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> Not related to encryption, but "child safety" seems to be a really popular subject for ushering in all kinds of overreaching policies.

Approximately the same age as pretending everything is a slippery slope the other way.

Who knew: extremists are evergreen and forever doomed to not be reasonable by definition.
There is an Slashdot comment written in 2003 by Mike Paquete, who was working on graphics for the Mac, titled "Why Apple didn't use X for the window system":

https://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75257&cid=67...

Note that the title of the comment implies that Apple had the option of incorporating X into OS X, as do these next 2 quotes:

"The window system . . . is graphics model agnostic, working equally well with QuickDraw, OpenGL, the Quartz drawing engine, X11"

(The final sentence) "Been there, evaluated that," where "that" is a reference to X11. (If X11 was not ever an option for OS X, there would be no need for an Apple engineer like Paquete to evaluate it.)

Although it makes points similar to the point you make (namely, some at NeXT or at Apple considered it important for hardcopy to look like it did on screen), Paquete's comment gives many other reasons that have nothing to do with hardcopy for why X was lacking for Apple's purposes.

To summarize, Apple rejected X back in the 1990s for many reasons, most of which cannot be dismissed as demands from the past.
> What can go wrong ? /s

Okay but seriously - what would you expect to go wrong? Tools explicitly looking for and breaking on symlinks is a bug on their side; that's a perfectly reasonable approach to take.
Well the JWST is in fact a thing. Why not keep getting science from the old ones while they're still working?

NASA really needs to just fill their telescopes with gyros upon gyros, like just plaster the things with gyros and reaction wheels for 50x redundancy since that's always the mission critical thing that fails first. Or maybe a xenon powered ion reaction control system or something that would last longer then hydrazine.
> Allow es modules to be require()-ed. It's be synchronous and slow and ideologically impure, but it'll make it so that millions of projects (mostly private!) will be able to start adopting es modules without a massive refactor.

This is already available in Node.js 22 [1] with ` --experimental-require-module` flag.

[1]: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/v22-release-announc...
Below Zero is easier to play with less building, give it a try.
Several replies say passing and repealing legislation (and regulation) is technically symmetrical. Who really thinks that's more than technically true?
Considering that they are considered a relative star company of Russia, they probably should have been included in the 2014 sanctions or at least the 2022 sanctions.
So to save a little bit of plastic you'd spend much more energy on everything else? Why not just use glass for milk and paper for tea?
Show HN: Refeed.to: Replay blogs and RSS feeds
ReFeed.to, a service to replay blog feeds from the beginning. What does that mean? Well, let me tell you why I built it.

I've often been recommended blogs that are many years old and/or have become dormant. The sites are still active, so I could binge read all of the posts at once, but I'd much prefer the articles to be incrementally added to the feed that I read each day from my feed reader. But if I just added the RSS feed directly from the blog, I'd miss all of the original content up to that point in time.

So I build refeed to as a way to ingest the blogs via my daily newsfeed. Enter the URL for a site, and an atom feed is created that adds posts starting from the site's first post. You can select whether a new post is added daily or weekly, and a new post will be added with that cadence.

I initially didn't think that it'd be very useful for more time-sensitive sites, but I ended up using trustedreviews.com as a test site and was suprised how fun it was to get a daily review of technology from 2008!

This is very much a "scratching my own itch" service, but I thought there might be some RSS aficionados here that might like such a service. Thanks, and I'd love to hear what you think!
No, these are actually referring to the gyroscopic sensors on the spacecraft. This article [0] makes it a little bit more clear. While there are actuators that use gyroscopic torque, referred to as Control Moment Gyros (CMG) Hubble uses reaction wheels for pointing the spacecraft.

[0] https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/observatory/design/h...
The sensor you’re describing is usually called an accelerometer.
Show HN: Legal semantic search starter – Next.js
Anthropic has a fast new AI model – Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Yeah, I am very troubled by it. I had a friend staying with me last year who I hadn't realised was schizophrenic (a hopelessly vague diagnosis but he undoubtedly had parted company with reality) and off his meds. It was horribly sad. He killed himself a few months later. My mum is a psychiatrist and insists that third-generation antipsychotics are not a 'chemical cosh', which I find doubtful, seeing as so many schizophrenics seem to consider them a worse prospect than unmedicated schizophrenia or death.

We're now giving these drugs to autistics, I gather, and low-dose olanzapine is even being trialled for kids with Asperger's. Compared with lobotomy I suppose it requires less cleaning up.

Since you mention India, I should add that India and other poor countries manage to treat schizophrenia with better remission rates than the UK and US: https://www.nature.com/articles/508S14a
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Landfills are awesome. Properly managed, they're pretty much the best way to deal with trash. But they're also not completely out of sight, so people desperately look for inferior alternatives.
Event organizers shouldn’t centralize on Facebook.

