skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The people who are a party to shared source licenses, have access to the source"

> So do the employees of the original vendor. So what? How does that matter at all? It means nothing and has no bearing on this topic.

The title of this topic begins with: "EULAs Aren't Inherently Evil"

My point is that, FOSS only provides benefits to users who care about modifying or redistributing that software. Not everyone does. Giving my mother the right to modify and redistribute software does not provide any tangible benefit to her, because she will never do that.

For the many institutional users who take advantage of shared-source licenses, they also have no desire to redistribute or change the software, they simply want to audit it. They are not being prevented from doing anything that they wanted to do.

What evil is done to a user when you take away a right to do something they had no desire to do? And for that matter, why is taking away people's tort rights something that is assumed to be good for users?

I personally appreciate and contribute to FOSS, but the idea that it protects the rights of anyone other than developers specifically is myopic.

Just like proprietary licenses restrict the rights of users, so do almost all FOSS licenses -- just in different ways. The difference is not that one protects your rights and the other one doesn't, the difference is in which rights they choose to protect.
Nice talk! This seems like it could be an interesting tool model real phenomena. Have you considered if you can invert this to derive which constraints and energy function best match a particular sample? Say, take a video of cars entering and exiting a highway ramp, what constraints and energy functions best model the paths taken? This could be individual as well, for example a particular car may be driven "aggressively" according to humans, if you derived the constraints this way could you reliably predict humans' scoring?
Yes I agree, the writing is superb. I found out about it from Alan Kay, and so far every book Kay has recommended has been really good (you can find his reading lists easily online).
> the spacecraft couldn't simply receive and retransmit the signal, because the Doppler shift from the upwards journey would be lost.

How is that true? Isn't "simply receiving and retransmitting" the signal just the same as a reflective surface, which works just fine for Doppler relative speed measurements? (I'm ignoring the retransmission increasing the signal strength over a simple reflection.)

My guess would be that the frequency difference makes it easier to detect the faint return signal over the strong transmitted signal.
Chicago town tacks on “amusement tax” for streaming services
> It's rich for the EU to regulate dark patterns when their own laws is the reason they're so rampant on the web today.

No. The law is not the reason. Companies that knowingly and willingly break it are.

Those annoying popups? The vast majority of them are illegal under GDPR, which parasites like IAB are very well aware of: https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europe...

Edit: changed article URL
As someone who has no idea what happens on TikTok,
this article was confusing.
> rather than risk-pooling and restitution to landlords when such harms do occur?

How would this work? Would it be some kind of tenant paid for insurance for compensating landlords?
"coherency of what they’re saying"

Bollocks - spelling and grammar are both rubbish.
Looks good!

It would be nice if there wasn't an early exit when a matching directory is found in `def.config`. That way you could have multiple matches for a directory, and it would make simple stacking work for subdirectories too. The current behaviour makes subdirectory matches odd insofar as the behaviour is dependent on the order of entries in `def.config`.

A couple of minor notes in the spirit of helpful commentary:

• You're creating a global `line` variable while reading the config, using `setopt warn_create_global` is a great built-in feature to highlight these during development.

• You can perform tilde expansion with `${~var}` instead of needing to run sed(see GLOB_SUBST in the zsh docs). This would also make zsh's named directory support work in the config.

• There are shell constructs to remove the need for cut too: First word `${line%% *}`, other words `${line#* }`.
Elsewhere in this thread people were talking about imagined sounds or music, and a specific impairment in their ability to hear music in their heads. An anecdote: I'm in the middle of learning the bass part for a piece of music. Having listened to it enough I can imagine the sound enough to "hear" the notes, fret noises, pluck and slap sounds. Altogether it's a very high-fidelity simulation. I was practicing right up until, for apparently no reason at all, the song falls out of my short-term memory. Completely gone - can't even remember its name - but I could still work the fingerboard just fine. The muscle memory and intuition of how to play "that song" are still there, and my hands continue to play it almost as well as before.

People use terms like "brain fart" to describe a sudden absence of something from conscious memory, especially when the expected information returns a short while later. In my music example there was nothing unusually wrong with my brain, since the memories returned a few tens of seconds later. In trying to relate the subjective experience of that gap, I would use exactly the same kind of language people do when describing aphantasia.

I strongly suspect what's going on in these cases isn't that the simulation hardware isn't working - but that it's not wired up to a chunk of meat that does working memory. The existence of things like brain farts make me wonder if connections between key areas of the brain have a counter-intuitively high number of single-point failures.
Would it be possible to frontrun the hacker's transaction by quickly broadcasting an extremely high fee transaction from the bait address? They would not only reveal their intrusion, but they'd actually lose money, and some of the bait could be recovered
Sorry I didn’t read the article. I plaid guilty. I have this feeling because of how she comes across on YouTube content, which might not be representative of her work.
Bzzt. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:72...
Ah, but the GOP-run state doesn’t like new taxes. The state doesn’t collect income tax and largely relies on taxing the tourists. Between state tax and county hotel tax, locals are already getting a ~20% cut.

