skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so intensely cool.

Urbit was on its own island until recently - the only project challenging the domination of WWW.

This + Tildeverse feels like the very, very, very early days of hackers starting to play with alternate protocols, and the style and format of WWW.

It's fun, non-commercial, social, and aimed at hobbyists - just like the early WWW.

Given another 10 years of experimentation, I could 100% imagine WWW being seen as corporate, commercial and professional space.

Right now there isn't a good pseudonymous layer, because everything is very tied to real identity. Privacy doesn't really exist in a world of shadow profiles. And, with my commercial hat on, not do I want it to. I want to be able to retarget the shit out of email lists, and run intensive Facebook ad campaigns.

The needs of commercial space are not the needs of personal space. One solution could be different protocols, or at least different spaces, for each.
Cadillac (and other auto manufacturers) structure their program to include dealerships, rather than to cut them out. The sale gets booked against and delivered by a local dealership, rather than Cadillac the manufacturer.

Tesla does not have an independent franchise/dealership model, and all of their local presence is corporate owned. This is what all the automakers have been against, as there are a rats nest of local/state laws that require legacy automakers to not compete with/cut out their dealerships with direct-to-consumer sales, but Tesla has avoided that impediment by resisting having to adopt the sales framework the legacy manufacturers can't legally get out of.

That said, manufacturers would love to be able to adopt Tesla's model; dealers are the ones that hate it as it's an existential threat. Manufacturers are only against Tesla's model to the extent that they're not legally allowed to adopt it, so consider it an unfair advantage.
And we haven't seen the best yet either!
Agree on the right-to-repair putting players on a common ground.

Thinking more on this, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out for Nikon. They have serious competition from Canon, Sony and others and if they keep their repairs open, Nikon will just end up hurting themselves in the long-run.

Apple on the other hand, is in a much safer position. There is no real competitor when it comes to macOS and so they can make these profit-driven decisions without any serious consequences.

I'd like to point out that when I say "no real competition" to macOS, I don't mean it's better than Windows or Linux. Rather, people who prefer macOS will keep using it, just like people who prefer Windows will keep using it. The force required to make them move to a different platform, change your entire workflow etc, is, in my opinion, much higher than switching cameras. Yes, changing the glass costs a small-fortune, but you have adapters, and image formats are standards.
I'd always had the impression that this was the case, but when I started to program in Erlang after several years of Java it became clear to me how true this is. Java has been adding features that improve expressiveness, and from the perspective of a strictly Java programmer they are great. From the outside though, it feels like these new features still take way more work than should be necessary.

I appreciate what Java was meant to be (a way to drag C/C++ programmers closer to Lisp) and I would say that's a goal that has been achieved. I just wish it were easier to go the rest of the way.
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I think that this article points to a general challenge with our education system. By and large, the people who stick with training all the way through a PhD and postdoc in a complex field are not hoping about being a cog in someone else's machine. In academia, I've observed that the sign that that a trainee is ready to move on to independence is that they begin to have disagreements with their mentor that don't reflect misunderstandings of fact, but rather proper, interesting diverging hypotheses. In this story, the wiring incident reminding me of this.

The problem is that solving these sorts of hard problems require both leaders and workers. In this case, and many others, there is not an educational path for training people to be technicians with equivalent knowledge as a PhD (which is why they poached an academic lab to do this). Moreover, if there was a path, history has shown that the people that accept the follower role (rather than wanting intellectual leadership) are highly dispensable. (See, e.g., the optics industry moving laser fab to Malaysia.)

It's also a problem in medicine - physicians resist loss of diagnostic or treatment control. Though in medicine, there are NPs and PAs, but they're generally treated with much less respect.

I think it's interesting that he talks about how "he" Martinis was doing the wiring. Was he? I suspect he had a team working very hard with substantial responsibility, but...
>It became clear to us in the last weeks, that all political initiatives to create an independent European digital infrastructure have been stalled or postponed for years.

This is pretty bad, if people who were allegedly concerned about tying themselves to a foreign mast suddenly throw up their hands and say "Google/Apple/Facebook it is!" at the first sign of trouble. It's even a little surprising, given the borders being slammed shut to both people and goods around the world. I guess Europe will just be a "scramble for Africa" style battleground between being an American digital colony and a Chinese digital colony.

I hope they open source all the software they can as well as their index. This whole thing really is pretty sad. It is also sad they couldn't come up with a way to scrape by besides government backing. It is true "the world needs a private search engine that is not just using Bing or Google in the backend." At least there are private.sh, Mojeek, Yippy, and Yandex around for now.
They are kept alive by how annoying it is to cancel the service and avoid future 'complimentary' reactivations.
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It absolutely can be created, believe it.
I'm not sure about developing countries, but I think by this point developed countries are probably on the right track to not need emergency-design ventilators.

