skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "why" in the article doesn't rest on open source being magic:

- building company without VC

- 100% open source, easy to self-host, high quality import/export

- building software so that it is easy to maintain and operate

- substantial community of developers (100+ commits) beyond those employed by company

Open source as magic seems like at most 25% of the argument, more charitably 10%.
As far as I can tell, Suarez is a joke. The county wields all the power, and the city itself is utterly reliant on the county.

Furthermore, Miami, like a lot of Florida, is mostly driven by real estate and money laundering of illicit money, not by any tech whatsoever. It's also become a playground of the uber-rich libertarian subset of the PayPal mafia, but otherwise, there is no startup activity out of Miami.

Using this as some sort of exemplar instantly diminishes the credibility of the article. Also, the comparison to Yahoo is weird. It has ceased to be a big name for the longest time, but as a mismanaged and dysfunctional company that missed the bus several times, it is second only to Hewlett-Packard. H-P is a far better analogue of what SV has become.
2 is my fave.

{\/} is pretty clever.
I tried that too, but couldn't stick to it, I don't remember why. Maybe I should try again.
This requirement is impossible to fulfil because there are no cars that can't kill people on public roads. Regardless of means of driving.
You can pay for hosted Zulip, so if “paying for it” is a distinguishing factor that’s not a point against it.

I’ve also seen orgs that used on-prem solutions for compliance reasons and had an actual working service - it’s just not significantly cheaper when done right.
As I understand it, the difficulty with IoT is it tries to combine together millions of small markets into one big one. But you compete with specialized products designed with expertise in those niches, or else you're trying to sell general technologies to specialists who have no idea how to use them. I think the consensus is largely that IoT hasn't overcome this yet. Aren't they trying to rebrand it with new names now?
Ah ok, interesting - I haven't tried Aurora, my company uses a mixture of RDS postgres and Dynamo. Cockroachdb and Yugabyte also seem like good options but a harder sell for us not being AWS native.

More generally though, all of these "newsql" offerings feel a little too good to be true for me, I can't see how you could really have all the relational integrity of postgres with the elastic scalability of a distributed DB without trading something off. Am I too cynical?
But that's like saying atoms are just "jargon" for talking about matter. Bits are what information is comprised of.
It's implied by "government promises". What has your government promised wrt covid? Were such failed promises made in bad faith, or due to the fact that covid is a complex and changing global pandemic without clear answers to anyone?
Simple answer. They're not cost-effective.
It's not tortured, it's strictly the only supported and legal way of running it. Anything else is software piracy.

If that is the criteria for calling software free, then it's not a useful label.

Every legal macOS installation has been paid for with money.
In the US, rights are defined as things in which the government and private parties cannot take away.

As you've stated, a society will break down if there is no enforcement of rights as it is equivalent to them not existing. This is because the government is the sole definer of rights, and they only exist because the government has the will and ability to enforce them.

Neither housing nor water are human rights in the US because they, as the commenter stated, require you infringe on someone else's private property (resources, time) to provide them.

This may be different under other governments depending on how rights are defined in their society, but in the US it is absolutely not the case.
I think questions like « Prove that the union of finitely many compact sets in a topological space (X,τ) is also compact » would certainly achieve rate limiting and boost global math skills.
Similar question, the CSV contains a collection of Wiki URLs, why not pass URLs of any website that has "free-form documents"?
>... as Tesla's engineering and marketing have become more aggressive.

I get aggressive marketing. What is aggressive engineering?
Thanks for great comment! I have one question.

The biggest thing I miss in react ecosystem is decent redux ORM. https://vuex-orm.org is just so great for so many use cases (agree that it might an antipattern in many situations). Is there any chance that https://github.com/redux-orm/redux-orm, which was actually what inspired vuex-orm, would get more love from anyone to become an actively maintained library?

Thanks
So as somebody who grew up in a place without tornados and now lives in a place with them, let me be the first to say that when the dispatcher says:
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"If you decided to come back, that choice is yours," replied the dispatcher. "But I can tell you it won't be viewed as for your own safety. The safest practice is to stay exactly where you are. If you decide to return with your packages, it will be viewed as you refusing your route, which will ultimately end with you not having a job come tomorrow morning. The sirens are just a warning."
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that's just plain not true. I mean, yes, the sirens are technically just a warning. But they don't go off until things get really serious. If you hear them, you need to get to actual shelter as quickly as possible. They're not just some vague suggestion. I have no idea how some supervisor who presumably lives in a tornado region could not realize that!
I mean…isn’t that exactly what the government _would_ say if these devices actually were working? /s, obviously
A mandatory prayer at school is the best way to breed an atheist.
It's a good question, the whole "Biosphere" project which you can go visit in Arizona which sought to do something like this. It isn't underground, there really isn't much advantage, and there is a whole lot of expense, in building under ground.

