skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree, I think using e-mail as the base is an attempt to compensate for the network effect. While XMPP is clearly superior as a chat protocol, it lacks a broad user-base.

With e-mail you can even chat with people who don't have the chat app. Maybe we need an XMPP e-mail bridge ;-)
For $1200, the M1 MacBook Air with as much RAM you can afford.

The machine is super well built, ridiculously fast, silent (not “whisper silent”, actually “silent silent”) under any load, battery life is incredible.

It’s as big of a leap in laptop hardware as I’ve ever seen.

My job provides me with a not-awful HP EliteBook, and it’s less than a creaky and noisy toy in comparison.
Well, there are also many who want to contribute code back to GPL and LGPL projects, but can't because the companies that control these projects want them to sign contributor agreements with unacceptable terms.
> We’re heading towards a handful of giant companies that can afford to pay large teams to build and maintain FOSS

“Heading toward”?

I remember people talking about that as the existing state...in the 1990s. If anything, we’re heading away from that, with a much wider array of companies actively investing either cash or employee time in open source.

What's actually changed, IMO, is that it's a lot harder to get traction with commercial software than it used to be, so even forms that have no open-source-compatible business model in mind launch as open source, meaning that they have to figure out a unexpected business model or pivot out of open source at some point.

And, for PR reasons, they want someone else to blame for the pivot out of open source, so we get all the AWS-blaming and “the market has become radically less favorable to open source” stories, neither of which is grounded in reality.
I didn't mean to imply Switzerland and Belgium are similar.

I was saying that they are countries with national identities that are heavily influenced by their neighbors.
You can run (what I suspect is an old version of) HN yourself: http://arclanguage.org/install
Yeah but I am more thinking about not hosting your Instance angle.

Mostly topic based federation is what I am against. (When bundled with identity)
That's why there's all kinds of helpful features in HTML/CSS like media queries. You can serve up raw content and let the device make decisions on what resources to use to display the content. You can tell the device the most optimal resources for its particular constraints.

As a for instance you your script tag can just include a bunch of @import statements. Thankfully @import statements support media queries [0]. So you get the utility of external style sheets but can load one optimized for the client device. Unlike media queries on link tags the browser doesn't load style sheets (well they're not supposed to) that don't match the media queries.

It's also trivial to include a tiny bit of base styling with every page in a script tag. It doesn't blow any size budgets and makes sure a page is readable even with no external assets.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@import
People already have died because of Autopilot years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/business/tesla-crash-auto...

It is an inevitability that people will die because of any autopilot system if it lasts long enough.
Are those kind of people busy hanging out on youtube now?

Are there enough creatives in meat-space to attain the critical mass necessary to generate those places like in the past? Or are many of them staring at their phones all day?
Hacking Your Way to Modern Target Audience Engagement
Idk about this. I found myself translating in my head anyway
Apple's extensions are non-standard. Nvidia could make changes to the standard itself, not extensions. How much money this is worth I don't know.
I was surprised when I learned that this US ethnicity is a self-defined status. This means that me, a blond blue eyed man (and accessorily French) could define myself as Afro-American in the US.

His comme this is not wildly used in cases where it gives you an advantage? (such as positive discrimination when entering a university, or for grants,...)
Thanks for sharing your considerations. It's good that people care and think carefully about which services to use and not to use, and also share it.

I think the main problem is that the idea and implications of decentralisation are hard to fully grasp. It does not imply privacy or security. It does imply decentralisation of power, decentralisation of rules & code of conduct and decentralisation of financing.

My own experience:

Mastodon has provided me a first step in more digital sovereignty. It is very refreshing to have a timeline that you can fully control.

Moving to Mastodon felt like moving into a new village. You start with an empty timeline, and you have to actively work on your first connections.

After some initial effort, you are rewarded with meeting interesting people. They welcome you in their communities, and you can keep on discovering amazing people through the messages they boost!

Feel free to interact via erik@mastodon.utwente.nl :-)
Well this is why the Commons Clause [0] was created, but many people seem to trash it for violating the original spirit of FOSS.

So there have been attempts to deal with this issue, but there's a lack of consensus on what the "right thing to do" is in such scenarios.

[0] https://commonsclause.com/
I believe you and mayyybe I will even order some :) but where do you get the berries from? Do you import them from Africa?
Whatever we call these it does not change the fact that both methodologies cripple CSS in many ways, and shadow things covered already by CSS and other means. I think both are responsible for how CSS is received and it is sad, because CSS is not responsible for these horrible methodology mistakes.
Krafcik talks about this very issue in the article on how driver assistance systems give false sense of security to the driver.

