skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a project involving physical manufacturing and fulfillments, and I was honestly shocked how low tech a lot of it is. Like we communicate with one of our warehouses by passing XML documents back and fourth over FTP. It seems like the whole thing was probably set up in 1994 and nobody has touched it since.

Working with our own operations people, I have the sense that a lot of it is inertia. People in their field had to figure out how to do all of this before the internet existed for example. And now they busy enough getting their job done through these various arcane systems they're not going to slow down for a few months to learn a new way of doing things.

I think as software engineers, we have an intuition about how software could solve a lot of these logistical types of problems efficiently, so we assume it already works that way. Probably we would be shocked how much of the world still runs on handshakes, phone calls, and hand-maintained spreadsheets.
Can you show me an example of "free"-as-in-liberty software, that the creator(s) nevertheless charge(s) money for?
Simpsons nuclear plant fire drill video: https://youtu.be/XTElSJExL4U
Probably. But they're still enough to dramatically change the state of the war. I think it's a losing gamble as well and it will not be done.
Perhaps this is just democracy at play, doing what it's meant to do.

I've found that people who interpret a high number of dislikes as "hate campaigns" are usually the ones who agree, if not, applaud the content being disapproved of by a larger group who is frustrated with the subject matter and is using their voices to show their disapproval.

This is just as valid the other way around, where you should equally have the opportunity to express your disapproval of a video on the basis of political issues if you so please.

Review-bombing certainly exists, but I don't believe it's the norm when there's a high amount of dislikes out-ratioing the likes.

And even in the case of review-bombing: to me, it's a clear indicator of societal sentiment around a topic or aspect of whatever it is. I think we should be paying more attention to it, and spend more time publicly discussing these moments, treating high dislike counts as a valid point of view.

Unfortunately there is a certain political leaning who has grown quite comfortable with gaslighting those who hold and express majority opinions that aren't popular with late night TV hosts and celebrities, who further encourage hatred, violence, suppression, and ridicule towards this populace as they watch the wealthy and powerful deconstruct every bit of their culture and values, where the only replacement is woke garbage that they've clearly expressed not wanting through their votes, and yes: dislikes.

Democracy is eventually unfriendly to those who twist it into a guise for fully endorsed mob rule — and it will bite back.
Assume you're on an island with a finite amount of food, now run this experiment again.

The optimal number of humans depends on how finite resources are in an environment. Adding an extra person to an island with a shortage of resources would likely increase human suffering.
Show HN: Search Electronic Devices by Product Type, FCC ID, or Company
> Freedoms only apply to governments. Period. On purpose

> It’s convenient that you preempted the argument that kills your entire comment, you made everyone else’s job easier.

Ironic, you just did the thing you accused me of.

Putting that aside, "You especially cannot force a business to deal with you if they don’t want to" is where I disagree with you. In the case of a bakery, I agree with you. In the case of what could be classified as a public utility, such as a payment system, is where I disagree with you. Certain services which have monopolistic or near monopolistic positions and being necessary to participate in the economy (paypal) or society (facebook) should not be in the business of policing speech. And it is the governments role in making sure this is the case (as the collective muscle of the people to ensure their rights are maintained). We've been indoctrinated for decades to fear and limit the ability of the government to do as such, as well as indoctrinated for decades to place the rights of business interests above our own rights as citizens. I argue to break this position of slavery and place our rights first. Why shouldn't Paypal be forced to do business with me?
Try to explain the difference between "no new projects" and "no programs". Any program I have not written yet would be a new project. Any old project is one where the program has already been written.

So you are being dishonest in pretending to a distinction without a difference.

Switching from the legitimate "you should use my new language because it is good" to "you should demote everybody coding <otherlang> to legacy maintenance, and put us in their place" admits a very ugly fact about yourselves and about your beliefs about your language's legitimate prospects.

If you believed it deserves a place on its own merits, you would not be trying to tear down other languages to try to make a hole for it. It is disgraceful behavior.

You should be ashamed of that, and you should be more ashamed of calling people who object "delusional".
They said WWI. I assume they were referring to the Versaille Treaty
Assembly was my first language. I had no trouble picking that up, and in fact didn't meet a compiler until ten years later. They were much too expensive at the time.
vDSOs are however an API provided by the kernel (hence the v, they aren't separate .so files that you need to load, even on Linux)
Sounds to me like if I want to know "how computers think" I should learn assembly.
The cache hierarchy and speculative execution are completely hidden at the level of assembly too, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
The contract you sign is not absolutely binding and can be invalidated in part or in whole for variety of reasons.

I personally feel that if ToS is too long and too complex for most people to read and understand it should be possible argument towards invalidating that ToS.
This is good. It seems to me that if we can implement a technical solution that fixes a societal problem, it in effect solves a societal problem.

