skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Site is partially hugged to death. It has a copy of a letter that Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang sent

> Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V

> A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining dominance in CPU technology.

> The request is facially misguided; any restrictions would only serve to reduce American participation in an important emerging technology, while bolstering ARM’s position as an incumbent near-monopoly provider of embedded CPUs.

> When the first report came out, I hoped it was just a blip that would go away, but with the broader bi-partisan group asking for restrictions, I felt I could no longer just stand by and watch: I am an active participant in the RISC-V ecosystem. I’m also subject to US law.

> I did the one thing any American can do, which is write a letter summarizing my thoughts on the issue, and sending it to the White House, Department of Commerce, and the relevant members of Congress
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> or by contacting Element for an alternative license

Ah, selling exceptions. Even Stallman thinks this is legit.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html
Fair play for keeping the software open source.

Although CLAs are asymmetrical, this is a far better outcome than choosing a non-open source license yet acting like it's open source
I found a lot of humor in your anecdote that the light sensor had to be replaced.

In a similar vein, a family member had a hardware issue in their laptop where some keys would not register some of the time (moisture). Their understanding was that they did not press hard enough for the device to register the press. This confusion between the boundaries of electronic and mechanical problems led to some mocking.

If your anecdote can be taken at face value - they could find some respite in the fact that by pressing the keys too hard they could damage some peripheral electronic parts.
That's possible, but if you look at nvidia, the whole range uses the same hardware accelerator, so at most it is a difference in term of chip generation, not so much GPU model.

I am not saying GPU hw decoding isn't useful, it certainly is in term of power consumption, and the CPU might be better used for something else happening at the same time. But in term of raw throughput it's not clear that a GPU beats a recent CPU.
Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem
It's a messy world. The question is: to what extent does the CCP control the production and use of model?

Yes, the license calls out that Taiwan is not part of China and attempts to limit that statement to this specific agreement. They have to call this out because CCP has a very different opinion on this than the rest of the world. Which definition will prevail if a dispute about model use comes to court in the Chinese legal system?

Yes, people are trying to require ethical use of AI via licensing. This model is trying to enforce China's view of the world. It's important to understand what that view is, and consider if you want to commit yourself to it.

More detail on the differing definitions of "terrorism" [0]:

> The United States and China do have many reasons to cooperate in counterterrorism, but they also have different political systems and different values. The United States sees some Uighur and Tibetan movements as legitimate political and protest efforts that China sees as threats to its security. The United States sees Iran as an extremist nation and the leading sponsor of state terrorism while China sees it as a regime that it may be possible to deal with in pragmatic terms.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-and-chinese-cooperation-cou...
It is a very unpopular opinion, I am well aware.

Mind-altering drugs are bad. If you have used them, you may have damaged your mind permanently.

You wouldn't even know. And you'd even go far as to tell me that it made you smarter/better/more enlightened in some way.

Objectively though, it didn't.
Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant
But doesn’t it also work fine, whatever version it uses?
It's a defensive reaction to the fact the US has vague, crappy, outdated laws about everything. Litigation is needed absolutely everywhere because every situation falls through the cracks of the law, which obviously overwhelms the courts.

So what happens instead? Each company comes up with their own detailed, up-to-date, heavily skewed set of rules. And we agree to use their private court system or go to another company that does the same thing but slightly different.
> Not knowing Rust doesn't make you a bad software engineer, as opposed to what some Rustaceans want to make you believe.

Nobody is saying this, despite what some people with overactive persecution complexes want to make you believe. As for prescribing what people should do, I will say that curiosity is an essential part of improving in any field, including software development. Learning anything at all broadens your horizons and threatens to make you better. If you don't know Rust, go ahead and learn it (or anything else that interests you); if you already know Rust, go learn something new. It would be quite silly for someone to assume that no advances to the state-of-the-art have happened since they first learned to program.
Who's security? Is Apple trying to protect me from the information that my $20 USB 4 cable is just as good as their own $69 version?
^^^ So very much this! ^^^ It's a shame I cannot upvote this more than once.
At least the souls games are designed in such a way that it's conceivable to not take damage.

Not taking the slightest bit of damage in Fallout 4 is utterly incomprehensible.

This is a game where you can take damage just looking the wrong way.

Even ignoring bugs, not taking a single bit of damage from enemies or just the environment, which is full of radiation, and doing it to 100% completion?

