skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave up about 1/3 of the way through; prose was too flowery, content was thin.

> coined the best bon motte about the conspiracy

Oops! Please don't use phrases imported from $FOREIGN if you don't have at least a superficial knowledge of $FOREIGN. The phrase is "bon mot" (pronounced "baw mow", roughly). Why didn't he write it as "bonne motte"?
Does your employer pay you for hours or output? I'm a salaried employee, I get paid for output, not the time it takes to produce.

I think if anything you're stealing from yourself, robbing yourself of the opportunity to take on more responsibility, grow faster, etc.
Isn't that what AGPL is for?
Ouch, yeah in Hungary I can understand pro-communist people should be rare. That said, communist occupation depending on the local party, could be just that, an occupation. My mother hosted multiple georgian/Kazakh asylum seekers over the years, and Georgian in particular were rather sad of the status quo change for obvious reasons. Also, I've met unironical pro-Stalin Russians/Romanian (Ceaușescu rather than Stalin, but you know...). It's like seeing pro-hitler guys, weird and fascinating. Each ex-ussr country had its own communist government, quota and laws, and sentiment about it varies. In Hungary, Ukraine and Poland, I guess rural area should be very anti-communist. In rural areas with less agriculture, it seems to me it's the opposite (places I hike through in the Caucasus kept the image, and sometimes titles and names).

Not saying it was good or anything, it was a terribly autocratic regime without self-determination and liberty, and i'm sure 99% are better without it, whatever their feelings are. I'm just saying that the sentiments about it are more complex than you seem to say. Anecdata is only worth that much, and in topics so close to personal feelings, it's worth even less. And you seems to essentialize your opponents too much.
The article makes a difference between "learned scribes" and "creative people at the margins" forgeting a third possibility: learned scribes working not for the religious or secular bureaucracies, but for the merchants.

A parallelism: programmers have different styles working for an established corporation and for a startup. The bureaucracy tends to stand for the old practices, resisting change. The dynamic environment favours starting from scratch and simplicity.
They can seek a new provider and integrate new devices. It also puts more pressure on us to keep the devices viable. Our revenue model is dependent on low cost devices working in the field as long as possible.
Speaking about WoW specifically, since I'm not familiar with the others, I've always been curious about their quest system. Specifically keeping track of what are available for the character efficiently along with the event system to flag quests as completed, etc.

There's so many of them. I have to assume they're spatially limited. You enter a zone, or an area, and the system loads up all of the quests located in that space, then it runs through to determine whether you qualify for them.

As for quests that you're on, that's a bit more straightforward, since you're so limited to how many you can carry around with you at any one time. Then, every event can practically just be brute forced across your pending quests to see which ones get progressed, etc.

But it was always a curiosity to me considering the magnitude of the quests available how most anything can trigger quest progress.

There's also the whole achievement system, which perhaps is similar in design.
Ctrl + F "federal reserve" - phrase not found.

The Federal Reserve (which, despite its name, is not a part of the US Government) is the de facto institution that controls money in the United States. All US Dollars are created by the Federal Reserve.

It was created "for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises".

It is owned by member banks - "A member bank is a private institution and owns stock in its regional Federal Reserve Bank. All nationally chartered banks hold stock in one of the Federal Reserve Banks... The amount of stock a member bank must own is equal to 3% of its combined capital and surplus"

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bsx0wq4jdzo82... -

"Now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request filed late last year by Institutional Investor, we know the truth.

II asked the New York Fed for the capital stock holdings of its members as of year-end 2018, as well as for each year going back to 2007. The bank responded with copies of what it calls its Capital Stock Master Report, a compendium of shareholdings of member banks, for each of those years.

The big reveal for year-end 2018: Citibank, the No. 1 institution on the roster, held 87.9 million New York Federal Reserve Bank shares – or 42.8 percent of the total.

The No. 2 holder stockholder was JPMorgan Chase Bank, with 60.6 million shares, equal to 29.5 percent of the total. In other words, the two banks together control nearly three-quarters of the regional bank’s capital shares."

The Federal Reserve banks pay 6% dividend to member banks holding shares.

