skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuine question, are there folks hyped about Deno that don't come from a nodejs background?
> if the current state in the test environment isn't good, you either have to wait for it to be fixed, or to roll back all possibly bad new commits before you can enable the feature.

This is a symptom of long release cycles. The more work you “save up” to deploy all at once, the more difficult deployments become. Everything becomes much easier when you minimise unreleased work.
15% seems high
I have been training a natural intelligence model for 3 years now and she still doesn’t get nuance. Things are either good or bad in her book: nothing in between. My plan is to let her train with binary good/bad labels till the age of 5 and then start smoothing the labels after that. Wonder if that works for your AI.
Does Google have a track record of not respecting robots.txt? Otherwise why is it a problem?
>I would wager that this is a proxy for the housing market. It's correlated with renting (majority) v/s buying (minority). And renters don't want the middle. That's pretty much how I view everything I buy. It's ephemeral.

Interesting I've never thought of it that way, anyways here's a great podcast episode from 99 Percent Invisible on the "missing middle" in terms of housing.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-missing-middle/
The last 13 years, and personally knowing people who have had their arms twisted by the current government. One cowed, one did not. One lives, one does not.

This government is all about extortion and information manipulation.
> Interestingly, FOSS means more freedom for the code and for the end user of the code but less freedom for any developer or company who might be reproducing and/or hosting the code.

Yeah, exactly like a ban on slavery means less freedom for those who would own, beed, and rent out slave labour. Are we supposed to cry at this evil restriction in the freedom of would-be slave owners, boo-hoo, and allow slavery in the name of freedom?

> The copyleft requirement of GNU licenses restrict what a developer and/or company can do with the code since it forces them to make any derived code public... Which is generally undesirable for commercial projects; especially early in their lifecycles when bugs may be present and would be best kept private until the project has been more battle-tested.

It's supposed to restrict that, just like laws are supposed to remove your "freedom" to murder or take slaves. Copyleft exists for the public good, not for commercial projects. It doesn't need to be "desirable" for them.

> GPL licenses are a good way to ensnare businesses and then up-sell other software licenses that are more suited for commercial use.

Utterly weird take.
Increased storm severity across many parts of the world; Record temperatures in Europe; Antarctic ice shelf collapse; record low Arctic ice; weakening AMOC; coral bleaching; earlier springs with consequential impact on insects... Are you paying attention?
Since others are suggesting x86 instead of ARM, I highly recommend an LG Gram (either 16 or 17) that comes with an 80 Wh battery, and stock Fedora.

With Power Profiles in Gnome set to "Power Saver" you'll easily last more than a day. Standby power is excellent.

LG has other, smaller models as well, but I think they come with smaller batteries that aren't quite as good a balance of power and weight.
>For a couple dozen languages, GPT-4 is by far the best translator you can get your hands on (better than deepl, google, papago etc).

Yeah, I have no idea how the likes of DeepL and other paid-for translators are going to survive long term when "GPT-4 and friends" are that good. What's their business plan?

DeppL tried to compensate by making their front-end more annoying and hijacking clicks and highlights which invalidate the browser spell checker, making it impossible to correct a word via click, which I guess is one way of expediting their demise.

The sad part is, in my small town there's the office of another small ML driven translation start-up that was way better than Google when it launched a few years ago, but now when I check their careers page, they're not hiring anymore which I guess says enough about their business and future growth plans. Dead man walking.
Subordinating women and minorities/outsiders “are the customs that the general population has chosen to acknowledge” for most of civilized history “that ma[de] them valuable as signifiers that one is, to some degree, participating as a normal member of society”. I would encourage you to never use that as an argument for anything, ever. It is devoid of weight or reason. You can do better, I promise.
Of course if they went to court, X would have to prove what they claim. And ADL would probably have to do the same. It's the normal course of things between private entities.

In the meantime, the ADL has already threatened X with reputational damage, and now Musk is doing the same with the ADL- by spreading the idea that their motives are not necessarily laudable. I see a perfect symmetry in the situation.

> the reason I quoted Sartre in that post is that I believe there is no sincerity to this. Selecting a Jewish organization...

Basically what you're saying here is that your judgement of the situation is biased by the fact that the ADL is a Jewish organisation. Should Jewish organisations not be engaged directly or asked to be accountable for their actions?
I've been a happy UserLAnd user for a long time and it's a wonderful project, thank you!