The technical solution seems a lot easier to implement than a societal change (which might be shaming people for drunk driving).

The very next thing I'd like to fix is distracted driving (cell phones).

The NPR article states 11,654 people died in 2021, the CDC has stats for distracted driving - 3,100 killed in 2019 (in the USA) [0].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/Distracted_Driving/...
How does someone change a template? Or is it just one fixed template per category?

I didn’t create an account because it seemed to be saying I need to put in money first before I could try anything. Other users might have similar interpretations.

If you haven’t seen it, take a look at artbreeder which by the way has a free level.
Of course, there are diminishing returns, and hard caps set by physics. As the low-hanging fruit is picked, it will become harder to grow.

But we could expand outside our current planet, initially just for mining for precious resources, but eventually also for colonizing other planets.

The problem with fossil fuel is not that we will run out of it, but that we will make the planet uninhabitable before we can move out. What took millions of years of solar energy hitting the Earth to create, we are burning in centuries or decades. This led to climate change.
You know I've always wanted to use unicode bold characters in an HN title but I never had the balls.
... no? In fact I think learning assembly before C makes a lot more sense than the other way around.
But if the hash matches, you can't know whether an adversary tampered with the data and simply updated the hash to match.
If the index is censored, nothing stops you from adding to the index yourself.

The vast majority of the net is, after all, now indexed, so you can run your own indexer to cover whatever they didn't cover.
Russia could have done well with good leadership. It's a shame they are stuck with the current scheming poisoner.
I mean that maintainers (and users) have zero obligation to maintain or contribute to anything in almost all cases.

If a user is "toxic" or otherwise isn't contributing something of value to the project, then maintainers need to learn how to deal with it emotionally or otherwise. As the article says: "Just say no" is a good place to start.
The dollar cost does go down because the fixed costs are fixed. Very few families with 4+ kids will have a room for each kid, for example, but even so five bedroom+ houses level off in price. A fifteen passenger van is less than double the price of a minivan, but holds twice as many people, so that levels off, too.

Even things like private schooling levels off (many have a “all kids after three or four are free). The biggest one that doesn’t level off would be college.

Many health insurance plans charge for up to two or three kids and then stop increasing.

I know families with 8+ kids and none have made more than $150k a year and some are way below that.
> Are there companies in Russia capable of supporting a government-wide Linux rollout?

I'm not sure about companies, but they probably have the talent. I work with a lot of Russian contractors, and when the war in Ukraine started the ones who didn't relocate out of Russia were laid off, so they might be looking for work and available to work on a project like this.
zero harm to him or to the blade?
Forgot about France, sorry. I don't fell well there either.
Im waiting for the M20 cooler and the Samsung Neo QLED 8K Smart TV
Speech is one thing, taking money that lawfully belongs to somebody else is another.
I'm guessing a lot of commenters didn't actually read/listen to the entirety of this. Here's a summary:

- Globally, there's a drop in fertility rates

- The reasons for this are complicated, but the interview seems to conclude it's due to mindset among young people

- There's no reason this has to be disastrous

- However, in the US we're doing really poorly on most things that would make a shrinking native population workable (sensible immigration policy, stable social safety net, world-class education, etc.)

- Israel is an outlier in that it seems to be avoiding the fertility rate drop of industrialized nations

- The interviewers think American exceptionalism can win the day and either return us to higher fertility rates or figure out a way around it

Unfortunately, nowhere did I see them actually make a strong case that a significantly smaller population is a bad thing. The interview is two boomers.
Would they argue that America in the 1970s/1980s when they were having the time of their lives had too few people? They also gloss over any positive impacts of lower population, like housing and the environment. And finally, they seem kind of out of touch with the experience of young people - there's some reference to a few metrics at the end (they seem to think young people are
"afraid" or over-value autonomy), but I get the feeling these two people don't really understand why Millennials in particular are choosing fewer children.
PayPal is not a public utility, as much as you’d want it to be one. Until the government determines it is one, then the rules of public utilities don’t apply. Once again, regardless how much you wish it were so.

It shouldn’t be forced to do business with you because it is a private business and not the government.

It also is nowhere near a monopoly. Plenty of payment processors exist. Another comment here literally talks about new ones springing up.

It is equivalent to the bakery store in your example.
People like to claim to courts that they NEED a car and MUST have a car. This way they can keep some sort of restricted driving license that lets them drive to/from work, school or grocery stores.

