skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for staying in touch with critics! That's super encouraging and so is your "Matrix 2.0" talk.

Like some others in the Lobsters thread I want Matrix to be a communication platform everyone uses, but don't see the ecosystem being ready quite yet (which, of course, is crucial for adoption).

I don't want to berate you, but think my experience could be illustrative of why adoption is behind where I think it could be:

I am exploratively creating a Matrix client because I wondered why there are so few and none that I can really get used to using or recommend to others.

After hours of, experimentation and piecing together Client-Server API documentation, method documentation, MSCs and Github discussions (I could find a single piece of high-level documentation, which is marked as outdated and doesn't cover much) I managed to do some basic things with the JS-SDK (sliding sync support is solid, Rust crypto is not).

The more involved tasks like interactive verification or getting messages from or the topic of a room (!) seem to require levels of background knowledge that I still haven't been able to gather after quite a few hours of research and asking in the JS-SDK room (how lucky that I met somebody at camp who might know!).

After my pain dealing with the JS SDK (many parts of which are honestly very good, to be fair!) I considered rolling my own client, but I also just read this:

> the spec is mutable (we’re on room version 11 already, and pretty much everything can change between room versions), and we’ve been steadily fixing stuff over the years

I mean: Fixing stuff is great (sliding sync is much needed), but I can't/don't really want to build my house on sand. I guess this puts me back into the situation of having to use a "first-party" SDK (JS/Rust) to be certain that things will continue working after big spec updates (I'm both excited for and frightened by the move to MLS).
So now someone can eat shrooms and not have dilated eyes?
> optional case-insensitivity to the F2FS, the Flash-friendly file system

Gosh, I've been lambasted for years for telling Linux folks that case-insensitive file systems are actually good for the average user. Maybe we'll actually get it now that Valve paved the way.
Gotcha, thanks for explaining.
Title has been editorialized, don't do this

"Biden administration rumored to be working on executive order requiring disclosure of outsized power consumption"

This sounds more like big users will need to be singled out. It would likely be a company identity, not a personal one.
To me it would make sense that this be implemented as a normal interface at least initially, it would reuse all the existing bits of the language as is. Note that whether an interface boxes depends on escaping.

I don't see how unboxing would have to be "arbitrarily initialized as an A or a B" either. Even with a novel bespoke implementation you still need a discriminant between the two nested. You could keep a nil default by reserving the zero discriminant for that purpose.
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I wonder if it's possible to buy any extra stock DVDs/BDs that Netflix may have left over.
Freedom to speak is not freedom to hire goons to shove it down people's throats.
As far as I've seen X11 has always been considered Free without-strong-copyleft by rms/GNU.

They were /not/ in favor of the proprietary Motif desktop environment, nor the (at the time, non-FLOSS Qt library dependent) KDE (C++) environment, hence the FSF creating the GNOME (C) environment. "...GNOME and KDE
will remain two rival desktops, unless some day they can be merged
in some way. Until then, the GNU Project is going to support its
own team vigorously. Go get ’em, gnomes!"

https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/stallman-on-qt-the-gpl-...

Related - the BSD License:

> ...a quote directly from Bostic himself. I asked him about it, after reading this FSF page: "People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like GNU/Linux. The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them..."

http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/15/rmsf/
Feel free to wake me when IOS and Macs are running most of the IT infrastructure in the world.
nevertheless the commercial version must be of use to someone by addressing pain points that other users don't have. and i wager that it is exactly those small issues that don't bother others but that matter for people willing to pay for it.
Billboards? Street posters?

I'm in an airport right now and can easily count a dozen ads in my field of view, even counting the two large ad carousel displays as one apiece. I'm sure I encountered hundreds on my way to this gate.
> I think you'll see people picking those techniques

Those techniques were already invented and in-use long beforehand though.

I think that needs emphasizing, because sometimes it feels like... Imagine that fans of the Segway claimed it will replace all other forms of transportation, and a worrying number of them are still out there crediting the (failing) product for inventing the wheel.
The popovers should now jump back to the original position so you don't get that shift effect. And we've also made the background dim/more opaque (perhaps too much) so that it's extremely clear what is the popover and what is the original page.
This is pretty sad, not because of nostalgia, but because the Netflix DVD catalog was oftentimes the only way to watch some movies. I'm not even talking about super obscure movies - I'm talking about movies that weren't necessarily blockbusters, but were moderately successful and had big-name actors.

Many of those movies aren't available on any streaming platform, but also the DVDs are hard to buy, so the Netflix DVD catalog was the only (legal) way to watch them if you wanted to.
I also hate the "make a name for yourself" angle. I guess even amongst programmers there will be people "working for exposure".

