skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I don’t lose sleep over Boeing patching a random library I wrote and not sharing the patch

> What you call "permissive" then is only permissive in the short term, because it precisely introduces this segmentation between users and developers in the long term. If you look at this as a tree structure, it's permissive only to your immediate children, because you are granting them the right to take away this precise freedom from your grandchildren, thus introducing the separation between users and developers.

It sounds like vsw02 understands your argument, and has already showed that they don't consider the scenario you describe to bothersome. One might say vsw02 predicted your argument, but I'd say you didn't fully consider vsw02's argument.

Your example sounds like the paradox of tolerance, but there is a critical difference: consequences. If you are tolerant of intolerance, then the repercussion is that intolerance continues, and even increases, which can also increase physical violence, and various human rights violations. If you give code freely to those who will not provide the modifications to that code freely, there won't be an increase in violence, or what most people would consider human rights violations.

Could we have a bit more FOSS code if all OSS was libre? Maybe. Carmack disagrees though in TFA, stating "I'm pretty sure there would have been more total users of the code, likely making the amount shared in the open still greater." Explaining libre isn't helping, you need to provide an argument that vsw02 hasn't already shown to be irrelevant to them, and ideally, one that also addresses Carmack's argument (saying "that's just speculation" is true, but it seems Carmack's speculation is speculation that a lot of us subjectively already agree with)
Hah - thank you for sharing!

That is very interesting that this emerged from two different approaches.

I published my result years back, and have never heard of this emerging elsewhere before!

Didn’t take it as accusatory [but thanks to child for sharing link :)].
FWIW, Bezos stopped being the CEO yesterday. So technically this is Andy's win...
Because that same phishing email will expose those services too. It is not a location issue.
Didn't the web fix this with <img width="xxx" height="xxx" /> long ago? Page authors know how big the image is going to be on page load, so renderers can just allocate the space for the image there. No need for layout shifts.
Isn't Poisson's equation basically describing a minimal surface for small z?

I'm not saying the badminton racket follows exactly a (discrete) 2D Poisson equation. But it's certainly related enough to be more than a surface similarly.

The cords are under high tension, which means that any curvature along x (that is, dz^2/dx^2) will result in a net z-axis tension force unless balanced by an oppositely curved cord running in the y direction. Since it's in static equilibrium, there can be no unbalanced forces and so that must be the case. Therefore at each intersection, (d^2/dx^2 + d^2/dy^2)z = 0, which is Poisson's equation in 2D for z height being the function. Approximately, assuming equal tension in x and y, small z, and so on.
Could a solution be to remove Windows from the box?
> ... is, technically, BS. And pretty much all of Aquinas follows this pattern. Which was very highly regarded back then, but now we know better.

You seem confident in that assertion. Care to elaborate, preferably with examples/arguments?

N.b., it's not the first time I've heard such a claim so boldly stated. Typically, dismissive attitudes toward Thomas are rooted in widespread misunderstanding about what he actually argued and on what basis. Feser, for example, recalls how he had held a caricaturish view of some of the most famous arguments Thomas put forth because those caricatures are what are often taught to students of philosophy nowadays, largely because the caricatures have become part of academic received wisdom, not necessarily because of some ill intent.

None of this is to say that Thomas is infallible, just that he is a great teacher. Arguments that rely on the science of his day, for example, may require revision, but his philosophical synthesis, for example, is, at the VERY least, very defensible.
There was a Voyager episode where an alien species using stealth tech was performing various medical experiments on the Voyager crew to further their treatment of various ailments. Suffice to say that when the Voyager crew uncovered the alien experiments, they were not agreeable to continue. In fact, Captain Janeway was willing to destroy Voyager to stop the experimentation. And the lead alien scientist made the same pitch to Janeway about how the experiments would help many others. Janeway rejected the argument.

> I would absolutely turn myself over to alien science if the need was great enough, especially if my quality of life was heading downhill, but only if I knew it would benefit the rest of you.

That's noble of you, but I'd rather the aliens left us alone if it was between that and experimenting on us for their (or our) own good. No thanks.
Multi-vendor is good in principle.

DoD hopefully applying lessons learned from F-35 bullshit. It's one thing to sole source the airframe (that's been standard practice for like... forever), but the engine fiasco, the flight software fiasco, and the ODIN fiasco all reinforced the benefits of multi-vendor and open architecture where possible.

Hopefully this works out well... instead of uh something like LCS where multi-vendor just means multi-lemons.
The mechanism that duplicate the virus genome is fairly imprecise, which means that they produce an astronomical number of mutants. The only mutants that we will really notice are the ones that survive. There is nothing sinister about the fact that the very first COVID virus was already adapted to humans because otherwise it would never have been to infect humans.
> and know which ones you can remove.

