skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the purpose of the LGPL was that it could be used for libraries without tainting the stuff the library is linked against with viral GPL restrictions.

Concretely, using gcc with default settings will bring in glibc and compiler intrinsic code snippets which were both LGPL last time I checked. If I use GCC to compile and statically link closed source code that I have a redistribution without modification license for, then I can’t redistribute my binary without violating my license for the closed source code.

Ouch! MUSL + clang it is, I guess. (I value my users’ right to own and operate computers even higher than their right to recompile code, so I’d rather not restrict my lgpl tainted binaries so they can only run in the cloud).
My parents rented land on which there was a smaller oil rig. The rig was eventually removed and now the land is used for farming.

OTOH I cannot image how they want to do this with the conrete foundations of wind turbines. The newer ones are up to 300 meters high. With that leverage the foundations must be absolutely massive. I don't think they can ever be revmoved.
Oh boy, an opportunity to flex my AgSci degree oh HN! The invention of the HB process is more akin to a planetary credit card loan. It has done absolutely nothing to increase the Earth's *genuine* carrying capacity and (IMO) trapped humanity in insurmountable ecological debt. It has directly accelerated the mass-depletion of countless other finite resources such as water, healthy top soil, micronutrients, and more. The fact that it has allowed humanity to grow so much without consideration for other finite factors has also contributed to several secondary "loans" which have further trapped us in debt. Most notably, humanity's dependence on mono-culture farming which ravages biodiversity, creates super pests, and zaps soil health. You simply cannot feed 8 billion people with organic farming methods and the current energy cost of controlled-climate hydroponics makes it impractical at scale. As you mentioned, all of this growth also contributes to humanity's collective appetite for, well, everything. Plus the HB process is responsible for 1.4% of global emissions, giant oceanic dead-zones caused by runoff, increased acid rain, less overall nutritious foods, and so so much more. It's a planetary catch-22. Without it billions will starve, but with it we continue to charge towards a mass-extinction event.
Apple to Reportedly Have Fewer Than 100k Vision Pro Headsets Produced by Launch
> without knowing what VideoLAN's revenue looks like you can't say for certain that VideoLAN don't actually depend on it.

This is a matter of how someone might interpret "depends".

If you meant "effectively will cease to exist", that is incorrect.

If you meant that VideoLAN depends on Unity the same way I depend on the 5 dollars in my pocket to be fungible...VideoLAN still exists without Unity, same as I exist without the 5 dollars in my pocket.

There's nothing more to it, afaik.
I think you know jack-shit about totalitarian regimes.

For example USSR used a shit-ton of unofficial punishment styles. E.g. small time dissidents would have a hard time getting a job. Employers would be in the know about certain people they should steer away from. But it was illegal to not work in USSR :) So technically nobody was punishing those dissidents. But they had a hard time to make ends meet AND they could be easily sentenced for being unemployed if they started causing trouble.

Influential groups of society punishing people for wrongthink is pretty damn close.
> Now, what uses more fossil fuels: 8 billion humans or 100 billion animals? It is shocking most people cannot recognize this simple imbalance.

The question doesn't even make much sense; the animals raised for eating are a form of human usage of fossil fuels. Even if they didn't, a single human and a single chicken don't have anything like the same carbon footprint. No animal uses fossil fuels independently of human activity; eagles don't eat coal, whales don't drink oil.

(The answer is still "the humans", though; agriculture is about 10% of our emissions. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...)
The title is symptomatic for the climate discourse; either for or against oil/coal and wind/solar. I find the question "what is a reliable, clean and affordable energy source?" much more relevant and productive.
> If you're renting an EV, make a checklist.

Just Tesla though. I have driven other EVs (Kia, Chevy, Toyota) and haven't had any of these problems.
You don’t have to! Only if you want to sync your history. For pure offline usage that’s not required

I’ll clarify in the docs
Isn't the MCAS situation the exact opposite? Boeing pilots tried hard to override it, but it wouldn't let them.
> 42.7% of internet users worldwide use ad blockers.

Given how many people I know that still type google into the google search bar, I find this number to be extraordinarily high.
I work at a similar bank. We have ~100 employees dedicated to mainly one regulator. There are hundreds of regulators worldwide. Of course there is some overlap in functions so its not 100s*100 but... running a bank is a hard business.
This is board popular with software developers and the top comment on an article about a very interesting archaeological finding is a criticism of the quote of one of the archaeologists for being critical of a Eurocentric view in archaeology.
NASA: "nominal"
Here's a great paper related to Ternary:

"Brousentsov's Ternary Principle, Bergman's Number System and Ternary Mirror-symmetrical Arithmetic" by Alexy Stakhov:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Brousentsov%27s-Ternar...

