skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magnetic force drops off with the 4th power of distance. What is a slight wobble is centimeters away from being a bullet. This is pretty easy to experiment with fridge magnets to build intuition. I would exercise caution if you have embedded magnets though.
That’s odd because even in .NET the common suggestion I’ve heard is to just crank the logging level and try to extract data from that, e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/logging-events-dia...

Or the equivalent in other stacks as well, for example with Hibernate or myBatis logging in Java, almost never a pretty summary table of how many DB actions of what kind were called per API request.

I might need to dig around more!
A lot of folks here are, willfully or out of ignorance, missing the point that the thing that makes doxxing a criminal activity is the malicious intent.
Isn’t that converting a block list to an allow list, which ends up with the same result?
> The bright-yellow robot is the Norppa 300

norppa is the Suomi word for a seal, for anyone curious
Experience Report Using VS Code and Alive to Write Common Lisp
Big Clive is is one of my favorite people but I feel like it would be pretty frustrating (and possibly even dangerous) to try to learn electronics from weatching random chinesium product teardowns.
he flagged your post, too adventurous for him :(
Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
For whatever it's worth, subdomain takeovers are also a thing and bug bounty hunters have been exploiting it for years.
I have had enough problems with USPS, both sending and receiving, that I no longer rely on them, and I'm just an average person who doesn't use USPS much. Whether it's first-class, certified mail, or priority mail with tracking–they all get lost at higher than acceptable rates. (Maybe domestic registered mail is the last reliable option.)

When a mail piece gets stuck or lost, there's no way to get help. USPS staff is generally unhelpful. It's a disaster.
> Atmospheric oil and fun chemicals

Sounds nice and healthy
Wow... "Every pixel you scroll is $5 million"
That's a false choice. Just because we're stuck with Systems based on ambient authority, doesn't mean we have to be crippled by them forever.

We're at a stage analogous to just before fuses were adopted to prevent circuit overloads from causing chaos in electrical distribution.

Fuses and circuit breakers are almost trivial to operate.
Since this seems to be a dual purpose post with the secondary goal of promoting calculang, I'll say I do not understand the value prop of calculang at all. It doesn't look like a library or language or anything, it just looks like plain javascript.
I mean, it is the developer’s intellectual property, so they should have a say in how it’s used, right?
WOW this is very good!!

I have an immediate use case for this. Can you stream via AI to support real time chat this way?

Very very good!

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they won't, it was clear that Google would also embrace malicious compliance, it's just the first steps so far
if you have a 3090, you could self host
Thank you, I appreciate that.

It gets lonely out there and nice to see people who understand
Every API (a group of methods) can only be accessible via an interface object (accessor). The application requests an API, gets the accessor, make the call(s).

If permission for that accessor was explicitly granted, the calls succeed. Otherwise, the calls never reach the destination.

What would you call this arrangement? A supervisor?
He and I sorted it out above
There are some services out there like https://uploadcare.com/ and https://www.filestack.com/ but they offer lots of stuff and are not cheap.

My idea is to have an APIaaS and offer simpler ways to integrate with one or multiple providers. Files could be saved to the customers' accounts.

Features could include transformations, compression, conversion, spend management and insights, etc.

Not sure if that sounds appealing to others but I would have used such a service on my previous serverless project if there was such a service with reasonable pricing.
Yes, they should have a say. This is "the final word". There's a large gap of rationality in between them.
The article implies they were broken for a few years and lots of clients did not notice this.
> night and day to what it was before

This reminds me of iirc KiCAD 5 to KiCAD 6. Overnight it went from some weird clearly-Linux program to become a viable product, an excellent one even.

KiCAD uses FreeCAD on the backend for things.

I’d love to see FreeCAD take the same path!!!

However… when I looked at it last year the “let’s draw a cup” tutorial was so pathetically bad I closed it and went right back to solidworks without a second thought.
Exactly, https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12598

Jonathan Ho, one of the authors of the CFG paper, now works for Ideogram, and Ideogram 2 is one of the very few models (or perhaps the only one) where I don't see the artifacts caused by the CFG, maybe he has achieved a breakthrough.
Love that!!!
We could do this by sending a header to the website.

What should we call this.. mmh..

"Do Not Track" is a bit long, maybe we just shorten it to DNT?

Nah thats dumb. /s

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...
I personally consider FreeCAD very far from stable. All I need to do is to open random example projects to speedrun to some warning/error/exception/segfault.
Nestjs has no real ecosystem compared to Django, Rails, Laravel, ASP.NET or Spring. Prisma has some nice typing but it is not even half as capable as the Django ORM.
What is "publishing a stack of commits"?

Is that putting it up for review? Or are you not doing a PR workflow at all, in which case this doesn't really relate to the article.

