skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are you going to work on long term plans with sortition? At least with vote elections if you are doing well you can be voted again to keep doing what you do.
Fascinating! Bones is just as described.
I'd realised a while ago that the 'ship' is the structure; the fact it's a 'spaceship' is a detail but it's very naval in organisation.
What about QUIC? Do you think that HTTP/3 will suffer from throughput as well?
Turning on shuttered gas and coal plants solely to mine cryptocurrencies is about as close as you can get to pointlessly cooking the planet.

The benefits have been relatively modest so far.
> Looks pretty sane to me?

Expressing the view off site that sexual relationships between adults and children are not harmful results in being prevented from editing wikipedia.

This is an ideological test on who can edit.
Inner London, which is going through a bit of a damp period right now after a really dry summer. I'm not sure if those two things are related, but technically we are still in drought even though my garden is basically a swamp right now.

My tropical plants are enjoying it though.
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Who is running the Bitcoin ponzi? The CEO of Bitcoin? Any other type of computing/calculation you'd like to make illegal? Maybe everything that gets hashed with SHA-256 should be preapproved by the government first?
Slow network (1Mbps), slow computers (16MHz?), 1MB RAM, spinning disks, tiny screens. Only thing you might recognize from a developers desk back then was the keyboard. Even the mouse was mechanical and had a cord and wasn't USB.
photog.social is an example of where it being independent is both good and bad. Good, because independent. Bad, because it's just someone else's expensive computer.

https://photog.social/@ambassador/109080532230127913

When you settle on an instance, make sure to contribute to its upkeep if you can.
Also, there are many more new languages and newer development framework that have appeared in the last 20+ years.
I like how Betteridge's law of headlines breaks down when there's "or" logic in the headline.
As someone already sold on arenas I appreciated both the depth and battle story style. Perhaps the author is mis-targeting: they are preaching to the choir instead of converting the sinners =]
Doesn't seem like any of the OSS image processing servers support XL. A quick check over the docs of the major image CDN services and only Cloudinary has XL support (as expected, since their FUIF proposal was one of the foundations for XL along with Google's Pik). Chrome seem to have gone furthest in developing support for XL in Chrome, FF and Safari are way behind and there doesn't seem to be a clear signal from them that they'll continue working on it. From my perspective this really looks like Chrome isn't going to take the hit for being the only browser supporting an image format again, like it was for WEBP (which took years [and nearly a decade] to land in other browsers).
Aren't you missing advances in programming language technology (performance, tooling, instrumentation) by sticking with such an old interpreter?
There were a few different PD translations to pick from when I did that edition of Kalevala, including a prose version. I don’t speak Finnish, but I picked the one that retained the Kalevala-meter and seemed to read the most lyrically. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
Good point, there was a missing step in my reasoning. I am assuming that the durability gained by integrated changes to a design have fewer tradeoffs in thickness, as compared to an external case.
Kyocera has a waterproof line of phones that a number of have replaceable batteries.
Sounds like you have a problem with fossil fuels.
Which he said not long after the comments were made, so maybe it's coincidental, but I mean, there was never any talk of having problems paying before the anti-musk comments were made.
I've written up my findings with trying to getting Linux working on the new Dev Kit - https://blog.alexellis.io/linux-on-microsoft-dev-kit-2023/
I worked in NASA as an intern and it was pretty cool! There are some definite pros/cons though:

Good:

Chance to work on some awesome large scale projects. Relatively stable employment if a civil servant. Some groups like JPL get to work on cutting edge and unique projects such as the Mars robot drone.

Bad:

Low compensation and few growth opportunities. Projects can get cancelled at any time (see the NASA "Constellation Program"), depending on politics. Hard to get a job as a civil servant, most people are contractors. A lot of work is managing contracts and system integration. Slow pace.
> I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the users here are strongly in favor of getting humanity into space

How do we turn this into a meaningful political movement? My strongest pro argument in a political context is resource security and not having to rely on adversarial states. Economically, it means and endless supply of sources we need to build our increasingly complex devices. Also jobs. I see this as an existential benefit for advanced societies. But how do you bring this is front of average joes with the same intensity as current issues.
You can get small free ipv6 allocations from hurricane electric’s tunnel broker (tunnelbroker.net) Of course those aren’t “portable” assignments but it’s great for experimenting and such.
I feel like there are LOTS of people who would pay $20/mo for a checkmark. Basically anyone calling themselves a marketer, promoter, influencer, etc.
Yeah, asking those questions is inevitable but what answer would a Newton give back in the day if asked how to go to the moon? It's our turn now and anything would go, from fusion to antimatter, from dark matter to dark energy. Vacuum energy, I'm sure there is at least a scifi story about it as energy source.

