skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe charging stations is the least of our problems: will there be enough rare earth metals to build batteries for everybody and will there be enough electricity production for all those EVs?
Okay, fair point about the second part - my mistake indeed.

But I have to push back about the first part. The throwawayaug8 did say "According to Wikipedia Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla. That's how reliable Wikipedia is" - which I understood as a claim that "Wikipedia is unreliable". Then marak830 claimed that such claim is wrong and IncRnd claimed that the original claim is true because 'Simple' Wikipedia has an article with such text.

But I just have to disagree here - I believe that the 'main' Wikipedia is mostly or more accurate than any other Wikipedia - be it 'simple' or 'lithuanian' (https://lt.wikipedia.org/).

I believe that it's unfair to judge the main wikipedia project by using it's smaller 'translation' branches - the main one has hundreds of thousands of contributtors, and smaller wikipedias have way less.

In a same way I wouldn't say that whole javascript is bad because there are some bad frameworks that are based on it.

But I don't know, I am not an expert, I'm just a random wikipedia user :shrug_emoji:
> "Good" is used to mean simply "this was well and honestly done work, with conclusions that may be reasonably drawn from the results"

Many high school science fair projects would fall into that category.

Would that be allowed? Or will there be some gating system?

Will you require ORCID?

Will you allow anonymous users? If so, what prevents nyms from being fly-by nattering nabobs of negativism? SO-style permissions based on rep? Being vouched for by other users?

> valid path to building reputation.

I don't know what to do with my SO or HN rep. As others have pointed out, unless this rep helps/hinders career advancement, I don't think people will care.

While I suspect you're still chewing on my comment that if it does help/hinder career advancement, then many will try to game it,.

> I really, truly appreciate it

Thank you for that comment. I don't want to come across like I'm trying to rain on your parade.
>> It's not about just installing Linux on a box, plugging in an Ethernet cable and calling it a day.

It's not? Because that's what most Europeans think.

>> We're talking about cloud providers here.

Ooooooooooooooooooh weeeeeeeeeeeh, now that's fancy.

Maybe if we could get an American over here to help us out, it could work? Are you available? Because we need answers to questions that you can't just google. We need someone who's been there, done that and who has money beyond what any European could ever even imagine. We need a Texan.

Are you a Texan? Or an absolute asshole? Both of those combined seems to fit the profile of a person that could make a change over here.

'Merica, F yeah!
Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely.

I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.
https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/about-visa/vi...

Section 1.7.4.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy

Available in Europe since 10 yrs ago. Not a rare sight, but not super-popular either.

Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami_(electric)
"I asked Coraline Ada Ehmke, a leader in..."

Oh good grief. This tired topic again. How'd all this nonsense do for the Node TSC and Rod Vagg?

Ehmke isn't anyone I'd trust making ethical decisions for anything. In Ehmke's own words, "the Contributor Covenant is a political document".

It has zero to do with fixing real world problems, and everything to do with using software development as a tool to advance political ideology.

And Ehmke has the audacity to lecture about ethics. Here's something unethical: weaponizing a neutral thing (software, medicine, sports) in pursuit of political power.
>> “That's a lot of words in those links.”

My favorite HN comment ever.

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As for that lack of a falsifiable claim, agree, not only that, but one that would allow for a preponderance of evidence.

Donald Hoffman was interviewed and topic of falsifiable observations came up and as far as I am able to tell he avoided the topic; search for “falsifiable” in this link:

https://tim.blog/2022/04/18/donald-hoffman-transcript/amp/

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On same topic, this paper provides overview of possible different approaches testing to quantum gravity with cosmology:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01597
Such a tool seems like a bad idea for the same reason you aren't allowed to take photos of your ballot paper in an election... If you did, then someone can blackmail you to see said paper.
No. But you can release software code under a license that places usage-based restrictions on the code. Some may ignore it, yes. It won't be open source under the usual definitions. But it may prevent organizations you disapprove of (along with many others) from using your code. Whether is still makes sense as mostly a source-available project at that point is up to you.
I'm a fan of spaced repetition too and have incorporated Anki in my life in more ways than simple memorization.

But calling it "infinite recall" is a bit misleading. Improved long-term retention at the cost of minimal unintrusive prompting is probably closer.
Lancet’s Covid Chair: US Gov Is Preventing Investigation into Pandemic's Origin
Eh, in the UK I already have instantaneous bank transfers that are free for normal retail customers to use.

Money arrives instantly, and as far as a retail customer is concerned, it settles instantly. Under the hood their regular batch settlement between banks, but that doesn’t matter to a retail customer, because the money is instantly withdraw-able, and covered by government deposit protection the moment the faster payment appears on your bank statement (which is milliseconds after the payment is initiated by the sender).

