skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct.

But don't you agree that advertising is analogous to cancer in the tech world? It starts off slow, then gets bigger and bigger, consumes more stuff in its way and transforming/removing the company's core values (like Google's "Don't be evil", or "algorithmic" feeds in Twitter & Instagram) before eventually killing the host when users had enough and leave the platform en masse.
the convention is that localStorage throws exceptions. it does in every browser. if a site breaks because it doesn't do error handling, then that's the site's problem.
This x1000. I’m in my 2nd used Volt and I’ll probably be driving one for the rest of my life. Such a fun car.

I finally got a 40 watt charger installed in my garage and will sometimes fully recharge 3 times in a day.
> Also, when did you last download a driver update from NVidia for your Mac?

Last week.

Nvidia releases drivers for cards that the drivers which ship with macos don't support. I would also guess that the nvidia drivers which ship with macos are written by nvidia under some agreement with apple, same is likely true of AMD and intel.
Google Maps gets new features all the time, it's weird Apple waits to give Maps an update annually. Apple would be better served decoupling a lot of the default apps from OS level updates.
> It's not going to be handed it on a silver platter by those of us with a memory.

Oh okay, what do they have to do?

maybe if you list it out you will sound less like an irrational hater living in the past.
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No they don't. See the link posted by the author:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/11adab39e6019935aa3a...

Full nodes validate a lot of blocks at initial sync, but not all of them.
When the bubble bursts
At some point there should be the counter essay which is "Why Free Software Misses the Point of Open Source."

Here's my stab at it.

From the essay: The free software activist will say, “Your program is very attractive, but I value my freedom more. So I reject your program. I will get my work done some other way, and support a project to develop a free replacement.”

This is the attitude of people who care more about being special and different than they care about actually changing the world. Do you want to change the world? Then don't isolate yourself and others into a special group of the anointed. Do your best to stay away from harmful groupthink. If you want to change the world, then engage with the world. Solve the world's problems. Create something that sells itself. I think most of the successes of Open Source and Free Software come from the "engagement" way of thinking and most of the failures come from the isolationist way of thinking.

Free Software/Open Source should seek to eliminate barriers and solve problems. It should not be in the business of creating plainer, less featured, and worse designed alternatives to proprietary software. Separate but equal, but with an ideologically superior distribution model is a recipe for failure.
What does this mean in practice for macOS users?

Asking because I am not familiar with these libraries.
kudos to stcredzero for a humorous and tactful exit... I'll be the killjoy and explain his joke, which I think was a last-ditch attempt illustrate the point he's been trying (and failing) to get across all thread, which is that

> When it comes to fundamental science, a consistent map is the territory

isn't the case.

Science/empiricism merely produce predictive models; over the last few hundred years, these models have improved dramatically, but they are nonetheless only maps of a territory ("reality"), and it's still fundamentally uncertain that the underlying assumptions (that laws of nature exist/that reality is mappable) are reliable.

> "Map is not the territory" applies to simplifications that omit detail.

Even if we had a perfect model, which we don't (and it's not clear that such a model is obtainable) that could predict everything, it would still be separate from the territory. You might think this is a pedantic distinction, and in your ideal world where we have a unified field theory, it certainly would be, but like I said above, it's not clear that such a thing is obtainable, so it's important to hold onto the distinction lest we forget the fact that we're still sitting on an incredibly young and uncertain foundation.
I surely don't know. That's metaphysics, not science.
They're not third parties because these API's are protected by user login credentials as near as I can tell. That means you provide your login information, and your device can access your Facebook data, as you expect a client of Facebook to be able to do.

That means all the privacy protections from the "website" are there, you're just not looking at it through a browser, it's an interface provided by the device manufacturer.

What is there to be angry about?
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Checkpoint blocks are an interesting topic, but there's a mile between checkpoint blocks and "full nodes don't validate transactions so why bother keeping that block data around?".

