skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting how there's one "rubbish!!" review in Amazon, and the rest say "wow, this resonated, my dad was in OSS and he told me ..."

I guess amazon reviews are as prone to subjective bias issues as any other "forum"

The book looks interesting. I hesitate to critique without having read and so I think I'm off to the kindle edition. On the whole, what interests me most is how well its written (or not) -I can form my own opinion as to the wisdom of operation paperclip, (which was a scientific version of this one) and the like.

Alas, thats the one thing the Amazon reviews seem to lack: Any indication how well it was written.

I find this often. I have a book from the 1970s by Peter Hebblethwaite, a catholic historian-journalist who has since died. I love the book. Its entertainly written, easy, and flows well. its a bloody good book. The reviews read like burned on true believers "how dare he write against the papacy, he should burn in hell" or inter-departmental "I was at colombia and let me tell you my professors and I don't rate the english in vatican writing, they don't know what they're talking about" -Nobody seems to say "gee, he wrote well. I wish he hadn't died. I wonder what he'd have made of this current round of papal politics"

Or another one "Haig Reconsidered" -which is a very one-eyed australian take on how bad General Haig was. Everyone I speak to says "he's wrong" (the author) but by golly, he wrote well! Its the best one-eyed polemic I've read in ages.

Maybe its in the nature of Amazon.
I haven’t read all of the comic so I can’t say if he embellished things.

I can say 100% that screaming at people was very much encouraged(during “therapy” sessions or as punishment). It was referred to as “getting your feelings off”. Sometimes it would be in a group setting where you sat in a circle and everyone had to pick someone else in the group and scream at them as loud as possible about anything the person did that made you angry or annoyed you. Other times it was a form of punishment where they made you stand against a wall or in the corner and everyone else in the “house” would crowd around and all scream as loud as possible at you all at once. They only rules were you can’t make fun of them for things like race, sexuality, appearance, etc.
Yeah, I noticed the SEO folks are now trying to game it, making the content even more useless. Self promotion is a huge issue with Quora.
Fuchsia, like Waymo, is never going to take off. It's been half a decade and they still haven't shipped.
It’s an allusion to the Brownian ratchet thought experiment. AFAIK he demonstrated why it does not work.
If you have read beyond the title, I don't think this is what you think it is. (At least not yet anyway), since it is still not ready yet as a general purpose workstation.

It's more like building it, rather than using it here.
Not necessarily in real money terms. Population isn’t growing much, and if there isn’t a massive money pump pushing down interest rates running (which is getting turned off shortly), the math gets a bit grim.

Most if that appreciation is due to the steadily loosening standards since the early 80’s when a similar inflation spike drove up interest rates and gutted the housing market.
Congrats on building and launching your project!

That said, let me just go ahead and share the obvious: https://xkcd.com/936/
And the memory and timeout limits will stop the program in most cases, even the CLI.
Pretty much. elan knew exactly what the parents wanted to hear and see and would tailor the parents tour or questions around that.
They've shipped it on some Nest Hubs already. In fact, it's pretty nifty that their update system allows them to replace the OS completely from a Linux-based OS to A Fuchsia OS.
I can imagine eventual (de-googled?) variants which will update only from a local server. In principle, at that local server level one might manually update repositories and control the version(s) presented to Fuchia clients.
Isn't it 150%? Percentages are hard.
It sounds to me like what you are saying is that developers have discovered it is best to offer an amazing free product to the whole world in order to get them involved in the game, and then this attracts rich people, who then go ahead and pay for the whole things themselves. But if you don't attract the little guy with free stuff, you don't get a great game, and so you don't attract the rich people.

Seems like a good system that everyone happy with. If they weren't happy they would go play other games that aren't free.
The important thing about this filter is that it is actually part of a sensor to tell you if you have dissolved lead in your water. The goal is to produce these at low enough cost levels that anyone can easily afford to buy them and regularly use them to test their water for lead.
"money is a form of energy" is nonsense. yet it is an interesting kind of nonsense that contributes to the discussion.

