skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Machines that can't run Matrix is a pretty small subset. There's a Matrix plugin for Weechat, so you should be able to connect from anything with roughly the power of a Raspberry Pi. Probably slightly less than that; but yeah, you're probably not going to have a good time trying to use an ESP32 as a client. I don't see that as a huge drawback.
The antimemetics division sequence is great

"What happened to him?"

"You don't want to know."

There is a very long pause while both O5-8 and his assistant react to this. In fact, they pass through a long, discrete sequence of reactions. Indignation at the seeming rudeness; confusion at Wheeler's incaution in front of sinister superiors; surprise at the magnitude of the claim; pure disbelief; comprehension; and finally, horror.

"What…" O5-8 asks carefully, "would happen if we did know?"
Hackaday had a good write-up:

https://hackaday.com/2021/05/20/freenode-debacle-prompts-sta...
> Refreshed mobile apps, intuitive web apps, friends lists, working team support, video calls and file sharing. All within a few taps of the mobile device as people have come to expect.

i.e. he wants to evolve/transmogrify IRC into a system that is more amenable to centralization, data collection and monetization.
> Typically, you could direct yourself to a local tax office or public registry where you could search and look into basic information about a legal entity as defined / outlined in a legal statute.

Sweden doesn't require non-profit associations to be registered.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideell_f%C3%B6rening
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If Game of Thrones were an IRC network
dont try to level up too far thou:

hero[160]@/home
hp:[xxxxxxxxxx] -2085599079/-2085599079
xp:[xxxxxxx---] 40302/60715
att:-1989316420 def:6 spd:697466
equip:{sword[1],shield[1]}
item:{escapex15}
5947886g
My recollection is that the original Shield was marketed as much for playing (Android) games locally as for streaming, and had a much more powerful GPU and CPU than contemporary mobile phones did. That's kind of losing the advantage of it being dedicated to streaming, which is that you could really cut down on the BOM.
How is it legal? Do they get permissions from copyright owners?
This is what I fear will happen, as it seems to be the cycle. I do however need to give some credit for not selling out to Micro$oft.
For what it's worth:

This organisation is a "ideell förening" under Swedish law.

> In Sweden there are two kinds of associations: the voluntary association (ideell förening) and the economic association (ekonomisk förening). The second one is a cooperative company and must be registered with the authorities to become a legal entity. The first one is a member-based nonprofit organization and is formed without formal registration. The main steps in creating a voluntary association are explained here.

> Once properly created, the voluntary association of course has to follow the tax law and other laws and rules established by the government. But it also has to follow the unwritten rules and traditions of Swedish voluntary organizations (god föreningssed) which guide how the organization should be run, how it makes decisions and so on.

> ...

> The association is a legal entity, but needs to apply to the tax authorities for a registration number, which is needed for tax reasons but also when opening a bank account or hiring an office and so on.

http://www.voluntarius.com/How-to-create-a-voluntary-associa...

In essence, the organisation proper isn't formally registered or incorporated (e.g. via a notary public) but it will be registered under Swedish tax law. The latter part is probably still being processed by the administrative paper mills.
by having access to the steam pc game library, which is huge
Ask HN: What will be the impact of 5G on business and life
Considering the huge improvement of 5G over its predecessor, how will it impact the existing business model and unlock new way of doing businesses?
I could certainly see this being the flagship for the launch of a steam cloud streaming service a la Stadia, Luna, geforce now, etc.
That does beg the question of how they would price it. I think they would have to price the hardware very aggressively or sell at a loss -- the cost of entry on these other streaming services is what, $50-60 for a controller? Although if gamers with big steam libraries could bring them with them to a streaming platform rather than re-buying then that would be a major differentiator.

On the local streaming front, I've struggled to do in-home streaming in a comfortable way with anything but a hardwired network between the PCs streaming. Maybe this will be different if they optimize it for wireless streaming, but on laptop wifi -> desktop ethernet I found it to be fairly high latency and lossy.
Just to add to your comment, you can already turn any phone to a "streaming Switch" for $30, there are dozens of controllers like this:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BRX3RT3/

the Steam Link android app lets you stream any of your games to your phone like this already. With a little more setup you can stream Wii games to your phone through Moonlight from CEMU and run them at 1440p60, while the Switch can barely do 720p30.
The higher valuation now is exactly the problem. It’s not connected materially to the property value, rather the speculative investment value the market is giving it.

