skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And of course, come to think of it, skateboards.

Were those originally invented by nailing rollerskate trucks under a plank, or what? I'm fairly sure skateboards use bigger -- certainly wider -- trucks nowadays, but rollerskates definitely predate at lest the "modern" (i.e. post-1970s) skateboard boom... Just a WAG.
BSOD Symphony (Spotify)
As a consultant who got caught up in the crazy Crowdstrike stir - I find this song comforting and on point!
Is this comment AI generated? It reads like nonsense.
I don't no which countries you're referring to, but the US is not one of them.
I was already thinking about Ruby programming at the sound of Wacken Festival. :)
I've been using the beta and absolutely love it.

The addition of epubs means I can read, cite, annotate and organise anything I'm reading in one place.

I really appreciate the work the team have done here. The last two releases in particular have felt like massive leaps forward.

Great piece of software!
It seems like you are comparing ECS to a self-managed Kubernetes cluster. Wouldn't it make more sense to compare to EKS or another managed Kubernetes offering? Many of your points don't apply in that case, especially around updates.
Employees can already search through everything _they have permission to _

Copilot only has access to whatever the user has access to - it uses the same permissions.

The copilot bots in the article are slightly different from normal copilot so might have elevated permissions but if you are creating a service with access to your data then you should make sure it has the correct restrictions in place - there is nothing special about copilot in this regard.
Evidently not, because the US is neither autocratic or socialist
>When we consider that there is a significant amount of people that currently cannot drive that will now be able to drive with the introduction of self driving cars, such as children and the elderly,

Also, I'd expect the average number of people per car to decrease. I could even see the average dipping below one. Just think of things like sending your empty car to the vet, to pick up the dog. Or sending an empty car to Walmart to have them fill your grocery order. Or people who will have their empty car circle around instead of paying for parking (or because there are no parking spots available). And think about how no-passenger cars aren't really going to care too much if they are stuck in traffic.
Simpler explanation is that people with addictive personalities both are more likely to get addicted to opioids and to be obese and benefit from ozempic.
I work for a SW house where we specialize in projects such as this (as far as I can tell from your description). We have very experienced people, and are well-known in our niche (we are big on Clojure, which gives us a lot of leverage for pulling off difficult projects with a fairly small team). If you're interested in knowing more, I'd be happy to have a chat with you.
Very cool! I have a hotkey to grab a region and pipe a screenshot through tesseract and then pipe that into my clipboard. I'll have to add on to it to pipe it though Ollama too :)
Here's the test the Supreme Court established in 1972:

> The "essential predicate" is "that a punishment must not by its severity be degrading to human dignity", especially torture.

> "A severe punishment that is obviously inflicted in wholly arbitrary fashion." (Furman v. Georgia temporarily suspended capital punishment for this reason.)

> "A severe punishment that is clearly and totally rejected throughout society."

> "A severe punishment that is patently unnecessary."
Uno no es ninguno or uno no es cero or uno es diferente de cero all communicate this correctly IMO.
Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor
I would look at what you could buy off the shelf before building it yourself. I know some of the guys at Rygen.com and they're building some great logistics software. I don't work there or have any financial interest in it myself.
Ternary is one of several crackpotry schools that were established in USSR. You'd have them write books on the subjects, rant in tech magazines… there even was an SF short story about evil alien robots defeated by ternary.

Another big thing was TRIZ: a theory that you can codify invention by making a rulebook and arranging the rules in different permutations. There were plenty of smaller things too, especially in academia. It would typically start with one researcher sticking to some bizarre idea, then growing his own gang of grad students and adjuncts who all feed on that. Except the theory would be borderline batshit and all the publications are in-group, referring each other, and naturally a semester or two worth of this sectarian stuff is getting dropped into the undergrad curriculum.
SF Systems Club
ISWYDT, and I don't like it. Hope you're proud of yourself for coming up with it, so at least someone gets something out of it.
Relatively (to the total population), this is a very small amount of people. Possibly very small even in absolute terms.
I write relatively frequently, but I’m at a stage in life where I realize I’m incapable of focusing on a single domain. My posts span from topics like:

- The Art of Windows 95 Pranks
https://specularrealms.com/2023/07/20/the-lost-art-of-window...

- Parodies of Old Testament Biblical Figures
https://mordenstar.com/blog/bible-stories

- Creation of the Collapse Sort Algorithm
https://specularrealms.com/2023/07/10/collapse-sort

I’m objectively terrible at understanding how to cultivate an audience and it doesn't help that my range is so divergent that I’m not entirely confident a relevant target demograph even exists. I prefer to think of writing as analogous to periodically tossing messages in a bottle into the sea hoping that if I throw enough of them I’ll eventually get fined by the EPA.