Actually not driving would show your claims (under penalty of perjury) to be lies. Courts do not like that at all.
Both you and the GP are suggesting slippery slopes. I think it’s reasonable to think that checking every single driver, every single time they drive, for alcohol use is an invasion of privacy, especially since the vast, vast majority of drivers are not driving drunk. That also doesn’t mean privacy is dead or that it’s time to end food inspection.
I have a number of negative stereotypes associated with Rust and Rust programmers that I am trying to set aside right now and just look at this from a technical perspective. Has the Rust-portability situation been addressed? Or will this change restrict the number of platforms the Linux kernel will be usable on? Assuming that is the case (I remember reading that GCC will acquire Rust support), what will the advantages be? I would guess stability might improve due to more static analysis, but what about performance? Build-time? And will this have any effect on Rust?
In the last month what services/website did you sign up for online/offline? They maybe the source of the leak/spam. Alternatively, your ID got into the spammers list via a service you must have signed up for prior, which must have got hacked recently. Another scenario is your acquaintance/friend ID must be compromised and they spam everyone on their contact list.

The spammers must be keeping it under 500 emails per day / gmail outgoing account to not go over google's thresholds.
...in addition to all the other reasons we currently find to withhold medical care from undesirables.
Why do people use PayPal? I looked at it as a way to collect payments and it seemed the worst option to me. What is the attraction?
> since dating is about manipulating the other side to love one.

Sounds like you're doing it wrong.
As opposite to the clean money banks like HSBC put in circulation right? Money is like genetics, follow the thread long enough and you'll find a rapist, a cartel drug lord, etc.
This is not a Gaia-X, it is an exploratory project, showing a possible way forward and setting first steps.
It's not about the expressiveness or utility - it is about types you write (bad) vs types the type checker generates and maybe shows you in an IDE (good).

The point being that people should write actual code, and should not write type code, simply because given an opportunity to write things, people will indeed write things, whether actually helpful or (more likely) not.
One can make such arguments, but that having kids that one cannot afford is immoral is much more immediately evident. I mean it here, primarily in the sense that it will harm the kids themselves, and not in the sense that it will burden the wider society.
I think this may change once RealID phases in but I read that somewhere quite a while back so not sure.
Design of the Unix Operating System

https://archive.org/download/DesignOfTheUnixOperatingSystemB...

It is the high level bit for understanding Linux (and Unix).

Good luck.
Both are attempts at solving the same problem. But whereas pyjanitor is like "lipstick on a pig" (it's still a pig), redframes is like "pigs in a blanket" (hides more of the warts)...
Twitch finally takes action against gambling
> I'm arguing against the hypocrisy of "openess".

Open to people who aren’t jerks. Again I don’t think that’s a mystery - it’s implicit in any community and is even made explicit through their CoC if you can’t judge social norms yourself.
Three looks at Web3 education and training products
Contract law is a thing. Contracts are deemed void and unenforceable for all manner of reasons.
Broadcast anonymity is trivially achieved by using TOR.
If you deposit a quarter million dollars into your bank account out of the blue the bank are absolutely going to ask you where it came from, and "don't worry yourself with that", or even "I sold some crypto" are unlikely to be sufficient answer to avoid your account being frozen and a note sent to the relevant authorities.
That describes my issue exactly. I guess the problem is upstream, then.
And the cure for this is driving it underground via censorship?
Bram has his sometimes idiosyncratic ways of doing things, but that's quite a different thing than being "not nice". It's a completely different situation with very different dynamics.

> I wouldn't be surprised if neovim starts replacing vim in distributions within a couple of years.

That would be highly disruptive as Neovim isn't compatible with Vim. Plus Vim is still actively developed with no signs of slowing down.
To clarify, showing captchas is what a number of our customers do and I doubt they do it as aggressively as google.

Geoblocks are unfortunately often necessary to comply with the law or contractual obligations eg. media streaming.
The Danish data Protection Office has declared that Google Analytics... cannot be used legally without further ado.
Big fans are at a relatively low RPM, and household fans might be made with kids sticking their fingers in them in mind. I've got a little noisy desk fan with metal blades in it that I would prefer not to take my chances with. I've also cut myself on my RC Plane's props a few times.
Very cool idea. I'd love to have that here in southern Italy.
However, is also says this:

"it would be a good additive intervention for people who are doing other healthy lifestyle approaches already."
I'm having the opposite problem. I have a custom domain email address through a webhost, which gets forwarded to Gmail. I've been using Gmail as my client since day 1 (around whenever Gmail first came out). Some time in early summer I stopped getting emails from my wife, who uses a plain Gmail address. I was missing messages in threads if she was the sender. This has never happened before. So I checked the logs on the webhost, and it turns out Gmail was rejecting mail sent from her with an error that her address is spam. And I don't mean it went into the spam folder. It straight up rejected the messages and wouldn't go to the Gmail servers at all. I found this crazy, because it was rejecting a Gmail address that has been used for years. And in message threads that included others with Gmail addresses. And if she emailed me to my actual Gmail address, it was fine and not spam. But her address (and only hers) gets marked as spam if sent to my domain.

