skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> on one end some government agency that hands out copyright fees based on some very complex calculations on listening stats, scraped from all the internet?

Yes that's why i'm mostly opposed to a global license. It's broken by design because it's a capitalist proposal. Artists need to live well, but so do other folks (free software devs, cooks, etc..) so this is a problem to be solved as a whole and not to be approached for each individual branch.

> Funkwhale don't even come close to Spotify functionality

Funkwhale looks pretty cool. Need to try that out!

> it's just historically reasonable that corporate solutions appear first

I don't believe that was the case so much. I mean spotify and youtube were born as pseudo-pirate platforms where nobody cared at all about copyright until maybe 5y ago? 10y ago? They couldn't have grown at all if they played by the book (because no editor would have licensed their works to a tiny platform like theirs).

And i don't know about your local context but i know for sure here in France Bittorrent was REALLY popular, everybody was using it and that's why they passed laws like the HADOPI. They knew they couldn't control the Bittorrent network so they started to threaten people with fines so they would move to streaming platforms, to a passive consumption model where it's easier to sell them subscriptions. It's only because law enforcement went after non-profit p2p initiatives (and even for-profit ones like Napster) that platforms like Spotify could emerge at all.

I'm not sure what the morale of the story is. I'm just sure we're doing everything wrong as a society. The best artists are starving while the worst are raking millions of €€€ in. We keep producing useless hardware/software that'll be obsolete/broken by next year, and we keep on destroying our own planet so that the next generation will have to fight for drinkable water. All in all, copyright is not my biggest concern. It's just a symptom of our fucked up capitalist society.
As someone with a vaccine passport issued by the US government and sponsored by the UN from the past, I would like to ask people to think beyond the pandemic and even the vaccine itself. People are clearly not following the logic to even just a few steps forward, let alone to its final conclusion.

This is not about vaccines or even this or any other pandemic, it's about control and even engineering humans. It should not be hard to find the leaked ~2004 pentagon briefing on the use of vaccines to alter the minds of people to become less "extreme". You may think that is a good thing, because of course, we have all be conditioned that extreme = bad; but what happens when your position becomes "extreme", or you do not even realize you are not able to have certain thoughts or feelings because your mind has been altered to where you don't have such "extreme" thoughts as you would have otherwise had, e.g., maybe you want to be free to choose thing for yourself like an extremist.

And yes, that pentagon briefing on the already then proven method to use vaccines to permanently alter brain functions exists and can be found if one looks for it.
Seems unlikely. If you had made your comment in 1950 when the idea of air conditioning in summer was unheard of you would have a point. However these days any house or building has cooling in summer. People are outside a bit more in summer, but not enough to make a difference.
It'll probably trend like WiFi did. Initially it was seen as a luxury to draw people in. Nowadays people get pissed if you don't have it.

I doubt we will have dedicated "gas" stations for electricity in the future. Most car parking spaces will come equipped instead.

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I left a job right before the pandemic because the office was terrible and they gave all the older employees WFH but then stopped giving WFH out right when I was due for it. They told me they just couldn't do it anymore, no reason given.

Then, after quitting, covid occurred and they went fully remote.
The linked article says 900 MWh from a 40 acre installation.
For this headline to be accurate, electric cars would have had to have taken over in 2010. It's much later than I expected already.
No debt but a residence mixed with a 3-6 month emergency fund gives a lot of freedom. I know that’s not that case for many, but the emergency fund is my safety net and if I need, that’s how I would manage to do it. I’d also try to line up a job prior to my departure.
Any actual detail?

A "normal " sodium street lamp is (was) usually 250 W while a "modern" LED lamp is usually 50-70 W, and typically posts are 25-30 meters apart.

So, you have (roughly) 200 W "excess" per post, you need 35 lamps to leds replacement to make 7 kW and this would mean 35 posts at 30 meters each = roughly 1 km in length.

How many (electric) cars will be parked along this 1 Km stretch of a street?
I would say as much as 200 (once the conversion to electric will be 100%).

But even supposing that each lamp post can actually house several 7 kW outlets, enough to cover the 30 m stretch, let's say 6 outlets as each car will take 5 meters along the road 5x6=30, the cable for the single car (or at the most two) parked right in front of the post will be a "normal" length but to get to the farthest ones you will need a 20 m cable, not exactly handy to carry around or to store.

And anyway you are now at around 6x7=42 kW of power per post (as opposed to the original 250 W) and - per kilometer, one side of the street only - you are around 35x42= 1470 kW (as opposed to the "current" 35x0.25=8.75 kW.
and please note Quitting != Leaving the work force.
The market is strong right now for developers. Easy to find another job that has a remote option.
I bet most of that people that quit, quit because they had already secured an offer with remote work option.
https://archive.is/Yc5UW

Archiving is a way around many paywalls.

