skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visually humans have neotenistic characteristics compared to other primates, so this is quite plausible.
Snowdon is a traitor and a coward. Where is he living these days?
I’ve been using Digikam for 20 years, and although it’s pretty good now, it has been a rough 20 years in some respects. Nevertheless I’d do it all again rather than suffer the trap of putting data into a system designed to prevent you getting it out.
I can see them coming in handy for large production lines and main bus inputs.
Android is a repudiation of traditional “distro” Linux userspace. I think it’s Android approach that has the best chance of reaching mainstream adoption in the laptop form factor with consumers.
Fingerprint tech is ridiculously advanced. I saw a documentary where they lifted a print off a pillow case decades later.
Make no mistake, he will be forced into hacking for the NSA for the rest of his life under threat of child porn offenses.
Glad you pointed out the logical fallacy.

In that context, "less fragile" are vague words without a clear subject.

I posted the saying to be satirical, but in depth, the two-party system is more stable than any other political systems: To people, it may seem like a cycle of mess, but the system itself is very stable, it avoids the regime change by normalizing it.
My point is, it's impossible to test everything in a reasonable timeframe. It would be much, much more convenient to know (call it "having an accurate theory") beforehand which approach will be faster.

Imagine having to design electronics the way we design performant programs. Will this opamp survive the load? Who knows, let's build and try these five alternatives of the circuit and see which one of them will not blow. Oh, this one survived but it distorts the input signal horribly ("yeah, this one is fast, but it has multithreading correctness issues and reintroduction of locks makes it again about as slow"), what a shame. Back to the drawing board.
That's basically all code
There's a Wikipedia page for you to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
We could just encode hashes on base64 instead of hex and get several times more entropy with the same size text
Reagan often gets the credit or blame for many policies that actually began during Carter's administration.
Hello! Founder of Glide FTA.

Yes, many of our customers hit the issues you mentioned as they scale spreadsheet-based applications. We built Big Tables for this case: https://www.glideapps.com/big-tables

You keep most of the convenience and programmability of a spreadsheet, but you get Postgres scale and a first-class API (which includes atomic table swapping for updating large datasets). It also supports live updating of any views displaying that data.
What a timely article! I've been thinking about writing something similar for a bit.

I was doom-and-gloomy about how programming is more complicated now, but then friends pointed out a bunch of things to me:

* Arduinos & ESP32s (<$5): program in a simple app, flash over USB, & you're programming bare metal. ESP32s have Wi-Fi & Bluetooth

* Raspberry Pi ($30-$80): program on a real, self-contained Linux OS. If you trash it, just reset the SD card. GPIO, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi.

* Web (free): like theoa points out, you can make apps that work on any modern computer/phone in a single file with no compilation & instant output (and share it on GitHub Pages).

* Go & Rust (free): 2 easy-to-build-and-install languages, & Rust feels "C enough" to sate anyone who wants to learn "low-level" programming.

* Pico8 ($15): fake 8-bit console w/ dev tools. [Celeste](https://maddymakesgamesinc.itch.io/celesteclassic) was first written for Pico8.

* Unreal Engine/[Unreal Editor for Fortnite](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/uses/uefn-unreal-editor-f... (free): make games using the same engines everyone else uses

* Roblox? (free???): make & share games with your friends

IMO, the hardest things in 2024 (hah) are native app development & "modern" web development/anything that includes a login.

I don't have enough context for your points about learning without adult supervision, but I know that all of these options are very well documented; I bet No Starch has some good books for each?

Thoughts?
still the best time to be alive gents!

let's do better next year!

onwards & upwards!
i don’t think that’s correct, it seems from the article he was mostly involved in reselling the data.

i don’t think we generally deploy our actual good hackers abroad (i’m also not sure how many of them are directly employed by the govt vs contractors)
I am a happy user of PhotoPrism. I use it with Podman. I initially hated the fact that it requires containers but then I realized this makes it much easier to work with multiple libraries simultaneously which was mentioned by OP. The Photos app on the Mac does not allow using multiple libraries simultaneously; I believe it needs to be restarted to switch libraries.
Can you scan a check from your web browser? Maybe I'm wrong, but probably not; frankly, it's a logistical miracle we can do this from our phones and the banks tolerate it, but I can see why they would still want to minimize all risk involved.

The second reason though I can think a bank would want attestation is as an anti-piracy measure. With a website, you have HTTPS verifying the identity of the domain. With an app, a pirated app or a 3rd party app from any source could hypothetically intercept user's banking information, their scanned checks, or even attempt to cash their scanned checks itself. It's not about making sure the device is secure, as it is killing attempts at 3rd party, modified, or malicious clients. The last thing I want, or the bank wants, is some grandmother downloading the "Wells Fargo Bank Plus with Giant Legible Accessible Text" app she saw in an ad as an APK, installing it, and being a victim of silent fraud for years.

