skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point! I guess you'd still have to make sure that variants with alignment requirements don't get unaligned. One way to do that would be to add leading padding if they follow an unaligned variant. Adds some complexity to the representation, I guess, and I suspect there's other ways of doing it. Neat problem.
> The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web’s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one’s presence anonymous) that have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences. What’s more, these designs quickly became “locked in,” a permanent part of the web’s very structure.

> Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals.

Does anyone have further references for this kind of work? I'm a big fan of Jaron Lanier so I tend to agree with what he says but I'm curious to know if there are people that have looked critically at his arguments and what conclusions they've reached.
Many people don't know that fashion have very very limited IP protection. It remains one of the most innovative and changeable sectors of the economy...
Thanks, very interesting. I found their "what the public wants has no impact" hard to believe – well, they have about 4 differently-worded versions of that on that page – so I tried to read the first paper cited,

> Gilens and Page, Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, Perspective on Politics, 2014. http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fil...

In which Figure 1 is the flat graph in the video, showing that about 30% of policies are adopted no matter what percentage of 'average citizens' favor them. For 'average citizen' (what on that webpage they call "the public" and "public opinion") they seem to consider only opinions of the median-income percentile (i.e. 1% of people):

> Policy preferences at the fiftieth income percentile — that is, the preferences of the median-income survey respondent—work quite well as measures of the preferences of the average citizen

Also it finds a correlation of 0.78 between the preferences of this percentile and that of "economic elites", yet a -0.1 negative correlation between economic elites and business interest groups, which is surprising.

This seems to me to contradict the "no impact" finding:

> Thus when popular majorities favor the status quo, opposing a given policy change, they are likely to get their way; but when a majority—even a very large majority—of the public favors change, it is not likely to get what it wants. In our 1,779 policy cases, narrow pro-change majorities of the public got the policy changes they wanted only about 30 percent of the time. More strikingly, even overwhelmingly large pro-change majorities, with 80 percent of the public favoring a policy change, got that change only about 43 percent of the time.

How is that "no impact"? Anywhow, it's an interesting study, I'd love to read what someone who knows statistics better than me thinks of it.
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The fact that the 3D printing community, and even some of the companies that currently operate in that niece, share more openly with each other is great. But should 3D printing ever get wide-scale traction (think home appliance), then that free sharing of information means any random mega-corporation looking for a new profit-center can step in, take all that knowledge, and simple stomp out all the small players who invested time and energy into their products. The same goes for any product developed as open-hardware, if it gets wide-scale traction, any mega-corp can trivially reimplement it and remove the smaller players from the board. Neither group has any protections without patents and copyrights.

I would also argue that those two areas have a relatively low-cost of entry like software development, but only have such due to the huge amount of investment previously put into those fields, and existing industries around them. High-power and low-cost microchips, high efficiency stepper motors, etc, were developed due to decades of constant industry investment, and the open-hardware community isn’t going to be mass producing stepper-motors, microprocessors, or FPGAs anytime soon.

To be clear, these are both communities I think are great, and consider myself part of, but you can’t ignore the reality of the industrial and business world around them because it’s inconvenient. In an ideal world, everything would work like those communities, but our world is far, far, from ideal.

As for case examples for my arguments. For small player protection -- just look at how lack of patent enforcement causes so many small companies to fail due to lower-cost knockoffs produced in china being released before their brand gains traction. For the need for a return on investment -- that’s just how industry at large works. No company will invest significant funds developing something if there isn’t a reasonable chance of making a return on that investment. If all your competitors can immediately copy and undercut you, the ROI drops to zero. I can actually provide some specific examples from the company I work for / industry I work in, but I'd prefer to move the conversation offline if you'd like to discuses that.
It was removed because you apparently didn't quote/provide a reliable source... Looks like you quoted a reddit comment?
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24.12.1860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Immediate_C...

08.02.1861: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Constitution_of_th...

04.03.1861: First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

12.04.1861: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users
A number of the county owned public utility districts in Washington state have done exactly that, osi layer 1 and 2 run by the county. Individual ISPs establish NNIs with the county at a core network locations and offer layer 3 (and billing, customer end user support, other value added services).
Instead of pinching and zooming, you may not have already seen https://i.reddit.com

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It's difficult to get the general public to support taxes that will fund the repair of degrading bridges, leaking dams, and cracked roadways that may soon fail and actually KILL them. Do you honestly believe you’ll find widespread support for government funding of all major industry research?