I think it makes more sense to regard money as a kind of messaging technology that enables decentralised coordination and prioritisation of economic activities in the real economy. But you have to remember that the messaging technology of money is not itself the real economy. It is certainly not energy. Messaging and coordination systems cost energy to run. Adding a better messaging and coordination system might allow a society to run its real physical economy more efficiently, but the messaging and coordination system in itself does not produce energy.

Here's a dumb thought experiment:

Suppose there is a pre-industrial society on island A. The economy is based on agriculture and livestock. The citizens of island A society develop a system of currency using conch shells, which they can use to track debts accrued and favours owed. Adjacent to island A is the nearby uninhabited island wilderness of island B, filled with natural resources. Inconveniently, a very deep 20 metres wide chasm separates island A from island B. After years of effort with several fatalities and misadventures, the citizens of island A manage to traverse the gap and build a sturdy bridge allowing people, livestock and goods to cross. Some economic activity spreads to island B, but the terrain is not productive for livestock and livestock remain on island A.

You are one of the pioneers on the frontier of island B, attempting to establish a farm. You would like to rent some of the livestock belonging to your business partner on island A, to provide energy to clear land and establish your new field more easily.

Calamity strikes: there is an earthquake which causes bridge between island A and island B collapses! People, livestock and large trade goods can no longer cross the chasm until the bridge can be repaired. However, the gap is small enough to communicate across by shouting. If you really want, you could also bundle up a sack of conch shell money and sling it across the gap.

Rather inconveniently for the pioneers on island B, there were no livestock on island B at the moment the bridge collapsed.

Even without a bridge, to hire your business partner's livestock, you are still able to make a payment of money across the chasm to your business partner. You can choose to sling over a bundle of money across. Alternatively, the central bankers of island B and island A can shout across the 20 metre gap to negotiate the transaction and ensure the transaction is recorded consistently in each island's clay tablets in the traditional manner (Paxos).

However, there is no way for your business partner's livestock to get across the gap until the bridge is reconstructed. It may take years of very dangerous work to rebuild it.

The system of money and financial transactions still functions across the chasm, but it is completely unable to transfer livestock-powered energy.

The messaging & debt-tracking system (conch shells, clay tablets, shouted agreements) is not the same thing as the real economy (oxen energy to plough your fields).
Nest Hubs run Fuschia.
My use case would be hooking up the RL agent to something like OpenAI JukeBox, and crowdsourcing thumbs up/down on generated chunks to train the agent.

The most time consuming and tedious part of a music generation engine today is choosing a decent chunk out of (very) many generated samples. If RL can help with that it would be awesome.
Flippers either buy with cash, or they do all interest loans, and really factor in how long they take to flip the house. Interest rates or going long on a build can really dig into profits. You can't get a 25/30 year loan on a flip as it's not your primary residence, and you're limited on the number of those you can have per year.
I guess it depends on how it’s handled. If their success rate is as poor as windows updates then obviously I wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole for anything critical. But if the updates go as smoothly as iOS (or windows defender/macOS security) updates tend to, then I think the pros outweigh the cons for the majority of individuals for any devices that are regularly on the internet.
Hope you are right, but half a decade doesn't seem long for an OS?
It was always going to be submarined, But you would hope some modern day equivalent of "samizdat" is going to allow this to circulate. Having credible, recognized (even if "outsider") russian journalist voices in the context of this interview will massively undermine the credibility of the story from gov.
Windows updates are mostly unpopular because they have a tendency to happen when you are in the middle of something else which is incredibly annoying.
Just the intent to build it is newsworthy.
fuchsia has an interesstin new approach for the handling of updates (should be more stable). We will see how this plays out, when it is no longer a developer playground with nightly builds.
Being disappeared is a different phenomenon than being sent to the gulag.

