skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worse part is that anti-vax can just mean anti-mandate. Spiting in that context doesn’t make any sense since anti-vaxers still believe in effectiveness of vaccines.
I believe your insinuation to be factual, that you can use that adapter to connect a standard SATA drive to a scsi bus, since ultra160 is backwards compatible. But whatever the bandwidth of the bus your converting down to, depending on processor speed, that will be the bandwidth you see, so it's still down to what was available on logic boards and NuBus cards, only narrow, fast and fast wide scsi, topping out at 20MB/s (unless there is an Ultra SCSI NuBus card out there for 40MB/s). Your adapter would be pretty useful for later vintage PCI machines, because you can probably find an Ultra160 PCI card.
> like those content aware scale picture memes, but to create the shortest possible audio

Are you referring to seam carving [1]? Your description of your personal project reminded me of it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving
> you do not have the authority to consent on behalf of all other players,

I don't, I'm not forcing anyone to play League of Legends at gunpoint and I don't force them to install anything on their machines. If you don't trust Riot there's a simple solution, don't install their software on your computer.

The basis of consent isn't that Microsoft gets to dictate security standards to both users and third parties, it's you getting to decide what you run on your own machine.

>But of course, it's easy for gaming companies to brainwash the masses who have no awareness of security and privacy risks

This securocrat mindset is the exact problem. To you every user who makes choices that you don't approve of is part of the mindless and brainwashed masses, and you'd prefer if an operating system owner gets to dictate conditions to everyone else likely because they align with your own. That is the opposite of user freedom and it is paternalistic. It's extremely ironic you don't realize that you want Microsoft to act like a sort of discount nanny state that interfers in every decision between users and third parties because you're afraid of security threats. In this analogy you have chosen, you are the guy who smells sinister plots on every corner and wants to move control from the user to the operating system manufacturer. It is the same walled garden bs that Apple forces on everyone.
They are not comparable at all. And economic models are taken with massive e caution too.

There is difference between fiction and reality. Dune is fiction.
The thing is, the answers for this are all here and old. I'm just kind of waiting for people to figure it out.

If you're creating cool stuff and giving it away, great! No obligation.

If, however, you're creating a paid product or service -- there already exists a ton of law and precedent and ideas about obligations. We just need to remember these and start using them again.

These ideas and law generally point to: If you put a product out there, and make claims about what it can and cannot do (either explicitly or implicitly) then you must be held responsible for the harm if people reasonably rely on it and you screw up. That's it. That's the entirety of it.

FOSS is one of your inputs, could be seen as something like gasoline or trucks or whatever. It's your job as a company to handle those safely and make sure they don't goop out and cause harm, and if you don't get this right, you should be sued.

Edit -- and of course, sometimes the companies are too slow to make this happen and so we need regulation. We perhaps need an EPA or FDA for software.
> Do you know of any production GUI applications that are literally a single-file EXE and aren't like, small utilities?

The old Delphi-based version of Skype fell into that category. Thinking of that example, I can understand why some people think modern software is decadent.
Star Citizen and the fictional MMO in Mythic Quest are multiplayer.
Cryptocurrencies and Vanguard: What We Think
You are against open source if you view using code as “taking”.
Anyone tried to run games in Windows Sandbox?
Interestingly, I JUST finished reading (many years after it was published) The Player of Games written by Iain M. Banks. In it, there is an orbital habitat named Chiark.

I assume that the interest in games and the hostname of his webserver are very much related.
I don't have a direct answer to your question, but in thinking about these issues here's a quote I heard that has always resonated with me:

> When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

- Rabbi Israel Salanter (1809-1883)
Give them a call? Or switch ISP if yours doesn't allow it. Otherwise you need a relay service, at which point you might as well host with them directly.
Die Forelle (the Trout) is the only one I know, very catchy:

https://youtu.be/NF9DrUXowBo

Also adapted as a quintet:

https://youtu.be/HwbWvGtaZGo
I think all western companies should try to reorganize supply chains such that they rely as little as possible on China.

Reasonable Western governments should support this, and enact policies to speed this up.

Obviously something that takes time, but the alternative is to gradually become a slave under China.
intriguing, thank you!
I mean if the personal pronouns, copula, word order, core auxiliary and particle words, interrogatives and the like are the same between two languages separated by time that's pretty good evidence that one is the ancestor of the other.

