skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's one argument. But, my views on legalization at the moment are these:

Alcohol is a drug, and it gets you drunk. Has side-effects, affects long-term health, etc, etc.

Weed is a drug, and in my personal experience it's WAY more "drug" than alcohol, especially how it's used nowadays. Also, across all cultures/races, studies show that the earlier a person starts consuming it, the higher the risk of developing some sort of psychosis later in life (I have my own theories as to "why").

Also, who smokes weed the most? When I did clinical rotations in New York it was the poor and the less educated that smoked weed all day. I would even see black mothers in ghetto areas who took their children to the park and just sit in the benches smoking weed, not paying attention to or interacting with their children, which to me is a very bad example and perpetuating a negative cycle.

The more educated did it occasionally, and with self control. So unrestricted access to weed for those with less self-control and goal-oriented behavior is more likely to ruin their lives; the very people who instead need to cultivate more self control and goal-oriented behavior.

I'm glad that weed is now available legally, because it guarantees users a clean product, as opposed to nowadays in KY where I'm at lots of illicit weed is laced with fentanyl-like compounds. I consume THC + CBD every once in a blue moon, and I don't dare touch street products for various reasons.

MDMA legal...well, I haven't seen anyone die from weed. But MDMA is quite dangerous. And who screens beforehand if that person has a cardiovascular issue they may not even be aware of? Alcohol and weed don't have much of a short-term effect on the heart. MDMA is an amphetamine-like compound.

These are my thoughts at the moment.
At the rate we're going it might be more something along the lines of 'If you can read this and your geologists uncovered buried cities then welcome, Aliens. And if we are your ancestors: by some miracle we seem to have survived'.
"resistors too big" ... <accompanied by picture of a capacitor>
Those are called "trees" and were actively killing them to create farm land to feed an ever growing population.
The desirability of eID that just works, regardless of what EU country you are from or in, has been discussed for years in tech circles in Europe, including on this very site.
The era was one of fits & starts, mainly because the basic things which could be done were done already, & pretty well — word processors, spreadsheets, databases, page design, software which fit needs, was powerful enough, & wasn't too buggy to use. The long hardware stall of the 80s (think about how the 6502 lasted, basically the same, for well over a decade, & how IBM was still selling an 8086 machine in '87) forced software makers to focus on quality products. What wasn't there yet, even with the improvements through the 90s, was enough grunt in the hardware to do the things that were significantly past those basics, & so there was a lot of "let's try this, let's try that" throwing things at the wall. There were great ideas, & shots at getting them right — contemporary interfaces still look sad beside NeXTSTEP, & the Newton wasn't approaching what it was supposed to be until near when it was axed. Companies don't just want to do bug fixes & incremental improvements; they want their customers to be excited about something, & the 90s churn had a lot to do with keeping people interested & invested.
https://www.speaklikeanegyptian.com/product-page/egyptian-ar...
> I have also wasted far too much time trying to write my own expressions when just typing “brew install ___” would have let my get back to work.

Part of why I still just use nix-env instead of doing it the "right" way - it provides that simple "just install it" interface.
What's wrong with SanDisk? Out of the loop here -- I had a SanDisk SSD around 5 years ago and it was absolutely great; it's still going today (it's seen quite a bit of use, too.)
I understand this feeling, and feel it frequently with other comments, but don't see the comment you're replying to as the best example of that. Their list of reasons are mostly not overcomable with "great engineering achievement" - they're mostly economics. If you don't see a path to overcoming the economics, then you can engineer all you want and it won't succeed in our society.

So maybe a better contribution would be to ask what would drive successful economics of battery swapping? It seems like one critical piece which could happen on its own and would then potentially enable battery swapping is battery standardization. Yes, standardization reduces engineering options, as the parent suggests, but it also makes consumer lives much much better. I've got some non-standard batteries on my ebike and it probably puts a much shorter time limit on the bike's life than I'd prefer.

Standardization doesn't have to reduce engineering options as much if there are a handful of form factors. That's what we've seen with AA, AAA, 9V,etc. We should be aiming for a small set of form factors and connectors that enable sufficient engineering options.
> It's incredibly easy and quick to implement one, why not just make one perfectly fit for your use case every time?

Look around, it’s so easy there are corpses of companies and projects all around the industry.
That’s an on-demand server, not serverless.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks :-)
The CA system and hence https/TLS is already backdoored, by construction. Any of root CA’s that your browser trusts can man-in—the-middle you unless you keep track of and pin certificates like Google does. These roots CAs are run by random companies and governments around the world. All of them have equal precedence in browsers.
We really need to be thinking bigger here — Google included, to the degree there are pro-privacy folks in the org (which there) - in coming up with something that protects a lot more than the identity via IP of Chrome users, but all web traffic.

