skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m paying the equivalent of $40 p/m for 600mbit download and 100mbit upload in Europe. I don’t think it’s even the best deal I could be getting.
It's not a former Soviet state, being a part of former Yugoslavia, which was a member of the non-aligned movement.

It was, however, a stong-man communist dictatorship.
Yeah, the author’s arguments don’t support his conclusion of “go build something awesome”.

He points out the gas turbine was invented in 1791 and software in 1948. It seems to imply that software is in an equivalent state today to what the internal combustion engine was in the 1860s. This is ridiculous. Engines weren’t used by the majority of the world every day.

What’s to say that software today isn’t in the state that the automobile industry was in the 1950s: the future will generally be dominated by the large incumbents.

I have no doubt that there’s room in the future for my software idea. But is the room for me?
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So if I buy my "last computer" from Urbit a "senate" made up of people who paid them money early on can do whatever they want to my data --- ahem "upgrade the logic" --- without my having any say? I'm not sure if I want some ChromeOS-analogue with automatic updates from the Reddit/4Chan --- ahem early cryptocurrency adopter --- hive mind.

> We want everyone to own their own identity and wallet. One way to do this would be to build a MEGACORP or a Centralized Naming Authority of Urbit. But we prefer decentralized, collectively owned systems. So that’s what we built. Let’s look briefly at the basic mechanics of Urbit ID.

> Urbit IDs are distributed by a sponsorship tree. At the top of the tree are 2^8 (256) galaxies. Each galaxy issues 2^8 stars, making a total of 2^16 (65K). Stars then each can issue 2^16 planets, making for 2^32 (~4B). As you might expect, each planet issues 2^32 moons.

> Second, Urbit IDs are distributed by a sponsorship tree. Each sponsor issues a fixed number of addresses. Since there are lots of sponsors, there are lots of ways to get an Urbit ID — not just one central authority.

> Urbit IDs need a sponsor even after they’re issued, but you can always change sponsors and sponsors can always reject children. This means bad actors can be banned and abusive sponsors can be ignored. We think this strikes a nice balance between accountability and freedom.

> Finally, galaxies (the top of the sponsorship tree) form a senate that can upgrade the logic of the Urbit ID system by majority vote. We think Urbit ID should last for quite a long time, but if it ever needs to be changed, the galaxies can facilitate upgrades. Code may be law, but ultimately we acknowledge that human judgment can’t be factored out.
Here is a good example:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/emacs-l...

DFAs for regular expressions use exponential memory for regular expression size (also exponential time to compile them to DFAs). Try that for the regular expressions in the link above. There is no way to make regular expressions fast.
I'd agree that mutability is an issue with GC, in fact some LISPs like Losak are deterministic simply by being entirely functional:

http://losak.sourceforge.net/

It is true that you can get cyclical refs higher up in the language even with functional code though, and at some level you need a cycle checker.

There is another type of managed memory not talked about much, and that's the model used by Composita- RAII but with defined message interfaces between modules, such that you can deterministically allocate memory for that:

http://concurrency.ch/Content/publications/Blaeser_ETH_Diss_...

It looks to be the best way of doing deterministic performant memory management, though you'll need a cycle checker in the language runtime.
I'm fairly sure if they could they would.

The article said they actively blocked others from even taking photos.

"The museum has long prohibited visitors from taking any kinds of photographs of its biggest attraction."

So they are asserting copyright of the work in the sense they are restricting access.

Their only real reasonable excuse might be that flash photography is likely to damage the work but non-flash photography should still be allowed. They've got history of blocking all such access.
It's time for a new search engine -- and no, ddg is not it. We need a search engine that doesn't search the new internet. The instagrams, the pinterests, the wikihows, the seemingly every single blog on the internet that is designed to take your time away from you by hydrating you in droplets between sweat lodges.

We need create a new internet on the internet that does not search the new internet. DDG brings back content from the same sites google and bing does.

I want a new search engine focused on the passionate creatives who produce for the web. The early adopters of the web who have been overshadowed by the adwords and the interstitials and lightboxes.

I want content. I want a recipe site with the ingredients at the top and a list of instructions below it. Not 6 paragraphs of why you want to eat this food because of your grandma making it and then people come NO, just tell me what to put in it and how to do it and that's it and load in .1 seconds instead of 100 seconds and then stall every time I try to scroll because you need to tell your advertisers which part of your page is looked at the most.

Your advertisers are more important than your readers and it's not cool.
TIL: people buy stuff from costco's website.