A substantial number of people I know under 40, myself included, have deleted Facebook or logged off indefinitely (my spouse still has it so that’s how I found out.) The meetup I regularly attend that advertises on both platforms sees significant new attendees from meetup.com. It’s a shame the platform itself is falling into such disarray post-pandemic.
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Is this a one time expense or continuously yearly?

The pricing description in the article wasn't making that clear to me.

Regardless, $2500 is more than reasonable write off expense for startup costs in almost any sector a "small-business" may operate in.

100k is more than a believable amount of revenue for a small business to have.
In today's data-driven world, real-time data streaming is essential for businesses seeking a competitive edge. Apache Kafka has emerged as a powerful tool for building data streaming solutions, enabling organizations to handle vast amounts of data with low latency and high throughput. However, even with managed services, the complexity of Kafka's ecosystem and the challenges of configuring, scaling, and managing Kafka clusters require years of engineering time over the lifetime of an application. This complexity slows development teams down, requiring more time on data-streaming pipelines than on core business applications.
We discuss some of the common pitfalls and challenges when leveraging Kafka for a data-pipeline and how a serverless solution such as created by Ambar can help your business move fast.
“Rights” are social and legal constructs. You can’t have universal “rights” that override what a particular society is willing to recognize.
Leap is a dead end though.
That’s a really spectacular image.
Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame described this as Gell-Mann Amnesia

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect#:~:t....
This is honestly for a subset of the population the needs special catering. I can see things like disabilities, pronouns, and trigger words going into something like this.

I also can see this a hinderence to our general interpersonal communication.
This brings fond memories of my younger days. I had an EEE PC 701SD, and had experimented with PuppyLinux on it. I instantly recognized Barry's name, and hope he is doing well.
pyrolysis makes yogurt tubs from yogurt tubs. traditional 'mechanical' recycling makes park benches from yogurt tubs and throws up its hands at the park benches
That's just a way to sink faster. Even in the parallel.
> i am very skeptical of narratives saying that young boys or men are more misogynistic than in the past.

They don't even have to be more misogynistic than in the past for there to be a detrimental effect. Because so many other things in society -- pre-school and school environments, upbringing by more enlightened parents than what those parents themselves had, etc etc[1] -- cooperate to make young men and boys less misogynistic than in the past... But maybe that effect would be even more pronounced without shitty influences from social media; don't you think it's possible that all the online crap inhibits the good influences, so without it the kids would be even better?

[1]: From comparing my sons' generation to what I remember of my own youth and childhood.
> Lost revenue is at least $10,000 on nights when the no show rate is high, based on an average spend of $100 to $150 per customer.

Just charge reservations a $50 cover? You show up and that $50 goes towards the bill and you still only pay $100 ~ $150 and you don't show up and your bot network goes broke.

Could also do some kind of lottery for reservations. If you want a reservation then you need to enter information about you and the date/time you want. Some time before then the lottery runs and selects a winner who gets the reservation. Prune people from participating in the lottery if they are frequent no-shows and possibly if they're trying to get a reservation for every single day+hour ...
> Plumbing knowledge, for example, is constantly tested by whether the place floods after you’ve advanced your theory about what pipe connects to what. You need to get it right because it costs you something when you get it wrong.

Sure, for obvious failures where water is leaking in a spectacular fashion. But there's tons of shoddy non-obvious projects that work and look fine now. The problems come down the road, years later. Usually these problems come from either cutting corners or working under constraints.

You know those horror stories programmers or sys admins trade? How they saw something and couldn't believe their own eyes? Plumbers have those too, in buckets.

Maybe this whole paragraph about the plumbing is just a meta commentary on the "nobody knows what's going on". In that case, disregard the above.
The right to be forgotten has an explicit exception for circumstances where there's a legal obligation on retention, although it does reference Union and Member State law and not other international entites.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
There are definitely factions of both the extreme right and extreme left (outdated terms) that understand privacy and dislike mass surveillance.

Authoritarianism is on the rise in the 'Third-Way' corporatist, technocratic 'center' which is increasingly worried about losing control to perceived or real extremist parties that threaten their funding model and rock the boat.
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No, the comment you're replying to is confused. These gyroscopes are entirely used for determining Hubble's orientation. Reaction wheels effect the actual rotation, and Hubble's are fine.

I think the confusion is a result of imprecise language talking about how they are used to slew the telescope. They are "used" but as feedback, in conjunction with other systems. Also, there have some prominent reaction wheels failures on other missions, and that contributes to the confusion.
I think a better approach to this would be to improve packaging technology.

