skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a "Karen" comment. Do you really think a few guys flying in turbulent air will spread covid? Have you seen all of the people who gather in parks in San Fransisco? This flying experiment is not even comparable to other vectors of the virus that immunocompromised people are exposed to on a daily basis.
a beat is a beat, they just aren't always dance-able. some of the examples of AI/ML generated music has always never sounded "good" to me though. it's clever that you can have a computer make music in the realm of $X, and that's cool as a programming accomplishment. at the same time, you can give someone like me all of the $mostRad gear, and what ever i bang out will sound "not good" either. while i can play instruments, i'd never call myself a musician. that's how i consider these ML/AI generated music "types" in my head.
I guess his arms are fixed into the suit, but it still looks like if you relaxed your arms a little too much you could get your hands into the turbine...
If it was about race, how do you explain the roma situation in Turkey? It's the same people but drastically different engagement in the public life.

The gangs, the trash, the dirt, the kids out of school - all real things as photographed and descrbed by the author of the article.

The more likely explanation is that the Bulgarians screwed up with the policy and the Turks got something right.
Anbox "works" on the Pinephone, but takes ages to boot (several minutes), is really slow and eventually crashes the phone, in my experience (tried on Neon and Manjaro). I haven't managed to do anything useful with it.

I wonder if we'll reach a point where Anbox runs okay on the Pinephone, it seems super heavy. Anbox emulates a complete Android system after all...
I don’t think the book was about trans people. It was about teenagers who undergo irreversible changes and then regret it.
I'm too scared to mention not using getters/setters in interviews.
The HW allows any combination of recording, playback - to/from modem and to/from speaker/mic at the same time. It's possible to implement a lot of interesting features that way, like DTMF menu system on incoming calls, with or without monitoring of the other side, etc.

I have it documented here:

https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/audio-pp.html

So it's certainly possible.
Synapse certainly used to be nightmarish. But since we exited beta last year and have done nothing but perf & maintainability it's improved loads - c.f. https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapses-sca... etc.

My personal server sits at around 1.8GB RSZ with postgres, which is about right for a poweruser personal server. Unfortunately a 2GB VPS is still unlikely to hack it if you're federating. Meanwhile Dendrite uses ~10x less RAM, but is still beta.
> If the Federalist Society is some kind of "conspiracy"—one that you can join today, for fifty bucks!—then so is pretty much every other civic organization in existence.

The connotation of secrecy with the work "conspiracy" is only one definition. "Conspiracy" and "conspire" have the same root:

> 1. the act of conspiring

* https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspiracy

> 2. to act or work together toward the same result or goal: The wind and rain conspired to strip the trees of their fall color.

* https://www.dictionary.com/browse/conspire

> A civil conspiracy or collusion is an agreement between two or more parties to deprive a third party of legal rights or deceive a third party to obtain an illegal objective.[1] A conspiracy may also refer to a group of people who make an agreement to form a partnership in which each member becomes the agent or partner of every other member and engage in planning or agreeing to commit some act.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(civil)

> This is a list of political conspiracies. In a political context, a conspiracy refers to a group of people united in the goal of damaging, usurping, or overthrowing an established political power. Typically, the final goal is to gain power through a revolutionary coup d'état or through assassination. A conspiracy can also be used for infiltration of the governing system.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_conspiracies
I think there's such an interest in seeing the genius behind a work which actually involves the collaboration of a group to actually succeed

Walter Isaacson recognized this when he went to write his book The Innovators [0]. He intended it to be a more narrow autobiographical book like he is known for but quickly realized the technological revolution was brought about through an collaborative effort across time and space.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21856367-the-innovators
Yeah, came here to say that. Wit.ai looks interesting but I won't touch it with a 100ft pole as long as they require Facebook login. Unfortunate they have to promote the walled garden.

But also agree it was offtopic for the Github issue. Keep that focused on the naming and IP issue.
Or even better onivim.io
Do These Scatter Plots Indicate Election Fraud in Michigan?
I should have also said, I think it is premature to attempt genetic engineering of human brains for medical benefit. Intuitively I believe we are decades behind the amount of conceptual development and experimental validation we need to do to get a proper understanding of genetic brain engineering. So I think the ethics is spot on here, it's ethically wrong IMO because we don't know what we are doing. Ethically I don't see a problem messing with sea slugs, though no doubt some people might.
True, but a fool without a tool must make two transformations to become a genius with a tool. A fool with a tool need only make one.
They did use the correct wiring standard T-568B ? and the runs where < 90m
There whas a moment when Tarantool[0] was looking for market niche and was checking Redis' turf. They published performance tests with 2-3% upside. It was done by a team of experienced C devs spending months trying hard to beat original. 40% is a very big gap for that matter.

