skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see when Starlink is going to have some competition. SpaceX managed to get to market first with a low cost network of cheap satellites. But there are others that are trying to do that as well (e.g. OneWeb). There are a few other companies like Amazon with similar ambitions. But it seems they each are years away from going live.

Also, SpaceX is the cheapest way to get to orbit now so a lot of these companies are probably struggling on the cost front.
Dissolution as it did was quite organised. Especially when you take into consideration that the society could barely function in market economy after decades of living sovietism. And economically it was a mess with too much focus on military complex. The rest being terribly inefficient.

The only way to stay away from the old apparatchiks would have been management by occupational forces for several decades. And that occupational forces should have kept USSR market closed instead of pushing their own produce. Which is hardly possible.
Stabile diffusion is most of all a waste of resources! 20 billion parameters trained, using I dont know how many CPU hours, all for making better artistic images than what an amateur would do and on par with professionals. Art is nice, but not important for survival, contrary to smartly using the resources of the planet. Do you want to see a future way to live on or "the rest of Mona Lisa"?
What would you say is a good and a top hourly rate?
Yeah vault is great… unless you need to store 4096bit keys on a postgres backend… can't do that.
The more diversity of tools programmers use, the merrier. We can't all pile up on one Big Tech™ thing and then no one dares to innovate or build another tool. I use vim and sublime text.

Similarly, I'd like to see more hardware besides every dev studio using Macbooks. Close to 100% marketshare of macbooks, if that happens, would be terrifying.

Microsoft, Apple are awesome. Just that they're now the size of nation states.
https://www.qutebrowser.org/
What is the right to invade for you? Something like pretending there are hidden mass disruption weapons you know are not there but you want to invade because the about-to-be-invaded country decide to sell oil in € instead of dollars? Or pretending that a country you want to control hide someone you look for? Or pretending there is a repressive government while you just pursue United Fruits co private interest?
JetBrains Fleet (https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/) may already be doing something like this

> Fleet provides a polyglot experience, offering smart support for many languages and technologies out of the box, with support for even more planned via dedicated plugins. With the help of LSPs you will also be able to use other language services in Fleet.

> Fleet is designed to automatically detect your project configuration from the source code, maximizing the value you get from its smart code-processing engine while minimizing the need to configure the project in the IDE.
It was interesting but not as good as I expected given that Herzog is quite brilliant. I think he got less of Gorbachev's time than he expected when he started.
What does it matter what Slovenia wants? NATO is US empire, at the end of the day it's US decision.
FYI you can get around HSTS errors on Chromium-based browsers by typing thisisunsafe.

Source: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/d8fc089b62c...
India has seen some huge high profile protests against the government. The government of India could not deal with these protests and had to back down and reverse their decisions. The reality is that because of various known reasons and observations we can conclude that the Indian government is weak and can’t push back on widely held public opinions.

So it is interesting that not one big popular protest happened because 5 million or more people died because of either covid, or covid containment related reasons like the decline of the economy or unavailable of other services like surgeries. Not only this, in the many important elections that have been held in India, compensation for covid related losses is not a major election issue in any one of those.

So in my opinion, this article‘s conclusion on India is hilariously off the mark. Even most of the liberal media in India which is opposed to Modi and his government and sends people out into the countryside for investigation has said that though there is evidence of economic destruction because of the lockdown and fear there is no evidence of large scale death.

Some BJP supporters will look at articles like these and claim that this is all a vast conspiracy to defame Modi and India. I don’t put much value in such claims. I think the conclusions are because of bad application of statistical reasoning. One size fits all application of some statistical tool on a global scale clearly shows the writer’s lack of understanding and their immaturity. Whatever figures they are using are clearly missing context specific to each country and this makes these results useless.
> As a further example, VSCode is sweeping aside a whole bunch of absolutely garbage embedded programming environments, and I assure you nobody is crying any tears for them.

Quick point about embedded: in my short summer internship where I was working on some STM32 hardware, I was quickly exposed to the plethora of semi-proprietary embedded IDEs which were themselves based on FOSS IDEs and editors (STM32CubeIDE, MBED Studio, etc).

Why do these even exist? It boggles the mind. These companies (NXP, STM, Infineon, TI, Nordic, MBED, etc) spend money on maintaining all this software and paying their own developers/contracting this IDE development work out. In the end, they're just glorified Makefile + C/C++ linters and editors.

On the other hand, I had a particularly pleasant time writing embedded and remote C++ with CLion (it's still proprietary, but it's really good). I was writing a client C++ application running on the Raspberry Pi (cross-compiled, and remotely debugged) to communicate with an STM32 (also cross-compiled, and debugged with a probe).

