skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most podcasts post the exact same episodes to all popular platforms. Some may have an ad-free version on Patreon.

With Spotify, it's sort of similar to when the paid YouTube (Red/Premium) became a thing. Yea, you'd get rid of the Google-picked ads, but the in-video sponsored ads added by the video creator would still obviously remain.
DHT has existed for 17 years - the cat's out of the bag. The anti-piracy companies have built their own crawlers.
That was the obvious rebuttable, and to be honest I have a hard time countering that however the obvious statement is search really a market since it is a "free" product. One has to ask what is the actual market, is it the search engine or the advertising that pays for the search? Google while dominate is not a monopoly for Online Ads, so while they command a 90-95% market share in "online searches" that is not the product they sell so traditional market dynamics are not at play so I am hard pressed to call online search a "free market" given nothing it being sold, what is being sold is the ad space on google search.
> To be fair, is there any other way around while working with node?

breaking robot noises
No, it sucks. A summons usually requires them to serve it for-sure somehow (in-person or someone in your home that accepts it for you).

They had no idea where you were, so you fell for the pre-action letter. They would have never gone through the trouble of where-in-America—are-you to sue you.
The Pew study said exactly 'not in line with libertarianism'. If you want to keep trying to redefine what libertarian is, you are welcome to, but you shouldn't use sources which directly contradict you.

At this point in time it is clear you are not going to change your mind on this -- and as long as you continue to claimn that I am wrong and fallacious for making assumptions about libertarian political ideas based on my direct experience with people espousing them, then I am afraid we are at an impasse.
What's the difference between egplot and lsp-mode? Why was it what the emacs devs settled on?
I agree tht I find it all pretty silly. You know what else can produce horrifying and immoral images? Pencil and paper.

I suspect that quite a lot of this caution is driven by Google and other large companies which want to slow everyone else down so they can win the new market on this tech. The remaining part of the caution appears to come from our neo-puritan era where there is a whole lot of pearl clutching over everything. Newsflash, humans are violent brutes, always have been.
Software development in the age of mobile requires continuous development. Who is going to pay for development of new features?
I too don't feel good using a voice assistant in public and I know many more people with the same feeling. I don't know why so many on HN seem to forget this.
> The morality seems to me at this point a convenient smokescreen to hide the fact that these companies are not actually open source, that they are not there for the public benefit, and that they are not very different to venture-backed businesses that have come before.

And that they’re buggy and hard to fix and generally more limited than the buzz would have you believe.

public high minded talk morality also cynically keeps the money coming in :)
> Why was it not ported to Linux?

NIH
For the most part, it's also really easy to add node dependencies compared to C/C++. Is it surprising folks take the past of least resistance?
To be fair, most other projects aren’t as far up-river as curl. Any project they depend on becomes at least as important as curl itself.
Data comes as doubles. No choice in the matter there. Conversions just add to the problem.
I don't think I'm going to want the job where "use web3" is an acceptable element of my system design.
Wire posted a bunch of articles alleging that Meta has been giving special censorship powers to people involved with the Indian regime.

The only problem with that story was that all of the evidence they shared from their “whistleblower” was obviously fake.
At least libproxy itself doesn't have any dependencies

https://libproxy.github.io/libproxy/ says "no external dependencies within libproxy core (libproxy plugins may have dependencies)"
> Consciousness does influence the universe...

I'm not sure I'm following the argument. Let me phrase it this way: can you devise an experiment which will determine if a given entity is conscious?

> I believe someone called that idea "quantum immortality"

(Thanks for the term; I'd heared the idea expressed before, but not that phrase.)

Skimming the wikipedia page, I didn't find any of the counter-arguments to be particularly compelling.

So, while I'm not sure how deeply I believe it (simply because it feels very unintuitive -- and I'm definitely not about to try to kill myself to test it!†), I agree with you: it really does seem like the inevitable conclusion of these ideas; I also agree it's somewhat terrifying!

Especially when you consider that as time goes on, probably in the majority of the universes where you are alive, you are just barely alive, in great pain. The only consolation is that, perhaps, you'll still have enough awareness to think to yourself, "incredible that I haven't died yet -- I guess many-worlds really is true!"

(† Even if you are knock-down 100% convinced in quantum immortality, you probably still don't want to engage in wildly risky behavior or try to kill yourself -- because you will be killing yourself in a large number of universes, and causing a lot of pain to your loved ones in those universes. A similar argument could be applied to engaging in any sneaky behavior which would cause significant pain if discovered.)
Yeah these simple approaches are great and a bit of a lost art. Physics engines give a lot of flexibility and emergent behaviour but add a lot of complication when you want to constrain the madness. I wrote my own simple vehicle for our platform the other day which was a lot of fun:

https://dotbigbang.com/game/b0e8bf8b309b44a3b0abed8f9525e335...
I will have to agree with the other commenter. While the natural response is to try ad protect the privacy of the accused or even the convicted by sealing the records, history is full of proof that governments that can act in secret rarely works out well for the people under the thumb of those governments.

