skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard quite a few. Again I stress that I am not taking sides here or saying I fully agree with every point, just giving some examples of reasonable arguments for balance since arguments the other way have been widely discussed anyway.

The EU has a democratic deficit. It is a legislative and executive body where those with the most power are selected so indirectly that they have little personal accountability. Many EU Commissioners are career politicians who have become unpopular in their home state and have been given the job as a golden ticket.

The EU is systemically flawed as a financial arrangement. It has a currency union but only limited tax coordination and this will inevitably lead to internal conflicts during times of economic pressure such as the Greek situation.

The EU is a protectionist trade bloc. In the short term, this means membership is good for free trade within the bloc but bad for trade across its border. An example is that there is fresh produce we can source from either EU or African suppliers but the latter are artificially expensive if we have to impose the common tariffs, which reduces competition and so harms our consumers. The UK has been increasing its international trade for a long time but the EU has represented a decreasing proportion of that trade as a long term trend even with the bias that membership creates, so remaining in the bloc is the wrong side of the line to be on in the long term.

The EU does not have a good track record of negotiating international deals on behalf of its members. It has so far failed to establish comprehensive FTAs with many of the largest economies outside its own members and while its size is an advantage in negotiations, it also has to reconcile the sometimes contradictory interests of its many members, which can cause problems as illustrated by the CETA process.

The EU is bureaucratic and slow, and its philosophy of trying to unify everything creates many bad regulations and interferes with free market economics in ways that can be detrimental to members. Its handling of VAT and many digital/technology issues are recurring examples where it may do more harm than good to some member states or their people or businesses.

The EU has an expansionist agenda whether openly acknowledged or not. It has seen considerable scope creep since the last popular vote to stay in and it has a track record of trying to bypass popular consent or seeking that consent repeatedly until it gets the answer it wants, so not leaving now also leaves us committed to an uncertain future.
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Sorry, but what specifically was illegal? And as in laws, or OSM project governance?
The first thing I do when I get a new tool or work bench or what have you, is to whack a dent in it. That way I can stop being careful with it and start using it properly without worrying about keeping it pristine.
http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/Loquercio21_Science.pdf
Original paper
It's a very good article, solid points, illustrative anecdotes. The tone really fits the topic, as a fellow geek, I have a very similar experience despite being in a completely different life situation.
> Agile and especially Scrum exploit the nothing-to-hide fallacy. Unless you’re a “low performer” (witch hunt, anyone?) you shouldn’t mind a daily status meeting, right? The only people who would object to justifying their work in terms of short-term business value are the “slackers” who want to steal from the company, correct? Well, no. Obviously not.

That's an interesting take on agile culture, thanks for sharing it.
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It's the combined complex of Tether and other cryptocurrencies that forms the ponzi. Crypo "prices" keep rising, but those prices are denominated in Tether that people pretend is dollars.
They could have made the transition much more straightforward by just making the permissions system more granular (i.e. let the user pick a directory instead of simply asking storage access yes/no) and leaving the existing file APIs intact otherwise, just throw a permission error if you're accessing anything outside of the granted scope.

Instead they tried to force through a completely new API that isn't compatible with anything that came beforehand, isn't compatible with code that must have a classic file handle and cannot easily be changed (native libraries, parts of the Android API itself), introduces exciting new bugs and has worse performance.

Plus at the same time they seem hellbent on hiding the true, original location of files on the file system, so
a) if an app needs to ensure continuing access to a file, it needs to copy it to its own storage (Yay, dozens of copies of the same file)
b) this breaks any usages and file formats that don't consist of a single, atomic, fully standalone file (HTML files, playlists, subtitles, multi-part archives, ...).
Tether (the company) are likely huge holders of Bitcoin anyway, given that they lend worthless Tethers out in exchange for Bitcoin as collateral.
yet you can still cash a check and write a check even if its not popular.
Fascinating to see some of the moths having ripped and scratched wings. And despite that, still flying just fine.

If a human-made aircraft had a tear in a wing like that, it would probably just crash, let alone be properly navigable.
The payout will be in a different stablecoin. USDC won't collapse with Tether.
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How funny, in Italian we kind of have the reverse! We say "andare a zonzo" which mean "wandering without a clear direction", and "zonzo" is onomatopoeia for the sound of a flying insect.

> BTW I always found it suspicious that "moth" is so similar to "motyl" yet it's apparently unrelated.

