skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magna Carta, which was about the relationship between a king and his own feudal lords, which was violated by both sides and annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War — one of the many UK civil wars besides the one commonly known by the title "The" Civil War?

> the gradual abolition of slavery (at least in western Europe)

Even with that caveat, didn't that really only happen after the medieval era?
In high school, I got a D in first semester calculus, and declared myself "done" with math. Up until that point, I had used a calculator as a crutch, but calculus required symbolic manipulation that could not be faked. My dad's influence was stronger than my mom's -- she was fearless, but he frequently spoke of how "bad at math" he was. And that was an easy out. I was just taking after my dad, "bad at math!"

Around that time, I went from noodling around with programming, to taking it seriously. I learned a bunch of programming languages, and landed a web development job straight out of school. I wasn't just done with math, I was done with school, too!

After a few years of that, I got bored with web dev, and decided I'd rather try my hand at engineering of some sort. I enrolled in community college, and quickly discovered that all of the engineering courses had... math prerequisites. So I bit the bullet, and for the first time, applied myself. Turns out that I wasn't intrinsically bad at math; I just hadn't been sufficiently motivated! I was paying my own way, so I ended up taking a job in the tutoring center. As I transferred to university, I found myself taking more and more of these math "prerequisites" and not following through on the engineering courses. I matriculated as a math major, and today I've got a PhD in math.

In my mid-20s, I didn't even believe that I could be Math A person. But I got good at that stuff, for the sake of engineering! And then I went straight through to Math B (and, almost amusingly, forgot most of those Math A skills -- watch out, unused skills get rusty!)

I actually credit my programming experience for the intermediate transition from my "bad at math" late teens to my "willing to try Math A" mid-20s. Programming taught me to think rigorously, and abstractly. So I must push back on the notion that this is intrinsic to a person, and must be learned at an early age: I wasn't doing Math B until after 25 when my brain was supposedly fully mature. And while I did have the benefit of a formal education, I would assert with some confidence that the relevant detail there was that I was in a cohort of students who were working together, beholden to homework deadlines and exams -- because math is hard and it's really easy to get demoralized without that external reinforcement.
They don’t mix “crypto”. They are very much anti “crypto”.

They build Bitcoin mixing software.
Yeah, and we punish irresponsible driving in those cases too
I turned on “casually looking for work” or whatever it’s called on Linkedin just because I was curious. I got 4 recruiter messages in a week. Seems like things are fine.
In many countries this would be illegal for classic media.
Was the Apple Fusion Drive a good idea?
Some editors used them to help detect UTF-8 encoded files. Since they are also valid zero length space characters they also served as a nice easter egg for people who ended up editing their linux shell scripts with a windows text editor.
Yubikeys absolutely took off in certain corporate, government and tech environments. Just not so much with the general public.
> The company reported its first quarter earnings last night, and woo boy, it’s rough. Ford said it lost $1.3 billion on the sale of 10,000 electric vehicles in the first three months of the year — a staggering figure that amounts to $130,000 lost for every EV sold.

I can’t fathom manufacturing 10,000 units of anything you lose $130,000 on.
The poster lives in NL so not sure what to make of these statements.
Having worked for a large app development consultancy that did parity between Apple and Android apps, the Apple vetting progress was rigorous and would often reject apps based on UX. While a pain, the result compares in comparison to what is on the Android App Store.

I did use to own an Android and switched to an Apple. I found that Apple products are more intuitive in their UX and setup (or really anything that was complicated to do on Android) just worked on Apple.
> There has been a MASSIVE explosion of fakeness since covid, coupled with people who completely lost their ability to actually check information, and anything that makes it easier for anyone to propagate is dangerous in my view.

The best part about this statement is it doesn’t even matter what “side” you are describing because all “sides” are subject to the same issue. Hell for more than a year every covid article from New York Times quoted an obscenely high 4% “death rate” despite it being off by multiple orders of magnitude. And if pressed they’d be able to easily “prove” their rate by citing some dodgy data model, using badly collected data, or just not understanding how to interpret the data. And that “truth” propagated by the NYT was cited all over causing all kinds of wildly over the top responses.

We live in a post truth world. You can always find some authoritative sounding source to support whatever it is you want to believe. There is always a way to massage the data and “facts” in a way that supports your claim as the “true truth”. It does even matter what “team” you are on… you’ll always be able to craft “the truth” by selectively using whatever source material you want.

I don’t even know how you’d solve this problem because it is a core issue with trust. It’s very, very hard to establish “knowledge trust” on something like the internet.
This is awesome.

Propose an RFC - seriously.

