skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IKBR will pay you a portion of the interest they earn lending out securities if you let them lend yours out.
> So I don't think it is hypocritical for someone to (grudgingly) accept that the government provides a military and police, even though those are precisely the services that they should most fear trusting the government with.

It is definitely hypocritical. If you are not opposed to a collective military then being opposed to a collective healthcare system is nonsensical. And if you are opposed to collective efforts of any kind then that also runs into all sorts of contradictions because corporations are collective efforts. Whether force and coercion are involved are orthogonal issues which people constantly conflate and confuse with issues unrelated to them.
A great tool, trully a programmer's text editor. Used it for more than 10 years, it seemed like it had plugins for virtually eveything. I remember one time we had to work with huge XML files, like 100 MB in size or so, and everyone was grepping them or struggling with other editors, while jEdit had that nice XML parser plugin which showed a nice hierarchical tree :) Thanks for all the work put into it. Nowadays I tend to gravitate towards KDevelop and others but I hope jEdit continues on.
Wow thanks for sharing that
Even more so for a boot-strapped startup - fronting 100s of dollars in insurance is a big ask to get started without taking on investor money.

In this environment would an early stage JIRA, Salesforce or Bootcamp have gotten off the ground without incident?

Probably a place where a viable startup should be able to apply for Gov funding or tax breaks for security investment, much like they provide funding for R&D.
Thanks for that. I've always just assumed it was just a rebrand plus cosmetic (body+interior) changes.
I can't read a Collaborative Fund post without remembering the email to a former board member the founder of CircleUp wrote to the partner there who was on his board:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17tEc9ETL4tjfTmNbpwJJ5OSx...
Sorry I meant the tip of the thumb on the 2 key. Telephone keypads are inverted. Also the sometimes keys would have a raised bump in the middle key like the 5 key so you type blind.
I'm imagining some form of YAML or similar frontmatter and markup. A lot of markdown extensions really add a lot of value. Like graphs, admonitions, diagrams, presentations, tabs, mindmaps, etc. I am not particularly fond of XML. I remember liking some of the ideas behind Pug/HAML etc and wished that a browser would just render it natively.
> As has been shown plenty of times, “more eyes looking at the code” is a fallacy

This is debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_and_.... Any links to your argument?
“VC Lives Matter” (attempts to oust progressive DA)
We have natural “general” intelligence which appears to be generated by boring old chemical/thermal/electrical interactions. Why wouldn’t we be able to recreate that at some (IMO very far) point?
The Wikipedia page has detail on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmoor_line

Essentially the line went through the closure procedure and was completely closed to passengers back in the 1970s, however it remained open for stone trains from a quarry on the line.

The quarry bought the line and ran their own trains.

They occasionally allowed occasional passenger services.

Various groups tried to run the route as a heritage railway between 1997 and 2019.

The local county council subsidised a few experimental timetabled services on Sundays to see if there was a demand.

This is very expensive for the council and they probably couldn't afford a 5 or 7 day a week service. Plus Sundays are a less busy timetable in general so some spare trains may be available that is not available the rest of the week.
(Saving the need to obtain additional trains for the extra work)

Also I seem to recall, but can't source the statement, that the quarry owners may have set a limit on when and how many passenger trains could run over their line. Ie possibly Sundays ok, Weekdays not.

It probably made them next to nothing, while incurring extra expense because passenger lines have higher requirements than freight lines. The more that run the higher the cost.

Finally a government programme to reopen railways supported the full reopening that happened a few days ago. This involved buying the line and repairing the track.
> Anywho - if you don't broadcast your SSID, or, even less dismissively, don't Faraday cage your house, then anyone interacting with the electromagnetic field that you haphazardly allow to escape the privacy of your residence is within their rights to do so.

