skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who grew up in Eastern Europe in the early 2000s, with a a taste for Western media, especially movies, and the Internet becoming a widespread thing, it was infuriating waiting for movies to come to theaters months behind the rest of the world. Not to mention the horrible country specific posters and advertising, limited availability and titles. Piracy was the only option.

It felt like the Internet would solve all these problems, like you'd be able to experience culture from any part of the world however you liked and at the same time as the rest of the world. Sadly that never happened. It's much better now but it still feels like the media is crippled by old local distributor deals. The fact that e.g. Netflix offers different movies for every country is something that honestly does not make any sense yet everyone accepts it.

When I got my first Kindle 12 years ago my Amazon account was registered with my local European address so the books available in store were all complete trash romance pulp novels. Once I simply changed my home address to some random location in New York I suddenly had access to hundreds of thousands more titles. The Internet never delivered on its promise.
Do you count typing posts on social media as "speaking to another human being"?

I'm far more comfortable typing this than I was when a collegue from another department who I've never met before just popped into my van to say hello and ask if I'd seen a certain person. It's funny - I normally work from home, but I'm on an Outside Broadcast today which I don't normally do. Turned up nice and early, one or two people I'd never met asked me some technical questions, that was fine, but as it's got busier (and it will be very busy come 12) I can feel my stress levels rising and decided to destress by posting some random stuff online.
This whole thread is a lesson in Poe's Law
How is it a contest? How can they even be compared? The first two have vanity projects that dream of one day sending payload to orbit. The third have a successful space company that have sent over a hundred rockets, including some with astronauts on board, to orbit
Blue Origin is part of the NASA Artemis program that has the primary goal of returning humans to the moon.
I meant Privacy, it is important to me.
There is some limited scientific applications that are currently flown on sounding rockets which could be repurposed to these vehicles. But no, this is mostly about tourism and the Bezos vs. Branson dick measuring contest.
Realtime simulation and control of a model F1 race car track
Until guilt sets in.
I started getting anxious that I would be "found out", but every week ended again being told I was the most productive.

I ended up quitting when someone popped up with a much more creative job
> we'd be looking at something more on the order or 70 such accidents.

Assuming absolutely zero progress has been made in nuclear R&D, regulation, and application.
Dreams do come true. Never give up
PV with Li storage isnt!
Or we could not try the impossible task of convincing people to lower their carbon footprint and instead invest in sequestration, sun shields, and geo engineering to eliminate the climate change problem.

Austerity will not get us out of this hole.
Agree with that (there is a lot of dark matter), but I would not call it "managed". They try to stop it, customers complain, they do the minimum to support it, repeat. For a decade. There is still no VB plugin for VS Code. They completely missed the chance to bring VB to Linux. To Notebooks. To Blazer. To Razor pages (vs eg php). It is not advertised, it is never considered for first wave and most of the time never considered for a use case.

Compared to that, F# is managed (by a peer of the C# group), advertised, and arrives everywhere.
Maybe it's just me, but I dislike the whole concept of advertising in places that aren't related to shopping. I go to Instagram to look at my friends' pictures, not to be sold something I don't actually need. If I were to shop, I'd go to a mall, thank you very much.

Anyway, at some point Instagram ads (especially the autoplaying video kind, with sound) drove me crazy enough that out came jadx and apktool and I found a beautiful way to inject my own code into Instagram's networking. The code I injected rewrites the API responses before the rest of the app sees them. I can now scroll through my feed without annoying salesmen begging for my attention. I've also enabled a "secret" debugging menu while at it, where there are manual overrides for server-side settings, and there are at least several hundred of them — it's a bit creepy what they're A/B testing, like slightly different wording or different button colors.

