skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real constant is that people get very possessive about their neighbourhood and are keen to defend it from any change or deviation from the perfect image. To the detriment of everyone else's property rights. I do wonder whether this is mostly an Anglosphere thing, though. Edit: oh and Germany, see rest of thread.
What blog engine? Usually with PHP applications you clone the repo, copy .env boilerplate, enter database credentials, run Composer to fetch dependencies and do some setup tasks, then boot the application.
I prefer the 3rd option as well, and I like the idea of avoiding email sending and just storing the data on the VM, then making it available via an interface. @superkuh had a really nice idea to just store the data in files, that way I don't have to think about which database / what schema to pick.

Definitely wouldn't want to share email/phone number though. I've done it before and ended up with spam.
In many cases now it's primarily about shifting the tax burden on the cost of public roads/sewers ect.
No screenshots? ;p

Also - IMNSHO the obvious name for this project is Zoom - but that's been taken by a similar game where you slay your coworkers by talking too much.

The next obvious candidate therefore is Dork :)
It will also create a system of idiots. As in limit peoples development, retain the less capable and chase away the capable.
Awesome news, another in the line of big recent EU regulations trying to improve consumer rights and acces to fair goods and services.
> Except for Texas, I have not heard of being forced into an HOA.

What's the story with Texas?
But how much would it contract when you can rent the properties out? Rental and purchase prices are linked - the price floor of a house is related to how much you can rent it out for if you sold it to a landlord (or kept it yourself to rent to people). People would stop buying houses and start renting. The demand for renting would go up, and for buying would go down.
But the uncommon use cases are... uncommon. Not that they should be ignored, but then I don't get why it seems like everybody avoids Wayland.
This means that journals can't prevent you from uploading a preprint though. A few publishers do this [1]. Even if the upload isn't enforced it means the restriction can't be either.

But it's odd that the paper must be in the institute's repository and not one of a larger list of preprint servers. I would assume the authors would much rather put a paper on arXiv than on their shoddy university repository.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_publishers_by...
We did a book club at my previous company. We voted on the first book, Despair by Nabokov. The interesting thing is that the ones who voted on this book didn't end up reading it. The ones who did read that book had voted on something else and, at least in my case, forced themselves to read Despair.

My guess is that a lot of those people who voted on Despair and proposed it were trying to show off how smart and educated they were but those type of people don't actually follow through because it's work.
WhatsApp is (or was) using XMPP for the chat part too, right?

When I was IT person on a research ship, WhatsApp was a nice easy one to get working with our "50+ people sharing two 256kbps uplinks" internet. Big part of that was being able to QoS prioritise the XMPP traffic which WhatsApp was a big part of.

Not having to come up with filters for HTTPS for IP ranges belonging to general-use CDNs that managed to hit the right blocks used by that app, was a definite boon. That, and the fact XMPP was nice and lightweight.

As far as I know google cloud messaging (GCN? GCM? firebase? Play notifications? Notifications by Google? Google Play Android Notifications Service?) also did/does use XMPP, so we often had the bizarre and infuriating very fast notifications _where sometimes the content was in the notification_ but when you clicked on it, other apps would fail to load it due to the congestion and latency and hardcoded timeouts TFA mentions.. argh.

But WhatsApp pretty much always worked, as long as the ship had an active WAN connection.... And that kept us all happy, because we could reach our families.
This is why I very heavily favour functional tests or broad use-case based integration tests that are implementation agnostic. Save your highly coupled unit/property based tests for algorithmic code or weird edge cases when things are settled. More generally, even many TDD people advocate “spike then stabilise” as an approach.
I like a lot the "rule of three" when it comes to have to choose when to DRY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...
Yea here the government removed a mural from a hostel facade because it 'disturbed' the monument protected building adjacent to it.

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/04/berlin-hostel-...
Thanks Henrik! Your blog post inspired me back then to start a book club at my company. It’s still running :-)
Does this bill includes an obligation for manufacturers to sell spare parts at a reasonable price ? Or has clauses against malicious compliance like apple did with the infamous military crates ?
I fooled around with Inform for a while a few years back, it's like writing an adventure game within the natural language interpreter itself, complete with all the interpreter's quirks and deficiencies. Battling against this was a fun challenge and a game in itself. Some people are productive in it, somehow.
> I never understood how the idea of HOAs became acceptable.

They became popular in the US as a means of redlining - early ones overtly stated which race of people were allowed to live there. That practice was banned, so now there's just a residual tendency to extreme conformism as a way of keeping out "undesirables".
Why is there gatekeeping of "professional" repairers and "repair services"? Why can't I as a consumer view a service manual and buy a part? If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.
Such a useful tool for photographers! Thanks!
Same, I thought hmm, RedPanda already has a kafka replacement
Holy shit anyone else notice the "accept cookies" options on this page, where "Accept" is a tiny checkmark and "Reject" is a large text button?
> End users do not care about the browser engine.

