skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall looking into plans from the 1970s to peg all central bank currencies into a 'basket of currencies' to avoid things like currency collapse. It would require international goodwill and cooperation, and would eliminate a lot of currency speculation games, so it was kiboshed. Basically it was a mechanism to eliminate volatility and to stabilize the global monetary system. Maybe someone else knows more about it.
That makes a lot of sense. Plus, as someone else commented, it does seem like Safari/Webkit is catching up now.

From an ethical/ideological pov, I really quite agree with you. I use Firefox :P More power to an alternative to the Chromium monopoly.

Thanks for the reply. I am looking forward to trying the beta.
Right and the supply of drugs is not a factor and should be allowed to flow freely because science.
Welcome to every Mac and Linux user’s experience! Most software is Windows-only but doesn’t mention this fact.
It's for Mac only.
RealPlayer still exists and has users?
Ask HN: Patenting a software system that supports open source?
I'm working on an open source platform for building 3D content, using what I believe to be a new/clever core system design. This platform exports to open source targets, such as Unity.

I hope to make a profit off of the concept, in the admittedly very unlikely event that this platform takes off. One play is selling the tech to a graphics company, to fund my development on it.

I've been considering patenting all or part of this system, with options like:
- Try to patent some or part of the system, and only use it as personal financial protection when trying to sell the product, and never enforce it any other way
- Patent some specific part of the system that no one would care about, to avoid scaring off open source users

Worries:
- Discouraging open source users, who might think it skeevy or unethical to have patented software (see: Unity patenting ECS)
- A patent preventing/discouraging this platform from being embedded/used by other open source ecosystems.

I have no experience with software patents. I see companies value patents for their IP, and I'm curious about the patent process, and like the idea of having a patent on my CV. Should I try to patent all or part of this design, while still targeting open source?
Any relation to the old shareware processor Kagi?
The apple silicon cpus are like twice as fast as the offerings from amd and intel and barring the mcm tech and speed of apple silicon, the otherwise comparable stuff from x86_64 costs almost the same as the apple stuff, except for the mac pro
The birds make sense. The phrase sounds like the scientific name of the order for hummingbirds.
Anyone remember Google Wave? My friends and I used to have conversations and being able to see live input on multiple threads was so good for speeding up conversations as you'd be able to see what they're all typing at the same time. Shame that got canned.
also remember "McIntosh Post-It Notes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-BH8j06pM

(lol, macintosh)
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Isnt the intel fab across the street from the tsmc fab?
These conversations so routinely devolve into crowdsourced attempts to define notoriously tricky words like “language”, and “intelligence”.

These absurdly big, semi-supervised transformers are predicting what the next pixel or word or Atari move is. They’re strikingly good at it. To accomplish this they build up a latent space where all the pictures of sunglasses and the word “shades” are cosine similar, and quite different to “dog” or a picture of a dog, and have an operator (in word2vec, addition, in DALL-E, something nonlinear) that can put sunglasses on a dog.

Is that latent space and all the embeddings into it a “language”? Who cares? It works and it’s fucking cool.
Easy solution is to make user data toxic. Make it a liability. Poison the well.

Make a law where if you ever sell a minor’s data, regardless of whether that minor lied about their age or agreed to a contract (wouldn’t be binding!), then you face steep fines. If you’re found buying data belonging to a minor, also steep fines. If you buy and then de-anonymize data belonging to a minor, really steep fines. To collect and hold data that may belong to a minor, you need to justify it (like GDPR).

Obviously this doesn’t scale for aggregators, advertisers, basically SV, which is the point.

A restaurant is responsible if they sell booze to a minor. A store is responsible if they sell cigarettes to a minor. Serving a minor that lies about their age does not get you off the hook!

Problem solved. User data is toxic. You won’t want to hold onto it for any other reason than a legitimate use.
But again, nobody was even being charge. Open air drug use is common. Cops don't do anything.

It's like when marijuana was legalized in CA a few year back. You could walk down the street smoking a joint for a couple decades before that.

This does nothing but updates the law to reflect how it was already being enforced. Thus no real change.

