skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read Hillis' book on the Connection Machine, back when he first published it.

I was studying AI at university at the time, and had just discovered the back-propagation method for training neural nets. Thought CM might be good at that.

But any burly dot-product accelerator would be way more appropriate; that's why GPUs are a good fit for training and inference.

Connection Machine might be ideal for a Gelertner tuple-space memory.

Later, I worked at a biotech company that actually had a real Connection Machine; they used it as a huge sliding-window pattern matcher, to search patent filings for prior art. !! Searching for gene sequences in published literature. Holy moly... These days, a CPU would be fast enough; memory sizes are much greater now.
The FSF has created the AGPL 16 years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice...), so it's not like they didn't see the turn that software was going into. But it was already a losing battle, because every developer wants to think they might become millionaire and won't use it.

Whether the software runs on my computer or not, if I am the user, I must be in control.

Whether the meal is prepared in my kitchen or not, if I am going to eat it, I must be in control.
People vs the corrupt govt of Rajapaksa - we are all in this together fosters this.

The question of course is the very same people who voted in these clowns in the first place.
Perhaps if the FSF had actual professionals running communications, people who persuade other people for a living, the FSF's message would actually get through to people.
"Direct gold ownership is rife with risks"

Every kind of ownership comes with "risks". It is stupidity not to own gold "directly". Buying a gold ETF is likely a bad idea like having your cryptocurrencies not under personal control.

Precious metals ETF charge a yearly fee. A buddy of mine once developed a financial instrument, where the ETF really owns the metal and does not mimic its spot price but also pays a dividend. (And yes, it was legit and a great idea)
What's the real spread on these things (i.e. how much can you sell the gold for directly after you buy it)?
This is the sort of thing I meant, yes :-) My kid loves (a) game music (b) classical (c) complicated metal, and I will absolutely hold that these are different faces of the same thing.
It's just business though. It has nothing to do with the software, the software is just a tool to enforce a business model.

A car that already has the hardware but requires payment to enable that by software is exactly the same thing as paying for a video game: The video game is already created and uploaded on the servers but software requires payment to let you download and play it. There are numerous other examples like game consoles sold at loss, printers sold less than the cost, search engines or mail services provided for free, free hosting etc. - all investing huge sums on creating the product in hope to recoup that and make profit by collecting small fees later and they need their products locked down to be able to do this.

The whole thing revolves around collecting small payments for a the very large capital investment that is required to create the product in first place. Since the small payments are collected post-development, someone has to risk their large capital for this to happen, they also expect compensation and guarantees that the small payments will arrive if the product is developed successfully.

The software is locked down only because they want to enforce that business model. You can refuse to participate in that but ultimately, those who can invest large amount of money end up making the much better products.
How a Four-Day Workweek Works, from the Companies Pulling It Off
They are also a bunch of geeks terrible at communicating with normal people.

"Knights for hot ladies", "eating skin parts of own feet on video", "..."

And this is about the front face, so what do you expect?
Black Holes Eat Themselves
https://archive.ph/C6qmf
What are you basing that claim on? Do you have evidence that Argentinians are not buying gold nor Bitcoin? I don't know about Argentina, but Turkey also has a massive inflation problem and Bitcoin is huge over there. They probably have the highest rate of Bitcoin ownership per capita in the world (or it has to be close).
Why don't inner city gang members shooting other inner city gang members and hitting innocent people in the crosshairs not count as a mass shooting?
If you look at the mass shootings of the FBI most wanted they're not 90% Columbine wannabes, they're 90% people who engage in criminal behavior and have a criminal record engaging in violence against others with criminals records and unrelated innocents becoming collateral damage
Casual users probably care the most, though perhaps not consciously. But all of these things are critical for understanding body language and facial expressions, and without those this is just a nice tech demo.
It's a fact, from the first large scale Rio Tinto mines in Roman times that used hydralic washing (redirected rivers) to todays mega super pits, the total resource requirements per unit gold have climbed.

Today you can see this (subject to access | subscription) in industry Production All-in Sustaining Cost (AISC) Data

People write essays such as:

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/06/28/under-the-micros...

and articles such as:

https://www.xetra-gold.com/en/gold-news/news/gold-production...

You can see decade long snapshots such as:

https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2023/04/gold-miners-...

which might convince you that gold is somehow cyclically hard to recover and the cost per unit ebbs and flows .. but the long term (50 year, 100 year) truth is that gold becomes increasingly more resource intensive to extract.

Which makes sense when you consider that it no longer just lies about on the surface in the same frequency as it once did (yes, you can still find surface nuggets .. but they are fewer and fewer).
> but for most people it's just "linux command line tools"

the complaint that stallman had for the name `linux` instead of his preferred `GNU/Linux` had this consequence because the people who own linux chose not to adopt his preferred branding.

