skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, we can see about that if it ever reaches the Supreme Court. Either way, it should be amended to fit that criteria, because the whole impetus behind the passing of section 230 in the first place was to protect freedom of speech. I'm sure little did they anticipate in 1996 that 2 or 3 companies would wind up completely dominating all of the content on the web. We don't allow AT&T to disconnect phone service just because they don't like someone's politics. We don't allow landlords to kick people out because they shared some disinformation with their second cousin in a phone call or because they supported the wrong candidate in a political campaign.

And they should focus on busting up these trillion dollar monopolies because the amount of propaganda power they wield is unbelievable and should be reeled in for that reason alone. But as long as they're in cahoots with the very regulators that are supposed to care about this, that will never happen.
Sort of.

Each of those have their own k8s implementation.

It's a standard way to define and run container workloads (jobs, services, etc) and related resources like storage, configs, secrets, etc.
So? Move your money to the one that pays higher APY.
There is no contiguous memory, arbitrarily resizeable alternative to a linked list in high performance concurrency is there? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
This is "satellite" Internet. It is absolutely bonkers amazing you can get 1TB at all.
You could look at Chia. I don't think the base project with the typical token scheme is worth anything, but the way it uses disk space for mining is kind of neat.

The general idea is that you precompute a bunch of proofs and store them on disk. Challenges are issued and if you have a matching proof, you can claim the token for that challenge.

The part that I find interesting isn't the tokens. It's the concept that an algorithm can prove you've committed some disk space to the network. The reason I find it interesting is because, for small amounts of disk space, the incremental cost of participation is $0. If I plot proofs on unused disk space and only try to match proofs when my computer is on anyway, it basically costs me nothing.

Compare that to someone trying to farm (aka mine) on an industrial scale and they have a real, non-zero cost starting with the first byte of storage they buy. I find it interesting because it's different than normal economies of scale where a large operator eventually outperforms all the small operators (economically).

Unmatched, but valid proofs, are a byproduct of mining the tokens and those are what proves you have some idle capacity. Since normal PC owners pretty much have to buy excess capacity for something like a hard disk, participating in a system like that doesn't have much downside. It's that byproduct that I think is interesting.

I'm not sure if there are any pragmatic use cases, since the 500GB of free space a normal user has might not exceed the value of pretending to be a real person, but being able to say "I have $50 of idle capacity and I can prove it" could be a novel way to combat large scale networks of bots and bad actors.
Well, ideally your programming language (and its standard library) should provide you with basic data structures that are cache oblivious (or optimized for your arrangements cache). So programmers wouldn't need to worry.
Ask HN: Tech stack suggestion for a simple desktop app
Hello HN,

I want to develop a simple desktop application for a non-profit, that will be used to store monetary contribution data from donors.

There should be a facility to generate receipts, get monthly reports and query the data offline.

The software will be running in a Windows based Desktop machine. The desktop machine is low end (1 GB RAM).
> I'm sad that tech did away with replaceable batteries.

This is one of the worst design trends (perhaps the worst) of modern-day devices.
How does that scale down to small sequences of under ten items?
The moderators of this site are pleased.
I suppose it's quite similar to the idea of Bagwell's persistent data structures[1] — those are particularly useful for lock free coding and with a high enough branching factor could be not as much overhead as a linked list or just plain copying.

[1] https://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector...
Kind of like how no one knows what free speech seems to mean
That particular explanation is awful.

Changes newly allowing things should almost always be retroactive.
In behaving this way, he is erasing a tremendous amount of the goodwill he generated from his space and electric car businesses. The world's media, political, business, scientific elite are on Twitter and watching carefully.
It's all very upsetting to watch. I hope that, as you've said, he finds a better management team to fix this ongoing trainwreck.
At 20 mbit/s (usual bitrate for 4k tv channels, as well as netflix, prime, apple+ etc. premium vods) that's 9GB per hour, so you'd reach a 1TB monthly cap by watching for like 4 hours a day on a single device.
Different purpose. A swimming pool sized silo of sand can heat a few hundred apartments or well insulated homes through winter using summer energy. Make it a few tens of metres high/deep and a handful will power a town.

If there is going to be curtailment anyway then the energy is effectively free (or has negative cost). Or if you'd need to use something like pumped hydro or chemical storage then the heat pump only gives you a COP of 1-2 once you include storage losses.
The dude he's replying too is Neil Gorsuch's clerk.
Git was already very hype before github arrived. Every LUG and CS club was having people evangelize git seemingly every week before there was even a whisper of github. I think it got this hype from the association with Linus and Linux.
RStudio-2022.07.2-576 cannot start without R installed by the look of it:

Error reading R script (), system error 2 (No such file or directory); Unable to find libR.dylib in expected locationswithin R Home directory /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
Clever way of earning more money. What a stupid metric.
I cannot stress this enough - employee-owned companies are still dictatorships, the employees being shareholders doesn't change that at all. Employees get zero, and I mean ZERO, say over day-to-day operations or even major decisions.