Why would I want to mess around with Bitcoins, when I already have access to fast, secure, cheap, money transfers to any UK bank account?
> since source source code is speech, can the government even sanction it?

er...the US government infringes on free speech all the time
No, intercept missiles are not ballistic but are guided, which negates the distance factor as you can simply make course corrections while homing into the target. ICBMs travel at Mach 23 (28.000km/h), that is what makes it a hard target to hit. It's like trying to hit a speeding bullet,but actually, it's travelling 30 times faster than a bullet.
Sellers obviously want certain settlement for all purchases regardless of amount.

If bitcoin needs a similarly hierarchical trust-based settlement systems as banks, how is that different from traditional banking?
The last question is easy to answer: No, sex scandals and mysticism do not mix and when they do, something has usually gone wrong.
Or you know, you could just watch the news and see the predictions coming true faster than the models said they would...

Also I don't buy the whole "self-identity...pegged to the idea that climatology is of critical importance" thing - a) climatology is still fundamentally important regardless of how much a problem AGW is b) plenty of scientists are pretty keen to stand out in their field and be remembered historically for being the one that demonstrated the current consensus was wrong. Lindzen tried to do that, and had a pretty decent hypothesis, but it just hasn't stood up to the testing that's been done (even he still only considers it a hypothesis).
People will have to learn to use computers as standalone devices again. That is until the ones with ham radio skills set up a rudimentary packet-radio network. It may not even work like our internet -- more like USENET in the uucp days. The cleverer ones may be able to cobble together a TCP/IP stack over this network, maybe at first with ping times in the ten-thousands of milliseconds -- but nodes reliable enough to sustain that kind of comms may be rare. The rest of us will have to make do with a non-realtime, store-and-forward feed. Which, honestly, might be better for us all.
this is a pet peve of mine because we should be able to distinguish between closed source software and open source but non free software. its extremely useful to be able to see/verify what some code does on your computer even without any other rights to that code.
Probably not a digital artist. Is there a big fraction of that on stock photo sites?
It's feels a bit weird for me as a left-winger to make this argument, but won't all that be solved by the market?

If there are not enough chargers, won't that create an incentive to build more? And yeah, you probably can't build them fast enough, or the grid capacity will not be sufficient, but won't people then just move to places where they can? Or switch to alternative modes of transportation?

I think the fallacy is that people just want to replace ICE cars with EVs as they are, and then realize you need a lot of space and grid capacity to charge them, etc. But because of the scaling problems you mention, there will be a very large pressure to build better public transport. If people can't charge their EV, or can't afford a car, or don't have good transportation, they will move somewhere else. This is structural change, and yeah it is going to be inconvenient and expensive (and we could have done it better with more foresight), but ultimatively we will figure it out.
Short answer: no.

Long answer: still no. you have zero control over what anyone chooses to do with your open-source project. You gave up any control you had when you released the source code to the world.
I've been using Anki for language learning and it's a superpower. After just over two years I passed an exam that requires a passive vocabulary of about 10,000 words. Other people who grinded harder than me have managed it even faster, some in under a year.

However one big mistake people make is to think an SRS helps you learn. That's not true. It helps you not forget things you've already learned. You still need some real world interaction with the material.
let's ask the developers of the open-source deepfake program what they think is an ethical use of their tool.
> This has been the competitive dynamic within banking, when it comes to product innovation – tiny variations on a theme.

> Fintech is painting way outside the lines and consumers are benefiting from the resulting innovations.

I am baffled at both assertions - that banks have barely invented any new financial products in the past century, and that Fintechs are creating new financial products. Both statements seem so far out of line that I suspect the author has little to no knowledge of the financial sector and believes the tiny number of products used by most retail consumers represent the full universe of financial products.

The reality is that banks have been extremely creative in creating new products in the decades up to the financial crisis (MBSs, CDOs, CDSs,...). And if you look what happened to those products, you'll be thankful that they've mostly been kept away from retail clients. The 1.5 decades since the crisis have seen less innovation from banks because regulators put their foot down. I've yet to see a genuinely new product offered by a Fintech (unless you count crypto/DeFi among Fintech, which is usually considered to be separate).
Thank you for your insightful comment explaining how the CRA process works. I'm not interested in credit, but it is good to know that it takes a year merely to qualify for a score.