Nah, by that point I may as pitch to some billionaire studio and make a hefty salary that way. Or you know, sell your IP for actual millions if it's that valuable. If "exposure" is the alternate currency I'll happily sell out. I'm not my game IP.
> Thats a really dangerous and reckless line of reasoning

No, it's really not. There needs to be accountability and punishment for war crimes. Nobody is calling for 'genocide' or whatever the hell you're talking about.
> Such an easy thing to say.

Everything is easy for the people who don't have to do it!
Seems cool, but...what is it? The website doesn't say. What is an "AI-generated personalized podcast"?

Do you mean "give it some topics you are interested in--> it compiles a podcast-style dossier in text --> it then reads that to you"?
I didn't argue for moving to Linux. My argument is that we need redundancy. If one system has a huge failure like this one -- we shouldn't find ourselves being hostages of this system.

Similarly, I'm not against Microsoft products being used in hospitals. I'm for transparency of standards, rules used by hospitals to acquire and maintain software, public interfaces, reporting...

If such rules are created and Microsoft is playing by the rules -- then I have no problem with it, but having Microsoft decide what the rules are is a disaster.
Here's a rebel idea: In court cases, have the scoreboard weighted by the AGI of the lawyers.

define pro = accuser, con = accused

If the "pro" side has 10 points and the "con" side has 5 points, and the con side's lawyer makes 1/3 the salary of the pro side's lawyer, the con side wins the case.

Another rebel idea: If either side chooses to not use lawyers, the other side is also not allowed to use lawyers. If either side uses ChatGPT in the courtroom, the other side is also allowed to use ChatGPT.

Yet another rebel idea: The lawyer budgets of both sides must be equal. If you have more money to spend on lawyers you are required by law to give some money to the other side for their lawyers to make the budgets equal.
Those whom do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

I am an anticapitalist, and I am acutely aware of what I am against. Advertisements, and how they solidified in the 1800s to current is one such thing I'm directly against.

I've also seen Rome Collesuem's chiseled graffiti to what amounts to "eat at restaurant". Rudimentary, when compared to hiring psychologists to extract as much wealth by exploiting the human psyche, but they were adverts nonetheless. And even those shat upon infrastructure and the humans who were there.

I do think there's a gradient of unethicalness in advertising. If I'm looking for a thing, and shown lists of things that match what I'm looking for, it's at least consensual behavior.

But these days, advertisements are anything but. They're invasive, insidious, and many a time try to fool the human that they're legitimate (and not paid) content.

But I'm guessing the emotional words you chose to use tells me you're probably in adtech.
> I wish economics and entrepreneurship, the lifeblood of the modern world, were mandatory subjects in school.

I've taken both.

maybe MAYBE 1% of the ads I see on any given day are for discoverability.

But lets be real tracking cookies aren't there to figure out if you already know about a service. Advertising isn't about discoverability.

> How can new ideas and new information enter the fray if things like advertising is banned?

You're asking "if people can't pay to force other people to see things, how would anyone ever find anything?"
The answer is that most "finding" is done because someone wants something, not because they are made to want it. When someone wants something, they usually start by looking for where that thing is. There are numerous resources for achieving this outside of advertisements. Of course companies will optimise these avenues, the old call-your-company-acme-to-be-at-front-of-phone-book or whatever. That's fine, so long as they aren't paying to put stuff in places other than where im literally searching for the service they offer.

In other news, this amazingly staggerly large buisness, literally the biggest economy sector in the world, is laughably ineffective. Ask most people about the companies in any given sector and they can name only one or two.
JMK: <https://www.greatsayings.net/john-maynard-keynes-sayings/a-s...>
This is relatively common with naive int / string to enum type conversions, especially if the int or string are given as input from an RPC mechanism of some sort.

This type of pattern can be used to force other developers to check if the value is garbage before calling $BUSINESS_LOGIC that uses the enum
Its such a strange coincidence that a few hours earlier I was re-reading this beautiful short by Ted Chiang https://nautil.us/the-great-silence-237510/
Cell phone towers depend on GPS for timing and frequency precision. A lot of processes depend on GPS availability.
I worked on a visual language design for a long time as a hobby, and the biggest problem, I think, is how you communicate about the code.

Imagine asking Stackoverflow about a coding problem that involves a visual node structure and code attached to some of them.

So yes, the round tripping is essential, but it also needs people to understand and be able to talk about the code in its textual form.

I came to the conclusion that realistically these tools will always be severely limited unless they focus on being good automated visualisation tools of syntax that is text first.

I'd like to be wrong about that, by the way.
No, this is for symmetrical encryption.

So think something like AES, but where the 'distributor' encrypts something, gives you a key and an algorithm, and you can decrypt it. But you cannot use the same algorithm to encrypt to send back anything.

