skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still getting contract 101 vibes. As a software person, it's taken me a bit of time to absorb the difference between the idea pf IP in software, and in hardware, but once you bridge that, it does simplify things a bit.

ARM seems to be the AWS of hardware IP cores. It is very much the case that if someone is basing a design off their base designs, that comes with granting ARM a thumb on the scale, and a place at the negotiating table if two of their (ARM's) customers engage in an M&A. Qualcomm licensed stuff for handsets. Nuvia licensed stuff for servers. The new composite entity is still constrained by both contracts, which requires an IP firewall.

If, on the other hand, Qualcomm wanted Nuvia due to their server core IP, and does not intend to merely consume that company's blackboxed output, then they need to renegotiate terms with ARM, either acquiring a second license for Qualcomm proper, or paying whatever fees are customary for a transferrable license.

In the end, it's unsexy paperwork.

But I get it though. If you dig into semiconductor/hardware lit, like things on logic locking, that entire industry of fabless semi-conductor fabrication has a Jesus Nut in terms of license enforcement. The prospect of physical design/mask theft or unauthorized design reproduction in a way substantially different, and much more tangible than software is. It really annoys me that someone somewhere describes this as "piracy", because it isn't really, it's straight up breach of contract/unauthorized use of physical design masks. Like getting the printing plates from a mint.

Frankly, I've been skeptical of the entire thing, because it does basically rely on manufactured scarcity/info asymmetry created and maintained through legal means, but no one exactly asked either for my input, or seems open to being told not to try to monetize something you can only collect on by essentially parking lawyers at strategic points in the business lifecycle.

From a theoretical system point of view it works. From an execution point of view... Not so much.
Acknowledging it absolutely has legal repercussions.

Taking ownership is positive when the other parties are interested in an ongoing positive relationship. If the other party just wants the maximum blood/retribution, it’s just falling on your sword. And in the legal arena, that can be a lot more literal than you’d think.

In this situation, Krebs could easily be completely bankrupted by Ubiquiti with a naive statement of responsibility. If he stated it particularly naively, he might even face criminal charges.

I doubt he’d go to jail, but if he was that dumb, he might say similarly naive things at a criminal trial and end up there.

Lawyers jobs include keeping their clients mouths shut so they don’t footgun themselves like that.

Even if no one at Ubiquiti had a particular axe to grind, they have no personal relationship with him, and have no reason to NOT try to get as much out of him as they can. One could argue that they’d be negligent to those they do have a relationship with (partners, shareholders, employees) if they didn’t go after him as hard as they could, as long as they didn’t cause a PR nightmare.
https://archive.ph/EfjYU
My first reaction was “Geez. Please no” but I’m glad you are scrupulous about opt-in. But you also need to make it easy to opt-out and seriously-no more than one text per week from your platform. Just group 2-3 offers in one text because inevitably you’ll be spamming 1-2 texts a day if I sign up for 10 places.
While fares shouldn't be outrageously expensive, and better national-level through-ticketing would be nice, beyond that I'd rather have better (more frequent) and reliable, rather than simply massively cheaper service with no further service improvements.
What sort of problems would you need to be doing in Python that aren't already done by libraries like NumPy which would require that sort of mental model?
If people die, and there were super easy checks to kee power from tripping off that had been reported on and ignored, sure, I'll be mad as hell.

I'm still incredibly mad that PG&E's grid mismanagement has caused massive fires and killed so many people. Still mad as hell about that gas line explosion that killed people and took out homes.

So unless you have a particular fix or action to propose that comes from partisan politics, there's not much point into turning this into a partisan politics battle.
> Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven

FWIW the proper term is "data-informed."
That's a bit harsh.

I'm familiar with C/C++ and how pointers work, but that part of my mental knowledge never comes into play when I write python code, whether Django or not. And I've written substantial code in these two environments, they don't really intersect.

I mean, maybe once in a couple years you'd run into some weird problem that requires deep knowledge to solve, but "severely limits" might be a bit of an overstatement. (And might be some form of unwarranted gatekeeping IMHO.)

Everyone has limits/gaps in their knowledge, while C and pointers are part of the standard curriculum for CS degrees, not everyone has to be such cookie cutter devs (as long as they do their job and their employers are happy)
A lot of people will see this as a pure failure, but this is the system at work. Yes, there are improvements that can be made, but my understanding from reading this is they are handling it. This is part of the process, and it's the exception. This is part of the capacity planning, basically.

I guess I would equate it to getting DDoS'ed. You might declare an "emergency" but put into practice plans you had for when this happened. It's the exception, not the rule. It's an "emergency" but it's planned for.

