skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison to knives, whose function and danger is completely obvious by inspection, is not really apt. Compare it to a home furnace or water boiler instead. These are regulated, both from the state and from independent testing labs. You can make and install your own if you know what you're doing, but no reputable installer or contractor will even consider installing some jury-rigged non-compliant contraption.

A checkbox that says "I understand the risks involved" is never going to cut it, because there is 1) no way that the overwhelming majority of users understand the risk, and 2) the existence of the option puts us in a world where completely naive users are told "to install the cat-picture-a-day app, first click the 'allow sideloading' button and ignore the warnings, and then go to cat-picture-a-day.ru and install!"

As the article notes, we saw this with malware and browser toolbars in the 90s, and we see it now with misbehaving sideloaded Android apps (and "repurposed" Android apps). I personally am happy to pay the premium to get a quality device that forces developers into a constrained environment for my benefit.
How do you propose that they generate enough income then?
I don't think there's a causal connection there. I didn't take the commenter to be suggesting one.
Oops! I double-checked that detail, made a mental note to say it was an office, and then typed apartment anyway.
"We're special and our customers should associate with the $CORP experience" if I had to guess
The article about UMR debugging seen on the tinygrad live stream:

https://themaister.net/blog/2023/08/20/hardcore-vulkan-debug...
I would not - it reeks of 1st Amendment violation.
Do you enjoy pre-installed aware, shareware, demoware etc. in general? or is this only because it is Apple products and his is about?

like having a demo version of Norton installed on your new PC.

or having Facebook OEM installed with no way to remove it?

you are the first one I have ever heard of, who actively encourages and enjoys that.

impressive.
> The Vision Pro is DOA.

That's a pretty bold claim.
https basically makes sendfile unusable for that use case.
Creativity is difficult to measure in the lab, but if taking LSD was a game changer, you'd see a majority of creative workers taking LSD the same way Adderall & co are massively used (there and elsewhere - anywhere where staying more time awake and alert allows you to pull ahead).

Yet I don't see it: most LSD usage works the same way as absinthe or opium used to be used: as a crutch for creatives suffering a dry spell, with the user feeling improvement - but the public, critics, "consumers" of the creative product not really seeing it.

(Usually the crutch becomes an addiction, or the toxicity/impurities in the product take their toll, and you end up with a coda like at the end of PK Dick's _A Scanner Darkly_)

What I find most specific to LSD though is that it seems to have produced a long list of LSD advocates, whose work consists only of waxing poetics about how "LSD gives you mental superpowers", and... Not much else. No actual "general" poetry, no Great Text, no theoretical breakthrough in philosophy nor science...)
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> The biggest issue with what you just said is "this quarter". The shortsightedness of "this quarter" is the downfall. It is possible that for the greatest good in "number go up" measurement, that this quarter "number not go up" is acceptable if it means "number go up" is possible for longer later.

Another problem is the shortsightedness of "this quarter" can actually work for a long time, until it doesn't. People who kick the can down the road don't always realize what they're doing, because they never stuck around to pay the piper for that decision they made. Then problems are easy to excuse as the incompetence of the last guy(s), and the can-kicker can imagine themselves as some great business leader.
memmove and memcpy don't use a syscall, that would be very inefficient. How would a kernel fix change the behavior?
ChatGPT linked to declining academic performance and memory loss in new study
CFEngine is great if you need to manage a large heterogenous fleet of different UNIX flavors like HP-UX,AIX,Solaris,Linux.

Have used it at AT&T and it's been great.
Opera had its own browser engine (Presto) and had a native UI (or if it wasn’t, it felt like it because it was really snappy).

I think for some period they used Qt on some platforms.

But early Opera was really a fast and innovative browser. Opera was one of the first (if not the first) browser with tabs and popup blocking. Opera Software even owned Fastmail for a few years (until an employee buyout).

It's sad that they have gone down the drain.
Uh, are they all brown?

EDIT: oops, my fault, dark reader was changing the colors.
The difference of latency between serving a file cached in user-space RAM (what nano-web is doing) and serving a file from the kernel buffer cache (also in RAM) using sendfile should be totally negligible compared to the latency of your network, even if that network is "low latency".

Latency Numbers Everyone Should Know: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st...

sendfile(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/sendfile.2.html
> I say that to point out that the only reason I know there's something special about 'cathedrals' as opposed to other churches is because I read a bit of trivia once about what counts as an English city.

