skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> individual countries’ censorship laws, particularly those of powerful countries like China

Or the US ?

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-facebook-frenc...
> A teaspoon of neutron star would weigh billions of tons.

> Pulsars can spin anywhere from once every few seconds to 700 times/second, with the surface speed approaching 1/4 of the speed of light.

Sometimes I wish I could be like Dr. Manhatten, just to be able to view these incredible phenomena up close.
Very rose tinted glasses there.

XFree86 in the early days required you to at least know the refresh rate for your monitor, if not to actually write a modeline which is damn near black magic for most people. This stuff also came with a warning that theoretically you could break your monitor. When you're 12 that stuff is terrifying.

SysV was extremely flaky and system specific. Every distro out there, especially the friendly looking ones like Mandrake bolted on a top of fancy stuff on top that added a whole new layer of complication. Stuff that worked with Debian didn't work on Red Hat.

OSS and ALSA were pure hell unless you had a fancy soundcard with hardware mixing. Dmix required magical incantations to get working, and wasn't reliable because a lot of stuff back then still tried to go through /dev/dsp -- which would break audio for everything else if you had the wrong hardware.

ASCII was probably an okay thing in America, but if you were anywhere else, internationalization was a very un-fun thing to deal with. And if you by chance needed to deal with two non-English languages, that was a constant annoyance.

Bloat is kinda relative. You can still use IceWM if you want to, pretty much every distro has every desktop imaginable.
Market madness is one the best if not the best example of self fulfilling prophecy there is. But there are many use cases of data that don't result in anything like that, e.g. the example at the end of the article: car insurances.
> What is replaced is a subway, bus, bike, or walking trip. Perhaps on some rare occasions a taxi/Uber. Apart from that last rare occasion, all other alternatives are MORE eco-friendly than the e-scooters.

I firmly believe that people running the scooter rental companies know that they can only succeed by destroying public transit. A survey in Norway showed that over half of the trips on rental scooters replaced public transit, and less than 10% replaced trips in private cars.

The detrimental affects on public transit, the relatively high injury rates, the disregard the riders have for the blind and handicapped who have to navigate around the scooters being left in the middle of the sidewalk, and just the sense of urban blight from them being left everywhere all add up to enough reason to ban the things.
Perhaps this is going to be the first step in Italy becoming real world Anathem.

Jokes aside, I understand the fear of your own language erroding in front of you.
I see how this plays into the sentiment of "these goddamn young people, polluting the language of my youth with words I don't understand!"

Yet, after calming down my own emotions, I realise that I cherish the Polish and German words in my own accent of Czech.
I value immensely the work of Czech intellectuals fighting for my language against German "overlords" in the 19th century.
However, I wouldn't want to give up the trace influence of German on own language.
I hope future Italians feel the same way.

I think about this general problematic often. My girlfriend and I are both Czech. Yet, considerable chunk of our conversation happens in English. We both intellectually grew and continue to grow with English, making it typically a more effective modus of discussion.
But Czech has its unassailable place in our relationship.
The fact that we use both languages and associated idioms, cultural baggage, ..., makes for a richer life.

Good luck to other non native speakers who have to ponder and navigate the same concerns about their identity.
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I’m well past those days so don’t take it as a treatise on my own abilities but my experiences since have not suggested that these schools used any good metric in choosing students. They merely selected for the successful and hardworking folks. The latter trait is great but the former is not. If anything a phd is training for facing failure.

I also submitted subject GRE scores which in retrospect clearly differentiated people who will attain academic success and people who won’t. The universities literally said they won’t consider the scores even if submit them. Also, ideas are not cheap. Sure you have to execute on them as well, but ideas are not cheap at all. At least not the good ones.
You're 70 years too late, these questions have been answered for you
Believe it or not but in responding to queries and requests they are even worse than Google. My employer have been trying to contact them for over a year now. We're a fortune 100 company.
Then accept reality that you have 0 control. You will always be unhappy with whatever setup. Its not realistic that 3rd party will replicate your mind state about how your OS should look like.
The definition of simulation is:

imitation of a situation or process.
"simulation of blood flowing through arteries and veins"

I love the game of life but I don't really consider it a simulation, it's a toy that with the right parameters could simulate something.
The greater good here is what tools like GPT in its various flavors and interfaces are offering. Learning is good, not bad. Get a grip.
Ok, let's make a list.

X11: it sucked. Modelines.

ALSA: DMIX worked, fine.

XFCE: XFCE with XForms and the GPL'ed with GTK was fast as hell. XFFM was
delightful to use.

ASCII: Wake up from the coma, please.
> I'm gonna get hated on for this, but I don't think "give back" is an open source concept.

You're right. It's a politeness law some people have invented.

