skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they pretend and/or think this? The widely shared tweet I have seen simply stated that they want to develop IP based on Dune. It did not say that permission to do so is derived from the book.

> (whose starting price was 25k)

That is how auctions work. The only concern with such setups is that information about the amount of money available to such a DAO bidder is public knowledge and thus can be exploited.
Even fairly mainstream news already went on about how the Microsoft acquisition of Activision is all about Microsoft getting ready for metaverse.
Ask HN: Why are Google products constantly broken on iOS?
Fellow Hackers,

did you also notice how broken some Google products are on the mobile Apple ecosystem, especially those related to Google Maps?

Examples:

- For quite some time Google Business Reviews are unusable on mobile Safari (tested on most recent versions), scrolling down the reviews doesn’t work, logging in to write a review is broken/redirects to the same login page.

- Navigation seems pretty subpar and buggy compared to the Android edition on the same routes. Functions like music navigation while driving are unusable due to often crashing.

Is this managed on purpose?
It really is not that bad, and it is at least possible, both to incorporate it partly (stream api, immutable objects, especially with records) or go full-on with vavr.
The battery cases are all custom but the batteries are the same 18650 you can buy on Amazon. My ebike has a custom case that fits in the lower frame. The actual case is held together with philips screws. And I could potentially increase range by swapping out higher capacity cells.
Speaking of time and sleep, I have always been fascinated with the concept of "first sleep, second sleep".

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva...

I have tried it - it's like having TWO mornings in one day. It's kind of amazing, but it's completely incompatible with modern life (although less so with the new regime of more work/life balance flexibility).
Also relevant is that the fun of using the car is offset against the pain of the rental experience. Buying a car means having that experience once. Renting means having it every time you want to rent.
That means that I can have only one persona. I don't want the account I have on HN linked with accounts I have elsewhere, the consequences could be uncomfortable.

I want to use different passwords for different accounts and I don't want the password to contain enough information to identify me.
I can tell you that line 9 is nothing like the the privatised transport system in the UK (I have lived most of my life in UK, and 7 years in Seoul). It costs about 65p to ride, 75p for the express train, it's clean, safe, comfortable, modern, spacious. The stations are accessible, welcoming, and full of conveniences. Transferring to or from a bus is free. Ticketing is contactless, convenient, uniform across the whole country.

It's like a cheap, modern, less cramped version of the best lines on the tube.

All the other lines are mixed private/public and they run very well.

The story here isn't as simple as "public good, private bad, mixed worse." As with many things in life, it all depends on the actual details.
The comparison with Java is awful. Especially the performance comparison since the sun http server isn’t meant to be used and isn’t a part of the language spec.
I'm in the process of fixing up a house and while I have a station wagon, it doesn't have the capacity of a pickup truck.

Friend after friend jokes about how their truck is more useful, but the one time I really needed one (to purchase a refrigerator) it cost $19 + fuel from Lowes and that was that.

It was quite a nice way to do things.
As far as by privatization goes, I don’t much care for it with busses. But I’m having trouble seeing the issue here with the train, other than the financials which seem favorable to the corporation.
His former company's projected class returns the best seems "emerging value" stocks. (https://www.gmo.com/europe/research-library/gmo-7-year-asset...)

What exactly you buy to achieve that I'm not sure.
I also have military planes flying over frequently. I live in the Ozarks, and they seem to enjoy flying quite low through the valleys.

I'm sure some people don't like the noise, but I love seeing the planes so close.
Time may not be absolute, but calling gravity subjective is safer (after all, the arrow of time seems to be very much part of nature). However, I bet you still feel squeamish about jumping from anything higher than a meter.
FLOSS supporters are severely underserved

I'd say the invisible hand is getting it right here. FLOSS advocates
are the worst kind of customer -- both frugal and sententious.
> Apple didn't just make a phone, it changed computing forever

I though that smartphones were a kind of inevitable outcome of technological advancement, and that many other similar products where already out there.

I have to agree that Apple's marketing was spot on, as it still works to this date.
> I would argue that poorly configured docker images as far bigger issue than insecure http servers

I think the number of router vulnerabilities alone refutes this argument. Yes, security wasn't the original motivation, but it could be one good motivation.
> Obviously your experience doesn't involve budgeting or hiring developers.

Ah, that is very true! :) I forgot to make clear in my comment that I wasn't referring to that bit at all.

I only participated in the hiring/interview process, but that's as far as my hiring experience goes.

