skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for a node oriented approach we could have standard auto layouting that we could augment with hints for grouping, layouting prioritization etc. to achieve some kind of "universal editing" approach for visual programming.

After all, we use lots of comments to give some structure to text-based coding.

There was a post about
https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit recently, which at least uses some kind of hinted auto-layout (besides the more propriety fancy)

I really want to see more graphical coding for years, but node/graph-based and blockly seem to be the only approaches that got sone traction so far. So I like this thread and it seems at the right place.

I'd wish to see
more use of 2D and now 3D space for structuring, annotation and overall overview and navigation. Text plus a directory tree view can't be everything, especially since we have so many structural views for coding, runtime, versioning that basically are connected in our mind, but also could be in a space with more dimensions. Not sure if we could find/agree on a common denominator, though. Text is one because it's basically the bottom of common ground. Not sure if that's not just the trivial solution (ok, I am).
It is how it’s supposed to work. She was 85 when she got elected the last time. If voters don’t want 90 year olds in office, maybe they shouldn’t vote 85 year olds in for a 6 year term. If she can’t be beat in a primary, then we need something like ranked choice voting so people can safely vote for an alternative third party without risking spoiling the election for a candidate they definitely don’t want.
Explanations of how werkkzeug works

https://youtu.be/P7MNvUz5yyU?si=N1zED81UlYfuAV8N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfV41HE_Dg
Nice idea, will look into it man
I also held this view for a long time but what you are talking about is basically Amazon EC2. There are, what, 200-250 AWS services, however, and that's where things begin to become more interesting. Can you replace any of them with in house solutions? Certainly. But the costs of doing so might not be favorable.

You could operate an on premise bakery but most companies just order donuts.
It's not just "in the cloud" - once data leaves your person, it is no longer under your control

This has been true for countless millennia: write it down? It's leakable.
> What the police often want to do is an extra-legal search of materials outside their jurisdiction, i.e. in the cloud, in remote servers, etc. I would posit that this is almost always the case, since raiding any tech company would otherwise yield a few printouts and a stack of encrypted laptops.

Ok, my advice to anyone reading this is that if you find yourself in this situation, help the police get as much information they can about it. Nobody should get in the middle of law enforcers business for a wage, don't risk yourself.

> You aren't suggesting that the police should be able to sit in that office, accessing anything they want on remote servers, indefinitely, right? Why can't the police kick the IT guy's door in and demand an admin login?

I'm suggesting that if you create/operate a kill switch you might go to jail and it will be for a wage, something that a competent tech person can get anywhere, probably with a better work life balance than a place that is under risk of police raid.
The hardest thing to do in a position of power is to take a bow gracefully and step off the stage. Part of what made George Washington so great and groundbreaking in those days.
An example of a time when Cloudflare had an outage and the usual audience discussed it would be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820635.

Most HN readers know what Cloudflare is, know that Cloudflare occasionally blocks legitimate users for no good reason, and know that if every Discord user is unable to access the desktop app because Cloudflare is blocking their entire userbase then the Discord on-call engineers are almost certainly having a busy day.

If you're interested in learning what Cloudflare is and how to use it, you could read https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/get-started..., or if you're interested in reading some material that's more critical you can see the previous discussion about it at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare.
oops, I mean Sonoma -- whatever the very latest is. Sorry, I can't keep these names straight. I was installing betas on this machine, so I had the final release somewhat earlier than the official release since the beta RC2 and final release were the same.
UK Declares Morocco-UK Xlinks Green Energy Project of “National Significance”
Right. To elaborate on my original point, because ObjC includes C, saying "ObjC has safe arrays because it crashes on OOB" is both true and irrelevant. It has safe arrays, but that's not all it has. It also has very, very unsafe arrays. Swift doesn't have this issue, there is no unsafe array type in Swift (absent doing very unsafe byte-level address casting using functions that are literally prefixed with the word "unsafe".)
I would not say it's all doom and gloom. I just founded a FOSS/Linux club at my university. There are going to be some kids who are so interested in technology that they go down a rabbit hole of different communities, open source included.

I definitely agree that the general trend towards less advanced technology will harm that though (some 18yo's don't even know how files work because they just use Mac's Finder), but some cohort of the generation will _always_ be interested in digging deeper.

It perhaps doesn't help that the general attitude of someone in FOSS/tech in general could be perceived by the average person as elitist or exclusionary - I try my hardest to challenge these notions.

