skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps Rob Pike had OpenDoc in mind, which was cancelled by Apple in 1997:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFJdjk2rq4E -- a roughly three-minute promotional video describing OpenDoc

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FSFvEIpm5o -- a 54-minute video with much more information about OpenDoc

Also, while COM is used by Windows developers, I argue the vast majority of non-developer Windows users are unaware of COM. The most they've experienced end-user component-based software is OLE (the technology that enables embedded documents; e.g., having an Excel spreadsheet inside a Word document) and ActiveX (before it became infamous for its security vulnerabilities). However, even though COM (and alternatively the .NET Common Language Infrastructure) provides the infrastructure to create a marketplace of components that can be mixed-and-matched just like how Unix tools can be strung together, the Windows ecosystem is still dominated by large applications, though I believe this has much more to do with the economics of the software industry (companies want to sell integrated solutions, not components) rather than any technological limitations; I believe this is the same factor that caused Apple to cancel OpenDoc; my opinion is that Apple in 1997 needed the support of large software vendors like Adobe and Microsoft in order for the Mac to stay alive, and OpenDoc's promise of fostering a marketplace of components is disruptive to vendors of large software applications, particularly the same vendors Apple wanted to continue making Mac applications.
I have no doubt that one, or even thousand of seniors are pirating the latest movies. I’m not saying that people don’t pirate stuff.

But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier and DRM made legal options unusable, they wouldn’t.

DRM sucks, but Netflix isn’t going out of business any time soon
I'm reminded of my friend's autistic kid who loves to learn things on YouTube. Whenever he gets excited and tells you about something, he ends his spiel with "Like and subscribe!" before walking away.

These innocuous behaviors feel like a mental contagion that we should really be trying to rid ourselves of.
Someone should make Dave, or Volfied.
Spent way too much time playing those back in the day.
You’re just a set of weights and biases right?
I believe it’s because programmers write websites, and when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.

With webassembly we might start seeing compiled websites and we’ll miss the good old days of simple JavaScript.
One OS distro (or at least a small number of compatible versions) to rule them all is a major advantage of proprietary systems like Windows/macOS/iOS/etc.. Another advantage is a large staff of paid developers.

The closest equivalent desktop Linux distro in terms of usability, poularity, and support might be Ubuntu, but Ubuntu's design decisions don't necessarily satisfy all use cases and users, and there is nothing preventing them from developing their own Linux-based OS distributions.

For better or for worse, Windows binaries are the de facto standard format for commercial PC games and productivity software. Fortunately many of them can run on Linux via Proton/WINE.
Yeah, not to take away from the great work that the author put into the game but it indeed feels very very different to the original.
Physicist Sean Carroll’s take, based empirical understanding, and what would be necessary for some essence of a person’s conscious to remain after death.

https://youtu.be/jUIjDncKZbM
Show HN: Distributed Tracing Using OpenTelemetry and ClickHouse
This is what happened to Dutch startup Watermelon in 2016. They were providing Whatsapp bindings for around 800 - mostly Dutch - companies that were using Whatsapp for customer support. TL;DR Whatsapp blocked and sued them even while there was no alternative available back then.

https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2019-08-08---chatbot-maker...
>No wonder people rather use Telegram.

There's currently 2 billion WhatsApp users, it's about four times as large as Telegram.
I’m not convinced of the utility of lists like this, or the multitude of other Awesome JavaScript Yeahhhh!!! lists.

As one of the issues in the GitHub repository suggest, it seems all that is needed for a book to be considered “mind expanding” here is for it to have a Goodreads and/or Amazon rating higher than 4.

But what does that prove? There are people who rate Netflix’s Red Notice 10/10. Relative to those people, I think I’ve seen more intelligent forms of life swimming in the milk in my breakfast cereal.

I read half of The Compound Effect — one of the books in this list. It was trash. I’ve also read Sapiens from this list, and I certainly would characterise it as mind expanding.

Even from these two titles alone, I’d say the quality in the selection is far too variable. I think reviews are near enough useless unless you’re intimately familiar with the reviewer, and trying to curate the works in a collection like this by writing unit tests is probably futile.
> Anti-religion campaigns are still in effect caused by religion, since they wouldn't be necessary if it weren't for religion. Next!

You seem to have missed my point.

The GP is saying religion is the cause of much violence, etc. I'm refuting that by saying violent people are the cause of much violence and that's orthogonal to religion.

The anti-religion campaign is just one example, not the whole point.

I hope you are not blaming religion for Stalin's campaign. That's akin saying it was the believers' own fault that they were massacred because they believed in religion.