People knew (in the general sense) where Solzhenitsyn was and why.
This was done in the more recent Battlestar Galactica series. The advanced Cyclons were basically superhumans.
Al Jazeera is owned by Qatar. They seem to operate very independently, considering their owners. Qatar censors their Internet, and their outward culture is standard Middle-Eastern Islamic fare (i.e. homophobic etc). [this always amuses me because statistically speaking, with no data to back it up, and based only on my observations, I would bet that Qatar has a higher percentage of LGBTQ population than any Western nation]

AJ's journalists in Russia have been doing their best to ignore the insanity of the new media laws and get their message out there, against their own best interests, bless them. Which is weird because most of the Gulf has been neutral or pro-Russia in their stance so far.

Disclaimer: My other half is Qatari and she will now have me "disappeared" for speaking badly of her homeland.
> Fuchsia, like Waymo, is never going to take off

It is already running on a Nest Hub today. So it is already shipped.

Given that they have Chrome [0] already running on it, I think you know what Google will also be replacing.

Fuchsia seems that it will go beyond running on Nest Hubs in the future.

[0] https://9to5google.com/2022/03/04/full-google-chrome-browser...
Are you referring to emotes? (I don’t play fortnite)
Are there screenshots or videos of Workstation?
It looks like everything runs decoupled in user-space, even the filesystem, drivers and packages. Meaning that updates to the system happens per part and requires no re-boots when updating (not even file-system updates, according to docs). So the updates are independent, the packages have their own life-cycles and works independent of the underlying system.

Having an auto-updating, fully sandboxed OS, without reboots, really doesn't sound that bad.

Especially if it's only kernel, stability and security updates.
This is also my lived experience. I have an adm5 down in the basement, if the flyback transformer whine didn't drive me crazy (and the really sub-par keyboard, if were honest) it would be upstairs.

You could tell VMS on VT100+ users by the rather odd rubberised "numpad condoms" they had to map the keycaps to things like TPU, the Dec editor on steroids. Different condom for different editor, basially. "real programmers" in Unix didn't need these tacky rubber overlays, and also didn't use the numpad keys.

You could tell ADM/vi users by the endless stream of "meeeeaaappp" as they hammered the ESC key and "BEL" ^G went off.
It was striking, that's for sure. I am guessing the author felt only pride.
While this should be fixed, I think it's always a bad idea to rely on implementation details for safety. By which I mean those filters exist for something other than protecting a system command from injection. Even if they did work properly today, there's nothing saying that this couldn't change in the future because what's considered a valid domain changes. In this case it seems like escapeshellcmd would be more appropriate.
5 years is fine for such a project.

It will 'take off' if it finds a practical use case.

If they start making Androids based on this, it will 'take off'.

If Tesla, Ford, Volskwagen use it in their cars, it will 'take off'.

etc..

I don't have nearly enough insight to know one way or another, but G is a big company and if they want to do something they will.

My point is, the 5 years and no traction isn't necessarily indicative of that much.
"People who think they're entitled to free unfettered video hosting on YouTube are dreaming. There's no historic precedent to indicate that it should be so..."

We have a choice as societies to fund public archives that are free from (direct) corporate interference.

Corporations and governments aren't clearly distinct entities, as corporate execs work as politicians and politicians often retire from office only to get hired by the corporations they regulated or gave business to while in office, but there's still a big difference between a corporation made to profit its owners/investors and a non-profit government entity supposed to benefit the public good.

We now have so much of the world's cultural artifacts in the hands of these few incredibly powerful corporations at whose whim any/all of them could be lost.

It doesn't have to be this way.
Realising this is what made money a lot easier to understand for me, and simplified the difference between different kinds of money. In the end its easier just to think of them as different currencies with stable pegs. It answers questions like - how can the banks issue money? Of course some of them are easier to exchange with (e.g. bank credit over notes) and this makes them more useful in trades.

