skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She was compensated at over $5M dollars, enough money to pay a team of engineers for years.

Oh come on now, that's a ridiculous statement. That's AT BEST one year for a small team of 5 people working anywhere near Mozilla's headquarters.
In which way would this be different? Seems to me more like a technicality, whether it should be called ownership even if it does not come with all the rights we usually associate with ownership. When I said returned upon death, you could of course also just pass it to one of your children. What I wrote was purely conceptual, an actual implementation could look very different.

The idea is just that everyone gets to own or lease or whatever you want to call it some land and does not have to buy it from others who have accumulated it over the generations and keept it for themselves. If you want more land than your share, you can get it from someone who doesn't want their entire share, but only until their death when they lose control over that land and therefore can also no longer lease it to you. At which point you have to return it or find someone else who will lease the same amount of land to you.

I guess you could say that my idea is that you get control over a certain area of land during your lifetime but it does not have to be a specific piece of land and you can freely exchange and transfer this control as you like, but not past your lifetime.
Can anyone playing let me know how it plays so far compared to DOS2? I couldnt really get past the prison island before losing interest so I'm curious if people are finding this one more engaging
> 4. The Challenge of Security: An Open Door to Threats

Attacks are possible whether or not source code is available and whether or not the working is collaborative. FOSS can make such attack easier but will also make fixing it easier, too, so there is an advantage to it as well.

> 6. The Documentation Disaster: A Maze with No Map

It is true that many FOSS lacks good documentation. However, there are many that do have good documentation (and if something is not clear from the documentation, which I have found to be the case sometimes, the source code is available to try to figure it out from that if necessary; I have used this several times even for software that has been very well documented). For example, TeX, METAFONT, SQLite, and many GNU programs, do have good documentation. With my own programs, I try to document them good too, but even then the source code is available in case that helps too.

> 7. The Community Paradox: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth

True, but there is the difference of "cathedral" and "bazaar" style and projects may be somewhere in between.

(For example, SQLite has public source code that anyone can view and can modify for their own use and for redistribution, but the official project will not accept external contributions; they make SQLite entirely by themself instead of by everyone else in the world too.

(For another example, I have hardly received any contributions to my own projects at all, but if I do, I might accept them although I would ensure to personally review them first and then make the appropriate changes to the code (whether they are copied from the contribution or rewritten or a bit of both).)

> 3.10 Forking Dilemmas: Fragmentation and Confusion

Even if it does divide efforts and divide the community, occasionally the authors/maintainers of different forks may work together for some purposes too, which can be helpful too.

(For example, I have forked uxnasm, although I still keep track of the changes in the offical version and put those into my version too.)

> 3.13 The Invisible Labor: Unpaid and Unacknowledged

I do not entirely agree. If the people write the software voluntarily, then they shouldn't care that it may be unpaid and unacknowledged and unappreciated. I write it voluntarily because I don't care that it is unpaid and unacknowledged and unappreciated. It is not unethical.

> 3.16 The Talent Gap: A Skilled Labor Shortage

There are probably are, but there may also be some programmers who insist to work for free and in their own time.

> 3.18 The Dependence Risk: The Hidden Power of OSS

The problem of discontinued projects and updates not being released in a timely manner can exist with proprietary software as much as FOSS. However, in the case of FOSS you could maintain it yourself if you want to do (if maintenance is needed), or make your own modifications if they are needed.
> NO, you want to track people online and the EU is simply asking for you to declare that.

False. Cookies aren't there only to maliciously track your actions and show add. They solve lots of technical issues in various scenarios.

This is your typical premature compliance for a technically incompetent formalistic regulation. Better be safe than sorry - so thats why you see that stupid "this website uses cookies" on every other site that merely has a login form, a captcha, or a cdn - because of course it fucking does.
Analogue hasn't given a lot of detail about how they developed the Mega Sg, but to the extent that they did any reverse engineering beyond what the emulation community had already done they seem to have used similar techniques. At one point they had an identical compat bug as in my software emulator (order that bytes were updated in VRAM was swapped causing a single-frame glitch in the bike shop of one of the Road Rash games). I don't think they were using my code as a reference, but it does suggest use of similar documentation sources or similar reverse engineering techniques.

By contrast, this is the first effort (well second if you consider the nukeykt's initial C version) to try and recreate the entire system from analysis of silicon die photos. If you just want to enjoy some old games the difference is probably not particularly important, but Nuked-MD-FPGA is already passing some tests that the Mega SG does not. The screenshot in the lower right corner of the "Progress" section is a timing torture test ROM that the Mega SG fails at least 40 subtests for (I say at least because the results I've seen for Mega SG are from an earlier version of the ROM with fewer subtests).
As a Lisp guy I find this entire discussion weird
$33 billion in bank fees charged in 2022
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America charged $15 billion in bank account fees.
If anyone has ever taken Tufte's presentation class, he uses a fascinating prop: It's (almost certainly reproduction) a copy of Euclid's Geometry, in which the "illustrations" are "pop-out" paper origami-style shapes.
I once had my property assessed for quite a bit above market value. I offered to sell it to the county tax assessor for about 10% below what he assessed it at, saying that if its value was really what he assessed it at, he could make a fat profit flipping it.

