skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather have a new Xbox game than a monarchy and some weapons of mass destruction. Let's do it.
That's a lovely collection of screenshots, I'm suprised the LSD Legal Tools series[0] wasn't included, but it does seem to be because the author is selecting for the aesthetic of the menu screen, calling the purely-ASCII ones "uninspired" :(

For a further hit of nostalgia, check out the 1994 Impact DK demo In A World of ASCII [1] which features a lot of demo effects that pretend to look like they were done in the Amiga CLI window

[0] https://www.amiga-stuff.com/pd/lsd-legaltools.html

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sPUVm4WH5U
How much of a setback would disaster be? Would SpaceX keep going, or would failure leave room for competitors to take over? (If there are competitors? I don't even know tbqh.)
Am I the only one who hears this in my head spoken by a character in Firefly, or maybe from the later chapters of Cloud Atlas?
But this carbon fossil producers and this huge ships are producing/carrying stuff for the average person. So yeah, the average guy needs to change and the big corps need to change too.
phys.org can be a bit sensationalistic.

Quanta takes their time getting to the point, but is a bit more reliable in terms of the summary provided.

So if there's a popular physics article, it generally seems to be quanta.
Know your subject in and out. Anticipate questions and mentally prepare answers.

Know your audience. Read the room. If people start being bored, speed up and cut straight to the chase.

Practice your verbal skills in front of a mirror.

People pay closer attention to beautiful people, so try to improve your appearance if you can. Start working out, get a fresh haircut, clear up your skin, that sort of thing.
As part of the Cyber Resilience Act (edit: and the Product Liability Directive), the EU plans to introduce some accountability and liability for software in the commercial realm. This letter pleads to exempt not-for-profit open-source developers from falling under the “commercial” definition even when they receive donations or similar.
US could soon approve MDMA therapy
The EU can only proceed where there is consensus and there is no appetite for harmonisation across the bloc for most of those issues.

Really what you are describing is a superstate akin to the US Federal Government, which is not the purpose or goal of the union.

Countries within the EU also have vastly different cultural attitudes to many issues. For example, in some countries having a national ID card is mandatory (Germany) and others don't have a national ID card at all (Ireland). Some countries have opted-out of the Euro single currency (Denmark) and others are dragging their heels even though they have an obligation to join (Sweden, Hungary, Poland, etc). Some countries have opted-out of the EU Mutual Defence Clause. One (Ireland again, due to border issues with Northern Ireland) didn't join Schengen.

Trying to force such a diverse set of populations into a single superstate will just lead to the break up of the union.
> By definition, open source software is not sold - it is given to the world for free.

Is it? I thought open-source was a "business friendly" wording of free software. That is, the source code is made available, independent of what price (perhaps gratis) the author decides to distribute it. "Free as in freedom, not free as in beer" and all that. Am I missing something or did the OSI change the meaning to include that the sale price must be 0?
I do have a pet peeve related to this and some observations.

Sometimes developers call their variable or method state_machine, that's akin to calling your variable variable. You should be descriptive in what you are modeling as a state machine.

I have also seen developers attempt to track external state using a state machine when they had no way to guarantee that the external state actually behaved that way. It becomes a really big mess.

Especially when you are interested in the time of a change (or the person making the change), it's very often useful log the state transitions in a separate database table.
That's the cost to SpaceX. There's no way they charge customers anywhere near that.
This doesn’t seem consistent with my experience. When you say “4-6 weeks to get a cluster up” i wonder if you actually mean to learn kubernetes and play around with deploying things, as that would make sense. I was able to install k3s in around 15 minutes and deploy my first service, myself.
It also provides us with a kind of access to space that we lost when the Space Shuttles were grounded. It's interesting that the Shuttle was considered a hugely wasteful boondoggle in its day and age, yet now a private profit-seeking enterprise is making something that's just as capable on a way bigger scale.
I think that having some kind of "supply chain accreditation" might be something to look at. However, this kind of thing can become a nightmare.

I used to work for an ISO-9000 company.
They stopped that recently i noticed. you get prompted to confirm youre over 18 without logging in required. They also got rid of that annoying "Continue this thread" linking and let you expand replies with a plus/minus icon without going to another page. It also seems like they fixed the way images are resized/shown in a post, because since the redesign i noticed you had to click 2 or 3 separate times to actually get an image without cropping or resizing, which felt so clumsy and annoying. As well as making a thread be overlayed atop with an "X" to close link at the top. That is gone for me also. Now it's actually usable like old.reddit.com is. I have no idea how they actually let that first redesign roll out it was terrible. Feels fixed now.
My prime example of a toxic remaster is Star Wars.
The quintessential Philly cheesesteak bread is the Amarosso roll. There’s even a place in SF that imports them as well as tasty kakes for the PA “expats” in California.

https://www.amorosobaking.com/
That liability is a part of the proposed revisions to the Product Liability Directive, which is also covered by this letter.