So the partial answer is that people are doing this research. Complex interactive systems like this however are very hard to design all at once. One strategy might be to solve individual problems like having a habitat that provides all of its own oxygen and CO2 processing. Then once that is understood have one that can recycle 100% of bio-waste. Then add a long term power supply, then figure out how to make that supply a renewable one. It is a very complex process and each step will reveal new interconnections that need to be dealt with.
I believe the parent poster implicitly meant "as long as it's copyrightable" as a caveat
> Type guards (for things like overloads) can also be a bit weird to write, for instance you can't really do an "instanceof" because that information is lost at run time

Isn’t the normal way to do this in TS to use discriminated unions, where you just store the type right there on the object as a string (perhaps in a key called “tag” or “type”)? I love discriminated unions, and needing to explicitly carry around that discriminator is a bit awkward coming from, say, OCaml, but it’s still my default way of modeling most things in TS.
Ask HN: Best low-level optimization tutorials?
I had found a resource around 4 or so months ago either on here or reddit that was amazing. It took some matrix problem, solved it naively, and then applied different optimizations such as branchless coding, simd, openmp, compiler optimizations, etc. It showed the cumulative effect of each optimization, and I though it was amazing. Unfortunately, I lost the link to this website and cannot find it despite hours of Googling and searching on HN and Reddit directly.

Wondering if anybody here knows resources that were useful for similar or different topics, or might be able to provide a link to what I lost.
But a helicopter could. :-)
Deleted my Facebook account years ago, and no regrets.
Honestly that chart looks great to me, but there's just no way to tell or to prove to others whether that's because we're both objective truth-seekers or because our awful obvious heinous biases happen to match up.
Rebutting the argument doesn't rely on tech knowledge.

“But, your honour, I didn't copy this person's book! I used the autocomplete on my phone, and it just so happened to produce their 500 000 word novel!”

You need tech knowledge to think that's even plausible. Sure, they wouldn't dismiss it out of hand (I think “laughed out of court” is a figure of speech), but I wouldn't be surprised if it got a few giggles.
I think some benefits are difficulty (we want to stress test), similarity (we probably build underground on Mars), and a whole lot fewer outside influences (a lot fewer organisms underground).
It’s time to abolish ‘emergency’ Covid-19 powers
It's not too bad to deploy, I have an install up and wrote a guide here: https://socialism.tools/zero-to-zulip/ compared to alternatives like Mattermost or Rocket Chat it's quite easy.
They shouldn't be called "fact checkers" then, they should be called "opinion police".
> For most people, Facebook is the only place where they can stay in touch with their family and friends.

I don't understand what's wrong with a group chat in <your favorite messenger>?

Not arguing. Just lost. Completely lost.
There are so many foaming at the mouth morons desperate to “prove” that the whole thing was a sham that it will take extraordinary evidence to convince me anything improper was done.
Sounds like Jamie is starting a conference that would be a good venue for Eves. I think the ethos of Eve was really about rubbing databases on everything and seeing what happened.

This conference really seems to be a future of programming conference moreso than a databases conference. Maybe I'll submit something! Good luck!
Try a trackball mouse. I sport a Logitech Ergo MX with a 30deg tilt. Similar to you it's in front of the keyboard. The fact you don't need the mouse to move at all is amazing.
Semi-related:

I've had a basic ergo keyboard (MS sculpt ergonomic) for a while and it's much much better than regular keyboards;

However I think all ergo keyboard companies are missing the point those days:

"Just-a-keyboard" doesn't cut it anymore in the world of laptops. I want an ergonomic keyboard with a built-in Macbook-class touchpad, or ThinkPad-class trackpoint + three buttons. (I know it's tricky, especially with split keybord; conceptually it feels it almost can't be done).

Unfortunately most of software those days has pretty limited functionality if you want to use it 100% with a keyboard only. And no matter what best keyboard you have, adding a trackpad or mouse to it is just clunky and slows you down due to endless context-switching.

Are there any examples of ergo keyboard with built-in pointing device? I never found any.
not hard to find information online about this
https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/local/san-francisco-po...

etc etc
I wonder if an ISO version will become available (with a <> key next to the left shift key).

It has never been the case for their other models :(
The product may be broken for you. I have used DO for years and never had this problem. They offer OTP 2FA specifically so you don’t have to rely on emails. Emails can fail in many places, you shouldn’t rely on that.

Next time make sure you can log in to your hosting provider’s console before you make possibly breaking changes.

I get that you had a bad experience but that doesn’t imply that DO is broken or not worthy of trust.
Calling someone you disagree with a racist is unhelpful.
Logarithmic scales are devilish things, though.

Spurious emissions have to be at least 20dB down from the carrier, which means a factor of 100. And I'm highly skeptical that you can measure a 1% difference in wifi signal strength by looking at something like performance alone, given all the counfounding factors.
I applaud the researcher's conviction to use the remaining part of the year to do the things they think are valuable.