If that trivia was that a cathedral is required to make a city, or that the presence of a cathedral makes a place a city, then that is _wrong_, though commonly believed. It was the case during the 16th century, kind of (Henry VIII did it) but it became far messier after that; by the 19th century non-cities with cathedrals and cities without cathedrals both existed.
Sony helped Apple develop FireWire.
people have been trying to measure those effects since the 1950s - Oscar Janiger, James Fadiman, were/are some of the big name researchers trying to quantify it. but it's remarkably hard to measure "creativity".
I wish. "The Send-MailMessage cmdlet is obsolete. This cmdlet doesn't guarantee secure connections to SMTP servers. While there is no immediate replacement available in PowerShell, we recommend you do not use Send-MailMessage. For more information, see Platform Compatibility note DE0005."

This made me very, very sad in my last job as the de facto PowerShell expert.
> But you said

Yeah, I miswrote it. Hence the link to my article about it.
Apple's Manuals, Specs, and Downloads
There have been past articles on this subject.

2009:
https://throughthesandglass.typepad.com/through_the_sandglas...

2013:
https://siliconmountain.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/ultra-pure-...

2018:
https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pu...

2019:
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-chi...
>> I do NOT wnat any 3rd party apps stores.

Then don't install one? I literally don't get this argument.

>>So, EU, back off on your pushing for a 3rd party app store.

....why? Because of something you don't want?
You have dark reader on?
The problem is that these satellites pollute the night sky in exactly those areas that are currently not polluted by other sources. So if you go to an International Dark Sky Place to do astrophotography, you end up with a whole bunch (technical term) of little Starlink dots / lines all through your images.

Agree that fixing broader light pollution is a separate and important issue.
I first learned about configuration management and 'infrastructure as code' from:

* http://infrastructures.org

They had "Bootstrapping an Infrastructure" in (twelfth) LISA (1998):

* http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.ht...

* https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-98/bootstrapping-infr...

They started the concept in 1990s using make(1) files as their state engine because there was nothing else available ("Step 11").
Tripping up hare-brained security scanning tools sounds like a perk tbh.

> I don't think you can convince me that [...] is ever the correct thing to do

It's just a matter of trade-offs.

Serving the app.js on a 404 can cause things like browser/caching issues that are confusing for the user, and 404 isn't necessarily correct since the app is both servable and recoverable from that url.

And I'm not sure 302-redirecting is any less meaningless than serving 200 on a not-found. The user doesn't need the redirect since the app is already capable of handling the not-found page in a user-friendly way. So does it somehow improve things for programmatic analysis of the app to make all 40X errors redirect to the homepage, and is that very compelling?
I agree with this but I found it to be an extremely valuable experience all the same.
> Should everyone take acid?

> No, because you have to ask the right question to take it. Do you want a one-on-one with your maker?
Goldman Sachs should buy them out.
The answer here is not necessarily for the govts to force big $$ platforms to act like neutral carriers, but for govt to enact and encourage policies to stop/slow the centralization and monopolization of information and entertainment around centralized $$ platforms, and to prevent such behemoths from sucking all the air out of the room in the first place.

(Which, frankly, includes not using said platforms for their own communications. Not sure why Twitter is treated like a generic newswire and announcement system by schools, community groups, governments, etc ... after everything that's happened.)

That's the vision we had of the Internet in the 90s: decentralized, publish your own content and link-out to other's. Not sure why we let that get derailed into the closed boxes we have today.

Asshats like Alex Jones or Russel Brand wouldn't even be a concern and we wouldn't be talking about "deplatforming" as a thing really if the "platform" hadn't grown so unreasonably big and powerful in the first place. The Age Of Narcissism is entirely our own fault.

If you build a huge giant megaphone and leave it lying in the middle of the playground, inevitably some jerk is going to "misuse" it.
Synchronization such as the whole program is well-defined according to some memory model.
I have never successfully gotten a “click all motorcycle squares” to succeed. With a VPN, nothing usually works until “click until there are no more X.” It’s so consistent that I’m pretty sure it’s designed that way, since the final task is time-gated.
If Go allowed something like "handle = go foo()", goroutine could be automatically terminated when handle goes out of scope or becomes dead and is garbage collected. You can also use handle to cancel a goroutine etc.

Go designers specifically avoided this model (of having a goroutine "id") for reasons I don't remember any more (may be to avoid making them heavier weight?) but this would be one way to stop leaky goroutines.
The Haskell folks got there first.
SHIFT-JIS and EUC would like a word.
Python package management is so broken. Think of the gymnastics that every python package has to go through in order for users to install it properly. Absolutely insane that this is still happening in such a widely used programming language.
It seems like starlink is a perfect option for this type of situation.

>So when the relay stations need fixing, boats and skilled labor show up to help get the town back online.

