skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed (though there are some trees and abstract art too). It seems like a parody or a scam, but some people here are talking about it as if it's real? What is real? It certainly doesn't seem to be a computer like it claims to be. There is no hardware (right?).

"No one else can look at it without your permission, it can never show you ads.": These are only possible if it has no visual display or interface at all, or if it's so limited as to be useless.

"Your Urbit is a simple, durable computer ... Your Urbit isn’t a physical device: it lives in the cloud or your laptop.": Contradictory claims.

"Your Urbit is a permanent, private archive.": Until your laptop or server hard disk dies.
A thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2416752
Gambling is legal in Russia in specific gaming zones.
EAF, Extending Emacs with GUI Support Using Python PyQt
Good point. The big difference between 1992 and today is the profit-seeking middlemen between the reader and most of the user-contributed content. These middlemen show ads, track people, require people to sign in and force people to shift their attention to the task of getting rid of modal dialogs (e.g., "sign up for our newsletter") before they will display the user-contributed content. They make it hard for the reader to concentrate on the current web page by showing many links to other web pages on the site or on the sites of the middleman's commercial partners. (Even Stack Exchange, named by another comment in this thread as one of the good middlemen, does that.) In contrast, navigating Usenet and the web of the 1990s was a lot more streamlined; to a greater extent than is possible today, a reader could stay focused on the user-contributed content or on his or her reading goal.

Of course there are middlemen today like Hacker News and Wikipedia that pretty much stay out of the reader's way, but they are the middlemen for closer to 0.1% of the user-generated content than 50% of it.
Articles like this make me resent my kids (/s) and all the money and time I cannot dedicate to important life endeavors like this guy does...
I'll shoot you in the leg but I'll give you back 10% of your hospital bills out of the 20% kickback I get from the hospital.
Here is a thread that provides an interesting counter argument:

https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1198819548872531968

Ans some more discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/e3wsy5/a_very_...

https://www.goengineer.com/2019/11/27/cybertruck-simulation-...
I think the novelty terminology makes this more confusing than it needs to be. If the hippy "its a movement not a trend" speak was taken out of the descriptions I'd probably be able to understand what this is supposed to be.
I'm always confused by statements like "a republic, not a democracy." These words don't have clear, practical meanings.

Words like republicanism, democracy, liberal democracy, democratic republic, etc are pretty abstract... and they were a lot more abstract 250 years ago.

No nation state today is a "direct democracy," afaik. All of them are "representative democracies" with a congress/parliament. You can call that system a democracy, republic or whatever.

Point taken about the historical (and current) reasons for federalism.

That said, I don't see how/why redrawing states, electorates, changing how voting works, congress works or such has any bearing on a "democracy or republic" question.

If you're into European history during the reformations/schisms, people of that period were obsessed with extremely abstract, theology/epistemology.

Eucharistic metaphysics seemed important to them att, in retrospect it seems (literally) meaningless.
>The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/...

I don't think the statement above means the electoral college was about giving smaller states an advantage over larger ones. For one, the electoral college was developed during a time when communication was very difficult, and education and literacy was not as widespread. Conditions have changed, and it is possible the system is now too far skewed in one direction such that it no longer represents the people's wishes.
My emphasis is on the word "risk" (captured in the literal words "most likely"). It's risky to go without a guide, though it's not "needed" in the sense of a 100% failure rate.

Honestly, the fact that you assumed others were talking about "have a guide or 100% failure" is disingenuous on your part.
UK is not functioning quite well at the moment. And is something of a federation IIRC.
I primary Linux but have a sibling Windows 10 install for gaming and I also have not noticed any ads...
Sure, there are but in larger countries federations might make more sense.
Heh. You’re right of course. Thank you for correcting me.

I was going to retract most of my criticism due to being blatantly mistaken. But, the namespace thing is actually the part that seems like it would cause the most friction for CL as a configuration language. Specifically: in emacs lisp, if you write ‘foo-frobber, you know it’s probably from the package ‘foo, and that it’s a frobber. Whether it’s a function or a variable can often be inferred correctly from context.

Whereas in CL, isn’t the norm to use the package system everywhere? (Perhaps I am mistaken about this as well.) So you can’t just pass ‘foo-frobber to arbitrary packages and expect it to work. For example, (intern “foo-frobber”) returns a symbol. (Or does it? Now I’m second guessing everything I thought I remembered about CL.) But can you just pass that plain old symbol between packages without having to explicitly indicate its origin?

Hmmm... now that I’ve talked through the problem, perhaps the namespace issue isn’t such a big deal. Maybe the friction was moreso ASDF’s peculiarities rather than the fundamental behaviors of CL.
"The former soviet states are a great natural experiment in economics."

