skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the CLA in place, there is no one true Synapse/Dendrite. There is the Element-provided AGPL version, and then there are X many private forks.

The very existence of those forks breaks the community's ability to truly collaborate. Private forks still participate in our ecosystem!
no obvious reason?

don't be drunk or on the way to getting drunk.

#1 pay attention. be there & listen.

#2 don't be too cool for this. in that moment, he's head of security and you might be a reason to call the police or someone who'll cost the crowd too much attention for no return.

that's it.
>I think full braking should be part of driver training. A lot of people I know are very hesitant to brake full force and I think a lot of accidents happen because people don't really brake all out when needed.

Couldn't agree more. It's beyond negligent that with the current state of drivers ed the first time a driver will need to emergency brake, or even feel abs activate will be in a potentially life or deal situation.
My printer constantly, constantly asks me to update. What is wrong with what it does now? Expecting some shiny new DRM.
I like how Atlassian puts it:

> The golden rule of rebasing

> Once you understand what rebasing is, the most important thing to learn is when not to do it. The golden rule of git rebase is to never use it on public branches.

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing#...

For me, even though rebasing comes with some trappings, I still greatly prefer it to the alternative, which is to have merge commits cluttering up the commit history.
You can go even further if you open the MIDI settings thing (I don’t remember the exact name, it’s in Utilities).

There you can set the per channel volume with 2 digits, giving you 10 steps extra between 0 and 1, as well as balance.
While I don't agree with everything Stallman says and does, I really do appreciate that his position on this issue is not just another axiom, but follows purely from other positions he had already established.
What Did We Learn from Sam Bankman-Fried's Downfall?
The Richat Structure is the fool's Atlantis. It's just a load of circles guys, that doesn't make it Atlantis.

Atlantis was in Tunisia: https://medcraveonline.com/IJH/IJH-05-00275.pdf
> The complex backend code isn’t going to work on your little laptop either.

Of course it will if it's a linux laptop. Companies even give exceptions for linux laptops for exactly this reason.

> This is a stupid position to take, because people care more about whether they can spin up a development environment, not run all the code that goes to production.

You think being able to run the code you're working on is not a requirement for a good development environment? Or you think nobody writes this code, it just magically appears in production when you deploy your html page? Lmao.
This would be a reasonable thing to believe if plato didn't frequently make up tales like this as allegory out of whole cloth, including more than one example _in the same dialogue_

There are multiple examples of 'myth-like' stories whose only attestation is a platonic dialogue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_Er

here's another example.
Feel this speaks how to the social classes omnipresent in our world. We want to pretend we live in a classless society but we really don't. If you have to work for a living you're working class. Too many people these days have become corporate sympathizers trying to justify this absurd bonuses to CEOs.
Uh, no? This entire article is how Apple declares all online sales to have happened in Cupertino, regardless of where the buyer is.

Amazon doesn't do that, they say the sale happened where the buyer is.

B&H does the same.

Apple says "it happened in Cupertino, so we'll pay taxes related to Cupertino and our special tax agreement with Cupertino".
Startup idea – Computer Vision for X
Over the last few years, I’ve seen many exciting startups leverage computer vision to enable checkout-free experiences for consumers in different industries. The most common use case is probably retail, where there are companies such as Amazon Go, Standard Cognition, Sensei, AiFi, Trigo, etc. However, there’s a whole bunch of time we waste on queues (in the US alone, Americans spend roughly 37 billion hours each year waiting in line) and there are very exciting opportunities to address different segments. Some I’ve seen / thought of: Checkout-free parking (I’ve discovered Metropolis), airport security, museums/public attractions, checkout at clothing stores (Uniqlo has one of the first implementing RFID chips in individual items). Any other use cases you would like to see addressed by this technology?

Cheers from Portugal
I think slave is (way) too strong, but I earn more than that, and until I'd paid off my house I considered myself a "wage-slave", in as much as I couldn't afford to stop working. Another term I used for myself was "techno-whore", since I sell my technical skills for money. I could choose to end that by moving to a LCOL area instead of the VHCOL area that supplies those wages, but I don't because there are advantages to being where I am.

Still, costs are in line with those wages, so my mortgage was costing me ~$5k/month, my electricity was peaking at $1k/month, my water was $500/month, my property taxes were $1500/month, etc. etc. etc. A high salary doesn't necessarily mean unbound wealth, it just makes living in that VHCOL area comfortable.

Sadly, I still can't afford to stop working, but that's more down to the completely terrible form of "healthcare" that the US employs, and not my actual job.
I had a walkman that could barely get through two tapes on a set of batteries. Now people are running their houses on it. Wild!
Never sought it either, it was offered to me in the early days (~15 years ago) and I simply agreed. Never much used the powers. I do however think a diverse set of interested people is a stronger community than a small set of policy zealots, and that the Wikiverse has largely lost its way, abusing the significant contributions of a few by rewarding what amounts to negative behavior.
Here's some of what we used during undergrad: https://www.realdigital.org/

We used the Blackboard ($139) primarily and it covered most needs.