This simplifies, democratizes, and makes transparent the "internal resource sharing/caching" that some browsers can do, like when needing to load the latest jQuery for the 15th time in the last minute, even across domains.

Also would be perfect for captive portals, or other static LAN content.
Your instincts are correct. It is not compatible with the First Amendment.
> If TikTok is just a business, like ByteDance insists, any business would rather get something than nothing. So ByteDance would sell.

Using that logic, facebook, google, etc are not businesses either since they chose to be banned from china.
Works on 124.0.2 as well.
Whoa, I just tried Marginalia, and it reminded me of how search used to work years before. It was quite pleasant.

https://search.marginalia.nu/

It's nice to see new domains in the top list
Some of this has to do with modern reporting, in specific by a few major news outlets, but that gets carried over into online discussions.

One particular one I saw recently was an individual in NYC saying "I was really afraid to come here because of what they are saying on the news, but really this is not much different than my hometown homelessness wise".

Seems like a new form of "Missing white woman syndrome".
Upvoted even though I'm guilty. But then again so are you. ;)
Some variants of "there in 10" for when I finally get round to a proximity app!
I'm a big fan of the oft-misunderstood[1] Brutalism. And this reminds me of that.

Extrudalism.

[1] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
You're going to be surprised, but the solution to the housing crisis isn't 1-2 bedroom single family houses.
That's still 1/14 the time. Production framers in the US can usually frame a 2-story 2500 square foot house in less than 2 weeks today.
What do you use Linux for?

Predictable release cycle is already worth it for server use and also for those who need commercial support.

And zfs is too good to miss and Ubuntu has supported it for very easy use for quite a while.

And it feels comfortable to use a distro who has corporate customers as they may lose substantial money if they're not careful.
It's a land acquisition issue due to zoning laws and stuff. For example, in the Bay Area, where houses are super expensive, it's just that there are limited numbers of houses and you essentially aren't allowed to build more (without having to jump through insane hoops). Meanwhile, there are huge tracts of land being wasted on low value things like empty parking lots.

Right next to my $1.85M San Jose single family house (1300 sq ft, built in 1959, very unremarkable), there's a plaza with a Dollar Tree that is almost always empty.

In comparison, a "Mobile Home" in the same area would only be $400k [1] , with similar house size and build quality. It's a lot cheaper because you don't own the land.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/san-jose-ca/mobile/
Yes, I have heard this called a link cloaking hack, methinks.
You are painting the mentally ill with too broad a brush. There is a difference between 'ill' and 'dangerous'. We should not engender a society that encourages people to toe that line.
Somebody's pissed off that their own crappy attempt at selling assets failed. Get good noob.
If you screw some furring strips on the interior walls you could just run drywall over the top of those.
The most dangerous thing to the dictators is yes men.
Just looking at stuff like citations and impact factors of journals.
Because if you don't want to, it'll get in your way every time you try to use your actual passkey. Oh right, I forgot they added an option - now it just gets in your way every time you try to use your actual passkey on a new device.
It actually depends!

`bytes.decode` (and `str.encode`) have used UTF-8 as a default since at least Python 3.

However, the default encoding used for decoding the name of files use ` sys.getfilesystemencoding()`, which is also UTF-8 on Windows and macos, but will vary with the locale on linux (specifically with CODESET).

Finally, `open` will directly use `locale.getencoding()`.
STL?
Its per-site. So the first time I log into GitHub on a new device, I need to do the handshake with another device. The first time I sign into Coinbase, I need to do the handshake with the other device.

So this typically means when I get a new device I'll have my Yubikey in a bag or something with me for a while and pull it out from time to time. Eventually practically every site I use gets enrolled on the new device and I never actually need to reach for the Yubikey or my phone or whatever.

I don't really make any concerted effort to go through each and every account when I get a new device, it'll pretty much just happen eventually. When I do sign up for a new account that supports passkeys I do try and make an effort make a passkey on at least two devices though, often at least whatever device I'm using to initially register and my yubikey. Then I'll make a point to log in sometime in the next few weeks on another computer and create a passkey there. Eventually I'll probably end up logging in and making passkeys on most of my devices.

Needing to auth with an existing passkey is a major part of the model. If you could just log in and create a new passkey with just a regular password, what's the point?
It is very often a zoning issue. "Manufactured" housing, which I'll use as a blanket term for anything not completely built on-site, is often equated with "mobile home" or trailers. In the U. S., at least, mobile homes have a stigma that carries over to manufactured housing. IOW, mobile homes are for poor people, and you're not poor, are you?

Consequentially, manufactured homes often have to be built in unincorporated areas which don't have zoning restrictions.
As a person firmly in the American political left, I have to disagree with all but one of those (point 6 holds true).

