skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We tried matrix and element a little while back and it had too many sharp corners. Now we use jabber. It also have some problems but we were able to workaround them.

When we did our tests, messages would get dropped, arrive out of order, be impossible to decrypt, joining a room was slow (sometimes days), mobile notifications would be swallowed by the desktop client left running, webhook were hard...

I don't want to speculate too much as it is just a feeling, but it felt that the protocol itself had unfixable flaws.
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Hi everyone! I wanted to learn swift so thought I'd try making an app that's useful to me. I hope you give it a try and please suggest what widgets you'd want to see :)
Good point! I should have said "many other cultures".
How does a R developer differ from a R programmer? (Asking you as an R programmer)
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But the UK is nowhere near full in terms of housing. The Netherlands is the densest large country in Europe, and rocks double the population density of the UK. Despite this, the two countries have a roughly equal ratio of people to homes (~2.2). It's not as if a country actually needs that much land to build homes - humans simply don't take up that much space in terms of housing.
>The obsession with Snowden as a messianic figure is unhelpful in contextualizing the information.

Damn the gall, give it a rest. Again, methods and scope. Which one of those exposes PRISM, XKeyScore and the NSA infiltrating Google servers? Which one of those exposes the companies that willingly "integrated" with the NSA?

Which of those exposes US government spying on allied governments, recording private conversations, etc?

Saying Snowden didn't reveal anything is a silly hill to die on. What is your prerogative in minimizing the exposure? Do you work for one of the companies implicated in participating in prism or something?

Microsoft joined PRISM on 9/11/2007 (fitting)

Yahoo joined PRISM on 3/12/08

Google joined PRISM on 1/4/09

Facebook joined PRISM on 6/3/09

YouTube joined PRISM on 9/24/10

Skype joined PRISM on 2/6/11

AOL joined PRISM on 3/11/11

Apple, the last holdout on the list, joined PRISM 10/12 (after Jobs died).

OP, this is why it seems nobody cares, there's plenty of people trying to sway public opinion on the matter by minimizing it. Nobody wants to believe their government would do things like this, so when someone offers that, "hey it's not so bad," they want to believe it. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Is Jabber still around?
YouTube is huge, there's all sorts of YouTubers out there. There are niche audiences for long-form detailed content too, in the million-viewership range. See Ben Eater for example.
The fact it's a whole site dedicated to this article means there's some angle to it. Would be interesting to know who paid for this.
The same last names are mentioned in the context of many US elections. US is not as far removed as you might think.
Why, and which one?
Just saw a horror story on r/startups. Dev guy worked for two years with no pay while the project went nowhere. Now reluctant to "give away" his work as he feels cheated.

https://old.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1fkruy3/i_want_to...
Split across all countries the satellite flies over, proportional to the amount of time spent over each country

Good luck
28 hours (note the date), but still
If you want to self-host the actual free open-source software, you can totally do that. You just shouldn't go looking at the product page of the enterprise offering for it (:

It looks like ESS is mostly managed deployment of otherwise opensourced software like Synapse, Element Web, Element Call, and friends. And I guess they have some backoffice with a glossy web UI for account/user management.

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy is a good starting point!
I agree that SQLite is awesome for many use-cases. Running in the same process allows to have a very small latency. No additional server to manage is also a big plus. Concurrency can be an issue with writes though. Plus if you need to scale your backend you can't share the same database.

ORMs are very hit-and-miss for me. Had bad experiences with performance issues and colleagues who don't understand SQL itself, leading to many problems. Micro-ORMs that just do the mapping, reduce boilerplate and otherwise get out of your way are great though.
Oh, Idk how the blog differ from the roundups, but they’ve been pretty active with the posts there.

I found it through the website aswell so I guess it’a something from the Haxe team.
Multiplicative Calculus [pdf]
Im dyslexic and I tend to use the pointer to follow what I am reading to help me. The cat was annoying as hell. I just had to hide the element in the DOM before i could read more than a few lines. Infuriating design choice to make it follow the pointer.
Including critical ones like threading...
Possibly but I've been at it for 20 years - this is the first time I've experienced a drought like this.
Have you tried desktop to register your account?
Ah thanks, that explains why I don't see the cat everybody mentions
Another neat paper: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81954511.pdf
> Prestige based on family lineage is considered a big deal

Are you in the UK? The monarchy and House of Lords are an obvious anachronism and they need abolishing [1], but I would say it's a very small minority who care who you parents are/were (mainly people who think their own parents are/were a big deal) — and a similar small minority who might also ask "which school did you go to?".

