skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unbelievable that the guy has to swipe and type on the center console while driving. Touch screens in cars should be banned and Tesla held liable for all accidents that happen while interacting with the console in existing vehicles.
But ... Space 1999!!! :-)
You have to track up to more than three other vehicles in a roundabout. And they're moving faster. But people manage it.
I think many people are having the same experience with covid. It's all doom and gloom on the news, but we are spending more time than ever with our families. It has been the best year of my life.
The difference between having 1,000 and 10,000 nuclear weapons is fairly meaningless from a MAD standpoint, but the second still costs ~10 times as much. That’s where the waste is, not simply having a military but having a pointlessly large one.

Worse, it’s even counterproductive. Investing in useful economic assets pays dividends thus increasing your long term military capacity. Buying excessive military hardware on the other hand just gets outdated over time. So, the winning strategy is to spend slightly less than your opposition.
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There are military schools all over the world. Some of them are to prepare students for actual military service, but others are just trying to have the same sort of dicipline.

But generally people don't seem to view it as the most effective form of education. The time spent on any military discipline or studies is time taken away from some other subject.
I like the idea of asking for payment during prototype demonstration, and watching how the surprise plays out (an idea I saw somewhere in one of the links in this article), but I could see it being fairly risky. Are there downsides to trying this that folks have experienced?
I’m sure a fat mouse could likewise survive more than 48 hours.
Still use youtube-dl for now but have heard good things about annie

https://github.com/iawia002/annie
I am surprisingly incensed by my interpretation of your questions as being cavalier and disingenuous. As far as I can tell, you mean to dismiss by misdirection or fallacy. I suggest you've got the wrong end of the stick, and leave it at that.

Up until 30 minutes ago, I was an octotree customer. Do I have standing? Do I need someone's permission to care about this? I'm not a concerned contributor; I'm a former supporter now concerned with what my subscription has enabled. I cannot address the money that is already under the bridge, but I can certainly stop dropping it in the river.

I'm not upset about the question re: AGPL inclusion, I'm upset about the very, very poor series of answers and actions by the maintainer, whatever form they've individually taken.

Should the whole mess of a posteri license reassignment get addressed cogently and comprehensively, I'll reconsider. Even a mea culpa would be sufficient, should it be followed by Doing The Right Thing[s].
> No-one in their day-to-day usage of dollars (or gold) directly cares how many currency units exist.

This is an artefact of economic policy and education that has brainwashed us into believing in the time value of money, that is "money now is worth more than the same amount of money in the future." This directly implies a preference for debt and consumption over saving. But the fact is that the purchasing power of a currency is a function of its supply relative to the productivity of the workers in the economy, not the discretionary consumption of individuals in the economy. That is, a currency is only useful to the extent that it allows us to value productivity accurately.

Productivity increases over time, therefore goods and services should become cheaper relative to dollars, that is, a constant amount of money I hold should be worth more — able to buy me more stuff — in the future than it is now.

If you don't care how many actual dollars exist, then fundamentally, you and all the other market actors have no way of discovering the true price of anything. It's all just guesswork, with someone else (the government) putting a thumb on the scale to increase asset prices. The price of what you just bought is whatever you were convinced to pay for it with varying relation to its actual value.

Consider: we don't actually know the value of houses. A couple goes to buy a house and immediately takes out a mortgage to pay >40% of the quoted price. So house owners are incentivised to quote higher prices because of mortgage availability. Contractors and developers similarly inflate prices of their services. Similarly with materials suppliers and landholders. The entire market is distorted because we don't know and don't care and are encouraged not to care how many dollars there are in existence relative to the productivity of humans.

It's not entirely an evil conspiracy in which most of us participate but it is a terrible accident humanity has found itself in.

So, think from first principles and ask yourself: what is the true value of the thing I just bought. It's a helpful exercise in day to day life.
It breaks it in the sense that it violates the license.
Also Iran, where the western powers helped to overthrow a secular government by supporting an islamist revolution.
> 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).

This is certainly the correct way to do hit. However, in this specific case, it appears that as of the current code, not many external contributions remain.

The author of the original issue in the meantime forked the repo and continued to document the issue there [1] as it was being constantly closed, but as is evident from his own `git blame` analysis, most of the contributions are from staff, and the external contributions are basically negligible.

There's one author with 30 LOC, one with 10 LOC, and the remaining 12 contributors average less then 4 LOC each.

[1] https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1#issuecom...
It was an invalid signing certificate. One of the major reasons to revoke a certificate is that the private key is compromised.