The big banks effectively own the Federal Reserve.
Sure, but Stallman was focusing on corporations. A small project isn't going to be modifying much of a GPL library to begin with, so it's less work to document their changes. So GPL wouldn't be as hostile to a small project as a corporation.
The difficulty is adjusted automatically depending on how many miners there are, so it can go down.
Android apps used to need "location" access for bluetooth discovery. https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/05/19/android-12-apps-won...
there was a startup that used this to compile functional programs into circuits

not sure if it went anywhere, but it even included self modifying fpga-like circuits iirc
I think 1111-111111111 worked too
Personally, while reading this, I was thinking of the recent waves mass layoffs (just today, massive layoffs and studio closures at Epic Games and SEGA), all while executives appear to be comfortable and keeping their million dollar salaries. I wonder how many jobs could be saved if a CEO making $40m+ just temporarily cut their salary? And I wonder how much more productive could a company be if so much of its funds weren't being funneled into the executive suite's pockets?
> sure you will have all sorts of mental justifications for why that’s reasonable

Because I'm salaried and paid for my work not my time. No other justification is needed.
New UK report shows voters prioritize respect
The PDF is here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/sites/policy_lab/files/the_...
You're speaking my language here.
Optomap is the (commercial?) name for this. A previous Silicon Valley ophthalmologist I went to swore by it and I saw the value, given a family history of macular degeneration, but out here no one has the very expensive machine.
I think this is a great point. The primitives that cloud providers have are pretty good. I wish that there was some way to federate data storage, e.g. I provide third-party services an S3 bucket where they can store any data related to my account. I grant them access to read/write just data related to their service, and I can revoke it at any time.

For example, with YouTube, my account credentials, settings, watch history, uploaded videos, would all be stored in an S3 (or S3 compatible) bucket that I allow YouTube access to. If I ever want to view my data, I can. If I ever want to revoke access, I can do that too. If YouTube gets hacked my data would still be safe (depending on the attack of course), since it's all in S3. If S3 gets hacked I'm still safe as long as there is encryption at rest.

I know that there will be some tradeoffs, e.g. data locality, pricing, etc., but I feel like such a model would work so well. Taking the idea one step further: sell a plug-and-play consumer server that hosts the S3 storage. A consumer would purchase some off-the-shelf box, plug it in, and use a device they physically control to host all of their online data. This would require things like IPv6 to be more widely adopted, and for upload speeds to increase, but it would solve so many privacy issues.
> I don't quite understand the second one (is 'boxing' supposed to be 'unboxing'?)

Yep, fixed, sorry about that.

> I think it would be weird if an unboxed union of A and B was initialized to a value that wasn't the default value of either A or B

On the one hand yes, on the other hand it would be consistent with the langage semantics (the default value of an interface type is a nil), and I don’t think defaulting to the default value of an arbitrary variant is better.

Although I can see the similarity with iota / newtype constants, the first item being the default, and similarly people could set the first type as relevantly named (possibly unexported) empty struct if they want / need the signal.
> So it might end one day.

Only if the mining stops abruptly. Otherwise, the automatic difficulty adjustment allows it to keep working even with a reduced energy expenditure. In the extreme, a single computer running in a museum could be enough to keep the blockchain working forever.
Genuine inquiry: are there broad-reaching unions in the music industry involved in creative work? I know they exist for things like stagehands, not sure if they exist for songwriters (who might be covered under the WGA agreement) or other producers.
I assume you’d expect a 20% pay cut
Civilian GPS signal can be selectively diluted in certain areas, which is useful for stopping most non-military and a large number of military navigation kit.
Please stop. It isn't helping, it's not going to work, and it's just feeding a flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just curious: does anyone know any good, somewhat realistic computer wargames that one could play? I've always been interested in military theory, history, and strategy, so would love to play a wargame where you play as a commander and have to deal with limited intelligence while moving forces around, engaging with an enemy, and (most importantly) dealing with logistics. Paradox games scratch this itch a bit, but I find that they emphasize the "grand" strategy a bit too heavily.

If this doesn't exist: why not? It seems like the Army should spend millions of dollars to give their officers a fun way to get tactical and logistical experience without having to run in-person wargames.
People who make it to management are rarely combinations of self aware, empathetic, or rational about work output and arrangements, hence the challenges around these conversations.

Look no further than Amazon, with their we “feel” in person is better. They don’t care about the data, they care about the control.
That's a thought I didn't have and now I'm getting downvoted for having an opinion.
This isn't confusing. It's totally rational to not want limited, unspoiled land to stay that way on the one hand, and then on the other hand having lost that battle it's fair to prefer a working telescope over the wreck that's at Arecibo now. It's not an obvious conclusion from those two perspectives that one would therefore prefer to have a pristine environment spoiled with concrete.
It'll always be a subjective argument. On one side you can have rigid formalists who hate any change. On the other there's no rules at all.

I'm not at those extremes. I consider the origin of the word. A few years ago I started seeing "griefer," and it quickly became apparent that these people didn't know there was already a word for that: spoilsport. It's those instances that I bitch about, because it reflects ignorance and an unnecessary obfuscation of the language.

