skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, quality varies. But the vast majority of this is volunteer work. If I were developer of some app and I wanted it to work on Fedora, I'd probably be the maintainer of its package. But if I didn't want to do that, I'd at least be in contact with the person who was. "Hey heads up, we broke compat. Let me know if we need to huddle or something." Also seems a lot easier than inventing Flatpak and getting distros and users to use/like it.

So much of this stuff is like a default unwillingness to work with humans over the internet, but that's fundamentally how FOSS works. A couple years ago there was a kerfluffle between the scientific community and SciPy--the community wanted SciPy to maintain compatibility literally forever and also continue adding new features. SciPy was like, "that's impossible, and even if we wanted to it would take the resources of Microsoft to do". But they never talked about it! Instead there were open letters and forum threads.

The quickest route to fixing social problems like this--and they are social--is to deal with people. I'm pretty misanthropic, but even I have to admit this is true.

> Distros use the word "maintain" to describe what they're doing, but they don't seem to be doing that. To maintain a piece of software I'd expect the maintainer to need a deep understanding of the source code and to continually monitor changes. The complaints maintainers post that software changed seem to prove they aren't doing that.

I just want to point out that this is asking a lot. You're essentially asking Debian to find volunteers to become as knowledgeable about, say, Libreoffice, as the developers themselves. That's probably not gonna happen. I think a more reasonable definition of "maintainer" is "ensures the package continues to work on ${DISTRO}, reaches out to the developers if a new update breaks that". I'm not defending the case you brought up, that sounds pretty lazy to me, but in the vast majority of cases it works great.
Apparently there is high interest in finding life elsewhere in our galaxy, or in other galaxies.

Since a lot of such interest is resulting in US federal government funding and I am a US citizen, I have standing, if only as a taxpayer, in this interest.

About this interest and paying to pursue it with my tax money, I ask "Why should I?".

I confess that getting good evidence of such life would be curious, entertaining, fun, etc.

For any in doubt, I will just stipulate that there is a lot of life out there in our galaxy and the rest of the galaxies in the universe. Done. No more wondering or arguing. If you want, I'll also stipulate that they are all little, green, and have 10 legs and 5 eyes. And I will agree that we might find evidence of a Dyson sphere (build a sphere around a sun and collect all or a lot of the energy it radiates).

Second, but I will insist that, from all we know about physics now, there is no way for us ever to have anything like practical two way communications with any life that evolved outside of our solar system.

Third, with current physics, the search for life is at best just curious, entertaining, fun, etc., and, sorry, on these criteria some good movies are better! I can buy a good movie on a DVD for about $10 -- so if I give $10 for the search for that life, I'm all paid up?

Fourth, really, then, the search for such life needs to include a search for some radical new physics.
If want to pursue promising research directions in such physics, okay by me, but such research efforts should be low budget unless very promising, and I doubt that there will be any promising directions.

So, net, whatever astronomy, astrophysics, etc. are good for, the search for life that evolved outside of our solar system is not very serious -- or, such life IS there but with current physics there are no significant consequences for us. Sorry 'bout that.

Or, a big effort on the search for such life looks to me like some researchers want to do a big selling job to get taxpayers to give them an interesting career. Sorry 'bout that.

Or, if the search for life is mostly just for a search for some radical new physics, then sell the effort as a search for the physics, not the life. Or I agree already that there is a lot of life out there, but with our current physics there are no consequences for us -- stipulate that they are all green with 5 eyes and get no conflicting data.
I’m not sure you and the author are talking about the same thing. He mentions the fact you can’t even read the news from 10 years ago, the content has simply disappeared. No amount of YouTube videos can replace that.

The problem is not “everything, everywhere” or a lack of filters but the extreme commercialization of all content available, closed networks, the short life of URLs…
Doctors' not understanding statistics is a pet peeve of mine. I wonder how all of us are not already dead. I guess doctors who understand statistics have more impact than those who do not. That's why.
There are multiple problems with this, the biggest being defining 'appropriate.'

and by their definition that somehow topics around queer people & gender can be inappropriate; this is not sex education and no, nurses are not handing out hormones to pre-teens.

