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Hasn't journalism always been that way? Was there ever truly a "golden age" of journalism? What I remember from history class is that William Randolph Hearst published lies to sell more newspapers which resulted in the Spanish American war. Early British and American newspapers were just partisan pamphlets meant to rile up support for a particular politician. Whenever we hear about good journalism in the past, I think it's usually the exception rather than the rule. Perhaps there was a period around the 1970s where journalists were willing to go to war zones and risk prosecution to report on the Viet Nam war or the Watergate scandal, but I'm not sure if that's indicative of the entire body of work of the era.
That’s exactly the point. git show HEAD shows the log and textual diff because that’s what matters most from the users perspective.

The internal representation doesn’t matter for most users and use cases.
> We also have Sublime Text 2 which was all the rage around 2013... Now, I hardly see anyone using it.

Maybe they upgraded to Sublime Text 4?
That's interesting. I wonder what the difference is, because the BLS shoes something very different.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
The grind of audit requirements tends to mean those managers are a lot more willing to do the right thing now – it’s less risk than putting your name in writing on the thing which the auditors / insurance company will be using to fail you.
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It feels like civil international airports is the best place where dedicated embedded systems could be required for authorizing if not guiding airplanes to driveways.
YES— THIS is so important! Cudos to article author Dan Goodin!
Alpine + htmx + tailwind is pretty much what I use for every quick little front-end thing now. I do still use Django but plan to transition to Rust as a way to get more comfortable with Rust.
He does have a new article today about this scandal in Prospect magazine.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/64464/post-offi...
No, what I’m saying is that if they claim water damage based on those indicators alone, and they do it as a policy, then the ACCC will likely consider it a policy to avoid warranty claims.

If there is genuine water damage, of course that’s not warranty. It’s how they assess it that could be problematic.
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Gambling ads have become ruthlessly widespread, and I expect as much. They're way more common than alcohol or other advertisements that thrive on triggering addicts.

I really wish that federally the US came down harder on online advertising for addictive substances/abuse, it should be trivial to disable such ads. I believe that federally is the only real way to tackle online gambling because if NJ didn't allow these shady businesses, some other state would have and NJ's citizens would have still suffered, so might as well take the tax money you can get. (you can replace NJ with any other state that has now allowed online gambling businesses in the last decade).
A key thought as well, in my experience:

- never assume that just because it’s obvious to you (and your coworkers and boss) that it would be really stupid to lay you off or fire you, that they wouldn’t do it anyway.

A lot of what is going on IMO is burnout and disconnection from the on the ground reality at the executive layer.

That means short sighted, stupid, long term self harming decisions.

But just because what someone is doing is clearly stupid, doesn’t mean they won’t do it. A hard lesson to learn sometimes.
oh it very much is a priviledged take -- but the solution isn't to replace something when it's broken but fix the existing thing and the thing here would be governments and their policies towards their money and central banks if they have them.

the fiat system of currencies has worked and could work but wholehearted replacement of them is akin to just throwing up one's hands and not vying to fix the underlying problem. doing so would do far more good than just making it easier to pay someone but would mean an overall more stable government for the people long term.
I've been around cryptocurrency since around 2014, and I don't think the problem is hubris and preoccupation. People genuinely don't want cryptocurrency in their internet. The opportunity to spend more money online is not attractive to anyone. Conceptually Bitcoin and a lot of other networks can be nerd porn, but socially they are an unmitigated disaster. Self-custody wallets are like banks where individuals control their own money; a great idea until the scammers come by. By using managed-custody, you're not even owning P2P currency anymore and still exposing yourself to risk from a centralized institution. The broken "ownership" model caused thousands of people to lose their NFTs and tokens when exchanges went under or social engineers found their phone number.

Additionally, there are a lot of companies on HN that will try to sell you a terminal in an Electron webview for $9.99/month. Users on HN have to be diligent, so a lot of people will lash out against benign technology. Some of them probably also correctly identified scams and ran their owner out of town on a rail. That might be hubris, but I more think that both the investors and the inventors on HN are tired of reading "Yet Another Money Solution" after 10+ years of watching the old one collapse.
Fighting the media negativity bias, the local Russian newspaper City Reporter decided in 2014 to report only positive news for a day and lost two-thirds of its readers.

