skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a rather biased interpretation of events.

The controversy started with questionable sponsorship decisions for NixCon, which brought the entire project leadership under scrutiny as it wasn't the first time this had happened.

This, along with some more long-term issues contributed to the creation of an open letter[^1] criticizing the BDFL of Nix. How valid you consider the criticisms is not for me to decide, but I don't think dismissively reducing the issue to a "woke takeover" is helpful.

[1] https://save-nix-together.org/
I really like https://wireframesketcher.com/

No cloud dependencies, and a lifetime license for $99. These are becoming rarer and rarer
Not sure that's true, the answer is "it depends".

Is your app a content website? Does it have interactive features? Is it a tool that has no state? Does it have tons of transient state? Do you depend on SEO for this thing? Do you need it to work offline?

It's far too easy to think of the web as "the thing that feeds you text articles while you are actively connected to the Internet" and lose sight of the fact that as time goes on more and more software use cases are moving to it whether you like it or not.

If it was not the preferred way to receive software as a user, software made using non-web stacks would have an immediate advantage over web stack ones. Obviously the opposite is true.
I find this very convincing. I had the same thought on a trip to Italy.

Everyone’s old, and the local tech is very good at the things those people liked when they were young in the 70’s and 80’s.

Clearly there is lots of good engineering there but not for this new computer thing.
An Age of Hyperabundance
How we distribute the surplus of production is decided democratically even with the current main knobs (taxes, income transfers, regulation, etc). And of we're not limited to existing tunables. Exercising this choice would need to start by citizens becoming active with this of course.
They give us cure, while they hide our true medicine which is 'ls -1 | xargs cat | grep <search term>'.
It may not be that simple. A lot of city and state tax revenue comes from commercial real estate...
I can't say why you were downvoted but that's still pretty slow for relays.

One bit per second seems more like it's aimed at casual human decoding. Especially because each digit is encoded separately, even for the hours. Also for plain old range purposes, one transmission per minute is about as wide as you can go before things get silly.
Ah ok. However I do think they assumed in-orbit refueling for the DearMoon mission. Starship was designed from the get go to only barely make LEO with a very large payload (or go a bit further with a smaller payload) and then anything higher energy would require refueling the vehicle.
Even more ambitious, according to Wikipedia the original launch date was planned for late 2018 on a Falcon Heavy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DearMoon_project#History
Translator-typesetter here, yes you are right, I was to revisit the intial few pages and was "warming up" this was one of my first attempt. Will do so in the upcoming revision
The Linux kernel is already like that. The two requirements for it are (1) that the license is copyleft rather than permissive, and (2) that the project accepts significant external contributions without requiring a CLA that gives the upstream authors extra rights.
There's probably also a cultural perspective, where people are generally more ready to defer to authority. Say for example the boss of a company is an old man who's been with the company for 50 years... and he doesn't want to change how the receipts are processed... and nobody will challenge him.
That's why my links were not clickable. Thanks again.

Yeah, okay. I will do that.
I think something like this can be useful to show your customers that something is a functional prototype and not a finished product.

This works if you can switch out
The design as in the old "napkin look&feel" for Swing.[0]

Sadly I think "change design by switching out a theme" has long died as an idea in the web space.

[0] https://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/
I am so sad that Blitz.js kind of… well, I’m not sure what it did, but it didn’t Ruby/Rails.

And my IDE had a reeeeally hard time keeping up because of its size. All the defaults were “sensible” as advertised, but the codebase was massive when I hopped off. Maybe it’s improved? This is my sign to check back in.
60 kHz is “long wave”, a frequency so low you could almost still hear. It's just thrice the upper limit of ~20 kHz for the human ear.

I love how my wristwatch eats sunlight at day (solar-powered) and drinks radio waves at night. Never has to change a battery and shows time as accurately as any internet-connected device that listens to NTP.
Here in the Netherlands the 'ijzerboer' will pick up anything made with sufficient percentages of steel. Washing machines included. Soms places you need to call them, in some they just drive through once a week.
I can't but feel this is running head first into statements versus expressions.

Specifically the part that views effects as growing in size and that being contrary to desired behavior. Strikes me as worrying about similar concerns.

Seems more that it is the eager evaluation of each line of code that is a problem. Nothing wrong with growing the footprint of concern on code. The problem is how to annotate the concern.

Consider, adding 'logger.whatever(...)' is likely not a concern to the program. Being able to annotate the logger as not an effect to check makes sense. Of course, all edge cases matter. Are the arguments eagerly evaluated? What if the logger doesn't even use them, due to level?