Many of these laws specifically enable people to sue teachers, governments, officials, women who had an abortion, etc.

That enables conservative & religious fanatics to have the last say and impose their moral worldviews onto the rest of us.

The fact that gay people exist is not 'appropriate' in many of their minds. Which is gross and sad. And therefore these laws give the vocal minority the power to force the rest of us back into the closet.
I've been trying to balance my diet recently by filling out all the bars in my calorie tracking app to 100%, and it's surprisingly hard to do. For instance, to get the necessary calcium I have to drink half a litre of milk, folate needs half a bag of cooked spinach (or enriched grains), vitamin e needs maybe 30 or 40 grams of sunflower seeds, vitamin c needs three or four mandarins, and so on.

The first problem is that this isn't always obvious. You can't substitute all leafy greens for spinach, there aren't many good non-milk non-fish sources of calcium, not all nuts and seeds have the right amount of vitamin e. It's quite hard to balance everything even when you're tracking individual foods, and it makes for some very strange meals.

The second problem is that a lot of the important nutrients are coming from foods that are otherwise calorie-dense or have other problems. Citrus fruits are sugary, milk and nuts are fatty, uncooked spinach can cause stomach trouble. It's not necessarily bad to eat calorie-dense food, but it does make things less forgiving when you're trying to eat at a calorie deficit to lose weight.

It makes me wonder if maybe I had long-term deficits in some of these nutrients and just didn't know.
You are a terrible predictor of futures
With Covid it was exactly this case. There was a few months that nobody knew nothing about it. Most doctors were treating COVID as any other coronavirus. At the time, I helped with some Data-related tasks to a group of researchers (Biologists, Biochemists, PhDs, etc) and I remember it clearly. A lot of uncertainty, but yet doctors had already arrived to a conclusion.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the UK we have a woeful record of investing in anything new, at least in recent memory. Offshoring and outsourcing are both cheaper than doing anything new with technology, so companies do it whenever they can.

Which is to say that, certainly for now, there's a conflict between technological progress and profit, because cheap labour is so reliable and de-risked compared to eg, creating new machines to automate a process that is currently outsourced. Risks include being undercut by cheap labour, too.

All of which is to say, I don't share your optimism. Maybe there's a case to be made for global full employment being preferable to a highly automated economy, but that begs the question of how to make work itself less hostile to life.
Huh, didn't realise it spits out that kind of an error. I guess Cloudflare whitelists your IP address if you visit it once since that links still works for me without visiting the original URL?

Anyways, you can see the photo here: https://www.kitguru.net/components/leo-waldock/phanteks-evol...
This reminds me of Desert Bus, the legendary/notorious driving game by Penn & Teller. During the second half of the game, you're driving at night and the view is not dissimilar.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b...

Of course, because Desert Bus is literally the worst game ever, the steering continually veers to the side and you have to keep nudging the wheel or you'll crash.
> The inability to take video evidence as being at all related to truth.

That has been true for 38 of the past 40 centuries. Somehow I suspect making it 39 out of 41 won't be that big of a problem, especially compared to getting people to not take video evidence as being at all related to truth.

(Edit: in case it wasn't obvious: you can't take video evidence as being at all related to truth if you don't have any video evidence to so take.)
Its good to remind myself this . Not once I thought I know something after watching a summary video. When I tried to explain the topic to somebody else I struggled. If you can’t explain you know nothing. Simple as that.
thats wild, the idea you could fairly easily lift the ore needed to make a lithium battery. I thought electric cars were significantly heavier than ICE cars because of the battery? maybe its other minerals that make up the rest of the battery?
The meaning of code is defined by rules. The only ambiguity exists in human understanding of code.

