skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The traditional approach forces all packages to make do with one version of a library,

Yeah, and that means a bunch of them don't work properly. It's unrealistic to expect app developers to support that one version that each particular distro ships.
Are you saying that these smart Bell Labs guys could be put to better use coming up with SW to more efficiently bombard you with ads? Because right now, that seems like the only thing making SV reliable money and the only thing that could support long term basic research... but doesnt.
>I find the culture of “ownership” of ideas morally repugnant

I see that we're starting off with a misrepresentation already. Copyright isn't a patent.

Copyright isn't solely ownership of 'ideas,' it's ownership of actual work. You cannot 'copyright' an idea.

> It’s just your culture.

I'm sure when it's the 'culture' of every single country in the world, it's an alright culture.

>I’m willing to tolerate

> That’s not culture I perpetuate or encourage.

See what's great about this is that your extremist ideas are in a minority, and you do not get to make the laws. So what you're willing to 'tolerate' or not is irrelevant. No one is looking to you to 'encourage' or 'perpetuate' the culture. Demonizing artists by going "You don't own your own work, I should be able to own it, I made this!" will only get you so far.

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You shouldn't have free reign to profit off of artistic hard work of someone else without a way for them to benefit from that as well.
Some of them are more advanced and use SFTP (circa 1997).
https://github.com/nixpak/nixpak
cnn is probably the biggest factor
How does a software locked fuel tank work? When it gets below x%, it just acts like it's empty and stops the engine?
what ends up happening is Dean/Department head will publish textbook and will force entire university to purchase his textbook and earn $$$.

this is whats happening at some elite/Ivy league universities
Qwitzatteracht, the golf game, was more fun before it became so commercialized. The players were really in it for the love of the game back then.

Reddit needs to hear more about Qwitzatteracht.

I'm going to get the Qwitzatteracht discussion going on the three internet forums.
I generally trust the applications that I run natively to not be malicious, but I don't always trust them to not step on each other's toes, or make a well-intentioned mess of things.
Nobody expects app developers to do that, because app developers aren’t distro maintainers. This is addressed in the post that TFA is responding to.
GPUs are already filled with ports and there is no demand for any manufacturer to put a USB 4 port on it. They also saturate their PCI-E slots so trying to shove more data through it isn't tempting. I doubt you will see such a thing unless it is made specifically for that purpose.
I still to this day am not sure how the voodoo 2 actually worked with that analog link.
https://github.com/rdavydov/rarbg-dump

LIVE at https://rdavydov.github.io/rarbg-dump/

* Made a DB out of "everything.txt" from https://github.com/2004content/rarbg
* Made a front-end with day/night theme to search the DB
* Deployed the front-end to the GitHub Pages

Dump is not fully migrated yet, total number of magnets is around 3.5 mil. So it is a work in progress.
No worries, DB is filling while you are reading this. ;)
Gotta say, you really had me going there. When I got to arrays starting at -1, I started to furl my brow but shrugged it off because Perl allows you to do just that. Then I saw the equality operators and didn’t think much of that either because it seemed quite plausible given that I’ve seen things like “truthy” in Jasmine/Karma and Rspec code. Even the no-loop thing didn’t phase me since modern JS seems to discourage loops in favor of loop-like lambda functions. I think a few of these are actually good ideas, such as truly immutable data, unicode variable support, and “previous”.

By the way, what is a Signal?
I agree we should either get rid of, or very least overhaul copyright.

However, the line in the sand I draw is giving any kind of human-based rights to ML or AI. People already are thinking ChatGPT is close to human intelligence, and we know we haven’t even seen what’s truly possible.

My fear is the typical oversimplification of complex technology will lend us to giving human rights to programs, and lead to a whole host of issues.

We need to stop anthropomorphizing technology until we really hit a philosophical quandary. Giving in too early will just give power to less-than-polished tech and either slow down research, or further drain a country’s resources
> It's actually a negative when you consider reduced mobility and the cost of selling.

A lot of us homeowners enjoy the things you described here. I want to live in a neighborhood with people who have lived here 5-10+ years. The last thing I want is for my family to be amongst a transient population who have no vested interest in their neighborhood.
Timing matters. Take a look at this, which is cumulative deaths per capita from the start of the pandemic in the US to now for New York, Florida, California, and Washington [1].

New York got hit early and hard, having a large number of deaths in the first 2-3 months before anyone knew how to deal with COVID. After that New York did better than average.