More about history.

"Countries that liberalized their economies, like Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, and Latvia (the "mostly free" countries here: https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking) have grown much faster than countries that retained socialism and central planning, like Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova"

Estonia, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Latvia were tech hubs during soviet time. Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova much much less, relying on stuff like mining and heavy industries.

Your comment makes as much sense as saying: Fertilizer is always good business. Look at Belarus, they have one of the biggest Potash producers in the world (Belaruskali). Why did the baltic states not just copy this?

Or take Georgia, a country listed as having a lot of poor people in the Bloomberg article. Georgia's economic freedom score is 75.9, making its economy the 16th freest in the 2019 Index.

Before you talk about "great natural experiment in economics" you may want to apply some reasoning.
I don't use it but I've set it up for others and I definitely remember some part of the setup where I was given an option with regards to sending personal data and the description for choosing no said something like "You wont see less advertising, they just wont be tailored to you." I'm sure someone who sets up Windows 10 more regularly could explain what this is.

On the same machine I set up Microsoft Office and it wont stop doing popups advertising their team/collaboration product. This is on Windows 10 Pro and with their top tier version of office as well I believe. So paying more doesn't get rid of the ads.
I find it valuable to learn things that go against my preconceptions about what life in Belarus is like. It's surprising to learn that it has a tech scene and capacitor-charged busses. We could also focus on their poverty and repression, but would any of that be surprising to you?
As expressions, sure, they are not the same. But "2 + 3 = 5" is a statement about numbers, not about expressions. When you talk about numbers (the object of study), you do not (usually) talk about arithmetic expressions. Arithmetic expressions are part of the language used to talk about numbers.

When talking about arithmetic expressions themselves, you would use a meta-language (e.g., English). The arithmetic expressions would then be called the object-language (the language being studied). All of this should be pretty clear after taking a serious course in Logic.

I am not saying the choice of words is not sensible, I'm saying it it factually wrong.
Force federation of search data.
Can browsers work on this network? Or is that not how this works?
You can edit the apt sources and cross your fingers. I’ve been told that “do-release-upgrade” has some secret sauce that this method doesn’t replicate- but since it’s not available on Pi I guess the next best thing is manually looking up what package choices changed. I usually roll a new SD card because it’s a lot quicker and less prone to failure.
Canadian islanders angry over US mail searches
I am sorry every state changing their border every census would be insane as proposed in the bullet points. States are more than voting bodies. They have their own laws and locally governed territory with shared jurisdiction on some things with the federal government.

Secondly, there is nothing wrong with electoral college it's working as intended. It's like a lot people forget we have states for reason. For instance a lot of the small states with a low population contain the vast majority of federal land. So any federal policy regarding that land effects them more than anyone else. How do think Nevada would react if the federal government decided to start nuclear testing again and their say in politics is reduced even more.

A lot of this I think boils down how you view the US. Are you citizen/resident of your state which is a member of the united states or are you are citizen of the unites states that happens to reside in a state? (A better/clearer way to phrase this would be appreciated)
As a European I wouldn't trust any European search engine either.
It would be won in favor of whoever wins the people's votes.
I have to agree with the parent poster: the skits do take away from the content. I'm grateful the author was so generous to share his knowledge with the world, but the skits are distracting and off-putting.
Idle question for whatever tlon'ers are reading this: have you considered putting a bitcoin in an urbit and challenging the world to get it out, as a publicity stunt slash bug bounty?

To me, the most interesting thing about Urbit is the explicit design goal of (eventually) becoming so simple and straightforward that it needs no further updates, as described in Toward a Frozen Operating System[0].

So, urbit is supposed to be a safe place to store my precious files, right? I'm supposed to be able to put my blogs and my bitcoins in there, leave it running, and come back in five years or fifty, and they'll still be there, right? So, why not put that to a real test - publish the identity of a running urbit with a prize on its filesystem, and see what happens? If it gets cracked, you get valuable feedback about your product for a bargain price (albeit with egg on your face). If not, you get some hard evidence that urbit does what it claims to on the side of the tin.

0: https://urbit.org/blog/toward-a-frozen-operating-system/
Yes absolutely, Great Britain is another rather prominent case when it comes to looted art. One just has to think about some of the more prominent examples, like the Koh-i-Noor, or when it comes to the museum, the elgin marbles.
Would you please stop posting flamebait here? We've asked you more than once already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FidoNet (and similars, like WWIVnet) directly led to my career today which is largely centered around distributed data systems (and how the data flows around them.)

