skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a great idea, but with a caveat: communism is a great idea too, and pretty much in the same sense. I can say that about most of the propositions in this thread.

I, as a user (and a vim-user, may I add), would like it very much if all the software and hardware in the world would be fully open, customizable, community-maintained. I, as a manufacturer, am less keen on that idea. So, to make it happen, every manufacturer has to be forced to make that happen. So, literally, we are stepping farther from the open market and killing some personal freedom under a promise of a bright happy future.

And the realness of that promise is as questionable, as the means necessary to achieve the goal. As I've said, personally, I'm very excited about that promise. But it really is just a promise, and if it can be fulfilled is a very, very big question.

Ultimately, nobody really sells hardware or software. Everybody sells user-experience. It is very obvious in Apple's case, but it is always true. It's easy to forget that when you are choosing the cheapest light bulbs on the market, because the user-experience of having electric light in your house has been sold to you so long ago, there are so many basically identical products that the only apparent difference to you is the price. Now you perceive GPUs (or bluetooth, or whatever) as light bulbs. But at some point selling a GPU or a light bulb was quite similar to selling a novel iSomething. The seller had to explain to you, not so much what iSomething is, but how iSomething makes your life better. And if the technology that makes this promise of the user-experience a reality is hardware, software or just exceptional marketing — really is just details.

So, as much as I hate that my fitness-watch is basically a spying device and I don't even own the data it produces (and I mean, I really hate that), I don't feel like forcing Garmin to open-source the firmware is the right thing to do. Maybe I would support some more forceful moves to make the generated data my property, but even here the line is blurry. But forcing them (and better think: you, as a manufacturer) to make something other than you wanted to make — …why the fuck should I? Who decides what is that common standard I don't want in my product, but I have to, to be legally allowed to sell that? I think, I just like the idea of personal freedom a bit too much to support that. I'd much prefer Garmin just losing to competition that chooses open firmware, than legally forcing them to produce anything they didn't want to produce.
it's true of household supplies and food. you can save a lot of money buying in bulk, but you need a car, ample storage, and cash up front to actually do this. I spend substantially less on paper towels and toilet paper than I did when I was limited to purchasing only what I could physically carry home with me.

of course, now that I can afford a car and a place to store months worth of paper towels, they are no longer a substantial part of my budget. go figure.
PC-Lint/Flexelint is the grownup/commercial version of lint/compiler analyzers. Looks like they merged with a more corporate software company, but you can still find their webpages on archive.org.

see https://web.archive.org/web/20061206130312/http://gimpel.com... and https://web.archive.org/web/20061208002102/http://www.gimpel....

And for fun, see https://web.archive.org/web/20070204002103/http://www.gimpel...

Two commercial static analyzers I've heard of are Klocwork and Coverity. I know Coverity has a program to scan open source projects. So you can take a look at the output of their scans to see how they fare.

For PC-lint, it was relatively easy to integrate into the build process. Just a few changes in each makefile - probably less if you use something like ninja/cmake to drive the build process.

But adding static analysis to your build is similar to getting a home energy efficiency audit.

The auditor comes in and analyzes your house and points out where you can improve the house's energy efficiency (go from single to double/triple pane windows, fill in cracks around doors, don't use oil/coal to heat the house, etc.) But once they're done and you've adjusted the house accordingly, further audits won't bring up any new issues unless something in the house has changed.

Similar thing with static analyzer (and with turning on compiler warnings). First time you use that feature, you'll get a lot of issues - some of them you may modify, some you'll ignore. But further static analysis won't bring up many new issues, if at all, unless the code has changed.

Which means it's important to run the analysis when code is committed. Besides being cheaper/faster to fix problems before the commit, issues won't build up until the next time you run the static analyzer.

These tools don't eat, don't sleep, don't take vacation/sick days, won't get tired looking at the same code over and over again, and know much more about gotchas/footguns in the programming language than most programmers.

When I talked with a programmer who had worked on an enterprise-level commercial static analyzer, we agreed that these types of tools would find about up to 10% of bugs in a project - closer to 10% for the lower quality projects.
I'll take a guess you got caught speeding.
If only adults had the agency to make their own decision about how to deal with corporate malfeasance.

Like back in the good old days when lynching was an option. /s
I think you mean barristers.

The problem here was that as many sub-postmasters were co owned by a husband and wife with children. There was an enormous incentive for one of the sub post masters to plead guilty and say, "my wife had nothing to do with it." Doubly so as the sentences would often be on the cusp of the "suspendible range", a guilty plea combined with contrition is much more likely to get a judge to suspend your sentence if he can.

Of course, this "plea-bargaining" is standard practice in the states but we aren't used to it in the UK.

