skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end game that is feared is the fall of civilization mirroring the collapse of the western roman empire, and it’s quite possible in a thousand years people will peg the collapse of our civilization as having started around 1950 or so.

With global climate disasters and large chunks of the population prone to tribal superstition looming, nearly everyone being spoonfed technology they don’t begin to understand much less have any ability to replicate, and the government of the global hegemon inches away from collapse into autocracy, people are afraid of dark ages, but most of them can’t quite articulate it.

Rome fell and a big part of europe and the mediterranean lost the ability to maintain cities many of which dumped 90% of their populations to the countryside. Specialization gone, most people were just doing subsistence agriculture. Literacy plummeted to almost no one outside a very very few people in monasteries.

This whole religious adherence to party aligned mythology about everyday things (say, vaccines) is pervasive in the western world, and it is not some surface defect, it’s a rot that goes through to the core.

But things have been pretty nice as long as almost everybody has been alive so the belief that everything will continue to be fine is about all that holds things together.

People don’t appreciate how precarious civilization is.
> that referring to HashiCorp (and other) projects as "open source" is a half truth

Spot on. Corporate "open source" is often open only in terms of licensing, but not in terms of values.

Many companies use tricks to prevent successful forks and keep tight control over the development process.
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White House Uses Petition with Fake Doctors, Prank Names to Push Herd Immunity
I used to love Ansible/TF control of Infrastructure., But honestly, after 2 years of Ansible, we considered switching to TF, but ended up with SAM (an AWS deploy tool on top of cloud formation)

The only benefit I saw with Ansible/TF was controlling things outside AWS... Like running shell script, or connecting to servers.

Since we swapped to SAM, we no longer get breaking changes from minor patches... Features are available almost instantly, and we can easily modularize and deploy in parallel (we often do 30+ simultaneous deploys without issue).

I still don't claim TF out Ansible are useless, just that they are fixing a problem I don't have... I'm not multi-cloud.. and all the BS that was sold about these tools being easily transitioned from one cloud to another is junk. You can't just pick up lambda, change 3 lines, and it drops into azure.
YAPF: Yet Another Proprietary Format.
The best answer to any RISC vs CISC question is the analysis John Mashey posted to Usenet comp.arch https://www.yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html (Mashey was a CPU designer for MIPS.)

In the analysis he counts instruction set features like number of registers, number of addressing modes, number of memory accessed per instruction. He compares over a dozen architectures.

ARM comes out as the least RISCy RISC, but definitely on that side of the line, and x86 as the least CISCy CISC. (This was before amd64.)
I agree regarding <random>, but <chrono> is a work of art.
Casinos are purposefully hard to navigate and people tend to look for specific games; it’s an excellent use case for indoor maps.
The idea that a loony subset are now on the digital-loose reminds me of how someone once described the reputation of Chinese group tourists. They explained that it wasn't indicative of all Chinese, but more likely a recently upwardly-mobile lower-middle class with new money to travel. It was implied that these were the equivalent of Australian bogans or American rednecks (I guess). After all, Americans have had a particular reputation as travellers also, so perhaps went through the same phase?
Some people reading your post [1] believe you're saying either that aircraft designers are less qualified than lawyers to determine whether an aircraft is airworthy - or that aircraft designers should prioritise protecting their employer's money over protecting their passengers' lives.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782526
IMDF conforms to RFC 7946
In general if you see something super polished on Linux there's a decent chance it's broken. I think that's what GP was trying to say.
There's at least this: https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer

But as others have mentioned, commercial printers are really cheap, especially for how complicated they are to replicate so there's not much motivation to make them.
> and we've solved over and over again the problem of what it takes to have a peaceful and progressive society

When was America ever "peaceful" or "progressive"? I lived there for thirty years and my ideas, boring and mainstream by European standards, were constantly considered "laughable", "naïve", "ignorant." Now I live in Europe again, where I again get all the things that Americans thought were laughable and impossible.

In particular, America's been continuously at war for my whole life, and I'm no longer a young man. America's spent more money on weapons than the next ten countries put together. Calling America "peaceful" is totally false to the fact - it's obscene considering you've killed hundreds of thousands of completely innocent people in the last twenty years.
Does this revoke our ability to use it?
I just mean that they should have their work peer reviewed first.
The reason I go 3 mg is because of the bioavailability https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10883420/ I find it is working perfectly for me at the moment
I don't think your metaphors work. There's a huge difference between knowing how to sew a button or flipping a circuit breaker and being able to code.
I also wouldn't underestimate the challenge of moving paper. I once spoke to someone who worked for Kodak (or a similar company - it was a long time ago) who said that they acquired another printer company purely because their paper moving technology was excellent and it would have taken years to develop an equivalent quality of engineering internally. This was before the present day race to the bottom in the printer market.
If the roles were reversed, the story would be on the lead story of every major left-leaning media outlet (which is all of them except Fox) in the nation for days: CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, USA Today, Reuters, AP; all of them would carry it non-stop and beat it to death, covering every possible aspect and angle. Which is what they do any time there has been a hint of a story against Trump in the past four years.

