skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can residents of Gaza and the occupied West Bank vote in Israeli elections, when they are under Israeli rule? If the answer is no, then that's apartheid.
Just curious... what makes you look at this and want to contribute? I'm interested in why people do these unlicensed emulation projects at all and it sounds like you have at least one answer as your motivation.
Copyrighted*, not copywritten
Yes, but then it's not cheap anymore.
Citigroup touts 5,500 more tech workers, increased tech spend in 2021
What about windows? I find buildings with few or small windows to be unmanageably dreary, but the math works out that no matter how insulated you make the walls if you have a good amount of glazing on the walls the effective R value drops quite low.
> You do realise that we had right to repair in the 80's?

No we didn’t. In the 80s a lot of stuff was simply easier to repair, in part because you had less stuff to begin with.

You’re still free to repair whatever you want, but of course nowadays things are so complex that I’d require you an insurmountable amount of work. There hasn’t been any legal change, it’s just that the cost of repairs has gone up.

> If I have to repair my toaster, and it contains a microcontroller, then I can buy that microcontroller but not the firmware.

More to my point. Why firmware vendor X can’t enforce copyright but Google can? We either have right to repair and no copyright (at least for code), or we have copyright for code and no right to repair.
This comment misses that false-positive and false-negative rates are wildly different.

The rapid tests are still quite useful because a positive test is very reliable and saves you several days of waiting for PCR results.

Perhaps the test results should be labeled "Yes, you have covid", and "meh, not sure".
Banksy said this in relation to billboard type ads but it applies to online advertising too. Is there an acceptable rock you would allow someone to throw at your head?

>Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
Hint: static linking predates Plan 9. Static linking even predates shared libraries. Back in the '80s there were impassioned quarrels over whether anything should be shared. Laura Creighton was static linking's most impassioned voice. The fact that a shared library may be mapped once and used by all the programs that call it carried the day, back when main memory was measured in megabytes, and GUI libraries were huge and getting bigger.

If there is anything we should thank Plan 9 for, it has to be UTF-8.
Swedish Security Declares National Event as Drone Cases over Nuclear Sites Grow
They'll certainly market their titles as the next great gaming experiences. I am skeptical that it will come out that way. I personally predict there will be some elements of a great product but not entirely. the ultimate focus is on money and business value, not the product.

At least we have the xbox game pass which is absurdly underpriced.
I did google the Maxwell twins, clicking the second result.

Got about halfway through before realising wrong twins.. lol
He admits else where on Quora to having Aspergers. It's been in my experience, and take that with a grain of salt, that those with Aspergers tend to resistant authority when they feel the authority is arbitrary, hurtful or incompetent. It's possible in the past, he was burned by the bureaucracy at Apple.
I don't think the GP means that low-code will eliminate programmer jobs, but that it will eliminate other office jobs.

Seems quite probable to me, as it's their entire goal.
The distinction is that semi-bluffs are for when there are still cards to be dealt.
GP didn’t strike me as cynical, only more of a call to broaden our expectations!

> Intelligence in this context means the ability to develop the tools necessary to detect other unusual planets.

What if instead of attempting to detect planets, they just spam the universe with their space-hardened eggs, and hope that eventually they’ll smack into something habitable? Seems a lot more productive than analyzing incoming UV rays for thousands of years, then spending who knows how long to figure out how to get to the ones we suspect are interesting.

We are concerned with disseminating our discoveries and keeping in touch with the folks back home. But a non-hierarchical intelligence (by whatever hand-wavey metric you want to use for “intelligence”) might be more concerned with simply existing in as many places in which it can survive in as possible, whether Mom and Dad know about it or not.

This isn’t science fiction: I’d estimate there’s 1e10 spore-producing mushrooms on Earth on any given day. (That’s only a couple steps away from a wild-ass guess, but hear me out.) One mushroom can produce over a billion spores per day, 1e9. That’s 1e19 “eggs” every single day, and that number hasn’t changed significantly for thousands of years. It’s a staggering number.

This is science fiction: Imagine mushrooms are aliens who originally came from a planet with a more turbulent atmosphere, one which promotes more ejections of tiny spores into space. Imagine that their spores are drastically more long-lived and more spaceworthy (the Earth ones already do pretty well).

This isn’t science fiction: Mushrooms (well, fungi) have a symbiotic relationship with an overwhelming majority of plants. They are crucial to forests; there’s a viable hypothesis that forests only exist because mushrooms “decided” to farm trees. That decision, if the hypothesis is correct, played a huge role in the development of humans and therefore big telescopes.

