skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like what they've done is basically automate, "Give the people what they want.", as it were.

Yes. Facebook profits from giving people what they want, but did not create the demand. What's scary is the quantity of demand for nuttiness.

The other big feature of social media is that it brings diffuse minorities together. Before social media, outliers were unlikely to meet those with similar inclinations. Social media powered cohesion of groups from gays to Proud Boys to flat-earthers.

Fox News probably influences more people, anyway. Should they be "brought under control?"

I'm more worried about the trend towards censorship everywhere.
Some of the source code is also mirrored on cryptome.org:

https://cryptome.org/2021/04/WhatFreeWords-Javascript-Librar...

https://cryptome.org/2021/04/whatfreewords-py.tar.gz
Ask HN: What does it mean when an open source project is “acquired”?
I'm asking this question after having asked this question to myself for many years, after reading news of open source software being acquired, the last of which is Audacity by Muse Group. What are they acquiring exactly, and why?
I humbly beg to differ.
Well except for the link that I posted that specifically said : *Please note for all dashboards that as of March 12, community samples are no longer being routinely tested for non-COVID respiratory pathogens including flu.

And that they at least show non zero results for past years.
In India lots of buildings leave rebar open on the top floor/roof because they expect the government to allow them to add a floor in the future.

The government often obliges.
A global interpreter lock made sense in the 1990s when multiple cpus was rare, and when it happened, it was usually two.

Now, it's hard to find a system with just one cpu. Maybe something really embedded; but IoT stuff sometimes is multiprocessor these days. Anything intended for regular computers needs to be prepared for 1-16 cpus, and more isn't hard to find if you need it. Building a new programming language with a big constraint preventing it from using modern computing seems like a mistake. That doesn't mean an early version wouldn't start with a big lock, but fine grained locking is probably needed before release.
Maybe, if it’s not about a bottle of water where we don’t want anything to flow out, one could use some sort of Transparent Material At The End Of A Gel Pen Refill to close the plastic pipe and prevent exposure to air to prevent evaporation!
How does Bitcoin "enforce new rules" without creating a hard fork?
Very true, and I know that. I just wanted to build a guitar because I thought it’d be fun :)
It seems Aaron Toponce is in the US (UT) and the company is in the UK.

Hypothetically, he were in the EU, I understand it would be illegal to provide the personal information as requested (i.e. of anyone who had not explicitly consented to the transfer of their data to an explicitly named third party).

Maybe there's a way to give the GDPR more teeth by punishing businesses who operate in the EU "legally" while outside the EU are not treating people as well.
This instinct is so right, but the multitude of comments show how hard of a problem this is. I'd be so elated to work on something that solves this but I think the answer may lie in self-regulation.

We software people are generally mini-philosophers and it can be easy to lose sight of ourselves. But can you or I solve Search?

I guess what I've learned before replying is that it is often a high bar whether we recognize it as such.
Firefox reader mode bypassed it for me. Normally does for newspaper paywalls. Sometimes it needs an extra page refresh.
In that case they could just send a trademark complaint about the name. This wide-reaching letter is guaranteed to make people mad.
You're linking to a article from 2010. It was wrong then, even more wrong now.

Production of an electric car emits about 17.5 tonnes of CO2. Each litre of gasoline emits 2.3 kg of CO2. (Yes, the CO2 weighs more than the gasoline. If the old gas car gets 10l/100km, that's 76000 kilometers. The commenter is a rural driver, so that's probably about 2 years worth of driving.
It would be great if people could start using non proof of work crypto currencies.
Don't forget that humanity turns into an exceedingly fascistic/fanatically religious and almost absurdly authoritarian dictatorship, with literal superhuman stormtroopers enforcing its might. Also cosmic horrors from beyond time and space, civilizations that literally feed on the souls of tortured prisoners, terrifying unfathomable alien hive minds and warmongering sentient fungus-grown brutes who irreversibly infest every world they touch.