For the life of me I can't remember where I read it (which book), so have never been able to dig into it more.
From wikipedia:

> There were signs of an explosion at the time of the breach. Both Ukrainian and Russian sources reported hearing blasts from the dam's hydroelectric power station,[3][4] regional seismometers detected explosions in the area,[5][8] and a satellite detected the infrared heat signature of an explosion.
Because they use a funny format (BCOO). I'm not mocking, it must be a solid choice for some reasons, like sparsification or other fancy stuff. But for large and even with batches (ie multiply with tall dense matrix), it doesn't match an equivalent scatter (x.at[idx].add(vals)). Which itself is several times slow than equivalent opencl (on an A40)
Pretty much like Pelosi. Definitely a combination that screams "insider trading"
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> Google's perspective is: "we can be a responsible steward of this data for this new age of privacy-conscious ad targeting".

This often happens with government laws and policies too, in the U.S.

Google may indeed be a good, responsible steward of the data but what those that come after them?
Mea culpa, I didn't see that duplicate submission.

[dupe]
Well, the supposition GP made was that Security Experts AGREE ON ANYTHING. Which is a patently false supposition.

Some warn, others ignore. Is true. It's true for every industry, every walk of life, in every country, on the entire planet.

Experts, though, when have they agreed on anything, in any field?

One must ascertain for themselves which authoritative sources can be relied upon. The experts that warn of centralization are authoritative and masters in their fields.

Centralization in any other area of life tends to be bad for citizens, so I ask you this: Why would centralization lead to MORE security, or MORE benefit to the users and citizens of the world?

I'll wait...
it's incredible that a million user business wasn't deemed worthy of maintenance. mega corp churn is incredible.
I can't migrate without access to my old email address unless I wrote down my gift code 11 years ago. I knew about this for 2 years, yet there was nothing I could do. I contacted MS support a few times with no response. Email access was never required until now, just the password, so of course a ton of other people had the same issue.

Also, this isn't my job to begin with. Suppose I simply didn't play the game for 2 years; I'd deserve to lose my account? If MS wants to migrate people to a new account system, it's definitely their job to do that automatically (or at least not lock existing users out), like with every other online service.

> Be more diligent with life

Please don't talk down to me. Microsoft created the "emergency" here, not that I take a Minecraft account anywhere near this seriously.
russia will throw in a hundred of bad faith arguments and outright ignore reality (no seismic signature, suuure) to mud the water, so be sceptical about everything anybody is saying about the whole thing. They even blew up the dam before and inflicted more casualties on themselves too, so “look who benefits“ isn’t reliable either
I keep wondering lately what would happen if/when ReactOS becomes mature enough to be usable beyond curious experimentation. For the first time in a long while Microsoft will have to compete with something that has a switching cost close to zero and is free and doesn't do any of the telemetry and dark patterns and other stuff to appease the stakeholders.
They were giving them away to their DVD subscribers -- unclear how much of their catalog it actually represented.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/netflix-will-let-you...
Ever imagined a tech giant with a "don't be evil" mantra?

Google is a big company. That's why it has conflicting ideas about privacy... They can't all talk to eachother there!

After all, they're not evil, are they?
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What about Japanese regulators

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393809
Absolutely, I have the 12 mini, and if my phone is plugged into my car while using maps + Spotify, it shuts down to prevent overheating.
Sadly, many schools making these purchases are painfully uninformed about tech, hence why we see so many consumer-hostile edtech subscriptions succeed. They definitely would benefit from some EoL transparency
Only nvidia?
Perhaps you didn't really need them. The team I worked in used them a lot but that is because we had two week intense brainstorming workshops several times a year. We would sometimes have half a dozen of us drawing and writing on a huge whiteboard at the same time, all the while arguing about what was the best way to solve this particular problem. This was in a combined electrical engineer/software developer/physicist team.

Without the whiteboard we would have been sketching on paper and would have been buried in waste paper within the hour.
What if I highly value privacy but also need to function in a world that often doesn't prioritize my values?
> From what I gather the big thing is that he's basically very misogynistic.
> And I've seen very little that can disclaim that.

Hang on, no. It's those that claim that someone is misogynistic (let alone very misogynistic) that has the burden of showing that the accused has hatred or prejudice against women, not on others to disclaim it.

If, to that, we add the absolute vilification against anyone trying to defend the accuse, then the allegations can't be evaluated properly in such an environment and deserve nothing but dismissal.
Usually this means that it is a street legal car that is/was sold to the public.

In modern times this also means that it went through crash testing so modern production cars have much larger production runs to offset the costs of that or are very very expensive (millions). For example Rimac said they are planning to make 150 Neveras but they also had to make multiple rolling bodies and a couple fully built cars (at minimum one for EU and one for US if you want to enter both markets) for crash testing on top of any development cars.

