skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then what exactly is the purpose of bringing up “company towns” in a post about Adobe not being able to buy Figma?
Usually the meshes have parts of the network that is connected to the internet, and you either automatically get access to those nodes so you can route via them, or you can request access to be able to reach the wider network.

Really depends on the mesh, I don't know the specific answer for NYC mesh.
This made me curious. Having never read the gitlab code before, and on mobile, took all of about 30 seconds to find https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/config/ro...

Those are some pretty clean routes!
> It does if they willingly sell their shares to Apple

Why would they do that? That's literally just giving away money. I still think you're failing to understand the principle at work here. You can "control" a public company with a 50.1% share, that doesn't allow you to steal from the remaining shareholders. That's what shareholder lawsuits are about: the shareholders collectively feel that the company is not acting in the interests of its owners and sue.

Now, sure, often this is abused. Often the suits are baseless and mostly just attempts by law firms to squeeze some dollars out of the process. But the actions described in this subthread are exactly why they are allowed in the first place. You can't do that.
Places like that definitely exist.

For that vintage feel, Third Man Records in Nashville has a booth that anybody can use to record a 2 minute record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e1Rwk1kpLM
Couldn't someone achieve this by using a very lightweight Linux distro, setting up ssh and using Ansible?
Here are two FOSDEM guides, I found interesting when researching my trip.

https://petersouter.xyz/fosdem-survival-guide/

https://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2015/09/07/my-guide-to-fosdem-eu...

It will be the first time at FOSDEM for me, so I cannot confirm or deny much, but I've definitely heard from multiple sources that it is very crowded. If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.

I have not booked a hotel yet, so if you know a good place to stay, especially near the venue, pointers would be appreciated.
My contacts are in my profile.

Finally a shoutout to the Rust crowd, links to the track and the Dev Room:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/rust/

https://rust-fosdem.github.io/
Some people just want to have fun and that's what blitz is for. Why are people so preoccupied with improving when it comes to chess? If any other game is mentioned the discussion will not be so centered on improvement as it is with chess. Maybe it is because chess has this air of a "thinking man's game" which does not really deserve. It's just a game like any other.
>Because if writing a stupid essay that requires zero research, zero external coordination, and zero dollars, only my time and focus, is this difficult to finish, I’m astounded that anything ever gets done in the world in the first place, and that too well.
>Finishing anything is a miracle in and of itself. A huge shoutout to anyone who’s ever done anything to completion at all.

Ha so true!! Perhaps I am just getting old.
No, in several ways.

Firstly, I didn't spot what paper you mean other than 'related to Amazon', but it's plain to see what can happen to an Amazon. Once it's finished destroying competitor businesses the only way it can get more profit is by continuing to get paid, but ceasing to deliver services. And this is already happening in various ways. I'm sure I'm not the only person, even on Hacker News, to have grudgingly written off an Amazon purchase that simply never was delivered, a cheap and trivial thing that didn't pan out, a 'problem with this order' that the system simply ate.

At the point when you're taking consumer money and not having to do anything, that's harm. You can get away with it because your system is invincible. (I also feel like this about the insurance industry: I think it's set up to not pay, and has better legal representation than the consumer does)

To the extent that a business's primary purpose is to make money, these are successes. To the extent that the primary purpose is to hurt competitors, these are still successes, to the extent they're possible and not just undermining your position: you have to be monopolistic or at least in control to be able to pull that stuff off, but then you're wealthier, giving you more power to hurt competitors.

None of this serves a market economy for providing goods and services. It may exist, but it hurts capitalism as a functioning concept.
So how many VC funded companies do you think get acquired instead of IPOing?
> Open plan might work great for some types of work […]

I'm curious to know: why types are, or people consider to be, good for open plan?

Generally, office type jobs tends to be one where people need to use their brains to concentrate on something, and open plans tend to be able to create / not block distractions, they would be antithetical to being able to concentrate.
> And once again I must keep reminding people that "Find My" is an opt-in feature that you are not required to use.

Isn’t that the bad part about this story? That someone with your laptop can reset it if you’ve not used ‘find my’?
I can’t find that story in this translation: https://sagadb.org/brennu-njals_saga.en
“I can’t back it up with data, I just know I’m right “ of course
But you DO have the option of setting up your Mac as an "open device", that is exactly what the article is about.

And OP is complaining that Apple gave them that option in the first place…
I enjoyed the Microscope! But that one is very much on the creative writing side.
Simmilarily I did enjoy Quiet Year.