It's also a value people have, but that's for themselves. I like contributing to OSS projects. But, as soon as it's imposed on others, and there are punishments for disobeying, it's a politeness law.
Same here, first time I'm hearing of a System 76 Oryx.

Link for the lazy: https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
But in many imperative languages you would equally use a ternary operator?
c = condition ? a : b

And in Python at least, it would be:

if condition:
c = a
else:
c = b

(i.e. no upfront declaration of c)
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Maybe they made the original Teams version terribly slow so that they can remove some sleep statements to get it down to 9 seconds for 2x faster startup, collect fat bonuses, do nothing for three years and then remove another sleep 5 and release Teams 3 to start in 4 seconds for another 2x start time improvement and another round of bonuses.
Great job, I tried something similar (although much less polished) a while back. https://unknown-mp3.netlify.app/#debug
I know that in Oslo they can fine the scooter companies for people parking them improperly, but you still have to have officials out looking for them and actually issuing the fines. The result here is that tourist areas have fewer problems, but they're left littering the sidewalks in residential areas.
That's because _people have different usecases for OS_, not hard to imagine, right?
It’s forbidden to carry the car keys, let alone drive the car. But Jewish people do seem to be good at creating loopholes — it’s forbidden to press the button for the elevator, so the elevator stops at every floor so you don’t need to. It’s forbidden to turn on the oven, so the timer will turn it on for you. It’s forbidden to push you child in a buggy, so there’s a wire out up around the neighbourhood to make it not forbidden.

It’s quite amusing really
I don't blame them, and partially thank them. Far too many people are way too cavalier with ordering the spiciest dish and then blaming the restaurant for the dish not tasting good. Its also a lot easier to up the spice level on a dish than lower it. A curry that isn't spicy enough can be made spicier; A curry that is too spicy likely cannot be made milder.
Such innocent hashtag as well, #StableDiffusion. Don't even need to clear the browsing history.
Really interesting question - and great responses from everyone.

Follow up question - how are we going to keep ourselves safe in the future? What are you putting in place now to help your future self be ok?
Those policies aren't actually popular though. They were were forced by the EU, other pan-European NGOs and a political class that has things nicely sewn up (i.e. if the major parties agree then you have nobody to vote for). Europe has a democratic deficit that gets airbrushed out a lot of the time.

The UK had to leave the entire thing to try and get immigration under control and have still totally failed - they can't even deport illegal immigrants because the EU Court of Human Rights decided that deportation is against human rights. So now maybe the UK has to leave that too except, ah ha, supporters of that system wrote membership into various other agreements and so on. Same way it's always done in Europe. Everything is made to depend on everything else as a way to disempower the electorate.
Have a good reading :

In Paris, air pollution kills 5,400 people every year

https://www-francebleu-fr.translate.goog/infos/transports/a-...

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/transports/a-paris-la-pollut...

Air pollution is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths each year in Paris according to a study published on Wednesday. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal, it calculated premature deaths linked to PM2.5 fine particle pollution and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in 1,000 European cities. The French capital appears to be one of the cities where automobile pollution kills the most.
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Yep, can confirm I have no interest in using Apple products. The user experience may be better and they might have a better track record in some regards than Windows and Android, but they're still a walled garden and they still behave in an overly controlling way. They're also plain expensive. I want to use an OS that's accessible to everyone at no cost other than the (cheap) computer and electricity/network access. I don't want to contribute to a world where the wealthy have "good" computers and the poor don't.
Air polution != "toxic gases from cars, taxis and motorbikes". That's only subset. Cities were dirty holes (including bad air) centuries before invention of cars.

Continuing, they didn't measure anything. They estimated.
I have a few Hue Iris that I love for mood lightning, surprisingly the CRI is supposedly very bad according to https://www.archyde.com/philips-hue-iris-test-a-designer-and...
> 'E-scooters have safety risks, let's encourage people back into 2-ton fossil-fuel-burning cars instead!'

You somehow believe that the only options on the table for personal transport is either "2-ton fossil-fuel-burning cars" or the miraculous selfless service sold by a couple of multinationals.

It must be hard to intentionally ignore all the public transportation services in all shapes and forms, like railway, bus services, metro, trams, ride share, and even municipal bike sharing services,

and also ignore other personal transportation modes such as motorcycles, bikes and personal scooters

and also ignore e-car sharing services

and also ignore ride share services like taxicabs and etrikes.

For you, the only choice is either a gas-guzzler or the glorious service provided by a multinational.
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My rant is really ON base but it reflects a demographic very different from the one in HN and will get downvoted as always when something goes against a narrative. It's very easy to parrot the typical points.

> European countries are in aggregate extremely pro bike/pedestrian

Lol. This is just an ignorant talking point from someone who compares everything to the US. It's like saying healthcare is good (and generalizing as if every country in Europe belonged to a monolith) just because healthcare in the US sucks.