He didn't take the offer.

That's what a "nonsense" value is - a price nobody is willing to part with their own money to pay for it.
A third pant leg sown on one side with a rock on the bottom will (probably) throw off some algos.
It’s not possible because the point of services is that you can jack up the pricing any time.

Perpetuities are only possible because of non negative interest rates but inflation tends to be higher so they don’t pay out constant in terms of purchasing power
People who are unable to build their own car are not all cretins.
Cloud hardware like? (Is Google Colab the best option, or even one of the best? Is Paperspace Gradient any good? Others?)
But TCP fragments in the same way?
I have not, but I listened to all of them as narrated by Steven Briggs and quite enjoyed them. They are also unabridged, and were all available for free through Libby through my library.

Having different voices for the footnotes is the main thing from the new one that I could see being a big improvement—Briggs's footnotes are read in the same tone as the rest of the narration.
I see, I understand the distinction then, so why would would owning and reselling IP addresses be rent seeking then, if my examples also are not
So I think we are this, even if we don't want to be. We just don't have the (whatever it is) to not do it.

I think where we've made the mistake was deferring everything to technological solutions, which arguably created the problem in the first place.

This is not to say technology won't help, or even eventually solve it, but we should work harder on the people and governmental problems.
You must be talking about renting resources that run 100% of the time. AWS rents us gpu instances by the second. We have to run sporadic jobs throughout the day that take 50 seconds to two hours. Depending on customer activity we might need to run 10 or more at once, or we might lie idle for an hour. The elastic economics are unbeatable.
I accidentally found a good test string for image search a few months ago:

Bamboo sign

Give it a try on Google images. You'll see that nearly all the results are x-rays of people with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of which is commonly referred to as "bamboo spine".

I tested out brave search - it correctly shows 90% signs however it does also show a few spines.

Google still shows incorrect results months later. It's by far the worst of all the search engines in the list for this simple and obvious search.
Exactly. I flashed my keyboard's firmware in a browser and it blew my mind.

WebUSB is an open standard. Other browsers will eventually support it. Is Google supposed to wait around until Mozilla and Apple decide to do the work before they are allowed to release a feature? Its actually good that Google implements standards quickly because it puts pressure on the other vendors to do so as well.
Which Chromebook?
A bunch of cypherpunks in the same room talking about digital currency, many of whom have gone on to do cool things in public. Others have gone on to do cool things in private.
The entire Southern Strategy narrative just seems like an oversimplification. Suggesting that at one point the values of the republican and democratic party flipped. But that doesn't make any sense. Like you would have low information voters who had no idea the Republicans went from being pro war to anti war. Or that Democrats went from pro guns to anti guns.
Instead it seems like the Democrats have been around since Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson, and that Republicans have existed since Abraham Lincoln. Although Lincoln's Republicans took up the second party slot to the Democrats, the republican party didn't take over the politics and ideology of the Whigs who they replaced.
I don't understand the downvotes. You asked a legitimate question. How do we fix this anticompetitive monopolistic behavior?
https://debugyourhealth.com/lyme-disease-cure/

> Why would a PhD from MIT start debugging her family’s health ... Learn how we went from debilitating chronic Lyme Disease to radiant health. No practitioners were able to help us, so we had to figure it out on our own. Many years and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, this website summarizes everything we learned along the way. The quest for a Lyme disease cure led us to health better than we have ever had before we contracted Lyme.
Sure ... but we still don't know how to grow that in big quantities. And scaling the production could take few decades.

Plants do we have now, and properly cooked they're delicious ;)
after many years, I learned that usually shell scripts are only good for the most basic of uses. here is a similar program in Go that doesn't require any hacks:

package main
import "os"

func main() {
var x int
switch len(os.Args) {
case 1: goto start
default:
switch os.Args[1] {
case "foo": goto foo
case "mid": goto mid
}
}
start:
x = 100
goto foo

mid:
x = 101
println("This is not printed!")

foo:
if x == 0 { x = 10 }
println("x is", x)
}
which is why I made a substantive point.
Volcanic eruptions FTW
This is the reason we need domains as handles to become the expectation. I don't want an ephemeral handle that Twitter, etc. own. I want a permanent domain that I own.

