skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, most things are acconplished by scaling an existing solution to billions of people.

Danitation was created by digging thousands miles of pipes, nanufacturing billuons of toilets, designing facilities to produce billions of bars of soap.

Peolle is sillicon valley run in circles chasing innovation in transport, but more than half of high speed rail in the world eas built over the past 9 years in china. 90% of eorld electric busses run in china. India has probided toilets for 600 million people. All of that required soneone to pick up a shovel, and political will to organise shoveling.
To run with your analogy: It's like offering a near complete strange a lift because you're headed close to where they're headed. Then they start calling you asking for rides. And you say "I am not your driver."

See, it works perfectly fine.
Personality disorders are very real and surprisingly prevalent, with 3.6% of Americans meeting the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder and 4.4% for paranoid personality disorder (the two disorders that are most likely to make people difficult and unpleasant to deal with). https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/pn.3...
Oooooooooo, sweep second hands.

Broadcast radio people are _obsessed_ with sweep second hands, since it's how they all learned to time their announcements to end right as the next program segment begins.

If you sold a cheap tablet that did nothing but that, and synced to NTP with a programmable display offset (some stations run 5 seconds ahead of real time to deal with encoder delay, for instance), station managers would beat a path to your door.
It doesn't make it right, but usable storage is always lower then what is claimed... either because of OS space usage, 1024 VS 1000 or filesystem...
In Hawaii I mostly got Laplanders, year after year. I guess they are Sami now?
The word “supplier” has multiple meanings. The meaning in this case is derived from the context of the article. In a business context:

“A supplier in a business is someone who acts as an intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer, ensuring that communication is forthcoming and stock is of sufficient quality.”

This being a business relationship and not an intramural frisbee team implies contracts and money changing hands, does it not?
ELI13 what is an immutable OS and how does it affect workflow?
New Years Eve Address of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
There's an analysis at:
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2022/02/a-glimmer-of-h...

> The cap likely will encourage aggressive copyright enforcers to stay in federal court and skip the CCB altogether...

> Based on this analysis, the caps (10 proceedings/year for copyright owners or 40/yr for law firms) seem to deter many potential CCB users. If the plaintiffs’ lawyers aren’t steering clients towards it, and if both the firms and copyright owners see more value in consolidating cases in federal court, the CCB will most likely cater to the copyright owner who doesn’t have a lawyer and views an occasional small claims proceeding as its best hope; and possibly the rare circumstances where a CCB proceeding will be more lucrative than a federal court proceeding (like where the owner has an unregistered copyright and would prefer the statutory damages available only in the CCB). If these become the main CCB use cases, I imagine there will be dozens of CCB cases in a year, not thousands or even hundreds, and the CCB will not be an especially important adjudicatory venue.
ICANN doesn't have jurisdiction over ccTLDs.
This appears to be the website of the author: http://edugames.com/edugamesWebSite/home.htm

There's an email there you might reach out to, to see if you can get the full version
Happy New Years all, effective for me 5 hours and 15 minutes from now!
Here's a better link with the full content: https://yarchive.net/comp/risc_definition.html

More goodies: https://yarchive.net/comp/index.html
This was very well done and comprehensive. I liked the analysis of when it works well and when it doesn't, and the testing with nonsense images. We need more of this kind of rigor in ML.
"Supplier", like any word in any human language, has multiple connotations and domain dependent senses.

Digging in your heels on this, and being so aggressive about it, is totally perplexing.
The challenge with looking at these different situations as “experiments” is the number of confounders and/or scarcity of facts. It’s ripe for projection and confirmation bias, best to not draw generalizations or conclusions.
Haha. This is the dynamic of many a happy marriage :).
“And then we wanted to write a widget or use the dynamic island and we realized we can’t, so we just delivered a subpar experience, but hey - who cares about user UX when our dev UX is so great”
Don't forget pouring cooking oil down the sink when the landlord increases their rent
> For example, I don't need a license to write software, or sell it. I don't need any signoff from regulators. Nor is there a cottage industry of suing software developers. There are no laws specifying how the software is written.

Isn’t that generally true worldwide?
Oh wow, congratulations! That's such a long stretch, fantastic!
> The model of mechanical royalties already exists in the music industry.

I refer to your earlier post, though:

> …could provide access to every work ever published, pay authors, and eliminate both the need and practice of piracy.

I don’t think the model of music royalties, as it exists, could or does any of those things, nor do I think the model could ever be adapted to achieve those ends.

