skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I merely question your claim about Russians having a positive attitude towards Ukrainians and their language. Having subjugated them by famine and other forms of mass-scale terror and murder, Russians allowed Ukrainians to use their language... how magnanimous.

No, there is no comparative study of the effects of repressive policies, because starving millions of people to death and not allowing outside help in (read "The Russian Job" by Douglas Smith) is not practiced on such scale anymore, even by Russia. The Wikipedia page on Holdomor quotes orders to subjugate Ukraine regardless of cost. That in itself negates any notion of Russians having a "super positive attitude" towards Ukraine. Do you know why "(...) you could definitely study Ukrainian in any UkrSSR school from 1960s to 1991."? Because it was not possible while Stalin was alive. It was not possible, because it was Stalin who gave orders to subjugate Ukraine at any cost.

[edit] more on the history of the freedom to use the Ukrainian language in Ukraine under Soviet rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainization
> Over time, I came to see the role as a kind of liaison between engineering, customer developers, and marketing/sales.

This is my experience as well. DevRel folks are the voice of the developer inside the organization's product, engineering, marketing, and GTM groups, and their success is aligned with their developers' success with the product.
One wonders what a Kiwi Bukele could do
> This is an awful example as etsy would be the company that the DMCA takedown would be against.

Etsy is a marketplace that connects independent buyers and sellers, like eBay but only for handmade and vintage goods. Every item on their site is listed, sold and shipped by a third party. Every listing image and description is "user generated content". They are a service provider with no liability for copyright infringement on their platform so long as they follow the DMCA process.

Like any major UGC host, they have an IP reporting portal for companies like Disney to make large-scale sweeps of the whole marketplace for infringing listings and file complaints en masse. They do so somewhat regularly. I remember all the noise when they issued mass claims against all the "Baby Yoda" merchandise on Etsy.
But like in Mario Kart, you can now easily pass them.
ECC is ubiquitous in the server space and I wouldn’t really classify that as limited volumes.
What's the penalty for ignoring DMCA takedowns and who enforces it?

FAANG and other huge companies always do risk assessment and don't blink if it's cheaper to ignore some law if the benefits outweigh the litigation costs.. does that mean DMCA takedowns could have huge financial impact for them?
That could be a good separate submission. But here in this one it would take very few words to avoid spreading a known falsehood as a scientific fact -- plus it'd add to what's interesting in this story. Like, animal brains have a lot of cholesterol for the same reason they're nutritious for us! We have a lot of brain!
The ecosystem will change, no doubt about that. Just like it changes when we start agriculture somewhere, or pastoralism. Even if we consider that the new ecosystem of desert with a lot of shade might affect neighboring pristine desert within quite a radius, there will still be a lot left in the foreseeable future. Very much unlike agriculture and pastoralism, which have been pushed into almost every corner even remotely viable for millennia.

It might be worthwhile to exclude certain areas of particularly rare variations of the ecosystem to be built in. But it's easy to end up with too much red tape that will be abused for NIMBY and by people who hide a fossil yolo attitude behind a facade of conservationism.

Perhaps there could be some mechanism for operating some veto quota, "pick the project you want most desperately to be stopped"? That scheme would probably end getting gamed in the ugliest ways, with sacrificial decoy projects getting proposed, not vetoed and then getting built to keep up appearances. Better not, heh.
As someone with an amateur extra license and a VEC, this smells like some sort of insurance fraud.

Theres just no conceivable way in my mind your commercial antenna vanishes and you dont know...nobody checked the swr? The eas output? A litany of regular federal inspections never produced an issue?
Obviously the company that makes chat bots wants you to believe chat bots will replace everything else. But you hit it right on the nail.
>Myway Publishing is ceasing publication of Gekkan Jitsuwa Document, a monthly tabloid that covers (and caters to) Japan’s organized crime members. The last issue (May) will hit newsstands on March 29. (2017)

So ya. I would have subscribed tho.
Apple lidar is absolutely suited to this, and I’ve always thought there is an opportunity to integrate it into the dollhouse addon in Homeassistant.

Or, create a digital twin of your garden, and simulate light shadows throughout the day after adding or removing a tree. Add pruning schedules to a fruit tree.

It’s trivial to do a scan, but it hasn’t really taken off in a practical sense.
Yes, but rather than engaging Nazi Germany with trade agreements and hoping that would somehow transform it into a peaceful democracy, Churchill and others fought WWII and attempted to conquer Germany with massive armies. The EU was a strategy for how to rebuild the ruins afterwards, it wasn’t a strategy for how to resolve the differences between Britain and Germany. So this isn’t a very good analogy for the current situation between NATO and Russia, or between the US-led allies and China.
Welding of Plutonium (1958) [pdf]
Ah that makes sense. Thank you for actually answering my question instead of acting like I was an idiot for not already knowing.
I don't know why this got downvoted; it's at the very least an interesting proposal. Would love to hear a critique arguing that it's a terrible idea.