Fun times.

Also originally a scathing commentary on Thatcherism and British society, similar to Judge Dredd, but that has been toned down a lot over the years, unfortunately.
Seems like it'd be a plausible (small) business idea. A $10 SDR stick with a piece of wire as an antenna is enough to pick up pager signals, and I doubt you'd need a much more advanced setup to transmit. A 100 or 400 MHz license in the US costs maybe $500 for a decade. Mounted at the right spot, you wouldnt need much power to cover a large area with a single transmitter, though basements are always going to be trouble.
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
I think PCA is a good reason to learn enough linear algebra to understand PCA. It means learning about basis, rank, rank approximation, orthogonality, eigenvectors, spectral decomposition, etc. There's a whole iceberg of concepts that go into actually understand PCA without which PCA is not really understood.
Unfinished buildings have no taxes. And if building company has free capacity, it makes sense to use it. There is no freeze in winter so concrete skeleton lasts for decades.
If only I could pay someone to write the documentation for me.
Horse and buggy is more sustainable than either ICE or EV. It's about the most efficient way to convert the power of the sun into forward movement!
EULAs are not legally binding in many jurisdictions.
I definitely screwed that one up, and it's slightly different now. I was going for one of those voiceover-y "not having attained X, they went for Y instead" approaches and it fizzled. I think it's because it was too long and because it's text and not an actual voiceover. (If that makes sense.)
You know, I truly hope that's true. At the same point, that has been the mantra for a while. Back in the 80's, when I was but a wee lass, as it came time to choose a college path, my uncle warned me not to get into software engineering because his buddies at IBM told me that it'd be all automated away in the next decade.

4GLs happened, but the work didn't really become less. (And 5GL spectacularly face-planted)

In the 90s, we got widespread adoption of the Internet and search engines, and the prognosis was we'd just be able to look up everything.

In the aughts, it was javascript & frameworks that were going to eat everybody's lunch.

In the 2010s, did we ever build fancy linear regressions^W^W^W machine learning solutions.

We always talk about how that somehow would reduce the work, but instead we continue to build barely maintainable mountains of complexity at the outer edge of what we can handle.

I wish you success. I'm not holding my breath it'll significantly reduce software engineering work. It'll shift what we do, no doubt. I'd be surprised if this is the decade where we make a significant dent. We'll just heap on more complexity.
if they removed old reddit i would stop using the site
Please provide a link for this supposed Ampere open source firmware option.

So far all they've provided is an aspirational press release about how they are "working" to produce firmware with "freely redistributable binaries".

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ampere-O...

Ampere claims this future firmware will be "OSF certified", which doesn't mean much because "OSF does not require vendors to deliver firmware in open source form."

https://www.opencompute.org/projects/open-system-firmware
Finding charging stations can be a challenge, and if you are renting an apartment you likely don't have access to a garage. And if you want and affordable car, then you are stuck with older used EVs with poor range. And if you are in a colder climate, the vehicles don't hold much of a charge in winter, although that may not apply in most of California.

All of these are solid reasons for someone to find EVs impractical.
they go batshit crazy because they can't drain energy from the "workers"

You're confusing extroverts with RPG monsters or folklore, unclear.
It's also done by political policy to make it look like America is still "very innovative". It would make politicians (and other people) look bad if the number of patents started falling precipitously. I believe America is still innovative, but not as much as the number of patents might suggest.
I can see maybe an early limited-range EV being a little more challenging to use for the rest of the family. Usually the person who buys it is technically aware of everything, but a teenage kid can get into trouble balancing nav and charge.

But for cars with a reasonable battery size:

- teslas are usable everywhere - they have fast charging and lots of chargers - and the nav system integrates charging into your trip.

- non-tesla SAE/chademo fast chargers are not as bad as they used to be - with charging reaching acceptable levels of predictable and more plentiful.