Also, how does that investment get prioritized? What if the general public decides that some industry isn't worth investment, despite some people believing it is? Without patents, there is no way for the private sector to invest in R&D without just knowingly burning money.

I'm not saying government investment in research isn't a good idea. I think it is, and is something we should be doing more of, but it's not a replacement for patents.
Maybe. Or maybe the point is that for some people systemic racism isn't just another abstract problem that doesn't really affect them every single day of their lives.
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Did you read the speech? Lincoln's entire inaugural speech is about the conflict over slavery and how it could lead to secession.

He says explicitly:

>One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.

How much more in denial could you be?
Not long ago, someone submitted "Geek ring" which I think is very similar to what you're describing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549471
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This is timely, I'm reviewing this deck just after working a grueling day on my language and tuning the language runtime for performance.

What's interesting is how many things we can now intuitively take for granted, but for each idea someone had to suffer and make it real. Their primary barrier was people via communication and getting traction.
Ask HN: Which hardware wallet do you use for Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies?
Anyone with write access to the file can run their code on the bank's website.
I think the C# example is pretty dense to parse tbh, I need to match parenthesizes and partial results back and forth during mental parsing. Also, how would you go about stepping through those iterations in a debugger? It's just so fragile, because people will insist and/or keep using these things when a loop is more appropriate when the code grows etc, this is the reason why it scales badly over a lot of folks. Things become more and more opaque and hard to debug.
Politics is infecting everything. All of these fights across tech projects has demonstrated to me that American politics merely mirrors its people.

Seriously, how can we get anything done with the current state of affairs?
I was explaining to someone how to generate an SSH key, they way I would normally do when explaining git to someone not exposed.

They instead used the GitHub app and their GitHub password. I didn't see any interaction with an SSH key.

I am not sure how I feel about that. Something seems not right about it.
Why should I buy a house today, when I could buy a bigger house for the same money next year?

If I have enough cash, sitting on it will make it appreciate more than paying a year's worth of rent.

Food is a small fraction of a household's expenses, as is healthcare, in every single country that is not the United States.
In philosophy 101, my professor said that philosophy was focused on controversial topics because once you could prove a side, it would become science. E.g. the heavens used to be a philosophic topic until we had the ability to prove heliocentrism.

Math is much more focused on the realm of what can be proved. Unproven statements in math (e.g. conjectures or axioms) are the exceptions that prove the rule.
I want to give everyone a digital identity. In some countries (including mine) basically everyone has an e-ID which we use to sign in to things like government services, banks, payment providers and much more. This is absolutely essential to everyday life and many startups are built around it.

Unfortunately, many countries don't have useful e-IDs and the ones that do are limited to that one country. I want to create a single digital identity which works for everyone, for all applications, across borders. The basic features are:

- App based with no special hardware necessary.

- Privacy friendly with the user always fully aware of what data they are revealing.

- Simple to integrate for developers. It's a standard SSO flow over OAuth/OIDC.

I'm currently calling it Pass: https://getpass.app. If anyone wants to have a chat about digital identities you can reach me at fabian (at) flapplabs.se
I'm waiting for folks to look at gemini, see only part of what they want, and make markdown-native web protocol, a wiki protocol, basically. I think that would be very cool, and it is what drew me to gemini before I figured out it was really super-gopher. Like what if there was a mediawiki protocol? You'd have your tables! Anyway, there's no one stopping anybody for trying to make that happen. The true interwiki promised in the days of c2, could actually happen!... if some people want to make it happen.
And it didn’t help that the Windows Store back then was a store for UWP/Metro apps.

It also took a long time for Microsoft to actually tackle the issues that UWP/Metro and WinUI/XAML faced. It took so long, it doesn’t even matter anymore and even Microsoft has moved on. But there’s quite a bit of hypocrisy, with Microsoft telling others to use WinUI while not using it everywhere themselves while refusing to update the styles of other design frameworks.
I’ve seen this happen frequently in both iBooks and Apple Music, which is why I refuse to use either. I always assumed it was a DRM thing? Kindle doesn’t do this at all, and while Spotify does, it’s much rarer, and always waits until you have connectivity, so it can immediately re-download.

