skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no dispute that the Soviet state-driven economy was totally inadequate in providing for the needs of its people and that led to its collapse.

I think there is also no dispute that the wave of privatizations that followed the end of USSR led to an even economically worse situation for the Russian state. The fact that said privatizations were merely a transfer of State assets to a small group of private individuals for pennies on the dollar is a signifiant factor of that.

What's less clear to me is why privatization was the chosen direction instead of a more dirigist approach, and I posit that the reason is the prevailing dogma back then (as promoted by such institutions as the IMF or the World Bank) was that democracy equals free market economy equals prosperity, so the Soviet people naturally believed democracy would be the solution to their economic problems. Had they been aware of an alternative way to prosperity (aka the Chinese way), I don't know if they would have adopted democracy (or what passed for democracy in Eltsine and Putin's Russia) or free market economy.
Is there a recommended way to license a project as permissively as possible? I like the MIT license because it's widely accepted and short enough that it can be read and understood but what if you're OK with someone using a small (but large enough to be a copyrighted work) piece of your code without bothering to maintain the license.

There's the WTFPL License (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL) but that doesn't seem like a great option either. For my project (https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate) I dual licensed under the MIT and CC0 licenses even though CC0 isn't really designed for software but it seemed reasonable. It seems surprisingly difficult to release code with no conditions besides limiting liability.
What the F is Google Analytics doing?
I created a new account for our new software website staffdox.com in GA, and I realized it's changed completely. I typed the URL exactly like that: https://staffdox.com
But still it doesn't find it as a website-only account.

There's literally no option for tracking only a website. You have to use the account for apps/website.
Also, the main sections which I need the most, like Audience, Acquisition, Behavior, are not there anymore.
Even in its Android app, all those good reports giving neat info about users and their behavior are gone.

How could I use the previous version of Google Analytics?

Believe it or not, currently I'm using an old website account to have those reports and sections.
Right, I got that, but 1 is qualitatively different from 0 surviving species, and I find it surprising I haven't heard anyone comment on this one surviving species of a template that mostly went out of style a couple hundred mya.
I hope pundits will get replaced by AI next...

I mean how would it be for a AI to take in a score and output "they played well"...
I once read that the test of whether or not you own something is, "Can you sell it?" In this vein, movies and TV shows you "buy" from Apple, Amazon, etc. are not yours.
That is absolutely not how the AGPL nor (US) copyright law works. If I license someone else to make copies, they do not become a "copyright owner". You are allowed to make copies of the versions of the work released under AGPL, but not newer versions not released under those terms.
Article 25 is interesting. I don't know if there is a similar right under GDPR or the California data protection law.

Article 25: When using personal information to conduct automated decision making, the transparency of the decision making and the fairness and reasonability of the handling result shall be guaranteed. Where an individual believes automated decision making creates a major influence on their rights and interests, they have the right to require personal information handlers to explain the matter, and they have the right to refuse that personal information handlers make decisions solely through automated decision making methods...
I've been wondering why there are subscripts for only 12 lowercase subscripts: ₐₑₒₓₔₕₖₗₘₙₚₛₜ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscripts_and_Subscripts_(U...

Anybody know the reason?
Typhoons are not made of titanium.

Mark 46 has 50kg of explosives. Not as much as heavy torpedo, but still no submarine in the world will likely be able to continue a mission with damage from it, invariably of whether it had double hull or not. Though, a typhoon would've more likely it simply outran, and outdived it.
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The title would be easier to understand as NAT, rather than Nat.
You think there’s no reason for Apple to grant a request, which Apple requires developers to do under various circumstances. What do you thing this system, set up by Apple, for developers to make these requests to Apple, is for of not for Apple to action the requests?
If you have released a work under GPL, that work stays under GPL. The term "relicensing" here means that going forward, new new works will be released under new licenses. So version 1 can be GPL, but version 2 can have other terms. We often don't think of new software releases to be independent works, but they kind of are.

Nothing can change the fact that version 1 was released under the terms of the GPL, but that does not mean you can use version 2 released under different terms.

Edit: this is assuming the maintainer is the primary author of the code. The current guidance from the FSF and other organizations that you need support from the authors of 95% of the work.
This argument makes sense, if you can assume that Tesla will actually deliver functional FSD system as a direct result of their approach. There's no data to support it.
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> In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language. "The Unity of Human Knowledge" (October 1960) Niels Bohr
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I was speculating because I'm not personally familiar with this specific program.

If the issuing CA is subject to the CABF's Code Signing Baseline Requirements, then Apple "MUST" revoke the certificate "within one business day".