I've have recently started using vmConsole too (which is based on qemu instead) as I needed docker. Also great.
I am not a fan nor a user of backend feature flags, so don't ding me for relaying this: they tout features such as central management of these settings, bringing them in the hands of the product team rather than being tugged away in code, allowing for canary deployments where you fade in a feature based on performance metrics, a/b testing, and so on. In their own interest, these folks take an as broad as possible view on what is a feature flag, often including things that you'd otherwise call system configuration or entitlements or permission toggles. It's not a new trend, LaunchDarkly is probably the best known commercial party here, and they've been around for about ten years, and I don't think they were first.
Because that arguably is distribution.
That used to be the universal way here (Belgium) before the banks went all in with apps. I'm not sure wether typing a challange/response into a browser is inherently more secure than a phone app.

For those wondering about 2FA with these apps, factor 1 is "something you own" namely that particular phone/sim, and factor 2 is "something you know", your PIN.

You can still use cardTAN, but the app is way more convenient, especially with QR.
Well, this is hackernews, one of the main nerd-to-incel-to-qanon pipelines. Misogynistic conspiracy theories fit right in.
You can't demonstrate what you don't understand.

We've yet to rule it out in dolphins/orcas/whales etc like we have in lots of other animals. That alone is a pretty big deal.

And there's research that dolphins understand syntax.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342706263_Language_...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001002...
Thanks for at least offering something interesting. To be honest, the state of crypto is past what I can keep up with, but that gives me some concrete foot-holds to look into Phonon vs Lightning more.

thanks!
This is nice! I am enjoying it so far. Earlier, I was trying to find Postman alternatives and I went back to Postman because of UI quirks. I found couple of issues with RecipeUI

Following is the curl command I got from Postman export

curl --location --globoff 'https://api.fly.io/prometheus/my-fly-app/api/v1/query?query=count(fly_instance_filesystem_blocks{app%3D~%22%5Ety-.*-.*%24%22%2C%20mount!%3D%22%2F%22}%20*%20fly_instance_filesystem_block_size{app%3D~%22%5Ety-.*-.*%24%22%2C%20mount!%3D%22%2F%22}%20%3E%201500000000)%20by%20(app)' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer fo1_don_worry_this_is_changed_CjXvYYmWQIhDJE' \
--header 'User_Key: avinassh' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"query": 12}'

I could not import this in RecipeUI, says 'Could not parse CURL' it works fine on my terminal. I manually built this URL in RecipeUI, then I took the curl export and pasted in the URL bar. It did import now, but the data is truncated, my query param is just:

{
"query": "count(fly_instance_filesystem_blocks{app"
}

Another problem: I want a low friction way to create new tab / Session. I could not find any keyboard shortcuts and also, no shortcuts to switch between sessions
Quite , was just reading also yeah I’m right there with you. The point we are both probably missing is that John Young is old and for that reason if it’s not brilliant because it forces the government to take a very tyrannical position against a person who is literally probably on their way out, or very sad because the poor guy has lost his mind.

It’s possible he knows something about the audience of the content on his site, interesting to think that certain parts of our own government rely on its insights that they can’t otherwise get but can benefit from nonetheless.. really wouldn’t surprise me.
It means you are not "expensing" or deducting everything possible. Technically, yes, your only expenses are a laptop. But a good account will find way more: home office, legible meals or travels, investments, etc.. This should reduce your tax bill. You should never pay over 10% total, otherwise you are not maxing the system.
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Man, HN really just can't handle harsh truths. Do I need to go dig up 6 year old issues about this? Or the half dozen times it's come up on HN over the last 5 years?

I love Rust, I'm a big fanboy, but we need to stop pretending there aren't glaring blind spots.
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If governments don't act to stop the collection of data and outrageous invasion of privacy and or give drivers full control over what data is collected by manufacturers then it seems we'll have to take matters into our own hands and resort to hacking our vehicles in similar ways we do with our computers to improve online privacy.

Fortunately, I drive a vehicle that's too old to collect this info but if I were presented with a new one then the first thing I'd hack would be to sever the vehicle's connection with the Internet—remove the hardware completely or nuke it. Second, I'd then sever all unnecessary sensors or render them useless. Third, I'd be searching for like-minded hackers who know more about such matters than I do with the purpose of finding a way of resetting the vehicle's data to a new-car no-owner-yet status so if or when it goes for service there would be little or no data available for the service agent to collect for and on behalf of the manufacturer.

This is truly outrageous, seems our governments have forgotten they are actually responsible to the citizenry and have a duty of care to protect us citizens—not to further line the pockets of multinational companies with even more profit, whether they manufacture vehicles or not.
We have also come to accept wildly poor standards for clothing construction because of our disconnect between expense and quality. Can you imagine brushing off those little snags you get in your tshirts after one wash as "just how these things are"if you had paid the real modern (local labor) cost for them? As a sewist I would estimate that the labor and materials cost for one well-made, good material t-shirt would be at least $45 [0] before even accounting for profit margin, yet people grumble at paying $20 for slave labor cotton blended with plastic made at the hands of an overworked, underpaid sweatshop worker. Our ability to source clothing so cheaply coupled with our lack of direct interaction with the making and maintenance of them has lowered our expectations in a race to the bottom.

