skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that freed-market anarchism is just one end of the more broader free-market left libertarian spectrum, which does not intrinsically preclude governments and law enforcement.

With that in mind, consider what would happen today if you were to claim some random empty house as your own, posted a sign to that effect outside, and started to shoot any "trespassers". That would be murder - and the law would come down on you. Same thing would happen in this hypothetical society if someone tried to do what you describe.

(The issue of how a fully anarchist society would deal with murder in the first place is a separate and complicated one. I can't really speak for them; my own take is that anarchism is a kind of political asymptote - an unachievable utopia that the realistically-possible ideal society would trend towards as its cultural underpinnings evolve to make it more viable. In this day and age, something like Bookchin's libertarian municipalism appears to be empirically viable.)
I always hear Haskell people focus on reuse in terms of mathematical abstractions, like a reusable way of composing three functions in a a pattern that's "Really everywhere if you know where to look" or something, while abstraction as OOP people understand it takes a backseat.

To me, that seems hard to interpret any other way than "To use Haskell to maximum benefit you have to be very smart and able to see deeply hidden patterns with ease".

As an outsider, nothing about it seems like it was designed to take 1000 random new average graduates and put them on a project and get good results.

Java looks nasty and ugly but its hard to argue with how well it seems to work for large desktop apps. JS works amazingly well just because every individual project is trivial, the whole ecosystem is based on frictionless npm reuse.

Haskell looks like it has potential, and studies seem to show it reduces bugs, but I have no real way to evaluate it. I don't see thousands of people making million line apps with huge teams of mediocre developers.

I can't really try it myself because... I'm not about to spend 2 years working on a personal megaproject, learning the details of 2 dozen libraries,etc, just to evaluate it.

So... how am I supposed to know how well Haskell does in the contexts I'm actually interested in?

I could learn it, and build some toy app... but that's not going to tell me how it scales to a 10+ year monolith that is primarily about manipulating state.

Rust seems like the best choice for the low level stuff these days. I don't know what the true best for high level is, but Typescript and Python+MyPy rarely disappoint.
A reddit discussion (a bit scurrilous)

Legal merit of Novak's appeal

https://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/ryur1j/legal_merit_...

Has the court filings:

https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/migration-law/online-file/djokovic

Another one:

Court documents are up for Novak Djokovic v Minister for Home Affairs

https://www.reddit.com/r/auslaw/comments/ryv369/court_docume...

The federal government asked for a 2 day delay to the hearing. The judge denied it.
I'd argue the opposite, if the US government ceased to exist, the electrical grids in North America would collapse shortly thereafter, followed by the Internet and Bitcoin.

No, there will just be temporary outages and prices these things (electrical grids, internet) will rise to extortionist levels as local authorities / militias take over. Just like they do in any other conflict zone in the world.
It really wouldn't have.

It'd buy you an extra percent or two; the numbers have been vanishingly small. Mayo Clinic lost about a percent. Factor in the fact they're more likely to get sick and it's even closer to a net zero.

I'm not inclined to treat antivax beliefs as "professional", especially in the healthcare field.
It's a good question. In my scenario I'm basically saying that if the tractor can say yes or no for actions, then this can be used for good or bad. But who gets to define the rules for it? What is undesirable for the environment for example may be very desirable for the shareholders.
In some cases it's true that excessive/wasteful government spending is just another kind of business subsidy. A well-known example is the US space program, which basically exists just to keep some specialised defence contractors afloat in between wars.

The problem I see with Australian government (or any foreign government) overspending on IT, is that much of that money goes off-shore back to US-based IT vendors like Microsoft. It isn't "recycled" back into the local economy.
Covid was a wealth transfer from the youth to the elderly
Androids RCS adoption is good with major caveats:

- it's good only in certain locations, without global ubiquity

- it still very much depends on what phone you have

- it's only recently become good enough to be usable

- it's still tricky to deal with the SMS fallback problem, and you'll still see Android phones struggle with SMS fallback

So in the case of iMessage, for them to adopt RCS they'd need three tiers of messaging:

- iMessage (because it's not just for cellular devices)

- RCS (for those devices that handle it)

- SMS for everyone else

People act like RCS is a solved problem. It's not and while I'd love to see it integrated into iOS, it's not as trivial to do it as just saying: okay add it in.
That's part of the advantage, chasing away devs who like worst practices. That makes libraries more trustworthy.
Yeah, info on that seems a bit scarce. I managed to find one or two pages that talk about "webster servers" and "webster clients". Don't see a protocol spec anywhere though.

https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~bruncott/elisp/webster19-alpha....

http://www.verycomputer.com/35_13631dc2bdda24ce_1.htm

http://sepwww.stanford.edu/data/media/public/oldsep/scripts/...
Seems unlikely.