Natural language doesn't have such rules. My example above isn't an example of incorrect English, there isn't a correct interpretation. The grammar is correct and both interpretations are correct.
Got it, design market vs. stock market. The acquisition at that price was like Adobe admitting they thought they couldn't compete.
I never dreamed about school (at least as much as i can remember), the military on the other hand... and no, not deployment is what i dream about, its basic training! Whatever THAT has to say about my psyche...
I could open the link in a private/incognito window.
Not western but US.
Crypto-Mixing Service Tornado Cash Code Is Back on GitHub
I think this is a very interesting move by GitHub. Should code be considered free speech?
To save computational resources could be an answer.
> we'll just tell a large language model what we want to do in English

Language is an imprecise tool, it has inherent ambiguity. Language is also laborious and one dimensional (stream of bits over temporal dimension). A tool such as the one you describe would be extremely frustrating to use.
According to TFA, he was at Adobe for 1 year.
Campaign finance reform should be part of that. It's legalized bribery.
This data is not for RAM, it may be done using an HDD or even cloud. This data is not for reading but for storing only. I mean, the concept of browsing history was born when the HDDs used to have memory of a fruit fly and a price of an elephant, I really do not need headers only in my history because most of them become dead in 3-5 years. Wouldn't it great to read my 10-years old interactions with web or to save some big SPA for interacting with it later maybe when no online will be available?
There are lynchings in large parts of the world, and yes the government is dysfunctional, but not as dysfunctional as a mob acting on relgious prejeducies. Take pakistani lynchings for halucinated sacrilege to the qroan or african lynchings. So comunity circulating word of mouth becomes "fact" and then murder.

Meaning the most crazy, shizophrenic person told tale in a comunity becomes the "law" base. Lynchings are a horror.
Looks like they made the edit clear with a correction note, however they have left that undated.
Yes, it is WebAuthn + iCloud storage of the client credentials.
Oh my god, it's the godawful out of touch "Le me going to le history class" posters that 70 year olds put up to try to reconnect with teenagers but on a business scale.
"They don't have a big search or ads business."

$11.5 billion is not small.

From 10K

Revenue, classified by significant product and service offerings, was as follows:

(In millions)

Year Ended June 30, 2022 2021 2020

Server products and cloud services $ 67,321 $ 52,589 $ 41,379
Office products and cloud services 44,862 39,872 35,316
Windows 24,761 22,488 21,510
Gaming 16,230 15,370 11,575
LinkedIn 13,816 10,289 8,077
Search and news advertising 11,591 9,267 8,524
Enterprise Services 7,407 6,943 6,409
Devices 6,991 6,791 6,457
Other 5,291 4,479 3,768

Total $ 198,270 $ 168,088 $ 143,015
Really well built stuff!! Nicely done guys.
Putin is personally giving orders to his generals on the battlefield
My grandmother as many other people in rural Belarus during WWII survived on eating only potatoes, cabbage and carrots during 3 years of German occupation. There were occasional fish and mushrooms, but that was very minor.

Children born during that time or just before the war were not shorter than their parents.

While excessive protein is well known to simulate muscle growth, there are no indications that it is good for long-term health. And one still builds muscles with just 60 gram of protein per day, it just takes longer. One gets 60 gram of protein when eating enough potatoes to get 2500 kcal.
> founders desperation (very low, especially to sell out to Adobe)

What makes you say this metric is "very low"?

Evan seemed (to my eyes) to be the technical drive behind Figma as a product, and left in 2021 (shifting focus to esbuild)

Dylan has come out criticising Adobe (in what mainly seemed like good marketing) in the past, but other than that, his focus has been investment, and - more recently - NFTs, crypto & web3. An exit seems very natural.
I know it's completely missing the point here but: it's a good habit to verify signature using constant time comparison rather than == to avoid timing side channel attack :)
> To this day, when you want guaranteed delivery, in order and without duplicates WhatsApp runs circles around its competitors.

idk about slack et.al. but telegram does that with native clients for linux, android, ios and windows. even media-sync is pretty much flawless ime.
Agreed, although short term solutions like having freelancers paid in ADA just to avoid ETH fees might end up hurting users and eroding their trust in blockchains in the long run.
You're making ad hominem attacks and baseless claims.
It's not really fair to extrapolate from this one instance you keep bringing up to all package maintenance everywhere. I think a more balanced assessment of the current situation would be that by and large the system works, there are 1000s of packages that are up to date, well-maintained and secure to the best of our knowledge, and they function in concert with each other. That's a big job!
I suggest detecting the viewers geographic location and changing the left/right side drive.
On September 6, 2022, Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (SUBTEL) in Chile has published Resolución 2844 Exenta, updating Resolución 1985 Exenta, the Fixed Technical Standard for Short Range Devices.

