skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's holding PHP back in the sense that because there's so many WordPress installations out there running on old versions of PHP and old versions of WordPress, that _will_ have to update at some point, it means that PHP internal devs need to always consider how any breaking change they make would affect those users.

In general, the WordPress community is _slow_ and plugin authors and users definitely do not keep up at the same pace at the rest of the community using more modern frameworks. They tend to have written worse code in general, which are proportionately more impacted by deprecations and error promotions where the code wasn't using best practices.

The PHP internals maintainers hear complaints from people in the WordPress space saying "whoa you're making too many breaking changes too fast, I can't keep up", meanwhile having the developers of modern frameworks getting impatient, wanting all the new features to save them time in writing new code.

If PHP didn't have all these legacy projects still in use, deprecations/strictness changes could move at a faster pace.
Maybe a Windows update fixed this? My parents are still using Picasa.
It's not attracting rich people, it's attracting addicts.
I’m about halfway through Debt and enjoying it so far, but that Adam Smith line, The Wizard of Oz being weirdly recognized as a Sliver/Gold standard allegory and the history of the creation of IBM were all odd enough to make wonder about the rest of the book.
Yes, Azores. Submarines are not limited to operating in war zones. Sea ice is not required for drilling, it happens on the ocean floor.

There was a Russian navy submarine in the Sea of Japan right before the recent earthquake. Maybe it is something to look into.
On one hand YouTube and rt.com are both websites... on the other hand one is the #1 platform for discovering long form video content on the planet while the other is a website, so it stands to reason that being deplatformed from YouTube is similar to having packets to YouTube get blackholed.
That's...not terribly long for a new OS intended for consumer products? This isn't like ChromeOS or Android where it's building on top of Linux, it's practically all-new, at least as I understand it.

And they actually did ship on one class of Nest devices recently. It's a limited use case, but that's expected for the first product release.
> This is one problem gold bugs seem to gloss over: sure your currency might technically be backed by gold (or whatever) but that's only the case because there's an enforcement mechanism on the humans involved (ie the government). And that government only exists because the people collectively will it. So there's really no difference between this and a fiat currency.

How do they gloss over it? This is like one of the primary grievances most of them seem to talk about -- that currencies which used to be backed by gold are no longer, so clearly there was no supernatural force that was inextricably linking a dollar and an amount of gold. They're openly and explicitly unhappy with the government's change of currency. I don't think I've encountered any who thought that gold backing could transcend the government. Although that being said I'm talking about the traditional Ron Paul style "gold bugs" here -- I haven't really followed the lunatic fringe of crypto culture so maybe that's what you're referring to?
You won't find an alternative that is as good. And it's just a question of the value of your time. As a developer, you should recuperate the costs for Pro in less than an hour. And it saves you weeks that I have had to spend over years of development. I don't know how that calculation can't add up. But to each their own.
wow. although the last time he updated the (singular) username and password was october. i think people could just ask around for it.

still, controversial indeed.

Weirdly, the book itself says:

> Q: May I print this book / use it for teaching?
> A: Of course! That’s why the book is licensed under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0)

So it would be legal for anyone else to host this.
They don’t attract rich people, they attract gamblers. And they are incentivized to convert more people into becoming gamblers.
The average cost of a Google engineer is at least $500k/year. This includes all direct compensation as well as amortized office costs, perks, meals and so on. I have no official figure on this but the average total comp can be well-established from levels.fyi as well as my own experience (disclaimer: Xoogler).

1000 engineers will give you a burn rate of $500m/year. I guarantee you the head count associated with Fuchsia is higher than this, probably much higher.

Again, I have no official information on the current resource allocation but you can figure these things out by, for example, looking at the leadership structure. At a company like Google, certain positions will indicate head counts. An engineering director probably averages ~100 engineers rolled up through 2-3 layers of managers. A VP means 200-500.

Familiarity with how Google staffs projects, how much Fuchsia was staffed while I was still there and the costs innvolved gets you easily into the billions of dollars over 5+ years.
it's also super hard to build a great f2p and i think CSGO easily is the best. they bootstrapped it for almost 2 decades from a mod made by Minh Le to what it is today and I must say it is the only f2p game I regularly play.

simply because it actually pays to play. I've made about $20 bucks this month from just selling cases given out randomly at the end of each match. It cost me nothing to buy yet the in game items (cosmetic skins that don't influence gameplay) regularly sell for good money.

it also make sense to buy the keys to unlock the cases sometimes simply because you might unlock a skin that fetches far more money. so it is a bit like gambling in that aspect.