The only problem that still remains is that the feed is still algorithmic, and there's nothing that could be done with that with client patches.
Ha in the "textova" map there's a LOT of inside jokes and wordplay, here's what some of the actual placenames are, and some of the meanings in case you don't know the language:

- Stovězov (no idea) = Prague. Update: Ahhh could be "city of a hundred spires"

- Bryncl = Brno (in local hantec dialect)

- Malá videň ("Little Vienna") = Šumperk

- Jo, budě vice! (sort of "Yeh, there'll be more!") - České Budějovice which you might know better as Budweis as in "Budweiser". I feel like there's more to this one I'm mising

- Piveň (mixture of "Pivo"=beer and "Plzeň") = Plzeň, you might know as Pilsen as in Pilsner

- Baťovo Hlavní Město ("Baťa's capital city") = Zlín, original home of the Baťa shoe company

- Koněpůlky (I think horse's ass-cheeks but I've no idea why?) - Pardubice

- Camping - Tábor, which is the Czech word for a camp

You can probably figure out what "voda", "les", "dalnice", "silnice", and "hranice" mean from where they appear all over the map :-)
[Meanwhile at Facebook] "Wait no"
1. Blue Origin's bid (and Dynetics') lost out to SpaceX. They have sued and a decision is expected by 4th August but they are not a part of the Artemis program as we speak.

2. Even if their bid had been successful, the Artemis program has nothing to do with the New Shepard project.
A hyperLogLog is for counting distinct elements. This and Bloom filters are more about checking whether an element has been seen before; a very different use case.
I feel like the post brushes past the best parts to line the learnings up with container concepts and k8s.

The Erlang application/service should not be crashing. A crash happens in a process in a tree of supervisors and each supervisor can have strategies to recover if its child supervisor/process fails.

Supervision in Erlang/BEAM is not just microservice infrastructure with restarts. It handles many types of failures knside the application and only if all mitigations repeatedly fail would we crash all the way up to the trunk of the tree and crash the application. If that happens the Erlang heart should be starting it back up or otherwise invoking some last-ditch mitigation. Or if you run Erlang in a container, that's when you'd have your infrastructural stuff restart it.

Supervision in Erlang is much more granular and not about restarting the entire service.

I think this gives a good view of Erlang resiliency: https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
Thank you - that makes sense. Also reading the thread originally I thought your comment was the most helpful.
Actually we didn't expect the Cloudflare NS address & user matching since it has never been officially promised.

They are on the same certificate from Let's Encrypt, which is a much more solid evidence: https://crt.sh/?id=4844214523

(Oh, techrat also mentioned that, great!)
That's because churches in the UK are all bankrupt, more or less. I vaguely recall seeing ads for churches or Christianity in general in the UK some time ago, and I still see pro-Christian ads (usually just bible quotes) in Switzerland.
History often goes in the direction rich guys' dicks are pointing, regrettably.
I honestly wonder whether the people who make these things are having the time of their lives or in some kind of idea-sweat-factory trying to come up with things all day and burning out quickly.
This is such a beautifully designed language. I came across Ink a few months ago and I was delighted with how small and concise it is. I can see this being a very interesting teaching language but it's also good to see that it has real life deployments too. Any thoughts about growing this beyond a personal project?
It's probably a technology dead-end of sorts: it is unlikely to scale, either in the sense of becoming a common mode of transport, or in becoming a more fully-fledged spacecraft. Personally I think it's a beautiful system and an engineering marvel in its own right, but like a lot of super-specialised machines it's hard to say whether they affect humanity's knowledge in a wider way. It's a tourism experience, see the earth from space and try weightlessness around the quarter-million dollar mark.

You could do whatever science a few minutes of weightlessness provides; astronaut training too

It is worth noting that Virgin also operate a separate commercial smallsat launcher company, Virgin Orbital, which uses air-launched rockets, so maybe Virgin Galactic experience helped with that.
It works on the acetylcholine system, and is implicated in cognitive enhancement.
My mind boggles when I think about this question. Here's a list of tech that we got either directly or indirectly from space related R&D:

