skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The great logging off" starts to make sense. At some point the only trustworthy interactions must happen in real life, in real time, between unassisted humans.

If there is growing risk that you're conversing with bots every time you talk to a stranger online, people will do it less.
Oh wow, I did not know(/remember) that this existed! Will try to be going with my brothers-in-law this year, it's gonna be awesome :D Thanks for linking it!
Accountability is everything. They talk about accountability but they don't even want that for themselves.

Here in the Netherlands, I was caught in the crossfile of unaccountability way against marijuana. My neighbor was arrested, procesecuted and convicted for growing weed in 2005, unknown to me the authorities were using my other neighbor to harrass and spy on him even after he was convicted. Because I complained I was then also targetted for more than 10 years. The authorities told the police not to respond to any of my calls and they trashed all of my police reports, allowing this guy to steal from me, vandalise my property and more. It only stopped when I started protesting at the town hall.

Then... after it stopped, they perverted the course of justice all of the way to the courts when a prosecutor who was involved with the stalker together with the other prosecutor he worked with made sure that the stalking case failed (By lying to the judge, withholding evidence etc). Then he retired, but the other prosecutor is now the president of the court of Maastricht and implicated in another case for sending 9 innocent people to jail.

https://www.1limburg.nl/boze-families-verstoren-raadsvergade...

https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20180221_00056384/weigering-...

https://www.limburger.nl/cnt/dmf20180522_00062344/twintig-uu...

https://www.1limburg.nl/leegloop-bij-justitie-zeven-officier...

Here below scandals that the two prosecutors were involved in

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1039807/liegende-officieren-...

https://kro-ncrv.nl/programmas/villamoord
Mid-30s is maybe a tad earlier than average, but by the age of 40 you’d expect noticeable changes.
Agreed. I don't really have time for informational articles that don't just present their information in a straight-forward way.
Why not just use widely supported CSS Multi-Column Layout for masonry effect?
Spotify wants you to spend time in their app. Apple is just doing Apple things, I guess.
aren't they already split and use different app in China vs US. Interestingly Chinese app's algorithm chooses more STEM videos, while Western version just pushes addictive crap.
Knee-jerk is definitely the right term for this kind of legislation. I’m confused about how it has persisted. Do onion producers not want to be able to hedge out some price exposure?
And if a second was defined centuries ago to be longer or shorter, we'd end up with some other length of time that was a power of 2 close to 4ms, resulting in a different MTU.

If that's indeed the reasoning, then it's amazing how arbitrary decisions made in the past end up deciding today's standards.

Now I want the story of the 9000 bytes MTU.
No one has more issues with Toronto writers who claim to be part of the "Canadian literary underground" than other Canadians.
Cold war is over we are in the era of empires starting actual wars to annex other countries that is def not a cold war.
There seems to be a focus on something about the brain "calcifying" or people getting stuck in their own pattern over time here.

That may be a component, but I think anothet thing that correlates heavily with the graphs presented in the article is simply: When you have enough spare time to prioritize music. (although you could explicitly prioritize it like some commenters mention)

I still find lots of new music, but it always comes in periods of my life when I have some leeway, and those are fewer and farther between now.
I don't think anybody at IBM (or anywhere else) had an idea how successful the PC would eventually become, it needed many happy accidents for that to happen (and Microsoft was probably more responsible for that success than IBM, the other factor being cheap clones).

The original IBM PCs were thoroughly unimpressive, even when compared to much cheaper 8-bit home computers.

It was much more likely that the PC would have gone the way of the Dodo like most other computer architectures of that time.
Aww hell yeah, dark jazz is great. I assume you know Bohren & der Club of Gore and Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble? (curious of any recommendations if you know more good stuff!)
I find as I get older the period that the music I listen to extends in both directions.

While most of the popular music released these days is crap, that was the case when I was young also. The things fondly remembered is the good stuff.

It's quite fun to look at old top 10 lists to see masterpieces sitting alongside fluff.

Recent discoveries. Klaus Nomi, Kirin J. Callinan.
This required four clicks to get to the original source,

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/w...