They're also not about trust, they're about protecting against DoS attacks:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Core_0.11_(ch_5):_Initial...

Even with checkpoint blocks, a full node can elect to validate it's entire history if it chooses to, which again is a far cry from "block history data is worthless because full nodes don't validate it", a flagrantly untrue statement.
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> In my career, 90%+ of the code I've written is Free Software (specifically, LGPL or AGPL licensed). That said, most of it is not publicly available - it's custom code written for clients, who could - but for the most part don't - release it publicly. That complies with rms' philosophy, but is it enough for you?

Hmm, yeah interesting point! I think I would put this in one of those gray areas I was talking about. I've written code for clients, but in those cases the client decided whether and how to license the code, not me.

I'd probably suggest that if neither you nor your clients release the code then it doesn't really fit Stallman's definition of Free Software. Business decisions to not release it publicly are exactly what he's talking about when he claims the code is limiting freedom of the users, without source they can't modify the code.

The piece feels a bit like Stallman against the world though, he's not only alienating most of the people who would like to write Free Software while by day getting paid to write code for their employer, but he's also pitting himself against many of the people who freely release their source too.

> If not, then you have fewer choices..., but this is generally hard to achieve.

Yeah, exactly right. Those few companies have managed to eke out the funding model that perhaps depends on B2B relationships or support contracts, and not direct software sales.
> I don't know how to describe the niche they fill with text.

Consider the possibility that this is because there isn't one.
And here's my rebuttal to that misleading link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17233986
No, they don't.

Please check the code.

Please check the discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5yf0ex/trust_assum...

Please check the news:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0140-relea...

Or just run your own node: bitcoind --help and see what it says.
Being asked to pay 36 euros to see the actual article is somewhat disturbing and worrisome.
Another fantastic proposal by one of the Bitcoin Cash devs. It seems BTC is experiencing a serious brain drain as a result of the block size war.

Sadly this innovation won't work near as well on the BTC chain unless usage continues to plummet. As we've seen in the past, the slightest short term increase in transaction demand results in fees so high that most outputs in the utxo set become unrecoverable (the fee becomes greater than the value of the output). This leaves the BTC utxo set unmanageable and unpredictable.

Although the utxo set on BCH grows at a much greater rate, the 32mb block size makes it so that outputs can be inexpensively consolidated, regardless of short term transaction demand.

That being said, Lightning Network could potentially allow this innovation on BTC if it's able to successfully move transactions off chain. With the trouble they've been having with regards to routing and payment channel requirements, I wouldn't be HODLing my breath.
Email hn@ycombinator.com and ask them to do that for you.
> The only other option seems to be that the final state is still a superposition and we have to reach for something like the multiverse interpretation to reconcile the fact that we indeed observe a definite final state.

What's wrong with that?
Unity already supports Metal on OSX and iOS. See "Enabling Metal" here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingDX11GL3Features.html
Here's the full quote on the would be "Opus Dei" comment from the piece, cut and pasted:

“Many of them are members of Opus Dei,” Hersh continued. “They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”
“They have little insignias, these coins they pass among each other, which are crusader coins,” he continued. “They have insignia that reflect the whole notion that this is a culture war. … Right now, there’s a tremendous, tremendous amount of anti-Muslim feeling in the military community.”

Thats it. Thats all. "Many of them", "not an atypical attitude".
Your quote, that started this sub thread was this:
"Among them, he believes that USSOCOM is run by a secret cabal of Opus Dei Catholics".
Little bit of a difference here. In fact I'll go out on a limb and say a rather large difference. Again, Jeff Sharlet, Mike Weinstein, there are a number of others who have done the serious, necessary investigative reporting on this and if anything its even more frightening then the comments from the Doha speech Hersh gave (which for the record were also uncontroversial at the time he gave them to anyone who has followed military reporting). I might take a moment to point out I was in ROTC in college, my family has served for generations. You can take my criticism any way you want, but calling out your crit of Hersh, for the sloppiness and exageration it is, is not a personal attack. As for the comment about spy/plant/whatever, I've been on this site long enough to know that was a bit of thing some years back and was trying to go out of my way to note that I don't think that about you, that I think many people make these arguments/judgments from places of sincerity, but that that doesn't make them correct.