[0] https://www.tarantool.io/
Repetition with a hint of unpredictability is what triggers pleasure.
I realize I’m making more of this than it warrants, so I won’t go any further after this post. We agree that military history is valuable, we disagree that it’s the causative heart of a unified theory of the history of conflict. To me, the original thought reads like a pithy observation meant to underscore the value of military history. To push it to the point where it is itself historically decisive and includes all forms of the transmission of military knowledge is unwarranted. A key that claims to fit every lock should be treated with suspicion.

> Not having a plan on transfer of control in case the leader is dead or otherwise unable to lead is, for intents and purposes, the same thing as never thought of it.

This is beginning from a result and working backwards to infer possible causes. You can raise interesting questions that way, but it isn’t evidence that the inference is correct.

Rome was sacked by the Gauls in 390, came right to the edge against Hannibal and Pyrrhus, was never really able to come to grips with the Parthians or push meaningfully past the Rhine, and in the west was finished by an invasion of Goths. It’s not so cut and dried—-events rarely are, which is why we should be suspect of one size fits all theories. Chalking Roman organization, tactics, and discipline up to historical study means including a host of technological, social and economic systems which one could easily argue were themselves decisive. My original point was that the claim is reductive, not that it’s flat out wrong.

> [Vietnam] was not a conflict between a society with military history knowledge and one without.

Yes, that point was aimed at the claim that military knowledge transcends culture. The argument in Fire in the Lake doesn’t have anything to do with the US’s willingness to do “what was necessary” (ie the old “if they only let our boys off the leash” saw). It’s about how the VC approach to recruitment, organization and indoctrination was congruent with Vietnamese cultural and philosophical practice in a way that the US imposed South Vietnamese government and ARVN organization failed to match. We modeled ARVN on US military practice because that’s what our generations of military history and institutional knowledge told us to do, and it was a mistake.

I’m not interested in refighting Vietnam on HN, but Fire is a really interesting book. Whether you come out agreeing or disagreeing with her conclusions, it’s a strong recommend.
IDK if "cz" means Czechia in the name of OP, but yes, once you employ somebody and are a VAT payer, your paperwork goes way up. You can outsource it to your accountant, though.

AFAIK employment is bureaucratically easier in the US and none of the US states even has VAT.

But other barriers have fallen recently. If you wanted to start a Ltd company here in Czechia around 2005, all the necessary paperwork took about 100 days to complete. This has been optimized, now it takes just several days and the fees have been cut in half.
While we might disagree over who's a "radical right wing" nominee, it's indisputable that the Federalist Society hasn't endorsed any nominee for any position.
I mean Republican-appointed justices joining the Democrat-appointed justices in an opinion. Are you saying all nine are conservatives?
the very first piece of computer gear i ever bought was a midi adapter. there was an Amiga on one side of the room, and a MIDI capable synth on the other side. i was introduced to Soundtracker, and then went all giddy when I was told the synth could work with it if that missing device was used. i think i was 14, and saved up my lunch money to buy it. Never did make anything worthwhile with it, but it sure was fun.
> in the country where SARS-CoV-2 first appeared

If the findings in this paper are accurate, then there's a real question about which country that is, isn't there?
It highlights the very important point that activist groups will quite often ignore viable solutions. This is usually because they wish to keep on being activists and keep on continuing the fight.

Thus it brings into question anything they claim and all claims should be treated with skepticism.
Ah, I stand corrected. But it's still a silly distinction. It's utterly bizarre to me that something that a device that allows everything to be modified from the CPU is considered non-free if any of that code is non-free, but if that same non-free code is used on a chip that's only flashable using a more difficult method, the device can be considered freedom respecting.
When I see people blame more drivers for traffic, the only culprit I can see is a failure to extend public transit accordingly. A huge number of people drive in New York, for example, for lack of a better alternative, not because driving is more convenient, cheaper, or in any other way better for them. Blaming car traffic on the number of people in a densely populated area is futile, and any place that has grown reasonably with its population has also abandoned the notion that cars should be the default mode of transportation.
I believe this was done years ago in Seattle with crows and coins.
It is neat that they used a RPi to feed MagPi considering the periodical that shares the name.
I don't give it credit, like it's trying to gain balance, but functioning ecosystems do maintain a balance. Most of our climate problems have come from humans disrupting this.