The PCWorld article (source of this submission) also got it wrong in assuming its for regular consumers:

> Update: Microsoft reached out to us to clarify that the ESU program will only be available to commercial organizations and educational institutions (EDU), not ordinary consumers.
I recall that they were on HN previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837
(I haven't looked at their service and don't have plans to.)
For 3D graphics, it makes rotation and translation simpler by adding another dimension. Maybe you had a less-than-stellar teacher for this topic. If so, here's a master lecturer elucidating it:

https://youtu.be/mHVwd8gYLnI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_matrix#Examples...
Insomnia 9.0
I love the fact that Insomnia has had so many improvements and I already made a few runs. The Pre-request scripting feature looks great! It is also great that the errors are gone even though that wasn't really an issue for me personally. But I think the feature that I find for me to be the most useful is the API mocking feature. This can potentially increase productivity for a good x times fold, purely because a mock API can be a lot of work and if we can incorporate that with the client than it looks like that work time and allocated effort will greatly be reduced. This is also a perfect opportunity to combine that with the pre-request scripting feature. I can't wait to explore this in more detail and make a whole article about it, with the matching video to accompany it with.
Just a tip: If you use computers much, don't just get one pair of bifocals, get a special pair specifically made for the distance you use the computer screen. Meassure the distance before ordering the glasses.

It's horrible to use bifocals on a computer screen, you can only see sharp on a small horizontal band. You have to tilt the head to see the rest.
How fraudsters are getting fake articles onto Facebook
Probably not the first but ok. https://rileytestut.com/blog/2024/04/17/introducing-altstore...
The government would need to borrow enough USD for the exchange. So it would need to convince lenders, not an easy task.

The entire process would also need to be secret, to preserve the value of the peso as much as possible.
For the larger performance diffs, has anyone looked into why? Are there a couple of common reasons? I'd really like to know. Thanks
I think this is the wrong take. A discerning reader can read all manner of crap and know its crap. It can even learn how to avoid doing the same styles of mistakes in the future by reading it. So it affects you, but in unpredictable ways. Not like you're trying to say like "read bad things -> become bad".

To give you a specific example (lets not call it crap this time). I've read more communist literature than I can list right now and I'm a social democrat and think Marx is full of flaws and communism is a hugely flawed economic system.

You are shaped by what you read, but not in the basic "you'll agree with what you read".
The most unique thing about 4-dimensional space imho is that some simple manifolds like e.g R4 have uncountably many differential structures possible, in lower dimensions there is only one, in higher - finitelly many.

When push comes to shove I'm not sure we have enough experimental physicists...
Not really, you erase and then inpaint, or replace the offending area with multicolor noise, put a bit of multicolor noise over the whole thing, then do an image-to-image run on that.
> It follows that, in the general case, "no change in a long time" is a pretty good indicator that the software is either unsuccessful or abandoned.

Or just exceptionally well adapted to a stable social environment. Which might even be so stable precisely because the software is working so well that no changes to either software or social system -- business processes -- are required.
Microservices Authentication and Authorization Using API Gateway
It's a business though, and devs need to contribute to the bottom line. How would you have management treat devs other than an operational cost?
Here is the demo: https://w3bits.com/css-masonry/
> The free market has never existed in an unregulated state, and since the founding of the country there have been rules and regulations on imports and what companies can operate in the United States and under what circumstances.

Of course in practice that's true, but we also tout free-er markets as something to strive for, especially when it comes to us imposing it on other countries in conflict with their sovereign rights to restrict their own markets.

> So far from what I’ve seen these types of actions have been very specific and targeted. In the case of Tik Tok there isn’t any loss to citizens and letting it continue to operate with impunity in the US brings all sorts of negative externalities that the market isn’t equipped to solve.

I think TikTok is a highly special case, and sort of brings to light the rationale why China decided to ban foreign mega tech corps, especially social media ones. We also saw a backlash when Facebook tried to influence India's elections and politics with a banner on their website. Social media is indeed a special case.

But I think this problem is also similar to the national security vs privacy/encryption battle. We are giving up some of our principles to make our short term lives (national security) easier. Yes, TikTok can be weaponized as an influence machine... however letting it run free could mean developing a more natural resistance to it in the American population (if possible). If we devolve to market manipulation we'll rely on it as a crutch. Why stop there? Why not engineer the whole economy.
I haven't personally seen that. I've seen us open a job and get really bad applicants, or one good applicant who ends up taking another job for whatever reasons, and have it go unfilled for long periods of time. I think we probably could have made the hire with a higher salary or looking in other regions or both, but the company wasn't flexible on those things.

I've also seen my company open applications for a job that is almost definitely going to be an internal promotion rather than a new hire, but for the sake of "fairness" they interview a handful of other people.

Hiring is expensive. It takes a lot of time and energy to do interviews and screens and stuff like that, and usually some higher ups are involved in the process, so wasting their time is probably worse than just not posting the job if you're not going to hire.
I agree. However, banning Tiktok won't change anything. If Tiketok is banned another company will take its place.

Now coming to the subject of Facebook, Twitter etc, these apps pose the same threat to nations other than the US. As in, these apps serve US interests by pushing US propaganda onto the rest of the world and constantly monitors/tracks the individuals who have these apps installed.

