skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the trucking game for truckers

Exactly yes, I wouldn't say it's only for engineers, it is perfect for smart people who chose a different path in life and need to feed this part of their brain with a fun simplified simulation of what it's like to be an engineer.

Of course, engineers would love this game, but we already engage in this type of activity all day much more intensely precisely because we love it, we already know how to do more interesting and valuable things with the same effort.

Similarly, I really lost the appetite for hard decision-making strategy games when I founded my startup. I was already having to take plenty of hard decisions, thank you very much, the real thing is much more interesting and more than enough.
Could be made a little less creepy if it had no internet access and you could load in new people as you interact with them so it uses a local cache for lookups.
If you are interested in these ideas, you should know that this essay kicks off a series of essays that culminates, a year later, with an examination of the Amazon-style Weekly Business Review:

https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/

https://commoncog.com/the-amazon-weekly-business-review/

(It took that long because of a) an NDA, and b) it takes time to put the ideas to practice and understand them, and then teach them to other business operators!)

The ideas presented in this particular essay are really attributed to W. Edwards Deming, Donald Wheeler, and Brian Joiner (who created Minitab; ‘Joiner’s Rule’, the variant of Goodhart’s Law that is cited in the link above is attributed to him)

Most of these ideas were developed in manufacturing, in the post WW2 period. The Amazon-style WBR merely adapts them for the tech industry.

I hope you will enjoy these essays — and better yet, put them to practice. Multiple executives have told me the series of posts have completely changed the way they see and run their businesses.
Discussion (25 points, 1 day ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942007
It is sad that this definition will represent the first practical split between these two movements in terms of their terminology, if it goes through. The difference between open-source and free software will go from a difference of emphasis to a difference in substance.

I suppose I will have to stop writing 'F/OSS'. I'll probably use the term 'open-source' less and less, and maybe stop altogether.
It's currently built into the applications, not configurable by default. It's preferable if everybody in a thread / space / community uses the same one because otherwise differences can cause validation failures and conflict and thus break threads, resulting in that people can't follow many discussions, thus applications don't really expose it.

It's the kind of thing where it's preferable that either everybody switch at once, or that new applications with different "lexicon" (post types / social media format) picks a new default from the start.
Remember the approved version of the framework was changed significantly to fix many of the shortcomings Brian raised after reading earlier drafts. And he authored a chapter that was incorporated before approval.

So some of his prior criticisms no longer apply.
The word is anarcho-tyranny. Anarchy for the regime-aligned underclass. Tyranny for for everyone else.
I'd have to see some real math to be convinced extracting fresh water from the ocean could raise salt levels enough to destroy the Sea of Cortez ecosystems.
Update to this, I’m convinced it’s not.

Idk if it’s Russian or whatever, but I’ve been convinced by other comments that it’s probably not a community run internet group.
Cab-over trucks usually have pretty good visibility out the front. Plus, they are useful for delivery of goods that help society.
From 2020:

> During the time following a perceived attack, a series of progressive checks are made by submarine crews leading up to the captain opening the letter. These include trying to listen for radio transmissions from various levels of Royal Navy and Ministry of Defense command using multiple methods, and most famous of all, listening for new radio broadcasts by BBC Radio channel four, and specifically new episodes of BBC Today. […]

* https://www.twz.com/7300/letters-of-last-resort-are-post-apo...

Also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
Related from 24 days ago, when the story broke:

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds (31 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724957

Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox Strangers in Real Time (13 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310
Alphabet != Google
> Thus methods like UAC and sudo.

UAC and Sudo are pretty different when you actually compare their implementations and not just purpose.

Sudo is just a text prompt, UAC's design includes an entire isolated desktop to ensure fake prompts and such can't happen.
I mostly don’t mind JavaScript only thing for me is number data type and no int. The other part that is annoying is lack of standard library so we get left-pad crap.
50% of Telsas are made in China. China built Teslas are noticeably better built, too.

Welcome to reality.
> because they look and talk different

You’re complaining about “passive aggressive crap” while falsely insinuating OP is racist?