By the way, the phenomenon is called "false cognates": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cognate
Playstation app is also using React Native
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I have no problem seeing this as realistic.

> 1) quadcopters battery is not great

Dropping does not require energy. A drone-mothership will obviously take wind in account when dropping the dronelets. The video was not realistic in that regard because the drones would probably be folded for initial descent.

I find USD 10 is not unrealistic. Already now a device with battery, chip, and motor can be manufactured for under that. It will get cheaper.

2) AI is very specialized

We've just seen how a drone navigates autonomously at high speed without crashing. They don't need much more to be killers.

3) Underestimating humans

You have to be prepared to react well to a drone attack like that. These things will not wait around for you to figure it out.
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"Our work replaces the traditional components of sensing, mapping, and planning with a single function that is represented by a neural network. This increases the system’s robustness against sensor noise and reduces the processing latency."

I get the feeling a bit that when they compared their depth pixel in => control out NN with the other two baseline algos , a lot of the difference is attributed to latency (one of the other algos did more temporal averaging explicitly for example). The depth input already provides a pretty good source of data for planning.

The NN doesn't do anything you can't do already with the other algos, but it gets tuned automatically to a very good compromise between latency and performance, something that would be very tedious work for the designed algorithm systems and this is a strong point for building stuff like this as NNs.

Article is at: http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/Loquercio21_Science.pdf
It's simple information theory (or basic OPSEC). Every kind of customization, every differing behavior reduces entropy. That's why Tor recommends using the browser with a fixed size window and with default settings. (Of course neither simple nor basic means easy.)
When did you start driving? Only getting 60k miles doesn't fit my experience driving japanese cars since the 90s. Our family had a 2000 subaru that clocked 350k miles before the engine finally blew up and we scrapped it. My uncle drives old volvos from the 80s since he can wonk on them in his own garage, and he gets numbers like that too. You look up user forums and you will find the same experiences with these decent old cars.
No problem. I'm really just trying to keep the story straight.

The only issue I have with the timing is that I told them I was not comfortable with them as admin on the repo yet as soon as they were made admin (to fix the CLA bot, which happened to be only a week or so after my email) this happened. No social engineering necessary but really poor timing on top of non-existent communication.

And here we are, sadly.
Tether is making me worried. It's a stable coin but I still don't feel safe holding tether
Just guessing here, but it's probably different teams, with different priorities etc.

Search desktop decides to do dark mode, for mobile it's probably still in the works or on a roadmap somewhere.

My experience in big companies is that features are prioritized over improvements by business people.

You might be able to get something done in your team, but getting other teams to do anything is a huge struggle (not only UX, generally).

Not because they are bad or anything, just because they have a giant roadmap of all very high prio things, and no time to deal with dark mode [or whatever you need]. That's why changing branding or even basic consistency is incredibly difficult to achieve.

Anyway, just my guess, could be something totally different of course haha.
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There's some really cynical takes on this so far, from here in London I applaud Apple for providing an opportunity to those that might not have it.

The students might start at iOS and make their own apps, but it's just a first step like it was for so many of us, who knows where they'll go in the end. Building the fundamental skills also builds confidence, they might learn other languages or frameworks, they might join companies to work on their products, who knows. But getting the skills and a foot in the door is priceless.
Agreed, the risk that it goes bust by itself is less than that Tether goes bust. However, what we are taking about is repercussions of Tether going bust: how will it affect Coinbase if suddenly 69B are trying to get cashed out?
Someone else noted that it may only send emails to the person that kicked the process off.

I don't know, I don't own a GitHub Enterprise to try.
Norm Macdonald was good at that too.
LOL

//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows
You have a pretty detailed account of what would happen by the Economist https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/08/02/w...
Those vaccines last decades or a lifetime and have been around for generations.

If you agree to vaccine mandates now to COVID, you're effectively consenting to 6 monthly booster of it, forever.

This is already the case in Israel.

MRNA and Adenovirus technology has unknown long-term side-effects, the chief 'innovation' seems to be that its cheaper to manufacture than traditional vaccines.
Thanks, thats actually a great answer.

I would go one step further and suggest that ads are an issue for certain types of Economic games or Markets.

Any industry that depends on Ads tends to consolidate, and has an issue of incentives - the more people on the network, the more likely the network is able to survive.

On a tech forum people assume that challengers have better tech - but I would argue that challengers actually allow for more salacious/engaging content.

This is what creates the race to the bottom.

