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Lots of confusion here.

The lobsters comment is from me, a year ago, talking about the spec and implementation work published by the Matrix core team - i.e. the contents of https://github.com/matrix-org. Matrix started in 2014, and the core team formed Element in 2017 to fund its work, so it should hardly be surprising that much of that code comes from Element employees. Just as if Linus had chosen to fund himself to work on the linux kernel by creating a startup, the balance of code in the kernel would be different. Nowadays I'd guess it's more like 75% of the code at github.com/matrix-org which comes from Element employees contracted to work on Matrix by the Matrix.org Foundation.

However, across the wider ecosystem, Element's contributions are an increasingly small minority. There are completely new independent implementations out there like Conduit.rs (rust server) or the whole FluffyChat stack (cross-platform flutter clients) which have almost no contributions from Element and build on entirely different codebases to the reference implementations at https://github.com/matrix-org. So, where it counts, I'd guess that Element probably does <20% of the overall code in the Matrix ecosystem?

> Likewise, the vast majority (>80% anecdotally) of users on the main Matrix federated network live on a single instance centrally administered by matrix.org.

Looking at the phonehome stats, it's more like 30%.

> My worry is that the fate of Matrix rests on Element Co, which seems to be a default-dead start up

Nope, if you read the Element blog post at https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explode..., you'll see that Element is explicitly default-alive.

> repeatedly needs to seek funding

Nope, we didn't need to seek funding in this instance; we consciously chose to. We could have just continued profitably at a slower rate, but we wanted to go faster in order to compete with Discord & Teams etc.

> and nearly went bust in the past.

Nope, Element was formed after we lost funding for the original Matrix work... which is why we formed the company.
The MPL v2 license would be a better choice. It offers the same kind of terms and it explicitly compatible with the GPL licenses.
Once upon a time, I woke up from a dream and was greeted by friendly beings. They looked at me in wonder, and were surprised I’m awake. The lights in the room were very cozy. Soon I went back to sleep, and there I was, veritably back in this world again. Now I do not know whether I had taken LSD and visited a different world, or I had temporarily woken up from this dream, and now making sense of the waking up as “a LSD experience”.
I think it's unfair not to mention the RollerCoaster Tycoon series here, which undoubtedly led to countless independent discoveries of this concept.
The CVEs are due to the bug reporting, the bugs are not.

The point is that memory safety bugs are the gift that keeps on giving.

You can throw as much money into the problem as you want, and the inherent complexity of memory management means you are still gonna ship bugs of all severity.
> Someone should tell Intel that Unicode exists.

How easy/hard is it to type accented characters on Windows?

On Apple systems you simply press-and-hold the letter, and you get pop-up with various options. Holding <shift-a> gives: À, Á, Â, Ä, Ã, Ã, Å, Ā.
Considering how difficult it is to verify information +200 years old and how likely it is that theories based on some information would fall apart if one piece turns out to be a fake or a lie, I wonder how much we actually know about history, or more like, what's the amount of lies we believe and live by everyday thinking it's undeniable truth because a group of "experts" thought it is.
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What other projects would be an example of a fast growing open source project with lots of development and that are highly distributed?
Their presence in the USA is small compared to Quick Books but outside of the USA they are massive.
I'm in the UK and 100% of my clients and probably around 50% of the small business owners I meet at networking events use it.

Xero being down is a big deal for a lot of people.
In my country, without insurance you will usually be required to place cash deposit before the hospital approves any expensive treatment. If you don't have any money for the deposit, you will need to secure financial assistant somewhere else first (government assistance, charity, etc). This limit hospital's risk, but put extra pressure to patients. Luckily healthcare cost is relatively cheaper here.
Congratulations on the raise and keep up the good work!
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Columbo is my and my wife's favorite series. There are many things that separate it from most. Nowadays there is a big focus on series where every episode ends with an addictive cliffhanger. I hate that. You can watch a single episode of Columbo and be satisfied. There are a few things mentioned from other episodes here and there, but overall nothing important. I also love how the lieutenant is above all kind. Lately everything has to be dark and quirkiness is used to explain how someone is directly rude. I like the fact that they did not bend and show Mrs Columbo (I now that there was a separate show with that title).

I'm sure, that it will get a reboot sometime in future. I just hope that it will not receive the same treatment as Star Trek with Discovery. I would appreciate i.e. Natasha Lyone to make it something different enough not to look like a cheap uncanny valley copy. But kindess and clear separation of episodes is a must.
Personally, I think it's not a self-driving car if I need a driver license to use the self-driving car
It won't convince anyone. If people don't want to take it, labeling their arguments as misinformation or propaganda will only reinforce their views. I am vaccinated but they have my support to make their own decision.