Edit: that was easy, the Zero Point Module in Stargate SG9

https://en.stargatewiki.com/index.php/Zero_Point_Module
"Right" is a rhetorical device. It doesn't usually mean something specific and clearly defined a priori. In context though, they do often gain specific and clearly defensible definitions.

Take, "Free Speech." It's a right. It has history, and has accumulated specific meanings, precedents and such over the years. It's true that The Right itself doesn't tell us what to do about modern medium monopolies and social media platforms... but it does give us a starting point. We agree that the right exists, just not what it is. That's not nothing.

Every possible approach has margins, edge cases, implementation difficulties, exceptions and mess. That's true for rights, duties and even minor legal codes, charters and ordinances. Even your examples...

"Designs should not, by the use of adhesives, welding, non-standard fixings, unnecessary ..."

Try turning that into an actively litigated something and you will find all the same problems. What about imports and trade agreement compatibility? What about competing standards. What about the ambiguity of "non-standard," "necessary" or "easy?" What counts and an impediment and how do these duties travel up the value chain?

I'm not saying it's all hopeless, just that nothing is clean. Rights, as opposed to duties, are a core part of our political basis (liberalism). They have a better track record of (a) sticking around and (b) maintaining a moral basis. Duties (eg reporting duty) don't tend to work as well. They're more prone to becoming bureaucratic rulesets than an abstract basis for laws and/or regulation.
rare is not never, so if the effort is low enough some will open them and search quickly.
If your manager was never a programmer, I would agree, but ideally they would have been previously.
If PB becomes popular enough the tooling will materialize. The only difference is the schema needs to be discovered (somehow) with PB.
Indeed I do. I have problems with lots of things, as most people do.
Perhaps. Presumably any competent security force actively have/seek institutional knowledge on how to manage and suppress organized groups of people (kettling, etc). The information asymmetry here must be significant. Hoping that resources will simply appear feels foolhardy.
There was no old internet without DDoS attacks.
I really wish someone would create a fork/variant of Protocol Buffers for all the folks that are not afraid of versioning message schemas. With actual guarantees as to what is in the message and what isn’t.

I recently had to select a suitable data serialization format for a sort-of-distributed application. The goal was to force teams to declare/discuss contracts up-front, so schema-based. It was a very frustrating experience. All the formats with expressive schemas and type systems somehow don’t have a concept of required fields, or not anymore. How can you create a robust system like this?
Interesting read. I'm reminded of when my internet literally came to a hault after 9/11. I was just a kid back then, but I'd be curious if anyone knows why. My hypothesis has always been that the internet, up to that moment in time, was a thing people logged into when it was convenient. Some people had DSL but it was still mostly dial up. However, that day everyone wanted to know what was going on.
Well, not necessarily - he's almost certainly niether the greatest nor the worst CEO of the time, and so "No" is still the answer.
What Medieval Economics can teach us about tariffs (2019)
Out of interest, is the physical hosting located in Europe or planned to move there?

I'm more likely to run a self-hosted instance for myself, but this would be good to know from my employer's PoV.
> Mass shootings, suicides and rapes have happened because of the content of KF and ED

I disagree. It is not possible for the content of a website to be responsible for heinous acts committed IRL. That autonomy can only be utilized by human beings.

I also don't see where it's written that KF's mission is to buttress harassment campaigns. If memory serves, there's a banner on the site which explicitly condemns such actions. It doesn't really matter either way though because websites don't harass people, people harass people.

I urge caution here - calling for the silence of an entire community due to the actions of a few (or more realistically - due to recent mass hysteria and subsequent media coverage) will make it hard to form a moderated viewpoint.

As others have pointed out, this is about the right to read as well. Even if we pat ourselves on the back thinking we've put a hard stop to all online harassment campaigns forever, the knowledge and art (yes - prose is art!) we'll have lost along the way means the victory will ring hollow for some who value unfettered speech.
It's wasting huge amounts of precious resources, often from buying out old, unclean and otherwise decommissioned powerplants to make it extra bad. All with no immediate benefit. Even if Bitcoin was Proof of Stake, it's still a pretty "eh" technology.

The best thing that happened to Bitcoin was when it got banned in China so that the mining capacity was vastly reduced, taking part of the environmental footprint with it. Can't wait for others to do the same.

Maybe new Blockchain products will pop up that do something interesting without being a significant contributor to global warming and lung cancer by massively increasing unclean power usage - but maybe not.
Best experience I had with GraphQL was a B2B app where we had a fair amount of users, as well as the "backoffice" app also powered by GraphQL. Bad users we could just ban (the user base were great folks but could barely operate a computer, so it was fine).

Backend was with Absinthe+Elixir, so it was great (if I had to do it again today I would instead use Liveview, this was in 2017 where I had to retrofit a React app into something useable).