And I know domains aren't technically permanent, but they're far less risk than ephemeral handles because you actually have some rights as a registrant.
There's a reference to the classic Heard on the Street book but you should also check out Zhou's green book, which consists a guide on cracking the type of interview questions Google used back in the mid 2000s/early 2010s (how many ping pong balls can fit in an airplane), with much more demanding problems though:

A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews, Xinfeng Zhou

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Quantitative-Finance-...
Russia fines Apple, Wikipedia for content it doesn’t like about Ukraine war
Yeah looks like you need to install `units` from AUR.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-racial-profiling-my...
It is a two decade old article. Heather MacDonald has been harping on it for that long
I always tell people to start with Guards! Guards! because I'm a huge City Watch fanboy. But depending on the person I might recommend Small Gods or Monstrous Regiment instead.

After reddit's hostility towards users became clear, I started reading Discworld books again. I think my all time favourite will always be Thud!
Yes (I have a programmable TI-92 calculator), although when I am at the computer, I can just use the computer instead (using dc and other programs).
I briefly worked for a medium sized web company (millions of registered users, 100's of employees, pretty large infrastructure.) It was hosted on AWS. I would regularly SSH into production instances that had 1000 days uptime, no patches, OS releases that from 5+ years ago, etc.

Oh yeah, they were still running Python 2 for parts of the main application. It was literally like traveling back a decade. I found dependencies that hadn't been updated in 10 years.
I was initially confused by the headline. This is not Starlink. This is a satellite for HughesNet.
What if I want what I publish to be known only by word of mouth?

What if I consider (some or any of) my ideas to be un-indexable, not directly suitable to representation in any hierarchy other than those I may set them in?
> On old/early chromebooks you had to physically open them (voiding the warranty) and remove a special screw to enable developer mode for example.

Same for some chromeboxes, usually the screw is pretty easy to spot, look near the corners and near the ssd.
I was actually really curious about the r/d to product pipeline after I posted my comment. I appreciate your reply! If the turnaround is within a year or two, that’s excellent and totally counters my comment!
I think it varies for people; if you're at all into "cop thrillers/mysteries" than I think starting with the Watch books is a great introduction.

Honestly, the only thing NOT to do is read them in order of publication - his earliest works are good, but they're better read when you already know Discworld (imho).
https://archive.is/7qxIg
> but I don't see a need for this in any real applications

when your mom asks you to make a black and white image in color

digital retouchers do this kind of work all day for decades
> I've never written a genserver in any professional project I've worked on

Wow, that's quite surprising! We use GenServers quite extensively at work. The most interesting usage is probably this application, which uses GenServers to model the state of real-world hardware (in this case, transit stop countdown clocks): https://github.com/mbta/realtime_signs/blob/main/lib/signs/s...

Curious what you use instead of GenServers. Plain processes? Agents? Something else? GenServers are probably overused but I still reach for them when I need a concurrent bundle of state with a specific interface and behavior.

I think we're generally trying to write more GenStages than GenServers at the MBTA these days, but that's mainly because we're moving towards being event-driven. GenServers still have their place.
> > NAT mappings can change (your router can reboot etc). So you have to be ready to 'try again' dynamically.

> Yes, this is a big issue [...] You gotta cut your losses somewhere.

And the article also gets into that, in detail. It appears that tailscale not only dynamically retries, they also test out all possible paths to switch to the best one.
Aka the software that comes with the FPGA vendor. I think Intel, AMD, the Chinese vendors and some parts from Microchip have the software available for free.
Would you be as excited to see a hologram of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible, as opposed to see the real Tom doing his own stunts?

Besides, if technology could create a CGI actor as good as a real actor, the screen actors' guild is finished anyway, one way or another.
This is one thing Google Cloud does well - traffic to Google services bypasses NAT gateway, even over IPv4.

I was curious how they do this, so I set up a service on Google Cloud Run that just echo'd the user's public IP address. When curl'd over IPv4, it said I was coming from a unique local (i.e. private) IPv6 address. The private IPv4 address of my server was embedded in the address, along with some other random-looking bits that probably identified my VPC somehow. So they must have been doing some sort of stateless IPv4 to IPv6 translation behind the scenes.

It was a clever solution that takes advantage of the fact that all of Google's API endpoints are dual-stack, even though (at the time) they didn't support IPv6 on customer VMs. The problem AWS currently has is not all of their internal endpoints are dual-stack, so even using IPv6 can't save you from cloud NAT costs when accessing AWS services.
I mean they have a ton of different stamps (and you can find older ones, too) - but you have to dig to find them, they rarely appear in your local post office: https://store.usps.com/store/results/stamps/
The solution to these problems? Don't be a customer of said abusive company.