TLDR: OP, writing that isn't read still has some intrinsic value because ultimately writing is a craft.
It's a slightly tangential title (it's a shame the convo ended up attached to that vs one of the oligo|appsecvillage submissions)
Engineers design new valve to give soft robots resilience boost
Factorio Research info tooltip and Online players GUI
>I cannot for the life of me understand what’s going on over there.

Allow me to speculate, off the record (observing through spouse), of a soon-to-be lawsuit which will be used to remove the most-dangerous company from an undisclosed industry (less than a few ten-thousand customers):

It's about money, corporate takeover, money, "efficiency," money, green, money, safety third, money, because fuck them that's why, money, $$$, money...

This is my uneducated third-party opinion — I have no personal stake in my above observations.
I can't imagine a proper keybinding subsystem coming any time soon, but it's hard not to wish. Patching omni.ja sucks
Assuming you don't decide that this is too much hassle (Even if you're not doing anything wrong, it sounds like your client would be. Do you really want to be part of that?) you need to talk to a lawyer who specializes in this sort of law.

Seriously though, you don't need this hassle.
So the verbal sleight of hand is working as intended.

If you are not going to enjoy the process of writing a book, only the outcome of having written a book, chances are writing a book isn't a good use of your time.
You'll be funding the russian war in Ukraine indirectly (with the taxes paid by these developers).
.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
[...] the Board reserves .INTERNAL from delegation in the DNS root zone permanently to provide for its use in private-use applications. The Board recommends that efforts be undertaken to raise awareness of its reservation for this purpose through the organization's technical outreach.
I wonder why the author didn't go straight to the BMOW WOMBAT instead?

https://www.bigmessowires.com/usb-wombat/
There are so many other potential carcinogenic culprits that aren't the COVID vaccines that have some shred of scientific literature to back it up. It seems you chose the COVID vaccines as a target of opportunity to push an agenda, not because you have any kind of scientific evidence to support the claim.

Rates of cancer in young people has been increasing since the mid-1990s[1], so there's been something in the environment or food since then.

[1]: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/early-onset-cancer-in-youn....
> This is deluded. "Capitalism" is not "structured" in this way at all. This is a failure of regulation

I do agree with you that this is a failure of regulation. However, in the stage of capitalism we are currently in, capitalism actively FIGHTS regulation.

Whether it's lobbyism, hiring "scientists" to challenge independent studies, outright tax evasion, or simply accepting fines for disaster after disaster (oil spills, bad plane design, data sales) because they can afford it. Hell, politicians now are deregulating our countries by privatising or de-funding branch after branch (see the NHS in the UK).

Capitalism at its current stage is just a giant fire-sale, and our governments are as deeply involved as the corporations, not out of maliciousness, but due to how the system naturally drags everybody and everything in, with its need for constant growth. You know what else constantly grows? Tumors.

Sure we do need powerful regulation and regulation enforcement, but we also need to think whether a system that produces statements like this: https://jacobin.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungr...

"Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market"

Is worth preserving.

I'd say not, and I will work my best to dismantle it and throw it in the past, where it belongs, along with slavery, feudalism, fascism and other obsolete and harmful human societal arrangements.
Behind-the-scenes of how Framer built their new site with the Fetch API
I don't miss variable substitution at all.

For my setup anything that needs to be variable or secret gets specified in a custom json/yaml file which is read by a plugin which in turn outputs the rendered manifest if I can't write it as a "patch". That way the CI/CD runner can access things like the resolved secrets for production without being accessible by developers without elevated access. It requires some digging but there are even annotations that can be used to control things like if Kustomize should add a hash suffix or not to ConfigMap or Secret manifests you generate with plugins.
> AND force operators to filter out scams attempts.

How do you expect that to be implemented without requiring them to read everyone's texts (requiring either no encryption or a backdoor) and judge their worthiness?
Everybody is pretending that ruling didn't happen and will probably force you to drag them through the courts kicking and screaming before they give up the power that they have become accustomed to.

I think there is a hope they can play lawfare games until they get the court stacked in their favor again.
> Also whats with the bias against pharma companies?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-05-29/will-ozempi...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/04/joe-biden/...

What indeed.
Back in the day:

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/Halt_0021.html
Galaxy Zoo – we need your help to classify them according to their shapes
True - it also can be intriguing to go back to your earlier writings as they are the closest thing we have to a mental "time capsule", like looking at old faded photographs of yourself.
To my knowledge, nobody's implemented parquet fragment files. But it supports compression of JSONL out of the box. JSON compresses very well, and compression ratios approaching 10/1 are not uncommon.