More specifically to Chinese, if you read any comparative text on different Sinitic families, these word categories are the usual starting points of comparison between them and used to identify each. I haven't done the equivalent of examine 100 different word categories and only pick the 10 that prove my point. And every single Sinitic family other than Mandarin diverges from this list (as I explain in slightly more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29533678).
One problem we can all suffer from is the “not invented here” problem. You may want to create a social movement but perhaps the movement you want already exists? These things often lack the publicity they need so you may not have seen it. Your efforts will likely be much more valuable if they are connected to an existing movement with active members and momentum rather than starting anew.
I think you'd want to start by studying social movements that did change the world. Figure out what they did, how they got going, what problems they faced and how they overcame those problems. See if you can fit what you learn about past successes into your present context.

I also think you need to balance the pros and cons of online activism. The pros are, obviously, that you can spread a message cheaply and build communities. A major con is that it's easy for people to just do the online part. If people have some impulse to support your movement, and they can entirely satisfy that impulse by participating in a subreddit, you may find that all you accomplish is building a subreddit.

I have no advice or idea about how to balance the pros and cons, it just seems to me that there are pros and cons. A group that just complains about something is easier to create than a group that solves a problem. Maybe the complaining group is necessary to raise awareness - but maybe it is also a distraction.

Finally, I would think you would want to experiment and iterate. Both with your approach to organizing and with your actual solution. There is a benefit in starting small - easier to make changes and less consequences if you're wrong.
This isn't how Formula One should be. This isn't how a Championship should be decided. The 2021 season wasn't a sport, it was a show.

The Race Director didn't follow the rules today - I've read them. Either all lapped cars should've been let through, or none. If none, the race could've gotten underway with two laps to go. If all, then there should've been a lap afterwards to get those cars catch up. That's what the rules say.

Mercedes protested the race, but not against Max. They protested for clarity from the FIA over what happened and why. They want to know why this race turned into a show, to get as much racing as possible, disregarding safety and the rules.

The result of the protest didn't explain that - in fact, it made it worse. It created precedent that means the Race Director can decide whatever rules he wants. This isn't right.

With millions of new watchers around the world, motorsport as a whole lost today. I don't understand why any new fans would want to watch our sport after what happened today because it was a shambles of inconsistency and incompetence.

2021 has been a season of incredible racing, but unfortunately a season of incredibly bad leadership and regulation too. Formula One needs to change in the future. We need a sport where the regulators are consistent and stick to the rules. There's no point racing if the sport isn't fair.

Many people dedicate their lives to Formula One. It's a massive disservice to all those working in and around F1 (drivers, mechanics, management, marketing, support, journalists, photographers, staff, pundits, and feeder series staff) to have races where this happens.

The events of this season will be remembered throughout history, and must not be allowed to happen next year.

Congratulations to Max for winning the Drivers Championship, and Mercedes for winning the constructors. But this isn't what Formula One is, and it's a disgraceful decision and a bad day for motorsport. I hope for a better season next year, and I hope that Mercedes' protest appeal holds the FIA accountable for their mistakes today, and throughout the year.

See you in March, F1. Roll on Bahrain. Roll on '22.
Facebook switches to new timekeeping service (2020)
It's like a HN comment version of "we should improve society somewhat" (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...)
https://archive.md/BerJx
At what level of reality does it become a warcrime to turn it off?
I know I'm drifting off topic, but a lot of commercial rehabs are basically insurance scams, at least in America. I'd argue those ads are both manipulative and harmful.

Here's one story: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/01/metro/charges-filed-a...
Log4j overview related software (NCSC-NL)
> Those were done by human moderators, who Twitter said needed retraining.

Given how often Twitter has had issues with "AI" (like people getting shadow banned or blocked for posts years old coincidentally timed with PR releases about "how to combat xxx"), I don't trust that statement at all.

Twitter, Facebook/Instagram and Google/YouTube are widely known to use AI as first stage of content moderation for years (want to try it? post a picture of genitalia on Twitter, and your account will be set to NSFW in a matter of seconds, or post something with a "copyrighted" audio part on YT), and people have exploited that for just as long. We've seen various complaints about unjustified bans on all services made #1 here on HN simply because the affected people don't have any other way to contact a human support resource.

I do get that this might be necessary out of scale - if fifty people flag something for abusive content or spam, it likely is abusive content... the problem is the 1% that are the target of organized reporting/trolling campaigns, and for these people, that really really sucks.
Quansheng* radios, headphone and mic jack adapters for the radio and your phone, and software to decode ham digital modes.

As far as the license goes, arrl online will have resources for your area to take the required test.