But that's the problem, isn't it? Google controls Chromium, everybody uses Chromium, so Google controls the web.
It's useful to have options. In particular, I prefer RSS/Atom feeds (polled once a day), rather than visiting Web pages to check for updates "manually". HNReplies lets me treat comment replies in the same way (I'm currently consuming both in Thunderbird; in the past I converted RSS to maildir and consumed both in Emacs).
why do you believe HN is a good example?

HN promotes the worldview of the Orange Checkmarks and minimizes or flags most dissent or contrary views

Most people who think HN is quality discussion just see others who mostly conform to their own worldview and think it is healthy

HN is also decaying into low-quality mob-discussions like gossip about OpenAI
Because it is these professional repairers lobbying for the laws.

This sort of thing always aims to get the law to identify some kind of professional certification needed to qualify, and then that certification gets more expensive and limited (eg. by saying studying a specific course is needed, but only X thousand places are offered per year).

Eventually, people who have done that course and qualification get so expensive that that becomes their only job, and you won't find a handyman-type person qualified to do those tasks.
I'm not sure what you mean by that.

In any case it's not a "lecture" in the scalding meaning of the word. Explaining why something is bad is better than simply downvoting.
The table of contents makes me feel like the book title should be "How to use a computer like a scientist" - computer science already has a meaning which is quite different.
Wow, I had such an idea years ago when walking under blazing sun following gps directions, I wished that it would plan the route according to shade.
I’m in an HOA and they’re pretty fine. Mostly focus on snow removal and keeping people from parking their nine hundred snow mobiles in the guest spots.

We meet once a year to vote on crap. Key is to not have a group of people with nothing better to do.
HOAs are a questionable entity in high-trust societies.

In low-trust societies you wish for an HOA and would gladly pay 10x your property tax to be in one that has rules and enforcement teeth.

Even something as simple as forcing the guy who keeps smoking and talking on speakerphone next to your window from 4pm to 1am to stop doing that.
Even if not, it's still possible to break up other devices to scavenge parts to resell, as long as the manufacturer doesn't software lock the parts together.
Yes, though server side rendering is everything but a new thing in the react world. NextJS, Remix, Astro and many other frameworks and approaches exist (and have done so for at least five years) to make sure pages are small and efficient to load.
Interesting concept, but in practice the experience is just a simplified Wikipedia hole. I enjoy all the hyperlinks in Wikipedia articles: they let me decide how deep I want to go rather than get a short summary with only a few pre-generated links.

This adds a lot more barriers to knowledge exploration (and the GPT is likely trained on Wikipedia anyways) and doesn't provide sources.
A trustworthy choice, though I'm confused what happens after you exceed the 100 subs/month. Their pricing page seems to suggest that you pay more than $19/month since the Pro plan also has the 100 subs limit. Looks like I'm not the only one: https://answers.netlify.com/t/netlify-forms-pricing-model-19...
Even if they have something good to say, the end result is that they can ship their spyware more efficiently. I'd rather give an audience to someone who is working on a project that helps humanity.
FYI, Space Norway will launch two satellites this summer on a Falcon 9 that will be going in a HEO orbit, among the payloads on the satellites is a Viasat/Inmarsat Ka-band payload which will provide coverage north of 80 degrees. Latency will probably be GEO+, but coverage is coverage I guess. :-)
These guys dying in the thousands but oligarchs are untouchable. That's what I don't get.
No, thanks to ublock-origin
I feel a book / podcast tour coming ;-)
I miss those days. I think reputation is a big part of keeping things civil. And enabling reputation means that you just can’t have too many people. So my dream social network would be invite-only groups with a slow growth rate. It’s not easy to get in to a group so people will behave.

There are currently really good interest-oriented Discord groups, you just have to seek them out. Unfortunately Discord has pretty horrible search and discoverability.
Does anyone else notice that this comment is offtopic and beside the point?
Iirc at the time there was still "at fault divorce", and the divorce settlement was influenced by who was at fault. So a (likely overly charitable reading) of the entire thing is that Feynman agreed to be portrayed in a bad light to achieve a fairer Deal for his soon to be ex wife.
> I have about two dozen very close friends (both male and female)

That is incredible. I never have more than two at the same time! My social network is normally tiny.
Professional repairs are the ones lobbying for right to repair laws? Do you have proof for this outlandish claim?
Meaning more employees and then more overhead.
My beef with people moving to Linux because they are pissed at Windows is that often, they don't want Linux. Or said differently, they want Linux to look and feel like Windows, and push for that.

