skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just those without smartphones who are penalized. It's those without Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and spying imposed by Apple or Google on their devices.

I run GrapheneOS on an older Pixel. It does everything I need it to do: alarms, offline maps and navigation, end-to-end encrypted communications, podcasts, audiobooks, music, photos, weather, and even phone calls. All without any DRM or spying.

Now let's talk about the downsides in this article: shopping discounts, parking, entertainment, fast food, and banking.

Shopping discounts: The deal is that they get to track me and advertise to me, and they cut some percentage off a purchase here and there. No deal. I've discovered so many great products by moving away from big retail shops that engage in this kind of activity. I mostly shop at Trader Joe's, which has no coupon/discount/loyalty nonsense. For the occasional trip to another supermarket, I simply key in <local area code>-867-5309. Works every time.

Parking: I ride my bicycle or take public transportation almost everywhere, so parking is a moot point for me. But for the rare occasion when I drive to a place where I have to pay for parking, most everything accepts a credit card. If it doesn't, most everything else has a website that I can go to in Vanadium or Waterfox. It's actually very rare that I find I actually have no choice but to download and install a DRM'd app in order to park somewhere. In fact I don't recall that ever actually happening to me. Not to say that's not a possibility in the future.

Entertainment: I despise large crowds, and almost everything that's exclusively done through Ticketmaster et al. is of absolutely no interest to me. If I'm not sitting down in a cozy venue within 10-15 or so feet from the performers, I'm just not interested.

Fast food: I don't eat fast food. Discounted Big Macs isn't my idea of a good time.

Banking: My bank's web site works fine on Waterfox. But if I'm going to be managing my money I'd much prefer to do it on my computer. If I want a reasonable return on my deposits I simply park most of my cash in a money market ETF. It's plenty convenient and is simply not a big issue for me.

I'll add a few more.

Rideshare: I find traditional taxis are everywhere I've recently visited, tend to be driven by more interesting people, and they accept cash, no problem. I've had plenty of bad experiences with rideshares and have never had a bad experience since switching to traditional taxis. Knock on wood.

Audiobooks: I get ODM files from my local library. The audio files you download via ODM aren't DRM'd.

Ebooks: My offline Kobi reader works great. Kindles can be cracked with WinterBreak. Again, the library. DeDRM is your friend.

Email: Fastmail app from apkcure.com.

Chat: Signal.

Airlines: Check in on Waterfox, take a screenshot of the ticket/QR code. If that doesn't work, check in at the airport and get a printed boarding pass.
aw hey thanks. haha yeah, "feelings" are maybe just the subjective experience of a mind interpreting high-dimensional data. so I guess I'm arguing for using "feelings" as a dowsing rod for a truer dimension hidden beneath, to which the feeling is drawing your attention :)
Did I hallucinate that islamic socialism that was a boot on Bangladesh’s neck for decades? Islamic socialism was the dominant ideology in the islamic world among the elites, and still is among the diaspora. It’s real—it has a wikipedia page!

Regardless, I wasn’t using the term as a pejorative. What Islam, socialism, and liberal internationalism have in common is that they’re inherently cross-national, universal ideologies. That puts them in conflict with strong nationalism.

Tulsi is an american nationalist. For example she was okay with Assad, because she (correctly) felt Assad wasn’t a threat to america, was keeping a lid on Al Qaeda, and didn’t care about “human rights” in Syria. That view is just american nationalism. But it pisses off liberal internationalists and muslim socialists. Because their own outlook is universalizing, they assume her support for keeping Assad in place must indicate support for Assad’s policies and ideas.
AI Is Already Obsolete – The Open Challenge No One Will Answer
> Sure but the 1990s, after Clinton's federal worker bloodbath and other expenditure cuts, is also an outlier and by the same argument you could say it is not representative of the overall trend. You can't just pick and choose your preferred outliers and call the inconvenient ones not representative.

I think it is perfectly fine to say that the 90s are not representative of the overall trend.

I'm not cherrypicking. I'm not saying it's actually going down. My argument is very simple, that "consistently up" is not a correct description of the situation.

If you look at it a couple years at a time, it's swingy and there's no real pattern at this level. If you look a decade at a time, it went up quickly for quite a while, it went down more slowly for a while, and now it's going back up even more slowly and it's still below the peak. If you zoom out really far, then things are close to flat over the last 40 years.
I wonder how much in resources something like this causes the state to expend?
Paternal Advice to a Cardinal
All of those battles involve battlefield tactics, and in several of them the numerically inferior force won — exactly the opposite of "death stacks."
I have 2x SmallRig RC 350D [1] and Godox M600bi [2]. These are medium-spec videography lights that draw their rated power from the wall. Lux @ 3m is noticeably (10x) dimmer than the sun.

