skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Human systems invariably seem to become oligarchies

That's what I'm saying.. We seem to agree here :)

> Only via regulatory barriers (..) can a monopoly be built.

This is, to me, an absurd idea. There are a lot of other very common, real-world barriers that exist...

I don't know what you mean by corporate welfare exactly, but yes, large established capitals are a barrier.

Physical assets are a barrier. Think factories, etc. A new entry cannot just "acquire" a production plant or a datacenter or an oil pipeline. Hence having worse economies of scale, etc.

Network effects are a barrier, especially in tech. Think social networks, etc.

Control over Media channels is a barrier that huge corporations in various sectors employ very effectively.

Established guilds and cartels are a barrier. Nothing socialist about those.

Knowledge itself is a barrier, and in my opinion an underestimated one. If a firm recruits lots of very technical, hard to find knowledge on how to do a process, they'll become the best at it. Well, nothing wrong with that if they are useful. But if they congregate too much knowledge in disparate domains, without sharing it, and have the capital to defend it, they become basically unbeatable. This brings more capital, and that is how a monopoly is formed.

If anything, you should regulate that knowledge should be shared. Because that's definitely not what happens with the knowledge that actually matters.

> Only via regulatory barriers (..) can a monopoly be built.

Honestly, this is such a weird option to me, that I wonder if there are people out there who gain from intentionally pushing this propaganda.. (probably yes)
Will be essentially the same performance. A box filter has to add one pixel entering the kernel and remove one pixel exiting the kernel. This one has one pixel entering and leaving each half of the kernel and then combining the two halfs. So three box blurs have six additions and once this filter is also six additions. Maybe the box filter could be somewhat slower because it has to increment two pointers three times while stack blur has to increment three pointers once and also incurs the loop overhead only once. For a fixed radius you could however use only one pointer and realize the offsets between the pointers with an appropriate addressing mode if available on the target architecture.

This is the box filter inner loop.

sum += data[right++] - data[left++]

This is the stack blur inner loop.

lsum += data[middle] - data[left++]
rsum += data[right++] - data[middle++]

sum += rsum - lsum
And that dang dang gives a dang.
I bet more on the usual inability to predict obvious indirect consequences than on intent to harm China. For sure it’s not the right time to do so.
You're discounting billions of people to whom this didn't happen, because of which they didn't make a HN comment about it.
You're hired for all of my future PR needs.
He calls out the lack of commodities as a problem to be addressed, unlike flying and radio which are suggested to be solved problems.

“everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle” not fear of failing to create the next wonder.

Thus emphasizing the critical nature of workers. It’s easy to read as pro social safety net or event collectivist terms. But stating a problem alone doesn’t suggest a solution.
I can do a lot more than browse the web without my 8GB Air being brought to its knees.
More like a motorcade of motorcycles, 3 at the front in arrow formation pushing out the traffic, the forward section not shy about using their guns to move people away - these would be real NYPD with badges hired during their off-duty hours, they would be carrying NYPD weapons.

Then you have the main security cordon, a quad / box. They would be on motorbikes, but it would be like guards, and since the traffic is already cleared by the forward section, it would just go at the fastest speed the cyclist courier can go.

The cyclist is in the middle of the quad/box.

Then at the back you have a rear section (also 3 NYPD off duty cops on motorbikes with firearms licenses and authorized to shoot with no consequence because they are union protected), which will block traffic from coming too close to the courier.
Yeah. Politeness is part of the culture, but HN does have a conspicuously high chance of someone professionally involved in the discussed topic popping in.
Yep, this article is a desperate cry from an obnoxious hack to assert his relevance. See also: Cory Doctorow.
I just don’t use Meta products. It’s not as simple as paying to not watch ads, your privacy is not guaranteed. IMO paying for Meta is the same as paying to have a camera watching you 24/7 and being told it’s a privilege.
There's no cognitive disconnect in believing that pre- and post-scarcity societies would (or should) be substantially different.
> they simply took it over

I see it like the free internet.

