skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Non-free software is always paying for a service. If you don't get the source (and the ability to use it) you don't get the software. The source code is the software... the binary is an merely way to access a small part of it.
I am waiting for Matrix's P2P support, once its out, its going to crush everything else.

Supposedly its should come out with the improved mobile apps too, which are sorely needed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

The answer is actually less housing.
Weight of human and controls is way overstated.
1000 times yes.

I’ve been given dramatic lectures in college parties by people who were 6-7 drinks in on how bad that cigarette im smoking right now is.

Media hypnotization is indeed a thing. I grew up in a very very low trust society. I wonder if that’s related.
The protocols might not be competitors.

But that doesn't change the fact that Discord has been swallowing up almost every single community that either previously used IRC, or would have used IRC if it was created 10-20 years ago.

The sad fact is that other than openness (in several senses of the word), Discord delivers a much better experience to the communities that use it. It preserves scroll back. It has a proper mobile app that reliably delivers notifications (I'm not aware of anyway to do this with IRC, other than a closed and paid service like IRC cloud). It has moderation tools. It has community building tools and ways to split off sub-conversations. It has platform wide anti-spam. It both embeds images and videos, and stores them.

It is incredibly depressing watching communities die on IRC, either moving to discord, or being replaced by new communities on discord that serve the same role. Most of the ones still holding on are run by older people who have strong views on the importantness of openness.

I actively support those communities staying on IRC. But at the same time, I use discord myself, and I understand why it's winning.
I suppose the state of Brazil is something that could be considered a settler colonial project and with it's continued existence this sort of thing remains doomed to happen.
Don't get me wrong, communism is much worst. But capitalism naturally decays into feudalism or fascism, democracy is an unstable state. You need political pressure from the people to keep a democracy, and if they are asleep or distracted by the media democracies naturally decay into this.

It's not like you either have capitalism and democracy or communism and autocracy, you have capitalism with feudalism/fascism/oligopoly or communism. You've got an unstable state of democracy with capitalism in the middle which can easily decay either left or right but can hardly correct back into the middle.

Funnily enough, many citizens of so called democracies which are actually no longer democracies think that just because they aren't communistic then they are democratic. Democracies allow politicians to change the law for their own elections. They allow them to consolidate power in other ways. They can be overtaken by the media.

Many countries have the potential to become democracies again without violence, but it requires an understanding and education of the population that is missing, and heavy propaganda blinds them.
Oh, so it’s the language argument HN just had in the “The Erasure of Women From Online Pregnancy Literature” thread.

That discussion is about the notion that because a trans woman doesn’t breast feed their child, the act must be called something other than “breastfeeding.” Or something like that. The notion is that doing so is “erasure” of the population of trans women with hungry babies.

Because you are the rare exception to the rule that white people in America are, in fact, exceptionally advantaged in our culture and society, no one must state that white = privileged. Because it’s “erasure.”

Gotcha. Well, I acknowledge that you feel you were disadvantaged by comparison to your neighbours as a child, and co-workers and employers as an adult. I would have hoped you and your minority friends all had the same opportunities, at least relative to ability.

You can see what HN thinks of the erasure argument here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562
I can't read the article (but gazing at the words, I almost feel like I can...) but I'd guess that all of their software needs are covered by other software systems licensed by the govt. And that this ban is more to make people stop using free cloud services instead of them.
Ever heard of Dassault? Solidworks? Airbus?
Spend some time on dating apps. I would estimate in a call center environment there is a high number of female employees running the those scams off a script. All sorts touting their investment opportunities to anybody desperate enough to listen.
It's amazing that sports betting is legalized almost everywhere in the US, and legitimate skill-based games like BigBrain, PlayVS, and others aren't.

Sports betting is the ultimate second-person game; no individual bettor is the one throwing the football. But somehow, I guess on the back of lobbyists, that's more acceptable than first-person games of skill. It's ridiculous.
I copied the source from these two sites, and mixed them together https://lo.hn/ & https://pbanks.net/ Sorry, I am not good with programming- learning the tags and CSS
Should it be personal computer latency.

Wonder about hat as we just talked about the importance of sub-second response time in 1990s (full screen 3270 after hitting enter; even if no ims or db2 how can it be done …). The terminal keyboard response is fine (on 3270). Network (sna) …

1977 still have mainframe and workstation.
> what people think is flexible design is actually either dead weight or a brittle inner-platform.

Or as Fred Brooks called it, "accidental complexity"
Test are always mostly boilerplate and rarely include anything crafty.

95% of tests are: instantiating a class, running a method, and then asserting that the result. Tests do not or should not be crafty creative code snippets. They are boring functional code blocks by design and most are very similar, only changing out inputs and assertions between tests.
And they only run on a few operating systems.
Increasing the energy requirement of mining doesn’t discourage mining.