The main updates are:
• 2.4 GHz has been removed for medical appliances, which are now covered by Item J.1 (Max EIRP 1 W);
• Conducted power of 10 mW, and antennas with maximum gain of 40 dB is replaced by Max EIRP limit of 50 dBm;
• Redefine the max output power of Vehicle Radar operating at 76~77 GHz as EIRP 50 dBm;
• Change the frequency range of WiFi 6E from 5925-7125 MHz to 5925-6425 MHz.

Resolución 2844 Exenta：
https://lnkd.in/gJrd7QEr

Amber- Lcs Testing Lab

sixian.huang@lcs-cert.com

CE,FCC,IC,SRRC,TELEC,BQB,WFA,PTCRB,JATE,CTA...
Something like this "git-issue" would be perfect if it were supported either built-in to git, or if a service like github/gitlab supported it through a web interface. Sadly, the latter will never happen, because it's in direct conflict with the added value proposed by those services.

But, if it's not built-in to git, then you're going to have to convince everyone who might work on or contribute somehow to your project to buy in enough to your alternative system that they will be willing to install this extension, and also to ignore the github/gitlab issues interface. You can enforce it of course, but it's a difficult sell, similar to convincing people to use some alternative source control system just for your project.

Too bad, because I really like the idea of tracking issues in the same repository. For one thing it would make commit comments like, "fixes issue #36" a lot more internally consistent. (Those kind of comments are what lose their value immediately if you move from e.g. github to another system, unless you find some way to port the issues too.)
Indeed. One of the more useful perks from an ACM membership. I was sad to see it go.

Thankfully there's a good chance you can still get access to O'Reilly through your local library's digital collection.
Port is not an OSS project. Like, Backstage Port helps organizations reduce developers' cognitive load while keeping the DevOps Teams in control.

In contrast to Backstage, with Port, you can create your developer portal in minutes by easily integrating your existing flows and automation.
India Proposes Bill to Require Govt ID for Social Media Accounts and Email
"Software interfaces designed by committee"... Tell me you've never had to deal with decisions made by a committee, without telling me.

In a perfect world this sounds great, in practice I can see it getting very messy.
Historically, I bet you could find trends based on which seasons certain developmental landmarks were hit. I'm sure it isn't a coincidence that Leos are attributed all the heroic traits, when they are mostly gestating in the Summer, and get their first couple months of life in the Fall harvest season.

Nowadays I guess it would line up to school seasons. If you are born in August your parents can arrange for you to be among the oldest kids in the class. First couple grades, that extra year of development helps out, and then you get the reputation as the smart kid, it snowballs...

Baseball player? Bet he's a Leo.
That's about the numbers that I've seen - https://climateminerals.org/data-snapshot/lithium (disclaimer, I worked on this app)

For the most part, Countries are currently mining/producing about 1% of their reserves per year (roughly), and that's a fraction of the resources (which is the 86 MT number).

From the data though -- Reserves seem to be climbing over time, so while there is a dramatic uptick in lithium mining, it doesn't seem like we've hit peak reserve/resources yet.
And that brings the difficulty of letting your proxy be known to legitimate interested people if your iranian social presence is non-existent. I ran a Tor node (not an exit one) in Germany back in the days (it was to help iranian people).
Love it - making it easier to get & sync this data across the different sources is powerful. Excited to see where this goes
Perhaps, except I didn’t do it on purpose - I can’t control my dreams.
The alternative: make billions selling ads so you can finally sell the company to really focus on your passion of spending billions on developing tech and lobbying for policy towards searching the cosmos for life.
To me, it sounds more like the old system that WaterlooWorks replaced (JobMine). JobMine was just Oracle/PeopleSoft's PeopleTools under the hood.