It's hard to blame a business for failing to commit financial suicide on principle. You can, but that's like blaming water for falling from the sky.
I know, but the safety guarantees of Wasm are established by validating the code first. The sidetable that Wizard's interpreter used is small enough (about 1/3 the side of the original code) it could fit in a hardware cache along-side the original code, kind of like a u-op cache. Wizard computes this sidetable during code validation, so there is no separate step.

This is the paper I wrote about it: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563311

I think the technique could be adapted to make a Wasm CPU, but the issues mentioned (e.g. variable-length instructions) would complicate the CPU frontend. I think it being stack-based isn't as much of an issue, as register-renaming will virtualize the Wasm operand stack. But given how complex modern CPUs are, it'd be hard to build a competitive super-scalar chip (really for any ISA) without some verious serious investment.
If you are going to sit in court and say the system is flawless and could not possibly make a mistake, despite your extra unit tests and documentation of the shortcomings then you might as well just go home early and skip the extra work.

Honesty comes before all else.
I think a lot of people would argue that Emacs is also slow and bloated, but makes you, the user, program most of the functionality you get from VSCode or JB out of the box. Want fuzzing finding? That's a package. Want git integration? That's a package. Want LSP? Also a package. Want to have sane defaults? Go look at 20 different init.els online and cargo cult a bunch of elisp. And after you've made your own Emacs stew spend, the next 14 years stomping out bugs and ignoring the things it still can't do, like run a multi-threaded tramp so a bad connection doesn't freeze your entire editor.

I think the people who switch from editor to editor that requires 0 config actually saved time and money by just doing their job rather than configuring their editor, and this is coming from a Vim user. Emacs is a black whole where "free" time gets sucked in never to be seen again. The big difference is as a Vim user I only had to configure my editor, you had to configure your entire operating system including Org mode.

I also am not sure about the whole Vim thing. On reddit, Vim has 3x the number of community users as Emacs and Neovim. I think Vim is still by far the most popular text based editor, but nowadays I think VSCode is unfortunately here to stay because Microsoft knows the value of having a captive developer audience.
Exactly. People hate on Electron because they have bad experiences with many Electron apps, but that's not because Electron is inherently terrible, it's because most developers choose Electron because it requires the lowest amount of effort. When you start with that as your single reason for choosing a tech stack, it's unsurprising that optimizing performance never happens.

VSCode works because they chose Electron for the advantages that web tech has when it comes to building a plugin ecosystem. They were then willing to put in the effort to make performance decent.
> Good "money" requires a tiny bit of inflation, otherwise there's no incentive into spending, but hoarding.

The only incentive to spending should be your own needs in relation to opportunity costs, not government's mood.

But if you want to give your government that prerogative over your life, feel free to keep using fiat money.
This example uses microbatching for the processing, so the latency will be ~200 millis. You don't need to poll and could set this up with a reactive PState query to know when the transaction is done. 200 millis is an acceptable latency for a task that needs to have strong cross-partition atomicity.

Note that depot appends can be done with "acking" so as not to return success until all colocated stream ETLs have finished processing the record. Stream ETLs also take only a handful of millis to complete. This is how you would coordinate a front-end with many tasks like you typically do with databases today (e.g. registering an account, updating a profile, adding something to a shopping cart, making a friend request, etc.).

This example uses microbatching because getting cross-partition transactionality with streaming is quite a bit harder, as streaming has either at-least once or at-most once semantics depending on how you configure it. Microbatching is always exactly-once semantics regardless of any failures that happen during processing.
I don't think I've ever seen an actual DSA key in use in SSH, and I was using it before there was an RFC. Even the oldest actual deployments tended to ignore the patent and use RSA.

> systems cannot be fixed (old network hardware, doing V2V conversions from old RHEL, etc)

If you can't update a system, you have no business exposing it to a network. Full stop.
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> In terms of economics specifically, in what way have things "gotten better"?

50 years ago was 1974. Wasn’t USA just coming out of the Vietnam fiasco at the time? Were economic things really that good? I think there was an oil crisis and people at least in Yugoslavia (where my parents were kids at the time) could only fuel up at gas stations on alternative days based on license plate.

