skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
”A noteworthy discovery was made today in Edinburgh, marking another great British breakthrough.”

“In London today, further advancements were made in <blah> technology, showing the strength of English academia.”
Mastodon is federated, but by running an instance just for yourself you give up on per-instance culture
It's a poorly translated word written in a haste. A better translation would be "red neck" (I think?). This is translated from my inner Swedish thoughts and we don't have Californian wokeness here (especially not down here in Skåne). But instead of finding a new word I reformulated that section everyone is so upset about. It's fascinating how easy it is for internet people to assume worst intent in everything, and look for things to be offended by, rather than to read between the lines and adjust ones interpretation based on context.

If you read the section, applying context from what the project is about and where it is used, you should pretty easily grasp the overall idea that is: "compression sucks and is incredibly inefficient". It would be a much more interesting thread if people took that message and argued against/for it, technically. But now we are here arguing about some word usage that might be offensive if interpreted in a very literal way. Congratulations; we have reached peak cancel culture. I hope you enjoy it while it lasts.
pg_stat_activity
Really? It's not say whoever you want to be and get a blue check mark of authenticity for $8/month. That'd be just dumb. Of course there is some verification...
Does FSF have a position on this issue already?
Anyone got a recommendation for a VOC meter that is reputable/known-good and not super expensive?

Would be interesting to calibrate need for this, and the effect of normal plants, as a comparison.
> That breaks the idea of having a federated network

What fresh nonsense is this? There's never been a federated system with anything like a perfect guarantee of connectivity to literally anything. There are always limits, both social and technical.

Where do people get these ideas?
That's already the case, hence why clean room reverse engineering exists.

It's not illegal to come up with code that is exactly the same as an existing piece of copyrighted code.

It is illegal to take copyrighted code and reproduce and distribute it against its license, however.

It's the difference between original writing and plagiarism. You might come up with a substantially similar, to exact, point that other people have made. That's not illegal. Copying those points from a book verbatim is a copyright violation, however.

Copilot is reproducing copyrighted code from its training set. That's no different than you reading the leaked Windows source code and then copying it to ReactOS or WINE. But if you came with the same solution Windows developers happened to come up with, and it's just a coincidence, that's just fine.
> I bought my work machine (A Mac M1)

did you have to use windows to get VR to work in a mac? Steam vr does not work on a mac natively afaik.
“Put on blast”?

Never heard this idiom.
You can use a script to download old toots and automatically repost them, backdated, to a new server. A lot of people do this when moving email servers.
I think this renaissance of nlp for coding will be the death sentence for open source software.

Nobody will be able to convince their manager to make their project open source when it can be so easily crawled and used in seconds by competitors without any attribution.
Some items found on it were certainly his. How many lawyers would care to go into court with a piece of evidence having a chain of custody like that laptop's?
Warning: lots of jargon ahead.

I really wish I understood this better, but the sense I've gotten is that intrinsic spin needs to couple to gravitation through torsion rather than through the usual curvature we study in GR. Most GR courses and textbooks barely mention torsion at all: IIRC Wald for example specifies "torsion free" as a condition on derivative operators and basically doesn't ever explore the alternative (I think there's a homework problem on it). The torsion free condition is what guarantees that Christoffel symbols are symmetric in their lower indices. Once upon a time while trying to understand all this back in grad school, I wrote up a set of notes extending Wald's calculations of curvature to include the possibility of torsion. I never tried to publish them anywhere, since of course it's nothing new or groundbreaking, but they're on my website here: http://www.slimy.com/~steuard/teaching/tutorials/GRtorsion.p...

Those notes do not discuss the connection to spin, because I was only halfway aware of it at the time and because I didn't have the time to delve into it enough to figure it out. (I also didn't know at the time that this is often called "Einstein-Cartan theory".) One notable thing about torsion is that it's a non-propagating field: as I recall, it's only non-zero inside the material with spin. I'm not entirely sure what the effects of all that might be. This 1976 review article has been lurking at the back of my to-read pile for ages: https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.48....

I have no idea whatsoever whether any of that is useful for making warp drives or for metric engineering. But I figured I'd share, since it seemed relevant.
Twitter from what I understand basically sold almost nothing
> I'll boil it down to just a couple of sentences: It's a democratic problem that 99% of all public discourse is subject to veto and policy from advertisers and payment processers, and the drive to maximize income from these.

Yes in the sense that capitalism isn't and will never be a "fair" system as anyone who participates in it may perceive it.