It encourages more widespread use of untapped renewable energy sources.

A river in an impoverished country in the middle of nowhere, which is too far from a population center to provide electricity, can mine bitcoin and store that energy across space and time.
It’s also not good advice, because if you put your code through that many off by default compiler warnings, you’ll just find bugs in the warnings. eg -Wstrict-aliasing in gcc can be wrong and -Wdeprecated can be literally impossible to fix.
Relay Support in Nebula 1.6.0
Show HN: Rust Multiple Owners
That's not a sound argument, neither a sourced one.

Let's take your example, Parrot, it's not because a company can do as good with less than it means it is stolen technology.

Has the world over stolen the screw tech in the US technology tree because I can buy it at the hardware store for a cent when one is billed $40 to the US army?

That's a wild line of reasoning.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-...
The situation differs a lot country by country.

From you mention of the real, I assume you're talking about Brazil. I don't know anything about the current situation in Brazil, so I'll talk about Argentina and Venezuela instead. Maybe in Brazil you can just use the banking system and not have to worry about Bitcoin.

TransferWise doesn't work here in Argentina. They have no locations, so you have to use an ATM, which gives you less than half of the money because it only gives out monopoly-money pesos, using the falsified "official" exchange rate.

Western Union does cost about US$15, and uses the real exchange rate instead of the official one, but no Western Union location has US$1000 on hand. (The minimum wage, which is what most employees get paid, just got raised to $50000 a month in Argentine monopoly money, which is US$160.) You might be able to do it with five transactions of US$200. So figure somewhere around US$75, or more if you include the potential that WU employees will rob your house or attract attention from the tax authorities.

Bitcoin transaction fees are commonly under US$1, especially if you don't need the transaction to go through in the next half-hour, but if you want to convert the Bitcoin into local monopoly money by going to a money changer, you can expect to pay about a 1%-2% spread. So probably about US$20. If you can do a peer-to-peer transaction instead of going to a money changer, you don't have to pay the spread.

In Venezuela I don't think WU, TransferWise, or the banking system is an option, so it's not really a question of how much it costs without Bitcoin but what your chances of success are at all.
> we would still be stuck in the status quo.

We are still stuck in the status quo as far as global warming is concerned.

> And I don't care at anyone's ideology or their intrinsic motivation.

Then we're just talking past each other.
Agreed, speed of light is small, which is what makes it such a good optimization.

So basically each planet, solar system, and galaxy has to only consider older and older events outside and focus on local events for the simulation.
Are you suggesting that Parrot has been benefiting from industrial espionage? That's absolutely ridiculous.

First, everyone is way behind DJI, that's just a fact. You can buy a DJI drone, open it, inspect it, and still not be able to do a perfect alternative at the same price.

Second, some UAV autopilots were written by a couple engineers more than a decade ago, and today there are pretty advanced open source autopilots, with open source protocols and open source apps to control them.

I don't know about your other claims, but given the UAV one, I must now doubt them.
notepad.exe

edit: okay then, Wordpad!
One example I've seen is VisionFive SBC like an RPi B model. Not sure about reputable.
> Not necessarily -- you're universalizing your experience.

Perhaps I was overly terse; I meant to do the opposite, with regard to the limited perspective represented in the previous comment!

> I don't futz; I just sort of want and the cursor is there and the paragraph is changed, etc.

Our strategies are very different, but it sounds like our experiences feel much the same. I don't really think about editing at all; my fingers just do what years of practice have trained them to do, while my conscious mind works on the actual problem.

I made my own quirky commitment to keyboarding speed: I learned to touch-type very young, using the Dvorak layout, and I've been cruising along at 100 wpm ever since. I have never learned QWERTY at all, so a normal keyboard cripples me - I become a slow, clumsy, two-fingered hunt-and-pecker, for whom getting any text into the machine represents a significant labor. (This is the primary reason I rejected vim, twenty-odd years ago - the Dvorak layout scrambled its command mode into anti-ergonomic chaos.)

In that way, I very much agree with your belief that typing speed matters! I have simply found it in a different layer of the stack.
https://www.open-xchange.com/ does email, office, and solves many enterprise management problems already. It can be cloud hosted or deployed online and is mostly open source (https://gitlab.open-xchange.com/frontend, pretty sure they've got everything but the "pro" stuff licensed under GPL). It's based on OpenStack, though, so hobby deployments may pose a challenge.

It's the most complete European office product I've seen so far.
Even if you fix where the backend is & use something like Edge workers around the world, you still run into the issue of where the database is hosted. Making all the work useless. Any useful endpoint is going to change some state like the timesheet app.
She’s just like Bernie Sanders, a lot of talk about the poor and no action. Hypocrites.
I see pretty much no effort to decorate. What a depressing space.
Not really a cavalier attitude. Quite a proportion of westerns would now see that colonialist behaviour as a bad thing. So are we forever to have it held against us that some of our ancestors did that? From an economic perspective that has as case, but from a moral one it doesn't.