Not that it could not happen... there are various hedge funds that do this already, with mixed success. They generally lease back to a farmer.

John Deere doesn't have any data that the farmer wouldn't have, and they certainly don't have better access to large sums of capital than hedge funds. I can seem them participating in a capital lease agreement for someone doing this sort of operation, but operating a farm is a very different proposition.
There is plenty of seating. There is a waiting section with benches, an Amtrak lounge, and a dining hall coming soon. Not to mention... the classic sitting on the ground.
I like that companies are innovating and there is competition in this space. In 2018, John Deere only had 17% of the tractor market [1]. If farmer's don't like the tech, lack of repairability, etc, it seems they have plenty of other options. I don't get why some people on this thread are so upset.

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/some-of-the-major-c...
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630245/google-fuchsia-o...
Nah just up nutrients dose rates a few % and render the field unusable for years to come. Smash a whole fleet that has a lion's share of the market. Blammo food shortages across your country for years rather than just the few weeks waiting for machines yo be fixed.
>How do you feel about Matrix and some of the other new-age FOSS chat systems?

Well I have a perpetual notification on my phone from element (the matrix client) because a server I was part of has shut down, but I can't sign out because the client can't connect to the server that no longer exists. Yeah.

That pretty much sums up my opinion of matrix.
It happens to me quite a bit. I come back to some code I wrote a couple of years ago. At the time the logic was "obvious". Now, I need to puzzle it out all over again. So I retrofit a suitable comment so that next time I won't be doing the same blank stare.

For me, most of what passes for programming is "refactoring" and fixing edge-cases.
This sort of study might be facilitated by something like Apple Watch opt-in health research. You would need thousands of participants to get anything significant. I would suppose that there isn't a significant effect of A=432Hz.
The only reason they do help you on Twitter is because they're afraid of the visibility to other customers.

It does help to complain there, I've done it to for effect too. It's the only reason I still have a Twitter account :)
Collective behavior in response to COVID was a life transfer from the youth to the elderly.
Ah, so I can stop people from depending on internal details by documenting it! /s

I'd use the word "observable" rather than "undocumented"
There's a farm labor shortage crisis so farmers are using tech (and a bunch of other strategies).

https://agamerica.com/blog/the-impact-of-the-farm-labor-shor...

How U.S. Farmers are Coping with the Labor Shortage Crisis

While the USDA is working on new legislation to address these impacts, U.S farmers are turning to alternative options to compensate for their current labor shortage predicament.

Smart Technology Advancements

The Internet of Things (IoT) industry has exploded as farmers use innovative technology to keep up with demand and remain competitive in the global market. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) reported 56 percent of U.S. farms have begun using agritech, with more than half stating labor shortage as the reason.

Innovative agrotechnology includes,

Wireless sensors;
Predictive forecasting models;
Advanced automation;
Robotics; and
Data analytics

Smart farming technology allows farmers to work at full or near-full capacity with fewer workers, but not without certain drawbacks.

The current technology can only accommodate certain crops, excluding nearly 200 specialty crops. This forces specialty farmers to make the difficult decision to either consolidate their operation or transition to machine-serviceable crops.

Transitioning to smart farming technology also requires a high initial cost investment. This is particularly difficult for small to medium-size farms, which are the ones hit hardest by the effects of farm labor shortage.

Despite these drawbacks, many U.S. farmers are realizing the investment is worth the initial cost to enhance crop quality and quantity through precision automation, pest control, and crop-health monitoring.
A propagandist by his own resume. Doesn't do the cause much good. http://www.brentlaabs.com/about
They like to justify a $10 difference in price with $1 more worth of raw materials. It's like when you go to an Italian restaurant and order a plate of pasta for $17, but are happy with the value because you get so much.
whenever i see a headline like this i always add the qualifier, "in mice", and, invariably, that is what the reported effect was measured in. Just like this one.

Derek Lowe, explains some of the problems with mice models here

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mice-studies-and-m...
Then, once it has a monopoly and doesn't need to add any new "features" to its products, it can just fire all its employees and replace the CEO with a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).
Grass is always greener, but Americans do have too much stuff -spending many afternoons clearing out years of waterlogged clutter from American homes with hurricane damage taught me how much useless crap we have, so much so that luxury storage unit rental are a big business here..

Of course when I meet friends living in small urban apartments in Europe they often reflect longingly on the Subaran American lifestyle with its home theater rooms, endless garages etc…
As someone who TA'd 6.824 (Distributed Systems) twice, I 100% agree. It's easier to halfway understand Raft than to halfway understand Paxos, but implementing a consensus algorithm correctly requires understanding it fully. Once you start talking about e.g. the "election restriction", Raft becomes a bit hairy.