i'm just constantly amazed how they were able to pull the economics behind this. clearly the ppl who expect a 10~100x ROI on their keys must outnumber those selling the cases. I mean I can imagine a bunch of people just farming cases day and night. Perhaps even a sophisticated AI could pull it off since the in game drops aren't even correlated with your performance.

even more impressive is how this is all legal since it really is gambling of sorts.
Why do you say it will be the end of FOSS? Fuchsia is still released under MIT license at present. If it is successful, another version could be released under GPL and built up as a competitor to the non GPL version.
Also, it's still being sold as a product to the one market where it really was popular (researchers and hobby enthusiasts). That's not quite the same thing as being dead.
Feds allege destructive Russian hackers targeted US oil refineries
I am surprised no one has shared these two important documentary videos on money:

Money as Debt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8
Absorption Refigerator
So if you privatize censorship it ceases to exist?
Isn't fuchsia a microkernel?
The last time the federal government had a surplus was 2001. So it is historically not the plan to pay off debt with taxes: The debt is increasing, not decreasing.

And if I Google "united states per capita debt", I see a box:

According to the last data point published, United States per capita debt in 2020 was 84,850 dollars per inhabitant. In 2019 it was 70,557 dollars, afterwards rising by 14,293 dollars, and if we again check 2010 we can see that then the debt per person was 46,284 dollars.

So, one theoretically could reduce debt with tax payments. But it doesn't appear to be the current or historical plan.
That being preinstalled is important. Note that the author did not switch to a hackintosh.
That does make sense. I stand corrected, thanks!
It is almost like the business models are adjusting to the reality of the world.
With massive inequality, especially in a global market. And an "entitlement" that digital products should be free or dirt cheap.
If you think about it it's sort of a wealth redestribution. One extreme example was that Movie ticket business, that basically paid movie tickets with investor money.
"Seattle is dying" arguments are so tired. Seattle has a lot of whiners who think the place should never change and are thoroughly intolerant of people who don't have a home. They are willfully ignorant that their lifestyle and choices could be exacerbating the problem.
I see from other comments that you don't seem to understand that the commenters here argue that the author himself not only "got the memo" but also the he used the term conscious of the fact what it means to a lot of people in a lot of places.

He deliberately compared the deletion of his stuff by YouTube to people being captured, detained, more often than not tortured and too often killed. He wanted to invoke this image to paint YouTube in as bad a light as possible.

In doing so he not only compared apples to oranges but also showed quite strongly that he is missing empathy and a sense of proportion.

I strongly suggest that he slept in a real bed last night. Ate a good meal. Did not get hurt by prison guards. Wasn't punched in the gut, starved, electro-tortured, got his fingernails ripped out, had to stand on a box with his underpants over his face while wires hung from his hands fearing electrocution. And so on.

I doubt that the victims of being disappeared (nor their families) would see what happened to him and his spinning of the story and say: 'Oh yeah. There is someone who had the same fate as we.'

It actually doesn't matter that you or others did not get the reference. Making this reference is the problem, even if not a single one of his audience would miss it. He intended it and devalued the horrible experiences of real victims to blow his felt victimhood out of proportion and generate more enragement.
I clicked on ~4 links on Wikipedia and ended up with a concept I've never heard of before. The Absorption Refrigerator.

Absorption Refrigerators use heat to directly power their cooling. As you may know, cooling (from air conditioners and/or refrigerators), require power. What's interesting is that a source of heat far above ambient can "power" the cooling cycle, if you line up the fluid-dynamics just right.
You basically need a compiler farm for fuchsia. I tried compiling it once and it took 3 hours, only to find out to need to recompile to add anything
IMO you need to start charging users now to learn the lesson on pricing quickly.

You have a theoretical path to profitability, but as you haven’t yet charged a penny it’s not proven to be viable. I genuinely hope you prove me wrong, and turn on paid subscriptions and it’s a huge success. If it’s not, better to learn that lesson now while you still have a chance to change course.
It didn't "start to be reconstituted" after WWII.

It literally didn't exist in its modern form until the civil rights movement and the liberalization of the Court. The idea that it's "started to degrade again" is ridiculous. We even allow money to be speech now.
> ... i think CSGO easily is the best ...

> ... so it is a bit like gambling ...

I hate what video games have become.
Maybe try "Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It" by David Fleming. Really interesting structure; basically it's, indeed, a "dictionary". Took the author more than 30 years to write (sadly, he passed away before finishing it entirely). Amazing effort, really.

About David Fleming and the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleming_(writer)

Apparently there's also an online version of the whole work: https://leanlogic.online/
The macOS tinkering is like tuning your car engine while trying not to void the warranty, the Linux tinkering is being able to turn your car into a rocket-powered go kart. It's not the same thing.
This is almost exactly the concept behind qubes-os except it uses the xen hypervisor instead of bubblewrap and vms for boxes.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
At its core, this tool doesn't really care about how/where you store your data.