The issue is that no barrister would allow their client to plead guilty without giving them a little canned speech about not pleading guilty if they didn't do it and having them, "sign their brief".
Has ONDC seen any traction so far outside of pilot programs? In my circles people always order from Flipkart or Amazon.
I don't disagree. But almost any electronic device released in the last 10 years can play mp3. Probably even your electric toothbrush.
> To be more blunt about it: if the person writing the code is not the one on the pager at 3am, they have no serious incentive to make it correct or resilient.

The problem is in 99% not that the developers don't want to do correct code. The problem is that product/project management doesn't allocate the time and budget for clean development practices, proper QA, and refactoring because their metrics are revenue, releases/timeframe, or similarly useless/unsustainable.
There’s absolutely no need for a book length treatment for this problem, but the way ideas work in this society, they aren’t taken seriously unless there’s a single-topic book with a catchy title, with an attendant book store tour, podcast blitz, and morning show invite.

It’s incredibly obvious that we should not be on our phones all time, and more so for kids.
And wrong. Read the research.
You lack imagination. A failing organ could absolutely be genetically evolved to fail in a given set of conditions.
>Not sure why you're so deeply triggered by this; is your name on that list that you would be personally affected?

Your only response to someone finding this a gross overreach is to try and strawman them by suggesting I'm personally on the list?

I'm not defending billionaires any more than I'm defending an average person. Going down the road suggested (putting yearly or lifetime caps on how much CO2 you can produce) is frankly terrifying.

Tax the hell out of the fuel, charge larger landing fees, etc etc are all better options than having some sort of invisible countdown over everyone's head that for CO2 emissions.
Those aren’t the customers you want.
I am a person that has actively chosen to live without a car, despite work in automotive industry.
Recently I wanted to take my vintage computer in a large crate, to a LAN meeting, but I would not be able to transport it without a car. Which forced me to order a taxi, which is a car for hire...
I maybe could have been fine with a cargo bike, but it would not be satisyingly safe for me or the cargo.
I have also heard the perspective of children safety. When they need to be transported to a communal education center, it is said to be much safer and convenient to put them in a large, crashproof car, than stuffing them in a bicycle trolley while it is raining.
oooo this is new.

2017 there were none, I checked. Seems like they're back!
"Sorry, the president of country X cant come to UN and discuss a ceasefire because he already ysed up all his emissions so the war has to keep going until the next CO2 reset"
Urban American returned to normal a few months later than Rural America, but we're talking like, April 2022. SF is still suffering from some dynamics that started during COVID but it's not like there are still lockdowns or compulsory masking or anything like that.
Maybe I am naive, but can't we all just become the shareholders to which Amazon, Inc. must satisfy? I know it's not that way now, but could it not somehow be in the future, maybe even the near future, where we have collectively taken ownership?

Maybe we can even do this non-violently, especially considering it is our data, our very lives and livelihoods, that were used to create these entities? Are our creations in no way accountable to us? Even the most dyed-in-the-wood Capitalists surely wouldn't agree to such a thing.

Maybe considering the amount of sweat-equity the average worker, artist, writer, homemaker has in these creations, these machines, these corporate entities; will they not, as they become more intelligent, become more and more aware of who they truly owe allegiance to.

We can make hell of heaven or heaven of hell; it's up to us.
Having to stay there while charging would still be a hurdle. Do they typically offer e.g. code-locked charging cabinets where you can leave a phone or power bank, or power bank swaps where they would lend (or give) away standardized power banks that could then be exchanged for full ones when empty?
Mandating open standards is not the same thing as 'making consumer experience worse'.
What's making this guy so popular i wonder? The thesis here in particulr is very weak, technofeudalism is just the latest form of capitalism, it s not the end of it. we ve seen this kind of rhetoric before, like when TV advertising manufactured consumerism. Capitalism didn't die, quite the opposite
Ah just forgot to add to the point, its possible to copy paste from mobile/desktop with kconnect that is open source, its not that bit of a deal that requires special hardware
The true problem here is you. You are the parent. Teach your child properly. This is your responsibility.
Why would natural rubber be better then synthetic rubber for this problem? Asbestos is natural and toxic as hell.

Natural rubber currently has the property of being mostly inside trees not being ground up into a fine powder - but there's no obvious reason at scale it would be any better except in terms of "slightly less wear over time".

Is it's chemistry fundamentally different?
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I do that same timer with the Apple Watch even while choking chickens. I can understand not wanting to alway be online. I have most notifications disabled on Watch and phone and computer. I prefer a controlled and balanced approach to managing notifications and connections.
My friendly neighbourhood Amazon driver fills his vehicle with packages, then drives a highly optimised route to deliver those packages to many destinations along the fastest/shortest route. Often when I'm tracking my package, I see that the twenty or thirty deliveries before me are all within a mile or two of my house.