It is a trade-off whatever you decide, even if that trade-off is in favor of vaccination and being able to get vaccinated is a privilege some people would be jealous off.

You are perpetrating propaganda efforts by governments, censorship infrastructure is justified with Covid misinformation. This fails to asses the dangers and consequences. Perhaps it works in your country, great for you, but for most people this is a threat that is magnitudes beyond even severe respiratory diseases.

I don't think you have noticed, but governments and police are currently lobbying to even disallow encryption without a backdoor, also in the name against misinformation. You should take the threat of Covid seriously, but it isn't the only danger people face.

And people that want tech giants to moderate content don't seem to be able to evaluate dangers in the first place, so why should I listen to them for anything relating health? They didn't even need a month to ban the wrong people...

Again, if you think vaccination is important, get yourself vaccinated. But don't try to silence people that have a different perspective, even if that perspective is likely to be wrong.
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The newspapers and books I buy with cash, for starters...
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Straight line in 3D would usually require digging underground.

Maybe you could do it in an airplane. Compensate for the curvature of the Earth by varying your altitude. This will probably work up to a distance of a few hundred miles.
I would trust a friend driving me, because there's no conflict of interest to take a longer route for a higher fare.
Been a Safari user since the original Beta. Getting more and more disappointed every year as their decisions on what web technologies to implement and which to not are just blatantly obvious more about building a moat between the web and the App Store than anything else.

In my day job we've been building physical devices and rather than building say an iOS app and an Android app that would have to be updated and cost a huge amount of money we went the webUSB/webBT route (hang on hear me out) which is actually an amazing technology, allowing us to do things like transfer data to the device all through the browser, we even plan to open the API so users can build upon it.

Complete breath of fresh air compared to having to write custom apps for each platform and I'm happy we're able to do things that if our company goes under our devices wont become paperweights because the tech is all open and runs in the browser.

Of course this all falls apart as soon as you hit iOS, so eventually we'll have to hire in an iOS developer to write some wrapper for the website and connective tissue between the missing APIs.

Apple's sandboxing and permission models are so aggressive that them pretending for a second that they can't implement webUSB and webBT without good security is absurd, it's simply to ensure only Apps can do "grown up" things like connectivity and full hardware acceleration.

Becomes even more absurd when every modern app on their store demands my contacts to even use the app, where was your care for my security when designing and normalizing that permission flow. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939815
Very common in Australia also.
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Customer's can't. It's unrealistic to expect it across the board. This needs regulation which is too slow at the moment.
This is super interesting, thanks! I just wrote a related note in http://canonical.org/~kragen/dernocua.git in text/hash-consing-ropes.md, linking to those two notes; my interest is using it for hash consing, like symbol interning but for all your strings.
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Presumably Chuksta is referring to their original comments about the Japanese data center, not your experience in the military.
Why can't we treat people both as individuals, as groups, and acknowledge that groups are just generalizations that do not hold for the individual? We can't really deny either.

What is sad is when people hide in the shelter of group identity, instead of being responsible for their own speech and actions. It's often not in anyone's best interests, and distracts from clarity.
It absolutely make sense to make a state of the art app on a platform if it's key to the business. Also resources is not the problem, even big companies (like banks) make low cost web apps instead of native ones if they can. I don't see why Apple should facilitate compromised user experiences instead of setting the bar higher.
Mr. Bones' Wild Ride was way more impressive
Oh but AP did criticise at first...but the editor did admit there was a Hamas presence in the building https://www.businessinsider.com/former-associated-press-edit...

Going back to the AlJazeera aspect:
Qatar funds Hamas (one source cites 400m USD in 2014) AND provides the "right media coverage" through AlJazeera.

From where I'm standing it doesn't look like there is one sided propaganda
To be honest, I am no expert on Matrix, but I thought you can just host your own server on your own domain. That was the base assumption for my comment and I hope that is correct. They have a server reference component (synapse) that you could host anywhere I think.
I wonder. it were to be a non-compliant of Matrix Foundation guideline if the federate feature can be turned off at the server-side, just to contain the metadata leakage. Just askin’.
For anyone not in USA (or the tiny handful of other countries still using it), Fahrenheit hurts to read full stop.
I’m not sure how many people here share my view, but when I see “collision detection” I think about video games first, not self driving cars.
Its called "self driving" because it can drive from point a to point b.

Taxi drivers claims that they can drive you from point a to point b.

