skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company that 'owns' Redis or Elastic also do not need to develop the software they are selling. They already have it, since its creation for free on a non-commercial basis.

Without competition, they are free to charge any rent they like for it.

If you think that the person that originally wrote Redis or Elastic should have an exclusive license to charge people to use that software, that's a totally valid opinion and a totally valid licensing/business model. However, it has nothing to do with open source software.
expect predates Linux!
Go into a hardware store, look at the selection of hammers they have. You'll find an array of different handles attached to very similar heads.

This applies to everything else that interfaces with humans: "emacs vs vi" split exists because different humans need different interfaces for what effectively the same hammer.
> Otherwise, I happen to agree with you -- why you should vote, if you don't feel the impact of your vote?

Very strange attitude. I voted while I was abroad for two decades, because my family and friends were still there, and I wanted the best from them.
Your example with Telegram has nothing to do with E2E encryption, which is precisely what Chat Control is aimed at. Please look for a more relevant straw man.
Not quite. Finding and ordering drugs using the good old www without "people nearby" feature is a big difference, wouldn't you agree? Technology improved, police work must improve too.
Oh, this is great! Not surprising someone already thought of it.
> Cause your computer to dial you back, so that you can login without paying for the call.

I don't understand what this means, but it sounds like an interesting piece of 'how we used to do things'?
This was a great read.

Bubble Tea (a Go TUI framework) recently hit 1.0 [1] and the author's tool that is built with it is called pug [2] which is an awesome terminal user interface for terraform which we featured on Terminal Trove [3] a while back.

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases

[2] https://github.com/leg100/pug

[3] https://terminaltrove.com/
This is the reason a lot of europeans are choosing to leave Europe seeking refuge somewhere else more free :)
A lot of people prefer to violate the rights of their own electorate as opposed to putting people into planes and having effective overseas action against the financiers of it
I agree. At birth a human is much less capable than most animals - but the learning algorithm is so much better that they'll surpass any other non-human organisms in 2 years. This is honestly amazing an one of the best thing to witness when you are a parent. It's baffling - not only seeing your child learn new things, but also witnessing the ever increasing pace at which they learn new things.
Given the politicians keep bringing back these same dangerous ideas, it is time for people who are aware of it to make everyone they know aware of the issue. And then organize towards mass protest. And after removing offending politicians from power, push for them to be jailed for violation of civil liberties. Push for local warrants for their arrest or bans that make their lives in Europe highly inconvenient. Tarnish their legacy as officials. Sure these efforts may not succeed but it’s important to make their lives so difficult as to deter others from ever doing this again.

None of this is easy, and it’ll be met by the same suppression of protests that has happened in other instances across Europe in the last few years. But I think it’s the only way. There is no shortcut for political pressure.
Also very nice. Thanks for that!
I don't want to be rude, but if there is no way of reliably testing for long covid, you might as well say it could be anything, including depression ?

How is a doctor, who could see hundreds of patients a week supposed to know ?
> Who in their right mind shuts down their nuclear power plants and exchanges energy independence for cheap gas imports from Russia?

What do you mean by "nobody"? The tree-huggers were all for more polluting forms of energy lest it made the USSR look like a state that didn't give 2 worries about safety
Paying maintainers: the HOWTO
I agree. I did really well in my career with it
Biden administration finalizes solar lands plan, touts permitting progress
I think -- if PBS had the budget or interest -- he'd be a terrific host for a revamped version of Connections[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
This https://age-encryption.org ?
Oh, that's unfortunate. Thanks for pointing that out.
This makes me so sad. AnandTech was the leading, consistently reliable source of technical information and opinion that informed my views on so many products. And it was immensely fun to read. Its departure leaves a sore gap in my technology assessment toolkit, and a heaviness in my heart.

I hope tomorrow's enthusiasts take up the torch of deep technical reporting and fight back against all the shallow, clickbait reporting out there.
Google Play Store can now download multiple app updates at once
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se22/jls22.pdf ?
You are getting responses about expatriate voting. That's not what he did.

Before WWII, Hungary was much larger. After, a large portion was ceded to Romania. He used a sudden super-majority to grant those people the right to vote. Subsequently, his political party has even held political conferences in Romania.

Those Romanians are not Hungarian citizens. They mostly do not suffer the consequences Orban's policy decisions. Yet, they support him because he makes gestures to include them in the country of their cultural origin.

This is far different from allowing overseas voting. This would be like the UK allowing all Irish to vote in parliamentary elections.
Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms
One that Apple seems to ignore. You click on something. And the micro second before it changes the hi, causing you to click something else.
Encryption in France
> the situations in which you need to use it are likely cursed.

