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I built and recently released a UI kit for Rails - https://zestui.com

Built with Phlex, styled with Tailwind with custom built Stimulus controllers.

It's got

- 25 themes

- Dark Mode

- Form Builder

- Icons

- Built in Flash Toast

- The components are responsive or have specific mobile views

- All the JS needed (Stimulus controllers) is wired up automatically

Phlex is a game changer. It is simple, powerful, intuitive and performant. I will never ever write a component as a partial/ViewComponent again.

A short video (50 seconds) showing it off: https://youtu.be/OQmDZddLtR8

It has crossed $500/month but since it's a one time purchase it is too early to tell whether it will sustain since I launched it only in December 2023.
Menopausa - A programming language for middle age
Usenet is the original social network and still the home of free speech online.

Several more BIG8 hosts are added to the list.
I have doubts about the idea "spend what you have". It is framing wrongly the problem. Money are not something "you have". Money are "a promise" to get something "in the future". Evaluating how much that promise "will be worth it" is complex.

To give an example "at the limit" - sometimes easier to see the issues. Assume all people in the world die except 2 people, if they inherit all the wealth, each will be multi-billionaires (or something - no clue how much money is in the whole world). That would not mean they could do a lot with that "money".

Back to austerity. I agree with you that the key is "spending in reasonable ways". But to understand what is reasonable you must make a projection. And that is the hard part. A projection will probably affect the result. Of course you are correct you can't just say we will spend 10x more because we will have 10x more, so there are limits...
This thing has layers.

It's scandalous that a £billion computer system had basic accounting errors.

It's scandalous that Fujitsu pressured the government to accept the system, and scandalous that the government gave in to this pressure.

It's scandalous how the private prosecution hid evidence.

It's scandalous how long it takes the courts to rectify miscarriages of justice.

It's scandalous that it took a popular TV show to get the government's attention.
The desktop app is also buggy and slow, while the iOS version runs perfectly on Mac.
Are vendor-specific compilers generally clang-based? Emcc (emscripten), aocc (AMD), now vcc (Vulkan). I'm not sure about nvcc (NVIDIA) or icc (Intel)
Cant upvote your comment as much as I'd like.
Houses in England are generally made from clay bricks, not wood
SentinelOne acquires Peak XV-backed PingSafe for over $100M
SentinelOne’s deal to acquire PingSafe values the Peak XV-backed young startup at over $100 million, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in one of the strongest and fastest exits emerging from India.
Basically every official function in the EU is either directly voted for (not the EUs fault if people don't vote) or nominated by someone democratically elected.

If you don't see the difference between a truely authoritarian regime and the EU, you never paid attention in history class or current world events.
Yes, there is the technical appendix to the 2019 judgement.

https://www.jfsa.org.uk/uploads/5/4/3/1/54312921/technical_a...
I would not overstate their complexity. State economy is different from your household budget but its understanding is well within the abilities of an average college graduate. The problem is that most of economy experts are in fact snake oil salesmen so they work hard to undermine that understanding while pushing their own agenda.

The fact that there are still schools of though that call for abolition of all tariffs and subsidies as inherently bad for economy is telling. That's the economy variant of belief in perpetuum mobile.
I used OpenWRT on an actual Linksys WRT device back in the day. These days I use separate components for my home network: Huawei modem, pfSense router/firewall, Unifi wifi, unmanaged switches. This gives me more control (and more learning opportunity) but obviously I see the benefit of the "all in one" type devices OpenWRT supports in many applications.

Back then I didn't really understand routing etc. and just used OpenWRT as plug and play. But is it actually a good alternative to the above component-based setup when just a single device is desired?
Piketty's historic data is falsified though, this has been reported to death.
> As for austerity: reasonable people do not spend beyond what they have and if they do they do it in reasonable ways: things with an expected return on investment and with limited, calculated risk.

It seems to me that this is becoming harder and harder, and consumer debt is pushed harder and harder, people are forced to take on more debt as costs of living increase. No matter how reasonable you are, you need a place to live and food to eat.
The article has a pretty good example of what happens if you let a bunch of people seize the power to do that.

Representative democracy is a powerful check against a lot of bad things.

I don't care if you feel you aren't being paid for your data if it means I'm allowed to vote on whether I'm allowed to start a business or not.
The cover-up is at least as dangerous as the original incompetence. It was a heavy-handed, conscious, legally aggressive cover-up. The people responsible knew exactly what was happening, and they were more than happy for the blame to fall on innocent sub-postmasters.

Horizon cost £2.4bn and was apparently developed by a team of eight, three of whom were described by the team lead as "incompetent."