So what's the difference??
If HN were to be believed five years ago SDC should have been everywhere by now.
I'm only talking about the reaction to how Greenwald presented the events that led to his departure. What happened to him is called editing, and is a mundane experience for journalists (even though it is, at times, aggravating, and occasionally causes journalists to switch jobs). There was nothing out of the ordinary about it (although it might have been out of the ordinary for Greenwald at The Intercept).

Bias is not just normal; it is unavoidable. Greenwald himself is biased. Professionally and ethically speaking, the only question is whether that editing action deliberately tried to manipulate the truth. From the correspondence it is perfectly clear that it did not -- the editor told him to tone down the rhetoric and/or remove things he did not actually know (or could support) -- and so it was also a pretty professional act of editing.

What you're describing might well be the reason for the editorial caution they exercised in this case, but it certainly did not exceed the boundaries of ordinary, professional editing.
Another example of a badly run system with success despite itself
I had a similar litmus test in my mind: can I start my work day on my laptop while my car drives me to work. That’s be kind of useful.

Also can the car drop me off then go park itself.
That’s useful too!
There are rubbles in Middle East where they cling to the past too. It's not a living identity.
Reminds me a scene from the "Endless Poetry" film, which I recommend to watch.
90% of consumers will stop listening as soon as they hear phrases like "well-defined descriptors". They don't want to hear who can put the most syllables into words, they want to know when they can sleep in it.

Self driving cars today are self driving just like those two-wheeled "hoverboards" are hovering.

In that sense the linked article is absolutely correct.
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I agree. I have recently been watching a lot of Star Trek and Mission Impossible. Two shows where you can watch one episode and be done with it until the next time.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one getting really annoyed with the style with which most shows are made these days. I understand that there are good things about having a continuous storyline, and the last season of DS9 shows that it does work. But all shows don't have to be that way.
As an ex-Xero employee, I just had to blink twice seeing this trending on Hacker News. For context, Xero is primarily huge in New Zealand and Australia with a large UK chunk but not much presence in the US. While I shouldn't say too much, I'm sure the incident history speaks for itself that this isn't unheard of :) https://status.xero.com/history Arguably underreported I might think considering the userbase however
Feel free to be annoyed and to share whatever you think the right thing to do is whenever you encounter these people.

However, calling them "woke-posturing" in a disparaging way is a paradox if you prefer them to be aware of your opinions and experiences and change to better accommodate you as a member of an outgroup.

That's what "woke" means.
You do have to start typing before it informs you, which means you already had a reply in mind. I agree that's pretty bad.
My self driving car lets you sleep in it, safely, but only has one programmable location, which depends on where you are at the time.
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Better phrasing on my part would have been: "I hope he succeeds!"
People like Simon Tatham and Kurt Roeckx, however fallible they may be, are doing a much better job of deciding how software security should work on the internet than Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell would. The question is not how we can give more power to Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Amazon, Google, and whoever the Trump voters vote in as the next president, to regulate Sci-Hub, BitTorrent, Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, DeCSS, Matrix, GDB, and OpenSSL; the question is how we can take that power away from them.

When the wise must obey the commands of the foolish, disaster ensues.
Yup, that's how it works. Starts at Harvard, then to other schools. It is Harvard that started "holistic reviews". Back then it was invented as a way to limit the number of Jewish students [1]. Then this method was adopted at other universities.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...
Xero is more popular in oceania. Where as quickbooks is popular in NA
> Digitizing a MiniDV cassette is therefore a misnomer. We should rather talk about data transfer.

Yeah, I was about to say it’s kind of strange to refer to this as digitization, since MiniDV holds digital data on it already.

I think transferring MiniDV tapes with Linux would be a better title. But I kind of get what they mean I guess.
Or, for the Brits, get absolutely wrecked at a pub and let it deliver you home.
One of the core issues with ADHD is that the things that motivate you are different to a neurotypical person:

> First, neurotypical people (those without ADHD) make decisions based on three factors: Importance, Rewards, and Consequences. (e.g. I think it's important. Someone I [love, like, fear or respect] thinks it's important. Or, there are consequences and rewards

> People with ADHD, rarely, if ever, make decisions based on these things. Dodson says (and I agree wholeheartedly), that people with ADHD make decisions based on different criteria: Interest, Challenge, Novelty, Urgency (ICNU).

(https://www.oaktreecounselor.com/blog/adult-adhd-lazy)

That difference in motivators makes it likely that people with ADHD will constantly jump between different tasks, which over time builds up into becoming an expert at learning new things, and a broad knowledge about many things within their domain.
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> I don't know, seems like opinionated.

