skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew this comment would come. But you're wrong. A photo of your ID is accepted almost everywhere, and especially at a ticketed event where the only purpose is to match your face to the name on the ticket. They're not the police, they just want to check that you're the person who should have the ticket.
>Loblaw Companies Ltd., a grocery retail giant in Canada, has managed to alienate consumers on numerous occasions, seemingly disregarding any value in appearing fair in its decision-making.

Loblaws is being boycott by a minor dwindling political party, with no impact. Six months ago, Loblaws' stock was trading at $126 per share, and today it's at $164 per share, a 30% increase. Loblaw's market cap is now $50 billion.

The real issue is the government's significant increase in taxation on farmers and truck drivers. This tax affects every stage of farming, from combine harvesters that get 2 mpg to semi trucks that get 6 miles per gallon. Food inflation was above 10%.

>In an era marked by unprecedented inflation spikes

Caused by bad government policy from an extremely unpopular government. Instead of the politicians admitting it was entirely their fault, they are attempting to cast the blame onto others.

Fail boycott.
Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
This project began when I realized that despite trying many fantastic note-taking apps, I often defaulted to dumping notes into chat apps like Slack or iMessage. I wanted to bring that effortless “text yourself” note-taking experience to a dedicated note-taking app.

Originally developed as a macOS app, Strflow is now also available for iOS. Strflow is designed to make note-taking as quick and intuitive as possible, centered around a chronological timeline UI.

Here are some of its features:

* Tag system

* Rich editor with text formatting, images, and note linking

* Global shortcuts for quick access

* Share extension

* Encrypted iCloud backup & synchronization (becomes end-to-end encryption if you enable iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection)

Hope you find Strflow interesting. I’m happy to answer any questions.

## Some implementation details some of you might be interested in:

* The app is implemented natively using Swift.

* On macOS, it’s based on AppKit, and on iOS, it uses UIKit, with SwiftUI used partially.

* The editor intensively utilizes TextKit.

* The sync engine is custom-built using CloudKit.
You're right, I tested it extensively before we designed a training program, it works very well up to about 10/11 but past that it gets lost in the sauce. So pardon me: It only works out to a 6.45 hour savings not a 6 hour savings.
Nope. They just added a warning so it's your fault if you get any helium atoms in your oscillator.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/important-safety-info....
Okay yes, I figure out what I need to. But it seems clear that conflicting concepts got bolted on after the initial design. Which means it's more complicated than it needs to be.
Huh, how much sorbitol do they put in it?! I thought that one was mostly only used in low-volume applications, because in large volumes, it's a laxative (AIUI this is why you rarely see sugar alcohols used as sweeteners in drinks.)
Oh god, not another 550mb app... there are a lot of lightweight alternatives to electron that can provide the same frontend experience if you don't need nodejs: tauri, wails, pywebview...
As extreme heat bakes the West, emergency helicopters struggle to fly
> I assume the author is from the US (as they speak about the FCC). I had a 30 second look at these dev boards and their instructions. There is no FCC conformity declarations or markings, so US customers can't use it.

Just order it off Aliexpress.

It's fine to have a really expensive compliance regime, so long as you understand how that drives the small end of the business offshore.
It was 10-20 years ago. Today nobody competent does it because it doesn't scale. A lot of the good parts of onion layering still exists in more modern architectures, especially in languages which are still very tied to the original OOP academic principles like Java or C# where you're likely to see interfaces for every class implementation, but as time has moved forward it's not really necessary to organize your functions inside classes, even if you're still doing heavy OOP. So today you're more likely to see the good parts of the onion layering build into how you might do domain based architecture. So even if you're doing models, services and so on, you build them related to a specific business domain where they live fully isolated from any other domain. Which goes against things like DRY, but if you've ever worked on something that actually needed to scale, or something which lived for a long time, you'll know that the only real principle that you have to care about is YAGNI and that you should never, ever build abstractions until you actually need them.

Part of the reason onion still exists is because academia is still teaching what they did almost 30 years ago, because a lot of engineers were taught 30 years ago and because a lot of code bases are simply old. The primary issue with onion layering is that it just doesn't scale. Both in terms of actual compute but also in terms of maintenance. That being said, a lot of the ideas and principles in onion layering are excellent and as I mentioned still in use even in more modern architectures. You'll likely even see parts of onion layering in things like micro-services, and I guess you could even argue that some micro-service architectures are a modern form of onion layering.