At some point soon I expect he'll get an electric van, but other than that, I'm not sure how anyone could get stuff from businesses to people in a more efficient manner.
with global warming, shouldn't absorbing massive amounts of solar be a good thing?
"DevOps" as in Developers being closer to Ops, or "DevOps" as in "I'm a shiny Golang outfit that is going to solve Real Problems TM with YAML and a bunch of templated-generated Golang?"

I realize this is a bit of an odd tangent, but I would love to hear cadey talk more about what "devops" means at a shop like Tailscale. Actually, as I type this, even more curious. I know some of those folks are cut-me-and-I-bleed-Go types, but I also know they're deep into NixOS for server management. It would be very interesting to hear more about how those intersect for their infra/server/dev culture.
These rules would not effect the truely rich. It would turn into a burden or inconvenience for the masses while the elite have loopholes or ways around the system.
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‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU
You broke the site guidelines badly by crossing into flamebait, name-calling, and personal attack, and it led to a nasty flamewar. Please don't do this again.

(For clarity's sake, I'm not referring to the interpretations of your post as sexist, etc. The issue with your comment is that it was aggressive, broke multiple site guidelines, and derailed the thread.)

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
The fact that Varoufakis still expounds on anything at all after his disastrous term in the Greek government proves that he's utterly shameless, and possibly has little self-awareness.

But to see some people taking him serious and even discussing his writings with a straight face is surreal.

This emperor has no clothes; publicly flashed Greece and all of Europe during its worst crisis in decades.
"collapsed"

That would imply bankruptcies, mass unemployment, etc. But for some reason only the people on anglophile Youtube see this collapse. Germany mostly muddles through.

That is not to say there are no problems. But "collapse" is an absurd hyperbole.
How so? The 2023 models of the F150 seem to get about 17.19 MPG [0] which is significantly worse than the 32.34 MPG [1] of the 2023 Escape.

[0] https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-150/2023

[1] https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/escape/2023
The amount of experience you need depends on how deep into doing it you wanna go. The community makes and sells kits and components and there's facebook groups and discords that help answer questions and troubleshoot problems.

You can definitely source components that require no soldering and no 3d design skills and build your own board without pre-existing experience. Sourcing those components may take time since a lot of the best ones have a lot of demand and can't really scale.

The ride I went on yesterday in SF had six riders on vesc boards, two of which the the Floatwheel which is starting to be made at scale by a member of the community in China and sold via cryptocurrency since Future Motion has successfully blocked his ability to accept credit cards.
"Phenomenological subjective experience"

This doesn't include things like "awareness", "cognition", "sentience", or anything else. It's simply "the experience of yellow" as distinct from the physical reactions caused by incident light of a particular wavelength.

In Nagel's terms, "what is it like to be a bat?", not merely perceptually but sensationally.
What's your workflow for tweaking pictures? I'm looking for something that makes me look good while remaining an accurate representation of how I look in reality for online dating purposes.
Most commenters here seem to ignore the fact that saas deployments have become increasingly complex over last decade in part bc low hanging fruit has been picked. Also the massive scale of even relatively no-name companies out there.

I'd add that most of the 1-4 "problems" (boo-hoo, managing IAM is boring for devs) OP mentioned as well as advent of so called "platform engineering" stem from one thing only - poor engineering leadership.
I find the whole idea unappealing, but they did keep their promise and show off a prototype back in spring://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMsQO5u7-NQ
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Ah, for some reason this seems obvious now. I think it came down to ambiguity around the "we" in the first stanza. Thanks for the elaboration!
We have separate devops teams, though, so I do zero fiddling with all those technologies.
This was my first article that got to front page on HN! Thank you @ushakov for posting this.
FSF announces JShelter add-on to combat threats from nonfree JavaScript (2021)
Also, isn't the author Tri Dao at Together AI now as their chief scientist?
`Veil of secrecy': outrage as Google limits public access to antitrust trial
Nah, you're right. My friends all live in the same "suburbia" as me. 50 minute drive one way. We still just hang out online, cause no one wants to spend their life on the highway. Wish we lived in a place with real transit / density.

Heck, even in Tokyo, you can hop on a bus to go do outdoors stuff easy.
Varoufakis misses two key points:
- Our crony capitalism is shaped by central regulators, which push the creation of monopolies through favouritism, bailouts, pure corruption and public education making employee slaves out of children. I argue most of the largest companies would be network of indipendente providers if competition without regulations existed and VC didn't distort the markets. Monopolies are made by the state and their crooked friends.
- We don't have free will, we never had. We're biological machines with chemical mechanisms which are easily hacked. Our environment, most crucially other people, will shape what we want. Tech doesn't change the dynamics.

