skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certain times where compliance is waved off for the simple reason that even the enforcers don't comply and no one wants to inconvenience themselves.
I have a similar developer-without-college background and did a semester at WGU to see if that would jumpstart things

First, you have to take several general education courses and complete them alongside your technical courses. If you get stuck on an essay or exam you can't skip ahead and finish Python and JavaScript intro courses

Second, CompTIA exams built into the program cover a lot of Windows and IT security group stuff which I never encountered before as a web / software dev. Just like when I was in school, I found it difficult to memorize their definitions of tech terms and take the exam seriously (after all I've been fine without it). The cert exam was monitored by a remote proctor who needed to see my whole room. So I'd recommend going through a certification first and see how that makes you feel.
It's a prediction market. Or carefully packaged call and put options. Then it's not "gambling" it's "investing".
The fact that wood pellets are made by one specifically industrially-intensive process doesn't mean that they must be made by such a process.

Interesting historical footnote: Kingston charcoal briquettes, a slightly larger-form of wood pellets, were created as an incidental product of Henry Fords automotive factories. These produced a large quantity of scrap wood waste which Ford saw a market for.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_(charcoal)#History>
The attack was not a surprise. The US has been bombing Yemen endlessly, but it fell of the news cycle when this failed to have much of an impact on their blockade of the Red Sea, which was paused only thanks to the cease fire with Gaza/Israel.

Anyhow, after Israel returned to bombing, the Houthis resumed that blockade, and Trump announced plans to continue and escalate such actions and direct another carrier there. Similarly the weapons used are unlikely to have varied - mostly just HARM and TLAMs, perhaps backed by more Hellfires from Predators. And finally the targets are also self evident - Houthi leaders, who we've been regularly targeting throughout this entire thing.

Granted I couldn't tell you the exact time the latest bombs would land, though by cross referencing the time the additional carrier arrived I could have given you a pretty good ballpark!
Hi Simon, how do you decide when to blog on your personal website vs something like substack? Do you post identical articles on both? Do you prefer one or the other?
Plan 9 - one version of which is 9front, which says this:

"Multiple installation media are provided for PC, Raspberry Pi, MNT Reform, and QEMU. For PC, burn an .iso file to CD, or dd it directly to USB media. For Raspberry Pi or MNT Reform, dd an .img file directly to sdcard.

The pi.img file can be used for Raspberry Pi 1, 2, and 3. The pi3.img file can be used for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4.

QEMU images are provided in QCOW2 format."

https://9front.org/releases/
SCIF is a physical place, not a communications mechanism.

I believe the DoD can use applications in the JWICS suite of tools to communicate up to top secret level information. With the DCS platform for only Secret level communications.

However, these tools are on dedicated networks and dedicated machines. I suspect the reason for Signal usage here is that they were using their personal smartphones, which would never get on the JWICS or DCS networks.
And enterprise call centers
My point is that Grammar is to language what Newton was to gravity i.e useful fiction that works well enough for most scenarios, not that language has no structure.

The first 5 minutes of this video do good job of explaining what i'm getting at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJDH0eogAw
https://www.osmos.io/fabric

Practical, real-world application.
In my city, the only places I see neighbours gathering on their front porches is in prewar neighbourhoods with single family style homes (many actually split into apartments).

These houses have narrow lots, a porch right up to the sidewalk, and are on narrow streets. Newer neighbourhoods don't have that magic combination - even when the lots are narrow and there is no garage in the front, there is always a setback, a useless front yard, and more often than not no porch (or a "vestigial" porch that's too shallow to use comfortably).

Editing to add: The old neighborhoods are nearly always on a grid of streets, where every street has passers by. Newer neighbourhoods will have hierarchical streets that include crescents and cul de sacs, which connect to nothing and have nobody just passing through (although that does seem to be changing in the newest neighbourhoods).
good feedback!
> So then the questions are 'What would make for a better cross-platform development experience?' (Chromium embedded framework not included) and 'How do we make app distribution seamless?'

The question for me isn't what would make for a better developer experience, it's what would make for a better user experience. And, personally, as a user, what makes my experience better is when I get to decide how an app looks and works, and the developer's say in that is more limited. That is the big flaw with web apps: too many app authors want to be artists and want to create custom interfaces and lots of shiny gizmos. I want apps to generally be using standardized widgets like menus and buttons whose look and feel is determined by the user's platform preferences and are not a bespoke creation of the app author.
I find the way people talk about "homelabs" endlessly confusing. Is it "a playground for devops"? OK - that sounds about as appealing to me as a playground for washing the dishes, or a playground for changing the oil on my car, but people like different things and there's nothing wrong with that.

But wait, you also run your plex instance on there? And a git server? And wait, it stores your tax documents too?

Is it a playground, or a functional home server?