Another change is that businesses have figured out chargers attract business. They've figured out how to get charging working with people's lifestyles. There are lots of malls and stores like target/walmart with chargers now, and people come to overlap charging and shopping. "I need to charge, maybe I will pop by the store and do both" is pretty powerful.
Unfortunately, it doesn't necessarily have to be dangerous to be the target if a lawsuit like this.
The largest system I'm aware of that meets formal verification -- like CC EAL 7 -- are small smart card (Gemalto) Operating Systems. Has it been done on anything bigger?
When motor-propelled was first invented, gas stations weren’t readily available everywhere and there were lots of things that remained unstandardized. I feel like some of the EV->ICE reversion is justified, but as these issues are ironed out, there will be fewer motor-powered experiences which are inferior to the buggy-powers ones of the time, so they will be rarer.
Some printers do this and I don't think it's by accident.
See https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creat...

Zuckerberg initially made Facebook so he could creep on the girls at Harvard.
So the culprit must be extraversion, or so the thinking goes.

Whose thinking? What country? There are a tremendous number of people who don't "believe in" COVID in the US. There are a tremendous number of people who think masks are a restraint on their freedom in the US.
This opens up an interesting discussion point. Is there a way to reform the legal system to make it depend less on how much money you have?

edit: I like our current legal system, but I know Europe has the (Roman/Napoleonic?) inquisitorial system, if any Europeans could contribute and note if that has different outcomes? Or just any wild ideas on how to tweak the system to give more equal footing that isn't based on money.
Since I didn't know what the E61 machine is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-61
Verizon Near Deal to Sell Yahoo and AOL
> M1, the main CPU ... doesn't even implement EL3

What makes people believe this?

All the low-level details so far have been reverse-engineered since Apple doesn't provide documentation. Just because m1n1 finds the CPU to be in the EL2 state when its first instruction executes doesn't mean EL3 doesn't exist. An equally valid conclusion is that iBoot dropped from EL3 to EL2 before jumping to the m1n1 code.

Apple's phone chips use EL3 as a "god mode" to silently scan the kernel's code pages for modifications, and panic the processor if any are found:

https://xerub.github.io/ios/kpp/2017/04/13/tick-tock.html

Until this mechanism was discovered nobody thought EL3 was being used at all on the phone chips.
The purpose of the patent system is to incentivize people to publish the details of their inventions instead of keeping them secret, thereby advancing the state of the art. The limited-time monopoly is the incentive.
This was discussed in detail in that Audacity acquisition thread in HN
What a loser move. I will never use What3Words again. Hope they get bankrupt.
A lonely Janissary.
I spoke on the app one night with a Chinese dissident about his experiences in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Nowhere else is it possible to make that conversation happen right now except for Clubhouse.

Is the app some deeply innovative technology? No. But it is a thoroughly well-done combination of existing technology, and it has evolved social networking to be much more pleasant, thought-provoking and intimate than what has come before.

Status-seeking is the reserve currency of social networking applications (including this one we're using right now), but at least Clubhouse aligns the incentive to seek status with generating a quality product for the community. (Maybe it's just too soon to say for sure; I imagine there existed a time when people on Instagram really did get attention for interesting photos.)
Maybe the antibiotic is for Tuberculosis? https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2020/tb-covid.html
Looks like, from the CNBC article, that WFH basically worsened the performance of low-level/ middle managers, which feels about right.

It also feels that some way of improving this group of people in general is sorely needed -- how does the G2G program work exactly?

ninjaedit: found this https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/learning-development-em... . Will evangelize at my company… probably will be ignored though because I'm an IC.
Woah, back up. The patent system is messed up for software but that wasn't the intent. You weren't supposed to be able to defend algorithm-based patents in court. Software is protected by copyright.

The patent office doesn't do much background checking. Enforcement happens in the court system. And, some courts such as those in Texas have handed cases to patent trolls.