Is the expectation that the developer either never commits stuff in a broken state during development or that they go back and rewrite or squash the sequence before pushing it for review?
I can see it now, thank you!

That said, it's one full page scroll down, and that after two clicks at not-too-obvious menus. Not exactly in your face in terms of discoverability.

Hopefully this is just a first step – keeping archived sites indexed and/or automatically forwarding people to IA links once the original goes down would be amazing!

Within reason, of course; there's possibly a point where it would be a bit "too discoverable" and make people exclude their site from archiving as a general precaution. (I could see people being generally fine with being archived, but not with being google-able forever.)
FWIW, the ad industry--of which Google is the circus master--disagrees, and so your emulator wouldn't pass Google Play Integrity (previously SafetyNet Attestation) and its remote attestation DRM scheme.

https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity
I think a related, important question will be what is the default for apps compiled where the developer hasn't adjusted this knob?
Same.-

Long way to go yet though. So, we bring - let's say - Disney back. How do we reanimate? Apart from, of course, curing what killed them.-
>The copyright holder only has to provide source to those who got it from them under a GPL license. Others may not be able to get a copy, as those who can ask you for it aren’t obliged to give it to them on request

That's true, but if the software is at all widely distributed, then there's lots of people who have a copy theoretically, and any one of them could distribute their copy. So, in practice, once the cat is out of the bag, it's very hard to get it back in. But if the copyright holder changes the license (even on older versions) and no one still has a copy of those older GPL-licensed versions (or isn't willing to send a copy), then sure, in effect the copyright holder could retroactively un-GPL the whole thing.
What is anti consumer about an app developer only allowing their app to be installed through the play store? Genuinely wondering.
I think either of these are fine - and the latter is certainly nice but also requires more work - but both require some sort of "squashing."

I don't understand the proposed workflow of "commit early and often" without any sort of squashing of WIP.
> I've always wondered why companies don't overhire women to save on labor costs.

And you should, as any selfish greedy company would do exactly that.

The beauty of the free market is it relies on selfish, greedy behavior to produce prosperity, rather than hopelessly trying to crush such behavior.
This. 30 minutes ago I ordered 4 of those $5 meal deals for my family of 4, applied the 20% off coupon and we all ate for $17 after tax. Hard to beat that.
I think this is a great write up. My own personal take is that the government is extremely, hyper-sensitized to any belief in their population "it went backwards" and so visible deflation in the value of the Yuan expressed in consumer experience is going to be a massive bummer for the CCP.

The idea that the great housing stock billionaire scam is going to collapse is untenable. Blowing up tower blocks rather than admit the emperor has no clothes is performative but also functional? If they leave those units standing, the real value of my millionaire pad is probably worse. So the home owners sitting on empty houses as future bank are glad some other poor sucker watched their dream home go up in smoke.

I think that most Beijing residents know they aren't going to drive the rolls royce they can see in shop windows in town. But they like having visible symbols of China's financial acumen laid out before them. Having a sign on the door saying RR has reclaimed that showroom won't make them feel as good.
This seems historic. One of the core differentiators between iOS and Android that worked in Android's favor is now destroyed.

I hope it doesn't become a slippery slope where for "security" Google would start blocking undesirable or ethically/politically inconvenient apps, too.

For example, there are some medical apps that improve people's health outcomes (like custom blood glucose CGM apps and insulin pump closed loop apps for type 1 diabetics). Google does not seem to want them on the Play Store. They are undesirable apps from a business perspective – a liability with no upside.

The tech we speak about today provides the infrastructure to block these undesirable apps, as I understand. This lays the foundation of not allowing software to be installed on many consumer Android phones without Google's approval. I do hope it never comes to Google overstepping like that, but it could be optimism or naivety.

As a tool for app developers... where app developers make the decision... in this limited situation, it might be still somewhat okay. It's okay in the sense that the apps are their intellectual property and they might be entitled by law and common understanding to choose how it is distributed. But if Google ever decides to ban apps this way against the developers' wishes, it would be a massive overstep.
Yes, they are products. They compete in a free market with other products. The way you can tell is that the bar for quality raises over time!

What I'll say is that knowing that projects are products doesn't help you much in dealing with maintainers, because assuming they will treat you like they would a customer ignores the variety of pressures providers of free products are under.
Automating Detective Work
Taco Bell isn't really a taco place, it's a particular type of food. Other chains like Taco John's and Del Taco are very similar. And there is the occasional independent place that makes Taco Bell-style food. But normally tacos are Mexican food, and Taco Bell does not serve Mexican food.
The device is worthwhile if you are exploring this kind of hardware security and also want to poke at other things while you're on the go to enhance your learning. The fact they added a Javascript engine so you don't have to program in C/C++ when you want to run something custom, I think will be a huge boon.