Hence anything signed with an explicitly revoked cert must be blocked.
I really can't stand another thread about how PHP was in the past vs now it is now, or about how popular it is or how was designed.

Please, let's move on, it is really time to move on :)
The only thing that remains from code are the real world decisons and actions that come from it
And next you‘re telling how terrible COBOL is? Seems like most/many banks are still running on cobol today...

I think just because something was bad before yesterday does not mean it cannot be used in good ways today or tomorrow. And I think everybody talking bad about PHP should not even think about JavaScript.

Todays PHP gets its job done in a really good way. It has very good frameworks, is amazingly fast and is easy to start with and quite easy to deploy. And it‘s absolutely not comparable to something that was many years ago. And I think too, PHP before something after PHP 5.5 was not „that good“ compared to C# or Java.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
D compiles quite fast, and fits my preference for systems programming languages with some of GC built in, which also provide the necessary features to go as low level as one wishes.

Unfortunately it suffers from a small community, so it is only appealing to devs that enjoy getting their hands dirty to implement missing libraries, or contribute to the existing compilers/libraries.
That's really cool too
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What? No. Rust has some influence from Haskell in terms of traits and such, but Rust's parallelization capabilities comes from its tracking of mutability. (No, Haskell did not invent caring about mutability.)

Also, succinct expression of parallel algorithms isn't a particularly unique feature. Like half of the named algorithms in the C++ standard library can be parallelized by adding a single parameter.
I remember hearing that IBM shipped computers with extra processors installed that could be activated if you paid the fee.

In searching for more information, I found https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER5/ipha2_p5/... which talks about activating and deactivating not only processors but extra storage.

It doesn't seem like that would work very well for most laptops and phones, given how people won't pay for online backup or anything above the minimums.

Anyway, IBM had a vision of "computing on demand" many years ago but it wasn't in the cloud, it was in your data center.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-artific...

The company is called https://www.coelux.com
Absolutely and I regard it as a good feature.

It's just the size of the world varies widely and sometimes 80ms to build a world is simply too much.
It's got to be, at least in part, from people fear buying due the November US election. After then, I'd expect a correction
It makes sense to nearly everyone who has contributed to GNU projects, as GNU makes that a requirement for significant contributions (i.e. those that aren't likely already owned by GNU as trivial and thus derivative changes). Remember that if what you are creating is a derivative work of the original, which it very likely is, you copyright on your portion of the work--if it even exists--is of little value to you outside the context of the project.
The git blame loc:

for f in $(git ls-files); do git blame --line-porcelain $f | sed -n 's/^author //p'; done | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
53442 Buu Nguyen
1730 NDQ
102 Phi Nguyen
77 Fahme Bnchi
57 An Le Phu Nguyen
52 Will Simons
30 Jacob Dreesen
18 Danh Nguyen
11 Samvel Abrahamyan
10 Rico
10 duylam
6 Xiao Tan
6 Fiete Börner
5 Steven Noto
4 Ahmed El Sayegh
3 GyuYong Jung
3 Duy Lam
2 Yuichi Tanikawa
2 Andrew Levine
1 Zac Anger
1 Kevin Conaway
1 Ephemera
1 Brightcells

This is a witch hunt if you ask me.
I agree. Covid-related work that is disseminated in "non-medical" venues presents most likely toy examples, which is okay as long as the authors clearly state the limitations and do not try to push their research directly to the public without getting medical experts involved.

Researchers with really strong results will for sure publish in medical journals, which typically implies a massive push in prestige (impresses the administration and funding providers).
Exactly! The first sentence from the original white paper is literally: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

Bitcoin was intended to be MONEY, instead it's pretty fucking useless for anything other than hoarding.

I think it will remain an asset class, but history will not be kind to it. It's going to remain relevant and valuable as an "antique", but likely there will come a cryptocurrency that realizes the original goal at some point.
When I worked in Enterprise IT evaluating new products for a Fortune 50 company it was pretty much the same way. The three biggest things that we looked at were functionality, support and the stability of the company.

We needed to know that it could do what we needed it to do and that there were enough support resources that we could get someone on the phone if we had an emergency. It is not cheap to integrate new software into the systems and processes of a large company so we also needed to know that we weren't going to put in that effort and then have the company go under a year later.