There are free, well-written courses as well on their website, covering basic digital logic to creating IP that communicates with the PS over AXI. My only complaint is their community forum is completely unmoderated and abandoned.
I want to see a reality TV show (not really, I don’t watch TV) following those US bosses WSJ talks about trying to survive in Europe. They seem to have headaches when people leave, headaches when people stay, headaches when people mention unionizing, headaches when people use their sick leaves. In an environment where at-will employment gives them the upper hand.

Maybe they aren’t too fit for being bosses after all.
Which model of monitor do you use?
To quote Einstein: “everything is relative”
> there isn't anywhere to go because car dependent infrastructure has killed all the places that young people used to hang out.

I think it's way more than car dependent infrastructure. It's also the pressures of monetizing everything including social spaces. The only place I know in my town where you will be unharassed for hanging out in the open free of charge for hours out of the weather is the library. The mall will encourage you and your group to leave with security. The coffee shops and lounges require purchases of drink. Even my local makerspace requires at least one purchase to hang out in their scheduled "free" hangout meetups.
Well, I guess if the build system uses that distro or if it's a sourve distro.
Giga ML (YC S23) Is Hiring
This is basically ARM lobbying to hamper their challenger. There is no legitimate reason for it. (That doesn't mean we don't still need to fight it.)
He could have been conflating Santorini and Crete, which is a much larger island which was also home to the Minoans. Not larger than modern-day Libya, but perhaps larger than the populated area of Libya at the time.
I ride motorcycles on the track, and most track riders/racers disable or delete ABS on their bikes. The idea of ABS sounds great, but it’s often too primitive for high performance riding. On a hot summer day with sticky tires and a clean track, you’ll flip over the handlebars before you lock the front wheel. However, most ABS systems work by detecting the speed difference between the front and rear wheels. As you brake hard into a corner, the weight transfers forwards and the rear wheel can come completely off the ground. I’m braking as hard as possible but at this point the ABS sees the rear wheel spinning freely in the air and decides I don’t have brakes anymore. Check out this clip from WSBK for an extreme example of what I’m talking about: https://youtu.be/48lcS3hPVrE?si=UORAFvQt4Djf95Uv

I don’t claim to be able to out brake ABS on the varied conditions of the street though. I would NEVER turn off ABS outside a controlled environment. Honestly it should be a legal requirement for bikes just like cars and it’s pretty silly that manufacturers like to charge $500-1000 extra for this feature.
It could get even worse - imaging that they have so much wealth that they pass it onto their children who don't even have to work till 30. You could imagine a growing class of people who don't work and merely live off their inherited wealth. Of course, that already exists; they're called wealthy people.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_(stationery)
> others are so regulated that not many people aspire to work in them

Can you talk more about this and cite some sources?
That brought back a memory!

IRS tax refund checks (not just bills) used to be in the form of a punch card.

https://images.app.goo.gl/rKuKR2FryEM8PRcb8
> Except then it’s not a history of what actually happened?

What do you mean? Hg and Fossil don’t capture what “actually happened” either, they don’t show you stuff you typed and deleted before committing. They don’t save the compile errors you had or what you tested and changed. They don’t save what you said to your coworkers about their code because they were afraid to set their changes in stone or make a mess. They don’t prevent anyone from putting things into the commit log in a different order than they “actually happened”, and they can’t: these are systems that record only what you tell them. What problem, exactly, does trying to capture ‘what actually happened’ help solve?

I don’t understand this obsession with what “actually happened”, as if there’s something critical about auditing keystrokes, as if the working code and the state of the tree are secondary. No DVCS can prevent someone from designing what their commit history looks like. In the mean time, the idea that you shouldn’t be able to edit or change anything locally before showing it to other people seems like a negative force against the basic safety net that a version control system needs to provide. (And no existing DVCS actually prevents rewriting history anyway, they just claim to have preferences and they offer commands to rewrite history that have other names and say honor system, you shouldn’t use them very often.)

> revising it to make it look “clean” doesn’t actually help with anything.

Hehehe you’ve never had to look at the history then, I assume? You’ve never had to bisect? You don’t care if people interleave different topics in their branches, or make lots of 1-line fixup commits all over the place? You don’t care about how long it takes to find out who changed something, or whether you have to sift through a mountain of garbage to find it?

