skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much do you know about zje logistics software ised by, e.g., DHL and the like?

Because I worked at Amazon, with DHL among others, and I can tell you that in some use cases, DHL has bettwr logistics software than Amazon does. And CargoWise is just a straight genious software suite to run everything from Customs over air, sea and land freight to warehousing. Guess who is using that, or something similar, in some form. Guessed, the majority of logistics companies.

No idea where this "incumbants bad, disruptive start-up so much better and easy" mentality comes from so. If you go into the field of logistics and supply chain with that attitude so, you will fail. And hard, and burn a ton of VC money while doing it. The only company that managed not to fail was Flexport, and even they fell short of theit lofty pitch goals.

Thaz being said, Dave Clark had, to my knowledge, not a lot to do with the "tech" part of Amazon, he always was an supply chain / logistics ops guy. And a good one at that. If anything, he treated it as a numbers driven thing, and definitely not a tech stack driven one. Part of the reason why he was good at his job at running ops.
> Legislation that fights well implemented secrecy will always
eventually loose, as the government becomes just one more hostile
actor, which the tech is already set up to protect against. If the
government pushes too hard, all that happens is that encrypted
messaging moves out of app stores into the open internet ... and
then, not only can they not see the content, they can barely see who
is using it.

This is insightful. The mistake the UK government is making lies in
it's naked aggression.

It's become sandwiched in hostility toward Big Tech, and the people.
And it's a no win situation.

It literally wants to get in the middle, and that seems a sign of
great fear of losing power in the digital age.

Fundamentally our government lack the humility to engage in
meaningful, evidence-based, debate with all parties, which would be
extremely difficult but necessary.

Of course encrypted messaging is already out on the open internet.
It's just used for social messaging by a relative minority. The reason
governments love (read: awkwardly tolerate) big platforms is they
concentrate use, where they hope it can be "kept an eye on".

For me this is "Police and thieves in the street, fighting the nation
with their guns and ammunition"

It's a three way fight in which the most important group - the people
- are unarmed, indeed entirely excluded.

What we tried to do on https://cybershow.uk is to present some
accessible banter that helps the main stakeholders - children and
vulnerable people - get a better fix on the issues, and have a voice.
I think the two words you were looking for were "financial gain". Because let's be honest, the person clearly wants to be paid for this story as he himself has said so, and I am not saying he shouldn't get paid for his work.

But if you have to choose between never publishing your story and publishing it for free, I'm pretty sure the latter is a clear choice. And at the level he is talking about it, it would spread like absolute wildfire (if what he claims is true and he has irrefutable evidence) that Wikipedia could never stop even if it tried.

I'm willing to acknowledge the possibility that this person has exposed himself to Wikipedia directly and if the story was to break he would be liable, but that isn't made clear so I think I'm sticking to my point of view at least for now.
My application is for taking videos of rooms and turning them into to-scale models in a 3d modeling software (to be quantized and re-textured manually). Basically a rough floor plan generator from walkthrough videos.

Is there something off the shelf that does this, or a library that can generate these point clouds so I can go about trying to fit simple geometry to them to reconstruct the scene?

Please forgive the noob questions; I've not worked with automated 3d stuff or photogrammetry before.
In case you are an Arch user, eza is already there.
Maybe use broot ? Its tree view is its main feature and it handles gitignore and shows many stats including dir sizes.
https://dystroy.org/broot/

You can use it just like the original tree tool too: https://dystroy.org/broot/tricks/#replace-tree

(disclaimer: broot author)
> Who pays for your free banking? Other people? Taxpayers?

Yes. I'm happy to do so. Can't the gov even make money through this? Seems like they could buy bonds with that money. But I'm no economist

> How about people realize services cost money and pay their own way?

That's not the calculus. It's part of it but far (FAR) from the whole calculus. There's also the cost of not providing the services. Again, there's more to the calculus, but this other side always needs to be considered and almost never is because we weigh money spent far more then rewards not received. But the ability to do this is exactly what makes us human and distinct from many animals
It's also a whole other tool and in Nim to boot, but https://github.com/c-blake/lc allows you to group "dot-directories" before "dot-files" before "non-dot directories" before non-dot files.

There might be enough other new functionality such as abbreviation or multi-attribute colorization schemes to motivate learning a new tool. E.g., neither "dot-ness" nor "directory-ness" in the above is hard-coded. They could be any other convenient elements of the typology / taxonomy.
Seems a bit unfair to call it dead, exa's maintainer is unreachable, but the whole thing lives on as eza and is very much alive. That's a bit like saying that any company/product that changes it's name is dead at that point.
Facebook is getting rid of the News tab in Europe
There is, I created it years ago, but unfortunately it hasn't taken off:

https://www.codeshelter.co/

Maybe I'm bad at marketing, it seems like a pity.
The bank, which makes (a little bit of) money off the low-income, low-wealth customers but an absolute crapload of money off the business as a whole.