The debugging experience was glorious. One breakpoint in the client triggered another in the STM32, and everything was just completely seamless.
But ultimately these applications are still winning based on merit. If somebody created a new editor or browser that was substantially better, nothing's really stopping everyone from moving to it.

Now- we can talk about how it's a problem that nobody can afford to build something good enough to compete with what these megacorps can afford to develop and give away for free. But that's a different, older, much bigger discussion.
They're talking about Nomad here, with the "tech" in the GP comment widening the discussion, I assume.
There used to be a bird called the 'Passenger Pigeon'. It "was once the most abundant bird in North America, numbering around 3 billion, and possibly up to 5 billion." It was hunted to extinction by 1901.

Glad to see people more concerned about bird populations. But, of course, that isn't why this wind-turbine meme is kept circulating.
Hmm, actually researching this more, I don't think it's actually legal for a regular individual or corporation to make a copy of a DVD movie for backup purposes. I don't think it actually falls under fair use.

You can backup software[1][2] (allowed by law, not fair use) but not movies.

[1] https://www.southerncaliforniapatents.com/articles/2014/10/0...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
It can gives significant reduction sometimes because sometimes the input is "uncompressed" (which png supports), basically just like bmp.

In general, I don't find optimizing png beyond the default compression level worth it for typical personal use. But can see why they are useful if you're hosting things.
I don't know. I worked in the projection booth of a movie theater when that came out. I don't think anybody actually believed it was found footage.

But it was still pretty creepy shutting down for the night after it played.
First you cut the budget for decades, then you complain why the agency needs more money to do the job they should have been doing decades ago.
Meanwhile Google and Facebook internally use VS Code based IDEs as their official developer tooling. Pretty sure their legal teams have considered any legal risks with licensing.
> The transition to a market economy went very well for most of the former Soviet Republics except Russia.

Haha what? There were 15 Soviet Republics. Can you name the "most" of them where the transition went well?
> but I think they're way overblowing the panic

I think some concern is warranted simply because few people are aware that the default VS Code distribution has spyware and proprietary addons in it, and you do need to use something else if you prefer a fully FLOSS ecosystem.
In that same vein, I really like the Alan Tutorial channel on youtube. Starts off as slightly off comedy, and subtly builds to horror.
More like Spain constitution doesn't have an article detailing exit process.

Meanwhile USSR constitution had such article. Which was used by Lithuania when declaring independence.
Do you have a great idea for an iPhone app, but are stuck on figuring out how to develop it? Maybe you don’t have the funds to hire an in-house developer, or you’re just looking to create a one-off app. Whatever your situation, look no further than Data EximIT.
I only have to make respectful responses when dang is around.
Did you click on a wrong link? Lol

DJI made the video, did they sponsor themselves? They don't even show the drone in the video so I don't know where you're seeing product placement.
> The politics isn't as good as I'd like, but often the politics never actually materializes as a bad user experience, despite the complaints.

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. "
Vault is great. But if I were to start learning Terraform now, I'd probably ditch it in favor of Pulumi.

Terraform was supposed to make writing DRY easy. It's often more reasonable to copy-paste parts of configuration than to try make it DRY. HashiCorp seems to have the approach of "if something can be hacked around, even in a very convoluted way, we can ignore any feature requests for that thing to be doable in a normal fashion".

Instead of fixing Terraform, Hashi is creating more and more products that likely will be increasingly unpleasant to use and won't get reasonable fixes, just as Terraform.

The way HashiCorp approaches creating an ecosystem, makes me want to stay away.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?locat...
I feel like I’m watching an explosion of progress in AI image generation in real-time.

Every day there’s a new application of Stable Diffusion. It’s incredible to watch unfold
The upshot of such a graphical IDE for me is basically lots of panes and windows to rapidly search in. I might have one library I've branched 7 times for 12 projects and need to have a few open and jump quickly to which version some line of code is referencing. It also helps with keeping version control and history right next to the working files. A bash script would be fine for syncing but it's not going to give me a diff on each file before I upload to a production environment. Playing it that close requires tooling in some red and green to make sure you don't hit the wrong button.
Should we admit that world wars don't need to involve superpowers - or at least only superpowers? The term wasn't that much applicable before end of WWII.

So here we can argue that in WWIV a non-superpower fights - Ukraine, on its territory, a superpower - USA, merely - but with principal results - supporting Ukraine, and the rest of the West. We may not call it a proxy war - I agree, it's a rather poor comparison - but for WWIV term it is another matter.
That's a pretty apt analogy, because there's a lot of negatives about electric cars currently.

