skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be a blessing in disguise?

The libre computing movement got lazy. We got used to care about free software and just accept free-riding on non-free hardware because "hardware too hard" and frankly we got it easy with x86 CPU and PC manufacturers being generally friendly, actively or passively, to free software and actually benefiting from industry concentration. The less attractive proprietary CPUs and other chips get, the greater chance a small but lively open ecosystem develops?
In an era where movement of money is getting fast, the rich are getting richer by holder higher equity.

I find the concept of tokenization as a better way to redistribute equity.

I think about the tokens as money with superpowers which can act like equity , API keys and loyalty card too.

Think of tokens as a 100x version of managing equity table in a company.
Mein Kampf was not banned in Germany either. It is just that after Hitler's death, having no heirs, the state of Bavaria got the printing rights and decided not to allow printing of them (there was a heavily commented version made for academics like a study bible). Meaning all prints violated copyright until the book enters public domain.
> A friend of mine works on the NEOM project, and it really is like winning the lottery. Remote work with an occasional field trip to look at the place. But Google level salary to tell them how to save some data.

I was in Saudi Arabia earlier this year and I met quite a few Western engineers and consultants who didn't get as lucky as your friend and had been living in the desert near Neom for > 6 months. IIRC their visas didn't even allow them to leave the region surrounding Neom (which is pretty much just empty desert).

> the place isn't even built yet

It's not built at all yet or has it simply not been completed yet? I keep hearing different things about the status of the project.
Very nicely written article. I guess that it is pleasant to read even if we don't have to work with the Dicom format.

The explanation of TLV could be interesting also in itself.
How so? Redefines from what to what? Please elaborate.

Perhaps you mean that if you, as owner and legitimate user of a device, are able to perform a particular change only during a brief window of time rather than at any time of your choosing, then that limits your control over the device? If so, then my answer is yes, certainly it does. But it also limits the access of anyone who impersonates you (such as the evil exploity javascript I make your browser execute).
Ask HN: Do You Trust Grammarly?
I just received an email from them with many stats about my writing over the last week. It's pretty scary to see how much tracking they are doing.
Do you trust Grammarly? Are there any good alternatives?
> Its absurdly easy to make a ton of money very fast in crypto

At least right now mainly be doing something illegal e.g. scamming, rug pulling, insider trading.

SEC and other regulators may be late to the party but are starting to put people in jail for this fast and easy money.
> The promise of Neom is to be this amazing tech city that will attract people to live there.

That's a good point.
i think this is simply Microsoft noticing Nike's embrace of Taking a Stance for the Bottom Line.

microsoft is smart enough to realize that NSA tinfoil types already do not trust them, and likely will never trust them (which, if you are that worried about security, why are you on windows anyway? NSAKEY?)

the predominant share of windows machines are sold to businesses and enterprises who DO want to lock down at a hardware level.

it's way too easy to steal a windows machine and wipe it clean. you can't do that with DEP-enrolled macs because of the TPM they already have, which is a strange misalignment when Windows' core market (enterprise) really cares about this kind of security.

apple has every reason to care about DRM more than microsoft, but the TPM advent on mac was mostly a welcomed one as I recall. perhaps that is because apple has taken a strong and public stance towards user privacy. but they have to: it is consumers who are buying their devices, and consumers rightly want a device that works for them.

microsoft is not in that position, or at least, is not with windows, from an economic standpoint. similarly, they are mostly selling to enterprises and business and governments for this product line, and those customers rightly want a device that is verifiably secure.

if you're worried about security for your personal use, buy a mac, because they've made their bottom line and your privacy intertwined. or, buy a linux box and purity check it down to the circuits. you have already decided against convenience in your trade-off equation by your a priori decision to care about this in the first place.
> Unless the actually mean 1km x 1km area.

Well yes, that’s what a square kilometre is. It’s (km)^2 not k(m^2).

20kL/km^2 means 20mL/m^2 (in american that’s a hair more than a tablespoon + a teaspoon).
Crypto is a closed economy. The only way to get USD out is by taking that USD ("wealth") from somebody else who is buying in.
The Engineer’s Guide to Matter
There is a lot of marketing-level information about Matter (formerly CHIP), but very few technical breakdowns, so the authors wrote one.
I work for LinkNYC. We have a few thousand kiosks all around New York City.

I work remotely from a different state without any issues, as does the rest of engineering.

They shipped all the relevant hardware to my home address. It was a bit of a hassle to put it all together and it can take a bit of space but it's definitely doable.
Show HN: The Ultimate C++14 (and later) Enum Library
1m2 would give 20ml per day.
Unfortunately in the crypto winter, crypto shovel sellers like Coinbase are doing quite badly as well.
Funny thing is that the quality of stuff depends heavily on the location.