Fujitsu also screwed up an IT system for the NHS. £10bn was wasted on "the biggest IT failure ever seen."

But Fujitsu still keep getting government contracts.

Which is an even bigger scandal. There's a real stench of corruption around these deals, and of government procurement in general in the UK.

See also HS2, PPE procurement, Test and Trace, and others.
Further IT related miscarriages of justice are a likely consequence of the recent 'digital transformation' of the UK's courts service - see https://csan149.substack.com/p/justice-at-risk

The case management software now used within the justice system itself is deeply flawed and poses a risk to large numbers of cases including child protection, benefit appeals, divorce and probate.
I think this is a bit misleading. The EU is the way it is because of democratic decisions. The commission isn’t democratic because it’s a civil service. The Parliament is less powerful than you’d expect because it would challenge national governments. The true power of the EU is the Council of Ministers, which are the representatives of the national governments.

Most people looking for “more democracy” are actually advocating for a more politicised commission, which is a very bad idea.
>and even then there's no particular reason that a 13-year old girl would be so much more negatively impacted by changes that did occur than anyone else.

It would be a comparable reason (maybe even the exact same particular reason) to the reason that teen girls were uniquely impacted by earlier mass media to develop body image issues (and boy-band fandoms..). I think this is the (maybe implied) gender difference that a lot of people are seeing that you're missing.

Also, if the proposed explanation is exposure + susceptibility, with a gender difference in susceptibility, then your counterarguments that there's no gender difference in exposure doesn't really work.
modern democracy is a sham anyway. lets examine a recent large crisis we had in Finland - the border crisis, in which Russia systematically weaponized migrant waves - where the democratically elected government was initially unable to act with any measures on, because it would've been in violation of a UN convention which was agreed on in the 60's.

This was one of the most prolific decisions to be done in the 2020's and yet we could just barely enforce the will of the people over the interests of extragovernmental groups. Now imagine the thousands of small decisions being done which the average voter has no transparency into.

A good start to real democracy would be completely outlawing lobbying, NGO's, think tanks and other garbage organizations who's only raison d'etre is subverting the peoples right to their own governance.
There's one thing I at least haven't had any problems with. I have a middle name. I never use it. I always order my flight tickets without the middle name. However, my passport includes the middle name. I've never had a problem with that, in Japanese airports (or elsewhere, for that matter).
As did capitalist strike breakers.
AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero
I have seen Outlook and other systems click on every link in our mailings. Using a sandboxed browser.

How can one click unsubscribe work here? Mail scanners, virus scanners and even Microsoft's own spam filters would probably click these links!
I don't think that poses the same problems for judicial independence because the courts were correctly applying the law at the time - it's just that we've now decided that law was morally wrong - and of course it's always been Parliament's job to set the laws. However, in this case there's no dispute that defraudingg the Post Office out of large sums of money should be a crime, the problem is the courts' factual findings that lead them to rule that specific people had done so.
Yeah. I'm in that boat too. I receive it here in Portugal.
That's interesting. I think it's usually pretty siloed so that people in sports, music or academia/tech are so focused mastering their own field and hang out with likeminded people. Maybe you get combination of two, but three sounds pretty uncommon.
This feels a bit like those KJV Christians; only one highly-specific variant of the thing is the One True Thing, while all of the nearly identical things are HERESY.

Bitcoin's essentially a self-organising scam, just like the rest of them.
I think it's rather crude and inefficient to generate several translations with a prompt.

Can't we just sample different "branches" of successive tokens with some mechanism for ensuring diversity like [1] did? This would allow the user to edit a handful of words/phrases/sentences and guide the LLM towards a more idiomatic translation.

This may even give smaller local models a chance.

[1] https://suricrasia.online/blog/making-amulets-with-llama/
This is the ONS graph of debt to GDP (which is not absolute debt level, but it's the measure that usually matters for markets):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/chartimage?uri=/economy/governmentpub... (source: Figure 1 here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...)

You can see that it was indeed increasing through 2008/2009, although that was largely a one-off thing because of the financial crisis.

The problem is austerity didn't work, and the reason is that it also reduces economic growth (slowing growth of the demoninator - GDP). Without austerity, if we'd spent money on infrastructure, we'd likely have had higher growth, reducing debt to GDP that way.

Plus the fact is the markets were lending the UK money at 1% for very long terms all through the 2010s, so funding a large debt to spend on infrastructure would not have been difficult.
Our society is teaching us to seek money, power, intelligence, beauty, bodily satisfaction, all of which will never satisfy us.