I mean, maybe even rethinking IP, TCP/IP entirely.
What's wrong with plastic national identity documents exactly, are they too heavy, too large, not enough waterproof? With the next wave of broad consent for authoritarianism like during 2020-2022, the new "features" promptly integrated into this ecosystem will be not nice at all.

> Finally, the revised law clarifies the scope of the qualified web authentication certificates (QWACs), which ensures that users can verify who is behind a website, while preserving the current well-established industry security rules and standards.

Pan-Europan edition of the German Impressum enforced by hordes of vicious bloodthirsty legal trolls and predators.
You mean as alternative to openAI?

I'm really not on board with the current hype. It is not useful for my work (webcoder), but if I've to write in business-attire I find it useful.
I don’t think we will be rid of those things until we start understanding how incentives work. Game theory should be taught in high school.
7-question GPT to help you decide what to build https://chat.openai.com/g/g-d2Y6GqzeB-creategpt
where do you draw the line? you can use the lizard vs rational brain argument to make sense of any behavior. violent crime? blinded by rage. drug abuse? coping tool for trauma. rape? overcome with lust.
It's not apple V. EU. It's Ireland Vs. EU. The real crux of the argument is; Does Ireland have the authority to grant Apple it's deal.
Yes design choice. Apple chose to design it for security.
If it's a video workflow it's likely more of a working drive, backups don't always keep up with the changes on the drive fast enough.

Unless it's part of a RAID array or something, but by that point you'd shell the money out for a better drive
Dungeon Keeper Resurrection Diary
What brand would you trust the most, for SSDs and for SD cards?
The entirety of the largest social network of its time was lost when the single last MySpace hard drive was erased o_O
related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38220982
> Ireland no longer relies on them

If Ireland has closed all the loopholes then why do the phantom exports (US subsidiary buying IPs) account for 38% of total exports of this year?

> Now that Ireland has agreed to a global minimum corporate tax (CT) rate.

Provided that they dont find another loophole.

Edit:
Someone asked for baseline, the phantom exports were 6 billion in 2012, they are 134 billion this year.

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/irish-phantom-exports-surge...
Going on a tangent here, but may I ask why you don't have hyphens enabled? Especially with justified text, one tends gets large spacing around words without hyphens, which seems to counteract the effect of larger spacing after ending a sentence.
It’s not that easy. They would also need to MITM the actual traffic, or the DNS.
This article sounds like an incoherent rant against CI/CD in general.

Coming from Jenkins, App Veyor, Circle CI, and GitLab CI, GH Actions was such a fresh breath and is a very cohesive solution to the cluttered CI space.

Most of the "points" mentioned in the article are merely code smells of not using a decent deployment/testing setup.

Having centralized build setups is not new either. Ubuntu PPAs and Arch's equivalent of package builds share similar pain points, but it's been serving us for decades at this point.
It sounds like that was orthogonal to switching to fuchsia.
Thats great. Show us!! What projects, is it 8 devs per project or total, what was the impact, any downsides?

Nothing is more convincing than real world success stories.
My Company Died – Learn from My Mistakes
+1. Been there, done that. Bottom line: for projects like this goldplated fingers are worth it. Eat the cost & be happy.
The uniqueness may not be in the product. It may be in the business practice. A truly customer-focused business is actually very rare (despite all of the marketing business engage in to convince us that they're "customer-focused"), for instance. That can be the differentiator.

Or maybe providing a common product/service in an unusually accessible or convenient way. Or providing a common product/service in a way that is tailored to a particular subgroup. And so forth.
Getting back in to archery and indoor rock climbing. Haven't done either for ... well, a long, long time. Was never much good at either, don't expect to be much good at them ever but I do enjoy both. Sometimes, it's fun to revel in one's mediocrity :-)
It is the EU institutions who are disagreeing with each other, Apple have nothing to do with it. The General Court of the EU isn't muddying the waters to help Apple avoid paying tax.

This is the General Court's judgment by the way: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62...
Google is not a good comparison, because Google engineering is inferior.
I can imagine. Most people who enjoy this kind of music probably despise what I hear, too.
Two by Nicklaus Wirth:
Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler
GPUs also have 10x-100x FP/INT8 throughput watt-for-watt.
I think sustainable is one of those meaningless terms. Like "carbon neutral".
How does text-only imply no emojis?
Yeah, but it's really slow, and you can't actually download a copy of the data.
> Also, they say consumer CPUs have 2-16 cores. (Who has 2 cores these days?)

Pretty sure my mom's laptop has 2 cores; I can't think of anyone whose daily driver has 16 cores. Real cores, not hyperthread stuff running at 0.3× the performance of a real core.

As for the 128-core server system, note that those cores are typically about as powerful as a 2008 notebook. My decade-old laptop CPU outperforms what you get at DigitalOcean today, and storage performance is a similar story. The sheer number makes up for it, of course, but "number of cores" is not a 1:1 comparable metric.