[0] back of napkin math - i might be able to find a decent knit cotton with some veneer of ethical sourcing at a rock-bottom price of $10-12 per yard (in practice F to doubt). Assuming a pittance for the thread (and ignoring the upstart costs for acquiring a sewing machine), I would peg my skillset at a value of $35-50 per hour given my experience based on the rates of similarly skilled artisans in the US.
>There is no reason to suspect that whales even use language.

Sure there is.

1. We've yet to rule it out in dolphins/orcas/whales etc like we have in lots of other animals. That alone is a pretty big deal. That's reason for that.

And there's research that show pretty conclusively that dolphins understand syntax. One has to wonder why have a brain that understands syntax but doesn't use it naturally.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342706263_Language_...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001002...
> Speaking of glib dismissals...

No, a sourced and quantified dismissal.
For a home NAS, I don't think you need that much. 8 drives is hardly "mini". I have a CM4-based NAS (with it's single PCIe lane) I built for home with 4 drives and it performs well enough for my needs.
The concept makes sense to me, it's reminiscent of hmac, but with the additional constraint that the "secret" key is in the open. And the server side verification is opaque so you have to hope it works. But I like that it's not captcha which has made web browsing worse over the years

I'm curious to know if there have been similar open source implementations of turnstile where website operators have found ways of limiting an API call to just a browser, without captcha. Does anyone know of any?
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> I’m not counting the calories of a fucking croissant I had for breakfast today

A croissant is very calorific
Interoperability isn't the problem. Leverage to enforce your own IP, or lack thereof as an individual, is.

Just because you publish content on the Web doesn't mean you give license to anyone to use it however they want. IP is rooted on a foundational principle of giving explicit consent. Copyleft is using that principle to explicitly state "anyone is free to use this however they want". Without that consent, it's assumed that the author can ask you to cease and desist. (Hence why e.g. wikipedia is plastered with creative Commons license mentions)

Sure, there are fair use exceptions. But if you take a close look at the conditions that need to be met before a published copy can be considered fair use, it's not as clear cut as it seems.

Thing is, only big media outlets with capital, like the NYTimes, are able to litigate against big actors who wholesale misuse interoperability after a tragedy of the commons kind of fashion.

This imbalance in resources and capital to enforce rights between a handful of big actors and everyone else is exactly what Doctorow draws attention to in the interview.
Are there no seniors on the team? Why aren't anyone helping and guiding your team to make a better product? Seniority isn't about technical skill, it's about being a multiplier and paving the road for others. If you're not, and you're letting the team in your eyes waste time, the whole team acts just as junior.
If spammers and fraudsters are the price of freedom, so be it. Have corporations and banks eat the cost. God knows they can afford it.
What a terrible idea...
Chatlango is going to be in a very crowded space. Kind of startup that requires running at a loss for a while. And since funding is not exactly what it used to be, it’s a gamble. Could generate some passive income though.

Hyperaide is going to also be in a crowded and fast moving space. But easier to sell/be profitable.
My grandmother had polio as a child, she wore a leg brace her whole life. When I was a kid new vaccines were a medical wonder, to our parents they were world changing - now we have crazy cookers spouting crazy conspiracy theories telling us they've got 5G chips in them.

We have to keep telling these family stories to our kids otherwise we forget why vaccination has changed our world
You are not keeping up with latest events. This is the same story as when solar took off, and a bunch of engineers came out to "explain" why solar power was unviable. In reality, it was already taking off, and those people simply weren't aware.
There definitely is an alternative solution here that preserves people's freedom to use whatever browser they want, but I'm not sure if anyone would like it.

Web services are intended for humans to use them, and all abuse also ultimately comes from humans directing computers to be abusive. Thus, rather than attaching a computer's temporary identity (an IP address) to the request, we should be attaching a human identity to it. Note here, that I don't care whether the request comes from John Smith in New York. I care about being able to ban you from the service if you are abusive, no matter how many computers you have at your disposal now or in the future.

There's lots of downsides I haven't got solutions for, such as, how do we stop sites cross referencing to reliably discover all users real identities (Google analytics would love this!), and so much more. But we'll have to give up something - if we do nothing we give up everything, maybe giving up only absolute anonymity could be preferred.
What you're saying is privacy. Lack of interoperability is like you uploaded code to github from one computer, and then fail to download it to another because the encryption algorithms or something are not compatible.
I decided to port all my old perl scripts to guile scheme recently and got to add a bunch of nicities (like properly cleaning up on ctrl-c). Not because I really needed to, but because I haven't written perl seriously since 2010 and updating the scripts has started becoming hard.