> The original poster claimed that Rust can save money by letting managers hire junior devs to replace senior C++ developers.

Ah, I didn't interpret it that way. I thought the point they wanted to get across was that it's easier to get the same for less—not in terms of monetary cost, but in terms of less mental effort with regards to context/knowledge about the language itself.

But, the hiring point you're addressing can be inferred from their comment, too.

I think I agree with you on that... It probably is "easier" to hire C++ developers, since there's an older and bigger market for them.

I think Rust developers are in an interesting position right now that they're not as abundant as other developers, since Rust is probably still in "early adoption" stage. So they can use that as leverage in salary negotiations, maybe? But it also comes at a cost of a much smaller job market for them, too.
Remind me of the movie The Congress (2010) with a kind of metaverse in the inside.
But in the same breath you can dismiss what the human body can do given a sufficient balance of omega-3 to omega 6?

Did you even try to see if omega 3 endocanibinols effected the g coupled protein receptors as well?
Britain is a perverse example of staggering incompetence and corruption.
oh, almost certainly not - they'll be under political pressure, yet be utterly unable to change in the face of it. They will go down on principle.
>A mechanical bounce free switch is a no problem at all.

Two questions:

1) do mechanical switches with zero bounce really exist?

2) are they cost effective enough to be used in consumer keyboards?
We have forked it and are allowing more C++, but it is still mostly C style. https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21
> Moreover, online platforms should not make denying consent for processing personal data more complex than giving it, and refusing consent should not be penalised by disabling functionalities.

This really should have been clear from the start, or at least clarified by a judge early on trying to make sense of the law. If the law says you have to give people a free choice, but you deliberately make one choice take 100 times longer than the other, then that clearly goes against the intent of the regulation.

> It also prevents platforms from requesting such consent if users already choose via ‘automated means’, which might be a setting in the web browser or operating system.

I don't know if browsers will be able to default the setting to "don't track me", but they could argue that someone downloading a "privacy-respecting browser" is itself a statement of intent and the user doesn't need to separately choose how they want the browser to respond to sites.

> The provisions require platforms to enable users to use and pay for services anonymously “wherever reasonable efforts can make this possible.”

I'm sure a lot of cryptocurrency companies are going to start making it "reasonably possible" for sites to accept their coins as an anonymous payment mechanism, forcing the hands of websites. Presumably the market will pick a few "good" crypto companies, and mean EU citizens will be able to make purchases online without having to type their credit card numbers (and billing addresses) into random sites.
to be fair, microsoft should've been included in the first place. they've been teetering top 3 market cap for a while now.
> It takes two hands to use Fn+Up/Down instead of PageUp/PageDown keys to scroll around

Doesn't seem like a big deal, I'm trying to think of a situation where I need the other hand to be free while paging or moving to end of the line.

> These keys are for some people the most common keys used for fast nevigation in code and documents.

Seems like a personal preference. I have a working trackpad so I almost never use them. Also, home/end on a thinkpad are out of reach anyway. And what's the point of 'insert' ?

> Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are used far less often,

I use these constantly, I don't remember touching home/end ever, pg up/dwn maybe by accident.
It takes less effort and intelligence to just whine about things.
You could take a video of the projected screen with your phone, you may see a rainbow party as many video projectors project the colours sequentially and count on your eyes to do the average. It’s fine for a movie but not for long work sessions in my opinion.
Things have different properties so they can (and should be) treated differently.

What things should be nationalised and what privatised has been extensively argued. We also have a lot of real world examples of what happens when you nationalise companies. The UK nationalised all its heavy industry and most of its light industry after WW2. It didn't go well. French nationalisation of its finance sector in the 70s didn't work great either. The things that are commonly nationalised are those that aren't huge, enormous, obvious, fast fuckups. Some countries do this better, some worse. But mostly it's kludges based on experience, not principles.
The amount of traffic needed to service local stores is tiny. One or two vehicles per shop per day at most. My local high street is pedestrianised but permits access for delivery vehicles. On a typical shopping trip I'll see one or none. It works well.

The key is removing the through traffic. Walkways are unnecessary.
I gave up on German tech news 5 years ago.

They're always behind.
You're right that you can't define a safe subset of C without making it impractical. MISRA C defines a C subset intended to help avoid C's footguns, but it still isn't actually a safe language. There are alternative approaches though:

1. Compile a safe language to C (whether a new language or an existing one)

2. Formal analysis of C, or of some practical subset of C, to prove the absence of undefined behaviour

Work has been done on both approaches.

