skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The innovations that have come out of military efforts are impressive, but can seem a bit limited if you realize just how vast military spending can be.

I suspect we'd have made decades of progress if we'd truly dumped all the funds spent on military efforts in the 20th century into research.

Not to mention the lost opportunity cost of making millions of people have the occupation of soldier, rather than something more productive.
The system collapsed because their people hated it. It was so inefficient.
“Your computer might be at risk”

That extra detail made it very realistic.
If everything is political, why say HN is not a place for politics? What are we to discuss then?
Flash Graphene from Plastic Waste
> Under this line of reasoning, any level of societal participation is tantamount to slavery. I understand the what you're angling at and I agree to some extent; however, can you provide a viable alternative?

I understand why you ask this. I will respond in a way that I know will be unsatisfactory to you.

The way I see it, is all the actions that we are expected to take that are in service to self (i.e. getting yours). Society is geared up to make that seem perfectly natural. In fact, you/we all need to get acquainted with morality. The first step of that is to understand the world for oneself, to take no one's word for it but instead to apply the scientific method personally. Accept that you do not 'know' much, very little is proven. What you have are beliefs masquerading as knowledge - this is to say you have negative knowledge (aka crap).

What I'm really trying to get at, is that social change is an effect of the actions of all of us in aggregate. To make the world better, one can only attempt to makes oneself better. Be the change you want to see. And that is done by following one's heart/conscience/spirit or whatever you want to term it.

> Society in and of itself is a hierarchy. Anything that contributes to society is therefore something that enforces the 'hierarchical system.'

> You don't have to participate in society if you wish otherwise. The world could always use more mountaintop hermits.

Its not as easy as you might think to not participate in society! To get away from it completely is impossible. People I have never voted for, or agree with, demand, by force if necessary, that I contribute to and support their system.

Right now, you can see the next generation system that has been in design for us. Citizen scores, UBI (carrot), access (or not) to 'social' goods eg public transport, loans (stick), free movement, limited use of energy, water, etc without the 'administrators' say so. Smart water meters, electricity, 5g is the backbone to that.

Still, I don't discount the mountaintop - but I don't think there will be peace there either!
I'm struggling to connect how healthy relationships, marriage or teamwork have anything to do with software being published under a licence, used accordingly by a third party, and the original licensor becoming upset at it being used according to the licence they published it under.

It seems like a lot of emotional language trying to obscure a pretty straightforward situation.
Sucess in today's society depends mostly on how well you are educated. And how well you are educated depends upon how you well educated your parents are, your accessibility to education and your financial status. And the marginalized communities are behind in these factors because of hundreds of years of descrimation. And it makes total sense to give them additional support. You should also keep in mind that marginalized communities make the major chunk of population. And I think the reservation % is also similar to their population %. Probably even lesser. I don't see the issue then? Students in general category get to compete with other students in general category who had a similar upbringing compared to marginalized communities( of course, there are a lot of exceptions). And students in marginalized communities compete with students with other marginalized students. And the top percentile students make it to college from each section. Sounds reasonable to me. I don't think anyone who are reasonable and knows history would have any issue with this system.

> The way they are indoctrinated in these colleges creates a superior mentality in students and if your classmate scored less than you and got into college, you would also extend that superior mentality to him/her as well.

That's just a sign of our poor education system. I don't think anyone who is well educated would have superior mentality over someone else. So we should work on improving our education system.
I wondered the same. I think they are. You can see how the pool is very cramped and follows the curvature of the submarine hull.
It is still very common in the cities. A survey from 2018 points to how prevalent it is in the urban regions - including in Delhi - even untouchability is practised in the cities.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/untouchability-high-...
There are (at least) 66 distinct contributors, according to the commit history.
Welp, instead they appear to have doubled down:

> The old source code in master is no longer under AGPL because it's been the reason of this week's trolling comments

"I re-licensed code you wrote without permission because some other people were trolling me." is certainly an interesting admission, even if you take "trolling" at face value, when they appear to use it to mean "calling out our breaking of the license".
To save others from having to read it, he left because reddit is 'censoring conservatives' or something. I couldn't find anything about censorship of drone technology in particular. He's just pissed off at reddit in general.
Huh, didn't expect downvotes for this. Did it come across as patronizing or not genuine? I was just struck by what the author and some commenters are dealing with, and the grace with which they handle it. Or did 'empathize' come across as comparing my situation to theirs? Certainly wasn't intended if so.
> There are plenty of languages where one can get parallelism with just a few extra lines of code; Julia comes to mind immediately.