So my solution was to start using Thunderbird. Her messages were never being rejected by my domain and all the threads are there intact.

Edit: This was the SMTP error that Google was telling my domain: "Our system has detected that this message is likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, this message has been blocked."
Because of two reasons.

First, the maintainers' attitude directly affects the community around the software being developed. I tend to involve in the community of the tools I use (bug reports, patches if I have time, feedback, etc.).

If the maintainers or the BDFL is angry, this anger or harshness tend to spread, and both makes the project unpleasant to communicate with, and tend to drive wannabe contributors away. This generally happens silently, so it's hard to detect.

This brings me to the second point. Motivation is the primary fuel of open source & free software projects. What happens when the angry people calms down? What happens differentiating features are merged to main? What happens the locomotives of the community have no more time to pursue their projects?

If the community is not nice (or not have a healthy number of newcomers) and the steam runs out, the project just dies.

As an example, I'm currently trying to help a tool I use, but its developer just lost interest to maintain. However, there's a small number of kind people who stepped up, and we try to get things rolling again. Many people won't have the motivation if the community is not nice to begin with.

Lastly, while tangential, like the GP, I don't want to take sides, just want to read my emails.
Hey all, I work on electronic devices and have dealt with applying for FCC IDs in past projects. I built this as a way to track different company products and their devices. Longer term, it could be an interesting foundation to map more electronic products on and add more detailed information about their components and features.
Maybe that was because those sanctions didn't hurt much?
while true, any big business has a significantly easier time with logistics because they inherently incentivize vendors to conform to their standards. customer service will be the best available from these vendors as well

Yes they are ultimately responsible for all the same border crossing paperwork and such, but that is a lot easier when everyone you work with is giving you information in convenient formats and returning your calls quickly. Not to mention the ability to leverage work from past shipments as reference.

a small player in this space has a significantly harder time since they have less reference, and vendors are more likely to treat their business as a nice-to-have instead of a want or must-have.
What surprised me about the article was how many features emacs has. Seems they want to do a lot outside of text editing?
I've made myself clear enough. I invite you to read the paper again if you still don't understand.

You've been just wrong enough on all points that I could almost believe it's your paper and you want to bait people into pulling out the best bits and quoting them lol.
See Neil Postman's questions on technology:

1. What is the problem that this new technology solves?

2. Whose problem is it?

3. What new problems do we create by solving this problem?

4. Which people and institutions will be most impacted by a technological solution?

5. What changes in language occur as the result of technological change?

6. Which shifts in economic and political power might result when this technology is adopted?

7. What alternative (and unintended) uses might be made of this technology?

<https://scottberkun.com/2016/the-7-questions-for-any-technol...>

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dBlfPhsrvtw>

<https://yewtu.be/hlrv7DIHllE?t=50m34s>

From Technopoly: <https://www.worldcat.org/title/30337681>

Related: Postman's Five Laws of Technology:

1. “All technological change is a trade-off.”

2. “The advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population.”

3. “Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea.”

4. “Technological change is not additive; it is ecological.”

5. “Technology tends to become mythic.”

<https://pggalalis.com/postmans-five-laws-of-technology/>

(More detail at the link.)
Makes sense for potential chargebacks / fraud reversals... but PayPal is saying they're terminating the Daily Sceptic's account for political reasons.

Why would there be a flood of chargebacks for a termination like that?

It seems like PayPal doesn't have a very strong policy in place for how/why they freeze someone's account and take their money. They just do it willy-nilly whenever they want to close someone's account.
Probably hire some lawyers and an account to work with the IRS on justifying why it's legitimate income.
I'm in Italy, based in Bari
Is there any magic phrase you can say to this person to get them to stop? I've leased 5 or 6 cars from the same dealership which is all around great except for this one part.

For example the green energy clipboard person trying to get you to switch power companies, you can tell them that you rent and there is no comeback.
I'm not sure who this is really for. I mean that honestly.

At least on the workstation side - i do a lot of solidworks-based 3d modeling. The A6000 can easily, for example, raytrace in real time anything i can even find to throw at it.
Like models that Solidworks still has trouble opening and rendering normally can raytrace instantly.

What part of workstation software is still GPU bound at this point on high end GPU's?

I guess if CAM was taking more advantage of GPU's, i could see it useful there, but on the modeling side, i honestly don't get it.
Can you clarify how's this different from visiting https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion and entering the corresponding prompt (like "fantasy landscape")?

Or even better running stable diffusion locally?