For example Emmaus close to a rich holiday littoral city I know is very often be full of super nice furniture, including golf gear because it's basically rich people getting rid of old stuff because they want something new at home.

On the other hand Emmaus in the north of paris (poor) is really full of super old damaged furniture and ugly clothes.

Nothing surprising except maybe the first part because many people dont' expect stuf that nice to be given. But rich people who dont' care about money still do.
For me, simcity is, and probably always will be, a simulation. And you tend to lose out on efficiency (Not covering as many people with a school, for example), so I don't see it as going to be too unbalanced
As already mentioned, r/BasicBulletJournals is good. Another that is focused on actual journaling, and not art projects, is r/bujo

And here's a YouTube playlist I've made, with the best videos I've found: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50SnCmB2W7tUaHuUzeB8OLC2...
> But what will prevent banks from creating it out of thin air, just like they create Dollars and Euros?

You seem to be missing some basic things about how Bitcoin works. It's a network, and a majority of the network has to agree on any changes. You can't change it unilaterally. There's no mechanism for banks to issue Bitcoin.
But they also have winsock trumpet. They need to pick a lane, I can't deal with the oscillation between goofy and evil.
> The classic YC advice is "make something people want."

Ok, I want to make compilers. People want them but don't want to pay for them ...
I haven’t check the math, but in sunny places like Nevada it is reasonable to drive an electric car that is entirely powered by solar panels on top of your garage. And run a modern house.

There’s a lot of fudging factors like a tiny 1m2 panel vs. a massive 20m x 5m area, conversion efficiency, etc. but your point that “everyone would make their own fuel for car in small garden” isn’t that reasonable. Well, assuming they are not using gasoline.
You can post hoc modify circuits so they look like doing logic A but they actually do logic B by adding new p or n junctions.
They won't support it because in a potential financial crisis/recession it would cause a bank run away from regular accounts to the fed backed accounts and it probably bankrupts half the financial system.

More importantly, it's safer than US Treasury bonds, so not only are the banks potentially all hosed, so is the US government because people sell bonds and park their money at the fed causing interest rates to spike at precisely the time the government may need to issue debt to fix things.

In other words, it's pretty much disastrous for everyone.
Thanks for sharing the SN thread.
I don't know for sure, but from what I understand it's not livable yet. Changes quickly though, perhaps I'm wrong.
> Personally I think its very likely MS will eventually push to strongarm OEMs into locking secure boot to be enabled.

Not as long as the EU remains functioning.
"No, really! I'm compiling on your grandpa's VAX! _This is fucking awesome_"

(paraphrasing Macklemore)
Yeah, they won't allow it because it would have disastrous repercussions during a recession/financial crisis.
Coordinated Universal Time in French is Temps Universel Coordonee (give or take an accent). So that should be TUC. I don't think there's any language in which UTC stands for anything. It's a fake acronym.
The problem with extensibility is that everyone does! Manufacturers will dump in all sorts of tags, and check for them, when you read in, but the won't tell you what they are and how you might calculate their supersecret checksums (for safety!).

Dicom Compliance is a well paying job.
> Google had no revenue for years. But turned out to be one of the best investments of all time.

And Yahoo and SGI were both behemoths, and look at them now. If you had stake in these companies and cashed out in time, you'd consider it also a great investment.

> To figure out how they are doing, the first thing I would look at is a chart of Helium's usage growth.

No one cares about Helium, and even fewer people cares about LoRa. I'd guess a good chunk of the nodes are run by people trying to make money out of it (I know personally people that invested in this), not by people interested in maintaining a network or that actually have any clue about LoRa. Me, as a hobby electronics tinkerer, I do care about LoRa (so, I'm one of those fewer people), but I don't care about Helium, because it adds nothing of relevancy to it. Yes, increasing coverage is good, but not only the LoRa market is quite narrow, any other provider can do the same without too much hassle. And there is no actual real money in it(beyond the hobby space) and never will be. No company is going to build products on a super-duper-easy-to-disrupt public network, when alternatives are available.
This matched my guess: it's about MS extracting a $x per machine tax on all non-MS OSs to stay on their certificate list. Same playbook they've used on Android.
The aliens are invading us.
maybe its because pluto is the "king of the underworld", the underworld being the root of trust?
If you are talking about being ignored as a social repercussion, you are wrong -- nobody is entitled to force opinions onto others. If they don't like you, they can ignore you as much as they want, that's freedom. What you propose is fascism.
I publish all my ideas in the open. I journalled over 450+ ideas and I work on some on my GitHub.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4

I also pick small achievable ideas to work on and work on them and just start.

I recommend Repl.it, Jsfiddle, Jsbin, Jupyter notebook and various online playgrounds to get something going.