Also available here (but apparently behind a registration/paywall of some sort...):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220458145_Brousents...

Or here:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8140230

Or, Google for: "Brousentsov's Ternary Principle" and/or "Bergman's Number System" and/or "Ternary Mirror-symmetrical Arithmetic".

Keywords: Ternary Symmetrical Number System, Ternary Tau, Base Phi, Golden Ratio, Fibonnacci, 3-Valued Logic, Number Systems With Transcendental/Irrational Bases, etc., etc.

Related: How e, Pi and Phi are related (despite appearing very different at the surface level!)...
> The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years.

I’d be shocked if you didn’t enter the industry 20-25 years ago.
You are sort of correct, nobody is saying that directly, but that is the result.

The people who are concerned about wind turbines killing birds aren't offering any alternatives, that would be widely accepted, so the result is fossil fuel, because that's what we already have in place.

The anti-nuclear protests in the 60s and 70s also didn't want fossil fuels, but they also didn't understand that an increase in fossil fuel usage was the alternative, because it was the only one that made financial sense.
The hard part is when all of the malware c&c and CP is now being served from your network.
C is very much also alive in games programming, binary security research, embedded systems, HPC, and as a target language for simple compilers. Oh, and as the lingua franca of all foreign function interfaces. And there's still a thriving vommunity of people writing C purely for fun (e.g. see obfuscated c programming competition).

I think it's completely fair to say that Fortran is dead because only physicists use it. And there is no way to justify any similar statement for C.
Also reported on by Private Eye.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/looting-with-p...
See [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I'm genuinely curious, why are there so many extraordinarily pro-nuclear people on this forum? And how many of them have greater than zero experience with nuclear anything? I worked in the nuclear power industry for a decade and people in the industry are not as maniacally pro-nuclear as the people in this forum.
Somehow I missed the acquisition.

I think the downhill slide has begun - they recently changed the terms / capabilities on their free version to make it even more limited and, presumably, to get more people to upgrade.

It's good to know this because it gives me the push I needed to finally move off my very limited use of the app.
Hey you're right, from two years ago, good catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJm9ZYqL10
> "This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation..." says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.

Ironic parts italicized.

He later says that nobody believed in his research. Weird that they made him director of the national center for scientific research with all those crazy, unorthodox ideas nobody agrees with.
Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video
I love this game, but it's interesting to see how modders tend to design awful over-complicated game design, and the actual factorio developers come to clean up and simplify things so that the game can be playable by normal gamers. This is how space age went into the factorio extension.

Popular factorio mods are so complicated that it's more work than entertainment, which is a very important lesson to remember about game design: the effort-reward loop is crucial if you want players to finish your game.

If an effort-reward cycle is too long and the player must play 10 hour to get the reward, and the reward isn't that great, the player will be disappointed and he will stop playing.

Same for the progress curve: the game must be easy at first, but the difficulty must increase slowly while maintaining that important effort-loop reward.

Anyway, I am still disappointed that they did not try to make multiplayer more interesting (ressource economy, allocating land right to build things), or to add more end game objectives, like a bigger alien.

There already are some rumors about flying or swimming aliens, and I suggested adding abilities inspired from Zergs in starcraft: Nydus worms, creep, Lurker.

This game is great but it's also important to note that it's CPU-limited.
I heard the military relaxed restrictions that required Ada. So the F-22 Raptor was mostly Ada, but the newer JSF is mostly C++. No idea if true, but that is what I remember.
I’m surprised that it is useful because I often want to use the same commands in different directories!

But just to be clear: I didn’t at all write “surprised” as some polite euphemism for “this is dumb”. Clearly people have found it useful for a while and it’s harmless easy for me to collect some empirical data, so I just installed it. Might turn out to be a big win.
The way it works for the Airbus is that the pilot controls the plane, but there are safety parameters that determine what the controls do.

Consider it like a modern car with engine management software. If you floor the accelerator all at once from a low rpm in a very old car, the engine will stumble, if you do it in a modern car the engine management software will inject the maximum amount of fuel that can be burned and not too much, getting you maximum acceleration.