No, you can't remove it. Even though I'm using it rarely it's existence might be the reason for me to use the tool at all, so that when I need it the feature is available.

This came about with audacity. There I have my set of standard filters I run all the time, even though they don't bring much benefit, they are there and nice. They will be on top of a usage statistics. Then there are filters I need for a special effect or to repair something really broken. Those I use ahrdly, but when, they make the difference.

Or when talking command line: `ls` without options I use a lot (Well actually a lie, i have some alias in my shell rc), sometimes I use `-a` or `-l`. This doesn't mean that maintainers should remove `-i` since once per year or so I need it to compare inodes with log entries or something and then it's important that flag exists.

You need qualified information about what features are important. Not unqualified statistics.
It’s funny how we came up with this amazing new tech, where the owner can access basically all the information in the world in his hands, can listen to music, watch films, basically do anything. I mean Elon basically says it turns humans into cyborgs.

And this tech was obviously very expensive, and the rich had huge advantages in keeping it to themselves, I mean why give the poor access to all information in the world right?

So the rich just kept smartphones to themselves to get richer and more powerful.

Oh wait… what did I get wrong in this story?
vm2 does what you're looking for IIRC. Do a dynamic import check with an optionalDependency and write some glue over vm2 with a fallback to the built-in.

Just a thought.
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Not my burden of proof to bear, that wasn't OP's argument at all.
It does seem that more serious maintenance and auditing of these providers is needed. Looking at this thread on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ocggbv/crticial_ransom... which is by a company looking into the incident and how it happened, it seems that it was exploited vulnerabilities in Classic ASP files used as part of the solution.

Having classic ASP pages hosted on a production system in 2021 seems like a pretty strong indication of a lack of codebase maintenance and auditing.
Please see my comment to trasz.
Wow, it's not even like progressive JPEGs are anything new, they have been around forever (decades?)!
Well, I'm glad that worked out in your case, but that's just getting lucky, no? Sounds like in most other scenarios it would backfire.
> rockets ... catastrophically

I admire the faith he demonstrates in his team, by being among the first human lives at risk in a launched Blue Origin vehicle.

But maybe 57 is just the new 27.
Awesome!

Does the YC Startup School specifically target younger entrepreneurs, or is being 50+ Okay here?
I think you are going to see at least the large nations throw up firewalls and crack down on the international social media companies because they have an awful lot of power to shape perceptions by silencing some voices or labelling their views as "misinformation" while promoting other voices. That's enormous power.

It is absolutely naive to think that companies like twitter don't use that power to advance the political/social agendas their most powerful employees care about and it's even more naive to think that governments will see this power and not want to control it for themselves, but instead let it operate unchecked in their own borders, influencing their own elections. They will either block these companies from operating via firewalls or demand that they use their power to share the political and cultural values they want to push, systematically deplatforming any company that they view as a threat to their agenda. China was ahead of the curve.
Keen to hear how you've solved the journalism revenue problem. You must surely be a billionaire!
I gotta try this one out
Are clever acronyms an end run around copyright claims?
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"Democracy Dies in Darkness"

I don't disagree, but it's hilarious because The Washington Post is one of the biggest darkness merchants there is.
Going with your proposal for a decentralized Airbnb/Uber -- how would you handle dispute resolution and trust mediation without a centralized authority in an IRL setting, off-chain? If you have a bad actor in the system, how would you screen/remove them and conversely, how would you prevent abuse of the screening mechanism you propose? Relying on the blockchain as a decentralized database/audit record is one thing, but I think IRL enforcement and mediation of off-chain matters are critical prerequisite matters that need to be addressed before these types of marketplace businesses can even be considered feasible as dApps
Microsoft’s commitment to the DoD remains steadfast
"Overreact" may be too loaded of a term to have used - I was trying to get at the idea of purposefully acting more strongly than one's usual default (which, for shear lack of time and energy if nothing else, is to remain silent on most things which are wrong with the world).
The base mindset around software development, particularly at the lowest levels, needs to change to put security as the #1 priority. Far too many vulnerabilities are due to use of unsafe languages and features.

While there are holes at all layers that lead to these types of attacks, as a runtime systems and language/compiler person, it's clear to me that unsafe languages should be abandoned, even if it costs a handful of percent of performance. The societal costs are just too great.
It's good because most people can understand it. I'd say it's a perfect strategy for a game, but if they're using evolutionary algorithms they should require some form of reproduction for the wolves to carry on. That would make the suicide strategy fail to propagate well. I can also see a number of possible strange outcomes even then.
And as the FSF has stopped requiring copyright assignments, their hands are bound for the future. If it turns out that something like LGPL is better in the long term, there is no chance for a relicensing in the future.
There is a limit of abuse you can tolerate.