So true, and yet so common.
What makes this so difficult to surface is that the doctors who patients interact with are not really receptive to the idea that nuanced and difficult to diagnose symptoms may be caused by long COVID. They sort of just ignore that suggestion, don’t add anything to any database, etc. I think we are likely missing a lot of potential patterns in patient data because patients aren’t listened to and data isn’t collected.
My wife (also in Ireland) got covid in the first wave in 2020 and has had issues with muscle function (weakness and paralysis) since. She's ok right at the minute, and these days her issues are intermittent - her last episode was in April. Maybe that was the last one? Or maybe not. It's been a tough 4.5 years
Platform as a Reflection of Values (2017) [video]
> All costs are reported here in 2018 USD terms.

So even further out of date.

> O&M is often quoted as 4x fuel costs
The data in the IEA report differs; it is somewhere between the fuel costs and twice the fuel costs.

Operations & Maintenance must include fuel costs… They are doing the thing where they break actual costs into several buckets to make actual operational costs seem lower. Refurbishment isn’t maintenance yadda yadda.

Same deal is going on with insurance. That 1.1 M / year covers some nuclear accidents, but the self insurance risk is quite significant even if you exclude the risk subsidy assumed by governments. IE: In the event of a large scale disaster insurance doesn’t make the reactor owner whole meaning their out the value of 1 or more nuclear reactors.

So yea 1.1M / year only works out to 0.01c/kWh but that’s an underestimate.

> Rooftop solar will cannibalise the utility solar's daytime market. The demand for utility solar's energy will for the most part occur when the sun does not shine.

Even assuming vastly more rooftop solar… PV panels produce power on a long tail curve not just at peak hours. Rooftop solar however only supplies the grid with power after the houses needs are met which is a significantly narrower area.
Sneakily introduce it at your current workplace for a specific project, and then after a year you have commercial experience
The ordering process is likely handled in e2e 1:1 chat. The public and unencrypted channel is only used as advertising/entry point. The evidence of purchase is as such not accessible to the authorities.
I have asked “How do you feel I can improve as a candidate in the future?” Basically asking for a mini retro at the end of the interview process.

I have found it acts as a decent proxy for how strong/weak I have done. But it also allows me to get some feedback to improve for future interviews.

There has been at least one job that me asking this question directly resulted in an offer as well.
This would be great for a lot of purposes but still seems to fall short for operating a db in which you don’t want any data loss.

Although it is called synchronous replication, it appears to be asynchronous. That is the primary disk will acknowledge writes while the secondary may not have acknowledged them.
To make something synchronous usually requires 2 secondaries where writes occur on 2/3 disks total: this allows one to fall behind and the primary acknowledges writes after replicating to 1/2 secondaries.

this GCP offering allows for monitoring when a secondary falls behind. With just one secondary that means when you get your alert, there’s a potential for data loss. If there was a write to 1/2 replicas then when you get the alert, you know you can still fail over to the secondary that is caught up and don’t have to panic while trying to deal with the replica that is falling behind.
So nuclear weapons are something we should let everyone have? See, it goes both ways.
What are you talking about? There's the "Wrap up version 1.3.3." commit from 2023-05-31 (see at https://sourceforge.net/p/minidlna/git/commit_browser).
Percentage Gain and Loss
I think the fascism you're looking for is in the UK and France this month.
I'm sure the horrible lock screen UX is simply a dark pattern to nudge users towards Face ID.
i don't care about most of the questions being raised here.

a slow process to get changes accepted, long build cycles, bad legacy code, irrational business decisions, whatever.

what i care about is how the team works together. how supportive the people i get to interact with are. how i can get help when i am stuck. if i can ask dumb questions without repercussions. if people compete or cooperate to solve problems. if they share code ownership. both on the individual and on the team level and beyond etc.

if i am in a team that works well together with a supportive manager or leader then i don't care what we are working on. as long as our superiors feel that we are contributing something, even if the end result is nonsense, i'd rather do that than suffer people who are unfriendly or uncooperative or bother each other in other ways, while working on something that saves human lives.
Let's not forget drug dealers and money launderers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
It depends.

If you would be judged for spending money in one place over another, then it's semantics. It's effectively the same as a social credit score.
Graft: A simple in-memory graph db in 30 lines of Clojure
While we’re at it why not get rid of MasterCard and Visa? I don’t see why a duopoly due to network effects should be allowed. It would be nice to see legislation everywhere that forces use of some open payment protocol that allows competition and choice. I personally don’t see the point of accommodating big changes in how credit cards work and not just going further to this logical step instead.
This "inevitable" spiel is bad for discourse. There are absolutely ways to stop this, and even delaying should be considered is valuable for anyone who believes this is a bad end result.

It's one thing to be negative, other to act like everything is determined and resistance is futile. By saying things can't possibly be changed, we make it harder to change them.