Support and stability were the two biggest issues that limited adoption for early stage startups. We didn't care if you had any big name customers. We just needed to know that your product did what we needed and you'd be able to support us for the long term.
His name is Tobler? His first law, you say? Would it be fair, then, to call it "Tobler one"?
You didn't ask a question, nor contribute an answer, yet presume to reply with a judgment which is an opinion devoid of basis. Typical downvoter mentality.
It is always fun to bring up the 20 planets thing when people complain about Pluto not being a planet anymore. Lots of people have never even heard of fellow dwarf planet Ceres, but it spent almost as long as a full fledged planet as Pluto. The only reason most people defend Pluto's inclusion among planets and not Ceres is because Ceres was recategorized a century before most of us were born. It shows that the primary objection from laypeople is that we don't like when something we were taught as children changes.
FALs - a .308 caliber battle rifle - were produced using both imperial and metric specifications.

To this day, surplus FALs are either “inch” or “metric” pattern.
Looks good. I can't post or reply though.

What is your plan for moderation? Open forums are a breeding ground for bots and dirty content.

Also, how do you pronounce it?
Earlier this year, I saw Gary Hustwit's documentary about Rams. Rams is arguably one of the most influential designers of the last century. His lessons on design are valuable for software engineers and others.

https://www.hustwit.com/rams
If I've understood correctly the one half was disabled on the Spectrum (i.e. the Spectrum would never try to access the defective part and the half that wasn't working had to be identified by Sinclair) - so they really were defective chips, in contrast to chips where the manufacturer deals with the defect.
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AI and automation are creating a hybrid workforce
These days there's the Lightning Network - an off-chain "layer" that enables both fast and small, cheap transactions - perfect for "mundane payments" - and even micro-payments with Bitcoin. It's already usable and still improving.

Adoption will grow as the infrastructure continues to be built out. It's still early days for Bitcoin - no one sends AT commands to their modem to get online any more.
>if history comes close to repeating itself

History didn't come close to repeating itself with Tulips, Beanie Babies, or Pokemon Cards.
Aristocracy is France was around 10%. There are plenty of upper caste Indians (around 18% to 30% total depending on how you count it) who benefit from this societal structure.
Sorry to have assumed you're in the US. I don't know much about European residential architecture (although I did get to spend a semester in Barcelona and a semester in Helsinki in graduate school for one studio each), but I do know that European contractors on average produce much better work than US contractors. Your energy codes will be more stringent and so many more people you encounter will be familiar with simulation in order to hit tougher targets. But yes each country has its own set of standards, codes, and local knowledge that will come together differently in each case.

If you already have your site and you have a lot of time then I can say that one of the most productive ways of designing is through mapping. Guy Debord's map of Paris is an extremely subjective example, and at the other end of the spectrum might be to overlay a grid of half meter intervals all over the site and measure somewhat precisely some physical phenomena - the angle of view to various points of interest, or perhaps how loud ambient sounds are, or the sun exposure in hours, or any number of things. Putting these maps together can result in emergent designs or at least bring about considerations that maybe weren't foremost in your mind about siting, window placement, or program location. Of course, the most important map is the terrain map, tree placement height and canopy size, and rock placement, the more detailed the better.

Hopefully one day someone will compete with Rhino + Grasshopper in open source. At least the maker of Rhino has the OpenNurbs toolkit to develop geometry translators, so that's something. It does look like an exciting time to learn FreeCAD and I hope it goes well for you.

There's nothing really definite about generative design in literature yet, but there has been some useful stuff published. One of the more impressive researchers I've ever heard of is Achim Menges http://www.achimmenges.net working with the University of Stuttgart on biomimicry and optimized structures. Very cool stuff.

Also if you don't yet you might visit Archdaily regularly and check out what the industry is doing. Perhaps something will inspire you.
A company I worked for used this measure and customers were consistently confused by the wording. Happy customers would respond Not Disappointed At All and we'd have to followup and double check if that's what they actually meant (it wasn't).
It's surprising how often an article's claims turn out to be bullshit once you check the citations. Happened to me many times now.
While earthquakes on the east coast are uncommon, they do occur. For example, Virginia experienced a magnitude 5.8 quake in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake

The US east coast faces a tsunami risk from undersea avalanches on the edge of the continental shelf:

https://www.livescience.com/24813-east-coast-tsunamis.html

"An offshore earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or above could cause submarine avalanches and create dangerous tsunamis with waves higher than 26 feet (8 meters), [...] Underwater canyons and bays could focus these waves and make them even bigger."
RxJava got hyped in Android before Google went with Kotlt first, now they are into co-routines and depending on the Jetpack project, Java developers might still be able to use it, or be forced into Kotlin.
Many thanks. I'll take a look at that book, I haven't gone wrong with No Starch Press yet.

