skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is cross licensing really a big issue with closed source software?

At least where I work, my software is basically 100% backed by open-source software. If the company wanted to, some of our larger and more complex systems would be trivial to open source as the only proprietary software they use is our own.

For an OS, I could see there being issues around drivers. However, it seems like the actual core of the OS would be pretty trivial to open source.
Would you pay a buck to Tweet? X takes a step toward paywall
Yes, I was in several other cities and noticed it throughout. Spent half of the summer in Sapporo (my favorite Japanese city so far!) and it was definitely noticeable there.
I don't think the point being made is that these are bad people, but rather that it's beneficial to avoid having them as teammates nonetheless. Perhaps there's a team/project/role for them somewhere that's better aligned with the set of principles that inspire them to care about their work more.

If you dropped me into a role working on something distant to my own passions and principles, I would expect the same to be said of me.
Which SBCs are you referring to?
It always blows my mind seeing people defending any tax when they can clearly see with their own eyes how ”good” is the government at spending the money it currently takes from us. And you want to give them more?!
it's also likely to be a DRM circumvention device under the DMCA
you could arguably backdate it if you want to fuzz things. Microsoft had a WinPad and Windows for Pen Computing product that started in 1992. There was also the hardware side, the Pulsar project. It wasn't Pegasus (CE), sure, but it was the same vying for a palmtop market that they eventually gave up on.

Here's a decent article that gets most things right
https://tedium.co/2021/02/10/windows-ce-history/

You can get winpad in some early chicago builds (windows 95) ... it's been extracted and put on archive.org https://archive.org/details/winpad275

There were also actual products such as the Samsung PenMaster that were released with Pen Windows ... here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJxWtTPyb0

It's wild how early they were in the race, how long the stayed in, how much money they tossed at it and how they still failed so phenomenally
It is possible to do an age verification system with the following properties:

1. The site that wants to verify your age learns that your age meets their criteria but does not learn anything else from the verification system except as noted in #2.

2. The site that you present ID information to in order to prove your age does not learn what site the verification is for. The site in #1 will learn what site you presented ID to but not when you presented it.

3. Someone who obtains all the records from both sites is not able to tell whether or not you visited the site in #1.

It seems inevitable that age verification is going to become a requirements at many sites. Instead of just trying to stop that from happening those who want to maintain the ability to browse anonymously should probably also put some effort into trying to insure that if/when it does happen sites are required to accept a system with those three properties.
I don't think performance is at odds with resiliency. You can have one, both, or neither. Resiliency you get by eliminating entire categories of problems with strong conceptual abstractions. As you pointed out, virtual memory that protects applications from interfering with one another is one such example. Other examples are transactional databases (ACID), and perhaps software transactional memory. Statelessness also has fantastic resilience properties and is a big driver behind the success of web applications.

Take sqlite for instance. sqlite is very resilient, gives you transactions that you can roll back, and on top of that, storing small files in a sqlite database can be faster than using the filesystem directly. You get resilience AND performance AND a boost in productivity.

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
> That said: 15 years of activity is a lot of work to unpack in "specific terms", so "unspecified terminology" that still provides a rough overview it is.

How about list of open firmware(preferably consumer grade, big corps can get it anyway) that you helped or developed?

And if it is so good, why more and more hardware needs closed firmware?
I used to think that the general public is safer when there is a dangerous criminal element around because the state will focus it's policing on the criminal activity and leave most of the public alone. But if the state is just too risk averse to police hardened criminals then the general public is at risk.
Yes, this part wasn't thought out well enough. Let there be an organization that verifies site owners (to verify that they are not abroad and can be put in jail if needed), content and moderation policies and issues a cryptographic signature. The website displays the signature in HTTP headers.
Pedantic point of order: it's Macbeth, not MacBeth. "Macbeth" is his personal (first) name, not his patronymic. His father was Findláech mac Ruaidrí.

"Beth" means "life". (Gaelic "beathad", cognate to "uisce beatha", water of life, which gives us the word "whiskey"). His personal name means "son of life". (Not entirely unlike the Hebrew name Chaim, which means "life".)

Of course none of that is mentioned in the play. But Shakespeare did at least spell it right: "Macbeth".

/end pedantry
You wouldn't need it if copyright didn't exist in the first place
This seems fairly buildable, I wonder why nobody gave it a try.
Sounds like we need to bring back the Evil Bit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
Seems like a ticketing system would need some connectivity no?
No need for hope. At this point surely it is a given?
You keep repeating this, but those ratings are not government issued and are not all that useful when it comes to general information. A movie can be made to be sufficiently sanitized for the target audience as there's plenty of flexibility in the topic and objectivity is often just a secondary goal. Eg since the movie is targeted at families, it'll avoid explicit depictions of sex. On the other hand, you can't just change the reality of what a scientific article on sexual reproduction is going to show, yet that information is not necessarily problematic for people under 18 to access (and of course you'll have a hard time balancing what is socially healthy with what is acceptable to parents).