The state is already reeling from losing ~6% of its annual revenue from 2020 and the state keeps growing.

At what point does the third-largest state need to implement state income tax to keep quality of life from becoming third-world? It’s a political third rail.
Are flamboyant homosexual men also caricatures and not “really” homosexuals?

It sounds like you haven’t spent enough time with enough LGBT people
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
Even expungement won’t save you, once it’s in a 3rd party database-absent laws that make screwing up here really expensive for the company providing the wrong information.

It’s one thing to screen people, but you have to have your data in order. Doing that well is not a free thing, but we probably need it. “Let me into your bank account”, on the other hand, is just going to result in lol-kthx-bye.

If we had a reasonable attestation framework, we could do something like let the bank attest that, say, “applicant has direct deposited income equal or greater to 3x rent per month” or the like, maybe?
> LineageOS is the most private.

It was up until they took away the ability to fake app permissions.
Windows may be the most commonly used OS, but nevertheless it is just one OS among many and the others have worse backwards compatibility… most considerably so.
It’s much, much better than it used to be at least (depending on where you live + NBN technology choice of course). And yet still completely hamstrung by the mess the current government made of the original NBN plan.

If you live in an area that can get HFC, FTTP, FTTN etc. it’s possible these days to get a pretty consistent 1000/50 for $150/month. Those fibre services are pretty stable in my experience, definitely a million times better than the old broadband which as you put got destroyed by bad weather and distance from the exchange.
It remains a fact that operating a coal plant costs substantially more than getting the same power from wind.

So, continued operation of coal plants depends on uneconomic behavior, typically via cultural inertia or domination by entrenched interests. Of course that is always possible, but it is disfavored.
I use sdf.org. There is a chat system that covers the same kinds of things that irc covers. It is less chaotic than irc, and definitely has old fashioned vibes (it even has a lot of gopher!).

Nntp is still an ugly mess though. More spam than I've ever seen before.
Ah: I read further. I believe you meant that it couldn't just send the signal back at a fixed frequency; the frequency had to be based on the incoming frequency.
If they do Apple can just reject the update. For better or worse this also amounts to a re-review every couple years.
These are just more proprietary apps. I think you mean cross-platform.
I think other commentators made some excellent points about ensuring the receiver is interested in the advice. And you should probably do that.

But in situations where I want to give unsolicited advice I either ask if they’d like some unsolicited advice and respect their response. Or I offer the advice as a story about myself instead of an instruction/order.

For example instead of telling a friend what they are saying is too aggressive I might talk about a time I said something that was a little aggressive and misunderstood and the problems it caused me. So they have the opportunity to learn from my experience without me forcing it on them.
code is already hobbyist level.

it rarely escaped the mid-low quality level since it became a mass produced product.
The sandbox does you no good if you can't confirm that the software running inside it isn't adversarial. It's a catch-22.
They think that's bad, wait until they start their own business!
According to antitrust law, it is illegal for a monopoly to do things that are perfectly fine for normal companies to do.

For example, it is not legal to use dominance in one thing as leverage to achieve dominance in another thing.

Microsoft used their monopoly (> 70% market share) in OS to go for a monopoly in many other things, includind web browser.

We are still living with the aftremath of this today, as the software ecosystem is much more constrained than it aught to be.

Back then, the FTC actually did things about monopolists breaking the law, so they set MS back on their heels.

And MS employed many anti-competitive practices to beat the competition. Things like buying their way onto the boards of banks, which happened to hold loans for their competitors. And then calling the notes or cancelling lines of credit.
Netflix is finally going after password sharing. Here’s how it’s likely to work
I'm an aphant and I have an inner monologue
My guess is if they paid for Macrovision, they would have proudly used the Macrovision logo. They were trying to get off cheap!
> I suspect you're living in a fairly small country, though

if you consider Italy a fairy small country, yes, I am living in a fairy small country.
That's ridiculous.

The fact Snaps are automatically updated in the background, and users have to resort to half-assed workarounds[1], should be an absolute deal breaker for server use, where you want total control over when and if packages should be updated.

[1]: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
We're living in a novel environment. Being unable to imagine the juxtaposition of rocks which would shield your turned back from view of the sabertooth tiger, for example, could have very different outcomes depending on which side of the last ice age you were born into.

edit: Also consider "impaired" vs "less fit". The absence of the trait might not be actively harmful to the individual, and yet enhance reproductive success of those who have it. Not having it among a population who do is a kind of cost.
The terrible physics of Julia Donaldson
> 1, 2, and 3 are actually all Apple policies.