Several of those map-making/settings building should work well. I wanted to try Gun & Slinger, but that one wants to be 2 players and a GM so I didn't try that one yet.
+1 on the documentation. As someone whose job involves a daily use of Qt, I think I've been spoiled by the documentation. Qt does a tremendous job of explaining nearly every function and property in detail, as well as giving a healthy class-level overview (often with code snippets and even screenshots where it might be useful). In fact, even their (many) example programs each have their own documentation page explaining what the example code ia doing.
Yeah, I exaggerated a bit. It's just that where it used to be postgres + node + react + html, then the middle two have been cut.

And I'm actually not contesting the value of a regular back-end and a front-end framework: postgrest and htmx make it easy to achieve more with configuration, but this only works up to a degree. After that point the benefits of a custom application start to overweight its absence.
IRC, UCCP, NNTP
Are in various ways all distributed

SMTP, HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SFTP,Finger
Are all relatively easy to self-host.
and it used to be frequently done.

We have plenty of protocols to use already,
and we have had them for a long time, that
is not the problem.
> You can very much be slapped by the judge and/or the ABA for doing that.

You can. The bar is very, very high. It's adequate to have a fig leaf of plausibility.

> In Federal court, this is governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.

I am most concerned about lower courts, and especially the lowest of the low. Go into a family court at some point, and see the lawyers lying and throwing around allegations they know to be false.

> Perhaps the courts need to fire a warning shot that the ABA needs to course correct

They very much need to do this.

> I truly doubt the ABA is stupid enough to try to buck the judicial system

I think there is a mistake here:

1) Judges are mostly lawyers and in ABA culture. It's not clear they'd want to buck the system.

2) There is no plausible alternative. The populace won't hand those powers over to the executive, since we have a constitution (and we're all indoctrinated into separation of powers since little kids, and even so, it's a good idea even with corruption in the judicial). The ABA's position is secure. For the ABA (not an individual lawyer) to be scared, there would need to be a plausible threat.

3) Being corrupt is the opposite of "openly acknowledging." By far the best thing we can do to address corruption is to openly acknowledge it, and then when things don't improve, to point fingers at the bottlenecks.
Rust can also leak memory (memory leaks are memory safe in Rust).
>> The largest in history

When do you think history started?
Rails Attribute Changed Callback
From https://old.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/comments/1543ms1/who_c...
I can't agree more, The Ongoing History of New Music is required listening for anyone who likes music. This show (and podcast) are amazing.
Just play chess960. It is a better game.
> Microwave ovens should have a knob-button combo that I can work in 0.5 seconds without looking or reading the manual.

We have a microwave with a knob to set the duration and another to set the clock, with two small buttons (one is 12/24 hours, the other I can't remember).

Every guest we had who tried to use the microwaive failed it, because it was so not intuitive to just turn to set the duration ... and then wait a couple seconds before heating starts automatically.

I wish there was a physical start button.
Trading floors would be one.
Because learning and improving is part of the pleasure of chess. It's a game you can enjoy to play, but also enjoy to study. As you improve, there's a tangible sense of progression which is rewarding. And the scope for progression goes very very deep.

Not all other games have this feature. If I play Catan with my friends, it's fun, but then the game is over. I'm not going to analyse my game and discover new tactics or strategies, like I will with chess.
Seeong an eruption from a plane has to be quite a sight!
You need it to be a good time for all 6 people
Ah yes, they should absolutely go with these types of sovereign citizen legal arguments.
Play a local MP3 file on Alexa Echo Dot
I remember I saw some website which allowed you to select some 960 position and it would show like some commentary on how to proceed as either side and what should be prioritized and showcase past games with the same position, this was like a year or two ago.

By middlegame theory, I meant that there is a lot of resources on Chessable that go into middlegame theory of an opening if both sides played early opening by the book, so even middlegame is quite covered in terms of variants and the otherwise general strategy ideas are actually incorporated as part of the theory and studied as such.

As for endgames, I don't think the theory is too difficult but it's also been a situation where people are guided towards books like Dvoretsky's endgame manual and 100 endgames you must know and stuff like that which again is just thrown at you and told to go study it because a lot of the people read these books.

Now, generally, I agree, you can play Chess by intuition to a really good level but I've had games where my opponents just told me my moves were sound, made sense and in a way they were "good" but they fell to a part of their preparation theory that was like 8-9 moves deep and honestly, I really didn't like that and I absolutely didn't want to join this "rat race" because I think for me it would be a unhealthy life to aimlessly keep studying Chess just so I can be competitive against other people who do this same exact thing of studying.

Anyways, hope I clarified things and thanks for chipping in!
It’s not about the quality of the tool but the fact that regulators will most likely think that this merger will violate anti-trust laws and lawyers from both companies can’t argue for why this isn’t the case
I try to not think about it. GC'd languages have their own weird performance advantages.

