skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the freedom of the automobile

This is also a feedback loop. People like cars, because the infrastructure of the society is built around cars. And the infrastructure is built like this because so many people use cars.

I own an old VW van, and use it to experience this freedom: roadtripping through Europe. Even short trips to a campsite near my home feel like holiday the moment I drive it out of the garage.

But I've never understood this "feeling of freedom" of all these tens of thousands of people who pull up into their daily traffic jam. Twice a day. How is that "freedom"? How do people justify this for themselves - other than "no alternative". I commute weekly by train, and it's marvelous to look out of the window at the daily traffic jams on the highway, from the inside of a train that zooms by this hell at 160km/h. I've had jobs where I had to stand in such jams daily and it's truly a soul-sucking, time eating, fun-sucking grind. Especially compared to sitting in a train and drinking a beer, watching a netflix, reading a book or working on my laptop. That, to me, is much more freedom. Not as much as roadtripping, but free, nontheless.
Ever read Pirate Cinema?

Anyway, it's a tradeoff between dealing with bad actors effectively and not impacting common users. There's a lot more bad actors than common users running into those sorts of IP bans though.
I've read multiple times (over the years) that swifts are known for sleeping while in flight during their migrations between Africa and Europe. The best reference I could find right now is https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/three-swi... which doesn't confirm but strongly implies (presuming a bird cannot go for 200 days without sleeping, and it was apparently up in the air all that time, it must have been taking "power naps" in mid-air).
> I doubt that a GitHub README is used for language evangelism.

Perhaps you should reconsider this. OpenVMM split up its docs and there isn't much in the actual README, but a few seconds investigation led me to https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm/blob/main/Guide/src/dev... , for example.

> Also, I don't find it annoying, but helpful, because I care - amongst other things - about the language of open source software projects.

Come on, this is not even a good strawman. It's very easy to find out the language of you want to know, and it's possible to inform without evangelism.
They can't whitelist useragent, otherwise bot will pass just using agent spoofing.

If you have enterprise plan, you can have custom rules including allowing by url
"The MCT system replaces the physical magnets and mechanically brush-powered electromagnetic windings commonly used in motor rotor designs with wound coils magnetized via inductive electricity sent from a wireless transmitter." (From the article)
Mutable statics in Rust have scary superpowers Do not use them
I really like Decap, but I wish that the UX was better. With a bit more polish it would be very compelling.
Could be that the other commenter was seeing it from a market without US-sized trucks? Doesn't this change the argument a bit?
Please let that be true! Good catch.
Isn't this range of quick booting usually done with "hibernate once resume many" setup?
why? they fired them to send a message to the other employees.
The Town Square is really the penalty box, mission achieved. Rich Guy buys site where Not Rich Guys can make problems for those like him. Runs it to the ground, proverbially. Hm.
Jetpack the plugin does not send end-user data home, only Jetpack the paid service does that, the customer base of Jetpack is small. If a plugin's theoretical access to user data is enough to cause GDPR responsibilities for the developer that would have broad ramifications across the world of open-source, as code written by some developer in their free time is being used by every company.
The textual IR is not backwards compatible, but the bitcode format has been best-effort auto-upgradeable for as long as I've been involved (2006). The policy is documented here: https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ir-backwards-comp...
This one is written by Microsoft employees and used on Azure.
Cats are (almost) liquid
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp
A really good primer on the whole background is LWN's recent "The WordPress mess"

https://lwn.net/Articles/991906/

They have a follow-up "WordPress retaliation impacts community". It's currently subscribers-only for another week, but they do allow subscribers to generate free links provided subscribers don't abuse that - which I don't think this should count as?

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/8482b183b2dcb418/
Is WordPress even used for blogging anymore? In my view it’s more akin to Emacs or Jira - a platform to build whatever you want that out of the box just happens to be configured as a blog/text editor/bug tracker.

I’d say this is the golden moment for Ghost to shine.
Where is the project you built?
Rust is not (much?) further from the hardware than C++
> and I have to admit that I have not thoroughly researched it

So basically anything you say is speculation?

Im going to add my own unfounded speculation by claiming that the original winamp source did actually contain licence violations which is why the project was never re-released after being acquired by AOL.

Only after buying the project did AOL realise that the code wasn't usable as-is, so it needed further investment to rewrite and replace all the violations, and since at that point the value of local media-players was quickly diminishing they just let it be.
You could always comment on the CEO of the respective company's linked profile. That gets their attention much faster.
(Probably a bit late to the conversation but whatever)

> You have gained income from your capital at this point.

Let’s say Jeff Bezos wants to buy a yacht. He has 1 million amazon shares worth
1 cent when he started and now worth 100 dollars. So he can sell the shares to get 100 million dollars and buy the yacht. But he has to pay 10% capital gains.