But more to the point, journals are meant for things that are written _and read_ sequentially. Parquet wasn't really designed for sequential reads, so it's unclear to me whether there would be much benefit. IMHO it's better to use journals for sequential data (think change events) and other systems (e.g. RDBMS or parquet + pick-your-compute-flavor) for querying it. I don't think there's yet a storage format that works equally well for both.
@dang I don’t know what the criteria for the black top banner are, but Jake would have earned it, IMHO. I never met him personally, but his writing deeply moved me, and others too, judging from the reactions.
I used to think the same way. Big proponent of the "stop eating so much" diet. It seemed so obvious.

However, I can be whatever weight I want because I simply don't mind being hungry. I often just forget to eat. That is not the same for everyone.

It wasn't until someone close to me started using Ozempic. After years of me suggesting they just eat less, now they could. They aren't hungry all the time. They can skip meals. They don't get hangry.

Telling people to just stop eating so much is not unlike telling stupid people to just be smart.
If you're going to do this I recommend you at least take these things at heart:

Why do developers slow down

> https://youtu.be/7EmboKQH8lM?t=1476

80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding

> https://shiftmag.dev/unhappy-developers-stack-overflow-surve...

What you're looking at is starting greenfield development. This always starts in the same way: 'we need to deliver functionality quickly because management wants results'. This always leads to the same issue, where code quality is ignored for sake of delivering functionality, which then leads to development slowing down and both management and devs becoming unhappy.

If you want to build something for the long term, I'd recommend starting slow. Get some experienced freelance devs where you do thorough reference checks. Get them to set up a stable core and help in hiring some medior level devs to train.

The medior level devs can grow to become the coaches of junior devs and then you can start scaling down the freelance devs.

Whatever you do, don't plan to release something within the first year. Don't ask the team to estimate a delivery date within the first six months. After six months you should have a baseline that development can be continued with and then you probably have a team that can start estimating work and has a grasp of what they need to do to deliver something useful.

Also, get a good product person, someone who can talk to business, draw out the different parts of the application and explain them to the developers.

All of these things are hard, so you really need to commit, or else you're setting up to fail.
IMHO, unless you own the hardware, it’s not “self-hosting”.

IMHO, unless you have said hardware running in a location under your personal control (i.e. a room, building or house you either own or rent), it’s not “self-hosting”.

Both of these are not unattainable, or were not so in the relatively recent past.

But I will concede that it’s not always easy to distinguish in the gray zones. It’s like where you sleep. The differences are gradual from “owning”, “renting”, “apartment by the week”, “dorms”, “hotel room”, “airbnb”, “hostel”, “flophouse”, “tent”, “homeless”. Which of these constitutes a “home”? Opinions vary.

That said, however, resorting to “The meaning of words is defined by the people that use them” is also something which people arguing in bad faith almost always do.
I strongly recommend the book "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety". It's a nice view of how many more bombs we made and how incapable we are of responsibly managing them even before questioning the rationality of the state.
The official "Redux Essentials" tutorial, revamped: TS and better explanations
Hiya, folks! I am *thrilled* to announce that:

The revised "Redux Essentials" tutorial is now LIVE!!!

Changes in this reworked version:

- 100% TS example app and usage

- Better concept explanations

- Covers additional concepts ("actions as events")

- More RTK APIs (listener middleware)

The "Essentials" tutorial was already the best approach to learn Redux Toolkit and React-Redux the right way. With these updates, it's now even better!

This tutorial is comprehensive - it covers key Redux concepts, all of RTK's APIs, and shows how to use them in practice.

We've had a ton of very positive feedback over the years from folks who found the "Essentials" tutorial valuable in learning Redux. With this update, the tutorial will continue to be the best way to learn Redux for years to come!

(The original version was 43K words, the updated version is 52K. Folks have told me "you should write a book". This is pretty close :) )
This only works IF you work under the assumption consumers know, or even have the ability to know, if they're being lied to.

Well... they don't. Cars are incredibly complex machines, 99% of consumers do not have the knowledge to properly understand how a car works. They have jobs, they have a family, they have better things to do.

So they rely on the car manufacturer to be honest. You'll never see a consumer pop the hood and count the pistons to make sure their V6 is actually a V6. They just believe the manufacturer.

Your poisoning example only works because it's obvious. Imagine another food analogy. Imagine there is no FDA. How do you know what goes into the food you eat? Could you even find out? If you strived to find out the ingredients and nutritional content of your average grocery haul, how long will it take?

A few tens of thousands hours, perhaps. Right after you work like a dog to buy the equipment to burn the food. And then hire private investigators to stake out the factory. And then fly to Mexico to view what pesticides they use.
Question: would Zotero be good as a kind of "digital library"? Like nextcloud but for books. I often buy PDFs and books but they just end up on a file share, way less useful than my actual bookshelf. I mean as an alternative to something like calibre (which I don't particularly like). Also, is zotero open source?
A friend is in a similar situation, they work for a small, state government (US) agency and pay for the only solution on the market. My friend often complains about the software and lack of support. The kicker is they’re only paying $25k a year to use it.