This doesn’t change my point that renting needs to be profitable to happen, and the proof is in the pudding/reality.
Say goodbye to a storied brand. This is another example of a FAANG company that is too greedy to stick to their core competencies. A comedian once called Amazon Prime "the 7th best way to watch television," which I thought was pretty spot-on. Their "originals" are pretty terrible. Will owning a studio help? Certainly it won't if they try to manage that studio's output.

This is just like them trying to running a game studio. How's that workin' out fer ya?
Ask HN: List of Wikipedia articles everyone should read?
I particularly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies .

This is like "preparing to face the world before you touch it". What other wikipedia articles do HN readers suggest everybody should read?
Both languages allow for incompatible arrays to be operated on in this manner though, just because it fails in numpy just means that numpy hasn't implemented that type of broadcasting. For instance, this operation:

np.array([1,2]) + np.array([[1],[2]])

is not broadly defined and understood in pure mathematics. Looking at it, it's not immediately obvious what it would do. You are adding a (1,2) matrix to a (2,1) matrix. It turns out, numpy extends the rules of matrix multiplication to matrix addition through the rule of broadcasting.

R is just doing the same thing, in a different way. These types of implementations are common in scientific computing because it creates easy ways to do these operations, programming robustness and rigidity be damned.
I agree with you, with the exception of backlogs.
"there's just far too much confusion about what REST means to rescue it"

No, there is no confusing. REST is exactly what's in Roy Fielding's thesis. Anything as is derived from REST, often with dismal ends. RESTful, RESTlike, RESTish are weasel words designed to say something along the lines of 'It's REST, but with these additions', or 'It's REST, but with these constraints loosened', or a mix of both.

I was there at the beginning of SOA in 2004 and SOA then was an amazingly useful concept that worked well. The term SOA was hijacked to mean so many things, often by consultants pitching their version of SOA enablement or training, and at a rapid pace. By 2009 the meaning of SOA was so buzzwordy and clouded that people were trying to invent new terms to refer to the original concept.

If someone wants to create a new thing, create a new thing and give attribution to the shoulders you stand on (i.e., ABC is based on REST but is different in these ways..1,2,3).
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Hey, thanks for the comment. I totally respect the authors for writing hard sci-fi space opera. It's just that... the bleak hopeless future theme is getting a bit long in the tooth, you know? If I want to feel depressed I can just turn on the daily news.

Incidentally, can anyone recommend some hopeful science fiction? "Schismatrix" is probably my favorite.
That's the key to that belter setting in The Expanse: their continued survival is expensive. They are refused access to all the places where their sustenance could be cheaper and this makes them infinitely exploitable.
That'll be the "fiction" part of the science fiction.
Same with KDE, but the Matrix wnd Libera team are working on it.
Not sheer evil, profit, right? That seems about right.

My favorite line from Sorry To Bother You.

> So, you making half-human half-horse fucking things so you can make more money?

> Yeah, basically. I just didn't want you to think I was crazy. That I was doing this for no reason. Because this isn't irrational.
I think you are getting downvoted because you're making points that I've already responded to you. Libera is a week old. It may have been started to get in shape before the launch and mass resign of a week ago, but give them time to create the org properly (which, again, is in progress, and was already a week ago).
What is the prudent diet? I didn’t know so I googled.

> A diet to protect against heart disease, stroke, and other common diseases. It consists of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, fish, and low-fat dairy products rather than refined or processed foods, red meats, high concentrated sweets, eggs, and butter.
>let's hope it doesn't do a "Game of Thrones".

Don't get your hopes up too high; "The Expanse" is often nicknamed "The Expense" due to its high special effects budget. Amazon Prime may decide that later seasons need to have their budgets cut.
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Not as good as the UK, and historically Germany and Austria, which have their own little problems in the past...
WhatsApp sues Indian government over new internet rules
A good cup of coffee seems hard to come by.
Interesting comparison. How in your mind is a Siberian oil rig different from others?
I remembered that incident and searched Google for more details. According to Wikipedia[0], the plane was not "forced down" — it was denied air space by several countries, requested an emergency landing in Austria, and was searched in the airport. At no point were any American or NATO jet fighters involved in forcing the landing.

