skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it always the free software people who are the most judgemental about what I do with my software and who I trust with my time and money? AWS and Microsoft never gave a shit about what other vendors I'm in bed with.

I like your GNU license, I do not like your GNU license people.
Google (an ad agency) is the exact opposite of a curator, so obviously no.

It needs to be regulated, and probably run in a not-for-profit structure with fully transparent accounting and methodology.
> Can't read German, but I'm going to assume

Reading the article leads to a better discussion. Link to translated article https://netzpolitik-org.translate.goog/2022/nach-gespraechen...
I would love to know what early Sapiens thought about the Neanderthals. Did they see them as that other tribe that is very strong, but acts a bit foolishly sometimes? As we have been the only remaining member of the Homo species for thousands of years now, living side by side with creatures that are only quite like us is an experience that has been lost in the collective human memory. I think it is pretty likely that Sapiens back then just thought of a Neanderthal tribe in a similar way they thought about another Sapiens tribe. I read somewhere that the body proportions of Neanderthals are within the range of body proportions of modern humans, and research suggests that there was interbreeding between Sapiens and Neanderthals.

(As a male homo sapiens, I have to say that if Neanderthal women looked like this [0], they certainly looked a bit strange, but they were not repelling or appeared un-human.)

On a side note regarding early sapiens: I never understood why most people assume that humans today are, on average, more intelligent than our ancestors 40,000 years ago. If anything, thousands of years of agriculture and living in large settlements removed the evolutionary pressure to be a quick and inventive observer of your environment. It is much more easy to somehow get by in an established farming community with thousands of members if you are a bit dense than it is if you are part of a small tribe of hunters.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Reconstr...
I can see a weird sort of logic to Apple. Why would they share their judgement about the level of an ex-employee with a potential rival company (rival in case of talent perhaps also product)? Let the employee say "I was Level 5 @ Apple" and have the hiring company verify that the person is at whatever level that implies. Why should Apple allow its rivals piggyback on its own levelling system?
I dislike running outside and live somewhere that is freezing cold almost half the year.

I use my treadmill daily. Even if I'm not doing a proper guided run workout, I'll just hop on the treadmill and walk for a couple hours while watching TV instead of just sitting on the couch. It's easily the best purchase I made during the pandemic. I'm not convinced the expensive peloton machines are worth it, but I'm rarely going above 9 mph so my basic one with a TV in front of it and the free peloton subscription provided by my insurance has served me very well.
Docker for factories.
> The EU part cannot be owned by the US entity since the US government can compel the US mother company to have it's subsidiary hand over data.

As it stands, the US part can be owned by a EU company. Or, probably more realistically, both EU and US parts could be owned by a mail box in the Caimans.
It's an unholy mixture. It started with critique against the restrictions due to Covid 19, but it escalated from that point on. Comparison of unvaccinated people and jews under the Nazi regime are what's happening in some of those Telegram channels these days and that's against german law, yes.
In terms of feedback, there's an issue thread here covering some points already: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41920
In traditional OS, where data is separate from code, yes.

The whole point of Phantom OS though is that there is no separation between them. Instead of having files, you just keep the data in your program's memory, and rely on automatic system-wide persistence to keep it safe. So the only thing you can roll back is entire system.
Most toll bridges where I am have parking spots specifically for the police. You also have people changing lanes stupidly at the toll plazas.
Sorry, I've got lots to do today. Have a great day
A big reason is that competing with them on equal footing is a monumental task. You are working against network effects, heavy duty marketing, integrations into other products and a whole army of developers.

Developing the product itself isn't the reason.
> Literally this article is about employers being like "hmm you told me this number but we don't believe you because Apple says its wrong"

Might have been a problem in the past, but now you can point them to this article.
Four light years could probably be reached within a human lifetime if we're able to take one or two exponential steps in our speed in space.

Not our lifetimes, though someday one can dream.
How are you going to get a picture of the Mona Lisa?
Take a photo? Your not allowed.
The people who own the Mona Lisa, prevent people from taking photos of.
They instead they take a photo of it themselves, which is a new creative work and has copyrights. Now they have controlled the market on photos of the Mona Lisa and you need to license photos of it from them.

That's what I heard once anyhow.
There are some things where satellite internet makes sense but I don't think Starlink [0] makes sense for a lot of home users. Industry and transportation it might make a good case for but it'll have to prop any consumer market up on the prices charged to business users.