However, They tell use they did something "disgusting" when labeling patient data by reinforcing some social constructs. That is just what *must* be done when looking at many aspects of physical medical health research.

It is inappropriate to take self selection of something like gender identity into account for medical research not specifically dealing with transitioning and the follow on effects/side effects. Let's flip it around judge if it would be appropriate to approve a drug that was tested exclusively on white men in the 40s. The conclusion being that if it works for them it should be safe and effective for everyone. It would be irresponsible to do clinical trials for most drugs tossing gender out the window because it made people uncomfortable.

This is of course absurd and people would rightly call it out as such. Don't believe me? Take a look at the garbage patch of early AI image research trained on data sets of white men and how that worked for imagines outside of the test group.

I know the researcher wants to respect identity, but with luck their research can help to save lives even if they had to hold their nose while doing it.
Most deaths from driving occur outside of cities.
https://archive.md/27gZf
OBS is GPLv2 so I don't think it would get to that level. Tho if the other GPL code is v3 then who knows.
If that was true, apartment pricing would be flat or even trending down, as landlords would compete on price.

But they don't. Instead, landlords fight against the construction against additional housing so they can limit supply and increase prices.

I had a 900 sq foot, 2br, 1 bath apartment in the suburbs in 2012 that was $800/month. Each annual lease renewal was a higher price. When I moved out in 2015, the price was $950 at the time. If I had renewed, it would have been $1,100/month. That apartment now is $1,500/month. In less than 10 years, that apartment has doubled in cost.

Rising prices do not indicate a competitive market.
Does that mean freedom is self-defeating?

It comes down to a simple formula: are people learning and appreciating freedom faster than it's being diluted by people who are ignorant or disdainful of freedom?

There's no fundamental reason one rate must remain above the other. Education, immigration trends, business, and culture all play a part.

But once the anti-freedom are greater in number than the pro-freedom, then freedom democratically self-destructs.

Non-free governments don't have this problem, because they aren't democracies.

In other words, losing freedom can be peaceful and even consistent with the principles of freedom (you're free to give up your freedom). But getting freedom requires some non-free (or at least non-democratic) things to happen.
I am just an amateur, but gosh I love doing ETL. There's something about the specification of the data you're supposed to be getting, and then the harsh reality of the filthy trash you will actually be fed, and making something that can carefully examine each of the assumptions in the spec to test for how it won't go right, making tests for things that will, you are told, "never happen" (only to get an email from your program three years later that this has, in fact, happened), interpolating data where you can, and in general making a "simple load process" into one of those grinders people can feed cows and tungsten carbide rods into.

I feel like Data mentioning that he just ... loves scanning for life forms.
Not sure I understand what your disagreement is... as I said you can do more advanced compilation, which by implication should give you better performance. Is that what you meant?
It might be because some other well studied cultures seemed to dismiss the death of children callously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_exposure
> Getting the actual opinion of anyone in China ... is very difficult.

Is it really that different in America (or the "west" in general)? Most of us have become very guarded in what opinions we share in the past few years.
I'm a local Miamian and I'm hoping the crypto scene in Miami is a beach head for other tech and not a white whale that sucks up all the capital and brainpower from other emerging technologies.
My comment doesn't meet any of this criteria. The original article was about a Chinese company's unauthorized fork of OBS. It's semantics whether or not you consider an "unauthorized fork" as stealing, but I certainly do.

So it's neither unrelated or a generic tangent, as it relates to intellectual property theft. It's beyond question both that China as a country is known for stealing intellectual property, and that Chinese companies work closely with the CCP.

In the introduction of The Wires Of War by Jacob Helberg, he cites a statistic that estimates that "Chinese theft of intellectual property costs Americans anywhere from $225 billion to $600 Billion every year..."
Same here! Have an Instagram for dog and a LinkedIn and that's my only social media.

All the people I actually wanted to be friends with I'm still friends with.
There is https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl/README....
Isn't it exactly the safeguarding of private property since IP is by definition, property?
> The specific function which has the bug didn't need network access.

My reading of the bug and exploit is that the specific function not only needed network access, it was a intentional feature.

> It just needed to look something up in the environment.

That's not how I understand it - it parses the user-supplied input, and fetches (and subsequently executes) the package in the user-supplied input. The environment is irrelevant.

Now, bearing in mind that this was intentionally put in, and that the feature is working as intended and expected, how would a different programming language help?

Even if written in (for example) Haskell, the behaviour will be coded the same way, because that is the intended behaviour.
This is why I HN. Thank you for that clear account of the discovery, funny what a little curiosity can lead to.

