skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, all these types of projects (Meshtastic, etc) fail at their goal of working "completely offline" as I discovered when I brought a bunch of Meshtastic stuff with me on vacation to a place with very limited internet.

If I need to do a bunch of pip install instead of a zip file I can thumb drive around to anyone who needs it, it isn't really that useful.

Even the documentation is on a web site; I would have loved a PDF, or at least a single file HTML, so I could at least learn about how to use the system while being offline. Sure, you can download it all yourself, but that requires you to know what you'll need beforehand.

In short, we need a "click here before going offline" button.

If the internet is still working, you probably would just use it for your messaging instead.
My brother and I collaborated on this project, but we had to build the entire chrome extension, backend, and we used component libraries for the frontend, but for the most part the entire front end.
It might or might not depending on whether the compiler leaves corresponding state in the intermediate files. This might toggle depending on -fLTO. Ofast is not a terribly good idea really.
Yeah, that's not Perl; that's Q!
For most databases (like Postgres), you typically run a single database (per shard, possibly), and replicate changes to a live read-only backup as fast as possible. If the live R/W database fails, you quickly switch the backup to R/W, and point traffic there instead.

Then, there's a class of databases that tries to actively commit across multiple geographies. You pay a cost (in terms of latency, and typically also $$$), but when a commit succeeds, it has been written durably and reliably, using some consensus protocol, across multiple geographies.

The exemplar is probably Spanner, which uses atomic clocks to get very specific about time to narrow the latency gap as much as possible. Cockroach is broadly in the same class, although without atomic clocks I believe it's using network roundtrip measurements and/or some kind of mathematical time abstraction (like counters of come kind) to do the same thing. Can't ever be quite as fast, but you don't need atomic clocks!

What's _really_ funny is when people start out choosing Spanner because of its global replication, then decide it's too expensive, and settle on regional non-replicated Spanner DBs to save cost. Like, that's just a database, man. (Or maybe something slightly above a single database, like Aurora replicated across Availability Zones in the same Region).

Other folks can chime in, but there are a growing number of databases in this class. TiDB I believe is one. I _thought_ PlanetScale was just sharded mysql (Vitess+MySQL = clever auto-(re-)sharding), but perhaps it does replicated writes too - I see it getting mentioned here a bunch.
Everyone already uses iMessage. It's like getting everyone in the EU to switch to Signal because Meta owns WhatsApp: it's impossible. There's not enough incentive to switch off of the current solution because the hurdles to doing so is getting everyone else to do so.

If your family & friends use WhatsApp, they'll eventually be "pressured" by others to use iMessage, simply because the people that they know don't use WhatsApp.

This effect cascades, and now everyone is back to <existing solution> since the "pain" that solution inflicts on a couple individuals is not nearly big enough to make everyone switch.
First thing I did when picking up my 2022 Spark was pull the fuse. Mic is disabled, but I am fine with that as I don't use make calls while driving.

If I'd not known about this data collection before I bought the car, or if there was no way to disable it, I'd be pretty annoyed.
Not at the moment, no. I'll add a tank editor in the future which could technically be ported offline, but I don't have too big of a desire to port it to a native app.
The idea that freedom of expression shouldn't cover 'hate speech' is a recent invention that has been used to chip away at human rights. It isn't at all unusual that most pushback should be seen in that context.
Don't forget that the UK is one of only two countries in the world that has dedicated positions (26 Lords Spiritual) in their government for members of the state religion. The other country is Iran.
> Does this mean that CockroachDB is no longer open source?

> CockroachDB will remain source available under a new license. While the new license is a proprietary enterprise license, the source code will still be available for viewing and contributions.

The word you're looking for is "yes".
What a fantastic story. I’m humbled by the tireless efforts of the medical workers in this story, even the people working the phones. This is the story of hope, pride and excellence I want to see.
In my social groups at the time(late highschool, early college) it was exclusively used for watching TV shows. The 10min limit was only a minor annoyance, and more than made up for the fact that it was free fast video hosting at time when that was extremely rare.

It was not just a nerd thing either, I remember someone I was dating in the mid 2000s bemoaning that YouTube had cracked down on TV content.
That's kind of true. Preventing the sale of it will make it harder for it to be used against you. Even if scammers can still buy or download your data from the darkweb your future employers and the companies you interact with are a lot less likely to go that far to get their hands on it, so all that data being out there will impact your life less and less. Even better, fewer places will be collecting new data about you. Your social security number and date of birth don't really change, but your income, medical conditions, home address, spending habits, sex life, and location history do.
Thanks!