So a better option is to ban any type of tracking - on all apps. But it is extremely unlikely that this will be made into law.
The useful metric with these sorts of things is to ask yourself, when was the last time you tried something that you didn't like?

For expensive experiences, say, going to the theatre, it's hard to see shows you don't think you are going to like, as the price pressure makes you choose 'safe bets' as the cost/reward is somewhat weighted in one direction.

For something like music, the above used to be the case, as typically we find our tribe in our early teens, and money is tight so again, you buy what you know you are going to like.

I imagine though that streaming may change this, since you can dive into just about anything. We really need music search which follows more interesting routes through content rather than just 'people who like this also like' or 'here's another album by someone you already listen to'.

I'm lucky, my musical taste has always been broad, and if anything, it's got broader as i've got older. I do find myself reaching for older stuff that i've not heard for a while rather than new music, so when I catch myself doing this too much, the 'i've not heard something I don't like' alarm goes off, and I track down something that a session player I like has played on that i've never heard before, and try and find something new.
I think you are conflating "incomebase" and userbase. There are no "hard facts" on this but everyone seems to agree that the US is not even remotely close to 50% userbase for TikTok which makes sense (inverse Pigeonhole principle) if TikTok really has 1b+ active users. However, the US might be a bigger share of the "incomebase" because ads for US users are more valuable.
Yes, masonry has been already solved using CSS Multi-Column Layout: https://w3bits.com/css-masonry/
Very doubtful. Military would defect en masse and you would get a civil war where government gets the boot in the end rather sooner than later.
Agree. I was talking about

const accountId = AccountId (“43525”)

being less explicit
Everyone who you ask will tell you that ads never work on them, yet we all buy branded shit.

Same thing with propaganda used by social media.

This video illustrates the effects of it: https://youtu.be/pB7WzqUq4Nk?t=324
Yep. I'm in my 40's and I still every day check what new albums were released, and listen to as many of them as I can. Of course I take charades to old music every now and then, but over 50% of what I listen is new albums...

I think already this albums thing might leak my age. I guess people don't really listen to albums anymore...
You're rolling a die and claiming the result was dictated by the die. All outcomes are probabilistic.

Though there's a shocking amount of convergent evolution.
How long until we can have this run real-time in the browser? :D
If you make it look like columns instead of make it look like a wall of independent blocks, then yes.
Saving face is not just about saving face. There's also your credibility at stake. There's only so many times you can invade a country under false pretenses before the international community, or even your own constituency, starts siding with the opposition. I guess also if we really don't have any principles anymore, we'll have devolved back to survival of the fittest principles. At which point we don't need thinkers, just people doing what they can to get what they can all the time. No need to argue or make points. Just fight it out and save some time.
>All of my packages around nut.js will cease to exist publicly on npm. Ready-to-use packages will only be available through the private nut.js package registry, which requires an active subscription to be used.

>The GitHub repo will remain public, so if you want to continue using nut.js on your own, you'll have to take care of building, testing and hosting packages yourself.

Open source doesn't require distributing pre-built packages. So still is open source. This model was used by QtiPlot until the sources were eventually stopped being available, because surprise, surprise there're people that were building it from sources and then distributing.
Beckhoff achieves a smaller footprint by switching from Windows to FreeBSD
You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation
On economic grounds this basically describes what every developing country would try to do as an offensive and hostile action.

But on topic I still think the ban is still old men barking at cloud. Somehow embarrassing really.
What Happened to Greenarraychips.com?
I loved this project, is it... gone?
> THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED HERE

> This project has been unmaintained for a while now.

> Here is a link to an updated and currently maintained fork

The link points to https://github.com/AudioBand/AudioBand for the curious
I recently upgraded from Windows 11 to Windows 10 and I love it - it feels more user friendly and customizable!

For instance I can choose not to group my applications in the task bar. There's also no intrusive ads, and I don't need to sign in with a Microsoft account.

So glad to hear Microsoft is dedicated to supporting their leading OS.
https://archive.ph/ijZMh
> It feels like they used the pandemic to “push the envelope” and see how much more abuse customers will take, and set this as their new standard service level.

100 percent this. Like prior recessions, but even worse. With each recession we bounce back economically on the surface but the cuts they make rarely get reversed.
This principle has served me well for a long time, but it’s definitely a trade off space. We want to enforce as many invariants as possible through the type system, but more invariants requires more complexity. Eventually you run into dependent types etc.
That's wonderful! Would love hear about it / see some photos if you do decide to publish. Sounds like you've built a real community which is priceless.
I'm trying to use it as part of a new forth-style language, hence the need for single-pass.

