skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All they need to do is...

- Allow people to buy genuine replacement parts at the same or similar pricing to what the OEM pays

- Publish information on what parts go where on the device and how to install them

- Don't make the device lock itself if it detects the user has replaced a device

None of this in and of itself implicates John Deere's ability to ship a competitive product or prevent cloning. My understanding is that other manufacturers would already have the ability and know-how to take their competitors' products apart and figure out how they work. Not being able to buy replacement parts or not having circuit board schematics doesn't really help stop that, because they can just buy the whole package and do their own reverse-engineering work from there. If you have competitors that can't do that, then they probably couldn't build a clone even if these companies were extremely repair-friendly.
I'm sure the ones making more misreport more--but they also have more ability to hide it.
So what you're saying is that consumers aren't loosing access to games at all. They aren't forced to choose one to the exclusion of the other. Other consoles aren't forced out of the market. And other console manufacturer will have a market incentive to invest into similar games, to entice people from buying a second console...

And the market that would actually care, will already own multiple consoles... and a gaming rig.

You've actually managed to convince me that this is good for the market, not neutral.
Interesting metaphor. I was going to say a mindmap, but nerve cells also make sense. I also have the same code smell litmus test, if two different paths call the same thing twice (aka they both link to the same place), but like you said sometimes it's unavoidable.

With microservices things get a little bit more complex though. Anyway, very apt metaphor.
It would get reported to the IRS as revenue. Since you're selling that item for less than you paid for it, and assuming that you didn't depreciate it as a business asset, you have a net loss, and shouldn't have to pay tax. The question is going to be, how does the IRS handle reports like this?
Best I’ve heard it described is that Antigen tests are best for detecting high virulence on days 3-5 (e.g., when the spread is happening from tons of viral production, including in the nasal passages). They are more for public health usage to prevent spread rather than diagnostic like PCR.
Thanks for this, didn't realize they were doing an airdrop of ENS tokens for those who purchased ENS names in the past.

They're currently worth $22 / token as of this writing.
Better than $5 domain and $600+ in ethereum gas fees like it was recently
Microsoft is making the Game Pass catalog playable on mobile devices. I think that's their strategy there.
> I'm merely trying to establish that talking about "books" isn't going to give a good grasp on this situation.

That's a fair point but copyright law was designed with "books" in mind so everything is ultimately related to that. Computers have really put a wrench in what was otherwise a pretty simple system.
> "Contracting" is high-skill grunt work. Your role is to code your fingers off, deliver-deliver-deliver, typically according to someone else's (possibly ill-conceived) plan.

Not at all. Contracting, in itself, is just the business agreement but most of the time contractors are experts and have plenty of autonomy.

The very opposite of grunt work.
dot is a blockchain
I was wondering the same thing, but after staring at it a bit I think the problem is that one of them is doing math on the values from every row and the other is doing the math once.

created_at + INTERVAL '90 DAY' < now() says that for every row take the created_at column, add 90 days to it, and then see if it is less than now()

created_at < now() - INTERVAL '90 DAY' says take now() subtract 90 days, and then see which rows are less than the result.

Atleast, thats my guess. I rarely do any db stuff directly.
Just to understand, is the concept here that you send all of the updates for a particular data item to a Matrix "room" and then converge on the current state of that data item by each client replaying that data?
> absolutely horrible download speeds... Compared to Steam which maxes out bandwidth

Yeah, I've noticed that. I don't know why they do that, it's annoying. If I can download a game in a half hour I'd like it in a half hour, not next Tuesday, please.
As with the Proton payment network some 20 years ago, the Belgian state ceeded to all-powerful lobbying and weakened eID by e.g. disabling the encryption bit or by disallowing email signing outside of the state-sanctioned websites.

eIDs could have been wonderful little tools. Instead, they were forced on citizen's and now, we are facing an even worse setup with the Itsme app that links the smartphone to state services and degrades the owners of free, opensource or just rooted phones to second-class citizens by disallowing them access.

Some time ago Belgium also gave up its digital sovereignty by cancelling its Root CA. Instead, it now uses Digicert ROOT CA which is controlled by a US entity.
Purely from the perspective of the job market, this move sucks. Before you could get Activision to bid against Blizzard to bid against Microsoft.
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Thanks for the correction, I thought seeing them referenced in some talks.

All the best.
Just get something with LineageOS support and then flash that without gapps. That's the currently-usable solution. I do have a PinePhone and hope it continues to improve also.

Maybe even find something supported by both LineageOS and postmarketOS, like the OnePlus 6. That'll get you closer to something like a PinePhone in the same device if you so desire it.
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Maybe the pandemic would already be over if only the high-risk had gotten vaccinated?

