skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read TD for years and always thought that they were quite reputable. They (and Masnick in particular) have better legal analysis of IP cases than I've found almost anywhere else.

Of course, it's a very opinionated site, but I don't recall ever seeing 'nonsense' on the site. Maybe I'm missing it?
if you're actually interested in learning different perspectives from people who have done significant work in the field and you're willing to stomach someone who I have to presume is one of these "large fragile egos" or whatever other vague terms you want to use about vague people vaguely (this passive-aggression is rather unbecoming), I personally found this comment, and the rest of the thread, to be very enlightening with regards to how I think about memory management in video game development and why rust's lifetimes maybe aren't the best solution for the problem domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26443768#26451692 (specifically the numbered list of memory usage patterns and the ensuing discussion about them)
So who destroyed your country in 89? Maybe it was the economic system that subjugated the workers? I'm lost here. And I'm done, discussing politics/economics on the internet is the dumbest thing anyone can do, every 2 or 3 years I make this mistake. Have a nice life.
I have read that argument before. And I totally get that Rome as it existed did not have the right conditions for a British industrial revolution, but it did check many boxes and you could play out many what-ifs had it survived a bit longer. What if slave revolts caused labor prices to sky rocket, what if deforestation had continued, what if some other nice use case for steam power has caused an innovation s-curve on that tech, and so on. History is weird and so are humans. It could have been some hot new toy or religious ritual of the spins that did it. Saying it had to be coal mining is pretty baseless.
It's possible to do both.
This reminds me of something I read about babies (I have one). When they cry for hunger, is it that they are trying to say "I want food"? Probably not - it's more like, my stomach feels emptyish and that feels dangerous and I want something to come help me feel different.
Which is why the carbon needs to stay in the ground. But we're taking it out and pumping it into the atmosphere as fast as we can so that we can get a new iPhone every year.
> "You're receiving this email because you signed up on HackerNews"
> That is a lie, and a tactic used by utter scum.

I think 'utter scum' is an extreme reaction. And it's not necessary to make your point.
A footnote that was arguably one of the key driving forces though. Coal was burned in stoves and used in blast furnaces as well as in newfangled Newcomen Engines

Even Canal Mania, the Industrial Revolution mass expansion of boat transport using horses and artificial ditches (all tech familiar to the Romans) kicked off in the 1760s as a way to get coal out of the Duke of Bridgwater's mines.
CS has a ton of people in it and they produce a lot of garbage papers. Oh you retrained your ML model? Boom, new paper.
DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Gen
The wording of the article - and also of the title here - is very misleading.

> Methane accounts for half of the average 1.0 degrees C of warming the world suffered over the past decade and reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming. The United States, in partnership with the European Union, is leading the Global Methane Pledge to reduce overall methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030.

Reducing yearly methane emissions will NOT reduce warming. The article is about reducing the amount of additionally emitted methane in the future.
Text to 911: What You Need to Know (2020)
The whole cryptocurrency ideology is founded on stories of central banks and large companies and the UN and whatever supposedly scheming in various ways against they public interest, and therefore the need for some means of payment (sorry: “store of value”) that exists outside the power structures and cannot be stopped by “the elite”.

Now you’re saying you need the government to step in because some middling IT company doesn’t want to play with you?
Even a casual search on google will show you that art forgeries are at epidemic levels. Modern forging techniques are so good that the copies are indistinguishable from the original with all non destructive testing techniques. Which of course are of course very undesirable to perform. I now find it difficult to accept much of what is in museums are authentic. The incentive to steal these artworks and such are simply too great. You can literally make generational wealth from selling a single famous artwork if you can pull off the swap. How hard can it be to buy off underpaid under funded museum staff?
Not necessarily, companies sometimes organize a conference at break-even (or at a loss) with motivation to build a name, attract clients, for hiring, etc.
I would imagine that "good number of people" are mostly Linux hobbyists, and from my personal experience most people use them as a tinkering or IOT device rather than a full-blown desktop due to the lack of performance. If you're mostly in the terminal that's fine, but for running complex web apps a used x86 would make more sense.

I can definitely see that hobbyist market and future Pi-like devices moving to RISC-V, but I'm less certain about mainstream use unless Windows and Mac (or maybe even Android and ChromeOS) really decide to move over.
> Go can be simply characterised as a slightly stripped version of the Oberon-2

Well, not really; there are not much similarities between Oberon and Go besides the receiver syntax of Oberon-2 bound procedures (which was invented by Mössenböck btw) and the fact that both are garbage collected. In your list "removed from Oberon" you should add type inclusion (Go doesn't even have implicit coercion); there is an intersection of keywords and also := appears in Go, but the semantics are rather different; coroutines were defined as an option in the Oakwood guidelines, but by different people than the language authors; I never met an Oberon compiler which implements them.
I'd say TVs are still the norm, my social circle is 30~50 and o think everyone got one, for streaming mostly. As for the older generation it's also still a thing you just need to have. As for sizes, I think they've also increased over the last decade or two, but at least in the cities if you're limited to a smaller place I think people go for 40 rather than 50 inches. Can't really speak for the younger generations, but I feel they're more comfortable watching stuff on their phones, college students probably also due to financial or space reasons.