Oh and if I’m not mistaken that was when Japanese cars started flooding the US market and US car manufacturing began its downward spiral into oblivion. The beginning of the end for places like Detroit.
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Completely agreed! I've been meaning to write a blog post on using Godot to professionally create cross-platform applications (and probably will soon). The short of it is that Godot is fantastic as a UI builder, and I think a lot of people are slowly realizing it. Many professional applications have been built with Godot[0] , and I also want to give a shoutout to Lorien[1] which is my favorite whiteboard application also made in Godot, and what partially inspired this whole project.

Godot isn't perfect of course, and there are some things that many other UI creating tools do better, but I think there's a lot of untapped potential here.

[0]: https://alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standal...

[1]: https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien
My problem is I have a few years of experience, but was in academia for a while, so I think it’s hard for them to evaluate me.
> Isn’t over-hiring a form of management incompetence?

I agree, but that's basically exactly what I said. Haha. Perhaps you meant to reply to another comment?
it sure does. wanna launder money? sell your art -- sounds like it's a currency to me ;-)
This is an old problem that LLM-generated content only accelerated. LMGTFY died when Google tripled down on growing their ad revenue and adtech dominance and SEO ran rampant throughout search results. It is fairly difficult to get non-biased factual information from a naked query these days, which is why I try to search for info on Reddit first.

This isn't a panacea either given that it's been chock-ful of astroturfed content for the last few years, but older threads from when Reddit was less popular and manipulatable or threads from small communities are usually good bets.
We should start donating more heavily to archive.org - the way back machine may soon be the only way to find useful data on the internet, by cutting out anything published after ~2020 or so.
One man's ugly is another man's beautiful. I thought it looks fantastic.
Wondering whether 10-12 years from now the internet becomes a hostile, corpo-inhibited medium, while the personal LLMs are what we take knowledge from. In reality some (of us) already do so, the only thing is that we don't really know what the LLMs were fed to begin with, but is assumed to be a reality-based information.

Your personal Search Engine is your personal model which you evolve to your needs. Safely including with your history, your chats, your family's memory. Internet then exists only as technical means to reach big corpo nets (heavily guarded against anyone extracting info from them) and as a ring of guerilla websites or fediverses, which are open by nature and resemble the old internet.

It is really to my opinion that this happens earlier than 2036.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940919
In Franconia, we use "zwo", "zwä" and "zwei", but it might just be very local to the small towns in my area.
Reality hasn't been good to Meetup. At this point, it's just a matter of squeezing the juice out of a dying tree.
Forgive my ignorance, I'm not super deep into the Java ecosystem, but is Spring Boot the same as just "Spring"? Or what is the difference precisely?
Most of the basic attacks against GPS also worked against TRANSIT, LORAN, OMEGA, and others, which were clearly used for military navigation. I'm not seeing the design differentiation with the systems that were guiding ships and missiles.
The second biggest USP of React was that it's a library and not a framework.
Without a "large recipe model" to be able to vet these recipes that it's likely generating, I'd be worried about the accuracy and palatability of generated recipes.

There are websites that have databases of recipes you can sort by ingredient, which is a much better approach to this problem.
Good to learn about island tops.

I'm not an expert trader, but I don't see island tops in any time frame for BTC in my charts. Perhaps I don't know how to set it up correctly.

As for RSI, on the daily, in the last two overbought conditions it just kept going up. And on the weekly, last overbought condition was just the beginning of the crazy bull run in Oct 2020.
And/or human-curated web directories.
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Yeah I used to be a huge facebook addict when it was just me and my friends in high school (and before there were any other social media platforms). I posted comments, pictures, quotes that 14 year old me thought were deep and edgy. When it became a media or news aggregator, I lost all interest in it.

Today I just use it for FB messenger to keep in contact with my parents. They use the social features and the news media parts as well. Some of my friends from high school post pictures now that they're having kids. I noticed that, in our early 20s, people moved from Facebook to Instagram, but now in our late 20s and early 30s, people post more family oriented content on facebook
Worse that old network gear is technically incompetent business partners.

Speaking in very general terms, let's just say that we've had to maintain an extremely locked down machine running a version of sshd from about a decade ago hosted in its own DMZ, all for one particular partner. It is monitored for everything we can think of, and I still find myself stressing about possible ways someone could escape from that machine - I'm mostly surprised we haven't been attacked through them yet.

