skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have come around on the driver blob issue a bit in recent years. Something using software blobs can be RE'd and become fully free someday, but is not FSF-approved until it is. Burn the same blobs into the hardware where they can't be changed and the FSF approves because "it's as good as it can get", however they're really about equal levels of freedom, and the software one can become better later on, so it starts to seem silly. I don't want to imply people should stop fighting the fight, more like grabbing some of the FSF-approved hardware feels like giving up on the fight actually.

Saying this as someone who has replaced and removed WLAN cards in laptops that need blobs, and used FSF-approved distros long-term.

Somewhat related, I think the Apple Silicon MacBooks will end up replacing many people's old ThinkPads someday thanks to the work from the Asahi team. (A bit early right now, especially if you have one newer than an M1.)
The paper you linked is based on reasoning like: "high school dropouts are way more likely to be unemployed therefore if we reduce rates of people dropping out of high school there will be more employed ones".

That's also a problem with "citation needed" argument - people who are in position to publish papers are often motivated politically or just bad at thinking and logic.
Having read the essay, I'll take a crack at a causal hypothesis: "geniuses" in the sense that the author seems to be using the term[1] cluster in periods and settings where:

1) their societies were "recently" exposed to existential threats (eg. Persian invasion for Athens, Spanish Armada for England, etc.), that were
2) mastered (Battle of Marathon, defeat of the Armada)
3) but left underlying problems unresolved

So, there would be incredibly motivation for these societies to try and address these problems, and perhaps some additional measure of confidence that problems could be mastered. And, in periods of existential crisis, normal patterns start to break down and new modes of expression and organization, new perspectives, etc. can start to manifest.

It's also interesting that the essay calls out that

> all three’s florescences were ended by right-wing revolutions (the Rule of the 400, Savonarola, and Cromwell).

as these responses are often prompted by some perception of chaos/lack of 'order' in a society - a breaking down of accustomed patterns.

So, in the spirit of the goal as stated by the essay:

> We want explanations that make sense, and which can be corroborated by specific historical research.

I would say: look for genius where there is also social turmoil and crisis - where there was a belief within a society that it may not be able to survive the problems that faced it, or where it experienced such rapid change that within a generation or two the previous assumptions about how the society worked and what was and wasn't acceptable/normal came into question - and you might find geniuses there.

And it would probably be a good idea to have a concrete, sensible definition of genius that we all agree on.
The industry's currently shipping chips based on the 3nm process. I understand that it's mostly a marketing term (i.e. non-standardized), but I assume the actual transistor channel is within that order of magnitude.

Knowing that a silicon atom is larger than 0.1 nm, how can we possibly keep Moore's Law on track? It feels like we're close to hitting fundamental limits.

Any insights would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I’m talking about the recent doping scandals amongst competitive runners in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Well they don't have much car infrastructure either, and operating a car there is much less convenient than a moped or a bicycle, not to mention extremely expensive relative to income. Plus the car is not necessary by definition since most people don't have one. So it's not really massive spending on car infrastructure, or distances created by car-centric lifestyle that's driving the adoption. It really feels like moving the goalposts, these cities are more convenient for bikes and mopeds than cars by any standard (faster, much cheaper, easier to park etc.). I don't think safety is a primary driver either...

Or you can also just take middle-income cities, like Moscow. It wasn't built with many cars in mind, and there's severe lack of parking in particular. People used to have fistfights over public parking spots when I was a kid :) Yet, they still buy cars until traffic becomes completely unreasonable, it used to be that transit across the city (where I was going) tool ~1 hour, and my co-worker who drove a similar route would take 2 hours thru traffic, and he would still drive. Obviously so did all those other suckers stuck in traffic, that's how much they wanted to drive :)
In mathematics, a function is a mapping from input values to output values. A vector is a mapping from a set of integers to a value at the specified index, therefore it is a function.

e.g.

float vector[4]{1.0, 5.0, 3.0, 2.5};

vector[0] == 1.0;

vector[1] == 5.0;

vector[2] == 3.0;

