skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Getting into the situation where you go to war that you're not going to be able to win absolutely represents a failure on the part of the military; perhaps not a failure of procurement or management, but very much a failure of leadership, which is exactly what OP originally said.

Good God, what are you on? The military literally does not get to make these decisions. Only the civilian leadership in the form of the President and Congress gets to decide when and where the military goes to war. And as much as US military officers learn from Day 1 that it's their duty to refuse illegal orders (and it is), the day a combatant commander or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs tells the President or Secretary of Defense "no, this war is illegal" is the day we have ourselves a constitutional crisis, for good or ill.
There is a story of a author who used to cutout words from newspaper and randomly arrange them in bogosort manner and find good combination of words.

At one time he found, "son sues father" which came true as a headline few years later.
Another annoying thing about the 1976 Copyright Act/Berne Convention is that copyright is automatic. You don't need to register with any organization, any "original work of authorship fixed in a tangible form" is copyright. This is the real problem with public github repos that don't have a license file, because they also likely lack a copyright imprint with a date.

This is not related, but another problem with current US copyright law is that there's no exception for companies that go out of business. The works are still copyright encumbered even if no one exists that can enforce that right.

Based on the former two points, you end up with works where you can't find out who holds the copyright, and it doesn't matter if they're dead or whatever because it's still copyrighted. This leads to the "assume everything is copyrighted" posture that stifles so much creativity.
It was AdventurImagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCrBBj6AWE
I think the problem with stuff like this is that in many cases the authors have an idea like "LLMS + ???? = Operating System !"

which is not that hard of an idea to come up with. Generally in each instance of LLM + ???? = "thing", the first papers that come out to fill the ???? with an answer do that in a rush to get on arxiv and so naturally the work is lackluster (since they have barely had time to think about an actual good solution for the ????).
Yep, there are even utilities that help you measure latency and patch certain ROMs to delay the input check to match.
I'm aware of the implications of inflation and the passing of time. Let me be more direct. The "correspondence" between federal deficits and inflation Walter implied existed was almost certainly pulled from his cushions. A deficit that _purchases_ an increase in the money supply certainly _can_ lead to inflation, among other deficit sources in varying degrees. But the implication that we pay for deficits specifically with inflation is a gross oversimplification, all in service of being pithy.
WebForms – GitOps Friendly, Self-Hosted, and Privacy-Centric HTML Forms
This project emerged from a crucial need to store highly sensitive information while maintaining the flexibility to integrate with various automation solutions. I've explored options like Baserow, ApiTable, and many others, but they all raised significant concerns for me.

One, these platforms often come with proprietary data structures, making it challenging to reuse existing database tables or ensuring data rescue in case the application is discontinued.

Two, the focus on generating revenue sometimes compromises data security. It's hard to guarantee that our data won't be used, even in an aggregated or anonymous form, for purposes we might not consent to, especially when dealing with exceptionally sensitive information.

Additionally, several features are locked behind paywalls, and certain licenses may prohibit the use of the open-source edition for commercial purposes.

Lastly, the abundance of telemetry is a constant headache, requiring vigilant monitoring of each release to disable or block intrusive data collection.

WebForms seems to address these concerns, offering a self-hosted, privacy-centric, and GitOps-friendly solution for HTML forms. It empowers users to control their data, integrate it into automation workflows, and maintain privacy in a world where data security is paramount. And it's Free and Open Source under MPL-2.0.
They could still do this after a CC licensing, too. The press would probably give them a sales boost. :)
Well most of it is for backward compatibility I guess so your newest frontend can still run in a browser as old as internet explorer by changing a few Babel settings.

Some of it is to optimize the code delivery so you're sending just the bare minimum source code and not wasting user's bandwidth.

Of course if you had just one newest browser then you could do away with most of it but at the end of the day you have to make sure your frontend can run everywhere including mobile devices, hence the complexity.

The amazing part is ever since vite has been on the scene a lot of it has been abstracted away. There is no need to even compile anything during dev which has been a game changer.
Shining on a New Foundation Key
It makes me feel some solace that this tree was just a tree. We, humans, gave it significance. But that significance was imaginary. It was just a sycamore. It was only special because we told ourselves stories, and decided it was much more than a sycamore.

Strangely, even though the tree isn't actually dead, we pretend it is, because it won't look like it did when we assigned it significance. So really, nothing of value was lost. All that's happened is our own vanity and need for meaning was injured. And we'd never realize that unless it was felled.

We aren't commemorating a tree. We're commemorating our own need to find meaning in the world.
I'm considering letting go of music streaming. My options for exposure to more music going forward will be:

Radio, for when I want music, am open to discovery, and can't be bothered to choose

Public Library, for when I want to browse for something to play while driving

Recommendations from friends

I'm also feeling like I have near enough music to hit all my emotional notes (I usually listen for emotional resonance), which makes discovery less important as I get older.
I hear you about the need for simplistic hosting.