Edit: For anyone else who is looking and can't find it on NSP's website, I found it with 'filetype:pdf The Book of Postfix' on duckduckgo.
Introvert? Here take this job where your success can literally depend on how well you interact with clients.

I'm sure it can be done, but as an introvert who has done a some freelance work, I have to say it was one of the worst working experiences of my life. I would not recommend it, at least to myself.
The music really makes this one
There's a reason communist countries have strictly closed borders, and its not for stopping people wanting to get in.
I love this. There are lots of characters in Unicode I'd love to know the history of, but searching for such things is hard, at best.

The one I've stumbled across recently are the "Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter" (1F170 - 1F189 [1]). The 26 letters are there, but "A", "B", "O", and "P" are special. Blood types and a parking symbol. Sure, but why? Why was it decided we needed all of the Latin letters in inverted squares, except those? Why aren't they their own symbol? I'm not complaining here, I just want to know the history.

I'd also love to know the history of the other Latin letter ranges. It feels super odd to me to have, say the "Mathematical Bold Fraktur" range of characters (1D56C - 1D59F [2]). What's the history of including a font in Unicode? Why did we stop with the few that are in there?

This is probably somewhere online, but I can't find it.

[1] https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=negati...

[2] https://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=mathem...
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OP here. Agree with this. Lack of logos means that you need to do a lot more due diligence so the buyer has to really sneak their head out and put a stake on the ground to buy the product. References & logos make it far easier to justify that the product is well respected and make the process easier. It helps avoid the question: "am I the sucker?"
>For most, in fact, it’s a delayed tax increase dressed up as a tax cut.

noted.
Sort of. If I'm understanding correctly:

The filetypes it's designed for are ones that specify the "deflate" compression algorithm: they can be thought of as headers+deflate(raw). It applies the better (higher-compression-ratio) lzma algorithm to the raw data. That's better than applying it to the deflate form as a .zip file compressor would try to do. Ie, zip might try lzma(deflate(raw)) where this tries lzma(raw).

So the novel things are:

* It understands these specific file formats well enough to pick out deflate part that it should uncompress (when it applies its own compression) and recompress (when it applies its decompression).

* I think it promises to exactly reproduce the original deflate(raw) form. You can't necessarily do that from lzma(raw) alone. I'm not an expert, but from a wikipedia article skim, apparently deflate works with a combination of dictionary encoding and Huffman coding. This program probably stores the original tables for those (with the value sides as ranges of the original file rather than repeating them), and maybe some other details to handle this. Like, if the originally compressing program called flush more frequently, it produces a different stream, and this needs to be able to reconstruct that. Maybe it stores like a list of deflate operations rather than either the deflate-compressed result or the raw data. This strikes me as kind of a tricky problem, not in any theoretical computer science sense, but in a practical getting-all-the-details-right software engineering sense.
It sounded cool and tough guy thing at the time to quite a lot of people. And the books also contain open racism.

Let's chalk it to improvement over time. It is not cool not classy anymore. But it is also good to remember that it used to be acceptable thing to say for cool guy, so that we don't idealize past.
On average 300 per day (2100 per week), of which 100 (700/w) are spam, 150 (1050/w) are from various mailing lists, 25 (175/w) are outputs from cron jobs and monitoring systems (one of them contains these figures :) and about 25 (175/w) are personal correspondence of some sort.

procmail and mutt makes this easy to manage.
You're missing the point of the quote. Just ignore who said it. lol
The tech antitrust problem no one is talking about
Post-Truth
Part of it is that you either go to extreme lengths (like arcan-wayland) or it embeds itself so deep in the code base that it will be hard to get anywhere. If it doesn't get fixed, well, you don't have to be a reliability expert to be worried about this one:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/159

I have probably chased ghosts deep inside GTK from this one alone for multiple full time weeks, to no avail. There will eventually appear a rather harsh teardown post of some of the major mistakes in the implementation (and that alone, no xml business), wayland-server might not improve, but future designers should be able to stumble upon it.

I think to get further with the discussion we need a sort of list of what mechanisms we consider mechanisms, and how policies project over them. Not to be disrespectful, but my budget for engagement is thin, pandemics, sorry :-/

The politics stuff - so I have some logs that precedes the formation that are quite incendiary and outright vile, but there is enough shit flinging to suffice to stop at there being good reason why I wouldn't consider getting closer than bayonet range, and why the post was obtuse enough to discourage most #metoo and discard me as an idiot who knows nothing. The tech stuff matters though and that's only what I want to see. A protocol and not marriage as if from 'the war of the roses'(1989).

There is a fourth option that might materialise, but that's for then.
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