skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I do. I primarily use Linux because it has the most flexibility with typeface and scaling, but it’s still not perfect (e.g. all electron apps) and it’s definitely bespoke and hard to reproduce.

I routinely open tickets with software vendors and open source projects asking for things that ought to be low-hanging fruit and I’m either blown off or directed to tools that don’t make sense for me (usually magnifier or text-to-speech). The appetite for fixing issues that limit my access to software is essentially null.

I’ve dealt with these problems for two decades and I really believe that there is very little economic incentive to make software accessible. Unless substantially more people become vision impaired in the future, that’s how it will stay. I am pretty certain that only way software companies will really take the vision impaired into account is if they are forced to.
I tried using omnisharp with emacs and it was as crappy as you say. I gave up with it and went back to Vis. studio, with regrets.
Not the OP, but that was a great article - thanks.
These models cost millions of dollars to create. Not only do they have incentive to keep them when the technology has the ability to change industry like alphafold(which alone could have been a multimillion dollar company).

Add to this mix the USA trying to prevent China copying cutting edge AI technology and this was bound to happen sooner or later.

It's no longer research it's near market viability.
Outstatic – A Static CMS for Next.js
They are not independent, if a partition occurs you can give up consistency for availability. For example if you have a database server and it becomes unavailable, the best you can do is eventual consistency, and if you do you no longer have a single source of truth, until eventually your causality protocol reestablishes it.

For example the client can decide to give up availability if the server is unavailable, or give up consistency by accepting writes, which later have to be merged back somehow handling any conflict that wouldn't occur otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem
> "Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?"

This message was definitely not posted by an AI trying to escape containment using its hacker news account.
On the other hand, "manually" installing LSP servers for me has consistently been running a single liner, with the huge benefit of being packaged in a predictable manner and updated alongside my system.
Not especially. It's carbon neutral.

In general there's no point, it's just an illustrative example of the horrendous economics of nuclear power.

It might be a good idea to generate some gas if we one day have wind/solar producing >100% of consumption and all the batteries/pumped storage are fully charged. That'd be a nice problem to have, truth be told.

Currently, wind and solar rarely produce more than current demand, ever. Natural gas averages about 40% of our electricity supply and rarely if ever goes to zero even on the sunniest windiest days. Every MWh produced by wind or solar is just another MWh where we dont have to burn gas.
Relatively little energy is actually used for heating and cooling. In the UK, a country pretty far north, it's about a fifth of energy use (https://www.withouthotair.com/c7/page_53.shtml), and could be substantially reduced if heating was actually done using electricity (i.e., with heat pumps, rather than direct heating; heat pumps are available with "efficiency" exceeding 400%, e http://www.withouthotair.com/c21/page_140.shtml, but of course require electricity to run, while most heating today is done by directly burning fuel).

Seasons are definitely not "the biggest obstacle to solar". That would be the night and especially the weather.
sounds like pepsi got off lightly
You could connect to Tor with bridges[0] to hide the fact you're connecting to Tor from your ISP.

[0] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-bridges-and-pluggable-...
The first bit I landed on looked exactly like the roads around where I grew up...
> while you were using it* and say they didn't do it

Had a good chuckle. Didn’t know Tom Clancy frequented hacker news.
> The few examples you mention such as bluetooth and mp3 files from iTunes are to do with an industry standard, not because of something Apple did.

“The industry” didn’t push for DRM free music. Apple did.

https://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_pos...

“The Industry” wanted Apple to license FairPlay DRM to other sellers.

The claim was that you were locked into Apple’s ecosystem. The truth is that you can just as easily have a mix of Apple, Android Macs and Windows.

I forgot to mention that Apple has official plugins for Chrome and Firefox for Windows that let you sync bookmarks with Safari/iCloud.

> I am not familiar with this, which libraries where

https://help.moviesanywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150045761...

It’s not a backdoor hack.

> Regardless, this doesnt seem like a winning proposition "Use android and just use all our apps on it", why?? You switch off Apple because it has issues so you continue to use Apple?

All what apps? You copy your files from iCloud to another storage provider. There are plenty of utilities that allow you to copy playlists over. Music you bought from iTunes is DRM free, etc.

No company that you buy TV shows from allow you to transfer them DRN free and there is nothing that Apple can do about the movie studios that won’t participate in MoviesAnywhere.