Existing package managers could even implement it in a completely backwards- compatible way: if you as a package maintainer don't care for it, you simply never add "API tests".
https://kyivindependent.com/avdiivka-defense-uncertain-as-uk...

Some dark highlights:

"The second line of defense, a few kilometers behind the front, is still being built, according to nearly a dozen interviewed soldiers."

"To reinforce infantry units after heavy losses, Ukraine has transferred soldiers from units specialized in artillery or logistics to infantry positions, according to the soldiers interviewed by the Kyiv Independent. This means soldiers deployed on the first defensive line may not even know the basic survival skills of an infantryman"
> This bill allows anonymized access for researchers to all German health care data. Data from over 83 million people.

Sounds like MS has just bought a relatively easy access to ~83m people's health data. For €3.2B.

That's €39 per person (tax included).
> I see no reason to believe that.

Conservatives don't really like the federal Department of Education, but there is no question that Congress passed a law creating it. Why do you think they would strike down this but not that?

> There is a law. It authorized the education dept to “waive or modify” loan provisions. But somehow the court ruled that that means only minor changes are permitted. Obviously this isn’t what Congress intended - waiving entire provisions could of course result in major changes.

Under that reading they could waive the entire law and forgive everybody's loans, making any other provisions moot. If that's what Congress wanted then why would they pass a law allowing them to "waive or modify" loan provisions, implying that they contemplated the continued existence of loans, rather than just passing a loan forgiveness bill to begin with?

> The entire “major questions” doctrine is a farce. It’s not in a law. It’s not in the Constitution. It’s an invention of the court.

The Court interprets the law. The "major questions" doctrine announces how they intend to interpret the laws Congress passes. It was already a thing when the bill in question was passed. Congress therefore knew that if they intended the law to grant the power to do something like that, they would have to spell it out explicitly, and then they didn't, implying that wasn't what they intended.

Also, just think about it. If that bill had the words "including the power to forgive all student loans" appended to the bottom, do you think it would have passed? If not, it's because those words would have changed the expected consequence of the law, right?
Is it really the high beams? Headlights do blind me and it's no exaggeration. US roads are so poorly lit that the headlights at this point create too much contrast and I would consider them a hazard, and for some reason they keep getting brighter every year.
Now to continue this line of thinking - if HR professionals all go to different colleges / schools / training centers with different curricula and are all taught to value different aspects of an applicant, then if someone passes you up someone else might not. But if a widely used textbook or HR principle is taught to everyone everywhere, you might not get hired anywhere.

I'm not saying I necessarily believe this to he an actual issue, just attempting to point out the parallels I see.
What I used to call anger that resulted in programming often times turned out to being frustrated an disturbed enough to no longer not do anything about it.
> Why don't sources try to measure the frequency response of the driver + cable + headphone circuit and apply a digital prefiltering step to compensate these distortions?

Because the effects are negligible and trivial to overcome with even basic attention to design.

The distortion of speakers or headphones is orders of magnitude higher than the distortion from even a basic headphone amp design in the modern era.
Anyone care to summarize why it's more profitable to operate on FM, and why the FCC cares about incentivizing them to operate on AM?
IOL Hat: Smart Sensor Integration for Raspberry Pi and Industrial Applications
>people on the other side of conversations with me can't just export everything with a button press.

Once any data is off your device and (decrypted) on someone else's, you must assume that they have full control over it, which includes backups. Anything else is poor privacy practice, security through obscurity.
While I live in Germany I haven't been paying too much attention, but I do know that it feels like it's trying to invest more in OSS than certain other countries. One thing is the sovereign tech fund and another is them working on openDesk.
riding a bicycle without brakes isn't a wise idea

in some countries it's also illegal.
First item on the incoming legislature's agenda would be to knock that on the head and to walk back any harm that was done.

In theory the electorate should also punish a stunt like that, but you know what modern elections are like.

Where I am, it's simple: Parliament (the legislature) is sovereign, and everyone else's power flows from theirs. That puts a hell of a lot power in Parliament's hands (eg general elections were suspended between 1935 and 1945). This is a blessing (agility) and a curse (more vulnerable to bad actors). You've got some laws that are harder to change than others, which puts some brakes on bad actors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
12.5% more chips with previous generations wasn't too bad, but 25% more chips with DDR5 gets to be pretty meaningful.
i've been in similar situation..

just keep going. ignore them.
They will disappear sooner or later.. while you will keep showing up. That IS what matters.