Secret Police records, generally result in a system where people just "disappear". So while there are good intentions to sealing police records, the result of those good intentions would likely result in extreme abuse of power

I think the better course of action would be a path to have convictions expunged, and once expunged allowing for civil defamation against any entity or person that reports the individual was convicted once the record was expunged.

The time it takes to expunge a record should be determined by the courts with a max time set in statute
How on earth someone is still using Azure remains a mystery. I haven’t seen one good experience come from using that platform, and I’ve been keeping an eye on it for several years now.
The app is not ready yet unfortunately but would you have been interested to try it based on the screenshots?
I’m not going to watch a series of YouTube videos, but I strongly dislike the films and have read everything Tolkien that’s been published, repeatedly, from Letters to HoME to the Nature of Middle Earth. This is flatly untrue. The show compresses thousands of years of events into a few months at most and reorders them to boot, changes fundamental facts about the world (the absurd idea behind mithril, Elves being forced to leave by some corruption in the Second Age, for example), and places characters in places they never were and doing things they never did or that didn’t even make sense - Gil-Galad having the authority to order someone to sail west is absurd. And no, as I mentioned above, this wasn’t because of licensing, the facts published in the Appendices they did have licensed that were radically changed.

More importantly than narrative details, it’s even further from the spirit of Tolkien than the films.

I can’t understand why people make this claim. It’s just bizarre. Of course there are people with the same names and some of them get together and make some Rings (though it was partly different people, and others in different guises, and the Three came after many other Rings, and they did it for different reasons), but this doesn’t make it a faithful adaption by any means. They made a creative decision to wildly diverge from the story, but people seem more interested in denying that than talking about how good the new story is on its own merits. It has about as much to do with Tolkien as the I, Robot film did Asimov.
I don't have that much hope left for .NET. They did a great revival effort with a great trajectory with .Net Core, but in the last few years they have shown that they don't really seem to want to change.
Eventually, as Frank Herbert predicted, we may come to the conclusion that the societal costs of AI in general are too high and it will be outlawed entirely.
There is a point where all the dumbing down of explanations actually prevents any kind of understanding.

It really really is unhelpful that this article tried so hard to use analogies to human scale actions to explain and in doing so fails to explain anything.

I do not pretend to understand the linked Nature paper, but at least by reading that I can google stuff and gain some understanding.

This is actually a quote from the paper author, yet i find it particularly unhelpful:

"The atoms are kind of like kids shushing each other to be quiet so they can hear about the party the teacher has promised them, but here it's the entanglement that does the shushing," says Thompson

Atoms are in absolutely no way kind of like kids.
The World Wide Web, defi, and NoSQL are just a couple random examples of new technologies which we were pitched as having the potential to change software development forever. Can you remember any other time in history a new programming technology was treated with the same apprehension and kid gloves we’re currently seeing with image diffusion?

If not, I actually think you’re the one being childish and the OP’s actually made a perfectly reasonable observation.
The modified headline on here doesn't make any sense.

Also, this article doesn't seem amazing; it seems simplified to the point of being misleading, and it's not clear in the article what is meant by making it "work".
> The team has been working really hard to make those clients totally open source...

I wish he would have expanded on this, or at least link to something that did. It would be interesting to understand what a transition like that entails, what they did, why, etc.

I would have preferred this over the backhand swipe at Mozilla.
I put the question to the Emacs magic eight ball (https://github.com/RyanMatlock/eight-ball) and the answer was yes!
Which boss / coworkers / company did you vibe with?
Rats! No underwater texture!
This is a cop-out: of course there are people with absurd risk or reliability profiles, for whom just about anything might be suitable. The entire point of systems like DNS are that they’re universal substrates that don’t require any exceptional selection. Economies and ecosystems are built on reliable and universal substrates.

My perception of resiliency is based on this[1], which has reliably increased in volume and quantity by year.

[1]: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Why not both? Have a free version and a paid version with more features/terrains/cars etc.
Eglot has copyright assigned to FSF and has been targeting a master branch merge since its development started.
There are many who are unhappy about OpenAI and Google's paternalism. Some reseachers say it openly, like Yannic Kilcher. Others were a bit more discreet about it, but I wasn't exactly surprised hardmaru left Google Brain for Stability to put it like that.

The way social pressure is trending, I'm assuming everyone who doesn't loudly defend AI paternalism, shares your concern to some degree.
I'm sorry it apparently rubbed you off the wrong way, but I really meant no judgment or claiming that reading this makes me feel better about myself because I take valuable lessons from it while somehow being dettached from the real consequences as you rightly point out.