However I doubt shoving everything into the DB will get us there - besides some hardcore PG enthusiasts like OP & co.

Sqlite together with the application layer of your choice seems to make much more sense to me, but hey we don't have to all like the same stuff (better we don't).

Also without reading too much in detail but I wonder how testing/monitoring etc would be supported
> https://www.shadowstats.com/

No. Just No.

First off the math makes absolutely no sense:

> But if we take away the outlier 2020 data points, the average real annual GDP growth from 2010-2019 was 2.3%. The inflation rate in that time averaged roughly 1.8% per year.

> If you’re one of the conspiracy people who believe inflation has actually been running at 5-6% per year, that would assume the economy has been contracting by 1-3% per year over the past 10 years.

> And if you’re a full tinfoil hat person who assumes inflation is actually 10-12% per year[2], that’s like saying we’ve been in a full-blown depression and the economy has lost 80% of its value.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/

Second, the methodology is all wrong:

* https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/no-the-real-inflation-r...

As much as you can call it a "methodology" of taking the official CPI number and adding your own, which the author of the site admits to:

> I’m not going back and recalculating the CPI. All I’m doing is going back to the government’s estimates of what the effect would be and using that as an add factor to the reported statistics.

* http://econbrowser.com/archives/2008/10/shadowstats_res

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com#Negative

Further, the current price of a subscription to the 'full report' is $175/year right now, the same as it was in 2014:

* https://www.pragcap.com/update-theres-still-deflation-in-hyp...

the same as it was in 2008:

* https://www.pragcap.com/why-is-there-deflation-in-hyperinfla...

So even though there is supposed to be very-high inflation per this site, the site itself (and all the staff that have cost of living expenses) has not experienced this very-high inflation over the last fifteen years? Really?

But you don't have to pay that amount because here's the formula in how they determine their 'inflation rate'

SHADOWSTATS(t) = 1.9 + 0.0055*t + CPIAUCNS(t)

* https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/3zik5t/shadow...

Of course you don't have to take anyone else's word for it, but do your own analysis:

> Compare the government statistic to what MIT's Billion Prices Project (an index of internet prices, scraped daily) found. CPI and the BPP index are very tightly intertwined, whereas SGS would be way, way off.

* https://old.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/omfrm/3_reasons_...

* http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project
It already is fast and cheap enough. The question is the specific capabilities of easy to use tooling.
Normally when you apply an iOS update, you need to enter your pin, but presumably this isn't necessary if the OS hasn't been setup. I wonder what prevents a malicious actor from doing the same thing, if they know the 'secret handshake'?
Interesting article. Probably better to link directly to where it was originally published, because there are pictures: https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-...
No, I understand your core idea, I just think it’s nonsensical and very entitled.

> So i'm offering to pay what i'm "stealing", but of course that's no where near enough because there's no way the handful of videos i watch a month equates to $14/m.

You don’t set the price (and you know you don’t yet you offer anyway)!

And the price literally does equate to $14/m if you watch those videos without ads. You can use whatever logical argument you want to convince yourself otherwise, but the numbers are right there.

If you block ads on YouTube and you don’t pay for YouTube Premium, you’re doing something you know you’re not supposed to do. Twist yourself into a pretzel to explain that it’s technically not actually stealing, but it is what it is.

Pay $14/month, watch ads, or stop watching YouTube if your moral outrage at their scummyness is that high. Or do whatever you want because it really doesn’t matter.
The state of HTTP clients, or why you should use httpx
The Secret Life of John le Carré – the constant philanderer
The signing of the update prevents it.
> and now it's proven it does work

No it has been proven over and over and over again that it doesn't work. Do you have some sources?
Cat vaccines cultured from feline kidney cells actually cause autoimmune nephritis in cats, and explain why kidney failure is a leading cause of death in vaccinated cars..
It goes way beyond that. Transformers are the first practical, scalable, general-purpose differentiable (i.e. trainable with gradient descent) algorithm. We haven't come close to seeing the limits of what they can do, because everything so far points to the fact that their only limit is our current hardware. And hardware is improving at a much faster and steadier rate than algorithms in computer science these days.
I feel like you wanted to mock Hollywood but you missed the point of the current debates.