IMO
I want the ability to load chat history from a backup on desktop. It's obnoxious that a messaging app that bills itself as cross-platform will just permanently lose message history on a client if it's not opened for long enough or if your have to get a new device (or reinstall)
> Having said that, I agree that using a 4-byte type (well, 31-bit, really) for that table is a ticking time bomb for some orgs

A bomb defused in a migration that takes eleven seconds
Surely if it's a rule there's a reason behind it, no? I imagine I'd care about avoiding whatever negative impact the rule was mitigating. But when rules become an end rather than a means to an end, there's no clearer separation between what's legal and what's ethical. Just rules are necessary for an organized society, but rules aren't automatically just merely because they exist.
Author worked on android as his first job back when people hired entry level. Today, the entry level people I know struggle massively to get a foot in the door.
Yes, the world's resources are finite and we use them up all the time.

No, humanity has not discovered them all, or know the actual quantity available to us. Like how discovery of silicon leads to enrichment of a country pretty much immediately (relative scale, still may take a few decades). The resource was there the entire time, the economic output was not, it was not a part of the market until it's discovery.

> You are just being obstinate all over this thread not even rebutting points, just straw-manning.

If I am, then its in opposition to another's "strawman".

> You read like an argumentative'AI'.

Thanks, I do like to defeat other people's logic by the most simplest means. If you can't answer, then you don't have a solution, you have an opinion of dubious quality.
Sounds like moving the goal posts. So they just gave up in allowing registrations without a phone number? Perhaps pressure from three letter agencies.
AI agent to read news and create personalized podcast
I struggle to keep up with all the publications I'm subscribed to.

So I built an AI agent to read them for me.

Takes articles from TheInformation/Bloomberg/WSJ to create a personalized podcast briefing for my morning walk to class.
Deno continues to seem very interested in making marginal improvements to the Node/npm ecosystem that (if adopted) would be massive breaking changes for everyone. It's hard for me to imagine many people being interested in this.
I loved tech until I started working in tech. What else is there though? I can’t really do anything else
> For that to happen the union has to already exist

You can go from not having to union to having one and being on strike all in the same day.

> and be powerful.

If it is then it is. If it isn't then what's the use in having it?
Theres all kinds of political articles on the front page coming up daily. From Russia and China, to Iran, to Republicans and Democrats, and Latin American politics. Whats been missing lately is Palestine. And thats mostly because they get flagged to oblivion because of the obvious overrepresentation of zionist voices on this platform and the tech community
How did you manage to keep such a tiny digital artifact like this email over all these decades…? I imagine that must mean a near-herculean backup effort at least for the pre-Dropbox decades?
I doubt that the truth will come out
Okay. Phase 1 trial, you say. A couple more such items in the news this week. One new FDA approval after a Phase 2 study, and one publication in Nature on a study in mice.

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-engineer-human-t-cells-1...

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
is dreamweaver gone?
Here's the source for DOCTOR from ITS -- it has a much less extensive set of foul words and doesn't get insulted:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/games/doc.102

I wrote this recently about Kent Pitman's work on Lisp, the MIT-AI Lab's ITS machines, Doctor, and Kenneth Colby's "PARRY" (the paranoid patient):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38402813

[...]

And here's what happened with he (manually by typing) hooked it up with Kenneth Colby's "PARRY" (the paranoid patient):

https://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/funnies.html

>Parrying Programs

>I didn't write the original ELIZA program, although my Lisp class was taught by Joseph Weizenbaum, who did. I later wrote a very elaborate program of similar kind, which I just called DOCTOR, in order to play with some of the ideas.

>At some point, I noticed there was a program at Stanford called PARRY (the paranoid patient), by Kenneth Colby. I understand from Wikipedia's PARRY entry that Weizenbaum's ELIZA and PARRY were connected at one point, although I never saw that. I never linked PARRY with my DOCTOR directly, but I did once do it indirectly through a manual typist. Part of my record of this exchange was garbled, but this is a partial transcript, picking up in the middle. Mostly it just shows PARRY was a better patient than my DOCTOR program was a doctor.

>I have done light editing to remove the typos we made (rubbed out characters were echoed back in square brackets).

>Also, I couldn't find documentation to confirm this, but my belief has always been that the numeric values after each line are PARRY's level of Shame (SH), Anger (AN), Fear (FR), Disgust (DS), Insecurity (IN), and Joy (J).—KMP

[...]

Here's what happened when I hooked up the output of RMS to the input of EMACS DOCTOR:

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...

Here's some more discussion about having a TURIST account ITS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518273

And the MIT-AI Lab Tourist Policy:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/mit-ai-lab-tourist-policy-f73b...