I don't disagree with the gist of your analysis; the forces you describe exist, and they work towards surveillance. They can still be opposed and curtailed in a number of ways.
I mean horizontal and vertical centering is the hardest thing in computer science
> Firefox really has been going downhill for a long time. Forcing Pocket into the browser, the ad infested new tab page, telemetry, making user accounts a thing, force installing TV show promotions, etc.

It might be just me, but I find Pocket quite useful and interesting. That, and syncing user accounts across browsers. It's extremely convenient to just stash a link that you can later open while browsing the web on your browser or sitting at home with another laptop.

I guess you can try to make an argument about that being better served with extensions, but that would be missing the forest for the trees. Meaning, extensions are intended to provide third-partied with a convenient way to add custom features and behavior. That is just wasted effort if it's Firefox wanting to add a feature.

Also, you don't need to use any of that if you don't want to. No one forces you to. At most, it takes a couple of clicks to hide the toolbar button. Is that what you call "downhill"?

Frankly, this blend of criticism sounds like grasping at straws. Some people sound like all they want to do is complain about something, and proceed to work backwards to try to find something anything to complain about. This stance is particularly baffling when taking into consideration how god-awful Chrome and Edge are.
"a lot of" is totally subjective anyway, GP could use any source. Of course, some people leave the EU every year.
He also has entire teams working for him
Nowadays I guess interactive ones are easier on Python or Go, and super fast ones (ripgrep, fzf) in Rust or Zig.
They'll just keep forcing votes on it until it passes - the EU special
Popular across specific but impact parts of the population (parents).
I can’t speak to glasses, but limiting chromatic aberration in the binocular world does seem to involve coatings (at least as Swarovski, Leica, Zeiss present it).
I have read too many texts on Arrows impossibiity theorem.

The examples are always artificially constrained, like 3 candidate supermarket locations around a lake, with inhabitants distributed around it.

consider 3 groups objectively each preffering:

1) A over B over C

2) B over C over A

3) C over A over B

Then 2 thirds of the population agrees A is better than B, but also that B is better than C yet also that C is better than A!

In fact the world and human incentives are much more high dimensional than the problem statement. (people could propose a rent reduction when further away from the supermarket, if not democratically then economically, so instead of a democratic issue, its housing owners bickering over the coming supermarket location, which just reveals housing is not very democratically distributed, in a democracy the prices could be agreed to depend on supermarket distance).

In fact there is only good news for democracy: by detecting preference cycles, we KNOW the kind of thing that is going on.

And we know that A,B,C is a false trilemma, and formal statements depicting rules or laws can be mathematically much much richer in structure than a simple limited list of "choices".

I value the contribution of Arrow, but at the same time one shouldn't try to understand the concept of democracy by reading the Arrow impossibility literature. The moment democracy has been reduced to simply a predetermined multiple choice form, is the moment democracy is no longer understood.
If current OS's are large enough that it makes sense to put an entire DBMS under them, that sounds like one of the best arguments I've heard for microkernels since the 1980s (1970s?).

(one might imagine that a microkernel schedules cores [time] and provides block access/mapping to storage layers [space]; while the DB layers would build first locking and tables, and then transactions, on top of that; after which come applications...)
The first video with the Apollo 16 rover traverse got me curious about how far they went.

I found this web page which has a great way to visualise it, with their tracks overlaid on famous places on Earth: https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/TraverseMapsEarth.html

The one in the video is the orange line crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge with Smoky mountain ahead of them and to their right.
Not as bad as china yet, but you do have credit ratings, crime registers, and tracks on social media/facebook which can be mined to hang you out.

All three are regularly used in sweden to deny people jobs, services and opportunities.
I wonder if this is a copypasta? Something in these lines pops up every time someone in an EU institution proposes something controversial.

That someone is usually Ylva Johansson and its quickly striken down but for some reason there's this strange narrative pushed that feels almost automated.

WTF is this stuff about EU shutting down nuclear reactors? Complete fantasy world. Are you copy pasting this from somewhere or were you made to believe in on Twitter or something?

Please write a response I'm very curious about the roots of this comment.
Strange that these European utopias seem to be on the edge of collapsing into civil conflicts if the plebs are permitted to communicate with one another without government supervision.
The issue is that it's a self-defeating mechanism. PV doesn't produce zero energy during wintertime, they just produce less. You're going to be building additional PV to charge the Season Battery, but those additional panels will also be providing power during the winter.

If your battery's efficiency gets bad enough the added winter power from those extra panels is going to be enough to cover the winter shortage - so you don't even need the battery at all. You'd essentially just be turning a huge amount of power into heat for nothing.
E2E 1:1 chat is not going to disappear for the criminals simply because it becomes illegal for the common man.
Many countries do put restrictions on this. Some examples:

Until literally this year, the UK removed the right to vote after 15 years of living abroad, and Canada even used to restrict that right to just 5 years.