The guile manual is pretty nice, but having something like this will always help people get started. For people that don't know about things like how non-local exits work getting started and doing it correctly can really take some time to figure out.
The point is that 'society' is not something distinct from us that we can blame. Society is only the average result of each and all of us individually, like the big, bad 'market' is.

What Thatcher said:

"There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."

Which touches the crux of the matter here.
Your own article concludes

>Greenwald is not, as many of his critics lazily allege, a Russian agent
OK, but remote attestation isn't really a thing on the web (right now). And you can script a browser UI, anyway.

The point is to not get hung up on the client as a security boundary (it isn't, can't be, won't be), but to focus on the actual harm -- excessive use of the limited resources provided.

And you have to frame your security posture as rooted in the server side throttling, heuristics, et cetera. Flipping out because the client isn't what you expected isn't going to help (determined attackers can look like "vanilla" clients), and is just going to harm the long tail of actual users who are not bots.
Aren't there common patterns of good "just code" and bad "just code"? I've been told for a long time that global variables are a bad pattern. Maybe feature flags are a bad pattern too.

One concern about feature flags is testing, and the added permutations of testing needed to include all the feature flags in testing. You tested with flag A on and off, you tested with flag B on and off, but did you ever test with them both on and both off? Without feature flags, a big change that could have been represented by a feature flag would hopefully have to make its way past some quality gates. With feature flags, the exact permutation that you're going to cause later today by flipping on some feature flags may well not have been tested. Not that forgetting to test is something you can't protect yourself against with tools and processes, but testing all the permutations may be expensive.

You may not have to test all the permutations, if you can predict which permutations are relevant for your flipping feature flags later today. But a lot of organizations have poor discipline in cleaning up old feature flags, so it may not be so predictable. Maybe that's not a feature flag problem but an organizational problem, but the feature flags are gonna get blamed at some point, nonetheless.
Yeah. I think we should protect this miracle at all costs. It's too good to just sit and watch it be destroyed.
My previous phone was a low-end Huawei. One of the best smartphones I ever had. Performant, ultra thin, and with extremely long battery life.
They used to just make them out of zinc so they wouldn't snap at the drop of a hat. Guess that $0.10 savings per unit was worth the shipping though
This is as practical solution to a very real problem. HIBP is so valuable both the no API case, and the case where bots scrape the API reduces people's online security.

However relying on the near universal behaviour tracking and fingerprinting of large corporations is extreemly worrying. The better Turnstile works the more like Google's proposed Web Environment Integrity it becomes.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-s...
Just like I’m not bound by the laws in the US as I don’t live there nor have the rights under their constitution, Y Combinator does not have a legal entity AFAIK in a country with GDPR legislation, so they’re not bound by it.

I’m not sure why EU citizens feel their laws apply to a US owned and operated website, because I’m quite sure most would not want eg US law to apply in the EU (I am European fwiw)

GDPR rights descend from EU law.

Google, Facebook etc were in the GDPR spotlight because they have entities in the EU. Not because EU law suddenly applied to US only entities
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You are absolutely right. I am a lifetime environmentalist, but as I’ve learned I’ve become disenchanted with the current societal direction; it’s more based on ideological foundations than anything that squarely addresses the reality of objective sustainability.

There is so much groupthink (most due to the political manipulation) that you can’t talk to people. They’re so caught up in group messages that they don’t think for themselves or have the data or
Mind even get it.

It’s the most worrying thing.
You can certainly bridge the DOM to WASM with a virtual DOM. The problems with WASM are not just interoperability.

The biggest problem is tooling. You cannot build tooling for in-browser WASM because it runs in a browser sandbox. JS has the same problem but the difference is that JS has a known object model that the browser can provide good tooling for.

Whereas with WASM the browser has little insight into what those opaque Memory objects contain. So you need to bring your own tooling and run it inside the sandbox, and the sandboxing does not make this easy.

Let’s say for example you want to pause execution, inspect the object tree, and run a REPL while it’s paused.
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Eh, I'm barely able to run a search engine due to all the bot activity. Less than 1% of my traffic is human, the other 2.5 million queries per day is from bots. It's only by the grace of Cloudflare it works.

Your mindset ensures the big corporations will be the only actors able to host anything with any level of interactivity. Doesn't sound very open to me.
i do recall the simplestack version of dpx had some obscene issues with garbage generation, followed by some obscene issues with throughput due to aggressive locking (to avoid the obscene amount of garbage generated).