Some of my friends who graduated earlier told stories about how JobMine at one point accepted resumes in HTML. Of course, this also meant that it was vulnerable to XSS attacks. The eventual fix was just to only allow PDF resumes.
True, but I think that's the point. It's not really competing as directly in the Adobe/Figma market. Figma has massive corporate use & Canva's casual users would've been much less likely to have shelled out for a CS/CC licence anyway.
Definitely not US only. I still dream about my math & German exams. I did well on both though
Are these examples supposed to be arguing for the purchase? Lol.
I wouldn't dismiss this as only the view of the extremists at fuckcars. There's plenty of other subreddits that aren't anti-car but share the sentiment that more density and proper public transport is crucial.
'Reader View' plugins for Chrome [1], and native for Safari help me a lot with this, cut out all the fat and you're left with only the meat.

Doesn't help with load times though, it would be an interesting exercise for such a plugin to only fetch the content, a la Lynx back in the day.

[1] https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html
I have a web app that is essentially a full OS GUI in the browser. The load time in Chrome with state restoration is almost exactly 0.3 seconds, which includes asynchronous gathering of file system artifacts and rendering display thereof.

At the same many primarily text sites struggle, such as news and social media, struggle to load in 15 seconds.

My connection measures about 920mbps down so 15 seconds is really ridiculously slow. This is certainly not a technology problem evidenced by my own app that is doing so much more is such shorter time.
This is wonderful, well done. The limitations you mention just add to the style.
Ask HN: Can “open source” be used for evil?
Inspired by the “Google introducing competing open source Dolby Vision/Atmos standards” post and some of the great discussion there:

“Amazing new free open source standard freeing us all from closed / licensed tyranny”

vs.

“Giant corporation arriving late to standards competition hides behind “open source” as it uses it’s dominance to force fragmentation on everyone else”

My starter comment is this: whenever a new “open” project is proposed it should be independently evaluated as “good” as though it were closed source and the competitor open. Is “open-ness” being abused by companies when they find themselves in a market position they don’t like?
Perhaps they could as things are but what would have happened if, say, Apple acquires Figma? What if Microsoft did? 20B is a lot of money -- to Adobe. Just to demonstrate how absurdly uneven the playing field is, Apple has ten times as much cash at hand.
Well, there are significant differences between apt and cargo though right? Apt by and large installs pre-built binaries and ancillary stuff for projects written in... every language. Cargo fetches and builds Rust projects. If you wanted Cargo to do what Apt does, what it currently does would be a small percentage of its new total functionality.

It might be cool if we "united" all the build apps (npm, pip, cargo, go, etc) under a similar interface, but that also sounds like a lot of work, which is why I think these package managers stick with binaries.
It doesnt just "work".

It's amazing!

The latest version also handles MFA authentication out of the box.
Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
https://www.dwitter.net/ comes to mind
Consumer prices are already being capped, so people won’t be affected much. Gas-dependent parts of industry might have a problem, but we’ve been through this with COVID. (By gas I mean literal gaseous gas, not gasoline.)
> A Box<dyn Bird> is some sort of Bird on the heap.

No, a Box<dyn Bird> is a pointer to some sort of Bird on the heap. Unless Rust has wildly changed how it implements function calls/stack frames, local variables are stored on the stack. A pointer is a reference to the thing it points to (in sense used in the phrase "pass by reference").

> then my call moves the Box<Goose> into the function, I don't still have that Goose

Yes: you passed a Box<Goose> by value, you passed the Goose it points to by reference, and you transfered ownership of both.
Please point me to an "old" model that was able to do something similar to my example, and was general enough to do that not only for any custom schema, but for basically all often used languages as well (both natural languages as input, and programming languages as output).