skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are thriving communities of people who do all those things without trust funds, and never getting paid for it either.

I know this isn’t the intent, but any time this point is made I always hear it as deeply entitled. “The slaves love what they do!”

I have a generally visceral reaction to anything that argues against paying workers for their work, or that argues that we can remove systems whereby workers are paid and magic will happen. Even if the systems we have are very flawed, replacing them with nothing isn’t an improvement.

I used to believe all that 90s cyber anarchist stuff. Then I watched the trajectory of the music industry. Now when I hear the old slogan “information wants to be free” I translate that mentally as “I want other peoples’ labor to be free to me.”

There is no longer a music industry. There is no longer a journalism industry. Pretty soon there will no longer be a book industry. We’ve decided we don’t want to pay for those kinds of things, so I guess we won’t have them.

… or more likely they will all be ad supported or funded to push some billionaire or government’s agenda. We know what that hellscape looks like.
Maybe I’ll finally get ads for products I haven’t already purchased yet.
Yes this is essentially a special case where the yellow square has side length 0.
Actually you may be right. There are many instances, like SerpentZA's parents being harassed in their home country (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-i-hung-up-on-warre...) or student from Hong Kong being doxxed and harassed in US (https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/05/28/frances-hu...) that are obviously done by people sympathizing with CCP but without an obvious direct participation of Chinese government. Although keep in mind that if they are doing this it is a consequence of their government's policy encouraging this behavior.
"Air conditioning functions can not be operated by voice control"
That is what I was referring to. I wasn’t accusing the teenagers of anything.
Tires and brake dust are an overwhelming majority of vehicle emissions however. When I see people this confidently wrong I always wonder if its a language model now.
No it’s not that. I’m just simply telling you the truth: China has the upper hand in respect to the Dutch. Just like when the Dutch had the upper hand, they did funny stuff in Indonesia. I’m telling you why this is happening, not making moral judgments.
I'd imagine that the $12/hr grading job at the $17k/year university is almost certainly not paying $48/hr now that they charge $80k/year, or $36/hr inflation adjusted.. if the job even exists. It's probably been efficiencied away into being some grad student TAs problem.

A lot of these pre-00s hourly wage/cost stories are kind of perplexing to me. It's interesting in how clearly they show the relative strength of labor in different eras.

I remember my dad telling me he worked in a record score & lived at home to put himself through college in the 70s. Going to college in the 2000s, this was obviously no longer in any way possible.

This was an era I was making $5/hr working retail myself, against gas that was $1.50/gal & eating off the $1 menu for my meal break.. it wasn't very much.

Looking at data, 30 years before when my dad was working he'd have made at least $2.10/hr against gas of $0.35-0.40/gal or so.

Currently the ratio in our home state would be $14/hr against gas of about $3.50/gal.
A lot of people in the VR content creation space are integrating AI tools into their workflow. It may seem like everyone is distracted by something shiny but what most people are thinking is "Holy shit, this can 10x my productive capacity"
Yup, that's what happened to a former friend of mine. 2020 Rolls around, stock market goes crazy, everyone starts talking about something called "options".
Few weeks later everyone lost a little bit of money and tapped out, not much, just a few hundred here and there. Except one friend, who blew all their savings for a high they never got again. Went hook line and sinker for GME, shitty IPO scams, NFTs, you name it. They got burned over and over. Eventually broke off contact with the friend group because of money.
Microsoft themselves may be committed to their own distro, but their customers are overwhelmingly committed to Ubuntu as it's powering the majority of client workloads on Azure.
Maybe that’s what our inner monologue is for… to cycle relevant context through regularly so it stays in scope. I mean, that’s not actually why we have one but it’d be cute.
Agree, but I don't see how it's the fault of archive.org.
A half truth. Some people care and are much more likely to value technically simple works by an artist if he is known to be skilled.
The problem with VR isn’t complicated. People get sick when they use it, and there aren’t any killer apps for it.

These limitations have been known for decades as every VR attempt has run into them. Oculus and The Virtual Boy ran into the exact same problems.

I’m sure someone warned the Meta teams of this and they assumed they’d crack this intractable problem with one weird trick, but they didn’t, and probably nobody will. Certainly not while they’re trying to anyway.
There are many many artists who use the Nike logo in their work. https://www.google.com/search?q=paintings+with+nike+logo&ie=...
That's because VR / AR still has a ways to go. It needs to be indistinguishable from real life (moving your head should have a VR object appear in the same real-world spot without a hint of wavering, lighting/shading, etc). The one thing I don't know how they will solve is changing the optical focal point of an object. Your eyes change focus looking at close items (background becomes blurry) or distance (foreground is blurry). Not sure how to have multiple items on one display that are different focal distances.
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I dunno about that. Contemporary neighboring communities seem to be largely in cooperation. Depending on what time in history we're talking about, as hominids began to leave Africa, they spread rapidly, so I don't think there would've been much reason to compete (as the resources available in a given area weren't limiting).