It’s such an obvious deal-breaker, I don’t understand how “let’s delete your stuff all the time, even in offline mode” made it through testing.
So, wtf is Onyx and how does it violate GPLv2?
I hardly ever disagree with the man, but as long as at least 50% of freshman get this wrong in introductionary lectures of fundamental logic, a named principle is very appropriate imo.
Same, I was also a fan of Sonique [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_(media_player)
You may not be so rational, but investors will be.

If deflation were 3% a year, nobody would invest into anything short of a golden goose. Why risk your money, when you can sit around, do nothing, and have it earn value for you, with zero risk?

In fact, if we were looking at a long-term deflation of 3%/year, I'd stop working, sell all of my investments, stick my money in a mattress, and retire tomorrow.

You tell me whether or not that is healthy for the economy.
The software you use says something about you
I don't know, are there? I don't know, do you?
Why is that the lesson? Maybe I'm dumb but I don't understand how that would help anything.
This looks like a lot of hand waving to explain away the differences in reported excess mortality resulting from the different government responses to the pandemic (lockdown/light lockdown/no lockdown)
Yes, the people in the government assign it value. How is that different from what I said?
22 mph per second is an abomination of a mixed unit I'd never heard before, but it's actually much more intuitive to me than the standard 9.8 metres per second per second.

Maybe we can compromise on 35 km/h per second though.
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Both iPad Pro models, $800 and $1,000 respectively, start at 128GB. And iPads do not accept SD cards.
> a real product company with AI/ML engineering problems

I've worked in just about every industry in my career, yet to find a place where those engineering specialisations are make-or-break, or even necessary.
Bytepath game is open source and includes a tutorial for writing the game in Lua
As in, create an abstraction so everyone gets to do it their way and you don't have to debate?
So, in which way is the result any better?
This is an interesting idea. It reminds me of the idea of "I’ll break the cookie in two; you choose your piece." I’d have to work through the implications of how this would play out between large corporations, but the most immediate issue I would see with it is for the smallest inventors/companies.

In many industries, a new/small company would never be able to price it’s patents out of the reach of its largest competitors, it would put them in the position of either spending huge amounts of their working capital in taxes to defend their patents, or let the patents be sold and compete with their large competitors on production, logistic, and support costs (which is a loosing position for a new small/new company).

It would be even worse in the case of a solo inventor. Imagine you come up with an idea so good it’s clearly worth a billion dollars, but only in an industry with a single, or small number, of big players. If that one big player, or several big players collectively, refuse to buy or license your patent, you won’t be able to afford the taxes and end up with nothing once it expires (and they are free to use it). If you want to try to develop it yourself, you now need to find a huge amount of additional investment just to cover the taxes.
I like your second paragraph. This is true for large parts of life and a good reason to work hard and leave something behind for future generations.
If they do not have access to the Internet on their iPad while on their remote vacation, it is an unrecoverable delete, at least temporarily.

Your second suggestion seems like it is blaming the user. How does the user know this is the action Apple will take upon low disk space? Isn't the sane thing that downloads are left alone, whether or not cloud backup is turned on?
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Journalists aren't the elite. They're the PR people working for the elite.
Onyx is a manufacturer of Android-based e-Ink tablet/e-Reader.
That is currently not the case, and I don't think it should be.

If I write a piece of software and release it under the GPL, I can sell it as proprietary code as well, dual-licensed. I am in no way obligated to provide updates and changes under the GPL too.
Unfortunately this has been going at least as long as I've been aware of Onyx Boox products. E.g. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277431. It's by no means an isolated incident.
Harry Potter would not have been written and published, and made into a global phenom without IP laws in the ballpark as they stand.

There is zero chance the Potter films would have been made were the Studios not able to protect their distribution.

There are other parties in the system, the content creators, who are pretty strongly affected by these rules - it's an equilibrium, you can get the same kind of output when you change the to empower one side.
It happens in capitalism, and it happens in socialism, because it happens everywhere. It is like saying "entropy increases in capitalism"; technically true, but misleading.

Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law happen regardless of political regime or economical system. In different situations they take different forms: in capitalism, companies try to maximize (short-term) (perceived) shareholder value; in socialism, they try to maximize the favor of the ruling party. In capitalism, your values are important proportionally to how much money you have; in socialism proportionally to how good political connections you have. In capitalism, sometimes people starve to death; in socialism, sometimes people starve to death.