> since they wouldn't be necessary

So anti-religion campaigns like this massacre are necessary because religion exists? I hope that is just you misspeaking and using a poor choice of words. Perhaps you meant wouldn't exist? If not and you meant necessary, that is despicable.
I only know one person on WhatsApp without a contract (which all have hundreds of free texts), and the Pay As You Go options I see in the UK go as low as a penny per text.
I've also blocked tens of thousands of ips from DO, and AWS on several web sites.
Mostly for attempts at logging into wordpress admin accounts, some were spammers I'm guessing were using vpns that sometimes go through them.
Those and tens of thousands from brasil, and several other countries.

There was a time when I looked at sending in reports -

and a time when I asked someone in the wp plugin directory who had a detector-like plugin to have it spit out a chunk of fields that would be ready to fill in the amazon complaint form and to do a cidr lookup to port over to iptables.. but that never got made.

This was all made worse when maxmind went registration needed and ruined the most effective security plugin for wordpress I'd been depending on for years.

I've noticed an increase in the microsoft ips I'm blocking these days to.

for now I don't mind doing an ip lookup when I can block 64,000 ips or more at a time I find it's a solid win.
For Business-Initiated Rates, Rest of Africa is higher than North America, Rest of Latin America, Rest of Central & Eastern Europe, Rest of Asia Pacific and Rest of Middle East (basically any region other than Western Europe). Any specific reason for this? "Being poor is expensive" kinda thing?
I’ve had the opposite experience: If you have a decent connection (1gbps), you can torrent the 50GB Blu-ray in 7 minutes instead of watching the 0.5GB stream on Netflix. The difference in bitrate/quality is massive during fast action sequences where the Netflix version splits into 100 puzzle pieces made of DCT blocks that don’t quite fit together.

Oh and Netflix is one of the better sites when it comes to bitrate. Other streams are full of artifacts even when the camera is panning over a static scene.
Short summary of the 80 min discussion:

- Is there life after death?
- It depends.
That’s not what he says, he’s saying mirror but it’s just nomenclature to separate it from the real world version. It’s not completely terrible as an idea but I always think why not just build a centralised version that might actually work well and have the right incentives to build a business around. No need for crypto, eth or whatever for this idea to be effective.
Is there before?
Quite impressive, it's amazing how embedded that "stop" animation the character does when he runs in my memory, used to play this quite a bit when i was small
Seems like it worth a try. I just installed the app but when I checked I see that it collect location data and link it to the user, I wonder why?
You might like this one: https://www.openttd.org/
> Perhaps it's a filter to make sure they don't move further with a candidate who is not serious?

Why is asking basic questions over email considered "not serious", but doing the exact same thing over the phone is considered "serious".

The recruiter is just an asshole for wasting everyone's time by not just answering the basic questions in their email reply. They are already replying to the email, so they might as well answer the questions.
I managed to get halfway through level 2 on my phone. I think the screen is a 3x3 button grid. Center is 'action' for swords and potions.
Why not 480 by that logic?
Why do you think that access to information is a bad thing?

You could have said the same thing about kids with access to books.
Telegram's popularity depends on a vibrant ecosystem of third-party clients and bots that run on their API, and they wouldn't want to risk losing that. On the other hand, WhatsApp has prohibited third-party clients since 2015 and restricts their API to businesses that they are now charging these new rates.

Telegram is the more consumer-friendly choice, partly because they have not entrenched their market position in the same way that WhatsApp has.
Uptrace is an open source distributed tracing system that uses OpenTelemetry to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it. ClickHouse is the only dependency.

Would be happy to answer your questions here.
Well, you are verifiably insane.
I think the programmer should be able to specify what happens on overflow.

Maybe they're bit twiddling and silent wrapping is expected. Maybe they want the program to hard fault. Both are valid.
Again... you're still arguing a strawman against me. My response to the GP was that there is still doubt (and major, massive doubt when you read Ehrman's work) in this when you are relying on he said, she said; as opposed to witnessing Jesus directly himself.
>how will you enforce the API over many companies, devs, and users

He's asking investment-companies to implement Ethereum inter-op, with significant investments in key-management,security, and regulatory risk.

These companies could just come up with a standard instead? With significantly lesser investment (you don't have to worry about running a node or managing keys, or running a sync operation - you just publish your data in a "well-defined format"). All it takes is one company to start offering this (say Cava), and the others must follow suit to stay around and remain competitive. Maybe cava or Angel List could host your definitive captable and company.com/captable.json just does a redirect to angel.co/company/captable.json.

A lot of the well-known URIs come from companies (and groups of them) deciding that a common standard might be helpful: https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-....

You'll find the same challenges even in the Ethereum space. Maybe some company wants to use Solana instead - now your captable can be published in multiple blockchains, with perhaps different token implementations (ERC-20 vs 721?).

It's not like you get "standardization-for-free" with ethereum - companies still have to decide on it and get it right.

>How do you know someone didn't tweak some of the logic or change some info in their DB?