Yes, there's all kinds of garbage built on top of the underlying foundation, most of which is spam, scams, surveillance, or centralized unfree profit extraction.

But none of that prevents me from using the underlying foundation directly, free of spam and scams. The foundation still works perfectly.

>> Chase UK is the first bank on the list

If you have an account at Chase, and Chase censors Coinbase, but Chase willingly connects with Wise and Wise connects with Coinbase, then it's easy to see how to do what you want to do with your money.

And if you value the freedom to do what you want with your own money, then only keep small balances with nanny-banks. Treat them like hot wallets and keep large balances in cold storage elsewhere.
Are you conflating storage with RAM?
Ok, my point is the amount of deaths is nonzero and it is a sacrifice even European governments and unions are willing to make.

We should do our best to reduce that number, but I consider the original quote nonsense.

We haven't closed down all factories even though people sometimes die in factories. It is a sacrifice we are willing to make, even though we try to mitigate it as much as possible.
At least with Python3, there was eventually Python 2.7 to permit a compatibility layer to move over.

It took ages, but there was at least a "best effort" to help people write code that could be easily moved between 2 and 3. (In spite of apparent behavior from the Python developers at the time).

IPv6's hard break with IPv4 means that the switchover likely won't happen anytime soon.
It seems this way on the surface because everything seems equally inevitable. Maybe it's all inevitable, but many technologies come around and don't look like something described in science fiction.

People vaguely predicted the smartphone, but not really. It is not from Star Trek or Gibson. This technology may have been inevitable, but its design, terminology, and effects were not predicted in detail by mainstream sci-fi, and it really did turn out differently.

On the other hand, the Humane AI Pin is absolutely a Star Trek: TNG communicator badge. There's no denying it. VR and the Metaverse are lifted directly from Neuromancer and Snow Crash. They didn't have to end up that way, but they did, because we had those examples in fiction to steer our thinking.

It's true that predicting things isn't as impressive or as important as making them. But many people predict things that don't happen, and most people don't accurately predict anything. The sci-fi authors are a lot more like the people who make the things than the people who don't make anything and don't predict anything.
Same story on every cloud, AFAICT.

Admittedly this was a couple years ago, but last I checked, Azure managed PG didn't support v6. (We're mostly moving away from Azure for other reasons … so I'll probably never re-check.)

GKE on GCP doesn't really support v6. (If you selected the v2 "data plane" when you created your cluster, then it can, assuming the vnet can. If not, then not yet, and there's no way to upgrade data planes presently.) Peering VPCs doesn't work with v6-only, meaning if I want to peer VPCs, I pretty much am forced to solve all the problems v4 has with that … which defeats the entire point of a v6 peering. Cloud NAT doesn't support v6, so I'm super not clear on how ULA VPCs are supposed to work.
yeah, this!
mehhhhh you don't need a tiling window manager; lxde, lxqt, xfce are all fine "regular" window managers for low memory machines as long as you don't load a bunch of garbage that you don't have to have.
Yes actually, they were factory workers and often times minorities. In the U.S. some of the biggest supporters of Maoism were actually the Black Panthers.

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1/maoism-us.htm
" I fear the day that technology will surpass our human
interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

While I loved this quote (because I aligns with my opinion), it doesn't look it is from Einstein. At least searching for it in google I've found quite a few pages precisely debunking this attribution.
I don’t understand how these two statements are both possible:

> "Several passengers recalled that after takeoff the aircraft cabin seemed noisier and colder than they were used to," investigators wrote

…

> the plane had remained "pressurized normally," investigators wrote.
Currently my roomba is behind a nat and still insists on contacting their main data centers. And if i turn off the internet to my nat the roomba will run but none of the advanced cell phone related features of the roomba will work, even though my cell phone is connected to the same wifi network in the same nat as the roomba.

So this is completely unrelated. IP addressing schemes will not change the business methods of large consumer device companies.
> WiFi 6 support has been added to wpa (wpa_supplicant(8) and hostapd(8)). c1d255d3ffdb 3968b47cd974 bd452dcbede6

Finally! Although, wifibox has been a good enough stop gap solution, I'm happy to have decent WiFi support after all these years.
Can't wait to upgrade.
Next on my wishlist: Bluetooth.
> How do you know whether they comprehended something?