The same applies for the way Airbus controls work. Let's say you want the maximum climb (for example due to wind shear on landing), in the Airbus you push the throttles all the way forward, and pull the stick all the way back. The computer will figure out not to pitch you up further than the plan can handle.

The same manoeuvre in a Boeing means you press the TO/GA switch twice for maximum power (because the engines are computer controlled here as well) but then you pull back on the yoke up to stick shaker activation (stall warning) and manually try to pitch just below the maximum. There is no safeguard stopping you from pulling too far and stalling the airplane. Every pilot can do that, small training aircraft that everyone learns this in don't have any protections either. But the accuracy won't be as good as what the Airbus computers can do and it requires paying more attention.

Now in an emergency, systems failures, the Airbus will downgrade to how the Boeing works. Full back stick will be an unlimited pitch-up and the pilots need to manually figure out what the maximum is.
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I’m with you in theory, but Sentry is for error ingestion, not for tracking users. We find it quite useful for discovering client-side errors we’d otherwise be blind to.
Wait until you hear that the overwhelming majority of civil and criminal cases are ajudged by amateurs (magistrates) without any formal law qualification, who just happen to be local "grandees" or pensioners...

The UK justice system is not fit for purpose - unless the purpose is to let the upper classes get away with (almost literal) murder.
Same here re propaganda. The only difference is we get a lot of your tax money to listen to that propaganda :) But as we catch up economically, we'll get less and less euromonies.

And yes, it's terribly inefficient too. The only thing it's efficient at is building a class of people who rely on EU institutions for their wellbeing. Collaborator class if I may?
Lots of people have told you that anyone can bring a private prosecution. But they aren't telling the whole story. Post Office Ltd, by being a successor to the government monopoly of four centuries, is in a rather strange legal position.

The royal mail had all sorts of powers, historically, as it was a royally sanctioned monopoly, with a charter. The process of privatization left some odd conventions around, such as that it was normal for Post Office Ltd to prosecute things privately, when this has been exceptional for most other entities.

The Post Office used to prosecute for television licence offences, for example, and that only went away relatively recently compared to some of its historic powers. Historically, it had a monopoly over telephones and telegraphy, and some of the powers that the Post Office had in the 19th century were things like compulsory purchase of anyone running private telephone or telegraph systems or prosecuting people for traffic offences on the highway just because there was a mail coach involved.

The Post Office Act 1953 granted the Postmaster General some very sweeping powers, and set the bar quite low for proving fraud against the Post Office: basically, the Postmaster General's say-so for some elements. The Postmaster General also had to give consent to all prosecutions of offences against the Post Office, effectively putting prosecutorial discretion in the hands of the Post Office. And the Postmaster General also had the power to collect the fines upon conviction.

And that's part of how we ended up with the situation at the start of the 21st century.
I don't want my source code vendor to tell me what source code I am allowed to write
At least in the US national lab system Fortran is nominally being phased out in a lot of projects. It's just gotten too hard to find highly skilled Fortran programmers to maintain these complicated projects, so a lot of codebases are gradually being moved away from it. However the reality is it's mostly aspirational; some of the large codebases have at least made big progress towards migrating onto C++ but the tail is very long indeed and it's still entrenched with many of the greybeard HPC folks. It's also tough to imagine some of the big legacy codes that are still heavily used in the nuclear industry (e.g. MNCP) migrating away due to the sheer amount of experimental validation that has been done on the existing Fortran code.

I personally know and like Fortran in its modern form, at least within its little niche. But the ability to maintain these codes long term is really important and it's tough to see that being viable with the supply of professional-level developers withering to nothing.
> If you obtain libmysql.so and use it in any way, you have to respect the license or you're in breach of copyright law.

We're talking about following the GPL to the letter with respect to libmysql.so. The GPL says nothing about what I can do with a program on my system not covered by the GPL.
What was the viral termination video?
Distribution is not required for copyright infringement. The creation of a derivative work is a separate right in copyright.

Copyright law has however implemented exceptions in the form of interoperability. The distinction between creating a derivative work, or having two works communicating with each other, is a relative fuzzy one.
Also need an extension that would block the 'feature' of pausing the video when you scroll it out of view.