GC is not pure downside in performance terms (at least for .NET). It actually brings some upside to the table. Deferring memory management to a batched, asynchronous background process can scale better in some applications. Your physical hardware likes to work in batches of contiguous things wherever possible.

The only case where GC burns me is by introducing latency to the application. In situations where I cannot tolerate long GC pauses, my solution is to go straight through hell - invoke GC on purpose every time my hot path iterates. This ensures that at any given moment, the amount of trash to be collected is minimal and should incur the smallest delay. This works especially well in things like game loops where you have a very obvious, well-compensated edge upon which to collect garbage.
There was a BSD devroom track in the past years, e.g. https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/bsd/

I don't see anything in this year's schedule either, and fosdem-bsd-devroom's recent tweets don't talk about it (I didn't scroll very long, there might be an announcement somewhere) https://twitter.com/fosdembsd
In the small: Those space heaters Germans think about when talking electric heating tend to be night storage heaters. So they consume electricity at night (when the grid is free) to heat up, then radiate the heat until the next evening. That scheme was accompanied by cheaper electricity at night. Not very comfy, and slow to react, and the "cheaper electricity" bit supported the notion that it only works when "subsidized" (just the market at work, but it looks like that - unlike fossils whose subsidies were usually not as obvious for the regular citizen.)

In the large: That idea is from a time when burning fossils at home (including coal) was the way to heat, and burning fossils to drive a (relatively inefficient, at least compared to today, and filters were an unknown luxury) generator was the way to create electricity.

You likely got more heat at home out of a bucket of coal when burning it at home rather than burning it at the power plant (with some excess heat there), converting it to electricity (with some losses), transporting electricity home (with some losses) and then heat up the home with that, even with 100% efficiency at that last step.

(These days I wouldn't be so sure: those power plants, even the fossil burning type, are fine tuned high-tech at a level you can't just put in ordinary homes, so they might actually extract more energy to use after all the losses along the chain than the fireplace at home that evicts a considerable percentage of the heat through the chimney)
The modern equivalent of this is basically Obsidian and the "second brain" concept

Not like chatgpt, which is a random garbage spewing agent leaving it to chance
For what it's worth, it's not just you. I sympathize completely. I watch for things like this affecting my life in the knowledge that every single time such a merger or acquisition happens, it's going to do me some kind of harm for no benefit.

Someone got paid for something, and that's the only purpose that was accomplished, and that someone wasn't (and never will be) me.
Yes, but it'd also make results more meaningful AND maybe reduce the opaqueness of bubbles. I'm guessing it would be a balancing act.
I do agree that 99% of users don't want to run infrastructure.

I think there's a difference between Fediverse-style federation/decentralisation and true P2P/BitTorrent-esque dectralisation. BitTorrent, in its current iteration, does have many semi-technical users, but perhaps your grandparents would struggle to use it. I think a much more friendly UX could be built; maintaining its decentralised properties would be more difficult but not inconceivably so.

I actually think transparent decentralisation is possible but the current policy settings (copyright, surveillance and advertising) somewhat disincentivise people from working on it, to the extent that most of the current projects are hobbies, crowdsourced or funded by research grants.
I've yet to receive a single piece of spam coming from an iMessage account.
Sounds like the perfect incel cure.
Everybody thinks their question is simple and quick, then it takes 30 minutes of time at minimum. I dunno why you are getting so much push back, must be a bunch of managers. Developers need to be left alone.
Temperature changes above the plastic transition temperature won't cause it to pop off. Only when you drop a reasonable amount below the plastic transition temperature will it pop off.
I think the key part of that is working on the same thing.

I work in a large company, and team is spread out over multiple cities.

We actually will often to group video calls to have a similar thing to what you describe - being able to ask a quick question, run ideas by other, etc.

However, going to the office I'm just with people who are working on different things, often doing calls which I find distracting...
Marketing? Where ideas and concepts need a lot of input and discussion. Basically anything that is very human and not zero or one.

Customer support via telephone support where not one agent knows everything. I.e., you tell customer to hold the line and then ask some other agent for a solution.
This is the sort of thing that almost (but not quite) pushes me to support mandatory certification (enforced by patents/other IP protections) for consumer devices that use a familiar connector like USB.

Consumers shouldn’t need to worry about the specific output voltage; the presence of a USB-A connector should indicate that it abides by the specification.