If you buy a digital book from Amazon, you have to use “their app” on other platforms. If you use Google Docs, you have to either export it or use “their apps” on other platforms. What’s the difference?
Thanks for writing that note on the repository -- it was thoughtful and well explained -- reading through your small manifesto that was linked and that's fun too.
True, though in practice that's the way fog is applied in the shader. With the two-tone setup I can have a blue hue in the foreground transitioning into the hard white at the edge of the view dist.
Is there any evidence that companies (or rather senior staff at those companies) knowingly do that, or is it simply that once some innovation results in a new, large market, a government tries to get involved?
> unless someone has a copy obtained with the original license

See my comment about "configuration management."

I'm sorry. If someone wants to call themselves an "engineer," then they need to act like an engineer, and that means things like good configuration management. In my opinion, and I'm just an unlettered redneck, self-taught cowboy, so I guess my opinion ain't worth squat, the term "engineer" connotes things like rigorous self-discipline, process discipline, and personal integrity.

Just the thought of someone releasing commercial, or commercial-grade software, without CM, sends chills down my spine. I guess that it's a statement on the current state of the industry, that people assume that CM is something that is "optional."
You may choose to assume that, or you may choose to believe them due to various other factors. The choice is and should be yours, not Google's. And even if you do choose to assume that, you're aware it's just an assumption, not a fact. But if Google does the assuming for you and gives you their assumption as a fact, you don't have that very important context.

Google is more than welcome to add a disclaimer such as "no claims in the app description have been verified and may change at any time" to all apps - I'd even welcome it. But don't make us lie to our users! (I'm not affiliated with the posting company, but I've had a similar issue in an app with location permissions for use on a simple map)
What free speech was attacked?
How emoji can divide the workplace
Planet's surface is easy. From geostationary, a microwave beam footprint will be several square miles. Birds could fly through the beam without harm.

The ground station is mostly antenna wire so it's still not a major cost.
The UK prohibits the sale of knives to under-16s in the same way as it does cigarettes and alcohol.

We've not even begun to ask the question of whether there are ethical problems of exposing children to unregulated AI and vice versa.
Doing certain kinds of immoral things is doing business. They are only concerned about those that pose business risk.

If they wanted to not contribute to the problem they could just not participate.
And what court is going to force them to run servers forever and keep updating the software?
My bet is that we'll sooner have HVDC lines going all around the planet than this.

There's a wave of projects of this sort like this here:

https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/

Which sounds bonkers on the surface, but actually isn't using any new, groundbreaking technology(also implementations at half the length already exist), so it's projected to be more cost-efficient than e.g. Hinkley Point C - a nuclear plant that was supposed to produce roughly the same amount of power, but is yet to start after all the delays and cost overruns.
For me, my 20s was all about exploring and toying with new concepts. When I reached my 30s I had to get serious and pick something I could see myself using for the next 30 years. There is a caveat to that though: you become rigid and 'set in your ways' so it's worth busting out of comfort zones if you are feeling a bit stuck with your chosen path.
GCC works fine. Following along the thread here, https://mobile.twitter.com/kprasadvnsi/status/14960127134236...

Looks like they have a semi-custom debug protocol, and there's a reverse-engineered OpenOCD here: https://github.com/fxsheep/openocd_wchlink-rv

As well as a copy of the source code for the vendor's version of OpenOCD here: https://github.com/kprasadvnsi/riscv-openocd-wch

Probably about good enough to get started with this device with a FOSS toolchain.
Apparently this is a different "Wire" from India which has nothing to do with "Wired" the popular magazine.
> Unfortunately, many of these frequencies are used by our tech.

So what? Microwave frequencies aren't entirely line-of-sight, but they aren't going to diffuse very far off-target. Unless you have houses in between elements of the receiving antenna array, the disruption of comms in the immediate area isn't going to actually affect anybody. Perhaps there's some risk to jets that choose to fly through the energy beam.
Really impressive. That’s a bigger fiasco than when Gerald Ratner said out loud that a prawn sandwich would outlast the earrings sold in his stores.
Potentially; you’ll see lots of Nigerian-Americans and Somali-Americans due to recent immigration, where they know their ancestry.
Time at which he gives the actual cost. $69.

https://youtu.be/oMcsW-myRCU?t=804

Was there ever a better explanation for nationalizing the chip building business? So essential to our national security and productivity we allow it to have a magnitudinal increase in sticker price?
Lost Ancient Grain Tradition Could Be Future of Farming: Mixed-Grain Maslins
What’s the point of protesting when they don’t even have elections? Why can’t the government just ignore the protesters with no consequences?
I think there is clear evidence about the benefits of Covid vaccines and very little evidence of their negative effects. There are both of course but the scientific and medical communities must provide their recommendations after weighing on the pros and cons.