1. If you don’t want Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza to stop, you are not a leftist.

2. If you don’t want trans children to get correct healthcare, you are not a leftist.

3. If you want to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, you are not a leftist.

4. If you don’t want to fix the gender wage gap, you are not a leftist.

5. If you hold racist views, you are not a leftist.

6. The radical left has many different views on taxes. I want to eat the rich, but many on the left do indeed want taxes only to be used as funding of social services.

I’m aware I’m committing No true Scotsman fallacy here. However I don’t see people that hold these views to align anywhere close to me politically—not even moderately. On the left we call people that hold these views conservative democrats, and at best we call them centrists, never moderate leftists. The only people that call them “moderates” are the conservative democrats them selves (and maybe some republicans).

I’m also aware that there is a (very small) faction of communists and tankies, particularly in the UK, which holds anti-trans and racist views, and would agree with points 2, 3, and 5, however, even among communists, they are very niche and still very extreme, so definitely not moderate American left.
I wanted to read this, but seeing that godawful AI generated filler picture made me reconsider.
I always see these takes and I find them completely at odds with my experience. I have rarely seen a non-trivial frontend project that wouldn't benefit from a build step.

Going without a buildstep meant remembering the last 2-5 versions of JS and then having to write in the lowest common subset for your browser compatibility requirements. Speaking for myself: being able to keep up with the language evolution and transpile to that compatible subset automatically saved way more pain than configuring a build step cost me.

I don't think it's unreasonable to only want to have to write and read a single dialect of JS across projects. Nevermind all the polyfilling we had to do to get common compatible APIs.

Nowadays, the most recent crop of browser versions are a lot more similar to each other than they used to be.

Maybe your colleagues don't know the DOM APIs or are less comfortable with finding some random jQuery plugin to do a carousel but I can't really begrudge anyone for wanting to have the full capabilities of a modern frontend stack.
As someone who isn't in the industry, that raises the question - is framing usually the choke-point? They say it took half the time, so is that other half the time all framing? Or is there other factors at play here?
> and shut down my Google Pay account I never knew I had

Google loves that nonsense, don't they? It's as though they think so highly of themselves that they cannot imagine they might not be strictly doing us all a favor by signing us up for their services.

Fifteen years later, I still have friends occasionally sending messages to a GMail address I never asked for, never used, and didn't even know about for most of a year while it was virally spreading through people's address books, silently diverting mail away from my actual address. The only time I used this account, after I discovered that it existed, was to delete it - but GMail apparently still suggests it when people type my name, because I get an "oops, sent this to the wrong address" forward every few months.

No I will not be knowingly using any Google passkey service, but perhaps I will someday find that they have signed me up for it anyway.
Have as anybody ever done any research into the consequences of removing consequences from your average person through excessive government smothering (protection for some depending on your upbringing).

This causes the lowest common denominator to live and influence the world much more vividly than ever before. And our politicians are super cool with that because it's their secret for creating long political careers.

So, they subsidize the lowest common denominators of society, the ones that would have dunning-krugered themselves ten times over, then the politicians tell them if they want to survive, they have to vote for us, or the other guy will take your livelihood. 9/10 times it's a lie, but they're super easy to manipulate and cheap to subsidize (buy votes - this cheapness is important to their super PACs low cost per vote is just simple business, better to buy one McConnell or Pelosi than 5 fresh faces) so they keep the voters miserable, in pain, and desperate for government help.

But what is this doing to the average competency of humans overall? This group of low-understanders keep demanding that we put together more bureaucracy and regulations slowing down progress so the politicians can look like they're doing something when they should be demanding the opposite and instead pushing for transparency and consumer choice laws. These nip profits pretty badly though, so our bought politicians never push the idea.

Even this Net Neutrality scuffle is just them creating solutions to problems they've already caused with overregulation creating no competition. Then we get the lowest common denominators cheering it and it's just sad.
Many comments in the vein that pharo is weird and different from what they're used to. I'd say programming is such a young field programmers should dedicate time to try out the weird stuff that they aren't used to, opportunities to rewire your brain for better.

Let's not get stuck in a local minima on how to do programming. There could be better ways not yet popular enough. Smalltalk came out of an environment of innovations that were ahead of their time.