Branding and marketing is really important, no matter what the field is. Especially for consumers who tend to be clueless most of the time about the underlying technologies. It's why Intel's genius is not only in processor design, but the fact that they foresaw the issue, and started marketing the "Intel Inside"(tm) branding, which put them on the table from a consumer perspective.
This is great advice.

Remember, though. You can still get it, even if you do all that. Having cancer is not a moral failure. Even kids may get it.

Realizing, not in a philosophical way, one way way or another, that we will die, is something that changes you. Fewer reasons to accumulate fame and money. More reasons to make yourself happy in this life.
After reading the name, I thought that it was related to https://www.leo.org/ - which initially started out (decades ago) as a project of TUM (Technical University of Munich), but I guess the lion reference is because Hesse also has a lion in its crest, same as Bavaria...
I think he's credited with it fine, he's always mentioned as one of the if not the founding father of open source (albeit with less emphasis on the license debacles).
My point is that web technologies are quite poor for building multi-platform apps, something which Flutter excels at, even as it has its own issues. I consider those a worthwhile trade-off. I don't understand the points you're making, first you talk about battery drain, fair, then you talk about native, but it seems like you're missing the fundamental benefit of why some devs choose Flutter, which is that it works everywhere you need it to, and fairly fast, too. People use Electron for this generally, so that is why I brought it up, and I am saying that Flutter is a better alternative to Electron and other web technologies, and I am not sure exactly what you mean by web technologies, but I colloquially understand that to mean HTML, CSS, and Javascript. They are good at things like text rendering at 0% CPU precisely because they've been honed over decades, something which Flutter has not yet been able to.

The compiled code from Dart is faster than V8, even simply by virtue of being AOT compiled instead of JITed, not sure where you saw that it wasn't any faster. Also, web technologies do not run compiled code on every platform, they don't run compiled code on any platform, I'm also unsure of where you're making that claim from, unless you're talking about WASM which is still a ways away, and something that Flutter leverages too already (see their work on pushing WASM GC as well as their experimental build of Flutter Web with WASM GC), so it's not unique to web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
KYC for Cloud Computing: compute power must now be linked to personal identity
That's not a library, that's a workshop, bucko.
AGPL is also the license you should use if you don't want big corporations to use your software. Big Tech even avoids GPL-3 and stick to GPL-2 from what I have noticed.
> Apple will ape to great fanfare in a few years

This I don't get. Microsoft is copying Apple in this case. When you use OSX then you are more or less obligated to have an iCloud account. And then they ask you if you want to have iCloud+.

What is difference between Apple and pestering me with getting iCloud and Microsoft pestering me with getting Microsoft 365.

Both are convenient and provide great value and a better UX.
For U.S. banks, coverage is limited to $250k per bank-account-holder.
> GRUB at this point can be safely declared obsolete in the age of EFI.

Normally you have GRUB being launched from EFI to avoid dealing with the legacy parts of EFI directly.
> No one else seemed to be buying tickets so I did not buy tickets.

Because most people have a long term ticket. (is that the correct term in English? I mean one that's valid for a week, month or year)
I'm a white NZer and feel no guilt whatsoever. I'm not responsible for the actions of my great great grandparents, and I don't think they were here in the 1840s regardless. Doesn't mean I deny what happened or think it was in any way good, but feeling guilt over something you had no part in rarely achieves genuine recompense.
Don't buy Nexus 7. Or if you do, find a new one and don't update. Google virtually bricked them with an update to a newer android version. Maybe you can still find posts of people complaining and trying to fix it. I know I won't ever buy hardware from Google after that.
Larry King was incredibly famous and threw nothing but easy questions.
My wife and I did the VR Star Wars game/experience at Downtown Disney about five years ago, and had a similar reaction. I've played a lot of video games, so I was just really stunned at how they integrated environmental stimuli, e.g. blasting hot air into your face when you stepped into a room filled with molten lava. My wife hasn't played a lot of games, and when Vader showed up she was genuinely terrified -- she's refused to do anything in VR since because it felt too real and too scary.
I wish I could install an up to date version of (real) Firefox on the iPad 2 I inherited and for which updates stopped in 2016. This alone would make it massively more useful. Today it mostly serves displaying music sheets, it's fine as a PDF viewer (although there's nothing to prevent the screen from going off too soon, which is incredibly dumb and annoying).

Even better, I would very much like installing some Linux mobile distro on it.

It's limited but perfectly fine hardware with a good screen and impressive battery time. If only the software were any good.

Also:

- Yes, I know there's no sim card in it.

- no, I won't log in to iBooks, this is a freaking PDF viewer for me.

Every restart.