As impressive as mastering souls games is, I just can't wrap my head around this FO4 achievement.
Isn't the problem that you can't tell in advance what you're buying, due to crappy manufacturers and resellers.
This article didn't say it produced better code. It said it forced him to think carefully about what he was doing before he input the code to the system, which made him a better programmer. This is very plausible. Lots of people, especially beginners, love to just spaghetti their way to a solution rather than taking 30 seconds to think about what they're trying to do and if this is the best way of doing it.
The first American-assembled electric mini-truck? AYRO opens pre-orders
Sounds like a bit of recipe for accidentally handing access to an unintended privileged fd through inheritance (ignoring the /dev/fd one) such that a compromised unprivileged SUDO_EDITOR value gives you sudo access. Maybe not likely, but I’d really be hesitant about any feature that relies on implicit fd inheritance…
Xilinx has ILAs (integrated logic analyzer) which is similar. In both cases, they are just logic analyzers.

You never would deploy a product with signal tap or ILAs, what would be the purpose? 1) You usually read out the ILA/Signal Tap stream using JTAG. The newer Ultrascales do have a core that allows you to not have to do this, but in most cases, JTAG is what you use. 2) For debugging, you can always load a debugging bistream with your ILA in the circuit. 3) Bottom line, ILAs take up space and are only useful for slower signals unless you want to use precious BRAMs.
I mean, it's not like there is a literal $150B pile of cash sitting in a vault anywhere. In practice "sitting in cash" means holding short-term Treasury bills / bonds, i.e. effectively loaning that money to the government to pay for public expenses.
> making it exponentially harder for them to attack Taiwan

I fail to see how the sentiments of Vietnam or the Philippines have any bearing on the capacity of China to capture Taiwan. Talk is cheap, and neither country has taken any substantive steps toward a deterrence capability, let alone an improved one.

> The US basically has a barrier of military bases along the entire Chinese coast.

This sounds like something a PRC defense pundit would claim as justification for China's belligerency in the South China Sea. The few US bases in the region are north of the South China Sea, in Japan and North Korea. Take a quick glance at a map.

> The US also besties with Singapore, sharing a navel base there, where it could easily cut off China from middle eastern oil via The Straight of Malacca.

Singapore also has close ties with China, including joint military training: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-says-will-c...

The "bases" the US has in Singapore are merely for logistics and training. India also has similar agreements for use of Singapore's naval bases, and India is not a defense ally of the U.S. Singapore has a few bases in the U.S., but they're likewise for training and nobody would claim they're a potential military staging ground.

Singapore isn't a defense ally of the U.S., notwithstanding their defense ties. As a vulnerable city-state Singapore desires to be besties with everybody, especially those who can exert pressure on Malaysia and Indonesia.
This is part of what the openbsd ‘doas’ was trying to solve. They drastically reduced the functionality to reduce the attack surface.
Re: I am unsure where you got this. It's the same vulnerability.

> During the audit, it came to light that the original sudo implementation was also affected by this issue, although with a lower security severity due to their use of the openat function.
Does not work so well anymore. Better use a bookmarklet

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As a Texan who moved and bought a home IN California, you’re forgetting about CA Prop 13 (which has its own giant set of problems)— in California, property taxes are not re-assessed after the purchase of the home. In Texas, they are every year _at market rate_. There was a cap introduced in 2022, but it’s still a cap of 10%/year. In many high demand city neighborhoods, you are indeed seeing property taxes grow at 8-10% year.

As far as the $2263-4000 difference in property tax the first year, where are you getting that? Texas’ property rate is about 2.12% of market value, forever (it can be more or less, depending on local programs and school districts, but is usually around there) California’s is 0.77%-1.07% the year you buy and is essentially frozen forever. So a $500k house in TX (which is _no longer_ enough for an in-demand Austin or Dallas neighborhood) will often carry the tax tag of a $1m CA home. An $700-1m house in TX (which _is_ where a home in an in demand Dallas neighborhood begins to start) carries roughly the tax burden of a $1.4-2m CA home.

That’s a lot more than people expect! And your payment will be increasing, sometimes significantly, forever!
I don't think most meat eaters these days have seen a pig that you had around slaughtered and butchered? A chicken? Eaten most of either, including brain, liver, marrow? It's been 35 years and I still remember.

It's an entirely different experience than buying that juicy, red, CO packed cut at the supermarket.

It's ok to not care but I wouldn't call this piece slander pushing an agenda, it's what it means to eat meat but most have forgotten because it's so removed.
You just make me realize, you effectively can.

In the way those Dyson bladeless fans pull more air through. In your case, many folks know you (some from UIUC too like me) and know your upvote is worth reading, ending up upvoting too.
The post gives instructions on how to lower the brightness below what the slider normally allows. It was useful news to me too.
Question: Why would "not quitting" be a headache for employers? I thought in the US you can just fire people you don't want anymore, instead of waiting for them to quit. Makes no sense to me.
People with this worldview don't see the people of countries like Taiwan or Ukraine as having any agency. They're either subservient to China or Russia or the USA - there are no other options, so any alignment against one country can only be interpreted as interference by another.

