skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That we got downvoted about something so easily verifiable and so shockingly corrupt really says a lot about the length humans go to grip to a delusion.

Back in 2020 those of us that had followed the Ukr war since 2014 knew that the material in the laptop was real. It's 2024; by now even the NYT has admitted the laptop and its contents are his.
> You need to stub it out on something first and often the convenient way to do that is to put it on the ground and grind it with your shoe.

Takes about 3 seconds for me to roll the cigarette with two fingers right there by the cherry and squeeze a little bit and pop it right out. Shoe is way too much work.
Case in point: reaching out to the President of the United States to intervene.

Crazy.
QUIC is indeed impressive and one of the developments that excite me.

I meant, I wish there were more application-layer protocols (like a new IRC, NNTP, rather than say Matrix or ActivityPub which is just JSON shunting over HTTP), the rest of the OSI stack gives us plenty of choice already :)
This is an organization that is overrun with secrecy. Making EU law is done in secret:

https://euobserver.com/eu-political/136630

The process of selecting the current leader was done in secret.

Even the single-option EU Parliament ballot with her name on it, was a secret ballot.

She replaced the previous leader who is on the record as saying, "Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup [...] I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious [...] I am for secret, dark debates."

Then she negotiated massive vaccine purchases from Pfizer that were far too large, and the deal was secret. People wanted to know what sort of negotiation process led to buying hundreds of millions of shots that then had to be destroyed because nobody wanted them, and it turned out she negotiated it via SMS and those messages were ... yep, secret. (in fact, destroyed). This came as no surprise because at the time she got the job she was under investigation in Germany for corruption, but the investigation stalled after phones that were confiscated turned out to have had all their data deleted before being handed over.

The EU insists that almost every website spam you with reams of boilerplate in the name of transparency, but systematically refuses transparency for itself.
That’s how it’s supposed to be? Like you said, real 1940s Britain wasn’t very uplifting. The fact that he’s not imitating all of it is how you know he’s still sane :)
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of inflation.

E.g
Let's say you need 1 WikiToken to read a Wikipedia article. However the Wikimedia prints 10 Billion Tokens and distributes it to entire world for free. Next year it prints 20 Billion more and so on
Will the cost of reading a Wiki article go up? No. Because we have excess capacity for serving Wikipedia articles

Every cost in this world boils down to labor and if AI/Robots take over then cost of labor is 0 or in other words we have excess capacity and we can print in abandon.
Full PGP Support in Skiff
>We’ve heard our users loud and clear - interoperable end to end encryption (E2EE) across email providers is critical for privacy and security online. We have taken this feedback to heart. We are proud to announce support for PGP encryption inside Skiff mail starting today for all users across all tiers, including Free.
If a dryer circuit was installed before 1996 there is a good chance it won't be grounded. Before 1996 the US national electrical code allowed 3 wire dryer circuits. Two hot wires and one neutral.

In 1996 that was changed to require new dryer circuits to be 4 wire. Two hots wires, one neutral, and one ground. Existing 3 wire dryer circuits were allowed to remain in use.
ChatGPT can (probably? I haven't checked) use git and package management. Maybe you should replace your colleagues with it.
2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy
Brb, gonna set a petrochemical refinery on fire.

Surely we aren't going to be hypocrites about it and designate political attacks on infrastructure as terrorism?
Same reason you don't see too many "Connects to Apple Watch" pieces of gym equipment floating around. Apple doesn't want to get into the gym equipment or medical device manufacturing business.
I was just about to make a submission for the excellent Flow E-reader ( https://www.flowoss.com ) , which I discovered today. Browser based, books stored in localstorage, ridiculously fast UI, cloud via your dropbox. So, basically what Librum promises, but already completely functional.

Let's make E-books a fully integrated part of the web experience! There's just a few gaps to bridge. It could be done with PDF, so it can be done with ePUB.
Yes, you have to maintain the environment but these bunkers and facilities were designed with that factor taken into consideration.