If they don't present value for money at a given price point (including these sorts of shenanigans), don't buy it. So long as you know about these issues up front I don't think it's that problematic (even if it feels a bit wasteful in a holistic sense)
You should really read the article, because it covers every single point you just mentioned.
I'm about due to upgrade my 2017 Air, and it'll be to a 13" M2 Air. I would have done it already, but every time I price it out and see that they want to charge me $300 for 256 gigs of storage, I get a little offended and close the tab. As with every Apple purchase I make, it'll just come down to necessity, after the old one finally breaks. I'll hold my nose and pay the Apple tax, knowing that they think of me as a sucker, and they're probably right.
My M1 2020 is great for battery life, can’t imagine what these are like!

Those MDM functions have been available in other MDM platforms for ages. Microsoft has been consistently bad at Mac management, I think mostly it’s they don’t care.
While Ray Hilborn is one of the biggest (most publishing) voices in academic fisheries research, others absolutely hate him: Greenpeace calls him a 'overfishing denier' https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/research/overfishing-denier/

>As part of their investigation into our appeal, the journal also posted a correction noting that several authors of a paper defending the Marine Stewardship Council were actually employed by the MSC – and Ray Hilborn had received funding from certifiers employed by the MSC. Small victories, perhaps, but in an era where we need strong scientific advice more than ever, we cannot afford to have research clouded by undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Cohere CEO: The market needs AI “not beholden” to hyper-scaler cloud providers
If by battleground areas you mean swing states, then the national popular vote could reduce that cross-state migration and canvassing that we see so much of.

Still, does someone in Georgia not have a stake in whether Florida lines their roads with radioactive agricultural waste? In our industrialized, globalized economy stakes reach much farther than a neighborhood or city level.
It's all a mirage
This is a very cool project, and definitively something we'll see more and more often for the next few years.

Now, a bit off topic. I've seen a proliferation of "open source" startups that just use "open source" as a way of promotion. The repo feels more like a landing page than a README. And the Installation shows anything BUT install instructions.
Ideas for [xyz], then refine the queries or dig into some specific responses and ask for more details on that idea. In general, I'd go with Claude for pure brainstorming, but GPT for productivity improvement tasks (summarize, generate, etc). I was using GPT 3.5 and Claude (didn't try the instant model)
> by that definition people going to school or learning a new career that can take years of effort would all be in perpetual burnout.

That’s my point - many are.
A useful way to think about it is to shift your view from "can I do X?" to "will I bother anyone else by doing X?".

I don't think that's particularly useful, because the answer to the second is trivially Yes, regardless of the value of X.
At the risk of being downvoted in bad faith by the doomsday cult, I will lay out a rationale of not giving into the doom & gloom, but rather to promote a more effective system of adaptation opposed to blind faith in institutions.

> Also, the ozone holes, acid rain, and things like Y2K. “This thing would have been very bad, but we (expensively, with great effort) fixed it, so it was okay” somehow becomes, in the public imagination, “this was not a real thing”.

The decrease in large volcanic eruptions had a large impact on the restoration of the ozone layer, which coincided with the ban on CFCs in 1987.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_150...

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of reducing air pollution. However, there are other factors. A new ozone hole was recently discovered & the "Cosmic Ray Electron Reaction" model shows that non-human factors have a significant impact. So we have three factors, such as volcanic eruptions, CFCs, & Cosmic Rays which can deplete the ozone layer.

https://bgr.com/science/scientists-found-a-massive-new-hole-...

I think this drives at the heart of this discussion. Even if we ban CFCs, holes in the ozone layer will still occur. Even if we ban CO2, climate change will still occur. Due to change being inevitable, the best investment is in adaptation. An effective system of adaptation covers all of the possible cases. Banning CO2/CFCs does not stop climate change/ozone layer depletion, leaving us in the same position of needing to adapt.

Adaption is pro-people while bans are pro-institutions. I favor helping the people in tangible ways instead of funneling money to large capital interests & the elite cadre. Funneling money to the elites always enables corruption & waste. I would rather everyone be strengthened to adapt to the coming changes to the climate instead of forcing them to have faith in institutions led by the elites that will be unable to stop the climate changes, but have promoted fringe models to scare the people into complying with funneling money to the elites.
I started with The City Watch series, and it felt like a great introduction.
I’m on an M1 Max Mac Studio with 64gb of ram, it’s absolutey wonderful. Best workstation I’ve ever owned, bar none.
how does shipping and air travel compare? I think they dwarf animal ag
That's a good point, but some want to run new ChromeOS devices with a mainline kernel I would think.

They'll have to use the ChromeOS kernel or some module I guess.
> Functional cookies don't require consent

You'd want that to be the case, but in practice they do. Just look up how vague the definition of functional cookies is.

No one wants to risk insane fines.
Why did you take the car to cross the road?
For a small personal website I suggest to look at alwaysdata.com. In France so ipv6 support is a given.
This writer tried really hard to shoehorn in as much PC/woke takes as he could in one piece. must be how they are paid these days.