With lisp, the magic wasn't only that you can treat code as data, but also that you could define code that ran at different times. And you could largely do that in "user space."
I'm quite happy we don't have one dominant framework in JS. We have good tools for specific tasks and glueing them together is easy in JS land. Not having a big framework dictate your options is actually quite liberating.
What Negative Adjectives Mean to Your Brain
> Make it so that people can just reflash the memory at a minimum

Letting the 0.1% of geeks who know how to and are interested in spending time on it reflash their hardware doesn't actually solve the problem in any meaningful way.
> says Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist who sold an AI startup to Uber in 2016

for context, Marcus has a quite bearish view on AI and lots of others, most prominently Yann LeCun, disagree with Marcus.
> A generation ago everybody's name and address were in the phone book, and we were better off for it.

Were we? Anyone who has ever been stalked would disagree with you. There's a reason "doxxing" is considered a bad thing.
Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime
then stop giving them money
How to Build a Satellite
I never ceased to be surprised at the clarity of thought that Dan can bring to even ostensibly qualitative topics.

I had the rare pleasure of catching up with him briefly not all that long ago and we somehow stumbled onto trying to describe our individual specializations. I don’t remember if I actually articulated this or realized it shortly after, but my conclusion is the same.

Dan is many things: a mathematician, an electrical engineer, a discrete logic specialist, a computer scientist. He’s a demonstrated expert in all of these things.

But the unifying theme is Dan’s real speciality, which is rather general in utility: rigor.

An excellent essay and an excellent analysis as usual. If you haven’t read his entire catalog, I recommend anyone passionate about drawing plausible conclusions or building things meant to last do so.
Nothing so complicated guys, it is because they are Japanese.

Obviously they can get rid of fax machines and Do Tech Better.

Here, go to a 7 floor electronics store and you'll see Walmart style greeters in larger numbers. Wall to wall. If you buy a washing machine you'll spend hours and meet a whole lot of uniformed employees to show you deference. Like the whole staff of that floor. You get to meet a village where everybody "loves" each other.

As if the store employees themselves cooperatively and humbly assembled the washing machine as a team effort. And no one person stands out.

An artisanal washing machine that crafts people diligently slaved away at making bespoke just for you. And sacred reams of paperwork they will equally fill out with the outmost of care and send by well trained hawk if need be. The more effort and "care" spent the better.

Or you can just order it online on the website for that very store. Same price. So what the hell?

I think it is because they don't view BS jobs as a bad thing but rather as necessary for an inclusive and harmonious society.

Theirs Not to Reason Why, Theirs But to Do and Die.
Mine still has a forest next door that was cut down 8-9 yrs ago.
What use is prehistory to the historian?
That looks interesting! Any tips on getting an invite?
Actually you can. Just don't give them your SSN. I did this with Kaiser Permanente and it continues to work just fine.
My experience with going from Heroku Postgres to Crunchy Data (specific Crunchy Bridge) has been really good. Their product has been absolutely rock solid but what really made the difference was their support. They provided a huge amount of pre-sales support while I planned the move (and even suggested mitigations for the problems I was having with Heroku Postgres to make moving less urgent). Post-sales support has been just as good, though mostly I don’t even have to think about the database hosting anymore.

I also moved my app hosting to NorthFlank from Heroku and have been really happy with that as well. It’s got the features I always wanted on Heroku (simple things like grouping different types of instances together into projects really helps) plus again excellent responsive support.
For the makers here, you can purchase cheap small modules that interface to any microcontroller, including most popular ones like AVR (Arduino), ESP32, etc. so that they can receive and decode time signals from WWVB or the European equivalent DCF77. Just search for "WWVB (or DCF77) module" at the usual online shops.
> the only winning move is not to play.

And with so much sun, that is a very viable option. A roof covered in solar and some batteries and you'll never deal with this nonsense ever again.
Apple car key kind of sucks, without UWB, the phone is at best a key of last resort. Tesla doesn’t use it, and supports UWB from what I hear, so it actually works as a replacement fob.
> Tools are weird like text editors where people get religious about some brands over others.

That’s because time is money.
He got his peerage nomination whilst Dominic Cummings was Johnson's advisor. I am not sure if the fact that Cummings lived in Russia from his graduation till 1997 has had any bearing on this nomination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings
Yeah, it feels like writing bash in Haskell. I don't know if it's a reflection of the core problem domain though - it feels like it might be.
I use GitHub Copilot for simple tasks like line completion and writing functions.

For bigger tasks I use ChatGPT macOS desktop app.

I also built a simple desktop tool (https://prompt.16x.engineer/) that help me embed source code context into the prompt.