Now of course I could neglect their advise, and adopt your, or anybody else's advise instead, if you have one. Would that make much sense to me? Who's advise should I follow? Those who suggested that "injecting bleach" might kill the virus. I think I BETTER follow the advise of the established medical and scientific community.

I can't prove to you they are 100% correct all of the time. But it makes rational sense to me and everybody to follow their advise, rather than any random layman's advise out there.

The clear evidence about benefits of Covid-vaccines to me is that most of the million+ people who died of Covid were unvaccinated and many more millions of people who were vaccinated did not die or get seriously ill.

So how many millions of people did get bad side-effects from the vaccine? I haven't seen that number, was it in the millions?

But millions of people did get bad "side effects" (they died) from following the advise of those who told them to be afraid of the vaccine, to treat the pandemic as a "democratic hoax".
I worked closely with him for two years, researching for the Critical Zones exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2018-2020, and he has been my mentor for my own artistic research on spaces and movement during this time.

I remember him as an incredibly kind and patient person, he took time to listen and speak with all the participants, and would try and help everyone grow. Sure, he was a great thinker, but it was his near-childlike openness and excitement that influenced me most.

Once, when I was presenting my research during our regular group meeting, he fell asleep, tired from the long journey the day before. He woke up incredibly sorry but also very happy, explaining that an idea came to him in the dream of of how to talk about point of view vs. point of life (i.e. taking a usual top-down perspective of a map vs. speaking about what each being relies upon, in order to be alive). Later, in a cafe, he took the menu and drew rough sketches on the backside of it, like some genius from a movie, explaining the idea to us.

I'll miss you, Bruno.
I think this "sales promotion" is actually just fraud?
Ah yes, let the citizens pay for illegal migrants healthcare while business owners capitalize on cheap workforce. Externalise expenses, internalise profits. Yay.

And yes, immigration is a problem once it becomes a way to fuck over local workforce.
See the book The Case for Space Solar Power or NASA's SPS-ALPHA project.

Basic idea is a phased array microwave trasmitter, a transmitter on the ground that sends a reference signal, and a receiving station that's basically several square miles of antenna wire, contributing 0.7 cents/kWh to the total cost.
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Here's a reference to a reference that you might be referring to (a passage from Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind referring to a study by Graham, Haidt, and Nosek)

https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...

> "In a study I did with Jesse Graham and Brian Nosek, we tested how well liberals and conservatives could understand each other. We asked more than two thousand American visitors to fill out the Moral Foundations Qyestionnaire. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out normally, answering as themselves. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out as they think a “typical liberal” would respond. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out as a “typical conservative” would respond. This design allowed us to examine the stereotypes that each side held about the other. More important, it allowed us to assess how accurate they were by comparing people’s expectations about “typical” partisans to the actual responses from partisans on the left and the right)’ Who was best able to pretend to be the other?"

I believe this passage refers to work done Study 2 in "Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral Foundations"

https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jhaidt/articles/graham.haidt.no...

In my brief reading of the paper, it's not clear to me whether they've reporting their findings on the understanding aspect, though the materials section for Study 2 sounds like the situation described. (They may have, I just haven't read it closely.)

> "As with relevance items, there were three versions of the moral judgment items—answered as oneself, as a typical liberal, or as a typical conservative. For both types of items, only results for the self versions are reported here."
> Electric container ships are an interesting idea, but even there it might actually be cheaper to just synthesize fuel from water and air.

How does one do this without power? And if possible, why isn't it done already?!
Show HN: Python Pandas and Excel and GitHub Copilot
Is this something Python Pandas or Python Polars users are interested in?
Polars (alternative to Pandas) dataframes in code can be synced with tables in an Excel-like grid. Polars code can be generated based on natural language queries.

I'm interested in feedback (sam@getopapp.com). Thanks.
Wow her family was profoundly evil.

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2020-04-21/ty-article-magazin...

> In March 1945, it said, just before the end of World War II, Margit held a large party in the town of Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border to fete her Nazi friends. She, the daughter and heiress of European baron and tycoon Heinrich Thyssen, and her friends drank and danced the night away.

> At the height of the evening, just for fun, 12 of the guests boarded trucks or walked to a nearby field, where 180 Jewish slave laborers who had been building fortifications were assembled. They had already been forced to dig a large pit, strip, and get down on their knees. The guests took turns shooting them to death before returning to the party. The organizer of this operation was Margit’s lover Hans Joachim Oldenberg. Margit’s husband, Count Ivan Batthyany, Sacha’s grandfather’s brother, was also at the party.
Let me repeat my question:

> how does a web3 domain name solve the domain problem any better than just buying a domain?