Would it be great if this didn't happen? Sure. But that there clearly are plans in place when it happens is a good sign. It's much better than if nothing was done. You'd still have the emergency, but with no clear plan of action.
As a teenager I went to a Quaker summer camp with a lake where everyone swam naked if they wanted, counselors included. It felt healthy. The camp had very strong messaging about respect and how the body can be naked without being sexualized. Actually the rules were that anyone could be naked anywhere, which made communal living much easier, what with showering and people who like to sleep naked. I guess they probably can't do that any more (but I haven't asked).
Camera phones killed it but generative AI models will revive it.

Who cares if someone takes a photo of you on the beach when they can just as well ask the AI to see you nude in any situation they can dream of... That, or the burka will become very popular
>Yes, those specific anti-Zionists aren't anti-semites. These are the types of anti-Zionists that you'll find in tech circles who are educated, egalitarian minded people that are cognitively capable of separating the crimes of a state and the ethnic group inside it.

Israel hates these people the most. It's not hard to see why. Random people who attack Jews arent a threat - they get condemned and sent to prison quickly. BDS, on the other hand, has a history of successfully taking down apartheid states.

>That doesn't detract from the observation that there's an intersection and correlation between people who are anti-Zionist and people who are anti-semitic.

It really is curious. Every person I've observed who has tried to make this point has staunchly avoided condemning the publicly stated highly racist views of the President of Israel after I raised them.

It's not a correlation. It's literally 100%, even among people who are supposedly egalitarian and educated.

This does detract from your observation, Im afraid.

There is a very clear anti-zionism correlation to committed anti-racism, and an even higher correlation between being antiracist and those accused of antisemitism who deny it.

One or two nazis holding up a palestinian flag (not somethingk they tend to do a lot) doesnt change that.
This argument is like, "to save the kittens, kill the puppies".

Also, is the Moon really separate from the Earth? What will be the ecological effect on Earth if we start destroying the Moon?

Edit:

For anyone interested in understanding how the Moon affects life on Earth, following articles might help:

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-does-the-moon-affect-life...

https://www.iop.org/explore-physics/moon/how-does-moon-affec...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210820-the-subtle-influ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-moonlight-...

https://sciencing.com/moon-its-effect-weather-6315413.html

https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-a...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-life-tides
> what customers SAY they want doesn't necessarily corellate with what they will actually use

A key cause of this in many cases is that the stake-holders you talk to do not work closely with the end users of the system. Talking to the right people can help a lot, though unfortunately as a 3rd party this is not usually anywhere near your realm of control.

The other issue is them knowing what they have and wish to store, but not knowing what outputs are going to be needed down the line. That is harder to fix, but having some good industry knowledge within your company can be a great help on such matters – you can then sometimes preempt client needs if the people holding that knowledge are keeping an active eye on changes (for instance new/planned regulations that might be coming into force in X weeks/months/years).
The kind of "politics" to avoid at work is the kind you avoid in polite conversation: irrelevant. If one's work has nothing to do with Israel, then talking about it must causes problems. But if the work has an effect on the matter, then it's not just politics, it's work. And work should be talked about at work. That way, the people who make the decisions get relevant information. Politics can be messy, but we have to slog through those messes that fall along our path.

>I"ll never forget how that made me feel, and I hope I never make a young colleague feel the way I did.

That's a good lesson to be aware that power can unintentionally cause chilling effects (like in your experience). But I don't think that applies here, where an employee was trying to influence decision-makers up the hierarchy.
> Do you mean for card payments, like the card network and authorization flow?

Yes.
OP complained about that things don't move fast enough. It's like development has slowed down.

My argument is that developing a cell phone is way more difficult and complex than some other old inventions. Even though one can argue forever which innovation is most valuable.
But it doesn't get cold... why do you need insulation?

/s

(Yes, I realize that northern California can be snow-bound in the higher elevations)

Seriously though, I watch a few builders on YouTube, and the amount of insulation they put on spec homes is the minimal amount they can get away with. A shame, considering how you can get a home well enough insulated that you could heat it in a Canadian winter with a hair dryer.
Excel has a history of forced format updates, breaking incompatibility. I know people who banned it because they got tired of marching to MSs upgrade beat.

Python 2 to 3 upgrade aside, can’t really say the same about the language.

There are a number of good arguments out there that might violate an engineers perception, which one might call a cognitive data model built through training and experience.

There is no theory that makes any given engineering path “wiser” than others. Just engineers chasing incentives to be engineers.
It’s still a weird decision, because if I’m going to want a PWA anywhere it’s most likely to be on desktop, not mobile.

