skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/02/23/cyber-resilience-...

As many well-known open source foundations have warned, this will bring unintended consequences.

This means Europe will cut itself off from a lot of software as an unintended consequence. The whole point of open source software, a lot of the time, is that contributions are done incrementally by people without the means to certify this software to the level they want.

Given enough time and distribution, open source software often becomes much more resilient than its closed counterparts, not due to any government regulations, but because it is run in so many environments and there are so many critical eyes on the project, able to submit a patch. In fact, most of the infrastructure on the Internet runs on open source software.

That said, the package managers we use do have a problem — they rely on packages maintained by individual developers, and gradually update hundreds of versions, opposed to, say, the way operating systems are released.

Commercial releases like RedHat etc. can be certified! They should go after companies that make actual promises.

Having said that, a robust process in place for peer review in open source projects is good, same as in science or Wikipedia.

For the longest time, software development has grown by leaps and bounds, and software security is hardly the most costly thing to society. Proprietary software behind large Big Tech companies externalizes cost to society. Consider how the world looked for instance before the open Web: we had AOL, MSN, etc. and everyone had to pay to play.

Yes, it’s easy to regulate, but also increases the dependency on giant, centralized corporations and governments.

Many people felt that networked software and technology empowers people and frees people up to organize in ways that don’t rely on institutions. For example:

E-Mail vs the post office
The Web vs newspapers, radio
Ethereum vs banks, corporations

Now you will only be able to run things approved by the government. Because people won’t be able to develop or update anything else.

MY BIGGEST WORRY IS THAT THEY WILL REPURPOSE AND EXPAND THIS LICENSING REGIME TO EXCLUDE SOFTWARE THEY DON’T LIKE, SUCH AS FILE SHARING SOFTWARE OR END-TO-END ENCRYPTED MESSAGING SOFTWARE BECAUSE THEY WILL SAY THE “SECURITY” OF THE STATE WILL BE COMPROMISED.

Once you have an effective licensing regime in place, you tighten the noose. They are doing this with rolling out DIGITAL IDs for everyone too… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uwRSzNTp2ko

It’s a process that can take 10 years but you’re like the proverbial frogs in the pot.
It feels like you and many other commenters have missed the broad general point to focus on the proverbial trees. I am replying to this comment because it is at the top of the HN comments at the time of this reply.

It is a part of computing history that computer scientists at a respected educational institution chose to use a cropped version of a nude Playboy image as part of a test suite for the development of JPEG. Part of that history is that in the 1970s someone felt it was appropriate to openly bring a copy of Playboy into the office and the response to that was to use something from it for an image test suite [1]. You are personally welcome to feel about it however you will.

However, many women are stating that the continued inclusion of a Lena image in test suites and as an important part of computing history makes them feel unwelcomed in tech spaces. As a hypothetical, perhaps you are a straight male. Imagine for a moment that computer science was instead historically dominated by gay men, and that they had decided to use images from gay pornography as part of the JPEG test suite. Suppose that gay men continued to be highly represented within the computer science workforce, and that in order to learn about JPEG compression, you also had to be confronted by those images in a computer science lecture hall in 2023 while surrounded as a straight individual by a room full of gay men. Suppose you hear even one classmate who feels comfortable, in this professional setting, commenting that "they could use some company like that around here" and hearing a few classmates chuckle around that.

Computing and computing literacy are such useful skills today. There are a myriad of tasks where even basic programming literacy would allow you to automate things and make you more efficient in your endeavors. More broadly as a society, we are leveraging machine learning models in so many contexts, and these have been shown to encode the societal biases which were present in their training sets. Representation across all axes of identity allow everyone an equal footing to advance in this technical skillset and also increases the chances that we identify when computing technologies are encoding bias in harmful ways. These women are saying that there are many things which can be done to improve the representation of women within tech spaces, and that removing Lena from curriculums and test suites does zero technical harm while increasing inclusivity. That is the ethical judgement at stake - to what extent do our current practices harm inclusivity and affect the likelihood of encoding harmful biases in the technology we develop now and in the future?

[minor point - if you are a legal stickler, use of the Lena image was also done in infringement of copyright. This is such a non-point in the actual discussion of the campaign, but it seems like a lot of comments basically fall along the line of "this is legal so whatever" and if you want to argue on this perceived technicality, it isn't even correct.]

[1] http://www.lenna.org/pcs_mirror/may_june01.pdf
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How would this work with local changes while developing?
TLDR add AI-generated personalized short videos to cold emails.