They also frequently describe themselves as against imperialism, weirdly.
Decoder ring made me think QR code
I bought spartan 6 board in 2016 for $35.
Ah so you can attach a cable to a plane? Or a ship? If it achieves nothing, why is there global demand?

The simple fact it, it is superior in many ways for a huge number of application and just denying the is never work.

As for the 'visual pollution' its mostly just not true. For the waste majority of humans its invisible basically always outside of a few situations.

For most terrestrial telescopes it doesn't really matter much. Broad visual surveying telescopes take a slight hit but its not like they will be no longer working. Many of the issues SpaceX has addressed and made the problem way less impactful.

Some very sensitive radio telescopes are also slightly effect and having some regulation like we do on earth for electronic devices would make sense.

The idea that its some horrible thing just doesn't hold up. The benefits outweigh the cost by a gigantic amount. Starlink is used to give good internet to native Americans who life away from infrastructure. The worth of these things are far, far, far higher then the few 10s of millions we lose in observatory performance.
esperanto is very easy to learn though. so if you can't find developer who speak fluent english, then teaching them esperanto is still faster than getting them to improve their english.
Testing against every Next.js canary release
I feel like this post just got some dude murdered in Russia
I have no extra dim settings on my Android phone but I've been using Screen Filter since 2011. It's a sub half MB app last updated in 2013 that paints a dark overlay on the screen and makes it darker than the minimum darkness reachable from the brightness slider. Its darkness is configurable and it's pretty much everything it does.
The best quality of life improvement I've made in the past few years is to break the phone in bed habit and start a reading habit.
Confirmation bias – we don't catch the smart ones.
Love the numerous British-style dry humor instances that he inserted, despite being Canadian
Well in this case many governments are weaker participants than big corporations.
If I were starting today, I'd be using conduit, but as it stands, I'm on Synapse and have no migration path for my server.
Thanks for the info! What specifically is broken?

On doing some digging it seems AVIF not being supported in Edge might be the issue, shoulda thought more about that demo image!

I should probably do more testing on FF too, since it's derived from internal tools that never got used outside of Chrome.
Why? What need is there to preserve the commit history, and why is it superior? Are you very familiar with git and understand what workflows the git history rewriting tools were intended for, and how they’re typically used and supposed to be used?

Git only ever advocated for rebase, squash, and cherry pick for local branches that haven’t been pushed or shared yet. It is arguably not even “history” until you publish it. There have always been strong warnings about doing those things to published histories. It’s bad form generally speaking to do it (rebase or change history) to a published branch that more than 1 person is using for any other reason than extreme necessity, such as cleaning up security accidents where someone pushed keys or info they weren’t supposed to. And for exactly that reason, all the opinionated DVCSs that claim to consider history “sacred” actually offer the ability to easily rewrite published history, including Hg and Fossil!

Git’s ability to rewrite local history is pretty important for (1) encouraging a commit-early commit-often workflow where the local repo is a safe space, (2) cleaning up your work to make it presentable and semantically organized before sharing/publishing, and (3) allowing real-world workflows where people didn’t plan every single feature branch in advance but happened to end up working on multiple things and committing them first.

A version control system should be, first and foremost, a safety net that simply backs up any work you do without judgement. Personally, I consider the idea that commit history is sacred to be dogmatic and unnecessary. I’m open to the idea that it might help prevent a few specific types of accidents here and there, and it might be fair to argue that offering tools to groom the history’s presentation, separately from the log of commit activity, is on average a slightly better idea than having to actually reorganize commits before pushing them. Maybe that didn’t occur to git devs before it was released, or maybe it did and they decided it wasn’t going to help anyone and just add confusion to have two separate timelines. I don’t see any reasons justifying calling git’s design a ‘mistake’, and there seems to be evidence that most people are fine with git, and that for whatever reason the DVCSs that reacted to git in 2005 by immediately trying to fix some of git’s perceived issues didn’t ultimately fix the problem well enough to gain traction.
The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download New Software
This was unnecessarily rude.

Did you read the article? It’s about a specific accessibility setting that many won’t have thought to use for this purpose.

Pixels that are driven by real hardware and software will be limited in how dim they get.
zig as a build system is even better!
Its at every level of government. Suburbs fighting other suburbs to give a huge tax break to a potential office where the workers have the off chance of spending some sales taxes buying a cup of coffee in the city. Usually the workers don’t even live in the suburb where they work so they aren’t paying into all those larger tax pools, merely being a burden on the road system. Then when the tax break starts to expire the company extorts the government to maintain it or they simply leave.
I suggest reading the license as IANAL... but my understanding is all three of those would count as a "distribution" event.