Moreover, I don’t think in a free society there can possibly be a place for a governmental or quasi-governmental body that would somehow assess the objective quality of all art, and decide on the compensation of artists accordingly. It would mark the death of all avant-garde art, and the rise of a massive rent-seeking class of mediocre and unchallenging artists. Not to even mention the implications for speech: there’d be no more artists holding up the mirror to the face of power, no more social criticism through art.

I don’t often say this, but that is a truly chilling vision of the future. Thank God it will never happen.
This is very impressive, but is there any more use case then improve image quality on retro computers !?
Check out pirateweather.net; most of the Dark Sky API functionality is available
Sounds like part of Thor Heyerdahl's larger theory of vikings everywhere. Part of the story was folks settling the Pacific from South America, recreated in the Kon-Tiki expedition.

Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
I am unreasonably annoyed that Christmas and or the new year aren’t aligned with the solstice.
I thought the most interesting bit was the privacy OHTTP which they’re building a service around[0]. How this will differ from a VPN will be interesting. The gist of it is that the http connections are naive and don’t really record an “accurate” up address or trace, if I understand correctly

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-privacy-into-internet-s...
There was also an option to add an RSS feed as a live-updating bookmarks folder, but clicking on the icon just rendered the XML in a human-readable form, IIRC?
It had nothing to do with Heyerdahl.
Thank you! http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html is definitely more meaningful now that it’s on the horizon. Still feels a bit surreal.

Have a good evening!
100% this. Inoreader is the aggregator I wanted to make for myself, but never did. It's got all the features I ever wanted. Been a paying customer for years now. They can be a bit slow on fixing bugs or cleaning things up (duplicates in search results, for example), but I love that it lets you enter your own CSS fixes. In general, it's a great example of a boutique web service that we all should admire and support.
A lot of people here confusing using artistry with the making of art.

When a baker bakes "artisanal bread" (whatever that is), the end result isn't art - it's good bread.

Same way, if there's any such thing as artisanal programming, the end result should be "art" (demoscene, 2d/3d visuals or audio) - it's good software
Haskell is largely pure. There's nothing in place to stop a dependency from putting unsafePerformIO on blast. If a dependency can only do pure functional computation then the worst things it can do are like (1+1=4) or diverge.

From your description it sounds like Deno is using object capabilities -- that's a great step forward.

> Many years ago npm inc treated download and package counts as KPI.

That's bonkers. I had no idea.
> The same goes for India (which IMHO is a greater danger - people have their heads in the sand about Modi's openly aggressive nationalism).

India is one of the fee upcoming real democracies. It does not get the attention or respect it shoiuld in western media.

If 'the west' can't build out a good cooperative relationship with India, in the next 50 years we will loose relevance
Happy new year from France!
Yes, it's always lower than claimed, but the whole SSD capacity shown by Windows is 930GB. Or is it too much of a great deal for 550 euros?
It isn't explicitly stated, but it does seem to be implied that the captain and shipping company conspired to file a false police report to ensure the stowaways would be removed from the ship.
Happy New Year one and all
I think the thing that makes it more tractable in pure languages is that you at least get the chance to control the dependency's inputs and inspect all of its outputs, so it's theoretically possible to limit what it can do to you (depending on how you are using those outputs). I'm not saying it's usually practical, but it's at least conceivable. And there should be at least a few cases where it's actually practical.

In an impure language, it can do any random thing to any random part of the whole system and you won't even get the chance to know what it is doing.

Are there any truly pure package management systems out there, though?

Haskell has Safe Haskell, which more or less guarantees that the actual Haskell code compiled through the normal path is pure (but not that the code is total, and total under resource constraints, which you also need). The build system itself is not pure, though, so you have no guarantee that a dependency's build scripts don't put Evil Things into your program outside of the actual language framework.

Any others?
Why even go the route of narrowly defining the term just to say “I’m not that”? It just makes the argument literally untrue even though the underlying points are correct and important.
Election denier is such a stupid phrase - right now Democrats like to act like they have never disputed an election, which is a total crock. Hell Stacy Abrams had to be defeated twice before she finally conceded. And then you have people like some of those in this thread that not only buy into it, but feel morally superior at being duplicitous. Sigh.
The original pentium famously used a 2 bit counter except, IIRC, it was buggy and it didn't actually saturate. It was fixed on the Pentium MMX.

A simple 2 bit predictor wouldn't have been enough for the PPro as the deeper pipeline and the new OoO window required a better predictor.
2022 has been brutal in tech layoffs. I hope 2023 will be better, and that most of those who got laid off find a new start somewhere else. And most importantly, I wish everyone takes better care of their mental health. Stay strong.
That said on mobile it is perfect to have it on top.
I have screamed at support people, but only in the rare cases (maybe three times on the last 30+ years would qualify) where they personally acted unreasonably and reasoning with them did not work, and they refused to pass me to a supervisor. The last part being key to me.