ZZ compiles to C. [0] Dafny can compile to C++, but it seems that's not its primary target. [1][2]

There are several projects on formal analysis of C. [3][4][5][6]

[0] https://github.com/zetzit/zz

[1] https://github.com/dafny-lang/dafny

[2] https://dafny-lang.github.io/dafny/

[3] https://frama-c.com/

[4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vcc-a-verif...

[5] https://www.eschertech.com/products/ecv.php

[6] https://trust-in-soft.com/
Qt and emscripten took care of the bulk of it. Emscripten turns socket calls into websocket somewhat "transparently". The error handling is slightly different, but it only took minor code changes to get that working. More effort was involved in making the Qt event loop play nicely in the browser. Freeciv is based on a server-client model, we host servers that the wasm clients connect to via websockets.
Big thumbs up for all the advocacy and city planning aspects of this prospectus.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the future of E-Bikes technology wise is a smooth progression from what we have now. Rifle is fine. Mid-drive motor built into an Omafiets is fine.

Why? All the other parts are the same. There are factories all over the world making bike stuff. This is that, with a motor in place of the bottom bracket.
They're already comfortable and bombproof, and designed to get you somewhere in the clothes you plan to wear when you arrive.

Feel free to use any combination of market, mixed market, and democratic-socialist methods to make this affordable, I'm open-minded.
Are you sure about that? Because the battery management systems are proprietary. I'm just starting to research this, so don't take my word, but I'm pretty sure they take steps to lock you in.
http://ehmipeach.defra.gov.uk/

>Using the right browser - only use Microsoft Edge
PEACH is compatible with Microsoft Edge, but only when Internet Explorer mode is enabled.
For guidance on setting up Internet Explorer mode in Edge, follow this link to instructions on the Microsoft Support Page.

Yeah, there's still some way to go.
For anyone interested in reading more about this, E.P. Thompson’s Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism is a really good read, especially if you follow his citations to Lewis Mumford and others. Although industrial capitalism has sort of faded in some parts of the world, the insights I think are as relevant as ever. The author mentions Mumford once, but the central thesis seems taken directly from Technics and Civilization:

> The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age... the clock, moreover, is a piece of power-machinery whose "product" is seconds and minutes: by it essential nature it dissociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences: the special world of science.
Yeah, but for the past 2 decades it sure would have been nice if people bought into nuclear.

Perhaps China would have built far fewer coal power plants.

Buying ourselves and extra 10-20 years would have let technology improve a bit more.

This was not where we wanted to be in 2022:

https://time.com/6129192/international-energy-agency-coal-20...
Isn't the availability of bottled water a relatively recent thing? It certainly wasn't available for most of the time that I lived in the UK (1955 to 1985), but sweetened carbonated drinks have been a thing for well over a hundred years.
> It should absolutely be within my rights as a business owner to ban an unvaccinated or unmasked patron, and it is a violation of my civil liberties for the government to ban this.

Maybe it was the way you worded this but it surprised me. I recall that civil liberties said that businesses can’t ban people for what they look like, or if they have a beard, or a religious symbol, etc. I don’t think that changes for Covid

how is it a violation of your civil liberties? And then how is it not a violation of THEIR civil liberties?

I’m vaxxed and masked, but I think the ACLU has lost their collective heads in many ways
Well he’s (Sam) very likely still living at home, so parents are paying for most things. Plus he has the revenue from YouTube
Batteries were the first thing I was looking for when buying eBike. Ended up buying eBike with 48v 21AH battery from a local store in Toronto that also has service department. Before buying made sure that I could buy replacement battery and yes - newer version with 25AH capacity is available from Ali and it is half the price comparatively to the local store.
Maybe. Those are not clearly indicated as mistakes either (i.e. the article does not demonstrate or even argue that another choice would more likely than not have led to a better outcome).

And the article conveys some justification for the choices that did get made. For example, they couldn't use certain "second tier" Ethereum features that would have reduced gas fees, because they aren't approved in states like New York? So maybe you argue that such features should have been used, but then you're optimizing for a different outcome -- the outcome where you don't win the auction. With the benefit of hindsight, sure, but the leaders didn't know before the auction that they would lose. So it was certainly a reasonable choice to take the approach that seemed most likely to raise the most money.
I think they absolutely do. There are certainly specific places online(and in real world too) where your societal standing is entirely dependent on how outraged you are, or what new sources of oppression you can identify each week. Bonus points for thinking of ones no one has yet accused of anything - like time!