Repl.it uses Nix underneath so even if you don't have root you can still customise the system to run what you need.
Music videos are now porn!
I hope steam proton support will still be available. Have been running it with proton and besides not playing videos (known issue) everything else is good.
Good for the environment? It will block animals and birds migrating. I can see that concentrated living to lower the footprint of cities is good but the design is like a big barrier
It's become crystal clear when companies refused for remote work during covid, or being the first one to mandate wfo after even though the productivity is good or even higher.

If they don't care for me, I may as well get the most benefit in cash instead
Such a disappointment. Great work though.
It is very obviously some intelligence agency op.
Thanks, family businesses are always interesting to learn about! But it's true that children should to be free to follow their own path if they prefer.
The most likely outcome would be a ban on net new CO2 in the atmosphere, enforced by the army of any country that has insurance companies unwilling to pay for the destruction of half of any cities next to a coastline, a 15-m wall around the remainder, most of the agricultural lands too hot and dry to be used, and the bulk of the rest battered by weekly cat-6 hurricanes, a billion of climate refugees…

A lot of people are going to die of heat in the next month. That number will double every year until we address it decisively.

That’s not counting on eco-terrorism which will likely anticipate a lot of the reaction.
Regardless of the crypto-ness or VC-ness of the plan, from a business standpoint, in the graph of Traditional Network Effect vs. Token Network Effect, his problem is obvious.

Where the y-axis = Utility To User, the Traditional Network Effect can track all the way to the upper end of the scale, and tracks perfectly with the Overall Utility, as an ideal outcome of course.

But with the Token Network Effect, no matter how much of a boost there can be at the beginning, the ultimate Overall Utility is about halfway as high by comparison.

By design you're building for mediocrity.

One of the "secrets" when I was implementing exponential growth strategies was to "prosper better overall, by persuasively giving the customers more of their money's worth".

Interesting how that tradition compares to "persuasively give the customers more of our money than it's worth, since our current product isn't really worth money to begin with".
Why 90% of people? Who decides that cutoff?

I think 90% is pretty funk, don't you think?

Anecdotal evidence like this isn't helpful, and creates stigma for those who really suffer from clinical depression from seeking treatment. The treatment doesn't always have to be medication and I believe that therapy is much more beneficial, especially in the long term.

Please don't equate clinical depression with normal feelings of sadness.
>> blockchains are basically very good ledgers

"Blockchain" means very different things for different people. Blockchains such as Bit--in blockchain are very bad ledgers. The only thing they are good for is if you want to get rid of trusted intermediaries such as banks.
Academic freedom is a relatively well-defined term, and requiring other people to acknowledge you and your ideas is not a part of it. Forcing your ideas onto others is fascist and the opposite of freedom.
'The' JVM can internally have whatever it likes; so long as it is not exposed at the language level, nothing prevents an implementation from being devised which does not have such things internally, and which has a treadmill.
It's the host of those name servers' job, yes.
That's an interesting video, but it focuses on entirely enclosed "interior cities". But the lack of sunlight and connection to the outside has been a known weakness of those places for decades. This "LINE" design at least attempts to address that by providing a massive view to the outside via two 500m-tall transparent walls.
Does open source have a Top Gun problem?
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/top-gun-copyright-lawsuit-ehud-yonay-1235285752/
Top Gun is the latest in a line of movies being sued for having copyright revert back to the authors after 35 years due to a little known part of the US Code 17 USC 203 which allows non work for hire authors to force revision at 35-37 years. This would prevent derivative works from being distributed.

What software projects does this effect in the coming years? I assume GCC and Emacs with Linux or portions soon to follow. Any other big ones?
Not to totally dismiss any concerns, but most IRC servers support TLS. While not end-to-end in the sense that the server can read all of the messages, encryption is available. And in the case of IRC, with the most common use case being channels for particular communities which often need moderation, I don’t think the fact that the server can read the chat is a big issue. I wouldn’t advocate for it as a way to privately and individually communicate with people one-on-one, but I think it’s pretty okay for what it is.

The nice thing with IRC, though, is that by not being one massive centralized entity where all channels in existence reside, you’re not depending on one particular network in the same way you might be dependent on services like Discord. You can run your own server for your own community where you can set your own rules and manage everything the way you want to.

IRCv3 also has SASL [1]. And more rudimentary forms of authentication have been around for ages on most servers.

[1]: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/sasl-3.1
Perhaps not the very top level, but on the https://standardebooks.org/ebooks "Browse Ebooks" page, both `fiction` and `nonfiction` are readily applied as filters. Easily done.
TBH, I wasn't concerned at all about matching errors to line numbers (I didn't mention matching up the line numbers because I assumed it would anyway); I've done this sort of thing before and never had a problem setting the correct line numbers in the outputted C sources.

The problem I usually have is matching C-compiler error messages to $NEWLANG errors.