How do you know anything at all?

You don't need a sci-fi mind ray that extracts thoughts in raw form to figure out something like that.
"I don't think many big, serious device manufacturers are willing to risk being the target of the first catastrophic IoT attack [..]"

You must be kidding, right? It's not that they would have cared much in the past. Now, I would be the first to celebrate a change in that regard, but it's just not the world we live in now.
No, I don't think that's right.

A group of people functioning with a sense of group identity behaves very very differently from what each individual member of the group may say or do on their own. Peer pressure and groupthink are powerful phenomena that can override individual character and intelligence.
And look at the genocide that apparently must not be mentioned on HN, which is on topic for this article because Einstein among other Jews wrote an open letter in 1948 that is relevant: https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork...
1. I use it on all of my servers.

2. FreeBSD offers a coherent base system with sane tools. pf is a godsend, and the ports collection is a good trade-off of configuration and simplicity. ZFS used to be a killer feature but is being integrated into Linux systems.

3. FreeBSD is designed around "general purpose" use and has a lot of backing from corporations like Netflix.

4. FreeBSD is missing a true container solution that is compatible with Docker (jails don't count). There has been some work on this as of the most recent BSDcon, so I'm hopeful.

5. I never want to look at iptables again.

EDIT: fix spacing
Did you talk to them? Based on your location, I can guess your sample is not representative. There's overwhelming support for the invasion. People are brainwashed by propaganda. I had to unsubscribe from Russian social networks - I can't stomach the posts by my old friends.
Yes, but what about the same place, sitting on the tarmac in hot latitude airport (Singapore, Doha, Las Vegas, etc.) ?
It is a bit puzzling to know that heat from lights could damage windows of an airplane.
Hmm curious why the two syllable "jury"

Why not jam, jaw, jail, junk, join, jerk, jest, jazz, jade, etc.
I dislike Outlook as a client for sure, but I must grudgingly admit that Outlook + Exchange is the single best, most usable, most seamless group calendaring & meeting tool I've ever used (and I've used a LOT).

For that reason, I end up keeping my corporate mail in TWO clients: True desktop Outlook in a Win VM, and also in my Mac's Mail.app. 99% of my mail I handle on the Mac side (for one thing, search is WAY WAY WAY BETTER). But scheduling? True Outlook every time. It's just better.

I haven't seen or used the "new Outlook," but it sounds like another example of MSFT calling multiple products by the same name to muddy distinctions for marketing reasons (e.g., "SQL Sever" and "Azure SQL"). "New Outlook" definitely doesn't sound like something I could or would ever use.
I'm confused is this required to run the game or something?
I've written ANSI terminal handling before. The original VT100 paper manual that came with the terminal is a nice start, because the complexity hadn't really happened yet and people used to write useful documentation. With that as a starting point for understanding it isn't hard to extend into handling the full spec.

That diagram you linked is actually quite nice, but visually intimidating. If you think of it as a handful of regular expressions exploded into a state diagram that helps. For instance, the entire left half of the diagram is just the CSI code acceptor, see "CSI (Control Sequence Introducer) sequences" on the "ANSI escape code" wikipedia page.

You can write a regular expression to match a CSI and carry on. This is 2023 and you aren't using an 8080 with 3k of RAM. (probably) The only tiny trick is that you have to handle the "incomplete trailing regex" and wait for more data to arrive and try again.

As for handling reflow. I wouldn't call that an "implementation" problem. I'd call it a "specification" problem. I'd approach it by seeing what Apple's Terminal program does, write that down, and call that my specification.
Are there any articles you would recommend that cover this topic? Or are you just speaking from experience?
M1 was not that big of a leap for trillion dollar company. If you looked in A12 bionic or other processor from Apple before M1, M1 wasn't that different in IPC/core or any metric. Also Apple was 2 generation in semiconductor process ahead due to TSMC contracts.