Julia is a multi-paradigm language, but it is heavily Erlang inspired (another multi-paradigm language, but primarily functional.)
I could not find any stats or compression ratios in there. Also, the backward compatibility disclaimer makes me worried. If I use a v1 to precompress the file, then I will need to keep the v1 version alongwith the precompressed file or I risk loosing the data.
I just clicked on it again:

https://www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-deep-sea-footage-of-...

goes right to the article.

I am in the U.S.
Every request gets it's own process and memory space which tears down after the request is complete. Unless there's leaks in the runtime itself, you're pretty much unable to create memory leaks in your application code
No. I'm saying that Tara would have access to both my employer name and my name if they had my work email address as a login.

That's nothing to do with my employer having my name.
The maintainer seems reluctant to come to senses, pity.
https://github.com/ovity/octotree/issues/1041

Not only my issue got closed as a "spam", my account now has been blocked by "their organization".
http://ix.io/2CCK/text

I really hope Github's learning and (job) recommendation algorithms do not take this into account.
Good thing that Hunter Biden isn't on the ballot, right?
> The future is ... Python/Django

I don't normally do a 'ha ha' sort of post on things like this but... 'ha ha'. WTF?

That's a future with one hell of a long past that has not even begun to take over a small subset of mindshare. Python/Django is not 'the future' for anyone except current Django/Python devs.
I'm not asking you to trust my credentials, which is why I'm asking for links to the science.
> > An experienced human driver can drive for thousands of miles without making a serious mistake

> Absolute bullshit.

It's not, though.

> 99% of drivers will frequently commit a series of small mistakes on an everyday <5km drive.

Perhaps, but the vast majority of such series of small mistakes don't add up to a serious mistake, so that's not relevant to the claim it was offered to rebut.
Thank this repo!

https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
> Get yourself a lifetime domain name.

AFAIK, the longest term you can register a domain for is 10 years -- and I believe some TLDs have much shorter limits.
From one moderator of r/drones, seems like. Doesn't seem like a consensus decision.
Matt Taibbi's article is complicated, but I'd like to draw attention to one paragraph:

> In the last few weeks I’ve heard from multiple well-known journalists going through struggles in their newsrooms, with pressure to avoid certain themes in campaign coverage often central to their worries. There are many reporters out there — most of them quite personally hostile to Donald Trump — who are grating under what they perceive as relentless pressure to publish material favorable to the Democratic Party cause. Greenwald’s story mirrors some of these stories, but his is more striking than some others on a few levels.

This is absolutely chilling.

That aside and back to the original article, let me deal with two pieces of feedback from the editor that would have improved the article:

1.) Talk about the laptop genesis story in the context of what Giuliani and others were doing in the Ukraine. The laptop story is pretty wacky and deserves some actual coverage just to add context.

2.) Talk about how few media outlets have access to the hard drive and how that is one of the excuses given for less widespread coverage.

From here, I think Greenwald could have moved to these points:

1.) The Biden family has never denied the authenticity of any of these materials. Is that because there are so many materials that they don't want to get into the game of confirming some and denying others? Or is it because this is all true?

2.) This certainly does not make Hunter Biden look good and all of his future business dealings call for far greater scrutiny, particularly if his father wins the election. Granted, it makes Hunter Biden look so poor that his odds of getting hired to slang french fries are pretty low, but still...if he gets hired to slang french fries, watch the subsidies for the potato farmers.

3.) If this is a Russian disinformation campaign, they sure don't have the A team working on it. And we go back to #1.

4.) What does it say about the state of journalism that nobody will cover the emails unless they have entire copies of the hard drive?? Has the career of journalism become so utterly fucked up that journalists aren't willing to cover something unless they can find their own career making exclusive angle?? Are news organizations so toxic that if they can't justify getting their front end team working on a fancy scrolling background, they'll kill investigative journalism???
Ruminants are the most efficient fiber processors, and we are some of the most efficient ruminant-meat processors. We also cannot process fiber.
Can someone explain me like I'm five what's going on and where is the problem? Is author using his own old AGPL license version of code or it contains 3rd-party AGPL licensed code?
I think in this case "deserved" was used in the same sense as "warranted," although I realize this doesn't change the main point you're making.

What you're getting at is that people can be influenced by factors other than objective truths. I admit that I am someone who tries to avoid making decisions based on word-of-mouth or "reputation," but you can't deny that only considering objective truths takes a lot of work.

Sometimes I just want to buy a keyboard, not read and apply "The 50 Tenets of Keyboard Comparison" to find the objectively best (for me) keyboard.