Keep in mind, you would only need to "make source available" if and only if you modified Redis. And even in that case, you only have to submit the modifications to Redis. So even though a "distribution event" is happening, if there are no changes to the Redis server or client library itself, you're compliant without doing anything else.

So yeah, all things considered, it'd be a great license for Redis in my opinion.
Patent Community Slams USPTO's Rush to Retire Software Systems
Patent Community Slams USPTO’s Rush to Retire Software Systems
It's a great step, except that it effectively doesn't matter, because anyone interested in ignoring the copyleft mandate can afford to buy their way around it.

The only effective purpose for a copyleft license here is to get paid for permissive license! I'm not against the Element devs getting paid, and I get that this is their best shot at that. I still won't count this as "a good thing in my book".

The whole point of the [A]GPL is that the end user can access source code. Letting people buy their way out of copyleft effectivley nullifies that.
This is quite literally called "the moose test" is it not?
In much of the US, as soon as you're arrested, you're mug shot shows up in the local newspaper with the crime you are alleged to have committed.

And even if you luck out and don't get "doxed" as part of the arrest, you will be outed as soon as your formally charged.

So, no, at least in the US, privacy is not retained until conviction.
>As for your dual citizenship. This does not reduce your bias. In fact your dual allegiances seem to cloud your ability to analyze things from an American interests perspective

I'm the least biased one here. Look at your post. It's actually in complete agreement with my points. You are supporting and agreeing with my point. But you can't see it.
That seems reasonable to me. But I guess therein lies the rub. I get impression that many BH shareholders feel Warren and Charlie will be better at deploying that capital than they will.
Indeed. Racket maintainers do consider input from industry users and sometimes make changes based on that input, but it is not targeted at industry.
Is there any simple way to check the capabilities of a cable, without using specialized equipment?

For me it's always a gamble, with my devices I actually can barely even see how fast they are charging on a specific cable/charger combo. Only by measuring charge time and then trying to calculate how many watts they delivered.
>Going off their behavior on certain github issues, I won't hold my breath and will continue to use briar instead.

link?
In simple terms topaz brings a rebac data solution together with OPA, so you only have to create attribute based authorization rules when really needed, to compliment the relation authorization provided by the topaz directory.
> The "logic" to match a key is not slow. Your CPU can parse hundreds of keys while waiting for the next keyval sequence to be loaded from RAM.

RAM on my computer works with pages loaded into CPU cache.

Rants, personal attacks, handwavings are ignored.
In the article the author claims stocks have an "external" pay off because stock is tied to a company that sells products and if the company does well they might pay shareholders dividends or do a stock buyback. I can accept that a dividend is an "external" source of income, but those are not guaranteed in the stock market by any means. Most people buy stock in hopes that the price will rise due to simple supply and demand (a company buyback is just more demand). If that counts as external then Bitcoin should be covered too, especially since the overall supply of Bitcoin is guaranteed not to rise over a set amount. That's not the case with any other investment in the world (except maybe real estate, depending on how you look at it)

Bitcoin miners do collect rewards and fees (but not "gas" because that's an ethereum thing not a Bitcoin thing) and Miners are a key part of the operation of Bitcoin, but they are not "the operators" of Bitcoin in the same sense that Bernie Madoff was the operator of his fund. Anyone who wants to can become a miner, no permission necessary. Miners do not actively direct the activity of Bitcoin, they cannot change the rules (especially about how much revenue they collect), allow or disallow certain people from participating (and stay profitable), or anything like that.

There are other cryptocurrencies (most of them actually) where the developers of the currency act a lot more like Bernie Madoff type operators. They own a vast majority of the tokens and the source code that runs the network and they make executive decisions about operations, supply of tokens, protocol (code) changes, etc. That is why those of us who have been around a while point out that Bitcoin is the only one that is not a scam.
Well they couldn't put it in St. Pancras because that was already in use by former Norse gods waiting to get into Valhalla.

https://www.scld.org/st-pancras-station-sparks-imaginations/
I really love DuckDB for one-offs and analytics and I wonder if anybody here has experience using with medium size data.

I still seem to run into the workflow problem where data has to be in proximity to compute in order to function.

If I need to run joins on a 5-10 GB parquet / table, unless I have that sitting locally, the performance bottleneck is not the database.

I still find myself reaching to Databricks / Spark for most tasks for this reason.

I suppose this is what Motherduck is trying to solve? But it just doesn't feel like it's quite there yet for me. Anybody who is better at this stuff than me have thoughts?