Cell phone cameras, the computer program that allowed the development of a bunch of consumer electronics like the dustbuster, memory foam, ear thermometers, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) (used in baby formula), roadway safety grooves, polycrystalline alumina (used in invisible braces, among other things), scratch-resistant lenses, the vertical "winglets" at the end of aircraft wings, cardiac pumps, portable computers, blow rubber molding (eg. from Nike Air sneakers), freeze dried fruit, foil blankets, crystal silicon solar power cells, electrolytic silver iodizers (for water purification), thermoelectric plane wing de-icing, gps without cell signal, aluminized polyester insulation, cochlear implants is in an honorable mention that someone from NASA invented after learning the principles from his time work on space shuttle electronics, wireless headphones, packaged food safety protocols, CAT scans, uv-blocking sunglasses, ski boots, better rubber tires.

Doing what these companies are doing requires all kinds of novel engineering, it would be bizarre that all of it only applies exactly to space tourism and nothing else.

I really don't understand all the cynicism around a private space race considering all the potential good it could do.
I suppose your view would be that air travel or vehicle ownership haven’t been “democratized” yet then?
Aliexpress with venture backing from /dev/urandom
That is a surprisingly small difference, although when you are building a greenfield last-mile fiber network for an entire country that small difference probably adds up to millions, which is probably why we got GPON in Australia.
I used to be so enthusiastic about space. I really hate the privatization of space. It makes me sick. Maybe they can just take their billions and do this shit and we can ignore them doing it or something? How am I supposed to get excited about anything related to space when private dickwheels have turned it into a fun ass roller coaster instead of exploration of what it means to exist?
It's definitely just you. Women go on Instagram to see fashion with links to shopping "the look".
There is strong correlation of top countries in the list with the list of happiest countries in the world.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...

Top 10 in the paper (from appendix):

Iceland, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Canada, Estonia, Luxembourg

Top 10 happiest countries:

Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand, Austria, Luxembourg
I found this video an excellent take on open ended goals in RL. https://youtu.be/lhYGXYeMq_E
Bret Victor: Learnable Programming (2012)
Implementing a Webassembly interpreter in python for fun: https://youtu.be/r-A78RgMhZU
If I only use a non-Google web browser and don't sign into Google's services, where are the privacy leaks?

Are you aware that Apple is capable of browsing the entirety of your iCloud backup data?
Did Bezos step down as CEO in case anything goes wrong and the subsequent share price impact?
Link hijacking Binance’s shortlinks through hacking AppsFlyer
It's an extremely open-ended process.
I had the same sort of situation the other day. I wanted to produce a "corporate video" for our company that explained our ontology, and it's benefits. Using Blender I managed to come to a semi-pro result, but getting the narrating voice was not quite so easy. I didn't have access to a good mic, and my French / Dutch accent would have distracted and lowered the production value.

In my opnioning this is a good example of how AI is slowly gaining foot. It's a bit like the old adage of a camera phone vs a DSLR. Sure, it's inferior, but it's always better than a superior version that I don't have access to. It's difficult to compete on quality with something that's free.
Think of entertainment as a hard drug (most of it actually is). And the distribuitors are the dealers. Some will be friendly or make deals with each other, others will keep everyone else off their turf or go to war.
> Nile river is historically and from legal perspective an international river not an Ethiopian property

Ethiopia has never claimed the Nile is its sole property. It's seeking fair use of a dam on its own territory and equitable sharing of the waters in a manner that doesn't infringes on its sovereignty.

>...a Wikipedia page the list all of Ethiopian dams

I don't see a single dam aside from the GERD on the list that's on the Nile. So I don't see how you could say it's a lie. Are you suggesting a dam on any tributary river in Ethiopia is subject to Egypt's wishes?

>But these Colonial era agreements are the same...

No they are not. Ethiopia was NOT a party to the 1929 Anglo-Egyptian treaty unlike the 1902 Anglo-Ethiopian treaty regarding the border w/ Sudan.

>This is an agreement about how they share their mutual share...

According to you, mutual share means that Egypt gets 66% Sudan gets 22%, the rest is lost to evaporation and Ethiopia gets 0. Just as agreed upon by Egypt & the British in the colonial agreement.