That said, I hope the most promising of these designs get carried through to 'production-ready', in case we get hit with something even worse than COVID in the future, which is easy to imagine.

Basically the US govt attempt detailed in this story, but with a sucessful conclusion instead of a failure. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
I paid ~$1,200 for my Rad Rover about 5 years ago, and maybe $100 in tubes/tire slime/etc since, and it's an e-bike. If someone handed me $50ish today for it, I'd still take it in for a full tune. I can do all of that myself, but the time savings would be great.
Where I work has always been fully remote, so when this started it was business as usual. We expected a rough few months as people stopped buying things, but we've actually been able to increase sales a pretty considerable amount.
The movie 2010 had another cool //c appearance—in that case Dr Heywood Floyd was shown using the //c with an LCD display at the beach. It seemed so futuristic back then. I don't think I ever took a laptop to the beach at any point in the real calendar year 2010, but I did do so in 1995 and that scene from the movie was on my mind the whole time.
That's great feedback - thank you.. I will keep that in mind for future :)
Not really... Oil is "parked at sea" right now and you see the effect. Too much supply is too much. I live in a medium sized city and parking garages are full of rental cars as they have no where to put them. All of our dealers have lots full to the brim. Sales fell off a cliff.
Its rare that you bike somewhere you can't just walk to. If you are that poor to need a government handout to fix it, you don't need it just for the bike.
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I recall a seminar in grad school where they had a legal scholar come in and I remember her saying that the general prescient for ai is that it's viewed as a tool for creating the end product. I.e. my pen didn't make the patent for Jim's Amazing Patent (tm), but I did and I used the pen to design and sketch it out.
Yep. We still have some server latency- no optimistic loads just yet.
Yep. Most of the "complexity" that is justified by mantras like this is not necessary complexity (like the inherent baseline complexity in solving a certain problem space) but cruft/enterprise/poor coding style that winds up suffocating a project. That kind of complexity should be torn out with disregard for the notion that it's somehow necessary.
I wouldn't hope. According to the 2nd law things are moving only in one direction - from-bad-to-worse. When it comes to post-lockdown offices what so far i've seen discussed is adding some transparent mini-walls between desks - kind of smallish transparent mini-cubicles. Like everybody being inside a small personal aquarium so to say. Thus you'd have the worst hybrid of open office and cubicles.
how dare they
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Certainly you can make things more complex than they need to be (for your given use case). That is self-evident for most engineers.

Doesn't that hold that the inverse must be true? In some cases, you must be able to remove complexity from the equation, without introducing it somewhere else.

I agree with the spirit of the post, but I think it's eliding some of the complexity involved in identifying essential complexity.
A agree with this sentiment from my professional experience writing Go.

This article has some nice specific examples of "Simple" APIs that push the complexity onto the programmer.
https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild...

Another common example I've seen cited is the need for Go code generation tools in the community (lack of generics pushing the complexity to external tools).
I agree that political generalizations often do a disservice to people on both sides, who often have their views caricaturized. When you say don't "make... political" do you agree that the cultural trends exist and are worthy of discussion in a conversation about handling the disease?
It seems like a lot of these anti-third party repair initiatives are to support the sales of extended warranties. A lot of companies can make 10-20% or above the sale cost of their item by selling these warranties.

https://www.nikonimgsupport.com/ni/NI_article?articleNo=0000...
I find it simpler to always list my branches sorted by last commit date (with `git for-each-ref --count=30 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(refname:short)'`). You can probably modify it to show the last author / date too.
Complexity is often frivolously created during specification. If the true consequences of complexity (wherever it may live) were understood, we'd simplify things a lot. But they want that next button, they want ancient emails be searchable instead of having them archived, and they have no idea that their wish leads to new servers installed in a data center, new bugs introduced, and development time lost at for each new release.

There are also ways to design things better (or worse) with regards how they handle complexity. Reuse UI, patterns, workflows and languages. Keep things consistent, make things discoverable.

Point is, the slogan "Complexity has to live somewhere" could also be used as an excuse to do sloppy work. Then again, this keeps us all employed.
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I think workers have to push for killing off the open office by bringing it up as a health and safety concern while COVID-19 is still at the forefront everyone's consciousness. There will never be a better opportunity; bring it up as a question at corporate/divisional meetings and provide feedback wherever reasonably possible.
If you commute by bicycle every day rain or shine, then changing the cables twice a year might not be as crazy as it sounds. I doubt that's enough time for them to rust to the point of being in danger of breaking, but it probably is enough time for them to collect enough grit to interfere with smooth shifting and braking. Though a lot of that will depend on how exposed the cables are on your particular bike.
I've used Nomad by HashiCorp and it's been really nice to use. Though I haven't needed to scale it up a ton so I can't comment on that, but the day-to-day deploying of updated apps is nice and works well.
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What is the relation between Linden Lab and Tilia? And is this the same Linden Labs that did Second Life? Is this a rebranding or a new subsidy?
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We might need new ventilators, but we don't know what the requirements are until then our existing designs are better than anything new : we know they work and can be made. All we need is to scale production and that is much easier.

