skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Right to repair” is a succinct label / rallying cry for what you have outlined. All of the discussion i have seen seems to settle more or less around what you’ve outlined.

I would hope that the text of the law would codify those requirements and ensure the longevity of our devices.

Perhaps you can expand your comment a bit , into a blog post and send it to policy makers ?
I wrote the article under discussion here and I did link that paper at the end of it, FWIW.
That's only if MAD and all-out nuclear war occurs. In the event of a limited nuclear exchange, it's just a real big bomb went off somewhere that I hope you're nowhere near.
I don’t think that distinction necessarily needs to be made if the third-party repair industry is allowed to thrive. If getting your phone repaired and given new life was a common thing everyone did, Pennie’s that couldn’t be repaired or were expensive to repair might not sell as well.

As it stands glueing the phone shut isn’t an issue for most consumers because they expect to throw away and buy a new phone every year or two.
> find more avenues to increase the world's knowledge

No. People who visit and donate, only wants it to go to the site they are using and for its development. Not to some other things that they don't know.

If Wikimedia wants money for all these things, they should mention what are these exactly without hiding.

4/5 million is still huge amount.
Whenever I see the Dyson sphere brought up, I really think people should contemplate the scale of the earth to the sun and imagine where we are getting these resources and mechanical ability to construct this thing. Trillions of meteorites? 100 trillion hours of labor not counting commute time?
Well said indeed.
But the "system" is so adaptable from bipedal locomotion, spotting predators or prey and identifying unfit food, figure out social hierarchy, human facial expressions that driving a car is easy.
"Medical authorities in the Shiraz area estimate that local satellite jamming activity is likely to result in at least 24,000 cancer cases in the coming years, and a senior Iranian health official has stated publicly that, “recent studies show that jamming signals and waves have side effects and can increase the risk of cancer.”
https://spacewatch.global/2017/04/iranian-satellite-jamming-...

Or here: https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-staellite-jamming-health/29...
didn't read it, but someone told on a forum that Microsoft's patent is about dynamically updated rANS probabilities during decoding -- JPEG XL is about static rANS codes, the codes are never changed/updated during decoding, they are context modeled and already clustered at encoding time, which makes it faster to decode than dynamically updated codes
Thank you for the recommendations. I will check them out. To be fair, it's been a couple years since I last looked, and at that time it wasn't that there were _no_ other light themes, but there were very few and they were not nearly as good as Solarized, which I guess is a personal preference. But, I really do appreciate the recommendations, and look forward to trying some new colors.
Hint: Nokia 8110 on GerdaOS can change IMEI: https://gerda.tech

No idea about how hard it will be to get the device in Iran.
The pathological liar aka keffal is not someone I would take their words to heart[1].

KF is at best passively in support of doxing and of harassing people or at worst actively doing both of it.

[1]https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...
The Staff Engineer's Path, Tanya Reilly.

Being a staff engineer comes with challenges that seniors don't have, mainly the definition and content of the role itself. Tanya dives into what and how those should be handled in an easy to read book.
Someone on HN proposed "Lateral Number" which I thought was a good one. It's a number, just to the side of the numbers you know.
:-)

Ok but Mastodons were not arctic/northern animals like Mammoths. They were a temperate (& subtropical? i think) climate creature.

Apart from their bones another piece of evidence of their existence is the way many of the plants in the eastern Nort American forest adapted to have spikes/thorns that seem ineffective against deer & moose etc but would be deadly against browsing with a trunk. Black locust is like this.

I would have loved to have met one.

Now, for silly analogies, I dunno, it's likely that the ancestors of today's native Americans hunted them to extinction. (They were probably delicious). Can someone build an analogy from that? :-)
Bitcoin with proof of waste is not just about flavour.
AOM = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Open_Media
To be fair, in the time he created a company that pushed electrical vehicles to be mainstream, and made reusable rockets a possibility and not just a dream which is helping push mankind to again explore space what exactly has Twitter accomplished?
I don't recall any of these phones being waterproof. The first waterproof phone I've had was Sony Xperia Z and that was glued.
In addition to the ubiquitous ORA books (really, did anyone ever understand Sendmail config files before the bat book?) there were also a lot of print-outs. Huge swaths of code printed on 132-col fanfold paper. You might have a backup copy of the source code on tape somewhere, but nothing made you feel secure like having a copy of the previous working version printed out and stashed somewhere on your desk or in a drawer.
Screens were slightly less ubiquitous then. You could continue playing on the controller when dad switched the living room TV to some sports.
> I would find it hard for anyone to argue, with a straight face, that the most active members of the community do not lean towards a common political ideology.