This is the exact belief that lots of people had with regard to the Windows 7 -> 10 migration. Turns out, when people feel like they don't really have a choice, they will tolerate a lot of abuse. In fact, I'm not sure that there is a limit to the amount as long as the abusers make sure to boil the frog slowly.
Why improve overall cyber security which is at completely garbage levels at most companies when you can blame crypto instead?

It just seems like the bill on security has come due and I recommend paying it. Otherwise you leave the economy open for much more serious attacks than asking a few million in crypto.
Mr. Hunkin has been publishing a new Secret Life of Components series to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JAgXz6xO0s&list=PLtaR0lZhSy...

It is really great stuff if you enjoy building things.
The article covered this.

When collecting samples from the wild they aren't collecting viable virus, they're collecting samples which have mRNA in them. Those samples just won't infect anyone at all.

While collecting the samples they're of course exposed to the environment and could have gotten sick, but they have dramatically less exposure to the environment that the workers who collect bat guano for fertilizer in China, or the people who clean the cages in the wet markets. It would be highly unlikely that one of them was naturally patient zero when there's a million times more human exposure going on in China. And hopefully they were wearing respirators in the caves and mines since they know the risks.

When it comes to the live virus the problem is that SARS-CoV-2 doesn't look like any other known virus. The difference between it and RaTG13 is still 4% which is like the difference between us and gorillas. It is a few decades of viral evolution and serial passage through many millions of hosts away. So for a lab that was all about finding new sequences and publishing them they would have had to keep this new viral backbone perfectly secret, they would have had to keep this new ACE2-infecting spike protein perfectly secret. Then there would have had to be some novel lab accident since SARS-CoV-2 requires aerosolized particles to be breathed in, you don't get it off surface transmission so the petri dish binding studies don't produce an environment where a lab accident is very possible.
30 yrs ago the internet was still in its infancy and good engineering teachers were available to only a chosen few and closed out to the rest of the world.

I stayed curious and learning. Better and better teaching methods became accessible thanks to the maturing internet. I started to understand ideas in engineering much better.

Alas, there is no way I can express this progress in a resume but learning and understanding satisfies my curiosity.
Any intelligent person must be forced to admit that a person is often wrong, and groups of people are often spectacularly wrong.

You missed option C, that thousands of smart but loud technology professionals speaking outside their area of expertise are wrong, thousands more are right, and it's not as obvious as you're making it out to be.
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On the other hand, if we keep inflating the currency the way we have been in recent years (2008 onwards), Bezos could be worth $1T just by the dollar having less value.
Actually, this is why I want telemetry to be opt-in. I have a consistent policy of providing telemetry and I want the software to be biased to my needs. I want them to conclude that some feature used only by some privacy-conscious user is unused and should be axed because I want the software to be hyper-tailored to me.

I want the software to be streamlined, have no features except what I'll use, and for the community to be specifically people like me. I want other people to not use the software and use up dev bandwidth.

And I love it when telemetry biases the stats towards me. That way all devs will eventually be making software for people just like me.
But your conception of "amateur you" is fed by your (again, I'm assuming) 16 years in school, when you could have spent 200 of those hours learning how to clean up freeway crashes. You don't have to be an amateur, unless you accept that as your station in life. You're correct that I don't want <you as you exist in the present> to repair power lines, but I have full faith that if you set your mind to it and had the right access to training you could learn how to repair power lines, or at least provide entry-level assistance to a power-line-repair master.

Just as you went from unskilled in your domain to skilled in your domain, so could you theoretically go from unskilled in construction to skilled in construction. I know you don't want to become an expert in construction, but how much of that want is based in the fact that in the current build of society, the only way to become a construction expert is to accept years of low pay in terrible conditions with awful coworkers in 100-degree-heat? Don't you think that somehow, using the combined man- and brain-power of the billions of people alive, we could form some kind of society where you might be able to learn and perform some construction without needing to accept the complete sacrifice of your quality of life to do it?

The problem with "paying people better to work outside" is that the entire concept of paying people to do anything, ie rewarding people with money, require that the most unpleasant jobs be done by people who must choose between the job and starvation/exposure or violence (serfs or slaves). That's why the easiest, most brutal jobs are always done by the lowest-IQ immigrants. If you were to pay them more, per your suggestion, the price of the reward of their labor goes up (berries go from $6/carton to $38/carton), the demand for the reward of their labor goes down, and they get laid off and are back to having no way to secure food, shelter, and medical care. (There are some exceptions to this rule; construction workers in the US are usually decently-compensated, but the US is an anomaly because we subsist based on the efforts of serfs and slaves in Asia, who mine and refine our rare earth minerals, assemble our tech, etc.)
>The only place to actually use is a currency is in criminal activity.