The reality is that having options like these empowers people who don't belong to the tier that owns cars and has sheds or places to store their e-vehicles.

In many cities, these non car options keep getting worse and more expensive and everything seems geared to those who have more money and privilege and people just have to 'take it'.

But hell, let's call it a rant, simplify the issue and outright ban stuff so that people who don't benefit from something can feel more comfortable.

With that logic, Let's ban motorcycles. I don't like their noise and don't have one. They're definitely unsafe and cause accidents. Oh, but we're not going to that.

So there's bad etiquette around scooter placement and you ban it. The same thing can happen with free parking e-bikes. Why can't you find a solution that doesn't ban e-scooters?

You just admitted use them "on occasion" so they're not really useful to you, so you're fine with removing them from others that actually might take advantage.

It's the thing I keep pointing out. People from certain positions screwing over others because they're inconvenienced instead of requesting the gov to do better if they want better order or something.

It's all rather classist but it happens with everything.

Lesson for people: have more money, have cars, live in suburbs, have spaces where you can store your vehicles. Or get screwed by decreasing quality of public transport.
The poor need jobs. Let them eat lithium hydroxide.
perhaps they do it more

I live near the DLR and I see vandalised, abandoned Boris bikes on the regular
> survey in Norway showed that over half of the trips on rental scooters replaced public transit, and less than 10% replaced trips in private cars

I’d be careful about extrapolating these results across cities. In most American cities, for example, I’m going to replace an e-scooter with an Uber.
> We will end the year at $130M in annual revenues and burning ~$925K/month, we are a low gross profit margin business ~15-20%

The critical question is "what is your path to profitability?" You have seemingly a positive gross margin but negative net margin? What does the gap consist of?

> The strategy I would want to run as CEO is likely not something my COO or board will want to get behind and frankly I don't know if I have the energy to do it myself. It would require 24-36 months to transition the business to the new world while watching old revenue decline and waiting for new higher margin revenue build up in parallel to offset the declining revenues in the core business.

Are you familiar with the Nokia "burning platform" memo?

You have roughly four choices:

1) make the old pre-pivot business work (have positive net margin)

2) make the new post-pivot business work

3) raise more money through investor storytime, which is going to require a good answer to #1 or #2 and as you say carries risk of being diluted out

4) give up

5) a miracle occurs

I can feel that you're very tempted to do #4, which makes #3 harder as a very high level of self-belief is necessary. It seems there are problems with #2, and #1 hasn't made it after all this time.

Perhaps this is the time to get a bit confrontational with people to insist they get behind either #1 or #2 100%.

> maybe for the first time in 10 years I'm asking the question "What's in it for me?"

Bit late for that, sadly. "Selfless CEO" is just self-exploitation.
Suuuper weird... This might be an issue with old certs being stuck...

Found an old IPv6 record, so maybe that device was preferring IPv6, and hit that record.
Yikes. You sound very bitter. Is there a story behind that bitterness?

There's a wide variety of people in the open source community at large. And a wide variety of motivations for contributing. I for one am happy that open source software is a thing. It's been a net good for mankind. Sure, there are abuses, and I'm sure many things could be improved. But I'm glad it's there all the same.
Something I try to spread general awareness for whenever someone posts a local account workaround:

The easiest and most foolproof workaround to get a local account is to attempt to use a banned account. Someone conveniently got "no@thankyou.com" banned so if you attempt to log in with it (use anything for the password, you're not actually trying to succeed in logging in) it'll dump you straight to the local account screen since they don't want a disabled user to create a new account.

Unlike other workarounds this is intended behavior so not only is it easy to trigger but it's far less likely to stop working when the installer is updated again.
I wouldn't even consider a car that doesn't support carplay. i've not seen an infotainment system in YT car reviews that are not laggy AF (except tesla and rivian obv). CBA with them, looking forward to carplay 2.
The European left does like to engage in US bashing, but you won't find many British conservatives making claims like that about the USA. And it's the conservatives who tend to win elections. So, don't generalize too far.
Usually a heightmap is x,y grid (2d array) with values between 0 and 255 which represent a grey scale value. Sometimes these values could also be -1 to 1 or 0 to 1 or something similar.
Based on your description I did a search on public companies with roughly the same characteristics on Finviz and returned these 9:

FTCI
SRT
RBT
ZEPP
VIAO
FEIM
EMKR
FKWL
AAOI

The challenge is that you’ve invested $250M to produce a business that sounds like it’s worth $100+M today (if $30M in debt is going to wipe out half your equity).

As much as the ride has been thrilling and you’ve worked your tail off, from a performance perspective, investors look at the $250M in and $100ish M in current value and say “meh, not that great an entrepreneur, turns every buck I give them into fifty cents.”

