skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is anecdotal but I find a couple things get me off of soul food kicks.

One, exercise seems to keep me on the straight and narrow. I almost never drink, but when I did, running reduced it a ton. Today I find it increases my appetite for all varieties of foods. I still want the biscuits and gravy, but a carrot is super appealing to. As a result I’ll end up filling dietary space with a wider variety of food.

I also find my eyes become more aligned with my stomach. As in my desire for a lot of food reduces and I’ll start eating more sensible amounts.

Otherwise really prioritizing sleep makes a huge difference. In winter I tend to get bored because so little is going on, or so it seems. I can fall into habits of staying up too late trying to find something engaging to do. Of course, I rarely do. The hours fly by and suddenly I’m primed to get a terrible sleep.

I try to make sure I go to bed earlier than I would in summer, then wake up early and experience first light and stuff. Like walk to work as the sun rises, walk to get a coffee outside if I’m already at work. Get fresh air and light nice and early.

Anyway, just sharing in case you hadn’t tried these things and you’re curious about other experiences. I really struggle with eating way too much in winter.
Yes you have to continually pay pizza money, yearly, true. Rent a country level domain and it won't be revoked without a judicial order. Also rent from a registrar with good reputation.
Unfortunately, there are cases in which courts said approximately that implementing an algorithm (especially an algorithm that is a secret¹) without permission can be a violation of §1201. Recall

(a)(3)(A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

¹ yes, I know that it's weird to regard the algorithm as a secret when implementations are given out to the user

[edited in response to correction by wtallis]
Most likely outcome seems like the COVID vaccines. The damage is already severe. And while it can (drastically) reduce damage in the future, it will be there.

Someone had a theory that covid won't be the apocalyptic plague. Instead we'll be hit with another deadlier one that ends up poorly controlled with all the covid fatigue. Something like MERS or Ebola, that the old world managed to control.

I expect this to be the case of climate change. Gov has burned their political capital trying to control covid that there's none left to handle climate change.
They got rather heavy-handed in recent times, though: all icons are behind a registration wall and an anti-scraping ToS even if the author declared them to be e.g. CC-BY, so while the result is royalty-free I wouldn’t count is as open source. (The website doesn’t call it such, either, so there’s that.)
potater or potahter?
To be fair, congress mostly doesn’t give a shit what happens either.

I’m genuinely curious if this aspect of the law would (or has) stand up to scrutiny, given that congress regularly writes unconstitutional laws, and the Supreme Court really really really hates prior restraint.
Yes.

Pity the nut jobs use up all the oxygen saying it is method of disposing of toxic waste and a social control measure....
>Except that Star Trek is a TV show.

Last I checked, there were several feature films with the title of Star Trek. Do I live in a fantasy world where this isn't true for you?
Nah its not. It crashes hoobs and the ring plugin for homebridge. And probably a lot of other software.
The license says the code is "AS IS".
Congratulations on the first legit, hilarious mainstream reference on HN. I only hope my life’s work will give me an equally compelling epitaph. :)
The host who can according to the license continue to host it for the other 99.999% of users. The host for example NPM is the one who owns the service and need not provide the uploader with the privilege of revocation.
I think it's nice to thank strangers who offer corrections. I'd rather be corrected than have a false feeling that I'm always correct.
Yeah, this seems less like actual progress and more that people wanted to drive in circles faster.
BTC is already closer to 0 than 100k so this "prediction" is really just the status quo.

Though if you really think it's going to crash super hard, I assume you're heavily short BTC at the moment?
Extremely cool. Thanks for making this.
Oh I agree, nobody is stuck. I'm just pointing out that, sure, there are messy workarounds, but in this case it is not as simple as "rollback".
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The T1200 was -- and I never thought much about how weird this is until now -- my family's computer for a few years. We got a laptop for somewhat arcane reasons and I'm not sure it was the right decision, but my dad loved that thing. I learned WordStar and some drawing program, but we didn't have games, so I didn't use it much.

It lasted us until 1995 when we got a PC with Windows 95, our first Windows computer.
Indeed, though it’s probably likely in the history of the universe this has never happened, as what are the odds of two distant civilizations separated by many light years meeting and both offering historial imagery to each other? The chance to capture relevant images will have passed if they do not specifically plan for it.
I think that this is a great way to cover up the problem with the wave of people disabled by Long Covid falling out of the work force. Blame it instead on a vocal group of slackers.

It's going to work, everyone will blame them, and Covid keeps getting ignored.
The island (Nananu-i-Cake, pronounced roughly "nah-nah-nuh ee tha-keh") is less than 750 meters off the coast of Fiji's most populated island, Viti Levu, so piping in water, electricity etc and ferrying in workers is eminently achievable.