If the race to the bottom can be stopped - i.e. an incentive structure created that stops engagement being the primary metric, then the rest of the downstream problems are largely prevented.

Thats my root cause assessment of the situation. However once I get to this point, any solution seems to be a mess of intersecting fields ranging from morality, legal constraints, issues with press freedoms, free speech etc. etc.

So... I guess how do we set up incentives to not allow the most "engaging" content to dominate?
First time I tried VIM I just rebooted my computer to quit.
Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS (2019)
"Chocolate teapot no good for hot tea".

No surprise whatsoever. What on earth did Brexiteers think was going to happen?

Still, at least we now have £350m a week for the NHS (oh wait, we don't) and a whole bunch of trade deals with others (oh wait, we don't) and a thriving economy (sigh).

Obviously Covid will be used as the fall guy from now until eternity, but it's so blindingly obvious that we've been stiffed by a bunch of nutters with some totally false sense of "Being Free Again". Free from trade, partnerships and an easy way of doing business, yes.

Sorry. Bit bitter about the whole thing.
stick shift

That is an unfair comparison on the edge of a strawman. In vim, you see your mode right at the cursor shape (bar in insert, block in normal, selection in visual). It’s like saying that DEs are bad because switching active windows is modal. Why not send input to the first window in the taskbar by holding ctrl and to the second by holding ctrl-shift then? Does that sound absurd? Even when you make a modal mistake once in a while, no stakes are lost because uu.

One thing I agree on is that UI could use more graphics, smoothness and features. But all my attempts to adopt vscode failed miserably. It’s just too mouse-y and too configure-y but still lacks futuristic features I want.
It's not quite right though. You need

<button type=button

if you don't want it to have submit semantics (including submitting the containing form if you happen to have it in one).
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"“Great invention, with this tool I will be the boss in the neighbourhood now,” said another. “This is not just a regular product, it is social justice!”"
Norm MacDonald's moth joke is pretty much OT but then again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxD3pT8C9-A
If Sway had the support it deserves and a larger developer base to actually work decently with Nvidia cards, there would be no competition really. Under Wayland, it’s definitely the best WM experience anyone can wish for.

I understand the whole issue with nvidia and their asinine drivers, so no need to come down on me. Hopefully things change in the future with Nvidia cards, I absolutely love the experience Sway provides on integrated intel gpus.
Advertising is cancer on modern society.

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I'm curious about this too. I was told (by someone at GitHub) that the features I used to do the move are brand new and not expected to be used the way I did. It is very possible pieces are missing in the audit trail GitHub creates.

Meh. I might be more interested if I actually had a GitHub Enterprise myself.
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Those kind of trendy free apps, like photo filters, sticker makers, etc are usually the worst offenders. I mean, how else do people these companies make money? Android and iOS need to implement network connection permissions per app, but they won't because they both have an incentive against doing that.
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Repeating myself but it's applicable here too:

I'm curious about this too. I was told (by someone at GitHub) that the features I used to do the move are brand new and were not expected to be used the way I did. It is very possible pieces are missing in the audit trail GitHub creates.

Meh. I might be more interested if I actually had a GitHub Enterprise myself.
Would you ask for the copyright back? As in, it doesn't seem like they're helping you at all, so maybe you could tell them you're leaving and you would like to have the copyright back.

It might force them to show their colors, and if anything turn the brouhaha into something more clear cut.
waymonad has a somewhat more active fork here: https://github.com/L-as/waymonad, but it's still just a one-man show that got picked up at ZuriHac 2021 and then failed to gather sufficient momentum.

As a maintainer of xmonad upstream, I'm watching the waymonad project to see where it goes, but I have some concerns about its architecture which I'd love to see addressed before we'd officially endorse people to try switching. This is a copy of a message I sent to fellow xmonad developers a couple months ago:

> We should certainly take a look sooner or later. From a quick glance, I have some concerns about the general design of it:

> It's a compositor and window-manager in one. This is typical for Wayland, but there are lots of disadvantages:

> * Restarting the WM is just like restarting X: session over. Unacceptable for xmonad/waymonad, as we don't reload config, we recompile and restart. Someone is apparently working on making Wayland compositors restartable, in general: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/1/contributions/20/, though.

> * Another consequence of the WM and compositor being one is that they share memory leaks and GC pauses and signal handlers and whatnot. As much as I love Haskell, I'd prefer frames from an FPS shooter to be presented on screen by something else. Oh and did I mention the compositor/WM also handles input, making any GC pauses doubly painful?