Qatar wanted the World Cup knowing full well that these issues would come up. They wanted it so badly that they colluded with FIFA officials to get it, over places that the majority of fans would have preferred.
I found exactly the opposite, every time I went up in size it was much better.

I also find that cleaning large apartments doesn't take much more effort than cleaning smaller ones - amount of cleaning that's needed is more related to the number of people living there than to the size.
Fortunately it can just be explained in one small slide: https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2010/09/atl_wa...
I have no experience with Erlang, but wouldn't ABENDing one or both of the sending / receiving actors if a queue spills over be entirely consistent with both the model described and the finite nature of real systems?

I'm also curious about this:

> ...crash-only software makes it impossible to assert any guarantees on a callstack.

What sort of guarantees are we talking about here?
My page loads in 174ms using GTmetrix.com, but I also don't really have a lot on my page. It's more of an experimental test. I was going to submit mine to their club but i don't have 100 points for mine yet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686805
Forgive me while I roll my eyes. People have been predicting teslas death or Tesla killers for more than a decade. The model y is getting close to being the top seller in the USA.

I just did another round of car searching to non-EV and ended up deciding that the model Y and the rivian were the only options. Rivian is too far out with unclear scaling.
Very high? France is the third largest military industrial exporter in the world after the US and Russia. The Ariane is Europe's heavy lift rocket.
Chaff and flares were the main defeat mechanism into the 90s. In a BVR fight range is the main goal, there is no reason for a stealth jet to close within 15 miles as they would lose stealth.

Even in a seemingly missmatched dogfight between an f-16 and f-22… it’s still plausible for the f-16 to win (sometimes). If we need a dogfighter, then we should build a drone for the task.
Yep and still we can’t play poker.
Mautic, perhaps.
Gambling seems to have become absolutely rampant in the last 10 years. Between loot boxes in games, (e)sports gambling, crypto, online gambling sites, and an increasing number of unregulated gambling services as well it's crazy how widespread it is now. I don't know what to make of it.

As an industry, gambling doesn't really produce anything. It is a form entertainment, but a very expensive one for the consumer relative to something like movies. It can also be extremely exploitative. The information imbalance between the consumer and provider is massive and there's a whole industry around innovating new ways to make gambling more appealing and profitable.
I might do one when I retire. I did most of my Masters in medical imaging, but left before I wrote my thesis. I want to end my life just being able to say I did it.
The phrase "terahertz radiation" is used to discuss that band, between microwaves and infrared.
> [we] use copilot basically a line or three at a time as a smart autocomplete.

I think this is the best way to think of CoPilot. GitHub is selling it like its going to write all your code for you, but in reality it is just next-generation auto-complete.

That's not a bad thing. In some ways I'd argue its actually better. GitHub needs to change its marketing because even most developers seem to think that its out there to take away our jobs. Its not and can not. But it provides the smartest auto-complete you've ever seen and that can be useful, especially when wading through mundane parts of your codebase.
I personally would be more charitable with those collaborations were it for the fact that I do not see a real drop for me in real estate taxes ( vis-a-vis state lotteries ) or college cost ( like the one article mentions ).

And here is the kicker. Basic search notes that in-state after aid tuition stands at[2]:

$19,058 ( in fairness, there are some spreads depending on income )

Aid includes grants and scholarships from the institution, state, and federal government. And it is an estimate, because in a true MBA fashion everything was done to make the actual cost as difficult to decipher as possible[3].

And just to add to this. This particular institution is not exactly hurting for money[1]. Their endowment is over 1 billion. You would think they do not need to collaborate.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University
[2]https://admissions.msu.edu/cost-aid#
[3]https://ctlr.msu.edu/COStudentAccounts/TuitionFees/Resident_...
I worked for a large regulated utility and have been in the energy industry for the better part of a decade.

I am familiar with the technology and the financial incentives that drive utility decisions.

Efficient energy and distributed customer-owned generation scare the shit out of them. The game utilities play is to build/own as many assets as the regulators allow and earn that sweet regulated return.

They absolutely LOVE the idea of overbuilding generation!

I’m not saying climate change is or isn’t real, I’m simply saying that corporate propaganda is leveraging climate change fear to push us into a product that primarily benefits them, not us.
But do those firewalls work…? They seem to be too often serving as an attack vector.
this part: https://i.imgur.com/ab53RLa.png

ie, having the ability to make it less sharp,etc
This is a wonderful film. No fancy sound effects. No banal voiceover. Every word has a place here, and formatting is of such little concern that words are allowed to split across lines in awkward ways.