“If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.”
― David Foster Wallace,
All of these are jit by the driver in the end though?
Tinygrad 0.8.0 Release
> What you never hear from them is alternative policies

You’re not familiar with Keynes I guess. There are many many well thought out alternatives to austerity that have been shown to work. The problem with them is it’s harder to cushion particular classes from having to bear some of the cost.
The difference is that OpenWrt has the entire source code available, and unlike those franken-distros, it is built as vanilla linux + a set of patches. As long as there is enough interest, anyone can rebase these patches on top of a newer mailine kernel. For example some Ubnt XW boards recently got an update to 23.05 after being stuck on 19.07.
Related: Apple limits AirDrop 'Everyone' option to 10 minutes in China (https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/09/apple-limits-airdrop-every...)
> you don't think engineers who build web crawlers cannot build email classifiers?

Don’t put Google on a pedestal. I’ve seen Google Workspace classify an individual email sent from one colleague to another as spam. Both perfectly legitimate users in the same account / domain. No weird trigger words like Viagra. Just a run-of-the-mill email about work, between two colleagues who had been emailing each other for months. If emails like that aren’t safe from Google’s spam filter, then no emails are safe from Google’s spam filter.
Apparently this all changed because of a docudrama. By some mysterious media magic this made it a real issue in a way that plain old journalism hadn't.

There is talk of legislation to quash all of the convictions, which is nice, but it's unlikely most sub-postmasters will see any real compensation.

And the people who made a fortune off this will almost certainly keep it.
> The end of one gene is the same as the start of another

Kind of like "de Bruijn sequences" which can be used to reduce the total length of brute force attacks on pins.
So, you basically want an authoritarian government that does something against immigrants? And somehow, you think that would be democratic?
> different than anything that's existed before

not quite, through more like anything which is widely known

I have worked (a small bit) on very similar (proprietary non public internal) systems before ~5 years ago and when doing so have read block-posts about the experience some people had with similar (also proprietary internal) systems which at that point where multiple years old ...

I guess what is new is that it's something you can "just use" ;=)
on macos I just add `; say done` to my command. If I didn't think of doing it before starting the command (which is most of the time), I just type it and press enter while the command is runnign, it gets buffered and executed right after the command finishes (be careful that it's not an interactive program that you're executing though, or it might take your "say done" as an interactive entry)
That's not true. They were handled by normal courts and of course there are records. The post office merely prosecuted the cases.
the boardgame is great but I'm not sure to see how it's related to debugging.
The markets were lending money at that rate because of austerity.

Austerity isnt about reducing debt, it's about reducing borrowing costs.

UK debt went from 50% GDP to 75% in two years by your own graph -- you'll notice that rate basically flatlined when austerity was introduced.

Increasing your debt load by 12.5% *GDP* YoY is an insane situation to be in; austerity was part of the policy response which enabled the UK to continue to borrow.

Ideologues on the left havent address this, as far as i'm aware. Preferring to blame austerity for one of the worst economic crises in modern history.
With all the temporary embarrassed and actual millionaires here on HN I'm not so sure that this article will go over well.

Most people who are into this space are doing relatively well, but then remember that more than 60% of Americans can't spare 400 dollars for an emergency and this simple fact shows how absolutely bonkers the whole system is.

You may be free to say hateful things if that's your definition of freedom, if we define freedom as having the means to develop your true potential or just do things you like sometimes without a constant feel of existential threath, that's what I call freedom.
Tangential, does anyone have recommendations for understanding OSI Layer 1 and network cards?
The cynic in me says that the Government only took notice to shift the narrative from the fact that they've pushed the election until later in the year, when everyone expected it to be in May (where it was predicted that they would meet a resounding defeated.)

I'm glad the victims are getting justice, but I hate that it might only have gotten this level of scrutiny because it's a fight that makes the Government look responsible...
Being "transparent about their policies" doesn't mean that the voter understands them or their consequences.

This is just a fig leaf.
Is that specific to mtDNA? From what I remember it isn't that uncommon. There are a lot of bits of DNA that work in both directions for different genes.Been a a couple of decades since I studied that though.
I always used to wonder why the folks at the cash register always make it a point to print the transaction slip in the pos machine and securing the paper in their drawers, when everything's recorded electronically already.

Not any more.
And this civil service have a ton of power to bring forward policies. Which is undemocratic.

IMO more politics at EU level overall is a bad idea. The strength of europe is diversity and competition within the region. Not a bureaucracy superstate on shaky legs with a rather long runway to die.
I suspect that in the developed world age is a better predictor than financial means of whether someone has an internet-connected smartphone, given how cheap smartphones can be these days.

