skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking again here (different thread) but still about email:

Is making email hosting with cute name still a thing? I own a couple of cute domain names (something like love.com or pretty.com, but obviously not those), so I'm thinking if I can do a hotmail on those domains.
Here's something similar I made yesterday. Just view source of the controlling page and the pop-up pages for how it works (single page with inline vanilla JavaScript and no npm install nonsense). Just uses postMessage(). https://cms-compsci.deno.dev/mrgordon/window/
haha god it’s so true it hurts
Completely insane idea.

> Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore.

It would certainly be... interesting... in the sense that it would be very unusual and offensive. Maybe he was intentionally going for that?
Is this "safety" really worth excluding ~5% of the US unbanked from participating in commerce if you succeed in helping cashless proponents succeed?

Is it worth the very real risk of this data empowering political candidates with information on what money is spent on, where, and the demographics of who spends it, to help them do (sadly very effective) propaganda targeting?

Statistically advertisers and social media content weighting systems armed with enough data to target you, -will- change your behavior. Our brains are easy to hack no matter how smart we think we are. Ask any magician or casino operator.

Is it worth rising insurance rates when POS systems sell out who is buying what over-the-counter drugs at the pharmacy? Or how often they buy car oil from autozone?

I wonder how much safety hundreds of billions of dollars of US transaction value could buy if placed somewhere besides the pockets of payment corpos.

We could still adopt safe, private, digital cash with all the advantages of the current corpo system, and none of the above drawbacks.

We must reject corpo cash to get something better into popular use though.
Yeah I don't buy this either.

I do think the original Dunning-Kruger plot is a bit of an odd presentation. The way I look at it is just to say that people's self-estimates of their ability fall into a relatively narrow range (e.g., 55-75th percentile on the graph), whereas their actual abilities of course cover the whole range from 0-100th percentile. You don't really need the plot of "x versus x" (average score in each quartile). You just need to say "people's self-assessments seem to start unrealistically high and only go up a little, even as their ability goes up a lot".
You may need to work on your reading comprehension
But my understanding is that the Concorde was inneficient during takeoff because it was flying slower than the optimal speed dictated by its airframe and engines.

Are you proposing to refuel it at cruise speed? If not, one would think that the refueling would use up a lot of fuel in itself.
Calloc sometimes doesn't really do this. I believe on some architectures (like Linux) it requests the page and sets a traps so that it only fills with zeros when you first access segments of the memory space. This winds up being much better for cache coherency if you're doing something that runs across the memory space.
I would have introduced random, increasing skips in the sequence to make my army look 10x bigger.
Son of a butnip fwngho....
Yes and no.

In theory, writing in a functional language that allows only "pure" functions (aka. functions w.o. side effects), makes it easier to control state.

In practice, side effects exists and are required for programs to do anything useful.

In my opinion, one mistake of many purely functional languages was to be so focused on this purity, that it made it needlessly hard to write useful code in them, especially for people coming from an imperative/procedural/oop style of doing things. And you need these people if you want your method to gain traction, because the vast majority of code written, is imperative.

The irony is, that FP could probably have had a lot more success if it didn't clamour on about pure functions so much, and was less focused on implementations (aka. languages) than on methodology (aka. coding style) Because it is perfectly possible to write pure functions in most languages, including OOP language, even if those functions are not "pure" internally, or are not "pure" all the time and under all circumstances.

And yes, doing so has really nice advantages. I have refactored quite alot of codebases into using a more functional approach, and what I found was that this makes it harder to introduce bugs, makes it easier to track bugs, and makes it easier to reason about my code.

So yeah, functional programming, used if and where it makes sense, does work, and is useful.
Tell me what they should stop producing. Most of what they make is just boring every day stuff that we need to live comfortably. Do you like using knives and forks? What about cookware? A toy for your 2 year old so they can have some fun? Useless shit right?
> figured out how to uninstall a piece of software. `apt remove` will often leave other things lying around.

What's the Docker way of uninstall? In most cases Docker packaged software uses some kind of volume or local mount to save data. Is there a way to remove these when you remove the container? What about networks? (besides running prune on all available entities)
Still insisting on not reading the article I see.
OCI = Open Container Initiative
https://opencontainers.org

NIXOS = *NIX (UNIX, Linux) Operating Systems
So, basically a youtuber that plays with mercury?

From the clips at the end of the video where he cuts open a balloon full of mercury and it goes splashing everywhere, right out of the bucket all over his driveway - he doesn't seem very qualified to be handling an extremely toxic heavy metal, and I don't want to think about what the next property owner is going to face, especially if the house uses well water, or worse, is near a public well's aquifer.

Did I mention that mercury evaporates in air? So if he's been doing anything in enclosed spaces, his house is contaminated?