Of course, the fact that the video doesn't mention any of this, much less trivia like the location of the bloody island, is a strong clue about how seriously this project has been planned and how seriously we should be taking it.
I think people overreact (or at least I overreact) because of two things:

1. A kind of "psychological contract" is in place between a package maintainer/creator and the developers using it and that is somewhere along the lines of "assuming good faith" or "good intentions" from the maintainer and giving back somekind of "kindness" to maintainer specially in cases of of some OSS (MIT, Apache, BSD-2/3 ...).

This maintainer broke this contract - the trust of its users. They are pissed and rightly so. He broke is because he also felt that another "psychological contract" was broken between himself and the market. So his users are pissed because they see this as retaliation from the maintainer to them without them doing anything to merit this.

2. Another aspect is that he could have gone multiple ways to try to get money from companies by pivoting his projects. But his action is an emotional response with a hint of political activism that caused damage also to developers who are not having the choice (they are not decision makers or not managing budgets) nor the desire to be part of this. So for them there is another breach of "contract" happening: using those libraries seems to have a hidden term "you will be used as collateral when needed in my fight against big companies" which they did not agreed and was not explicit.
Disinformation and multiliteracy: A systematic review of the literature [pdf]
> GitHub and npm are supposed to be separate things.

Is that going to be true forever? I would assume not. There is already much deeper integration between github and npm than there was a few years ago, and Github seems to be going fairly deeply into CI and distribution.
A long time ago MKS Utilities had an awk compiler that would compile an awk script into a Windows exe. Dunno if it actually compiled anything or just packaged the awk interpreter onto the exe. That was my first intro to awk. Was nice to be able to write a script that I could send to people who didn't have awk.
It is about 10 paragraphs long, and them some code samples. And they explain it at a level that is accessible to people who don't come from a low level background. Seems pretty good to me.
It's a lose lose for them. Regardless of the pronunciation they declare will effectively anger half of the fans. Debate on one of my novels on the internet so that people are continuously talking about that novel is a good thing. Why wreck it?
Memory usage is a real problem once you have large amounts of data, of course Go is GC’d and so has a substantial memory hit anyway so I understand weighing that aspect less.

The real killer once that’s factored out is cache performance, and that really is a killer: for high performance code you can easily lose double digit %s of perf hit. You can do even worse in, but in the optimal case (a flat array) load predictors and prefetchers get you to only 10-20% hit from cache pressure.

This is my recollection from maybe 5 years ago (hell maybe even 10), so it could be worse now.
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If Amazon was dropping the last digit from the routing number the ACH credit transaction attempt would have never made it to the destination bank. The fact that the destination bank was able to tell a digit was missing indicates the routing number was correct. A transaction with an 8 digit routing number would have never have left the OFDI because routing numbers are 9 digits.
I pay $15/mo for static IP with att. I just sent a message through the chat in their site, please unblock port 25. They replied ok, and it got unblocked next day
Explanation what it's used for: https://www.edrlab.org/readium-lcp/principles/
Allow package deletion within 1 week and 100 download will suffice.
Is it? We are reaching a point where one particular political alignment is basically interested in setting us back pre-1950's in terms of rights and liberties. Hard to remain respectful of anyone who subscribes to that.
I'd be surprised if the courts actually held that implementing an algorithm was an act of circumvention. I expect they'd rather hold that to be in violation of a different paragraph:

> (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—

> (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

An implementation of the algorithm without the necessary key would still be a "component, or part thereof".
It’s free to file complaints with the state licensing agencies.

Also fees to file a small claims action are usually less than $100. And you can ask for that as part of your renumeration if you win your case.
Can this be used for sleep tracking?
How precise do the measurements need to be to give useful data about one’s sleep? (e.g. how much deep sleep one had.)
It's amazing to come to the comments and find the author himself here. Thanks for writing Accelerando, I enjoyed the book. It really made me think about the future differently.
> as far as I understood recently about US is that the speech is protected between the citizen and the government, not between civil entities, as business/corps and citizen

This is mostly true. But there are some special exemptions.

The real gotcha is that the courts have generally taken a dim view towards using the courts themselves to restrict someone’s speech. The Supreme Court basically doesn’t want (or maybe didn’t want given their recent changes) congress to launder free speech violations to civil lawsuits enforced by the courts. That’s kind of a neat trick that you’d generally want to suppress, which if I understand is why there are first amendment issues around defamation lawsuits, despite being purely between individuals.