[0] at the stated numbers at least, the final constellation will likely be much smaller than originally quoted Musk is familiar with embellishing and overpromising timelines.
This is a lot lighter than a video stream, and probably somewhat less latency sensitive as well.
Have I interpret well? It's like a kind of virtual dom put on server-side? What a bad idea, please don't do it!
Is this with or without money printing?

I'm teasing. I accept your new data, but I don't think it fundamentally changes my point.
The Raspberry Pi 4 uses a quad core cluster of Cortex A72 cores, not A53. A72 was released in 2016, but the Pi 4 also has them clocked to run at 1.5GHz. Either way, I don't think it's embarrassing for AMD's 2013 Jaguar to be beaten by cores that are 3 years newer and running at a 50% higher clock speed. I thought Jaguar was pretty cool at the time that it came out, but technology has continued to move swiftly since then.
The whole story gets more and more interesting and complex over time as we uncover it. No single "missing link." No simplistic story of homo sapiens coming in and wiping out neanderthals. A recent documentary I saw painted this very messy picture of migration in-and-out of various parts of Eurasia, back to Africa, back out and a general genetic mixing all-around. Overall modern humans out-competed neanderthals but also bred with them and that DNA shows up in many of us today.
SixtyFPS Becomes Slint
Although your statement is alright, the big thing here isn't nazis' free speech in particular, but censorship on a platform that is being sold as a privacy saver.

Local laws may change from place to place. What is maybe reasonable in place A (and we may both agree with) may not be reasonable in place B
FWIW your "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works" is one of my favorite slogans, and I appreciate y'all making the effort.
No we are talking about real Nazis the stuff we are talking about is unconstitutional in Germany.
Agreed, most places along Highway 90 are usually dead.

You just have to watch out around Del Rio and such because Border Patrol and a bunch of other Federal LE enjoy hanging around random places and hassling people.
In this case it applies to a real nazi who's denying the Holocaust and spreading some barely-not-eugenics rhetoric... Not just "some truckers".
See my other answer below: trying to convince the payers that there are extra costs due to "technical debt" accumulated somehow during the lifetime of a sw project would sound "unconvincing" because from the point of view of the business that would be part of the job of the same people that are now asking more money/time/resources to fix it.
No, in 2010 it was £145.50, which is just under £200 in today's money

However the number of subscribers has not remained static, also unreflected is the free subscription for over 75s which the government did fund but no longer go, nor the withdrawal of money from the government for things like World Service and Monitoring

Total license fee + grant funding in 2010 was £3.95b or £5.39b in today's money. It's down to about £3.9b today, so that's a realterms cut of 28%
While it is not the constitution, but the criminal code, being a nazi without at least a basic veil of decency will get you jailed for publicly voicing your beliefs:

Whosoever, in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace:

incites hatred against a national, racial, religious group or a group defined by their ethnic origins, against segments of the population or individuals because of their belonging to one of the aforementioned groups or segments of the population or calls for violent or arbitrary measures against them; or

assaults the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously maligning an aforementioned group, segments of the population or individuals because of their belonging to one of the aforementioned groups or segments of the population, or defaming segments of the population,

shall be liable to imprisonment from three months to five years.

(§ 130 StGB Volksverhetzung)

What you were referencing is §86 and §86a StGB.
$50,000 to the Podunk County Policeman's Ball Fund could have the same benefits for a legal donation.
GDPR has an exception for things that are necessary for the service the customer asked for. If you ordered something to be shipped to your home then the provider can share your address with the shipping company - that's required to fulfill their end of the deal. Sending your personal information to some 3rd party advertising company? Not so much.
Nah, nudity was used as excuse. It does not have erotics and all visible body parts are those of the mouses.
You can use it to pay off the ransomware criminals who pwned your computer I guess...
I turn it off when I'm buying from a site because I've had cases where the blocking interferes with the checkout. In one case recently, when I forgot to disable it, the transaction half went through. I was charged but the order was stuck pending payment and it required me contacting their support team to manually override that.
I got to drive a '77 911S once and it was pretty much the same except with more rattles and the noise was coming from the back. Fun car, but still no match for a 2022 Kia.
I used to think that about my 2011 laptop as just looking at the CPU speeds were not really much faster. however, CPU is only a part of the system. GPU/RAM/SSD/etc have seen several generational leaps ahead and all add up to an improved experience. Also, even though the CPU speeds aren't much faster, the transistors in the chips are drastically changing. So some bits of code run faster because now they are on the chip.
My take is that a B-tree + an LSM + periodic merging of the LSM portion into the B-tree is the right solution.