I wouldn't buy an electric car right now, and I similarly wouldn't buy ARM desktop PC that's bundled with anal probing from Apple and unlimited limitations.
What does .NET (and Visual Studio for that matter) have to do with Visual Studio Code? The latter is an IDE based on web technologies that shares naming with Visual Studio proper in the same way Java shares a name with JavaScript.

> I've never seen the point of it

Well if we're talking .NET, it's OSS now and runs on Mac/Linux/Docker. It's legitimately a great platform for writing backend services. C# is a java-like that has a lot of really nice benefits over java (in a similar vein to Kotlin). C# also pioneered the async/await syntax you see everywhere now, and as such has first class async and streaming support which is a real boon for workloads.

> Notepad++

A man of culture I see!
I haven’t used the VSC remote thing. I believe it requires to install things on the remote computer, and if those are unavailable you’re out of luck. Tramp makes do with whatever is there.
I've been daily driving Poco F1 for months and closely monitor its development. I'm glad that Drew Devault has switched to it, But there are some major discrepancies with his installation experience and that of others incl. me on multiple devices.

1. Xiaomi unlocking experience is indeed a pain, But the 30 day interval has been removed for time between unlocking,Following the XDA guide should be fine[0] and SIM requires data connectivity.

2. pmbootstrap flashing tool works flawlessly if the device Wiki is followed properly[1], The only thing I would add to the installation step with pmbootstrap is enabling Full Disk Encryption before flashing.

pmbootstrap install --fde

And regarding the usage, headphones and GPS doesn't actually work as of writing but the location from WiFi (or) Cellular.

We had a small discussion about Drew's installation experience at the Matrix channel[2] where the actual SDM 845 kernel developers and device maintainers participate hangout, The general consensus is that he seems to have faced a random error during pmbootstrap flashing and probably didn't try again.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/poco-f1-ultimate-collecti...

[1] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Poco_F1_(xiaomi-be...

[2] https://matrix.to/#/#sdm845:postmarketos.org
We had our neighbors (who we thought our friends) break into our apartment and steal stuff.
USSR constitution did allow such unilateral exit declarations.

Of course, USSR constitution declared many things that were far from truth. But ultimately words on paper do make a difference, even in totalitarian regimes.
I would only consider moving away from emacs for something faster and equally extensible. VSCode always felt slow to me and it seems like a really bad idea to even invest in extending it.

I did like the whole idea of LSP and have liked the changes that it has brought to emacs in unifying autocomplete and syntax highlighting even though it doesn't always work and can be rather slow. Too bad that it was Embrace Extend Extinguish all along.
Even developers are taken for a ride. Just like WhatsApp and Chrome, it all comes down to ripple effects of "If others didn't use it, I can't". I have given a number of examples of this stubborn sticky monopoly below.

Every newbie while learning to code: scared of reviews on internet like "I couldn't get help with this editor online or with colleagues and I can't risk being stuck on this project so I switched to VS Code"

Every newbie while interviewing: impress interviewers even by a little chance that they use the "industry standard" tool to code.

Every experienced developer, even on this HN post, says "It doesn't have excellent support like VS CODE, in remote development, centralized marketplace, etc."

I have pieced together and my conclusion comes from the observation below. There is a reason enterprise, rather than startup world use M$ products. The power and money to fight for fairness.

Their C#/.NET compiler is open source and excellently designed but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like closed source]

VSCODE is open source but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like telemetry and extensions where the real power lies, being closed source]

Phone and App market but to with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ it is going to be based on android like Edge on Chromium]

VStudio is best IDE but to with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like telemetry + closed source extensions + Heavy + slow + whatnot!]

MAUI is Wowza! tool with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like repackage old Xamarin in new branding]

OneNote is the best note taking app ever but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like lock in using obscure format and closed source]

Every company they acquire but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ Embraaace Exteeend Extin...]
> I agree that there is no such thing as an ethical ad

Are you saying an ethical ad is possible, but it has never existed to this day? Or that it’s impossible to ever make an ad ethical?

It seems that using your definition of an advert, an ad can theoretically be made ethical by addressing the issue of consent and psychological manipulation. But it’s probably not practical.
Nit pick: https://www.vim.org/sources.php

Just so we're completely off of Microsoft. :-)
> The situation with bad application behaviors being "baked into the code" and propagating to all the "free" distributions is very sad, similar to what's happening with both Chrome and Firefox.

> For example, HSTS is now baked into the all the standard distributions and there's absolutely no way (that I've found) to turn it off. I understand the "security" reasons behind it for regular users, but as someone mindful and often completely unable to access a website only because their certificate has expired, I am quite miffed.