I believe it, but then let's not pretend it is otherwise. Let's not have people fund projects under the false pretence of keep servers online.

> Whether that influences the quality of the articles, particularly new ones, I cannot say

With zero intention of doing so, over time, people's political ideologies will bleed into the content. The organization itself will become more and more hostile towards opposing views.

The neutral topics themselves still have merit, but I suspect not for much longer. We no longer can have an article about master-slave buses without bringing up slavery [1], for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Ter...
To be honest, this is a bit too late i think.

I knew a company from the UK who sold dropshiping websites, then rug-pull ready tokens (+ website), both hosted on sourcehut (with the "critical code" sold with the support). They sold everything six month ago? Solid devs, but the moral wasn't quite there. At least they made really big bucks while it lasted.
Very well presented.

As for the argument I find it very convincing, it seems the best answer to the Fermi Paradox, much like the anthropic principle is to the obverse problem of the universe being very hospitable to life. None of the comments here address any serious issues with the argument.
Vacuum energy, obviously. ;)
I just assumed they used something similar to iPhone FaceID and Xbox Kinect dot emitters. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/17/16315510/i...
Billboards in the middle of a sidewalk? That's crazy
My personal favorite resolution is that we are currently only able to travel in C Space as mentioned in https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

I mean, in this age we are still discovering super strange weird stuff on the atomic/proton/electron/quark scale, so maybe we need a lot of more time to discover other super strange weird stuff on the galactic/universe level as well.
I don't care about Apple. I use phones that are rated waterproof - because I am going to swim with it.

I even successfully applied warranty few times (Sony and Samsung) when a phone got fucked this way, since the glue wasn't applied properly. New phone for me, yay.
That's unfortunately a terrible position to take, and a shitty precedent for the platform, but whatever, it's their prerogative.

I liked sourcehut, but now I'll have to recommend against using it.
You're right, but that is what the post you are replying to was proposing: they should say what they are raising the money for.

Then people can decide, instead of being panicked into donating because they are made to think there is an urgent need for money "to defend Wikipedia's independence" or "to keep Wikipedia online".
It depends on how you define survive, and for how long.

In the time when the ARPANET was designed, the ICBM's accuracy was far lower, so a packet-switched network with lots of redundant links had a better chance of surviving for more time than a circuit-switched.

The idea was to have a communications network that fared a better chance to survive time enough to be able to be used to coordinate a counter-attack for a few hours or days. A network that would degrade more graciously but that would surely degrade the same in the end.
Microsoft has been the new IBM for a few decades already.

In fact, this is considered ancient history nowadays.
There was a time when it was "lego-easy" to swap the batteries on phones.
They had a door that slid open and the battery popped right out.
I got stuck in the second book of the Trilogy, it's not as flowing as the first book
> Thanks to technology we can perceive many things that we have no evolutionary reason to be able to perceive.

We might be able to perceive, but that doesn't mean we understand what we see. Every time I engage with medicine, I learn how little humanity actually knows, despite all the technology. We still don't understand what causes many diseases, or how to heal many wounds. How would we find completely alien life when we can't even find the cause of a disease that plagues 23% of the adult population?
Because people wouldn't donate. They want to donate to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a highly successful product. So much so that people will voluntarily pay 100x what it takes to run it. In a normal business this would be profit, and the owners would be able to pocket it.

But, Wikipedia is a non-profit, so they have to be a bit more clever in how they pocket the money. First you create a parasitic management structure. But if your administrative expenses are 80% of donations, that looks bad. So you donate to another non-profit, and that counts in financial statements as money put to work as charity. Then that non-profit can siphon off its share of administrative expenses, and repeat the cycle.
The announcement says:

> These domains are strongly associated with fraudulent activities and high-risk investments which take advantage of people who are suffering from economic hardship and growing global wealth inequality. Few to no legitimate use-cases for this technology have been found...

While presumably you're not kicking people out because they disagree with you on this political question, your motivation for kicking them out is deeply political. You're practicing a "boycott, divestment, and sanctions" approach to cryptocurrency projects, based on a flawed analysis of how those projects affect the structure of the global economic system — an analysis also reflected in your lack of understanding of how dramatically "piracy," largely funded through Bitcoin, has reduced barriers to access to knowledge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33404025.