The Cyber Resilience Act would potentially require open source developers to follow a compliance regimen, similar to any EU manufacturer. The concern is that this would place too high of a regulatory burden on item source projects. The act's view of the software world is less nuanced than that of the open source community, making a distinction only between commercial and non-commercial.

I don't fully understand the implications for open source projects, but it also seems like the legislators do not understand the implications for the EU. There is legitimate concern that the EU could be cut off from open source repositories as the entities running them seek to avoid liability.
China Gave AI Control of a Satellite, and It Started Staring at Bizarre Areas
I got the Mac Mini M1, it only needs ~7W when idle and up to 35W at full load. Runs quiet as a mouse
> Whoever loves Makefile has never had to debug the compilation process of any non-trivial build system

Whoever hates Makefile has never been forced to use ant.
When I think that you can see the memory of a program and the execution of instructions as a state machine just a very large one.

I am trying to design a state machine representation/notation that handles the transitions of multiple complicated objects over time and between threads and machines.

I want a good notation for state machines that is similar to EBNF.

I think rule engines become relevant when you think about complicated transitions of business processes.

I settled on this, it is inspired by prolog. It represents the state progression of an async/await thread pool and parallel state machines and forking and joining state machines.

A and B is a task variable and 1 is a thread number. The pipe symbol represents a transition from a group of states, all previous facts must match before progressing.

next_free_thread = 2
task(A) thread(1) assignment(A, 1) = running_on(A, 1) | paused(A, 1)
running_on(A, 1) thread(1) assignment(A, 1) thread_free(next_free_thread) = fork(A, B) | send_task_to_thread(B, next_free_thread) | running_on(B, 2) paused(B, 1) running_on(A, 1) | { yield(B, returnvalue) | paused(B, 2) } { await(A, B, returnvalue) | paused(A, 1) } | send_returnvalue(B, A, returnvalue)

I actually worked on a BPMN project once.

The idea of this syntax is that your code would be reactive and you would have an API to retract or publish facts. The state machine handles scheduling.
Agree. There's things you can do by virtualizing or instrumenting the browser that you can't with just screen sharing. It's a more specialized technology that powers more specific use cases.

If folks like this, they may also be interested in the neko project: https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

Or even a similar work of my own company: BrowserBox Pro -- where you can share a link to a single browser with multiple people. Co-browsing or co-operative / collaborative browsing is the "term of art" I believe.

https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro
> There's a good chance that magic of not knowing what comes next will come back when you ditch the GPS and internet.

Of course, with everyone else having GPS and the Internet, it becomes much harder to find somewhere to sleep, because the amazing places you may have discovered fifty years ago will now be fully-booked months in advance.
joke's on you now. Looks to me like people were misusing a feature so bad consequences are not entirely a surprise...
Not everyone wants to depend on and trust a cloud service, and not everyone needs GPT-4 quality.

If there's a viable way to tune and run models locally they could still be useful if you don't need it to play chess and imitate a Python interpreter at the same time.
It has more engines than any rocketship, making it the most powerful rocket ever built. (33 total)

https://ibb.co/7SrTK7P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
+inf.
Now I can’t stop thinking of Zakir Tikka.
This is why I was not claiming that nobody should use AWS and everybody should be aiming for being vendor agnostic. You're right, many a times, for smaller businesses the vendor lock-in with AWS should be the least of their worries and should just go on about their business. From my mind, business that have bursty needs, the ability to scale up/down the infrastructure on AWS could be quite beneficial.

However, once you start growing and have the scale where you have dedicated teams of engineers operating your infrastructure, at some point it makes (economical and operational) sense to own your infra. For example, Instead of 10 different teams each having their own MSK setups to get a kafka experience spinning up so many instances for that occasional need, you could have a centralised kafka cluster operated by a central entity within the team. Instead of every team spinning up their own EKS clusters, and all the cruft associated with making it production ready, the company could set one way of running production services (and have a plan to be able to replicate that outside of AWS should there be a future need to).

> K8s is effectively just a layer over EC2
Yes, but one that comes highly abstract and lures you into tooling such as ingress, secret mgmt, image registry and all kubernetes artifacts that you need to care about in addition to your service itself.

> what's the point of using AWS if all you're using is EC2?
Not needing to operate a data center, networking, worrying about needing to visit the server to change the failing disk, and largely - being able to scale up/down on demand without capital expenses.