Are there ways to use less plastic or none at all in packaging?
Anyone who claims knowing the answer with any degree of certainty is either profiting from the answer or is not educated enough to know that this question is first a philosophical one.

But even in purely materialistic framework it can not be answered because “will” is a non materialistic concept.

In terms of my personal life experience and beliefs - this is what uniquely distinguishes people from other animals.

We are the only species who can proactively choose rather than just instinctively react.
See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738916 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (anthropic.com)
I think the point is that the EU hasn’t actually taken any actions yet. This is just infighting between different arms of the EU governance structures, trying to figure out what actions should be taken.

So it is unfair to label rubbish coming out of the commission or council as something the EU has decided, when it’s only the first step of many for actually making a decision.

It would be like taking any random bit of legislation proposed by a member of congress, and labelling it as the collective stance of the entire U.S. government, completely ignoring the fact there’s a long road from proposal to enactment.
OP wanted something developed by the Swiss railways company though (but SISCOG seems to be used by the Dannish, Finnish, Norwegian, Canadian and Catalonian railways).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738733
To be frank I don't care about these questions, perhaps you're right and it should, but whatever. It's a solution I used in the three cases it was necessary that blocked moving my codebase to ESM.
Well, I think nobody can argue that Apple's tech is still better, but this is the first time someone was able to offer some competition that doesn't look like a joke in comparison to Apple's M series.
You believe the government forces alcoholics to go to rehab by virtue of being alcoholics?

Re marijuana: what?

I think you're confusing health problems with committing and being convicted of crimes (regardless of whether you believe there's a moral failure or not, in either case)
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Are you saying that $2500 is an unreasonable amount for a small business to invest in itself or let alone within startup costs?

If I started a tow-truck company, that would be a small business. I would also expect to invest more than $2500 into my tow-truck.

I trust a tangible analogy should be sufficient to get my point across.
The web is not just for "real products". It's also a platform with tens of millions of hobbyists and dabblers writing HTML and JavaScript.

I promise you they will use any feature that's documented on MDN as being available in all browsers. And ES modules do make life easier for someone who's just writing HTML and JS and doesn't know anything about build tools.

IMO, it's the wrong attitude that we should focus on the professional ecosystem and forget about this use case. Probably most people writing front-end code got their start by creating a HTML file in Notepad (or equivalent) and loading it via file:// into the browser.
The accuracy of MEMS gyros is orders of magnitude worse than the gyros on Hubble. I suspect based on this article [0] that Hubble uses hemispherical resonator gyros (HRG [1]). The really high accuracy rate sensors that you find in spacecraft are usually HRGs or Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOG).

[0] https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/observatory/design/h...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope#HRG
Aren't they using one right now? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...
After the most recent price hike ($16 to almost $30/mo for the "basic" organizer plan) I decided to quit Meetup as the host of two groups after more than a decade. It's not just the money, since you were asking about pain points:

* Notifications I get on iOS are pretty much the opposite of how I set them up; I ask for relevant notifications about people RSVP-ing and commenting on my events, instead I get notifications about their own AI / crypto virtual events.
* When I do get notifications about a new comment in the 'event chat', I tap the notification, but the app just lands me on the event main screen. When I navigate to event chat (which is surprisingly hard to find) there will be an unread symbol but more often than not the actual comment is nowhere to be seen.
* Meaningless functionality being added (start an event with AI!) while pain points such as the above, and the core organizer experience overall, haven't seen meaningful fixes or improvements in years.
* No way to slice / analyze member data.
* Related to the above, you can download the member list, which gets you a file with an .xls extension but in reality is a broken csv file.
* Increased focus on having group members pay, which is hard to manage and also very hard to get any metrics on (who has paid, when, how much?)

I could go on.

Overall, from an organizer perspective, Meetup is a buggy, stagnant and increasingly expensive platform that becomes a poorer value for money with every change they make. The only reason I've stuck with it for as long as I did is that it's really the only way for me to have people organically find my group without significant effort on my part. (I am in the U.S.)
That is a general statement that does not apply here. This "solution" would have created tens of thousands of false positives, which means the victims, even if not prosecuted, would have been put on an observation list for life.

The "solution" would have been abused for other surveillance or been used as a rationale for even more surveillance.

It is a social issue that does not have technical solutions. The worst abuse cases (like the horrific Regensburg Dome boys choir case: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/boys-abused-ge...) occurred before the Internet. If the EU is so interested in the issue, how about prosecuting known cases instead of a half apology. Chat Control could have done exactly nothing here.
> Artifacts—a new way to use Claude
You can ask Claude to generate docs, code, mermaid diagrams, vector graphics, or even simple games.

this is new and I just tried a simple dice roll into a React component, and it works perfectly.
I grew up on a farm in the nineties, and in my teens, I saw a roe deer fawn that went through a forage harvester.