The article itself was short on substance. A bunch of anecdotes without any hard numbers of the amount that are quitting.
> Powerful telescopes that will soon be operational may be capable of detecting city lights on the night side of planets that orbit distant stars or the telltale mark of reflected light from planet-wide solar-collecting arrays or the distinctive sign of industrial chemicals in a planet’s atmosphere. All of these “technosignatures,” should we find evidence of them, will be small effects. If we do detect such things, you better believe that my colleagues and I will go to extraordinary lengths to eliminate every possible source of error and every possible alternative explanation.

That is nuts, and incredibly exciting!
>The EU is perhaps one of the few places in the world where there will be controls mandated on the data.

For non-state actors. Government(s) will obviously get exemptions in ways we won't find out until later. Look at GDPR and the EU commission.
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Incompetence could mean you're both fully surveilled and at the mercy of other bad actors.
Yes when companies start demanding dedicated home offices with corporate memorabilia and multiple cameras.
> government bailout using tax payer money of a "too big to fail" organization would not happen in such a world - making the economic system a lot stronger for the individuals.

At the risk of starting a flamewar over Keynesianism (or MMT): while I agree that tolerating "TBTF" firms leads to serious moral hazards, let's just say it is highly disputed among economists whether or not it's advantageous for states to have macroeconomic levers. I'm happy to acknowledge the Austrian school's perspective, but it's not exactly a universal consensus.

> a democratic and capitalist system

These two things are in tension. That's not necessarily a problem, a free and just society has to balance multiple concerns (minority rights vs. majority rule); but the very issue with monetary or economic policy is that it lives at an intersection point between public and private interests, and any policy decision (or non-decision) is likely to have winners and losers.
I am not a specialist, but I think I can guess.

First, you need a wafer on which you can make a capacitor, which already means an SOI process, and SOI wafers.

The lowest nodes with SOI available to mortals are 40nm, and 14nm on GlobalFoundries, but god knows how one gets GloFo to collaborate on that.

Then, you need CMOS device which has enough thermal budget to survive both own, and DRAM creation.

Third, I think on-die DRAM will only make sense when it wins over SRAM. DRAM cells cannot physically go smaller than the minimal size of a trench capacitor. I believe at 5-7nm nodes, 6T SRAM will already be smaller than a reasonably fast eDRAM per area.

We know that IBM's Z15 is a 14nm FinFet chip, and it has DRAM on board, with them probably somehow doing DRAM first.
Do you know why they do this? Outside of wartime, I don’t see an obvious benefit.
I've had to commute an hour 30 before. If you're in an expensive city, like LA you're very likely to have this.

It's stressful, expensive and dangerous. I'm really hoping work from home becomes a permanent thing.
I don't have any formal comparisons handy but there's lots of NVMe-oF benchmarks here: https://spdk.io/doc/performance_reports.html

NVMe-oF can do both TCP (akin to iSCSI) and RDMA (akin to iSER). There are likely several reasons NVMe-oF is faster, but one big one is that each connection within a session shares state in iSCSI, so you either process all connections for a session on a single thread or you take locks. In NVMe-oF, it's possible to keep every connection entirely independent, so the NVMe-oF implementations scale better.
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Deepl.com?
Ha, indeed, why would the Pentagon ever engage in disinformation?
"Open minded" is not necessarily a virtue. Sometimes it's a weakness. QAnon adherents are, in ways, open minded.
Taxing electricity will hit households first (electric heating + AC) before it makes a significant dent on EV costs.
Smokers sometimes claim that they'll experience good feelings from cigarettes. But what proportion of those good feelings end up being relief from withdrawal, plus fresh air and an outdoor break?

Personally, I know my caffeine withdrawal kicks in each morning and a lot of the good feeling of coffee is canceling withdrawal plus a bit of warmth or icy cold, and hydration.
Gotta realize that 99% of people like drama, love to see others fail and say they said so, and that's OK. Much like how Tesla no longer has a press department, we should just focus on the work and people will catch up eventually.
Are you saying that mental health issues are somewhat less excruciating than physical ones?
Will be interesting to see the impact this has on children growing up in the next 10-15 years and I'd guess it's largely positive. Parents with jobs that required business travel have found they can do their job and be present for their children. And yes while it's not all positive e.g. domestic abuse stats have gone up, I would suspect the overall impact has been generally positive for families.
No. Why? Because there is civilian oversight.