Their problem is they bought proprietary software that's no longer supported, and look at it as a one-time purchase rather than a forward commitment. Our problem is the nontechnical relationship is important and we can't cut them off.
where's the stat about btc being used to buy things from?
I'm just learning JS and P5.play - possibly a daft question why is using SVG useful over say just an emoji/text?
Barely.

In real terms US bills have returned 0.4%/yr over the last 120+ years
> Hiring at scale with some bar of quality needs industrial processes.

Sounds kinda logical, but is it really?

It's not like BigCorp only has one guy doing the interviewing for 100's of positions. You're interviewing for a job on a team regardless of company size, and presumably what matters to them is whether you are a good fit for the need they have on their team, not whether you pass some industrial scale screening test.
Show HN: Browser-side encrypted file uploads
After developing a client-side encryption plugin for the Uppy uploader (https://github.com/0sumcode/uppy-encrypt), I created a proof of concept web app that encrypts files before upload (and decrypts them after download). There are other solutions like this, but I wanted one that was simple, fast, and open-source (https://github.com/0sumcode/0up) so others can adapt it for any projects that could benefit from it. I hope some folks find the service and/or code helpful!
It's not for sure, but there seems to be significant evidence that partisan bias is affecting economic sentiment more than the reality of jobs/prices/etc.

> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/economy-survey-re...
Having worked there I agree on some points. I thought the interview process was bullshit.

But, people generally work there for two reasons:

Pay and benefits top-knotch. I made two times there what I'm making now, post-Google, and I'm still making more 30% than my peers who work in-office for local companies do. (I work remote). Free food and other perks were also amazing.

Exposure to really large systems and scale. A lot of people really get off on building systems that scale as big as some of the Google stuff.

And honestly the internal engineering quality at Google is excellent. But conservative, and bespoke. They build their own everything, which they can do because they have buckets of cash. And what they build is mostly superior, and more consistently engineered. The internal code quality is generally meticulous.
Not really what I meant, that still has a search-engine results page vibe. I meant when you search you get a singular, readable page back about whatever topic. It basically hides and filters the backing content, expect for maybe reference links at bottom.
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The labour share of GDP has held more or less constant over the last 70 years. It bounced between 60 - 65%. See eg https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG

If you want to argue that real wages have stagnated, you need to argue that real GDP has stagnated.

> Yes, we have more education, but the quality has gone down and is really only a response to the barriers to entry that have increased for most professions.

Yes, that is a problem. See 'The Case against Education' by Bryan Caplan.

> I doubt the middle class is doing much of that.

What's your definition of the middle class in this context? Have you checked any statistics?

> Perhaps the increase in income in equality is reflected by a larger upper class skewing those metrics.

The first few decades after the second world war were really rough. But fortunately, global equality has massively improved in the last few decades.

Numerically, that's mostly due to China (but also India and recently Africa) first falling behind and then starting to catch up.

There was probably never a time since at least the Industrial Revolution when global consumption was as equal as today, and the situation is set to keep improving.
Inflation ticked up to 3.4%, it's not through the roof. Real wages are up. The economy is absolutely doing very well for some people.
Implementing a feature is only a small part of the story. It doesn't scale that way. The more features and users you got, the more people you need to maintain it. 13 won't do the trick on insta scale.
It was reported quite a few times in the BBC, HN, and probably others, in the past couple of years. I think it had plenty of coverage but nobody really cared - it really affected business owners.

The software is dogshit as well as the company, their investigators and Post Office. But I think a lot of people were pressured into plea deal's or something, pressured/forced into repaying money they never stole, which complicated things quite heavily from a top-down analysis of these prosecutions. But the idea some random postmasters would collude in this all over the country is kind of crazy and I'm not sure how post offices are that profitable to begin with for each branch to have £40,000 stolen or whatnot..
Diligent though, perhaps.
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> On top of that I was visiting and parking at my parents house, and they don’t have a charger installed.

Yeah, and hertz doesn't tend to give you a mobile charger. I can't blame them, they are a separate cost and they tend to "get lost" with rentals, but it makes the EV option a lot less practical.
It's surelly not "just another htmx framework" for at least one more reason - it has 100+ CEOs, way more than any other! Check them all out https://htmx.ceo .

I'm one of them. Really proud!