As we learn more we might discover things that make the current ventilators not optimal at which point it is worthwhile to design something new.
The price of second hand bikes increased massively during the transport strike, I'm not sure if they've come down yet.
> during the Firefox-Cliqz debacle

I missed this so I looked it up. This seems like a good summary:

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m...
A CEO (and a leader of a country, I should add) have a power with their words that requires them to speak with a different voice. If that's not possible, resigning is an option.
Oh, right. That was widely seen as ineffective at accomplishing its stated goals, right?

I wonder if the government would try something like that again, perhaps limited to domestic manufacturers or cars manufactured domestically. I can’t see the current administration giving incentives across the board.
Yep, I'm tired of these kids saying PovRay coudn't do shit as if PovRay had in 1997 the same capabilities of an Irix machine from 1987. They couldn't even be more wrong with that.

I remember seeing photoreallistic images made with PovRay in 1997 you coudn't even do with a GPU today in real time.

Kids today have a lot of ignorance on the 90's technologies, guess why they confuse the 80's and the 90's a lot thanks to that shitty vaporwave culture, having fake nostalgia on something they never truly experienced.

Man, I was playing 720p video under a Divx code in early 00's with a Pentium3 and multimedia was on its heayday, thus, people showing up a CGA pallete has no sense, it already was retro back in the day, you had those in the old MSDOS games you were running under W98 or DOSEmu under Linux, among the rest of the emulators for the ZX Spectrum and MSX for example.

Sorry for my rant, but I had to say it. The late 90's had nothing to do with early 90's, the technology shift we've seen it was outstanding. From DOS under a 286 in my early Elementary school, to W98 emulating Pokémon in my pre-HS days among recording TV streams in a computer, all of that in 5-6 years.

From 30Mhz and 5 1/4 floppies to ~450/600 MHZ a bunch of GB in 1999. For sure PovRay could do a lot more than these kids think.
Existing customers won't be happy with lowered resale values ... suspect there will cheap financing deals and added in extras.
Not sure i'd be volunteering to put a tripod down all over the place!
Do cloud providers require section 230 protection for mere hosting? Or does the buck stop at their customers operating user-facing services on their infrastructure?
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Yes - in the Character classes chapter you had just introduced the negate operator, then in the next example use the beginning operator, which happens to be the same character in a different context. That might be a leap too far. Great resource!
Striking how _different_ this is from the pyramid of Giza. For this one, every inch covered with illustrations and hieroglyphs; for the great pyramid, completely bare, devoid of images.
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It's not always easy with MBA types.

I once had a mentor with clout on a 9 figure investment committee tell me that maximum likelihood estimation is "the dumbest idea" he'd ever heard.

Words like "Cramer-Rao bound" didn't get through. What worked was saying "deep learning is usually just MLE with a mysteriously effective function approximation".
if you need a branch naming scheme, then you probably have too many public branches.
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Time flies like an arrow. People in a recession will eat a banana.
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Videos show medical equipment backlog in China
Or you incorporate the AI as a business and assign the patents to that.
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It's an industry-specific term. "Physical IP", as in the opposite of "logical IP", does not refer to atoms, but to a low-level specification ("netlist") of the transistor layout of computer chip components. You could compare it to machine code that is optimized for a very specific processor.
It's a mix of both latency and lack of optimistic updates. We're working on improving our front-end at the moment and some of those improvements relate to optimistic loads and improvements on redux that go in every week.
>That's understood. That's obviously a huge problem, but isn't it worth pointing out one of the bigger issues of the bill?

That's not "one of the bigger issues" of the bill. It's not even that interesting as an issue -- journalists have other ways to talk to sources. Deep Throat didn't use "end to end encryption".

But not allowing end to end encryption affects all of society (e.g. everybody's text messages, chat, and voice calls), not just some specific use case of a specific line of work.
> And what's stopping consumers from bypassing drop shippers altogether?

Situational awareness and a narrative of trust. The number of advertisements on facebook these days promoting some retail site where every single product can be found on aliexpress for less money _and_ free shipping is staggering. The only reason you would buy from them is 1) You don't know what's on aliexpress because you don't know about aliexpress, 2) You don't know what's on aliexpress because you don't trust rando chinese factory sellers without western-friendly spin.
That's why I call it a workaround, not a solution. It's good enough most of the time, but not every time.
"possibly" here means that while Y is hosting derived work, even the uploader doesn't know that for a fact since the software doing the uploading doesn't expose this detail.

Knowledge of how to combine them being a derived work is an interesting theory. One challenge is that facts aren't typically copyrightable. On the other hand you could argue contributory infringement instead.