For example (bank money = real money) only because the bank is willing to keep the peg at (1.00 bank credit = 1.00 real currency) as you state whenever you use an ATM, take money out at the counter, etc. When the bank runs out of real money to maintain this peg it can and has deviated in the past (e.g. people selling their bank accounts at say 30c to the dollar in the great depression). In normal times however their much smaller money stock is enough to keep the peg going against the usual net deposit/withdrawal flow.

Of course if a central bank comes in and can lend that bank unlimited real money the peg could be maintained. Indeed that can and has happened.
This is interesting. I wonder what goal they are aiming towards.

There isn't much information about the capabilities of workstation. Is it a GUI OS? Can one run Flutter apps on it?
A useful idiot? He is an idiot only if you consider heroic acts that reveal unjust violations of the rights to privacy and protection from unwarranted searches as well as the sabotage of public standards and the infiltration of their organization bodies as "idiotic". If anything he showed his loyalty to the residents of America and to a lesser extend to these of Europe.
Fiat money seems to be getting more worthless by the day. There's very good reason why assets surge in price.

Great for the day to day, but need hard assets for long term. $100 won't have good purchasing power in 20 years time.
As a sibling comment pointed out, PHP has max_execution_time which I think defaults to 30 seconds, but I'd guess plenty of people have set it to unlimited to work around some problem or other.

A beefy server should be able to process 4GB of data within 30 seconds though I suppose.
That... can't be true.

First of all, US copyrights can't be registered for mere facts. "This ZIP code corresponds to this location" (and a list with this string for all ZIP codes/locations) is a fact, and therefore not copyrightable.

However, even if one could convince a judge that it is (What arguments they could use, I have no idea) the whole thing falls apart because the USPS is a government agency, and works released by the U.S government hold no copyright protection inside the U.S
> If interested, you can configure your Workstation to receive automatic updates.

If it stays here, I'm 100% on board; I wouldn't even mind defaulting to on. Forced automatic updates (hi, Microsoft) are a terrible move. I would also say that separating bug/security fixes from features and breaking changes helps, if my OS vendor had a way to auto-patch only security issues, and could ensure zero breakage as a result - no new features, no changing UX, nothing but invisible security patches - I'd enable it in a heartbeat. And they won't, so I won't:)
"It's not prudent unless it's likely to both happen and succeed."

No, that is incorrect - there is an asymmetry here which is (oddly) in the ops favor.

Paying my lawyer (for instance) to create and send a letter like this, etc., might cost me $3-800. Properly responding to it and covering all the bases and carrying out ones legal duties vis a vis google might cost 5x that.

... and the letter writer will be dealing with an entirely different operation at google. Real people will be considering the case.
This piece lost me the moment I saw the image created to visualize the content.

The big "censored" banner across made me instantly regret clicking it.

If people, and (I need to use it here) so called "journalists" don't know the difference between a private corporation and a nation state I just can't tske anything they produce seriously.

You can't be censored by YouTube. You can be deplatformed if you would like to call it that way. But until a government forced YouTube to not show your content to their citizens you are not being censored.

The outcome might be the same, but there is still a structural difference between me showing someone the door as I don't like what they say on my platform and the government coming and gagging them.

Maybe I am just to sensitive to the usage of the term, but imho it denigrates the victims of actual censorship.
The Essential Craftsman spec house recently sold for $610k.

According to the public history the undeveloped lot looks to have cost 40k in 2017.

Does this qualify as a place nobody wants to live? Last I checked the PNW was a nice place.

https://www.trulia.com/p/or/roseburg/3044-nw-daysha-dr-roseb...
Why does putting PH 1 on another line mess up the delivery? (I assume the other issue is that there's an APT 1 and a PH 1 in the building)?
Probably doing similar things to what's been done with Russia, more sanctions, more sanctions against supporting nations etc.