In fact, that's a lot like what ZFS w/ ZIL is. The ZFS ZIL is not really an intent log, and its name is a misnomer. The ZFS ZIL is a log of past transactions, and the only intent is to merge them into the filesystem's B-tree-like structure.

B-trees are the best data structure for databases, except for write transactions: those are slow in a B-tree due to write magnification associated with the B-tree itself. A log amortizes the cost of writing to the B-tree. But the log also increases the cost of reads, so the log itself has to be indexed, which is what LSMs effectively achieve.
You can also get a domain name for $4/year and completely own your content, but nobody does that either.
Could you share some more about your experience with Kotlin js and the libraries/frameworks you use?
Sure you can, and it is censorship if a country is banning your platform for not censoring public discourse. That is exactly what is happening here. It would be like liberals in the US blocking Telegram nationwide for allowing anti-mandate discussion and then saying the reason has not nothing to do with censorship.
anything specific you object to?
I was awarded an FPGA chip by Xilinx that I blogged about: http://msapaydin.wordpress.com
They are making an effort to promote the use of Xilinx fpga's on machine learning, recently.
Not in a way that achieves the same purpose as Telegram. Telegram is like Twitter, which is well suited for interaction with people you don't know. No wasted effort on security since everyone is speaking in public anyway.

Signal groups are poor at that. The work required to encrypt messages increases with group members. People don't want to show their phone numbers in large public groups, and Signal also lacks the group admin/moderation options necessary to handle many hundreds or thousands of members.
You should self-host 3rd-party libraries for performance and reliability reasons anyway

- reduces the number of TCP connections
- reduced the risk of failure if the relevant edge node can't be reached

Browsers don't support cross-site caching of 3rd-party content so whatever limited benefits there might have been of using a library CDN are long gone
I recall him stating he didn't want to take donations because he didn't want the chance of money coming in from someone that could influence the decisions of the project (see AdBlock Plus).
I have problems with back pain (I sit all day typing, not too surprising)

Facebook ad for stretching program for back pain shows up a few times. I eventually decide to buy it.

It works, resolves my back pain.

I had a real problem, a solution was advertised to me, I bought it, and it worked.

No induced demand.
This would make sense if people’s titles were “associate” while employed at Apple, but they are not.

It’s the title change that seems weird and vindictive. It’s not like Apple has to report a title at all to external databases.
Treaties are not necessarily worth much these days, when the next populist can just pull out unilaterally, or decide that following international law is for chumps.
Just to be clear, I'm speaking about Jobs who was by most accounts an abusive narcissist. Cook is currently CEO, sure, but Jobs is still a central character. As I'm sure you know, sometimes cults survive the death of their leaders.
Signal is just another centralized walled garden. Expect the same happening there.
When leftpad was in NPM there was an expectation that it wouldn't disappear suddenly. Package registries are thought to be a constant, reliable source of packages (even when they not quite that, as leftpad demonstrated). There would be no such expectation for a module that you include directly from an https URL.

The main benefit I can see is that you can include code from your own "registry" very easily in unmanaged scripts. You can already do that because you can add a dependency to package.json using an https link already, but with this new feature you can include those dependencies in node scripts you aren't managing with a package file.

You can do that. I'm not suggesting you should. I won't.
Exactly. A superior option for all the terrorists, extremists and hitmen which many of them are all signing up to and socialising on.

Given that MobileCoin is a new way for them to fund their operations without a trace, it's sound very attractive for these extremists to stay underground without exposing themselves due to Signal's E2EE than Telegram. Also, no censorship on Signal, so it is a free for all without the consequences.

Best part is, MobileCoin is just about to be a great pump and dump ponzi once they officially launch on Signal. Great value proposition for criminals and speculators.
> If that’s your definition of manufactured demand then even making a product is manufactured demand

sorry, but you are confusing making a product to solve a problem or fill a need with lying to get the attention of people to sell them something that does not solve the problem nor fills the need.

have you ever lied to these adv platforms?
I have many accounts were I blatantly lie about myself, like for example I say I am fat, I post pictures of fat people pretending it's me and immediately I get bombarded by ads for products to lose weight, training programs that "promise" you results in 2 weeks and dating apps.