Hot water mostly comes from central heating with gas, some homes in my city have district heating. At least up until now, electric heating, be it for water or the whole apartment was way to expensive so that you'd only consider that if you really have no other choice, for example, an old building from 100+ years ago with retrofitted central heating might have an electric water heater for the kitchens as they only did the bathrooms.
> It’s not that you’re allowed to omit the head element (you’re not, and you can’t), but that its start and end tags are optional.

That’s like calling a cheese sandwich without any cheese a cheese sandwich.
If a security agency has a backdoor in intel CPUs, it seems unlikely to me that they would go around dropping hints like that.
You mean, if you format the email in the right way, you can get your email alias to send an email to someone, before they send a single email to you?
Is this essentially a rebranding of what was GitHub OCTO (Office of the CTO, I believe?)
I'm not buying an EV to save money. Right now the economics are a bit skewed, but I'd buy an EV even if gas was $1/gallon. Emissions are the reason why I want to buy an EV. Ditto for going solar, etc.
big difference between a $300 p/h client a $20 p/h client.

guessing the former is from prior connections, employers, word of mouth and the latter from contracting services.
It's not complex at all: if you use Copilot to generate code for you you are engaging in copyright infringement.

That you got the code from and entity that stole it somewhere else doesn't really matter. Generative models should respect copyright for their sources, and using a generative model to create new works that you intend to claim copyright on is stupid: someone may well show up one day with ironclad proof that you used their code without permission.
It's not fallacious. You even agree that it costs the school money.

You are correct that it's a small amount, but it's still a cost to the school.

If it doesn't benefit the school then it's a waste of the school's money.

Also, most school boosterism/Officer-friendly type posters aren't framed, while this law requires the school to put up a framed poster if that's what someone donates. I wonder what the school will do if it's framed in glass.
>Neoliberal capitalism won't innovate on these areas.

Wouldn't you put the transition from agriculture based economy under neoliberal capitalism? We went from 90% farm employment to 10% while massively increasing output.

Tech folks don't think food production is exciting so they miss all the innovation.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/8/22872749/john-deere-self...

As to housing and health care, we don't have "neoliberal capitalism", we have highly regulated, captured, markets. If you moved to zero zoning in SF you'd start to have innovative building.
Every company can get started with an open-source software strategy
Trilogy: New database adapter for Ruby on Rails
You kids with your shiny PDP-11s.

Me, I had to start out with a machine that didn't even have load or store instructions (CDC 6600).
Over the next 6-12 months, they may try to draw NATO into making a first strike for some reason, which will give them a domestic and international propaganda tool.
I still see a "Category" panel on the right-hand side, and clicking on the name of a category (like "Things I won't work with") seems to show posts just from that category.

Not all of them are titled "Things I won't work with", but others seem still on-theme.

If it doesn't show up in your browser, try this: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
I’m sorry, but this has to be one of the dumbest things the Biden administration has ever done. He needs to pull a George H. W. Bush and just say he over promised and not go through with this.

The intention is great and all. Helping out students that were affected by the pandemic. But the execution of this is horrible.
Sorry, but that's not how the law works. Try that excuse the next time you're stopped for speeding and see how well it works.
> At the very least those regimes would likely target additional surveillance towards people genetically predisposed to homosexuality. That’s oppressive in and of itself.

Ok, now you're becoming reasonable

> To flip things around, would it be justifiable to enable a society to punish voluntary acts of heterosexuality?

Some of those same countries do exactly that. What do you think happens to a woman in Iran who has sex outside of marriage?

Anyway, why should a few crazy countries like that determine what can be published in Nature? If there are low-hanging fruits that they can abuse to persecute people, they will just fund the studies domestically.

But honestly, this sounds just like paranoia. The real discussion is about the parent not wanting to give birth to a kid with trait X.
This, so much. All efforts are futile if we continue to dig out extra carbon (oil, coal, limestone) and insert it into the carbon cycle, making the whole climate situation worse every day.
Wow that is a really stupid rule I wonder what they are trying to accomplish with that. More unnecessary government crap.
Sure is. Governments are so addicted to printing and spending at this point that not even inflation can slow them down.
Sorry, I thought the second time (!) I've submitted this that the HN filter didn't mess up the link. Here it is (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/28/2022-09...), hopefully!

