skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that the kernel community with their very lax attitude toward GPL violations (let's not sue them, because all those "poor" companies are really not doing this intentionally and we don't want to alienate them) has contributed to the rampant disregard for OSS licenses from commercial companies. If there was real economic consequences companies would think more thoroughly about following licences.
Sinking to their level doesn't move anyone forward.
Having 10 officers beat an individual with clubs doesn’t exactly seem good either…
Wolfram here were contrasting their model against the idea that products like Mathematica could have been developed in a fully “open source” manner. (It’s a false binary, but it’s what they’re doing.)

“Open source” is a different thing than “source-available” or “shared-source.” Many closed-source products are “source-available” in the manner you’re talking about, but this does not make them “open source.”

You’re not really an open-source project, in the conventional meaning of the term, until either

1. Your project starts accepting code contributions from the community (if perhaps after a gruelling code-contribution process); or

2. Your project’s codebase becomes licensed in a way that allows people to fork it, add their own changes, and then use the result themselves to achieve their own ends (if perhaps only non-commercial ends.)

Which are two sides of the same coin, really; they both imply that people will be tinkering inside your code; and that the “canonical” version of your code in everyone else’s mind might then become the version that the community thinks is better, rather than your official release.
That is exactly what is under dispute and it is un-sourced and worded very loosely. Not impressive for an organization that encourages citations of original source material.
This playbook is being turned back on the US currently. The GOP being the antagonizers.
More perceptive people separately consider the means and goals. Just because power is currently being used in a way that you agree with does not imply that the power is not dangerous. See "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" and "think of the children" as distractions to keep people complacent while excessive power is accumulated. After that, the excuses become unnecessary and the power can be used for any goal, aligned or unaligned with the people.
What really excites me about the possibilities for a new web are all the regulations we can draft up and enforce on everyone.
> redistribute to anyone and for any purpose.

This is certainly not a universally accepted definition. ‘Open source’ has long been a generic term for any situation in which the source is available. People may want it to be a term of art with a technical definition, but that isn’t how it is used in general.
Covered by point 10 (quid pro quo) - Android is both a Commercial Trap (effectively requires Google Play services) and User Exploitation.
What kind of goals is it preventing them from reaching?
The multipliers in CPUs are a mass of logic gates and are challenging to make work in a single cycle. While I believe it is possible with integer multiplication to do so, doing so with other larger data types might take multiple cycles. Division is even more complex, although not part of the question here.

Additions really can be done in 1 cycle, so it's possible to optimize by using them instead of multiplications in operations like this.

Here's a Berkeley EECS lecture on multiplier circuits if you want more info: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eecs151/sp18/files/Lecture21...
What do you mean? Yes the articles itself are old, but the discussions around them are new. Which is the interesting part -- "timeless" content that's relevant not just the week it is published.
Plex works well with the silicon dust boxes and an antenna
If you're referring to corporations like Google, where employees (until recently at least) were able to form groups and informal committees and have (sometimes) interminable debates, I think you're missing the important point that Google is not a democratic institution -- it has a strict hierarchy decided from the top, so it's pretty resistant to these tactics. It's the powerless, free-association, relatively democratic groups that are antagonistic to the hierarchy that are vulnerable to these tactics, and that are neutralized by them. I agree that representative democracies are definitely easy prey to these tactics though.

I think this manual is most appropriately understood as an early reference for the operations of the FBI in COINTELPRO, etc. State employed agents-provocateur and saboteurs were some of the first to literally use these exact reference manuals domestically, and their targets were the various social and labor movements of the day.
I think the distinction is in systems programming versus system programming.

Systems programming involves multiple systems with many components. It's not uncommon to find you simply can't make a solution work any better than it's designed, and you need to develop brand new solutions to problems (which makes the system even bigger).

System programming is simpler because it's one system and one or two codebases. It can still be quite complex, but you can often just optimize the one solution rather than having to come up with new ones.
I see. Very curious. Shall we call it “adverse convergence” hypothesis?

Have you explored broader implications of your idea? For example people who survived tribulations of a political career may end up close to each other despite their initial difference in political opinions, and maybe even across different countries. This doesn’t sound quite as convincing, but I’m kind of grasping in the dark trying to find some other examples.
It is for openexchangerates.org

Makes the founder a hefty sum.
Yes agreed, as I mentioned in this other comment I think of it as Google and Microsoft successfully "commoditizing their complements", while Sun and Netscape failed to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605638

And to be clear I would like an open source Wolfram -- in fact it's almost a requirement before I spend the effort to learn it! (I have never learned a proprietary language outside of work or school)

I just think it's obvious why it's not open source -- because they have a working and sustainable business model! And on the other side, I think it's great to actually pay for what you use, rather than having something free that's filled with dark patterns or irrelevant ads, etc.