I alwayd thought since you buy in bulk shipping would be insane or not at the value point of amazon.
I can't speak for GP, but I'd speculate "lack of faith that understanding the math behind computer science will provide any real value as a programmer".
Urbit is an overlay OS, a functional VM you can run that does strictly typed p2p networking with other urbits. So, it’s software you run on your computer or on a VPS. The thing you’re looking at buying is the Urbit equivalent of a domain name. You can read more about the design decisions in their PKI blog post. (Most recent one, I think)
The Information is doing this: https://www.theinformation.com/org-charts
Do you know if llvm got good at garbage collection support recently? My understanding was always that their optimisations would mangle your stack/registers so much that a decent incremental exact GC becomes super hard. And that something like keeping one/two pointers to the tip of the heap in dedicated registers is super hard/annoying too.
Should it be called Dutch-China so to alert chinese-hater like me to take note. Or it is really Dutch after the chinese done the jade-rabbit thing. Or is it a joint venture to “share” knowledge and if so back to the Dutch-China name thing.
Is an overlay OS a program that runs on another OS?
He's also wrong about a lot. For all his insistence on accuracy, he himself is misleading or ignorant. Like his slam of the Dartmouth project - even if you knew nothing about it, all you have to do is click through to see the claims of 'solving vision' are sheer projection and urban legend. And he's happy to make up claims out of whole cloth: for example, when he says "AlphaGo works fine on a 19x19 board, but would need to be retrained to play on a rectangular board; the lack of transfer is telling.", for which he provides precisely zero evidence, he ignores the fact that AG training works fine on a mixture of board sizes and such progressive growing/curriculum training in fact seems to accelerate training (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10565) and that rectangular convolutions are a thing that exist, and there would be plenty of transfer if anyone tried. If no one has tried that exact thing, it's because it would be pointless and it's obvious to everyone not named 'Marcus' that it'd work fine, being rectangular doesn't mystically stop it from working anymore than using a 13x13 rather than 19x19 board makes AG-style training stop working. (This is not the first time Marcus has claimed that something didn't work; I first realized that he doesn't actually keep up with the AI literature when I pointed out to him on Twitter that plenty of knowledge graphs were in use combined with DL, and Google Search was the biggest example of this, and he had no idea what I was talking about.)

No matter what DL or DRL does, or how little his own preferred paradigm does, Marcus will never ever admit anything. AlphaGo beats humans? Well, it just copied humans. AlphaZero learns from scratch? Well, he wrote a whole paper explaining how akshully it still copies humans because the tree search encodes the rules. MuZero throws out even the tree search's knowledge of rules? Crickets and essays about 'misinformation'.
I'm a Game Dev with many years experience. My most recent release is Void Bastards.

If you want your game to be look great, and performance is important, I would recommend downloading Unity and working through their large set of tutorials. You'll write your game in C#.

I really like Gotdot for my fun personal projects, but it doesn't have the same full feature set.

You can also check out Unreal, but its a more specialized tool.
Okay, but I come across this all the time on any topic I have some knowledge of: the articles might be bad, but the commentary and discussion is always much worse--it's clear to me that most commenters don't read the links. There are only a handful of commenters whose comments are worth reading.
The US is 10th in the fixed broadband ranking on speedtest.net[1], ahead of counties like Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, UK, etc.

[1] https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#fixed
Bought my mattress online from Costco and I'm not even a member...
Same for Netflix app on Samsung TVs, I can see when I'm streaming 4k directly.
Manifest v3 still allows browser extensions to observe web requests. It just stops web extensions from blocking them.

There is no win for privacy here.
Wasn't limited to Leopold, though his Stalinesque reputation means his is probably one of the better known. Many of the "developed" nations of the late 1800s and early 1900s had ethic villages or exhibitions - with live exhibits. London, Paris, New York, etc. St Louis made a point of adding newly acquired native Philippinos to the native American display at the World Fair and 1904 Olympics. Developed nations carried on with those exhibitions far longer than you might expect or hope. Though they were in decline by WW2, there's been a fair selection of basically racist exhibits post war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

King Leopold II was a bit special, even by the standards of the height of colonialism. His privately owned Congo Free State - it really was his, founded and owned by him personally was excessively bad at everything. It started public and government campaigns in Britain, America and I believe France and others too, ultimately culminating in multiple nations taking stand and signing treaties against Leopold's vanity project. The atrocities were far in excess of any other colonial power for the few years he owned it. Millions died, millions more, including children, had hands or feet hacked off. The state stepped in and it became the Belgian Congo after 15 or 20 years of Stalin ^W Leopold. (Edit: In that time, the 1919 Belgian Government Commission estimated half the population had died).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

Belgium has been surprisingly reluctant to even acknowledge this black spot in their history, and you will still find plenty of statues, squares and streets in his honour.