Last year, I stuffed every document I owned into a folder and went to a brick & mortar bank to open an account. No dice. The customer adviser went through some kind of a decision tree and told me that my best bet is to apply for benefits if I am eligible, saying that I just need to show them some letter without claiming the benefit. It is absurd. If wearing an ankle tag for a month to prove my address was an option, I'd go with that.
> When checking preconditions, make sure the panic message relates to the documented precondition, perhaps by adding a custom message. For example,

> `assert!(!xs.is_empty(), "expected parameter 'xs' to be non-empty")`.

This panics with

> thread 'main' panicked at 'expected parameter 'xs' to be non-empty', src/main.rs:79:5

Without the custom message it's

> thread 'main' panicked at 'assertion failed: !xs.is_empty()', src/main.rs:79:5

Given that panics should be for bugs, i.e. interpreted by developers, I'd say the second message is clear enough and a custom message just adds noise in the source code.
A no-evil clause makes your license not Open Source either. There's no practical difference between "Open Source" and "FOSS". You probably meant something like "source available".
Sure, if you want to believe that Open University invented a brand new pedagogy rather than continuing a traditional style of teaching trigonometry that had been honed over the course of 150 years of naval power projection.
I've found the GCP documents well-written and nicely structured, at least around cloud storage and pubsub.
Inflation Reduction Act's rebates/tax credits for heat pumps/solar
Visit their main blog page to see a subset of the resulting images all at once

https://deephaven.io/blog/

https://deephaven.io/blog/page/2/

etc
Such software is usually called "source available".
Meanwhile a hammer was used to bash someone's head in.
"all career advancement and social status is dependent on your position with the church" -- this is bullshit, at least in my experience.

I lived there 2012-2017, never had an issue with dating/making friends/getting promotions at work. There were of course many women that would only date mormon men, but the non-mormon population was big enough that I didn't think about it much.

I worked for multiple tech companies there, had plenty of non-mormon co-workers (and bosses!), and while people did talk about mormon things sometimes in social settings, it was never pushed on me, nor did anyone make a big deal that I wasn't mormon.

I should mention I lived in downtown SLC, which is arguably more liberal/secular, and I worked for companies both in and outside the city.
Netflix Has Some Great Games but Nobody's Playing Them
> Audiophiles are moon-landing deniers.

Sorry, but I do not follow how you came to this conclusion, could you explain it?

> They're much less dangerous than going around pretending that something exists, that provably isn't there.

By your definition is every person in the world who believes in god therefore dangerous?
"source available".
> It does not. "Open Source" and "Free Software" are pretty much synonymous

It depends who you ask and who the decision maker is.
Why do you have to “apply” for these benefits? Shouldn’t providing the source publicly in the open (ie not a private repository) by definition be enough for “open source”?
Anyone can get that many subscribers by spending a fraction of 500mm USD on ads.
That’s an example, not a limitation on the definition of the word ‘evil’.
> How many books, movies, or TV shows do you come back to? How many do you go through once and never again? Why should a game be any different?

You can design a game such that it's a somewhat unique experience every time you play it. Even games with limited variation in setup allow different approaches from the player. That's not possible with traditional novels and film. At best, maybe you can review a film or a book and pay more attention to some detail you didn't notice that much in the first view, but in the end you are rather passively consuming a fixed narrative.

Of course, how meaningful this is depends on whether the game mechanics stand out on their own, or if it's mostly a vessel for a fixed narrative. If the game is just a mechanically bland walk from one cutscene to another, with little agency, it might not seem worth it. A lot of AAA titles are like this IMO. If the game generates a unique set of challenges every time you play it, or rewards new approaches, there is much more fun to be had replaying it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s5TO9h6fco

This video was recently published that talked about going from 200 to 300mm wafers, and there is some further discussion in the comments about the transition as well as going to 450.
Like bittorrent clients
Why does that page not contain tornado cash under the government takedowns?
The "Good, not Evil"[1] licence:

Crockford started releasing his JSMin software under a custom license, which he created by adding the requirement "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" to the open source MIT License.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
2-player mode discovered for Super Punch-out after 28 years
> For what it's worth, the "AR family" of rifles (AR-15, M-16, M-4, etc.) actually surpass AKs in terms of field reliability and use in hostile conditions. They're built to tighter tolerances, but with the dust cover closed there isn't really any way for sand/mud/dirt to get into the action, so they continue to work.

That dust cover is a big gotcha. You have to remember to close it after firing, and sometimes the spring wears out and it doesn't even stay closed anyway. Another problem is the carbon buildup from the direct gas impingement system if you don't clean it enough, and there are some tough to get spots.

> I can build a working AR lower receiver in the US with tools I have laying around my home (drill press, rotary tool, etc). I can't do the same for an AK because I don't have a spot welder to attach the rails.