Since the roles are not reversed, they're working together to bury it and trying to pretend it doesn't exist, because they're con-artists and fake journalists completely in bed with the Democrats and very willing to conspire to throw an election and commit election interference.

The barely existent election interference by the Russians is trivial compared to what big tech is doing out in the open (hell, they're practically bragging about it at this point it's so brazen).

Several executives at big tech need to be put in prison for election interference. Start with Dorsey.
There goes Merriam Webster's reputation. Not because of labeling the word offensive, but because a dictionary is supposed to be an authoritative source on the meaning of words. Whether you think it should express a predominantly historical view or one that mirrors current use, updating a definition because one person said so yesterday is not acceptable.
Personally I can't stand automatically positioned windows, the algorithm can't know about what particular thing I'm doing well enough to position things effectively.

What I wish the OSX window manager did was pointer style focus. Terminal emulates this for you but as soon as you have to use other apps (say multiple safari windows and a GUI editor for writing documentation) you loose this and need a second monitor.
Lets wait and see if its ok for google to user oracle API (java)
This is exciting! I'm surprised that the companies who use it won't contribute towards a BSD release at ~£150k (CA$260k). Unfortunately there is not much time left.

> This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Sun, October 18 2020 2:34 PM BST.
I'm afraid the only way this happens is if a single player controls the whole stack that requires coordination. For example, Google can automatically set a reminder in your calendar about needing to go to work because it knows when you go where through their navigation app. Getting those two to communicate/agree on a common language in that way when you do not control both apps is far harder.
It's highly unlikely: you can see that the goal is very far.
Check out https://sciter.com/forums/topic/open-source-sciter/#post-676... for Andrew's response to whether Sciter will go open-source if that kickstart will fail.
ComplexGridCollectionView
In this project we have used one collection view to show the complex grid. We have also used UICollectionViewDiffableDatasource here, you can also use the old way to show UICollectionView.
Wow! what model? 15 bar?
> Social media is currently poisoning our country

Does this really come close to diagnosing the root problem? I am frustrated when I see this argument.

”Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.”

— Mark Getty

The root problem is that the Intellectual Monopoly system destroys the potential for democratic use and understanding of protocols - as well as everything else. Intellectual Monopoly means we are kept stupid because there are gatekeepers - usually people belonging to families with inherited wealth. The idea of the ‘Intellectual Property system’ is the newest means of production, whose function is to enclose and monopolize ideas, which should in fact belong to all children of the world. Especially when digital breaks the rules of economic theories, with it’s near-zero marginal cost of reproduction. So the modern Bougie both 1) parasitically extracts economic rents for something that has been made artificially scarce in the first place, as well as 2) unorganically stemming the rate of innovation - setting a limit on deeper cooperation and coherence/alignment, and harmony. But this reality is obscured by the cultural myths of Magical Voluntarism, Meritocracy and more. We are gaslighting people by telling them they have ‘mental health issues”, when in fact the system has evolved to put a limit on their learning and growth, and which sucks them dry.

We need to get rid of closed corporate supply chains and move to Sensorica-type Open Value Networks that use the Resource Event Agent (REA) accounting system. There’s people working on implementing this using Holochain’s distributed data-integrity engine.

In using such a system (compared to an internal corporate network), we transparently measure the actual material scarcity of the wonderful resources our Mother Earth provides. And then we can both 1) democratically decide who gets to use which resources (and where, when, how and why, etc.), and 2) we don’t have to use the Intellectual Monopoly system to pretend that having a monopoly is what is needed for successful innovation.

What this leads to is a symphony of scalar gift economies.

We owe it to ourselves and our children.
somewhere the ghost of Cyrano De Bergerac smiles upon you.
So "are casinos purposefully hard to navigate" or "is it a tool for casinos to make them easy to navigate"? Sounds contradicting.
First, accurate and reliable mechanical manipulation of paper is tricky, to get all kinds of different paper stock to feed reliably without jams and position in the same place.

Second, decent reproduction of e.g. text at decent DPI requires more accuracy in head positioning than what you need for basic 3d printing.

So to me it seems that the big issue is not that a random cheap standard printer would be cheaper, but rather than the home-built version is likely to get worse results than what you can get in store for peanuts.
> I think the idea is to censor untrue and dangerous ideas rather than unpopular ideas.