Not masking the names further makes me wonder if whoever actually implemented this may not have been aware of the repercussions.
I never even received a response when I filled out the Google Forms, so I don't have an API key to use.
It used to simply be the revolving door back to executive industry positions, which is what ALL the FCC and their ilk are headed by. Those exec positions used to function as the main "deferred bribery" mechanism, because who can question someone getting another job once the administration job ended? You mentioned the Obama administration, I remember the massive criticism early in his admin with the number of revolving door appointees to the various industry-focuses administration positions. The pay cuts they had to take for "public service", and the "oh look at their sacrifice to their country". OH PLEASE. PLEASE.

Now since citizens united, it's my impression that the lobbying industry / K street is now completely awash in money even moreso and that is the main source of "deferred bribery". I think near the end of the Obama admin there was going to be a rule change about joining a lobbying firm when you were done with congress. Holy crap did a lot of congress quit all of a sudden. They were cashing in.

Rudy Giuliani made a million bucks a year from his law firm. Why? He's not a good lawyer.

There is also cush jobs for family members and numerous other ways to do such things. Biden's son is an example, I've seen really crummy stories around Clarence Thomas's family a decade ago that made me realize the Supreme Court was far from an ivory tower immune to corporate influence.

Let me ask you a question: why does EVERY SINGLE, D or R, president take a trip to Saudi Arabia near the end of their presidencies? They are the effing president of the USA and they travel TO Saudi Arabia to basically kiss the royal family's butt?

Washington is AWASH in money. Yet nobody significant, the central focus of the all that lobbying money, goes to jail.

This is hilariously like NCAA football, but with less scrutiny, far more money. Everyone knows its going on, nobody talks about it, sometimes someone gets busted for going "too far".
I stopped following development of `valuable` since I was too busy with non-rust-stuff, but weren't there still some big API-shaping questions open for it?
Couldn't the FSF sue on their behalf?
Yeah, regardless of this supposed legal incentive, I don’t see any reason why Tesla wouldn’t roll it out to everyone if they thought it was ready for that.
We really need an open source version of Facebook that is federated like Mastadon.
I've yet to see a real business case involving anything "crypto" that isn't either a scam or simply foolish.
Learn a thing every day I guess. Nonetheless, is inconsequential to task at hand if you apply the "Rosemary Kennedy" method to the laptobotomy: activate the mic, jam that needle in the hole and wiggle it around until the girl can no longer sing, no activity is detected on the vu-meters and nothing is played back in the recording.

You have audio-video input sensors on all sort of programable devices nowadays, even some TVs can be turned into two way communication devices. That's a nice 1984ish vibe to ruin your late night matrimonial TV browsing.
Yeah, currently, the console knows how to detect TrueColor, but in this case, I just used the ANSI 256 palette rather than picking a better one when TrueColor is available...we should probably fix that!

Side note, it turns out that detecting what color palettes a terminal supports 24-bit colors is surprisingly fraught. There are a couple env variables that may be set...but not every terminal emulator will set them. And then you can use `tput`...but the terminal may not have correct data in the tput database. So that was fun to learn about!
In 2020, talking about the lab-leak theory was labelled "misinformation" and brutally purged from social media by "fact-checkers". In 2021, major news outlets started talking about it, and then it suddenly became ok to talk about it on social media again, and the "fact-checkers" did a complete 180 on the issue.

They're not checking facts, they're just enforcing the mainstream view. The mainstream view is often correct, but sometimes it isn't, and then the fact-checkers are just horribly wrong, and suppressing actual debate on the merits of an issue.
I'm 20ft tall
There is a huge difference between goal and actual state. You can't enable FSD Beta without clicking several checkboxes in clear language saying you have to pay attention every second on the road, you're responsible for single action of a car on the road.
And it provides more restriction on a driver compares to regular driving, such as distraction camera monitor, phone monitor, hands off the wheel etc..

It's so boring to see how trolls have no numbers, no real issues but just trying attack the marketing name/aspirational goal.
> What sort of issues? Security ones? That basically came down to a malicious engineer compromising their own infrastructure and then whistleblowing.

I don't know exactly. I believe they were trying to force cloud-signon for even locally managed devices, and since then I think I've picked up "used to be great" complaints that their quality and support is slipping (like they off-shored their engineering teams or something).
Yes they weighted the seats, slipped out from a seatbelt, and weighted the steering wheel.

Newer software released in the last couple months also adds some kind of gaze tracking using the interior camera - because the car now alerts constantly if I am looking at my phone and will disengage auto-pilot and put me in the penalty box if I keep doing it. I don’t know how that tech would react if it didn’t see a human in the drivers seat at all, but I imagine ultimately that will be another safety measure. Tesla has a lot of incentive to cut down on these types of pranks.

For those that don’t know, disengage keeps autopilot running but with an extremely annoying alarm and massive red warning on the display, and as soon as you take over the penalty box means you can’t re-engage “AutoPilot(TM)” until the next drive.