skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MicroLive had a feature on the Transputer back in the day: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/be4d23d20200fca1b1db963376852c3f
> In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, incapable of evaluating whether the questions, originally written in the mid-00s and only updated for buzzword compliance since, are applicable to modern security practice today, or to the particular product/service/vendor in question.

And in many cases on the vendor side its some dude from sales filling it out... so pretty noisey on both ends.
I always worry about pregnancy if I'd have a kid. Not only could you get a kid with a disability, your SO could be injured or die too. Not to mention post-partum. I knew of a woman whose sister gave birth and something happened where the birth cause a brain hemorrhage in her and she basically became a quadriplegic. Not only is it devastating for everyone involved, but essentially as the father, you're now a caregiver for two people. How the hell would you work a full time job, take care of a newborn AND your now paralyzed SO? Pregnancy is a real scary dice roll that you just hope luck stays on your side all 9 months.
How do you even define the boundaries of a 'system' under IIT?
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I'm new to the windows admin world. I have multiple physical locations and off site backups for Linux are easy to manage but windows not so much. Everything appears to be in the enterprise price range.

What do you do?
If we're talking about "free software" in the context of licensing the FSF's definition is the only one that matters.

Obviously there is free (no cost) software as well, at least in English where we have one word for both meanings. This can be easily disambiguated in a discussion by the "free as in speech, not free as in beer" phrase, or if people are familiar with the term, using "libre software" to clarify.
The former is universal while the latter is limitation of perception.
Think you could say the op was against this rule as well
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So does "open" and "open-source" which both predate their use for software.
We already have that for large classes of equipment.
Grandiose paper from a joke "scientist". This definitely not science, it's a poorly argued metaphysical proposition.
Thank you, I was trying to figure this out.
> The usual preference comes down to whether you want to be explicit about implementing it or not, and whether you want to pull in default behaviour.

Thanks :) I definitely prefer things to be explicit; regardless of it being a "Zen of Python" mantra. That said, I do see the value of `Protocol` for non-annotated/legacy code, in that it gives you a convenient mechanism for this. I would be worried about it becoming a crutch, if overused, but definitely better than no annotations at all!

(I don't understand your point regarding an ABC's default implementation. Isn't the point of ABCs that they're not base classes, but interfaces that define the methods required without any implementation?)
> This system is clearly a CYA for Google:

Sorry, the DMCA protections for google are almost absolute. Without a notice and takedown they are unexposed.

Their handling might just be incompetence, or it might be a money maker (e.g. to force people to allow copyright holders to monetize their videos)... what it isn't is a CYA.
Not necessarily. The project I'm currently working on was initiated by a group of mostly-mega corps, staffed with dozens of full-time developers, and Apache licensed — all out of rational self-interest.
Cisco/Linksys had to make available the source code that became the basis for a whole ecosystem of open router software that offers enterprise features on much cheaper devices. Cisco also paid an undisclosed amount to FSF. Similar things have also happened to other router manufacturers.

Westinghouse had to pay the SFC $90k for shipping BusyBox without observing the license.

Most cases that are pursued are settled out of court though.
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Boutique: https://useboutique.com

It's a self-hosted app for digital sales and newsletters. I can upload files, sell them, send broadcast/drip emails, handle bounces/spam so far. Still a work in progress.

Thyme: https://hughbien.com/thyme

It runs a pomodoro timer in your Tmux status bar.
I find that a very strange statement for a supposedly conscious being to make. Consciousness does absolutely objectively exist, or at least I can say it does for me. That its existence is not objectively measurable doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means that the philosophy of empiricism is not complete.
> In my experience, the larger organizations will have a "security" questionnaire required of their vendors, and the person administering it is a droid, incapable of evaluating whether the questions, originally written in the mid-00s and only updated for buzzword compliance since, are applicable to modern security practice today,...

They may be even aware, they are just bound by their companys ruleset...
Projects tend to change over their lifetime. What might have been yesterday's freewheeling experimental prototype is tomorrow's boring mission-critical geriatric legacy. Sometimes this is (or should be) known in advance, but often not.
That is a possibility!

We liked the hologram kits, but we needed something to take us to the next level with our hologram technology, and the 3D Hologram Printer is that step for us.

The hologram film continues to be available, and will be the same film we use for the printer.
I’ve used this a few times already and it works perfectly about 80% of the time. If your picture has a lot of grain or low-level noise it’s just going to make the noise worse, then you throw in a median to de-noise and you’ve lost the benefit. But it’s otherwise a nice tool to have, especially for older low-res photos (like 800x600 stuff you want to print).