Less immunization to the spike protein means less mutation of the spike protein

Less mutation of the spike protein means less hospitalization of those immunized directly to it
In California anyone with a Bachelor's degree and clean background check can now sign up to be a temporary substitute teacher.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/01/11/governor-newsom-signs-exec...
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>Microsoft just purchased a bunch of has-been IPs that still have great amount of nostalgia

The #1 and #2 titles of 2021 are has-beens? And they also had the #1 and #2 of 2020.

https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/18/npd-the-top-20-best-selli...

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/15/npd-reveals-the-best-sell...
Interesting. So could I publish a modified book, by publishing a piece of software, that transforms a known book into a new book. Then the user would be doing the modification.

Would that not be legal, as long as my software doesn't contain pieces of the original book copied verbatim?
Whoa. I bought two for $15 from Walmart several times. They've raised the price to $20 now. Usually $23 or so for a 2-pack at CVS.
Exactly this — and devs selling on Steam have the choice to participate in sales or not.
I gave it a try but I couldn’t figure out how to disable the editor help popups or hide the line numbers. For all the sane defaults, I’d miss the configurability of Vim.

The code is well organized, and compile times are short, so at least it’s hackable.
Take photos (on phone) ... automatically sync (using Resilio Sync) to a NAS I have at home.

Periodically file/classify photos on NAS.
Periodically make physical backup NAS to a remote site.

This approach is low cost and convenient.
Or leadership is new, is correcting the problems, which takes time.

Otherwise every time you replace leadership you must immediately replace the new leadership, since they too have not instantly fixed the culture.
UPDATE

So far the closest free alternatives I've seen are:

- write.as

- mirror.xyz

- typeshare.co

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The closest paid alternatives:

- Ghost

- Substack

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There are a number of niche-specific ones:

- Hackernoon

- Dev.to

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Self-hosted alternatives (non-discoverable):

- Wordpress.org

- Hugo/Digital Ocean (I chose this)

- Next.js
I don't believe ICBM's are using GPS. They're programmed like they always have been and follow a very predictable path and don't change course (unlike hypersonic missiles). It's the "smart weapons" that are usually plane/ship dropped/launched that are gps guided as they are smaller munitions that have a much smaller blast radius and need to be more precise to be effective (as opposed to just carpet bombing the whole area). Those are "close" range weapons. You don't need to be very precise with an ICBM to obliterate the target, as it's usually city-sized. A mile off here or there will still destroy the target. Planes can and do still fly without GPS. There also haven't been too many wars involving the poles as basically no one lives there except science teams and no one wants the "land" as you can't do anything economically practical with it. Most of our ICBM's are still ancient Minuteman III's which were manufactured in the 1960's (my dad launched one in 68 out of Minot AFB, ND) and recently updated in 2015 to extend their useful life.
> Reality is, in a society with an internal passport system where you have to show papers for everyday movements, any constitutional rights or freedoms cannot be guaranteed

Well, theoretically they can, it's just a system that is so easy to exploit that it doesn't make sense to lose time talking about the unexploited state.

Anyway, the entire problem here is with the "show your papers for everyday movements" part, not with the government making your papers easy to use.
I am turning paranoid because my first thought about using someone else's storage, is, how much should I encrypt the archive so that ML can't run using my photo album as someone's training data.
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AppMap (https://appland.com/docs/how-to-use-appmap-diagrams.html) is an open source tool we created to record and visualize code execution. It currently includes interactive dependency graph and trace views, and works with Node.JS (+TypeScript), Ruby, Java, and Python.
>I prefer to "visualize" my code as manipulating a set of logical assertions that characterize the state of the computation, ultimately reaching the point where the state of the computation's properties satisfy the requirements

OTOH, functional code should be more like a pipeline (graph), and thus better suited for visualisation.
So with home solar panels and storage getting cheaper and cheaper and better and better, where is the optimization point of investing in better insulation vs just buying more solar panels?

Especially if the solar panels may produce profit on sunny mild days about 40-50% of the year if there is reverse metering and the like?
It's also not charity. It's 1) used as diplomacy, and 2) earmarked to purchase from US companies.
I live in Edinburgh and there was a _really_ small window (between christmas and new year) where they were hard to get, I had to visit 3 pharmacies. Other than that they've been available every time me or anyone I know has wanted one.
Right, same as all the other viruses floating around, that we also had before SARS-CoV-2 or covid-19 or whatever.