The more competent a system is designed, however, is often shown in how few abstractions are present. Not because abstractions are an inherent evil, but because any complexity you add is something you'll have to pay for later. Not when you create it, not a year later, but in five years when 20 different people have touched the same lines of code a hundred times you're very likely going to be up to your neck in technical debt. Which is why you really shouldn't try to be clever until you absolutely need to.
FOSDEM 2024 – Railways and Open Transport devroom
The second step is to remove from consideration aspects of the program which are not legally protectable by copyright. The analysis is done at each level of abstraction identified in the previous step. The court identifies three factors to consider during this step: elements dictated by efficiency, elements dictated by external factors, and elements taken from the public domain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...
US disrupts Russian government-backed disinformation campaign that relied on AI
Yes, panic is a large part of the problem. I think I recall the feeling once, when my dad was teaching me to swim around 4 or 5. I think I tried to stand up, and just sunk, then I tried to pull myself up, and grasped at water. I figure at that point my dad just plucked me out of the water and told me to try again haha
Original title edited for length:

US disrupts Russian government-backed disinformation campaign that relied on AI technology
See also: https://signalmaps.co.uk/#gwml1:1627

Live signal maps in the UK
Ever heard of CSS files? No one forces you to bloat your html.
This is my POV.

I want to know if I can use the service, if it is performant, if it's worth $9.

I work in £, but that's over £5 pcm.

Some people balk at that. It's a pint of beer, yes. That's in #firstworld land. For some people, and there will be some in your market, or target demographic who fit this; that £5 is genuinely important every month.
Wrangler 13MWZ Jeans are what you want - they're head and shoulders above Levis, and they have a version with double spun cotton as well if you need more durability.
you are serving Django with Debug=True
https://umap.openstreetmap.de/es/map/mapa-sin-12334#10/41.58...
"the whole world uses git" is a weak appeal to the masses (Argumentum ad populum), i.e. the popularity of git is no measure for its qualities, and we should collectively strive for better (just looking around should make it painfully obvious that there are many good things that git is lacking).

We previously saw that git is in fact two very distinct things: a repo format and a user interface; and we saw that git is too critical a mass to be dislodged as a repository format.
The next best thing we can do is then to address its disastrous UX, and this is precisely what jj is about. And it tackles that without even incurring "contagious" changes in established organizations: neither you or I have to know/care whether others are using git-cli/vscode gui/jj/whatever.

This is progress, because teaching git to this day is in equal parts teaching "DVCS theory", git "the useful parts", git "the very many pointy bits not to get too close to", and git "I messed it up, please help me rescue my files".
At least jj offers to simplify the learning while improving on the experience greatly, by offering a very cohesive, straightforward, discoverable safe and mostly trouble-free implementation whose tenets that can be intuited from the theory.
> People see AAA as a pain in the ass because it’s not the problem they thought they’d need to solve.

True.

> That doesn’t mean that it’s important,

Not necessary true.

> or that the complexity is avoidable.

Untrue. There is no need for IAM for the vast majority of 4 people teams and there could be a simpler solution for those, like it was before IAM. And it can actually be built on top of IAM, just spare people from diving deep into it.
Probably they wanted some royalty money. If I remember right, Western nations were sending some royalty money to Russian authors who had published their work in Western nations because it would have been illegal for them to publish in the USSR. Ironically, the USSR government then tried to collect these royalties.
Lots of cool stuff here, with the flagship feature being early variable and locals evaluation, which lets you pass them to module sources, versions, as well as backend configuration blocks!

And there's much more to come based on this work in future versions!

Note: I'm affiliated with the project.
I still don't know how seriously to take it, but this one really stands out from the crowd:

https://www.sidereus.space/

https://europeanspaceflight.com/sidereus-space-dynamics-comp...
> The EU would pay a (vey high) price to buy outright the rockets, and would agree not to develop a competing rocket design in the next 20 yrs.

So the worst of both worlds? It would still be very expensive, but also dependent on a foreign entity and with hands tied for the next decades unable to develop people, skills, or products in that direction.
That looked exactly like what I would expect. What was I supposed to think drowning looks like?
Everyone is a specific person, i.e. a "private" entity, and ownership represents the exclusivity of possession and use that is inherent in all economically rival goods. In order for anything to be owned and used by anyone, it must be owned and used by someone specific at the exclusion of others. In other words, "private ownership" is the only kind of ownership that actually exists.