Yes, it isn't zero-effort, you can't just chuck your papers down a mineshaft and come back for them 50 years later, but it isn't in any way an insurmountable problem.
One has a typo, one doesn't

"The light source emits light at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm."

vs

"The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You want to use "||" like most languages, not "or". They have different precedence rules.
If you think that's cool, you might also want to check out Omnigres:

https://github.com/omnigres/omnigres
Ticket is a class

do ... end is how you create no-argument functions similar to () => { ... } in JavaScript. There's some technical nuance but that's the spirit of it.

In Ruby you can call methods without needing to place parentheses.

So this roughly translates to the JavaScript code:

RSpec.describe(Ticket, () => {

context('when...', () => {
...
});

});

This specific code describes a test that uses the RSpec testing framework. In RSpec, "context" and "it" are just functions that you call to describe chunks of tests and individual tests respectively.

Some Rubyists would say that the combination of these syntax rules (do-end and optional parentheses for function calls) allow you to make "domain specific languages" (DSLs as they're known in the community) without needing to write your own parser.

I think it's pretty plain to see the impact in expressiveness if you look at the equivalent Python unittest suite. The Python equivalent would have classes that inherit unittest.TestCase and methods named like test_when_ticket_is_closed.

In Python land, classes and method declarations are repurposed because the syntax is what it is. In Ruby, you can practically make your own faux keywords by abusing do-end to accept nested blocks.
Thanks for sharing! PGP support has been a huge request and enables end-to-end encryption automatically between large email providers for one of the first times we know of.
thx u!
Not really, revenue is not value. It's used as a proxy but it's not a true indicator of value. An extreme example, LOADS of revenue but also loads of expenses (i.e., not profitable). Is that "creating value"? I think not.

Or again, the "influencer" model. TONS of revenue but when was the last time you heard of such a person selling? They're not because there's no value. The influences walks away, the house of cards collapses. No one is going to pay for that. So, sorry, no value - regardless of revenue.

Therefore, if you ever want to know the value of your business as a reflection of the alleged value it creates, put it up for sale (or sell shares). You will quickly find out if you're actually creating value or not, or at least someone thinks you have the potential to create value. But that isn't revenue.

That's it. You want to measure value? Then be prepared to ask the market (i.e., exit) Anything else is a proxy, a deception, or something you tell yourself to make yourself feel good.
Or even something like Django's admin interface could be implemented in htmx.
Modern induction stove tops driving me insane ... All touchscreens. Everything else is better about them but just can't find any with actual physical controls.
He's probably happier than most!

I hate grappling with advancing a career vs "doing whatever I want." The problem is, whenever I play video games or try to decompress, I feel like I'm forcing myself. This guy has seemingly no qualms about it. For that, I'm jealous.
FWIW, Medium doesn’t have login walls and hasn’t for a long time. Stories are either paywalled or they aren’t (author’s choice). This link is not paywalled and doesn’t require login.
What additional tooling do you think would be needed to turn this concept into a maintainable stack with good UX for mid-to-large sized applications?
Build a scalable, self-managed streaming infrastructure with Apache Flink
I read a book years ago about a British soldiers in an Italian POW camp. They caught and ate the German commandant's poodle. Tasted like lamb apparently. The commandant was never sure what happened to it. IIRC.

So wasn't a one-off?
I bought a Chevrolet Bolt EUV to replace the Honda Odyssey van I had. I'm consistently pleased with how I'm able to fit into parking spaces that other people cannot. 95% of the time it's just me, 4% it's me and my wife, the rest are when my children are home from college.

I do wish that the Bolt charged faster. My 200 miles (charging up to 80% of the battery capacity) of range in warmer months is now 150 miles but this has been an issue (meaning I had to fast charge to get home) only once so far this winter.