(Let's see if one of the other founding members of the new club will read this comment)
I keep hoping for a Silicon Valley style dramedy about the open source movement, starring Donal Logue as Stallman and Nick Offerman as ESR.
I went back to register and I still don't see an option, just "Continue with Google/Apple". Is there a different signup link to register with email?
True, but even a single server is a lot cheaper on Linode, and cheaper still on OVH, even the best quality colo and dedicated server providers, than on any cloud. On-prem is going to be cheaper than that. And internet connectivity ... is more expensive than it was in 1990, and generally pretty much free in colo or dedi services.
Steeplejack takes down chimney brick by brick (1979) [video]
Why does everyone keep reelecting them? Vote for someone else. We also need a better voting system than first past the post.
Not to sound hyperbolic but I feel once the US Dollar crashes entirely to the degree that it no longer serves as a "default currency" of sorts, that society will have broken down far enough that even the gold will be relatively worthless and the predominant goods of choice will be cans of dog food and beans.
Mere existence of discussion doesn't mean much, you can't talk facts away.
Not sure if enough people have Rimac on the radar. They are pushing hard. For example the new Bugatti cars will be made by a joint venture of Rimac and Bugatti (=Volkswagen), and they will be hybrid or all electric. They have their own hyper car (the Nevera which accelerates from 0 to 60mph in 1.74 seconds), do development work for other car companies (like Porsche) and now present this BESS. This is exciting stuff coming from Croatia.
I have been a big advocate for Elixir for 5 years before switching off.

My takeaways: love José Valim and the team and the libs they produce. The team is always humble and helpful and produces high quality content in both code and documentation.

Why I stopped using Elixir: I was using Elixir obsessively as a performance chasing tool, but then it just didn’t fill the gap properly:

1. Python (or other massively used language) is preferred for large SaaS apps where performance doesn’t matter. As an engineering manager, I can go out and hire a huge team instantly for Python.

2. Rust is much faster and not super difficult. When I ran out of optimizations for Elixir I found myself dropping down to Rust. Then asked myself why even use Elixir?

With those two points, Elixir, like Haskell, changed my programming mindset immensely, but as a professional context, quite frankly you have to use what you can build a team with. Elixir has very few engineers to source from.
My Dad, Brian Wickham
These resources are exceptional: I reference the hexagon page constantly!
What you'll find though is that FE teams don't care what you're running the api through. And they won't know how to capitalise on the BEAM. They will send you larger and larger requests, and as nice as BEAM works, the bottle neck will aways be the database.

I've seen 8 years of Elixir, and still get asked to return the world when FE wants data. No they won't ask for bits.. They want the user info and the company info for the user, and the client list for the user, and the company details from the client list for the user.. and they want it all in one response. BEAM becomes a useful tool you'll never reach for.
Well since we were talking about replacing plastic lids with silicone it seems relevant.
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Developers can point at the issue. The less informed say "my computer is getting old" or "can you clean my laptop so it works faster". We're able to say "5 simple apps taking 24GB of ram is absurd".
Encrypted Client Hello
In the vast majority of cases, these creators are only taking slight liberties with talking points provided by the advertiser.

If basically every NordVPN ad on YouTube is talking about safety, you can be fairly confident that it was a talking point provided by NordVPN.
Although not terribly complicated, you can compute fractals like the Mandelbrot set or Julia sets. They look really cool and you can play with visualization.
Android is not proprietary.

https://source.android.com/

That makes it rather easier...
Books by the foot is an amazing idea! And seems pretty reasonable in prices also. Kind of want to buy some to see what kind of interesting books I would get, that I would never buy otherwise.
It's not about securing user's data, it's about not being blamed for it.

It doesn't matter that China/Whichever state actor is snooping on all your user's data. Either no-one finds out and you're good. Or the blast radius is _so_ wide, that all blame falls on Microsoft
The article predates even the commodore 64. I'd say it was a fair observation in 1981.
Would it be more about sentiment analysis or looking at specific metrics (number of likes/shares etc.) and generating reports?
Feature: TLS Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)
Cookie banners have ruined the internet!

I you have to have one I'd suggest it have a Reject All button which makes the banner go away without any further clicks.

Nothing is more soul destroying than having to click several times to make the nonsense go away.
Privacy-preserving measurement and machine learning
It's "commonly said" because it's true.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

via

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...
Unfortunately even much of the open source world generates and distributes their official builds from Microsoft infrastructure. And even the distros themselves will get the source to do their own builds from the copies hosted on Microsoft infrastructure. So it's not a cure all if you suspect you can't trust GitHub.
I wonder how this impacts Secure Boot since AFAIK, most people and I think some distros pay Microsoft to get a cert.

Me, I have never used it and hope I never will have to use it. Luckily on the hardware I have, it can be fully disabled.
Keeping track of the IP address is one thing, but then using your ISP’s database to link this back to a person with the intention of holding this over their head if you ever need to sounds like a form of extortion to me.

Or is it fine when it’s the state doing it?
You're correct that the largest share of giving goes to religiously-affiliated organizations, but the idea that the largest shares goes specifically to megachurches seems unlikely to me. If you've seen this reported somewhere I'm primed to change my mind.