The third reason a bank might want it, is also just simple stupid litigant America. If such a scheme similar to the above were to occur, the bank would likely be sued by victims arguing that the above circumstance was preventable. The victims would also be correct, it was preventable. The bank is then in the unenviable position of telling the jury that supporting the rights of 0.1% of phone modders was more important than victimized grandmothers.

Or, as a bank lawyer would say, just turn on attestation, it costs basically nothing, and then none of the above could happen. Better safe than sorry. After all, is the grandmother not also a customer, and preventing malicious clients in her best interest? Sure, some customers will be inconvenienced, but this is America, where anyone depositing more than $10K is subject to an interrogation.
For some reason I find this kind of sad. This kid seems like a Dunning Kruger effect poster boy.

I mean, when I was younger I would have been gleeful about some bragging idiot getting busted but now, *shrug*, everyone just has some "condition".
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Thanks! You are right, the effect is weaker than I had anticipated. Maybe I picked the wrong green tones, or the perspective was too close. I'm sure I'll try again sometime!

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No it isn't. You can write safe file IO in Rust despite the read and write system calls being unsafe.
I can offer a rationale that I hope that will be interesting. Evidence is more effort than I'm willing to invest in a random internet conversation. I hope that's okay. I don't mean to cause offense, but neither do I like having an interesting discussion shutdown.

Executive leadership compensation tends to be based on,
- the size/prospects/complexity of the company
- the compensation received by executives in similar roles at other companies
- the amount/type of oversight by the board

This incentivizes executives to increase the complexity of their role in order to justify greater remuneration. The classic example is turning a widget factory into a widget financial services provider. In this case, by behaving like Silicon Valley companies chasing the latest fad the executive leadership of Mozilla get to demand the same remuneration packages.
Plain old Linux has these features. For example:

> an app in the background should only ever take CPU time if it has an explicit service with permission for that

You can run your services in a cgroup and use "freeze" and "thaw" support for that purpose.
But to come back to the original question, is there any evidence against Apple Time Machine being secure?
I feel a good startup would be collecting old photos, vetted as pre 2010, and storing them for use by people.
Somewhere our beloved leaders can't arrest him and send him to a CIA black site for the rest of his life.
I don't think I'd use this in production. Testing/development--sure.

A class added a method with a require or dynamic definition and that was cause to crash a production activity of some kind? You'd discover the attempted modification via a new FrozenError being raised unexpectedly and crashing what you were doing.

Ruby is made to let you extend core classes--Rails does it all over the place. If I put a require behind a feature flag, this is probably going to surprise me when it fails. It might also make junior devs think gems "don't work" or are buggy if you use it in development, when they work fine? How well does this play with dynamic class loading in dev work in Rails? I would think it would be problematic as you can't draw a line in the sand about when everything is loaded, so it is a safe time to "freeze."
> the prosperity afforded by abundant energy is a problem they're supposed to be solving.

What does this mean? Did you misplace a word somewhere? Why would prosperity be a problem?
During early smartphone era they spend most of the resources trying to write an OS

Most of Mozilla’s resources have always been spent on Firefox. There was never a cycle where most of Mozilla’s resources were spent on FirefoxOS.

But they need to figure out a way to generate revenue rather than relying on Google.

The percentage of revenue from Google has fallen every year since 2016. Mozilla Corporation had a 33% profit margin in 2022 (The latest data on Wikipedia).

It’s a fantastic business model.
I've used Darktable for quite a few years now, casually, because seriously I'm not paying 100+ euros a year as a casual to edit my photographs in lightroom. Darktable's flaw has _always_ been its UX as well as performance (at least on MacOS it was pretty laggy on maxed out Intel 2019 Macbook back in the day, but it runs like butter on Apple Silicone macs). They really should consider adding a beginner mode with the most common filters and hide everything else. The learning curve can be quite steep having to learn about things that are par for the course in Darktable such as Filmic RGB etc.
Bus inputs maybe, I usually just put a few splitters before and after tapping off of main bus lines. For large production like circuits I design for some integer multiple of my train length, usually 1x or 2x of four cargo wagons, so I stopped using balancers for that and haven't missed them. The only place I still use belt balancers, except to patch over a design mistake, is loading ore into trains. And for that it's almost always something to four, rarely something to eight. I have a book for all sorts of balancers but almost all of them go unused.
I remember there is also the ansel.photos project, which is a fork of Darktable, aiming to remove architectural debt. I wonder how they're doing.
A better value could be 0x7EEEEBB3, as in:
https://github.com/parallella/pal/blob/bd9389f14fe16db4d9630...
There's nothing inherently negative about going rogue and hacking - I think few would deny that that's what Snowden did.
Isn't that the very case behind the "wisdom of crowds" thing?
I use comic shanns mono [0] for both printscreen annotations and in neovim with the hopes of subtly trolling whoever I'm sharing screen with.