"The public" is an abstraction that resolves to lots of separate "private" people in aggregate -- it's not a specific entity capable of acting as an owner of anything. When people talk about "publkic ownership", what they're really describing is one specific organization acting as the de facto owner, but nominally acting on behalf of "the public" by being bound up in fiduciary responsibilities to others. That sounds nice in theory, but the incentive structures applicable to those institutons are often not aligned with the interests of "the public" (presuming that any singular interest can even be attributed to it), and the mechanisms of fiduciary accountability often do not work properly. What "public ownership" usually amounts to is private ownership by political institutions, which have their own interests and agendas.

> Again, there is no use in being "communally-minded" within the confines of an entity that has no community spirit, eg a ruthless, cynical, bottom-lining private corporation. In this context, "communally-minded" action cannot and will not be rewarded. It will only be exploited.

The corporation is an organizational model employed by people. It has no consciousness or will of its own, so attributing any of the above qualities, positive or negative, to it, is meaningless. Corporations cannot be ruthless or cynical, or be communally-minded or have any sort of "spirit". They are just processes.

The people who are using the corporation as an organizational structure, on the other hand, can be any of those things. If you have a society full of greedy avaricious people, then commercial corporations will likely behave in ways that reflect greed and avarice. But then so again will every other expression of that society -- including political institutions and interpersonal interactions -- because it's not the abstract organizational model that possesses those qualities, it's the people.

The reality here is that doing destructive things out of some antipathy toward the abstract "corporation" has concrete negative consequences for its employees, its customers, and its investors (who aren't cartoon characters wearing top hats and monocles, but include ordinary people trying to fund their retirements).
Talking to customers is the most important task a startup founder or product manager does. If I could tattoo “ask the end user” on all of my employees I would. Giving that job to a chatbot seems disrespectful to your customers and unserious of the business.

I might use it for post-processing customer interviews. It could save time by quickly putting transcripts and notes into a standardized format.

A version that could be used by interviewers live would be interesting. Call it a copilot maybe? I imagine it building a mind map of the conversation and suggesting additional questions. If the model learned from all other interviews, that could be powerful. Part of the art of customer research is deriving insights. What creates excitement? Hesitation? Confusion? A lot of the best information comes from knowing when to ask “Tell me more about that?” Robotically following a script doesn’t get the same results.
It would really help if this post explained what is wrong with IndieHackers?

Not sure what to make of this without context.
For some reason, you're saying things here that you know not to be true.

About both Haaretz's circulation, and Levy.
I think both should work, but you have to set the object cache pragma IIRC: https://duckdb.org/docs/configuration/pragmas.html#object-ca...
I'm seeing:

" failed to start application on imherefor.me

This is most likely because your project has a code error.
Check your project logs, fix the error and try again. "
https://archive.ph/dXnEL
Why did you put it on skool?
> 6-10 years from now Ariane Next/SALTO will aims replicate Falcon 9 efficiency and the design

That's what presentation by some high-ranking ESA person said when I was considering joining a Master's program in Spacecraft Design in Kiruna, Sweden, where some ESA launch facilities are located. I found that goal extremely uninspiring, especially combined with European salaries, so I opted to keep getting paid well working on software to feed people more burgers.
You are revived penniless and have to jump a border fence to work for scraps cleaning a rich GPU's bathroom.
nice was just trying the old one. I was very confused how to build cred and be able to post.
It’s for families making less than 300k. MIT has full scholarships for families making less than 140k https://sfs.mit.edu/undergraduate-students/the-cost-of-atten...

Besides the 2 other medical schools mentioned in the article, what other universities have similar scholarships?
You'd get a Wine full of ads, the need for an account to use and the not so occasional BSoD /s
> DOJ seizes 'bot farm' operated by the Russian government

Is the Russian government now operating parts of the US government ? Or has the DOJ travelled to Russia ?
Every time something with tailwind is posted there is always a rehash of this response. I believe most of this frustration comes from using tailwind in the raw. There are a few essential libraries available that amplify the power of tailwind by magnitudes: tailwind-merge for last-specified wins, and class-variance-authority to reduce your class declarations in coherent reusable variants.

Tailwind empowers the expressiveness of styling. I steadfastly counter that the statement that it is the eccentric artist who insists on using every color in the palette. By design, tailwind implements constraints on what can be utilized by it's configuration file. Sure, you can absolutely break out with arbitrary classes but the spirit is akin to a Crayola box of 64 crayons and you have to work with what you have in front of you.