If I read what I wrote, perhaps it sounds extreme and my grey beard agrees to the ideology more than most HN audience would.
The fact that we botched something should not become a reason to continue botching things - politics or science developments. I see it rather as an argument to do better this time, next time, you know, lessons learned...
if the 2nd stage re entry turns out to be fundamentally unworkable, big setback. but if the rocket fails for any of 100 other reasons, no big deal
Looks like they're rebuilding on the same corner.
I’m glad this was your experience, but your school’s CS curriculum isn’t universal.

I was once chatting with a jr sw engineer that had recently graduated from a respectable state university with a CS degree about which database would be optimal for our upcoming project. He confided in me that he hadn’t taken the DB course in school because he heard bad things about the professor who taught it. I was absolutely blown away.

The moral of the story is that your shouldn’t assume that just because someone has a CS degree that they have knowledge of all the fundamental areas.
I made a Dashboard to track where to buy hairloss products without prescription
Hey guys,

When I started to take hairloss products I struggled to find a place to buy Finasteride in Europe without prescription, so I made a dashboard to find and compare the different providers of Finasteride /Minoxidil all over the world.

The dashboard: https://findhairlossproducts.com/

It's a project for my school, I am studying computer science and I had a lot of fun building this website. If you find bugs don't hesitate to tell me !

I will do my best to keep the website up to date and to add Dutasteride and Ru58841 later.
I've wondered, how enforceable is a EU court ruling on a company with no assets in the EU?

If they can't enforce it, then does it matter if they fine you a centillion euros?
I wonder what triggered this - legislation? Their payment processor? The ad network they get their revenue from?

In my experience, this kind of change happens much more often for money reasons than for moral reasons.

I think Tumblr's TOS change happened because their credit card processor became uncomfortable at them being essentially "in the porn business" - and indeed, seeing how much smaller Tumblr's business was post-change, the card processor was technically right.
I mean the site is ad infested and slow as hell to load, such a fall from their former grace when they were seen as an internet darling next to photobucket type sites when options for uploading and hotlinking were limited due to bandwidth constraints.

I think Reddit started hosting their own content or whatever the redgif site is seems to have taken over Imgur for a while now and the images/vids load lightning fast in comparison to Imgur with my ad blocker lighting up like a Christmas tree every time I visit an Imgur link. I would be happy to never visit that site again.
Your comment goes to the heart of the matter "claim by assumption".

It's hilarious that the FIRST two integers greater than one form a counter example to their "proof".
Look: it seems like you just don't understand what people are talking about. The original article said that feminine names aren't taken seriously, and then gave a "unique and fun" name to their kid. that is inconsistent. Pointing out that it is inconsistent isn't claiming anything about how people should or how people might eventually treat such names: the logic is bad and your opinion about the future is just noise... as if you are being triggered by this topic and simply can't prevent yourself from arguing about it, even though it is off topic, as that's the argument you wish people were having :(. (Awkwardly, is I try to parse your contributions to this thread in "charitable" light I actually end up in a worse place, where you would have to actively believe that in the future people will clearly accept unique and fun names and yet they will never accept feminine names. But not only does that feel like a shitty thought process, as far as I have seen you haven't tried to make that argument and if you were paying attention you would have said it, right?)
> It was always a business club of the large European companies with a veneer of democratic institution

It's original intention was to join EU countries to avoid another World War
i hate k8s!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thank you for the explanation! Unsolved puzzles drive me crazy, especially the linguistic kind :)

Edit: idiom
The shuttle ended up having a cost of $1.5B per launch. Starship is aiming for a cost of $2M per launch. They'll likely miss that goal, but even missing by an order of magnitude will be a huge game changer. And obviously price will be very different from cost.

We're looking at the cost of a tonne to orbit being similar to what a kg was during the shuttle era.
There's a parallel universe where the designer of make decided that lines starting with any whitespace indicated the commands to run, instead of requiring actual tab characters.
I believe the "open" in open source means "publicly accessible". The concept of "free" is a bit stronger, and grants the user rights to modify and redistribute (unless they do so under a proprietary licence).
Im quite sure this is supposed to be Udo Lindenberg

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=udo+lindenberg+80er+jahre&t=midori...

Note the UDO on the menu ...
I dont' care about morals, I care about legality, and if there are legal means to stop such projects, I pursue them with full force.
Certainly doesn't help that colleges that aren't at the MIT/Stanford level have as specified purposes only to provide employment and generate profit through state subsidies, education is a side effect, if at all. It is just luck if at one of these colleges you find a passionate teacher/professor/mentor who has enough time to pay attention to you.

The future of education will be the personal artificial mentor, such as GPT10+ will be able to provide, and then the question becomes: how do you generate internal motivation for the children/people to be interested in knowledge and power over nature instead of being mindlessly entertained by whatever the ad-driven feed displays.
> I think Tumblr's TOS change happened because...