Patents, by design, reward innovators and contribute to the public good by exchanging information for protection. When you see a big company owning a lot of patents, that's the system at work. IP rights allow the company to defend their interests and pay larger salaries. Without IP rights, individual creators really have little chance to move up because wealthy individuals or businesses will just copy and mass-produce the concept. In order to remain involved you would have to play by their rules, like what happened to Jack Ma. Everyone answers to the government there because there's no delegation of power to courts to sort out IP rights.
That's clever
It's fine for a job to have requirements, but why shouldn't those requirements be decided in a more democratic way?
I mean, Rap God is an example of the upper limit of stream out that took a lot of practice on his part and is trying to prove that he's one of top people in the world at that art, and I can understand it just fine.

It also doesn't seem to be achievable with on the fly statements, only memorized oration. Notice how my citation interestingly shows that the 39 bits per second isn't a count of syllables, but of semantic information. Some languages have faster, simpler syllables, but the overall information bandwidth flow ends up being the same. You probably can bypass that 39 bit with practice and memorization, essentially applying higher level tags to large bodies of what you're saying via practicing repeated phrases.

That seems to prove where the bandwidth constraint is, on the stream out side.
I am not sure that is the case. You definitely have an argument if this was only done in satire but when you are also truly offering a competing product while using a similar name it is hard to argue that it is just parody.
I too suspect "data oriented programming" is just array programming rebranding itself.
Teams must be responsible, ie. when harm is done, they know how to amend it fast. Company culture need to prefer this beforehand. Accept the added costs, to reduce those risks and damages. It's part of fix your own shit, don't export it to hostages.

Accountability will need to be with the people calling the shots.

There is education for all levels in this.
Safari reader mode also works.
Apparently, yes, developing nations are happy to do that: https://qz.com/705273/mongolia-is-changing-all-its-addresses...

(Article from 2016 describing how all post addresses in Mongolia were switched to what3words addresses)
It is a soft fork. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bip-8-bip-9-or-modern-... "The nice thing about adding or tightening rules is that anything that an upgraded node considers valid, a non-upgraded node considers valid, too."

The signalling mechanism is a way for the miners to vote ahead of time whether they will follow to the new fork or not. If more than 10% of the hash power of the network does not signal that it will follow, then the fork is called off and won't happen.
seems open, that's much better than w3w
> Patents, by design, reward innovators and contribute to the public good by exchanging information for protection.

Design and practice are two different things. Patents, in practice, are hopelessly broken when you can buy a fairly general patent from someone else, sit on it without ever actually using it, and then sue someone else who had no way of knowing the patent even existed. And that's not just in software.
What's your subreddit?
If it puts anything in perspective, it's about $250 a year to register a vehicle in my state under 14 years old. So consider however much the new vehicle costs, plus sales tax, plus registration on 2 vehicles every year, plus fees on 2 vehicles, plus maintenance. And add $15 for my crappy old trailer which is a joke after I've paid for vehicle reg.
One thing I've found helps me not lose my mind is to CMD+Q everything at some point. Nothing better than decidedly stop working. I usually write a note (that does not compile) in the code about what I was doing, and what I should try next. In case it takes me a few days to get back to it.
My guess is you have never found yourself in this kind of legal situation.

In my experience, as someone that was detained for the first time at the age of 14 by the secret service for counterfeiting, has multiple subsequent arrests, and despite all that actually became a lawyer myself, while a lawyer later in life was abducted and kidnapped at gun point managed to escape by jumping out of a moving car and tracked down the guy 24 hours later and delivered him to the police (or police to him) - so I feel I have some life experience - it’s the person screaming the loudest about what they would do in the shoes of others that is usually the least likely to actually do it.

Unless you can say what you have done in like circumstances you don’t know.

So before you go around championing marking people with tattoos in order to readily identify them, at least consider where in history that very concept comes from. My suggestion if you feel so strongly, is help, maybe by donating money for a legal fund, or at minimum show a little compassion and moral support, but don’t tell someone else what you would do in their shoes and how you’d punish them if they don’t show the same moral convictions you pretend to have without being put to the test.
Ah I was being too broad, I assume that the skynet portal runs off of mint subsidy, but other portals not so much.

