skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sid Meier’s Colonization: Is it offensive enough?
I'm assuming this is a positive statement, not a normative one.

I love how this undermines the basic functioning of the market via supply/demand. If demand is artificially restricted by taking money out of the pockets of consumers, how is "what to produce" decided? I think increasingly that decision is pseudo-centralized in VCs and other large investors who decide what businesses to fund.
Oh, thanks for this. I did look for a tutorial about implementing a minimally functional Matrix server like there are for ActivityPub[1][2], but didn't find any.

[1] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-bas...

[2] https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/how-to-make-friends-an...
Someone will always be running an IRC server, so it will never completely die.
I know about citizens united and I disagree with it, but from what I understand it is not beyond challenge as in the court has changed a bit since then and a challenge by Disney in this case is the only thing short of a constitutional amendment that will resolve the debacle. The law as it is written does not support the citizens united decision, it is judicial law making at best.

> Congress shall make no law...or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ...

The Citizens united ruling stipulates to wrong things, first that spending money is speech (it is most certainly not!) and that this speech was restricted, it was not, individuals have every freedom to make election contributions, their freedom to make the supposed speech was not abridged. A regulated entity that is not a person was ... well regulated.

The supreme court lacks the authority to declare arbitrary things a person. Are dogs people too? Is restricting them from barking abridging their freedom of speech? Does congress have a right to pass a law requiring dog owners to take measures to keep their dogs from barking loud in public?

It also introduces an unresolvable conflict in that organized religion can influence politics because spending is speech and religious corporations are supposedly people with rights to make donations as they see fit. Congress can't pass a law that establishes or favors a specific religion yet congress can accept campaign donations by the wealthiest religious organizations (not humans) that donate funds to favor candidates that back their religious views, so is congress passing laws favoring a specific religion an excercise of freedom speech and voting rights by corporations that have the same rights as people? We are not required to accept laws that are illogical.
The reason this approach lost to dynamic rendering is the absence of any sort of logic that would rebuild _only_ updated pages.

The job of many, many web sites is to make it easy for people to add content to them. When adding something takes many minutes, the web site is doing its job poorly.

Things are around today that are fast and that even offer the logic I refer to above, but the ship has sailed. We largely live in a world of cached pages that are changed via a complicated database-driven CMS.
I feel like I remember it being pretty easy to cancel Prime, though. Have things changed?
This is fascinating and I'd love to hear more about it. I generally despise heavy handed moderation as it changes the feel of a community from "a bunch of people talking about X" to "a group of power-mad narcissists and their groupies". Do you see ways of seeding forums that are effective? What kind of moderation do you have (I noticed that LGSS has moderators) - is it just "remove spam and illegal stuff"? Do you have rules for the forums? How often does a long-running forum suddenly, or not so suddenly, go bad? One of my lifelong "addictions" is tabletop RPGs, but the choice of forums just kinda is poor, mostly because of moderation, and so I always have in the back of my mind starting a new one, but I'm always concerned about the moderation effort, so the concept that you can take a different "moderation-free" path is tantalizing!
As I understand it, it's actually the torsion of the spring that transmits the signal. If the input and output aren't marked, the input coil typically has much lower impedance.

Note: This is from repairing guitar amps when I was a teenager. The reverb unit had to be rugged and portable, probably dictating some aspects of the design.
Why so obscure?
I am not "an account", I am very much a real person, living in Europe.

Disinformation, american "бдительный гражданин" (do look up the meaning, it might widen your horizons), is to speak of "genocide" perpetrated by russians in Ukraine.
I remember a thread a bit back about how violent the ejection process is and most of the time it results in serious injury. Very lucky for the old guy (and pilot) to remain relatively unscathed
This is a response to the illusion that we know there's a better alternative to capitalism
It's a LOT more complicated than that. But suffice it to say it's no picnic being married to a giant.
From New York’s ‘number-one bird killer’ to wildlife haven
Except the circle rule doesn't really help unless you know when to skip stuff because you're not done on the other side. The right-left rule instead is precise and correct.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5080081 and https://web.archive.org/web/20190714064656/http://cseweb.ucs...
VCR Virus Fake VHS Copy-Protection Warning Label (2016)
Depending on whether it was the "Boom Corbett 14" or "Boom Corbett 14-EX", it had either a 2.3KWh or 4.6KWh battery. That's a lot of hazardous material in your living room either way. Probably 25-50lbs (11-22 kilos) of it?
Doxxing Means Whatever You Want It To
> Mind you this is roughly about the same time that mainstream global media were trying to push the whole "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit.

This scapegoat has no credibility. At the same time all countries submitted to a bailout program (Portugal, Ireland, and also Spain and Italy) were actually recovering, and only Varoufakis's Greece insisted on purposely sabotaging their recovery process.