They're soon to test a nuclear weapon and already play fun games testing missiles and having them land just off the coast of Japan. Not going to be fun once those things are nuclear missiles and en route to Tokyo.
I am using a 2015 Nokia Lumia 830. I have been using it over the pandemic as my work modem taking video calls. LTE is great with multiple computers paired. 5G is overrated marketing garbage. Especially on the Galaxy Fold 3 on t-mobile. Where it keeps going in and out.

All this obsoletion of old devices just so the networks can keep pushing more marketing data and sell more shiny. At the cost of environment.
I am not arguing really. I think you are mostly right.

That said, I use Zoom daily on Manjaro and have not had that happen. It happened to me just last week on my iPhone though.

While I love Airplay, I use Plex to stream media not only to my iPhone and the Apple TV downstairs but also to my Roku, my LG TV, an Amazon Fire stick, and my son’s Android tablet. Even after buying expensive apps, I could never get AirPlay working on the Fire stick or the LG TV ( the places my wife wants to watch ).
In Europe the GDPR states that businesses have a single calendar month to respond to you, either with the data, how to easily get them, or a damn good reason why they couldn't comply in time.

It happened to me once that a business hasn't responded in time, but after I sent them a follow up that they are breaking the law by ignoring my request, they responded right away the next day.

I also only sent the requests to the biggest offenders, so the sample is small.

30-90 days is therefore possibly the period one should expect to wait to get a response, even though more than approx. 30 days is illegal.
Old saying: "caught together, hanged together."
Japanese stuff too.
> has reached "good enough"

That was said about fullhd and even hd-ready. Fast forward to now and, no, it is not good enough anymore. Same about TN displays, same about 60Hz, same about 300 nits of brightness.

Or as another closer example: awful upload rates were good enough when one only needed consumption, but now with home office work upload is also important
Ah interesting, thanks! On which "virtual resolution" do you set it? Or simply at 2X?
I did a specific training that took me a few months (3 to 5, difficult to remember, I had bought the program online, we are talking 2002), with plenty of negatives included that worked very well. I also had to file down a gripper to make the range of motion larger--the negative rep (which means closing with two hands, and open the hand, that is doing the eccentric part of the movement, slowly) in the "filed down" region was particularly effective.
If you could do 4 reps with a #2 with no specific training, I am confident that with targeted training and progression within a year you will be able to close #3. Worthwhile? I don't know. But closing #3 was as satisfying as getting my black belt in jiu-jitsu.
> We see that if t (end-1) is . then e is written with the character ., as if we were to pass a very large number to the function.

I don't believe this is what's happening at all... e and t are pointers, and they're not being written to, just reassigned.
A previous time this came up, I had the impression that what it really does is extract energy from a temperature difference between the graphene and the load, which is in principle perfectly normal even is it's a new way to arrange the details.

Edit: missed the link to the abstract.

> However, there is power dissipated by the load resistor, and its time average is exactly equal to the power supplied by the thermal bath.

So yeah, extracting power from a thermal bath sounds exactly like capturing energy as it flows down a temperature gradient.
All Perry Mehrling books are also great. The Fischer Black biography is fascinating for anyone who studied a bit of finance.
Running in user space doesn't automatically decouple things; dbus is a user space process, but restarting it is traumatic because half the system uses it.
I'm not sure people realize just how much money Google has thus far sunk into Fuchsia for (AFAICT) very little in return. It was in the billions... years ago.

I don't know if this is still the case but the mission was absolutely to replace Android. Many at Google believe Android to be unsalvageable on two fronts: drivers and the general ecosystem.

It has been pitched internally at various products and (AFAIK) only found traction thus far on Nest hubs. It was heavily pushed for Chromecast but I guess nothing came of that.

I'm not an OS expert by any means but I am unconvinced about the viability of a microkernel architecture beyond theory. Security is an often-cited issue with context switching between user and kernel space.
I think of this rather as "consensus truth" - and far more of reality is consensus truth than we often recognize!