Are you seriously arguing that anyone is allowed to tamper with your mobile phone signal as long as you're at home and they're outside the walls?
Would the notion of fractals not seem like a plausible component of smart matter?
That's a trend in general aviation and it's maddening. It's all of the problems this thread has raised about touch screens in cars but with added turbulence as an extra hurdle and spatial disorientation a safety risk. You can't just pull over and deal with the finicky touch screen.
So he is stealing your darkness...
I got a couple of Sony compact models for longer battery life, every year for free with a new contract. But they also perform better then my big and newer ones in my number-crunching benchmarks. I also use them as private benchmarking cloud. Sony end of lifed them, but they are still good.
Isn't that the point though? Every time I try to figure out the value of this thing called an "NFT" I can find plenty of hypotheticals, but I've yet to encounter anything concrete. Using your example you want to be the only one who can use this "thing" in Meta Horizon. Cool, but that's something Meta Horizon has to implement, and they don't need some weird blockchain thingy to do it.

If someone buys an NFT what good is it today, or what problem can it solve in future that can't more simply be solved by something that already exists?
This is why I love the hacker news
Looking for a functional phone that runs only free software? Be patient. (2019)
You realise there’s medical professionals who deal with poop right?

There’s also the whole ‘all your clients are sick, some are contagious’ thing.

I’m not saying america isn’t insane, but to try and pretend plumbers have it far worse isn’t quite accurate.
Similar situation: a process queries the operating system (CPU scheduler) to find out if the process is currently being executed on the CPU.
Security is part of protecting your freedom from being compromised. I read this entire thread and wholeheartedly agree with marcan_42. FSF's position to draw a line where none exists is foolish wishful thinking and potentially dangerous.

I prefer knowing that I live in a world where COMPLETE software freedom is close to unachievable and it (COMPLETE software freedom) is a worthy goal to strive for compared to deceiving myself into believing it has been achieved by ignoring anything below a certain level.

Just because I choose to amputate my ability to update firmware does not mean a malicious party might not be able to do so. Anyone with physical access to hardware will still have that ability by using extra hardware. Handwaving the firmware away does not work against an evil maid attack.
I don’t think being a materialist implies that. It’s entirely possible for matter/the fabric of the universe to have non-computable properties.
How are individuals supposed to have it any easier, though? Should people just be forced to work until they drop? Or does everybody now need to be some kind of financial genius in order to make retirement work?
It's also poor advice because there's already too many people on dating apps looking for pen pals instead of dates. There's other apps to just chat with people without leading them on.
Can I Be Hacked?
My father in law from China came and plug in a TV device to the home wifi.
I work in Big Tech remotely, should I be worried. Remote device is an Android box for streaming channels
If the user has a medical emergency while between floors and is unable to continue using this device themselves, will it be easy/safe for responders to get them down?
I’m lamenting Google’s decision to stop supporting Google Bookmarks. It was my personal search archive, simple and in the cloud.
I think of it a bit like science vs scientific thinking (that isn't constrained to actual science and logic) that one encounters on the internet. The problem is not with philosophy, it is with humans.
The value of USD is not constant. Either you adjust the 1970 values to today’s dollar, giving you $17B for Hughes’ fortune, or you index the $100B by the minimum salary giving you 23B vs 2.5B, a less than 10x increase. Not unreasonable considering the global scale business can have today.
Given that the state media (the Global Times and CGTN) are showing images and videos of Peng Shuai (following the strong stance of WTA [1]), I think CCP is currently in damage control mode.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29280947

I speculate that Peng Shuai is currently alive, and if the released images and videos are recent, she is treated much better than some political dissents (such as Ai Wei Wei) under confinement, although I think even so house arrest or confinement should not be justified. It is clear that her external communication are currently under control, and CCP is showing only what needs to be shown (she is alive, only through state media, only to foreigners, especially WTA and other outspoken tennis players).