I think longer term stuff like neural rendering will make super resolution less relevant. If you can re-create a 3D scene from a single photo or otherwise reconstruct the photo in a less-resolution-dependent way, then playing the super resulting game is less interesting (for users and researchers alike).
Because Eclipse is an IDE, and at least for Java, it just works out of the box with default configuration. And that includes popular build tool integration, code execution, step-through debugging, version control, and a bunch of other stuff.

In the world of VSC, this stuff requires figuring out which tool the community recommends, configuring it, and making sure that all the things you chose actually work together.
Oh yes, The Late Philip J. Fry is about the forward time machine, what a masterpiece! Probably my favorite episode in the whole series.

There was also an amazing song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1drY3A418
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> What's the difference between a transputer and the latest graphics cards?

That you could string Transputers together via their links to create an arbitrary topology computing fabric.
If it's a prion disease, they sometimes take years or possibly decades to develop.

The big question is how they were all infected. Is it in the food supply (meat, milk)? Was it tainted blood donations?

42 people is a lot of people... The vCJD outbreak in the 90s (mad cow) ended up with less than 250 cases total.
There are companies that do this. Example: https://www.messagebird.com/en/
I was thinking of Amaya. Avant is unrelated.
At least the first 10 minutes is waiting for my corporate laptop to boot up ;)
For quite a while, thanks to the One Child Policy. The birth rate has about about 1.6 babies/woman since about 1990. It's been creeping up, but the current generation got used to the idea of one child per family. In addition, living in the cities is really expensive, and the hukou system means your kid is only guaranteed education in your hometown. I think you can often pay a fee, but I'm not sure, and in any case, it living is already expensive enough.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
I may be risking sounding like a fool here, but isn't there kind of a real distinction between saying that there are underlying mathematical patterns in a reality that behaves like a state machine, and saying that literally this function and starting condition are isomorphic to the universe?

Like if on a low level it turns out that everything is, I don't know, cellular-automata-based, that would be a more useful frame than wandering vectors in a Hilbert space. But if we get to the end of physics and found that, in fact, you could rederive everything from that one explanation, it wouldn't be unfair to say that the universe is that vector, and perhaps some functions.

I guess really I'm wondering if it matters more how the universe is 'computed' or what it's 'computed on'. In a non-simulated universe, of which it seems there must exist at least one, there would at some point just have to be laws without causes. If those laws corresponded to some simple bit of math, it wouldn't be wrong to merge map and territory.

edit: That's not to say that I actually think the paper is correct. I'm definitely not far enough along in my education to be 100% sure, but there are enough suspicious features and a high enough bar that I'm doubtful. I just meant to mount a general defense of 'what if it's all math' type explanations.
As far as I know, the term "open source" was coined by the same people who were involved in founding OSI (though the OSI founders were a subset of the people who first used the term). I'd be very curious to see examples of widespread use before 1997 or so.

See the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
So dope to see y'all on the front page. Great team and product. Can't wait to see the future growth!
Okay, the consequences of this paragraph (https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#203) are potentially devastating if triggered, but 35 years is quite a long time in the tech world. It would be very interesting on how such a fork could proceed once the 35 year term (measured from the grant of that licence, essentially the last day the original open source version was distributed) happens if the copyright owner issues the termination letters, but for all the recent licence switches this won't be an issue until 2050s, and in any case the users would have at least two years of warning to switch to something else or possibly make the product compliant by rewriting whatever of the original 35 year old parts are still needed.
https://www.theinfosphere.org/List_of_title_captions here is a list with just the text
This was maybe the first service I see that was somewhat complex, but the 4 line main page header text clearly explained what the tool does - the subpages are also great, low-key, great reads. Kudos to whoever copywrote the site.
So you can just put the laptop in your bag and go somewhere else and still have the same environment, just slower. No need to sync filesystems and packages etc.
There is already a cyber force. It is called Cyber Command

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
The beauty of SSH-only is that you can assume that all of your traffic is being inspected all the time, but you have a protection against that: ssh-encryption and key fingerprints.