vector[3] == 2.5;
I won't deny that the papers smell, but this kind of comment on Korean's national character is wildly inappropriate.
Energy consumption is a bad indicator of living standards. Everything that defines my living standard has become much more energy efficient during my lifetime. I have for example more light in my house than I used to and consume about 20% of the energy I used to. My induction stove uses a lot less energy than the wood fired stove my grandma had at her house. My current computer uses about a tenth of the electricity of my computer twenty years ago and does much more. An electric car uses about a third of the energy of a gas car. A heat pump uses about a fourth of the energy of a fossil furnace.
Kiwi Farms has a body count. Because of its tolerance of hate, cyberbullying, and doxxing that has resulted in at least three deaths, it cannot be considered "lawful content".
Why would you pay for stuff that doesnt work? Sounds harsh for some maybe, but its only sensible way to conduct business.
Yeah, I suspected the new Twitter logo is JUST A LITTLE too similar... But now I see it's as stolen as the @x username
Maoism was about keeping Mao in absolute power, such that questioning his terrible policies meant your eventual downfall as traitor to the party. He was as bad as Stalin and Hitler.
Wikifunctions is primarily intended to support Wikimedia projects, especially Abstract Wikipedia. It is the code complement to Wikidata lexemes. It might be used for cross-wiki templates to reduce existing duplication and other auxiliary tasks, but Abstract Wikipedia is the reason it was proposed.
> and yet people love apple

That doesn't minimise the impact of open-source software.

I've yet to see an Apple user who doesn't install brew as a first step before doing anything with their computer.

From what I see, people may love Apple's OS, but they can't use it with without open-source tools.
Indulging what behavior specifically? The use of new ingredients?
Your analysis is incomplete. The value you've derived from your house is a subset of total value derived from the process of constructing your house.

Did you have an architect design the house?

If so, who owns the copyright for the design: you or the architect? For example,
AIA Document B105TM – 2017 "Standard Short Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect" says "The Architect shall retain all common law, statutory and other reserved rights, including the copyright".

This means the architect could make a new house which is a copy of your house, or (more importantly) re-use architectural elements in other houses.

If you negotiated that you own the copyright, how much more did you pay the architect? Did the architect still got a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use parts of the plans elsewhere?

Even if you didn't have an architect, you must surely realize that others do hire architects to design their house.

By narrowing the analogy to just the builders and the rental of a single physical structure, your analysis necessarily excludes copyright issues which are much more directly relevant to the current negotiation.

The set caterers aren't negotiating for residuals either.
Well there are many other alternatives then.

It's good to have at least one company to go this way for people who want to be (relatively) safe from theft.
> it works great

How is performance? Mind recording a video of average browser/application speed?
These days, books are almost the least important service of a library. They mostly exist as a free social space, events for kids, computer access for the disadvantaged, printers for the average person who no longer owns one. A library I used to leave near even had a room with a digital piano and another with a 3D printer. Giving free access to things that many can't afford is a great public service.
Here's a simple example from r/wallstreetbets: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ihu7rh/auti...

I think any from these communities (4chan, crypto, etc.) already feel marginalized. So they probably don't care what people outside of their community think about their word usage.
Regarding AB-testing, at which place do you think people enter more doors: In a clear accessible architecture or in an totally obscure maze?

More links clicked doesn't mean more people got to where they wanted to go, it could also just mean they had to try every link in order to find the one they looked for.

The most important thing to me is a clear structure and a button that takes me ro rhe clear structure. A website should be like a house. Ideally I already see at the entrance how the house is laid out and can decide where to go.
The lowest income group of people is the demographic most likely to bike.

https://lede-admin.usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/si...

The chart of income vs percent who commute by bike is u-shaped but with a higher left side. Rich people bike more than middle class people but poor people bike more than either the rich or middle class. People who are on the right half of the distribution think biking is affluent-coded because they only see the right tail where it curves up and they don't know anyone on the left side of the distribution where the gradient goes the other way.
Fighting for the open web [image]
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921785, which was posted a bit earlier, and also by the same submitter 13 years ago (!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4776464
Yeah, and it was misguided and irrelevant all the same. People who actually use Git understand that "master" is a metaphor, just like people who are concerned about historical views being represented understand that "decolonization" is also a metaphor for this due dilligence.

Context is everything. You're not gonna be killed by Unix command, enslaved by Github, and the land you own is not going to be confiscated by people who are writing an encyclopedia.
They spoke at an international conference in Seoul yesterday and it was basically a clusterfuck. No one came away impressed, and other Korean scientists are as skeptical as everyone else. I don't think they can say much because they just don't know what they have (almost certainly a mixture of compounds) or what they are doing. All they have is vibes.
Motorola Defy Satellite Link turns any phone into a two-way satellite messenger
I've had to referee disagreements between East Coast USians and Germans a few times before now, mostly in terms of acting as a protocol translation layer until they were both sufficiently calmed down to underail themselves and focus on the technical side again rather than being distracted by their differing communication styles.

Generally once I'd helped them unpick that they collaborated happily and came up with something good that they both liked, it's just once people are locked in to talking past each other it's often non-trivial to break out of that.
I don't care much if other people use captions or not, but I like to use them. They are useful whether or not you can hear it (I usually can hear it, but there are reasons why it might be difficult for anyone to hear, e.g. other people in the room are arguing loudly). They are not a substitute for having audio settings; I use both audio and captions.