On top of all that though, we don't need to make even more things be behind this absurd age gate. I remember how ridiculous it felt turning 18, going from legally being a child to being a mostly free adult just on a specific day, despite obviously not having suddenly changed as a person in 1 day and having already been living independently at university thousands of miles away from home. Same again upon turning 21.

This idea of sharp limits defined by age is just an intellectually lazy approach which is not how we should be treating access to general information for a fifth of a person's life. Tech companies love this kind of intellectual laziness, and similar thinking is responsible for why said tech companies are responsible for so many current social issues.
Written by Adrian Zandberg [1], a co-leader of a Polish political party (Razem) that’s set to enter the government following the recent election.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zandberg
Show HN: macro_magic – access foreign item tokens in Rust proc/attribute macros
I don't think macOS allows a userspace program to set thread affinities.

Not only are the functions commented out, there's this note

THREAD_AFFINITY_POLICY:

This policy is experimental.
This may be used to express affinity relationships
between threads in the task. Threads with the same affinity tag will
be scheduled to share an L2 cache if possible. That is, affinity tags
are a hint to the scheduler for thread placement.

The namespace of affinity tags is generally local to one task. However,
a child task created after the assignment of affinity tags by its parent
will share that namespace. In particular, a family of forked processes
may be created with a shared affinity namespace.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/osf...
The argument that I often read is that protecting democracy and democratic values often requires methods contrary to those democratic values (or not, as long as a democracy does it).
You’re talking about code that’s been reduced from 10 lines to like a one-liner; whether it becomes more understandable or not (and whether to keep it as such) is a matter of taste.

But not copying and pasting code by merging common logic is a matter of reducing the number of times you can fuck up, and reducing the number of “accidentally/unnecessarily special-cased” scenarios. You’re trying to reduce the amount of information needed to understand the codebase. The former is preserving the information, it’s just writing it more densely.
Don't they cover that bit at the end?
I'm assuming that Google's "privacy" model is that they'll track everything about Chrome users while obfuscating the ability of anyone else to do it, which forces companies to do business with Google to get at our information.
> For a couple of months, yes, but why is he using the present tense?

Go to Slack’s status twitter, and it shows you three incidents from the last four years, not even in order. Go to some other twitter accounts, and it redirects you to a login screen. I mean, this all feels pretty broken; maybe it’s intentional and the product person is just an idiot, but really, who knows. Go to https://status.twitter.com, and you get a cert error. Accept the invalid cert, and you get _redirected to another status page with a different, also incorrect, cert_. And so on. It’s still pretty broken.

As yet another Twitter-account-since-2007 people, I’m gone. For now I’m keeping a dormant account on the basis that he might get bored and go back to the imaginary car tunnels, and Twitter sold off to someone more sensible (presumably Automattic, inheritor of all washed-up social networks), but Naughty Old Mr Car’s wacky world is not for me.
> The post I am responding to made a blanket statement about the group.

I think they can fend for themselves.

> I don't have a survey[1] of what percentage of billionaires are or aren't self made - so I thought about it, and of the ones available for recall, all were self-made. I assume what the poster talked about exists, but it seems to not be the most obvious case.

Inherited billionaires don’t make for exciting stories. That’s why they aren’t at the top of anyone’s mind. Was the point.

But “self-made” can also be loaded:

> [1] While replying to you, I did a quick Google and found this link:

You’ll see that that he defines certain people like Zuckerberg as not really being “wealthy” but “upper-middle class”. But I guess economists might have a certain bias towards the upper end of the spectrum when they only research wealth and those entities and people who have it.
And America didn’t just harm itself with DMCA. We all suffer from this mistake.
> NATO drones are way too advanced for this battle and not a significant part of what’s being provided to Kyiv.

I would add that one of the key factors of Russia's complete collapse of its 3-day invasion of Ukraine was Ukraine fielding half dozen export market drones from Turkey built with components designed for the civilian market.
Personally outside of dramatic moments like the Big Hill or the club smartass trying to drop everyone for giggles, driving through the bottom of the stroke was the only thing that felt like it 1) mattered and 2) could be sustained.

But I think you have to go to triathletes to really see that effect more pronounced. Since they like to sit tilted a couple degrees farther forward on the bike, the hamstring is more accessible.

At the end of the day a pro is 5-10% better than a serious cyclist at five different things. Even before you get to diet and genetics (and doping, sorry) they’re already outputting more watts and getting more of them to the wheels than I could hope to. Technique adds up.
Even this can still be horrifying to face, when seeing the scale of those whose suffering exists and is far beyond your means to do anything about, even before facing ones own analysis-paralysis upon seeing so many good causes and not knowing what to do about it.