Anyone want to place bets on whether all the things he gets mercury on are properly handled like the hazardous waste they are, or he just collects what he can, shrugs, and throws the rest in the trash?
By having obligations that don't affect cash flow?

How does a profitable company wipe out from negative cash flow?
> mostly repeatable builds that are mostly self documenting

"Mostly" is going a bit far there.

If you want those things you should use nix to build your docker images, but you're going to have to want them pretty badly.
I don't know, I find that most people are against DNSSEC for non-political reasons. Did Chrome drop support for political reasons? No.

Covering MTA-STS is practical. The fact they do so wins them points towards having built something that works in the real world.
Right, so we increase our entire planetary energy needs by several orders of magnitude so that everyone can use crypto….
I appreciate that the author clearly states that security, i.e., output can't be reversed back to the input, is a non-requirement. We can't criticize the author too much for that either, because, as a rule, "random-looking id generator" algorithms will always be either not secure, or not short, or not collision-free. Or they'll be a key-value database.

A secure "random-looking id generator" is called a block cipher. Block ciphers with less than 128 bits of output are widely considered insecure: this corresponds to about 22 base64 characters.

Going further, you probably do want to use a secure algorithm. History is full of people thinking "we don't need this to be secure, it's not used for security-sensitive things" and later regretting it. Some case studies at [1].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/security_risk... .
Good point. All the more reason to make people opt out.
Despite its bugs Space Rangers was incredible. The diversity of gameplay was great. Fly around space, fight people, solve puzzles and manage ski resorts.
> Napoleon actually successfully invaded Russia, and he took the seasons into account. What he didn’t count on was the Russians deliberately going scorched earth on their own territory and even setting fire to their own capital.

In other words, your explanation is that Napoleon failed because he assumed that his enemies were idiots.

Usually, when a dictator or wannabe-dictator overextends their forces and fails, it's because they didn't know what they were doing. But Napoleon was an experienced military commander. He understood the importance of logistics, and he should have assumed that his enemies understood it as well. He knew Russians had resorted to scorched earth defense before, and his forces had already faced it in Portugal earlier.

Also, Napoleon didn't reach the capital. At that point, Moscow was just a major city with symbolic importance. The capital had been moved to St. Petersburg about a century earlier.
The hope was to eliminate the need to have an airman lying down in the back of the plane manually flying the boom to connect to the receiver aircraft, as a step towards drone tankers. This did not pan out as hoped.
The Steam Deck OLED Version Is Sold Out in Japan
Though there are no other cloud hosting providers that give you VPS with public IP and 24GB RAM for free. Oracle did shutdown my VM like 2 times in 3 years, but considering I paid them $0 it's borderline awesome service.
People who avoid using cash becoming the majority are why so many businesses are being conned into going cashless.

To support the unbanked, you must literally vote with your wallet.
The Chinese mafia's downfall in a lawless casino town
Hybrid-electric propulsion systems can enhance flight endurance by separating propulsion and power generation tasks, individually optimizing each for specific stress levels aligned with mission requirements.
In today's world, i think that English is the only programming language that people should focus on.

With the rapid rise of AI, most tasks will soon involve the management of AI models rather than writing code. However, it is still important to have a basic understanding of coding.

Introducing a new programming language at this point seems silly to me.
Replicate the industrial strategy, not the technology. Should’ve clarified.
Is it? Airport people movers are extremely niche.

Even in the countries where they exist, rubber tired metros are niche.
AFAIK it is disallowed by the universal declaration of human rights to leave people stateless isn’t the us a signee?
> It's really not making the stat of losing a passenger plane more consequential.

It makes it more likely, not more consequential.

You know how on the ground they sometimes tell you to not wear your safety belts while they refuel the plane? It is because every refueling has a risk of fire. An inflight refueling probably even more so.

> The second plane is autonomous so no additional people are lost.

Worth noting that in these experiments the tanker plane was not uncrewed. It is the act of connecting the hose which is automated here. (And they also tested with autonomous receiver planes.)
Sounds like you got further than me, they simply permabanned my payment information (also cannot complain too much since i didn’t pay a dime either, but seriously?!)
Top marks for the website - passes all the tests:

* Example at the top

* Link to playground

* Explanation of all the features, with examples!

* Says which features are unique

The only thing I was found wondering was "why datalog"?

Language looks pretty good.
It is funny to call fueling racism when saying Paris is particulatly dirty while at the same time admitting it cannot be compared to city like tokyo.
Because I guess if compared then it would look particularly dirty.