I watch TV with captions on for several reasons:

- Sometimes it is difficult to understand what they are saying, e.g. someone else not on the TV is talking (or other noises outside), or they speak with a strong accent, or I simply missed something, or the audio is unclear or the volume is low (or muted).

- To know the spelling of something which is unknown (e.g. a character's name).

- To know the name of some music. Not all shows have this, but sometimes they do describe this.

- To pay attention better.

- There are others, too.

Sometimes the descriptions are rather worthless, e.g. "male announcer reads text on screen". (This might sometimes be relevant to a plot in a TV show, but I have only seen it in the notices between shows, where such a thing is completely worthless, whether or not you can hear it.) And, sometimes the captions are just badly written (with misspellings, missing words, wrong words, etc), even if it is not worthless; if something is unknown they should try to figure out what they said before writing it. Sometimes the caption writer might have to review the scripts, talk to the people on the show, and/or watch the entire show, before writing any captions, in order to do so correctly, but they rarely do all of that stuff.

On the TV I set up to use opaque outlined fixpitch text but with a translucent background. (I find this easier to read than an opaque or transparent background.) However, on DVD subtitles you cannot change the font, and no DVD player I have is able to change the colour or opacity of DVD subtitles even though their working should make this possible. Fortunately, some DVDs have captions and so this is not a problem.

Some shows have open captions. I dislike this, because then I cannot change the font. I think closed captions are better, even if it is a strong accent or if the speech is in a different language from the text.

A feature I would like on the TV (but which I have not seen) is a "caption scrollback" feature, so that you can view a menu of captions which have previously been played (including hidden captions, which they ought to sometimes do e.g. for clues on Jeopardy!).
Alaska’s Budget Problems Are a Cautionary Tale for Texas
Increasing e-bike popularity highlights risk of exploding lithium-ion batteries
One directional ActivityPub is probably worth doing where people can follow HN from Mastodon but can’t contribute.
Can it be like:

Pencil also has a small calibration table and when paired with a new iPad it checks and downloads that immediately.

If not, it might also be (more likely) sending whatever it senses to iPad and iPad processes that raw input with the calibration data to determine the final output.
What's the first thing people / developers do after houses are wiped out by a flood in a floodplain? Build more houses in the same spot. It is pretty common still, in Houston, for people to openly disclose if their house didn't flood during Hurricane Harvey when trying to sell their house. If they did flood, you look for the negative signal there. I heard people keep rebuilding because they can usually get affordable 'Insurance of Last Resort'.
I can't see why the authors life is even part of the equation. IMO it would be good to have something like 20 years free copyright, and then after that, it becomes a yearly fee, even a small one. The average book would be completely forgotten about by 20 years and would become public domain. While the Harry Potters would be protected for about as long as they are now.
You can do this on completely stock Android, Android already supports multi-window completely natively if you enable it in the debugging options and use a launcher such as Sentio Desktop.

Though I used to use this on phones with a dedicated micro-HDMI port so I'm not sure if just any phone can be hooked up to an external display (maybe most of the ones with USB-C?) but it's definitely not OEM-specific.
I always get surprised by how many sensor products offer temperature and humidity but not pressure, considering that combined MEMS temperature/humidity/pressure chips are available. Having a sensor which can do temperature/humidity/pressure as well as air quality/CO2 would definitely be of interest to me.
It's not. First, there's the "afford" bit, that is the key. And second obviously it's a tradeoff based on infrastructure available, but my point is unless you outright restrict it, everywhere in the world people will fill up as much driving/parking capacity as available, then a bit more, and only then consider other options. Hence gridlock and expensive/scarce/both parking in all of the "big cities".

That is not true for biking or transit - nowhere in the world, that I'm aware of, do people clog the bike lanes or trains until they are barely usable, then switch grudgingly to other modes of transportation.

People in big cities still drive. I mean, LA discussed here is a big car-centric city, why does this have to be about living in the sticks?
You didn't even do your homework. The replacement screens are original Apple and 'can' be fixed by moving a microchip from the old screen to the new.
I read that the RNC "maybe" was hacked, not that WikiLeaks received anything. As a matter of fact WikiLeaks is mentioned nowhere in the article. Are you making the conjecture here that hacked also implies leaked?

If the theory that the hacks and the leaks of the DNC documents come from Russia to sabotage Clinton's chances holds water, it would make more sense that the Russian sources release to WikiLeaks only the dirt on the DNC, doesn't it?
I find it so offensive being given only two choices - "yes" or "maybe later". I salute your "fuck off" energy.
I agree with putting it at the top, but leaving the mistake there but marked as being a mistake is useful in case somebody else accidentally makes the same mistake later.
I'm getting a familiar vibe, similar to when I used to browse through one of those 100-in-1 Gameboy Color game cartridges.
I'm just speculating but the accuracy needed for Pencil to work properly is, by nature of the application, much higher than estimating ink in cartgridges.