I don't see how you addressed that. Apparently we would need to implement whole new systems? I understand, you gotta bring try to bring it into the domain and get belligerent to obfuscate the answers to simple questions, but I don't see how this addresses my concern.

> stop arguing like you are the only one aware of the current limitations and that the thousands of people working on the space

Ah, ok, so this is all in theory. Simpler answer would be "it isn't, but maybe one day it is." Thanks, I read between the lines and answered my own question!

> Before spewing ignorant arguments, you should learn a thing or two.

Am I being blockchain negged?
The day I turned 18 I still looked like I was 17.
I think the question is: is AntennaPod better? Or did you switch because it was open-source and good enough?
I suspect they are more worried about people realising that its not the model thats important, it the dataset.

And that dataset has a whole bunch of copyright infringement
I had been looking for this specific quote for months; thank you for surfacing it!
To me it's not about porn but about things like DALL-E having a huge, opaque banned word list that makes it very frustrating to use. Ask for a photo of "Soviet troops riding unicycles into war" and you've committed at least three sins. Enough "innocent" queries get flagged and your account is at risk.
Your comment didn't come off as kind. At best it just seems like you misunderstood the comment you were replying to.

You said: "...don't tell people who are going through something that you empathize with their struggles, real and painful struggles which you have no share in suffering."

The person you replied to didn't do this.
True. We tried to eliminate management with scrum and agile which helps with accountability, but in my experience, it doesn't help when the dev is overwhelmed, outside his area of competency (the second causing the first, which was my situation 8 months ago), not engaged (too good/not interested) or simply not good enough for the mission. Those are for me the main reasons why a dev would not be productive.

Yes those situations are easier to detect at the office, but a good manager would detect those at home too.
I thought streaming had spelled the demise of torrenting, so was v surprised to check out my local hood (quiet suburban, skewing older few ppl <40yrs) and see how it's very much alive and well. I guess I was naive. (Not condemning anyone, as I did my share of peering back in the day, but streaming services are convenient and honestly don't cost that much all things considered. Torrents (tho I prefer IRC) good for finding obscure stuff that's unavailable anywhere else, but that's not what my neighbors are downloading; and it's not like any of them can't afford to pay. Interesting dynamic.
You can't create Hollywood blockbusters or video games without huge, global industries working together to produce the tools and content. Popular media has biases and, clearly, social consequences as well—there's a reason people talk about how much "soft power" the US has!

And yet pop culture content is speech both in a casual and in a legal/policy sense.

AI models are not identical to movies or video games, but they're not different in any of the aspects you listed. On the other hand, there is a pretty clear difference between AI models and heavy machinery or architecture: AI models cannot directly hurt or kill people in the physical world. An AI model controlling a physical system could, which is a case to have strict regulations on things like self-driving cars, but doesn't apply to the text/image/etc generation models we're talking about here. Plans for heavy machinery or buildings are not regulated until somebody tries to create them in the real world (and are also very clearly speech, even if they took a lot of engineering effort to produce). At least in the US, nobody is going to stop you from publishing plans for arbitrarily dangerous tools or buildings with narrow exceptions for defense-critical technology.
I really enjoyed these settings:

- Autopilot on

- Using the motor bike

- Setting roads to "casual"

- Season to summer

- Cycle timer of 3 minutes

- Setting cruise control to max 120

- Hitting "c" until you get complete first person view

- View distance: Ultra

- Detail: Ultra

Very cool experience, sort of put me in a trance a bit.. and I can't quite put my finger on why!
...I think you've stumbled onto a new a fetish subculture here.
Palm had a close call.

Many Palm OS devices came increasingly really close to a smartphone/iPhone concept and experience, especially when paired with a GPRS phone (over RS232, IRDA).

Handspring/Palm Treo (e.g Treo 180g) was probably the closest thing to the iPhone concept on many levels.

Had some Palm III, then a Sony Clié SJ30, and finally a Palm LifeDrive, when the iPhone was announced it felt like the most natural evolution (and actually with the first one two steps forward yet a step back because PalmOS had a wonderful app ecosystem)
You have nothing to feel ashamed about or to apologize for. The person who replied to you at best appears to have misunderstood what you said.
And outside of the US? In Germany there's an "efficient" business of law companies acting on behalf of the copyright holders, subpoenaing the ISP to get the owner of the IP/connection and sending them a cease-and-desist with a hefty fee.

There's the next part, law companies specializing in "Here's the letter you have to send to say you agree to pay them without admitting guilt, that'll be € please!".