Hollywood already can (and has) brought Mark Twain into movies by use of an actor. There’s nothing really different about this act in that lens if it’s done with AI.
Hmmm... I would have thought the WWV 10 MHz signal would be pretty good in Ontario much of the time. It's only 10KW AM, but still, from Colorado to Ontario 10 MHz is a pretty usable frequency. WWVH, now that would be hit-or-miss. What do you have for an antenna?
Evidently yes. Typically referred to as "stenography" in journalism. Rampant especially when it comes to regurgitating police reports uncritically and verbatim.
Make a copyright cost 1$ to register. You have to re-register every year. Each year, the registration cost doubles.
Woah, didn't know he's also the co-founder of Calm
https://x.com/tewy
Gun ownership is heavily restricted and regulated in most countries.
Here is more than anyone should ever know about the lulz.

https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Lulz
Any particular reason for posting OP?

See this one shared over the years, even just earlier this year
For two years there was an undiscovered Debian-specific vulnerability in their OpenSSL package borking the generation of keys. But your point about being screwed from within applies to this case- regenerating the keys on an affected system would not have solved the problem, until it was patched. For those curious, look up ssh-vulnkey.
An article that gets into this from 2015

‘Don’t call me a crypto-Nazi’ the lost heart of political debate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989251
Wikipedia is full of falsehoods
Is it so crazy to expect Americans to learn the language of the country they move to?
That's a really good point. If you are a vendor, you can sell to mom and pops, grocery stores, Walmart, Amazon, Costco, etc. Once mom and pops are gone, you are limited to who you can sell to. When that happens, the people you can sell too have a lot more leverage against you.

In terms of vendors, consolidation is like a black hole. The more consolidation, the bigger the black hole and the more vendors crushed by the gravity.
Literally everything already, they're authoring and flashing the firmware.
We have found a new hammer and everything very much looks like a nail.

It's perfectly natural and allows us to figure out what does and doesn't work, even if it means sometimes we have to deal with empty hype projects.
like we always have - people you know, forums, good radio shows (online and airwaves) - subscription streaming services are "easy" - that's often all they are. Their negatives far outweight their convenience - and they do nothing to help their product (the artists)
In a global war, databases won't be worth anything; save some seeds and gold instead.
Optimal- I make time to read and take notes on everything I care enough about (this may be true already, except I waste time saving HN articles to my Safari reading list and have yet to review anything, so it's not optimal yet)

I either take notes on paper or in a text file. CherryTree, ZimWiki, Obsidian, etc- none of these stick, and I end up with folders of assorted file types. Well-named textfiles are best so far, as I don't care to use markdown, and I can do full search of the text.

I used to use Pocket and found it urgent and generally not important, relative to books I choose to read, so I uninstalled it and have come to terms with never reading the thousands of articles I've saved over the years.
Who cares about cloud gaming? I’m not trolling I’m serious I can’t see it becoming a real thing anytime soon, Google gave it a very good try and it flopped.
Another day, another nudge that we are NPCs in GTA 40, on a map that looks big but isn't
From afar it seems the EU does not understand how to productize non-trivial (not CRUD) software, at all. They will throw huge grants at incompetents who ship nothing or ship something that only captive users (because of regulation or government co tracts) will use.

It’s partially a chicken-egg problem because they don’t seem to be good at “moving up the value chain” in software either, except in the more developing economies like Poland which get more outsourced international business that allows them upskill. In the developed countries it seems like they are stuck doing in-sourced commodity development of CRUD sites for the local market.
Around the same time, there's things like the Amstrad PPC512 (NEC V30, which is roughly 8086 pin compatible).
It's not currently spelled out in the readme, but our approach does lend for straightforward shipping of complete systems (data + code) to the edge because it's effectively just a replication of the database. We're working on further primitives that facilitate such an operational model.

We believe that a practical edge [backend] requires the presence of data next to the code, which is precisely what Omnigres promotes.
This is why Europe passed data privacy laws.
I have. I don't propose some kind of scientific measure but I do have two data points to contribute:

First, I've been using GPT to build an application for work for the past few months and anything but GPT-4 consistently produces less consistent and reliable output. Things like occasionally producing malformed JSON.

Second, I have a set of questions I use to evaluate models testing different capabilities and GPT-4 does much better than other models, particularly at coding tasks. There are some exceptions, for example, Bard has been able to do better on stating facts sometimes and Claude has done better at summarizing long text.

I'd love to have another model as good as GPT-4 to use but I haven't found one yet.
I was always more a fan of afterstep, though I'm still happy to see people interested in keeping nextstep-derived interfaces like window maker alive.
> The military literally does not get to make these decisions. Only the civilian leadership in the form of the President and Congress gets to decide when and where the military goes to war.

Sure, but it's the responsibility of the military to be clear to them about what they can and can't do (or, more likely, what it's going to cost, in money and casualties, to achieve x). Obviously yes if the President actually orders you to fart around and get shot then you do it. But if the President thinks sending three brigades to $country is going to keep the civilians there safe in the current crisis, it's the responsibility of the military leadership to know and advise whether that's a three-brigade job or not.
The milky way just lost 90% of its dark matter. Maybe dark matter... isnt
What would make the Apple Card special?
I believe it's from the LCD panel auto-syncing improperly / choosing the wrong horizontal porch.