I ended up empathizing more peraphs because I have experienced some level of loss in my life both from family members and friends when I was very very young, and I feel that reading a text line this one many decades later probably triggered something in my subconscious in that I could probably understand how this dad was feeling in a way that I could not comprehend when I experienced those aforementioned losses when I was much younger.

I'm not claiming to understand his exact situation, I'm not married, I don't have kids and it's not something you can project or relativize in any way, we're on the same page there.

I just meant that understanding part of the feelings of grief and the innocent way that Lilly near the end of the article says she'd search every cloud just moved me in a way that I also found unexpected myself, that's all. I know I'm not special and I don't want to be or claim to be, because I know everybody will experience loss, but, simultaneously, this just hit me more than I expected it would which is what moved me to write the above comment, it was truly sincere.
Yes, but that sort of thing isn't included as part of a normal Spotify subscription. It looks like Spotify has support for podcasts subscriptions, but it's all on a one off basis as far as I can tell.

Out of the podcasts I listen to, I'm not sure a single one uses Spotify for subscriptions. Commonly it seems to be Patreon.

With all of that being said, many quality podcasts have jarring ad segments on purpose. Partly it serves as an ad for the ad-free feed but they also serve as a way to inform the listener that the following words aren't the podcasters' own and they were paid for an endorsement.
yes! solar panels are the gateway drug to mankind's dyson sphere.
> How would you feel about people releasing a $100 'build your own Covid-variant' kit?

Not very good but:

a) the people who currently have this tech are not what I'd call trustworthy so why should I leave dangerous tech only in the hands of dangerous people?

b) it would probably kickstart a "build your own vaccine kit" industry
Agree completely. All the nit-picking is why the hardest part of what the OP did is putting themselves out there. Releasing a project requires a mix of traits that are often at odds, naivety to think you can, humbleness to listen to valid feedback and ego to push down the path you think correct.

No project is ever perfect and getting things out the door is always messy.
"The edge" is a pretty amazing place at sunset. Well done.
Unless the government criminalizes AI “misuse”, these restrictions are only going to be a temporary measure until the other shoe drops and FOSS equivalents catch up.

I’m more concerned with the idea that mainstream AI research is heading in the direction of adding more processing power in an attempt to reach “human-level” AGI. That would amount to brute forcing the problem, creating intelligent machines that we have little control over.

We should absolutely be pursuing and supporting alternative projects, such as OpenCog or anything else that challenges the status quo. Do it for whatever reason you feel like, but we need those alternatives if we want to avoid the brute forcing threat.
I’ve written a library with zero production dependencies. Of course I have Jest as a development dependency which pulls in all sorts of stuff. It would be difficult to make a zero-dependency library. As for not having production libraries, this was my experience:

1. Using the https module directly was more work than I expected, especially with error handling. This made me really look forward to the new Fetch API coming out.

2. No CLI parser. Its not like parsing args is a LOT of work - but its also something that is already solved and having to write support for that directly was a bummer

3. No logging library. This one was pretty easy. Create a little class with logging levels. Again this is something that is very common that would have been nice to use a package for.
The first Apple Watch that came with a cellular chip (gen 4?) got me excited to basically do just this. Except 1) the battery life was 1 hour for phone calls 2) charging meant not wearing it 3) voice-to-text is still very spotty for me 4) still needed a smartphone with a cellular plan associated with the Watch.

I just want a wearable that allows me to communicate with people, and get basic info from the web like weather. And that has better battery life. Here’s hoping…
How do psychedelics work? The claustrum may explain their effects
Btdig is awesome. If this is like an open source version in Go then that is a huge contribution.
Same here. Anyone know if eglot is "better" than lsp-mode? Or was it just picked because of some licensing reason? I was under the impression, but I may be wrong, that lsp-mode was somehow better than eglot.

Also I wonder: if eglot is now part of Emacs, is there any incentive for the lsp-mode devs to keep working on lsp-mode?
It's already the case.

Crispr has changed a lot of things and make possible for an outsider, with 10.000$ and a little dedication, to alter genome of every living form.

https://www.ft.com/content/9ac7f1c0-1468-4dc7-88dd-1370ead42...
I've known people who did something similar with epoxy and an LP record player, but doing it with molten glass is next-level!
I am sure you have examples of this happening in history right?
More Southern Tier than FLX. But do go a bit north to see the lakes, especially if you like wine or geology.
We made a demo that runs on a pharmacy sign
Wish I could find that research.
I'm the same. Long time paid app user, then when the switch happened I got reverted back to the free tier.

I still use the app, but like you said, it does still irk me to this day.
Not to be pedantic but because you have a good point, and I would want to know if it were me: persay should be per se.
TBH if you trained with lots of data you’re not supposed to use (no consent), you probably should be forced to release things. You shouldn’t get the agency to withhold work if you didn’t respect others’ choices about not contributing to AI.