You have the same risk with what he's proposing. The keys are with the org, and he explicitly calls out for mistakes being correctable by creating a new captable from scratch (against perhaps even a new address). The data at the end of the day is "mirrored" from what is reality, and as such will always be as trustworthy as you deem the person who's controlling the keys to be. It's just that the keys change from "ethereum wallet key" to "server-TLS-key-for-company.com". I'd argue that the latter is better since the domain name is usually the primary identifier for the company (and not company.eth)[0]

Balaji might be a highly knowledgable investor, but he also has a significant stake in crypto companies so he has a high incentive to push for these use-cases without considering the alternatives.

[0]: Amazon.eth is on sale!
Is my broken computer still working in some fantasy world, detached from its hardware?
Discoverability has always been the #1 issue for me, so if someone can figure out how to establish any kind of namespace for IPFS I'm willing to apply a few more braincells to it.
“I keep eating peanuts every day and I don’t die. Peanut allergies aren’t fatal.”
only very smart recruiters would think to do this, most are likely just trying to expedite the process against competition (other recruiters, other candidates represented by those recruiters)

however, not an unknown tactic!
I’m not claiming that piracy doesn’t exist. I’m claiming that those pushing DRM have mostly achieved their goals. They are making good money from the people who have it to spend.

The person in your anecdote likely wasn’t a profitable customer anyway. Their goal is to make money from the masses who have it, not to try to squeeze blood from a stone.
Building a Cedict Parser in Rust with Nom
>C lacks any high level abstractions

macros
Yeah, I found the whole system to be needlessly complex with a lot of friction. Onboarding people onto such a system seems painful and difficult, plus it's extra work. I'd say dump the onchain part and focus on improving the existing systems. Then once those are frictionless, you could focus on some sort of integration with smart contracts.
Many don't get to pick.

Our "leader"[1] have told us more than once to go elsewhere if we aren't interested.

At times it can come of as a trick, but twenty years later and seeing the way he treats people that leaves our church, i.e. friendly and with all respect I've come to realize he just doesn't want anyone to stay around just because they feel they must.

Still I'd find it hard to leave luckily to a large degree because it has meant a lot to me and they are my dear friends.

[1]: the one who most often starts our meetings as we don't have any schools or certifications to become a preacher, priest or anything

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Edit: looking at what I wrote above I feel a bit silly trying to elevate "us".

Sorry for that. Deadline for rewriting (2 hours) approaches quickly and I don't have a good idea about how to rewrite it, so please feel free to do so mentally.

My point is: I appreciate the liberty I get to approach other churches, to see if anyone teaches the same things we learn in the same or a better way or even to say that I only want to become a regular churchgoer. I appreciate the approch that our kids, even if they choose something different as adults should still look back at their childhood with joy.

I'm fairly certain this liberty isn't given to everyone else around, but I have no idea about how this is practiced elsewhere.

Well, I do have an idea, but I have realized lately that does ideas was planted by the same medias who plant lies about my friends, so I am very wary about what I think even about JW, a group that I think I deeply disagree with in theological questions.
And with plenty of reviews saying it works.

As per the author's own comments to one such review:

> The app detects AirTags when they appear in their separated state i.e separated from any owner device for more than 15 minutes.

Background processing on Samsung devices can also be severly borked at times due to custom policies from the OEM.

Having thoroughly tested this my self, as well as looked over the code I am satisfied it does what it says on the can.
See also (1997):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

GCC and Emacs famously followed similar models (the Cathedral model): developed behind closed doors, to be released as open-source when it's ready. Both eventually went full "Bazaar" model. I guess it depends on the personality and goals of the projects' maintainers. (I'm certainly not faulting Lua's creators for anything!)
> Because dirt exists all over the world all clothes are in need of washing at some point

Being gay this one made me really laugh. People can hardly agree on what dirt is, and when they do, they often change their mind 100 years later anyway (or wait 500 years to apologize, as was the case with the Church's treatment of Galileo). Society is built on social contracts, compromises we make to optimize our interactions with society as a whole. As an individual you have freedom to ascribe meaning, value, and take stock in whatever moral beliefs you see fit, but it is dangerous to assume that you are "correct" or that there is some ideal set of values that will be correct for all of eternity. Culture evolves, technology evolves, morality has to evolve with it. When morality fails to evolve as fast as culture or technology, we get things like wars, things like apartheid, things like conversion camps, genocide, etc., etc., and there is no greater damper on moral progress than religion.
Ah the aesthetics are absolutely perfect.

software minimalism x vaporwave

And it's not just empty nostalgia. A text interface should be lightning fast. Hit a button, next screen repaint reacts. The ultimate retort to all the 5mb websites full of dropped frames, drop shadows and jank.

Solidity developers are already out here counting every instruction. Maybe what's old is new.
you would need gene expression and epigenomics too. And still be an approximation, but probably good enough
I'm the author of FakeYou.com, so I have a little experience in this area. (We used to train GlowTTS models ourselves before turning it over to our users, which has had mixed results in terms of quality.)