If you wanted to confirm ssh host-key validity, I'm sure rsync.net would perform an out-of-band verification. When they emailed me a request to do some server maintenance, I asked for a verification, and they placed a GPG-signed confirmation on their web-server for me to verify.
I may be completely wrong, so feel free to correct me, but isn't that largely from cooling? I'm unclear how much larger hard drives would help, I'm not sure if it's obvious either.
If "don't end your sentences with a preposition" was an actual grammar rule, no one would ever talk about it because every native speaker would intuitively follow it anyway.
It's also an expression of choice and priorities. Every child is a new person that really exists, that can experience the world and continue to live forever in the love of God.
> like the effing Borg and it's great!

Don't know if that was an intended nod but I liked it :)

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
It can do things like handle SSL and traffic balancing.

So if you ever have more than one application e.g. a search engine for that blog then it's much easier to add. SSL in particular is often a real pain to setup and varies in capability wildly between applications.
> There's a famous essay

An essay famously refuted by the work of the first woman to win a Nobel prize in economics. She spent half her life collecting evidence showing that in reality what you describe is more often not what actually happens and outlining the conditions (derived emperically) under which commons resource management works. [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Research
This law delegates to the NIST any guidelines. The guidelines recommended can be found here:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8259.pdf

My casual quick read did not see any manufacturers being held liable for security breaches. It's not clear to me how serious the USG is being if there is still no fault for the ongoing mass breaches of privacy.
The description of the transputer seems to have a lot in common with the Parallax Propeller, which is pretty popular.

https://www.parallax.com/propeller/
Will do! Thanks everyone, you and the rest of the commenters, for changing my mind :)
I'm not sure the tragedy of the commons applies here since there is no scarce resource. How does a big company profiting from open source code hurt the open source project?
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The microscope hologram is a cool one! Could definitely do something like that with our 3D Hologram Printer.

One of the other very memorable holograms out there is the Kiss, which is also possible (see our Kiss demo hologram).

I think holographic cameras would certainly be something that would be in the future for us. Glad to see you are already looking there!
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> you don't understand Docker that well

I wholeheartedly agree :)

The path I'm currently taking is to spin up Concourse CI which uses containers, and start using that to CI/CD my personal site. I'm likely gonna overkill and end up hosting my own image repository, but overall I think this'll teach me the necessary concepts of containers in a directly applicable way to my end goals.

From there I can start to play with k8s itself, if I so desire.

Where I tend to get hung up is things like entrypoints. My personal site is static, so the container to build it isn't a hosted service, it's just invoking Pandoc (with a bunch of dependencies installed as well). I think that makes Pandoc the 'entry point', that just seems strange since it isn't a persistent service, and I think that makes the lifetime of the container rather ephemeral.

Which... likely is a valid usecase for docker containers, I've just only interacted with them e.g. on my Unraid box as persistent services.
I think RileyJames’ comment provided a clear and realistic hypothesis of how Apple might come to abuse its monopoly power in this way without the sort of reasoning you assume, but it’s also probably relevant to note that Apple got caught conspiring with five major publishers to fix ebook prices largely because they had a private dinner where one of the publishing CEOs took literal notes on their conspiracy to fix prices. (Yes, really.)

Apple has been really dumb about antitrust law before. It’s not unrealistic to think they’d be dumb again. It’s not even dumb if you’ve been doing it routinely for years and only suffered consequences once or twice. Which I don’t think is unique to Apple — I think all the FAANG companies have gotten very accustomed to being able to do essentially whatever they want as long as they pay a minor fine every few years.
Then you would have projects done faster/better/sooner. And then so what? The world keeps moving regardless.
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Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints
Hello, Mojeek back end dev here, I mostly work with Marc on the engine and backend services.

More pages indexed, yes, as there's a finite/specific amount stored on each server. Also for redundancy to back up sections of the index in case of any hardware failure on any one disk/server, you can fall back to the other server containing that slice of the index.

It also raises new problems as the server count grows. One way of doing things is for one server to ask all the other servers to return their 1000 best results for a query. Over time, that can amount to a considerable amount of bandwidth and sorting for that single server to do. We'd recently made a change to proxy requests more along a per-rack level and let them sort the results and send back. This improved our median search time dramatically and is in good timing for our next batch of 100 servers.

We noticed a visible improvement in response times via a 3rd party that uses our API for results. https://www.etools.ch/searchInfo.do
No your career is not over and I don't think you are blacklisted.

But make sure you are taking care of yourself and that you have support from a doctor/therapist/family and whatever you need. A therapist and time will help you gain perspective and re-frame the experience. Taking care of yourself is priority #1.

Next if you want to stay in the startup world, you could always go work for a startup in the mental health space. They'd probably be more reasonable. But don't discount a bigger company which would offer you some space where you can focus on yourself for a bit and get great health benefits. There will always be another startup opportunity out there. I'd also go for work for places where you have friends.