Which Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET for blatantly violating by being a entitled drunken abusive pain in the ass to lab members, as well as abusing the ARPANET and MIT computers for commercial purposes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206151

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/pourne-smut.html

"I find this thoroughly distasteful. If you have some authority to order me off the net, do so. If not, leave me alone." -Jerry Pournelle

"One thing that is known about ARPA: you can be heaved off it for supporting the policies of the Department of Defense. Of course that was intended to anger me. If you have an ARPA account, please tell CSTACY that he was successful; now let us see if my Pentagon friends can upset him. Or perhaps some reporter friends. Or both., Or even the House Armed Services Committee." -Jerry Pournelle
Thanks for chiming in. Before I delved into Linux, I spent a lot of time with the BSDs. Because of the more permissive license used by the BSDs, I learned that the work put into these projects is for the benefit of mankind. Whether that's an individual, small project, or a greedy corporation, everyone and all get to benefit and, yes, you've seen the negative side of that.
100% this.

If you think about it, doing accessibility right -- in particular screen reader work -- requires thinking very carefully about the data model behind the presentation. What you need to declare and when. And doing that thinking actually could force engineers into building UI frameworks that not only are accessible for the visually or auditory impaired, but for broader systems as a whole.

It's hard work that has to get done, but it's not particularly sexy.
Wouldn't the land / lease on land be a big cost?
> It simply isn't a requirement.

A third of the diagnostic criteria for substance addiction are about negative effects in the person's life. Perhaps it's not strictly a requirement but often it's only a question of time.
What Lisp is that? Lisp 1.5?
A lot of this monitoring comes from dissatisfied listeners and amateur radio operators. It's not really the FCC.

After they get a report, they have direction-finding equipment that they are very good at using, though.
> Loads lower than 16 ohms will cause power waste in the source impedance. For instance a zero ohm load will mean that all the power is dissipated in the 16 ohm source impedance: the zero ohm load draws current, but no power because it I^2R is zero.

Why are you even considering the case of a zero Ohm load with a 16 Ohm source impedance? Modern headphone amps (including really cheap ones) have source impedances in the range of 1 Ohm or less while headphones can range from 30-ish to 300 or more.

If you don’t understand the problem with your post, trying flipping the roles to match reality: Assume a 16 ohm load and a 0 (or realistically, 1 Ohm) source impedance: Now the “no power absorbed” side of this equation is the amplifier. All (or nearly all) power goes to the headphones. That’s exactly what we want.

> Loads higher than 16 ohms will result in less current flowing.

I think this is where you’re confused. Headphone amps are generally voltage limited sources. If you get to the point of current limiting then it’s going to distort intensely and people would turn the volume down because it’s so unpleasant. Any source impedance subtracts from the maximum voltage you can apply across the load, because the source impedance forms a resistive divider. These aren’t high frequency transmission lines where we’re trying to send GHz signals over impedance matched lines.

You don’t maximize power delivered to the headphone by adding an identical source impedance. You actually reduce it massively relative to a modern <1 Ohm source impedance amplifier.

If this still doesn’t make sense, consider why putting a 300 Ohm resistor in your headphone jack before connecting your 300 Ohm headphones isn’t going to improve anything. You’re just burning power in the source-side impedance and fighting against a fixed voltage limit.
But ANIMAL was just an expert system. Today LLM-based chatbots can do the same thing, except for remembering elements of your conversation the next time around, or sending email and auto-banning you.

And it just costs a few billion dollars, some petabytes of training data and zetaflops of compute to do it, rather than a couple of graduate student-weeks to code it all by hand.

There has been so much progress.
My advice: split your work into two camps, the types of projects you would be happy if everybody used and benefited from (even without crediting you), and the types of projects that you would not be happy seeing others republish without your name. Choose a permissive license like MIT for the former, and keep the latter closed source.

In my case[1], although I have several hundred MIT repos, I have many others that I feel an emotional connection to and do not share publicly.

[1] https://github.com/mattdesl
I am the custodian of a 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline in almost entirely original condition. It belonged to my great grandfather and was parked from 1976 to 1997 with only 39,000 miles on the odometer.

Lots of people have opinions on what someone should do with an old car like this but I am trying to keep it as a "survivor" that preserves its original condition even if it is a bit crusty and lacking in perfect upholstery. I drive it far less than 1000 miles per year but enjoy all of them.
The crazy thing is that CA has ample solar power and the average house likely can be entirely offgrid with a large enough battery system.
* Not related to or affiliated with The EFF https://www.eff.org/

(I realise that TLAs have a limited namespace and are bound to have multiple meanings in many contexts, but The EFF is quite a prominent and well-established use in the computing/software arena.)
Can't shake the feeling that we might be in a permanent war economy.
HOLY COW!

Thank you so much internet stranger!
The author spells out that they absolutely don't want it closed source. They do want the common requirements of copyleft licences, so it seems that the solution is one of those.

The author also thinks the people they're upset about are jerks, even though they fully acknowledge they have the right to be. They're fairly clear about that. And even if they continued to be jerks, the author would be happier if the license they had chosen required them to be slightly less jerkish.