If I hadn't been fascinated with projects like reimplementing WWIV's network protocol to bridge it to my FIDONet supporting BBS, or implementing IEMSI and other things surrounding echomail/etc. I don't think I'd have developed the necessary interest to become a career software engineer, especially not in this space.

I really miss that moment in tech. The social connections were still somewhat on a "natural" scale and showed hope for improving the world instead of clearly damning it. I appreciate many other improvements that have happened, don't think I truly pine for those times overall. But the mass open social networks of now are truly ruining society and being involved in progressing this kind of communication makes me feel at fault, if even only for an infinitesimally small amount.
Why is the project still named after his Royalist blog? It's hard to take this distancing act seriously when the very title of your project is a fascist dog whistle.
Ok sure, but without having analysed electors vs. senator numbers that is probably tending towards a more extreme power differential than what I suggested. Instead of [other party voters] it would be [other party leadership figures]. And the outcome would be largely similar.

The point is that it is a mechanism for overriding the popular vote. Ergo, whenever it swings into action it will be making a decision other than the popular one. They knew that when it was set up.
>Gambling is legal in Russia in specific gaming zones.

Which are virtually non-existent.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2019/01/14/791383...
During these 5 day resets, are you as productive (important: not 'focused') as usual?
Please don't take HN threads further into gender flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Your situation is likely happened because of bad RAM.

I don't see how that could have happened, since the image wasn't ever written to. It should have been the same file on disk as the backup, since I hadn't touched it since backing up the file, but it wasn't.

> You don't need a serious amount of space, for example ECC RAM uses one parity bit for 8 bits to fix one bit flip or report 2 bit flips

The thing about parity is that for it to be useful in a data recovery scheme, you have to know what bit got flipped. That works for RAID of course, because you usually know which disk is bad and so when you replace it you can work out the missing bits using the parity disk, but I don't think it could work for an individual hard drive, since in general you don't know which bit flipped.

And the thing about checksums is that they can tell you if your data has become corrupt, but they can't be used to fix things behind the scenes.
The UK is functioning okay, actually. Not being able to agree on what Brexit means is quite a minor problem by world standards. It doesn't change the fact that the UK is a highly developed country both in terms of GDP and HDI, has excellent infrastructure, plenty of food, etc.

And the UK is not a federation, at all. The central Parliament in London wields all power and the devolved legislatures (in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) only have whatever authority the central state chooses to allow them to.
"Make something managers want. "

The PG quote reformulated...
I understand the need for a study to quantify it, but I don't understand how the increase itself can even be called a finding ?

I thought it completely obvious that there is more energy in the global "climate system", so everything is amplified. When the sun heat is increased on two surfaces with different heat capacities and albedos, the temperature difference between them is increased, thus the pressure difference, thus the wind.

What am I missing ?
In Sweden the highest court ruled that the distribution of photographs of public art is a breach of copyright. Wikimedia got sued and lost.

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/25/wikimedia-sweden-freed...
On PS4 Netflix app you can check "live stats for nerds" like resolution and bitrate pressing a single button ("option" AFAIR). It's not much fun but doesn't cost as much time and $$$ No screenshot thou :-(
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Richard_Hipp
I’d go further, and I’d be all for a full ban on targeted search and ads in the EU.

Google is programming people on a massive scale. Compare your news feed to your partner/friend/colleague’s phone.

No-one I know outside of tech has any notion that what they’re seeing on that feed is only shown to them. Social targeting in tech has completely broken society with these tools - and Google is arguably worse than Facebook in this regard because their feed is ubiquitous, people just don’t realize they’re in Google’s world the entire time they’re on the phone because they didn’t touch a Facebook or Instagram icon to start an app.

We assume non-tech people out in the world don’t know much about how this works, but the average user is even more naive than any of us realised.
So much blame thrown around, when they obviously need pumped energy storage and neighborhood-level battery banks if unable to deploy batteries and additional in-home switch gear like inverters. Furthermore, nearly all grid-tied solar stops working when the grid goes down for "safety reasons," but that doesn't do the homeowner any good when the power is out and the sun is shining. How about a minimum of 3 average days of battery capacity per home to minimize grid load and only deliver to the grid when it's powered?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and it is not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pretty cool art project. I love the names given to the new states, lots of care went into this.
I always figured with modern technology we don't need to have all of the federal government in the DC/VA area.