Thanks for taking the time and eating the costs to provide a portal even temporarily.

Are you still interested in the project? Any thoughts on other storage coins?
A big shoutout to Alyssa here. For those of you who don't know, she is doing this work as a college student.
Were we getting low on disk space?

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_drive_capacit...

It’s perverse you are proud of that and chose a tiny hard drive size over becoming actually useful and doing more than seven transactions per second. Time marches on, technology improves, but Bitcoin is proud they can run a node on a computer from 1995.
I dig it..(Hopefully nobody is silly enough to need this at work, though).

This made me chuckle, from Advanced Usage:

Linux

Oh I'm sure you'll figure it out
R/UrbanForestry is sort of like that. (Edit: Also r/CitizenPlanners)
Related thread from earlier today:

What3Words – The Algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27015046 - May 2021 (148 comments)
Why do you believe it'd be cheaper. Currently the price for storing on sia looks really good.
Alyssa is a hero for her work on Panfrost, which gave us open-source 3D graphics on ARM Mali GPUs. I am eternally grateful for this; the Samsung Kevin I use is the only blobless laptop currently in production, and now it has 3D accelerated graphics thanks to her work!

But part of me is sad to see her working on such closed hardware now.

Does anybody think Linux on the M1 will ever be able to touch the internal SSD? Apple has been locking that down with proprietary controllers and signed firmware since their Intel days (i.e. T1 chip). Are people really going to drag around their shiny new macbooks with an external USB-C dongle hanging off of it because that's required in order to run Linux?

I worry that the endgame here is Linux becoming Just Another MacOS App. Apple is quite happy for Linux to be a MacOS app running in their VM. Elite developers will buy Macbooks and run Linux in a VM because "we'll have Linux on the bare metal soon, it's just temporary" and that will just keep getting pushed back and pushed back and pushed back...
> It is not what "poeple associate with black kids", it is what it was and what it is, most black kids are not middle class.

What is that based on? What data or experience do you have? It looks to me like your argument is that racial stereotypes are a given truth - a sadly ignorant, uncritical point of view.

Most kids are not middle-class, but the African-American middle class has exploded in size. And middle-class or not, that doesn't make black kids into stereotypes of hip-hop music. I've known and know many (of all classes); they are just people, neighbors, friends, kids. It's bizarre to see people - always people mostly isolated from experience - talking about them like they are anything else.

And where on HN and in most of our lives are African-Americans to speak for themselves, with their own voices, rather than other people talking about them? If any are here and read the parent, would they stick around?
Those last two are actually Swedish place names already.
I live in Mexico and can vouch for this answer.

Especially the never happens part.
I honestly don't see anything creepy about that. Let alone "misogynistic".

edit: Oh, gathered without explicit consent. Well that's dumb of him. Still, they're public photos...

edit: Okay, the article says "from the facebooks", and "hacked into", but that might mean whatever, so I'm willing to tentatively grant "creepy" on the basis of lack of consent. I still think misogynistic is a stretch.

At any rate, I don't think this makes Facebook misogynistic even granting that this website concept is. Really, what this says to me is mostly "Mark Zuckerberg has no understanding of privacy or private space." Which, um. Yes.

edit: To clarify, the reason I think it's a bad take to call this creepy and misogynistic, and that I'm annoyed enough to raise the issue, is that it's fairly well-established that men tend to rate women in their heads, because they're more visually focused on average. So this just seems like another instance of taking a totally normal, widespread male behavior, adding a social disability on top, and calling the result creepy - a creep and misogynist in other words being a person who does "being a man" badly, like the uncanny valley of gender performance. I'm not defending Zuckerberg in general here, or even the thing he did in itself, I just find the framing problematic.
Is someone?
You can use a bouncer so that's not true