How does this work with the DMCA? I dunno. But to my (non lawyer) eyes it does seem kinda like it effectively criminalizes speech, and I wonder if it should stand up to judicial scrutiny.
Probably a range bound year for BTC/ETH with a rotation into some newer chains like NEAR or ATOM.

Not sure about NFTs but I'm sure some blue-chips like CryptoPunks for ex will still retain a lot of their value.
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And then if there is a CVE along the way someone has to go and maintain it and thats exactly what no one wants to do
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Adding permissions is a reasonable step, but I don't think it solves the problem. We know, it's very hard to get granularity right with permission systems and there is a strong temptation to just give everything all permissions.

Dependencies with dangerous but necessary permissions can still abuse them: Your network library will still be able to add a bitcoin miner.

What happened if an update requests a new permission?

Also, how would that have prevented the current situation? Infinite loops are famously hard to detect and prevent automatically.
Ah Amazon, the business side. Tried to open an account, they took money from the CC then closed the account without reasons given, when asking support they said "Case closed, do not email us anymore, we will not answer". Tried with a different phone number for signups, but they match all the data they have from you and close and larger family. Closed account without reasons given. As a customer sure bought things for several 10k from them over last 20 years. But could not
Even in normal everyday conversational words let alone tech words. People in New England pronounce words differently than people in Minnesota or the South. Hell, in Texas, syllables are seemingly added to words in our pronunciations.
Same here. They've also unblocked port 25.
Have no idea why you were downvoted. That's true of most conditions (if it weren't, getting a correct diagnosis would be a straightforward manner!).

Some symptoms are necessary (but not sufficient) conditions; some are sufficient (but not necessary).

And sometimes you can only be sure about having condition X because the treatment for condition X makes your health improve.
A junk is the English name for a type of Chinese ship[0], plural would be junks.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship)
Oh, ok.

Thanks, I'm cured!
and he seems quite proud of getting banned from Github in 2013: https://youtu.be/varf6oWaFtU?t=202
Pre-COVID both Uber and Lyft would offer bonuses for driving ~40 hours a week that were frequently sized to just cover the cost of the lease. This is not a new model for rideshare drivers.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/

https://www.lyft.com/expressdrive/flexdrive
Apparently they blocked the webpage showing that it's still for sale from being linked to in their Discord: https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1478789636868775939
You guys are quoting all these "scary" lists of chemicals not realizing you're only proving my point. Those aren't chemicals for making explosives. They're for making fireworks at best. Non-detonating things that could burn fast and have pretty colors.

I suppose we should charge everyone who starts a fire while cooking with reckless endangerment too? I get that there are different standards of liberty in dense urban areas but I don't think this is beyond them. It's just cops and feds talking up their non-bust.
Say Graphics with a mouthful of Jif peanut butter and see how it sounds!!!
Thanks to both of you! You just made my day :)
I watched my sons daughter 11 hours a day from 1 month old until they moved away when she was 14 months. My wife was still working and I was retired so I had no problem with it. We went to see them for a week each june. After about 4 years of this we went there and from the back seat she said a particular word over and over. I asked him why she was saying this and he said he didn't know but she just started doing it. I had just changed my wifi password to that word. I know it's not really on the topic but I just wanted to relate a very strange coincidence.
Several times when I had problems and support did go nowhere with Amazon I went to the police (Germany) and things were resolved.
sounds like java's SecurityManager all over again
Autosaved: A Go utility for autosaving progress in Git projects
Was it a paid or "free" account?
Generally I find that recommending individual, uncoordinated action as a solution to a system issue to be generally unsuccessful. Something like this either needs a coordinated response like a boycott, or a political solution.
I’d say yes as the license allows it. If open source is open source it should be allowed.

I do see the issue though. People making money with your code and not sharing the profit kinda sucks, especially when also making demands. The comments on GH are sometimes insane.

It’s unfortunate but I think the best solution is to not release under a FOSS license and choose something less permissive, something that requires purchasing a license for commercial use.

The other option is for open source projects to be backed by foundations that pay people to maintain projects.
I have news for you. Your manager is just implementing his managers agenda, and so forth-- which almost always goes straight back to a VP or C level guy.

Managers generally have very little latitude-- they're given X many resources to do a task in Y amount of time, and that has been chosen for them.

I am not defending bad managers-- but, they are there precisely to deliver to you the bad work environment that the CEO would rather not have blamed on him.
> This is current situation of service industry. Once consumer bought service, they don't care.