On mobile OSes there’s usually mobile apps available for a given service, but that’s not the case on desktop, where it’s sometimes useful to eschew browser chrome and defer window management to the OS window manager.
Even without many third party reviews, they've sold through 60,000 drivers (and counting) in less than two days. Seems like plenty of people are already taking them for their word, or just want to show support for the channel.
Ah, those damn Enron traders!!!
https://github.com/facebookincubator/velox
How do you attribute causality in each of these cases? Just because you know there is a "force" doesn't mean you know the extent to which that force influenced these outcomes, as there have always been extreme weather events.

In prior years I heard a big emphasis on climate vs weather, to inform the public that just because they had a cold winter, doesn't mean that the earth itself is cooling. It's a longer term trend, and it's hard to attribute individual events to it. I think that's the correct and nuanced view.

The view I have seen most recently in the media is "every extreme weather event that supports is evidence of long term climate change, every one that does not is short term weather". Are you promoting that view?
Yes, 0% artist. They're an Art Director, directing artists - not acting as an artist. (though they may well be one, of course)

Being an artist is a fusion of the creative impulse and the detailed creation of that work. typing a few words does not constitute detailed creation.
Three years to make a screwdriver. That says it all
> I would not doubt that, but you're ignoring personality disorder (and/or drug abuse, impossible to say) and fiscal irresponsibility, which each obviously contributed significantly.

who are you refering to? Linus?
Yes, indeed, that is poor phrasing on my part. They cut the shrink wrap, not the suitcase itself.
I think that's my point though, I can easily lose my phone, no harm done if one has the seed-values for the TOTPs and they are protected on the phone.

It's not so much asking for 'perfect' security - I agree, that doesn't exist.

But do HW security tokens create a probability of a hard lock-out that outweighs the security/convenience they provide.
tokyo - osaka 500km -> nozomi shinkansen 2.5hrs, hikari shinkansen 3hrs, ~EUR 100-150 one-way
Reducing Thrash in “Cannot Fail” Software Projects
Other people can buy the iFixit Mako [1] set instead of this screwdriver though. Perhaps not for the same price I did (I got the Pro Tech Toolkit on sale instead which contained the Mako set). It also includes Torx which the LTT one lacks.

I ended up buying the LTT one to reduce clutter with a bunch of my current 'normal' screwdrivers, but the end price was about 110 EUR with tax and S&H. Which is rather expensive if you ask me.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Pro-Tech-Toolkit/IF145-30...
now that's an interesting perspective on how AI could push certain religions/fashions
Does Google finally allow to add a PWA to the Play Store?

Just the domain, without having to package an Android app. Microsoft added that to their store years ago.
Seems like it would be a lot more efficient to just blow in a bunch of outside air when its cool outside.
That's what we have the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons for. It bans the use of incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas via air delivery, and delivery by other means under various circumstances. Cf https://treaties.unoda.org/t/ccwc_p3

Allegedly, the US fired such weapons from helicopters in urban areas with a civilian presence.
We've descended into this clickbait driven world of absolutes, when the reality are shades of grey.

Language agnostic folks are great (awesome) for being able to contribute in multiple places. There's a cost to pay, but one that's well worth it IMHO, in many cases. To be honest, this is my preference, as someone who hires a lot of these folks. It also changes the approach to team building - for the better, in my opinion.

But there are also many cases where this doesn't work. Not infrequently, you're looking for someone who has in depth experience in X domain, or Y ecosystem. This too has its place - and is driven by real business need.

But I won't pretend that someone with zero experience doing natural language development (yup, still a thing) can be effective. Some back end people will never grok front-end, and vice versa.

So, hiring is grey - intentionally, because it's situational.
I really want to know the story behind some of these images...
The compactness of L-systems makes me think it might be a good idea to combine these more traditional types of procedural generation with AI-based generation to take advantage of the efficiency. Especially if we were trying to quickly load in something like a virtual world (rather than needing to replicate a real one). The L-systems rules are probably much more compact than the AI vectors. And there might even be some parallel versions.

What we know about our brains (whether it's a simulated brain or not) tells us that effectively our perception is a simulation of our own. Because for example as you look around, your eyes only get high resolution data in the center, and that can only represent a fraction of the relevant immediate environment. And none of the senses or motor activations are quite real time, there is always some type of lag. The brain takes the data samples and uses them to fine tune a generative prediction system that constructs the dynamic and holistic 3d scene and your position in it using the computational power of your own network of neurons.