Or he can borrow 100 million from any bank and they will accept the shares as collateral. He does not pay capital gains at this point

My take on this is that is a freely entered into contract at which Bezos values his shares at 100 million. And he gains use of the wealth of 100Million (debt balance is not relevant here)

Think of it as like the Duke of SomethingShire. He can rent out his land to farmers etc and get an income. That’s fine.
But if he then borrows a 100 million against the land of the shire, and buys a yacht with it, then he has gained from a chnage of the capital - I just don’t see this as a private shielded from tax decision.

I think there is a further issue in that Amazonnshares do not generate much income (not much in way of dividends). This leads to the general problem of tech shares in that it’s always a greater fool valuation. But warren buffet talks much better about dangers of valuing shares without income streams than I do.
The mods could have literally done nothing and the majority of users (as proven by the unofficial poll) would have approved. The mods didn’t know how to moderate without being little dictators. Once they realized this they gave up and ran away.
"Compatibility" has a specific meaning in C which isn't the same as what you're describing here. What you're talking about is implicit conversions without narrowing.

Compatibility is essentially about ABI: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/type#Compatible_typ...

The C standard is quite loose about pointer requirements. Conversions between data pointers or between function pointers are allowed, but conversions between each other are not guaranteed. You can read the nitty gritty here: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

POSIX defines stricter requirements for pointers than the C standard. All pointers are compatible, so they have the same size and representation, and conversions between function pointers and void* are explicitly allowed.
Yes, You Can Now Bet on Elections in the US
Those "complex parts" (engine and gearboxes) usually only require yearly oil changes and replacement of minor parts as you mentioned (spark plugs, plug wires, belts, tensioners--maybe injectors every 100kmi) for the first quarter million miles. At 10kmi/yr that's 25yr.

The complexity as defined by parts count doesn't have much practical impact on TCO.
Linux's updates occasionally require manual intervention on some distros, which is why they don't do it automatically. The more popular/stable ones should have less though.
Sure, sorry I left that part out.

The Académie tried to codify what was used at the time (which varied a lot) to try and create a standard, but that's why there's so many exceptions to the rules everywhere : they went with "tradition" when creating the system instead of logical rules or purer phonetical approach (which some proposed).

There's a bunch of info on the wikipedia link about it, and how each wave or "réforme" tries to make it simpler (while still keeping the old version around as correct).

Each one is always hotly debated/rejected by parents too when they see their kids learning the newly simplified rules.

Recently, the spelling of onion in french went from "Oignon" (old spelling with a silent I) to "Ognon" (simplifying it out), and event that one made me have a "hmm" moment ;)
> My understanding is that every major attempt at getting to a two-state solution has been encumbered by pre-conditions set by Israel that have made the negotiations a non-starter.

I'm sorry, not sure how else to say this - you're simply wrong. Pretty much everyone involved in the negotiations at the time disagrees with this idea. Whether the "final" offer that Israel gave to the Palestinians was "enough" or not is of course a matter of some opinion, though many at the time, both Israelis and Americans, thought that they were given an incredibly generous offer. In any case, the Palestinians never came back with a counteroffer of what they would accept, so it's hard to say how close or far Israel was from the "minimum" that Palestinians would consider acceptable.

> For example, any deal that would have Israel give back territories it has been occupying since 1967 has never even been on the table.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Literally every deal is that the West Bank and Gaza become part of a Palestinian state, that's the territories that Israel has occupied since 1967. One other territory, the Sinai, was given back to Egypt as part of the peace deal with Egypt (and is, btw, 4x the size of all of Israel).

And the Palestinian authority, as part of Oslo, did get a limited sovereignity over parts of the West Bank. Israel also completely left Gaza in 2005, though it still had some control over it, and imposed a blockade when Hamas was elected (together with Egypt).

So again, I'm not sure what you mean - literally every deal starts with Israel giving the pre-1967 land to the Palestinians, with some land swaps for land that Israel prefers not to give (btw, you call it "giving back" the land, which is inaccurate - it was never the Palestinian's land, it was part of Jordan and Egypt when it was occupied).

> The Oslo accords, perhaps the most serious of these, were deeply unpopular on both sides.

They are probably deeply unpopular now, but I don't think they were deeply unpopular at the time on the Israeli side. Indeed Israel elected multiple people trying to pursue peace after the Oslo accords, and while none of them had overwhelming public support, they had enough support to form majority coalitions and actually try to negotiate.

They're unpopular now because the result of what to Israelis looks like serious attempts at achieving peace with the Palestinians, ended with violence, terror and refusal to cooperate on the side of the Palestinians.
I have never worked on a 380+ tall North Sea Oil platform :)

I work in Software but I'm a massive tinkerer and have done a lot of work wit my hands. I'm not a structural or mechanical engineer. Most of my knowledge is just things I've picked up doing renovations, fixing my car etc.
> but I can say from personal experience that in some cases the praised Dutch directness turned to racism

It always was a thin line. What has changed is that victims are now speaking up, and a silent majority realizing that brutish-directness always was a subgenre that somehow kept being taken as representative of directness.