Even if they’re native earthlings (they probably are), could they represent an intelligence whose comprehension of their environment, existential goals, mode of communication, etc. is too far outside of what we are used to in order to recognize them as being intelligent?

To bring it back around to what GP wrote, fungi do pay attention to humans, an analogue for “watching” us. They “hear” our footsteps and send hyphae to investigate, because we often track tasty things from our shoes onto their rooftops. If we cannot even speculatively judge a homegrown lifeform’s intelligence, why do we think we’ll stumble across an alien species that makes more sense to us? Those odds seem even less in our favor.
Do you have a link on this? I’d love to read more about this.
I'm a big fan of https://httpbin.org/ip

or

dig @ns1.google.com o-o.myaddr.l.google.com TXT +short | tr -d \"

or

https://github.com/Snawoot/myip
I thought it was a typo and meant to say "to". Why not use Cyrillic here? Bit odd.
Not sure, I'd recommend checking a number to see those that resonate with you. I also avoid the over the top kind. There are some really helpful streamers out there
Well, that's the point. The vendor needs to relink, and now you need to wait for an update from the vendor of each individual client of a library. With shared libraries, replacing the shared library is enough.

What I did not understand is how static linking would have precluded the problem in the first place. I don't think that would have made those libraries less widely used.
Funny, as a Ukrainian I never connected it this way, precisely for the same reason. In Ukrainian, “svitanok” means sunrise, with the root “svit” (world, but also light). In Russian, “svidanie” should have the root “vid” (view, sighting). So, to me, those are words with totally different roots :) https://ru.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/свидание points to https://ru.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vidět in the etymology, among other things. But your interpretation would have been quite cool, though I don’t meet people often at the sunrise!
Naturally we're overindexing on telecom, given the HN audience – where we have practical applications of advanced physics.

But it's less concrete with other "sciences" like evolutionary psychology, behavioral economics. Even cosmology & theoretical physics is taken more on faith than trust. What observations of the multiverse or string theory can we build our trust on?

And medicine , molecular biology have also had mixed results, to the point that many beliefs were taken on faith (e.g. dietary vs blood cholesterol)

My point is don't lump all the "sciences" together in one lot of "the science"– there's a spectrum of observability and corroboration depending on the field.
The issue is the multipart/form-data body. You still need to build it by hand in current Swift.
I've heard that there is more of a dearth of autism research in adults when it comes to behavioral interventions, however, the vast majority of autism MRI research actually occurs with adolescent and adult participants actually. Our research begins as early as two year old because this is a period of profound brain development, development that has life long implications. Research strongly suggests that interventions that occur early have the largest impact...because they are still developing and open to changing the course of development.
With Darklang we're trying to break up the "file" concept of code and organize the code as you think about the architecture (think about the diagram you would draw if you were to whiteboard the architecture to a new coder on your project).

The first version of it isn't great, but it is a bit different than the default:

https://twitter.com/tarngerine/status/1254276194402545664
https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1321511924807331841

Here's what we actually want it to be like though:
https://twitter.com/paulbiggar/status/1322221106779049984
You could punish in other ways than prison.
Especially in a way to make them repair the damage they did.
In this case the problem is not law enforcement, but the DA's office that refuses to prosecute property crimes for ideological reasons.
Superabsorption unlocks a key to next generation quantum batteries
One might argue that it's the abusive actors Cloudflare blocks who are breaking the web.
Sounds like they didn't include the unit number in the duplicate-address check.

Or else maybe they are including it just for multi-unit addresses, but their database of multi-unit addresses is incomplete/stale.
As long as they're on a shopping spree, might get Epic also while they're young.
I've done this by using Cloudflare Workers. I can confirm that I did not see any bandwidth charges at B2, although I've only tested a few GB of transit. Likely if you tried to host brew here, you'd get yelled at.
It may not work in theory, but it works in practice!

I also mention cursor pagination, but that's not always an option for every app.
Israel is the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign aid receiving 3.2 Billion in US tax dollars in 2017 with only Iraq and Afghanistan receiving more. Reducing foreign aid while America is floundering would be a small step to the road of recovery.
Yes, but that is essentially like complaining that a Hindu believer can't become Pope. Iran is a country that, by its own constitution, is controlled by the Church. I don't agree and would hate to live in such a country, but that is their chosen form of government. I don't know of any Church that accepts people of other religions as members or especially church leadership. But, most Churches accept anyone who converts.
As linguae says in his comment, The PC grew in capability during the 1990s until it reached the level of the UNIX workstations around 1995. The big kicker for the workstations at that time was that the PC of that era was as capable as the workstation but was about a third of the cost.