Don’t the DVCSs that have the ‘history is sacred’ dogma also have tools to make presenting and viewing history less noisy than the so-called ‘what actually happened’ commit log? Doesn’t that prove that a clean view of history does help, and is something a lot of people want?
It gets worse: in a society where children are a luxury requiring careful investment and sacrifice to conceive, child abuse will be far more rampant, as there will be growing pressure from parents to make their children some sort of positive ROI, otherwise why even bother having them?
It may be unlikely, and perhaps "unconvincing", but honestly curious - why does it annoy you?

The idea that the flood myths came from an oral tradition ten thousand years ago doesn't even require the first assumption you mentioned (i.e. "that humans are incapable of inventing grand, exaggerated stories"). It may be that among the myths, most of them are grand exaggerated stories, but this one is real.

As for how long oral traditions can survive without writing -- it's up to anyone's guess isn't it?

I mean, to be honest I have no idea what's actually true, and I don't think anyone (including you) does either. So why be annoyed when people bring up a possibility, not disproven, just merely unlikely in your framework, a framework that's not indisputably valid at that?
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You should’ve started the discussion stating your personal drama with Adam Black so we wouldn’t waste our time.
I guess this is just my getting old moment. I watched planes fly into buildings, friends go off to war and die, and had memory of three economic crises by the time I was 24. Which was way better than my parents generation which was (arguably) better than my grandparents generation. This generation is complaining about... having phones?

Bah, get off my lawn so I can yell at a cloud.
Prior to commonplace ABS in cars, pumping the brakes when traction was bad was a commonplace braking technique taught across Canada for winter driving. An added benefit was that the sudden, irregular flashes of brake lights ahead hopefully gave a good amount of warning to following drivers to let off their own gas pedal and do the same kind of brake pumping.
That is a California specific situation that applies to California taxes and California’s local governments’ portion of those taxes. If you are in any state, Apple still collects and remits sales tax for that state.

Amazon/B&H example was that they were not collecting sales taxes in states they did not have a physical presence in, until the South Dakota Wayfair ruling.
I agree that it shouldn't matter for lower paying jobs and those that don't need a non compete. For higher paying jobs, I think it's reasonable for a company to set a base pay or pre approval before having a second job.

It _should_ matter from a perspective of not paying enough money for an employee to meet basic needs and have enough discretionary spending to not need a 2nd job.
That means that multiple arbitration cases cannot be joined together - which is actually worse for them, as they have to pay a fee per case, so more cases means more fees to be paid.
I live in a small EU country, we have euros, mastercard/visa based credit cards, we're in the schengen, and somehow even within EU some companies won't ship to us (while shipping to eg 18. other EU countries). That includes amazon sellers!

If something is eg 100eur cheaper in germany than here, I'd use (and did use a couple of times) one of the reshipping companies, that take the package I ordered and for a fee, ship it to my country.

Same for US, a lot of stores don't ship outside of US, some due to not wanting to deal with that, some due to more practical reasons (wrong electric plug, etc., don't want to deal with customers complaining), and well.. use a reshipper for that too.
So AGPL+CLA:

> The benefit of switching to AGPLv3 is that it obliges downstream developers to contribute back to the core project - either by releasing their modifications as open source for the benefit of the whole Matrix ecosystem, or by contacting Element for an alternative license. Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA)

This makes it clear that they intent to ship under some alternative license, for a fee. They’re making others sign an agreement to ensure that they have privilege to ship the project (or forks of it) under a proprietary license.

I wouldn’t consider any of this open source any more. These are step that a organisation takes when they want to move to an open core model and screw over the community. What they are doing is a required step to pull the same stunt as terraform.

It’s technically still open source today, but this consolidates them into a position to change this at will. Don’t be fooled by the tricky wording that makes this sound like a good thing. These folks are very unambiguously screwing over the community and making it sound otherwise.

As usual, remember to never sign a CLA.
Is that so bad by comparison, though? Assuming a "serious effects" dosage (i.e. not a microdose and not a single whisky shot) I'd rather spend a while dealing with machine elves or considering the universe a glorious and meaningful harmony than being miserably dizzy and puking in a bucket. I'm not anti-alcohol, but as drugs go it's not exactly the most entertaining experience on offer.
I agree completely with everything you are saying. I always ask my brother- if everyone is retiring and the population is aging, who are you selling your stocks to when you want to retire?
> most of the attacks against the GPL, AGPL and SSPL are done by corporate shills, and OSI is also full of them

To underscore something important in this discussion: there is no "The GPL is Not an Open Source License" post on the OSI blog, nor will there ever be one. GPL and AGPL have OSI approval.
The number of articles reaching absurdity. Has it always been this way and I am just more aware?
1. People are paid too much
2. No one wants to work
3. They are quiet quitting/lazy girl jobs
4. We have lower unemployment than ever
5. Everyone's getting laid off
6. No one is quitting
That sounds about right.