The SOLE difference between a non-employee owned company and an employee owned company is who the shareholders are.

Source: personal experience working at multiple employee owned companies
> But making excuses like "it's activist groups that are making them pull out" makes him look ineffective and whiny

Rule 1 of CEOing: it's always someone else's fault. Success is "We" or even "I", failure is "You".
Looks like obsidian as an extension.
Or just delete and post it again later and hope for a different outcome.
Intel (like every other chipmaker) has been chasing EUV for decades, but every time they thought they finally nailed it they turned out to be wrong.

The key that ultimately made it possible was the light source, and ASML is the only company that sells these light sources. ASML didn't invent the light source entirely on its own; there were a lot of ideas for light sources floating around and the only one that turned out to work was laser-induced plasma from tin microdroplets, which sounds completely crazy but it works [0]. ASML perfected that process (with -- to be fair -- some investment from Intel).

[0] https://www.asml.com/en/technology/lithography-principles/li...

Intel did fight EUV with a technology called SAQP which ultimately turned out not to work as well as EUV, but they were researching EUV at the same time. Here are some more historical articles about Intel's work on EUV in the past. Note the dates.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-achieves-majo...

https://semiengineering.com/why-euv-is-so-difficult/

https://www.eetimes.com/intel-developing-euv-pellicle/

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/276376-intel-reportedl...
The requirements for a major sudden loss of value in Apple would likely involve a loss of value in a vast number of other presently high-intrinsic-value assets: real estate, the entire tech sector, the US and global economy, etc., etc.

Devaluation of cryptocurrency assets, on the other hand, could come about from someone sneezing. Or other events which would have similarly little impact on any asset valuations outside the crypto bubble itself.
Because your average person isn't an enthusiast who builds their computer themselves, who knows better, and will necessarily change their buying decisions and habits. Instead most buyers choose whatever is good enough and convenient, or whatever brand they've typically historically trusted, or whatever their peers end up getting, or whatever an advertisement/reviewer/salesmen tells them because they're ignorant and not tech savvy.

Then you have reasons associated with vendor lock in. I mean, most people buy DEVICES, not CPUs, and device manufactures are hesitant to switch, because doing so can potentially be complicated and prohibitively costly (especially if they already have deals with their current vendors). Whereas their customers will end up buying their devices regardless of whether they switch CPU vendors or not (because of reasons mentioned above)...

Ergo, as other's have already sort of alluded, it's largely because of branding, marketing, and vendor lock in.
The costs per TB for self hosting is more expensive as what I pay now at Wasabi. Take in account (redundant) disks and power
Everyone involved in these tweet threads seems so overly aggressive and dedicated to this cause that, as a person who has never used Twitter, I feel like doesn't really matter. I don't particularly care that Musk owns Twitter but I do think he would be better off staying off the platform until he has a solid strategy worked out. The way things keep changing every couple hours seems stressful. I don't want this to come off as high and mighty or anything but I really think everyone (advertisers, Musk, his cronies, etc) just needs to take a break from social media for a week and come back to it with a clear head.
I’m really happy with source control at Google (perforce on a huge monorepo?). My experience with GIT has always been trying to find dummy guides on how to do simple things.
There are things called “design rules” that the circuit designers (basically software developers who make the map for how the circuits should be laid out) need to follow for a process (basically “the software will allow you to do X, but the way we make chips, it won’t work”)

TSMC focuses on making rules that are easy to follow (and documenting their rules for a broad audience).

Intel has been “allowed” to make design rules that are bad for the circuit designers, as long as they improve performance, since the designers are a captive audience.

That doesn’t work as a 3P vendor.
True... except in MSVC. std::deque in MSVC is cursed.

Targeting MSVC, use boost::deque or something, instead. Boost containers are generally fairly good, although they are more or less unmaintained nowadays. (E.g., boost::unordered_map::reserve doesn't work.) Or, like many of us, ignore performance on MS targets because anybody who cares about performances is running something else.
> My mother-in-law with arthritis and no familiarity with chopsticks ...

Can you see how this does not disagree with “assuming you can use them fluently”?
Controlling digital things of value in a decentralized way is a solution in search of a problem? That's news to me.
He already has that with the Tesla bots.
It does when a nation state is trying to disrupt operations.
Well, you can make a new account every three months without having throwaways.
I don't think that anybody will try to answer the philosophical question in what regard what this machine does has anything to do with human reasoning.

In the end it's just a machine. It's not a person. So trying to anthropomorphize this case makes no sense from the get go.

Looking at it this way (and I guess this is the right way to look at it from the law standpoint) Copilot is just a fancy database.