Compare this with the US, where if I want to give a proof of address for a phone contract, or a car lease, or anything else. In the US, I need to go to a private, for profit organisation who will send me some mail, and then by receiving this mail I 'prove' that I live at this address. No civilian oversight, in fact they can sell that data to whoever they want

With the Swiss (or German) system, you get a proof of address when you register at your local center. They're also the ones who handle things like marriage certificates, death certificates, etc. And then if they do something with the data that you're unhappy with, you vote in new laws saying what is and isn't acceptable.
I see no reason why they should get a CPAP machine. What they should do if they have reasons to suspect that they suffer from sleep apnoea is to schedule a sleep study with their doctor.
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Agree with all of this, but it also requires to schedule pretty much any interaction. Also all the interactions are going through your employers systems, which are all recorded. So any gossip or informal catch up, or sharing real “corporate incorrect” opinion is out of the door (if you work for any large organisation).

It was fine the first 6 months of working from home but I feel increasingly professionally isolated, not knowing what is going on, even though I spend half of my day talking to people on a headset.
So basically this is an RTOS that runs an interpreter for a script(s) stored in flash. Correct? I didn't understand if this script is precompiled or not.

I'm sure that if you want to avoid

uint8_t* ptr = 0x20000000;
while(1) { *ptr = 0xFF; ptr++; }

you have to be interpreting something else that is not C.

But this is a very interesting project in the way it's presented. I did once something similar, running in parallel some sort of reduced LUA scripts.

Even though, after 20 years of working in embedded, my free and unsolicited advice would be this: if you want to learn embedded, no matter how hard you are trying to avoid it, you need to learn some low-level language like C (or Rust or whatever is fancy now).

Put your mind at ease and do the extra mile. At the end learning C is not that hard. And I suppose you are learning, because if you propose Toit in your workplace is because you don't know how to code anything better at the moment.

I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings or sound dismissive but... learn C (or anything low-level). The rest are just toys of the moment.
But https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) can, so it shouldn't be a problem forever for youtube-dl either?
I was worried last year (I think it was last year...) when Mozilla laid off a bunch of people that Firefox would be a casualty.

Thankfully that doesn’t seem to be the case!
When companies start pressuring people to return to the office, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a wave of quitting to switch to another company that’s more remote friendly. That will be limited by the actual number of remote jobs, so the early movers will get an advantage. I think you’ll end up with a decent number of people who answer surveys that they’ll quit before having to go back to the office, but realize there are no comparable remote jobs available.
Well, 2 hours bumper to bumper may seem too much but almost everyone I know spends at least one hour commuting every work day.

(Don't worry, I know that my only experience is not enough to make statistics, but check that out with your friends)
This is completely common throughout the western world, if not the wider world too.
> I hope this is the start of a nation wide trend towards better work life balance.

Key to this is understanding the difference between capitalism and materialism.

The former drives innovation and improvememt.

The latter breeds envy, poorly sorted priorities, and, ultimately, misery.
Here's a similar argument from my naive, intuition-based perspective:

It's important to remember that the the group of rotations in 3d space is represented by _unit_ quaternions. This is a subset of the full 4d quaternion space: a spherical shell around the origin, like the skin of a 3d ball but in 4d.

A 3d ball has a 2d, "flat" skin that is "spherically" symmetric.

A 4d ball has a 3d, "volumetric" skin that is, similarly, "spherically" symmetric.

If we are stuck to that 3d skin, it makes perfect sense that it manages to represent rotations in 3d, which have 3 degrees of freedom and spherical symmetry.

The space of rotations that is formed by this "skin" has two special points: the point where all the imaginary coordinates are zero and the real coordinate is one, and it's dual, the negative one, precisely because we are talking about _unit_ quaternions. (Similarly as there is only two "purely x" points in a unit circle: (1, 0) and (-1, 0)).

These points represent the identity rotation, i.e. "don't rotate at all". This makes sense, if you think how complex numbers work: the effect of multiplying "one" is that it keeps everything as-is, whereas every other "unit" complex number has a rotating effect.

Then as you think the three imaginary dimensions as degrees of freedoms you can start traveling into, from this neutral point, you get all kinds of rotations. The geometry of the "round", "skin-shaped" space ensures that the rotations wrap around the correct way, "spherically". Especially that after you have travelled "tau" (2 times pi) units, you are again in purely "real", "not rotated" state. And the spherical symmetry means that this works similarly in _any_ direction you can travel to.