It's a hard problem, and it's obvious that we still don't know the answers :)
> Not sure who you met, but a typical young person in China (aged under 40) would know more about the West than a young person in the West would know about China.

Only 60% of Chinese even attend high school (which isn’t compulsory), you are making a huge claim about the typical young person in China a when China is a huge country. Your claim might be true for comparing young Chinese in the big cities to all young Americans (including in small towns), but that isn’t a very fair comparison.

> Young people in China also know how to use VPNs to bypass the 'Great Firewall' to find whatever information they require.

VPNs to jump the GFW are incredibly unreliable (they tend to disappear after you pay your yearly fee), most don’t bother.
I run 3 non trivial Next.js apps in prod. While I have used Vercel in the past, I'm not currently. One is completely SSG (served by nginx) which is absolutely amazing and is the killer feature that keeps me going back to next.js. The other two have node because they use next/Image. I do really wish there were a compatible Image with SSG, but it is absolutely not hard to run a node app in prod, and there's no difference between a node app and a next.js that needs node.
A LOT of police forces operate these black “funds”
JPMorgan has been fined 191 times for over $35B since 2000.

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/jpmorgan-c...

"Oh, $200M? Yeah just stack it over there with the others. 'k thx bye."
You still haven’t given an example of how coordinating the two agencies can lead to a bad outcome. If all that can be done is enforce the law, then there is no issue. You keep implying something extra-legal can be done through the coordination, but aren’t providing any specifics.
I just had the opposite happen to me where I asked for a raise and my manager asks if I've considered annual inflation compensation. It was both funny and depressing
AV1 hardware decoding is still fairly uncommon.
Others are pointing out the similarities with corporate America, but I felt like I was reading the congressional playbook.
> There will always be friction with what is on the roadmap vs what the community wants to add.

Open source does not necessitate listening to the community. Ever. Even if they were to release it under an OSS license, they could just turn off PRs. Or if it's "source available", same story.
There's probably a name for it somewhere! I want to call it something like... convergence of survivors, broadly construed. (Achievers? Overcomers?)

I don't know of any examples outside of health but health is a big enough topic and closely related enough to education that I think it's likely to have some application.

Certain psychometric studies also support higher sensitivity to environment in the lower economic strata. Not exactly the same but you see the connection.

The studies cited by jedberg are very interesting, I just don't think they show what he thinks they do.

A better alternative to trashing the SAT is to provide an estimated adversity score, as ETS recently began to do, so schools have a sense of what a student may have had to overcome to reach their level of achievement.
As a general rule that’s true but useless. Humans are relatively large animals that most creatures don’t want to mess with. But a hippo for example isn’t discouraged by this.

Also the deadliest North American wildlife is the deer almost entirely because they’re jumping in front of cars.
> multiplication used the same number of CPU cycles as addition

Only thanks to lookup table and parallelism. And that's not even true for old computers, where multiplications can take multiple cycles.
Also I think complexity is calculated with a pen and paper approach in mind. Number of CPU cycles might vary a from actual complexity when the chips are optimised for certain tasks
Why shouldn't popular plugins copy-paste that method?
>Few things are more embarrassing than having to spend 20 seconds trying to figure out how much time you have left on a standardized test

This is a sorta-clever technique ... but if you can't have your phone, this is 100% useless

There are only three proper ways to worry about how much time you have left on a test:

- don't worry: keep going until you're done or you run out of time (the best option)

- wear a watch

- periodically look at the countdown timer on the test (if it's either being done on a computer, or if there's a timer in the room)
> Something is Open Sources if the code is published under a license that grants the user the right to study, change and redistribute to anyone and for any purpose.

That's how some people define open source. Other people use it to mean being able to see the source.
Same here. If you're looking for fiction that felt (at least to me) to cover similar themes, I would suggest Greg Egan's Permutation City.
All languages back then, all of them, were "high-level" languages, including C. Look at the history of BCPL, B and C and how the goal was to write Unix in a "high-level" language. You can go hear Brian Kernighan himself tell you all about it.

C as a low-level language is revisionist history. Rust is a high-level language and yet it is a "lower level" language than Java. Same as C vs Pascal. You could write very low level code in Turbo Pascal back in the 80s, the demoscene used it a lot alongside assembly, it had inline assembly even.

EDIT: and to answer your question on what else was "low-level", Forth.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius continues to inspire me, no matter how many times I read it. Incredible stuff.
As far as I understand Firefox uses it for various browser features like its add-on page, it also prevents add-ons from running on these sites.
Excellent discussion. Thanks.