There's a point where any economic system can erode its political cousin whether that be capitalism, socialism, or communism. To me, all you're saying is what others before you have said: we have too much weight in the capitalism category these days. I think most people probably agree with that.
You got it backwards here. The heart of the art is in the intra-personal conflicts and human aspect observations, and the skeleton is the plot.

The background is just (literally) a backdrop. Which is why you can set Romeo and Juliet in 20th century America, or Antigone in space - as many have done, and the heart of the work is still there just fine.
The Xnm name is that. Each full mode maps to a little less than a doubling of density.

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TSM...

A new metric could be more precise, but Xnm has mindshare, and works perfectly fine for the layman.
The No-AI 3-Clause License:

https://bugfix-66.com/7a82559a13b39c7fa404320c14f47ce0c304fa...

This is the only license to explicitly disallow language model training and inference using your code.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

...

3. Use in source or binary form for the construction or operation
of predictive software generation systems is prohibited.

All other licenses seem to apply only when the code is emitted, and therefore can't really protect you. This attacks the problem at the source. If Microsoft trains Copilot on your code, they are unambiguously violating an explicit condition that controls use.

Otherwise, it's just the standard BSD 2-Clause License.
Ohh. I always used row_number for that.
Most reachers like yourself actively seek situations to be the shark in the
guppy pool.
I think that analogy doesn’t make much sense. If you’re trying to buy a lot of stock it’s basically going to depend on how good you are at execution whether you do it yourself in tiny bits or as a big block trade with someone who is good at execution. If you want a significant % and you’re not eg black rock, you’ll often need to negotiate with the board.
It's exactly the same as an email server. Whomever owns the server can send email from your address therefore impersonating you as per the original question.
These are philosophically interesting demands.

Many schools of thought believe that it is impossible to prove the absence of something. Personally, I would like some firm proof that there are no pixies living in my garden, but all I can say is that I've never seen one.
Nice! Would be amazing if every maze gets its own URL so it's shareable.
These are bona fide examples of computation, with results immediately consumed. Computation without output is sort of pointless.

They are not very different from a computation inside an injection controller of an ICE, with its results consumed within microseconds, as motions of injection valves. They key difference is the intermediate use of an electronic computer, an MCU, instead of a purely mechanical and pretty inflexible device, the camshaft.

Certainly we could replace a swashplate with some electric or hydraulic actuators driven by an MCU if we needed to compute something more complex than what a swashplate currently computes, much as we did with the camshaft. This is not very probable though, because a new system should also work unpowered to allow auto-rotation, to say nothing of higher reliability requirements than a system for a car.
Looks nice, but too bad you can't run different pathfinders on the same maze. Running on an empty grid is default but it's less interesting to me.
Pinafore is a web client for Mastodon, designed for speed and simplicity
QA people do listen to snippets
> Politicians who never wanted state-owned enterprises came into power

And pray tell, how did that happen? How do people come into power in Sweden? I thought that it has a system where people propose what they will do, and the population votes on whose ideas and proposals they like the most, doesn't it?
The problem is when it is no longer 'over there'.

One should always keep in mind Goering's boast 'You can call me Meyer'.
You don't. You stagnate on that team. Challenge yourself, sharpen your skills, and get out.
It's an article about theoretical physics published in the 21st century, so it would be very surprising if it had not been posted on the arXiv before being published in a journal. And sure enough: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824
Apps for Linux, Right Here
imo those times where you spend a lot of time to fix something with one line of code are actually an indication that the code is pretty bad. It shows that it was hard to understand, that there was massive complexity in the system and that one line was probably additive and added a workaround or extra configuration of some kind. I've never spent a massive amount of time for ~1 line of code and been happy about the effort. If someone had only architected this thing better or explained it or documented it then it would have been trivial to add that line.
All the info is coming from OpenStreetMap.
I think it comes from british slang where to blast someone means to exclaim annoyance at them. May have heard the exclamation like "oh blast it" when something goes wrong.
Or if you know how to pay someone else to do that for you.

I searched for managed mastodon and found plenty of options.

https://masto.host

https://toot.io

https://elest.io/open-source/mastodon

https://hostdon.jp/#/

https://federation.spacebear.ee/software/mastodon

https://ossrox.org/

https://weingaertner-it.de/

I expect many more will emerge now that demand is increasing.
Agreed. Your link is the better link. "Put on blast" is wording that shouldn't really be used on hacker news for a technical subject.

Also here's the pdf link that's at the bottom of that page to the full set of comments along with NASA's responses: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/psyche_...