Agree, though, that the 10x speedup seems low. Perhaps, at 0.4s, a relatively large fraction of that time is spent on initializing the Python runtime (`time python3 -c 'print("1337")'` = 60ms), the module they import that needs to do device discovery, etc.? Hashcat, for example, takes like 15 seconds to get started even if it then runs very fast after that.
I wish I didn't have to circumvent the UI with a strategy like this. Part of the reason I like CI/CD tools is the visualization factor - I can create specific steps, see which step is currently active during execution, and only care for the output of a specific step during debugging.

A platform with support for visual control from the scripts (implemented as no-ops during local execution) would be perfect.
I was a Hearthstone whale on a small scale relative to wealthier people and a large scale relative to my family's annual income. I wanted certain gold cards (rarer) for aesthetic reasons in my decks, and shortly before I quit all Blizzard games (for the slot machines they are, to me) I bought fifty packs just to get enough dust to craft the golden legendary I wanted.

I did something similar with World of Warcraft, buying a level boost that I ended up not using, just to "round out my character list." It was a low point in my life and I will never go back to that behavior.

I recognize these games can be used and enjoyed responsibly, just not by me and that's okay.
This is about proving identity online across the EU. Most plastic national IDs obviously don’t work for EU-wide online uses because not all EU identity cards have a corresponding smartcard chip, and there would not be a standardized system without an EU-level decision like the one discussed here.

When eID has been rolled out at the national level, it allows you to log into, say, your tax account or social-security account by simply logging into your bank. Your bank was already compelled to do all the work of vetting your identity, so the state trusts the bank to pass on your authentication.
This doesn’t sound very GDPR compliant.
The article unfortunately was written by someone with no clue so we don't know why tombstoned components (shown in the picture) were not caught in inspection/test. They imply the failures happened in the field, but that's not where tombstoning happens. Presumably what happened was that the supercap (looking like [1]) tombstoned in reflow. Then circuit test failed to test that it was installed so the unit was shipped. Subsequently in the field the unit suffered a sudden power loss with pending writes. Normally the supercap provides power for long enough to flush pending writes to NAND. But since it was open circuit, the power fail flush never finished, resulting in corrupted storage. Fixing the open circuit solder joint as you suggest does not remedy the problem for the user because their data is still gone.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/seiko-instruments...
Wait, per $ spent luxury clothes are generally as practically useless as skins in a game. And, people who sell them do it by tapping into social status instincts. So whether tangible, or not, I don't see much difference
I've had a Fujitsu (if I remember correctly) drive many many years ago that had a hardware bug that would cause an IC on it to spontaneously flash fire and die.

It was a known flaw. They got away with it too.
I don’t believe the author is advocating for single file systems, but I don’t want to speak for them.
When i worked in a manufacturing Tech company we were all told to purchase capital equipment through the netherlands subsidiary. I never understood it, because the equipment never "went" to the netherlands, but the netherlands entity would buy equipment for the US based entity from a US based company.

I think the real solution here would be to tax based on bills of landing. If you buy things for your american locations, then they should be taxed based on American tax law.
This is a timely comment because I just booked a trip to New Zealand with a stop at Franz Josef and didn't realize it could only be accessed by helicopter. Are there any other glaciers around there that can be accessed via hike?
Let's just stipulate that LockMart has a long history of tragically over budget, and sometimes under-delivered hardware. Seems like a bad choice of vendor.
> but Apple is ... keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them

Holy Stockholm syndrome level of cognitive dissonance batman!
If you want high thrust you just superheat reaction mass and expel it. Hydrogen gives you the best efficiency I think but is hard to handle. Water, carbon dioxide, and hydrocarbons are easy to handle. The nuclear engine can sustain much higher temperatures longer than a chemical engine to achieve both high thrust and higher specific impulse. You get a lot more delta V per unit rocket mass than just chemicals.

If you want maximum specific impulse (propellant efficiency) then you want what you are thinking of: a reactor powering ion engines. Ion engines can use very little propellant but generate low sustained thrust for a long time. Solar can power ion engines too, but I think a reactor can do so with less mass and solar becomes increasingly useless much beyond the orbit of Mars. If you want to visit Europa or Titan you need nuclear energy… or it’s a very very long trip.

Hybrids are possible too like a reactor that can run in either or both modes.
Does that not produce a tiny thrust that’s only practical for small unmanned space probes?
Humans just “do it in software.”
To each their own, of course. :)
NixOS is complicated, it’s a new paradigm. But one thing I found very easy: getting started. I just installed NixOS Gnome on my laptop, everything worked. I added vscode , git and Firefox to the packages and I was productive. Now I try to learn bit by bit, using Nix and learning. But all the while I do have a useable laptop that just works. When I feel like I exploring, I explore and learn.
Yes, all the online casinos have this information too. An interesting question is whether providers of these fake money casinos actually alter odds to maximise yields? Presumably. I believe FIFA has fixed odds for their gambling stuff.
It actually is, there were long and debates and safeguards against misuse.