The only gotcha is that the unit quaternion space contains doubly the space of minimal 3d rotations, because of the negative number symmetry. There's some good arguments why this is especially beautiful and true, but they are a bit beyond me.
"Anti-italian" is not racism.
The amount of panels you can put on a normal car is around 1-2 square meters max. That's not enough to give any kind of measurable range advantage.

The thing they're good for is running AC in the car when it's parked, without affecting the range. (Prius does this, I think the new Ioniq 5 has this)
But at least right now it won't block you from viewing websites as an example. If this becomes commonplace then most websites with accounts will do this kind of identity detection.

Why wouldn't they? Think about it. If people's real identities are involved then they're less likely to be abusive, because everything tracks back to them. But it also means that websites like Facebook and pornhub might not let new users in without that kind of authentication.
A lot of petrol cars have a 200-300 mile range already when you use real-world mpg figures, and no-one even mentions it. Ordinary electric cars can do 30 minutes charging every 3 hours of driving, the cutting edge can do 20 minutes charging every 4 hours, and both figures will be markedly improved by the end of the decade.
I really like the flexibility of having advanced I/O capabilities on almost any pin, specially when I'm not designing the PCB from the ground up. With the older atmegas I find myself sometimes constrained by having to use this pin or that pin for a specific function. A lot of newer chips like ESP32 or the SAMD's are also fairly flexible when it comes to I/O, though maybe less so.
Laws can change. Data is transferred forever.

I'd rather have data NOT transferred (AND laws to protect it, but this is moot if it is not there).
> Seems like the school culture can shape behavior and varies a lot.

Like other universities, things are also going to differ between subjects. But OxBridge has autonomous colleges which provide undergrad accommodation and arrange the individual tutorials/supervisions for undergrads. So there, college culture also matters. Some colleges certainly have a posher reputation than others, some have a reputation for being sportier, and so on. If you read a typical "OxBridge is really like this" articles without bearing that in mind you'll think the whole place is one thing.
Hmm. I think I'd quit if I was told we were going fully remote. It works for some people, not others; personally I can't wait to be back in an office.
I guess I’ll take it. Honestly I think there are a lot more potential uses like that but they have not been explored because speculation and gambling have sucked all the air out of the room.
Yes, they mention it in the article, and explains why they wanted to make their own.
You mean good old webhosting?
What I don't get about the HN crowd is making every simple, already existing, already proven, and already solved problem so damn hard.
I'm in EU, I host my websites at multiple local webhosting companies. They're small enough to care about support and big enough to guarantee speedy and reliable service. By law they're not allowed to go through my data (ofcourse they can and I have no way of proving that they did), so the legal deal between me and them is crystal clear. Who do you call when your Amazon Web Shit serverless thingy doesn't work no more?
I can and did move several webapps and websites from one webhosting company to the other. It works flawless. And besides waiting a couple of hours for a DNS change, it's almost instant. I get it, you can't do that easily with a system with million users.
This so called problem was already solved decades ago. It was called personal computers and the internet. When people started calling the internet 'the cloud' then things went downhill.
Excuse me for the slight rant. I should go outside and see some more sun. ;)
To me that sounds like wishful thinking. In my experience, even talking to friends and coworkers, hours have gone up and the expectation is that you are available on IM all the time. Maybe not 24/7, but definitely more flexible than the old 9-5 expectation.

On top of that, sick days are much less frequent now I daresay.
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Yes, but that's my point. You get rid of the carriers and then the U.S. is still the only country projecting power due to air bases and a sophisticated global logistics system.

But either way, even if you know where the CSG is, it can defend itself and the land-based weapons have limited range. So if you're China, the U.S. Navy can go harass your shipping lanes, and protect their own supply lines going to strategic locations.
Or, alternatively, skip the video if you're going to read the article anyway. In case you're thinking, as I did, "maybe the video will show the thing actually running in real time to transform video", nope: the video isn't from the people who did the research, it's from this Louis Bouchard chap and is just summarizing the paper. The video does contain some more examples than are on the webpage, though.

(It's a little surprising to me that the researchers don't seem to have produced any videos demonstrating what happens when you actually apply the process in real time. My best guess is that it turns out that slightly different images can produce substantially different outputs, so that if you apply it independently frame-by-frame to video you get flickery/shimmery/wobbly output. Personally, I'd still like to see it, even with the understanding that further work would be needed to make something that turns video into usable video.)
IMHO, the strong argument against this being real is how it is "perpetually liminal", i.e. just on the threshold of verification, but staying there. It never quite crosses over into solid evidence. The signal never improves. Even over decades, it never proceeds from a sighting to an artefact in a museum. The results never change from "promising" to "promise fulfilled".