Yes. But that's not a bad thing. It just helps us orient to what we're talking about.

"I made a self-driving car."

"Can you sleep in it?"

"Well, you can but you will crash..."

"Not self-driving."
Wow, someone invented another verbal description for level 5 autonomy. Including his own name as a hashtag. Wooooo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car#Levels_of_dri...

Edit: Sorry. Level 4.
Example user input: "mail@domain1.com, mail@domain2.com"

If you don't check the user input and blindly send an email verification link, this could lead to two emails sent out.

Depending on the email library you could possibly even add some email headers and misuse your email server to send spam.
Have you seen Windows, macOS, iOS, Android advertising their privacy?
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In most countries you don't need a license unless you plan on using the vehicle on public roads.

This is just a regulatory criterion and adds nothing to the technology.
> If we ignore compute requirements, how long would a good algorithm take to learn something like balancing a quadrupedal robot, based on real-time feedback to its outputs? It is a simpler problem, but drone flight software based on learning, can re-learn how to fly a quadcopter after something like losing a propeller and a sudden shift in weight distribution, in a few seconds.

Firstly, the drone software is not re-learning anything; when a baby walks unaided for the first time and you place a rattle in their hands, do you really refer to that as "re-learning walking"?

Secondly, forget about computational requirements and just look at how many iterations have to be run to reach success; mammals (and humans specifically) can "learn" to recognise an entire class of something just from one or two images of that something. Learning something else doesn't "forget" the old thing. A NN trained to recognise faces in images can't, to me knowledge, be trained to also balance a bi-pedal robot, or ride a bicycle.

IOW, what I see currently is that NNs are very one-dimensional - the net that becomes optimised for one task becomes unoptimised for that task if you subsequently add new tasks.
At work we use Delphi to produce Windows applications that rely on Win32 and GDI. While Delphi can be used to make say Android apps, if you're going for Win32 you're limited to the x86(-64) compiler.

A lot of the low-level stuff in standard libraries, third-party libraries and in our own code rely on platform details like calling conventions, which will almost certainly be different for a different architecture. Sure it can probably be rewritten, and a lot of code in the standard library already has generic high-level variants as fallback, but it's not going to be a simple recompile for us.

By extension then, our customers rely on the ISA as long as they rely on our application, and our software is key to their operation.
Or it could be a great-circle, which is sometimes described as a "straight line" on the surface of a sphere.
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Mind that this is not Nokia producing this phone, but a company called ‘HMD Global Oy’ as visible in the cookie warning and the space below the footer that the cookie warning covers. They’re just licensing the Nokia name.

Considering this phone heavily advertises its long term support, it is pertinent to point out that the producer of this phone is not, in fact, Nokia, and its real producer has not yet stood the test of time.
Don't forget the LGPL, which, in its attempt to allow proprietary software to use LGPLed code with conditions, makes it painful to use LGPLed code in free software licensed under anything other than the GPL.
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In certain circumstances, absolutely (if rent payments would be higher than the mortgage payments over the holding period, or if the value of the property would accelerate past the mortgage balance during the holding period).
Nearly every website that collects your personal information is running lots of open-source software. Sometimes, as with PHPSESSID and httpd logs collecting your IP, the collecting of that information is automatically done by that open-source software.
(I’m Autistic) I think folks on the spectrum would have a particularly keen eye for spotting ambiguous UI design details and text copy. As a person particularly prone to information overload, it nudges me towards smaller and more modular code functions.

We’re not superheroes or mutants, and everyone is different, but Autistic people can help to balance out designs in subtle ways because we are atypically balanced ourselves.
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What do you mean by "kept with the original license"?
One of the first global accounting saas providers. Forced Intuit to rapidly improve their cloud services but have failed to gain significant market share in the US.
I used to go to the bar and have a drink. After a decade of that, it started to make my anxiety worse, and have significant negative effects on my physical and mental health. For the past several years, I've switched to exercise. After work I go for a short 1-2km jog by default, because it's easy, but I try to do something more interesting when I have the time and energy: swimming, biking, kayaking, yoga, etc. It's not as easy as having a drink, but a 15-20 minutes is enough to make me feel better, and feeling better usually lasts the rest of the night, helps me sleep better and wake up rested, which is something alcohol never did for me.
This is one of those markets where even ignoring open source/etc you never need to pay for it, because at the moment there is a new plant recognition app once a fortnight with a free trial. And none of them have any real lock-in because they're basically stateless.
In most countries a vehicle that cannot be used on public roads would be deemed a failure.