By the way seoul is also way cleaner than Paris, I believe Singapore too.
The Game Boy Talk
L2 of dk
The models in question are explicitly aligned in order to prevent NSFW images, at great expense. So not making nudes absolutely is a stated feature of this software.
Sure there’s some radical fundamentalist religious groups and the chinese communists party that share the view.
Flix seems to be implemented in Scala 2.13. Should we expect Flix to work anywhere Scala 2.13 works? ie: if Scala 2.13 supports JDK 8, should we expect that Flix will not take advantage of later JVM features?
People like you will never be happy in life. If this utopia that you crave was ever made, you’d want to change things back when you see the reality.
If I was looking for a virtual synth deck and came to you asking for a recommendation and you said Helm but actually meant the Kubernetes Helm not the synth Helm, you would have a very solid point. But you would also be an idiot.
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The article discusses the actual goal: solar power systems that make power day and night.
I agree in re Rust.

In spite of all the retarded monkeys in its fanbase, I always thought it was an interesting project. Popular languages today are much more similar than they used to be, they are basically "converging", Rust's willingness to try something new must be applauded.

Still many pain points, still a bit of a "puzzle language", too much of a scatterbrain approach in the governance and design direction, but even if it had no other influence than to force people to think about the problems of low-level programming, that would be still a massive plus in my book.
It is prohibited for passenger aircraft to fly anywhere near this close together, because it is dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcLiAAVeYhk
Track Front end JavaScript exceptions with Playwright fixtures
Three-year Life at Sea cruise is canceled; company acknowledges it has no ship
The thing I'm always interested in finding out is how people using lots of containers deal with security updates.

Do they go into every image and run the updates for the base image it's based on? Does that just mean you're now subject to multiple OS security and patching and best practices?

Do they think it doesn't matter and just get new images then they're published, which from what I can see is just when the overplayed software has an update and not the system anduvraries it relies on?

When glibc or zlib have a security update, what do you do? For RHEL and derivatives it looks line quay.io tries to help with that, but what's the best practice for the rest of the community?

We haven't really adopted containers at all at work yet, and to be honest this is at least part of the reason. It feels like we'd be doing all the patching we currently are, and then a bunch more. Sure, there are some gains, but if also feels like there's a lot more work involved there too?
This reads like a take from a mid-level manager rationalizing that they never learned to code, and convincing themselves that they'll never need to.
You can `docker rm -v <container>` to remove a ccontainer + its volumes. For larger stuff typically I just read the docker-compose file with all of that listed in one place, so its pretty easy to just `docker rm` the volumes and networks. With apt I have no idea what files were added or modified and there's no simple "undo".
I remember how things were before docker. Better is not a word I'd use for that.

It sucked. Deploying software meant dealing with lots of operating system and distribution specific configuration, issues, bugs, etc. All of that had to be orchestrated with complicated scripts. First those were hand written, and later we got things like chef and puppet. Docker wiped most of that out and replaced it with simple build time tools that eliminate the need for having a lot of deploy time tools that take ages to run, are very complex to maintain, etc.

I also love to use it for development a lot. It allows me to use lots of different things that I need without having to bother installing those things. Saves a lot of time.

Docker gives us a nice standard way to run and configure whatever. Mostly configuration only gets hard when the underlying software is hard to configure. That's usually a problem with the software, not with docker. These days if you are building something that requires fiddling with some configuration file, it kind of is broken by design. You should design your configuration with docker in mind and not force people to have to mount volumes just so they can set some properties.

The reason docker is so widespread is that it is so obviously a good idea and there hasn't been anyone that came along with something better that actually managed to get any traction worth talking about. Most of the docker alternatives tend to be compatible with docker to the point that the differences are mostly in how they run dockerized software.

And while I like docker, I think Kubernetes is a hopelessly over engineered and convoluted mess.
why do people have to always try to convince me how unfazed they are by nudity? if you're unfazed by it, please link me to your nudes. if not, you're fazed.

There's a big difference between being desensitized towards general nudity (if we presume said nudity was voluntary) as opposed to having your own nudity exposed to other strangers. There's also a big difference between pornography and nudity.

There's a lot more nuance to it than just "n000ds plz."
This could be argued, but obfuscated apps are a land of their own.

(You could also argue that obfuscated monolithic programs are be easier to reverse engineer, breakpoint, replay, emulate, time-travel-debug, trace, etc because you can completely control them in your test bench and aren't then working against a hostile distributed system)
Two pilots once flew a Cessna 172 for over 64 days, refueling and resupplying from a truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_endurance_record#/media...

They eventually were forced to land because their engine was down on power from lack of maintenance.
Ask an AI to help you with the design.

or

Pay someone on Fiverr.com to help you with the design.
They heat up. Line 4 gets horribly got in the summer because of it. At least that's what I was told by locals.
The BSD licensed stuff isn't outdated, it's actually directly from FreeBSD 14.0 afaict. ZSH is current (5.9) in Sonoma for example.
Chrome has no business “supporting” DNSSEC in the first place; it should all be handled by the operating system and the resolver. So I don’t think this is a point against DNSSEC.