> The Waymo team believes its own early experience—when it was the Google self-driving car project—bears that out. In the early 2010s, Google developed a driver-assistance system similar to today's Autopilot and considered selling it to automakers. But when they let Google employees test the software on public roads, they found that drivers came to trust it way too quickly. Drivers who were supposed to be closely monitoring the system instead spent their time looking at their phones, putting on makeup, and other distractions.

> The fundamental challenge here is that the better a driver-assistance system gets, the harder it is to get drivers to pay attention, and the less likely they are to be prepared if the software makes a mistake. The Google team didn't see a good solution to this problem, so they completely changed their strategy. They focused on building a self-driving taxi service that would never have customers in the driver's seat, relying on trained, professional safety drivers to oversee the software during testing.
I think the age old adage of happiness not rising after something $80k'ish per year is simply a misapplication of the linear scale to the problem.

There's ample evidence that happiness still rises with income, just logarithmically: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/29/yes-m...

Which honestly makes a _lot_ of sense to me, since most human senses work on the log scale for better magnitude compression: Light sensitivity, Hearing and lots of others.

The log scale just fits very well with any perception application designed to not overload neural networks — and if you plot this on the linear scale, it always looks like there's a knee in the curve where it stops rising, when in reality, it's just gradually getting slower.
Can you pay attention to a video game for two hours, and during that time react to some important event within 1 second reaction time? I bet you can.

Can you do the same when staring at a wall for two hours?
Uhh, wasn't this what the Elastic license change was all about?
> The speak to a lawyer route doesn't work and isn't practical for me.

With respect: licensing can be complex, particularly if one is new to it, and the ramifications of messing-up with a licensing issue like this could result in legal action against yourself / your project, at worst.

If speaking with a lawyer is not practical for you, you will need to be 100% certain that you know what you are doing with all of these different licenses, and fully understand their compatibilities / incompatibilities — or at some point you will very probably get bitten by this.

I'm not sure why you say this route "doesn't work". Because it certainly does — of course you would need to find a lawyer who has good knowledge of software licensing.
I have a feeling that AGI is a requirement for FSD. There are enough tail events while driving where you can only make "the right decision" if you actually understand what's going on.
Substantially different circumstances.

Existing phones vs iPhone

Existing cars vs iCar

I can't construct a plausible scenario where Apple vs Hyundai + VW + BMW + Mercedes + Ferrari + Porsche + Tesla looks anything like Apple vs Palm. There's just not that much difference between (hypothetically optimal and technically possible driving experience) and (current driving experience).

Apple has historically excelled in areas where they're able to offer an improved (usually by integration of existent technologies, at scale) hardware platform coupled with a well-integrated software interface.

Cars, ain't that.
> universal tracking

I beg to differ. There is no technological hurdle to prevent this. Only privacy-through-obscurity, and who knows how long that will last?
I think bitcoin as an inflation hedge is another promising answer.
Is Fast IMAP fast enough for Chat? I think most IM currently does sub 50ms response time excluding Network Latency.
They did pick different sensors and approach to world mapping in the first place. How is it just a cultural and regulator thing?
He seems so obviously correct that I can’t fathom how any engineer could see things otherwise.
I dunno, I think there is "road texans" and then "Texans" from my experience in the state.

Driving you'd think everyone is about ready to fight you. Then you stop at a truck stop and everyone is super nice, chatty, and helpful. I had minor car trouble - casually mentioned it to the cashier at a gas station, and with folks overhearing ended up having half a dozen good 'ole boys getting me fixed up and on the road again.

It's weird, but I suppose not uncommon. I originally am from MN, and drivers there kind of mimic the general personality too imo. The "Minnesota Nice" and general passive aggressiveness merged into one hellish of a driving experience. But, get out of the car and people generally are quite helpful and pleasant as well.

The only place I've spent any appreciable time in where I can say the drivers were downright pleasant was Kentucky. I lived there about a year, and even to the day I left I could never quite understand people actually getting over to let me merge on the freeway, stopping voluntarily off busy roads to let me turn left, not blocking the left lane unless to pass, etc. Yet I'd say the general day to day in-person interactions I had there were probably less friendly than Texas overall.

tldr; weird Sunday rant about driving styles and state personalities :)
This seems like agile vs waterfall to me, which are two very different engineering strategies.
This is not true and the preference for urban environments is a modern phenomenon. The Romans for example thought cities were disastrous and that any self-respecting citizen would live in a suburban or rural area.