We're talking about the same mastermind who thought it was a good idea to at the same time demand free money from Germany while throwing around references to Nazi Germany.
Just admit it, you kept losing your information.
> It also uses ramdisk on WSL or for those who use hard-drives for builds.

Yeah, I skipped over this, considering that most people doing rust dev will likely have some kind of SSD.

I didn't look into how you went about doing this, but one thing that I'd like is to be able to move the target/ directory on a ram disk, or, generally, out of the source root [0]. If Fleet were able to do this transparently, it would be really great.

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[0] I know it's possible to define an external directory, but it applies to all projects, and it's not what I want, because shared crates would go overwrite each other.
We have just barely exorcised our "demon-haunted world" and now we rush to make artificial demons (e.g. "Siri", "Alexa", or "Cortana", etc.)

I feel like people should watch "Demon Seed" and "Maximum Overdrive". Yeah they are just fictional horror movies, but I feel like we need to think about failure modes before we wire ourselves into this new "daemon-haunted" world irrevocably.

Ambient computing seems to mean that our kids will grow up in a kind of cartoon reality. I actually have a concern that people will have a hard time developing proper intuitions about the "real" world. (Like when little kids try to swipe on TVs. That's pretty innocent and even amusing.)
any ideas on integrating with sql optimizers?
Is it intelligence or is it also empathy?
Nearly anything sounds beautiful when it’s spectrally smoothed and lengthened 50x by Paulstretch, including the most irritating pop song you can name off the top of your head.

http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
I was just about to ask the same thing…
The other answers all cover the prep, but the other key part here is you just don't run like this for very long. You run in like 1 hour bursts, and let everything dry out (and warm back up) between runs. So you're just not giving condensation enough time to build up enough to cause shorts in the areas that are not fully sealed off, or at least that's what you're banking on.
OK, so ... which courts of which legal jurisdictions can correct which contracts? Are courts in Guinea-Bissau allowed to correct contracts between counterparties in the US?
No, the reason governments can do this is because people trust their IOUs. That’s why they can do the same thing with or without any underlying asset with any characteristics.

The characteristics of the underlying asset would probably modulate the degree of trust people can put in a government’s IOUs, but considering e.g. the extent of people’s trust in the US (with no underlying), I think it’s fair to say if Bitcoin became this currency, governments would have no problem issuing IOUs for it that people would trust.
Interesting to see they fused off the avx512 set. You just can't run that kind of code on these.

That jives with my experience with the 10?00K series in the Intel extreme compute element. I can glide cool at 3.5ghz x8 and get some thermal throttling up to 4.5x8, except when running avx512 workloads. Then it's much hotter.
Yeah. This wasn't an intentional thing by the community. The "sudden change" was due to the acquisition of Jabber Inc. by Cisco, which included the "Jabber" trademark. There is a trademark agreement with XMPP Standards Foundation to allow open-source projects to apply to use "Jabber" as part of their name. However, unsurprisingly, the community around the protocol rallied around "XMPP" as the safer term, while Cisco moved forward with their "Jabber" product.

I think it has taken too long for the community to realise what an asset a good brand can be, and that it's hard to rally normal users around a protocol and an ecosystem rather than a product. I think that's growing to change though, with a number of user-focused projects around the ecosystem (including Snikket, the one I'm working on).
What do you think needs more energy: several systems (2, with some intermediaries) that talk to each other, one decrementing a number in a bank account, and another incrementing a number in another bank account, vs. thousands of systems that compete with each other trying to find some hash the fastest by guessing?

Both need to talk to each other over the network, but in the second, it's thousands of systems needing to synchronize the information.

What a stupid lie you're telling yourself to justify that "this is fine!".
My wife and I were feeling cooped up from Covid so we started a new hobby - storage auctions. We buy abandoned storage units at auction, sell the things, keep (very very rarely) any upgrades or things we want, and move to the next.

Its still a hobby, but we are now optimizing for cash / time spent / ease of flip so I think its at the cusp of moving away from hobby.
I’m excited to see this! Given that sccache integrates with cloud storage, this looks fairly straightforward to integrate in a CI/CD workflow, did I get that right?
If by rational you mean neo-liberal and that this policy crushed the weaken economy of Greece and created a decade of poverty for the people then yes he was forced out to put "rational" policies in place.
The inflatable dummy tanks of battlefields, 1918-1945
Bill Maher had an insightful take on China and the US.

https://youtu.be/2DH4v6FnbvM

“China is as serious as a prison fight.”
Army to Test Its Biggest Interactive Drone Swarm Ever over Utah
You have to understand that tech people possess no qualifications to see the abstract value crypto brings. “Bitcoin is just public key cryptography and hashing, it’s not that clever!”