Keep in mind that banks receive enormous support from the government and society. There’s the FDIC, Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, the Fed (and its discount window, FedWire, etc), the fact that banks are effectively permitted to create M2 money, and more. And the governments (federal and state) essentially require a bank account to do many useful things, including paying taxes. The government regulates the banks quite firmly in exchange, but the regulation is missing the bits where the banks may not refuse service or abuse their customers.
Yeah i'm also a bit surprised that "virtual pets" aren't larger today.

Maybe i just don't follow the gaming market enough but games with a simple interface, with a creature that you care for, that grows and lives 24/7 and that can "do things" with other creatures seems like quite the market.

Many people find the "character creator" and just "walking around a aimlessly" in games the most interesting thing, and spend little time playing the actual game.

Maybe these things have been explored in the crossovers between VR Chat, Pokemon Go, Spore, Animal Crossing etc.
Who are the competitors right now for good classical music app?

I feel apple is the only player in the game.

They also know what matters is the content, and they’re obviously growing that content.
I added a sibling comment, I made https://www.codeshelter.co/ a while back. Maybe we should partner.
More good reporting on Taliban Afghanistan: https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/02/23/the-west-lives-on-in...
AI to replace 2.4M jobs in the US by 2030
This is a truly awesome resource - thanks for sharing that! I'll be getting the retro computing crew, that is forming around our new exhibit at the Retro Gaming Museum, excited about this!

Who knows, maybe we will have a retro- net up and running in the next few days ..
TIL that "Y Combinator" is a mathematical concept and not just a VC firm.
Ecstatica II was an extraordinary game - funny, weird, violent, amazing sound, and super atmospheric.
That seems great, thanks!
moonads
4th time being rescued at taxpayer expense, before a hurricane, no support. Brandished a knife and claimed to have a bomb he would detonate.

He’s not serious about the endeavor, he’s a mentally ill troll looking for fame and publicity. All he needs is a support boat tagging along (at least to international waters), but then his failure and/or death would be on him alone.
> Culture is important, and not easy to transmit or acquire, especially when physically elsewhere. If I had stayed in my home country and worked remotely for a U.S. company, I would have done a much poorer job at work, due to my lack of knowledge of U.S. work culture and "proper" ways of working.

You’re literally making my argument for me. Like you say, culture is important and not easy to transmit online. Americans working remote will have no company culture whereas the Europeans and Asians (who have returned to office in much larger numbers) will actually build company and working culture and will start outperforming their U.S. counterparts. As a bonus, they won’t even cost as much.

Again, one does not need to argue that remote work is superior or inferior than in office work to see that pushing to eliminate in office work in the short period of time American workers had power in decades, was eliminating the only advantage they had that justified their higher earnings. Whether remote work is superior or not, pushing for it is a great example of turkeys voting for Christmas.
How do you work out whether it's worth arguing about or not?
Perhaps it will make sense to worry about depopulation when we've had several decades of reductions in human population. Would it be a bad thing if the world had 2 billion people in the year 2300? Would it be better to have a slow reduction in population because the TFR was below 2 for a couple centuries, or a crash when we exceed our planet's carrying capacity? Hand-waving about "geoengineering will fix it" doesn't seem like a good faith argument, given that it has been described as very risky by well informed people.
We know it's not worth taking Musk's statements as honest so let's lay that aside. It's quite worrying how far towards "There's a shadowy cabal of Jews out to get me" he's coming. I think you can argue about how he phrased it as to whether what he said is just direct anti-semitism, but I think that's pretty academic because this is just part of a longer worrying direction and whether this was anti-semitic or not, it's kind of like well it doesn't matter because I'm fairly sure the next thing will be worse...
The Case for Prioritizing the Creation of an AI Benchmarking Consortium
Seems nothing much continued apart from declining to join and declining UIN #007 offer: http://www.yarone.com/2011/06/blast-from-past.html
At least initially feudalism was economically worse than the the Roman imperial system in terms of output per person. It’s stable politically, but not objectively better.

Output increased overtime as technique and technology continued to improve, but that’s not a function of the feudalism specifically.
I asked myself the exact same question few years back, and I came up with an open creative library.

Https://datapond.earth
Maybe the best time to buy something at the right price is when the market thinks it is just niche and static.
My favorite, rare, elevator feature: one where you can “unpress” a button. Make a mistake on floor selection? Just tap it again.
Good workhorse grotesk is bread and butter of any commercial type foundry. I would say you will find many ones that are of higher quality than Inter.