The world has many problems, but lack of military dictatorships controlled by a communist party is not one of them.

Of course, unless you meant "actually, true socialism has never been tried yet". In which case, sure, as a rule of thumb, imaginary countries do not suffer from real problems (unless the plot demands it).
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"This tutorial goes over the entire process of building the game step by step."

This looks like a great resource for anyone with some programming experience already, and is interested in learning LUA or wants some practical experience with game development.
I don't know if I hate this or love it.
you'd be interested in dwarf fortress
Finished Implementing OpenDataStructures in Rust
I have completed a Rust implementation of OpenDataStructures with Safe Rust only.

I hope this project will be helpful to anyone trying to learn data structures with Rust.

Please use it as an unofficial reference implementation. I'm sure there must be many of this project that could be improved upon. Please feel free to give me advice and pull requests. All contributions are welcome!

A simple test code is included (You can try it out with the `cargo test`). By the way, RedBlackTree is my favorite data structure in this implementation.
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I had intended the term 'dial' to indicate that it is set by the practitioner. 'Data' is not.

Yes, both data and hyper-parameters are inputs to the algorithm.

I wasn't trying to offer anything more than a sketch of the terms for someone already semi-informed.

To "define" terms in a way that a person without any experience of the area could understand would require quite a long article.

My goal wasn't to answer you specifically but to take your observation as establishing a plausible interest in others for something like my comment.
Can we get "2011" added to the title?

I think it'd be interesting to know how the process described has evolved/progress in the last ~9 years; is it still much the same? To give some context, CSS3 was "released" around 2011.

> the standard part is slowly growing, the part still in development has been growing as well, but should eventually diminish.

I'm also curious about this, the article seems to suggest that new features would become more standard several years ago..
I’m guessing that the 10 years you spent on other Unix led, at least in part, to subsequently choosing Linux. That’s quite a niche experience, one mainly encountered by tech enthusiasts or professionals, and cannot be a counter to the argument that the reason desktop Linux is not yet popular is a lack of compelling reason for many people to switch from the popular platforms.

I first switched to desktop Linux in around 2001, after people on technical usenet forums said that it helps you understand computers better. Incidentally, that’s not true: I learned how to use Linux and Unix tools and the frustration of editing XFree86 configs. Anyway, that tech enthusiasm, or commitment to the idea of software freedom, is a common reason for enthusiasts or pros to switch to Linux. But it can’t carry everyone else, and for many situations a Linux desktop can at best be just as good as what they currently have, and therefore not compelling to switch to.

I didn’t fully colour this thought in because the article was already getting too long, but my position is that that is the best that can happen. The bazaar model means that there isn’t the same pressure to have a well-integrated environment of free software tools as there is for an integrated vendor and that therefore any free software “killer app” will be adopted on Windows/Mac/iOS/Android/whatever and not lead to switchers.
I use headphones with built-in FM radio receiver a lot, when cycling. They are popular, I see them often.
I found cheap brand, which fits my ears, and use it almost every day when cycling to/from work or when exercising.
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Damn. That site truly is annoying. It downloads files, does bing searches with... not so nice search terms, etc. Don't click it!
you know the tale of the 10x dev?
he likely was one of them :-)
It seems hydrogen isn't economically sound yet, despite all the progresses made in the last decades: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-hydrogen-hoa...
Adding to this, copy/pasting things works especially well if the code is contained within another abstraction that is much more unlikely to change. For example, say your service has a REST API. It doesn't matter much, how the functionality is implemented as long as you are fulfilling the API contract.

It is so much easier to just get the functionality down first, properly test it and once it is all there, good abstractions within the implementation might just surface from looking at the (duplicated) code.
The exceptions list mentions:

> When the purpose is to test, investigate, or correct the security of a computer, system, or computer network.

> When a person wants their device to stop collecting personal information.

Aren't those the reasons most people install custom ROMs? For getting security updates past the life of the smartphone, and to stop Google tracking you.
Safe is interesting but it’s still pretty much still a ledger. I am not sure this will work at current-internet-scale, let alone in a couple of decades worth of data. In addition to that they still pretty much keep building on top of the web, which is really not accessible to machines.

Think more in terms or ipfs/ipld.
It's a really well-sized unit for that kind of work. I know exactly what a thou is and how to keep things in spec, but I'm lost using mm.
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17996