If you take any functioning healthy ecosystem on earth, one generally less tampered with by humans, you'll find from a microscopic, right up to a macroscopic level, the life in those ecosystems have adapted to function together.

If you want to see some good examples of this, check out some terrarium channels on youtube, there's some really cool, perfectly balanced ones people have had going for years.

The reason why we have so many ecological problems around the world is that humans have been constantly disrupting this. We introduce invasive species that dominate the landscape, cause extinctions and extirpations of native species and change the fundamental balance of the ecosystem.

You're right, life does push through, but personally, I prefer the native songbirds and shrubs that are local to my area than a landscape full of Japanese knotweed and starlings.

And so do most things, that first example likely has at least a dozen species of songbirds, a bunch of shrubs and herbacious plants. That second example has two species, maybe some rats or crows if your lucky.

The thing is, ecosystems don't stand alone, they're all connected and the collapse of one leads to the collapse of the neighbouring ones and so forth.

If you actually look through the published literature.on various ecosystems around the world, we have a very shallow level of knowledge. We don't understand fully the complex connections between everything and the research that does keep coming out keeps showing how much we've vastly underestimated how much our actions have impacted things.

Even things like the ecosystems in our own body's. The microscopic organisms that have been found to even play a part in things such as our decision making and moods.

The human body itself functions as an ecosystem, all our body systems, our cells, our organs, all function independently and cohesively to make everything that is you.

The earth itself functions the same way. The ecosystems, and all life, including humans, are the cells and organs that make up all life on Earth.

Altering life at a fundamental genetic level goes even further than how we alter ecosystems.

Humans really don't understand the potential consequences to changes we make to the genetic code. We have a vague idea, but we really are.delving mostly blind into this. If we barely understand how life works on a macroscopic level, what makes us think we're ready to change it at an even lower level?
I did not downvote you. I think it's wonderful that people love the UI of SourceHut. You've put a lot of effort in and made a product that many people love, and that is fantastic and a hell of a lot more than I can say for myself. Seriously, congrats on all you've accomplished, and thank you for all you've done for the open source community, it's quite a lot and very deserving of appreciation

But my point is about mass-adoption. What I personally think of the UI isn't very important - as you say, "Design is in the eye of the beholder". But I would argue that if GitHub were to release a redesign identical to SourceHut in 2020, we'd see the largest exodus of GitHub users (for personal projects at least) ever - far, far, FAR more than any other time GitHub has changed their UI.

You can argue that GitHub and GitLab have UI that degrades a developer's experience. You can argue that their designs are FADs, and even that eventually they might change their design to be more similar to your's. And all of those arguments may be right. But right now, I'd argue that this design hurts mass adoption, and even though what design language is "in style" is completely a FAD, following the FAD does help adoption, and entire companies (e.g. fast-fashion like H&M) make tons of profit on FADs (even when they do horrible things - like how fast fashion is bad for the environment, some of GitHub's actions are bad for open source, the Apple example, etc).

I think your numbers are great evidence that you will get users with your current design, and I think that were you to release a GitHub clone (design-wise), you'd lose most of your users and would still struggle to gain non-GitHub users. I don't think there's a way to satisfy both camps of users, but perhaps a "colorful" and "minimal" theme may help? This is not as important as other things you are doing such as the things mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25103662 but I do think it would help with mass-adoption (which may even be a non-goal, or may be far less important than other goals - that's totally fine too, I'm not trying to judge you or say you're completely wrong, just pointing out something which I feel is missed in these design discussions on HN).
Those types of choices are not often made for money-based reasons.
Don't you find it troubling that these people don't practice what they preach?

It is as if they don't really believe it.
Indeed, this is matches my observations. Things will hopefully improve rapidly though.