I have tripped my breaker when running the setup, so I run from two outlets on two breakers. For my current (quite large) room, I'd love to upgrade to the 5000W lights (Nanlux Evoke 5000B or the Aputure STORM XT52), but electrical wiring would be a hassle. For a standard room, I find 700W to be sufficient.

I also backed this project - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brighter-the-world-s-brig... - been following them since their Show HN.

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1729860-REG/smallrig_...
[2] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1715199-REG/godox_kno...
> but what to do with the cloud specific apps

Coming from IT land, the answer is simple: you don't use them in the first place, and you grit-and-bear the replacement cost if and when the time comes. This is a negative on my research notes, slide decks, and papers when it comes to evaluating various cloud platforms for our workloads, and yet it's also the number one reason we're forced into a specific provider (some leader loves their proprietary tooling, and forces us to use it).

Look, I'm not saying these proprietary tools are bad, per se, just that they have a steeper cost than initially presented to the consumer in terms of architecture complexity and inevitable migration. The very first question you should be asking before consuming niche or proprietary products from vendors is, "Can I do this in a standard way that's more portable?" For stuff like Azure Functions, the answer is emphatically yes - but it comes at the cost of managing additional infrastructure, which is often the main reason companies want to use those tools in the first place (a misguided notion about throwing out infrastructure to save money).

As for the solved problem of compute (VMs and Containers), well, literally any cloud provider should have that ready to go. The question is whether or not your org is willing to retain the talent needed to build and support your clouds internally, or if they'd rather pay higher outsourcing costs with vendor lock-in instead.
How to support the creation of beginners might be a different topic (and not a new one to technologies) to the offer of the technology itself.

How was your experience in working with the existing Clojure codebase?
It's amazing how many compiler issues never translate into meaningful deviations at the level of application behaviour. Code tends to be highly resilient to small execution errors, seemingly by accident. I wonder what a language/runtime would look like if it were optimized to maximize that resilience, i.e. every line could miscompile in arbitrary ways. Is there a smarter solution than computational redundancy without an isolated verifier system?
I'm Vietnamese, I can help translate the messages on them
I hope that you can find an alternative treatment that works for you and that however many days you left, few or many, are filled with joy, love, and comfort. My sister just finished her recovery for breast cancer and her journey opened my eyes to the classic 'life is short.'
I am aware that it's in his memoir, but I am not sure whether he actually went through the code to write it or just went back through his notes/memory. Or whether 2K told him to "debunk" it so he wrote some fiction (also a possibility - see Feynman's memoirs which have quite a bit of fiction in them). It was a long time ago and prior to the memoir, neither he nor any of the other developers on a Civ franchise remembered whether there was an error, and they all said as much on the record. Also, the story of an underflow was about Civ II, not Civ I. I am not necessarily convinced there is no underflow, but I am convinced that there is a plausible alternative theory.
I think there's something here. I'm not sure it's a bad thing. A negative framing might be that there's a sort of elitism. A more positive framing might be that it simply reflects a tension between different, valid views of how to build software which are sometimes (but not always) in tension.

After all, an elitist can also sometimes be right.

Disclosure: I say this as someone who has been about as deep as you can go in the Clojure community.
The sun is really bright. My outdoor Hue sensor regularly reads 50k+ lux in sunlight. A room in my house with 100 watts of LEDs reads ~300 lux from the sensor on my dresser.
The use of prejudice type behaviour towards others using a particular programming language based on hearsay or unknown is not ok, but also not something new.

The few folks I know using it are very happy with it, and are very experienced, and talented talented polyglots themselves.

For that reason I'd not rule it out, even if I'm not looking to make a jump or change, but I might try it out.
I get an error.
Yeah, and most of my professional Clojure experience was from 2018 to 2021, and a few personal projects in 2022 and 2023, and that lack of support for the functional APIs really annoyed me; I was writing a Kafka Streams application, which uses lots of lambdas, and it annoyed me enough to rewrite it with vanilla Java.

I'm sure it's a difficult thing to implement, so I'm a little forgiving, but considering that Java interop is one of the biggest selling points for Clojure I do think it's fair to criticize a bad experience with it.

I need to play with the newer stuff though; the linked changes seem cool as hell.
+1 for ente. Love that it’s cross platform, and while this is a unique app from Bitwarden, I like having a separate vendor for totp vs passwords.
Or you would just need to be patient.
>If you don't trust your instance admin, why did you sign up with your instance?

Probably because you told them it was a cool OSS twitter alternative and not something that takes all of social media's moderation and privacy and content problems and multiplies them by the number of instances you join without any of the legal protections associated with being able to file civil or criminal complaints against an identifiable entity answerable to the laws of your country.
I see what you mean. I feel like it's a collective action problem. If Myanmar had its security situation together, the incentive to meddle would be much lower. No one funds rebel groups just for the sake of it, except maybe Gaddafi. But there are way too many parties to way too many tables, so chaos just continues because reaching a deal never seems possible.