I see no reason why remote work and self-driving cars can’t chip into the urbanization trend.
> The problem is that people act in bad faith online, a lot.

I think the fundamental problem is that people's values and perspectives can be too different to be in the same room together without going at it.

Most people couldn't handle being in the same room as an avowed neo-Nazi saying Nazi things, for example, without at least picking a verbal fight, even if the Nazi wasn't addressing them directly. If they're talking about how they want to kill Jews, most decent people will feel like they can't just let that go unchallenged. And that's not the kind of argument that can really be handled civilly.

You get the same issue -- albeit usually not quite as strongly -- in a thousand different ways, when you have a globally scoped social platform. All those groups with fundamentally conflicting positions, all targeting each other. The result is chaos, which is why platforms are increasingly tightening the bounds of acceptable discourse.
Ehh, your phrasing was dangerously close to the "how many is too many" political rhetoric that typically connotes not only the existence of a moral boundary but having already crossed the boundary and caused significant damage. That's what set people off, not "a whiff of anything short of pure adoration."

A small change, like tweaking the phrasing to "is there a limit?," would have avoided the landmine and signaled that you were looking for a good faith engineering discussion rather than political headbutting.
Why Big Companies Buy Small Ones
And waiting on mom or dad to drive you anywhere because school or the nearest store is miles away.
Wow never heard of this and I lived in the UK for an extended period of time. Thanks for the info.
> is that how weak-willed the average person has become?

Anecdotally, yes. I am regularly surprised to learn that people I know are aware they are (a) wildly out of shape or (b) obviously overweight and know what they need to do and the consequences of not doing so, and still do not take the steps to avoid. I used to think maybe people just weren’t self aware, but the issue is more pernicious - they lack the willpower to change (or, alternatively perhaps they don’t care, but I have a hard time accepting that educated people that I know do not care about their health). Let them off the hook for $1.30/meal and I suspect there will be demand from a large portion of the population that can afford it.

Side example: I have a family member currently contemplating buying a sauna for the cardiovascular benefits rather than simply going for daily walks for the same benefit. SMH.
Oh boy, you're not wrong. People apparently love using that to name projects.

Found it though: https://github.com/fluxtream
- Constitution of India applies only in the Union of India

- The first article of the constitution defines the boundaries of the Union of India: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...

- The terminology referred to as "socially and educationally backward classes" is to provide certain underprivileged sections of the society better living standards

- PART-3 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/b...) guarantees the Fundamental Right to Equality
14. Equality before law.—The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.
First time I've heard about it, other than that one time I saw someone (a senior to me) look up the syntax for a for loop :s
> The best solution would be to bring future costs into the present and charge for co2 emissions. That way the truly valuable uses could still happen and the more optional uses of co2 would be discouraged.

Yep. A price on carbon is actually the most powerful lever we have to bring down emissions. Very nice visualization when you move the carbon price slider here: https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=2.7....

And you can make it both equitable and politically viable if you use the money from the carbon fee to provide direct payments to households, then combine with a border adjustment to maintain trade competitiveness. https://econstatement.org/

Ultimately we just need something in place that corrects this obvious market failure with as few side effects as possible, and carbon fee and dividend does that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
Probably because they have market share but don't generate any revenue.
I haven't had this issue on my instance but I do cross-post onto Mastodon instances that focus on infosec.
The only complaints I've gotten have been from Mastodon mods that want some specific content warning or some such that I can't be bothered with.
I just delete those posts, fuckem if they don't want it.
No, it’s not a good thing. Humans are apparently the only species capable of observing itself or the universe. The more people, the better, we just need to ramp up space exploration.
Yes, I just mean it doesn't work over your WiFi connection, so you can't connect another device elsewhere on the network, it has to be in range.
Not only that, but your teeth are at their least vulnerable after brushing. Sugar doesnt cause tooth decay, acidic bacterial metabolites of those sugars do.
Interesting, but also disgusting. No-one should be a billionaire.

Having that much wealth and power concentrated in the hands of such a few is a societal sickness.

They're effectively stealing a disproportionate amount of our world's resources for their own pleasure, at the expense of everyone else.
Yes and the interest rates in 1980 were such that the mortgage P&I payments on a 1980 mortgage were $1106 per $100K borrowed vs $422 per $100K @ 3% today.

65K borrowed in 1980 cost $719/mo. 320K borrowed today costs $1349/mo (both are principal and interest only).