If you want to understand how cryptocurrencies affect people suffering from economic hardship and global wealth inequality, read my post from last year on the topic, based on direct personal experience, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448744.

The distinction you're drawing between being in favor of cryptocurrency and publishing code that implements cryptocurrency seems to suggest that you don't believe code is speech, because its distribution should be limited in ways that other kinds of speech are not. In turn, people who believe code is speech should be wary of using your service.

More generally, I don't think people who are setting up a software project to do good for the world should have to worry about the level of geopolitical savvy of their project hosting service. If the project hosting service misunderstands some aspect of development economics — maybe they're in favor of import-substitution industrialization or organic farming, and the project is instead supporting export-focused industrialization or industrial fertilizer production — its users shouldn't get their namespace revoked and perhaps then taken over by their political opposition. Not even if they're wrong.

It's a political fact that rich people in Holland only hear about Indonesian Nike factory conditions when they are terrible; they are consequently not in a good position to judge the balance of harms and benefits. Certainly the factory workers are being "taken advantage of" in a way which is possible because they are "suffering from economic hardship and growing global wealth inequality" — but in fact export-focused industrialization has lifted billions of people out of poverty in the last three decades despite the harms it has caused, harms measured in lost eyes and hands rather than just money. (The case against organic farming is much less clear — but still something that should be resolved by the people involved, not overseas infrastructure providers acting on a incomplete understanding founded in political agitprop.)
Longtermists want to be praised and revered for how smart they are.
> the larger portion of the people that started coding on a light text on dark background had already retired.

We're not that old!
So to clarify, the formation of the Milky Way wasn't political, correct?

I think it's important that we quickly dispel the "Everything is political" disinformation. Bumper sticker philosophy is hot garbage.
I believe he also goes over the legendre transform which lets you move between Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics.

Just occured to me that the above poster may believe that QM is Hamiltonian only and classical is Lagrangian only. That'd be a forgivable but fatal mistake to understanding the subject!

Hamilton Jacobi equation may also help them remember QM is distinctly less intrusive than classical mechanics.
Seriously, why should I donate when they're moving the "excess" money outside the organization? _They don't need it._ Perhaps if there's some low water mark that they can set for funds under which they can start asking for donations again.

I won't be donating to Wikipedia again until I hear they're on the ropes, laid off a third of the staff, and may have to shut down. _Then_ I'll donate.
> We've added all kinds of safety features to cars and roads to try to compensate for their weaknesses

This is a super important point. Whenever self-driving cars comes up in conversation it's like, "we're spending billions of dollars on self-driving cars tech, but what if we just, idk, had rails instead of roads". We're putting all the complexity on the self-driving tech, but it seems pretty clear that if we helped a little on the other end (made driving easier for computers), everything would get better a lot faster.
You can run your own and federate with whomever. It’s unlikely that this scenario will be common. It’s more likely that the large instances switch to whitelisting eventually.

Maybe self-hosting could be made more common through selling a (cheap) appliance with self-hosted services pre-installed. It is not clear how to solve the chicken-and-egg problem with such a setup. Also, someone will need to maintain the tunnels these things will need to be accessible. That entity can again be pressured into moderation.

It’s not at all clear if effective freedom of speech is attainable at scale.
Thats an amazing feedback Dan, I would love to have a short call to pick your brain if you're up for it. ill reach on linkedin
They throw in the term "racial inequities" specifically so they can call anyone who questions the funds "racist." It's a tried and true tactic used for fraud.
Excited to try this. I've been looking for an alternative to obsidian publish.
I'll add WordPerfect v5.1 for DOS.

White text on Blue background.
To add to this, a website I've found useful is betterexplained.com. Specifically for complex numbers, take a look at [1] and [2]. But they also have good articles with visualizations to help you understand the Fourier transform, the number e, integrals and derivatives, linear algebra, etc. A starting point is [3]. One useful idea is that they color the different parts of math equations to explain each part separately, see [4].

Another great source of math visualizations is the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown, in particular the series on linear algebra [5]. (I didn't intuitively understand what a determinant represented or what the determinant of a transformation being zero really meant, until watching [6].)

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guid...
[2] https://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-arithmetic-wi...
[3] https://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuiti...
[4] https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...
[5] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3X9LOh2dk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
Well dang it... I have both astigmatism and myopia. I guess I have double the discomfort, then.
Most phones are not glued shut, including iPhones starting all the way back to 4/5. iPhone batteries are also not glued in. Source: We run independent repair shops.
I understand #2. I hope you understand the people refuting it.