Unfortunately it's a PDF of raw image scans.
I'm sorry. We're all on the internet, and I could have looked it up myself. It was really a rhetorical question as well as an opportunity to enjoy a memory of the Monty Python nudge nudge wink wink skit: https://youtu.be/4Kwh3R0YjuQ?t=25
It is best to say it is possible to troubleshoot RS-232 connections, rather than to claim they are more reliable. There is a limited number of parameters to configure, most software made exposed those parameters, and a lot of hardware would document the pinout. That is contrary to USB, which is more reliable yet there is little one can do when things go sideways. That is to say you are either doing something trivial (e.g. trying a different cable or port) or need to be a developer with a very specialized skillset.
It’s simply too easy for the smart speaker to have its behaviors changed. It’ll become the new wiretap.
Which ancient software?

All of them have been rebuilt IMO.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+someone+on+blast
If that's all it takes to kill open source, then I welcome its demise.

Rather, it may spell doom for "let's throw this over the fence and have unpaid suckers work for us on it" software, which would be a net benefit for aociety.
Now I'm just imagining if you trained co-pilot on all kinds of legal libraries, what lawsuits it could come up with.
It's possible that it is simple to use, but the community hasn't been able to explain it yet. My attempt: Mastadon is Twitter with far fewer users. The self-hosting and federation stuff is really detail to most people, much like most of email infrastructure.
Did it over ~100' of dollar-store grade RJ-11. (Maybe that's long, maybe that's short, depends on perspective). Was a residential environment, so EMC situation was nothing like some industrial environments.
The culture of ignoring clearly-voiced problems has killed so many projects and companies.
so.. a political party can create a blue tick fake account right before an election, get misinformation reported, all for $8? bargain.
Being intentionally obtuse is transparent
What the heck even is "professional level" to you?

If it seems like there's a mismatch, do something about it. You can always find something else.
> He's just another moneyed elite.

But with a fleet of rockets.
It would be nice to see and edit the code. Probably something for the future
The desired class-action status of this suit feels like a stretch to me. Typically, in a class action, the defendant's alleged behavior unquestionably harms the members of the class, which is why it's okay to make them party to the suit without their consent.

In this case, I suspect that only a minority of the members of the purported class actually believe they were harmed by the defendant's actions, and some class members are _paying customers_ of the defendant's product based on the conduct at issue. (Which surely creates some kind of estoppel issue, aside from the dubiousness of the class certification in the first place.)

Could some enterprising attorney get a bunch of members of the purported class to sign on to a brief opposing class certification? (I don't know if that would be an amicus or what, but surely those people have some kind of standing here.)

(Enterprising attorneys: my email address is in my profile.)

I guess the problem here is with "enterprising" -- there's no money there, except to Microsoft, who I imagine might be barred by legal ethics from funding something like this...
What you have stated doesn’t discredit the argument at all, it merely points out that there are additional things possibly worth considering, which is basically always true.
Prove you’ll wait.
I suspect this is enough info about your friend to identify them (assuming they live in one of the population hubs of their country).

If you switch to they/them pronouns and drop the reference to the specific currency their assets are in, it'd provide a good cloak of fuzz to prevent them from being identified by the description.

I don't know your friend but I think most people would prefer to avoid being called out as being nearly one step away from homelessness (even though I suspect I live in the same city, and the same is true of many hard-working people here)
Thanks for making this distinction. I sometimes have to stop and remind myself that. Can get crazy going up and down the stack, handling errors and exceptions in different ways.

It's also very easy in many languages to use exceptions for non-"exceptional" control-flow even though they aren't really meant for that.
I can reccomend the LA Hard Times! Absolutely terrific stuff. Onion is a little sad, just more boring than anything and their website layout is somehow still bad at showing new articles. Was incredible at their peak tho.

Bee is too hateful to be funny for me at least :(
> It's not illegal to come up with code that is exactly the same as an existing piece of copyrighted code.

That's not why it is not a copyright infringement to come up with code that is exactly the same as a piece of code that is the same as some other code.

"In computer programs, concerns for efficiency may limit the possible ways to achieve a particular function, making a particular expression necessary to achieving the idea. In this case, the expression is not protected by copyright."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

It's because the code in question is most likely to only be written in one way.

If you happen to come up with the same melody and lyrics as a pop song in a "clean room" do you think you are in the clear? We're talking about copyright! It is meant to cover artistic expression! Not utilitarian inventions.
You’re using a weird definition of regular.

I’ve commuted almost a million miles in my life and seen one fire and that was a garbage truck. Of the “irregular” things I’ve seen on the road fire is probably one of the least common.
Cool take on van builds but many ways to skin a cat. If you’re going aluminum instead of wood why not just tig weld everything? (Can think of pro/cons both ways but I bias towards weld)
I’ve seen the extruded aluminum on McMaster before and wasn’t familiar with any applications for it. It’s cool the joints are Allen key
We are discussing about whether we should crawl money back. I am against it.