I get the initial lockdowns and period of time to figure out this new thing, but at this point in time, I do not see how people's risk profile is any different than what it was before Dec 2019.
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Indeed. The only hint is "Our whole test suite locally takes around 12 minutes running serially on a MacBook Pro" so it should be a real world case. They used 64 cores on Buildkite.
"Truly" is doing a lot of work here, and creating an is/ought problem.

Representatives do reflect the will of the people who elected them. The real problem is, on an individual level, your vote is statistically irrelevant, so it's easy to disassociate, and to blame "the others" who, collectively, have a vastly more powerful say over who represents you than you do. "They ought to vote more like how I want them to." you can say, "They don't vote correctly and I can't stop them, so it's the system's fault for giving them power over me!" This, of course, completely undermines the entire point of democracy, that it represents the collective will of the people, not any individual's arbitrary will.

A representative democracy works even if you don't believe it does. It stops working if everyone doesn't believe it does, which is certainly not even close to the case in the US.
For my purposes (embedded), UML statecharts are as good as any other way to do statecharts, and sequence diagrams are occasionally useful. The 10,000 foot view you started off with of big program blocks, also, especially to just draw out the processes in a system.

The complementary question, though, is how do you visualize data when coding? Some debuggers have features for visualizing data structures, time-series data, etc but there is plenty of room for improvement.
I can't quite grasp why anyone would be bearish on the semi space. It's been non-stop growth for the past four decades and only appears to be accelerating.

What in the world is there to be "bearish" about?
When I was visiting in December for a month I literally said ‘wow’ when a pack of 7 dropped through my letterbox less than a day after ordering.

I have to admit that I do think they’re on the right track with this - it’s certainly better than some other European countries that were initially getting a lot of praise at the start of the pandemic.
None of the above you don't miss are about SPAs vs MPAs...
Pharmacies near me have been sold out of the tests for weeks, and I would imagine it is similar situation throughout much of the United States.
> Another major problem is the quality of building in the UK, mainly driven by a lack of tradespeople, and simply not having the skills to install to the quality levels required by thermally efficient houses like installing a membrane with zero holes in it, using the correct tapes, designing, installing and maintaining heat pumpes and various other things.

I agree with the sibling comment this is an incentive problem rather than a skill problem. If house builders can cut corners they will. If they can sell a house for the same cost without the fancy new insulation gear they will.

This is why your bit about regulation is needed because otherwise the things you list won’t happen. Home chargers are a good example which the govt deemed necessary for new builds, the skill will be there for that and without the regulation I’m not sure most builders would have bothered, leaving people to retrofit one further down the line paying a higher cost. The skills for heat pumps will organically grow as regulation kicks in too.

> why governments aren't keen to make large improvements in energy-efficiency regulations.

The govt have been consulting with various business and institutions on future building standards you can view their response here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-build.... But from it we've already had EV charging point requirements, ban on gas boilers, new homes in England will have to produce around 30% less carbon emissions, plus raising the standard for insulation.
> mixture of molds and being broken in

Unused new-old-stock MX switches from the mid 1980s have noticeably smoother feel and don’t make the scratchy sound you get with new MX switches from, say, 2010.

Artificially wearing in keyswitches with 100s of thousands of robot keypresses seems really silly to me, though I guess it’s easier than disassembling every switch and sanding down the friction points with fine-grid sandpaper or applying fancy aerospace lubricant or whatever the kids are doing these days. YMMV.
I wonder if anyone has evaluated the possibility of porting OsmAnd for navigation.
I have a governement id and a google logon. I worry a lot more about google than the gov.

There are legally enforced limits to what can be done with my gov id. Regulations say who can see it, what it can be used for, and a court for when things go wrong. If thing go too bad, a public backlash will occur, and politicians are very sensutive to it. Not perfect, but it works.

Google/Microsoft/Facebook, otoh, have no obligations to you. They use your id as they see fit. They revoke your id as they see fit. They prove to be bad stewards, have invisible everchanging rules, and only 1 punishment for violating it. Meanwhile you have to have an id with all if them, or network effects eill give you trouble when others use a service to contact you.

You're idea will not put people in control of their id, it would put the bigcorps in control of it. When big enough, a corporation is like governement's evil twin.
Hot-pluggableness is baked in PCI/PCI-E right in. I definitely hot plugged PCI cards on absolutely not hot-plug certified consumer motherboards. If you are not slamming it in it would work just fine. Hot unplug, on the other hand... Still, if you are on any Windows machine - just disable it in DevMgr, it would probably work just fine.
The PinePhone doesn't have the performance, battery life, or application ecosystem to be a primary phone. LineageOS or one of the other de-googled Android distributions are worth checking out.
Very nice primer. I worked on the GPS program (first at Boeing, then at a small subcontractor when Lockheed won the GPS III work) - though I worked on the software simulator for the satellites (focused on the operational side of the constellation) so didn't get much into the weeds of how the PNT actually works for clients on the ground :)
An rsync script can pull the files out the library bundle then put them anywhere. Done via a Cron job it’s fairly good.