[1] e.g. https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/
You can also host it yourself, but what ESS offers is a combination of multiple discrete services. You’re gonna have to host Synapse itself, the Matrix Authentication Service (for native OIDC), Element Call (which requires LiveKit) and Element Web.
It's terrible, heart breaking. But that's the outcome of very slow army attacks, with evacuations, humanitarian aid and efforts to minimize civilians casualties, not maximizing it.

The army could have burn down the entire strip from the air and leave no person or stone there, in five minutes. That's what I meant by burning down the entire strip. If Hamas had the power to do the same to Israel they would gladly do so, as is evident from the way they use their power and resources.

Saying that it's 'cutting both ways' is evil statement. One side gladly ignores the lives and suffering of it's own people, while the other pay with the lives of soldiers in an effort to minimize the death toll of the same people.
It's hard to find any European country that didn't have any government projects that went wildly over budget or were very much delayed.
So I don't think this is a UK specific problem, and it doesn't explain why Britain has stagnated compared to most of the EU.
https://www.starlink.com/gb/business/direct-to-cell
Honestly Google's probably almost as guilty - Native Client was a great idea and sidestepped basically all the issues we are having now, but they killed it in favour of 'standard' APIs, like Wasm that basically barely work for their intended purposes
The 10 hour Cavernautes video is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9LNriDuivA

Moving on, you can fly in a blimp by yourself in a cave here - https://www.manawa.com/en-GB/activity/france/uzes/unusual-ac... (Tom Scott did this in an aircraft hanger)
> but so far I haven’t seen any tooling (in macOS) to re-encode my existing photo library

On Linux you can re-encode every single .jpg to .jxl and they'll decode bit-for-bit, to the original .jpg.

On Debian and derivatives it's the libjxl-tools: the cjxl executable converts to .jxl and the djxl decompresses.

Works flawlessly.

P.S: as a sidenote there's zero reason anymore to serve a .jpg file to a browser when the browser supports .jxl files. That's just a waste of bandwith. (and if your stack cannot serve different files depending on the users' browsers' capacities, it's not much of a stack)
Daily scrum, sprint planning, retrospective and review are ceremonies, and they are totally mentioned in the guide.

The guide also mentions the backlog refinement: “ This is an ongoing activity to add details, such as a description, order, and size.” It’s true that scrum doesn’t directly mention story points but tell me whether story points or t-shirt sizing aren’t the two most common ways to size a story.
Matrix as a protocol, and synapse / element, the most common backend and client for the protocol (I believe), have existed for quite some time. Our co-op has been using synapse for about a year and a half now and I'm sure the majority of our members use Element as the client. Our managed hosting comes with an Element web deployment as well.

We used it as a drop in replacement for slack including automations etc. The bonus was we got, I can't remember the technical term but mirrors or duplicators for Instagram etc set up, so people can use the element app to message people on Instagram, Whatsapp, etc, if they'd like. I like it because I can message people without Instagram first trying to suck me in with Algo bs.
14 years of Tory rule.
The "stop at 80%" option is 15 and later.

I think you are thinking of the "optimized charging" option, which tries to guess how long you will be leaving the phone on the charger and then pauses when it reaches 80% until it gets near the time it thinks you are going to take the phone off the charger and then charges up to 100%.
I've also seen an issue on GitHub asking project author to add an entry in README.md with instructions on how to clone the repository...
I know. That's the point of my question: what is a place completely unmoderated?

Everywhere that allows free speech now has an angle. Some hide it better than others, and people can't see it.
>Passing off wealth and prestige by lineage has long been shown to be a bad idea. The next generation typically just screws it up.

In Japan there's an old saying that the success of a family is determined with the third generation.

The first builds the family empire. The second grows up seeing the first build it up and thus knows how to maintain it. The third grows up already having the empire and doesn't know how to maintain it, whether he can pass it on is essentially a dice roll. The fourth generation onwards, if the third succeeded, can refer to the family records and keep things going mostly indefinitely or realizes it's time to hand it off to different blood at that point.
It is free and opensource, but there are different parts to it if you selfhost. Synapse is the Matrix server backend, and Element is the UI (web/mobile app). [0]

ESS is a paid, fully managed service by the Element team for ease of use.

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[0] https://github.com/element-hq/
Have you renounced your British citizenship? Couldn't you keep both?
We have lift-off but we're not making it past the lower atmosphere ...

Was the Android version flow-tested by anyone at all at element.io?

When I tried registering a new account, it did not accept my handle. I guessed this because the handle text was red.

But why it didn't like it I can't see because the little box with the error message is outside to the right of the screen (I guess there is a box because I see a little arrow on the right and I understand that this just a web view of something not originally designed for mobile/portrait).

Basically, if this was my ma or any of my non-techie friends, they would close the app now without ever registering.

After I login with my existing account and verify the device via my Linux client it asks me to enter a "recovery key or security phrase".