Clearly, the focus was on the graphics. And, oh, how lovely these animations are, how clearly they convey the message.

There was a time when educational films were based on two expectations that seem foreign and perhaps quaint in today's click-driven world. First, that the viewer already has some background knowledge, usually gained by staring at textbooks late at night, doing assignments without a safety net provided by, well, the 'net. And, second, that the viewer fully expects that the film will provide clarity on some issues that might be hard to grasp well by making marks on paper.

This reminds me of the days when educational films focussed on educating, not amusing. What a breath of fresh air this is. Fresh air from a dusty past.
Criticizing Computers
To elaborate, in the Top Chess Engine Championship (which is also used as a benchmark in the AlphaZero vs Stockfish comparison) Stockfish has won all seasons since May 2020[1,2]. A common runner up for those seasons is LCZero[3], which is an engine that is derived from/a reimplementation of AlphaZero. Stockfish is also ahead of LCZero in Fischer random chess (as hosted at TCEC) winning 4 out of the 5 FRC tournaments.

As for how close Stockfish 8 is to a current version of Stockfish, Stockfish 15 has ~400 more ELO than Stockfish 8 as measured in their own self-tests[4].

However, when making these comparisons between AlphaZero and Stockfish it might be tempting to frame it as machine-learning-engine vs classical-engine, which is not true. Stockfish incorporates a neural network when evaluating chess positions[5].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Chess_Engine_Championship#...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess)#Top_Chess_En...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leela_Chess_Zero

[4]: https://github.com/glinscott/fishtest/wiki/Regression-Tests#...

[5]: https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2020/introducing-nnue-evalua...
Why Do Lobsters Turn Red When They're Cooked?
I don't buy your argument that the US's concentration of wealth among a politically powerful class has much bearing on its development. Extreme concentration of wealth among an oligarch class isn't generally associated with socioeconomic development at all, arguably the contrary. Look at mideast petro-monarchy states, or some of the least developed southeast Asian nations as clear counterexamples.

If anything, the US's relatively high level of political liberalness serves as a counterbalance against its own oligarch class.
CNIL is a pretty ridiculous organization of buearcrats. They'd rather pummel even a French company to the ground with fines rather than discuss anything. Their policies aren't particularly best practice either - you could build things better than they recommend but if it doesn't meet their requirement they'll annihilate you with fines.
Easy enough to widen the base.

It was almost an open secret that French Intelligence bugged and monitored first class (and elsewhere) of the TransAtlantic Concorde flights between Europe and the US (and elsewhere).

This was, for many years, the prestige fastest travel between the major powers and a honeypot of loose lips by diplomats, politicians, and even senor military staff from many nations.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/09/french_spied_concorde...
AlphaZero has been used to more objectively study chess variants in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04374.pdf

I don't think they mention anything about speeding up training. The original training time for AlphaZero was only a few hours anyway so I don't think that was ever a major constraint. I would imagine that each neural network performed best on the variant on which it was trained.
I wonder how this was all measured.

I didn't dig into the text blob to ferret that out.

Did anybody?

Because this doesn't pass the sniff test for data I want to trust
Sounds pretty human. We’re bundles of contradictions.
Except I don't usually lose my family in the plane xD
You might be not aware of the fact that under free banking in America, banks issued their own currency. In fact, they did that long before governments began doing it.

Here's yet another example:
American Express Travelers Cheques
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/travel/travelers-cheques/

S&H Green Stamps:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26H_Green_Stamps

Local Currencies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
https://archive.ph/20221120120719/https://www.reuters.com/bu...
Wyze has an official RTSP firmware you can download from their support section for the v3. It’s beta, but has mostly worked for my needs.
Most of the action seems to be in the RISC-V as MCU space thus far, since that's the simplest path that has significant cost savings opportunity. Western Digital, for example, can use them inside drives instead of ARM and get away from ARM's royalty model.

RISC-V as a desktop or server CPU has economic incentive around it also, just not to the same degree.
It's a dramatically better base than 99% of opinions on this.
It means that the index went up 3x denominated in (priced in) bitcoin, rather than priced in dollars. i.e. using bitcoin as the unit of account instead of dollars.

I suspect that 'denominated' doesn't mean what you think it means.
I dunno. I had personal experience watching an IBM 1403 printer when the carriage tape (which told it such things as where the top of the page was) broke. It could eject an entire box of blank fanfold paper very quickly indeed.
Some do a great job, like Matt Levine at Bloomberg or Felix Salmon. Just because of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect doesn't mean incompetent journalists should get a free pass, or manifestly corrupt pseudo-journalists like Paul Krugman as shown in the article when he was simultaneously taking money from Enron and lauding them.