The question becomes more interesting when you want specifically typefaces for UIs. One of the main qualities of San Francisco imho is the versitality and amount of cuts/versions specifically with digital screens in mind. I think thats not very popular segment with type foundries.

For example Klim type Untitled is in my eyes one of the best UI typefaces. But it doesnt have the breadth (i guess it wasnt that popular to dedicate the time). So you might have to pick their other typeface Sohne which is not made specifically for UIs (although it works just fine because Klimt is top of the top in the craft). There are things like FK Grotesk, Post Grotesk, Rooobert... there are many which work well and have the breath but are not specific to UIs either. This does not matter as much anymore because of hidipi screens though.

And also its not like Inter has ever been specifically optimised/hinted to lowdpi screens (not unlike all the SF, Arials, Verdanas, Helveticas of the world).

So Inter is not the best but its good enough and its free.
It's a big niche and a premium niche. The beauty of classical music is that (by and large) you don't need to pay out publishing royalties. And, of course, if you own the master recordings, you don't need to pay out recording royalties either. So where, for a typical stream, the DSP gets about 30 - 35% of gross revenues on the rev share model, if they don't need to pay out publishing or recording royalties the DSPs gets 100% of the royalty pool relating to that consumption.

So if Apple gradually bought catalogue of recordings of long dead composers and this ends up being a significant share of consumption on Apple Music it's basically free money.

Plus, of course, by having control of catalogue they can do more innovative things (including making some of that catalogue available for free, to entice people into the service) so there are all sort of upsides here.

I suspect also that Apple Classical Music app subscribers are probably a wealthier cohort so probably more likely to convert to Apple One subscribers - and possibly more likely to be in the market for premium headphones etc.
Are they losing control, or are they becoming control freaks who want more control than they've traditionally had and have any right or business having? Both would manifest as the government thinking it has insufficient control, but the cause is very different.
Given all of the societal ills caused by social media it could backfire.
I suppose that depends on one's personal philosophical views. Why is it important to continue to exist? Is it, even?

Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.
Fully customizable ERC721/ERC1155 indexing for any EVM using just an RPC URL
> (One particularly telling story about Clark is that he oversaw Amazon's noncompete lawsuit against his longtime friend and best man at his wedding, logistics head Arthur Valdez, when Valdez left Amazon for Target.)

This sounds wild enough to be a Suits season arc!
Considering the level of computer knowledge and sophistication of most 90s users, this was a genius idea. The fact that it also served as a form of marketing and soft lock-in was also not overlooked
Does it boggle your mind that the gov uses your taxes to fix roads to places you'll never go?

Is it overreach to build a bridge to a community that's only reachable by boat?
Define "internet". LoRA is more like an occasional SMS service than a network connection, so I doubt you could get the average modern 100 MB website to render through it. Would be more practical to get a Starlink dish set up or a directional wifi antenna on both ends, those can do a few km on a good day.

Or just you know, use the 4G that is probably there already.
The thing is it is always technically feasible, even for end to end encryption ( you just do the scanning before encrypting on the device, or upload the plain text copy of all the messages to a government service.)

I’m worried that it won’t offer any protection in the end.
> The post-mortem results are presented as if events happened as a random set of unfortunate circumstances: the attacker just happened to work for Microsoft

Does it say that?

> the Storm-0558 actor was able to successfully compromise a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account
It's niche. Front end devs want to use JS or equivalents, not back end languages. And back end devs don't want to browser stuff. So only full stack devs left
> "Hey, maintainer isn't active anymore but there's still interest in the project, maybe we should do something about this"

When the project isn't huge (think linux sized) it looks like the best solution, with able persons forking the project and trying to revive it. And if they don't manage to revive it (it's hard to know in advance who will be strong and available enough) maybe another fork will.
Thanks so much - this sort of info absolutely should be in the docs (and easy to find)
China Seeks to Broaden iPhone Ban to State Firms
Fun fact: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150
This kind of thing should probably be generalized so that any new parameter can be seamlessly woven into your `ls-like` reports.

https://github.com/c-blake/lc/blob/master/extensions/fe1 does `du` (like your example) as a f)ormat e)xtension, but you could use `ffprobe` to do the run-time in hours:minutes:seconds for media files (or maybe 0sec for non-media) or number of git commits or age of last VC commit as an extra timestamp or numerous other things.
I guess so, I've been running Arch on most of my servers for the last decade. Sometimes the fragmentation of the ecosystem comes in handy!
> The bigger picture of why UK is hell bent on surveilling their citizens

It's just their culture. It probably won't change till they get rid of the anachronistic monarchy.
It's probably one of these:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/ANT_catalog

Likely TAWDRYYARD:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/File:NSA_TAWDRYYARD.jpg

See also:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
> First of all, in a Newtonian model, flipping a coin is not a random event, the result of the coin flip is determined by the exact forces applied, which are determined by the muscle movements of the flipper, which are determined by chemical reactions in their brain etc.