When that happened, the workstation was doomed. In my own case, I found it better and cheaper to use Solaris-x86 on a PC than to use Solaris-SPARC on a SPARCstation. I wasn't the only one. I pensioned off my SPARCstation a few years later and replaced it with a much better PC running Solaris-86 for a year or so, and then replaced the Solaris with Linux which had also improved greatly over the 1990s till that free (as in both cost and liberty) operating system was as good if not better than the commercial UNIXes of the time.

Since 2001, I have used Linux exclusively as my everyday operating system.

(Because I was using a commercial UNIX during the 1990s when Windows was 'taking over the world', I never ever used Windows as my everyday OS. I consider myself lucky because of that, as I never had to learn Windows and then unlearn Windows.)
One issue I'd could imagine is that it might be difficult to slice a representative sample out of those 5% of people, whereas a clinical trial is set up from the get-go to enroll individuals that would make up a representative sample of the intended recipients of the drug/procedure/device that's being studied.
> I don't think it's 'fucking up' to give something a good go but not quite make it, is it?

If the CEO sets a goal for the business, and you 'gave it a good goal' but failed, causing the business to miss its goal, with consequences including lost revenue or lawsuits, in that CEO's eyes you fucked up. The CEO was counting on you to take a letter to Garcia, and though you 'gave it a good go' Garcia never got his letter, so why would that CEO consider you someone to count on again?

> And why would every company in the industry even listen to a rant from Steve Jobs?

Because he built this industry.
Congratulations on the launch! Honestly, building something faster than Jira might be the magic feature!
You won't have to go as far as Israel to find horrific surveillance tools used on Americans ......
Wait until runners hear about "outside".
So how much have you won and lost in total? I don’t have any knowledge of poker, so I don’t know how to ballpark this. And the impersonal questions are boring after seven lifetimes, so I thought I’d ask.

It would be interesting to see a GitHub style graph of poker activity, with won and lost corresponding to added lines and removed lines.
No there is nothing "wrong" with you.
You may or may not be the type who is cries when someone passes away.
Then, one day, someone new passes away and you may have the opposite reaction to your normal reaction.
It is what it is.

All I can say is, don't leave anything off the table while they're alive. Do what you can for them, and let them know how important they are to you.
> I think it's spot on!

My argument is that (most) video-games are still fundamentally passive consumption activities: recreation, that doesn't require someone to expend any "spoons"[1] to get some entertainment value. Whereas, I imagine for most people, reading literature, waling the dog, or even organizing a board-game session requires far more effort to initiate (not necessarily mental-effort, but effort in a general, abstract sense) whereas the whole point of video-games is to be a very-low-effort distraction from our existential anxiety.

So please substitute "reading a book, walking your dog, board games" with "watching YouTube-algorithm-recommended videos, Joe Rogan podcasts, and after-work boozing with your shiftmates".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
How do you handle organization of the massive amount of day to day photos taken on phones? It seems really tough to keep up with the increased volume the reduced friction has created.
That's so cool. Just a few months ago I reversed a bit of the GOAL runtime in an effort to understand how it worked (aap/goal on github) but I didn't dream of seeing everything decompiled. great work
Your complaint boils down to the equivalent of "why aren't safe speed limits on roads optimized around hypercars". Probably because the average car is close to a Toyota Camry. The number of people with high end PCs is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of console owners and publishers want to make money.
>Please point out to me which copyright exemption will enable me to get hold of firmware for a microcontroller in my washing machine if the current one gives up the ghost.

Oh, now you're confusing right to repair with ease of repair. No country has ever forced manufacturers to give you every single item to suit your heart's desire.

Rip the firmware out of the MCU. Decap it and read the bits out, literally with a microscope, as some have done. "Oh, but that's too hard!" Exactly - and there is no legal thing stopping you. You simply don't want to develop the expertise and tools to repair. You want it handed to you in a simple manner, which has never been the case.

As I said above, as things become more complex, so does repair.

>This was not the case a few decades ago.

Yes, a few decades ago people complained about different parts they could not simply buy, since at no point in US history could you simply get any part you ever desired from a manufacturer. There has always been a few things you could buy, a repair man market for some things, and the effort to repair other things difficult enough that almost nobody tried to do it.

Because again, we have more complex items now.

>Additionally, you clearly haven't been paying attention to recent events

Yes, I've read all that stuff. Both sides in many of these cases, including the JD, have decently valid points. If someone causes a large machine to hurt others, you bet JD will get dragged into courts. For that balance, it is reasonable for courts to decide how to balance.