Don't undervalue getting all these features in a purpose-built device with a purpose-built OS.
Yeah, I wish i could downvote this purely because of the deceptive title.
I wonder to what extent the supposed user benefits of central control of apps are true.

Maybe arbitrary programs on a phone is akin to a random .exe on Windows 95, but instead of Windows 95 it's a computing platform that a majority of human beings have in their pocket and that can provide direct or indirect access to almost all personal and financial information. I mean, you have to grant the privileges, but of course you will.

Maybe having a locked down library of programs is good, I'm just too much of a cynic to see it as anything but a power grab. On the other hand, maybe the support and legal headaches of customers "screwing themselves up" also plays a part, especially when there's a whole dark industry to trick people into screwing themselves up.
Maybe it’s better selfhosted, but GitLab is almost unbearably slow. I booted up a Gerrit instance to compare and simply rendering a MR page is maybe 10 seconds vs zero. GitHub is still 10x faster. GitLab manages to be almost that slow for cached pages, making you wait, then realise it’s outdated, and load again, totalling maybe 20 seconds just to “go back to the MR list”. Its awful.

Whatever it is you think you might like about GitLab in theory, it’s much worse when this is your reality. When it takes that long to render a single MR, you do not want to be creating more of them than you have to, and you certainly don’t want to make yourself and the rest of your team navigate between MRs to do code review.
My phone also runs practically forever. It charges while I'm driving, and I don't remember the last time it died on me.

> incredible battery life

I would hardly consider <24 hours to br "incredible battery life", especially since their competitors have significantly better battery life - and Apple is on their 10th iteration.
They don't make it easy to contribute to the project...

Between only French forum, French FAQ on the website (English website) and dead links...it's...uhm
Taxation of beer in the UK had a direct effect on elections, but also in the % alcohol of said beer. It's no surprise the amount of drink consumed in the UK went down in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, pretty much as the rise of working class voters and the tax base from income taxes, and the national debt rose.

Prohibition movements may have existed before then but Temperence movements really got on in that time.

BTW the meme that "people drank alcohol to avoid bad water" was knocked out. It's bad history. People knew how to make water drinkable. If they drank wine or beer it's because they liked it.

In this period, Joseph McCabe in "ten years in a monastery" writes of the prodigious amounts of booze sunk by novitiates and brothers, all the time, across the Catholic monastic system. He was a bit biassed having gone over the wall to humanism/socialism before writing about the evils of religion but he had been on the inside, I think he knew what he was talking about.
Sometimes, as with most things
https://www.amazon.com/Corruption-Government-Causes-Conseque...
Amazing work, thank you!

I'm starting to wonder whether Palm OS and other "retro" homebrew executable formats might have their actual practical uses these days, beyond the nostalgia:

I can run Palm OS .prcs, .gb homebrew ROM from itch.io etc. on my desktop, iOS, and Android, as well as on physical gaming devices; offline, efficiently, distraction-free, without any chance of in-app purchases...

Take Apotris, for example: I've bought (and probably will buy) a lot of official Tetris versions over the years, but here's an incredibly slick implementation I can play on all of my consoles, or even on any computer without installation (thanks to WASM-based GBA emulators like RetroArch Web and modern browsers having native gamepad support).

Besides that, there's just something comforting with having a single, self-contained executable that I know I can in all likelihood run one, ten, twenty years from now – which is probably not true for many iOS or even web indie games I otherwise really like.
That’s not happening. The coral edge tpus are ancient, slow and don’t have enough mem to be meaningful and somehow still manage to be relatively expensive even 2nd hand.

They have some good uses but LLMs aint it
Magisk.

To a much, much lesser degree: Samsung's Secure Folder/Android's Work Profile.
Neither contraindicates my point.
Tech to better preserve, transport, and maintain donor organs
I would love a modern Palm OS phone, that's true to the original UI philosophies and could run (even if just through emulation) all my old titles.
I mean we have iron in the blood, since we’re talking “nano” here
Yes that's how the game goes. The regulator has to keep plugging holes that the non compliant corporate entity finds until there are no more holes worth exploiting by the corporate entity.

It is an exhausting and practically unending task to defend consumers against malfeasant operators but it is one that governments can and must do.
The harm was much greater than nine deaths, many other people were poisoned. Someone is responsible. They won't be held responsible under our current regulatory and liability framework.

If you want this kind of malfeasance to stop, that framework needs to be changed. There's a fundamental disconnect between decision-makers and beneficiaries of this harm, and the responsibility that they get to shirk.

Consider that tampering with food (for no personal gain) that doesn't seriously harm anyone carries sentences of multiple years. Scale this proportionately.
It's barely enough to subsidise a war for one year...
> any increase in the sophistication of the tech that exists to measure the world gives a relative benefit to corporations over individuals.

We are far more able to measure the world than we were in the middle ages, or before the civil war, or even during the world wars.