[0] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident...
Ask HN: Do companies fail because of technology?
I have been thinking recently that most companies succeed despite technical implementations, not because of them. I mean things like doing ddd or picking nosql or whatever, or making "right" or "wrong" data model for the business at a specific point in time.

For example expedia/booking/hotels.com. Its was not possible for a person to search 10000 hotels in Rome if they are available on specific date, and at what price, so there was a problem, so you say, lets build a catalog of the rooms and their prices per day and we will keep it up to date and people can search it (and then buy people from google and charge the hotels more than we pay google and we are good to go).

Do you think the "worst" developer you know can build it?

Can anyone think of a company that failed because the devs did something "wrong"?

I know some that failed because of "we will rewrite everything" at some point, but did they really have a strong product in the first place?

Or asking in another way, does having super strong technical team improves the chances of product's success with good ROI (considering the price of super strong technical team)?
Yeah. China has one comparable line (Xinjiang-Anhui / Zhundong–Wannan) which is 3300km running at 1100kV. I can't find any concrete numbers on line loss there, but I would expect if the voltage is 40-50% higher, keeping all else equal, you'd see a 2x reduction in line loss, so close to 5%.

(Of course, this doesn't account for last-mile delivery, or AC/DC conversion losses. But the limiting factor isn't the technology, at this point.)
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If you have specific evidence that the numbers in that article are wrong then I recommend you contact the editors of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and let them know.

https://www.who.int/bulletin/editorial_board/en/
You might be interested in reading Stephan Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property [0] for the libertarian take on the matter.

https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0
Like most of the entries in the article's silly list, this is not a "fallacy", formal nor informal; one does not invalidate a particular argument just by "thinking too much".
That principle of jurisprudence is for criminal matters. The DMCA issues at hand are for civil issues: providing relief to a copyright holder against a potential infringer. The DMCA shields a provider like ISPs/Dropbox/Google/etc and compels them to take down content that a copyright holder claims is infringing (or provide counter-notice).

I'd suggest an improvement to the DMCA would be to hold copyright holders responsible for claims determined to be made in bad faith, or even just an "excessive" number of false claims.
First page of DDG found this: https://www.wired.com/2008/11/the-boy-who-cri/ (from 2008)

or this https://conversation.which.co.uk/motoring/breaking-speed-lim... it's from an insurer, but the % who admit to speeding is very high

or this from the UK gov https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
This is probably not necessary here but I'll try anyway.

PID is a control loop algorithm: something which takes a desired value and an actual value from a sensor, and outputs something to some kind of actuator to try and get the actual value to match the desired value.

A simple example of a control loop algorithm is the "bang-bang" algorithm used by your thermostat. When it's too cold the furnace turns on, and when it's too hot the furnace turns off.

PID was discovered by observing boat helmspeople. It was observed that there are three major factors in their decision of how to turn the boat's wheel (the P, I, and D respectively).

First, they set the wheel to approximately where they think it needs to be to achieve the desired angle. That's the P, or proportional part.

Then they note the cumulative error over time, i.e. the distance away from the desired angle summed up over each moment that they are still waiting. As the cumulative error rises, they turn the wheel a bit further to compensate. This is the I, or integral term, which accommodates conditions where the controls are particularly dull, causing the proportional control to undershoot.

Finally they observe the rate at which they are approaching the desired angle and compensate negatively if they are approaching it more quickly than they expected. This is the D (derivative) term, which accommodates conditions where the controls are particularly sensitive and the proportional control overshoots.

PID just adds these three terms together with weights chosen for the specific application. Choosing those weights is the tuning process.
I have to admit I'm not up to speed on the current events, but this article is something that no company or organisation should be proud to have hosted on their website.