But strictly speaking there is no one definition but instead each field/industry defines it in its own way. Motorsports has its own (multiple actually depending on the series/governing body), car manufacturers have their own, record keeping organisations have their own (guinness book of records), etc
Concern trolling 101
Thanks for the feedback! New to the platform so not sure what the best approach was. I wanted to provide something more direct to play around with, as opposed to general info but your comment makes sense!
I've never heard someone confuse private sector with privately owned. What do you think is being traded publicly? (Hint: it rhymes with blownership)
This already seems to be happening overall, though I can't quite find vendor specific data.

e.g.: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/companies-are-finding-it-har...
>Fuck off, idiot.

You seem to be a genuine account. It amazes me that you thought this to be a reasonable comment.

I looked at my comment again and its pretty clear that i was talking about the kind of reasoning, not the specific argument. Please think before you post.

Once you stop judging stuff on its own you can justify anything. Its why its not sensible to do that.
It's conjectured that this is due to Bitcoin's subsidy halving schedule, which is every 210000 blocks or ~4 years. The reasoning is that the supply shock trends prices upwards and the rest of the market tracks Bitcoin due to many trading pairs between it and other cryptos. But the shock gets weaker over time and hopefully the nonsense will as well.
because lockdowns destroyed a lot of political goodwill and have ruined a generation of children? climate change is overblown and we wont see any actual major effects for another century.

climate change believers really are just an apocalyptic cult at this point. it defies reality

there are many other, actual issues that should be addressed. housing shortages, mass illegal immigration, inflation, geriatric politicians, corruption, education, environmental protection from chemicals and other toxins, deforestation, pollution in general etc etc

climate change isn't even close to whats important. but because it has had no actual effects, and the real effects are a century away, its easy for people to posture without committing to an actual solution. there are other issues that should be addressed that people are forgetting about. its a joke
Kinda, but a lot of it’s managing and auditing internal and external access, and maintaining data and source catalogs and crap like that, down to granular levels and across multiple levels of data-cleanup/polish/transformation and reporting. The machine learning/LLM push (biiiiig hype in companies) is making that even messier. The solutions that don’t involve a horrifying amount of DIY are heavily cloud-oriented.

[edit] to editorialize, I also think ~everyone is going to get this very wrong. I think doing this stuff such that you don’t grind productivity to a halt but also don’t have mile-wide vulnerabilities is goddamn near an Apollo Program level of difficult, and basically nobody is treating it that way (and a lot of them would probably sooner abandon their grand mass-data-total-control plans if they had to treat it that way—which is exactly what I think most of them should do, but execs just love the idea of perfect legibility of data and processes end to end on their phone or whatever, even if it’s in-fact just a money-wasting and risk-generating fantasy for most companies)
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> They refuse to honor (even optionally!) xdg environment variables on macs

Who is xdg and why it's polluting my home dir ?

Why not use system defaults and only if and when a user changes something, create a hidden config file ?
unless you can uniquely identify people such disclaimers would be ineffective and useless. for example what if I were paid to say something? how would you know if I were paid or not? if it's the honor system, then that'll trend to no disclosure to begin with - that's exactly why shilling is a thing, and why it'll never stop.
> "2021-12: Gravatar lost 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses (Source, German Source)"

Bad to pick one item and grumble, but I'm going to anyway. With Gravatar your identity is the MD5 hash of your email address. Go to any forum which uses Gravatar and look at the URL of avatar image, that blob of text is the MD5 hash of their email. And of course you click to go to the Gravatar profile, and see their username on the forum page. It makes no sense to say they are "lost" or leaked - they are published in normal use.

You can then make a few guesses that their email will be some variant of username@gmail.com and that the first part will be nice enough for a human to type, and the second part must be a valid domain - and likely a common domain. So if you think "MD5 is too big to brute force", this is a very restricted input. [At least, this used to be true, I haven't verified if Gravatar have changed anything - but I doubt it because the idea is that you sign up your email address at a new forum and it's magically connected to your Gravatar on another domain, so if it had extra salts and passwords it would lose all its convenience].
ESR explained free-software licensing in a way that made it appealing to executives and other decision-makers. In 1998, when Netscape released the source code for its browser on open-source terms, "Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale cited Raymond's 'Cathedral and the Bazaar' essay as a major influence upon the company's decision":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#c...

(The Mozilla Foundation was created to act as the custodian of the source code released by Netscape in 1998.)

Although I can certainly understand why people do not like ESR and although he might not have made any significant contributions lately, you cannot deny that in the past he's had a positive profound effect on the industry.