EDIT: I'm going to assume that Thomas has no interest in seriously reckoning with what I'm trying to say and simply add, anyone who happens on this comment subthread, take the time to read the unfortunately long LRB piece linked in my original comment, its important. Its kind of amazing (and sad) that this discussion devolved into this back and forth because that piece, the response to that piece in the American press (by people exactly Blake Hounshell btw) and the subsequent way things worked out in regard to Mike Flynn, Trump, Obama, the election, and the now Russia Investigation could all themselves be wrapped up into their own long form piece on political and media culture and the consequences of dismissing people like Hersh.
Here it is again for the interested:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-mi...
It’s a shame this has been overshadowed by the WWDC. I’ve been looking for something like this to provide a dashboard for an RPi or some other server.

I do have a few questions:

1. How do you interface with it? Is it exclusively via Wi-Fi? What about serial?

2. Does the network interface use SSL or some other form of security and/or authentication?

3. It looks like relay is controlled by pinging a server you control. Is there any way around this? Suppose I don’t want this device on the web.

EDIT: Formatting and added third question
But they claim to be entirely rational and caution while exhibiting blindness to the reality that other companies are just as shit.

Or they acknowledge that, and just choose to live in the tech equivalent of a remote cabin in the woods.
Github with microsoft is not the same thing, I dont like microsoft, I will migrate to Gitlab.
Bitcoin Core, since 0.14 doesn't use checkpoints. It uses "assumevalid" which assumes the signatures of transactions are valid.

> "block history data is worthless because full nodes don't validate it"

Please don't misquote people.
Good to know. It seems that they also provide updated CUDA drivers.

It doesn't seem to change anything on the OpenGL stack, unfortunately.
Do you not trust your child to not wander away if you said something like, "Yes, go play, but be careful, and remember not to go past the tree (or whatever)"?

Do you let your son ride in cars? That seems way more dangerous than letting him play in his backyard.

I don't know you, and there's all kinds of ways to parent, but it feels like you may have some unhealthy anxiety surrounding your child's safety if this is your standard reaction.
Yes, I currently have a cheap diesel car (bought it for 1500€) and I planned to resell it when my tesla would arrive. Nonetheless, I agree with you that it wasn’t well planned, but I guess is surely true for many other people whi pre-ordered out of excitement like me.

EDIT: Also at the time I was earning 3 times more than now, making it an affordable option
My understanding is that there are multiple precisely equivalent formulations of classical mechanics (Newtonian mechanics being one of them, but then there's e.g. Lagrangian mechanics[0] and other more exotic things).

Perhaps that doesn't cross your threshold for 'sufficient granularity'—but it took quite a bit of time to find the alternate formulations in classical mechanics (after Newton I mean), so just because we don't yet have them for certain more modern theories doesn't mean they aren't forthcoming.

Also, I'm pretty sure there are at least very nearly equivalent formulations of QM, e.g. the de broglie pilot wave stuff (often termed as an alternate 'interpretation', but my understanding is that the differences extend even to the level of mathematical formulation, and are not just some detached reflections on the 'meaning' of the theory or whatever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics
> Really? Because I can't see any real difference between any of those examples. Does the wink mean you're being sarcastic? Or that you're coming on to me? What purpose does the smiley serve? you already said it was fun, one could presume that would leave you in a positive emotional state.

That'd depend on the rest of the text. It could mean I am making a joke ("not serious" / "just kidding"). It could mean I'm sarcastic. It could mean that I'm trying to hit on you. I think that sums it up (though I'm open for different explanations).