As I mentioned, in BC, not long ago a prolific dealer, caught with kgs of meth was convicted to only at-home observation. Basically "pinky promise you won't commit more crimes".

If a huge dealer isn't going to prison, it's pretty clear users aren't even being bothered.
> DevOps is the idea that there shouldn't be separate "dev" and "ops" organizations,

I agree with this definition of DevOps. However the vast, vast, vaaaast majority of real life uses of the term "DevOps" I've seen are just rebranded sysadmins. Sometimes it at least implies a more engineering approach to their coding. But in these institutions the Devs and Ops are very much separate groups of people, unfortunately.
Because it does not require desktop client.
It stores the notes in git repository so you have access to all the revisions which is very useful in case you want to revert any changes
I find a catch all is a spam magnet, but a little finesse with regular expressions can work wonders. On Google Workspace for example I have a rule for prefix_(.*)@domain.com that way the automated spam attempts fail because they usually just use lists of names.

I then sign up, for example as prefix_netflix@domain.com

But yes, I've often been accused of stealing the domain, even though it's not their domain. Also some companies don't send outbound email that matches their domain no matter where it matches, for example I couldn't do prefix_amex@domain.com I just never received the emails. As soon as I changed it to prefix_chargecard@domain.com the emails came through.
Padlet (YC W13) is hiring in Singapore to build software for a good education
https://www.wired.com/2013/08/project-west-ford/

> On May 9, 1963, a second West Ford launch successfully dispersed its spindly cargo approximately 3,500 kilometers above the Earth, along an orbit that crossed the North and South Pole. Voice transmissions were successfully relayed between California and Massachusetts, and the technical aspects of the experiment were declared a success. As the dipole needles continued to disperse, the transmissions fell off considerably, although the experiment proved the strategy could work in principle.

The successful MEO are still there - https://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=37
Microservices are not even great in theory if you spend just a bit of time deeply thinking about the complexities that microservices introduce compared with simply using libraries/modules to organise your system.
And it conveniently pre-fills the from address with the correct one if you reply to an email which came to an alias.
Yes the application is containerised also I have created the helm charts for deployment on kubernetes cluster - https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter-charts
TY!!!
Disclosure (1993), otherwise not much of a sci-fi movie, had a nice VR scene too: https://youtu.be/qk3PK3W_wvo?t=16
> Excluding comments, grpc-go is 130 thousand lines of hand-written code. It has dozens of subpackages, nearly a hundred configuration options, and bespoke name resolution and load balancing mechanisms.

In short: what's the deal with all these fences, and who the hell was "Chesterton"?
True, I wish they gave a discount when paying for an year. BUT! with the quality of their search results I am still going to pay for it. I used ddg to get away from google and I often found myself doing g! everytime.

With kagi, I almost never have to go back to google. Its really good for programming related searches as well. One of my favourite features about them is I can block certain sites from appearing on my search results and see more of certain sites.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31477092
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Not really.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200972
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I hated cubicle offices back in the days when I had one -- and we had the nice high cubes that you couldn't easily see over. It didn't offer much auditory privacy (I could easily hear coworker's calls), and limited real privacy since it had no door and anyone could stand on their toes and peer over the top. But at least I had my own personal space, I could pin photos to the wall and make it my own.

Now when I go to the office, I sit in a row of 6 desks, with nothing blocking me from the person in front of me but a monitor, I long for the days of cubicles
> But this kind of denial works the same for all parties' sats. Kind of a mutually assured destruction.

Yah. Slightly favors your own satellites in the odds, but not wonderfully so.

At the same time, if you're facing an adversary which depends upon LEO much, much more... this might be an attractive strategy.
That's buddhist fundamentalism: the entirety of existence is one "I" that made up the rules of "matter" on one side, the many small "I" players on the other side, and plays by those made up rules to discover itself. Something like a whiteboard chess game with one player playing both sides.
> In any case, free NAVIGATION didn't exist until Google Maps came along

Map quest was around and popular. Google maps was better for many reasons but it really was an evolutionary product.
Both are the exact same problem.

Most of the US has outlawed the 'middle housing' [1], leaving us with massive crammed skyscraper concrete jungles or sprawling suburbia.