Interesting approach, though the article feels a bit like a clickbait ad, especially since the author works in SEO for a company that generates these videos.
I think free mutability and not really needing to know about types are two things that make the language easier for beginners.

If someone who's not familiar with programming runs into an error like "why can't I change the value of X" that might take them multiple hours to figure out, or they may never figure it out. Even if the error message is clear, total beginners often just don't know how to read them and use them.

They provide longer term advantages once your program becomes larger but the short term advantages are more important as a scripting language imo
> Also Solar might work great in California but Nebraska not so much

If you think that solar doesn't work fantastically in Nebraska, then I think you need to reevaluate the data, and start holding your utility to account.

Solar works great in Minnesota, with lower solar resources than Nebraska. The key difference is whether the utility will allow a financially beneficial decision to made, not the fundamental economics of the technology.

Contrast the planned 2023 solar additions in yellow dots on this map:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50818

With the amount of solar insolation (note that the color gradient only spans a ~30-40% overall difference, too):

https://www.nrel.gov/gis/assets/images/solar-annual-ghi-2018...

So while you are right that utilities are slow, which was the main thrust of my original comment, we must also acknowledge the financial incentives of utilities to distort a setup that can not even result be called a market.

Electricity decisions are made based on what the utility perceives will give it the greatest profit, with all their biases, and without regard to what will deliver the best overall cost-optimal solution for reliable power.
If it doesn’t need on-site, it doesn’t get on-site.

For all the values of the water-cooler, the office itself can be incredibly inefficient for someone that moves bits for a living.

Which is part of why some employees love it.
OK so the definition is that a human has 2 arms. What happens when they don't have two arms? Are they a new thing? Or are they still a human that we should treat with the same respect we grant to everyone?
I’ve bought a new “operating system.”
I'm not a smoker and don't want smoking anywhere near me, but I don't think it's fair to assume it's just advertising. Smoking is enjoyable for many people and makes them feel good. It's also been in use as far as history records, long before advertising budgets and big tobacco.
This is something I've thought about. We don't really have the resources and I'd rather pay Gitlab to manage this on a day to day.

If we did self host, it couldn't be Gitlab as I fear they'd pull the plug on these offerings as Atlassian is doing[0]. The incentives are there for them to offer self hosting in the short term to grow the customer base, but long term incentives push them to maximize profit via over priced managed services.

And this is the hard part: moving to another solution and self hosting is a ton of work.

Watching the other replies to see what self hosted solutions are most intriguing.

One thing I'm doing now is halting further development of moving things to Gitlab CI/CD so we can better control our future fate.

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/journey-to-clou...
Adding a pre-hash is the overhead here, because of the internal hash.

Granted, verifying only that hashes match for integrity would be cheaper than checking the signature. But since you need to to that anyway for authenticating the payload, why the intermediate step?
First PCIe Gen5 SSDs Finally Hit Shelves – But the Best Is yet to Come
How horrible! Is there a torrent link so I can be sure to never accidentally download it?
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Yeah but Hollywood carpenters are in another class. They hire Han Solo to build doors in Hollywood.
I didn't get the controversy in the article until I saw the camera-based enforcement, restricted access, etc. I lived in a "15 minute city" in downtown Boston, MA (USA) for quite some time and it worked very well, even without restriction.
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I doesn't depend on it, but it encourages.
Algorithms have no chance to pick better articulated longer posts, since the content is shared over multiple posts. It is hard to get attention for those.

You probably get larger audience on a single post, which causes bigger emotions in people.
> USB-IF does do their job, quite well.

> It's the authoritarian mindset, it's Apple-istic to demand there be some strict top-down system demanding compliance, collecting money, and relentlessly pursuing everyone else legally.

A manufacturer that makes its devices refuse to work with products that do not comply with _standards_, set by an organisation that defines them, but refuses to enforce them, is now authoritarian.

> Building this world where authority & control are wired in everywhere, where we use the state & the legal system to hunt down & enforce folks on a narrow prescribed track sounds awful.

This is already happening, market and nation wide, and I'm glad it does.

This is not an Apple thing. There must be some control and enforcement over safety and functional standards. If you want your house to be in good standing with the state, you cannot use any sort of electricity cable for in-wall installations, or any sort of pipes for your drinking water. You could always leave if you don't agree with these rules, as you could choose not to buy Apple too.

Another point is that the market does not self regulate. That's the same stupid idea that has been disproven so many times, I'm surprised any sane person would still believe in it. Markets care more about efficiency at making money, than safety. There are countless examples of large companies weighting between safety and profits, and they choose profits every single time, because for most, in the long run, is worth it.