The reason your COO and Board are skeptical of your plan is that your actual business that you have has proven to be low margin, which means you produce relatively low value over your cost of goods for your customers. So a fantastical plan where in the future you’ll provide LOTS of value to your customers seems speculative at best, foolhardy at worst.

From a personal perspective, your value as an entrepreneur / founder, will never again go up at your current company, only down. There is no scenario in which five years from now people are more impressed with what you’ve built than they are today.

Your personal best outcome, IMHO, is to sell as much as you can and take the personal exit. Hand the keys over to the COO for them to do the grinding turnaround over next five years. Take six months to recharge and come back into the market with something new. You’ll be able to raise at a higher valuation for a new business, and actually get paid a higher comp.
Microsoft cannot opt out of common law either
I can’t get stable diffusion to do a 1/10th of what I can do in MJ. I’ve followed guides, tried different parameters, etc etc.

Any tips you’ve picked up?
It really perplexes me that there isn't any Internet Outrage about fetishisation of young Japanese girls; cartoons or otherwise.

As far as I can see it's the one area of DEI that gets a free pass.

It's really creepy.
Apache also offered a portable runtime called APR. Like NSPR, it had few adopters besides Apache's own web server.

Subversion picked APR, along with other poor ideas such as storing the repository in Berkeley DB, basing the network protocol on WebDAV, and running the server as an Apache module (mod_dav_svn). On the other hand, choosing http(s) as transport turned out to be a huge advantage.
Many databases (including SQLite) don't use the filesystem correctly. The fault doesn't lie with the filesystem but with the database.
the wealthy profit-maximizing executives paid for the engineers who trained the AI, and ran it through the legal department designed to protect the wealth and status of the corporation they are executives of. Under present circumstances, I don't know what an "autonomous" AI might even look like; someone must have trained it, and if another AI trained it, that was also at some point in the chain trained by these same institutional actors...
Sorry that was a mistype, I meant "close association with Microsoft".
It is a heavy gorilla.

1. Huge company.

2. Impossible to prove that a weight of -0.7 in a neural net means they used your code.

3. The code spat out by the bot isn't your code.
Great observation. This is the essence of the singularity. Once we've solved this greatest of problems, what do we do with ourselves? And what use are we? Of course this brings up that other greatest of Science Fiction short stories, "The Last Question"
Take a €30 charge on the credit card when you start the rental. Refund when finished correctly.
They are not your gorilla
> We have already significantly cut revenue (~30%) last year in order to scale back costs

Something is wrong here. If your gross margin is positive this is a bad move, surely? Are you losing money on sales somehow or not including customer acquisition in that margin?
It feels like of bleak to discourage childish computer tinkering on a website named "Hacker News". Not entirely sure what this says about the direction of this website.
"And the code generated by the model also falls under GPL"
Owning a house, for instance. Having a solid job or a good resume so you can always find a job if you don't like your first, or own your own business that does well so you cannot lose your job and can live freely. Connections so that your business (or job quest) has a good chance of getting good results. A good income stream so you don't run out of money.

A lot of it is centered around money, such is our society.

A lot of things are fleeting, so it is important to also live in a country where the government won't take everything away from you because they don't like your opinion, or living in a country where war is less likely. (There are ways to mitigate these risks).
I can understand (although don’t agree with) a decision to block these things based on respecting everyone’s religious beliefs. Blocking satire of a specific religion though points towards caving to fear rather than a rational policy choice.
I have a laptop from 2014 that runs Win8 just fine; and my main desktop machine runs Win7 with a motherboard from 2011 and many parts older than that. Everything works fine.

(And yes, as I'm sure people will feel obliged to remind me, I do know Win7 and Win8 are now "unsupported", but I feel that's more a feature than a limitation.)
>Its all subjective though.

Apart from adverts. From a users or consumers perspective advertising is almost always a bad idea because it is so manipulative. You were sitting down to play a game or get some work done and right away the OS is trying to distract you.
This seems to be what people imagine about it, not what it actually does, although I don’t doubt you could cherry-pick some snippet after a lot of trial and error to try to claim that it had regurgitated something verbatim. But certainly let’s see the examples.
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There's two examples in the images subdirectory
"Semi-rural"

Proportion of urban population 92.57%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276724/urbanization-in-t...
AFAIK there's a 'bit-addressable' extension for ARM, but I lack the google-fu to search for it (I guess this only applies to loading and storing data, not 'arbitrary width instructions')

For the data load/store case, if you go with the (high-level) idea that bytes are nothing special anymore (because cache line width is the new word width), and instead you have arbitrary width integers (like Zig for instance), it would also make sense to have 'bit granularity pointers'.

All you'd need is to move a regular pointer 3 bits to the left (which should be ok because the upper bits are wasted anyway).

IMHO this would make a lot of sense from a system programming language PoV, but I guess the hardware guys can think of a couple of reasons to object :)