This discredits your entire post. Your other points may be valid, but how can anyone be sure if this one is provably false?
My take is that comedies don't play in China. They're making movies that they can package up for a world market. Comedies are local.
Yup. The naxalites have been reduced to isolated pockets in backward areas of the country, which, for various reasons have remained backward.

The reason for their existence is being strained for past few decades.

It would not be far fetched to think that they will be out of the minds of the public in another 20 years.
I really dig the comment about serfs.

We’ve done a great job of hiding-away slavery in the name of consumerism and “uplifting” third world economies.

Instead, I would love to see a world where repair and reuse is the norm.

And chasing after the largest/outrageous/most-expensive/trendiest is nothing short of embarrassing.
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Specifically, I'd add that Aquinas had enormous regard for Aristotle and the pagan philosophers, to the point that he referred to Aristotle with the honorific "the Philosopher".
That's fair. I just didn't like the negative-sounding comment that it will always end up with CRUD-for-rent. If people enjoy business line apps thats awesome, it can be fun, but there are alternative roles out there too.
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Already priced in probably:

The future of the JEDI cloud program was thrown into doubt earlier this year when Pentagon officials said they may scrap the contract if the U.S. Court of Federal Claims declined to dismiss Amazon’s claims that political interference from former President Donald Trump cost the company the lucrative cloud deal. In April, Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith rejected requests by the government and Microsoft to dismiss part of Amazon’s lawsuit, allowing the litigation to continue.
Death of Stalin, Booksmart, Jojo Rabbit are definitely smaller independent comedies, but compare:

The Artist: $130M gross, $15M budget
Knives Out: $311M gross, $40M budget
Birdman: $100M gross, $18M budget
Grand Budapest: $173M gross, $25M budget
Midnight in Paris: $154M gross, $17M budget
Superbad: $170M gross, $20M budget

All of those are in the same rough ballpark, but Superbad had 70% of its box office revenue in the US+Canada.

Compare Grand Budapest and Birdman, which only saw 40% of their takings in NA. Midnight in Paris comes in at 37%, and, as a European production, The Artist saw only 35%-ish of its revenue in NA. Even Knives Out, the most hollywood-y of the lot, came in at 53% revenue from NA.

Superbad is a Hollywood movie with Hollywood sensibilities, so it obviously performed best in the US, and it's obviously become a cultual touchstone there — but I personally only even heard about it relatively recently. All the other films performed much better elsewhere so obviously don't seem to have had as much of a cultural impact from a US-centric perspective.
I don't like dubs either. Which is why I mostly watch American movies. I can just listen to the dialog. I have watched some Japanese and Korean content on Netflix. I tried to watch it with subs at first, but I gave up pretty fast since when I want to watch a movie/show I want to watch it not read it. I have backlog of books for reading, but even then I am mostly reading books in English.
The Origins of the Horror Film, 'The Changeling'
It’s also dependent on what those 1000 are. Is it 1 app x 1000 instances or is it 500 apps x 2 instances.
The former with 1 or 2 different apps, not much would change, when you run lots of different apps though, then configuration of routes between different physical hosts and other odd network effects can start occurring. Rolling out updates takes significantly more time as you just have a larger number of nodes to get through, which means you’ll very likely have multiple different versions of your app running at once, potentially expecting different database schemas, migrations etc.
So I guess I'm saying it’s mostly about the ops more than the underlying infrastructure, but its always both and there’s always something that’s a bottleneck somewhere
Ottomans reuniting the eastern Mediterranean thereafter doesn't feel like a fall.
A totalitarian state acted like a totalitarian state by not addressing rumors and suppressing them, because it can.

You can't judge them like a Western Democracy with a free press and think that they'd just "come clean".
In this case wouldn't it be a trademark instead of copyright?
And interestingly, both are connected. If d_i somewhat hand-wavingly expresses the vector d_i = (0, ..., 0, 1, 0, ... 0) with the 1 at position i, then given matrix M you can do

f(i, j) := d_i^T * M * d_j

The RHS is using classical matrix multiplication, and the function value will be the matrix' entry at column i, row j.
I think just let people make their own choices
No so much harlinks, but symlinks are a blight on the POSIX filesystem design. They have caused endless pain and suffering and so many, many CVE's. They need to be eliminated.
Killer bees are in S02E06 "Hated in the Nation", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation

There is another one with killer dogs in an apocalyptic wasteland (in black and white), S04E05 "Metalhead".

The short film "Slaughterbots" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw) fits it even more precisely though, I'd say.