Plasmashell on the desktop is also QML-based as far as I know.
Obituary: Bernard Dixon – Editor of New Scientist
This was my first thought while reading the article - surely if we can intentionally get hit by lightning, we can find a way to harness that energy.

https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/is-there-... discusses the idea a bit. TLDR is: it probably isn't worth it :/
Exactly!! I always wondered why it took so many years for someone to figure out a revenue model for couchsurfing ('couchsurfing' website started in 2003 and AirBnB in 2008). AirBnB is just that (atleast at start)
Thanks for this, I didn't realize membership was so cheap. Joined.
As the maintainer of a moderately popular project on GitHub I'm torn in this. I often get issues where I try to solve the user's problem and think I have answered the question or provided a solution, but don't get any reply from the reporter when asking if it is solved, sometimes for years. I configured Stale Bot with a IMO generous delay so the user has enough time to at least give a short reply if the issue persists. If it does, I'll gladly add a 'pinned' tag to keep Stale Bot away from it. But in the end the bot just does what I'd do by hand anyway.

If it's configured with a short timeout and with preventing further comments, I totally agree. That's rally annoying. But maybe there are circumstances where it's actually useful.
That was an awesome article, I really wish I read it sooner. So many of today’s problems are predicted within. My favorite parts:

1. Designing Social software is as different from UX design as UX is from bare functionality.

2. Tech groups are not immune from using “vilification of external enemies” to increase group cohesion, where enemies included Microsoft in the 90s, it’s probably surveillance capitalism today.

3. Unrestrained social software can lead to constitutional crisis: the tension between individuals and group, the rights and responsibilities of each, what’s the social contract for an online community? That’s more political science than computer science.
People wanted open source to be a thing, and now people are not happy anymore. Smh
The same goes for telco technicians. Just as I've caught electricians wire-nutting UTP cables I've also caught telco technicians putting "Scotch Lock" splice connectors on cables to "extend" them.
After losing my savings as an indie hacker, I can't do it anymore. I quit.
onivim.io
EoP has huge RFI issues, it basically turns your house wiring into a giant antenna broadcasting broadband noise.
Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse
It's pretty straightforward to spot billion dollar ad campaigns. The FCC has carried out its duty to regulate airtime for the better part of a century.
Not to mention it'd make the majority of turnovers in the supreme court an orderly scheduled event fair between parties.
It changes my evaluation of the claim, which is sourced by Greenpeace.

In the long run I have no doubt that Greenpeace will have caused more damage than the Koch family. We could have clean energy right now if it weren’t for the decades of nuclear fear mongering, and the Koch family isn’t even opposed to nuclear.
Greenhouse effect
So you would adhere to the original language of property covenants forbidding sale to black people because that was the clear intent of the authors of those covenants? Hey, sanctity of contract!

And do not tell me those contracts were considered illegal at the time they were written.
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Still reading this, but I wanted to go ahead and offer my objection to a polemic that uses Twitter posts as a jumping-off point.

Twitter's use of addictive dark patterns is well-known, and those techniques bring out the worst and and most mindless in people. E.g., compare Greenwald's consistent, well-researched op-ed's to his bitter, nasty ad hominem attacks in his varous Twitter insult-wars.

It's as if everyone has decided to get coked up and go talk politics at 2 a.m. at a noisy club. I'm sure it's convenient for journalists to start there since they know everyone is at the club, but it's also lazy if they start every article with shit cokeheads were yelling at each other. (As well as boring for readers.)

A significant portion of our population, including journalists, is addicted to social media. As a society we have yet to take steps to curb this toxicity. Now, can we please at least admit this is a problem and quit letting this sludge leak into serious writing for the sole benefit that it's free and easily discoverable?

Edit: from Strangio: "it was supposed to be a cheeky response to Bari [Weiss] not something to be taken on its own terms without that context." What's more generous-- that Strangio is secretly against free-speech and intrepid Greenwald caught him before he deleted his true feelings, or that a system that optimizes for dogfights got the better of Strangio?
Yup, I thought I made that clear in my op honestly....
It's already a thing in China - they created an electric car that has a clutch and 6 gears - that don't actually do anything, they are 100% simulated, including stalling the car. Why? For a training car, so people who want a manual driving licence can train on an electric car.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/jalopnik.com/this-chinese-elect...
The Wikipedia article about the treasure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure confirms that the treasure was hidden in Wyoming.

"On July 22 Fenn stated on the Thrill of the Chase blog site that the treasure's finder had authorized him to disclose, in the interests of closure for many of its searchers, that it had been hidden in Wyoming."
It's not surprising that OS upgrades can fail on some machines. No amount of QA can ever guarantee 100% success.

What I do find surprising though is that there is no bulletproof rollback mechanism.