Public user facing is a different story, the last major one I saw was Tableau, though they are also business facing where they can just ban bad users. Github also has deprecated their GraphQL endpoints[0].

[0] https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-18-deprecation-notice-...
I wonder how well this would work for the basis of a FLAC-like lossless encoder. FLAC works by approximating the audio stream with a lossy linear predictive code, and then storing the LPC encoding and its residuals (i.e. the delta between the original signal and its lossy approximation). It turns out that LPC+residuals are a lot more amenable to lossless compression (via Huffman coding) than the raw audio signal itself.
If the LPC were replaced with this neural network based encoding, would the resulting encoding+residuals also be amenable to lossless compression?
It's also 3 times bulkier than any Samsung/Sony smartphone, though. If that's the price, I don't want it.
As far as I know, this is all cached at an instance level. So only the first person to pull something from your instance actually hits your instance's resources. I can still see posts and users from dead instances because it's all cached on my instance. There's a rake task to wipe it, but people are advised not to since those caches have been what saved at least one instance whose name I can't remember.
Actually, this is an issue in the Right-to-Repair movement, is that how R2R is defined actually depends on who you ask.

For example, Louis Rossmann would not define R2R as containing "Designs should not, by the use of adhesives, welding, non-standard fixings, unnecessary integration, traps, and fuses, prevent the easy disassembly and reuse of modular components." Also this definition is not legally possible anyway, as CPUs contain embedded fuses to contain unique security keys, serial number information, anti-rollback protections, prevent changing IMEI numbers (which would be fantastic for thieves), contain fixed radio calibration data, and so forth.

For him, R2R is the ability to buy parts and use them - but it does not implement design obligations. iFixit wants design obligations in their version of R2R - but this broadens the scope and reduces the likelihood of passage in my view (as does the broadening of the scope of any movement or law).

Meanwhile, you actually deal with another problem. The R2R movement loves to completely ignore the (very real) anti-theft and anti-counterfeiting benefits of part serialization. We are talking about a device with more counterfeit parts, more thefts, and more personal information at risk, than any other device ever created, which I think should count for something [1]. Also, while YouTube channels like Louis Rossmann gain my sympathy, they often completely ignore the widespread corruption within mobile phone repair stores, as has been documented elsewhere, somewhat misleading the audience into believing every store is as upright and honest as them when they broadly are not. As long as they keep ignoring that and pretending it is all about repair, instead of coming up with a compromise that promotes anti-theft and repairability, bills are going to be hamstrung.

[1] This is also why I think comparing smartphone repair versus, say, dishwasher repair is a little disingenuous on the R2R side. "Why can't I swap parts on my phone, like I can on an appliance?" Well... which one is stolen more, which one has more counterfeit parts available, which one has information that could destroy your life if compromised, particularly if you are a journalist or just take certain photos of yourself? Pick three. Should repairability, necessarily, be treated the same then? I think that's an open debate that's not so easily won as the R2R dishwasher strawman. I don't want my Face ID sensor swapped out by a hostile government with a fake sensor so they can unlock my phone at will, for example.
FYI: Not sure if you know, but that article works to block you from reading it and asks you to sign up for something. I don't know, I just back out of any user hostile BS like that point. Maybe you have a better article from a source that isn't clearly hostile to visitors?
Yeah, a rise in price results in decreased demand. They think they'll increase revenue and it probably will result in fewer blue checkmarks. Not sure what point you're making.
There is a separate solution for files: defer. Defer can be implemented trivially in assembly by putting the deferred block on the return stack (then the defer block simply returns). This glosses over handling the local stack, but it's not impossible. It would be a relatively minor feature to add to C IMO
It’s a political statement. I don’t think declaring “inaction is political” makes it so. Sounds like sloganeering.
What makes securing hundreds of billions of people's money a less valid use of fossil fuels than playing Call of Duty?
How well does it succeed? One reason I've only played games on consoles is that if I see a game that has PS5 on the box, I know it will run on my console. Do Steam games make a similar promise for the Steam Deck?
Tornado Cash would not be permitted.
Indeed - just a pale blue dot.
Apollo's Federation makes caching much easier to reason about as you can now selectively cache sub-query pieces at the service level for that specific responsible subgraph.
His legend could hardly have been bigger back in the day. A lot of it is the public's desire for a hero to worship. Whatever happened to celebrating the safe-pair-of-hands guy who just stirs his pot? That's still a difficult job, but we absolutely have to have action-men who do cold-hearted things like stack ranking.
> Wanna pass around data you don't know the schema of? JSON again.

This is a false flag. If you don't know the schema on the receiving (or sending, for that matter) side, then you can't do anything with the data, other than pass it on. If you _do_ know what it looks like, then it has an implicit schema whether you call it a schema or not.
Wasn't this already broached in depth with a book showcased on NPR?