Crypto is a technology, but the innovation innate in it is economic in nature, not technical. This misconception leads to a whole cohort of tech people who knew about Bitcoin, never bought, and now have to rationalize as those less technically literate than them are more and more starting to believe and starting to profit.

They should not have this expectation to understand crypto, anymore than an economist should be expected to understand what makes online banking secure, but everyone (including themselves) puts that expectation on them, causing them to rationalize by claiming that crypto is all a scam and completely useless. The more they try and understand it technically, the less they see what’s important.
This is a problem I have with a lot of modern technology, I feel like we risk losing touch with ourselves.

The example you give is exactly what I'm talking about: You already know which direction you're facing, if you take the time to learn how to notice your own internal information. You already have magnetic sensors in your head.

(E.g. https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-for-a-human-magneti... )

I've found that it's relatively easy to develop one's capabilities to be able to do things like: always know what time it is, always know where you are and your orientation, remember things, etc.

I think it would be a shame to replace human faculties with machines, like using a wheelchair even though your legs work fine and then after awhile your legs atrophy and are no longer fine, y'know? I worry that we are doing that to our brains.
This could happen by public consensus if it's widely agreed (for instance) that certain coins are tainted by their use for some atrocious thing. Your coins could be cancelled.
First the birthday thing and now this.

Next up is some company that makes someone fight a bear when they retire.
He said Bitcoin is not good at the macro-level, where it has catastrophic effects for society at large. That's quite a long way from "good for the invidivuals, but not for the governments".
The author mentions bike repair as a hobby, and the issue with trying to turn that into a monetized hobby will quickly become apparent once you talk to some experienced full-time bike mechanics. As a hobbyist your scope is almost always rather narrow, i.e. you may know all about how to repair your particular model of bicycle, and perhaps a few others. In contrast a professional will deal with dozens of models and will also know who to contact for specialty jobs (some of the early suspension bicycles, for example, require highly specialized tools that only a few mechanics own and which are no longer produced).

It is sometimes possible that a hobbyist can find an entry point to the professional world. Building wheels is something I've recently been learning, but there are a lot of people who've been doing that for over a decade and they can probably build a wheel in 1/10th the time it would take me. Given the supply chain backups and the scarcity of bike parts today, however, there might be a little niche there.

Point being, the leap from hobbyist to professional in any area can be a lot larger than it appears at first glance.
Our main goal building fleet was to make it really easy to have an optimized CI/CD pipeline and local development process for faster builds.

Our go-to linker was actually mold until we realized that their license is not compatible with ours.

We also use shared-generics to try to speed up builds, along with the ramdisk that I previously mentioned.
Remember when Xbox let you sign up for Live online, but you had to do a 3 hour interrogation on the phone to cancel? And calls would cost like 25 cents a minute or something crazy.

Or the auto renewing subscriptions that either cancel your service immediately the second you turn off auto renew, even if you paid for the current time allotment, or they just prevent or ignore your request to not renew.

I feel like reverse charging didn’t exist back then.

There’s also entitled devs that say your email domain or VOIP number isn’t good enough when signing up for their service. There’s no reason for anybody to use an email from their perfect in test whitelist of gmail or Microsoft domains… And why would anybody ever have a voip number unless they were a terrorist?
My main TV (1080p) is run by an older Asrock N3700 board. There are options up and down the price spectrum, including old/repurposed hardware. It really depends on the resolution you want, and the codecs built into the GPU. But a general purpose computer is definitely the most flexible solution.
As battery tech improves, by definition we are going to reach ever increasing energy densities, ideally on the order of magnitde of hydrocarbons'.

Moreover, people will want for devices to charge fast. This implies a lot of waste heath, which negatively impacts energy efficiency and requires smart electronics to keep temperatures under control (I suspect this second aspect is what failed in this case).

However, once we get to high densities, we'll have to consider safety seriously: who would want to sleep close to all that energy stored in a small space, with zero activation energy to protect from a runaway?
>The more insidious problem that regular people come up against every day is devices that depend on cloud access.

That idea doesn't hold up in reality. Open source projects with open protocols allow users to host the server side tools at home. The fly by night behaviors you're describing are almost unique to closed source, proprietary solutions such as this home automation system, which is now bricked.

>Perhaps some sort of requirement to escrow cloud algorithms or whatever it would take to open source protocols.

Open protocols are not enough. That doesn't address the security problems that arise from unpatched firmware. Whether it's the OEM deciding to pull support or some 14 year old poking around stuff he doesn't own, or some kind of 2038 time bug, the result is the same. You can wind up with a brick at any time.

This all will continue until consumers grow a brain.
I don't think people should be forced into the public square by law. If you want to live in an echo chamber, you should be able to. We don't forcibly close convents. If I want to choose the "Smart Feed™, although I can choose not to, that should be my choice to make.