EDIT: while doing the Pharo mooc, I was able to create a DSL for what I understand to be D&D dice representation without using special metaprogramming syntax of the language or parsing and tokenizing strings. Just plain old OOP of the Smalltalk/Pharo flavour. This were just basics btw
Can you explain more? I'm very interested in what you have to say about serverless.
I clicked thinking "It can't possibly be that bad" but wow it's really bad and it's taking up the entire screen.
Unlike your average user, if you have the knowledge to apply a hex editor, then you probably can Google how to work around the signature error.
Password management tools allow export.
The quoted cost is half that of a traditional build, but I think it would be fairer if they compared it against a similarly finished traditional build - ie without any finish on the interior walls (plaster or similar) and so on.

I'm wondering what the thermal performance is like as well - certainly here in the UK the internal leaf of a cavity wall is usually made of aerated concrete blocks which have very good thermal performance compared to solid concrete ones.
If you want to read the actual decision:

https://frontpageconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04...
You can't afford to replace existing systems 1:1, the a/c doesn't have the same range as those it is replacing and it's so complicated it will never achieve the same operational rates w/o extreme expenditures or cannibalizing Human Resources maintaining other a/c.

All this leads to less capability and more risk aversion to wage conflicts. Peace through bankruptcy.
Yea, the previous posters take is just outright crazy to me....

Imagine reality as the problem space of all things that could exist within the constraints of physics. The problem with observational evidence that it is only providing a tiny window into what is possible, really only the most probable are going to be what you see for the most part. Philosophy gives a means of meta views of systems and simplified system views that allow us to find otherwise unreachable islands of what can exist in our reality.
at some objects. The Russell class cannot be a set in any set theory, that is logic. The cardinality of the universe and the order type of the ordinals do exist in NF(U) and have rather unexpected properties.
Kind of interesting to go to Kant first and then Hume. Kant was in a sense a synthesis of the rationalists and Hume.

But maybe he later came to see it a step in the wrong direction?
I don't think there's any of these 'solutions' beyond the demonstration phase yet. Also, these 3d printed homes are only 'printing' a relatively small fraction of the work required to create a home.

There are cheap housing options that already exist but they typically have a stigma. This 3d printed home is quoted as 3x more expensive by area than this existing option: https://www.claytonhomes.com/homes/21TRU28563RH/
Not necessarily. I use bitwarden with a master password to unlock the vault.
This house is 80 square meters and cost 150,000€ to build. You can build a regular house of the same size in the US for the same, or less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

This video will make you angry is correct yet again.
It's an interesting question, but I don't think the models are trained to be spoken-language first like humans are. I think we all ("we" meaning "people who communicate by speaking," because I'm less sure if this would be true of sign languages) inherently think of writing as a somewhat lossy graphical representation of speech (which is itself an extremely lossy form of telepathy).

But the LLMs don't, do they? If anything, they're written-first, or even on some deep level, binary-first. I don't think what they write even has "a way they meant the words to be emphasized in speech."
Unrelated to you comment here, but I figured you'll see this reply rather than one from your week old comment.

I replied to your serverless comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054222
Very interested in what more you have to say, if you're interesting in discussing it more.
Right, like China and Russia are going to let USA tap their fibre?
If you don't want that then you could live in California or NY.
People simply don't care about freedom or privacy any more.

I don't believe that's true. Our younger generations are way more savvy about those things than our older ones.

What I do see is a sense of hopeless inevitability. People don't feel they can escape the surveillance and other technological dangers because everyone is at it. Both of our major political parties are generally supportive of the police and surveillance state and no-one else has any realistic prospect of forming a government at national level. Unless you give up a large part of modern life and decide not to participate in large parts of our society you have little real choice but to pick your poison from the big tech firms as well.

So people resist in less obvious ways like moving between services and creating new accounts frequently with false details. People from younger generations hardly ever commit to any single account on any service the way their parents or grandparents did. They have no time for terms and conditions that require real identities. (Or the service will do what exactly? Terminate the account they didn't really care about or expect to use for long anyway?) I imagine a lot of young people already know how to use a VPN and probably more will start doing so over time. I wonder how many phones the average teenager really has today.

Of course this attitude creates other problems of its own. With modern tech but little personal accountability we see issues like cyberbullying becoming real problems for our schoolkids for example. Unfortunately the only answer the politicians can seem to think of to deal with a problem like that is trying to be even more authoritarian. We need to do better than that.
The internet with FCC Net Neutrality was the same as the internet without FCC Net Neutrality.

Ergo, FCC Net Neutrality is inconsequential.
Parallel Paths: Building New Systems Alongside Legacy Systems
Interesting, I'll have to take a look at that when I have some time. I may have missed that the first time around. Thanks!
Only if smoking is seen as cool, which it isn’t any more. Vaping is the way to go for kids these days and whilst still not great it seems like it’s better than smoking.
I stick with passphrases so nobody steals my retina or thumb.