My point, again, was that such a request is NOT "unusual" and an issuing CA complying with such a request is NOT "inexplicable".

--

EDIT:

Per the CABF's "Code Signing Certificate Working Group Charter" [0]:

> Other functional models include those which allow developers to self-sign code and those in which the platform supplier manages the code signing or certificate issuance process, and these models are expressly excluded from the working group’s mandate. Common examples of these models that are expressly excluded from the scope of guidelines to be promulgated by the working group are Apple’s Developer ID program and Google’s Android.

[0]: https://cabforum.org/2019/03/26/code-signing-certificate-wg-...
Might be more applicable in this scenario to the act of throwing out your furniture?
No, I read the report. You've inverted the numbers.

If Tesla FSD was 3x safer than human driving Musk would be bragging about it. The fact that he's not indicates that my interpretation is the correct one.
Is that possible? I can get out of fullscreen with no problem.
Water is very heavy, so you'd need to reconfigure the whole block to make that happen. I wonder how that would play out - it might make a good premise for a science fiction short story.
This also has, spoilers, https://github.com/1j01/98/issues/22

EDIT: and try opening up the page https://98.js.org/ in the internet explorer.
I disagree with your premises entirely. Neither of those first two things should be irreparable, and certainly not for those reasons.

Edit: to clarify the intention of my statement I am agreeing with you and going one step further by saying the coffin is already nailed shut and needs no more nails.
It could be random, but a neo-nazi troll with his level of notoriety makes it more believable that someone followed and killed him.

Like if OJ Simpson turns up dead with a knife in his back, it’s possible that he was the unlucky victim of a random killer, but it’s more likely he was targeted.
It definitely was wrong about being digital cash, but it may provide the basis currency for an economy which has a form of cash. Bitcoin could be your savings account, and then there are a plethora of options for consumers directly using their Bitcoin: stable-coins, lightning network, hell even Bitcoin Cash, that work like checking accounts of functions of apps like CashApp and Venmo.
The code for a lot of the standard Unix utilities was written decades ago. They'll modify the code when there is a reason to, but often there isn't.
Apparently so, no official statement:

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Related: is there a surviving fork that only extracts non-copyrighted content (e.g metadata) ?
Those four are listed specially as having optional emoji presentation: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-variants.html

These all have Emoji_Presentation=No as specified in emoji-data.txt, for precisely this reason (to avoid discrepancies in rendering), but most platforms don't respect these defaults, as it's common to get strings containing emoji from mobile devices, which usually default to emoji presentation. I talk about this a little in my recent "Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation" blog post.
Yes, but why are you comparing what I am talking about to misogyny?
It's not really various circumstances, it's one circumstance: when the private key is compromised. That's why developers email Apple Product Security. It's a security issue.

If there's no security issue, then the cert should not be revoked.
Another great post! I had a couple of questions:

>"The second layer of polysilicon (poly 2) is arranged in diagonal regions to implement the selection transistors."

Since the diagonal polysilicon covers two different capacitors how is each one selected independently? Does each one have separate metal wire connected to it?

Is the sense line really a bunch of different sense lines? Does each bit have its own sense? Is the sense line part of the metal wiring then?
I wonder if life would be possible on such a planet. It would need to generate its own heat, much like the earth does in its core. There could be small habitable zone much like the ecosystem near deep sea volcanoes.
> semi-incompetent central command to completely incompetent private cronies with baked in government support in the form of contracts, outright thuggery, and geopolitical might.

this doesn't exactly make sense when the people you call semi-incompetent were unable to meet basic standards of the modern world with their dictatorial powers and the crony economy that replaced them was able to rebuild the capital assets and replace them.

> they lost everything that made them competitive.

they were not competitive at the time according to practically everyone.

> most of the privatized industry that remains is largely rent seeking (telecom et all), resource extraction, and the military industrial complex.

why was a command economy unable to make extractive and rent-seeking enterprises work? why was a market economy able to sustain a military industrial complex (which is wholly parasitical) when a command economy was not?

> The argument is that what the USSR experienced is an accelerated version of what we're seeing in the US,

this is because the US is a mixed economy, not a market economy. the same process of parasitic institutions strangling the productive institutions is at play, it only takes longer because there are more productive institutions and fewer parasitic institutions in a mixed system than a command system.