(Hi Jeremy!)
Eh, just because it has the pixels doesn't mean it has the resolution. Often 1080p content from high quality systems still looks more detailed than 4k content from smartphones, even fairly modern smartphones, as the pixels can only record detail that gets through the optics and isn't marred by noise. With phones having relatively low quality lenses (for the size of the pixels they must resolve) and smaller sensors, this can quickly become an issue. With that said, it is great to see 4k becoming standard for productions!
That's not an excuse.

There's no good reason why Apple and Google couldn't collaborate to design an upgraded and open SMS protocol that everyone can plug into. These two effectively control the entire mobile market.

They only reason they don't is spelled out exactly in this thread. Apple cares more about pressuring people into their walled garden than actually serving customers well and encouraging a vibrant market of products using cross compatible messaging protocols.
The first problem is that the wealth is exponentially spread ever more thinly over more and more people. But the main problem is that the generation(s) who receive the unearned benefits of the wealth don't have any skin in the game to hold on to it.

Usually the story goes: A, who built the wealth through guts and hard work leaves the wealth to be spread amongst his kids B and C. Those kids who now receive only a share of the wealth, rather than all of it, have vivid memories of the work involved and, in general, try to maintain the wealth whilst enjoying the benefits. When they die they leave the inheritances to B's kids, D and E, and C's kids F and G.

After two generations from A, we have four kids, D, E, F and G, who have only a small amount of the wealth money, a quarter each, and no memories of the work involved in producing it. They tend to enjoy that windfall.
It seems to me like you're being downvoted because it looks like you're making the "nothing to hide" argument. But a more charitable interpretation might indicate that you feel SMS still has utility despite being unencrypted, which I agree with.

If you have someone's phone number, you can just about guarantee that you can message them. It might not be encrypted, or have richer features like other messaging services, or it might even be expensive, but it's fairly reliable and doesn't require any third-party apps. Just like how you might shout to someone at a distance to get their attention and convey important information, but you wouldn't shout their credit card number to them.
I wonder how long this will be true. Right now I think the US has 10cm/pixel resolution, but I imagine it's not long before that is far better? It might already be, we just wouldn't know about it
> Libre software UX sucks

This has always been true and while it's better this iteration of the cycle, it's not great.

But have you actually used Windows in recent times? The UX has gotten infinitely worse since XP. Mac OS has changed about as much as the popular open source DEs, but Windows is infinitely worse. I can't stand using it. The taskbar is garbage, the menus are garbage, the discoverability of anything is the worst it has ever been.

I can't imagine they're ignorant to the fact that Desktop UX is no longer a differentiator for them. The only lock-in they have is in business environments, for which there is zero competition at their price point.

It's inevitable that the host OS gets locked down. The runtime has moved to the browser and cloud. It's just a matter of time.
Children and Teens Gained Weight During the Pandemic
But if you don't like Pluton, I have bad news for you about Macs, Chromebooks, and most Android phones.
My understanding is its only the top startups asking leetcode, most startups are scrappy. An engineer that can solve leetcode hards can just go make 400k in salary + public market equity
"Trusted" computing is not something that's unique to x86.
Far more terrifying than a man with a gun. Hack the right part of the system and you could affect food supply for years.
Yeah +1 for Brother. Either they just permit third party cartridges or their protection is so minimal everyone can bypass it. Cheap toner cartridges work perfectly for me.

Only issue is that the printers themselves are really hard to get now. In particular the colour lasers. If I find them it's at a crazy price. So I bought a b/w again. Must be the supply chain thing.

PS the old one was not even broken after 10 years but I got sick of not having network printing :)
Haha, I'm sorry, I didn't mean that as an analogy for PoS. Just to make the point that it's two resources which can't be converted.
> In the end, x86 systems didn't become any more locked down.

And non-x86 systems? Wasn't there a line of MS Surface devices where secure boot could not be disabled, and users were stuck with Windows? It feels careless to only care about x86, especially as other platforms proliferate.

In any case, lockdown is not the only threat that Trusted Computing presents. Remote attestation itself is dangerous. If we remove our x86 blinkers and look at the mobile world, we see it's already happening, with countless apps, including ones important to modern day life such as banking, refusing to run on rooted phones.

You may say, "Oh, I will use my x86 desktop system at home for Free Computing, and allow phones, consoles, tablets, surface devices, etc etc, to become locked down." Like the old free speech zones, this is a toothless freedom, tamed and neutered. The user-empowering Free Software you will write will have no users - they will be on locked devices.
>Any bouncer will work

Any bouncer is one step too many.
> In the end, x86 systems didn't become any more locked down.

This is not the end. They'll keep pushing, as slow as they need to, with Windows 11 being the next step. They didn't suddenly lose the incentive, they just met resistance.
FBI warns cybercriminals tried to hack US firms by mailing malicious USB drives
GitHub link: https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync (it is free software)
What evil things can you do with 4K HDR images of crops that you couldn't do with what's on google maps satelite view?
> it will be easier for Microsoft to claim that non-TPM Windows devices are de facto insecure.