$719 in 1980 is $2258 in 2020.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US - I picked 13% as an approximate (somewhat low even)
average rate for 1980.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Musk seems more of a marketer than an engineer to me, even though he's always characterized as one.
What I earned from my tech career
> There are enough tail events while driving where you can only make "the right decision" if you actually understand what's going on.

I have the feeling this bar disqualifies most human drivers, too.
Tesla is quite far from full self driving. They have too much phantom breaking on the simple adaptive cruise control in good conditions.
Yes, you can. Most nuclear power plants are more dispatchable than most gas burners. Countries with lots of nuclear power plants (France) absolutely run them in a load following regime.

[Edit: And, as usual, downvotes rolling in for pointing out a verifiable fact. HN being HN, I guess.]
MicroConf is the longest running community for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders. Also check out the sister podcast, Startups for the Rest of Us.

We started both of them a decade ago to connect folks in your situation to one another (as a multi-time bootstrapped SaaS founder myself).
Instagram was originally meant to be a coupon site (interview with Mike Krieger)
This reads similarly to me as conversations that justify medical bills being so high in the US when there’s a closed loop between the those charging and those paying (ie, not the one receiving medical care). “You should be thankful that we saved you 99.5% of this artificially high price tag even though we’re complicit in its fantasy pricing!”

Medical service doesn’t exist for the industry on top of it. Housing doesn’t exist for the industry built on top of it. I wish our government considered the well-being of the host nearly as much as the parasites rather than asking Mr. Mosquito what he thinks would be beneficial.
The results of that are called "NIMBY" and generally disparaged here.
> As Jobs said, go to where the puck will be.

Pretty sure that was Wayne Gretzky.
The underlying idea of a license that prevents people from doing things with the software that are deemed to be unethical is fundamentally flawed. Any such license would only apply to situations where the licensee does something with the software that is considered unethical by the licensor, but is not actually illegal per se. In that case, the worst thing that the licensor would be able to do according to the terms of the license is make you go through an arbitration process and try to revoke your license. They can't put you in jail or stop you from using some replacement to do the same thing.

This license is a fool's attempt to police people. There is a lot of hubris in believing that it is possible to prevent human rights violations using a software license. In reality, the responsibility to administer justice is the responsibility of the legal system and the actual police. The only thing this license does is give its authors a false sense of importance.
People will die. It will also save lives. It’s probably already prevented thousands of accidents, some of which would have been fatal. It just doesn’t make national news when your car moves you out of the way of danger.
another baseless musk bashing. Waymo doesn't have nearly as much data as Tesla. They're not playing in the same category.
It depends on hydration of all the desiccated shores composed of dead sea life.

So if it rained recently, or after a foggy night, the pungent odor fills the air.
So it uses the reply chain as identified in the email header.

It might be useful to actually define a new email header field (Or define a new value to put into an existing field), thereby making this an open protocol.
Could you expound on using matrix for long form content?

I host a synapse homeserver, and feel like I’m not using it to its full potential.
The point is the fabric of society is unraveling quickly in 2021 than 2008. What does it matter if you win the career lottery if every neighborhood is covered in feces, sidewalks are full of tent cities, and your fellow man is 1 health crisis away from becoming an other.
I feel like AI vs AGI is going to be the next P vs NP kind of issue.

People will mostly realize that the concept of "general" intelligence is flawed yet we might strive to get to it indefinitely.
Don’t forget that Apple is slowly ramping up its manufacturing presence in India, in addition to Vietnam mentioned by another comment, to further mitigate its over reliance on China.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/apple-india-manu...
There are parts under the eyes and on the nose where there is material on top of the cracks. Is this from a restoration effort?
Cool. Thank you.
Actually that was exactly my point, you managed to separate identity and content by using your own instance. But for average user this will be pretty hard.
http://archive.is/MIoeW
I couldn’t even tell if the first example was
showing how to create a conjunction “banana and monkey” or something else like “monkey eats banana”. Yeah, this would need a lot slower of an approach to work for day 0 beginners. Rosetta Stone and Duolingo are great examples of how it can be done.
> matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content.

Can you elaborate on that a bit? In my experience, Matrix implementations tend to be Slack/IRC-style chat interfaces.

Are you saying you find such interfaces to be good for long-form content, or are there other Matrix implementations that work out well for long-form content?
Kana is really easy to learn.

https://drdru.github.io/stories/1_01_food.html

I found the examples are literally an image abstraction and how to read them.

They're what you'd find in a similar Genki Vol 1 book, the emojis are cute.

The furigana is invaluable and it helps get the structure in place, I do it similar with song lyrics from utanet.