> The free market didn't win, it just paused its ambitions to cannibalize the only competition before continuing on the same destructive path that the USSR economy speed ran in the 80s.

of course the free market didn't win because there was no free market competing. the mixed economy outcompeted the command economy because the market portion produced more value and the command economy choked on its own inability to effectively allocate capital. It is true that people who had the money came from market institutions and purchased formerly public assets in the former USSR. This suggests the question: Why were they able to purchase these assets and why didn't representatives of the command economy purchase the (private) capital assets in the west?
> When Elon Musk said real world testing was needed, I assumed it would be Tesla test cars with trained ‘drivers’ not beta testing guineapigs.

Cynical view - it's being tested by twitter users who are on good terms with a company, with an explicit goal of generating more hype for Tesla.
Thanks for that pointer. Nuclio wasn't on my radar.
HP said themselves they did request Apple to revoke their certificate. That’s clearly on HP. Even HP has said this was HP’s mistake.
Once the algorithm is used commercially and in production I wouldn't necessarily call it science anymore.
Part of it are interesting in a genuine sense of the term, but the eccentric, drug abusing insanity is not. If he didn't have a lot of cash to burn from his business days he'd just be a crazy guy on a train screaming at people.
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> The concepts of threads and concurrent data access is simple enough for any decent programmer to comprehend. There is no hell here.

It's notoriously difficult to reason about concurrent programs using intuition. Much more difficult than reasoning about non-concurrent imperative code. This is why there are articles like [0], and why a bug in a Wikipedia article on a fundamental concurrency algorithm went unnoticed until an analysis tool detected the issue, [1] and why lock-free algorithms in particular are so tricky to get right.

[0] https://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedL...

[1] [PDF] https://llvm.org/pubs/2008-08-SPIN-Pancam.pdf
That’s really not how private keys work. If I had stolen a copy of the private key, or if HP published it on their web site, un-revoking the certificate would still work fine.
You miss the fact that Russian empire had incomparably more people. It had like 4-5 times the populations of Britain, or France.
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I wonder what went wrong here. Perhaps it wasn't trained for these lighting conditions? I can't tell if they use multiple cameras around the stadium or not.
That's close but not quite how I meant for the notation to be interpreted: f is an argument to an anonymous function. Maybe clearer is

swap = f ↦ ((x, y) ↦ f(y, x))

The rule this satisfies is

swap(f)(x, y) = f(y, x)

and the type for swap is

swap : (X × Y → Z) → (Y × X → Z)

for some types/sets X, Y, and Z.

(Also, note that tuples might not be anything like a vector space. For example, for String × [Int], you wouldn't usually write ("hi", [2,3]) as "hi"𝑒₁ + [2,3]𝑒₂ since there's not really a good commutative addition operation for strings or lists.)
It's been my observation over the years that there are people who troll for this sort of thing and they are good at saying things nicely but then they don't actually meet the criteria of being anyone who had their "rights" violated or are willing to do anything other than "go away" when the license is finally reapplied after harassment over a minutia with no actual harm being proved to an individual. They may be technically correct about the license concerns, but the absoluteness and blaming they do isn't worth the outcomes.

I just closed the repo I'm working on to the public and will not be making it Open Source moving forward as I originally intended. I've been through this before myself, and it's just best to leave my code unlicensed and copyrighted by me. I'm grateful this ugly beast reared its head and reminded me how much vitriol non-contributors can deliver.
Yeah those logos help with the stability part. Obviously logos alone does not prove stability, but it is one signal.
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You could probably replicate entire sports broadcasts with a few GANs
>...Exelon has stated that for new nuclear plants in the US to compete with NG CC, CO2 taxes would have to be $300-400/ton.

Where did they say that?
> Many of our governments are liberal democracies.

The liberal democracies are pretty open and positive on cryptocurrencies. So no, it does not seem to be threat to them.

Instead, it is more of a threat to the less liberal countries.
That was a wild read, wow. I get the feeling that even apart from the drug stuff McAfee is brilliant but lacking any moral restraint or respect for societal order. I mean apart from the drug stuff all he made millions shilling junk ICOs in 2017 and brazenly declared he wasn’t filing taxes.
Pick "boring" and battle-tested solutions and this fades. I implemented a fairly complex kickback-tracking business system 15 years ago, due to the rest of the company being entry-level PHP devs, I implemented the whole thing in pl/pgsql. 15 years later it's still ticking as the core of the business with minor modifications.

And the crazy thing is, in today's world of microservices and hyperfocus on horizontal scaling, I would still implement it in pl/pgsql, and indeed, I'd expect it to keep ticking for the next 20 years as long as the company stays in business.
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I too was around in the very early days ...at least early enough that there wasn't a rust "team", but rather just Graydon.