It just seems so cocky and immature. I don't think it's a good look for Freenode. Normally I would have thought Freenode is a respectable organisation, this article gives me a very different feel.
> So on one hand, I've got multiple big communities I'm in... that saw the writing on the wall, appropriately planned and got ahead of it... and then one of the directly involved parties who seems to be ... behind the ball - from both a technical and community-building standpoint.

To be fair to the libera folks, it seemed that they expected to have more time (or even avoid this entirely) and got caught off guard when the resignation drafts became public.
I get why you think this. But that's not how it works.

Github is in an implied contract with its users - it provides free infrastructure for people to store their git repos, and in return it is considered the most prominent place to store git repos. Part of that contract is that what you store on Github belongs to you, not Github.

If it breaks this contract, then it loses that prominence, and the paid accounts go away with that, too. The entire business model relies on Github being the place everyone goes to, and that is based on this implied contract. Breaking the contract breaks the business model.

Same with Freenode. The communities do not belong to Freenode, despite being hosted there. If Freenode breaks this implied contract, then it loses all legitimacy and the communities will leave (as we're seeing happen).
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A portable gaming PC means optimization - in terms of performance and interface - is going to be critically important.

But knowing Valve, they will keep the same old exorbitant 30% commission which makes it uneconomical to actually launch great titles targeted at this device, same as for the Index VR device.

By the way, on Switch the effective commission is 25%, given that customers are rebated 5% of their eshop spend. Nintendo also bothers to apply curation and quality control to their store, which Steam does not.
Well, compared to the Santa Barbara oil rigs, I bet it’s a bit colder in the winter.
> would the dangers still be that serious?

Well... if you're the person that the server, domain name or association leadership is legally associated with, you are the person where the feds will knock on the door and raid if someone uses your server for pedo or warez content.

A bigger entity like a foundation, corporation or university (hopefully) has financial resources to pay for lawyers, to institute compliance and screening procedures and other things, but average Joe Admin does not. This is something many German TOR operators had to discover the hard way - especially dealing with the stigma of cops showing up for a CP investigation...
Probably the biggest cause of failure is not making something people want.

The biggest reason people do that is that they don't pay enough attention to users.

For example, they have some theory in their heads about what they need to build. They don't go out there and talk to users and say "What do you want?" They just build this thing and then it turns out users don't want it. It happens time and time again.
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We have people right here on earth mining in actual third-world countries. It's not hard to imagine that phenomenon being exported to asteroid mining. In fact, it seems quite likely.
Amazon is very busy making it's LOTR First Age show still, it's just a big, multi year production.
What client do you use?
Which government didn't? I mean, I look around, and nobody really has it figured out. Countries that did 'OK' with initial COVID infections, regressed when variants hit. India is the prime example (but Japan is also struggling) - and the most perplexing - why was the initial wave so light, and the current wave so destructive? It seems the difference is the variants.

Speaking of which, it's not wholly clear that the discrepancy in outcomes between Asian nations (specifically Korea and Japan) and European/North American nations isn't a result of a more dangerous and virulent COVID strain being active in the latter.
> repeatedly on the wrong side of history

Also repeatedly on the right side of history. It's really intellectually dishonest to ignore one over the other.

> they cannot even face that

I don't know who "they" are, but Americans are extremely self critical -- just look at this thread. It's also certainly the only of three global superpowers where citizens can be (and are) openly critical of their country's policies.

> Red scare

I'm sorry, have you ever lived in a communist country?

> Supporting neo-liberal-to-fascist govts

Yeah pretty much any time a country is a global superpower / police, it's going to make mistakes. But also, many governments the US has supported historically have had broad popular support on the ground, too, and the governments overthrown have been oppressive regimes. The regimes that take their place may often have also been oppressive, but that's not known without the benefit of hindsight. (Also there are legitimate victories in this camp too. Just ask any resident of South Korea.)

I could keep going, but it seems like your main beef with the US is that it operates like a global superpower pursuing its own domestic and international policy. I don't know what you think the world would look like under another superpower like China or Russia, but given the treatment of those countries _towards their own citizens_ in Chechnya, Crimea*, Uyghur Xinjiang, and Tibet, it's hard to imagine your or my life would be much better off under those global regimes.

I also challenge you to find a global superpower in world history that has yielded a more unshakeable global peace for almost a century.
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