Should you want to read more, and it's not an easy read, I'd recommend King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
I actually think wordpress has contributed significantly to the decline of the web. It's not secure. It proliferates so it's easy to hack. It's easy to embed untested plugins in it that are also vectors. It's plagued by all the same problems as microsoft windows.
>> Rolled over through the centuries with Moscow's wars with other parts of Europe

What a profoundly backward perspective. It's the other way around. Belarus was a part of the Russian Empire. So much a part of it, in fact, that the long form of the title of the Russian monarch contained its name. You can't "roll over" something you already own. It wasn't Russia's wars with European states that repeatedly fucked up Belarus. It was Europe's wars with Russia. Napoleon and Hitler were two notable examples - both defeated, but both rolled through Belarus first, killing and raping everything that moved.
So we design a global network of wind turbines so powerful that they buffer climate change...like adding a huge mass to stabilize the dynamics?
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It means it will be broken, and usually is deprecated because it is broken in some way.
I was browsing Costco.com when I saw this happen and the thing I was most thankful for on Thanksgiving was not being on-call on the responsible team at Costco.
> Putting aside the human right issues...

I'm not sure that is a safe start to an argument that a country is well run. When human rights get suppressed that means people lose the ability to, eg, honestly complain about massive problems or take basic steps to improve their standard of living. Growing an economy at the expense of human rights is kinda stupid. What is the point of making people's lives materially better if the government is simultaneously suppressing their ability live better lives? Pointless and counterproductive busywork.

I can see how a country can be good and have human rights abuses at the same time - most great countries are involved in human rights abuses to some degree - but they can't just be hand-waved at the start. Being a nice place to visit as a wealthy tourist hand having clean streets is not a high bar.

You also inspired me to go and have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus . I wasn't impressed to read that they have laws where a "change of job and living location will require permission from governors [for 9% of the workforce]". I would call that catastrophically poor management of the economy bordering on actual slavery. So either Wikipedia is misleading me or they are not quite well run.
(Not op, just chiming in)

I really love working in Godot, it’s a wonderful and fast program. It is tedious to find how something works however because the docs are pretty sparse and the tutorial community is so small. It can take forever to find the function you need to call for something, or what the limitations of something like tilemaps are

I also miss the python libraries and procedures I’m used to (it uses a python inspired custom language called gdscript)

I’m going to try it for a larger project later this year and see how painful it ends up being to figure things out. It’s a really great program for everything I do know how to do
Windmills have several important speeds:

- Cut-in speed

- rated speed

- shutdown speed

- survivable speed

Cut-in speed is the speed at which the windmill starts to generate power, rated speed is the speed at which it makes maximum power, shutdown speed is the speed above which the furling mechanism can't operate or has no more effect, which causes the machine the shut down (anything above rated speed is essentially wasted), finally survivable speed is the speed which will not cause damage to the machine.

If the wind speeds are increasing that's mixed news because you will make more power between cut-in and rated, but given that the top end will likely also increase and that wind power is v^3 the destructive force of that top-end you might lose the machine entirely, only a very small relative speed increase could make things go from survivable to catastrophic.

This is because all of these speeds given above are designed in to the system when it is conceived and the survivable wind speed is not something that you can easily modify once a machine has been built.

So mixed blessing, unless it is only in the mid-range and the top-end is unchanged.
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I used to have Georgist/geolibertarian sympathies, but my feelings now are pretty much the opposite (and no, I’m not a homeowner). In general, the rich do not create the poor. Moreover, communities have no obligation to make it easy for newcomers to overrun them.

Edit: Thanks for the downvote! Please remember to leave your shitty, entropic ideology when you flee the city you ruined.
Very good and very useful. Hope others can chip in to expand the list.
Compared to the amount of power in the weather system what we puny humans can do it insignificant. A typical wind turbine causes a slow-down behind it but that's only in the layer that windmill sits in. Given that the atmosphere's active airmass extends many 100's of time above the height of the highest windmills and windmills will only ever cover a very small fraction of the surface area of the planet their effect is negligible.
Think for example about the difference between pre-Hastings England and 100 years later. The castle sprawl was really dramatic after William took over, it really changed the dynamic
How many hours each week are you working on your project?
I think this is the exact point of the article. Executives don’t think like you, so if you want to make it big with your software, you have to change how you think. Even if it means annoying middle management and their direct reports.
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Okay, that’s a fine guess. The question I asked - “OP: Why?” - remains unaddressed.
I would think tractors are pretty optimized — to be stout — and naturally aren't going to look like an automobile being manufactured.
Yeah, but it's usually merely 2 parties that have any chances at all, by the way the voting system is setup, and how the whole game is played (for one, ruling parties having the money to advertise and secure their positions and playing with advantage beyond their program over any new party)
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Being above financial instability and job insecurity is a good thing. It doesn't follow that the average person having a stable life means that the world is cruel and unfair.
If malware are already utilizing channels such as Youtube, the ability to block Google will be exponentially more difficult than attempt to cycle through domains.
No nothing to do with that. Just happen to have same names.
Understood. We've been emphasizing customer research to prevent time spent building the wrong thing. This talk explains more about the method we are following: https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16/
Glad someone said this. So weird that he has gone so deep off the deep end.
Why are "we" still writing games in programming languages? It's like if Gone With The Wind was done in stop motion.
> This qualifies for Sci-Fi I think