Then, you showed up and said that crawling back money was already done widely. I responded that it was done limitedly.

Maybe I assume your position, but you didn't make your position clear either...
Is this article, with a straight face, going to pretend that the US military can't use iPhones as a listening device? The only questions here is how often phones are used for eavesdropping.

The ad targeting probably isn't happening. But if you keep a software-controlled microphone near you then it is going to be listening to what you say and at some point that will leak out to the wider world.
Average of the 5 people you surround yourself with.
#LicensesAreForLosers
I drove to the bay area on a Friday, looked at three apartments on a Saturday, and moved in Monday.

When I was ready to buy a home, I looked at one, made an offer, and bought it.

Life is a lot easier when you know your practical success criteria and are decisive when something meets it.

I truly think most people today are too accustomed to letting algorithms live their lives for them.
But what will result going forward? Always standard time or always daylight time? I can see ditching the change but they need to pick…
Either you become their inspiring leader with your zeal to push your self or you become like them. There is no middle ground. So think about what you want and act accordingly.

Btw being a leader is way more than having some senior position, a leader is someone who the team looks to for guidance, inspiration, and growth. Don’t need to have some fancy title to give that, don’t have to be formally in charge either.
It’s not aggressive to give you the same exact energy you throw my way. You can write up a big long paragraph and make me out however you want, but at the end of the day I’ve been accommodating. You can’t shit on my hard work and basically call me a money hungry scammer and then act surprised when I give you attitude back. You’ve accused me of trying to benefit from Twitter’s acquisition, accused me of lying about user numbers, accused me of selling user information - that’s a really big conclusion to come to when you’ve even admitted that you refuse to go past the homepage and actually explore the site.

Why do you keep quoting my comments from a year ago? I know what I said. As I’ve said - at the time most social networks were only a homepage; Twitter just recently opened their gates which inspired me to follow suit. I can recognize that from the beginning that opening Vers up would have been beneficial, but at the same time not a requirement. The fact that I didn’t open Vers up sooner doesn’t take away from the legitimacy of the platform today. Really can only sum it up to both parties being right in their own way.

You have no right to keep commenting on all of my stuff and trying to define my character. I am kind and intelligent, and I started Vers to embody those characteristics inside a social networking app.

There is giving actionable feedback and then there is being a hater who will hate a concept no matter what the outcome.
Ah I was using ctrl+f. Doh! Thank you!
It seems that the argument that Microsoft will use is that their use of copyrighted code is actually fair use. If it's fair use, they're free to ignore your license that tells them they can't train Copilot on it.

Ultimately, copyright is a fiction that's created and protected by the government. A lawsuit is how we decide what is legally protected or not by copyright.
fractal compression was always a scam.
I think it’s usually a much bigger deal for growing tech companies because their stock price is basically a guess about their future growth and so getting lower growth than expected implies a big change to future size/revenue of the company and therefore the stock price. I think the effect is much smaller for established companies that aren’t expecting big changes or growth rates.
Energy vault is targeting <4hr. Capex might be cheaper than current batteries, but given that the big project they announced recently is a chemical battery I think those investors are looking to cash out at an IPO rather than see the cocnept succeed.

> Do you know of any examples of 10 GWh thermal storage? Just curious, I haven't really poked into that area too much.

There are a few pilot projects in the 100s of MWh to GWh range. 100MWh is enough that your surface area is quite low.
What narrative would that be?
I'm curious which projects and companies you're thinking of. Would you mind sharing?
That's true, but it's a tradeoff. Something also gets lost when everything is spelled out. This has never been the way that HN works. Part of the assumption that readers are smart enough to figure things out is that they also need to work a little: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

There's another aspect too: everyone misses a lot of interesting and/or important stories. Even the few who are paid to stare at HN all day. There's too much coming through at all hours. It doesn't make sense to try to avoid that, because it's impossible.

I'm sure this is a highly unsatisfactory answer!
> a 50 million actuation warranty. It goes without saying that switches harvested from a decades-old keyboard you found at a thrift store or on eBay do not have comparable durability claims.

Well, perhaps they do: they're just on the wrong end of the count.
>I don't get motion sickness very easy so I often try to make myself throw up

huh?
The Myth of Libertarian Exit
As someone who is frequently rated limited on HN and occasionally scolded by HNs beloved religion-apologist moderator, I find decentralization to be not only pragmatic but truly essential for the next generation of social platforms.