I enter my security phrase, I get a spinner, the spinner disappears, the 'Continue' button is grayed out. Nothing happens.

These are both flows that (a) a new user would see or (b) an existing user would see, immediately when using the app for the first time.

How is it possible they're broken like this?
As for Wales ... This pattern repeats itself all over Europe. Only a few places "made" the transition from industrial settings to current economy.

I am from a former mining city of Ostrava, CZ. It is not completely dead, and it has been slowly improving lately, but it sorely needs something like high-speed rail to become relevant again. (The location is favourable: almost equidistant from Prague, Vienna, Warsaw and close to Krakow; a major railway hub.)

But the pattern really repeats itself all over Europe. Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Czechia, Poland - former heavy industry hotspots tend to collapse in a very similar fashion. As far as I have seen, Bilbao (ES) and Katowice (PL) were able to rebuild and reinvent themselves the best. Everyone else struggles or gave up the fight entirely.
Designing for low latency (even if only for a few clients) can be worth it though. Each action taking milliseconds vs. each action taking sections will lead to vastly different user experiences and will affect how users use the application.
Not to rain on their parade, but as someone who used element X, gave up because of the bugs. Is currently using XMPP with conversation.im and dino.im. The later seems much more stable, offer OMEMO encryption that worked better. If you want more social media elements there is also movin.eu.
This assumes people’s regret focus on things they did by applying sound logic which had undesirable outcomes. And in those situations it’s a no brainer to apply this framework

The ones that are harder are where you regret something that occurred as a result of not applying logic. There, you need to learn how to cut yourself slack, understand the context you existed in at the time, and acknowledge that you’re a better person who has learned from it.
that sucks :(. I wonder if there are other approaches to this, like simple word lookup, with storing a few synonyms, and prompting the LLM to always use the proper technical terms when performing a lookup.
Why would any enterprise use e2e encryption?

In most juridictions and industries you must be able to audit internal and b2b communication.
But the Netherlands are in a huge housing crisis at the moment.

If you want to compare the UK against the Netherlands, you'd have to compare the numbers in the article: how many Dutch own houses, how many have second homes. And adjust the numbers to be relative to population size of course. I'm not sure how well the Netherlands would come out of that comparison.
> They have no morality or national pride.

Actually, the more you learn about the country we live in, the more you will realize that it has little morality and is hardly worth much pride. To give just one example, we have the worst healthcare in developed countries despite spending the most on it. We have introduced and have been accumulating PFAS toxin like it doesn't matter at all, even adding it to pesticides to intentionally be sprayed on food. In general, the more our governmental agencies can be lobbied, the more corrupted they already are by corporations.
People are just God's way of getting microbes out of the gravity well?
Or in other words, you're not Google or Facebook. You almost certainly don't need the level of performance and architectural design those companies need for their billion + user systems.

And it doesn't help that a lot of people seem to drastically underestimate the amount of performance you can get from a simpler setup too. Like, a simple VPS can often do fine with millions of users a day, and a mostly static informational site (like your average blog or news site) could just put it behind Cloudflare and call it a day in most cases.

Alas, the KISS principle seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
It is generally not a good idea to run web services on a file server.
Really interesting and well researched read. The main take away seems to be that Britain has seen a lack of state funded infrastructure development and it's paying the price for this, especially in the energy sector.

I'm obviously oversimplifying, but I think that's an ok rough summary. I think it's well argued and evidenced in the article, but I'm interested in this question: why isn't the US stagnating?

My understanding is that it has had a similarly low infrastructue development, but conversely is doing well economically. What's the deal?
Personally, I don't think it's anything unfixable.
At least slow joins with large rooms got improvements last year or something.
E2EE is nowadays on by default, and I haven't had any decryption issues recently, but E2EE is not mandatory.
Notifications have had some changes too, but I can't comment much on that or your other issues.
Hello, I'm one of the Numscript devs.
The Numscript CLI does have a `numscript run` command, which is hidden for now but will be released in the following days. It behaves in the same way as the playground, and you can take a look at it with `numscript run --help` command
One of the exceptions in the US seems to be around the White House. For a while, when Hillary Clinton was running for President in 2008, it was possible that the US would have had a member of the Bush or Clinton families as either VP or President every year from 1981 thorough to 2017. Such political families are not unique to the US, of course, and the UK has a fair few, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_family
One of the authors is from the center for policy studies, which is a thinktank that was founded by Margaret Thatcher and 2 others. The other two authors seem to be the founder and one of the main contributors to https://worksinprogress.co/ which describes itself as "a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world."

So I'm going to guess it's gonna be that sort of thing. Someone with a neoliberal economic perspective who stands to benefit from government investments in largescale infrastructure projects.
Not sure who could be down voting you, because you're right. If your parents didn't send you to the right school to learn the right plummy accent, you don't stand much chance.
Resolv.conf does not specify order of preference of name servers! All the servers configured here are supposed to return the same answers!