I basically said that.

You echo the way I distinguished things: #2 and #3 are limitations on what Apple chooses to support (for somewhat reasonable technical reasons). I suppose you could call them "technical policy". #1 is a deliberate marketing choice to leverage the App Store to make developers improve support for new devices.
I hope everyone is maxing yearly I bond purchases ATM.
Few people go to the trouble of installing new images on any device they own. Android is quite the exception, not the rule.
> Not sure if others are the sameway, but the downside to this is that I have nearly zero spatial-imagery skills. You know the tests where they show you a 3D shape, and ask you which possible rotation is still the same shape? Or the one where they ask you to show what shapes would look like, if folded up from laid out pieces of paper? My mind just goes blank:

Yes. If I ever had to do this for an interview, I am failing. I try to rotate my hand in a similar fashion you might have done if you've ever done physics magnetism calculations.
Not all that difficult for a ground deployment to know where they are without GPS. You know (generally) where you started, what direction you’re headed, and how fast you’re going. Maps exist, and cartography is still taught. Not to mention things like astral analysis.

Much harder to generate power from nothing in the middle of nowhere.
I tried this compiler out back in the day and found the benefits, at least with the AppleSoft programs I had access to (mostly MECC titles) were fairly negligible. What rarely popped up, however, were show-stopper errors — programs would compile & run. That was nice.
I'll nention it for completeness sake: another possible solution, albeit a bit cumbersome, would be to get a regular contract-free plan but suspend it for the period you don't need it.

A cursory search indicates that both Orange and Bouygues (as well as their contract-free offshoots, Sosh and B&YOU respectively) still offer this as a paid option at 5€ and 7€ per month respectively.

This means you could get the plan appropriate for your needs, then suspend it (for at most 6 month per year it seems) and only reactivate it when you need it.

However since this procedure requires getting in touch with customer service, it should be reserved for people well versed in French :-)

Edit: adding links (all in French)

https://www.echosdunet.net/dossiers/suspendre-ligne#suspensi...

https://assistance.sosh.fr/faq/308268

https://www.assistance.bouyguestelecom.fr/s/article/suspensi...
But PDF (or maybe PDF/X) is just as good nowadays?
Thanks. The polls are ancient (1980's; most bow 10-20 degress under the tension of the existing tensioning cables.)

This street got sold off to a bankrupt telco (from what I can tell, their business model is to buy up unprofitable lines, then periodically file for bankruptcy).

There are a few local fiber providers. Maybe I could call and see what it would take to convince them to build out. (There is definitely demand here.)

Alternatively AT&T (who is not our local telco) keeps spamming us to get a business fiber to the home connection. They make it clear they'll ban customers that appear to be using it for residential traffic, but I think that sort of traffic discrimination falls afoul of California's network neutrality laws. Has anyone tried calling their bluff on that?
Old binaries are also built against old versions of the SDK and as a result get left behind when the OS adds or changes interactions, and if new device sizes are introduced they have to run in a blurry scaled compatability mode.
Code Poetry: Easing Tutorial and Optimizations (2017)
Ah, the King Charles Bible.
I’d second some other opinions and recommend debouncing user input and making the network call after a 200ms break in input
> was a great improvement on its successors

was .. huh?
That pref is not present because it does not apply to distro updated Firefox such as a .deb.
Wait.. Why a flatpack? Isn't that just as bad?
Looks like the US has a tank with the same "name" as the real-money supply. But here's a link:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

Personally, I doubt anybody putting much relevance on M1 or M1'. But that's a 20% change in 1 year, what is quite large and probably has had some impact somewhere.
And have credit risk against some untested crypto-startup without FDIC deposit insurance?
Good example there of internal change expedited by international actions.

How do the present sanctions on Russia help expedite Zelensky allowing "Minsk agreement" elections in eastern Ukraine (Luhansk and Donetsk)?
My understanding is COVID’s micron size is so small that most masks other than N95 will be mostly useless. If you can smell fumes through your mask, Covid is going through it. Covid can also infect you through your eyes. I don’t know why we are desperately holding on to wearing this when I think plenty of research has shown they don’t do a whole lot.

Also masks were a thing in Asian culture pre-pandemic, they will be wearing them long after this due to that alone.
I doubt it's never going to be practical enough to be useful, at all.

I might be wrong and someone can do the calculation to prove me wrong, but I don't think there is any way you're going to power an army or even a single regiment with that (or even more than a couple of toasters).

First, Low Earth Orbit is at least 160km above the Earth. You could do it at 100km but now you have to fight atmospheric drag on top of everything else and constantly need to readjust your orbit to avoid burning up.

Forming a beam tight enough that it stays focussed on your small target is the first challenge. Talk about fraction of a degree. You'll get much worse energy loss just there, because your target will always be smaller than the energy spot. If you have to build large targets, then there is a point where it would be more advantageous to just use solar panels on the ground.