That said, I still think that "freedom from tech" is an important social issue, regardless of how society tends to be divided on it.
Somehow we went from "the state should be financed from taxes" to "in hard times the state should spend more than it has to quickly get back to the good times where it can pay back its debts" to "the state should spend to stimulate the economy in both good times and bad times, and as long as the economy grows fast enough it doesn't matter that this spending isn't covered by taxes".

This is in effect an infinite-money glitch, until you overplay your hand and a market upset bankrupts the state (or the state triggers hyper-inflation in an attempt to prevent bankruptcy). Austerity is just a roundabout way of saying "let's get more breathing room by abusing this infinite-money glitch less".

In an ideal world any country would go through periods of austerity to get rid of wasteful spending, before increasing spending again. But of course this is not how politics works: it's hard to sell to voters, and the things that get cut in "austerity" are often not the most wasteful things.
I'd say, the smaller the country is, the more it does work like you househould budgets. Very small countries using somebody else's currency, works very much so.

Whatever you do, it won't affect the world very much.

For behemoths, very much not like a househould budget, because whatever you do influences the world a lot.
It's still an interesting fact that evolution seems to have figured out that neural networks are good at approximating arbitrary continuous functions. We could ask whether intelligent alien species are likely to use neural nets. In other words, are neural nets universal in some sense, or are they contingent to how life evolved on Earth?
No, block at firewall-level. I never implied you should have to "study", "scan" the attacker's request: drop it.

You don't owe net-neutrality to a botnet instance.

That's just for when you should need to be clever, as in when you are tasked to be a sysadmin for, like, an hosting service or a corporate network, so you're not really aware of everything coming and going through.

If you're just a self-hoster you should not be clever, neither at ingress nor at egress: you "just" have to minimize attack surface because you probably know what you want to offer, e.g. for a blog you can publish with a SSG or serve HTML pages scraped from a dynamic CMS you'd like to use, like Wordpress, instead of serving the CMS' contents directly (and deal with comments using something else).
I was really hoping this was going to be actually about lemons. But no, just a gigantic waste of petrol.
Introducing: Upgraded Tesla Model 3 [video]
Really cool project! It might be interesting to note that the mentioned time travel paradoxes can be solved by using probablistic states (as multi-valued interpretations of quantum mechanics would imply would be the case in any real system with time travel). And that this results in a computational system that can solve 'uncomputable' problems like the halting problem. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05507. Time travel is really fun to think about in a computational setting!
> There have been several airline explosive decompressions in the past 50 years. The fatal ones have each had one fatality, even with crazy damage to the plane (look up Aloha 243)

Uhhm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611

> Fatalities: 225
It is only a "one off thing" in hindsight. I recall well the UK deficit was 14% of GDP each year. That is not sustainable. The point you are missing is that if the government had said "YOLO, lets just increase the deficit to 20% and invest in infrastructure!" then the markets would certainly not have continued to lend money at 1%. That's the path towards an Argentina style situation.
I remember seeing a video by Steve Mould about exactly this (playing tic tac toe against DNA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPdRKqcRTE
There are many companies offering such small prefab houses. This one [1] offers a system of container-sized blocks that are assembled in the factory, carried by truck and joined together on site. (Initially the blocks were container-size, and carried whole. Current designs are > 3m wide.)

The biggest problem with container-based buildings is that the standard road size of 2600 mm is very narrow. Subtract 150 cm on each side for insulation and walls material, and you're left with 2300 (ISO container is 2350 mm wide inside.) (Standard bed is ~2100 mm long, so you can't put it laterally -- I tried, and discovered you can't walk normally in 20 cm isle.)

[1] https://dubldom.com/
And, further, the US ETFs, should they be authorised, almost certainly won't be available to EU retail traders, as the companies involved are highly unlikely to makes them UCITS compliant (for the likes of Blackrock and Vanguard, the general approach is to make separate non-UCITS and UCITS funds for the US and EU respectively).
> After months of slow back-and-forth over email trying to find a compromise, including offering to exclude LGPL code from the assets, Unity basically told us we were not welcome back to their Store, ever. Even if we were to remove all LGPL code from the Unity package.

I'd like to know more about this. If it's as egregious as it sounds then Unity should be pushed for comment. But - I'd definitely like to hear more background detail about how this came to pass.
Private prosecutions are also common in the railways in England

There are also some parallels with one of the Government's train companies, Northern, who use similar scare tactics as the Post Office with threats of court action and some rail enthusiasts/experts have called their tactics "extortion" [0]

(Northern is directly owned and operated by the Government. So they may flap and act indignant about the Post Office, but that makes them hypocrites.)

[0] A thread on railway private prosecutions in light of the Post Office Scandal: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/should-the-railways-pow...