I run plex and a NAS and a VPN server on a machine in my home, too. But it's a home server. It's definitely not a "homelab" or a "playground" of any kind, any more than my freezer is a playground for storing food.
There isn't really any clear delineation between 'thinking' and 'language processing' in the brain.
Game Informer Is Back
Honest question, why is it legal to use auto deletion with Signal, but illegal to have a fork of Signal with auto deletion?
Can you provide a link to a non-big-corp-media source where we can read about it?
Yeah… I stopped doing stable horde after admitting my electric rate was never going down, and it’s already about 55 cents per kWh. I try to put as many electric things to sleep or off now.
When I saw the tj-actions attack, I decided it was time to finally implement action wrapping with our `witness-run-action`. This will generate signed attestations on exactly what the actions are doing.

We have some more testing to do before we cut an official release, but it is working correctly for the limited cases we have tested it with. I'd love this group's feedback.

https://github.com/testifysec/witness-run-action/tree/v1.0.1...
There was a lot of chatter on Bluesky earlier about what devices and systems were and should have been used in this particular case, and whether or not some of the testimony given was truthful or accurate.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-...

This Intercept article I think is a little misleading as it's taking something said in testimony at face value, and not really contextualizing it well. Some of these issues are raised in the piece a bit, but to me it reads a little strangely, like a lot of context and background is missing.
Is this based on any existing research? I would think your body already blinks enough as needed to keep your eyes from drying out.
Van Goughs work is only popular now because after his death his sister in law. [1]. She spent her life promoting and selling his work. And it took decades to do. Without her, his work would average simply disappeared.

Van Gough of course didn't sell his work. He lived in poverty (by choice I guess) and got whatever satisfaction he needed simply by painting them. (Now There's a rabbit hole to go down, given the nature of his death, which I'll avoid.)

So if you're hoping your work will be discovered by "the world " while you live in obscurity, then I'm not sure Van Gogh is an example you should emulate.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_van_Gogh-Bonger
That was an interesting read. Things never change, huh?
Yes and yes. What good is a devops playground without some low stakes production services to run and some data to manage.
My Substack newsletter is literally a copy and paste from my blog - I built a custom tool for it: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/

Everything substantial I write goes on my blog.

The one challenge I'm having at the moment is where to put short "thoughts" that aren't accompanied by a link. I used to use Twitter for those, but now I'm cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon and Twitter - but cross-posting a "thought" doesn't feel great.

Things like this: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3lko5bg3c4s2...

I may have to invent a fourth content type for my blog (which is currently just entries, bookmarks or quotes) for this kind of very-short-form post with no link. Molly White started doing that recently so I may borrow her design: https://www.mollywhite.net/micro
Homelabs are for people who enjoy unrestrained and irrational exercise of technology in whatever way they decide to. It doesn't have to be about reliability or efficiency. It's just poking at things until neat stuff happens or it all breaks.

The surest way to take all the joy out of a hobby is to do it as a job. You sound thoroughly employed.
I mean in the webpage the dalle one has a bubble under that says "generated with dall-e"
Yeah idk maybe I misunderstood what's going on
Yes, it is a playground for devops, but IMO the appeal is being able to run any service you want without paying for a SaaS. It often fills the "I want that"/instant gratification void. That and organizing things "just so". Which makes it a hobby.
ctrl+r with fzf and zoxide for quick dir jumping is all I need in the shell nowadays.
Yes, I was using a false dichotomy to highlight the absurdity of the statement.

Every President surrounds themselves with people who are aligned with their policy platforms. For some reason, Trump is the one President where suddenly it's an issue.
Why shouldn't punishment or prosecution be suggested. I've worked with classified information, and I would have been held accountable for my actions, why shouldn't they? I'm tired of this Too Important To Have Consequences business. It defeats the whole purpose of having qualifications, and security, and rules of any kind.
Aside: is there a term to define the developers that use these kinds of cutesie graphics? Seems to be a real movement, I'm older, and I seem to have missed the memo. Where did that start and is there some history behind why?
and a journalist knowingly taking advantage of someone else's mistake to continue gathering such information would not be out of line of the situations in which the government has pursued charges for that in the last decade.

Yes, that would be a crime, but that's not what the original comment said.

> mentioned the longer he stayed on more exposed he became to legal ramifications

I'm asking "if someone was added in error, why do legal ramification increase"?

Clearly being added in error then publishing a bunch of stories in a series would be a crime.
c. Not C
>Anything of significance should be written down in an official way, even if it originated over messaging.

So in the group chat discussing code word material, who was responsible for making the written record? Perhaps that should have been one of the questions today?