Florida got through the first 2-3 months fine, with about the same low number of deaths that California and Washington had. Handled well they could have stayed like that, but instead they started having a higher than average death rate and closing the gap with New York in total deaths.

Florida's highest death rates were during the delta wave, which was after vaccines were widely available. The vaccine was very effective at preventing death from delta, which is why California and Washington had slight upturns in the death rate at that time as opposed to the steep rise in Florida.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
And may I do same - bother you for invite? If anything I should do - would be happy to
Colombia’s ‘cocaine hippo’ population is even bigger than scientists thought
It's still not ideal because there's more than just Co2 coming from exhaust, but even if that was solved, is there actually enough waste to meet current demand?

Some low effort googling shows there's over 100bn gallons of gas a year used in the US, 320 million tons of crop waste, and it takes 26lbs of corn to make 1 gallon of ethanol.

Actually collecting and converting all the waste doesn't seem like an easy task or we'd presumably be doing it already, maybe it's cheaper to do EVs?
I don't assume that applications are inherently hostile, but I do not trust that the developer of every application I use to open untrusted input is sufficiently security conscious to prevent those applications from being subverted.
One main reason is licensing.
Lots of good, basic libraries are lgpl. Like Qt etc...

Also you'd want the basic libraries like glibc, ssl to be provided as shared libraries by the distros for various reasons - including security.

That being said i do appreciate how newer languages like rust, go default to static linking.
The word ‘done’ can disproportionately mean different things culturally and geographically between average and above average developers.
>> That’s completely fair, as you’re entitled to your own opinion. Likewise, I don’t trust the worryingly large amount of non-programmers/developers that package dependencies in larger distributions, especially when they have no real world experience in developing apps.

Sadly I have to agree with this. How many "package maintiners" are just wannabe developers that are just doing a bullshit job. Sure they can edit a .deb or .rpm when someone tells them what needs to be fixed, but they couldn't build an app and create the package in the first place.

Another problem is that library devs don't always maintain compatibility. If you're changing a minor version number you should not break any apps using you lib. Full stop, don't tell me your sob story - you are someone's infrastructure and need to act like it.

Fedora (my fave) should ship the latest gtk3 and gtk4 and no app should have to depend on a specific minor version - 3.12 or later is reasonable if the distro is tracking the latest for example.

There's plenty of responsibility here for app developers, library developers, and packagers. If they would all do their job there would be no problem. The real issue is that nobody is perfect, nor has infinite time, so we keep trying to delegate. Modern software development and deployment is at the edge of human capability. I'm not sure what the solution is, but complex dependency management (npm) is not the answer.
Thank you for the suggestion :)
Don't you think you'd have worked on-site with that person?
Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones for kids as old as 13
It's a lot, but I think we've lost that battle and society has collectively decided it's okay to sacrifice untold amounts of storage space in service of things like more stable installations, extra features, etc. It's aesthetically displeasing to install a 10 GB text editor or whatever but I don't think it's generally ideal in application development to optimize for very limited storage on phones either, especially with phone storage presumably just growing bigger over time too.
This probably isn't obvious to you... but the only ideas you can ever hear that way are the ideas you've already heard elsewhere.

That's why "rubber duck programming" seems so cool to some dweebs. It's not that they receive any true insight to it. But it helps them go back over all the other rules that they've learned elsewhere. Likely, it works better for some people than others, because those people have learned more rules. But they'll never discover another new one, or be inspired by some epiphany that way.

Hell, I'm pretty sure all of this is implicated in the Flynn Effect.

There are a bunch of other implications more disturbing still...
If it's dev focused it's a much easier sell to be open source than to not be. I'm building an API based SaaS and I basically have to be open source to be trusted and used by devs.
Regardless of how it's framed, I just cannot get behind that whole concept. When I point out the extremely obvious (to me, at least) hypocrisy, people get hand-wavy. "Well obviously, it's different." No. It's not. You're making a judgment call about what's "good" and what's not and still somehow manage to do enough mental gymnastics to convince yourself that your intolerance is righteous and fundamentally different.

And yeah, I get that there are terrible ideologies out there that really deserve no respect. But this "don't tolerate the intolerant" thing gets trotted out and applied to such huge swaths of the population that it just loses any shred of credibility it might have had.
In this case, I think the idea was chosen for media publication not because it was surprising but because it appeals to our senses. "We" (the collective 'we') like the idea that nature is a network of things. "We" also like the idea that mushrooms are some type of central nervous system for nature.
I think the parent was saying that it could be done, not that it is being done.
The context of the question suggests the questioner is talking about AI technology at the level of ChatGPT —- large language models —- and the associated technological complexities around them.