I have seen many developers who are on Ubuntu apparently because it's free, but they behave like if it was Windows. They don't understand that Linux is not just Ubuntu and that they should not assume that everybody is running exactly their version of Ubuntu.

IMO if they want something that looks and feel like Windows, they should stay on Windows.
There was no explanation why was he ordered to hide the boat? Sounds weird to me, its your yard and its a boat, not some PG13 item.
> Trying to use all the patterns is a bad thing, because you will end up with synthetic designs

That's how you learn. We don't become seniors overnight.
It'd be quite ironic if a "right to repair" would have provisions designed to prevent people from repairing their own electronics, because a business interest lobbied for that.

(Contemplate an "open-source" license where the source is provided upon request, to government-licensed software professionals, and otherwise unavailable. We'd be living in this world if history went only very slightly differently. You can't invent that (FOSS) kind of radical sociology after the regulators catch up to you—let alone expect regulators to invent it for you).
NHS in England offering world first cancer vaccine trials
No clue what LORA is.
But I've assumed they choose confusing names so it's more difficult to search for reviews or technical info about the modems online.

See: "TVCABO" vs "NOS" ["We"]. "TMN" vs "Meo" ["mine", mispelled].
Hiring more employees costs money.
I travel a lot. Slow internet is pretty common. Also, right now my mobile data ran out and I'm capped at 8 kbps.

Websites that are Just Text On A Page should load fast, but many don't. Hacker News is blazing fast, but Google's API docs never load.

The worst problem is that most UIs fail to account for slow requests. Buttons feel broken. Things that really shouldn't need megabytes of data to load still take minutes to load or just fail. Google Maps' entire UI is broken.

I wish that developers spent more time designing and testing for slow internet. Instead we get data hungry websites that only work great on fast company laptops with fast internet.

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On a related note, I run a website for a living, and moving to a static site generators was one of the best productivity moves I've made.

Instead of the latency of a CMS permeating everything I do, I edit text files at blazing speed, even when fully offline. I just push changes once I'm back online. It's a game changer.
From where I'm from (Southeast Asia), slow internet is common in provincial and remote areas. It's like the OP's experience in South Pole but slower.

That's why I always cringe at these fancy-looking UI cross-platform apps since I know they will never work in a remote environment. Also, that is why offline support is very important. I only use Apple Notes and Things 3, both work tremendously in such remote settings.

Imagine your notes or to-do list (ehem Basecamp) not loading since it needs internet connection
Indeed. There are plenty of things that I will teach my kids are not worth the downsides.

As for your medical examples - those devices work fine without a smartphone. Certifying a medical device that includes the user's smartphone as a key part of the therapy is very challenging, and avoided if possible.
It depends. My brother worked a 4 day week when he had his daughter, same reasons as you. He loved taking Wednesday off, since he never had more than 2 consecutive days in the office He really doesn't like offices...
There are websites that sell many parts for many appliances (espares.co.uk in the UK, for instance, and they also have many user manuals). I already replaced the handle of an old fridge and the seal of a washing machine that way. Even replaced the toner driver of a laser printer once.

The reality is that this "right to repair" is nothing but political fluff and brings very little or might even make appliances more expensive for consumers.

> If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.

Exactly and there is nothing that can be done about that. Most people aren't going to take their washing machine, or what not, apart by themselves even if parts and manuals are available, which they already are. Hence my previous point.
If that's the case then detectable (if a magnitude or two weaker) pulses of the same phenomenon should have followed the widespread availability and access to the printing press and perhaps the telephone.
My initial reaction is "if there's one thing this world and this industry doesn't need any more of, it's people half-assing it."

But, who knows, maybe that means I should do the exercise.
I get two equally sized buttons on desktop, "I accept cookies" and "I refuse cookies". But it's an official EU page after all, would a be pretty bad show if they had one of those dark-pattern cookie banners where "Accept" is a single click but refusing requires to go through pages and pages of checkboxes ;)
What a delight to experience something this old being put together, and imagine the feeling of glee the first time you actually heard something.

I still remember the smell the first time I touched an out-in-the-open antenna loading coil while transmitting. LOL
I think monopoly laws should be used to combat this problem instead.

"Repair of apple devices" is a market with many participants, including apple itself. If Apple uses its power in the "design and manufacture of apple devices" market to unfairly influence its position in the "repair of apple products" market, then that should be illegal and they should be fined for it.

An example would be software locking serial numbers of parts together and requiring a special in-house-only piece of software to replace parts.
Tried multiple VPNs in China and finally rolled my own obfuscation layer for Wireshark. A quick search revealed there are multiple similar projects on GitHub, but I guess the problem is once they get some visibility, they don't work that well anymore. I'm still getting between 1 and 10mbit/s (mostly depending on time of day) and pretty much no connectivity issues.
It works remarkably well when your phone runs out of data and you get capped at 8 kbps. Even voice calls work smoothly.
For a long piece that doesn’t once mention Erlang or Elixir, it’s the strongest argument for using them I’ve read.