I think the role of competition in evolution is often overstated. I don't exactly understand the premise here. The advantage of intelligence was that neighboring communities could swindle each other? Think of it as an iterated prisoner's dilemma, does that strategy make sense?
We may also just change the rules of chess.

"Chess" is a human created game after all.
If they do, they'll be tempted to rat out the political overlords who dictated the "see no evil, hear no evil" policy.
The streets aren't numbered anyway, so once you have a block (ban) you still need to loop round it to find the building by number (go)

Bad title but- https://geoawesomeness.com/how-the-crazy-japanese-addressing...

I can't find an image, but I was lost in Japan and had the address I needed, and a shopkeeper took out an ultra local map where each /shop/ was about the size of my thumb, to find where the address actually was.
Honestly I get that feeling, when it comes to compile times it feels like a thousand years, it’s discouraging
Indeed. IIRC it was .25 over minimum wage. I worked 20 hrs/week and that paid all my living expenses-apartment, utilities, food, bus pass.
Fun is really underrated in engineering, indeed
When visiting U.S for the first time, the thing that strikes you immediately are the sizes. Everything is bigger, much bigger in the U.S.

Food portions - you’re left wondering if you ordered one single meal, or one day’s worth. Shopping malls - I literally got lost at Macy’s in NYC. Cars - why are cars so big, especially the ones in cities? TVs are big. Even mundane stuff like glue sticks - they come in 3 packs, I can’t buy a single glue stick in most shops!! Most household items come in big packs.

Needless to say, all of this comically big items need space. So houses are big too!
all my political opponents are state actors
Yep. Amateur radio operators couldn't care less about a pirate FM station, but will fiercely defend their own bands.

Our local ham community once got a foreign country to move their over-horizon radar off the ham bands by escalating it with the authorities until they raised a formal diplomatic complaint. Lol.

And rightfully so - ham bands are under constant threat of getting reclassified and auctioned off to the highest bidder. It's use it or lose it.
What advantage will that give MS? Genuine question, as the code is all open source. What's the advantage of having the corporate entity?
"Google for instance decided to just pull out of the market, I have a lot of respect for that. "

Seems unlikely to have been a matter of principle rather than practicality; Google only recently moved Pixel phone production away from China, yet the ethical issues have been well known for many years.
Of course we are free to do that, and in fact you can easily find such comments on Western forums, whole subreddits full with such drivel and even specialized forums just for that. It's called freedom of speech and is one of the basic rights in liberal democratic societies, as opposed to totalitarian societies (be they communist, fascist or theocratic).
You seem to be blaming public libraries for giving the public what they want.

I agree that public consumption has been trending anti-intellectual but I don't see how libraries are to blame. Your ire should be directed at modern society. Unfortunately that's a rather broad and manifold thing to dissect to determine where the problems lie.
> It’s just too versatile, ambient computing around you all the time, anywhere from a single button to a virtual interactive world.

I just watched Dan Harmon's new doc on Decentraland[0] and he raises some really good points about the functional impedance that exists in virtual worlds alongside of all of the grifting that currently exists. Grifting aside, so many applications of VR just don't make sense as a direct virtual representation of the world, at that starts with our inner ear our ability to process visual motion without actually moving.

He shows how these virtual storefronts that your character can walk through are much less efficient at actually allowing you to transact as opposed to a search page on an e-commerce site.

I think it's easy to have romantic visions of how a VR world will look in the future. But if it's driven primarily by profit, as all of the most mainstream attempts have so far, it's going to be an empty crypto hell.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
Webapp beating native is a stretch.
I do think intent matters. Take Picasso. He made classical paintings in his early career, then developed completely new styles over decades, very much demonstrating that whatever he did away with was done intentionally so.

It's why Roy Lichtenstein isn't Picasso.
I feel like if an AI Algo is coming up with the rules, is it really rules based?
If you make a copy it would be called a forgery but only if you attempt to sell the copy.
I once worked at a small pen-testing firm that also conducted PCI DSS compliance tests, and I can confirm that this is an accurate depiction of the industry. A majority of the staff were recent grads, and it was disheartening to see that most clients were primarily interested in obtaining the compliance certification rather than genuinely improving their product security. This, in turn, creates a perverse incentive for auditors to grant compliance, as clients who don't get the desired outcome may simply switch to a different auditor. In such a setup, it's difficult to ensure that security standards are genuinely upheld. On a positive note, these compliance tests do help in making sure that card data isn't stored in plaintext, but beyond that, the overall impact on security seems rather limited.
I don't know why this was downvoted.