I'm not sure the BIOS can help much.
StatCan themselves acknowledge there is no 'standard' way of doing it:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/comments/z14p...

And plenty of folks in Canada think like you do: that the official way Is Wrong and Some Other way should be used—often pointing to the US as the way it should be done. And yet here is someone in the US saying the Canadian way should be the way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> the taxes are discriminatory in nature - they are only levied against hotel customers, nearly all of whom are not residents of the jurisdiction in question and who have no meaningful recourse to have the fees changed

It could also be said that hotels are the ones being taxed(it lowers demand and how much they can charge customers) and they are profitable businesses just like car dealerships and (can) have a lot of lobbyists that influence local governments.

> the taxes are disproportionate to the local government services that out of town hotel guests might plausibly use. In other words, they provide no value

Hotel guests profit a lot from good roads, police, regulations, fire departments etc. etc.

If your point is that out of state residents are taxed unreasonably, then the I-95 tolls in the small part of the highway that goes through Delaware is a better example.

Junk fees are generally referring to fees that are only shown at the very last point of purchashing, right before payment after you have already invested a lot of time picking your choices based on the lower cost it showed earlier. It makes comparison shopping harder. There's no reason why initial advertised prices couldn't include taxes, except the hotel's greed to make it look more attractive and then claim 'look, the govt also charges fees, ignore the ones we have tacked on'.
In both cases, there's more to the explanation than that a person used to work for the company. That explanation could be significant and nonobvious. The explanation could also change over time.
It's still ridiculously complicated in so many other ways, ignoring backwards compat completely.

I wish I could describe my most recent attempt at migrating our app to the new Next 13 app router for an audience, on camera, on stage. The levels of confusion and dead ends, and configuration, and error screens, and the need for truly expert-level knowledge just to get things working as one would expect made me realize there's just no way this can survive as it currently stands. It's all an abomination. React is dead. FE is dead.

Please just give me back a simple React.renderToString mounted into an express wildcard route, hooked into react router. All of these perf concerns are for the .0001% of people who even notice this shit, or need things to run so ideologically fast that they're willing to throw out every bid of common sense in service to an abstraction that is DOA as soon as you use it to do anything complicated at all, or apply it to an existing codebase.
All the uses
And the capability hasn't mattered for nearly as long. Large swaths of society have chosen to reject inconvenient truths and instead believe convenient lies. The battle's already lost. I'm not sure I can be convinced that we aren't 4th century Rome.
That’s fair I was under the impression that the trends I’ve seen were national not limited to the upper Midwest.
Actually, some of the feedback that we received from fairly close to the source, was that Postgres as an application platform of a sort was the original vision for it.

But I can see how this work can be perceived through your lense.
1984 Through the Looking Glass (2013)
Really great idea. Apple has been relentlessly improving the iPhone upgrade process. Long gone are the days when I’d dread the days it would take to fully set up a new phone.
Just imagine what they can do when the power is on!
"Some will make the argument “But isn’t this simply the same problems we already deal with today?”. It is; however, the ability to produce fake content is getting exponentially cheaper while the ability to detect fake content is not improving. As long as fake content was somewhat expensive, difficult to produce, and contained detectable digital artifacts, it at least could be somewhat managed."

Yes, indeed. However, to the degree it is getting worse is substantial, rapid and significantly different than prior.
Post truth society is already here. Disinformation has been on the rise the past couple of decades, and the results are clearly visible: conspiracy theories, election misinformation, and divisive politics where people's worldviews vary across their perception of reality.

Photoshopping and lying your way to a narrative is now the norm in the age of social media.

No doubt that AI will accelerate this, but to act like AI is the beginning is just evidence that you aren't paying attention.
There's a good cosmology YouTuber who basically explains: dark matter is not a theory, it's a set of observations. Galaxies behave like there's a halo of invisible mass surrounding them, one that varies in density per-galaxy. The halos even perturb as expected in galaxy collisions. But nobody's got a coherent theory on what that halo is.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI&pp=ygUbZGFyayBtYXR...
I think I remember the site you are talking about, and I can't remember the name either.

There is still xwinman.org and even though it's not about themes it still has screenshots of some old windows managers, for nostalgia sake.
I ended up creating a “my data” account. I am curious what MC has been collecting across my 2 MC branded cards (one of them is an Apple Card which advertises protecting user privacy).

Once I get back that report will be requesting deletion.
1. Nothing stops them from doing the above now.

2. Unreal lawyers costing you more in legal fees than you can afford