I'm sure if you factor in the costs of this plus the nontangible costs of downtime, Starlink is far superior, even if it is more expensive.
Because the problem is more complex. It is not only about the fees - obviously some large companies have that in their focus - but about general user freedom. Like being able to use a web browser of your choice. Or, in general, not have Apple reject some software from their App Store for reasons which are not tied to clear security violations.

It is possible to deliver free apps through the App Store without any download limits. But with competing App Stores it isn't.
The Unbundling of ChatGPT
Time warp at the top: London's tallest skyscraper validates Einstein's theory
No, I mean I'm using a email service on top of my own domain, and the people I want to contact only have their email ids listed online and I want to have contact via email prior to having a voice call or video call for which I need a two way communication via email.
Just the typical thing: while adding a bookmark, when I start typing in the first letters of a tag (e.g. "hack" for "hackernews"), Pinboard is offering a drop-down menu with possible matches. Linkhut didn't have this last time I checked. It is maybe not a big issue, though -- possibly, relying on your own memory (not programmatically offered suggestions), your tagcloud may get less messy over time; you'll end up with a smaller amount of tags, which may be a good thing at times.

I think I like 'em both, Pinboard and Linkhut, though.
Kessler syndrome – Collisional cascading space debris
Starlink has a lot of (most?) satellites at an orbital inclination of 53 degrees to avoid "wasting" time over the poles where few people live while still providing coverage at most other latitudes. This means that at any time there's a higher density of satellites above that latitude than at the equator.

Here's a map of the ISS orbit (similar inclination) over time which shows the effect: https://engaging-data.com/pages/scripts/iss/iss3.png
What are some of the best libraries that would generate an avatar in PHP directly?

Or in Javascript?

I don't want to have to hit any APIs.
Every centralised resource requires a powerful entity to protect it. Something like a massive damn for hydro power is also a great target for a state's enemies and requires its protection. And if we consider not the inherent potential danger but also the danger of taking away a major power source, any centralised power generation - even massive wind and solar farms - needs such protection.

And that isn't even looking at the political side of this - this asserts that a powerful state is necessarily authoritarian, which is complete nonsense. Some of the most powerful countries right now aren't authoritarian (not saying they're perfect democracies, but some are pretty ok compared to the worst we have) and the "most democratic" countries have right now are all powerful enough to keep their nuclear power safe (or could if they had it).

It's also not a given that a powerful state is a bad thing. Weak democratic states make it possible for authoritarian regimes to take control. And even without that, weak states are usually ridden with crime and poverty, whereas strong states have the ability to level inequalities and prevent crime) - all without the need to be authoritarian.

Oh, and let's not forget that the only reason we have cheap solar power in the first place is because they're produced by modern slaves in fully authoritarian countries with zero regard for human safety or the environment.
The dehumanizing part is commercialing it. I am not saying I want it outlawed or banned, but like, it is very unromantic.
This is yet another argument against car centric city design. Cars represent shackles that allow city and state debt collectors to get their claws into the most vulnerable Americans. If we had a working public transit system and pedestrian/cyclist friendly cities then this would be a non-issue.

However, by forcing people into cars, we suddenly have significant problems. Especially considering the housing crisis that makes cars the primary residence of a couple hundred thousand people who can't afford a parking ticket. Much less a $1500 reinstatement fee.

It's absurdly expensive to be poor. Cars are yet another reason for that.
On the other hand, surprisingly few "ad-free" service tiers turn out to actually be ad-free, which tends to undermine the whole concept. It's extremely common to get various kinds of "special" promotions that don't go through the standard ad platform. Sites have been known to forget the premium option when A/B testing changes to ad placements. Multiple streaming services have ads on some shows even on their top "ad-free" tier (I think because the ad buy was with the original studio/network and is written into the show's distribution contract). Several marketing gurus have figured out ways to game social media networks to make "non-advertising" posts featuring their brands go viral (see e.g. the fad of "weird brand Twitter").
> If landlords are forced to follow all regulations, the ROI on renting doesn’t work anywhere.

Then, who builds the new apartments that people rent? If 50% of people in Germany rent and there is no ROI from building for rent, then who finances the new buildings??
No I didn't change any settings, I'm using google workspace on top of my own domain so not sure what is causing this block.
Kftray – manage multiple kubectl port-forward configs in the menu bar
KFtray is a open source cross-platform system tray app made with Tauri (Rust and TypeScript) for Kubernetes users. It simplifies setting up multiple kubectl port forward configurations through a user-friendly interface. Easily store and manage all configurations from local files or GitHub repositories.

github repository: https://github.com/hcavarsan/kftray/blob/main/README.md

blog post: https://dev.to/hcavarsan/managing-multiple-kubectl-port-forward-configurations-and-sharing-them-via-git-1k1

quick demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAdL7IzaEh8

feedback and suggestions are welcome!
I've had 'click all the lettuces' - it told me I was wrong for not clicking on a cabbage
But coroutines _are_ an option for parallelism, and an especially effective one in the I/O-bound world. The parallelism comes from the OS handling I/O scheduling for the coroutines instead of the application code.