E.g. if you have to verify you age, the service online gets a True or a False.

There is no identifiers for transactions and so on
Gary Marcus covers Gary Marcus
In my opinion this would just be a cat and mouse arms race. Make something new and corporations will race to be the first to add their tracking to it.
> How do you propose a third party can establish your ability AND desire to pay back a loan

Ability is simply by asking for a recent payslip. For things like mortgages they usually ask for a signed statement from the employer as well (they declare that if employee continues to function as (s)he has been they have no intention to end their employment).

Desire doesn’t really factor into it. If you don’t pay your debt they will get their money one way or the other. Personal bankruptcy is not a thing over here, you cannot walk away from debt.

> Maybe you CAN afford a loan, but WILL you pay it back?

Of course you will, you have little choice. Worst case they get a judge to simply take it out of your paycheck.
BinkyBox: Improved keyboard shortcuts for virtual desktops on Windows
Running actions triggered from a non-main branch does it for me, either on pushes to the branch, or 'workflow_dispatch'. You'll otherwise never get that level of fidelity to what happens in production.

Keep the logic in your YAML "dumb". Avoid variables and subroutines in the file, if you want to DRY something, create your own custom action. You can have unit tests on an action, you can't have unit tests on a GHA workflow.
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Wouldn't that mean that all your web traffic is going through a google server?

Yup just like most people using Android have their text messages routing through Google. Some don't even realize this.
Without providing a baseline, 38% means nothing. In the past it could have been 80%?
Why do we call them "baby names"; they're given names—a person will be using it their entire life—they just so happen to be chosen at birth.

Expecting parents and their inner circle are always discussing 'cute baby names,' forgetting in the arc of life their child will only [typo] be a baby a short time (fate willing and all that).

When I consider names, my standard is; "Would this sound solid and respectable if <the name> were the head of my division / a diplomat / leading thinker", etc.

If it doesn't feel like it'd be a fit for those "life roles," it's scratched.

(We only have one, a boy, and it met that standard but I still do that thought experiment on the premise if we'd had a girl.)
This reminds me about how they tried to fix the problem in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhalation_(short_story)
As an inspiration for some of the ideas? Maybe. As a language in itself, Oberon was crappy even at that time.

From the very start, Go was utterly practical, designed to be used for actual programming, and not PhD theses.

So compared to Oberon, Go had hash maps from the start. It didn't have the SCREAMING PROCEDURE/RECORD/VAR case-sensitive keywords, Go had multiple return values for error handling from the start, better namespacing support, variable declaration in-place, full support for UTF-8 for strings, etc.

And of course, Go has lightweight threads and channels, making it a great language for servers.
If you know something others don't then please explain. Otherwise, why bother to comment?
Relying on simpler frameworks when you can make sense. But the notion of getting rid of build steps is a complete lark, just be more efficient with build steps, and if necessary, don't include them in production. Also why would you want to prioritize adding your attributes to HTML? Are you making a document and hosting it as a website? In what other world is that preferred? CSS isn't hard to navigate, if anything one should be encouraging better CSS practices. Yes, frontend scripts can obfuscate styling, but perhaps just don't rely on that if you don't need to, which is already a no-brainer, since it's harder to give an attribute via some JS rather than shoving it into a style document.

Some of these make sense and are obvious, like using only what you need (which is preached for half of the article). But the rest of it confusing, if not outright ridiculous. Why are we even assuming that being able to copy an entire HTML page is a good thing? Frankly I don't care, and it's not like there are literally millions of resources to use to learn HTML even if you can't view a few pages' HTML.

Idk man, kind of a head scratcher
That Onion was great, thank you.

I love the Reddit format, I think for the most part it works well in terms of commenting (same as HN), but the problem is the "news feed" concept, like you say. A Reddit post is only alive for a few hours before it drops away never to return.

At least on forums whenever there is a reply it bounces back to the top and keeps topics alive.
Unless you play twitch fps games just pay 10$ for GeForce now and save yourself 1500$ the experience is good enough.
"User agent" is the more important one. Allow the browser to deal with the system it's presenting on (mobile vs desktop, for example).
> From what I have read, most free / libre smartphones are not ready for consumer use

Replace “most” with “all” and you’re closer to the truth.

Huge amounts of copium from anyone who thinks otherwise.
When the iPhone was released, Apple had sold 0 iPhones. Since then, Apple has sold over 1.5 billion iPhones. Your position is that Apple produces no value for society?