For three years have I now suffered, with 0 reaction. Three years. I haven't lost faith though... one day, someone will say "what the hell kind of font is that? why would you do that?", and I will chuckle.

[0]: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono
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Yeah -- I ask it interpreted questions all the time, but just like for programming, I realize answers that appear good are often just plain wrong. I do know you can ask it leading questions if you want answers with a certain theological bent. e.g. "Did the judgments of Revelation 8 and 9 occur in the first century?"
I don't think he's a traitor, especially if you consider the intent of his disclosures and the care he took to make sure that only the info that needed to be disclosed was. I suppose we can agree to disagree on that topic.

But "cowardice" - that claim is just mind-boggling. What he did, even if you disagree with his motivations, required self sacrifice and bravery. Fleeing (what he believes to be) unjust laws that would punish him for his work is not at all cowardly.
If you really don't want to use containers, then it's possible (with sufficient OS knowledge) to install the software natively by looking at the Dockerfile and manually running the commands.
Our customers who’ve switched from AppSheet tell us emphatically “yes” because of Glide’s ease of use, power, and the design of the apps it produces.
Enshittification - they switched to artificial sweetener.
Where can he live anyways? Every other country will extradite his ass back to US, be real.
the articles i saw said they could record phone calls at will
Isn't this exactly what ansel tried to do?
Maybe I read this story wrong, but I wouldn't put Snowden in the same crowd as this person. Much more of a criminal in this case versus a whistleblower.
What does your looks and involvement have to do with the parent comment’s core point?
Can you point out some examples of NPM shooting messengers? I recall mostly silence and new security controls appearing (albeit opt in) in response to the crisis.
H1-B and other visas outside exceptional talent (Einstein level) shouldn't exist. Repeal them.
And mentally. We never stop playing.

Note the popularity of memes about "adulting".
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In a hypothetical scenario where we could start the web from sketch to avoid current problems that javascript has, which language would you choose and why?
Glide (from the article) adds simple pin-based auth and access control on top of the spreadsheet data. There’s also user and role-based data protection.
I'm not surprised.

People will cut and paste and just take/use the pieces of facts/opinions/history that support their political opinions, and ignore the rest and the whole context.

It happens with dead people as well as with people currently alive. Some get cancelled, some don't.

It's largely arbitrary.

EDIT: i'm not taking sides in this specific topic, just a comment on the pattern of behavior that i see across various discussions.
It’s called the Communist Party, but its agenda and policies are not particularly Communist.
Since no one mentioned it yet. There is a darktable fork called ansel https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel that tries to remove bloat and make darktable more user friendly.

It's rather opinionated and done by Aurélien Pierre.

For those interested in the why https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent... there is also a YouTube video with strong language. There is an appimage so I recommend people to at least try it.
> Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is generally not considered to be reality.

This is true only in the strictest terms of the hypothesis, i.e. linguistic determinism. Language still encodes a lot of culture (& hence norms and values) in its grammar & diction—this isn't very controversial.

Granted, I don't think this is that related to the topic at hand. There's bias all over the decisions in how to train and what to train on; choice of language is just one facet of that.
It's no Berzerk, but ET isn't really so bad as people meme it.
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apple would _not_ switch for speed reasons, they are interested in you syncing files though their cloud. Similar to google and android, you "can" sync/backup with a cable, but usability is a nightmare.
Could you give an example or two of languages/frameworks that have demonstrated abstracting the transaction blocks away? I'm not sure I'm following so I think this will help.
While you're definitely right about it having a steep learning curve, it's also true that not many RAW editors do what Darktable does. Darktable aims at serving advanced, tecnically-minded users. It's complicated, but in a way, it's nice it is, for those who need it.
My take:

Any prediction 10 years into the future about technology will be incorrect one to two years from the date of prediction thus making such predictions is not a good use one one's time or electrons.
I’m not a market fundamentalist, I just don’t like players dumping huge piles of cash in ways to get around market dynamics (especially for AI summaries, which is the computer equivalent of speed reading lessons)

At least open source can outlive the entities that create the thing, and in theory is more about sharing process rather than trying to stomp out smaller players.
Find where?

Not in 1980's Portugal.
This is the open-source example I have: https://github.com/justjake/eslint-seatbelt/blob/main/src/Se...