Cities in developed countries around the world do not have to made this trade-off between space and walkability. Apartments are sufficiently big for families, while having everything within arms reach.

If anything, public spaces allow for more amenities available for more people. Unless your definition of space is 'private' space (private gardens, private yards, private gyms), there is plenty of space in well planned cities.

Lastly, suburbs simply do not pay their fair share in taxes. [2] They are incredibly inefficient and deplete city resources such that the city goes bankrupt the second a recession hits. I would be fine with suburbs if that's what people want. But, pay your fair share in taxes, renounce any high ground on the climate change debate and for the love of God, stop making anything that isn't a suburb illegal to build. (looking at you Berkeley...and every other deep-blue liberal suburb)

[1] https://missingmiddlehousing.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
Nope. Microsoft (for example) use SAP. It would be crazy for them to spend millions building something similar to SAP.
>what does that say about their algorithm that they only give me stuff I don't want?

Do you engage with political content on facebook or other platforms where facebook has tracking agreements? they're maximizing engagement. facebook knows I'm way more likely to click on a "we rescued a dog" video than political stuff, so doesn't show me political stuff. Their data points don't just come from the facebook website.
> I heard a story about a programmer searching for obscure keywords related to a specific programming language getting targeted on google for an ad about working at google.

I got the invite to Foobar by searching a relatively common MySQL query. Maybe they're profiling you based on your history.
It is interesting though because I share the same thought where something physically tangible like a gym membership can be quadruple the price of monthly subscribed software but the other way round and I’m surprised.
I started reading this hoping to get some insight into creating a way to abort an in flight promise, e.g. async/await pattern for a tower of async functons, and not a Promise.all[]. However, this is so exhaustively well-written then I realized this is a much harder problem. Yes, I know this is Rust, but the syntax and problems are similar for any deferred execution, ESPECIALLY when hardware is sitting at the bottom of the call.

While I applaud the author's completeness and attention to detail -- and how they are refreshingly open about certain solutions looking like "hacks" -- the paper would benefit from a Conclusions/Recommendations. (I know, that's lazy of me, but I think it would be a nice finish.)
> I don't think patents were designed to create monopolies so much as they were created to incentive research.

I think a fair understanding of the history of patent law allows for both. However their increasing use as tools of monopolies is clearly the pattern we've seen over the last 40 or so years.
> I'm also confident that there are instruments being made today that will equal Stradivari's given time enough. In my own experience, one viola made by Michael Darnton

I know nothing about the subject, but decided to do a quick search about this guy.

https://soundpostonline.com/profile-michael-darnton-in-his-o...

> Essentially, the quality of violins dropped precipitously after the deaths of Antonio Stradivari (1737) and Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (1745), and it’s (sic) has never recovered. I figure that if I could ever merely replicate the work of Stradivari, I’d be the second or third best violinmaker that has ever lived.

Is this a commonly accepted viewpoint in the violin world? It just seems so surreal to think that it would take ~275 years just to match the craftsmanship and talent, let alone exceed it.
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> but that is not proof that it does not happen

There is not proof that it did happen either. And absent a proof either way, this country has long ago decided to function on the presumption of innocence. Maybe you think it's a good idea to change that?
I read in the Scientific American that a defense against lasers would be simply spinning the target, which would require the attack laser to have much more power. The target can be made shiny, and can be coated with an ablative material.
In true Canadian form there will likely be minor repercussions.
The role Facebook plays in SE Asia cannot be understated.

They are still taking money and being used to manipulate the outcome of elections, the most recent example being with Marcos in the Philippines.

Foreign Correspondent covered this well:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/foreign-correspondent/series/2...
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Parents, family and friends being on Facebook seems like a reason not to have an account -- but maybe that's just me.
Is this because they fab their own parts rather than off-the-shelf stuff that has been in supply side limbo for 2 years?

$1000 "arm board" with impressive power and performance envelopes will get you some market share, especially if the existing ecosystem bends to the manufacturer's will. As they do.