>10 years of negotiating that they provided Ethiopia...

Curious that you characterize Egypt's approach as negotiation when 10 years ago when Ethiopia started building the Dam, Egypt's president "negotiated" by stating that "all options are on the table". Egypt has obstinately held on to the idea that it is entitled to a specific amount of water it has historically been afforded per year in perpetuity regardless of the conditions of the Nile or in Ethiopia.

The fact of the matter is the Egyptian government is upset that it is no longer capable of holding a monopoly over the Nile.
I'll have to do something similar for my daughter who has an account which claims she is a few years older than she actually is and who now wants to be part of the family group with a child account.
For me the Apple ID has always been the one and only.

What I got later on as an unwanted extra, was an @icloud.com email address that was linked with my existing Apple ID.
Could just fix the root problem and address the housing problem at a fundamental level rather than giving special privileges/benefits.
Ohh, i largely agree with what you're saying! The results of woodworking, metalworking, any sorts of crafts or even farming are just way more fungible than a piece of software. Both can be useful to yourself and possibly society at large, both can be satisfying, but the types of satisfaction definitely differ!

Plus, it's a way to get some fresh air or have a reason to spend a bit more time outside, in addition to leisurely activities such as boating or hiking. I don't actually have any stats on this, but it seems like quite a few people who work in software also have such pursuits outside of work, some joke about retiring to a farm or a secluded place amidst nature. :)

When i have the time, i rather enjoy jogging, helping my parents with their greenhouse or vegetable garden, mowing the fieds with a tractor or even just doing some woodworking. That said, most of it is rather utilitarian and not all that pretty to look at.
Twitter India Appoints Grievance Officer to Comply with the New IT Law
How do you detect ads? If not in following empty response?
Voynich, Hill, Crumb: A Hitherto Vexing Codex
> yes, well you can get a cheap transceiver for that.

Yes, exactly. I feel like you haven't finished your thought ;)

If you have a SFP+ slot, you can plug in a cheap SFP+ 10Gbase-T transceiver. Or a SFP+ fiber transceiver. Or a DAC cable.

If you have a 10Gbase-T port, you're stuck and need to buy and power a switch (or, recently, media converter) to get to anything else. And you're now wasting power for 2 10Gbase-T PHYs that are completely pointless for a very short link.

Of course you'll be using a bunch of 10Gbase-T for anything where you have existing copper runs that are good enough quality to actually run 10Gbase-T. I'm just saying (1) you shouldn't be using 10Gb-T for cabling things that are next to each other, and (2) you shouldn't be running copper cabling for new installations that you're building explicitly to get 10G over.
Yep! I build this font in FontForge. Such a simple pice of software.
I wonder why do people assume that going forward heatwave intensity will stop before reaching the survivability threshold. It doesn't take too much, you just need an event where wet-bulb temperature persists over 35 Celsius to have healthy humans start dropping like flies en masse. If they don't have access to cooled premises, that is.
You don't think these "private dickwheels" are interested in space exploration?
Why do you have to start your comment by accusing me of moving the goal posts? I don't even like ball games. Why is it so hard to have a decent conversation on the internet?

It's a serious concern and I stand by it. It's perfectly possible -it's even easy- to make algorithms, systems, programs, what have you, that can solve one problem, perform one task, and do nothing else. Hell, you can train a dog to perform one task. Sit boy! Boy sits. And that's all it knows to do. 80% of AI research output, ever since Dartmouth, has been like that. 99% of AI research output in the last ten years is like that. My entire phylum of AI research (I'm a PhD student studying Inductive Logic Programming and even knowing nothing about that, the name should give you an idea) is roundly dismissed today as a "failure" because it couldn't get from "we can solve an instance of this problem" to "we can solve any instance of this problem" quickly enough. Researchers promised it was just a matter of "generalising" like you say, tuning and tuning until everything worked in the real world as well as it worked in blocks worlds, but the sources of funding didn't listen and then we had a winter [1].