To me, dreams provide a certain level of proof that we can do this type of simulation, and something similar is happening while we are awake, but with environmental data sampling and other cognitive processes feeding in.
Because it's local trains with multiple stops. It's like comparing an average speed of car trips inside a city with multiple intersections (around 12-20 km/h) to a motorway average speed (100+ km/h) and saying that cars driving in the city are from the 1920s...
No, you were trying to disprove "a lot of people ... intentionally spread misinformation with the sole goal to demonize Russia as much as possible" and were caught spreading misinformation.
I think most that could have been said on this topic has been covered by the other comments. I’ll share an anecdote however on how ‘just build’ without impedance can lead to societal tech debt:

I live down the street from an underutilized former industrial complex. For over a decade now, the owners have planned a rehab to demolish old buildings and construct brand new shiny biotech offices (note: I live in a biotech hub, land is very expensive).

so why has it taken so long? Sure there’s your usual culprits like zoning review and environmental negotiations to cut down mature trees, but the real reason is debt from the 1920s. In the authors vaunted era of building, in the 1920s and 30s, the industrial complex built asbestos products. Now there are fine asbestos fibers in the soil across the entire complex, and demolition/construction will obviously disturb them from where they are currently at rest. This is an actual health hazard to the entire community and the workers, not just mere red tape.

It’s easy to forget because factories have largely moved out of the country, but regulations exist to protect our soil, our water, our air, and our health. We don’t need to create future superfund sites to satisfy our desire to move fast and build things.
The problem with PWAs is they will never gain parity with the functionality of native development.

Never? Why not?
My family actually were Muslims in the US in 1950, and I’m a little irritated at the suggestion of lacking agency.
ycombinator startup school disagrees and says it's one of the two CRITICAL things founders must have a hand in.

Of course you need to interpret it but its incredibly important and I do not think you really know what you are talking about.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6g-how-to-talk-to-users

Almost all the major fails I have seen in my career have been some derivative of not understanding your users.
Nature did that for us...it's called the Cape of Good Hope! It just takes a lot longer...
The nuclear plant was saved this morning: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1119778975/california-lawmake...
yes, but its per bucket rather than namespace/key. plus IAMs is a pain in the arse to setup
The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective (2017)
For me, largely ancillary reasons. One is its extreme degree of observability. At any point in time you can instantly answer complex, detailed questions like how many disk heads had to move to complete one given gmail request. Most of Google’s observability stack is attributable to the need to observe Colossus and D.
>you're ignoring personality disorder (and/or drug abuse, impossible to say)

Huh? Does Linus suffer from that?
One clear advantage of building mining operations on the moon is that much of the core technology can be applied to other many celestial bodies.
You claim it's a 'poor take' but you only repeat what you said prior with more words instead of elaborating on how so.

For example.

'Centralised notetaking/communication has been a solved problem since the BBS era'

How did BBS 'solve' this problem?
>through these steps

You mean the single step of clicking "yes" when prompted to install.
In today's news: "California lawmakers extend the life of the state's last nuclear power plant"

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1119778975/california-lawmake...
Not the whole EU, just the sensible parts.
The article itself says Newsom is trying to extend Diablo Canyon by five years.

But too many plants have gone offline and not been replaced; generating capacity appears to be flat for ten+ years or more.
This comment can only originate from someone who has lived in democracy all their life.

Having travelled the world for most of my life, and saw dictatorship at work, I think a lot of HN and Twitter evil sensors need serious calibration.

It's like looking at somebody with diabetes and saying they have terminal AIDS.
Isn't this provided by inetd and systemd? They bind the socket and hand it to the server, who doesn't need permission to bind any port at all? (with the added optional benefit of "socket activation", i.e. starting the server on-demand when the first connection comes in)
Well it certainly wasn't conservatives cheering and meme'ing the suffering of millions of Texans
> What will be the ecological effect on Earth if we start destroying the Moon?

Not even close to keep destroying the Earth.
Couldn't agree more.... I can imagine the Apple keynote version of this.

"Cross-platform apps have never been easier. All the features customers love from native now on the web... We call it iApps."
The Palo Verde nuclear plant is the largest in the US and isn't near a body of water. According to Wikipedia, "The power plant evaporates the water from the treated sewage from several nearby cities and towns to provide the cooling of the steam that it produces." Wonder if that could work for the drier parts of California.
You have to do both. You can't just look at data & you can't just talk to users / customers without looking back at data.
I don’t remember blackouts in my country since 90s. It seems that parts of US could be considered worst that third-world country with some aspects.

From my old experience I could suggest buying diesel generator and have enough supply of diesel fuel to run it for a few days at least. Also few tonnes of coal, but that’s for cold climate.
I live in Canada and that's news to me

I feel like most of the stuff I'd be using a screwdriver on came from the US, or Japan, or somewhere else. Especially electronics

I don't know if I buy that, LTT has never targeted a Canadian audience. If anything they try to make you forget they're Canadian. They only ever say US prices for things, which makes sense since that audience is way bigger. So I don't know why they'd target a screwdriver to Canadians.