But overall, your position is not that of the common folk anyway. You talk about reviewers, and markets, and insist that nothing is a "risk", even when it is your belief against actual recall numbers. Maybe you should ask yourself if most people who buy their charging cables at gas stations are doing their "own research".
I guess, but that seems at least as tedious as maintaining JSDoc comments to me.
GNU Recutils https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

is a good example of an actual database that uses plaintext files in your filesystem.

I can see the argument that doing this with JSON is better (or worse), but regardless, Recutils is an interesting idea that i wish more people knew about. I can imagine a lot of cool things emerging if people would iterate on the idea.
Iirc what makes rollers so tough is that the contact patch is much shorter on the roller than on the road, so the wheel turns more easily. Your reactions need to be that much quicker.

I had a winter of long roller rides (3.5 hours was the longest) and by the time I hit the road again I could ride on the white line with no effort. I think the dynamics are the same, just higher stakes on the rollers!
Non-issue. You don't have to use account portability if it doesn't work. You can use it if it does work.
Basically yes. "any systems, networks, or applications located in Belgium".

Of course you might still be prosecuted outside Belgium, e.g. if you pentest an Oracle setup in Belgium, and Oracle takes issue and files charges against you in the US. But that is less likely to happen or succeed.
Or it opens up a third option that would not have been available otherwise.
RISC-V has to start somewhere, I would say, and since the "markets" are already busy, I don't expect them to improve as fast as the others.

But no toxic IP on the ISA is the way to go (and it seems the ISA has CPU internal design simplicity in mind, of course there will be trade off).

Hope RISC-V is a success.
There's a lot i could say but tbh i agree with most of what you say here.
> it's like picking a Pokemon at the start of the game

I haven't heard that before, but I feel like that's the best way to decribe it.

~~emacs~~ water type pokemon are the best clearly.
> the additional stain of 'oh, what've you been doing? Cool, popular JS frameworks? No, COBOL? Pass.' on my CV

That's pretty much the last thing that I'd worry about. A company that evaluates potential hires that way is not a company that's worth working for, in my opinion. And most companies I've encountered wouldn't think that way.
AAA Reports That 68 Percent of Americans Are Now Afraid of Autonomous Cars
"everything (that can't currently be proven by science) is effectively magic" isn't the same claim as "everything is magic."
EVs are significantly more efficient in turning energy into movement, and generating power in a dedicated power plant is far more optimized than it is within an ice car. Even if you are getting all of your power from coal power plants, the emissions are likely close to parity if not marginally better.

That is the worst case scenario however. Most places in the developed world only get a percentage of their power from coal, and over the lifecycle of the vehicle, that percentage is set to reduce. It makes little sense to take about the state of the world today, when a new vehicle is expected to be on the road for multiple decades.

Your talking points are tired and not helpful. This is a transition that needs to happen. There are better critiques to be made.
Ask HN: Tell me about your dream home server
Curious to hear what folks on HN have (or dream of having) as a home server.
- Which hardware?
- Which OS?
- Any indispensable apps running on your server?
Wow!! Thanks for the about page.
I should add that I would love to see viper mode enhanced to (perhaps optionally) support some vim functionality, and I admit I would find it silly if someone said that viper should only ever support strict vi functionality. But I would also be sad if people used the existence of Evil as a reason to declare viper dead.
But notice in a public school environment the hard incentives ($$$) are all on the administration. So, it's attendance, tests and grades, maybe followed by class size. Yes, there's incentives for students to cheat but cheating is much more widespread and likely on the part of the teachers and administration. The blogger didn't talk about this, but you need to look to see for any metric or group of metrics who is incentivized to cheat and how it might manifest.
I'm curious: Is there 2nd hand market for EV's if the battery's performance drops significantly after about 5-6 years and the warranty's gone? The car might be fine, but replacing a battery is rather expensive, no?
It's the same reason why I opted to spend only minimum time with the dying tech in my old role and find something more broadly applicable. You're super important until you're not, so general tech that is useful in many areas is a lot safer.

Cobol ain't going away anytime soon, but it certainly might limit what jobs you can get other places depending on the hiring algorithm.
I mean... the whole point is that that stuff is not a titled role. It's responsibility you can choose to take on as a senior IC that helps extend your reach, influence, and visibility into what is going on elsewhere in the company, making your voice that much more valuable and insightful when you're pulled into those meeting to talk long term technical direction and strategy.