I'm down with adding words, including slang, that didn't have an equivalent. One example of foreign origin, "bokeh," really serves a purpose: to describe the aesthetic quality of blurriness. Cool.
Regarding control of data, the strangest diacussions i have had is related to the customers being in control of the keys used to encrypt the data. For some reason it seems like using customer managed keys, or even customer managed hsm keys in the cloud is enough to keep the lawyers happy and all compliance in check. Of course anyone who has a basic understanding of key encryption and data encryption keys will know that the actual keys used to decrypt the data will be available at the cloud provider.
So in the end it all comes down to, do the customers trust the cloud service provider
And I want to add: Never trust Google's salespeople on expansions of your campaigns. They will helpfully offer to setup supposedly well targeted reach campaigns for you ;-)
The weight-on-wheels switch reports its in-the-air status over ADSB. It errs in the direction of assuming in-the-air, which was implicated in a near miss on the ground in 2020 between two Air Canada flights[1][2]

1: https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2020/A20...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj7nG6gJqsU
There’s a couple clarifications I’d like.

Case or no case?
A case keeps the heat in more.

Max settings on games with no fps cap?
Optimized charging off?
Limit frame rate off?
Brightness level max?
Auto brightness off?
Background processes on?
Notifications on?
Reduce motion off?
Location services on / precise?
Wi-Fi/bluetooth/air drop on?

Standard set of social apps installed with games logged in, apps in the app switcher not closed, and email accounts set for push notifications?

I have personally observed my [phone/ipad/old iPhone/old iPad] getting so hot that I got the cannot charge due to temperature message. Updates could have changed as I could not play some of these games for very long and others may have similar complaints.
I blanched my iPad case white in some areas due to heating and charging while playing.

Here’s my stress testing list:

“20 minutes till dawn” minutes

“Monster hunter now”

“Disney mirrorverse”

“Dragon raja”

“Genshin impact”

“Pathless”
>If you don’t have enough work, then ask for more.

>You are stealing from your employer.

Lol, no. I get paid $X to do Y work. I'm not about to do free labor for Z when I complete Y. If you want Z done, I need to be paid for it.
This happened to us several years ago, a basic reply-all storm across probably 30k employees. The icing on the cake though - when the storm finally calmed down a few hours later, the original sender then tried to recall the message. The recall notification went out to everyone and sparked it back up again.
Yeah, also, you tend to need to know the answer before you prompt it.

It's kind of like a Ouija board, in that you get out what you expect.
Rust was created for the purpose of having a way to write such code while avoiding this class of issue. And the original use case was specifically to make it easier to make browsers more secure.

It's just that there is a lot of legacy code, and the migration to languages like Rust will take a long time.
Facebook has had many privacy scandals in the past.

And unfortunately, some conspiracy theories are true
Because the target audience of the headline isn’t patients, but investors.
It truly is an entirely different planet. I've worked very hard, been fortunate in life to come up middle class, etc... And I've accomplished a lot to be where I'm at in an SVP role at a fortune 50. That said, I'm clearly approaching or at a ceiling. The "alumn club" above me is made up of sons of Ivy somebody, frat bro of Ivy somebody and so on. They hire their own, protect their own and care little about real world results. They exist to protect their in group and enrich each other. I truly do not think meritocracy exists at all above a certain level, it's way more old world bloodline type stuff.
Google still wants their own privacy, so they're going to support the things that protect that.
Federal reserve makes things equivalent to money and they use it to control the value of money. They do not own money.

Owners of money are those that actually own it in the bank. Then there are those who own it in the form of assets which also helps divert control of value away from the Fed.

In fact almost all rich people don't own money, they own some form of asset which has intrinsic value.

Therefore in a non-technical sense, rich people are the owners of "money" or "value" which is what we're really getting at here.

But there's another viewpoint of this. Corporations. Corporations own a lot of "value". But who owns the corporations? Rich people and also all of us. Generally upper middle class people and Rich people own most of the value and money.
I mean, that was the entire point of GPS in the first place. Allow the US to navigate quicker, more accurately so that they could get stuff where they needed to be quicker and more efficiently.
this is interesting, thanks for the reference, but it doesn't seem affordable for average citizens:

"The main error sources that impact the instrument design are the number
of collected photons (related to the detector size and the integration time) and the timing accuracy."

Detecting and filtering for appropriate X-rays would seem to require a large and thus expensive detector.

Being able to self-locate during aerobraking (as described in following URL) is a very neat application though...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170316044511/http://gsp.esa.in...

I wonder what materials withstand the heat and plasma during aerobraking, yet are transparent enough for X-rays?
I wonder if that's actually true, though. Especially since engineering is a creative field. For example, what if I churned out 20% less code, but bugs per line decreased by 50%? Or if we're architecting a system and the +50% weekend time led us to a significantly better design?
No, sorry but that’s a very dumb way to think about it.
If someone can get something done in half the time it takes someone else, and is slacking off the rest of the time, is he stealing from the company ?
Obviously not. And would his total output be significantly higher if he tried to work continuously ? Not necessarily.
Different people have different productivity patterns.
The point is that trying to impose a rhythm or longer hours onto someone does not necessarily improve their output, no matter how much you try to force them.
It's one thing if it's your laptop, but another if it's a system with billions of users.
I thought that was also the version that isn't available for retail sale to individuals.
> For example, the amount of work you can buy per unit weight of gold might very well be down noticeably from the middle ages.