Should individual commercial pilots be allowed to flash the software on their flights because they're interested in hacking their planes?

>Getting around some of these restrictions can land you in jail|

No one, zero, count them, have gone to jail for that. Zero. Why do you spout this type of nonsense? "Think of the children!" right?

>John Deer literally shuts down your tractor

No, they don't. "As things stand, Deere has the technical ability to remotely shut down a farmer’s machine anytime—if, say, the farmer missed a lease payment or tuned a tractor’s software to goose its horsepower, a common hack widely available through gray-market providers. A Deere spokesman says many manufacturers can remotely control vehicles they sell, but Deere has never activated this capability, except in construction equipment in China, where financing terms require it to." [1]

Also, there is literally zero they did that someone could not reverse engineer and fix.

All of this is you want things to be as easy to fix as a kid can do. That will never happen as devices become more complex.

But all of this, even John Deere tractors, can be fixed.

Based on your resorting to making claims that are simply lies, I'm done. Feel free to continue.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-f...
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Your paraphrase sounds more like some hypothetical argument you'd like to take engage in, not anything I actually wrote.
I didn't know about the /cdn-cgi/trace Cloudflare trick. Here's a one-liner to print just the ip via curl:

curl -s cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace | grep ip | cut -d "=" -f 2 --
No problem. I'm not sure of other places, but the cost to me was 300 dollars out of pocket at Nebula.org. They use 30x sequencing which is considered clinical grade and they also offer 100x sequencing, but from what I understand this is pretty much overkill. You can use software to see the areas that had worse coverage if there are any questions.

If you were doing this at scale I'm not sure what Nebula.org offers past some app stuff. All of the useful information I got on my own through using Exomiser/Enrichr on the raw data, although Nebula does have an interesting part to it where you can see where you fall in terms of risk SNPs in terms of percentile to other users (I got 90% on their Systematizing/Autism one there: https://nebula.org/blog/genetics-of-systemizing-in-autism/). When I shipped my sample they used the lab AKESOgen to do the work of sequencing, so maybe you could contact them directly if you had any questions about projects like this.
I think "the mobile revolution" is a joke and never materialized. 95+% of mobile games are unoriginal clones with layers of mechanisms to reduce fun unless the user pays. People who enjoy games have largely abandoned mobile, save a handful of decent titles that were ported from other platforms.

Mobile-first gamers are: people (mostly kids) who are so naive about games they will accept garbage (or cant afford a better gaming system) and whales who enjoy spending large amounts of money to move up the leaderboards.

Mobile gaming C-level's loved talking about the mobile revolution for a decade, but I really think it was all optimistic nonsense in service of their fundraising.
Indeed. The old MacAddict magazine shipped a CD with every issue. The CD contained loads of shareware/games/utilities/productivity software etc.

The CD also had a folder named "updates and patches" where you could find installers for the latest bug fixes of the most popular MacOS software.

CDs bundled with monthly magazines was a valid conduit for getting patches to users at the time.
> You say that non-free software (i.e., software for which you don't have the key) should be illegal.

I don't think I'm saying that.

I'm saying that hardware sold to me should be usable by me without company approval. I should be able to unlock any bootloader/bios/flash that the vendor does as a part of normal repair or operation. Basically - if it has RAM, I should be able to write to it. If it has ROM the company flashes from outside the device - I should be able to flash it from outside the device.

In many cases you could simplify this to - I should have root access on any computing hardware that supports software with the concept of root access (and it's a surprisingly large amount these days)

I don't mind the company not sharing tooling or documentation. I certainly am not asking for non-binary source code. I think you should be able to sell software as a service just fine (I don't own that hardware, you do) - but I'm opposed to a company being able to intentionally sell a product that contains a cryptographic software lock that prevents the owner from later taking advantage of that hardware.

basically - I'm much softer on the requirements, but I'd prefer they be enforced.
Oh wow. What a blow. The way I make myself feel better about all the stocks and options I was never offered in my career is by assuming something like that would have happened to me.
Endpoint Observability
So this is a view layer for Svelte of Slate? Like if I used Svelte I would add this in to get SlateJS incorporated in my app? I don't have a lot of context for this, could you tell us more about the project and your motivations?

Edit: Also this looks neat, thank you!
What's the alternative? Abusive traffic is the norm rather then an exception. This gets into the same argument when people say they don't need a CDN; it's a relic from when bad actors were rare.