However generally it feels right to let the authors decide who has access to their work. If you have a different view, go do the work yourself.
I would be very miffed if my application suddenly autodetected a proxy (whether it-dept or adversary installed) and decided to break the end-to-end security property of TLS that my app relied on. But maybe in the best case this would have been limited to tunneling (HTTP CONNECT) proxies that pass TLS traffic as-is?

But I guess this is just speculation now that it wasn't implemented.
Interesting choice to have a set of FAQ in your docs without also providing answers to them. I suppose the term FAQ does sort of imply it is just the "questions".
Why is nuclear so expensive?
I forgot the details but several months ago I had a lot of trouble just having Rust and Elixir LSPs to even start.

I got quite weary of hacking on my Emacs so I switched to eglot and had zero trouble since.

Sorry for lack of context, I am not shilling for eglot at all, it's just that I have a huge "make it your own by hacking!" fatigue these days.
I think that we should really (1) stop thinking that immigration is a problem and (2) obsess about it and (3) make up ex-post rationalisations for idiotic anti-immigration policies.

The day after the A&E becomes a branch of the immigration Gestapo, illegal immigrants will stop seeking medical advice. Even some legal immigrants may be scared away. Apart from the obvious humanitarian concerns, guess what happens if these people catch a dangerous contagious disease.
> The "They" that did the fork only managed to do it because there was a majority consensus agreement to switch to the forked chain.

A majority you may not agree with. So you’re still at the mercy of external entities, contradicting your original point.

> Seriously, why is it that every discussion about crypto has the same bullshit talking points?

Because proponents keep repeating the same debunked invalid talking points. Like saying anything they disagree with is FUD. That expression has become the Godwin’s law of blockchain discussions: it doesn’t advance the conversation, it’s just shorthand for “I angrily disagree with you”.
Morhaime had “all the power and leverage” and closed Blizzard North
Matt Householder, Matt Uelmen, and Jay Wilson discuss their work on Diablo in this retrospective panel. Morhaime’s hand in closing Blizzard north, the auction house, and more are discussed.
PowerShell Core: Telemetry.cs
This is the source file that handles telemetry sent by PowerShell, which can be controlled by setting the environment variable `POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT` to `true`, `yes`, or `1`.
A few things that I'd like to highlight, regarding decipherment of older languages.

You can somewhat guess which kind of script you're dealing with, by counting how many different graphemes there are. Something around 20-40 and likely got an alphabet, abjad, or similar; 100-200 and you're likely handling a syllabary; for a thousand and above, then there are at least some logograms mixed in, or the script is fully logographic. Mixed systems also pop up from time to time.

Egyptian hieroglyphs are in large logographic, and those are specially messy to recover. What Champollion did towards the phonetic part was no simple feat.

Another caveat is that sometimes a script offers more than one grapheme for each sound or syllable, or multiple sounds are associated with a single grapheme. Latin is a great example of that, with ⟨V⟩ representing /u: ʊ w ɨ/ (as in OO "boot", U in "put", W in "was", and a closed version of the A in "about"), while that /ɨ/ wasn't associated with any specific letter, sometimes being represented with ⟨V⟩ or sometimes ⟨I⟩. So you can't simply rule out a sound/sequence for a certain grapheme, just because it's already represented by another grapheme.

Living relatives of a language can give you valuable clues. For Egyptian this would be Coptic, one of its descendants; you can somewhat see things from other Afro-Asiatic languages in its grammar, but they're simply too distant to give you any sort of

You also need to take into account that languages change over time, and often diverge quite a bit from place to place. For example, that might mean that your /ka/ (kah) from one text is actually /ʃe/ (sheh) in another, so you need to be fairly certain on the time period and location of your sources.

Context is king, queen, bishop, knight, tower, and pawns. It's everything; and without that context, you will not be able to do anything. For Egyptian that context was provided by the Greek part of the Rosetta Stone, because it offered pretty much the same text translated into three versions (Greek, Demotic, Hieroglyphic), so the Greek part provided context and translation for the rest.
There is legitimate regulatory risk with ai generative models. Really all it takes is the media picking up one bizarre story about child revenge porn generated with these models for them to be completely banned. And a ban wouldn’t mean people stop using them, just that researchers stop getting paid for making them.
Good talk.

I like most changes, especially strictDefs. And orc, "competitive with Rust, better than C++", yum.

I dont like that you plan to enforce Unicode operators in the standard library. It will break editor setups and people will not be able to google for solutions.
These larger mirrors can also be made thinner now because their shape is actively controlled. They don't have to be as stiff as the mirror at Palomar, which was about at the upper limit for such mirrors (anything larger would sag too much retain its optical figure as the mirror was tilted.) Being thinner, these modern mirrors can be cooled more quickly.