I think CCP is trying to work out a “solution”. CCP wants WTA to stay, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic to run, and perhaps also that the #metoo movement not to spread, while I think the Weibo Post of Peng Shuai suggests that she currently wants acknowledgement (名份, much like that Zhang Gaoli does not disappear) more than justice (that Zhang Gaoli goes to jail for his action) [2]—even though the actions of Zhang is clearly through force, she later developed certain affection to Zhang Gaoli until Zhang tried to disappear [2]. (Again, not that I agree with what Zhang Gaoli did. A tangential question is, does a Stockholm syndrome make a #metoo less #metoo?)

I speculate that CCP may give Peng Shuai what she wants (for example, force Zhang Gaoli to acknowledge Peng Shuai, perhaps privately; or simply “remind” her that she could be treated much worse unless she complies, that is, via coercion), on the condition that this would make WTA to stay and the Beijing Winter Olympic to run and the #metoo movement not to spread (for example, Peng Shuai needs to say something publicly to control the PR, likely via state media). They may be busy coming up with a story for Peng Shuai to tell the world.

[2]: https://www.whatsonweibo.com/the-silent-storm-peng-shuais-we...
I don't think WSL1 was abandoned, was it? last I heard it was supported and meant to complement WSL2. I know of people who need WSL1 because WSL2 doesn't meet their needs in some specific ways. so, yeah, if you know where that's documented I'd like to be able to show that to said colleagues.
> Drink water, eat healthy, exercise regularly, get enough sleep, have an active romantic and social life.

oh no
We have to use teams because teams is free. Despite it being terrible. There was also a push for us to switch from Miro to Microsoft whiteboard. Until a senior manager actually had to use whiteboard and they realised it was terrible.
> If $cloud_vendor doubled their prices tomorrow, what are you going to do ?

They can't do this because of reputational damage. No one would consider that provider for the next 5 years. It also wouldn't squeeze out as much as you'd think because medium size and larger accounts are all on long-term contracts, so they have time to migrate.
Just to note that there's another long-established text editor, for Macs only, with a very similar name: Jedit.

http://www.artman21.com/en/jeditOmega/

While this Jedit has features for programmers, I think it really shines as an editor for people who write or work with Japanese text. I've been using it on a daily basis for many years.
It does a pretty good job of figuring out the correct price of things.
There's also the fact that midrange GPUs are now the price of a full console, if you can even find one for sale, and there's no immediate end in sight to the shortage.
A CPU can halt as a power saving measure, and still respond to interrupts.
I think that many people throwing their hat in the ring commenting on the unlikeliness of AGI are missing the impact of compounding effects.

Yes, on a linear basis it's not going to happen anytime soon.

But the trends in the space are developing around self-interacting discrete models to great effect (see OpenAI's Dall-E).

The better and broader that systems manage to self-interact, the faster we're going to see impressive results.

As with most compounding effects, it's slower growth today than the growth tomorrow. But a faster growth today than it was yesterday.

The human brain technically took 13.7 billion years to develop from purely chaotic driven processes, and even then it was pretty worthless up until we finally developed both language and writing so we could ourselves have lasting compounding effects from scaling up parallel self-interactions.

And from 200,000 years of marginal progress we suddenly went in less than 7,000 years from no writing and thinking the ground below our feet the largest thing in existence to measuring how long it takes the fastest thing in our universe (light) to cross the smallest stable object in our universe (a hydrogen atom).

Let's give the computers some breathing room before declaring the impossibility of their taking the torch from us, and in the process, let's not underestimate the effects of exponential self-interactions and the compounding effects thereof.
You're competing with free trades on the stock market though
Person I responded with said engine cover. That’s the shit plastic they put on the top of an engine. It traps heat. It’s literally worthless.
It is refreshing to see an open source project that uses other open source components for their community, like Zulip. It is frustrating when you go to an open source project page and their entire community is designed around SaaS and proprietary solutions, like Slack, Discord, Twitter, etc.
> What post-processing do you do already to catch the low hanging fruit?

None, everything is manual.

I use DaVinci Resolve to do the editing where both the guest and myself have separate tracks. Then I line up the tracks (only takes a few seconds) and start playing things from the beginning at 2x speed. I stop to make cuts mostly to remove filler content.