Subtopics might include differences between managing state and sessions of a text search engine versus a large language model
The One About Seven Managers
> That said, I'm just one guy

Amazing, very impressive rendering and physics on iOS chrome! We’ll done

> your impressions on what's good, what's bad and what's missing?

I think the graphics and physics are spot on. Even the level design and coins you pick up are great.

What’s lacking a bit is the UX. To me there’s way too many clicks to start a game, I was a bit confused too with the controls. I thought it might be using gyro sensors on mobile but instead it was hand gestures. Wasn’t clear to me what the goal was of each level, I went straight to the target and nothing happened.

Anyway, overall an incredible effort especially for a single developer!
There are a few futurists warning of this already. The battle of the past decade was about attention, and social medias ability to use up all of yours. The next battle is one of intimacy. That the bots will be good enough to form relationships with people and talk about things like politics with them over long periods of time. As much as you attempt to convince the bot to vote X or Y, or to change it's option on some social phenomenon it never have that societal impact. Meanwhile if you befriend the bot it could have a huge impact on your views.
Haven't seen it put that succinctly before, but yeah, makes perfect sense; and how much more sticky is intimacy for maintaining engagement and potentially converting that engagement into dollars.

Interesting times.
Japan’s semiconductor tool export restrictions a problem for China’s chip plans
The ultra wealthy can borrow vs. holdings at close to prime, which was basically zero when that article was written. So, they could take out a multi-decade 0% “loan” secured by stocks held at the same bank, and then pay it back, interest free after decades of inflation, and after decades of appreciation on the underlying stock portfolio.

Of course, at that point, they could pay the loan off by borrowing more against their portfolio. In this way, they can recursively never pay tax on the money they received (and spent) in exchange for “not selling” it to a financial institution that will no longer let them withdraw the collateral.

If:

(1) your father’s mortgage was used to pay off debt by using existing real estate holdings as collateral

(2) where the holdings appreciated significantly over the lifetime of the previous loan,

(3) the previous loan was collateralized by other real estate holdings,

(4) he then re-mortgaged a small fraction of those holdings to generate free cash flow for personal use, and

(5) this strategy only worked due to the bank giving him loans significantly below market value, due to other considerations regarding your father’s impact on the bank’s broader business,

Then, no, I wouldn’t consider that set of financial transactions to be a loan.
maybe Dean is a coauthor and is getting part of royalties as well? Happens more often than you think
Your "unlikely situation" is literally-not-figuratively how most authors you've heard of--no, not the GRRMs of the world, but the folks who sell books steadily--keep the lights on.

The long tail exists and is very long--longer today in a world with Amazon--and that they don't have to write a screenplay adaptation and can instead eat and keep a roof over their heads while they write the next book is a feature, not a bug. It accrues over time and the gap between personal prosperity and precarity grows over time because the back catalog keeps selling.
Try uploading copyrighted material on youtube now. Their bots will sniff it out in a matter of minutes.
Disney Gets Big Write-Off After Pulling Its Streaming Shows
Yes. Probably there's no replacement for privacy and anonymity being baked in into the system.
Hosting and building them…. The “rent” and “shovels” of the digital era.
What belongs in your survival kit, according to the NYT
It is 5A.

* https://imgur.com/a/mjF0coQ
U.S. Postal Service Releases Dog Bite National Rankings
CEOs booted at California tech company that furloughed all 900 employees
It'd be neat if we could build binaries capable of both static and dynamic linking. Everything would be baked in statically, but you'd have the ability to override static links with system dynamic links at application launch.

I'd like to be able to patch SSL bugs without downloading a whole new binary for everything that depends on it. But at the same time, I probably couldn't care less about other dependencies, and I don't want to sort out version mismatches and deal with system libraries in most cases.

Ideally the operating system itself could help manage this. Know what deps I care to handle myself or override.
> That would force all power adapters to support a fixed maximum current

No, we would just start to have both 20VDC sockets on all the walls in the world in addition to 120VAC/240VAC, and people would stop needing to lug around power adapters.

Yes there would be a maximum current per socket, maybe 5A or 10A, that's not much different from the 15A limit on most AC sockets.

The conversion to 20VDC could be be wired into buildings as standard.

Before then people can lug around a 20VDC adapter that supplies enough current for their own devices. If they have a laptop they might need a 10A adapter, if it's just a phone they could get by with 1A.
> It would usually take about 10 GB or so complete with the whole operating system.