Second, since you'd be using a low orbit, you'd still be in the dark at night, so no power for you.

Third, the lower the orbit, the faster the satellite is going to zoom past in the sky. You'd need a constellation of these to constantly reshape their beam to all their targets. As their distance from the target increases, the power received will also vary a lot. It also means the satellite will have to know the precise location of the target at all times. Might be workable for a static unit, but if you're talking drone/autonomous system, then they will need a way to transmit this information somewhere, very, very accurately too so the beam can find it.

It's not something you could deploy anywhere in an instant unless you have thousands of satellites covering all areas of interest.

The solar panel size you would need to ensure some decent minimum power received on Earth would be pretty big. Say you have a super efficient solar panel that can get you 30% efficiency, you'd get max of 300W/m2. So you would need very large arrays of panels just to get a few kW on the ground.

Now if instead of solar panels you want to beam up energy to bounce from the satellite back to the target, you'd double your problem space: need lots of large emitters that would need to target a constellation of fast moving satellites. Not great unless you know you can deploy them exactly where they are needed, which probably limits the use cases in foreign territories.

So, I'd say this will remain a niche application on Earth, where the size of the transmitting arrays depends on the distance to the target, and will probably never go beyond a trial in space if they manage to convince someone to get funding for it.
OK. https://www.wikihow.com/Set-a-Song-As-Your-Ringtone-on-iPhon...
They're pretty close to beating Tesla by now, no? Tesla has 14% market share, with VW now at 11%
Well I was more imagining light infantry operations or recon in forward positions in the early stages of a war. If you need vehicles, you can use EV, then you generally don't need oil and lubricants as well. At least you don't have to airdrop fuel anymore.
I switched to Pop about a year ago and absolutely love it so far. It’s been one of the most flawless experiences I’ve had with a Linux distro (as a life long “user” but not very good at the fiddly stuff).
> sociological construct

Given the length of human child raising, I don't see why you would exclude this from 'hard wiring'. Things don't have to be encoded into DNA to have an increadibily high probability of inheritance.
There's also Devuan - https://www.devuan.org/ - A debian Frok without systemd. Don't know how well maintained it is though.
500k to join LowRisc to get access to their plans seems not like a great way to run a open-source project.
I don't think it's necessarily what I'd call narcissism. We look back on history and see people championing causes and things for real victims, e.g. the civil rights movement. I think a lot of people feel a weird guilt at not having a chance to be one of these great, celebrated people or someone fighting that struggle.

Or maybe it is narcissism and it's a selfish desire to say "look at how much better we left the world!" I don't know. The first time I saw it was with a friend's mother who literally said to her "why couldn't you have been a lesbian?" because she wanted to have a personal cause. One day it dawned on me that she had just missed being old enough for the '60s.
Looks interesting. I'll check it out, thanks!!
That's like saying "emacs is a heavy and expensive tool for editing a text file".
Is it "you" that talks to you? I'm not even sure what an "inner monologue" is in practice. Is it a thought-line different to your "practical thoughts" which narrates your day as you go?
Public school libraries choosing what books to purchase and make available to kids with incompletely developed brains = “banning.” Can’t say the left doesn’t have a cleverness with words.
Yes, you can read a dictionary. That being said, many people consider Twitter to be a public square. so, de jure vs de facto.
Maybe it's just my bubble, yet I would not consider her a "hidden" hero ...
She's a celebrity in the research areas of Human Computer Interaction and Augmented Humans. She's a Prof at MIT with an impressive research career.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r81Ss1cAAAAJ&hl=en...

Yes, she's not as famous as a Mark Zuckerberg, yet for me definitely not a hidden hero.

I love Pattie's work, nice to see it mentioned on Hackernews. Looking forward to a Dagstuhl Seminar we hopefully will co-organize: https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=224...
'now'? That's an argument/news item for more than a decade ago isn't it?
I have a feeling that infrastructural upgrades like these will be instrumental in taking spatial computing and entertainment to the cloud. Currently VR applications live in your headset / computer, but no reason why they have to. Of course, that's not its immediate use, rather a use case that might be triggered / enabled due to this move.
It's r/tulpas without My Little Pony
Ah I always wondered why Firefox releases on my Fedora installs lagged behind official ones.

Its so they can screw with it instead of just shipping what Mozilla released.
Opposition to capitalism consistently produces less free societies.
Pareto-Optimal Compression (2021)
You aren't forced, but you are going against the grain of the OS if you start doing things that were not intended by the distribution maintainers. I used Ubuntu for a decade - I'm familiar with it. Every tweak ended up in a more and more unpredictable and unmaintainable system that I had to just dump and reinstall every once in a while.