* Yes I know most people think of baofeng but after owning lots of cheap radios the best, far and away, is the quansheng. They're very loud and clear with receive audio, they are yaesu accessory compatible (iirc) and the older ones are basically the Nokia handset of handheld radios.
Literally none of this is true. The elite universities have companies to manage their endowment that compete for talent with the top hedge funds. These are not “small fairly independent offices” in any sense of the term. They’re major players in the industry and they’re far from independent. They’re usually a wholly-owned subsidiary with a board that reports directly to the university’s board. And any university board member who “isn’t concerning themselves much” with the financial situation of the university they serve isn’t fulfilling their duty.

Look up “Harvard Management Company”, for example.
All browser dev tools are good for that. I like Firefox's slightly more that Chrome's for it, Safari's is third. I don't know if Edge is different than Chrome for write, debugging CSS.
1SecondPainting: Generate realistic paintings in one click (updated)
What stops all of the landlords from just pricing the tax into rent? I guess the tax could be based on how many parcels you own, but then that would just encourage people to buy parcels next to each other (like monopoly).
The Decentralized Country
Just because it is written in Rust, it does not mean that you will have less bugs or whatever to fix. I could easily say that if it is written in Ada or Nim, then you will have way less bugs, as those languages are way easier to understand, and they are safe & fast & easy. Nim is just as easy as Python, and it is safe if you want it to.
The firebird database engine is open source, but came from Borland Interbase
http://mc-computing.com/Databases/Firebird/index.html
The reason anti-cheat penalties don't really do anything is because people can just create a new account (on a free-to-play game) or play 20-60 dollars when they get detected. Video game developers usually won't ban cheaters for several weeks because it makes it harder to tell what program caused the ban. But it also gives you basically a guaranteed period of time to ruin other people's games.

I think in the future we might have a shared player registry for competitive video games, where people link their BrightID, basically proving that they are an individual without disclosing any additional personal information about themselves. And when they are banned for cheating, the ban is applied to their BrightID account, so they can't evade by changing IP/game account/etc. And other games by other companies can choose to look at this registry and reciprocate the ban as well. It seems like an effective, but less dystopic solution than throwing people in jail for in-game cheating.
Using Manufacturing Data to Boost Reliability
Would the lazy bastards who downvoted parent instead do something useful and post a sensible rely? (Rather then keep turning this place into another Redit).

Link and text from the Putty FAQ below.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#...

A.9.2 Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?

No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into google.com and we're the first link returned), and we don't believe the administrative hassle of moving the site would be worth the benefit.

In addition, if we did want a custom domain name, we would want to run it ourselves, so we knew for certain that it would continue to point where we wanted it, and wouldn't suddenly change or do strange things. Having it registered for us by a third party who we don't even know is not the best way to achieve this.
I live fairly remotely in Canada and I'm not - I believe CBC may be available but I'm not certain

It was somewhat rhetorical, as I have access to weather alerts via the internet and am not in an area vulnerable to tornados or earthquakes.
Here is a link to the demo on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ for those who haven't got a box PS5/Xbox
The worst possible (or close to) solution to keep "anti guvernement spending" activists away is keeping your spending secret.

"CALIFORNIA SPENT $20 MILLION ON PAPERCLIPS LAST YEAR, THAT IS TOO MUCH"
> No we did not.
"SHOWS US THE BOOKS. HOW MANY PAPERCLIPS DID YOU BUY AND FROM WHOM"
> No that is secret.
"IT CANT BE YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SHOW US HOW MANY PAPERCLIPS"
> Well we can, but it is too much work, so no.

Governments should strive for transparency and be able to admit errors
if any are made.
People are worse off because those who actually can protect their time make less if overtime is needed to reach competitive pay.
Extensive recombination-driven coronavirus diversification[,,,]
Build houses. Feed and shelter or pay others so they can help.
Federal student loans come with multiple warnings, including a mandatory 30 minute training session:

https://studentaid.gov/entrance-counseling/

https://studentaid.gov/mpn/

The people who make these really bad decisions aren't unaware of the numbers. They're making those decisions for other reasons, like misplaced expectations on their potential for success, or strong immediate social pressures to ignore costs in their future.
Icelandic is truly very very conservative. Most Icelandic speakers can understand reconstructed Old Norse, either written or spoken, with only a moderate amount of difficulty.
NComm works fine and does a decent job on my A500.

On the A1200, I prefer Term.
Presumably under the direction of a doctor?
Early data on Omicron show surging cases but milder symptoms
full title == [Extensive recombination-driven coronavirus diversification expands the pool of potential pandemic pathogens]
Just read this, it's amazing and also funny, fits the bill perfectly.
*Technically*, this is very cool, impressive, and generally an elegant work of art.