I fully expect the first company to really try and make an impressive risc-V workstation to clean up in that market, especially with people like myself that use higher end consumer parts as servers.
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Hm! I just looked at my Signal as someone was messaging me and the dots were there when they were typing. Do you turn them off somehow?
You are absolutely right. 95% of problems in software development are created by the software developers themselves. The fastest/smartest developers I have worked with simply make less dumb mistakes. They keep it simple. That’s all they have to do to be 10x more productive.
> How will it get better?

I'm not a big VR person, but better display, better battery life, better audio, lighter kit, et cetera, seem like easy linear progressions.
Weaponizing Underwater Archaeology in the Russia-Ukraine War – and Beyond
I've thought about this too. I think the only sane option is to maintain a quiet life where you occasionally privately name drop to help your own networking. Who'd begrudge a sibling getting ahead in life with a little help from you? But meanwhile there is this. Can't imagine the internal dynamic between them w.r.t. how this portrays his hard earned professional image, I imagine words have been spoken
Once a company is focusing on saving to profits instead of revenue growth it’s over.
Ukraine war: how far can US, NATO push Putin before he uses nuclear weapons?
Duh, isn't it obvious that a whole part of business is trying to find ways to make money off the government, not just your customers? Tech has been doing this for a while if you are anyone at the exec level or have tried to understand what "business reasons" are when told that's why a bad technical decision is being made.
That article says that from Android 6-12 if an app wanted to scan for bluetooth it ALSO had to require the location permission. Not that BT had hidden location information. As of Android 12 apps could bluetooth scan without requesting/enabling location.
This article touches on something that I have been recently thinking about - remote work vs. async work. Remote work is in vogue these days but a lot of these companies don't allow or encourage async work. They equate remote work with async work but then institute tools like slack which are antithetical to async work. Typing indicators are one such way where slack encourages synchronous work.
Yeah, I understand that a family of 4 will want to own 1 car. However, upper-middle class American families often have 2/3 cars due to lack of public transport infrastructure.

Alternately, the densest cities can allow for a car-free lifestyle with rentals for out-of-town trips. However, the costs might be the same as owning a standard sedan. ($30-40k). I won't consider this bottom of the barrel at all.
kubectl apply on a directory doesn’t work because deleting a resource manifest won’t delete the corresponding resources.
I mean, cool. If you're already an athletic freak who can do this for a couple of hours at a time with a massive room with no furniture in.

You're basically describing Wii Sports, which was a great novelty at the time. For maybe a year or so.
> q=85 is around 250Mb/s

Is that really true!? 1.8 GB per minute?
The list of projects seems to be at least partially based on https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives.
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Put in your résumé or cover letter that you're looking for meaningful jobs. Some will throw it away, some will prioritize it. Continue the interview with whoever makes it through the filter. If the interviewer has been paying attention, they'll feel compelled to explain what makes the job meaningful.

I'm working at a fintech company. The tagline here is building digital infrastructure. Generally, digital transactions are a lot harder in countries with higher corruption, because they have to go through a lot more red tape. It's not a low hanging fruit; Silicon Valley will make the tech but they won't deal with the cultural issues. There's also a higher level of fraud. Many payment gateways will freeze your account if you sell tickets or perfumes, because they don't want to deal with that.

So digital infrastructure is a fitting term. Taking the analogy, we do have dirt roads and small roads, but it's a bottleneck for economic growth. We're building the digital highways and bridges and rails for the big and small companies so they can focus on what they do best.
"On April 22, Ukraine made its latest move in this battle by declaring Russia’s sunken warship Moskva – formerly the pride of the Russian navy – a Ukrainian Underwater Cultural Object."
I do think there is a space for a developer team model that is easy to maintain, hard to screw up and gives say 80% of the productivity gains.
Are there any fairly good off-the-shelf auto-summarizers with modern NLP?
No, the idea doesn't make sense, because the energy released by a hurricane is a factor of ten thousand times that released by a nuclear bomb. The most you could do is maybe redirect that energy because it has to be released somehow. Maybe you could change the path but it's a chaotic system, you might change the path for the worse.
Also Steve Jobs is dead
> lot less noise.

Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud [1]

Having lived in many different types of cities, it is always the car-centric downtowns and suburban main-streets that are loudest. Well designed & walkable cities are actually pretty mild when it comes to noise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8