Linux mobile software is flawed by accident. iOS is flawed by decision and I can't rebuild and fix it.
Sleep well and drink lots of water. Avoid the summer sun at noon, but do get some sun on your body, .. in general, get out of your basement sometimes.
perhaps of interest https://cdm.link/2023/09/4ms-explains-meta-module/
It isn't, but it isn't relevant because GDPR is nowhere near enforced enough for Reddit to get in trouble for this.

When Facebook and Google are dealt with, then Reddit will have to worry and will change course.
Cozy Community Software
I always bring up Somalia. The government crumbled and they continued to use local paper currency even after the printing presses were destroyed and there was nothing backing it. In the actual global collapse scenario, physical cash is likely to be more fungible and still have value than gold.

So if you really want to prepare for that (which should be like step 156 in terms of prepping), the right solution after you have all your direct physical needs (canned food, medicine, etc.) is simply a cash stockpile.
Name collision with https://crux.nu/
> the software is just a tool to enforce a business model.

And that's what RMS understood better than many others: His software (and by proxy it's license) is just a tool to enforce an ethical business model.
How to make money selling drugs (2012), followed by Narconomics: How To Run a Drug Cartel book.
> You’ll need to scroll up, but then you need to keep track of the indentation, which can be pretty hard even with indentation guides,

Or you can collapse all the groups in your text editor and usually easily see what level you're at
I was thinking the exact same thing - sadly ML folks stopped caring about existing acronyms a while ago - I've seen multiple papers in ML with the same acronym. People want something catchy for many reasons (to make it more popular and get more citations for the most part) and there are only so many catchy acronyms one can come up with.
In South Africa we strict gun laws - getting a 9mm sidearm is difficult enough - don't bother with something like an AR-15.

But we have per capita probably the largest number armed private security companies - what happened when we had unrest in one of provinces - the owners of these companies formed self defense groups where they lived with their staff and had AK'47/AR-15 and stuff not available to normal citizens.

Our suburbs are still racially segregated so they turned around those folks who did not fit the profile.

They kept the looters out - but some got out of control and shot up innocent people that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The army was eventually mobilized and the sight of soldiers and wheeled APC's convinced them it is was time to go home now that the professionals were here.
thanks for bringing this up!

while informative, i wish this type of study (and analysis) were repeated to address concerns of representation [0].

[0] https://aella.substack.com/p/who-took-my-big-kink-survey
Not exactly. I just sent this link to my (Argentine) friends with a different observation. My observation was: The United States is starting to look like Argentina.

You must understand: Most Americans are not accustomed to shoving a third party currency under their mattress, or buying physical gold. The phenomenon of hyperinflation is foreign to them, and there's a steep learning curve.

The actual significance of this is that metal is being offered at a "blue dollar" rate by one of the three largest retailers in America. Prior to there being any concept of blue dollars here. This is going to influence spot prices. The people buying this are too stupid to even go to their local coin dealer. (Which I do, sometimes, go to my local coin dealer - and trust me - the people there to buy are generally pretty stupid).

If I had an hour, I'd like to expound on the significance of Americans buying precious metal at a loss through a giant vertical monopoly. But I'll leave it at the fact that they seem to be starting to alert themselves to the one critical thing that has defined Argentinian inflation for the past 20 years: Bullshit figures from the government saying the currency is stabilized, at the same time as the government takes obvious punitive measures to curb inflation. This leads to distrust which leads to the demolition of the currency.

Argentines can take a 20% drop in the Peso with a morning medialuna. Americans have no fucking idea what's going on. Americans have barely begun to put together the networks to measure it - and is evidenced by Costco taking advantage here, Americans have absolutely no peer-to-peer ways of negotiating the value of a dollar against value anymore. That's quite a dangerous situation, because it means prices are psychologically still thought of as an "act of God" as opposed to any true understanding of who is outpacing whom.

Like I said, inflation and hyperinflation especially are a steep learning curve.

If I were living in BsAs, I'd begin looking for something else to put under the floorboards besides USD. And voting for that clown who wants to tie ARS to USD as if it was 1983 is probably like trying to get tickets to the Titanic right before it sinks. You can do better than resurrecting Menem's economy. (Then again, the Fernandez are even bigger clowns, which is why I refuse to engage in anyone's politics in Argentina).
I guess the fact that Dutch and English are pretty closely related helps a lot here. There are definitely people who have trouble learning a language that is from a completely different family (it doesn't even have to be Chinese, try Finnish or Hungarian).
Whats wrong with 1995 in this context?
Der Mann beisst den Hund.

Den Hund beisst der Mann.

Both sentences have the same meaning.

Beisst der Mann den Hund? would make it a question.

"Der Mann den Hund beisst" is grammatically wrong but still understandable.