I think this is the lens OP should be using. A small team of “in house” developers is going to start at close to $1 million a year (a senior and a couple of mids; adjust for European salaries of course) with someone already on staff managing and defining the product. Does OP have anyone who can lead the effort?
It's not a karma thing. It's a basic desire to play well in the community.

I'm quite aware that not everyone is on the same page, and this just helps to indicate a basic respect for others that may not like him.

As you can see, that didn't actually work, as just the mention of his name, got a ding.
Nice add on!There are a few code repos I've contributed to with long and similar variables (it's very frustrating, especially as an impatient reader). Using GrepC to have a distinct visual indicator has saved me time and reduced the risk of misusing a variable - thanks for sharing!
Yes, but Sonic Pi DSL feels a little more Lisp-y than natural language-y.
Employer tax contributions

Office space

Hardware and software, SaaS licensing, cloud costs, etc.

Hiring costs (recruitment, recruiters, time lost in selection and hiring)

Secondary cost to rest of the business to change processes, retrain, integrate, help the dev team understand requirements, effectively build and iterate, etc.

Quite possibly a bunch of compliance, security, audit, pen testing, and other regulatory costs depending on the demands their clients have, etc.

Running a team != hiring a bunch of freelancers as a one-off.
Since it seems like a group that already practices and values feats of fasting and endurance it's probably most likely that it commemorates a single particularly notable fast attributed to a specific individual in the community's history. It's possible that that individual didn't actually succeed and it was based on a myth. But I seriously doubt some guy decided one day to try to trick his peers into doing a brutal fast that had never been done.
> I started with tree-style tabs but I'm now using "Sideberry" which seems to be a little nicer.

Could you qualify this? I always see the recommendation but I never see any reasons to prefer Sidebery over Tree-Style Tabs.
Cool, I know there's a little Windows Power Toy for doing something similar:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-ext...

But the built-in functionality for iOS has the best quality OCR of anything I've seem (much better than the Windows tool), and I constantly find myself screenshotting my phone screen and using that to extract the text. My project is really for longer scanned documents like old books and articles.
This isn't a significant functional benefit by itself.
It's not treated as a trade-off, outside Apple's marketing. Anyone that's seen Apple's service revenue relative to their hardware margins knows the score. If this was a conversation about iPhone malware then I should point out that people are being infected by Pegasus with nothing but first-party Apple software. There are active zero-click exploits with various levels of persistence on the market today; you want to talk about relative scale in a post-Pegasus era? Hell, a post-Snowden era?

You're echoing Apple's own flawed defense. You can't rob someone in one hand and claim to be paying them back with the other. You're either acting altruistically to actually help users, or you're perpetuating a cycle that benefits only the service-owner. With Apple's complete lack of service-based competition I don't think it's absurd to suggest they're intentionally misrepresenting the only App Store option to try and rescue it from certain regulation.
If you just want a simple activity tracker then something like an Oura ring works well enough.
Opera had a very mature & expressive implementation of this feature back before version 15 (when they adopted Chromium). Since then, Vivaldi (created by Opera founder) is trying to rebuild all of the OG Opera features - they have this feature now; not as powerful as it once was but they're working on it.
People elect representatives, and very often they aren't even given a practical choice between conservative or liberal candidates. The control the average US citizen wields over regulation borders on non-existent, not even remotely comparable to your purchasing power at K-Mart or the Ford Dealership.

The point is that people generally don't know what they want for themselves. In certain industries like aviation and medicine, products do not legally exist until they are fundamentally scrutinized for harm to humans. This idea that the average American is an informed shopper is as illusory as the average citizen not voting a straight-ticket ballot. Advertising is just about the only thing that they are proven to understand, which is why that too is regulated carefully.
I can't seem to find the original source, but I read years ago that a surprisingly small percentage (I believe 4%) of drivers just leaving excess headway was sufficient to mitigate most congestion-causing traffic waves. It makes sense to have robots be the ones driving in that counter-intuitive fashion.
You claim, without evidence, that open source software determines the ethics of business models built upon it. This is false. Much of the foundational software of the internet is open source, but internet businesses and organizations run the gamut from philanthropies to crime syndicates.
A History of Internet Piracy [video]
Some places in Massachusetts there are corner shops and small restaurants with “spa” in the name. It’s similarly a reference to a soda fountain (even though the business may not have had one in decades).
How is that feature accessed? Or what does Google call it so I can search for it.