Through out this process of editing I'm also creating show notes as I go. An example of the end result is here https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/103-great-question-m.... Basically every few minutes I recap what was said into a 1 sentence bullet point with a timestamp. Along the way I list out techs used as tags and list out reference links / libraries into a Markdown document. Then once I'm done editing the show I write a few paragraphs which is a TL;DR of the episode.

All in all if the guest uses minimal filler words or noises it takes about 1 real life hour per 1 hour of recorded content to do all of the above. For context, the episode I linked has someone who I would bucket into a category of speaking very fluently with minimal filler content. I was able to blaze through that one.

I also have a 2560x1440 display and use the "always on top" feature of most window managers to layer the Markdown document and a preview of the page just above the waveform in DaVinci Resolve so I can quickly make cuts and update the notes with minimal mouse movement. Almost everything is keyboard driven.

What tools can be used to speed up that process?
Person I responded to said engine cover, that’s the plastic shit on top of the engine. It’s worthless.
I wouldn't call what protobuf encodes type information. If I recall all the group stuff is deprecated, so what's left basically boils down to 3 types: 32 bit values, 64 bit values and length prefixed values, which covers strings and sub-messages. Without the schema you can't even distinguish strings from sub-objects, as they are both length prefixed as you described.

Can you even distinguish floats and ints without a schema in protobufs? I don't remember.

I really enjoy capnproto, flatbuffers and Avro and bounce between them depending on the task at hand.
I'm curious if there's any significance in number 0.63739 in this implementation

double
is_computer_on_fire(void)
{
return 0.63739;
}

https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/8f16317a5b6db5c672f33181...
What's changed is that declining population growth and eventual reversal makes defined benefit pensions impossible to service.
I was thinking the same. Unless you're doing something really wrong, or if you are intentionally writing to a memory buffer, memory consumption of ZIP compression should be minimal across the whole process.
> Non anti-aliased fonts...

Sign me up. Font aliasing is the devil's work.
If you go by that metric, taxes will never be enough. You could tax a billionaire 99.9% and they'll still have enough. And it wouldn't be fair. And it would destroy the economy in the long term.
I read "Soft Off" as "sort of" and though, well, that's probably the best answer one can get in certain situations.
I used jEdit years ago as my editor of choice for pretty much any OS i used and it was very flexible with a lot of extensions (most likely still is). I remember a friend of mine saying something along the lines of "it isn't a true editor until you can read email off it" (which i guess was his paraphrasing of JWZ's "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail" though i didn't knew it at the time) as an attempt to tell me how Emacs was better, but, sure enough, i quickly found an email plugin for jEdit :-P. Though i never used that one, i did use the IRC client plugin a bit.
> The thing retail is supposed to get out of the deal is NBBO, but Robinhood was fined millions for not even providing that

Is this true? My understanding is that Robinhood was fined millions for taking more PFOF (vs price improvement) than they disclosed. At no time were they below NBBO for the vast majority of their trades—the difference was just that they were only giving consumers 20% of the better then NBBO prices they were getting, which was lower then many other broker-dealers, and taking the other 80% of the spread for themselves. From the SEC order:

For most orders of more than 100 shares, the analysis concluded that Robinhood
customers would be better off trading at another broker-dealer because the additional price
improvement that such orders would receive at other broker-dealers would likely exceed the
approximately $5 per-order commission costs that those broker-dealers were then charging. The
analysis further determined that the larger the order, the more significant the price improvement
losses for Robinhood customers—for orders over 500 shares, the average Robinhood customer
order lost over $15 in price improvement compared to Robinhood’s competitors, with that
comparative loss rising to more than $23 per order for orders over 2,000 shares.