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/31/1102165413/did-jack-welch-bre...
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Bad enough to make you want to quit.

People nowadays complain about algos and red-black tress but honestly, that was the easy bit. Wasn't much open source, so you had to build pretty much from scratch. Internet was young and empty, so big fat books were how you learned. No condensed version or easy trouble shooting. C and C++ were as dominant as Python is today, but nowhere near as fun. (https://xkcd.com/353/)

In short, the deal was to be a cog. If you were good as a small cog, you'd move up to be a bigger cog. Then you could manage a few cogs doing a tiny bit of a huge machine. The scrappiness of just throwing things together and getting something meaningful quick simply wasn't there.

I left, spent 15 years of my career doing decidedly different things, and when I came back I was overjoyed with how little code you actually needed now to get stuff done.
We just set up a new datacenter installation in Europe and we're working on setting everything up. I can't offer a timeline on when things will move, but it is planned.
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The original thread: <https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633>

Just wow. I’ve been hearing about Wikipedia having a surplus of money for a while, it didn’t bother me. But after seeing what sort of nonsense they’re funding I’m cancelling my donations.
They are untangled from each other.

UAF would be the same difficulty as allocated arrays I would think?
I won't donate to Wikipedia ever again until they will give an assurance of some kind that the money aren't going to third parties.
I worked at a place like this and it was a nightmare. We had a few dedicated Perl programmers who swore there was nothing better since sliced bread, but there were so many legacy Perl programs it spilled into everyone's responsibilities. I know for a fact everybody else absolutely hated having to go in and decipher decades old Perl code.
I saw it with my own eyes as a user of the site. Yes, KF was used to document awful things by awful people, but it was also used to encourage harassment of people who were just existing (well, existing while trans mostly). A few of those people took their own lives and blamed the harassment that KF enabled.
How likely is it to be free when Elon plans to have people pay for a verified account?
Do we know how he defines "dubious reasons" there?
> I don't understand what this is supposed to be a case of. Are you suggesting that if he weren't let out on parole and had served his full sentence that he wouldn't have murdered the woman

Yes, if the serial woman abuser was in prison where he belonged, he would not have been able to commit murder. Putting violent criminals in jail saves lives.
This is a good idea. Seek rent from brands already on the platform and clear out all the people who got a checkmark purely as a status symbol.

Then the checkmark can be used to bifurcate two social classes with different Twitter rights.

I believe Twitter has two types of content: PR and comments. The problem is they both look like tweets and have equal standing on the platform. PR is the valuable part of Twitter and comments are, well, comments. Most newspapers and blogs (the antiquated PR publishing mechanisms) already learned comments aren't worth the trouble. Now Twitter can make the distinction too.

For example, if you're not paying to be part of the influencer class, your comments could be hidden by default. The influencer class can also have a more stringent code of conduct, making it easier to ban people abusing their megaphone. All without stepping into 'free speech' debates with Incredibly Online keyboard warriors, who will mostly be on free accounts and themselves have what they deem to be 'free speech'.
The Lagrangian is a simple statement of the energy of a system.
Have you heard of the relationship between energy and time?
Have you heard of the principle
of least time for photons?
Have you considered that a "photon" is not a wave or particle of energy before it is detected, but rather the probability that one will be detected?
I was recently considering moving to Sourcehut or Github after self hosting using gitrc for over a year. I have been going back and forth over self hosting versus leveraging an existing service, but this news and fumblings over Gitea last week have pretty much put me right back into self hosting..
> A platform like sourcehut is designed to be self hosted and to allow you to migrate off platform

Sounds nice in theory, until SourceHut changes the licensing terms to forbid self-hosting of certain projects. At this point, I'd rather trust GitHub. At least they don't have a personal vendetta against crypto.
I think we could remove about a quarter of all Javascript programming time if JSON had a native Date type.
Hmm if your money is in Charles Schwab, and NY is turned into atoms, do they have backups in non-attacked countries, along with infrastructure to run their code on, and there is a functional internet connection from there to you, maybe. I highly doubt all that will work. Meanwhile you have no money.
I know what you mean—there's a lot of marketing drivel in PM. Hopefully, this suggestion will help in a few ways (since you're looking for choice, a comparison between many frameworks, and maybe even a good option to start). I've had good success in exploring Disciplined Agile. Key to DA is "Choosing your Way of Working" or "WoW". The goal is to take the best from several frameworks (Scrum, XP, Lean, etc.) and allow these features/artifacts to slot into your team's specific needs. Learning DA means you get to learn the basics of lots of different methodologies in the context of prioritizing your work above following the (sometimes arbitrary) rules of a specific framework.