Like I said, as long as the programmer is aware that it's a preprocessor for the language and not an AST-based code generator, then there usually isn't a problem. I used ecl (or gcl, not sure now) that went the AST code-generation path and it worked much better than any preprocessor-based method in terms of compilation errors and diagnostics.

PS. In case you (or anyone else) is wondering about my mentioned HTML preprocessor, I put it into a gist: https://gist.github.com/lelanthran/603a24c56bc3afc1370a007a0...
> If that brings you comfort, then you should not be comforted as registrars will not do what you're describing.

That's not true, just depends on the TLD.

> Not to mention that DNS (excluding finnicky DNSSEC) just maps a domain to an IP address. It's not a public key. You could have your connection middlemanned by your ISP or some 3-letter agency and you would be none the wiser. All the actual security is provided by the PKI.

PKI you can't trust if nobody can trust the DNS.
Oh but there is

>Sex

Aubergine and peach, various "horny" faces

>Drugs

The leaf, the clouded face, the syringe
Correction: It seems they acknowledged the steam proton scenario and they claim EAC works fine.
I think you need to go a layer or two deeper to find the shovel vendors, maybe those selling compute?
Solid whatevs.

They're newly discovered, but they've been avoiding Earth for billions of years, and will continue to do so.
I remember thinking when Kindle was first announced: "Have they ever heard of _Farenheit 451_?!?!" :/
> never seen that work in practice

it often doesn't work out even if you do ban modified clients. there's an impressive array of hacked clients for many games out there.
> You've personally been impacted by disruptions from leapseconds

That linked article doesn't mention leapseconds; it doesn't explain the cause of the disruptions, other than to note that it appears to be related to certain defective ADS-B systems.
death sentence punishment for using money
New Research Says Vertical Solar Panels Have Improved Performance
I started designing an algebraic language by writing code.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/algebralang

It's designed to be expressive and powerful and practical.

The core insight to a problem is rarely what we spend most of our programming time doing.
There is nothing that TikTok is doing differently than Instagram that is a net positive for society. Replacing one digital crack cocaine product with other digital crack cocaine product but with stronger ingredients and someone else copying the worse parts of it is a race to the bottom.

There is no difference with these platforms other than one of them (TikTok) having an addictive Orwellian algorithm that dictates what is seen and unseen and can amplify a dangerous reality distortion field to create a deception of reality such that its users cannot tell what is real or not, even as serious as a war [0] all thanks to the algorithm.

So when you have something that is even worse than Facebook, Instagram, etc that is hardly 'The best thing to have happened to the Internet.' [1]

[0] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484
The Israeli version is not new. It was introduced 3 years ago (perhaps more?) with the sums that are legal to transact in cash reducing every year or so. At first, it was sums that only affected people who were (likely) doing things illegally (e.g. drugs, bribes, tax evasion, money laundering, etc). So there was little to no protest -- very few people realized where this was going.

Now, it basically affects everyone - the current threshold is in the between minimum wage and average wage, closer to minimum, with exceptions for effectively 5-year-or-older-common-cars and a couple more things. In a couple of years, the threshold would likely be lower than minimum wage (either by rule change, or by inflation that would bring minimum wage above current threshold), and at that point, the threshold would be "money you can give your kids to buy to stuff for themselves at the store, and not much more".

Slow boil, works great on populations.
I think the next set of companies will become more smarter in their vesting terms.

Just think about it, if these data point of selling claims get be bought to on-chain then I am sure people and next set of companies will not borrow some such investors.

because of this particular reason I feel DeFi will replace traditional finance first before any other form of crypto companies takes.

A recent IMF admitted that DeFi is 10x efficient than TradFi.I am sure once DeFi get a bit regulated and has better risk management principal embedded into code the system will become more efficient

I also see the recent housing crackdown and loss of money for common people playing an important role of smart contract lead world for the financial safety of the larger population. People are losing trust way faster than they are able to change systems
Amazon to raise Prime prices in Europe as retailer wrestles with costs
Incognito mode isn't as incognito as normal users might think.

If you have at least a little technology knowledge it should be clear what that mode is.
So basically, Cory Doctorow's "The Upcoming War Against General Computation"?

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...

https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcrip...

Don't know enough about the subject to tell if his "attempts to control general computation will converge on rootkits" prediction has held up.
There's a lot of influence from Le Corbusier, particularly Plan Voisin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Voisin
Clickable link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer%E2%80%93Douglas%E2%80%93...
Launching Actionable Book Club
Inflation makes up a portion of that nominal increase. I started my career in 1993. From USD inflation alone, my salary would have more than doubled to now just to stay at purchasing power parity.

If I’d have been paid in INR over my career, a 7x multiple over that time would leave me less than 2% better off than when I started.