However, the broker-dealers that analysis was comparing Robinhood to charged around $5 for per-order commissions. Whether $15 of price improvement for trades of tens of thousands of dollars is worth $5 of commission fees for small trades is not, to me, an obvious call for Robinhood to make. In total, the SEC determined that Robinhood traders lost $34MM over 2.67 years (or $13 million per year) vs using another brokerage firm, but that that loss was almost certainly concentrated in those doing big trades, and customers trading under 100 shares of stock per transaction were benefitted by Robinhood's policy.
You're completely missing the fundamental point that all of this takes a proverbial village.

Free software isn't about each of us individually fixing the problems. Nearly exactly the opposite.
Seeing the name and being unfamiliar with "J"Edit, I had hopes this was an open source version of the 1982-~2018 commercial "K"Edit editor.

I've been using Kedit for some time as my daily editor, but its lack of UTF-8 support is becoming more dire by the year. Still, the IBM ISPF/Xedit roots and Rexx support make for a powerful environment. An overview of such "Eastern Orthodox" text editors is on SoftPanorama:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Editors/eoe.shtml

A fascinating account of someone productively using Kedit is included in the following article by John McPhee, of all people:

https://archive.mith.umd.edu/engl668k/wp-content/uploads/201...
A friend needed something like this two weeks ago and used WubiUEFI, a fork of WUBI, and it seemed to work with no issues.
Sure, and some of it in the form of predatory lending financial instruments, some of which are regulated. And a company on the scale of MS entering into any new market will draw a lot of scrutiny. One in the business of lending money, even just through a tightly-integrated partnership, is going to draw even more. That's a lot to gamble on a browser initiative before Edge has the market share to throw its weight around.

I'm sure MS would love-- and is hoping-- to collect rents on purchases users might make anywhere, but this seems a very clumsy attempts. Possibly driven, as others have noted, by short-term incentives by product managers rather than anything more strategic.
Yeah, would make sense in that case. Probably would name the function differently though, to indicate the difference. "is_computer_on" makes me think it's checking the state of the computer this code is running on, not the state of another computer than "myself".
How, vim is an editor, Intelij supports a vim mode(I never tried it since I hate vim) but vim is not an IDE , maybe you wanted to say you put 30 plugins and you get a half implementation of a good IDE.
I got the SV-1 specifically because of the limited interface.

Not a big fan of the organs, but the other stuff all has worked great for me. It's paid for itself several times over. My usual live keyboard setup is the SV-1 under an ASM hydrasynth.
If the function call doesn't allow you to specify a CPU core, then it seems like it would be testing either the logical or'ing of all core's powered-on state, or the state of the current core.

In order for the code to execute anywhere, at least one core must be powered on and not halted. Also, I would consider a halted CPU to still be powered on.

Otherwise, the function's name has no relation to it's behavior and it's a buggy function on top of being a useless but amusing thought experiment.
Computers exist inside the universe so the universe must be able to compute things. Likewise you can look for certain hallmarks of information manipulation that mean you are computing something.

Usually philosophers talking about these things either haven't read or are just discovering complexity theory.
It is a lot easier to keep your product integrity when your margins are fat because you serve only the upper crust of the markets you're in.
The ocean just gets more and more heavy metal the deeper you go
I’m very happy that even the new generation of affordable synths is mostly analog with single function knobs. Arturia MicroFreak/MiniFreak, Korg Monologue/Minilogue, lots of Behringer clones.

You can get productive with them in minutes rather than in days.

Previous generations required either lots of menu diving (everything in the 90s) or had the pesky multifunction knobs (Microkorg).
Zuckerberg's moves make sense in this context. NFT's make sense in it as well.

I don't feel compelled to play video games, and I don't feel interested in joining an AR metaverse. That might just be personal shortcoming clouding my expectations of Web3...
And exactly when did Guix or the FSF censor anything?

I'm not speaking for them, but I'm pretty sure they would say something in the realm of "the information provided by your updates is a false sense of security, so why WOULD we pass that on?"
My kids have a tablet. It is easier to setup it with a simplified environment than a PC.