See, many people have misconceptions how it works; see the comments in thread you linked to. Add to it the fact that resolv.conf syntax cannot express what is expected of modern resolvers (not even with apple-like extension - `/etc/resolver/*`; it cannot react to links going up and down), it is basically just compatibility shim for broken applications (they are not supposed to use it directly); that's why systemd-resolved configures it to point to itself and handles the specifics for them.
Which, since these people are from the CPS, they would have supported by the way.
No, I don't think I will let you share my personal data with 200 select partners (:
It’s the same for pretty much any product category now. Affiliate marketing and Google using its monopoly to prioritize ads over search results has basically ruined search. It’s in their best interest to lower the quality of results because the ads get more useful comparatively.

Gmail is next I predict. They have a monopoly over consumer email, so it’s revenue growth just waiting to be unlocked when times get tough. A higher percentage of your inbox is going to become paid Gmail ads and there’s nothing you’re going to do about it. Nobody wants to go to the hassle of changing their email address (the amount of boomers still on Yahoo mail is staggering).
How close are we to creating advanced computer chips at home?
Can building a computer be as easy as printing a sheet of paper? With the advancement of 3D printing, desktop manufacturing, and chip design tools, how far are we from being able to manufacture high-performance computer chips (e.g., ARM, Nvidia) at home with minimal setup? What are the key barriers, and what technologies hold the most promise to democratize chip fabrication?
The problem is that you think a societal problem can be solved technically.
Never thought someone would do this for R. Really nice work.

Vapour is an interesting choice. Hope it’s in name only :)
Is there like, any UI/UX plan for the main chat view in Element X? I feel like I've been using it for a year now and every time I see an update available I find myself hoping it's fixed the glaring spacing/padding issues in that particular view.

There's a lot of talk of Element competing with mainstream chat applications, but I don't see how it does that with what feels like an incomplete UI. I also just don't quite get how you ship a chat application in 2024 with issues like this, considering chat UI itself is somewhat of a solved problem. It's like one of those things that just has no reason to be badly laid out.

(Is this just SwiftUI being less than ideal for some types of views...?)

To be clear, I like and use Matrix daily. It's definitely still got rough edges but I appreciate the work they're doing and I think it'll eventually "get there", so I don't want to just be a (total) detractor.
I made something similar sometime ago (without using docker): http://github.com/thebigbone/deploypot
Not really replying to the above comment, but Do we think Putin should have bombed Gaza? Atleast there would have been sanctions against the bombing entity. Their athletes could have been banned, unlike the ITF people who goes to Olympics after committing crimes against humanity in Gaza. The double standards are not just bad, they are literally evil, I must say.
Car door and head are just labels on group of atoms, when you banged your head the collision was real. Try banging your head against Amazon or Oracle. Where do you start? The hard drive holding the contracts? The buildings? The web servers? The receptionist?
honestly I'm kinda bummed out that stuff like AI dungeon has folded. I had an amazing time with creative storytelling in the early days of LLMs, even if tripped up sometimes by the occasional filters etc. It seems nobody is actually really invested in this space, it's mostly amateurs trying to cobble together some homemade solution, using openly available LLMs and finetunes.
How can there be a 360, 000 page document to build something. That number seems so outrageously high. Is the font size massive or something?
Literally means cloudprotection in Norwegian. Thought for a second we had gotten our own cloudflare.
My wife has significantly more education in academia than me. I make a lot more money. Should education be tied to financial compensation? In a free market, no. In communism? Probably.

Not everyone who is intelligent excels at academia.

Which is better? Arguments either way. Which makes a stronger country? A free market.
Type of article: country X or company Y or city Z has it bad for such and such decisions, policies, culture. My rule of thumb for these kind of articles: if they don't mention external factors they are not worth reading.

An entity's situation is influenced by much more than its agency. There's competition from other similar entities, historical circumstances, geography, weather, happenstance, the list goes on and on and on. We like to think that everything depends on what we decide when in reality it's far from it.

These observations have been triggered in myself by reading history. Leadership is always blamed in difficult situations even if they were not (or not completely) responsible for the situation.
I am concerned about another problem: To justify their existence, search engines cannot simply ignore certain websites, but what they do is to make them harder to find. There many techniques for this. The average person is not aware of this. I am afraid that current and next generations will simply search for information, and will be fed erroneous ones, instead of the correct ones. This is programming at a global level; the internet as a medium has no borders, has no limits, and not all people are versed in computer science.
> The genius of this was that Jamie Oliver was of course famous
The US has a more robust system for supplying infrastructure through private investment - including in the energy sector.