Nope.

In simple newtonian classical mechanics it is entirely possible to have a phase space in which for all epsilon greater than zero any initial conditions that lead to { heads } have a neighbouring set of intial conditions within epsilon radius that lead to { tails }.

ie. It is possible to have coin flipping game in which no amount of precision in setting intial conditions can guarantee the outcome.

This is the implication of Lorenz's butterfly and Smale's horseshoe map.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_space
This is how I'm going to describe that attack where you get a zillion authenticator push notifications because Microsoft has designed the damn thing to authenticate you to them but not them to you. Like, how freaking difficult would it be to put a transaction code in there like Apple so that you can match the notification on your phone with the session you're starting on some other device or service?!
Is it really premium? When I go to the record store, classical records are by far the cheapest.
The interesting question that often gets overlooked when lumping all these together as 'bad books' is why do some of these 'bad books' turn their authors into multi-millionaires, and not others. For that matter why is it almost only 'bad books' that turn their authors into multi-millionaires.

Ready Player One is no doubt badly written and Bad Art (full disclosure, I didn't manage to finish it), but it is also one of the more successful and beloved sci-fi books from the last 15 years and shouldn't that in a way make it a Very Good Book.
> “Hinterland Who’s Who”

IIRC: Doug and Bob's [1] "Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo" [2] was a parody/homage to the opening of Hinterland's opening.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJE3EgTGg9k
Last I checked, GNU coreutils don't know anything about, e.g., macOS extended attributes.

I specifically wanted to stay close to stock because macOS `ls` is designed for the system it runs on. Installing coreutils would be counterproductive.
I grew up on Prodigy but I kind of miss it too. It was smaller then the internet but at the time (perhaps because it was new) it _felt_ bigger.
That's an incomplete, if not useless, definition.

I sell a source code license to my software. It does not allow redistribution. Any member of the public can pay me for a copy under that license.

That fits your definition but no one meaningfully calls my software Open Source.

Using that term your way in general conversation is only going to confuse things.

We already have terms like "source available" which fit your needs and which are far less ambiguous or contentious. The arguments over what "open source" means, in a software license context, was generally resolved many years ago.
A Douglas Adams reference in the readme and British spellings in CLI options? Sign me up!
Hephaestus is the Greek god.
Why are they whitewashing taliban's practices as a misunderstanding?
Related: say I’ve written code that uses OpenAI API, and code that handles streaming, retries, function-calls. And now I want to switch it to using a local non-API-based model such as llama2, without changing too much code.

Is there a library that offers a layer on top of local models that simulates the OpenAI API?
> and largely funds the same club of favored people

Without taking a side, I have an anecdote that might be able to shed some light on why that's the case.

While living in Canada, I met a woman in charge of administering publicly funded contemporary visual art grants. She said those grants only go to successful artists. "Why do already successful artists need the grants?" I asked. Her answer was that the point was to raise their profile – and Canada's – internationally.

From the government's perspective, it's a bid for soft power, like funding athletes who have a shot at winning an Olympic medal.
I'd be happy to help informally. TBH, there's only so much I can do to help. A CV is just a summary of what's going on in your life. For example, I can't help with...

- an economic slowdown (anyone with a pulse can get a job in the good times)

- lack of skills

- lack of jobs in region

- depression

- unrealistic salary expectations

- lack of motivation

...and so on.

What I can do give some basic pointers that might hold them back. For example, one time a candidate of mine got rejected because the hiring manager didn't like his mullet. I told that to him that in confidence and forgot about it. A few years later he was one of my interviewers for a job, reminded me of that, and thanked me because he started getting job offers shortly after cutting off the "party in the back" part of "business in the front, party in the back" :)
Yet Another C++ Coroutine Tutorial » theshoemaker
Theyre authoritarian control freaks. The UK is undergoing progressive Russification with bipartisan support (Labour under Starmer and the Tories are both on board with it).

Protesting is now effectively illegal thanks to a new law criminalizing it if it's a "nuisance".

You're still technically allowed to hold up a blank piece of paper but the police will threaten to arrest you if you write something on it. That happened during the coronation.

I'm fairly sure theyre going to borrow a whole lot more from Putin's playbook in the next few years - especially now that British oligarchs have managed to hammer the two previously opposing parties back into ideological alignment.
I live in S E Asia. Here Korean occupies a uniquely elevated place in the minds of the young. This is directly traceable to the huge amount of effort that the Korean government has spent promoting and supporting it's culture: K pop music, Korean TV dramas, Korean movies. All this translates into dollars in diverse ways, such as Korea being the number two language that young people want to learn after English. Such as tourism.

Check out the book the creative economy for more depth on this phenomenon.