And I don't think it's totally fair to exclude religious donations as somehow "not valid", especially in the context of the critique that Americans don't value community with each other. Religious charities tend have less access to alternative funding sources, so rely on these donations more. Note: I'm very much not religious.

> A fair amount of the rest goes on political lobbying and influencing.

I get a little mixed-up on whether donations to non-tax-deductible non-profits "count" in the metrics (e.g., does my donation to the ACLU which has a lobbying arm count just as my donation to the ACLU Foundation which cannot be used that way?). Nevertheless, I think it's wrong-minded to discredit charitable giving to organizations that influence public policy given the multiplicative impact that policy has on the lives of people and communities. Some of the biggest impacts to the lives of people came out of organized efforts to influence policy.

> If the US wasn't "individualism run amok" it wouldn't have tent cities of homeless people, and its health industry wouldn't be bankrupting half a million people a year.

This feels like a pretty uncharitable and over-simplification of very complex issues that also get into inter-state dynamics. I also think there's an error made in treating US culture as some sort of homogenous cultural construct. More than many other countries, the US is constantly at war with itself culturally.
My kids could travel on public transit easily when it’s a good day.

There have been numerous times when I’ve been very glad that I had a vehicle to load them all into to contain the current detonations occuring.
„ PCIe 2.0 x1 interface for fast peripherals“

I wanna see somebody hook up a GeForce card over to that 1x pci express. Play some Crysis using Box86.
Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone
> Shit, what I have done in my life? Now, my career is gone!

Of course the first thought that entered into this person's mind right after killing a whole marine ecosystem with a massive oil spill was their own career.
Sure, but "were they in the office" is /much/ easier to measure at scale. And I'm sure you'd throw a pretty big fit if your pay was docked because the company didn't think you did a good enough job, even though you were in the office.
Are you using the Instagram app? It is documented that a bug in the app in combination with iOS 17 causes phones to massively heat up while doing basically nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6X2ZIkYFsQ
> But, you know, [R]'s can't stand having a strong justice system where no one is above the law.

Cute quip. Do you apply that sentiment towards the Biden family as well?
They should throttle it more and have a screen in Photos where you can see progress and ask it to go as fast as possible.
I used to lurk here all the time, and now this thread pushed me to finally create an account and comment :)

I'm part of Gen Z, so I guess you can count me in? Haha
My exact quote was:

>>Like I said, inflation and hyperinflation especially are a steep learning curve.
burned all vc money and fed themselves while screwing over employees. these two are like the two posers who have not done anything with their lives and achieved nothing but act like they are world class founders...jokes
Almost non of these are weird.
I'd think that also helps in a lot of pointer-based editing use cases: Creation, selection, grouping/clustering, sorting, transforms...
Huh, I think I agree. Not only are the banners slow, obnoxious, have a tendency to being manipulative and are different for every website, a web developer can easily ignore the user's choice and track them anyway. Apple made a big leap with the “ask app not to track” and I think browsers should have this as well. If only to get rid of those infernal banners.
Laypeople hear professionals talk about how gold is a good investment, but they don't realize that professionals are trading gold ETFs and futures. Ill informed lay people then go buy a gold bar from Costco.
and stablecoins are always fraudulent
ASCII is standardized in (latest version) ANSI X3.4-1986, not by an internet RFC. That standard did not define an 8-bit encoding of ASCII, only a 7-bit encoding. That the IETF later called an 8-bit encoding ASCII just causes confusion. IMO they should have called it ISCII, for IETF Standard Code for Information Interchange.
> Arguably much of this is caused by governments getting into the zeroday market / blackhat position removing the incentives to fix stuff.

I don't see the argument here. CISA posts issues they find, are they intended to be comprehensive?
> One fucked-up thing doesn’t justify another.

Correct. My intent was to acknowledge it was possible to do so (& is being done) not to give permission for it. :)

> Or do you really think what happened to Jane Friedman [...] is right?

Not at all.

> The giant tech corporations love copyright infringement because it gives more power to them [...]

I agree. One of the problems I have with the AI training situation is that corporations appear to be able to avoid complying with the onerous copyright regime they themselves created/support but demand individuals still adhere to it.

If they're not prepared to limit themselves to training data currently licensable to them or in the public domain maybe they shouldn't have supported copyright term extension/enforcement and/or work to ensure more works enter the public domain earlier.
Amit was an instrumental part in the development of one of my favorite video games, Realm of the Mad God. It was a masterpiece of the Flash game genre, and its guild feature introduced me to many lifelong friends.
But then you need cold coins, not a gold bar. Or, multiple foreign currencies.
I simply don't get it - is this just to show off, to be ostensibly and pretentiously 'green'? Why should I strap big, ugly, bulky, noisy, inconvenient garbage to my bicycle instead of buying and using something actually practical and convenient?
I mean isn't bicycling to grocery store and back with regular panners already "enough" and even much more compared to let's say Ursula von den Leyen taking private jet to fly 30 miles?
> We have a strange situation right now, in the US, in which any company with at least one major competitor is considered good for the free market; (...)