In the vast majority of cases I agree with you - if it's the company's fault it's not fair to scream at people with no power to do what you ask (but if there are no other means it may be fair to be intentionally difficult to force them to escalate - but you don't need to be rude to be difficult).
My dad has been complaining about this exact same thing, while I'm staying with him during the holidays I've ordered some stuff to his house as well.

Every single thing he's ordered has been 1-2 days late, every single thing I've ordered has been on time w/ 1 and 2 day shipping. All shipped to the same address, both of us on separate amazon prime accounts. (sample size ~5-10)

Does amazon keep an internal tier-list of customers and prioritize based on this?
> “A supplier in a business is someone who acts as an intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer, ensuring that communication is forthcoming and stock is of sufficient quality.”

That’s not the definition used in the article at all.
I think his response actually DID address the canary disappearing. By law he cannot say “Yes we have been issues a secret warrant” if they had been served, but if they had NOT been served he could legal say so.

He directly acknowledges that this post is about the canary disappearing and doesn’t immediately explain why. If the canary vanished due to a script failing or a person forgetting to update it he would have loudly and clearly stated that they have not been served and the reason why the canary was not updated.

Those facts, imo, HIGHLY suggest they have been served with a secret warrant.
Well I mean it's codified in our laws so you can call it "dejure" corruption vs defacto corruption.
Every year, 20 million people die from preventable causes like hunger or lack of vaccination under global capitalism. That's modern capitalism at work.

The history of capitalism is rife with famines that have killed millions to tens of millions each, and centuries of death and brutality under the rule of companies like the East India Company and capitalist regimes that bought and sold millions of human beings as assets at a global scale. Many of those "assets" suffered and died through just being traded, and when successfully sold, suffered through generations of brutality and subservience performing as capitalists' "property".

At one point we even had a prominent capitalist celebrate the amazing returns on investment they got from enslaving their slaves' children. That prominent capitalist was Thomas Jefferson:

> What Jefferson set out clearly for the first time was that he was making a 4 percent profit every year on the birth of black children. The enslaved were yielding him a bonanza, a perpetual human dividend at compound interest.

Hell, capitalism under the Nazi regime alone is responsible tens of millions of deaths.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thom...
Happy New 0x7E7 Year!
I don't see why that wouldn't be possible, they are still using React Native so they still can use native functionality where necessary.
The Amazon was never iced over at all. Some people say it was savanna much of the time.

All of lowland Mexico and central America were ice-free throughout.
Precisely what law do you propose?
Who need such sophisticated and expensive tools when a sledgehammer would suffice ?
And the Catholic church would have likely been 1.5 times as large as it is today. The price of being out of touch with your customers is a steep one.
Thank you! Yeah, it’s a marathon. The IVF process itself was so cool too; I wrote a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197670

There’s something satisfying about seeing technology make a tiny miracle happen.

Have a great night Jacques, and thanks for the wonderful conversations over the last decade!
... but so does "glory", and yet the joke still worked...
If we're going to be objective, technically the Chinese Communists are the greatest success for humanity; I think they've overseen the biggest upwards change in living standards from when they came to power to today (even after the regressions of the Cultural Revolution). They have done a better job of preserving peace than almost any alternative superpower except maybe India.

The CCP is still a disaster. The EU has the same nature - just because great things were achieved and the EU was the political organisation present doesn't mean the EU was good. It might be, I don't have any particular view. But it is interesting that the EU has serious energy problems, brewing war on the border implying diplomatic failures and is largely reliant on American military assistance. These are points against it. HN has celebrated their redesigning the iPhone to use a more standard connector though so there are pro- and con-.
There are mixed views. I think that is healthy and normal.
And as ever, hearing dissenting views helps one strengthen their own position.

I'm not sure what the key is here, but maybe it is this.

> Are the countries supposed to split up and go back to competing with each other in an increasingly harsher global market?

countries are still competing with each other inside the trading block, only they have had many of the advantages they used to have available to them - e.g. their currency and central bank, their deficit spending, the ability to control inputs to their economy - taken away.

It's a trade off. It may be right, it may be wrong, but there's a lot of looking at the EU from one perspective only, it's nice to hear other perspectives.

For me, I don't see how a EU that doesn't federalise, i.e. doesn't have a single economic policy, doesn't have a single demos, can survive.

But even then, most of us live in countries that do have a single fiscal policy, a single demos, a freedom of movement of labour, goods, capital etc within our own country; and still it doesn't work without massive compensation to correct the inequalities that it brings. We have domestic governments trying (or most often not trying) and failing to deal with this imbalance even within a country.