This appears to be a repackaging of RealTimeVoiceCloning [1], albeit with a few additions, such as GSTs.

No matter what the repo claims, your results will depend on high quality data. Lots of it, and with ample fine tuning. Demo videos are absolutely cherry picked.

If you're picking this up for a project, HiFi-Gan is pretty much the best vocoder right now. Tacotron still produces great results, though there are lots of other interesting model architectures.

[1] https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
And structures, unions, pseudo-meta programming via the macro processors, no exposure to IO unless on a CPU with MMIO.

JOVIAL and Algol dialects were also designed for creating OSes and no one calls them low level.
I live in rural Australia. Corrugated iron is everywhere, and I love it. It is durable, lasts a really long time, is easy to repurpose. I know an older gentleman here who built a really nice barn out of some repurposed corrugated iron roofing. I'm about to build a shed for a home office, and will use corrugated iron. It is cheap, easy to work with, comes in decent colors (e.g. the ColorBond brand in Australia), is strong without being overengineered. It's great stuff.
You're probably right. Though I played it originally on a 286 with a simple internal speaker and it sounded a lot more basic.
You can get 4K HDR blurary rips on torrent. I also just checked for the expanse, and there is a 4K HDR version (presumably ripped from a streaming service) on the torrent site I'm frequenting. I don't think the claimed gap in quality exists.

You just need to know where to look.
Define large sums of money, I can go right now to my bank and transfer 100,000€ instantly, or I can do a SEPA Credit Transfer if I ever need to, up to 999,999,999€.
I'll take a look at it, thanks!
Web API benchmarking: Rust (Warp) vs. Rust (actix-web)
Pure negation.
Have no idea who the others are, but I remember geohot from the various HN threads discussing their self-driving project: a safety-critical piece of software with important parts implemented in Python and running on an Android phone. When the NHTSA started asking some questions about safety standards compliance, geohot cancelled the project.

Finally it was open sourced and is currently sold with the following warranty: “[…]driver alertness is necessary, but not sufficient, for openpilot to be used safely and openpilot is provided with no warranty of fitness for any purpose.”
> C lacks any high level abstractions. All the abstractions it does offer are [...]

By that standard, practically all languages lack high level abstractions. Garbage collection? Hides pointer chasing and marking of memory locations. Dynamic dispatch? Hides a pointer to a function table. Functional programming? Hides pointers to closures. Closures? Hide pointers to data and function pointers.
It's not, because America is highly segregated by self-increasing difference in school quality (because more expensive homes in the area yield more property taxes to the municipality which are used to fund school), and better schools make richer people move to the place, driving up both home prices, and school qualities too by improving racial and social mix of students, and it goes on and on in a self-propelling virtuous cycle. As a result most places are strictly segregated and no, children from all backgrounds don't go to the same school because they don't live (poor can't afford) in the same school district.
I like the effects of this type of discussion, and it's excellent when embraced by the community and enforced by moderators.

Lua's community is notable for neighborliness and an almost Mr Rogers level of patience with newcomers, and the fact that the culture has persisted for 2 decades should be celebrated.
A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson is fun — but it’s not exactly mind expanding. I know more about the Appalachian trail than before I read it, but that seems like a low bar.
I would define fourth level languages by what they allow you to do, or what foot-guns they provide you with.

For example, surely languages like Typescript are "level 4" as you cannot manipulate memory directly but only use the languages higher level type structures.
It's really fun (?) to work with hardware designers, for whom even the registers that the code accesses is considered "high-level".

Abstractions, all the way down... even our digital bits are a joke to the analog designers.
Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer
I don't really understand why any drawing of the virgin mary could be worth millions regardless of whom it's by. There's so many renditions. At this point it feels like biblical fan art and the Louvre is filled with it.

I'd rather see art that hasn't been repeated ad infinitum like stuff by osman bey or charles curran or something else. I guess it's just taste? I probably don't know anything, just talking.
I think I would just start with indexing the latest Common Crawl WET files along with a server and a couple of Exos X20 20TB drives.

Wondering out loud if there's a crawl that will produce real-time updates via common news outlets..
It is good to see work on a thing that has a chance of working, eventually, possibly, usefully.

If it doesn't work out, we haven't already sunk $billions into it. If it works at all, a D-H3 or even p-B device should be possible, for aneutronic fusion, that could possibly be of some actual value.
Helpful article.
FDA tries to prevent anything that could lead to less money going to big pharma firms. The theory is that if lots of cheap tests had been available during the deepest depths of the pandemic, transmission would have dropped and fewer people would have consented to vaccination.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/22/nation/man-behind-rap...
> There are no human beings involved

Humans created and manage the behavior of the automaton.
You have companies like Telerik, ComponentONE, DevExpress for the components.