I have no prior experience of such stuff and managed it (off to a Synology and from there to Backblaze).

Getting stuff out of iCloud in an automated and regular basis is surprisingly hard.
If you do a lab PCR test the results will make their way to the official state data set. Ways to get one:

- Go through your doctor or insurance provider

- Go to a private clinic

- See if your city or state has partnered with a testing company
Ever since I saw the cover of Elements of ML Programming [1], which shows the book as charting a course across "Logos Island", I've wondered what a programming language might look like as a navigable space. Perhaps something like walking through a syntax diagram, but that hardly captures it, especially when so much of the semantics of a language is in its standard libraries. Would a program be a path through the language world? Would we think of the world as containing all possible user-defined functions, and we'd edit our way across this space?

For a historical metaphorical discussion of visualizing programming, I enjoy this bit from Johan Georg Raeder's 1984 thesis "Programming in Pictures" pp79-80 [2]:

"What real-world metaphors can fit programming? To get a feeling for how immense our initial search space is, let us amuse ourselves with a few possibilities. Is a program like a road with intersections and forks where we have to make decisions depending on our current errand, and with roadside inns where we can spend computation time or, if we are careless, completely overflow our stack? Or shall we abolish the 'meta-view' and, instead of seeing the program from the sky, put the programmer inside the program by presenting a view of a tunnel he/she can drive through? At each intersection one might have to throw dice or make guesses to introduce some of the challenge, fantasy and curiosity found in computer games. Perhaps we should rather present programs as physical, three-dimensional objects that we can turn around and view from different angles and in different light so as to reveal the various facets of their structure. Can we present a program as a play with actors and objects on a stage?"

See also Raeder's "Survey of Current Graphical Programming Techniques" (1985)

[1] https://archive.org/details/elementsofmlprog0000ullm

[2] https://archive.org/details/RaederProgrammingInPictures/page...
What exactly would have been? There is no inherent superiority in the ARM architecture. Hell, 2006 ARM is a trash architecture. They just happened to be the only vendor that cared about that niche, and then the niche stopped being niche.
All the implements which farmers use, planters cultivators, etc have gotten larger over the years as the scale of farms have grown. A 40 year old tractor likely isn’t going to have the horsepower to work with these new implements. Also, the old tractor is likely to lack a cab which could mean no climate control for you.

Both of these would be serious issues for operating a modern, large scale farming operation.
We've also got programs at the State and Local levels.
Valid. I am torn between both because I like to see console makers competing and having a reason to innovate somewhere, but as a consumer, I want the ability to play games on any system the developer is willing to support, too.
Washington Post reported that there is some disagreement among experts: https://archive.fo/1bIa4
Ding ding ding ding ding!

What a healthy use of tax-payer funds. To create a show for all of us.

Give them bread and circuses, or something.
That aligns with my experience, that if you test positive on antigen you are definitely contagious but if you test negative you may still have the virus present in your system. PCR amplifies it so it can detect even small viral load.

If only we had some guidance and solid communication from public health experts that you could conceivably trust..
I can't tell if you're joking, but I hope you are. Having to pay more to access the same products is not a net loss to the consumer?
>I wonder if they can’t use a raspberry pi like base, since in the Pi3-4 loading Firefox is quicker by a margin.

This would be a massive downgrade as far as freedom. Raspberry Pis are full of blobs. The original PinePhone uses what is basically the Pine A64 as its base. A very old and slow SBC of Pine64's (and it was right at the PinePhone's release). The PinePhone Pro uses what is basically the RockPro64 as a base, better than most if not all Raspberry Pis. The same (but slightly modified) RK3399 SoC used in their Pinebook Pro laptop.
in practice that means mroe data being sent to the application code that then has to process that. 99% of the time, you'll get more performance figuring out the right way to express the data structure you want in sql. The entire computation happens in the database so all the data is immediately available to process on disk and you only send what you need for bandwidth consumption. IF the query is slow, you need to think about how you setup your joins and being aggressive about your use of predicates in subqueries to reduce the size of temporary tables.
Interesting. I take that Mixer example as quite the opposite: throwing money at game streamers only really makes sense if they're trying to get yet another point of integration for gamers, no?

I take your word for it that the execution was lacking - and, perhaps, they were never going to win. Perhaps that's why they keep buying other, successful companies.

But it still builds to the same picture: even if they suck as operators, they're building a pretty darn big machine.
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