If you look closely, yes apple is bit better in manufacturing, bit better in materials etc. and I have many apple products, but its products isn't that different from many small companies. Unlike say Google, whose software engineering and scale they can handle for complex services is almost impossible to match for small companies.
Alright, my bad for not being more concrete. Let me try: "Your honor, the hash 6f5902ac237024bdd0c176cb93063dc4 was found in Ofcom's illegal hash list, which is the MD5 hash for 'hello world' all lowercase. 'hello world' is obviously not illegal. Someone must have found a way to put it in there, perhaps maliciously, perhaps by accident, perhaps due to a bribe [per the parent comment], perhaps as an act of protest. Ether way, it proves not every hash in the hash dump is illegal, and we have no way of knowing whether the legal ones outnumber the illegal ones by 1 to 10, or 10 to 1, or 1 million to 1. Indeed we have good reason to believe malicious actors would want to fill this database up with meaningless hashes as much as possible if any backdoor was found. Therefore evidence from Ofcam's database must be considered inadmissible."
You might not but NAT has many different flavors, and many people don't get to choose which is used on their network.

https://serverfault.com/questions/208522/what-is-strict-mode...

This can particularly play havoc with sensitive protocols like STUN. I believe many game consoles make use of this when in multiplayer matches. I have personally run into this using OpenBSD's pf, but I'm fortunate enough to have access and the known-how to fix it for my consoles.

It's one of those things that's fine until you run into "edge cases," and unfortunately NAT configurations can introduce a lot of undefined behavior from the user perspective.
Religions act like governments - their first inherent preference is stability. SV ideology is explicitly anti-stability, exemplified by the phrase “move fast and break things”.
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Combining real-time 3D and ChatGPT to allow users to create their own custom gemstone bracelets, and get rewarded if others buy them.

You can use the AI Assistant for a quick start, then fine tune the design bead by bead in the Workspace if desired.

You don't have to buy any of your creations, so feel free to try it out just for fun and let us know what you think!
There's something strangely ominous about a lengthy, full screen German-language popup.
The article mentions an important point: customers tip more when given a list of tipping options than when they are not, even when they don't know how much to tip.

This tracks with how Starbucks baristas are seeing more tips per week once they rolled out credit card tipping. https://old.reddit.com/r/starbucks/comments/zcl142/credit_ca...
Utah fertility rate is dropping like elsewhere, just at a higher baseline. It's 1.92 right now, below replacement.
This seems suspect. It looks like Lenovo makes 4 lines of AMD laptops currently and 3/4ths of them have soldered ram. Of those, the cheapest option to get 64GB of ram seems to be the ThinkPad P16s Gen 2 which is just over $1600 or not "a good deal less" than the 8GB Mac. The other options are in the $2k to $3.8k range.
Realistically, how many widely used webmails work this way?
Why the fight to counter false election claims may be harder in 2024
The early DEC terminals did not reflow on switching.
LLMs are still bad at handling dates
https://www.geographyrealm.com/finland-many-lakes/

Thanks to the last ice age and retreating glaciers...
Establishing a bank is not easy, ask Walmart, but maybe that is what some industries need. Guns, Porn, weed, whatever, if it’s legal then create their own credit union.
So if someone asks, you have to produce proof of ownership, but you don't actually need to do anything other than that?

Or do the assets need to be installed and accessible?
Do people use LLMs to "improve" decompiled code?
Just plugged the above into Gpt-4 and got:

// The choice of PolygonKind can be PolygonStandard, PolygonSimple, or BasicUnk10 - they are quite similar in functionality
int intersectionResult;
struct PolygonStandard *polygonStandard;
int computationResult;
struct BasicQueue *basicQueue;

if ((edgeClipper1->clipMask & (uint16_t)(edgeClipper2->clipMask & edgeClipper3->clipMask) & 0x1F8) == 0
&& (edgeClipper3->viewWidth - edgeClipper2->viewWidth) * (edgeClipper1->viewHeight - edgeClipper2->viewHeight)
+ (edgeClipper3->viewHeight - edgeClipper2->viewHeight) * (edgeClipper2->viewWidth - edgeClipper1->viewWidth) > 0)
{

Seems it didn't really understand "BucketKind".
Neither do I to be honest.
I read that one around 14 or so, and even through a youthful hormone drenched haze I thought it was perhaps a little too horny...
Fun article if a little silly. As the author notes, the primary reason muskets started to overtake bows is because you can train shooting in five minutes where archery takes months.