Much easier to hide from this, one way or another. Some do it with platitudes about fish or hard work, others with demands that the super-rich pay more taxes, still more with karma and the mysterious workings of the divine.

That's all very human.
I would literally rather shit upwind in a hurricane than enable this.
Similar idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance#Dennett.27s...
I've had 2 Mazdas in the past. A bit less likely to buy another one now.
Ideally the municipality should provide a "dumb pipe" to a point of presence, where the customer chooses an ISP. That way the municipality doesn't have to deal with IPv4/IPv6 addressing, or DMCA notices.
Gentle reminder: the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Nvidia to Challenge Intel with Arm-Based Processors for PCs
Windows Common Era? Is that really that much better than Windows Anno Domini?

(When did they stop naming releases after years?)
What exactly is Roblox Ryanair? Is this just a parody website or an actualy entity in the game? If the latter, how does it work?
> the company still has a big advantage in arbitration

Not as big as in litigation. Yes, companies have familiarity. But the win rates in arbitration are way more favourable. Because you can’t starve your opponent as a strategy.
China literally paints their mountains green.

(Source: guy who lived in china for 12 years and did a travel documentary.then was forced out by government, now has contacts all around China)

https://youtu.be/Cvc7VymDa4c?si=xIcqLGiIC9gNTd7Y
I get 6h or so running quite a few workloads in Kubernetes on Docker For Mac on Apple Silicon. Intel was < 2h. The rest of my team has similar experiences. Are you sure it's Docker causing your battery issues?
The difference is that keeping cockroaches out of candy bags is a much more black-and-white problem that can be solved by following the same unchanging set of steps every time. Moderating and distinguishing copyright material requires awareness of a lot of abstract and often arbitrary rules and is prone to being done incorrectly. I am not defending this, it is for sure a shitty situation and is exactly why things like Youtube suck when it comes to DMCAs, but I am clarifying that it is a non-trivial issue with no easy solution that is brought on by the DMCA being ripe for abuse. It's just the reality of the thing. Moderation at that scale is probably never going to graduate from being shitty purely because of the nature of the problem.
I wish GitHub would do more to protect developers from this bullshit.

I know they aren’t required to, but I remember the olden days when more companies would fight dmca requests. But I suppose they were much less common then.

The EFF might help, but even expecting individuals to appeal to the EFF is probably too much work and too much risk.

I’d like to see GitHub partner with EFF to have first look at these requests and choose to fight ones that seem invalid. I’d donate to they cause.
Mass murder seems more the MO of a political protestor.
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé.

Balanced? He's an expat Israeli Jewish Historian, who is not welcome in Israel.
And there's already a chrome plugin that pings you if you copy watermarked text (or rather text with weird characters in it).
The tool Mazda is using is DMCA. That applies explicitly to whomever is hosting the content. More specifically, it applies to whomever Mazda sends the DMCA notice to.
Hey loyal Mazda fan,

That money you could be making, yeah we don't like you getting it instead of us, so cough it up!
Also, while we're at it, cool idea...thanks for the work! Here's nice thankful lawsuit for your hard work.
We'll go ahead and privately fork that repo and totally not rip your functionality off and somehow manage to mess it up while overcharging for it! :)

Worst regards, thx for the moneys and screw you,

Mazda
What makes these new projections different from those of recent decades?
Probably they are made to comply with some laws or regulations (or to avoid being regulated by laws), so the government has a say here anyway.
Reading the article, I was actually thinking of Winston's girlfriend Julia and how wonderfully well she would do at Ofsted.
> In practice they can.

How would a group of private citizens get a copy of all communications of an other private citizen?

Are there any documented cases of this ever happening?
They also have a lot of resources to fake the greenery as well.
General questions, relating to UTF or Encoding Form
It sure has been an issue with every cellphone I've ever owned, their radios flip out when I go somewhere without signal (tunnels, the subway, into nature) and will thrash the battery in a mad search for connectivity.
I left Twitter last November (I did return briefly for a silly joke in December when utterance of the dread word ‘mastodon’ was briefly banned). Now, I’ve always found Musk intensely irritating, but this wasn’t an issue prior to October or so. Then it started shoving his nonsense in my face, and suggesting I follow him; I was somewhat surprised to discover I had not blocked him previously, and remedied that, but the point is that old-Twitter was actually pretty good at keeping stuff that you didn’t want out of your face. New-Twitter, not so much.

It’s a lot worse now, of course, with idiot blueticks’ inane replies promoted to the top.
How Does CPU Cache Work and What Are L1, L2, and L3 Cache?
Thanks, the article is paywalled so I can't read it, but from what I can see it does say "reportedly." How credible is the report? Like is it from anonymous disgruntled employees or is there some independent data the journalists were able to collect?