It seems a little short of the claim in their FAQ though, but it's something:

> The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity [...] including the creation and maintenance of "open source" software distributed by the Corporation to the public at no charge
This is fixed. Proper variable is `OSTYPE`, which I've fixed. `OSNAME` is a personal historical artifact.
What are you even talking about? you actually do not need to pay Google a dime to be on the Internet, if you have good SEO you can be on the top of the page
Created This Library for Finite State Machine Based LLM Agents
Creating this library where rather than defining single prompt and set of tools (like function based approach) of creating llm agents, instead you just define some set of states and individual prompts for each of them..

I basically made this to help the problems of hallucination and wrong function calls in my other project, but I urge every llm enthusiast to at least checkout once and give feedbacks,

here - https://github.com/searchX/moorellm
This phrase has been around since at least 2010 and has been popularized over the years by many big names in tech and media circles ranging from Tim O'Reilly and Bruce Schneier to Jake Tapper among many many others. In most cases, that coverage was just highlighting discussions already happening across various social spaces. And the concept behind this sentiment can be traced to earlier TV advertising days. Not my personal definition. [0][1][2][3][4][5] (there are dozens, if not hundreds more).

I've never heard anyone use it to describe Apple's approach to ads or search agreements until this comment thread. I'm not excited about debating semantics, but there's a lot of conceptual weight attached to the phrase that can't be ignored here.

- [0]: https://techland.time.com/2010/10/15/facebook-youre-not-the-...

- [1]: https://x.com/timoreilly/status/22823381903

- [2]: https://x.com/jaketapper/status/976473447374221313

- [3]: https://bryanalexander.org/digital-literacy/you-are-the-prod...

- [4]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/ello-...

- [5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZYwaQlJsg (1973)
If you are neutral on whether Google should be broken up, and breaking up the company results in consumer harm, then breaking up the company makes no sense.

Your argument only makes sense if you start from the premise that Google should be broken up, and then try to back into an argument supporting that premise.
This is a place where “intention” matters to the courts. A lot of these laws require the platform to make a “best effort” at preventing illegal uploads. YT is making an effort and claiming it’s their best.
Even then it still hurts the millionaire less than the ordinary person.
In probably 1999, I had a borrowed old Indigo 2 (probably with IMPACT graphics) in my dorm room... used only as a generic general-purpose Unix workstation, not for 3D.

I replaced it with a modest Linux box, which was much more practical (Celeron 500MHz, 128MB RAM, basic Matrox G200 graphics, non-fruit-colored case): https://www.neilvandyke.org/cheap-pc-2000/
I am sure if youtube execs had emails showing that they were actively encouraging and participating in the posting of copyrighted material on the site they would have been prosecuted as well. Thats the evidence against Kim Dotcom, emails.
Better how? Cloning strains are particularly boring...what are you expecting to happen?
>The security of a self-hosted approach appears to be determined by the security of the MX records, the self-hosted server security, and the IP security of the server.

Don't forget DMARC/DKIM/SPF. They're necessary these days as well.
Sure it may be blogspam, but it got me to click the link to see more. If you want the goods, you should visit the site and here is the link.

I've worked with Arduino "professional" tools in educational settings, and I realize that real PROS roll their eyes at things like the Edge or Portena. However, they've made their way into some accessible PLC devices that help students learn without needing a Fanuc system.

That said, their support has been really great with the issues I've encountered and they publish a lot of original content and guides.

I'm just a genuinely satisfied customer and wanted to share this, but thanks for the downvotes.
Really cool, cant wait to use this!
What causes anxiety: life challenges or your personality?
I'd hope we could be nuanced enough to differentiate lobbying and bribing. "Bribing" is what you do in Russia or Tunisia when a cop pulls you over and you slip him $100 to get him off your tail. Lobbying, while potentially nefarious, has completely non-nefarious uses. Private corporations have a right to be involved in the legislative process.

If Congress was considering a federal ban on all electric cars in the United States, I'd want Tesla's government relations figures on Capitol Hill talking about it.
What physical attributes make them not general purpose computers?
Well the range of packet radio over CB in the US is "We will hunt you down and arrest you".