In case that the overagressive HN filer ate it again, it's https www-federalregister-gov documents/2022/04/28/2022-09027/filing-patent-applications-in-docx-format

Also dang, recently HN's filters are too aggressive - from sentence-casing USPTO (to Uspto which isn't even a pronounceable acronym) to removing Twitter's search queries.
Probably not much. People have believed BS forever, and mistrusted actual facts for just as long. Deepfakes are just another tool BS-slingers have in their box of dickish tricks.
Me. Someone who has 10 years of experience and I feel absolutely terrible charging companies insane amount of money doing work that I don't feel like provide that much value to society compared to other way more important jobs that are paid way less.

As a result I decided to base my rates on what's the average for my particular position in my country. This way I feel at least a bit less guilty.
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner & John Markoff[1]

This book was really my entry point into the world of "hacking" as "breaking into things" and computer security, and the computer underground scene. It's broken into three sections:

1. A recounting of Kevin Mitnick's early days out in LA

2. A stripped down re-telling of the German hackers story (as recounted at greater length and in first-person in The Cuckoo's Egg)

3. A section on Robert Morris and the "Morris Worm" events

There are some questions about the veracity of parts of this book, especially the sections on Mitnick, but I think it's still worth a read. But if you're into this sort of thing, I'd suggest also reading other books on Mitnick (particularly his auto-biographical book Ghost In The Wires[2]) to get a more balanced view of his story - as well as more of what happened later in Mitnick's life.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fr...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/...*
You can't really slap an AT motherboard in an LED light bulb and call it a day. Fabs produce all manner of chips, not just GPUs and CPUs.

Over the last 40 years all manner of circuits composed of discrete components have been replaced with chips. Voltage regulation is a chip, battery protection is a chip, rectification is a chip.
ITP 2.1 and Web Analytics
Skip the boring intro: https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?t=395
It's kind of seen as a joke in France. Sounds like a setup for the more than likely electricity issues that are about to come for this winter.

The bottom line is that we had a piss poor energy planning over the last decades and now that Europe can't rely on cheap gas we're fucked. We had more than enough time to upgrade our nuclear/renewable park.

With 10 millions people in poverty, the abundance ended a while ago. Meanwhile petrol companies never made such profits: http://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/27887.jpeg
I don’t know what it works like. But if I lived anywhere in China I would be scared of a shanghai style lockdown.
That is not what these "guidelines" do. I quoted the part where they deny that race is biological at all. There is simply no other way to read the words. Once again:

> Race and ethnicity are sociopolitical constructs. Humans do not have biological races, at least based on modern biological criteria for the identification of geographical races or subspecies.

This is simply false. It's fiction. A substitution of political ideology for fact. People are attempting to turn "we don't have a precise test for race" into "race does not exist". Even ignoring the fact that today anyone can go to 23andMe and get a genetic test that will assign them a percentage composition by race / ethnic group, it's obvious that race is a useful, if imprecise, real-world categorization. We can acknowledge this without being discriminatory.

This entire conversation is the equivalent of someone claiming that water was a "sociopolitical construct" before scientists knew what atoms and elements were, because we couldn't define it chemically. If HN existed in the pre-times, you'd have people chiming in that "other clear liquids exist and can be confused with water! the classification is incomplete!" as proof of claim.
How to set yourself up for success in a Staff+ engineering role
Same here. Hourly billing is nice when you're a lawyer or an accountant. The best part: the crappy customers all left and eventually got replaced by much better ones.
CTO here, but I built the first bits of our SF setup. It’s essentially a fully cloud hosted rapid development environment that gives you a database and ways to visualise and do crud on this. For line of business stuff this can be really powerful. As a dev, it’s mostly around gluing the bits between and around the key crud actions and doing meta presentation and interface stuff.
> Honestly, try browsing the web for a few minutes and it gets uncomfortably hot.

I really haven't had that experience in quite a while. I am mostly running DanctNIX or postmarketOS 22.06 with Phosh and browse with Firefox (with uBlock Origin - I also have a second Firefox profile that has NoScript installed for sites that just have too much janky JavaScript) or Epiphany.

It may help that the south of Germany is not super hot (just hot) and that I use Biktorgj's Modem firmware.