The largest benefit is that I can read my JSX/HTML and understand the presentation of the elements. Nothing is cryptic. I don't have to dive into another file where I can lose cognitive load. DX is enhanced. Critically stated: tailwind has been nothing but a massive boon for web dev since its inception.
For people that want a railway simulator that includes game mechanics to drive a lot of complexity, try Factorio.
Yeah for that you're better off using one of the live-coding platforms rather than take home, but my point stands -- mostly this is just the trash-can test. "What would you do if I asked you to get me that trash can?" - if your response is to go off on job roles and responsibilities, call janitorial whatever, those are fine responses -- but the winner? They just go get you a trash can.

Job's are not a popularity contest - it's about if you'll do what's asked of you, or if you'll spend more time arguing about the right way to code something rather than solving the business need -- and for my purposes, I need the business problems solved, not someone who gets self-righteous when asked to show an example of them working when applying for, ya know, work.
nationalism is dying with the older generations and importing new labour from abroad is not really the short term solution for that
Good luck.

My VTOL is just under 7' wide, flies at about 50mph. Once it transitions to fixed wing after take off its silent and at 300' just a tiny dot.

My quad is not silent but at 300' you can't really hear it unless you are listening for it. It's flying about 25mph and is just under 3' in diameter. It's impossible to see.

Please don't try to shoot at drones, it's dangerous and incredibly unlikely you'd hit the target.

If you want to take down a drone interrupt the control channel, intercept it with another drone, hit it with an EMP, take out the pilot. Be smart.
Probably its not safe to put GitHub secrets in public repos?
You work at Apple and you think Apple is trustworthy. I'm fairly sure people who work at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and the others say the same about their employers. The mere fact that Apple products are expensive does not make Apple trustworthy, it just means they target the 'premium' market segment. Here's some food for thought for those who put too much trust in Apple:

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-whe...

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/23/apple-use...

There's more to be found on this subject, just feed a search engine with questions related to apple tracking and gathering data on its users.

Please note that '...but they are not as bad as Google/Microsoft/Amazon/Facebook/etc' does not exculpate Apple. They may well be but that is not what I compare them to. I compare them to that Google-free device running an AOSP-derived distribution connecting to the server-under-the-stairs, not to any other corporate entity. In that comparison they fail spectacularly, hence my preference for running free software.
So that’s a mid blue button that gets slightly darker on hover, with bold white text, it’s got a little more horizontal padding than vertical padding and has slight corner rounding and a slight drop shadow.

And I can see all of that in context where the button is declared rather than having to go look at another file and see what everything is. Oh and I know that none of those TW classes conflict or over write any properties, unlike two in house styles.
Yazi
> what prevents ESA from launching 90% of their payloads on SpaceX for reduced cost

You only have to look at what happened with Starlink and Ukraine.

Last thing EU wants is to put their vital strategic interests in the hands of Elon Musk and his erratic whims.

Especially given they are planning to fine X 6% of their revenue which may end up bankrupting the company given its perilous financial state.
Show HN: After years of procrastination I made yet another chatbot builder
For years, I found myself abandoning this idea halfway through, often convincing myself that I needed a better concept or more refined code. In hindsight, I now see this as procrastination. This time, I committed to a simple idea, aiming to go live and improve as I go. And here we are!
The USA has been sending military payloads with private vendors since 1970s. In some cases blocking contractually those vendors from providing civilian launch capability, even.

SpaceX is absolutely nothing new in the process, other than having been funded by explicit military program to prop up new space launch vendors.
I don't doubt it makes sense on paper, but here in Eastern Europe some people live and breathe scamming others. It's the nature of business in poor countries, sadly.
> The website[1] (not the blog) looks like it was designed using a Bootstrap theme from 10 years ago. It doesn't inspire confidence about the legitimacy of the business.

The post is of a somewhat candid, high-information concentration blog post, by a bootstrapped company... and the stereotypical HN response is to criticize them for not using the latest purely stylistic glossy marketing brochure Webrogrammer resume keyword on their Web site? :)

Maybe just like tech companies are still stuck in VC growth investment scam kinds of thinking, where the quality of their software developers didn't matter so much (since Potemkin Villages don't have to be structurally sound), and now companies institutionally have little clue how to hire or even recognize great software developers... So are we stuck in forming opinions of companies based upon our VC scam era criteria?

"You're not investing in the most frivolous image BS, and any good VC scam company knows it's all about what image you present to the marks, so you're not even a legitimate business."

Did we swap the definitions of legitimate and illegitimate?
Can’t an MP4 container do most or all of that already? (Pregaps would probably need to become a full-fledged chapter in their own right, with the current spec.)