*Pragmatically*, I see 2 flaws in their thesis (as explained on the about page):

>> "The entire network already consumes 10% of global electricity production with traffic doubling roughly every 2 years"

I think the implication is electricity consumption will also double roughly every 2 years, but Moore's law actually operates on approx. same timeline, so traffic can continue doubling at this rate without an increase in energy consumption. *This is why technology is brilliant.* It allows us to do much much more with the same resources. We should want more technological innovation.

>> " These black-and-white images are then coloured according to the pertaining content category via the browser’s native image manipulation capacities"

This essentially shifts some of the burden of computation from the server (PNG compression) to the browser (dithering interpretation). This may save some energy, or it may increase energy as most personal computer processors are much less efficient than server processors, and don't benefit from energy savings from caching. I'm not sure where it nets out, but just solely focusing on reducing server compute time isn't necessarily a path toward sustainability if it shifts more computation to the client.

Very happy to hear if I've misinterpreted the thesis. Again, I commend the technical work itself.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
I didn’t say Tesla had anything to do with it and I don’t know who is prompting them. What’s clear is that DMCA takedowns are now a pattern for “bad” FSD videos.
> is explaining then how crypto is different from gold besides "some people value gold also because of intrinsic value".

You say this as if having intrinsic value isn't enough?
That’s exactly what venture capital is for.
We ... commit them. Probably some really exceptional cases stay behind some "ftp"-like service (not really ftp, something like this).

It maybe wasteful, but it's the established practice (it seems). People coming from other game companies pretty much use it too (some rare exceptions). Also the automotive/chip design industry uses them - and yes mainly for the big blobby non-diffable/mergeable assets.

Locks are terrible, and yet you gotta doit sometimes, as how else would you prevent people working on the same asset.

I'm (still) terrible with git, often screw up commits, and have to google search/stack overflow to get it right (I use it mainly for simple home projects). I can only imagine the pain and suffering a non-tech person would have with git. Also the metadata is quite lot for WFH conditions. Working remotely does not always mean working from a dumb terminal (I wish).
About 5% of medical school graduates don't get matched into residency programs.

https://www.ama-assn.org/residents-students/match/if-you-re-...
Or I wonder what happens when you have parents who just decline to pay for you.
I would call it practise and say: "Practise makes perfect" or "It is in forging that one becomes a blacksmith."
You’re right about marxism but your framing about dividing society seems unhelpful in my opinion. Marxism is about recognizing power imbalances in society and understanding how to use our collective power for our benefit rather than the benefit of the few. Focusing on division seems a poor way to present this.
One could warn them to stop using their own equipment and then tell them to leave. If they don't, then you might start thinking about calling it Trespassing.
> At some point there was an attempted pivot as well or maybe it was just what Embarcadero always had focused on. [...] that the future of software laid not in languages and IDEs but in Software Lifecycle Management.

That was after they'd changed their name from Borland to Inprise, before they sold out to Embarcadero. I think that, in contrast to this, Embarcadero still bought them mainly for the IDEs.
Facebook's been on HN for time-related things in the past (see [0] w/ a discussion at [1]).

I submitted this because I wasn't aware that Facebook had switching to leap-second smearing, which previously prevented me from using Facebook's time servers. Why use this over Google's? For those of us not on the west coast, Facebook's time.facebook.com and friends has a round-trip delay of ~2.5ms (on a dedicated fiber uplink, so no docsis overhead) and more importantly, a jitter of less than 0.025ms, whereas Google's best round-trip delay (for me) is at ~30ms and is subject to a more variable jitter given all the hops it takes to reach it. You shouldn't (read: can't) mix smearing and non-smearing time servers, so using them even as an alternative NTP node wasn't an option in the past.

It doesn't really make a difference for NTP consumers, but I also wasn't aware that Facebook had made the switch to chrony - also mentioned in the article.

(Sidenote: time.apple.com has servers all over the US w/ some really low latencies for me, but no one seems to know for a fact if they smear leap seconds or not, which to translates to they almost certainly don't. Can any Apple insiders on HN answer that question?)

[0]: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appli...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140732
The question mostly arises when you want to build a greenfield cross platform app. I chose SwiftUI, but feel like I might regret not going Catalyst.

I think Apple doesn't usually blunder around like Microsoft with these things, but actually pulls through long term strategies. We are in an awkward transition imho. AppKit/UIKit are super mature technologies, SwiftUI is the future but kinda lacking and Catalyst is either a shortcut to speed up Mac/iOS convergence or a backwards attempt to get more advanced iPad apps. It's all fine as long as SwiftUI is actually the future. If any of the others are relevant in 10 years, more than Obj-C is now vs Swift, I'll be disappointed.

I don't believe SwiftUI is technically 100% AppKit under the hood, but effectively is, for now.