I read a book about Dostum and I vaguely remember they actually had multiple candidates in mind originally. There was Rabbani, Dostum and I think some others, but they chose Dostum cause he had the least baggage and ties to Iran. Problem is in Myanmar might not be anyone with real power who is even defensible. You don't hear too many bad things about say the TNLA, but that might just be a function of them not being important enough to make headlines in English news. I get the impression the KNLA is the most legitimate EAO in the eyes of Western governments yet their leaders are on tape negotiating heroin deals and brokering uranium [1], so maybe my hope for a unifier to come out of these armed groups is a bit unrealistic.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...
I recently got into blogging; and while I was designing my site, I went through hundreds of blogs and personal sites, and I saw many instances of the same thing.
> Very few people care about such things.

This is untrue. Here’s a poll from 2019, showing 91% of the US cares:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/11/15/key-takea...

Support for increasing regulation was at about 71% then and still is.
Moonring is indeed absolutely top-notch! There’s a Mac version as well, and it runs on the Steam Deck. It’s definitely a plausible spiritual successor to Ultima IV. I’m shocked that the existence of an absolutely free game in this genre hasn’t made more of a splash.
When youtuber der Bauer mentioned that his AiB card from ASUS only had a couple of weeks of testing before arriving at his door, when its usually a couple of months, I knew then people were going to find defects.

The company no longer cares about its consumer cards.
I started four years ago and in some ways still feel like a beginner. I have found the community super welcoming and positive - I’ve asked questions on r/Clojure, clojureverse, Ask Clojure and the Slack. A couple of my Slack and Ask Clojure questions were in retrospect poorly researched and I still got super helpful replies.

Did you encounter some hostility?
Then why is it called the Department of Government Efficiency? I doubt Musk or Trump would be lying there, surely not!
Herman Lamm sounds like he was pretty unlucky on his final heist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lamm#Death
The only clear difference between now and even not that long ago is the fair perception that the US has flipped from (probably) "lawful neutral" to "chaotic evil".

Secrets in US cloud were probably never fully safe.. but at least the US wasn't previously on a path to inflict pain on the rest of the world.
How to measure the universe – The Cosmic Distance Ladder Part 2 [video]
Gtk menus used to have a feature where you could hover over a menu item, press a key combination, and a shortcut for that menu item was updated to it (and shown in the menu too).

It did lead to some confusion (if you accidentally do that while the menu is open), but this is only to show that technically, this was all possible.

However, "Linux apps" have really always been either Gtk apps, or Qt apps, or KDE or GNOME apps (yes, different from bare Gtk/Qt), or Fltk, or... Thus providing consistency has been an uphill battle, and distributors mostly tries for a couple core pieces: Gtk + Qt + LibreOffice + Firefox.
I'm imminently posting one such Web page, which took me many person-days to figure out, when I couldn't find the info.

Posting is actually delayed because I'm experimenting with how to do this more sustainably than I have in the past. Which means generating dollars somehow, and also making it harder for "AI" crawlers and services to rip off everything. :(
I highly recommend people go and translate "pineapple".
They can really only f it up with their pricing. Last time they did just that. Hopefully they've learned their lesson.
the irony is that such a style itself contributes to the diversity of art, by its mere existence
It's disappointing to hear this sentiment. GP is simply asking a question to keep the discussion curious, after all, this site is purely for "curious discussion". Trying to dismiss it as trolling actively detriments this forum for all.
> commit that consistent high uptime is a top priority

I’m hoping you find SOME leaders who can find a more effective way to convey this priority!

Theoretically in our “data driven” leadership you could think of some metrics that would demonstrate the war room is / is not really working. At least after the fact, to save you from the next one.

Who feels like a powerful leader in those circumstances, though?

On the other hand, it feels good to me to be able to tell people I’m not involved at that level of detail, and they should just talk to X on the team.
Can you elaborate on that? What do you think SpaceX is and what do you think Starship is? Legitimately curious to hear your reply
They were going down for an entire decade. You can't remove an entire decade and then say "steadily rising" even if you have good evidence it was an outlier.

The numbers also went down 6 years in a row in the wake of the 2008 spike.

And if you don't treat covid as an outlier, then the numbers went down massively from 2021 to 2022! Treating 2020-2021 as normal years works against your argument more than it works against mine.
Why not MD -> json, then use jq! That would be half a static site generator there!
I wouldn't primarily base my OS choice based on the theme. There is so much more about an OS that is more important. But that doesn't mean that I can't like the look of the other OS.
Yes, authenticator app only.