In general, the links supported range from line-of-sight to a few miles. If it can move 5 bits/second and you can make a link-layer abstraction (outputs the packet from 1 sender at a time) Reticulum will make the rest of the network work as intended.
Since I run my own email server, I get around some of those issues by configuring Postfix's recipient_delimiter to use . rather than +. I've never had a site treat accounts.company@mydomain.com as anything other than a normal email address. It certainly doesn't justify the effort I've spent dealing with deliverability issues, but it's a nice perk.
That's not really how the law works.
Great to see this course material public. It's a real missed opportunity though to not mention that Galois wrote a lot of it down staying up all night before being shot.
WebRTC is complicated; there are many more edge cases compared to websockets. Off the top of my head, I know I'd need to run a TURN server for people behind symmetrical NAT or CGNAT networks, which would be a pain. WebSockets are much more accessible for everyone. In the future I'll investigate UDP protocols, but its likely I'll always use TCP for web games.
That has been my strategy for the last decade or so, Unless I have a solid reason to I never use my real name when placing orders and generally never the same fake name twice, always use a virtual credit card, if it's a non-physical product I don't even use my real address. I have some old phones I throw pre-paid sim cards into when I need to do number confirmation. The goal is to create a little consistent linkable data to me and at least generate some noise in all these data broker collection processes.
As a longhaired teenager, I rarely got the chance to physically touch these things (although it did happen a couple times). Mostly I remember telnetting into a machine, noticing that it was Irix, and being able to login as "4Dgifts" without a password for a root shell. The joy was short-lived though, because as soon as you tried to build software (regardless of how "portable" the package was), you ran into interesting problems, if the compilers were even installed. I eventually got to spend several days with a Webforce Indy and its fancy (what we would now call a) webcam, where I took my first-ever selfie in 1995 and made my peace with the dev environment. These lil things were definitely ahead of their time, even if their price tags weren't.
Please site source where it says theft, since apparently it's a judicial fact. Since last I checked, it says a right was infringed, not theft.[0]. Specifically

"copyright holders, industry representatives, and legislators have long characterized copyright infringement as piracy or theft – language which some U.S. courts now regard as pejorative or otherwise contentious."

And also I'm unsure there is evedence it was ignored, it just seems like you are spewing more copyright propaganda. Might I dare to say they might be in fact lying?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
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Let’s be real: Windows is practically a monopoly. They use it to push their online services in ridiculous ways. I doubt >10% of the current Edge userbase is through conscious decision. Teams obviously cannot compete on its own terms with any competitors, its prevalence only comes from being part of Microsoft’s all in one office suite package that no individual company can compete with.
They have decades experience building hybrids and have chosen the hybrid is best strategy

And you then complain their EV isn’t as good as the hybrids they have been building.
> All file sharing platforms had this exact problem. This was the problem back then. You could even find full length movies on YouTube quite easily. They were eventually removed, but it was a long, manual and tedious process. Even today, this is still not completely solved.

At Megaupload they were not eventually removed. At Megaupload the same physical file could be accessed by different URLs. When a rights holder reported the content Megaupload only made it so the specific URL no longer worked.

> If we are fair, Kim was not the one uploading the restricted content to Megaupload, neither encouraging it.

He was encouraging it. Top management of Megaupload had discussions specifically about encouraging more piracy and making it harder for rights holders to get infringing material removed.

They published list of the top downloads, but first checked them for pirated content and removed those items from the list. What purposed does that have other than trying to hide the infringement?
Doesn't Firechat fit in this conversation, possibly some vague event behind the scenes that shuts anything like this down
Petition to FCC calls for halt of satellite launches for environmental review
I used an Indigo2 with a pair of 21" Sony 13w3 monitors (one rebadged as Sun, one as CGI) as my desktop for a couple years.

When I finally had reason to swap it out for a more normal system, it went down to London to become a CPAN testers smoke testing machine until the hardware finally gave out.

Fantastic piece of kit. I especially liked that when we had a few weeks of power blips if I came home to see 'power brownout detected' as a console log entry (it always survived them fine itself) that was a useful indicator to go through all my x86 kit and bring the casualties back up.
on big festivities like new years i always leave one light on because burglars probably expect a lot of people to leave their house.
asmjit is great; I used it for building a primitive (but quite fast) query engine for in-memory graphs. It made it simple to go from query AST to native instructions, most of which was "call this other compiled function".
This is awesome. Two of my favorite things - fantasy football and slick code. Ggs
Search without a setting configured should open the Settings dialog to the page which configures search.

On that page should be a list of the current well known / trusted providers (this can be a cached copy for offline config), maybe a refresh button (check for an updated version of that list), and a method of providing an end user installed search option.

In short: Empower the End User.
https://chatgpt.com/ is returning bad gateway
Is there any way to mitigate against meteor strikes? What is the likelihood that the base gets hit? Is it just statistically improbable?
Lots of complexity with that question. CB is voice, this is digital. Typically, digital communications can "travel further for a given watt" because the power is "focused" on a smaller amount of bandwidth.

CB can propagate (be bounced off of layers of the atmosphere) to get a significant distance, but it depends on atmospheric conditions, time of day, etc. So not reliable.