Fascinating to see the interaction military technology and political structure.
x86 isn't dead, in the same way the ARM wasn't dead when the Raspberry Pi existed. Until we see 5nm x86 chips, it's going to be awfully hard to evaluate just how large of a lead ARM has on the desktop. And that's before we get to the real sticking points; legacy software. x86 is really, really good at maintaining backwards compatibility, and even has a number of objective leads over ARM in it's current iteration (for example, native SIMD beats the pants off NEON any day of the week). For ARM to claim supremacy, it's going to need to run the same software that x86 does, without overhead. Simply due to the difference in architecture, that's going to be astronomically difficult.

A more likely theory is that we've now entered the big.LITTLE era. Intel has already begun to pivot their desktop line to the big.LITTLE design, and while AMD's next line won't follow suit, they've discussed bringing the architecture to the CPUs after that. x86 has still got quite a bit of gas left in the tank, and now that RISC-V is getting taped out, a lot of people are starting to realize that a more modular approach to RISC CPUs is probably smarter than how ARM exists in it's current iterations. Plus, ARM is still proprietary (arguably moreso than x86), whereas RISC-V is fully open for anyone to use and manufacture. Simply from a technical side, I think RISC-V is going to eat ARM's lunch within the decade, and I also think traditional architectures like x86 aren't going away any time soon. Time will tell.
That depends on how it was treated right up to that point. For instance: unauthorized repair, wrong substitution parts, messing with the charging circuitry and so on are things that can and do happen.

It need not be a design flaw right away, but it well may be. Of course you could be of the opinion that it should be impossible for something like this to happen, and that is definitely a valid position. But even wired headphones have on occasion killed people (a Swiss HAM, for instance).
One follow up question you might want to be asking is why you thought that in the first place and what it has to do with current societal views.
If there is no immediate threat, sometimes its better to use time. The person may well just calm down, think through the situation, and give in peacefully.
Theres one key difference - you can share your YoutubeTv account with 3 couples.

YoutubeTV lets you create 6 accounts and use 3 simultaneously. I live in NY and share my account with 2 friends in CT for <25$ a person. Absolute steal and a really great product.
>The company that created Java went out of business and was sold to Oracle for a fraction of its original worth. So Java was a business failure -- or at least I'd be interested to see someone defend Java as a business success.

Just as Java is an afterthought to Oracle's database sales today, Java originally was an afterthought to Sun's workstation sales. Java was never intended to make money directly but rather as a conduit into the money-making side of both owners.
What surprises me is the scoring... for a non-default config. Seems a little high, but these seem inflated, maybe just because of the attention.
They could have opted to respect the DNT header.
Distribute is the key word. In general, companies can fork GPL code to power the backend of public or internal services, without being required to publish their modifications, but once they distribute the software (allowing binaries/scripts to be downloaded, including it in app, embedding it in firmware...), then they must open up the source.
> An instinct is something you have no choice over, it's automatic.

I think this is a common but entirely wrong model, and I'm not sure why people hold it.

Do you think humans have no instincts? I would argue exactly the opposite, humans, like all animals, are driven almost entirely by instinct, whether it's prosocial instincts causing you to have a moral code much like those around you, inspiring guilt and shame when you break it, or causing you to feel a need to talk to people and comment on Internet stories, reproductive instincts driving you to seek a mate, or survival instincts to ensure a regular food supply.

I think it works exactly the same way in all animals. They are equally capable of making choices, because choice is a preconscious thing, not something that occurs as a result of careful, reasoned intellect. Obviously, humans are capable of making more informed choices, but "reason" is mostly a post-hoc rationalization engine.
From the article:

“faster than our best models of the cosmos predict it should.”

It’s more an implied statement about the current models than the limits of human of human knowledge.
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Great. Get the cats next
They big mad if you say humans are killers. The monkeys would do that to any species once threatened.
Agreed, and as innovative as react was for web app development, I find myself hoping that something like Svelte takes off instead. Not having to deal with the virtual DOM, JSX, etc. is the next big barrier for app development IMO, it's just an unnecessary layer of complexity now that build tooling and browsers are catching up.
Interesting, didn't know of that connection between OSS and Marcuse. I can see why one would err.. tiptoe around this.
Just because they're less likely to watch broadcast TV or a cable bundle, I'd be very surprised if younger people today were actually watching less video (both with and without advertising) than in years past. Now, if they're deliberately choosing what to watch rather than just watching whatever is on, that is probably a good thing overall, but television as an episodic format is probably as big as ever.
It should call it if it has side effects, otherwise not. Java isn't C; the runtime can be a lot smarter.
By the time they get there, the stored data would no longer be fresh. If they are, for example, storing CPU designs to decrypt some time way out in the future, it will have been antiquated already.