I miss the smoother ride (the van had a much longer wheelbase) of the van over speed bumps, even at slow speeds. But my only interest in a bigger car would be to protect myself in the case of a collision with a Ford Lightning or similarly-sized vehicle.
This guy got me through my engineering degree
I don't go on Twitter often, but it seems fine? I quite like community notes.
The Fediverse is a breath of fresh air because it's not crawling with ads and low quality writing. Flipboard is basically announcing that they're going to put an end to that. Their list of partner publications is like a who's who of blogspam.
The problem you're describing exists in your own expectations.
Somewhat related playing in the space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U3lV5VPmOU
Demand is there, it's just demand from poor people.
Am I trippin or is htmx not a JS library?
Did anybody else's eyes get freaked out by the blog?
Maybe you could purchase them with the DRM, and then download a non-DRM version from a shadow library?
Seriously, his explanations on topics go well beyond the lectures some of my professors provide and could probably benefit a lot of students if given as a resource... If only academia wasn't so distrustful of those outside their circles...
Do you have a reason to expect significant levels of microplastics and PFAS to be introduced due to pasteurization in the container?

For what it's worth, the tofu packaging I have in front of me, which looks like all of the other tofu packaging I've seen, is made of polypropylene (not sure about the film covering), which is made of carbon and hydrogen, so I'm not sure where the PFAS would come from.

Another thing to consider is whether the customers like eating (some potentially negligible amount of) microlplastics and (probably ~ zero) PFAS more than they like eating unpasteurized tofu since that seems likely to be the only economical alternative.
There is no capacity limit.

Thought experiment. let's say you need 1 WikiToken to read a Wikipedia article. How much tokens can WikiMedia print and give it away for free?. The answer is nearly infinite, because even if WikiMedia gives away 1 Million WikiTokens to everyone in the planet, they can still serve all the Wikipedia articles without 'inflation'. They can also print a Billion or a Trillion Token with no effect on the price of reading a Wiki Article which is still 1 Token

Same Deal. If AI/Robots can turn the world into a near infinite capacity because cost of everything boils down to labor except physical space that you occupy (and everyone can only occupy so much space at a given time)
A simple software update can easily turn it off, hopefully they won’t though.
I see so you'd prefer the flow to be enter your ARR -> log in to confirm as opposed to the other way around? I'm guessing to reduce friction?
Hmph, I was more under the assumption that this was more of a "We're going to get into Adobe's space" and become a competitor to drive up our valuation.

[Pure speculation]
Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years in prison in EV truck fraud
> Interesting dynamic is that Mastodon's community is such a sour bunch that likely most instance owners will block federation with Threads at the domain level. Because "Meta evil".

Isn't this what Gmail and Microsoft do with their approach to spam blocking?

If I want to see "what's trending now" on Threads, I'll call them, they don't have to call me.
That’s what lines of credit are for if needed. A company of Adobe’s size should be able to obtain that easily (maybe even on a handshake).

Their latest report with the SEC would indicate how much “cash” they regularly have on hand.
My son is doing A-level maths and has found these videos helpful for getting a different perspective and a deeper understanding.
> Flat design can deliver on both and at a lower cost

I suppose it technically can, but this assertion makes me ask: why haven't we seen this actually happen? I mean yes, we got consistency -- but at a pretty serious cost in terms of usability.
> It's a fact developers love building things so much and not wasting their time with useless meetings!

Correct. Most engineers dislike meetings, so much that they complain that they don't get enough focus time in the day and are constantly interrupted.

> like autistic children that would flip out as soon as somebody touches their crayons

No one said this, you're arguing against a strawman. But even still, how many devs do you know that willingly want to talk to customers?
> Then we should start planning now by stopping the notion that being a good, moral person includes earning a wage.

> There are big political issues with achieving UBI. One of them is reversing that notion.

So, in other words, we're fucked. I don't think an economy where the majority people are economically unproductive and lack an ownership claim will be survivable for those people, and that seems like what UBI would be.