I'd scatter each department to a different rust-belt or similarly hollowed-out city, creating a permanent economic base and allowing redevelopment to jump start.
If you declared something this complex to be obvious, but you've not actually measured it, then it's not a "finding" but a hypothesis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21666601
Seeing things from outside, US citizens generally refer to themselves as coming from a city/state combination much more often than the country.
People like all sorts of things that aren't good for them.
A thread from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476120

A couple from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561443

I remember seeing that at the time but didn't notice who was the interviewer!
"Obscurantist racist vapourware" feels like it ought to be a problem, especially if it deliberately tries to obscure these properties in seemingly direct contradiction of the curiosity mandate.
This compact is a bad idea for implementing said goal.

First an amending the constitution requires 3/4ths of states to agree to an amendment. This would make a fundamental change with less than half of the states.

Secondly, it also possibly unconstitutional.

Third, it's unenforceable a state can join and if they fail to follow the agreement other members can't do anything.

Fourth, due to the questions of constitutionality when this takes effect it's going to leave the result of an election in legal limbo for possibly years. This is a big problem since the president is inaugurated only a few months after the election.

Fifth, it easy for other states who are not a member to make it useless. For instances lets say Idaho decides only to publish their their electoral votes, and keep the actually number of votes secret for six months. It is no longer possible to determine who won the popular vote (in a timely manner).
Achieving Peak Pasture
That's what the article is about. Most big employers work for Russian market. If Russia stops buying - Belarus doesn't have deep pockets to sustain for years without trade. People most often live from paycheck to paycheck, so if suddenly a lot of them lose their jobs - escalation will be quite rapid.
Non-existent gambling doesn't make it illegal.
Ok, so what's stopping one party from changing the data? How would one party prove they have the right data? Is this like blockchain messaging?
Actually it’s about fishing practices; how fish is caught, handled and processed. It could be used for quota management, health and safety, and to see what happens with bycatch (very interesting cod end here). In reality shows how hard working these people are and how dedicated they are to their industry.
A Computability Proof of Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem
Actually the flashing process was simplified compared to previously. It now relies on the reboot you mentioned with the following mechanism:

You need the following files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/tree/master/firmwa...:

* recovery.bin
* One of the pieeprom files. Rename it to pieeprom.upd
* One of the vl805 files. Rename it to vl805.bin
* Generate the SHA256 sums of both files and place them in pieeprom.sig and vl805.sig

Reboot. The Pi4 will see the recovery.bin and load it. It will detect the pieeprom.upd file and will then flash both pieeprom.upd and vl805.bin, rename itself to recovery.001 and reboot. During that next boot the recovery.bin doesn't exist any longer as it has been renamed and the boot process continues normally.

The key here is the name of the pieeprom.upd file. You can also name it pieeprom.bin, but in that case the recovery.bin isn't renaming itself and you'll have to manually delete the files from the SD card.
> Reed-Solomon is often used in storage because it is an optimal erasure code

I was initially thinking OP might be talking about something like this, but I think I would have heard if all new hard drives had it built into their firmware to store error correcting codes alongside the real data and automatically fix bit flips, since I suspect that would have pretty serious performance impacts in certain cases and people would be complaining.
The place where a company puts a paywall is always arbitrary. Google puts it at the ad auction, and tries to give away devices and services for (close to) free. Apple puts it at the device purchase and tries to give away the software for (close to) free.

These decisions are arbitrary. You just make a bet that you can be attractive in a certain light, and you charge money in that light, and try to make every adjacent activity free.
VSCode Neovim Integration
While in RoW iPhones are definitely luxury items, by this very property about half (or more) of people whose decisions matter would have one, and you often wouldn’t want to use technology that doesn’t work on your bosses’ phone.
This post made me laugh because it seems to be about movies but it's about something else entirely. I guess what he really enjoys are not the movies, but the process of watching them.
> After outcry, they changed it so that it sticks with whichever sorting method you choose.

It doesn't do this for me. It automatically switches back to "top" mode if I haven't used it in several days, or seemingly whenever I'm logged out.

Edit: actually, it looks like you're wrong. Take a look at this screenshot I just took - the automatic switching back seems to be an intended feature: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbeFHFSZW58kf8AocrZXkJRYw8...
The point on selling to managers is the big one, imo. Not users not the company, at least not directly.

While the "decision maker" is not the user, they may be the project lead/implementor.

Certain managers are looking for low risk, high visibility projects & notable successes. They're expending a sort of social capital within their company, putting themselves on the line.

Those are the managers that need to like your thing.

Companies selling to these people need to focus on those individuals, and figure out what the hell "costs," are, irl, to them. It's not money
Nothing says decline more than previous things once considered ordinary are now impossible. In the US and Britain Neoliberal policies reward rent extraction over wealth creation while treating labor as a social disease.