Even now, civilian US citizens living abroad whose intent to return to live in the US is uncertain or who don't intend to return, and Canadian citizens living abroad regardless of intent to return, are only federally guaranteed a right to vote from their last in-country address in federal elections, but often can't vote in state, provincial territorial, or local elections. This is true even if they retain significant ties to the relevant state, province, territory, or locality, like having close family there (including kids too young to vote for whom they're a legal parent), owning property there, operating a business there, or being owed a pension controlled by the relevant level of government.

And the guarantee of a right to vote from abroad in US federal elections is purely statutory, not constitutional - not to mention it has a few gaps in it, like citizens who have never lived in the US and neither of whose parents last lived in a state that allows the right to vote from abroad to descend to the next generation based on last parental residence.

Et cetera.
To me it’s hard to believe that fundamental knowledge about computation would have no practical applications. That depends on “practical” of course. Elliptic curves or group theory were hardly of any use for medieval dirt slappers.
They're essentially saying that they don't want the US 1st amendment imported into their state. So they should block it like they have and that be that.

Poor bastards.
I'm disturbed by the ambiguous UI.

Is 'Hide Binary" enabled or disabled? If it's enabled, why is it a different colour to the slider that has presumably selected Base-16?

Are the binary digits editable?

Are "ASCII" and "Unicode" mutually exclusive as you'd expect, in which case why are they both the same colour?
Btw after Hungary got the Presidency of the Council of the European Union[1] in July Orban made a trip to Ukraine[2] which was fine for the media until he went directly afterwards to Russia and then to China[3] which the media didn’t took very well. To finish off his trip he went to the USA to meet and endorse Trump.[4] The media wasn’t really happy with that either.

But overall he is one of the only European leaders which speaks with all relevant parties and tries to stop the conflict in Ukraine.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_the_Council_of...
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/world/europe/orban-hungar...
3. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/07/08/hungarian-prim...
4. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viktor-trump-mar-a-lago-visit-n...
Just hired a elixir dev recently. Assuming you already have experience developing in another platform, learn elixir and My advice would be to be active on the elixir slack and to have a few projects. Develop experience with ecto/oban/phoenix. theres plenty of jobs. There just aren't many people that know elixir well.
What is even happening in this comment?

You can learn from history _and_ berate Nazis. Those aren't mutually exclusive.

I don't know where you're from, but there are also _modern_ Nazis who proudly identify as such and they can and should be told to fuck off.
I still can’t get over that the UK arrests people over social media posts. Is the US the only place on the planet that actually has free speech?
> Efficiency Admittedly, the current, non-optimized, technical trial-level efficiency of the here-built system was very low, with an overall storage efficiency of 11.4%,

So far their is even lower, though they claim a theoretical max of 79%. Storing large amounts of energy that's ready to be used is rarely not dangerous in any case. Except maybe potential energy of a tank of water on a mountain.
Yes, but remembering the multiples of 10 is vastly easier: they are 10, 20, 30, 40, etc. Remembering the multiples of 16 is quite a lot easier: 16, 32, 48, 64 etc. You probably already know them.

Now to convert from miles to km replace a multiple of 10 by a multiple of 16. 70 mph becomes 112 km/h.

To convert in the opposite direction do the opposite. 130km/h is 128 km/h + 2 km/h = 80mph + 1 mph (rounding down since you don't want to have to justify this calculation at the side of the road, to a gendarme, in a foreign language).

1.6 km = 1 mile is just as accurate as using 1.618.., the golden ratio. (Enough for driving, not enough for space travel.) And using the Fibonacci method is less accurate than the golden ratio since small Fibonacci numbers are only approximately the golden ratio apart.

The only possible justifications for the Fibonacci method are:

1. You want people to know that you know what the Fibonacci sequence is.

2. You enjoy overengineering.

3. You're one of quite a few people who believe, for whatever reason, that the golden ratio appears all over the place like in measurements of people's belly buttons, the Great Pyramids, and so on, and that this has some spiritual or mathematical significance.
It's like with drug dealing on the streets. If you force dealers off the streets, the deals will take place in private apartments that are much harder to surveil. If you force dealers from large social nets to private social nets or even specialized "underground" apps, the police work is going to be harder, not easier.
> tries to stop the conflict in Ukraine

Afaik only cares about cheap gas, the rest is irrelevant.
I think the article misses one of the central points behind having a compiler:

It's not about managing memoization in an automated way - even though that's also very nice - but rather the ability to compile closures and package them.

This way you can automate hydration.

The main pain point with SPAs is that you're generating huge packages since you have to ship all of your code at once.

Having a compiler gives you the ability to do tree shaking on a per-component basis.