The main app's integrated TOTP functionality is nice for low impact services (e.g. I don't give a damn if my third Nintendo account gets overtaken). But there are more critical stuff I want an actual separate system, and this authenticator app would allow that. In particular it's free so creating a separate account would be fine.

The common sense of TOTP = your phone is to me problematic, and I feel it led to the situation we're in with Apple and Google...I have 3 computers I can use at any time, and will yell at the clouds every time I have to get my phone for some random stuff that can only happen in a mobile app.

Same way people are vehemently raging against kids having smartphones and ask for more kids protection online, while most 2FA services will default to a phone auth (TOTP or SMS, or dedicated app). And more than anything, I wish people could lose/crush/obliviate phones with less impact on their life if they want to, it doesn't need to be the key to one's digital life.
It's not like communist art is so abundant in the word that it's so boring to have another collection of them.
Ugh, this is one thing I really hate about academia. There's this weird fixation on trying to make things intuitive or tangible at every step along the way. The result is that you get five hundred very wrong/sort of wrong/okayish explanations that all differ enough to make it so we score the student wrong during examinations anyway because they chose the wrong tutorial to follow.

Sometimes, things are just hard to understand. Sooner or later students are going to have to face that, so why do we delay the inevitable?
Lempel-Ziv compression is a good example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12146
I see it a bit differently: there’s no way to reliably deter a military invasion of Taiwan short of committing to a nuclear response - the Chinese military is too advanced to be stopped if they make a serious effort. That leaves the primary deterrent as economic: China depends on the global economy and would suffer significantly if they started a war of aggression. That becomes less of a deterrent when the President’s negotiating tactic with authoritarians is to give them what they want and envy their control over the country while his family members negotiate real estate deals. If the Chinese government thinks the United States won’t coordinate global sanctions, the risk is a lot lower.

The CHIPS act doesn’t deter conflict, but it does reduce the damage if it happens. Losing Taiwan now cuts off the most advanced processors in the world but if they’re making them in Arizona that goes from no supply to short supply with a straightforward path to scaling capacity. That’s a big improvement and it’s a fraction of the cost of a conflict.
I didn't see using the word consistently, so it seems like you're attempting an escape hatch with this strawman. I called it steadily upwards over the past 100 years until recently when it's becoming more erratic but still looks to be increasing. Which is the simple truth. I can't understand how so many people in this thread are struggling so badly with that.

And the trend is upwards, in the past 40 years. Run an analysis on it and it's trending upwards. It's not close to flat, it's increasing by a couple of %, i..e., the spending ratio is increasing around 5% in that time. Which is enormous. You can cry foul that's due to covid and the housing bubble spending, but that's reality, that's the money that is getting spent and added to the debt and is what people are concerned about. Even if there was no Clinton cuts outlier going the other way, you still couldn't discount those spikes as outliers and therefore not representative. Because they exactly represent the reality of the situation. This is not a concern about a measurement error or sample that's not represenative of a population, it is the actual money that is being spent. If there weren't these big outliers for wars and stimulus and everything else then sure, things would probably be better. But there are.
How much does Jennifer Hiller know about energy and what it takes to build one?

This is behind a paywall.

Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) explains to his attorney why Wind Turbines depend on the oil industry. It takes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
>> But those big wins were rare.

Citations needed. I found this with almost zero effort and it seems like the program saved $60 billion over four years:
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/briefing-room/2024/...

I feel like your confidence is just ignorance
No. The law is not being broken. That act does not require the president or the administrative agencies to spend all of the amount budgeted.

There’s a process to handle scenarios, where the administrative branch feels that more money is not needed to be spent for the purposes that the money was initially allocated for. At the very least, there is a 45 day process starting from the point that it is determined to be a “deferral of the budget process” (continuous days that Congress is in session) that is allowed for Congress to pass a rescission bill. I don’t believe Trump’s been in office long enough for that process to even have taken place.
At random, I picked and read Battle of Pharsalus. The Deployment section explains in detail how, through meticulous troop positioning and clever tactics, Caesar was able to defeat the overwhelming force of Pompey.
This is such a tough issue to deal with, definitely in the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" category in my book.

There's just not good, clean answer. Sex is almost universally binary (there are exceptions, though very rare). Gender is by no means binary though, its a totally different concept that just happens to correlate well enough to sex for most people.

I'd like this to be a scenario where you just don't have prisons if you can't decide how to effectively group people and keep them safe. Most people wouldn't go for that though, we very much like punishing people for their mistakes and making them trade months or years of their life as penance.
I think Will Rogers has a quote that the advantage of giving poor people money is they get to use it for a short time before the rich get their hands on it. In honest economics this is referred to as the propensity to consume.

I extend it by noting when you give the wealthy money they use it to blow asset bubbles.
>that pitfalls remain “that still require human designers to correct.” In particular, many of the designs produced by the algorithm did not work

So? Nothing.