Interesting. I'm familiar with the process of building up an 80% AR style rifle, and a 1911 handgun. I know there are 80% AK-47 blanks available but I never looked into what it would take to build one.
It's coming for us, too.

It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent.

This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying engineers large sums of money to write apps. Even with the retractions we've been seeing in hiring and venture capital, there's just enough easy money still there and the capabilities of code-writing AIs isn't quite there yet.

All we need is a significant market correction and the next generation of AI to wipe out a large swath of tech jobs.

The next step regardless is applying technologies like DALL-E to web design, and for said technology to be widely used, open and affordable. We won't need web designers or even UXD.

Then we won't need as many engineers when AI can solve a lot of common problems in building software. AI can do it better because it won't spend inordinate amounts of time dillydallying over next-gen frameworks, toolchains, and preprocessors. AI won't even have to worry about writing "clean" and maintainable code because those things will no longer matter.
Seems like a principled response. The response of the system has been instructional to behold. We saw a fairly comprehensive shutdown during covid (govt offices, most public and private businesses, cancelling of most large social events) - yet with monkeypox a complete unwillingness to even entertain the idea of shutting down super-spreader like events such as pride festivals.

Goes to show - the US holds as its highest principal the freedom of people to sodomize one another.
I want something like this, except the opposite.

Python, except with braces instead of whitespace. (Syntactically significant whitespace kills me.)

Or a tool which makes reading easier by adding parens where they would otherwise be implied.
No, you are mistaken. That is not the commonly accepted definition of open source, see the OSI:

https://opensource.org/osd

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Spend time on a Tesla owner's Facebook group and you'll see that yes, there are definitely Tesla owners that think that. They buy a Tesla with FSD and then get upset when they find out that FSD isn't actually FSD.
Well, they were unable or unwilling to prevent North Korea from using the service to launder money, which is illegal
Suggestion for the next blog entry: How my blog post going viral on Hacker News pushed me to finally use a CDN
And courts often put a stop to it. Regarding source code, federal courts told the government it couldn't restrict the publishing of strong cryptography, which it considered a munition.
The US could close it's own border if it wanted to.

The US designating them as terrorists would allow the US to go in and remove the threats just like any other cell.

Cooperation of the Mexican government is ideal and could be done through economic leverage like the last admin did with the USMCA to get the Stay in Mexico policy and Mexican troops on the border.
I think what you are actually talking about is permissioned vs permissionless licenses. We typically think of open source as the later, but licenses like GPLv3, the licenses like Elastic & Mongo (commercial restrictions), and ethics are all licenses that only grant you permission in certain situations.
So you are decreasing the Firefox share while benefiting from it.
Good points. Further, a codebase which has survived for a significant period of time is probably one which has created (and is creating) a lot of value for people. If it didn't do anything valuable or useful, it would already have been discarded.
My point was that there are domestic suppliers.
> regulatory barriers

Because markets are never anti-competitive on their own, oligopolies are only ever due to big bad regulators, right? Uh-huh. Some alternate ideas about why the CC payment processors are an oligopoly:

1. They have a card in every wallet and a reader in every aisle.

2. They can force merchants to hide the fees they charge.

3. They don't just process payments, they arbitrate disputes.

(1) could be addressed by standardization (see: Europe). (2) could be outlawed. (3) could be replaced with better consumer protections or smoother small-claims process.

Most markets have a substantial undergrowth of perverse incentives and anti-competitive strategies. Killing the gardener doesn't make the weeds disappear.
Not enjoying video, has anyone watched it to know if the British bombsight was included on this piece? Because the high precision high explosives like tallboy and grand slam were a product of British engineering design, and predominantly used by British (lancaster) bombers.
what use outside of money laundering did this tool have?
Consider using anyhow. At that point, unwrap isn't a shortcut anymore except for one place: you are in a deeply nested function call and you suddenly realize you need to bubble up an error a few layers. Now you have to change a bunch of function signatures.

I don't find myself in that position too frequently. Certainly not enough to warrant two identical but differently named functions.

In that case, I would suggest coming up with your own pattern. Perhaps an unwrap() with a FIXME comment. Or a expect("FIXME").
Ha! Google is the absolute worst entity to teach technical writing. Go read some of the documentation for google cloud. Pick any single thing you might need to do to stand up a new service. I guarantee you’ll be disappointed.
I had never heard of the E01 before. Shame I found out about it once it's already (effectively) dead and gone.
OSI couldn't trademark "Open Source" and the common usage of the term (source available) has steered away from the OSI definition.