Thing is, back in the days, even in native languages between native speakers (but more so with one or more non-native) sarcasm and jokes weren't always easy to detect. The wink smiley specifically filled that niche! If you don't know about the story behind it, you might find it interesting to look it up.

As for the difference between these, "That is fun :)" denotes no sarcasm, but warmth. Possibly still humor, but its a genuine statement. "That is fun ;)" was covered earlier above and "That is fun ;) :)" is a mixed bag which could go either way (possibly clever to "talk your way out of the meaning" e.g. when trying to flirt but its not well received, or to create some -albeit simple- mysticism around your flirt). That's without knowing the context. The context still matters and is, ultimately, decisive for the meaning.

I have autism, btw, so although I find this fascinating it is rather difficult for me to understand. It took me serious effort to learn the meaning of the different emoticons/emoji (as far as one can know them, since there's so many in unicode these days).

> I hate those stupid things so much, probably because I have no context for understanding their meaning and, since its already an english stream, you could just use words! And if you're not speaking the same language as the rest of the stream, you can't express anything meaningful enough to be worth saying anyway.

(I don't like it either but that's because it is overused in these circles, and it reminds me of my age ie. that I'm not youth anymore.)

The ability to understand a language isn't binary. (See e.g. the example of the wink where language is not being understood!)

Another example coming from my own is I understand some Spanish, some French, some and some German, but I do not want to learn any French or Portuguese, and my German is better than my Spanish but I'm very curious to learn more Spanish. My English is pretty good, as is my Dutch, but I'm only interested in learning more English and Spanish; Dutch not so much. YMMV obviously.
If you look at the most recent Steam hardware survey though 96.3% of players are on Windows and 3.07% are on macOS. I don't know if that's "flourishing rapidly". It's certainly going up slowly.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
You've left quite a bit out of your quote, haven't you? That's OK: I provided a link, people can read it for themselves, rather than reading our competing interpretations of it. I'm pretty comfortable about what the actual story there says about my argument.

Thank you for acknowledging that first-hand sources for this actually exist, and aren't "egregious nonsense" that were "off the cuff remarks in a foreign country that were not recorded and have been reported on second and third hand".

Perhaps you and I have reached the limit of how much we can productively discuss this particular topic, now.
The engineer in me says hybrids are overcomplicated and have more failure points.

However, the researcher and accountant in me has been surprised to discover that hybrids are, in fact, the best consumer proposition in this category by far and will probably continue to be for a while.
If it is MIT, you can relicense, so effectively you have control of the copyright.
Each to their own but over the last 6 months I've written a graphics engine in openGL + SDL. Once you truly understand modern openGL you realise how beautiful it is.
Have you ever encountered difficulty conveying or understanding conversational tone over the internet? No? You are lying or lack self-awareness. Voice and body language are important for disambiguating sentences with more than one possible meaning or implication. Emojis approximate the role of voice tone and body language in digital text-based communication.
Pixar has open sourced several projects at GitHub, under the Apache license. Most significant is probably their OpenSubdiv software:

"OpenSubdiv is a set of open source libraries that implement high performance subdivision surface (subdiv) evaluation on massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures. This code path is optimized for drawing deforming surfaces with static topology at interactive framerates.

OpenSubdiv is an API ready to be integrated into 3rd party digital content creation tools. It is not an application, nor a tool that can be used directly to create digital assets."

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios
Contrary to the other answers to this question, I suspect the real reason is that the prototype is expensive, and way easier to recover from a lab animal’s poo than the researcher’s.
I decided that it’s better for me to rent for now mostly to be totally free of any loan.

Also, I can optimize for lifestyle changes more easily (choosing to have a garden or not, living with more people or less, moving to a more luxirious or a cheaper condo based on my earnings,...)
They could elect to validate all historic blocks before the UXTO set commitment too if they chose to.
Personally I've seen more people using Atom than VSCode, but that is just anecdotal.