locked us out of Upsell X and we couldn’t support it anymore. Even further - they kept charging merchants for Upsell X - but we never received those payouts.

Putting all the other things aside, but this struck me. How is that legal? That sounds like outright theft to me.
It's a low-stakes danger for buying a Tesla, probably - though I would never buy one, at least in current design, because I think it's acutely dangerous to be by not having tactile controls that do not require me to look at them - but if it's not a problem for that person, so be it. But in general such approach to evaluating information would make one take bad decisions.

> I said forget Consumer Reports, the phone works fine.

If it works for you, then it works for you. It's not the same as saying people for whom it doesn't work are motivated liars, though.
I disagree that we need more tooling. We need better tooling. Docker and Kubernetes adding network filters makes total sense, they're useless without forwarding packets between devices.

UFW, on the other hand, pretends to make firewalls simple and easy to use when they're really not. I'm not expecting UFW to start managing Docker's/K8s'/libvirtd's firewall rules, I'm just expecting them to add a section of "ports opened by other applications" that show the open ports that UFW can't control.
I think you still don't realize I'm not the original arguer. I just came here to point out this:

>Just a FYI your argument is that Elon got a Huge Head Start to his serial entrepreneurism just because someone in relation to him had a business 40+ years ago in South Africa. Far after which he lived almost as a destitute during his college years.

Which you can't retort and makes other arguments meaningless. Which are already so badly-colored (narcissism, trying to dredge up race relations) that are not worth deliberating on for anyone's sake.
The things we could build if S3 specified a simple OAuth2-based protocol for delegating read/write access. The world needs an HTTP-based protocol for apps to access data on the user's behalf. Google Drive is the closest to this but it only has a single provider and other issues[0]. I'm sad remoteStorage never caught on. I really hope Solid does well but it feels too complex to me. My own take on the problem is https://gemdrive.io/, but it's mostly on hold while I'm focused on other parts of the self-hosting stack.

[0]: https://gdrivemusic.com/help
North America does not have the same populations/density that is seen in east/southeast/south Asia. Therefore, North American cities do not have to make any such trade-off between density and green space.

In fact, density allows for more green space. Don't let single-family home suburbs fool you. Lawns are not green space. Laws are a pathetic attempt at greenwashing suburbs that were made by clear cutting forests or destroying nature. The less space humans take, the more can be left for nature.
>They will log into their smart phone and expect all the other apps and skills to integrate with their personal clouds, arbitrated by their trusted personal virtual assistant.

I don't know anyone that trusts Siri, Alexa, or (Hey) Google. Or ChatGPT, for that matter.
Check out "The Battle of the Beams" by Tom Whipple, Science Editor of the Times, and whose grandparents were part of the development story.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442430/the-battle-of-the-bea...
I think you were referring to this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36897010
So there's differing views on this, Zig famously has the build system built in.

To me, having them separate forces you to keep things simple, because the build system can't communicate with the compiler except through compiler-provided interfaces.

Also, I think I like about languages like C, Rust, is that: if I wanted to, I could implement the build system without forking the compiler. In C specially because Make will print all the compiler invocations for you. It lets people build tooling that is not part of the compiler.

I think it's good from a simplicity perspective that language users can figure out what set of compiler invocations a build file "compiles down" to.
I won't go point-by-point, just point out that they are so similar, that there are products enterprises are buying that allow them to run their VM workloads in k8s like a container. It's also worth pointing out that containers sold themselves as VMs without the overhead (that was Google's goal with cgroups and namespaces that enabled things like Docker to come after)

Much of what you talk about is tooling and patterns around containers, not containers themselves, such as networking and volume mounts. I would also point out that there are better options to Dockerfiles for containers these days as well, that unlock the real potential of buildkit.
I think Ceph hit similar problems and they had to add more robust checksumming to the system, as relying on just tcp checksums for integrity for example was no longer enough
It’s a segmentation issue. The ad buy was for “people going to restaurants” but it might have been “people going to {type} restaurants.”

Thought it’s probably not that simple. A naive ad buy might not care to target, or targeting is too expensive and you’re ok wasting some impressions because it might be all-in cheaper, or {brand} has the media budget to pay to be in front of your eyeballs all the time.
The actual architecture of most of these systems in finance relies heavily on UDP multicast, which is a technology that big tech has basically forgotten because it can be tough to administer at large scale.

Multicast puts the entire load of distributing the data in its natural place: the network. The pub/sub queues that the rest of the world uses are more complicated and a lot worse.

This appears to be the beginning of a "cloud-native" bloomberg that can't lean on multicast.
Having a firearm unsecured and unlocked inside a vehicle is a crime isn’t it?

How many children die from unsecured firearms every year again?

I swear, every pro-gun logic path brings you back to the fact that guns are dangerous to have around.
Interesting that this is allowed under GAAP.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36899622
If you're on a Mac, Safari has had virtual tabs for a bit now.
Have you ever seen the d3 javascript visualisation examples? The author has a physics background, so the code ends up being very verbose with lots of comments about simple programming stuff, yet incredibly terse when it comes to heavy mathematics. I would have done the opposite.

It made me realize that people naturally want to be more verbose when they are less comfortable with the concepts and less verbose when they are very familiar with the concepts. It also made me realize it is totally subjective and there may not be a right answer, that it depends on someone's background and familiarities.
If AI is the future of programming, it will be with python, jquery and php, because they make infinitely customizable spaghetti without the constraints of abstraction. And if AI is going to be handling all the spaghetti that's fine.
It's not really just WIFI calling. A data network and a WiFi network are all the same to a UDP packet and your phone can have settings to prefer one or the other so that you can use the data plan you want as if the WIFI were setup.
Yes it is a bit backwards. The McDonalds stop afterwards makes more sense.
> It even contains language that absolves platforms of responsibility for content specifically requested by children

Actually, the bill does not absolve platforms of that responsibility. Let me format the text of the bill's Section 3(b) into something more readable:

> SEC. 3. Duty of care.