I think the trajectory will be something like one of these:

1. We keep our current economic system and ideology, maybe tack on UBI, and the unemployed are eventually slowly (or quickly) escorted out of existence. At some point the people who still contribute to the economy will get tired of paying so much to support the unemployed, and will use their de-facto monopoly on economic power to stop. The method most compatible with our prevalent moral frameworks is suppressing reproduction of people supported by UBI.

2. Some kind of outright socialism/communism. The idea of individual ownership is abolished or severely curtailed, and all capital is managed by some centrally-planned authority a-la the Soviet Union. Basically, you have no option except live on UBI. There's still some chance of the unemployed being escorted out of existence, if the political authority can be hijacked by an authoritarian who wants to get rid of them.

3. There's some kind of luddite ban on "too much" automation, or an Amish-like control and suppression of technology based on its adverse cultural impacts.
PostgREST is one of my favorite opensource projects. Supabase's success as a billion(?) dollar company is a direct result the great designs of PostgREST and of course Postgres. I don't know the details of the Supabase sponsorship of this project, but I hope its VERY significant. Seeing this project have only 12 paying supporters [1] even though its certainly a core dependency used by at least hundreds of revenue producing companies, makes me very sad at the state of open source financial support.

1. https://www.patreon.com/postgrest/about
I was curious about Apple appealing to the Biden administration to veto the ruling because it sounded quite arbitrary from the last paragraph "Apple has had success persuading presidents in the past to veto I.T.C. rulings. In 2013, the Obama administration overturned a ban on the sale of some iPhones and iPads, after the court determined that Apple had violated a patent that Samsung owned." However, turns out the veto was just on blocking the sales rather than stopping the patent litigation, so even if Apple do get the Biden administration to veto the block and they can start selling phones again, that doesn't solve the dispute. As far as I understand it, this is the judge getting fed up with one or both of Apple and Masimo (presumably Apple given that they're the one being told to stop selling products) dicking about rather than coming to a settlement.
How to Pick Your Life Partner – Tim Urban
Always loved Forth in a platonic kind of way

I love this turn of phrase and will definitely steal it. In my hobby electronics stuff (esp mc68k) I always think 'I need some software and this is exactly the kind of thing Forth should be good for', and while I have managed to write a Forth once or twice, I always noped right out of making it a place I'd want to spend all my (computing) time.
stack shuffling is a code smell in Forth; cf https://blog.information-superhighway.net/forth-the-local-va...

(I believe Moore has a small, fixed-size stack on his chips; go too deep and you start reusing stack slots. Somewhere I've seen code that rolled over a fixed stack on purpose but I can no longer recall if it was in a ColorForth or in an x86 math coprocessor)
Similarly, https://thestorygraph.com/ has recommended several good books to me.
Believe me, you’re definitely not the only one. Every single person I know that drives a recent Audi or VW hates it — even I wrote it in a feedback form when I got my car from the factory in Wolfsburg; the employees just told me they know, they agree and it’ll probably change very soon. Hilariously they said “you know how the design people up there are, this year needs to be different from the other car makers, this and that, don’t worry, they’ll obviously go back”
The live video feed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIs83vmfZCk
Watching the eruption in real time is quite fascinating.
I think it's just a new generation relearning the same stuff, even if it's been rejected in past for good reasons.

I really liked the CouchDB web stuff around 13? years ago for personal projects, but it was really awkward for teams to deal with.
Hard copies have significant risks themselves - They're vulnerable to misfiling, to mishandling, and perhaps most importantly, destruction - By natural disaster or human hands.

A well organized archive can have much more redundancy, including georedundancy, for the same price. Further, it can have massively redundant metadata - Imagine if we had a reasonable checksum of every document in the archives of everyone who was interested - And then in the event the main archive was lost or offline, we could have a verified reconstruction from the archives of people who had copies of the metadata and partial copies of the data.

https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/fire-1973
Awesome was this class at UCSD in the cogsci department?
The Twitter Files was unmitigated garbage. It showed nothing.