Why is what you're doing any different when you look at it from the present? We haven't seen the future yet. In the present, you have a robot that can open one door. In the future, you have a lot of doors that wait for robots to open them.

Actually, looking at your paper, you don't even have a robot that can open one door. You have a simulated robot opening a simulated door. Talk about moving the goal posts!

Have you seen the Pythons' silly walk sketch? "It's not particularly silly, is it?" "Yes, I think with government backing I can make it very silly" [2]. That's all you got there so far.

Edit: Sorry, it's probably not your paper. But it's as far from folding laundry as you can go. I don't even see the simulated robot folding simulated laundry anywhere yet and even "simulated cloth" is a joke - the simulation itself (of the behaviour of cloth) is not even close to the real world. Simulating a robot opening a simulated door might get your paper published, but simulating a robot folding simulated shirts won't even get you a simulated paper.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yReDbeY7ZMU

[2] https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI?t=83
Very good article, thank you for posting this! With so much now depending on software, free software is more relevant than ever, and in fact as the article mentions the four freedoms are not even enough nowadays.

I also like the suggestion to "Copyleft Unique Software". A good example is GMP, the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, which is available under GNU GPL v2 and GNU LGPL v3:

https://gmplib.org/
But I think copilot matches code style, no ?
The cynicism stems from the fact that it’s billionaires in the driver seat of this space race. It feels more like a pissing contest, than something driven by scientific curiosity.

The same can be said for getting a man on the moon. But I think that it’s not USA vs USSR but Branson vs Musk vs Bezos that fuels the negativity.

But your points are valid! There are good things coming out of these R&D spenditures.
I really have come to enjoy the small things it does more than the stackoverflow-like functionality. Its autocomplete suggestions are way better than intellisense could ever be as it adapts suggestions to the actual variables and patterns you are using.

In go for example one of the most used auto expansions I’m using is if “iferr” that expands to “if err != nil { return nil, err }”. Issue with this is that the err variable and the return params are many times different. Copilot will mostly correctly fill these in based on your function.

It’s an amazing next step from the same autocomplete we’ve been using for the past 20 plus years.
Ad posts have additional fields in them. They have to, because they're shown in the UI as "sponsored" and with extra buttons and stuff. Ad stories are retrieved via a separate request, so it just suffices to either return an empty response or throw an exception from there.
What I'm saying is harmful is reporting some current event as if it is new and startling and unprecedented, when in fact it's not that unusual

I agree the article is on the sensationalist side, but it's short of being irresponsible or grossly misleading.

A high of 50°C in British Columbia is unusual and has no precedent in recorded history (granted 'recorded history' is a blip in the grand scheme). I don't know how many Canadians it startled; I assume quite a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_temperatures_i...
Space has never been a "exploration of what it means to exist" for me. It's always been about cool tech that I look forward to using. I thought this was a forum for engineers, not envious spiritualists.

All these billionares are funding companies that build spacecraft while we sit on our asses debugging memory leaks. I fully intend to ride an orbital vehicle (not the one in the article) in a couple of decades when the prices have gone down to a couple of million dollars rather than the $50mm NASA charges today
You are willfully ignoring my quantitative statement and logical conclusion.

> people in Musk's category of wealth have been increasingly effective at consolidating their wealth over the last 60 years

This is an empirically observable fact.

> His effective tax rate hovers around 5%

This is a quantitative statement.

I combine these two facts with a theorem - these realities do not emerge by accident. They are the byproduct of an intentional effort.

Therefore:

> It is not an accident that someone can accumulate wealth and find ways not evade taxation through measures not available to other people in society.

No innuendo. Also - I explicitly refuse to inject innuendo into the argument, admitting that the "goodness" or "badness" of this sort of manipulation is difficult to prove. I think his 5% tax rate is a problem. You do not. Fine. But before we can even talk about solutions, we need to accept a baseline of reality.
As this comes out very late in their life, seems not be able to influence the natural selection process in human evolution.