So, one possible way to train a model on ImageNet using this tool could be to:

1. Store the dataset on S3

2. Have the training script download the necessary data from S3 at the beginning (for example, each process could only download the shard of data that it needs, etc.)

3. Use MLbot to run your local training script on AWS as a distributed training job with X number of nodes in your EKS cluster

In this case, when you execute "mlbot run ..." from the command-line, MLbot will package your code into a docker image and then create X number of pods within EKS (where X = the number of training nodes).

Once all of the pods are running, etcd + PyTorch Elastic begin handling all of the communication / synchronization between the various pods & distributed training happens.

So in this example, your code would be transferred to your EKS cluster (where the training would happen) and the training pods would then fetch the ImageNet data from S3.

And most importantly, all of this happens inside of your cloud infrastructure.

Now that I think about it, I think it might be helpful to add an ImageNet-based example to the repo.
That seems an odd statement to make about an operating system that is fully open source.
~all in SPF is a different beast, since -all breaks forwards. There's still an unreasonably large amount of people heavily reliant on forwards, so I'd not go as far as to recommend ~all to people who are not 100% certain of the consequences.
In particular, the level of discourse (and diversity of position on divisive topics) on HN has been trending towards reddit in my opinion.
I was looking for a Linus quote I saw on this but can't seem to find it. It's not specifically about security but Linus said something about translation between user and kernel space was an absolute lower bound on performance and you're simply going to do more of that in a microkernel architecture.

Think about it this way: if the TCP stack is in user space then how does another process talk to it to send a packet? Is it directly? Well that has issues. If it's via the kernel then you're already translating to the kernel and then out to user space.

If this is an issue, will the temptation be to make some performance-related bypasses?

Linus of course favours monolithic kernels [1] so consider that a disclaimer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
delivering your service/app via kubernetes is slowly becoming the standard way, just like an universal binary format. so as a developer you should build towards delivery for kubernetes.
but you are certainly right that one should avoid running your own kubernetes infrastructure - at least until you can afford the accompanying expenses
I'd really rather use something that respects my privacy.
Works fine for me, and SSL Labs shows a pretty reasonable configuration (TLS 1.2 and 1.3 available).

Perhaps your browser is out of date / is only configured to support TLS 1.1 or lower?
Agreed - it looks like the author misread the code. That said, the actual exploit presented later doesn't rely on this.
I don't mind CSGO's flavor since it doesn't cost you money like poker but I can absolutely see somebody trying to buy multiple keys in hopes of unlocking a really good skin.

again this doesn't impact the gameplay at all and I'm happy to earn some money. was able to buy another title on steam with the money accrued
I wonder what TV shows and movies Apple isn't making: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-ch.... The dark matter of their offerings, if you will.
AIUI?
For me, the big ones are version control and command-line or some other kind of declarative generation.
Right. I'm being a bit less ambitious here: I've recommended fedora to plenty of (non-tech) people around me, and fedora presumably already has all the necessary tools to add such a simple “workspace manager” without much disruption. It would provide an easy intuitive step-up in terms of security, starting from something people already know.
Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies
I was talking about skeletons generally because the commenter to which I replied said they’d never heard the term before.
That's the problem with big picture thinking. You are right, in the grand scheme of things it is better. But as a consumer it sucks. Which repo? Now I have to maintain repos alongside apps? Why can't the app take care of its own compatibility and upgrade needs? Why am I involved? I just want to use the damn thing without interruption.

On mac, I don't use their appstore, I just get dmg images and get going. Same on windows. On linux, I try to stick to the package manager but man! The moment I touch python I regret not using venv and avoiding any interaction with the system's python almost every time. Or if a distro package lacks some feature because of distro decisions which should have been install time decisions and now I have to build from source and figure out aclocal dev packages,deps,ugh...I accept the pain, part of then package but I won't pretend it feels good.
right im just worried if i pay to use this im locked to python 3.6

it would be perfect if you could solve this issue as this is what is blocking me from purchasing it.
> people engage with many more devices on a day to day basis

Do they actually? I'm guessing most people in the world have one smartphone, followed by those who have a laptop to match it.

I would be careful to say that most people have more than one device though, which means a vast number see no consistency at all.
What about CloudFlare ? Does this bring to question their decision to use V8 ?
It's actually a bit worse than open core, in that the closed source version of the program works with versions of Python that have not been end-of-lifed [1] but the open source version of the program does not [2]. Because of that I'm not comfortable calling this open-anything.

This is a closed-source program that used to have a open-source version, which is now abandonware.