It was obviously driven by a shared agenda (look at the whose who of reactionary folks involved) to try to create a perception, but for all the extensive archives of activity & moderation history & discussion that was there it had the hardest time hyping up the few tiny little morsels it could find.

Theres been such active work in the world to portray Twitter as some ridiculous ultra left-ist hotbed that went out of their way to steer the site, but that team has again shown vastly more tolerance and openness & willingness to stick up for users in the face of giant institutional/governmental forces than the modern thin skinned & government-complyimg reincarnation X. It's exhausting seeing the constant organizing protesting old Twitter as some horrible terrible place without incredibly strongly principles belief in free speech, and the Twitter Files were the tip of this lame spear struggling desperately to mislead people atop it's fake point.
You can’t just put paper in a shipping container and expect it to last longer than a few years.
Patents are universally stifling innovation in pretty much every area of tech. They need to die.

EDIT: And to be clear, this isn’t a case of just having to pay the people who developed the tech for a license. The patent trolls who hold the license aren’t willing to sell Apple a license, unless Apple switches to use their hardware or partner with them to work on Apple’s hardware. There is no excuse. Markets can’t work when governments grant arbitrary legal monopolies on ideas like this.
Gleam v0.33 Released
Mickey Shall Be Free
Care to explain how did you end up assuming I'm that ignorant? I simply admired where he lives.
I think I would challenge both of these points:

> First, they survive technological obsolescence. Consider how even reading a floppy disk is a huge pain in the ass for most people today.

Most paper hasn't survived technological obsolescence, because it hasn't survived at all. Nobody's keeping anything on floppies, everything's migrated as you say:

> but it has a migration cost, and perhaps some risk. It's not a freebie.

Nobody saying it's a freebie, but it's a heckuva lot cheaper than running massive physical warehouses and libraries and museums with security guards and fire suppression systems and everything. And no, there's virtually no risk when you're always keeping distributed backup copies. We use checksums and things to prevent data corruption.

> Second, they have historically been less ephemeral.

Again, no -- hard copies have historically been far more ephemeral. Remember what happened to the Library of Alexandria? Hard copies are susceptible to fire, war, economic disintegration, and so forth.

Digital copies can both have plenty of geographically distributed official backups made and maintained, and also be open to personal backups as well if desired.

Keeping hard copies around seems like far more expense for zero benefit -- at least for things that don't have sentimental/museum value.
If you don't know how to write exception-safe code -- for which RAII is the most common idiom -- then you have exception safety issues.

I don't see how that relates to the thread, other than to say exceptions in constructors are quite fundamental.
> or to hear not."

You forgot one line.
> Once upon a time you could follow someone's public Facebook posts from any RSS reader you liked, whether or not you had an account

...and then Facebook introduced the algorithmic timeline, then one of the most hated feature changes. They also killed off any third party apps that dared to give you the FB experience you were used to.

Embrace, extend extinguish.

Companies will give you everything when they don't care about making money.
4 over the speed limit is definitely the safe zone in California, although having an 11-99 license plate frame still gets you more leeway. I remember when the frames allowed you to get out of driving 90mph.... Good times.
Yeah; the language was almost fine, but every few seconds my brain went "uhhh... what?" I almost couldn't tell you what was wrong, but it was clearly wrong.
This is true of all "intellectual" "property"
It is a JavaScript library
Nobody would suggest this. But what about a metrics scraper for your db pod? That’s where sidecars come in.
PostREST is a hack, a bad one. Every time I'm seing that tech coming up, I'm like why would anyone use something like that, so much limitation and coupling.
UniFi, or the Story of Unnecessary Cloud Accounts
VISA moves .66 billion transactions a day. If each is only a bit over a dollar they move a similar volume.

Banks can handle this. But probably not for free.
I’m starting to feel like a lot of people in tech have an outsize love for more vintage stuff.