So it takes around 3.7x the size it should? That's not unusual given that it isolates all dependencies.
I wrote my own smart home software
> One main reason is licensing. Lots of good, basic libraries are lgpl.

While this might be a little more annoying, you can absolutely statically link a proprietary application with an LGPL library. You do need to provide object files for the proprietary bits so someone could relink it with a different/modified version of the LGPL library, though. Which, yes, is annoying to the point that if I were distributing a proprietary application, I probably would use dynamic linking with the LGPL bits.
No it’s not. BWB only works for freighters. Regulations would never allow for bwb passenger planes due to egress issues. Also passenger comfort sucks due to either no windows or being super far out from the centerline
Emulating PPC64 Inside Docker
It's a mid 2000s internet trope that somewhat persists. Back when Ericsson and Nokia where cool the media would make an example of Sweden and Finland.

Every discussion would be a variation on:

- "I want $LIBERTARIAN_POLICY policy"

- "In Sweden, they have $SOCIALIST_POLICY and its better!"

- "That only works because it's small and homogeneous!"

That, or people would motte-and-bailey harder left-wing opinions behind the Sweden motte.
I accidentally clicked on this (thought my pointer was on another monitor …). Am I glad I did. Originally I just skipped it because it sounded too clickbaity :D
I’d say that they’re in it for the money but they’re selling the hybrid Sienna for competitive prices to other non-hybrid minivans.
Cop Got Out of 44 Tickets by Saying That His Girlfriend Stole His Car
Ask HN: How to Bypass Substack Paywalls?
archive.is doesn't work and I haven't found any solutions by Googling.
If you ask it properly it gets it right.

From a pure measurement standpoint, could Jupiter fit in the space between the earth and moon?

The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers). Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a diameter of about 86,881 miles (139,822 kilometers).

So, if you were to somehow place Jupiter in between the Earth and the Moon, it would fit with a significant amount of room to spare. However, it's important to note that this is a purely theoretical situation and not something that could actually happen without cataclysmic consequences due to gravitational forces and other factors.
It's also ripe for companies to extort and fleece users in several other categories of software dependence, especially with mobile phones, and even with cars that rely on software and signs of intentional sabotage are beginning to manifest in mission critical consumer and government systems and solutions just to encourage costly upgrades and updates.

It's long overdue to send a serious message to software makers that turn upon their user bases. Congress has dropped this ball too many times. We can abandon Facebutt and InstaGramps over abusive and user hostile changes, but when you have to watch a 5 minute ad before starting your car when your wife's water just broke, it all becomes too real... I know, dramatic example, but it can get that bad if we give it a pass now/
Military Jets Scrambled over Private Plane Near D.C
https://archive.is/CzkxJ
> It'd be neat if we could build binaries capable of both static and dynamic linking. Everything would be baked in statically, but you'd have the ability to override static links with system dynamic links at application launch.

SDL works like that: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/README-dyna...
> imagination and therefore the capability of producing culture

This might be the wrong way of thinking. Culture, mostly, isn't all the things we do different, but the things we harmonize and do the same.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/monkey-imitation-...

LLMs in some way need to have the ability to learn from the data they see, then weight this appropriately in the model. For the most part we really don't have this. I mean there is the RLHF, but the H is the key that it's human feedback. And even taking this training data and feeding it back in the model is not apt to weight data in such a manner that evolves a common culture over many distinct models.

Now if we see continuous learning models in the future then culture could very well develop.
Those look cool, I wasn't aware of them. I feel more comfortable with the laptops since they usually undergo a grueling test cycle at Lenovo. I hook them up to an external monitor which hides their presence and use a wireless air mouse to control them.
> This seems backwards.

It really depends doesn't it? If there's a small amount of deps then it's likely but at an infinite amount of possible deps it's clearly unlikely. The reality would depend on the ecosystem but my guess is that there's a lot less overlap than one would hope.
At one point we have had to maintain support for 3 different versions of libpng in an application we were working on - just to make it work on 3 different popular distros. (Ubuntu via PPA, Arch via AUR, OpenSuse iirc).

For the popular applications, it maybe that distro maintainers send you the pull request. But for small time applications, all you get are bug reports that the application is crashing on X distro, fix it.

We ended up moving to AppImages to not deal with all these headaches anymore.

Distros themselves run on very few volunteers. So it's usually a painful process to even get your application packaged into distros like Debian etc .. when dealing with public domain libraries that aren't available in their repositories but you aren't allowed to statically link to them.