Surprisingly enough, there was almost no blood, but every bone in the animal was broken. The load of silage that it ended up in had to be thrown out, the forage harvester itself, needed some light repairs, the harvest got delayed a few hours, and the whole thing was really depressing.

Luckily as far as I can remember it happened only once, and it was definitely something that we tried hard to avoid.
Waymo tested in NYC for years. The state was fairly hostile to the efforts and passed a few laws to restrict competition with the taxis. That's a major reason why there isn't much interest in New York state.

There have been various testing and public deployments across the southern half of the US, not only California and the Southwest. Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida all come to mind, plus Pennsylvania due to CMU. The deployments in California and Arizona are the most mature, but they're not the exclusive focus.

I'm not going to get into the bits about silicon valley, because frankly that's not a terribly interesting conversation to have.
Node should just do like bun and support intermixing both. It was a mistake to force this schism -- untold hours of frustration and busywork for maintainers and developers with no hope of actually "completing" a mythical full transition to the new world.

And for what? In Node specifically, it's not as if esm actually solves any real problem! In the greater ecosystem, sure it has some benefits, but Node doesn't even have to choose. Just support both at once, like bun and build systems have for a while, and let's move on from this nonsense.
A steel oval auto locking keylock 38kN carabiner. (https://www.amazon.com/PETZL-OXAN-Carabiner-Black-Triact-Loc...) Very strong, fails gradually, optimal loading and alignment, secure, doesn't catch on things, wide enough for most uses.
The best way to do this is via constitutional protection that can't be overridden by ordinary law. The EU has a de-facto a constitution in the form of the ECHR and the various treaties, which do protect fundamental rights, but there are so many caveats on those rights that a carefully worded law always risks slipping through.
The US cloud act doesn't ban end-to-end encryption or force companies to install a backdoor. If it really motivated the EU proposal, then EU lawmakers can't read.
I can assure you... farming is not the same as Harvest Moon. Stick to programming ya'll.
Pork-barrel politics are ugly and make federal programs like NASA less efficient. But in this case it serves a strategic value in preserving a geographically distributed aerospace industrial base. This ensures we won't lose too much capacity from a single disaster or enemy attack. If that "insurance" means fewer space missions then it's a premium worth paying.
In case anyone’s reading this who is interested in working on it:

I’m building a company/platform that does a lot of this, particularly the “metering just the right amount of water for each individual plant” part.

The thing I have in mind is very low cost devices (sub-$20) with mesh radio comms, inputs to read from sensors and outputs to control irrigation, and TinyML running the devices to optimize everything in real time.

I have about 10 years experience working in the field (mostly with high-value crops like wine grapes, nuts, avocados) and several iterations of prototype devices and web software, but am keen to attract people who are excited at the idea of working on this kind of thing.

Anyone - particularly low-level programmers or hardware engineers - interested in working on it can contact me (email in bio).
It is very well addressed, in the right forum (on the OpenJDK mailing list). It's a bit uncharitable to cherry pick a reddit comment on a specific thing and portray that as the public messaging on the technical decision.

I want Brian et al. to comment more on reddit threads, not less, but this sort of interpretation is a reason for him not to.
> might well be a complete waste of time

Do you think that having all plastics spread through a landfill is better than having them grouped even if residing the in the same landfill? I think sorting your trash is never lost time on a global scale. Anything done to make it easier for future generations to handle garbage should be done, even if it has no immediate benefit.
Reading that linked Next Generation magazine was very nostalgic.
It's a LOT faster than the Windows Event Viewer.

That alone makes it useful!
You know what's awesome? The biosphere, which recycles 99.9999% of its own matter in a vast, global cooperative, driven by unending clean source of energy that is literally beamed in from space with no waste products.

Chucking it all in a hole? Not even close.
EPA rule limiting certain 'forever chemicals' in drinking water is challenged
Banding together and refusing to accept harmful money is indeed akin to creating a government, and would indeed be more effective at controlling people's behavior.

But participation would be voluntary, and the restriction of harmful behavior would apply to it's enemies, not its citizens. So I'm not quite sure what the problem is.
That’s not how GitHub’s enterprise deals worked. It was the same product for all enterprise customers.
But that's the whole idea - the only reason sellers can do this is because there is a shortage of homes. If you have more homes than people looking for them (and you should always have some vacant homes for flexibility and to handle people mid-move, etc.c) then you can tell any seller who tries to raise prices to take a hike.