Also was this like a one time stupid thing Elon did and then reversed (which seems like something he tends to do from time to time), or is it a permanent/semi-permanent ongoing thing? GP's claim is that it's ongoing part of the algorithm. A one-time thing is definitely bad and gross, but is a much lesser allegation than an ongoing thing, especially if it's part of the Algorithm but isn't part of the open source part that they claim.
> Original post by 1Password: https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/
The UK Labour Party have a long history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And Starmer, while a much better human being than any of the current Tory leadership, appears to be lacking in political instincts.
I can't believe this made it to HN front page.
It would be interesting to do some sort of analysis based on geography and population density. If someone travels 40 kilometers per day as part of their usual routine then more CCTV cameras will be needed to record their activities. Both the US and China are significantly larger than the UK.
It is so commonly we also have the word "murder" to describe murder.

Does it make murder right? Certainly not.
Planting trees and cutting them down is a very effective form of carbon capture (provided the felled trees aren’t burnt)

A tree’s dry weight is 50% carbon, captured from the atmosphere. Over a 100 year period, one tree absorbs a tonne of CO2
> The files the threat actor obtained in the Okta compromise comprised HTTP archive, or HAR, files, which Okta support personnel use to replicate customer browser activity during troubleshooting sessions. Among the sensitive information they store are authentication cookies and session tokens, which malicious actors can use to impersonate valid users.

I know that troubleshooting for pwms is hard, but leaving unencrypted files to access accounts on a server that’s not governed by the same threat-model seems very negligent to me.
My name is Marcel and I’m partially a shell, as you can see from my body.
I think we've made a mistake by linking our real world identities to the software we write. If the author released this under a pseudonym, and hosted the git servers in a country without strong copyright enforcement, there's very little Mazda could do to take it down. It's too late for that now since Mazda knows who he really is.
I'm not following you here. Most systems (if not all) are byte-addressable 2's complement systems, and in a 2's complement system, you use the same instructions for math for both signed and unsigned integers. Compiler writers aren't using different instructions for signed vs. unsigned, they're using different assumptions about interpretations, along the lines of "if X is signed, then x = x + 1 will never wrap, because that is UB, and as we all know, programmers will never intentionally or unintentionally, invoke UB, so we can skip some checks and if the program blows up, it's the programmers fault for not being perfect."
That stopped when speech people didn't like became "violence". Unfortunately a lot of this is imported from America.
You're assuming perfect authorization to flip the "safe mode" switch.
Windows CE in the late-palmtop days was pretty neat. I did a lot with my HP Joranda!
Verilog vs. VHDL: A Comprehensive Comparison
Want to know how I detect suspicious activity in my password manager? I have a plaintext bitcoin private key in my password manager as a note. The name is 'bitcoin wallet'. It contains 0.5 BTC. If my password manager ever get compromised, I can reasonably expect the bitcoins to be move from that wallet address.

I then have a BTC node that will send me an SMS if those coins ever move.
Fungi Could Be Helping Old-Growth Trees Survive Climate Change
> As long as pot boils, but doesn’t spill over the USA will be able to continue to slowly increase its support.

Also noteworthy is the fact that the support from US in particular and NATO in general has been decades-old and potentially decommissioned hardware that was either mothballed or phased out, and the overall investment, with regards to each nation's budget, amounts to pocket change.
Of course you would. For example, thanks to copyright law, Linksys was forced to share their Linux customizations to run on router hardware, which led to the creation of the OpenWRT project.

Without copyright law, any actor can take your open system and close it.
You've either intentionally cast my argument as something it's not or you need to read a little deeper before replying.

Nowhere did I say sloppy code is the problem, what I said was justifying it in terms of profitability is the problem. There's a difference between cranking something out because you're excited to show it and rushing through an implementation because of this or that externally defined money-based KPI.
You think the bond market knows? I don't think they do otherwise rates would not be change dramatically.

My point is that housing prices have historically kept going up. I'm not referring to YoY trends, but median long-term. I think prices will continue to rise over decades, give or take a market correction, because demand is still strong.

cost:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

demand:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HSN1F
So it's COBOL on Cogs [1] but for real?

[1] http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
The protomaps basemap is also built on planetiler: https://github.com/protomaps/basemaps - and Brandon is one of the main contributors a to planetiler!
Yup. That's what I understand too.
I use Quartz* for my personal site, and just edit it directly in Obsidian. One push to GitHub and it's deployed, with very little effort. It's like Obsidian Publish, but much more customizable.

Before this, I felt the same as the linked post - there was too much friction for me to ever publish anything.

*: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/