Interesting, I didn't know that. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine what other asset would have successfully preserved its value all the way back to the Middle Ages. Certainly not company shares. Real estate maybe? Although that would require maintaining ownership through numerous wars, revolutions and tax regimes.
I find the casual way people flagellate others for having a healthy work/life balance to be concerning.

If your boss is happy with your output, then it doesn't matter how many hours you work to make that happen.

You are paid to produce a result, not to warm a seat for 40 hours a week. I'm sure you will have all sorts of mental justifications for why that's unreasonable or why others should be working themselves to death for nobody's benefit but their boss's, but that's how it is.
I think this is sort of what spacedrive does
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37708114
Well... :D You can't add the gained time twice. It is like saying, instead of spending 20 USD on coffee, you spend 15 USD. You didn't gain 10 bucks, you are still left with only five more than you would have otherwise.
Hey HN, I made this simple GitHub tool to check how much vRAM you need to train or inference any LLM. It supports inference frameworks (huggingface/vLLM/llama.cpp) & quantization (GGML/bnb)
I Made this after getting frustrated when I couldn't get 4bit 7b llama to work on my RTX 4090 24GB gpu even though the model is only 7GB.
Yes, the disproportionately huge increase in contiguous time off is the big win in my book.
Well, yea. Because he metaphorically died in terms of US politics. It's one of the few bipartisan issues that sticks out like a sore thumb to the public eye.

I hope it's far in the future, but we'll see how the media spins it when Stallman dies. They can easily sell him up as some Godfather of computers. Or it can just be a small whimper in the corner of HN. I'd still bet on something closer to the former, but it's not a sure bet.
And in every user-hostile campaign there is a checkbox that needs to be ticked: can we make it look like incompetence ?
This year I've mostly been updating existing pages in small ways (examples: [1] [2]). This week I've been fixing broken links, which isn't a good HN submission.

I think the best candidate is https://www.redblobgames.com/making-of/draggable/ . It's from earlier this year and hasn't been posted to HN yet (I think).

[1] https://simblob.blogspot.com/2023/04/explaining-hexagon-layo...

[2] https://simblob.blogspot.com/2023/04/improving-mapgen4s-boun...
The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Email signing key https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/14/ana...

I find the argument completely unconvincing though. That two things which regularly happen are aligned in the news cycle is not reasoning, let alone something so certain to state as if it could only be fact.
> If it is possible to get better performance by paying more, it seems like this would be a good idea.

That is a pretty big "if". And also it seems to me, that if shareholders have only one button to influence anything in their corporation, they tend to turn it to "high", even if there is no cause-effect relationship to high performance.
RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models
No doubt he’s a great hype man. If an adult had steered the company and let him be the megaphone, perhaps the story of WeWork would be different! Or maybe it was always flawed lol we’ll never know I guess.
The privacy regulations are brutal though. Let me give you an example.

Say you want to target HR decision makers using Facebook ads. The most efficient and cutting edge way (that we do in the USA) is make a broad, master audience to target, and use "conversion events" (something that happens on your website that correlations to revenue later, like a qualified lead coming) to train the Meta algorithm to find more of them.

In Europe you used to be able do this across the entire EU, the Meta would target efficiently and could automatically use different language ads. Because FB's targeting algorithm is such a powerful AI, it could find qualified leads.

Now, many EU companies feel they can't or shouldn't use the tags or server to server integrations needed to power conversion events. Which means they have to do manual campaigns by country which is much less efficient.

This is just one solid example of many I've run into.
Privacy washing: half of these commenters claim to support privacy while whining about financial privacy under any post involving cryptocurrencies
I’m theoretically a good candidate for the favorite timers, because I almost always choose one of 15 seconds, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 25 minutes, 40 minutes, or 1 hour.

Of course, the issue is that those are six different times, the LRU cache only has four slots, and the MRU timer is put on a separate screen but is only rarely the one I want.

My ideal would be either just punching in the numbers (it’s not that hard) or a fixed dashboard of N timers that I can manage myself, where the positions of the times never change.
Only if that's "no experts with any ties" rather than "any experts with no ties". And the governments generally know about this risk too.

(Whether they care about the risk or see it as an opportunity for enriching themselves, that's a separate matter).
Just watched this interesting video comparing how much we work today to medieval times.

https://youtu.be/hvk_XylEmLo?si=uOTc3ndf87enwrZK

TL;DR we work a LOT more hours now than substance farmers did. They worked 4-6 hours a day and only worked about half of the days out of the year.
Someone call me?