Maybe you can declare this is braindead code for well-documented situations? not sure. My rough draft implementation of this class had bugs, I asked Cursor to write tests - prompt was something like "can you set up tests for SeatbeltFile.ts using node:test framework", it added "test" script to package.json and wrote 90% of the test file, then I fixed the bugs, added another case myself, committed the tests.
I reliably come out of this with Inconsolata. It's not a bad font, but I do prefer SF Mono & Monaco - it would be nice if this showed them in the tree if they were installed.
> by himself than a team of 20 people with equal input would.

Sure, but the result would still be far better than the average of the output of the 20 individuals taken alone.

> also, the bottlenecks that teamwork helps solve (eg the high cost of gaining expertise and low throughput of reasoning capacity) may not be that relevant in the ai age

It's always tempting to anthropomorphize these systems and conclude that what works for us would work for them, but yes we don't really know if it would bring anything to AI.
can anyone recommend a tutorial for some of the basic features that that is more for the engineer audience? There are many videos on YouTube but many are very out of date.
This argument might've worked in Mao's time. Now with a capitalist economy under the party the resource allocation while still skewed is much more efficient than during Mao or USSR central planned economy. (And EU wide policies sometimes aren't that far off from USSR stupidity).

Loss of feedback in authoritarian regimes is a problem, but in the short time it might not be if Xi doesn't make really stupid moves.

It pains me to see it, but they show more long-term thinking that many of the Western governments who aren't interested what will happen after their time in the office.

While the people have plenty use of force can be minimal.
You might want to give the prior Krebs post on this guy a read - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/hacker-in-snowflake-exto...

It shows how small bits of information from several sources are used to tie this guy's aliases together.
Something like immich? https://immich.app
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Gecko based Firefox isn’t as performant as WebKit/Chromium on desktop/mobile devices when it comes to some canvas operations (even on offscreen!). I was able to greatly improve performance on desktop by limiting how much I drew and played with UV coords instead. That unfortunately wasn’t enough for FF on Android. Had to turn off “live” snowflake rendering for android. It does feel snappy on draw you just don’t get the “live” snowflake preview till you close a drawn shape. On FF Android the snappy draw is worth the trade off.
What is the "so called safety" that we do?
Every time I see some post where commits are taken as contribution metrics, I remember when, after working for months at it, I merged Redis Cluster into Redis as a single commit, and saw the pale green square appearing for that day in my GitHub contributions chart. Now it's 1.5 months that I work 10h/day at Redis Vector Sets and they will also be a single commit. It's very simple to do better than that, as a metric: different developers have different habits. For me, a stream of changes of early-day design just pollute the contribution history. Starting from a solid and advanced beta, then yes, history is great to have.
Retool is great, although they explicitly build for developers and building on retool requires writing glue code in their JavaScript template language, and writing SQL queries.

In Glide, we avoid code and syntax as much as possible. Our table-driven programming model also creates a nice MVC-like separation of concerns where you don’t end up with your program chaotically interspersed with controls on a canvas, so your program is easier to manage as it scales (in exchange for being less direct to create).
Its been real easy to build small and large web apps for news organization on Google Sheets. Most recently we built an "AI Election Tracker" for 2024 elections across the globe

https://restofworld.org/2024/elections-ai-tracker/

GS is not the best editorial interface but its not bad either, especially when it allows you to get things done quickly.

Likewise, this was another fun project (since retired) that sits on Google Sheets:

https://restofworld.org/stat-of-the-day/

We skip Google's API which I really dislike. The sheets are set to publish to the web and you can use that to pull down the data and parse it into JSON files.

It take less than a minute to set the basics up now.
My premise is lack of curiosity, or do you think a small town in a country just out of 40 years of dictorship, and colonial wars, was flowing with computing information all over the place?

Just having access to electronics was revolutionary.

How would we even know what to look for, if it wasn't for our curiosity?
>Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is generally not considered to be reality. It makes intuitive sense but is wrong

Strong S-W (full determinism) might not be, but there's hardly a clear cut consensus on the general case.

And the whole "scientific field" is more like psychology, with people exchanging and shooting down ideas, and less like Math and Physics, so any consensus is equally likely to be a trend rather than reflecting some hard measurable understanding.

I'd say that the idea S-W is not to a degree reality is naive.
I agree. Snowden's most traitorous act IMHO seems to have been mistakenly assuming that Beijing and the government of Hong Kong could afford to antagonize the national-security establishment in Washington to the extent of letting him reside in Hong Kong.
What makes the "agents". From what I can tell, they don't perform any external actions. I would call these chatbots...
I do this same Google Form technique, and save the bookmark to my phone's home screen. So it's like having a dedicated app!
> The problem boils down to usage of stack memory after the memory is given to somebody else.

While this isn't incorrect in this case the problem seems to be caused by stack unwinding without the consent of lower frames rather than a willful bug where the callee forgets about the ownership.
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