Edit, example: I am writing this in Firefox on postmarketOS while having 4 other tabs open and also two more apps (Tootle and Secrets), and the phone isn't even slightly warm.
I didn't miss that at all.
You guys are having way too much fun in this spreadsheet, lawl.
I went through this process the other day with an expired passport and it took two weeks from submitting my documents online to getting a new passport and passport card. I had paid for expedited processing and shipping. Overall a great experience.
For this one in particular, it was split into a dozen or so modules and each one was specced and priced individually. Like you suggested, work didn't start until a module was fully done w/ all the design and specifications, and we mostly were able to stay 3-4 modules ahead in terms of requirements gathering. Not super agile but if you're quoting a price for months and months of work where the deadline is literally "this specific Tuesday in May," Agile just doesn't work. This time was "free" but included in my 450/hr number.

There a couple legitimately important "new" things which came up. Some got added on as T&M to one invoice or another, some I just did because they were just a few hours of work and not really worth the back and forth.

I would be very, very hesitant to start on a large fixed-price project without knowing a lot about the industry already.
"Modern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]" - https://youtu.be/QpAhX-gsHMs

"Linux User/Kernel ABI: the realities of how C and C++ programs really talk to the OS - Greg Law" - https://youtu.be/4CdmGxc5BpU
The amount of warming depends on the amount of gas (CO2, CH4 or other) in the atmosphere. Stopping all emissions today would not change the huge amounts all ready up there. So we are locked in for a certain amount of warming.

The rate of emissions just controls how much more warming and how much sooner the existing warming will occur.

This is one of the core problems with Human responses to the problem: people think they can wait until it gets 'bad enough' then stop their emissions and things will improve. But they will keep getting worse because of the lag between emissions and effects.

As for CO2 vs Methane, Methane is responsible for about 20% of all man made warming (1). So eliminating it completely would still leave 80% of warming... This is because we emit a lot, lot more CO2 than Methane.

The division is really a false one IMHO, because a lot of methane comes from coal mining and oil/gas extraction. So unless you stop using fossil fuels (the number 1 CO2 source) you cannot stop methane emissions...

1: https://www.epa.gov/gmi/importance-methane
The flexibility that makes RISC-V so compelling in embedded roles (what if I want 64 bit address but don't need hardware floating point?) makes it a harder target for the sort of workloads that you'd usually run on a server or desktop. If I were going to create an open high performance core to challenge x86 and ARM's A series cores I'd probably use PowerPC as a base rather than RISC-V. But I do think that RISC-V has a bright future in other segments.
To put it a similar way: If you get 5 LinkedIn recruiters reaching out to you a month looking for contractors, and you need a new contract once every 6 months. That's 5*6 = 30 opportunities per contract period. You can only do one, so price your services such that only 29 of the 30 will say you're too expensive (or to play it a bit safer, let's say 9 out of 10).
They do, but at scale that drops, and unlike oxen, they're trainable for producing value beyond sheer energy.
A spinning wheel is not required to industrialize textile production since it's just a convenient way to use a spindle. What you'd need is industrial-scale frame jacks to allow one person to run dozens of spindles at the same time plus an external power source to apply.

Same goes for milling (grist and saw), smithing, or any of dozens of other artisan crafts that were obviated by the development and application of external power sources.
This is mostly due to ease of distribution. The binary is self-contained, no need to ship anything but the binary itself. You can also compile locally and then run it elsewhere that is a completely different flavor of Linux. Quite handy when experimenting. Finally, no dependency on libc enables easy cross-compilation. You might not even have libc installed for the architecture you are targeting!
Project Oberon 2013 emulator and RISC compiler in Go:
https://github.com/fzipp/oberon
https://github.com/fzipp/oberon-compiler
It gives them more data to work with because they can background check your references. And plenty of people will pick someone who won't vouch for them.
Not the OP, but I charge a weekrate, ex expenses. Not for software development, but the same principles apply: if it isn't worth it then whoever wants to hire me is free to go elsewhere. The big trick is to deliver a large multiple of your weekrate in value for the party you are working for.
For those who care and that I’m not patronizing - this is the same kind of behavior you see in TNT (though way more extreme in this molecule). Basically the bonds in these molecules are so unstable they are teetering at the top of a hill and just need a nudge to roll down that hill and become far more stable and much lower energy nitrogen molecules (N2 as nitrogen a nitrogen molecule, not elemental N on the periodic table). When they roll down that hill they let off a huge amount of energy as the bonds break and reform. That energy can be translated to force, as it does in bombs. Just touching this stuff is enough to trigger the bonds to start breaking in a nasty chain reaction.

Amazing they were able to characterize this stuff (that is get the x-rays, NMR specs, etc). I think the only way this stuff could be useful is if it could be somehow completely immobilized in a liquid or solid until use. Sounds insanely dangerous!
You are probably right. But computers were not like that for the last 40 years. I wonder about alternative history without IBM PC Compatible. Maybe we just hit the performance wall and now the only way forward is system on chip. Anyway, better move on and start thinking about your computer as an appliance.