I don't see how this will ever be possible at a supernational scale.
Author here.

You do realise that the main source of dangerous vulnerability is low level infrastructure that do not come from these package managers ? The purity and capabilities sadly solve nothing when the source of the problem is the fact that NTP, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, the BGP daemon, the libc you run on, etc are all maintained and "fixed" and evolved by people that can barely pay for their food, even less for basic tests ?

Like i love capabilities and i would love to have more, but the basic problem here is that the low level that you totally depend on for the capabilities to work cannot even be funded to work.

Hell you do realise that Autoconf has not had a maintainer since 2012? If it was pwned and had injected backdoor in your software since then, we would have noone to fix it.
Happy New Year. Cheers, to the impending collapse of the russian federation.
We don't ask questions we don't want the answers to (be public).
Sure if the author had said “I’m not your supplier” rather than “I’m not a supplier.” Big difference.
depends, if the Windows text was honest it'd have to mention that the parts it locks down relate to exfiltrating your data and violating user freedoms.
But it doesn't make it less sticky, it just doesn't engage stickiness when you're moving quickly. This makes excellent sense, and is the sort of focus on user experience that Apple should be lauded for. That it marks a marginal change from long-existing behavior just means that the long-existing behavior wasn't optimal.

The alternative would seem to be stop any and all development, as the optimal behavior has been reached in every aspect, which I don't think anybody could credibly argue.
Probably gonna be unpopular but I feel like I got the opposite message: Apple is using FOSS in a completely normal, completely legal way. But some people in the comments were upset that Apple wasn’t voluntarily donating to the project. That feels like entitlement.
What's funny, this lousy vendor was recommended to me by another lousy PC repair/retail shop (who has got an Facebook ad with this vendor) recommended by a 10x lousier CS teacher who teaches C++ in Windows.
yes. it’s literally called the united states of america. at the very least, iowa is much better off as part of the union than it would be on its own
Maybe it was the best possible solution since no ports would allow them to leave in a more normal way?
> Quite simple really: a bridge between web-land and mobile native-land. Our new mobile app still uses React Native, but is literally just 1 component: a function that renders a webview.

I don't know about the wrapper, but the entire app being a webview is how Peapod (grocery delivery) has been for years.
I think it might have to do with EU's "anti-business" tilt, as many might see it, but we can observe the effects of runaway wild-west Capitalism as well.

There is something to be said for trying to keep basic civilizational order amidst uncontrollable greed and an ocean of dark money, with just a few men getting obnoxiously rich and then using the resources to "burn it all down" because they feel victimized. Or something.
Yes, Wikipedia is notably unreliable in numerous areas. It's supposed to be good for maths, anyway.

Fixing errors and omissions has become difficult.
> not just with side effects

I think you're using "side effects" in a colloquial sense while I'm using it in a PL sense.

Pure code is deterministic, operating only on its params. Impure code—code with side effects—is something that depends on state outside of its parameters.
The foundation of American Democracy is based on core tenet that everyone deserves right to life, liberty and property. (It was based on John Lock's Idea)

This megalandloards directly violate the core tenet "Right to property". Day by day these mega wealthy people are undermining the democracy, and our government is silent due to lobbies.
Tangently related, but working timetables on the London Underground run to 2330, 2345, 2359, but then rather than going to 0000, because the post midnight services (until about 0400) are on the previous date, they then go

2359

2400

2401

And on to 2459, 2500, 2501 etc.

(At least they used to before 24 hour running, not sure about now)
> So all your Software Supply Chain ideas? You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code.

This got a genuine LOL from me. Bravo.

I'm going to repeat my principle on the software supply chain issue: the responsibility for software security and other maintenance rests on those who deploy it. Deployments are the loci of harm from bad software, not projects. Secondarily, the weight of that responsibility should depend on the level of harm resulting and the level of benefit its owner receives. Whatever rules and conventions emerge from this fiasco, it needs to allow people to write software for fun, and even deploy it for fun as long as the damage is contained. And the people paying for maintenance need to be the ones making money from it.
We could structure taxes, regulatory fees, and the like to make it so that building + selling + maintaining towers > owning the tower + renting it out.

Large buildings require lots of maintenance and specialized management skills. Laws can be updated so that individual apartment owners have similar rights to SFH owners who own both land and structure (a 3D model of land ownership?) Developers could be compelled to provide maintenance service but allowed to collect a small fee in exchange.

Society is a construct, so we can really just construct this however which way we want. Only our imaginations limit us.
"And the strength to bury the bodies deeply."