I've talked to Uruguay on my ham radio on 4 watts (HF, 10-meter band), but once again, I can't do that reliably/every day.

LoRA is 900mhz (in the US) so you don't get atmospheric propagation.. but with the right antenna (height is might!), you can get several miles in a city environment with only a watt or two... so forming a mesh is what allows you to achieve further distances.

It is not legal to encrypt CB or ham radio communications.
yes but which service to you ?
and I feel like I am unable to understand you?
Pay large salaries to the executives and lobby the government for more funding while their competition accelerates away.
Oh yeah once they started cracking down I stopped watching any mainstream movies, music, etc., especially not anything less than 10 years old. You miss out on a banger here and there, but it's a lot safer.
careful these type of comments might get you flagged like mine:

any instructions on how to get this running on m1
> Socialism isn't a dirty word,

It is, for people like me, who have actually experienced living under a socialist regime.
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yeah, so, what i was saying is that food in general almost entirely air. checking out the corrected fullmetal alchemist recipe in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body#... we see 65% oxygen, 18.5% carbon, 9.5% hydrogen, 2.6% nitrogen, adding up to 95.6%. those all get into food from air more or less directly

of course, the humans mostly aren't cannibals, but their food composition is similar to that of their bodies

the next element is calcium, 1.3%, which is mostly in bones, which are not food (the humans don't eat the bones when they eat meat) and which have a very long half-life. the recommended daily intake of calcium is about 1 gram per day, under 0.1% of the food. then we have phosphorus (not phosphor!) at 0.6%; sulfur at 0.3%; potassium, sodium, and chlorine at about 0.2% each; and magnesium at 0.05%. your entire cobalamin content is measured in milligrams, and cobalt is about 4% of cobalamin, so your entire body content of cobalt is down in the micrograms

so about 97% of your food is made of air, and the other 3% is made of rocks and soil

you are entirely correct that it's a very important 3%

fluorine isn't required at all, not even for plants. chromium isn't known to be, but might be. nickel might be too. boron is essential to plants but probably not animals. thanks for the reminders about zinc, copper, and iodine! and i didn't realize it, but you're right, manganese and molybdenum are essential to humans!
I think Unsong is less math/physics and more just mega nerd. But it has a very very similar vibe. I love it so far (on chapter 20 or so right now).
>Anyway, this system was bullocks. It was just a poor lip service which they stalled and ignored the whole time.
I can't unsubscribe easily in one click ? They don't get to complain easily in one click. I can't get easily an email address or phone number to contact them ? They won't get contact info too. They had a taste of their own medicine. It's unfair if it's easier for them to take down my content than for me to appeal the decision.
> If your of the opinion that Google should not be broken up at all, ever, then your point is valid.

I don't think it's a good sign that you decided to resort to baseless personal accusations in reaction to a simple request to support your baseless clams.

The question is very simple: does it still make sense to break the company today? Not a decade ago, but today. It you believe so, why?
Would they be allowed, or would that be more anti-competitive behavior?
This was a hard lesson for me. Presidential candidates promise a whole bunch of things to get voters to back them.

Although even if they really wanted something e.g universal healthcare or no taxes on tips, a bill needs to go through house and senate.

That’s 100-ish representatives who need to vote yay on a bill to go through.

Unlikely it gets passed if there’s a 50/50 split in senate and house.
My first ISP environment back in '00 was a mixture of FreeBSD and BSDi, though we did eventually acquire a Mandrake box to trial linux on.
Do you mean back to FDR-era policies, or are you using socialism as a stand in for the tyrannical communist governments of USSR et al?
So what does the tablet actually say?
Understanding Reticulum
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More control over a narrower aspect of life, vs control over many parts of your life.

Google can be your email, your phone, your ISP, own your health data, control what you watch, listen, search for, it can control your ability to make money or even control access to your data and documents.
When I edit a C program, comments are highlighted in a specific way, but the // characters are not removed. Why should editing a markdown text be different?
In general, most high-band UHF RF is constrained by earths curvature.

Hams that operate in HF/CW bands simply rely on atmospheric or moon bounce to exchange Morse-code over long distances.

Amateur radio is a great way to gain a different perspective on electronics, physics, and our sun.

Have a great day, =3
They tried to do this in 2000/2001, but it didn't result in a breakup.
Just did, thank you for pointing that out.
Lobbying and donations are just legalized bribery. As of 2024, the Supreme Court even strongly legalized financial gifts to government officials. Any distinction is morally tenuous.
Who are these developers making reliably good games over 20 years?

Lemmings was a great game, but that isn't informative as to Grand Theft Auto, which isn't.