Btw, I used to teach jazz guitar for years, I know what you mean :)

Cheers
I've given the "(I know the answer but) this is a dumb question" in response to "using two stacks, how would you implement a queue".

I think being able to implement a queue using two stacks is kinda neat. But, nevertheless, it's not a good interview question.
The biggest lie you have swallowed from the big companies is that cheap food is unhealthy, and you have to buy their expensive food to truly live healthy and righteous. Every week you must go give up a paycheck at Whole Foods to eat healthy and save the planet.
Many artists use instagram to display their art, and a big portion of that art is digital and it was intended to be perceived on the screen, so it can’t be collected/purchased in the traditional sense. That’s why a lot of artists I follow and deeply respect were supporting this concept - finally their 3d renders, digital images etc. can enter the art market. See @mikeyjoyce

It is like a democratization of collecting art, instagram being the medium. The motivation for collecting digital art being the same as collecting physical artworks (paintings, sculptures, whatever).

On the other hand, it gives you an opportunity to support the artist you like and get something in return, in a similar fashion bandcamp does with music.
Worth noting that Google tried (and failed) to solve this specific problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
>even then I will make bank transfer to a relative

The way the scam is said to work is that someone pretending to be your relative is telling you they are in an unusual situation away from home and it is very urgent so you must send them money in a different way.

e.g.

"The caller said she was locked up for a misunderstanding between herself and the Mexican state police of Quintana Roo. They needed money for a Mexican lawyer and court costs"

(That particular incident, apparently they were impersonating someone who had been to Mexico, but had - unfortunately for the scammer - returned prior to the call)

https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2023/03/scammers-us...
Good post, but I do not understand how this involves with Postgres. Perhaps a link to a list thread or some other background might be included?

N/m. This answers my question

http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-coming-storm-ge...

(same blog, different entry)
This is not some Chinese invented tactic. China is now doing what the Western powers did to them centuries ago (remember the opium wars).

This is nothing new, the same thing happened in Eastern Europe after the fall of comunism.

My country took on many bad loans form the IMF, World Bank, etc. and all that borrowed money went into useless projects of the oligarch owned companies, and to pay off the massive debts, the country was forced to sell of various state assets (oil & gas fields, mines, etc) to western owned enterprises.

It's a form of legal economic colonialism that doesn't involve firing a single bullet. We lend you money we know you won't be able to pay back because we're doing the deal with your corrupt leaders who also get a cut for indebting their country. And when the collection day comes and you can't pay, we'll take everything of value you have and your taxpayers will have to work their butts off to pay the loans. Genius strategy. China is just the latest player to enter this game but the rich west has been playing it for much longer, like Belgium using slaves to extract minerals in Congo.
> To be clear, Lichtenstein is a very capable artist, and can produce very beautiful work that is (as far as I can tell) highly original. For example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cap_de_Barcelona

You had me expecting some demonstration of classical skill like early Picasso works, not... that.
That sounds a bit like DAB multiplexes. Except that there is a single transmitter and you buy a slot in it.
Cognitive radio with dynamic frequency selection was all the hype along with TV white space radio. But the only actual service that has materialized was the 3.65GHz CBRS one.
And that seems to only have been successful thanks to it sharing frequencies with the 3.5GHz 5G bands, making equipment available and affordable.
You miss my point. If human society had developed earlier then we would have had the book printing earlier too.
It's advertising for the documentary it describes. So it's a paid piece and no advertising revenue needed.
> China has the upper hand in respect to the Dutch.

That's complete nonsense. Yes, China is larger and has many more people. But inside NL the total number of Chinese is tiny and they are subject to Dutch law, not Chinese law. The whole idea that any foreign nation would be operating an active police station on Dutch territory - or the territory of any other country for that matter - is against a lot of basic principles of international law. So I really don't see how 'China has the upper hand' matters, it's not as if China has threatened to invade Europe if we kick out their police stations, which is exactly what I think we should do.

The VOC has nothing to do with it.
They have their own versions. This is old, but illustrates the problem:

https://thechinaproject.com/2019/11/01/inside-chinas-recentl...

Needless to say, that type of online community is virtually impossible to shut down. Shutter one site, and another will pop up. China is not at all unique in that regard: Even though it was hit with unusual and really quite severe measures in an effort to take it offline, The Daily Stormer is still going strong.

Any bored teenager with a text-to-speech app and a stolen or prepaid credit card could have pulled off the stunt mentioned in OP.
Yeah, the minimal memory usage is actually more appealing to me than the speed. The latter is much more important in reality though, as more RAM can always trivially be thrown at a problem.
They’re in Canada too. Lots.
Headline seems a little overdramatic.