You could literally replace every part of any of the stacks he mentioned with Erlang. Python/PHP, cron, memcache, even the databases in the extreme case. It’s an older tech, too, so in his model this amounts to spending m zero innovation tokens for the entire stack.
Documentation Refresh for LangChain v0.2
McGill and you got it backwards. Open Access has a quite clear definition.[0] Publishers have co-opeded the term and dopne everything to confuse the issue. All the so-called open access colours are mainly publisher made, to water down the true OA definition.

[0] https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
I guess this calculator [1] and tools such as [2] and [3] might help you, as well.

[1]: https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html

[2]: https://findmyshadow.com/

[3]: http://shadowcalculator.eu/
> Just do what's easiest for you, I say this respectfully it is not worth your time agonizing over a feedback form

I agree, it's not worth agonizing over the form before every single project. But I've done a few projects with feedback forms and I realised I can't answer what's the easiest way to do it, and it annoyed me. I'm glad I posted this question because I discovered much simpler solutions.

> when there are times I really want to give feedback I'll look for a contact email and just send it straight there

I wouldn't choose showing my contact email, it'll get spammed for eternity.
I lived in a community with an HOA for 5 years and never had any issue. Like you say, it existed primarily to ensure the upkeep of common facilities (pool, private road, gym, and community building).
The only real rule I remember them enforcing (and fairly loosely, at that) was that residents were not allowed to park long term in visitor parking spots. Which to me seemed like a perfectly sensible rule.
> "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night."

God, I love this quote. It describes me to a T in my 20s (except replace "calculus" with "programming"). Everyone that I dated complained similarly. I used to drag that Bjarne Stroustrup tome "The C++ Programming Language" everywhere I went. I couldn't get enough of that C++ bible at the time. His writing style really helped to open my mind to become a better programmer.
The most vocal person behind the right to repair movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k

Oh, and he runs a professional repair shop...
Luis Rossmann is a professional repair shop owner is known to lobby right to repair laws.
Really? I don't even get consistent internet on the Ringbahn. There are lots of holes in the coverage in Berlin.

Which provider are you with? Vodafone is still dead in large parts of the U-Bahn, but I know that one of them works much better.
Which reputable chromium fork will support v2 extensions?
The data doesn't have to be tied to me directly to affect me directly.
If my clicks suggest that I'm a wealthy woman, isn't that the reason enough to try and connect me with advertisers that try to sell overpriced shoes? Let's downrank all the good deals, surely she can't be interested in 10$ sneakers.
If my clicks suggest that I'm from Russia|Ukraine, isn't that the reason enough to show me one side of the news more then the other?

In some way our interests define us more then social security number assigned.
It's provider-specific
This is one of my favourite HN comments, it’s so true.

Here in the UK the boomers were able to work one job, get a house on an easy mortgage and now they’re old and have nothing to do they campaign against any development that might slightly inconvenience them or reduce their house price (spoiler, most developments wouldn’t)
Seems like just copied from runestone site: https://runestone.academy/ns/books/published/thinkcspy/index...

See also: https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/
your comment is self defeating.

for example, the audience of a site might be in southern Africa, with same bad connectivity, but the EU/UN site developers are in the north so they don't care and the consequences are in program adoption that fails to blame that. Or you might be doing business with a coffee producer and now your spiffy ERP is missing data because it's too much effort for them to update the orders, so your procurement team have to hire an intern to do it over the phone costing you an extra 2k a month. Or which is more likely for the crowd here, yall losing clients left and right because your lazy sysadmin blocked entire country ip ranges because once they saw a single DoS wave from there.
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> You pay the publisher a large sum of money for the “right” to self-publish the preprint, and they still paywall it

There's no APC with Green OA, so what money are you talking about? Green OA is regular publishing, but with self archiving. There will be a version freely available, and the publishers aren't paid for that privilege.

If you want a route to the death of publishers, green OA is a promising one.

(I think the headline ought to emphasise that this is pushing green OA, which is the interesting bit)
> S3 isn’t the only service that works this way, Hosted Cognito UI endpoints do something similar (https://[your-user-pool-domain]/login).

Basically every new service that expects to deal with a lot of traffic should work this way (we did this also for AWS IoT). It's a hell of a lot easier to deal with load balancing and request routing if you can segment resources starting at the DNS level...
When it doesn't have height data it seems to set every building to the same height. Interesting, but it does make it inaccurate in my country.
This is a bit like asking what is the best car. It really depends on your needs.

You will constantly be trading off between search quality, speed, and cost.
Those are all the same, I don’t see an issue