One can be direct and courteous (and not racist), but the Netherlands (as in Holland) isn't the best place to find that.
In-office work mandates are all about control, not efficiency or value
Why are people getting weird things like corporate food stamps when they are being paid 400,000 anyway?
YouTube. It's where I get all my home workout and yoga videos.

And Google Maps - I suck at directions.
Running from the arms of one untrustworthy corporation into another untrustworthy one isn't addressing the issue, that's just pigs, lipsticks, brand, and marketing.
may guess it's not as simple as we think it is

or it has evolved somewhere and we either don't know about it or the trait didn't survive
> Ah yes the totally unbiased OSD made by companies wanting to exploit free labor like Amazon.

The OSD does not originate with Amazon. Its ideas and text are drawn from the free software movement and indeed from a not-for-profit, volunteer-driven, community-based project-- namely Debian. Its text is essentially lifted from the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The term 'open-source' was created to describe an effort by a commercial entity, though-- for the project that would eventually give us Firefox, at a time when the web was dominated by a deeply proprietary monopoly in Internet Explorer.

But all of this should be common knowledge among 'hackers'. At any rate it is extremely easy to discover.

> prescriptivist language

Talk about knowing enough to be dangerous! lol.

> I will continue calling things open source whenever I can see the source code, no matter the license.

Okay? You are successfully resisting being nagged about your use of terms. You are also broadcasting your ignorance of the giants whose shoulders software developers stand upon today.

Software, like many things that can satisfy human needs and wants, is an instrument and mechanism of power. In particular, software and the terms under which it is distributed are often a mechanism by which the software publishers exert power and control over the software's users. 'Open-source', like its more frank ancestor 'free software', exists to signal terms of software distribution that variously protect users from certain strategies of domination by software vendors. Historically (and recently!), that signal associated with the phrase 'open-source' has been a fairly clear (if simplistic) one, because the phrase's usage has been consistent.

When you choose how you will or won't use the phrase 'open-source', you are making a choice about how useful a signal that phrase will be for such purposes in the future. What language is 'correct' in this case gets at a practical and political question we can alternatively get at without any commitment or appeal to a notion of linguistic correctness. That question is this: should there be ready ways to identify terms of software distribution that seek to spare software users from domination by software suppliers?

If one's answer to that is 'yes', then it takes a bit of footwork to get to 'I intend to participate in applying this established safety label to unsafe things'.

> calling things open source whenever I can see the source code

This kind of behavior is arguably a predictable outcome of the strategy of distancing the licensing tactics of the free software movement from that movement's explicit politics, articulations of its on motivations, etc.
what paulcole is missing. is that because i'm older. I have seen many waves of hipsters come and go.

yes. the old Sears Catalog is exactly the things that would be popular again. to be hip.

but since it went through many decades. to be more specific. I am imagining something like 1920's-30's Dust Bowl era Sears Catalog. Kind of like how hipsters made Pabst Blue Ribbon, your 1950's dad, cool again.

Check this out. An ASMR video no less, about 1920's Sears Catalog, tell me someone wouldn't have been able to make this hip.

I was searching for examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzlYcU8hDTY

Generally, I am conflating 1920's-30's Style, with Sears Catalog that I think a lot of people associate with that era. And so Sears could have tied in the hipster nostalgia for that 20's-30's era with their catalog.

Guess every generation has their own call-backs. Things that cycle back around to be hip. So what if in this fictional web site to compete with Amazon, you could choose different era's, and the entire site theme would change. So shop in the 80's again, shop in the 70's again.
They must work just well enough. Nature doesn’t strive for an ideal, cause it has no ideas. It’s a semi-working minimum based on another semi-working minimum. A duplicated bone is just infinitely more likely than a completely new organ. And you don’t have to be free from cancer or arthritis or heart diseases if your population leaves just enough offspring in time.

Iow, it’s not only robust enough, but just robust enough and never pretended to be ideal or durable, except for few accidental cases like sharks, crocs and turtles. Who surely can suffer from long-term non-killing issues but cannot whine to their GP about it.

The examples you quote do look like a problem today, but I think they must have worked to some benefit to bring us here.

Nah, it’s a vast space. There may be natural trade-offs, but there’s no force to solve an issue in the best way possible. It solves randomly and if that creates a non-fatal problem - bad luck, now we just have it. You’ll always have a set of non-fatal problems just under fatality, and also a set of fatal problems just under a reproduction disabling line.
Goes even further than purely French speaking, we do the exact same thing in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium!
> account owner being given a choice if they want to 'level up'

Like level up without getting XP by playing? That renders it pretty useless.