I don't think it's too hard to imagine how to explain this in a way that might excite a child, but at the end of the day, they look to us for their cues on whether to be excited about Daddy's promotion, whether it's to "Team Lead" or "Staff Engineer".
OpenAI releases a pretty awesome LLM.

Journalist , who apparently had 30 years as a computer scientists, begins to think treat it as though it’s some real-time fact machine; a cleaner, simpler Google with only “factual” results.

Journalist has zero clue how an LLM works.

Journalist becomes scared and wants all LLM progress to be stopped.
I wonder how much of this is due to legal issues. By switching to brushless, do they avoid and of the recent patents re the brushless motors that have dominated EVs?
If you listen to the video of what Scott Adams says, he's quite explicit about it. It doesn't seem like a plausible misspeak. He didn't merely say "It's okay to be white" in an ambiguous context (plausibly not related to the 4chan propaganda campaign.) He said that because some poll claims whatever% of black people disagree with the phrase, that black people are a hate group, that white people should stay away from them, and that he would no longer advocate for black interests. If you don't trust my paraphrasing, fair enough, but you can watch the video yourself and I think you'll find that my paraphrasing is fairly accurate.

Suppose for the sake of argument the poll is legitimate, and suppose he wasn't aware that the phrase is a 4chan propaganda slogan.. I think he still grievously erred when he decided to judge all black people by the opinions of only a portion of black people, as though black were a political affiliation that people can enter or leave at will. But it's not a political affiliation, it's an ethnic group. You legitimately can't claim that an entire ethnic group is a "hate group" because whatever% of them believe hateful things, even if that statistic is true. It's not as though the remaining% can disassociate themselves from the ethnic group, it isn't a voluntary association. I think his failure to distinguish an ethnic classification (involuntary association) from an ideological classification (voluntary association) is where he really went off the rails with no plausible deniability.

I interpret this whole affair as: he's rich, wants to retire, and decided now is as good a time as any to finally speak his mind. He lost his inhibitions.
It's saying here that the YouTube video is private. Is the video available somewhere else?
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Sounds good, doesn't actually mean much. It's just an extended version of "money doesn't buy happiness".

Money buys the ability to do whatever you want. It buys you the ability to take what would normally be big risks. It also buys you the ability to live a sad but otherwise comfortable life on a beach.

Money bought the person you responded to the ability to travel the world and study math, instead of worrying about getting food on the table or taking care of family.

Denying this is one of the most ignorant things people with money can do. It's the core of many problems in society, as it's directly related to the inability for many in power to empathize with people who are less fortunate.
Right? My $2k e-bike has lasted far longer than that with a $5 bottle of oil and a few $20 inner-tubes. I spend more for 1 tank of gas than I have on that e-bike for maintenance in 4 years.
Out of curiosity did you go into woodworking with the intent of making a living from it? Or were you in the position where you had enough savings/passive income/whatever to keep the lights on if woodworking didn't provide a steady income?
Rapid prototyping (both additive 3d printing and subtractive machining) has been readily available for decades. What's "new" in the last 10 years is the accessibility and cost of it.

15 years ago I could place an order with a local rapid prototyping company at 3pm and have the part (3d printed) on my desk by lunchtime the next day for under £100 (or much less for very small parts). But those printers were tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now for well under 1k you can have a 3d printer yourself.
>There is no need to pretend that the UN and GoldmanSachs are plotting against you!?

Plotting against me? Nonsense. At best I'm just a number to them. In reality I'm probably not even that, I'm part of a statistic. They don't give two shits about me, about what god I worship, about what drugs I do, about how I spend my day, about any of it, so long as the dollars flow.

I am far, far more concerned about some jerk in some high class neighborhood who lives 15mi from me who has delusions of thinking they know what's best for the world and the money to take a good crack at implementing their fantasy to the detriment of everyone outside their bubble.

(The above is in general and is not specific to urban planning or any other social or economic issue)
Yeah I’m not trying to hide from the law, I’m trying to get the airline to stop giving me weird price quotes and bbc to let me stream their shows.
I think the only sensible way to resist this is to poke fun at it. Humor did a great job at whittling away the absurdities of the Soviet Union, and it can do the same with this dystopian diversity nonsense.
It would be a nice guesture. I'm not sure how he would get there safely though. Planes have a nasty habbit of being forced to land somewhere on route in these situations.
It's a question if you'd rather your ISP see you using a VPN and Mullvad seeing you use Tor or your ISP knowing you're using Tor.
I think this is a point that reasonable people can disagree about.
See github link in OP :p