>listed

>new

>in Germany

>two years

...that's gonna be like one or two clients max. Very bad PR but complete non-issue from a biz pov
It would be an interesting idea to make auditors fully accountable like bankruptcy advisors.
I know, this is never going to happen.
Which the cartoon originals and the paintings would be if there was any fairness in the copyright system ...
> I have a generally visceral reaction to anything that argues against paying workers for their work

I do as well. I wonder to what degree though the publishers are still representing the interests of their authors when they go after archive.org. It would be interesting to ask some authors what their feelings are regarding publishers going after book lending, libraries, etc.
It's certainly true that a lot out authors fall into one of three categories:

- They're delusional about the financial rewards

- It's a hobby/compulsion, they like being an author, etc. even though it pays next to nothing most of the time

- It's a reputational boost for their consulting, speaking engagements, or even regular employment
The challenges of shadow IT in a bring-your-own-cloud world
Do you have any more info on this black pepper version?
How would VR solve the problem with the visual motion not matching motion from the rest of my body? Flight simulator games on a monitor can make me sick.
I'm pretty certain peak to peak opened earlier than 2005. More like 2002.
How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology
I had in fact swiftly daydreamt (day-nightmared, more like) the scene of the watch-the-world-burn'ers discussing plans of the prank while on this page.

But the education of the public has already started, with the deepfakes that have circulated in the past few weeks, from odd or dreamed depiction high "authorities" to discussions about the status of documents related to e.g. the protests in France.
As another commenter mentioned, MS' customers are running Ubuntu on Azure en masse. So it's mostly a risk mitigation and "owning the platform end-to-end".
The audited company often buys consulting services from the auditors which in effect is an extra incentive on top of the moneys paid for the auditing service. The mechanism that allows this is the ‘Chinese wall’ but that is a total joke. What really need to happen is to separate out consulting from auditing. That’s not going to happen though as there is just so much money is consulting.
Microsoft also offers another server distro, though they are moving to externa providers for support (Flatcar)
Chinese investment is notable because it is new, but the western world is still heavily invested in Africa as well, and has been for a long time.
Yeah, that’s interesting. I think both SingleStoreDB and Rockset have come up with solutions to this problem (by separating the compute). But I understand that most database providers do not have a mechanism for the analytics people to not bring down the app accidentally.

[1]: https://www.singlestore.com/blog/distributed-sql-workspaces-...

[2]: https://www.rockset.com/blog/introducing-compute-compute-sep...
People have always loved pulp fiction. I love pulp fiction. Reading pulp fiction has always been popular. That doesn't mean it belongs in libraries. Librarians made a conscious decision to shift their focus into providing public entertainment rather than public education. We went from the libraries also providing our "pulp fiction" as an extra service(for lack of a better word) to practically only providing our pulp fiction, and focusing almost entirely on that.

Even in terms of cultural trends, librarians have a shared responsibility to guide the public. And they did. These decisions are not made solely based on the least-checked-out books but also on ideological factors - what they think is good for the public.

To my larger point, you cannot expect me to shed tears over publishers harming your ability to lend books because of your status as the sacred gatekeeper of public education when you've already abdicated that role. I think there is tremendous public good in free public education. I don't think there is much public good in free public entertainment.
Ladies of Negotiable Affection (2011)
Why would any of these things be significantly valuable in the first place?

Glancing at the artist's [article on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein ), it looks like some folks really liked his work and would pay a lot of money for it..? But, why?
Skimming through the text, the section on devices needs an update (IDE ain't really a thing anymore), and there's several places where the examples or prose could use updating to refer to modern systems. Appendix A (on other development tools) is... hilariously out of date. Doesn't even mention valgrind, although it's understandable that it wouldn't mention ASAN or perf (invented years after the book came out).

As for missing stuff, the I/O stuff doesn't even reach select, much less epoll or io_uring (which any modern "advanced" Linux programming really should cover). And you'd also likely need to cover cgroups and namespaces (the building blocks for containers, if not just containers themselves). It probably would be worth covering bpf and seccomp as well.

But then again, from my first skim, this book doesn't merit the adjective "Advanced" in the first place, even in the timeframe it was first written. There's not even much discussion of Linux-specific features (as opposed to things found in POSIX) that I would have assumed a book titled "Linux Programming" written in 2001 would have covered.
Apple’s Complex, Secretive Gamble to Move Beyond China
Nothing particularly concrete. What do you expect can be done?
There were 2 in Czech republic, Prague. https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/cinske-policejni-stanic...
https://archive.ph/6VPe5
How is free not an option?
I interpret this as damage and route around it.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/

Specifically I prefer to get my news from RSS feeds from lots of independent websites, to avoid such damage from centralized platforms. Any one of the sites I follow could start censoring without much effect.

For this reason we need protocols for microblogging that allow for the same kind of positive fragmentation.
Doomsday to utopia: Meet AI's rival factions