Given the cost of "quantum decryption" and the age of the data, I am skeptical of this.
The Stranger by Camus.

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.

The Prince by Machiavelli.

Categories by Aristotle.
How cut-and-pasted programming is putting the internet and society at risk
I opted out by setting the do-not-track header.
Maybe we should form a committee to decide what those channels are before we do anything too brash?
Or he has seen Disney movies and thinks caribous are male deers.
Strange title. The universe is expanding exactly as fast as it should be... It's the universe. We just misunderstood the expansion rate.
"What happened here? A random person (Alice) minted an NFT of a digital image. Alice listed the NFT on OpenSea. Alice’s NFT is not verified, so in theory it should be worthless. However, if someone buys it then OpenSea makes money. This means they have no incentive to take down unverified NFTs."

Artificial scarcity is artificial.

Nothing prevents Alice from making copies and selling each "unique" one.

Since it is decentralized, there is no centralized authority to take down the copies (that is, a DMCA-style take down).

The "no one can censor you" upsides of decentralization are not without downsides: you cannot censor or take down others, even in cases of copyright breach.
FYI, he ran into the path of a pack of otters during his morning run and that is the reason why he was “attacked”. It is very possible he stepped onto an otter while doing that too, which would explain their behaviour.

What is interesting is he lawyered up, fabricated a fantastical story and somehow got the attention of Western media, all to seek compensation from the park. (And how many people believed him)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Think twice about running head-on into a pack of animals regardless of their size.
Endal
According to this list, shouldn't Windows Mobile have been the fiercest competitor of iOS and not Android?
Ask HN: Logical Vulnerability Discovery?
I understand fuzzing is bombarding with malformed or corner-case inputs. But are there tools that, given target source and language model, will systematically pinpoint (at least some) logical vulnerabilities ?

User list[10];
int id = read(input);
print(list[id]); // WARN unbounded user-controlled index !
No, but Wipr and 1Blocker have worked well in my experience.
I agree my comment is way too antropomorphic centric. As you say, in terms of the timescales involved it might not be a time humans are around.
The target audience of National Geographic are people with some science background but not researchers/experts. It a publication for the masses and so they have to tone down the technical lingo. For physics I read Nature, but for every other topic that might interest me but is above my knowledge level National Geographic works.
More generally, all predators do. We aren't the relentless killing machines that cats are though.
Here's my list of mainly non-fiction.

The Blank Slate - Stephen Pinker

Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher

Straw Dogs - John Gray

Godel Esher Bach - Douglas Hoffstader

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

Path with a Heart - Jack Kornfield
>Or you know having your tribe so convinced that they impeach the sitting president twice. People were calling for impeachment since day one.

The false equivalences continue. The first you mention was standard course of action when laws are possibly broken and the second is just free speech by individuals.

>And in 2020 there isn't zero reason to think the election was stolen. There is overwhelming evidence that the amount of likely fraudulent ballots cast exceeds the margin of victory in several states.

The few cases I've heard were committed by conservative-leaning voters. Or are you implying it wasn't a few individuals but a conspiracy? This dead horse again. Trump's people already tried with all the money they had to find a national conspiratorial bias and were shot down for lack of evidence many times even by members of their own 'tribe'. I guess you think everyone loves Trump so it must be a conspiracy. You're probably so entrenched in your own informational hugbox, where nobody can say anything against the tribe or else feelings get hurt, that you think it's impossible for the majority of people to not like Trump. I'm sure you think the opposite but I think it's caused a lot of people on the right to be so out of touch with what the majority of Americans really think but they can't see otherwise because they're trapped in a hugbox. And to be fair, the left has this issue also in some circles.
Here is our official reply. When an article by a reputable medical journal suddenly goes viral in anti-vaccine circles on Facebook there usually is more to the story. There was.

https://leadstories.com/analysis/2021/12/lead-stories-respon...
have to stand up, walk over to my bookshelf, go through my books, grab one, sit back dow

You can treat that as a chore, or as something exciting. Pick the latter and it's not really friction anymore, in that it's enjoyable friction: there's a certain expectation I get from picking the next book, encountering something I haven't read for ages and remembering how good it was.
For me, systems thinking, incompleteness theorem, writing style, consciousness... Definitely helped set my path in building thinking tools as a career.
it depends on what you call 'hinduism'. it's one of the world's most heterodox religions and has absorbed a huge amount of cultural tradition from at least 300 languages.

The rig veda is probably what most people agree is one of the foundational texts of hinduism, but it dates to about 1500 BC.

However, the vedas probably absorbed a lot of earlier cultural tradition from the indus valley civilization, especially worship of Shiva-like deities. How much is however, debated.

just like mesopotamia, there was a lot of syncretism.