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/16/did-banning-porn-make-tumbl...

> Porn was banned from Tumblr soon after the social network was removed from Apple’s App Store. Child pornography was found on the site, one consequence of the site’s relaxed content moderation approach. Instead of banning specific sites with child pornography, all not-safe-for-work content was banned.
Sadly our sourcing department might have some other hidden requirements in addition to those listed above. At a quick glance, the unit prices are still at least some 100 eurobucks higher than Pascal's :-)

In any case, due to COVID-induced shortages we already had to transition away to other hardware. This has been a huge relief as we had to ditch our custom legacy software stack built on APU+OpenWRT and came up with a generic Ansible/AWX based solution you can run on almost any platform with no tweaking.
This philosophy has been around in data management for a long time and applies to social media or personal content as well.

I keep a master and am judicious with who is allowed to change it. And I like lots of replicas (hopefully with some registration to know about use) that can sync and derive products that selectively sync with updates or are pinned to a release.

I think this fits into the splitter vs lumper philosophy where things are separated off and handled independently with clear interdependencies rather than lump everything together into a single issue to be solved overall.

This means I don’t need to fix all the problems in the replicas of my data in order to go about my work or life.
> some kind of "supply chain accreditation"

As long as the for profits and governments that use OSS are paying for the process and regulations, otherwise you are putting undue burden on OSS developers.
Surviving my first week as a new developer
> Especially if said US entity doesn't really have any paying EU customers.

Aah the good old US mentality, everything must revolve around money. :)

My friend, "paying" doesn't come into it. It's all about PII, "Personally Identifiable Information".

To paraphrase Dean Martin....

Got EU people on your mailing list ? That's GDPR.
Silently harvesting telemetry, IP addresses, setting cookies etc. ? That's GDPR.

etc. etc. etc.
> I'm pretty surprised actually that Russia hasn't cracked down on porn yet.

That's just not how Russia rolls. Simple things like low fuel prices, alcohol and porn are what prevents the population from complaining.

Russians highly value internal peace and will not actively go against anything that helps to secure it.
Do you have any tips for a NIMBY that may help me stop/slow-down/impede local development? Even delaying for a day is worth the time to me.
ALso let me clarify that the term "open source" goodness should be "source-available goodness" as it's not an "Open Source" license.
As an EU developer I would also like to know how to block fascists from my customer base, esp. US, Russian and Chinese companies and state orgs.
One scene where this may still happen is the pico-8 community, they all work on a single 'device' with fixed dimensions, resolution and capabilities. The demoscene for that one is also pretty impressive.

There's a few similar "fantasy consoles" with different amounts of restraints. Oh, and there's the Playdate console, which also seems to have a pretty vibrant community - they're limited to greyscale graphics though.
We've been developing an industrial IoT gateway at work on top of the APU2 series, and there really is nothing quite like it. I'd add to that list support for mPCIe LTE modems. My only real complaint with the APU2 was that the story around TPM support isn't great - while they do technically support a TPM, its via an additional board you plug in, and availability is more or less non-existent. Apparently the CPU has a built in TPM but PC Engines were unable to get it working, and AMD weren't engaging with them on resolving that.
I enjoyed that greatly.
Decompilation project for Paper Mario, have reached 100% completion
I have exactly one negative thing to say about state machines: they are difficult to understand when all you have is the implementation, which makes them difficult to update.

My solution is typically to include an ASCII drawing of the state diagram in the comments, which I never really liked as a solution for reasons I can't explain. But I also think that this is a fair price to pay when the alternative is a jungle of "if condition1 and not condition2...".
Funnily enough, perl has both a native prolog implementation AI::Prolog (which is not amazingly fast but serviceable for simple cases) and Language::Prolog::Yaswi, which is bindings to SWI prolog with a perl-native DSL if you want it.
I don't disagree with what you say here, but ... I'm coming at it from a formal semantics point of view. (I find Prolog and indeed "logic programming" in a larger sense to be all promise and little delivery on this front.) Perhaps you can check if your `prove` example is expressible in HiLog ... if so, it's more-or-less first order (in a semantically clean way). I believe the hard working XSB have an implementation.
I long for the olden days when I could rss feed Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to a single rss feed to check on my friends doings.

Also liked yahoo pipes to mix in git commits, jira, and wiki updates to have a “work stream” that I checked on during the day.
I'm advocating for fixed-duration appointments then euthanasia.
> get rid of some but not all

usually there's always one solution to get rid of all but that's prbly not what you think of.

So getting rid of some is what it's about, isn't it? And some more by another means.