[1] https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#end-of-life-branches

[2] https://build-system.fman.io/manual/#requirements
The megawhale point is a bit overmade. F2p games have vastly different payer distributions by genre, platform, business model, monetization strategy and other factors.

Addictiveness and addiction are issues with and around gaming, for sure. But the reliance of f2p games on entranced, pixel-charmed addicts is also overstated. A good number of free to play games have lifespans measured in decades, they can function like a highly social, off-and-on hobby. People are willing to spend $20 to go to the movies a few times per year. How’s it different to spend that on a game you get hundreds of hours of entertainment from?
Facts are copyrightable in bulk.

For instance, if I collate all the horse race results of the 19th Century into a single book, I could copyright it.
No but we must recognise Graeber for bringing this idea into the mainstream
Don't we have these exact types of sanctions already in place i. NK for exactly the reasons you mention?
Even during the pandemic their were active protests from companies against higher standards of ventilation where I live, even though the ventilation is already inadequate. Good ventilation would prevent lock downs. An article on this in the NYT by an expert rated that most ventilation is only 3-4 on a scale of ten. 7-8 would prevent a lot of transmission.
When did you last use Linux? Because hardware acceleration has been working and default in Firefox for a while, except on NVIDIA, and video acceleration (not required for Google Maps) needed manual tweaking the Firefox config but has been available as well for a while.

The Linux desktop moves at incredible pace. The experience I had 2 years ago was more crude than my desktop in 2022.
> Are you surprised when you can’t resell a shirt you wore for a year at the same price as when you bought it?

No, because the market for second-hand clothing is extremely oversaturated and clothing, particularly "fast fashion", simply does not last long enough to live a useful second life any more.

A video game skin however does not degrade, it will look the very same (or better) even in two decades.
My experience with QNX is quite limited, but the OS is very general. There is a desktop GUI that is powerful enough to serve as part of self hosted software development environment. Generally, the tradeoffs are made to keep the core microkernel small and to give the system reliable guaranteed response times rather than raw performance because it is intended for hard real-time environments.
The author expects too much for $20 per few years.
It's a business model that works off of whales. It's predatory and exploits the same people that gambling does.
> events that both hit closer to home to Americans

Well maybe something else would hit closer to home, like ferrying off supposed terrorists to Gitmo without due process or other secret prisons in quite a few countries should come to mind.

I believe that to be intentioned by the author.

The term "disappearing people" was used for describing the US practices outside the US to describe these practices. And the author for sure knew this.

Still doesn't make the use of the term by the author any better in my book.

But given his agenda I would actually think he intended to associate himself with these cases as much as with the victims of other governments to show once more how bad the US is from his view and to his intended audience/bubble.

I don't want to discuss the actual practices of the US and other governments. Nor compare them. This thread isn't the place for that. Just that the author intentionally conjured these images.
Funny enough JavaScript now has BigInt, which is purely integer:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> custom installers or packages for distros

Heard of Flathub?
Less so illegitimacy but simply showing that you're a member of the underworld. Even if you stole the coin, you still know it's tender.
on the other other hand, one is sponsored by a government that maintains the world's largest strategic nuclear arsenal, and the other is a publicly traded company.

Seriously though - Russia banned Youtube throughout the country. Youtube banned a channel. America banned nothing. How is removing a channel from your own website even remotely similar to blackholing packets on a national network?
You've misunderstood my point.

You're saying gold bugs complain that the currency is no longer backed by gold. As an aside, the US dollar has never been 100% gold-backed in its history. Ever. Not once. Anyway, my point is that even if it was gold-backed (even to 100%) there is still trust required that that's actually the case and you're reliant on the government to actually enforce that.

My point is that a gold-backed currency is no better than a fiat currency because you're still reliant on a government and collective delusion either way.
That's a good point, it all adds up. Small inconveniences multiply over time.

Even windows vs mac, a mac with less resources than windows performs much better for me and I am so much more productive. On windows everything lags, crashes, freezes when monitors are plugged in, hardware changes, wakes up from sleep and it is horrible at the amount of disk i/o it uses. I constantly have to reboot it else it falls apart. I could go months without rebooting a mac.
Writing grammars presents an interesting set of challenges, especially dealing with ambiguity and precedence as you mention. I find that the `tree-sitter playground` command is convenient for interactively trying out different possibilities. There's also a debug flag "-D" for `tree-sitter parse` which gives detailed information about the shift/reduce points in the parser state and different branches it parsed simultaneously (because it's a GLR parser).
Huh? It’s widely said that microkernels trade performance for security. You seemed earlier to be saying that running core functionality in userspace implies a degradation in security. Typo?