I mean, if cartgridges' calibration drift a bit it might also be more acceptable for many, but if Pencil starts drawing incorrectly many artists would be extremely frustrated and move away from the ecosystem.
This is the cheapest option I found that would do MQTT or allow me to include my own HTTP endpoint for scraping Prometheus metrics over WiFi.
We started with Khan Academy, which was good but IMO didn't have enough practice (just straight from a lesson to a quiz, which a kid might get lucky on and think she's mastered the skill).

Then we added in some IXL (which we had access to via the school). That allows for lots of practice of new and old concepts, and it requires more thorough demonstrations of mastery. I also used free websites to generate worksheets for skills like long multiplication and division.

Right now we're looking at AoPS and Po-Shen Lo for her main curriculum for next year.
Most importantly, she disagreed with the FSF's policy of never using any binary blob anywhere for any reason, because that was incompatible with the goal of supporting as much hardware as possible. Hence, the GNU Boot fork. But then, those guys trying to reappropriate the Libreboot name...
I'm minded to think that most education should be focused on the inspiration part. Give the kids intrinsic motivation and the tools to learn.
Anywhere that doesn't block freedom.
Lol. Affordable. Not for long. Look at what is happening in Florida wrt home insurance.

So you may live in a flood plane and you have an unreliable power grid? What else?
In a way, yes. I actually used create-vite as a jumping off point for this project. You can think of Vite React Boilerplate more so as an extension rather than a replacement or competitor.

I personally had the experience that when using create-vite, or similar tools provided by the developers or maintainers, it felt like the template was geared towards providing a demo of said library/framework rather than being a foundation for use in production with scalability and maintainability in mind. Don't get me wrong the demos are great but I still needed a bit more to get things really going.

I would still have to add/remove dependencies, modify configs, rearrange the the folder/file structure, add additional scripts to the package.json file, etc. I still had to do quite a bit of work before I had something that I felt could be used in production and be strong in all parts of the development process from UI design to testing, from managing complex state to creating complex components. All this while also minimizing overhead and providing a nice developer experience.
No EU distribution?
> Well in a well-designed city, you could just walk to all those things.

You may call it well-designed, but I think that all those close amenities you are enjoying is a side-effect of high-density living for high-income people.

After all, no matter how well you design a place, that (for example) hairdresser still needs enough people who can afford the service to live within walking distance so that it can turn a profit.

I think it's less a case of "How do we design this city so that everything is no more than a 25m walk away?" and more a case of "High density population with lots of money attracts businesses to the area".

> There's nothing special about where I live except that it's development predates the automobile.

That's true for most places.
When one's career could be dependent on possibly saying wrong words it's not that strange for one to be quiet. If I was these guys I'd definitely wait and see if anyone manages to replicate their findings.

Even more so if they themselves felt the work is not "ready" and someone published without letting others know.

To me it is perfectly reasonable why people involved would remain silent for few weeks.
Most drugstores carry all-glucose tablets for diabetics.
Learning skateboarding is more efficient when you’re drunk? What absolute nonsense. This comment just reeks of trying to justify your own personal need for drinking. “Everything is easier when I’m drunk” is classic cope from someone who needs alcohol to get through life.

It reminds me of when all my friend and I used to smoke weed daily. “Everything is better when high, you may as well just always be high”. The reality is that when you break your addiction things become more enjoyable while sober. I used to not even watch a movie unless I was high because it didn’t interest me enough. Low and behold, when I was no longer addicted to weed movies became more interesting again.
I don’t refer to any in particular, but I can surely go to any mobile service provider/media markt in Hungary and buy those. None of them sell pixels.
His point is that you probably won't need networked sqlite
Ah, that's a good point. I explicitly didn't call Redis a "footgun" at any point, because of what that word means. However the post is tagged with `footguns` and perhaps that contributed to the misunderstanding. I'll remove the tag.

(I also wonder if "shoot yourself in the foot" is an idiom that doesn't translate well; at least in the UK I think it's fairly well understood to put blame squarely on the person doing the shooting, rather than the firearm they happen to be holding at the time)
The tablet market is indeed very disappointing. I have somewhat high hopes for the PineTab 2 being good (eventually, as drivers improve). I don't see much appeal for Android or iOS tablets. I see the form factor as being a bit like a laptop without the crummy keyboard/mouse attached, but it gets treated more like a giant low quality smartphone in practice.