The hacker in me hates the idea of enforcing something like this, but poor interoperability is such a pain that it would be nice to have stronger guarantees.
Yes-- unfortunately I've been downvoted to hell for even suggesting we discuss other languages in comparison.
It is not like you asked a waiter for another beer as they walked back to the kitchen. They may have 1kb of level 1 cache they need to purge from their brain to help fix your eslint file.
A brief obsession with generative AI, face swapping and Steve Harvey
They don't care when it works. Then they get locked out of their google account and lose a lot of things at once and only have few alternatives to choose from and may return google yet again due to lack of choice.

> You can maybe argue that everyone has their preferences wrong and they are hurting themselves in the long run, but good luck fighting that battle.

That battle has been won many times. We don't let people run blind into open knives in many contexts.
there are 6 people in the room, but as I said, it does not mean that the 6 persons are all distracted. (by the way, the initial comment was implying that the question is coming from one of the 6 persons in the room, so at worst, it's 5 persons distracted)

the question can also be useful for one other person in the room, so instead of being distracted, the person has been helped.
Real World Cryptography by David Wong is a great book in this category.

Published in 2021, so it’s very up-to-date.

https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography
I have the same fountains and I have already roasted an iPad charger on it fountain (I used the charger because it had possibility to connect cable to it instead of plugin directly to the socket). One day it just went out and burnt a little.

From that time I tend to use the provided one, but I never noticed it provides a different voltage. Thanks for the warning
Well, he claims that he did say something:

> He says he tried to alert authorities of his find soon after returning to port, phoning the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

> Within hours, he received a return call from an official. The message was that a shipping container had fallen from a Russian ship in the area off Robe. The implication, he says, was that he’d probably fished up a shipping container, or part of it.

> AMSA said this week it had no record of corresponding with Olver during that period.

> Unimpressed, he chose not to pursue the matter. Three years later, he tried again.

> Olver wrote an email dated Monday, November 27, 2017, to Ocean Infinity, the company undertaking a new – and ultimately fruitless – search for MH370.

> [...]

> He says he received no reply.

I can’t vouch for the veracity of his account, of course.

What I can do is understand how he would not have had motivation to try reporting it more times after being dismissed, and also how his reports might have got lost among what I imagine were great amounts of unreliable hints coming from all kinds of people.
It might just be easier to show you: https://sibelhealth.com/anne-limb/

Earlier iterations of the design weren't as chunky as what they're doing now.

PPG readers are tiny, they could easily fit in a watch wrist strap with a little cable connecting back to the main assembly. The hard part would be making sure the sensor is aligned with the LED.
I feel obligated to add a shameless plug here. The idea is very close to a project I presented at pgconf.eu last week: SQLPage

https://sql.ophir.dev/

SQLPage has the same goal as postgrest+htmx, but is a little bit higher level. It let's you build your application using prepackaged components you can invoke directly from SQL, without having to write any HTML, CSS, or JS.
> And because it is easy to switch, everyone will be using the best

But it's not easy to switch.

E-mail was easy to switch "back then", when you didn't have a bunch of accounts tied to them. IRC was easy to switch, because most of the servers were interconnected into a few large networks, and all the clients used the same protocol.

And now? Your grandma only knows how to use whatsapp? Well, you're not switching away from that, and facebook is getting all your data.
So mostly android users doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify some company selling stealing compute for two bucks a month.
It's not only personal projects. I am in a similar stage where I feel kinda the same for a SaaS (Cloud Camping) where I am the sole developer. I have been working on this "MVP" for over 9 months now, we have our first customers (fortunately), but I underestimated the surface area of the domain (PMS - property management system) which seems like a never ending story. If you decide to create a PMS, customers are used to all the features that come with such a software: Third-Party Integrations for Booking Engines, Email Templates, Newsletter, i18n support for DB entities, hardware integrations (Electricity, Barriers, ...). It's difficult to draw a line for MVP or finished product.
>Five years ago, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to examine the possibility of a ‘long flu.’

Funny how significant research has gone into flu for many decades and only now have we discovered 'long flu'...

we just didn't think about following up on patients before, we just assumed they got healthy? lol come on, cut the BS.

Please don't censor me.
I wouldn't trust the writing on it; either.
This is very interesting. Hope this catches on.
It's not Apple's call if it violates antitrust laws. Apple has said they don't want to strike deals like this because they want to lockin users.
I think it will be more like:

"Pixie, reply to that email for me"

"Pixie, book that car service for me and remind them they promised a free brake fluid replacement"

"Pixie order all the ingredients I need to make my wife her favourite dish"

"Pixel, buy everyone in my family birthday presents"

I will 100% pay for that capability, and as someone that uses GPT4 to basically do my job for me, it really does not seem that far off. And I do think Google has an advantage here over Apple or anyone else, not just in Hardware, but in the enormous amount of data and information they have about both people in general, and specifically me.