That's the sad state of affairs in 2022.
> So you've left your old job, and now want to negotiate? No one's fooled about who has leverage.

Handle it before you leave your old job, then. Do what works best for you.

I have negotiated contracts while already working, and that has worked fine for me. If they back out, I'll find something else. At some point you may notice they won't move any further, and then you've got a choice to make. If this is just another job and there are plenty like it, you quit. If it's a unique opportunity, you suck it up and sign.

But the point remains that you should never sign a contract on the spot. Unless it's really something super standard, negotiated by your union, or otherwise something that you really can't get around. But in every other circumstance, you always have options open. Never forget that.
Do the people of your country have great control over what their government does and have the legal right to remove them when they are unhappy? What country is that, i wanna move there :)
Of course there's a legal distinction, otherwise the state wouldn't be able to make such laws. The question is whether such laws are logically reasonable to have.

Your blue flashing light example makes sense to prohibit because it is misleading other people. Whereas a radar detector is increasing your own senses. Should there be aspects of your personal physical reality that you are legally prohibited from finding out?

Or alternatively, what basic tort would using a radar detector be similar to?
Unless they changed it since I dropped Windows, hitting the windows key opens the start menu.
If you buy a gun then you can shoot the guy who robs you, so the robber doesn't do anything wrong.
"The government has a defect.
It's potentially democratic.

Corporations have no defect - They're pure tyrannies."

- Noam Chomsky
That's pretty "no true Scottsman". Some of the Ottawa protesters are waving swastika flags. If it walks like a duck and waves duck flags.

Sources citing the presence of swastika flags, (linking multiple because a couple are paywalled): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/world/canada/ottawa-truck... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/thousands-protest-covid... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ottawa-covid-trucker-prot...
> Without advertising how are you going to find out about anything?

If I don't know I have a problem to solve I probably don't have a problem to solve, or at least not a problem big enough that it requires me to be forced to consume hours of advertisement per year
Mostly to corporate subsidies labeled "defense" spending.
I'm sorry but it is quite naive not to see the Republican elite have used the covid issue (like so many others) to frighten their followers into believing the astroturfing on facebook, twitter, reddit, etc to convince people that covid is many things: a hoax, a progressive attempt to get us to take vaccines that will sterilize us, an attack from China, and on and on. The party that produced Q anon from a prank on 4/8chan isn't appealing to the fear portions of the brain? They're doing this to sell their policies which are meant to enrich the elite (0.1%)? I think you should take a step back and look at the big picture of what Republican leaders are up to. It's certainly not for the benefit of the masses.
I'd argue that false data doesn't achieve this, it just confuses everything. Using an analogy in programming terms, it would be like `job_title <- Maybe "NULL"` whereas they really ment `job_title <- Nothing`.
It's not possible to fix a particular semantics outside a particular time and context, and certainly not possible to do so in general.

Here, as soon as someone recognizes that the amount of energy cited is way higher or lower than would be implied by their own definition, they should 1) identify the difference ("Boil here means 'boil n kettles dry' rather than 'bring n kettles to boil'") and 2) in most cases, avoid the wasted debate by adopting the other person's language if further conversation using the concept is needed.
Thank you for this, I think O'Reilly's take is actually a lot more balanced than people are giving him credit for. In particular, he does not claim there is no use or there never will be a use for some of these technologies, but that cryptocurrency and NFTs in particular don't do what they say, in particular with respect to decentralization.

I'm excited to see what people come up with, but it will probably look as different from what they told us the "Information Superhighway" would be like in 1990 and what it was in 2000.
The README also says they don't want donations

> Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.
How would you know that? If say the number of cars went down by 50% and the amount of money in everyone's pocket went up by 100% which would driving the upward price more?

If the supply of cars is down why would that in and of itself drive the price up? Surely there's some flexibility in demand for cars?

It seems like a price increase in any individual item can be explained as a supply problem but every additional item that that gets added to the list is an argument for a money supply problem because on some level every item is substitutable.
From the post I don't see any evidence that they killed or even injured anybody.