It makes sense how this attitude can bleed into decision-making as a whole, even for higher-impact decisions like programming language choice. So I wouldn't discredit (or lower the reputation of ;) ) too much the folks who don't always go by objective truth.
Racism is a concept known to the legal system because it is a type of discrimination and quotas are illegal. It took me a second but the ruling is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v....
Are there Latin- or Greek-derived words for base 64 and base 256?
The total population of brahmins is less than 6% in India. People from other castes - especially the tribals and the dalits (more than 40%), experience caste oppression regularly.
I currently professionally use Archicad, I have used Revit, and I have used Rhino and AutoCAD. Training on new software is very time consuming and switching for a single project would guarantee a loss for the architect if the traditional 10-12% of construction cost is used as the fee. If any of my firms had to use a new software and make money on a single project the cost would be about double.

I am not an architect, but I would second this based on my experience with 3D modeling and having to dabble in AutoCAD at times. The learning curve for this type of software is steep, so steep that it is almost generational. In other worlds, it takes a new generation to come up using something else for the market factors to change.

Having done both, 3D and dev work, I would argue switching 3D packages is harder than getting up to productive speed on a new language and it's stack. This is why Blender has taking so long to get uptake and adoption by the industry.

The issue at hand is it is really frustrating to be able to do quality 3D work in one software package and then in another you can't do anything but get basic shaped on the screen. Compounding this is these packages are almost all keyboard based when you get to a power user level. Switching package means all that muscle memory just evaporates. When I was doing simulation we were on 3D Studio Max and there was an initiative to move to Alias/Wavefront (now Maya). We lost a significant amount of productivity over the next 6 months. The only reason the 3D artist switched was because it was a company wide initiative. They were happy afterwards as Wavefront had some features did not have at the time, but it was painful.
But we are talking about FSD, not autopilot, a very different beast.
Good point. I wonder how much it has to do with the very concept of "intellectual property". China seems unfazed by the idea of taking it seriously.
> The price has continuously gone up overall at a rate greater than inflation.

This is true but a) there's no reason to think this will be true for another 10 years, and b) if you had invested in November 2013, you wouldn't have seen a profit until 2017. 4 years of being in the red is a hard pill to swallow if you're not diversified.

Things that might look really bad for months, but work out in the end are better investments than savings. I think it's just silly to pretend Bitcoin is anything but

a) an interesting technology that enables a lot of cool internet finance tech and helps people who live in countries with profoundly unstable economies

b) a risky speculative investment on something that's correlated with the price of CPUs, graphics cards, and electricity, and is prone to major supply shocks
I cannot imagine this happening in the world we live in.

I would not my IOT lightbulb (or worse, a camera) to communicate with my neighbor's house -- there are significant availability, privacy and security concerns.

The same way, I remember seeing lots of open WiFi networks, twenty years ago... and now they are virtually gone.

Instead, it would be still centralized servers, but with more reliability -- think fiber + 5G backup at home, and multi-region/cloudfare workers approach in the cloud.
Here's one that shows masks lose effectiveness over time: https://www.ijic.info/article/view/10788

They're using I think single layer of cotton, and 2ply or 3ply disposable paper masks. These are very low quality masks, and if masks work people probably shouldn't be wearing these.
> It’s obviously a quick PR filler piece

Now that you've made up your mind, anything to the contrary is a conspiracy.

Did you actually listen to what Sean said? He starts by saying it's wrong to hit women. He knows it's wrong. What he's saying is if a woman doesn't know when to shut up, they could get themselves slapped and it wasn't beneath him either. He's justifying physical retaliation to verbal abuse. That's very different from straight DV. In fact, maybe he doesn't want any women to be slapped. Maybe they do it to themselves just as he made you publicly shame him?

Which brings us to another nuanced topic. Is public shaming non-violent?

Of course, maybe he hit first or just uses that as an excuse, who knows. His first wife's autobiography has some dirt, but then again, was it PR filler to sell her book? Or maybe he never hit anyone in his life, but just said something he believed which just happened to no longer be in fashion.

My only point is, demonizing or idolizing is all absurd. It's an act that only gets easier when nuance is removed and positions are deemed absolute. Because ultimately that's what it is. Removal of all nuance.

Today it's still okay by most for a woman to hit a man. Tomorrow will men get the justice they deserve? Also my 2yo hits me and I have video evidence. Should I hold on to it?

If someone needs help, let's help them. Public shaming helps no one.