You can see how strong this claimed relative benefit and it's effects are by how the increasing ability to measure the world over that time has led people to become consistently more oppressed as time goes by.
> so they should have a say in how it’s used

users should, that's why feedback forms exist
Agree that Hawaii is (gloriously) remote, but to my eye there still seems to be less shipping in its vicinity on average than there is in similarly remote areas of the Pacific. But I also just noticed I was misinterpreting the scale of the map and had substantially overestimated the breadth of Hawaiian archipelago, so the seeming absence of non-Hawaiian traffic could certainly be a function of, well, being smack in the middle of a giant ocean with not much else around.

That said, another thing I noticed that makes me think could be a regulatorily driven pattern - there’s a quite noticeable void in the map around the Galapagos. I assume that’s some sort of environmental regulation, and vessels either route around (or turn off their transponders) due to that - wondering if there’s a reason to do the same in US waters that doesn’t really seem to hold true anywhere other than the US or the Galapagos.
It restricts the users choice to use the device that they own in a way they want with the software that own in a way that they want.
I understand that Commodore Amiga (e.g. visual effects) was also used for the Max Headroom series [1][2].

If we go backwards, probably new generations think that Star Wars was also done using CGI.

[1] https://network47.org/vault/max-headroom/max-headroom-and-th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom
We all wish you were right. But alas life's not that simple.

I suggest reading the manual on the section: "Sometimes Queries Return SQLITE_BUSY In WAL Mode"

https://sqlite.org/wal.html#sometimes_queries_return_sqlite_...
IME, it’s more because most (citation needed) web devs are familiar with JSON and its nested format, and so it’s much easier to keep everything in that mental model, and let something else do the conversion.

SQL is of course not a difficult language, but I will give ORMs that it can be somewhat difficult to context switch between the two mental models.

Django, IME, does an extremely good job at producing decent SQL, most of the time. There are times when you can be faster, and there are certainly times where it’s massively slower, but the average is higher than if you just had everyone writing queries.

My counter to that is “have RDBMS SMEs create VIEWs for anything you want, and let devs just call those,” but then I get told I’m old-fashioned, and that no one wants to store any kind of logic in a DB, version controlled or not.
You could say the same thing about all fines in general or specifically the Swiss and Finish income proportional fines in general.

Is there any evidence of egregious behaviour from Swedish and Finnish law enforcement in the manner that you describe?
We call them features
Laser eye surgery won't do that, but intraocular lens implantation could. I think those lenses still don't work that great for reading, but I imagine they will eventually.
If this were Max Headroom snarkily reporting news, I might be more inclined to watch.
Would such a policy even be legal ? Your link claims it’s illegal for employers to interfere with tips. Even politicians are allowed tips.
The last time I flew JFK - pre-pandemic, the prices were insane. $16 for a sub sandwich (not Subway). Tasted terrible. I've never been to NYC, so I don't know if this is what they charged outside.

Portland, as another commenter said, tends to have the same price in the airport as their restaurants outside.
To whom should I point my middle finger? Is Google the one to thank for this?
Every PR is a single commit. The only extra commits on a PR would be "Review feedback", etc. But it would be squash merge and the final commit message updated to include any important details related to the changes from the feedback.

Consider the case from the article. refactor: 25, api: 500, migration: 50. Lets say 25 = 1 day of work so we have refactor: 1 day, api: 20 days, migration: 2 days. I'll decrease api to 5 days (1 week) for simplification. You pick up the task on Monday and do the refactor. Now, you have 5 days of work ahead of you on the api. Don't you feel you are looking over your back hoping no one on your team touches those lines? And then on day 5 someone does the refactor but slightly different. You have a commit so you have to do some rebase magic when you catch up to master. No thank you. And you doubled the work, your coworker wouldn't have had to do it if you had checked it in 5 days ago.

Consider a deadline. Consider a major production bug in the api that you discover when you release it. In my plan, you end up releasing the api early so you catch the bug early. You can petition for more resources to fix the problem since you have extra days which were reserved for the migrarion. If you try a big-bang release you find the api bug later, decreasing the likelihood that you can fix it within the deadline. I think of amortizing the risk of my releases across time rather than allowing the risk to accrue.

I could continue to defend this with more examples but the real fact is there is a tradeoff here like tabs vs. spaces or emacs vs. vim. But that tradeoff is ship fast vs. reduce interruptions for developers. Because creating a PR, reviewing a PR and releasing a change are interruptions for developers. And some developers will find ways to reduce interruptions. I have my preference for shipping fast for the reasons above and my experiences between cultures that result from the choice of prioritization in the tradeoff.
I'm not sure, that sounds like a pretty cheap war to me then.

It's barely enough to pay for 5 days of the US defense budget, and they're not even fighting a war at the moment.