I've found it as easy to use as markdown, but more regular ie. Well defined, which suits a language spec.

The key parts for me are reference links for execution-thread documentation and ``` blocks to program literally, (and separate/scope comments // from documentation """)

The toolchain as such is just part of the language- the compiler needs to parse djot. I'm not fully there though.
Of course, why wouldn't it?
US is also open to the idea to use military force and not only on their neighbours but also on countries far away.

US is in cold war with China because China might soon be economicaly getting upper hand.
Very nice! This list is super convenient for LLM “connoisseurs”(?) like me.

Did you have a script to generate it or was it manually done?
Have you seen any large Corps take a big hit, from daily security breaches, data leaks, ransomware, spam etc etc?

The tech can be shit, but it will get sold to Corporations because of fomo, and because Corps have Learnt they don't need high Quality products and services to survive.

Once large Corps achieve scale, they make cash primarily through Financial Engineering not Product - so seeking out and taking advantage of cross border differences in interest rates, corporate tax rates, forex, labor, real estate/rent, govt subsidies, regulations, pumping up the stock through offshore accounts etc etc. Add to that how they use their size to swallow up or obliterate smaller competition and you end up with a class of people in charge that have learnt product and service quality is secondary to their survival.

In addition to Financial Engineering, Demand Engineering (or Marketing/advertising) games are won by who ever has the largest Ad budget. And that is Large Corps.

So Creatives, Engineers, Product/Service designers or anyone who cares about Quality have to come up with tactics and strategies to counter the influence of Financial and Demand Engineering.
VMS is a good example of a system that uses very un-UNIX-like file naming conventions, with ::, :, [], ., and ; used as separators for different path components:

https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/File_specification
The battery gets depleted in my rivian pretty fast if it's sitting. I left it unplugged when I went out of town for 10 days and came back to a nearly dead truck. It depletes at around 4-8% per day even when parked in the garage and not in active use.
Exactly. It’s Cold War 2.0 this time we trade with them …
I usually watch YouTube. The 15-30 minute standard video length is perfect for that.

In the summer I'll have lunch on the balcony to rest my eyes and get fresh air.

I like to spend my morning tea or breakfast on the balcony with just a notebook. It's good to think about the day before jumping into it. Computers can rob you of that precious time.
The case we're discussing is one where they had exactly one developer doing the work of multiple developers, and he was about to quit. He did them a favor by not only staying around to train his replacement, but giving them advance notice of his intent to leave. Considering they hired someone new once he did this, it sounds like he was probably contributing to the bottom line!
There are a lot of different drops without needing the doc, have you tried them? I have similar problems and was told to use the off the shelf stuff and it has worked pretty good. The thicker the fluid, the better the results were. I use "HYLO-gel".

The doctor also warned to stay away from eye drops that has any sort of preservatives, it reacts with the tear fluid and gets almost like sand corns in the eyes.

Also, find a real eye doctor...
…and at the level of the DoD your goals include ensuring that there ARE as many capable suppliers as possible, using your commercial power, to increase your chances of “winning wars as effectively as possible”.

Wars are won on logistics; a corrupt, stagnant, or under-innovating market is a barrier to successful defence.
When I must have been very very young, I remember, nobody was coming and I was alone in my crib, looking up at some carrot toy that was floating, but too far away to reach. then I noticed the rainbow, when the light breaks at the eye lashes. I probably looked a lot at them, they're pretty, still do sometimes.

But that behaviour must have driven the myopia, because I later learned that they'd leave me on purpose, so I'd not cry so much.

Then I was bullied a lot, so security was always on the paper in front of me, good reason to not look up, lol.
The main use for this will presumably be infinite scroll where columns doesn't work because it'd break all expectations when scrolling.
That's not my argument and I don't think it's the article's argument either. "You are what you read" doesn't mean you agree with what you read any more than "you are what you eat" means you'll turn into a potato chip.

My point is more like, do you want to devote a bunch of your thinking time to arguments about communism or politics in general? Maybe you do and that's great, but I very much don't. I've thought about politics plenty in the past and formed my opinions already. I'm not a politician and don't care to evangelize my political beliefs. I have very limited time these days and I want to spend that time thinking about other things. Things that matter to me.

I follow people who post useful and interesting things on those topics. However, those people also frequently discuss politics. And although I know those posts aren't why I follow those people, seeing them constantly makes them impossible to ignore. I end up spending time thinking about stuff I know I don't want to spend time on, even later when I'm not reading it. So I mute the words "liberal", "conservative", and a whole lot of others. Now I can follow those people but still spend my time thinking about the things that matter to me instead of politics. And over time, that literally changes my brain.