I would definitely agree that if all viewpoints except mine were eliminated the world would be a better place.
Magically remove objects, watermarks or expand field of view in Videos
To me this reads like the complete opposite. Hiding the benefits of programming from the "unwashed masses" because they are not going to understand it anyways is gatekeeping.

The aim should be to make programming/scripting/automation easier and more accessible, not to hide it away to prevent people from ever using it.

> Why shouldn't everyone churn their own butter? Why shouldn't everyone sew their own clothes?

Why learn history in school? Why learn math? Why learn about philosophy? Should we stop teaching that in school because the <stereotype> will never use it anyways? Or is the opposite true and not teaching that would be the actual gatekeeping?

TLDR: You suggest that this would hide <useful stuff> behind programming and thus be gatekeeping. I think you are hiding useful stuff==programming and are thus the gatekeeper.
Nussl – Flexible Audio Source Separation
It is only counter intuitive due to the small number of doors. If you would have ten doors and open eight after the winner had selected a door, then intuition shows that is obvious to switch.
>who's doing exciting interesting things with the desktop?

X11 DE/WM authors are.

FVWM is still one of the only WMs with a true virtual desktop (ie you can pan around a virtual screen larger than the physical one.)

CWM is extermely minimalist and my personal favorite currently.

Fluxbox has some nice and flexible theming/configuration. I run this on my phone since CWM doesn't work without a keyboard (or at least a meta key.)

Don't forget all the tiling window managers.

KDE/GNOME have some neat ideas but are slow etc.

Most mobile stuff is IMO a regression to some compromises made for extremely limited handhelds in the 90s and not innovation.
Here in Sweden it works fine.
Fixed Budgets
"The difference is evidence, and that's what we require."

So how do I supply the required?
I feel your pain but in all honesty the only thing I can say is... Meh, that's what you get when you buy Apple stuff.
Drug addicts do dumb things all the time.
Ah nice! Following a gist link in the thread you linked I also saw that someone made this website: https://www.scanyourpdf.com
But New York (city), Los Angeles, or London are nothing like states/nations at a political or social level. The difference between a Nation and a city state are size and centralization, and in the case at hand Florence as a city state was not too much smaller than its neighbours in Italy.

In this context I don't really see a meaningful distinction between city state and nations.
Developing a Currency Strength Indicator with C#
I've been using the site for a few months now and thought it was pretty slick. Nice to meet the creators on HN :) Frankly, I've made lots of excess purchases due to your site .. for most discretionary Amazon purchases, I actually use ccc to verify I am not over paying. Good luck to you!
Less than 16 individual loads since you're skipping 15 opcode fetches
tl;dr they can not put AdSense in a FTP server.
That isn’t quite how it worked: every instruction has a 4 bit condition code field. It is usually AL “always” which is omitted in assembler. There wasn’t any limit on how many conditional instructions you could have in sequence, but a branch is usually faster than three or so conditionals.

It gets really fun when you combine condition codes with comparisons, or with ALU instructions that set the processor status bits: you can do some quite intricate logic in very little space.
I imagine that GP is outraged at both the CIA spilling blood and causing chaos in Central and South America and their animal cruelty. The animal cruelty is the story here though which is probably why they didn't go into the multitude of other crimes.
That's literally exactly what happened. Why even ask? What response could you have possibly gotten that would have changed your mind?

I have seen a ton of examples where people think trump is being racist, then I see them, and he's clearly not. I am 100% open to changing my mind, racism is terrible. Please provide specific and clear examples. Calling everything racism really weakens the argument.

You also provide another example of your clouded judgement: "and a handful of examples of him saying the words when a reporter presses him." This type of thinking shows that you just want to confirm your pre-existing idea that he is a racist. When he then says he is not, you say "oh he really is, he was just saying that because he had to". That means there is no possible thing he can do to change your mind.

As I said above, if someone can provide specific examples, and not just of behaviors they don't like but of how they are actually racist, I am more than happy to denounce him. Also, in case you missed it, under Trump (pre-Covid), black unemployment was at an all time low.
where do you see gatekeeping in that comment?
Sheet music is the one area I haven't found a good replacement for in terms of printing. All contracts and important docs I do in PDF or DocuSign or some such. But there is just no good replacement for printed sheet music.
China appears to have done with Uyghurs, and has moved on to next frontier : Mongols.
> I don't think I've ever kept a Windows laptop this long, except for my ThinkPad-turned-homeserver, which runs Linux.

You just replied to yourself.

It's unfair to compare macbook longevity with low-grade cheap hardware.

Compare Macbooks' longevity to ThinkPads or Dell Latitudes and now we're talking.