And to wit the only mentions I read about Haskell as an influence were a) the trait system, and b) to criticize and explicitly refute the Haskell approach to a given problem. There was a reason Graydon wrote the compiler on OCaml and not Haskell. He was very critical of a lot of the ideas that Haskell brought. In particular, he hated how Haskell took mutability from "not the default" to "practically impossible". He hated the effect system and how overly intrusive it was (although he was open to the idea of a fine grained effect system that was not tied to some all powerful Monad typeclass). He hated lazy evaluation. He hated the syntax...even the convention toward snake-case vs camel-case is an homage to OCaml. He didn't even care much for typeclasses, preferring the more strict encapsulation of modules, and only bringing them in after a lot of contributors pushed for them.

Basically, apart from typeclasses (which werent really unique to Haskell, as they had been known as interfaces within OOP for a few years), Graydon viewed Haskell quite a bit like an old atheistic refrain about religion: that which is good about it is not unique, and that which is unique about it is not good.

BTW, Rust's ADTs as well as Haskell's ADT's came from ML. They've been around since 1973, 13 year before Miranda, and 17 years before Haskell's first release. You don't get to claim that Rust got it's ADTs from Haskell any more than you get to say that Java got it's Optionals from Scala.

EDIT: see this comment from Graydon himself, made about a year ago on the rust subreddit:

> That said: back then Rust was much more OCaml-y. We did not start with traits / typeclasses; we started with modules (for a while: first-class, though quite badly broken due to my lack of knowhow). I was and am unapologetically more of an OCaml fan than a Haskell fan. This opinion is not made from a lack of information about either, and I am not especially interested in having a Haskell-vs-OCaml argument here. I don't even think of them as being especially different languages from a family-lineage perspective. But insofar as I think eager is a better default evaluation strategy than lazy, and modules are a better abstraction mechanism than typeclasses, I am more in the OCaml camp. Other folks later in Rust's development argued for (and eventually won) the typeclasses / traits thing, against my earlier preferences.
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Same except s/connected to the internet/connected to the internet via tivoised software/. I think a car one connected by https://github.com/commaai/openpilot might be cool.
I can log into ebay with my vpn so long as I also also verify I have access to my email or phone. This does automatically trigger extra checking but they didn't suspend my account within minutes or indeed at all.
Yeah, I've even done that for personal project before. Courts have been pretty clear that this isn't illegal; the worst a site could do is try to ban you. http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17...
Seriously. Like an append, write only database is going to scale.

Contemporarily, lightning is a thing that covers most of the gripes that I've seen above your comment.
If a business lives for a long time, even its "webcrap" might live with it.

Honestly I think the investments made into web technology right now are so massive and pervasive that I wouldn't be surprised if we still use something that looks a lot like the web stack in 50 years, simply because there'll never be a good moment to dump all that baggage when you're so deep in it. I don't think we can look to the past of computing to understand its future, I think we have reached in the past ten years or so a critical mass and penetration into the fabric of society that the rules are just different know than they were in the 90's.

Unless the way we interact with our computing devices fundamentally changes (say, a shift from visual/touch to, idk, voice or brain waves or whatever), I have a hard time seeing how there'd ever be a big shift from the web stack to something else like, say, the shift from Win32 apps to web apps. Hell, even if there is, the web might just embrace it. My day job is web-based AR...

The stack will evolve, sure, and maybe at the end there's nothing left and the clients won't know HTTP at all anymore... but I can just as easily see us just piling more stuff on, because I honestly think that, even with voice assistants and AI and whatever, most people are still going to produce and consume text and images from a device a lot like a phone for many years to come, simply because it's a system that works well for humans that have eyes and fingers and pockets.

And if that's the case, then what's going to cause a seismic shift in platforms, when almost all software developers are web developers, and all devices run web applications? And if the stack doesn't change, why wouldn't some of the code stick around, if the business or organization that invested in it does? Some businesses now might replace twenty-year-old code just because, but at least part of that is because of how software stacks have changed and aged, and I think the sheer amount of "webcrap" that's being excreted by people like you and me is going to slow that rate of change right down, even if it doesn't feel like that in the middle of all the framework churn.
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Always more to these type of people that they don't tell you about. They just try and make them look as bad as possible to justify their actions.
I don't think that's the right test. The question is do you control it? Can it be modified? Can it be defended? Transferred or loaned to someone else? Copied?

The movies and TV on streaming services are not yours because you don't control them and they can be removed at any time. Market salability is another question entirely. There are items you can own you might be prohibited from selling on an open market, such as a landmark property or a particularly destructive weapon.