The transition is a classic example of a disruptive innovation—-initial tech is worse along every dimension (range, damage, reliability, firing rate) except one, training time.

Some of the comparisons are wildly biased. The effective range of an M4 is 550m, much better than the M9’s 50m. A standard rifleman’s combat load is 180 rounds which is surely lighter than 180 arrows.
Because Europe heavily depends on the US for its defense and because most of MS is by now an extension of the US establishment from a strategic pov (the dividends and the profits still go to MS’s private investors, many of them Americans, but that’s not what the US establishment is really after)
Llama on Mac M2 Ultra (Literally)
Why Tokyo Has Tons of Affordable Housing but America Doesn't
For me it's not about any of that, it's more about a restricted supply of IPv4 that only big corporations own and having to pay ever increasing rent for them

Anti-ipv6 is like the NIMBYism of IP address space, why can't we just "build" more to inflate the supply and crater the prices of existing ones?
Because of the tracking scripts.
Which it doesn't, since a 16GB RAM M1 Air can be used for photo editing, light video editing, music production, programming, etc.
you're blaming the EU for it?

Yes. If you create regulations with the assumption that they will be followed exactly how you want them to be rather than considering how entities who don't share your goals will react, you are doing a bad job.
Stross is employing his skill as a professional fiction writer to bend facts and ideas so hard they loop on themselves, just to shit at the favorite tech industry punching bags, whether it makes sense or not. It's both clever and depressing.
We're coming for your doctors, your therapists, your programmers, your artists, your actors. Every creative, empathetic touch can be done better by software agents: the last app you'll ever need. All in service of you, the customer.

But what will the customer do to earn enough to afford these agents, and put food on the table?
Problem was, it didn't work properly. I tried to use it, but if you had it enabled they would send you HTML markup designated as plaintext, making it unreadable.
Can't believe this is top comment here on HN

> Do you really think IoT device makers are going to allow your smartphone to connect directly to your device

This happened because of IPv4 NAT.

You might not be facing issues in your country but here in India millions are behind NAT and it degrades QoS
Maybe socialist during his time meant something different than today's socialist. Imagine that.

Liberal used to mean libertarian prior to the 60s.
> It’s like the tool world: I use DEWALT mostly, because the first tool I bought was a DEWALT. So you gotta use the DEWALT battery, and then you’re like, well, I could buy this cheaper tool, it’s better. But then it won’t work with my battery. So now I have something like 25 DEWALT tools.

Oh man, this is something I wish the EU would work on fixing. There's no reason there couldn't be a battery standard.
As long my country can continue with its standard of living, I'm not so sure why I should worry why the tech stack is not from my country. It's a global economy and many things are global: the engineers working on said stack are not from the same country, also China, USA or Taiwan wouldn't be there if we wouldn't buy from them. Even Tesla wanted to come to build its factories here, and once the bullish attitude will give way (because it will) I'll have my local stack humming under my rear - built by unions just fine.
Doesn't work how? Little Snitch / Lulu don't use the profile? As in DNS traffic is not encrypted?

Little Snitch / Lulu die?

Do you have like a ticket for more explanation?
It’s probably fully deterministic in that case. It was bought summer 2015 and the SSD intermittently started to have write errors end of 2019 so 4.5 years. Were you running a “hackintosh” on that one? macOS is way more memory intensive than Linux on desktop in my experience / usage pattern.
I assure you that the Hacker News crowd are very aware of the availability of ThinkPads. Those that choose to buy MacBooks have valid reasons for doing so.