I don't know TikTok, but people seem to like its choices.
Keenan Crane simply makes the most beautiful papers out there
This is exactly what we do, move the target/ directory on a ramdisk.
You sat there waiting to copy and paste this comment weren’t you?
Go solves 99% of the problem quite nicely. You don't often deref pointers in Go, because of auto-addressing. E.g. there's no arrow operator as in C, the dot derefs when necessary.

I would say `v := (p.)` could've been the deref operator, but what do I know.
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A Drop in the Ocean
AutoPTT – Automatic Push-to-Talk
> JSON has no namespaces

Causing all extensible JSON-based protocols to eventually reinvent them:

* https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#compact-iris

* "If new events are added, the event type key SHOULD follow the Java package naming convention, e.g. com.example.myapp.event." https://spec.matrix.org/v1.2/client-server-api/#types-of-roo...

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-22... (no aliases, so it's even more verbose)

* https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/1362#iss...
Hello HN, author here.

I wrote a command line version of this app several years ago but it was only recently that I decided to make a more user-friendly version when a friend grumbled about how the priority speaker function in Discord would be really useful if it supported voice activation. So I said I could probably help with that, and a few weekends later, this was the result.

It's written in C11 with just a sprinkle of C++. The UI uses Nuklear [1] with a DirectX 11 renderer.

[1] https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
Yep, we also made sure that we include examples so that you can easily use this with github workflows, it configures & caches all the installed apps so that you would get really fast builds . https://fleet.rs/docs/ci/linux
Ask HN: Cheaper Algolia Alternative?
Been using Algolia in our small bootstrapped application and it’s costing us $600/m for basic search. Any cheaper alternatives out there?
The unix utility probably predates the Microsoft C compiler.
> He was fired [...]

He resigned and for good reason and he proved to be correct in all his assessments. You clearly don't know what you're talking about, at least get your facts straight.
is it rude to post the TL;DR?

>And that’s why I stopped working on the black hole information loss paradox. Not because it’s unsolvable. But because you can’t solve this problem with mathematics alone, and experiments are not possible, not now and probably not in the next 10000 years.
> The choice is between a family in the Philippines facing severe hunger during the lockdown, and that family being able to sell virtual goods to wealthier people in the developed world, to put food on the table.

The answer to capitalism's problems is more capitalism? We are just no doing it hard enough?

Why is the family is the Philippines facing severe hunger in the first place? Capitalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wax7wyWwnAU

You know the same Filipinos have been fighting capitalism for the longest any people have ever fought it?

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3027414/expl...

I do not have an answer for any of this, but I know it is not crypto. If you think money can can save people you know nothing about money or people.
Yes, there really needs to be some form of certification for lithium-ion (and other...) batteries used in personal transportation devices.

The recipe is really simple: insufficient structural integrity of the entire product leading to flexing the battery pack, leading to a short-circuit in one or more cells, leading to a violent-and-very-smokey fire.

The previous scare was with "hoverboards", where kids burnt down their parents' houses after bumping into something. And now it's apparently e-scooters, which are a bit more difficult to dismiss as "just a fad toy"...

In any case: safety markings are not just rent-seeking behavior. In some cases, certification (and subsequent enforcement of the presence of authentic markings) are literal life-savers.
It doesn't have to be widely agreed to be painful.

Like say the US government accepted some coin for tax payments but tainted some of them. Lots of people wouldn't want the tainted coins if they couldn't use them for a payment like that.

(taxes are just one example, say a payment processor did the same thing, or whatever)
Should have “(2000)” in there title.
nice ones, thanks
I used to argue against this line of thinking, but as time progressed, I have become progressively more jaded and cynical. I wonder if I am effectively becoming what I previously fought against ('think of the children' line of argumentation), but as time have shown time and time again, it simply works and I am kinda done letting technical illiterates dictate my life.

Maybe we don't have to lower ourselves to exactly that argument, but surely there are other popular takes.
The organ used looks pretty new, how did they do that without interrupting the continuous playing?
Do all black holes with the same mass and other 'hairless' parameters (momentum, etc) have the same temp and therefore radiation emissions? If so, can we remotely measure mass from this?
No, it's not trivial to make extremely long time-based pieces on the web.

Because you have to keep the computer running continuously. That turns out to be extremely difficult.

So there is no spectacle, here.

Part of the magic of Cage's piece, in this incarnation, is that someone actually built the special organ, in a suitable space that might plausibly remain undisturbed for several centuries. It requires some maintenance and some care and feeding, of course, but not much. So one doesn't have to suspend disbelief too much, here—this performance may actually occur as planned. It's been going for over 20 years so far, after all.
> intelligence distribution skews more male at the higher end
The kids in the UK weren't vaccinated, at all. So that essentially rules out the vaccine as a cause.