No it doesn't. It's by far the most likely outcome going forward.

"Putin’s Retirement Plan Depends on Belarus"

"To retain power, he is positioning himself as the leader of a closer union between Russia and its dependent neighbor."

https://outline.com/skkJq5

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/putin-...

That is by Leonid Bershidsky, one of the best columnists in the West re Russia. He essentially never strays into conspiracy theories or similar junk.
The problem is that the simultaneous position and momentum of a particle does make sense, it just happens not to be how our world works because the world is not actually made of particles, it's made of fields, and those fields obey wave equations.

A better analogy IMO is that it's impossible to have a wave whose position and direction are simultaneously well defined. If you throw a stone into a pond you will get a circular wave front with a well-defined position (where the stone landed) and a completely undefined direction. Likewise, you can get a wave that has a well-defined direction (as you do along a seashore, where the waves move perpendicular to the coastline) but to make that happen the wave has to be very wide. It's impossible to make a wave (in open water) that is simultaneously well-localized and moving in a particular direction.
Urbit does not run on or via blockchain. Its PKI lives on a blockchain. Urbit itself doesn't care about how packets get from A to B. You run it on a machine you own.

Social communications yes, especially on smaller/more "local" scales.
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During one of the sudden logouts on Costco's website yesterday there was a complete stranger's email address prefilled in the login screen. Disconcerting, but at least there was no password.
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Sure it can change. Apple is a model with iMessage. Google could build a messaging protocol that fell back to SMS/MMS if necessary.

If you want to know why Android still doesn’t have a standard messaging app or a standard video chat app, blame the incompetence of Google who has a half dozen failed messaging initiatives under its belt. Once it was dominant on Android, google could also release an app for iOS.
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I think you said exactly why these are more ripe. Your customer has a budget for it.
Not mysterious. This is perfectly in line with expected science.

Climate is a huge chaotic system, akin to how Jupiter's Great Red Spot persists as a chaotic phenomenon. It's impossible to predict in detail, but follows some general principles we can depend on, and the generalization 'wind speeds are increasing' is one of those principles.

As we increase the energy of the overall system (by heating it), the range of weather behavior grows more extreme and more chaotic. Pretty sure this has at least as good a claim on observed wind speeds increasing, as any ocean pattern.

So the range of behavior will expand (higher peak speeds) and the rapidity with which the weather can change will also expand (is expanding). That poses dangers but if you can capture and store the energy it also gives opportunities: the danger is simply that expanded storms will smash our civilization, but the opportunity is that sufficiently sturdy generating equipment can harvest a LOT of power in a big hurry. Our ability to expend energy (even in so catastrophic a way as thermonuclear war) is NOTHING to the power of heating climate. We only think it is a certain way because we're used to seeing it that way.

There effectively is no such thing as the 'thousand year' storm anymore. It becomes commonplace, and design has to take on challenges like the million or billion year storm… as calculated under last century's conditions. Because that's how chaos works: small increases in total energy can give rise to increasingly spectacular chaotic flows.

One thing about it, it's fairly likely that any particular extreme will blow over more quickly. It all becomes a challenge of 'survive what climate threw at you during this 48 or 72 hours' and it'll likely change very aggressively again, perhaps to something a lot more survivable. You prepare for weather events like they are 'shock and awe' military assaults, no matter where you are in the world, because that's how it increasingly is. Wind speed is only one part of it, but it's certainly a significant part for unprotected humans and human structures.
This is very ominous:

"The issue has been costly. The DGCA this week said every time a new plane joins IndiGo’s fleet, it must ground one A320neo that hasn’t had its engines fixed."

You'd hope they would ground them when they need to ground them, not when they can be replaced!
They have a nice collection in their sg-1000 console library as well:
https://archive.org/details/sg_1000_library
its good for demonstrating the dangers of doxxing