It isn't a question of human emotions, such as caring, or not. At every touch point, someone in the corporation does "care" or want to do the right thing. The executives of the corporation are highly educated people who design systems to make money in the most competitive industry in the world, in accordance with the laws of the societies in which they operate.

And yet, the problem exists. Why?

The reason the problem exists is that the corporation leverages the friction of compliance against the customer. It sets the default outcome in favour of the corporation, placing the onus on the customer to do work to tip the process in favour of the customer.

This is common sense. But it still isn't "fair", and that's where the system could be improved.

If customers had to be compensated for the work they do to overcome friction, either retrospectively for legal reasons or through market based forces of competition, our consumer experience would be vastly improved.

A consumer bill of rights could set this up.

Behaviour like this would be made illegal:

> I discovered that my original support case had been unilaterally closed without resolution, because five days had passed since the last reply, and apparently that’s their support policy. It’s not possible to reopen or reply to a closed case, so I had to create a new case and explain the issue all over again.

Small claims courts could have a process to evaluate the cost of friction and award some multiple of it to successful applicants.

Once the systems exist, corporations could use outcomes to pitch for business. Imagine if the Average Friction Compensation Per Transaction Per Year was publicly available. Corporations would boast of low scores and list their performance as a feature.

How do we get to this new way of doing things?

We just need a consumer bill of rights, and for the legal system to follow suit and redesign their local processes to be in harmony.

How do we get this bill of rights?

For that, we need a responsive democratic system, designed and built in the interests of the people.
A fair measure imo. You are probably going to see 1 legitimate email server mixed in with 1 million infected spam machines. For the legitimate user, its easier to tell them to rent a $5/month VPS.
Modern engines change the fuel air mixture if you go full throttle to give you extra power at the expense of efficiency. You really need to look at the engine spec to find the most efficient operations regime.
Seems like they could simply provide a way to notify users and service of something like that without providing the ability to unilaterally yank it.
And I’ve read numerous threads where people don’t agree with that. I think most are more concerned about their shitty situation no longer being tolerated, but most still believe they should work for someone.
Yes I'm rather disappointed at the lack of effort with the fonts. I don't understand why they didn't just convert an image of the chips to SVG, clean it up, and engrave that.
He's been publishing in the space all the while [1], I'm guessing a lot of what he still has unpublished is in terms of how to present and connect across the ever growing literature.

[1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cl.html
Automatic reordering makes maintaining ABI compatibility either very hard (how do you add a field to a struct if you don’t know where the compiler will put it?), or slow (objc supports field reordering, etc but it results in a lot of indirection when you access a field from outside the class’s implementation section)

C, C++, Pascal all define the order explicitly, the platform ABI generally defines the padding rules.
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Then again he seems quite proud of getting banned from Github in 2013 for "creating a script that forced people to watch a library that [he] created": https://youtu.be/varf6oWaFtU?t=202
I empathize with your point of view. Try to remember that you’re here to entertain HN readers, not the other way around. It helps dull the edge — at least it did for me.

Being right and being substantive are two different things. You have to drape your contrarian viewpoint in the right sort of clothing. Otherwise no one ends up happy, and no one learns anything, which is approximately the worst outcome.

“Chill; it doesn’t matter as much as it feels like it matters” is an alternative viewpoint, if that helps. Though if I heard it from someone, I suppose I’d just feel upset.

Let’s put it this way. If you don’t want to amuse the community, you should lurk. I was salty about that for a long time before I just accepted it and moved on. And it’s not so bad. Being an entertainer is fun, and I was surprised to have some skill in that department.

But you won’t discover something like that if you let a few downvotes shake your temperament. Take solace in being right. Most people are wrong most of the time, so it’s no small thing.
Go on Google maps and find any random middle of nowhere, small town USA, and I mean small. 3k-5k, 10k max. Go 20-30 mile radius out, pick a house.

Then shop for internet. It's a travesty. I don't know where you live, or what kind of bubble you're surrounded by, but the situation out here is hot garbage.

I'm currently on a 5g wisp, but $100/mo gets me 24/3 speeds. Which wouldn't be stable enough for 4k, and on the off chance it was, nobody else in the house could do anything. (I'm currently on a 12/3 plan for $60)

I have to plan a day in advance if I want to play a new game with friends. A fresh backup takes months. When I was on DSL, 3/768k my phone's photo auto backup would basically render our connection useless.

It was unfathomable for me to think about moving to some family gifted farmland to build on. Or a house even more remote to our current one. My wife and I thought about buying a large plot in Utah for retirement, after taking a trip there. We laughed because we couldn't survive without internet. But now, we have options.

It is a game changer for stuff like this. To think otherwise is complete folly.