> * Aside from operational issues, this also means all of that needs to be implemented. There's https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/ (used by waymonad), a library that supposedly lets individual Wayland compositors implement less code, but it doesn't seem to be nowhere near what X gives us: we take care of window management and all the input/output handling is taken care of by other tools with their own configuration and tools. It simply doesn't seem to work that way in the Wayland world. There are other options like implementing a shell plugin for Weston, or possibly other libraries, I don't really understand the landscape.

> I may be wrong on some of these, as I didn't actually try to compile and run the thing.

> Anyway, I am convinced it'd be best if the compositor and WM were separate processes, ideally maintained by separate teams. You know, that old “do one thing and do it well” philosophy. And I have no idea how difficult would it be to make things work this way. If someone were to work on this, discovering the answer to this question would be one the first things to do.

I should probably clarify the wlroots handling IO thing: what I meant is that with Xorg, there are command-line tools like setxkbmap, xinput, xset, xmodmap, xcape, xrandr, autorandr and possibly others that a user can use to interact with the X server and tweak stuff, and from what I understand these don't have equivalents in the Wayland world that would work across WMs/compositors. I could be wrong, though, perhaps wlroots does have a standard protocol for such things and such tools already exist?
> I didn’t know this wasn’t legal, [...]

What was the problem? Why isn't that legal?
No, it's really not.

Source: while working as a transport planning consultant, I had a private client in Austin. He flew our team around the city in a helicopter, saying "see all this traffic? It's insane!". I'd just flown in from New Delhi. By the standards I was accustomed to, I didn't see any traffic at all.

Certainly Austin does have a need for much better public transit -- and if being upset about traffic is a catalyst for making that investment, then that's great! -- but in that respect it's no different to most other major metropolitan centers in the US.
The scenario under discussion was holding the vote in 2021 instead of 2016, not as well. So uk would have still been in EU.
Lol. Just heard this story in an episode of a series called “Startup.”
It is not how it looks for those still targeting Windows desktop, a maze of incompatible GUI frameworks each competing for dev attention and a stagnate UWP .NET tooling, lack of comprehension to understand what AOT means, isn't doing great.
> If you write your code in the right way they don’t have to. That’s the point.

I recommend you try working through some equality proofs in Coq, first with and then without coqtop / Proof General. I think you may change your mind about this rather rapidly. And many proofs get much more complex than that.
Ask HN: How do you know how your OSS feature is used?
I'm developing an OSS, and I want to measure how much a feature is being used to discontinue it.

Do you put in some software to measure it, or do you ask the community?
Would you gamble your entire investment on that? If Tether collapses, there will be major outflows from all stablecoins, and we'll find out which ones have been swimming naked.
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£30 per hour for picking broccoli and they still can't fill the roles...basically says it all IMO. I love the UK too.
The Holocaust is a pretty bad example for "cruelty without high-tech".

Nazis had census data on millions of people reaching back decades, to sort trough that data, and search it for "undesirables", they employed computation tech that was cutting edge for its time [0], just like the methods of killing millions of people saw quite some industrialized innovation.

As such it's a rather blatant example for the whole new levels of cruelty technology can enable humans to do.

The progress also didn't just stop there, what the Gestapo and Stasi did, is child's play compared to the amount and details of data that can nowadays be trivially collected on whole population scales [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[1] https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html
Yes, but no money market fund (which is how any centralised stable coin is structured) can face extremely high redemptions (which a collapse of Tether would likely trigger) without breaking the buck.
I noticed that posts that have many upvotes but nearly 0 comments are always ads or scams of some kind.

@dang perhaps HN should have a system to detect and remove them?
> Yo! Thanks for creating/running the site! And also for not changing it. It doesn't need to change. I wish more websites would realize this.

Totally agree. Ticalc.org went through a few redesigns in the early years - v1 (1996): https://ticalc.org/about/oldticalc/ticalc1/ and v2 (1997): https://ticalc.org/about/oldticalc/ticalc2/ - but the current (v3) design from 1999 has aged very well and we've never felt the need to change it much.

We have over the years considered and rejected becoming more of a community hub (i.e. with a forum instead of just comments on news articles) - moderation is just not a battle we're staffed for.

> The day that my program (Antrun) was on the frontpage of ticalc.org is still one of the biggest success-highs I've ever felt :)

:)
Tried one. It increased my mosquito bites and killed 1-2 per week. Needless to say I wasn't using it for very long.