I triple checked because I wanted to be absolutely sure: HSTS is a response header (Strict-Transport-Security) sent by the server. It is expressed as the intent of the website you’re trying to visit that it shouldn’t be accessed insecurely. The “bad application behavior” is honoring the site’s express intent and the standard, voluntarily adopted by the server you’re trying to access.

You’re certainly welcome to use or write your own HTTP client which ignores the intent of resources you want to access. You’re just as welcome to write your own browser which ignores CORS and all manner of other client/user protections. It’s baffling that you feel entitled to have people do that work for you. Particularly because nearly all of the work already has been done for you, and you’re still miffed because they didn’t cater to your preferences in the exact way you want.
https://crypton.sh/ sells real mobile numbers (not VoIP) purchasable anonymously with crypto.
Yep, they only allow trading during specific times.
Microsoft created VSCode and other company's want create a paid saas, but can't easily doing this without have own LSP extensions and marketplace?

Seems legit to me.
Yeah, DJI is like the Microsoft/Apple/Google of drones... just a big standard company that everyone uses.

Reminds me this photo of the North Korean dictator guy using a Mac to carry out his shenanigans: https://www.businessinsider.com/brand-new-photo-confirms-tha...

I mean, yeah, he uses a telephone too and has a bog-standard photo frame. Some things are just commodities now... consumer drones are arguably like that. Doesn't really matter that it's DJI or any other company.

Unless there are export restrictions on non-Chinese drones...? But lol, are there even any non-Chinese consumer drone manufacturers still in business or did DJI eat them all?
I didn't know the addons were proprietary, so I was glad to learn about that

But I think anybody who even knows what FLOSS means would know to at least do some research before installing an application from Microsoft if that's something they're worried about

All in all, I still don't see a reason for panic. The author makes it sound like Microsoft is going to kill the entire open-source editor ecosystem and prevent anybody from ever creating an alternative to their worse and worse "venus flytrap" of a tool. I just don't see a pathway to that.
huh? That makes no sense to me (I must be missing something here).

'perform' is indeed a msg. The integer object doesn't need a 'perform' method in order to do something with that call. Its entirely up to each object to decide how it wants to deal with a msg. Including those msgs for which there isn't a corresponding method.

In other words, the caller has NO way of knowing (or enforcing) what the object its sending a msg to, does with that msg. Eg: based on certain runtime conditions, an object can reconfigure itself at runtime, and simply proxy certain messages to another object, potentially running on a different machine, and relay the results back.

How is that not message passing?
TypeScript type-challenges
I've been using "Starlink for RV" for a couple months now. It's nice in that the alternative is often nothing at all, but it's not nearly as reliable as I'd like. I'm constantly battling trees, because it wants to look really low on the horizon. Even when I have full line of sight to all of the sky, it cuts out with some frequency (multiple times per hour) for anywhere from a couple seconds to half a minute. And the speed is heavily throttled on the RV plan (or on the "portable" plan for those who primarily have a fixed address).

Starlink is fantastic in some ways, but I think they've massively oversold it, and I'm not sure they'll ever catch up as they're recruiting people faster than they're adding satellites. I've now used it all around the country, and it seems particularly bad on the US east coast.

I worry that this push to sell to more-lucrative customers at sea is just going to make the service even worse for nobodies like me.
Do you understand what I mean by "kiosk"? It's not entirely derogatory, it's not a meaningless insult. Just because you can use a piece of software to accomplish your goals doesn't make it not a kiosk. A kiosk is a type of interface that intentionally limits functionality to restrict user behavior to behavior desired by the actual operator. The Redbox at 7-11 is running kiosk software. It works perfectly when you want it to spit out a DVD.

So I've got a device in my hands right now, and I can make calls and browse the web and talk to my friends. But you know what I can't do? Change the default DNS server. Why do you think that is? My device is physically capable of this, the Linux kernel running on this device is capable of it, yet the system prevents me from doing so. What if I want to? It's mine isn't it? Why is it deliberately designed to prevent me from doing so?

It's a kiosk. Just because it does everything you need it for doesn't change this, it just means your needs are very limited.

You're wrong about Linux BTW. You can do anything you want with it, with as much ease as you desire. You sound like you feel insulted by what I said and are trying to hit back, which is childish, and you sound like you haven't used a Linux system since 1999.

It's not about ideology. It's about being able to do anything with my property that it is capable of doing. I don't like being kneecapped, would you buy a kitchen knife with a handle deliberately designed to only work when wielded with your right hand? If you're right handed it does everything you need it to. Yet most people would consider it inferior, and even consider it insulting to their intelligence if such a knife was on a shelf in front of them with a price tag on it.
On the other hand, we now have LSP.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this! You can make your substantive points without swipes or snark.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.