This way I can copy paste the prompt directly into ChatGPT, instead of relying on IDE extensions.
The IRS prays for citizens like you!
You could go for a Fujitsu Futro S740. Costs around 70 Bucks and often comes preinstalled with Proxmox (which is Debian under the hood), depending on the seller :-)
If you are in the spying business, an online edition makes it easier than the print edition.
I was sailboating this weekend, I know how to change tack. I also know that you can be on the wrong track. My decision of which metaphor to use was deliberate.
> did anyone really believe a 2023 launch, of Starship around the moon, with people on board no less

Yeah. It is weird. I can believe that it was a tentative “yeah, let’s pencil in that date” kind of plan. But it makes no sense to pick a firm date and then cancel the whole thing when things inevitably slip. Or at least that puts me into question how serious they ever was about the project?
During the pandemic it came down to just a few singular accounts, apparently.[1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...
Not detonating entire neighborhoods with dilapidated natural gas pipelines. Not poisoning entire communities and their wells with hexavalent chromium. Not having half your wikipedia page dedicated to Disasters and Controversies.

There are other power providers in California that aren't nearly so horrific. It seems that publicly traded companies operating a natural monopolies on behalf of the public is probably just a bad idea.
are you kidding? Serious theft could easily result in death by lynching in the early 20th century, and in some places, later.
If you have IBS-C, then a little fart is experienced as being doubled over in pain for hours, being unable to sleep because of the pain and wondering whether you have a medical emergency. Not everyone is the same.
Will SpaceX refund the money that Yusaku Maezawa paid?
Same one about the combo here. Almost every person I ask has some variation on that one. Crazy how universal it is in my world, especially since it's usually about something that would have happened 20 or 30 years ago, but never really happened.
Look at the bio of his advisor and your jaw drops fast and hard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings
For wireframing on your phone, with hand drawn style: https://www.tinyux.app

It has a non-standard ux, since I didn't want drag-drop on a small touch screen.
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Milk and milk products with beneficial bacteria useful in digesting and tolerating said milk is what’s been around for millennia not the stuff we pick up at the grocery store.

Even though we’ve been doing it for a long time it still feels like an odd thing for the human animal to do. If one exists I can imagine a creator yelling “you’re not humming correctly!”
Just a comment, these drugs are very expensive. Especially as these aren't one time treatments but are taken daily, costing patients 1000s a month.
nobody needs to install windows when they get a PC these days
Sure-- as we've discussed endlessly here: compression and ML are really very close cousins. I never said it was a bad question.
It's downstream of a cultural difference. JS devs aren't as obsessed with their software ecosystem as PHP or Ruby devs.

You can put all species of tech worker on a spectrum of more to less ecosystem-focused. At the extreme end you have, like, OpenBSD "sysadmins" who are more hardcore than most actual programmers, who do everything in KSH and C and try to avoid installing new packages to their boxes if at all possible. Most backend-first programming languages are around the middle of this spectrum. And most frontend developers are on the other end. They're very much of the mindset that installing a package now that makes their immediate job marginally easier, even if it means they have to come back to it in 3 months to update the dependency, is a worthwhile tradeoff (maybe it leads to more billable hours).

So you don't get unassailable home run successes like Rails in the JS world. What you do get is a constant, diffuse process of tinkering and improvements, which is often underrated by HN type readers because we just want our code from 1/5/10 years ago to work without changes.

In the macro I think the healthiest thing is to simply jump around on this spectrum on a regular basis to max out the rewards to learning at any given point.
It's only much better if you care about cache misses, right? I think for a 10x10 array we can safely ignore performance concerns.
nobody knows these brands apart from Linux users.

> agree it is so simple an quick to do the installations that it is not such a problem anymore.

I wonder if people here are sometimes exposed to non technical users. You would be very surprised.
I think a large part is that everything has a documented procedure. Just look how people work at banks or government offices. Or the documentation for just about anything. You'll find 2 pages documentation about how to fill a rather simple web form.

Changing the procedure is also a procedure, and is rarely done in disruptive ways.
They have the same Suica type chips embedded in the Japanese iPhone models, big whoop. One can't help but eyeball a stupid and expensive phone and a hair thin flexible Suica card and shrug.

You could also cut that chip out and put it on a cute keychain. :)
Nice find. This commit: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/af43932c20d5b59cdffca454... from April 4.
most people dont buy a Steam Deck to use it as a computer.
The Financial Times seems to be doing well. But it’s a premium product for an audience with money.

I think they are probably a good model for future newspapers, whereas the evening standard seems to be a general newspaper without much to distinguish it from the competition.
What’s toxic about circumventing geofencing?
> Argentina where titles are often up to 60% cheaper due to the strength of the local currency

I assume they mean the opposite about the Argentine Peso?
You mean I know nothing about the conflict because I insist on the observation that many native Russian speaking Ukrainians refuse to speak Russian because of the war, including the Russian speaking Ukrainian president?

Maybe your wife does not know much about the conflict. How does she feel about glide bombs on her home town, on civilian buildings?
What does she think why Ukrainians call the town Charkiv and not Charkow? Can you tell me the answer, oh wise man of conspiracy theories.
There is not much 'getting caught' happening.