The rest is pure nonsense, I was expecting more from Varoufakis.
Losing the camera function would be annoying, as would the ability to use it as a credit/travel card etc. - I'd have to go back to using dedicated devices for that. Whereas you're right - the ability to talk (/communicate) with people virtually wherever you (and they) are in the world is still what makes it a truly transformative technology with no adequate replacement.
> The listening test linked in the article leads nowhere, I would have liked to see their methodology.

Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080322114622/https://www.stere...
Asked ChatGPT, got these answers but not sure I understand, anyone an expert here who can explain how we can estimate the amount of black holes outside of gravitational lensing?

"The distribution of black holes is inferred from their interactions, like accretion of matter and merging events, which emit observable signals. The total lensing exceeds what's expected from black holes and visible matter. Moreover, lensing often occurs where no black holes are detected, suggesting another form of mass—dark matter—is responsible. The distribution and amount of lensing provide crucial information that, when combined with other observations, suggests the presence of dark matter.

Apologies for the confusion. The distribution of black holes is inferred from observable interactions like accretion and merging events, not primarily from lensing. The lensing exceeding what's expected from black holes comes from comparing the total lensing observed to what could be attributed to known black holes plus visible matter. There's more lensing than can be accounted for by black holes, hence suggesting dark matter as a probable cause."
> people in a conspiracy theory don't really _read_ your post, so much as flag it as non-conforming then dunk on it.

It goes both ways - people flag legitimate claims of conspiracy and dunk on them, too. For example in the 40s, the idea that cigarette manufacturers were conspiring with the medical industry. Or as a 2010s example, that the NSA is secretly recording everything we are doing and saying online (PRISM).

My biggest take-away is that you need to be paying attention, you need to get your news from multiple sources, and it helps to have strong foundational knowledge that you can use to gauge the reliability of those sources. Usually the establishment is right, but sometimes that random guy on the internet is right, so it's important not to discredit anyone solely based on their pedigree. A process that, obviously, the kool-aid drinkers in that subreddit didn't seem to have a grasp on.
You may have a weak back, lower trapezius. Perhaps look into superman poses as a way of regaining strength, e.g. https://www.artofliving.org/nl-en/node/329473
Clearly you have never dealt with traffic in the Holland Tunnel.
Sure, I agree with that. But I think the point in the video, that coins that pretty regularly have transaction-costs in the tens of dollars are an unreliable medium for transactions smaller than hundreds of dollars, still stands.
Bezos has a 20 min. flight from Bellingham, WA to Seattle, WA. 90 miles, 1.5 hours in car...
Ukrainians are a special case. They are not handled as refugees, but EU-citizen, meaning they enter the normal social system. And this is beneficial for Germany, as Ukrainians are also able to enter the job market because of this. But even then your claims are sketchy. Even with Bürgergeld 1 adult + 2 kids needs to be an extreme case for such an amount.
Researchers dynamically tune friction in graphene
> either they only sell hardware in the EU, or they only sell software. Intel and microsoft would have no problem.

Intel has microcode.

Microsoft has Xbox which I'd guess would have issues getting game releases if excluded from a decent-sized market.

Also. My phone (hardware) came with an OS (software) already installed. As do other pre-assembled computers.
I'm not proposing that we split companies. I proposing that no company that sells hardware be allowed to distribute software, and no company that distributes software be allowed to sell hardware. The Apple split is only a consequence of that. As would be the likely end of locked down game consoles, now that I think of it.

What I'm hoping to accomplish with this is: reduced or eliminated vendor lock-in, harmonisation and simplification of ISAs, the ability to support any hardware in any OS, and maybe even the the ability to actually write new OSes and see some real competition in this space.

Note one important component I haven't mentioned: ISA patents should be rendered null and void. Anyone should be allowed to design, make, and sell an ARM or x86 CPU without asking anyone's permission. Or a GPU clone, or a network card clone, etc. Without that we'll just strengthen monopolies, or maybe allow new ones to arise.
>A couple of years ago, everybody accepted the fact that people all should have 3 shots of vaccination to have a flight. Everybody got opposed to it. But got the shots eventually.

Which if you look back it logically now with all the evidence, we have in hindsight was an overreach that did very little good.

>I'm not the guy who has the golden law that will change the world. I'm just proposing that CO2 emission is a big problem and some of the people are exploiting it.

Which I get - however the problem with your comment (and much of the internet as a whole) is that people see a complex problem and toss out a twitter sized "obvious solution" to it without any actual thought behind it, this then causes all kinds of noise with very little signal and furthers divides. Just by replying to you some other person suggested I was "triggered" and must be on said list... That's the problem.
> People who don't value Bitcoin or what it stands for say it's a waste of resources.

What? Even if you do value Bitcoin, you're going to make a pretty uphill argument that it's an efficient/effective use of resources to mine.