I swear these brain-dead social media websites get stupider every year. Worse yet, they pick up each other's bad habits (Tiktok -> Twitter -> Instagram in this case it went)
For those not from the UK like myself that had to figure out what CBE is - it stands for a title called Commander of the Order of British Empire. It’s granted to honor notable service in various areas, including public works like the Post Office. This acronym is apparently common enough to people from the UK that news stories within the UK call it CBE without explaining what the acronym means, so your average UK citizen must know exactly what it means.

Most people from the USA are probably familiar with the term “knighthood” or “being knighted” from the UK which is referring to the same award process but higher ranking. The two titles above CBE apparently are what knighthood refers to, known as KBE/DBE (Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of British Empire) and GBE (Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, the highest honor). So CBE is essentially the third highest honor that can be granted in this fashion.

Related to the story, it seems like the CEO in question was forced to give up the CBE title two days ago in relation to this scandal
Seat configuration is up to the airline to decide to some degree. Some newer 737s have the ability for airlines to pack them dense if they decide to. A lot of airlines use 737s for short haul flights that do not have meal service, so not being able to fit a meal is not a concern for these customers. What they care about more is being able to split the costs between more passengers and offer cheaper tickets.
Maybe you can "mock" google domains and serve them locally?
Using open source development tools is fine. What matters is what you distribute to end users (i.e. the output of those tools). I think the issue with unity is that VLC ends up being distributed as part of unity applications.

I'm not a lawyer but this might indeed have some valid issues associated with it depending on how this is done. So, I can see an argument for Unity simply not wanting to put their customers in a situation where they have to worry about these issues. It seems a bit drastic though given how useful it is.

Banning companies/accounts seems like it's simply unprofessional/rude and unnecessary. Sounds like they need to have a conversation with whomever thought that was a good idea about professional conduct.
Yea, it's probably going to take time to process them all.
University governance isn't dominated by left wing anything. Liberal at the very most, but this sort of ruthless optimization of labor is fully compatible with liberalism.

And universities as institutions are extremely conservative in the non-political sense. Their mission is to maintain and reproduce a certain relationship to knowledge production. As such they highly prioritize the power of the institution, even and maybe especially against the power of the individuals working within it, who are otherwise well-situated to disrupt it.
>the question how much this contributes to the building of successful and sustainable companies is still unanswered.

Is it unanswered though? Out of TOP 100 companies by market cap[1], 80% of those are from the US, with the wealthiest being tech. EU only has few companies there ranging from oil, luxury goods, cosmetics, drugs, with only Siemens, SAP, Accenture(?!) and ASML being the only major EU tech companies a large and wealthy continent could muster, with SAP and Accenture not being known for much innovation.

The US's 7 largest tech companies alone, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, are worth more than Europe's entire tech sector combined including UK, Switzerland and Norway. It's not even a competition. It's like Muhammad Ali versus your kindergarten bully.

But hey, at least we get paid sick leave and free healthcare.

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/
Why should the federal government subsidise airlines if they want to be cheapskates risking safety & long term viability for a few bucks? I’d rather the government enforce the switch by regulation (if appropriate) and have the airlines + Boeing eat the cost, as punishment for bad decision making.
in older days my artsy friends would call those Stanford etc people "yuppies" or "frat guys/gals" among other things. The culture gap is real since those ordinary graduates did in fact compete and acheive in a certain way to get where they are.. so it is easy and human nature to judge others on the criteria they were judged on.. meanwhile, real skills, talent and sweat are common among the fringy outsiders, along with bad skin, odd clothing choices, low personal skills or other warts... hang in there!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Aviation

>On 28 April 2016, Bombardier Aerospace, a division of Bombardier Inc., recorded a firm order from Delta Air Lines for 75 CSeries CS100s plus 50 options. On 27 April 2017, The Boeing Company filed a petition for dumping them at $19.6m each, below their $33.2m production cost.

>On 26 September, after lobbying by Boeing, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) alleged subsidies of 220% and intended to collect deposits accordingly, plus a preliminary 80% anti-dumping duty, resulting in a duty of 300%. The DoC announced its final ruling, a total duty of 292%, on 20 December, hailing it as an affirmation of the "America First" policy.

>In October 2017, as a direct result of the tariffs and mounting financial issues, Bombardier was forced by the American government into an agreement to relinquish 50.01% of its stake in the CSeries program to Airbus for a token CAD$1, and would produce CSeries aircraft in the United States.

>In 2020, amid mounting debts, Bombardier sold its remaining A220 stake to Airbus and exited the commercial plane business.

Boeing will be fine.