My guess is that people are against DNSSEC because it’s difficult. You know how people are saying “It’s always DNS”? People hate dealing with DNS, because they don’t understand it. And DNSSEC is then another dimension of difficulty on top of that. But DANE is clearly the technically better solution. I mean, MTA-STS requires a file to be served from an HTTP server to even work. So now you need an HTTP server in addition to your SMTP server!

In any case, you should not, probably, deal with DNSSEC yourself! Note how the article does not cover running your own DNS server, but instead vaguely talks about editing DNS records. And if you have your DNS hosted by somebody else, DNSSEC is their problem. And once you have DNSSEC provided for you, you can use DANE and TLSA records without issue, without having to host an HTTP server for MTA-STS.
FISA turns 45. Time to rethink post-9/11 mass surveillance expansion
What is a story conference? Is it like a fancy word for three guys and a tape recorder?
Querying window position is laggy unfortunately. It's a browser feature.
Automatically detecting subclass declaration in JavaScript
Useful Principles
The problem with Hyperion is that it was so successful, the author couldn't resist the temptation to write sequels, and those are of much lesser quality.
> I can't help but think that, when past teams programmed mostly in assembly, a "Function" could be explained as a pattern.

Actually it was an entire new paradigm.

Procedural programming!
'I employ a lot of hackers': how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks
Each time I try Firefox something is not right for me. No matter if I'm on windows or Linux. GUI rendering issues, freezes, ghost process that doesn't stop when I close the browser. Each time something new.

Plus it doesn't offer me as much configurability as Vivaldi, at least in these areas I care for.

I'd love to hear that FF has 50% usage ratę again, but I will stick to chromium based browser.
Just hire better devs and understand the cost structure for the long term. Devs aren't that expensive unless the rest of your business is stacked with morons. What even is this article?
The curse of that website, it made me dizzy just scrolling.

Containers are amazing, they're bigger than docker, end of story.
A single tanker can simultaneously refuel multiple aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FSJ9Hqgz9T0
Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent
> the echo-chamber effect, in which we tailor our opinions to fit the online

Oh wow do ‘we’ do that? I’m pretty sure I do the opposite.

Also, that’s not what most people mean when they use the phrase “echo-chamber” - it’s not that you tailor your opinions, it’s that the algorithm tailors the content it serves you. Wonder if that’s a deliberate misstatement, considering the Washington Post would be the one guilty of facilitating the creation of an echo chamber… shifting blame to users / readers seems kinda sus
Security-critical tasks and programming language research will involve humans coding for the foreseeable future. I don't think you'd like your surgical robot to be programmed in English.
> The irony is, that FP could probably have had a lot more success if it didn't clamour on about pure functions so much

Except functional languages like Lisps and the MLs never were pure, the only (used by a significant number of people) has been Miranda/Haskell (ignoring Coq and the other proof assistents).
Or, to put it in other words:
ML (no, not that ML) turned 50 this year, Scheme is oder than 50 too and Miranda/Haskell ~36. There never had been a shortage of "impure" functional languages since OOP existed.
Don't forget Vital which is Matt's newer synth. It continues to be open-source as well.

https://vital.audio/

https://github.com/mtytel/vital
> The original work by Bjorn Staal https://twitter.com/_nonfigurativ_/status/172732259457002734 used localStorage, but I found sockets more fun, because if tweaked a bit, this can be shared with friends.

Anyone have a link to what this was? The tweet is gone.
You can take out the x from both sides, and the y would still not be a horizontal line.

In their eagerness to 'deconstruct' the narrative, do the authors merely provide another example of Dunning-Kuger by overestimating their own cleverness?
What's wrong with a Kobo reader? Kobo is friendly to modding, so you can install e.g. the open-source interface KOReader and never use the company's own interface. Even if you use Kobo's software, initial setup can be done without registration, and you can just leave the reader in airplane mode for the entire lifetime of the device, so it would never connect to any cloud.

I have enough experience with Pine64 to not regard their products as anything other than toys that never meet their potential.
Show HN: An open-source Spotlight tool connecting to ChatGPT
Fixed. Sorry, I am not a native english speaker.
> If you don't see a vendor like Microsoft using a GUI framework for at least 50% of their new applications, then you've made a terrible mistake in adopting it yourself.

!! _That is exactly_ one of the reasons why I jumped from Windows to Mac! Back in the Windows 8 days. So much more consistency API-wise and much less fear of your favorite thing being abandoned!

Apple actually uses their own shit, unlike Microsoft internal warfare that would make the Sengoku period seem like a kiddy playground.
And that's why 50% of results in biology fail to replicate. I personally don't find that acceptable. Both of those options should be valued roughly equally IMO.