It's a database full of copyrighted work…

How this database (and it's query system) works from the technical viewpoint isn't relevant. It just makes no difference as by law machines aren't people. End of story.

But should the curt (to my extreme surprise) rule that what MS did was "fair use" than the flood gates of "fairuseify through ML"[1] would be open. Given the history of copyright and/or other IP laws in the US this just won't happen! The US won't ever accept that someone would be allowed to grab all Mikey Mouse movies put them into some AI and start to create new Mikey Mouse movies. That's the unthinkable. Just imagine what this would mean. You could "launder" any copyrighted work just by uploading and re-querying it form some "ML-based database system". That would be the end of copyright. This just won't happen. MS is going lose this trail. There is no other option.

The only real question is how severe their loose will be. They used for sure also AGPLv4 code for training. Thinking this through to the end with all consequences would mean that large chunks of MS's infrastructure, and all supporting code, which means more or less all of Azure, which means more or less all of MS's software, would need to be offered in (usable!) source to all users of Copilot. I think this won't happen. I expect the court to find a way to weasel out of this consequence.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220121020414/fairuseify.ml/
30% of that noon day summer sun looks pretty good on a cloudy day mid winter.

In some places where mid-winter PV output is 1/4 of summer, it *already* makes sense to overbuild by a factor of 4. Keeping 30% of the summer energy would double the winter output.

Of course this only makes sense if the electricity extracting bit is much cheaper than wind.
It seems its decentralised nature is a hindrance to some or many potential users[1]. My impression is that it's often treated as an alternative, but not really a truly viable alternative, and the field is wide open for something better.

1. For example https://twitter.com/hwkanderson/status/1588523823426859008
It's a bit more than that.

His real enterprise is a massive DoD program*, which requires Republicans to fund. Twitter helps him curry favors to earn these Republican backed contracts.

Mike Griffin is the ringleader but he's only useful when Republicans are in power.

There is a goal to Elon's madness, but it's unclear his ploys will pay off.

* DoD program is basically SDI 2.0 as discussed in this link:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
It's nice that the lawyer may have good intentions, but the legal theory is still crackpot.

I don't cheer for silly legal theories to prevail just because of good intentions. The unintended consequences of silly legal theories prevailing are likely to be higher than any good achieved in this one instance.
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B – sources
Freedom of speech isn't a law, it is a concept. If you are in a private space and insult someone, they may choose to not 'turn the other cheek'. Does that mean 'turning the other cheek' can't be applied in private spaces? They are both concepts, not laws.
And there is definitely a strong correlation between low skill and poor taste.

Most people are not highly skilled. And most people have poor taste.
First, the heat pumps and wood stoves people have installed for this winter will most certainly cause less oil and gas to be used this winter.

Second, what immediate energy sources are you referring to, specifically? The main thing I've heard about is not approving new drilling permits on public land, which also won't have much immediate effect.
No, and I haven't made any assertions about what any entity is legally obligated to do or not do...
That's not an IDE agnostic approach.
IIRC after modifying and reevaluating the function inside which the debugger is currently in, the debug session is terminated and the evaluation context i.e. the values of input parameters are lost. Even if the session can be restored I'm not sure if it survives a REPL restart. And even if it does I'm not sure if it survives a reboot, unlike my approach.

Moreover, this approach with defs allows you to inspect every function, even those macro generated. And if committed, such a "debug session" is persistent across every instance where the code is deployed, from any development machine, through all test and staging machines right into production. (So when combined with some remote REPL access... you see what I mean?)

Another thing is that I like when my code strongly express the notion of compositionality, i.e. when it looks something like this:

(comp
...
(partial map ...)
foo3
(partial reduce ...)
(fn [p] (def s3 p) p)
(partial map ...)
(fn [p] (def s2 p) p)
(partial apply ...)
(partial map ...)
foo2
(fn [p] (def s1 p) p)
foo1
(partial apply ...)
(partial map ...))

here I introduce and comment in/out the '(fn [p] ...)' expressions as needed. That kills two birds with one stone. 's1' captures the output of 'foo1' which is also the input of 'foo2' at the same time.
I know I’m not a big fish in the SF tech pond. I lead performance marketing/growth at my startup - spend a few grand a day across the typical channels. Seeing things like this from Elon make it nearly certain that my company won’t be advertising on Twitter in the foreseeable future.

I was actually considering jumping in while other larger corps were pulling out (better CPMs), but I can’t risk the act of advertising on Twitter becoming a brand liability, especially on the off chance that Elon publicly unleashes millions of followers in anger on my startup.

Elon is making a massive mistake picking fights with advertisers. It’s a new brand attack surface that didn’t exist last week.
I prefer their earlier stuff but “The Separation of Church and Skate” is such a banger.
The principle works with anything that won't catch fire.

Or anything that will catch fire and then still be big and heavy once it's done burning.
The fact is that in 95+% of cases, the performance doesn't matter at all, and a linked list is fine.