"In reality, this process had already been taking place throughout the 1800s as a result of European colonialism, imperialism and oppression. Colonialism was not just a conquest of land, and therefore space, but also a conquest of time. "

Just poetry.
Mozilla SOPS looking for a new maintainer
The tweet is this: https://twitter.com/TheSpiceDAO/status/1482404318347153413

And I'll quote it in it's entirety for posterity:

--- start quote ---

We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to:

1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law)

2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service

3. Support derivative projects from the community

--- end quote ---

Since then they've backtracked saying that they are looking to develop "completely original IP", but that raises the question "why spend money on the Dune book then?".
Human powered bikes at 20mph give you an accurate sense of the power behind your velocity because you are personally delivering that power. That also isn't the average human cruising speed, that is speed achieved by experienced riders. Riders with enough experience to control the bike in all kinds of wonky scenarios.

But an e-bike can make high speeds feel like a casual stroll, and get someone to that speed when they do not have the experience to control it. I love fast bikes, but I also am acutely (perhaps overly) aware of the safety implications of them, as I have taken a tumble off a bike at high speed. Broken bones, road rash, hospital stays, PT, and years of chronic pain as a result. I still love me fast e-bike, and still ride it (carefully), but I am under no illusion that it isn't fast.
The "Shadow predictions" bit is interesting. They could set that up in a way to score it versus actuals...where the shadow implementation automatically becomes the live one once it's better than the incumbent.
That is interesting! There is this cool piece of software that looked like it helped with a lot of this. It did visual object tracking with telescopes... but it is no longer available: http://www.optictracker.com/What_is_it.html

Alignment has been a big pain for me. I might actually have to look at how to use stars to correctly position everything.
The magical way to alleviate this is to be okay with most things being kinda shitty. While it's very hard and expensive to optimize at above 80%, it is relatively easy and cheap to keep alright stuff working at an okayish condition.
Glad to see Cantonese tops the chart. Maybe not that surprising afterall
Depends what eBike you are buying. There are currently many with the batteries you could get from Amazon / Ali.
Since that was bad, and the topic is wonderful, may I offer something very good on this topic instead?

It is a book called Einstein's Dreams. Thank me later.
You're not joking. The third link on Google for "bosch battery drm" is Hacker News talking about this. I'm surprised I missed this.

"These bikes are DRM'd to the hilt and any attempt at hacking them will cause the bike to brick itself which you can only reset at the dealership. You can do that three times and then it's permanent." user jacquesm 71 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201673
While I almost entirely agree with you, having had to report positive LFT Covid tests and do the subsequent “test and trace” form this week I feel that while the UI and UX is nice the flow of those forms are really quite pore. There are repetitive/redundant questions plus inconsistent and out of date advise. It’s probably more an effect of the difficult moving target of changing rules and advice, but for what is an important government process everyone is coming into contact with I though it would be better. Maybe wishful thinking though.
Are PLDs still a thing? They can implement most anything a really low density chip like this could.
The canonical answer is of course the 1997 Asian financial crisis. The crisis greatly strained governmental and municipal budget available for pretty much every public infrastructure and the 1998 Act on Private Investment in Social Overhead Capital Facilities (사회간접자본시설에 대한 민간 투자법) was introduced to fill this gap. The problematic minimum revenue guarantee stems from this law, originally intended to encourage private investment, and while the law was subsequently fixed in 2006 many infra projects built around 2000 including the Seoul Subway Line 9 still suffer from its consequences.
Manifest v3 High CPU Usages
I was so confused of the flow of writing and one sentence made me understand what just happened.
"I grew up in Seoul in the 1990s before coming to the United States, so I missed all of Line 9’s construction and operations."
The media in South Korea have criticized any privatization of public service for so long time. Trust me I have lived in this country more than 25 years. Even though author asserted that "I will list all sourcing as best as I can, all from media outlets in South Korea (of both left and right political leanings) I have vetted and determined as legitimate."
Yes, the sources of articles are from both left and right leaning but the thesis of this post is villifing semi-privatization of Line 9.
To me, the cause of Line 9 chaos is not from privatization but from the intervention of political campaign in this problem. Conservatively expected passenger numbers can go wrong, but they must not make mistakes on back-up plans, and they just did make mistakes on purpose for the sake of winning election.
Clocks are an accident of latitude.

If the amount of daylight in higher latitudes didn't change so dramatically throughout the year, clocks wouldn't be needed to ensure every day is the same duration.