> supposedly enlightened and fair minded Hacker News

I almost spilled my coffee.
Trust levels in AI predicted by people's relationship style
Treat it like GC and don't leave it up to the programmer.
Paint et. all work too, what an incredible simulation! :)
None of us fully understand each other's needs. You can get frustrated about that, or educate others. It's a personal choice. I don't judge anyone either way (or at least, I agree they are free to make their own decisions), but having done both, I certainly have my own observations about which of those leads more effectively to happiness.
The contact email is in the footer. The rest of my comment is just based on my experience mailing the mods for various reasons.
What’s ironic is the admin basically initiated the censorship by locking out the 100k members from the group. Way to go.
I have been hosting my own email for a while now. It has it's quirks, and outbound can be hard, but for just getting password reset emails and the like, it does everything I need it to. I use my own domain, with a catch-all for everything on the domain, that way I can just make up emails on the fly. 'nick.apps.hackernews@mydomain.com' is a pretty common set up for me.

I deploy the mailu service to a small home server using HomelabOS, configured to use a $5 Digital Ocean droplet as a bastion server to prevent needing to mess with dynamic DNS, port forwards, and firewall circumvention.
It seems like the problem here stems from the project owner taking the source code as-is and essentially re-licensing it as proprietary, which is a big no-no.

For context, when NodeBB faced this possibility, we simply contacted every single contributor and asked nicely if they'd assign over their ownership of their contribution to us (note the use of the word "assign", not "license", a license is revocable, an assignment is not).

Future contributions by new parties required signing of the same Contributor Assignment Agreement.

Here's the CAA if you're interested in reading legalese: https://cla-assistant.io/NodeBB/NodeBB

All in all it took us under a week to secure the assignments, and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have, but everybody signed.

The bar of effort to clear is so low to avoid this kind of controversy!

Reason we went this route: we wanted the flexibility to deliver a proprietary version of NodeBB for those clients that needed it. We get asked often whether there's a difference between the proprietary version and the open source version, but there isn't, it's just for legal reasons.
Sadly lots of jobs are things people the employee doesn't care about :-) I'm still not clear on what skill it is you're lacking to find a job - as you say, people find jobs at a young age, for the first time. It's not (exactly) a skill to practice in itself, although there are practicalities that can be hard to get right depending on one's situation.

What is the (part of the) skill you think you're lacking?
My favorite reaction from MetaFilter on this topic:

"I am both shaken, and stirred."

https://www.metafilter.com/189252/When-your-head-comes-away-...
I understand Germany's hesitance in documenting, rounding up, and generally ostracising a certain identity group though, given their history.
I would not mix Russian Empire, USSR and Russia.

Serfdom abolished in 1861, by 1917 forth country by GDP. Table I've cited shows increase of share in world production while shares of UK, Germany and France were decreasing. It occupied a leading position in world agriculture.

USSR reintroduced serfdom, peasants had no passports, they could not move into town without permissions [1]. USSR had famines in 1921–1923 and 1932–33, about ten of millions died. Total mismanagement. There was rebirth after Stalins death, if only they've introduced reforms like later in China.

Russia today is mostly resource-based economy [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia#/media/File:...
I would say almost impossible.

First, you have to have standing meaning the only people who have any claim or could take action would be the "other contributors".

At that point, the best likely path forward would be a claim of partial ownership resulting in a DCMA takedown request.

However, the vast majority of contributions to this repo are insignificant one liner commits. While a nuisance for the repo owner, those commits could likely be undone and re-implemented.

That leaves it up to a handful of more active participants to take any action (likely DCMA related).

I would be shocked if anyone (other than with support from the FSF) takes actual legal action other than a cease and desist letter.

Even then, finding an interested prosecutor/attorney is going to be a challenge. By some estimates only 1 in 100k software crimes are ever prosecuted and some guy who stole 100 commits by changing an open source license is not one of them.
Hi, Catala author here :) Since I'm here please shoot your questions, I'll try to answer them.
Ha! I did not know, thank you. Rein is what I meant.
How are you able to draw this distinction? If price controls are ineffective allocation of capital then surely GDP was depressed? How can you isolate and ignore price controls in such a complex system as the Soviet economy?
Does cyanide smell like almonds?
"Outland" (despite its faults) can be seen as an early example of cyberpunk with its evil mega corporation ruling Io (even though it was inspired by real life company mining towns just on a larger scale)
> And similarly, web technology, such as Javascript and just the ability to update a webpage without reloading it wouldn't exist without ad-tech.

I don't know what I find more depressing - that somebody thinks this is true, or worse, that somebody thinks this is a good thing.
ML is intuition. Consider the difference between an expert system solution to chess and an ML solution to go. Go is all intuition.