Which only means that programs can choose to not service devices without TPM - things like Netflix/Streaming Services and online competitive games, although it might take 10 years with the amount of people that will be unable to upgrade to 11 or upgrade their computer to one with a tpm at all. With computers become more and more about browsing the web, and especially with the chip shortage, people aren't upgrading their hardware as often.
You can catch omicron from walking into an elevator someone else coughed in.
I was thinking since the point is so unstable, the orbit must be extremely small...

Boy was I wrong. The orbit is about the same size as the moon makes around the earth. [0] Its HUGE. We would run out of material to make satellites before we ever ran out of room.

[0] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
How does that matter? They are just stating how much value they are getting out of $10.
Direct Link to Study: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...
Very succint. Precise, correct, pithy.
Some x86 systems weren't completely locked down, but similar systems successfully lock down millions of phones, tablets and console devices (which are x86 systems these days).

The trend for security in desktop computing that's pushed by these large companies is to, over time, approach similar levels of lock down that mobile devices currently have. Both Windows and macOS are approaching the iOS security model that depends on manufacturers blessing what software can run on their products, and banning software they don't want users to run.

For example, with Defender on Windows and Gatekeeper on macOS, developers need to buy certificates from Microsoft and Apple's partners in order to distribute and run their software on users' desktop computers. If developers want their software to run on Windows or macOS, they need to remain in good standing with Microsoft or Apple. If Microsoft or Apple decides they don't like you or your app, all they need to do is to revoke your signing certificate, and Defender and Gatekeeper won't let your software run on Windows or macOS. That, or they can choose to no longer renew your certificates after they expire.
In the end, x86 systems didn't become any more locked down.

Oh hell yes they did. Look at Intel Boot Guard and all the stuff around that.
Which of my views are you challenging?
Narrative might win you an election or two but climate change is a long term issue with long term consequences. In the long term, telling the truth is the correct strategy.
It's time to accept that this is endemic and not make Covid the center of everyone's existence any longer.

I agree that we're all pretty fed up but you aren't offering any constructive guidance whatsoever. Not even "repeal all mandates, let people do whatever the fuck they want everywhere unvaccinated and unmasked", for example.
I'm not sure I see the problem really. iMessage already has a fallback to SMS. They can implement a fallback to RCS the same way and support more than basic features. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 feature complete equivalent. And in terms of devs - they have the money to implement it and support it.
There's a pretty stark difference. The PhD would retain their credibility if someone explained the difference between the short answer and the complete answer.

But that weather dude will lose his credibility, because his audience will feel deceived, not educated.
Wow. I’m an astronomer and somehow I never learned this! Thank you for the link!

Of course a solar powered satellite can’t be parked in the shade. Can’t believe I never thought about that.
While removing the ad was the first feature I think tabbed messages and message logging were the most popular DeadAIM features
The other option is to consider non-determinism a bug and to fix it where possible. For instance, several language runtimes (JS, Python) now use dictionary collections that are enumerated in insertion order, removing a long standing source of non-deterministic behaviour.
I havent met a farmer who owns his own working tractor at this scale. They are almost universally owned by the farmer's business entity. Any farmer operating as a sole propietor, and is in the market for a $500k tractor, needs legal advice asap. These are industrial machines, not household appliances.

Wait, maybe Jeremy Clarkson bought that lambo tractor under his own name. But it is more likely that his production company owns it.
It would still require that the documents open correctly in LibreOffice, no? Which might be difficult enough to ensure in practice for .docx that it would be easier for the state to mandate using ODF.
Time to leave, boys and girls.
It is really fun to imagine :).

I am imaging the horrors of an HP printer ecosystem on a farm... Which now makes me wonder why HP printers do not require special HP paper.

Fortunately, there is not much moat here. If John Deere demonstrates that self-driving tractors are a massive profit win for farmers, you'll see 10 competitors pop out of the startup sphere within a year.
Too much security will fuck a company over in the early days just as badly as weak security.

In taking up the team's focus, in adding friction to getting stuff done, etc.

Early stage companies need to be relentless in trying to find product market fit, anything that's not that is a distraction.
Not a lawyer here. It’s a mess. First thing is to stop communicating with them as you might involuntarily give them things to harm you.

Then we don’t know the money involved, but imo, no one is going to go through the pain of a lawsuit for less than 20k. Especially if they owe you some invoices they haven’t paid yet.
> Assuming your figures are correct, you'll get double the data for another 30% cost.

The debate over the cost to build another is largely moot. You'd struggle to find the people to do it for many reasons. The talent is even scarcer than the money.