Seriously, I've been given a Dell Latitude 7390 at work and this thing is MARVELOUS. Had it had the trackpoint I'd be dumping my personal ThinkPad T440 and I'd be getting one of these. And on both the Latitude and the ThinkPad I get to upgrade ram, disk and battery if I want.
Let me know if something is missing
Sure nobody denies this but "you deserve it therefore stop complaining" is not really an argument, more like shutting down the point entirely.
Why not publish this as an RFC? Why make it a special apple thing? ew
because a 'nicely done video' (in terms of popularity) can very seldomly convey the information needed to make a valid point. hek even scientific writers/writings strugle with packing the right type and ammount of information in their works without sacrificing readability/citations.

i am in no way against scientific material on yt but very much against a world in which a professionally edited and promoted youtube video is the minimal standard for scientific progress.
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>In the 70s (before social media), there were multiple bombings every year in the US. That is completely unfathomable today. T

We get quite a lot of Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe still, but they do seem to be getting less effective over time - A man with a knife rather than a man with a truck.
What is expected of a engineering manager?
Are you honestly claiming that banning paid lies on YouTube leads to Rohingya-style genocide?

It's increasingly difficult to have rational conversations with Americans these days, and this idea is certainly a big part of it.

It just astonishes me that Americans see little difference between a private company forbidding liars from using their free service, and people being rounded up at gunpoint and being killed.
Sure nobody denies this but "you deserve it therefore stop complaining" is not really an argument, more like shutting down the point entirely. I agree with you that the sanctimonious outrage over the attempted, but laughable election interference is quite tone deaf.
I`m curious to see if anyone here actually uses in-door maps, when and how much.

I just don't fell like there is a strong enough use case here, but I couldn't wrong.
And how often did the WHO insist that their stance, in any of these three cases which you didn't name, was correct after it turned out to be not the case?
Excommunicating people who disagree with you is how the catholic church works not science.
> United States, say it with me, United States

Murrica ... Mur-ri-ca ... MURRICA!
If you live in any city where people have a sense of style; London, Tokyo, Paris, you'll find a plenty of people wearing "such large [...] earrings".

Yes it's somewhat of a niche market; but if done right, it can work. If they're selling them with precious gems/metals they wouldn't even need a huge market to be viable.

Imagine if they designed the audio-module so you can slip it out of the earring and into an in-ear device/holder for in-ear use a la AirPods, then on your casual days you don't need the fancy jewellery.
After a year or two, Mozilla realized that the foundation would not make a third of it's revenue from donations, so they needed to create a taxable corporation.
Note that this is not an actual material. They stored the light in a small group of ultracold Rubidium atoms floating in a vacuum chamber, and keep in place using lasers. And they moved the group of atom 1.2mm (.04in).

(They also probably stored the information of a single photon.)
Expansion to US
I started my SaaS startup 5 years ago and have been tested and growing very successfully in the domestic market.

Several companies like my startup are doing well in the US. I am interested in expanding into the US next year, and our team can only be in charge of development and technical support. We have compared our service's technical features with existing SaaS services in the US, and in many ways our service are better. Our current weakness is that we don't have a partner or experience to run the US company.

How to find a partner? Does the VC offer such a partner? What other ways are there?

Thanks,
Classical or Modern Architecture? For Americans, It’s No Contest
The main use for my printer is maps for trail running. A custom map produced using OSMaps, some copy+paste magic, with some added notes (navigation hints, checkpoint cut-offs & other pacing notes, emergency numbers), printed on a couple of A4 or A5 sheets of "indestructible" paper, is much more convenient than carrying the full map of the area, or two maps if your route falls over a boundary.

Yes, most of us use GPS watches and have detailed maps on our phones too, but tech can & will fail and when it does while you are a little off course you'll be glad you have the paper map (and, of course, the ability to read it).

There is no need for everyone to have one though: I'm happy to print copies of my maps for others, I know a few people who don't have a printer of their own (they tend to use one at work if needed, or like your suggestion a local library).

I also like printing some things to read and scribble notes on away from the screen. e-ink implementations of this sort of thing are either expensive, so I've not tried them, or smaller than I'd like, or don't work well (big, inexpensive, works well, pick at most two).
Adding to SCXML, I should also point out that Qt uses SCXML to specify state machines that drive the GUI, and also offers tooling to edit statecharts.

https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-scxml.html
It can happen. A decade ago, Apple’s automated App Store processes warned me that “Knopf” was a dirty word in German.

(It isn’t: while “knob” can be translated as “Knopf”, the latter doesn’t have the anatomical meanings of the former).
It stands to reason that had Nazi Germany not attacked its neighbors, the rest of the world would have happily stood by and watched them execute their own Jewish/undesirables population with nothing more than some strongly-worded letters and trade sanctions.
I can second that, I have seen people frustrated after loosing work in Snap! by missing to save. But then that's maybe also a lesson people ought to learn early-on when creating stuff on the computer: safe early and create backups :)