Speaking of, I hate games that are "pay to win".
Not going to name names, but someone I know was happy when his workplace was acquired by a bigger company from another country. He was the most senior developer, had done the heavy lifting, the product was did a good job for its happy users and the buyer would continue that, and last but not least, he'd be rich. Admittedly part of the agreement was a handshake, there had been so much to do, they'd worked insane amounts of overtime and some paperwork had been deferred…

He got nothing. No money at all. The CEO pretended to have forgotten every verbal agreement.

You only need to experience that kind of thing once to change your mind.
OK. Can we agree that withdrawing all settlements and the military means less occupation than before?

I think the basic logic of "we're doing a move that gives them, at least directionaly, what they say they want, and they use it to wage even more war" is the guiding logic here, whether you call it occupation or not.
> I am also saying you can not design us any better than what we are today.

Of course you can. We could regenerate limbs like a lizard’s tail, keep growing teeth like a shark, not require so many different types of foods to survive healthily… The list goes on and on.
Is it on Product Hunt?
(term simplification, halt loop) It’s fascinating that a forum full of technical people make comments that lampoon the meta commentary by making an nth-order meta comment.
> I only use a very conservative subset of the language to maintain compatibility.

This is what I do in my own projects, but I don't have that option at work.
Big millipedes are still around! Although not quite as big as before.

https://youtu.be/oY32HPQrhYg?si=z0QO821u3-E5sJ6l&t=480 (about millipedes from 8:00)
> you can not design us any better

I disagree, evolution is not perfect nor intelligent (as far as we know). It's never the "best design" that survives, it's always "good enough for now", merely better than other solutions at the time. A billion years of good enough is not necessarily the best it can be theoretically.

I'm sure we can find examples of living processes that are dumb and inefficient, with obvious room for improvement, but have survived for millenia simply because it was good enough.
Linux user here.

If my options were Windows or OSX, I would be swallowing copilot.

I'm so damn thankful Linux became a viable option. Switched to Linux fully a couple of years ago, and have been very happy since.
It's quite intriguing to think about when and in which applications this bit-length churn will end.

For example, 64-bit UNIX epoch will work for 292 billion years. That's longer than the age of the universe and obviously enough. Meanwhile, signed 64-bit nanosecond (!) timestamps only range from 1678 AD to 2262 AD. That seems quite restrictive. So ultimately somewhere around 96-bits of time seems to be "enough" for any practical application.

For audio we've probably crossed the point already. Uncompressed audio is in the ballpark of a few Mbit/s. Humans will probably never need Gbit audio. What's the limit for video? Seems to be undetermined yet.

All of this will limit the max compute resources humanity will need for certain applications. Maybe we will see the widespread use of 128-bit computers during our lifetimes. Mostly for virtual addressing fun. But will 256-bit ever be needed?
I discovered this tool (that I self hosted and it works perfectly) to send ebooks to kobo/kindle from anywhere so iPhone included within seconds : https://send.djazz.se

No more plugging it to my laptop, connect to the site from both, type the code and the epub is sent and even converted to kepub. Works like magic
Having lived in Europe, Australia, worked in US and Japan, I guess I have pretty unique experience with this.

Americans walk the least out of all, followed by Australians. When I visit the the US for work. People sometimes stop and asked me if I'm ok because I'm carrying my groceries home from the store. People would say: "What are you doing? do you need help?" lol

Virtually nowhere is designed for walking outside of say New York, parts of San Fran etc.
The mention of the self-employed employees could be interesting to HRMC in the UK, if they are skirting around IR35 it could end up with them being handed a large tax bill.

Also their UK branch is called "MINISTRY OF AUTOMATTIC"... really.
How do I can check an implementation against a TLA+ spec?
Long-Sequence Large Reconstruction Model for Wide-Coverage Gaussian Splats
Absolutely. Unless you play some crap that relies on anti-cheat malware (and in that case, you might want to re-evaluate your gaming tastes), I have been gaming on Linux without any issues.
Can someone more knowledgeable than me help me understand a few points about this article ?

It claims to be diffusion-based, but the main 2 differences from an approach like Stable-Diffusion is that (1) they only consider a single step, instead of a traditional 1000 and (2) they directly predict the value z^y instead of a noise direction. According to their analyses, both of these differences help in the studied tasks. However, isn't that how supervised learning has always worked ? Aside from having a larger model, this isn't very different from "traditional" depth estimation that don't claim anything to do with diffusion.

It also claims to have zero-shot abilities, but they fine-tune the denoising model f_theta on a concatenation of the latent image and apply a loss using the latent label. So their evaluation dataset may be out-of-distribution, but I don't understand how that's zero-shot. Asking ChatGPT to output a depth estimation of a given image would be zero-shot because it hasn't been trained to do that (to my knowledge).
Drew please. What is your ultimate purpose in creating this smear piece?