>> (b) Limitation.—Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to require a covered platform to prevent or preclude—

>>> (1) any minor from deliberately and independently searching for, or specifically requesting, content; or

>>> (2) the covered platform or individuals on the platform from providing resources for the prevention or mitigation of suicidal behaviors, substance use, and other harms, including evidence-informed information and clinical resources.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/140...

Section 3(b)(1) is worded in a deceptive way. It does not prevent websites from allowing minors to search for censored content censored by the bill, but the text of the "Limitation" still does not allow websites to display content censored by the bill, even when specifically requested by the minor. Websites would still have a "duty of care" to "prevent and mitigate" anxiety and depression in users and viewers under 18 years of age, as prescribed in Section 3(a)(1), which is something that requires content any adult would find acceptable to be broadly censored.
Wouldn’t it look like a normal ACH transfer request? Just faster?
I don't get it, what does it mean?
> feel like I’m being gaslit every time I hear how great the economy is

The economy is getting healthier, but it was recently very sick. Many Americans are better off today than they were last year, but worse off than they were in 2020. This is best illustrated by a chart of real earnings [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
"Mainly US" though which explains a lot ;)

I see as well that the US English spelling for "trawl" (as in fishing) is troll. Again, mainly US.
> What’s interesting here, when you look at the highest-level block diagram of S3’s technical design, is the fact that AWS tends to ship its org chart. This is a phrase that’s often used in a pretty disparaging way, but in this case it’s absolutely fascinating.

I’d go even further: at this scale, it is essential and required to develop these kind of projects with any sort of velocity.

Large organizations ship their communication structure by design. The alternative is engineering anarchy.
That's more like (very slowly) spoiling. "Ageing" is usually used for when it changes the flavor in a desirable way.
There are non-superconducting materials that exhibit diamagnetism, too.
- Move to the San Jose area (AKA Silicon Valley). Goods & services are not uniformly distributed-- so you might have to move to the place which specializes in your given industry. e.g. Tourism -> Florida. Fishing -> Alaska. IT Work -> Bay Area.

- Demonstrate the skills by building a prototype product and keeping all the code in Github

- A web portfolio showing projects-- i.e. demonstrating skills-- such as prototype projects, or coursework from relevant classes (e.g. a database design, a statistics script, etc.)

- Have your resume on at least 5 different resume sites

- Consider making 2 or 3+ different resumes, each for a slightly different job (e.g. Software Engineer, Sales Engineer, Backend-focued, Frontend-focused, Full Stack, etc.)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC has the likely source of the error: 30M bits (using the 6 data bits but not parity), but it rented for $3k per month so you didn’t have a set cost the same as buying a physical drive outright - very close to S3’s model, though.
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I wish to develop a fully functional web site (believe it needs a CMS, Content Management System). Customers should be able to sign up and upload photos etc - however they are not going to be public.

Will the CMS acting as a backend database? Will it still need a DB like MySQL? What are the best methods and tools lately? Tools to learn? Tech stack?
No one wants to talk to a chatbot.
We're not talking about how well they do compared to EPA range estimates; we're talking about the car choosing to put the EPA range estimate on the dash even when the car knows that number is bunk.

Most ICE cars (and other electric cars) use driving history averages to adjust the range estimate on the dash, and a touch of pessimism. They're still not perfect, but better than claiming EPA range for someone who you know never gets close to it.
Range estimates are shit on ICE cars too. They're called "estimates" for a reason. You can't predict the future. I'm not a Tesla fan but this whole thing is nonsense.
I think it would be less strong than a wavy wall of similar brick count, but still more efficient than an equivalent strength wall built in a straight line.

My mental reasoning for this is that a (pseudo) sinusoid spends a lot more of its path further away from the centre. Thinking of it as a point moving along the path through time, it will dwell and the peaks, and cruise through he centre. The contribution of each brick to wall stiffness will be related to the cube of the distance from the centre line (neutral axis), so more 'time' spent at the peaks is best. This holds true on the macro scale, but could vary on the scale of a half 'wavelength' as the lack of inversion of curvature could be beneficial there.

Everything moderately reasonable seems to be better than a straight line in this instance. In the limit, two much thinner walls, far apart, is the optimal solution, but that becomes unreasonable as those walls must be coupled together to provide strength.
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Any decent landscaper knows about a special group of plants that have the so called architectural trait. Those aren't necessarily colorful, nice or covered in big flowers. They stand among other as a living sculpture.

Strongly geometrical plants are useful to integrate the rigid shapes found in man-made garden objects. We can culture a snow white Onopordum thistle near to a light-grey granite pavement, and it creates a subtle reverberating effect that is very desirable, both in color and in geometry. The horizontal lines on the pavement are balanced by the strong vertical lines of the thistle creating a structure that people often find pleasant, even if they don't know why. If well done, it just feels right.

Honey locust are cultured because they are hard and tolerate neglect, but they are not unique trees in this sense. What made them stand among other are its beautiful uniquely-shaped architectural spines.

And they are beautiful indeed. Locust trees are winter actors. The combination of clusters of black spines covered on ice, under a winter morning light can bright a long winter season when there is not much more to see. Connoisseurs appreciate it as a certified way to introduce drama and contrast in a garden that otherwise would feel bland, dull and uninspiring.

On the other hand finding this trees on riverbeds don't whisper to me "navajo settlement" necessarily. It speaks: "floodings and vegetative multiplication by roots".
> That last sentence was not meant to be passive aggressive at all.

I certainly didn't read it that way. It just stood out because British English is my native language.
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oh shoot. good catch, thanks!