Likewise, if it is true that they are using it on a regular basis at CIA HQ I can pretty much guaranty you that it is being used in a manner that is a substitute for email which would be required to be saved in entirety.
I get the appeal for other people, but for me I quickly burnt out just trying to keep Deluge, Jellyfin, Zoneminder, and Homeassistant up and functional— Zoneminder in particular is (or was, anyway) an absolute nightmare to deploy and run.
Scraping social media is good data, even without ML. The fact that something is "happening" to people in a social space inherently has importance to people. The specter of law is more threatening to whether companies can get their hands on good data.
Did this person just... solve bot abuse? That should be the title of the post. I for sure want to use their solution for my own homeserver.
Replace mobile with television and this sounds quaint. Some people always find a excuse to be dehumanizing even if the "excuse" is a real problem.
And just as true: being a city does not by itself make for good communities. Residents need to want to make that happen—as in this story in TFA. If they don't want it, most cities are just as poorly designed for more-than-cursory spontaneous interaction as most suburbs.
Fan-art is still illegal, especially since a lot of fan artists are doing it commercially nowadays via commissions and Patreon. It's just that companies have stopped bothering to sue for it because individual artists are too small to bother with, and it's bad PR. (Nintendo did take down a super popular Pokemon porn comic, though.)

So it's ironic in this sense, that OpenAI blocking generation of copyrighted characters means that it's more in compliance with copyright laws than most fan artists out there, in this context. If you consider AI training to be transformative enough to be permissible, then they are more copyright-respecting in general.

Source: https://lawsoup.org/legal-guides/copyright-protecting-creati...
thanks! hmm I used a native element for input but disabled it so I could use the on-screen keyboard. might be time to revisit!
How did we come to this?
How did a country that once dreamed of freedom, innovation, and human potential end up here —
in offices we don’t want to return to,
doing work that drains more than it gives,
under leaders who measure our worth by output, not humanity?

Is this what we were building toward —
a world where leaving becomes the only act of resistance left,
where silence fills the space of those who walked away,
and those who remain carry twice the burden?

Is there still a place for meaning in all of this —
or are we simply cogs in a machine that forgot why it was built in the first place.
Now do ASML ...
This is random, but I’m wondering why if you’re both Spanish why use miles and not km?
it is not legal, but that also doesnt matter when nobody can enforce it
hahaha that's hilarious (... fixing this)
Just yesterday I met someone (in California) who's job was to collect fleas from rodents in local parks, and check them for plague. It's not all that uncommon in the area.
So what would the smart move have been in that case?
> I recently had the primary fibre fail

Woah, this is surprising. Do you know the root cause? I could imagine copper cabling is much more sensitive to the outdoors, that is why I am so surprised about your fibre failure.
+1! Great feedback - sounds like I have some work to do on the pop-up timing, etc.
(p.s. that's not me, just someone I really admire)
Maybe I was in the massive minority then. Though part of it was that the format let me just work on stuff "by myself" rather than sit through a bunch of explanations I didn't need.

flipped classrooms seem to imply work ahead of time though? But here we'd show up hands in our pockets and start working on the material on site
The problem with charcoal is that the input fuelwood requirements are absolutely immense, particularly where charcoal itself is an input to further industrial processes (e.g., glassmaking, iron forging, steelmaking).

Great Britain had cleared its own forests by the 18th century or earlier just producing modest quantities of glass and iron, and was importing lumber from Sweden and the American colonies (both as fuel and structural timber). Vaclav Smil's numerous books go into great detail on the fuelwood demands of iron production. Based on an earlier comment of mine, that's 40--80 kg of source fuelwood per kg of produced iron.

Charcoal is renewable but it is far from limitless.

In other matters, you're giving Murphy short shrift.
Or require every fresh "unique" visitor to run some JS that takes X seconds to compute.

It's not nice for visitors using a very old smartphone, but it's arguably less-exclusionary than some of the tests and third-party gatekeepers that exist now.

In many cases we don't actually care about telling if someone is truly a human alone, as much as ensuring that they aren't a throwaway sockpuppet of a larger automated system that doesn't care about good behavior because a replacement is so easy to make.
It's not really passing the Turing Test until it outsells Harry Potter.
how different is it really though?

the US government is lookjng to reduce its global influence; making everything public is great
Technically it's available in the menu; if you click "My Guesses". I was debating showing them on the main scree as you're playing - would you prefer that?
They can be, to at least modest amounts, in the form of plastics (effectively solid oil) and methane (from decay of organic matter).

But not in the sense of quantities available from traditional coal mines, or oil/gas wells, no.
whats missing is this: go ask chat.com and grok.com on why this is a tarpit problem.

just literally paste this block of text you wrote and i think you'll get sensible answers there.
just add some delay to your response, we don't have to waste any more energy on meaningless calculation.
Think personal devices not being permitted beyond the entrance of the building, stored in a Faraday box.
How much sawdust can you put in rice krispy treats before people notice? [video]
Naturally not everyone is lucky enough to have the income to do this.

The first part though is key - living within your means. It assumes you have means, and that it's possible to live within them.