Wasn't Amazon just sued by the FTC due to anticompetitive practices?
Can you please point out for me specifically where you and I disagree?
"Security researchers agree" is a very broad statement. I don't believe there is a consensus at all.

Fragmentation creates different problems than centralization, but it isn't a magical bullet either. Depending on your resources, you are far, far better off trusting even Microsoft than trying to come up with your own security implementation.
You’re not comprehending the post. It’s not about changing APIs. It’s about proprietary control over who is allowed to use them.

Free software isn’t about API churn, it’s about rights.
That's not how percentages work...
The only real way to enforce this would be to forbid freight trains that are longer than the longest siding within 30/60 miles.
welcome to the joys of the first adopter paradox.

and the ear-splitting squeals coming in to copley, park street, arlington, boylston,…
English-language only text-to-speech.
Everyone hates yaml and I mostly agree. Should we start using something else? At least in the context of CI, I find .INI a little lacking, and TOML has similar gotcha's as yaml. At the very least its single-line restrictions frustrating for readability. That might be as subset of TOML though, not sure.

Off the top of my head there's StrictYAML, which likely solves most of the issues, but I'd be interested in a pseudo-language similar to Terraform HCL. It seems config-files-as-scripts are here to stay in the CI world, so why not make config files more scriptable?

Then theres dumb yaml calling smart bash or Makefiles, which has some benefits as well. But I don't see people wanting to split smallish configuration over multiple files. Bash scripts are harder to take in at a glance.
This guy made GCC and Emacs. GCC in particular has shaped how most software has been compiled for decades.

His operating system, GNU, is the de-facto UNIX implementation and runs many critical systems around the world.

Anyone who claims that the guy is unlikeable has never truly bothered to hear him speak and isntrad relies on what they've been told by malicious actors. Stallman doesn't attack other people or ideologies.

If anything his biggest mistake was using Linux as a kernel for people decided to call the GNU operating system "Linux" and it eventually took most of the funding and development away from the OS and its ideology.
This is still the case afaik.

For vanilla "if", the condition must be known at compile time. For runtime, you have to use "cond", "where", or "select" (which may be analogous).
Damn even in that Apple is copying Samsung...
Anything with utility? Anything at all?
Yes, before CLING there was CINT!
He comes across as someone who is highly genuine.

I guess that's why fake, phony, status-oriented people can't stop themselves criticizing him for all his superficial shortcomings. It's as if his genuineness is a trigger for them and they need to attack him to feel better about how phony they are in comparison.
It's not about how well made it looks, or if I can tell a difference. It's: can I run a browser, Slack, Spotify, etc." at the same time without swapping. Turns out on a modern machine with a few Electron / Tauri / other apps running, the answer is no.
This is what happens when profits are privatized and the risks are socialized.

This is also because "we" probably aren't going to pay for it. Maybe we'll throw a few bucks at it, but future generations are really going to pay.
> inflation rate for housing or education is at 100%.

not per year, but .. there are residential housing listings here in California that have doubled in not very long.. I think the point is, that price increases are not uniform.. and it is related to structural forces of money, as well as markets
https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/251
IMHO there is a substantial distinction to be made, when running statistics, between languages that are effectively corporation-sponsored (Java, C#, JS, etc) and opensource "community" languages (Perl, Python, C, etc).

The former tend to peak early, powered by marketing departments, and then slowly tail off; the latter tend to do the opposite, because word-of-mouth is slow; community-powered peaks are often determined more by the appearance of a successful product based on it (Rails, Elixir, etc) than time from creation.
> There was a widespread conviction that it is impossible to withstand temptation of any kind, that none of us could be trusted or even be expected to be trustworthy when the chips are down, that to be tempted and to be forced are almost the same, whereas in the words of Mary McCarthy, who first spotted this fallacy: "If somebody points a gun at you and says,'Kill your friend or I will kill you,' he is tempting you, that is all." And while a temptation where one's life is at stake may be a legal excuse for a crime, it certainly is not a moral justification.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
After using AT - compatible command set on a wifi iot module, AT commands in iridium don't surprise me, it's almost counting as legacy now. It started development in 1993 (30 years ago).
Eventually, but that eventually shows no sign of stopping soon. There are two cases where it stops: the US decides to replace the dollar with something else, and there is a clear trade in program (the EU went to the Euro, and India did something similar); or things change slowly over time so you will have plenty of time where your dollar maybe isn't worth what it was yesterday but still is worth almost a dollar - odds are you don't hold dollars long enough or that loss of value to matter.
More discussion over here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37696992