I googled it and, strange coincidence, they even use my example:
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/WordOrder/WordO...

English tends to rely mostly on word order to indicate the grammatical function of a word or phrase, while German uses inflections. The German endings, such as those indicating the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases in three different genders, allow for some greater flexibility in clause construction. Hence "Der Hund beißt den Mann" and "Den Mann beißt der Hund" both mean "The dog bites the man" (as opposed to "The man bites the dog"). Nevertheless, German word order is extremely important, even when it is not vital to meaning, and its correctness plays a major role in how a foreigner's command of the language is evaluated.

At the same time, word order is an infinitely complex aspect of language, never wholly mastered by non-native speakers. Very few rules cover all possibilities, and context often trumps other considerations. When Robert Frost writes, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," it's poetic; if someone with a foreign accent says the same thing in conversation, it sounds like Yoda.
Most universities are on the death march to rebuild Versailles for athletes and whoever else. They can't even bother to build something beautiful like a gothic church with all that ill-got blood money. Instead, it's a construction competition to teardown and replace buildings like bathroom decor.
France is top industrial espionage offender

https://www.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espio...

Well, I guess espionage is a French word:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/espionage
There was a note on stallman.org in which he said he was made aware of the mental implications that pedophilia, even with supposed consent, would have on the development of the person, and apologized for his previous stance.

Can't find it now, though.
Well, Yes, that's what the debate is about. Just to make this clear (in case someone else reads this thread), this is an ongoing debate in the philosophy of mathematics and not just something people muse about on Quora and Stackexchange. What's important for me is that the notion of physical realizability is understood correctly. It does not pertain to philosophical arguments or common sense, it really means that something can be present as a quantity in nature (actuality) without violating existing physical laws. When someone argues that a mathematical structure or entity cannot be physically realized, the argument must concretely show that the realization would violate some currently well-confirmed laws of nature or fundamental physical principles.

There is no disagreement with you. I just wanted to clarify that (hope you don't mind). I didn't have just any arguments against irrational numbers in mind but a specific type of arguments.
Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore
You're confusing arbitrary with random. We have chosen the axioms of Euclidean geometry because they are useful, but we could very easily chose different axioms and derive a different geometric system. We didn't choose the Euclidean axioms randomly, but they weren't an a priori given either.
Software developers describing their work in 1973 (Finnish national TV) [video]
Our new Ladapo scale rates misinformation merchants
This is very much not true. I'd argue that most successful and useful software has indeed NOT been made by "those who collect the most money". Linux is a wonderful operating system, it lets you do whatever you want, and it collect NO money. The web, created by scientists and popularized by cheap and libre software, hasn't collected even a fraction of a promille of the value it has generated. The browser market, dominated by chrome, still has mozilla as the only currently feature complete alternative. Even the king of collecting value, Microsoft, aren't bothering to develop their own browser.

Most software worth a damn was made by a few people who cared. The business around it usually just gets in the way. This year you'll see hundreds of startups trying to "collect money" for some asinine idea. Most of those startups wont create anything of value. Even the successful ones will be gone or irrelevant in 5 years.
>It's as criminal in California to negligently kill your employees as it is in Germany.

I think we might be talking past each other. I am not talking about employers but technical staff. Those are employees themselves with no human resources responsibility.

edit: I think the intention is to keep management strictly out of real world safety critical decisions. To simplify, if you got an MBA your opinion is meaningless when it comes the safe running of the physical site.
> A NVMe compatible M.2 M Key connector

Yeah. The Lichee Pi 4A has one of those under the board, it's really useful.

I wouldn't even blink if they completely jettisoned the MicroSD slot, these have proven to be a giant PITA over the years (slow, unreliable, etc...)

I really don't understand why they would miss that.
"Medical devices can't be GPL compliant due to the anti-Tivo clause combined with regulations of the FDA that demand that a medical device will always behave the exact same way in the exact same situation."

What is the anti-tivo clause?
> while travelling on planes as much as he does

Does he travel on planes a lot? His speaking rider used to explicitly say that you should NOT book a plane for him, because he wasn't comfortable with the level of personal information required. In fact, he said you should book trains under a false name.
Costco really doesn’t have any appreciable margin on their products. Their net profit[0] is only a tiny bit more than their membership fees - effectively they sell their merchandise “at cost” (including overhead).

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/16tae6a/how_does_co...
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The movie Malice is one of my all-time favorites. 1993, average reviews. Total random movie. Recently I paid attention to the credits: written by Aaron Sorkin. It all makes sense now. It's been ignored for whatever reason but it's amazing.
Yes, Git LFS works better then most people think. You can also use Azure DevOps, because they don't charge for storage. We use Anchorpoint as a Git client, because it's optimized for LFS.