The advice is good - whether you use it or not is up to you, and of no consequence to the advice giver. Whether you are in a position to take the advice or not is up to you.

For those who can though I can agree with it. Forgoing a new car now might mean retiring a year earlier. Financial freedom (aka retirement) means doing work on your terms, not beholden to your employer. It doesn't mean "not working".

Of course the best way to a better job, more pay, and a sooner retirement is indeed to "sell yourself" making both yourself and your work more valuable.

Do this advice is a corollary to the article, not a repudiation of it.
> heat of the transceivers

I never heard this before, but I have no reason to doubt you. Are multi-mode or single-mode transceivers hotter, and why?
Hard agree. Especially in widely spaced suburban/exurban neighborhoods that mysteriously lack sidewalks and have suspiciously wide roads.
Deploy Nuxt Application to Cloudflare
I block all traffic except that which comes from the country of Cloudflare.
Canals are a reasonable substitute for railways in many cases.

They're slower, yes, but can move far more goods at scale, and with only modest power inputs.

In colder climates (should such exist), they also become ice highways in winter time, which permit for year-round bulk transport. Though the elevation gain/loss features of canal locks are lost in the latter case.
Wrt reasoning I’ll believe it when I see it. I just tried several variants of “Generate an image of a chess board in which white has played three great moves and black has played two bad moves.” Results are totally nonsensical as always.
In my consulting career I sometimes get to tune database servers for performance. I have a bag of tricks that yield about +10-20% performance each. I get arguments about this from customers, typically along the lines of "that doesn't seem worth it."

Yeah, but 10% plus 20% plus 20%... next thing you know you're at +100% and your server is literally double the speed!

AI progress feels the same. Each little incremental improvement alone doesn't blow my skirt up, but we've had years of nearly monthly advances that have added up to something quite substantial.
The graphics would be called chibis, IMO (or デフォルメ if you wanna be fancy) and IDK about developers, but perhaps weaboos/weebs would be the general term
Last I checked, Apple's iTunes store is still stuck on 256k AAC "iTunes Plus", first introduced in 2007. Sounds OK, but doesn't transcode well. I just want regular audio samples as a future proof format that doesn't require physical media.

Cymbals used to be the hallmark of terrible MP3 encoding artifacts, but they seem better on AAC.
very helpful - you're right in that chicken / ham are the same level of specificity so having meat as the right answer (and having chicken, ham, etc. count as correct) would make more sense here.
I think the vibe is kinda like maintaining an old car or something. Some people like doing this kind of work, especially in a space where you get to decide how it all works.

Good way to explore ideas without having to do concensus building with those around you. Its your own little pet project!
It takes less force to bend, though.
+1 I guess I’m old as well. The presentation makes it seem like I should recognize them, but obviously I don’t. Would love an explanation.
You couldn't get Feudle to work, or the above game?
Unfortunately some of us work with other people, and refusing to let them merge code we don't personally agree 100% with is a great way to stop working with other people :)
Anubis remains effective because the token is subject to a rate limit and you could additionally limit token lifetime to some maximum number of requests if you wanted to.

All of these factors (total requests, rate of requests, associated IPs, associated browser fingerprints) tie in to detecting bad players, who should receive more frequent and larger challenges.
Nice story. Why did you choose to drop both fiber and copper? My assumption: You can run 1/2.5G very cheap these days over copper. When 10G/25G gets much cheaper later, you can switch to fiber.
are you guys nuts, who's the ceo who should be calling the shots?
Kinda surprising Peking University and China Medical University were getting research grants from the US government.
This is giving a big anime-enthusiast and possibly furry community vibe, it's really pretty separate culturally than just being a developer. For people who really are into it, it becomes a fetish... and no judgement for things that happen between consenting adults but... it can seem pretty odd from the outside. But it can also be entirely innocent, nothing wrong with liking certain art styles.

So if you don't understand these things best not to copy them because you could unintentionally be sending some pretty strong signals.

It's also somewhat in the style of the Manga Guides, which are fantastic and an entirely different way to make some of these things accessible.

https://www.ohmsha.co.jp/english/manga.htm
There's an excellent paper, "Burning Buried Sunshine" by Jeffrey S. Dukes (2003) which details just how much biomass goes into fossil fuel resources (coal, oil, and gas), and over what time periods that accumulated. Murphy doesn't cite it, though I'd run across mention of it in Vaclav Smil's books and elsewhere after discovering the paper initially on my own.

<https://plus.maths.org/content/burning-buried-sunshine>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20170207103418/https://dge.carne...> (PDF)
I had taken a basic coding course over 10 years ago, so I understand the basic structure of a function for example. I've never coded anything before, so this was truly my first foray..

Through this project, I'm getting better at filtering for AI's less intuitive suggestions; at the start, I naturally accepted most recommendations at face value.