Also your mental health crisis probably counts as a disability so you may even have a claim against your previous employer. If you are in the US you can get some advice from your local EEOC office.

See for example: https://screening.mhanational.org/content/can-i-be-fired-my-...
Following the terms of the license is not abuse. The whole point of permissive licenses is to allow anybody to exploit the software as they wish. If that's not what you want then don't use a permissive license. AGPL is a good alternative choice.
Might be more useful to get a list of companies that don't have requirements like this.
+1 on having your laptop as an ephemeral device
Didn't think about that, fair point
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Agreed with the other commentor. In fact as Decartes claimed consciousness is the only thing that you can know that exists.
10% seems fairly reasonable given a hypothetical scenario. I would expect staying more refreshed would result in net higher productivity even with reduced hours on the clock. Usually the biggest risk going below 40 hours is benefits. Personally I do want to push for a 4 day work week in the future as it is a substantial increase in free time (2->3 days free a week is a huge leap).
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"Compared to the Pyramid 90x I'd used"

Ahh, the original OSX.
Jeez don't even suggest that. If that shit jumped to humans we are fucked.

I'd rather not imagine how that would look like in comparison to covid
Write all these down:

- Pay your local workers livable wages and dont fuck the local population. Where are most of the customers located?

- If you want to hire foreign workers pay them the same or a substantial fraction of your local workers. If they are good their nationality should not matter.

- Hire and pay directly not through intermediates, dont wash your hands off from all the regulations you need to comply with.

Here we have a company which is effectively paying 10-20% of what a local worker would get (Net Salaries+Taxes+Compliance Requirements,etc). Are they going to charge for their product 10% of the US price in the Philippines?

Many companies want the "good things" about globalization: Access to cheap, unregulated workforce, free-flow of capitals, lack of responsibility for any externality created (are they contributing to social security?) but complain about the other side: worldwide liability, open borders, different regulations.
Part of the issue, I suspect, is I was blending k8s use and k8s administration by running my own k8s cluster on my own equipment--that's likely an extra layer of complexity.

(of course, the whole point of the homelab endeavor I set out on was to be fully self-hosted to learn all these underlying concetps--but definitely doesn't help that I layered some extra abstractions on top of the soup that k8s already is.)
I am not qualified to get too in the weeds on the physics, but 'Resolution' is... complicated. Usually, when we talk about resolution we are talking about the ability to distinguish two points.

The 'resolution limit' (Abbe diffraction limit [1]) is related to a few things, but practically by the wavelength of the excitation light and the numerical aperture (NA) of the lens (d = wavelength/2NA). When we (physicists/biologists) say 'super resolution', we mean resolving things smaller than what was previously possible based on the Abbe diffraction limit. So rather than only being able to resolve two points separated by a minimum of 174nm with a 488nm laser and a 1.4NA objective, we can resolve particles separated by as little as 40-70nm with STED (but it varies in practice).

STED does not accomplish this by estimating PSFs and fitting Gaussians, it uses a doughnut shaped depleting laser to force surrounding fluorescence sources to a 'depleted' state, and an excitation laser to excite a much smaller point in the middle of the depletion (see the doughnut in the STED wikipedia page, Stephen Hell and Thomas Klar won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this in 1999 [2].

I know PALM/STORM uses statistics, blinking fluorescence point sources, and long imaging times to build up a super resolution image based on the point sources and computational reconstruction.

Not as familiar with that one or SIM, but I know the "Pure physics/optics" folks I work with regard STED as the most pure physics based one that doesn't rely on fitting, deconvolution, or tricks (not that any of that is bad or wrong!).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system#The...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STED_microscopy
The glass film plates keep the film stabilized for the hologram exposures, but it is possible to peel the film off after recording the holograms.

Will work on seeing if we can get better imagery of the hologram thickness.
Android is constrained in that sense, I agree. I thought the OP meant constrained like iPhones of the period were: No pretense of multitasking, every task switch being "close an app, open another one".
To the contrary, if Amazon is providing a good hiring funnel for the developers/maintainers, regularly contributing patches back upstream, providing funding to the project's non-profit, and generally respecting the license, then what's the problem? I'm no fan of Amazon but how can I complain about them having a right to profit in cases where they actually are being good open source citizens? Are they really any different from any other cloud provider in that respect?
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This is great, but it makes me so nostalgic for the old web.