The only problem is that use cases evolve, and what was fine suddenly isn't, anymore.
It's an italian serial conman in a dark room somewhere, pressing "print" on software that generates ostensibly a dollar-equivalent crypto currency out of thin air, wrapped in a network of criminal enterprises that is currently using special 'insider only' versions of those tokens (tether-trons, vs tether-eths) to facilitate the theft of the life savings of a generation of middle class chinese, wrapped in a nesting doll of scams and pyramid schemes, wrapped in the greed, hubris, and legitimate desperation of a generation of 1st world hustlers, all wrapped in crypto-bros trying to take over the world.

Replace italian with <insert racial boogeyman here> and you would literally be describing the current financial system.
As Meta demonstrated, it's important to change your name before accomplishing anything.
Why does he refer to "we" when mentioning making up for lost revenue? Is he referring to "we" as in a person invested financially in the company or as in a Musk fanboy who is apparently signing up for $8/month to help a billionaire and company?
Elon erased his goodwill when he started his crypto pump and dump scams. Or there's the whole vaporware thing to sucker in more investors. Or there's the fact that he argued Ukraine should concede to Russia's demands.

No, I'm pretty sure this is just another in a long list of mistakes by Elon. I don't believe he knows what he's doing here.
This is for storing low grade heat, not work. And it doesn't use gravity.
It's heartening to see a government do something that is technologically progressive and useful.

I would rather hope that EU/Anglosphere/Japan/Korea etc. 'team up' on this one and at minimum exchange notes and best practices.
> “It’s a real shame in fact that the actual Web3 name was taken by Ethereum folks for the stuff that they’re doing with blockchain. In fact, Web3 is not the web at all.”

Translation: 'I'm so angry and annoyed that Ethereum has gotten more traction over the actual Web3 name than my still in research Solid project and wondering why little to no-one has heard of it let alone is using it. Please ignore Web3 as hard as you can.'

At this point, it appears that crypto is going to be around for a very long time and there will be no complete and total ban on all of it by the extreme and absolutist crypto skeptics.
I pretty much called this, because Musk (and a lot of his fans, it seems) don't understand how hard it is to monetize social networks and how much power advertisers have on the platform.

This isn't always a good thing mind you, especially when one single advertiser holds a lot of power, but ultimately Musk invited this upon himself and he's just digging a deeper hole with each comment. Once the advertisers are gone, Twitter dies. And he isn't going to monetize users directly enough to change course.
Base R is loved only by those who were unlucky enough to spend years using it when there was no alternative.
I think it's American right-wing identity politics. Using "we" to refer to the "Free Thinkers."
This is not a photograph. This is a drawing by someone who never saw the subject but has had the subject's appearance described to them, and the artist is not even a person to properly understand the descriptions, being presented as a photograph.
very exciting times. taking Twitter out of the hands of the woke mob seems to be a real chance to create a useful social network again.

we currently do not have a proper social network:

* Twitter is infested by bots
* Facebook is a ghost town for our parents
* Instagram is just for narcissists in yoga pants
* TikTok is literally a Chinese cyberweapon designed to degenerate western youth

Reddit is somewhat OK, I guess, but like HN, feels too anonymous and therefore not very social.
There's porn on Twitter lol.
https://www.ifit.com/equipment/treadmills
>So the message is "if you advertise with us, we will try to sink you if you ever decide to stop". I'm sure companies will be rushing to sign up.

How can he not see this? With a single Tweet Elon made buying Twitter ads into a risk companies will have to weigh against any benefit from the ads. Literally threatening your customers.

I was convinced it was fake Tweet. He needs to hire someone to delay all his Tweets by 24 hours so he can sleep on them.
To me, baked in means it is on the DVD and new content isn’t pulled from the internet. Dynamic selection of tracks and ads doesn’t seem to disqualify them from all being baked in.
Mr Musk fails to see the irony in his statement.

In reality any advertiser who fails to be named as "pulling put" is going to be asked, why they are not pulling out of Twitter.

Of course, advertisers who want to appeal to the far right market are going to be perfectly happy, and will keep sponsoring Twitter.

Sending money to any of Musk's companies is being seen as a brand liability.
Skill enhances taste, developing skill gives you the experience needed to perceive nuances in design that other people wouldn't notice. But if you don't have taste in the first place I don't think developing skill will fix that.
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I don't see how mmap let's you remap an existing address to a new one? Looks like there is a mremap on Linux in any case.
“ which is a weird type of liquidity problem”

Ah yes. The very definition of “financial accident”
There's no such thing as developing the skill to install / configure misc undocumented services, requirements, etc. "Oh, you have to set xyz environment variable in dev for this db to work", "Yeah, the documentation for that was before we migrated to typescript", etc. If you expect new team members to contribute it is your responsibility to give them a functioning environment.