The important difference between multithreading and multiprocess is that I can ignore synchronization that's not IPC in multiprocess models which makes the code much much simpler to implement and reason about.

I wouldn't even say this is web-centric, process-parallelism is a pretty common method of task dispatch in HPC compute topologies that has filtered down to smaller scales of multi-server compute clusters a la kubernetes. In these cases, taking a process-centric message-passing approach can greatly simplify not only the code but the architectural aspects of scheduling and scaling that are quite a bit more difficult with multi-threaded processes or even those that mix I/O and CPU-bound work in the same process (which is often a cause of thread starvation issue in node apps).
To get to the "popular" rocks of Patagonia for example, would require many many giant packs.

So the intense mountaineering of that region at BASE requires a porter team to help haul bags of clothes, food, toiletries, litres upon litres of water. Not even considering hiking/climbing gear.

Add in the layer of "most of the world is not the west", where you can just buy these things close to your destination then throw them away. You for example need to be absolute certain of the shoes/boots/crampons/skis, and also have a backup.
Opera regularly sponsors YouTube videos, Firefox doesn’t. Marketing works.
I'm so old I remember in the early 70's when the ARPAnet had only a few dozen nodes, and there were free Telnet logins on most hosts -- we'd play a game (starting from HARV-10) where we'd make telnet chains to as many hosts as we could before something broke.

Could usually get 10-12 hosts going in a chain, sometimes more.

That was right before things got ugly and hosts had to shut down the well-known guest accounts due to malicious hackers.

Those were also the years that you'd send email by FTP'ing to a site and append-only writing to the tail of the user's mail file.

Ah, lost innocence...
See this post [1] somewhere else in the comments.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39818435
Yep, that was my thought, but there might be complications I haven't thought of. This is me guessing without having tried anything.

> couldn't get it to render in a way I was happy with

I might be repeating something you already noticed, but cursors only blink after you stop typing, so if you weren't delaying the effect until after the typing was done that might have contributed.
Instead of having the sever hosted, you could also get a cheap PC and install it yourself. You’d have more control and more choice over the distro. Install CLI only, so you don’t lean on the GUI, and so you can get a much cheaper system (which will be cheaper than your $10/month hosted system after a few months).

For what it’s worth, that list of crisis tools… I haven’t heard of any of them either, and I spent over a decade working in a datacenter dealing with everything that broke, from hardware, to OS, to app… across Windows, Linux, Solaris, and more. I had some escalation points, but a lot of that was on outage calls where people are talking about and showing what they are doing, and we’d always write down useful stuff so we’d have it. I worked 3rd shift, so we tried to handle everything ourselves as much as possible. Those commands might be useful, but apparently you can survive for a decade in a large production environment without them. Don’t take that one page as your bible.
What could Germany have accomplished otherwise if they had not focused on increasing efficiency?

Efficiency in of itself is not a useful work product. To game theory it - if you had an unlimited source of literally free energy, no one would waste time or effort on gaining efficiency. They would be working on making new products and services.

Every person or monetary unit working towards efficiency gains means those resources are not available on moving forward. It's basically the broken windows economic theory. You have to do a lot of this work just to keep up with previous outputs.

This is certainly reductionist, but I think it does bear out at least somewhat in real life. Instead of making a brighter lightbulb, you are focusing on getting the same lumen output out of the same watts. The goal of a lightbulb is not to be efficient - it's to output light. Efficiency is simply a design constraint.

I can spend my money adding new insulation to make my current home more efficient - or I can spend that same money adding a spare room as an addition to my property and increasing my quality of life. If I have to spend that money just to keep my heating bill the same it was 20 years prior, that's money I can't spend elsewhere.
I can’t see it in the interior shots. It’s possible that it’s all there but drowned out by bad HDR photography, so I will have to take a look for myself.

Also I’m not sure if it’s really Gaudí’s work, for example how the altar is way forward is an innovation from the 1970s.
I've done this, but on IDE drives, over a decade ago. I wonder if nodern SATA drives store their encryption keys on the platter or on the PCB. Afaik even drives where the data is accessible on boot has encryption, just that the key isn't password protected, it's a convenient way to turn on encryption, just encrypt the key instead of overwriting the whole disk...
Belive it or not, that's my current situation
Nah. Morgan Stanley. Diversification. They're the ones that bought all the Chicago parking meters.