It's all layers of legalized scams. Business expenses, mortgage interests on investment properties, technically charitable donations, massive tax exempt funds, etc. And all these interacting in creative ways.
Have you tried this?

https://docs.amplify.aws/gen1/javascript/tools/cli/usage/exp...

I haven't yet but sure I hope it works
In Erlang, messages can bring state to a gen_server, and the accumulations of state are sliced very small and spread out through the system.

The problem with imperative languages is the accumulation of global shared state. Worst case the interactions between those states grow factorially. Best case they grow logarithmically, but practically you will have to constantly fight against it trending toward n^1/2 instead, which is not sustainable.

No I think effects need homes and letting them talk to each other is a formal introduction (friction) not the unending piles of expediencies you see in companies that will soon collapse under their own weight.
Not sure why Steam is in the headline as the cause when this is really on Sony. Adding region restrictions well after release was a terrible decision on their part and I think Steam being very lenient with refunds was the best they could do given the situation.
I assume they mean the Russian community is toxic in the in game chat when they play games. It's a very common stereotype along with Chinese username players being cheaters
Merely a ~20 million reduction, nothing to sneeze at.
I hate it to be true but when you spend time in competitive online games like Counter Strike you really start to sigh when you read a Cyrillic username.

They usually don't communicate, unless it's insults and God forbid you play with a woman in your team then it's full on sexism mode.
'“I do not see a lot of benefit in allowing people to send unrestricted amounts of retweets in a day,” Grinberg says.'

I do not see a lot of benefit in allowing Grinberg to speak on policy matters.
I don't think it's accurate to say the courts were in opposition to the PS government. PiS appointed lots of their own judges in their years in power who often decided along lines that PiS wanted. The biggest example of course being the Constitutional Tribunal.

Sure there were judges who opposed PiS, but there were plenty who did not. This guy, who is now in Belarus, is an example of one of PiS's pet judges

https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/05/06/polish-judge-flees-to...
You have to go through a first run wizard to set up your Microsoft account, etc. even on a computer with Windows preinstalled. At least that was my experience a few years ago, and I doubt it has changed.
Not the good RTO (Rostered Time Off)
Is there an actual source for this? Where is the 20,000 number coming from? There are no references to back up any of the claims in the article
Hey, i'm writing one too! (for fun) https://github.com/edg-l/edlang
The AI hype seems like a last ditch effort to pool investment into the one area of tech with possible hypergrowth. Very desperate and different from the boom in on-demand startups that both preceded and hyper-charged during the pandemic. Not to mention all of the other types of startups that were big prior to a couple years ago (the gig economy was only one segment of many).

No idea what's going on with GME or AMC, but I'm sure there's some sort of r/WSB-specific in-universe reason for it. This article was also written quite early in the pandemic. It's best to look at other examples besides meme stocks. And hey, Tesla is finally cooling down.
Quite a few people are on HN and Lobste.rs. Usually if you ask here in a noticeable way, you can find somebody who will hook you up with an invite, although everyone has their own criteria on who they'll invite if they don't know you personally.

My take? I usually look at someone's HN post history and if it appears that they are a reasonable person who conducts themselves in a reasonable, moderately professional, respectful way, I'll invite them.

So yeah, feel free to drop your email here, or shoot me an email at the address mentioned in my profile, and I'd be happy to invite you.
How to become an Open Source Software contributor?
Correct attitude. Stay away from financial contracts.
It depends how long you’re willing to wait for those advances in open source.

For a fair comparison of “advancement” in open source you have to discuss free open source applications where a commercial version of a similar app exists.

Photoshop vs Gimp, Illustrator vs Inkscape, Microsoft office vs libre etc etc. objectively speaking the commercial version is going to be better across the board.

Open source variants are getting closer these days like Blender and Godot but you’re on a different scale of waiting for those advances to catch up vs the commercial for profit versions.
I found some Beelink Celeron based systems on Amazon for less than USD200. 16GB RAM, 512MB SSD, Wifi 6, etc. Performs massively better than my Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB.

It's very simple to download Debian Bookworm and make a bootable USB stick. Takes less than hour to get the system installed and up and running.
1. The business decision was to provide affiliate links as a suggestion, not replace the queries by default. This is proven by the fact that all the money making features in Brave are disabled by default and are opt-in.

2. Brendan Eich never said that it was supposed to be turned on by default, hence a bug.

3. Brave stopped the affiliate link partnership.

4. Brave is the only mainstream browser at the moment that does not advertise in the address bar. Even Firefox runs ads there BY DEFAULT!

I don't see what one gets from being so biased against a browser company that fixed a bug even before it became a news?
Google conducts sweeping layoffs in its Cloud unit
True, although you could always consider cutting a hole in your newspaper and spying through that. Seems to be a favourite of spies.