Humans haven’t evolved additional perception, we created it. We evolved to see electromagnetic radiation in the “visible light” spectrum but we created tools to see every other part of it.

We’ve even created tools to accelerate matter to just under the speed of light, smashed atoms together and then detected the particles created from the collision.

We’ve explored our entire world, launched telescopes into space, sent probes outside of the solar system and so much more.

Can we see everything? Not even close. But our vision today is incomparably far compared to even just 150 years ago. Cave fish today see as well as cave fish 100,000 years ago.
A farm or a hospital.
Sometimes you want LDAP open to other places for auth and directory sync, ideally it should be IP restricted but some people don't do that for various reasons.
This still doesn't explain why we don't see evidence of life though, just why finding evidence of alien life via eavesdropping on extra-terrestrial radio emissions would be unlikely.

If the galaxy really was full of intelligent life it's likely we would see evidence of it in some form. For one, it seems probable that any expansionist intelligent life in our galaxy would eventually notice our Earth is likely to be an interesting place. Even if they didn't visit us personally it seems strange they wouldn't send a simple probe or try to make their presence known to us in one way or another.

But to your point, perhaps intelligent life is quite common, it's just rare for it to be expansionist - at least beyond it's own solar system. In which case yeah, there could be a lot of Earth-like civilisations out there, but we'd be unlikely to see evidence for them.
In my understanding the only hard assumption in the grabby aliens hypothesis is that there is a chance of a civilization becoming "grabby" by which they mean it sprouts new civilizations in neighboring solar systems. Everything else is just necessary simplification. It even accounts for civilizations not becoming grabby.

And the grabby hypothesis predicts we are quite early.
Provided they are not destroyed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse and you wait out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_blackout
> When the Nazis came for the communists,

This is a misquote.

Niemöller was wise enough to know there were limits in what should be defended.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie...

> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
If you see one side involving millions of people is portrayed as monsters, you should doubt such portrayal (people overall are good, sadists who enjoy human suffering are tiny minority, most evil is from systems/institutions not individuals).

Here's personal account (one data point) of what I mean then I use the word "wokeism:" good intentions are subverted to censor people, to distract from what is important, kindness/openness is weaponized e.g., cancel culture is applied to university professors for voicing scientific truth.
Largely agree I think, except soft power. I think soft power is exactly what is happening in Iran. People in Iran has been living a "private" life for a long time with access to information, a "public" life which goes on as usual. Something has to give.
Your position, and your platforms position, on cryptocurrency projects is a political position.

Kicking out projects over that position is kicking people out over a political difference.
What makes Itaewon such a popular area in Seoul? Young South Koreans explain
As always, each protocol/data format has it's place. You need to maximize the amount of data you send in each packet? Then protobuf is better than JSON. Need to support large amount of clients without any fuzz? Then JSON is better. Wanna pass around data you don't know the schema of? JSON again.

Contexts matters, there is no silver bullets, everything has trade offs and so on, and so on.
Your argument is akin to blaming NATO for the war in Ukraine.
Data competitions to reduce racial bias in predictive algorithms
Delay of gratification in corvids and its relation to other cognitive capacities
Thanks for the mini-review.
Twitter Reportedly Plans to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts
It is, indeed, a subjective thing. I personally have given up on cryptocurrency, but I seem to recall (and the absolute worthless rag called Reuters seems to corroborate: https://www.reuters.com/technology/venezuelas-economy-regres...) that Venezuelans found a recourse in crypto after the Venezuelan economy imploded. However that is just one data point, and the utter lack of any real wins aside from that would seem to agree with your statement that there are few legitimate use-cases.
Here's the inventor speaking about the invention/product; https://youtu.be/Rli9qwU_za4
Deaf people (or those who blast music) can drive. People who are blind in one eye can drive.
There's no such "space" at all. This whole idea that trans women are somehow monopolizing spaces that "rightfully belong" to cis women is just a transphobic, hateful slur; especially so when the attack is so clearly targeted at a single, vulnerable trans person. The block was absolutely warranted; it was an egregious violation of a "no personal attacks" rule that's been there since the beginning.
South Korean authorities say they had no guidelines for Halloween crowds
Sleep mode. And consoles are way better at respecting your choice not to update both in regards to games and the OS. I can put the Switch to sleep and leave the game there for a week or a month and then come back exactly where I was.

With Wii U games rarely received patches, everything was on the disc and ran off it too.