The computer systems technology program had around 300 people when I started it, and 3 of them were women. By the time we all graduated there were zero.

A few of us tried to game the system by choosing electives like "The Mating Game" but to no avail.
- Joining at Series C may give you an ideal combination of risk and reward. Series C startups had the highest weighted growth in our analysis, followed by Series B and A.

- At Series D and beyond, you may be taking a serious amount of risk for little upside. Many people who join startups at this stage would be better off joining a publicly-traded company and either getting paid in all-cash or in cash & public stock.

- Joining at the seed stage is high risk-high reward. Just 1 in 4,000 seed-stage startups in our analysis exited for more than $500M, and just 7 in 100 exited for more than they raised. You’re taking a lot of risk at the seed stage—though you have the most upside here.

- If your startup is backed by a top VC firm, your odds go up significantly. Numbers jumped across the board when we looked at startups backed by 30 top VCs.

As a startup employee, you don’t have a portfolio like a VC might—but you can still build one chronologically.
Your list is three angles of the same problem, which is financial insecurity.

I'd say it's actually just two things: financial insecurity and climate change.

Both feel hopeless and both make them feel like there is no future no matter what they do.
Slaves from the previous era would sure kill for your job... but you might very well kill for this job 20 years down the line when all your perks have evaporated and inflation/property prices/taxes have reduced your currently-high-salary to what is effectively minimum wage?

Keep in mind that no employer/business is providing these perks out of the goodness of their heart - they do so because the market is (was?) extremely competitive, but it's not a given that the market will stay competitive.
Her conclusion was basically: phone is bad. Which has been the same conclusion that older generations have come to as well.
Ha, I've been working on some similar projects in the past couple of weeks! (Although I was aiming for a much, much darker screen.)

Here are my design/dev notes:

https://untested.sonnet.io/Obsidian+for+Vampires

https://untested.sonnet.io/Night+Rider

The idea to work on this was partially inspired by stargazing apps, e.g. NightSky.

I'm still not 100% if these experiments are worth pursuing (I need to pay rent) but if you'd like to see a tool like this, or if you have any use-cases I didn't mention, please let me know.
https://archive.ph/dCzyw
The scene opens on a world that appears totally primitive. People are naked, people are orgiastic, people are nomadic. But when they close their eyes there are menus hanging in space. Culture has been internalized. Culture is supposed to be internalized. All this talk about virtual reality - people don't seem to notice - this is a virtual reality. These are all ideas - ideas that have been forced into matter so that we could live in a reconstruction of our imagination. And de-constructing these virtual realities in which we live is the only way to get back to some sort of baseline of what it is to be human. - Terence McKenna
That's not a bad or incorrect definition of game but it's... also not what people mean when they say "video game" or something like like a video game. The specific language in the article makes it clear that the person is referring to (basically) fantasy MMORPGs.
Did you actually read the article? The three things you cite were literally never mentioned. We've been heavily car dependent since the 50s. Most of the places teens have been hanging out for the past 40 years are built around cars--malls, theaters, etc--you drive to all of them

Teens are not sitting around sulking because they can't ride the train somewhere. They're all glued to their phones doomscrolling until they can't take it anymore
As one commenter posted. It is unreactive and it bioaccumulates in your body. Removing unwanted molecules from your body is done by means of chemical reaction. If a substance doesn’t react then what?

By your analogy, we should all be eating uranium because it produces clean nuclear energy. Yes?
We are all usurers now.

We live in a utopia of usurers, we've forced our children into unforgivable debt to "get a good job" before they have a chance to earn a cent, we've pushed education, housing and now automobiles beyond all reason via debt finance. When they complain we say "Well, you signed the contract" because we've lost all sense of morality in financial and economic matters. We even deny the language necessary to understand their situation to our children: when is the last time the church, let alone an economist, even mentioned the term usury?

We need a debt jubilee, as Steve Keen has been saying for a decade now. But we won't, for the same reason he's been ridiculed for a decade now.

We small time usurers will find, very late in the game, that our money doesn't mean much when the social contract has been shattered.
I'm sure if they kept doing it another 200 years they'd be accordingly even more successfull at it. Do we have 200 years to dick around and let the rich play economic parlor games while the rest of us overheat or starve to death and argue about the utility of capitalism and efficiency? Why should society give a fuck if Buffett misses his precious little new Coca Cola? Seems like a ridiculous preoccupation given the circumstances
The problem is Political. Municipal governments only have an obligation to the people who currently live there. They owe nothing to people who want to live there if it was more affordable. They owe a lot to the people living in the community who want to raise their property values.
"We" can fix it at a State or Federal level. The President represents everyone in the country. Including the people who live in a place and the people who want to move there from another State