The problem they cite is Opera is Chinese. Not that the people involved are ethnically Chinese.
The problem is within that gray area. For enjoyers of vanilla js, like myself, I'd hate it if "core" js got so small that I now started to require a compiler for my ES6 code. If I was in charge I'd say "fine, but the core must be at least as large as ES6" and I'd reserve the right to tweak browser native modules in minor ways (for example, it would be nice to support a SPA syntax where you could export/import modules from within the same page without either a) hacking the global object or b) generating unnecessary resources).
I think they might be pushing it too far though. Archiving software should not be allowed to threaten the internet archive?
The DOM itself is very slow, much slower than Javascript, so you're not going to be seeing any great performance increase if WASM can access the DOM directly.

I also have to wonder if people are excited about replacing Javascript, why they would want to have HTML/CSS/DOM on top of WASM. A different front-end UI tech could be much better than slow, old DOM.
Okay, as this has come up more than once, really what is needed is not just forwarding, but proxying. Is there actually software for Android that will do that?
Windows isn't especially hackable, they've been taking security seriously and doing a decent job for at least a decade, and honestly these days it's a lot better than the alternatives.

Really the issue is because it's used on something like 95% of desktops. More eyes on windows means more bugs being found.
If you just want to get "into" the tech industry, your transition could start by taking (non-technical) work at a tech company. Some of your skills in the hospitality industry should match up to something to get your foot in the door...

Maybe I'm assuming that being "in the tech industry" means computer programming (and not hardware design or business planning). Either way, my go-to advice is just try taking Harvard's CS50 course online. (It's free to audit.) It's a whirlwind tour through easy programming exercises in multiple languages that gradually ramp up in difficulty. By the end of the class you're exposed to a lot of the major languages (and the most common pitfalls), plus a little history and lore. It fills in a lot of holes...

https://pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-sc...
similar things were said about the Honda Ridgeline and the Chevrolet Avalanche; they ended up having the same long-tern issues that they were predicted to have; torn mounting points and reduced repair-ability when the inevitable occurs.
How did they prevent you from studying in your own time?

They could prevent you from taking further maths exams at school. But not taking those exams wouldn't prevent you from using the knowledge and skills for other things, like university entrance exams.
About to comment similarly. Penalties are higher and more intrusive for those that can pay for it. Anything goes if you can't.
So whether something is open source depends on whether others bother maintaining it? Even if that doesn’t change that an individual cannot?
A good eReader with audiobook support and with annotations is not a simple application. A community can only do so much for such niche devices.

And this ignores other applications, like shared whiteboards, note organizers, etc.
The main reason the Apollo program wouldn't happen today is safety:

The first Apollo test (unfueled) had three astronauts die due to an electrical fire! At the time Apollo 10 launched the lunar module wasn't finished yet (they wouldn't have been able to get back from the moon because it was too heavy). Apollo 16 and 17 by chance missed the 1972 solar storm by months - if an astronaut had been outside the Earth's magnetic field during the storm they have received a potentially lethal dose of radiation. One reason why after Apollo 17 the rest of the flights were cancelled even though the rockets etc. were already ordered or even built and why it took until 1981 (apart from Apollo–Soyuz) to get humans into space again.
I finally got around to visiting here last spring and it was really interesting. It was beautiful and eerie and a bit dystopian in how everything is abandoned or at least partially abandoned (some buildings are still partially in use). Note that you need to book a tour to go inside any of the buildings, and make sure to choose a day when the tour is in your preferred language. The tour included very detailed explanations of the history and philosophy behind the buildings and the town -- it was also quite long (~4 hrs IIRC). I'd also recommend going into the actual town of Ivrea if you make it out there.
Yep, you move the top of the key away from the door casing, and that's the natural way. Counterclockwise if the lock is on the right, clockwise if it's on the left.
While "ethnic cleansing" has overtones of torture an or murder, "forcibly removed" is accurate and occurred from 1968 to the removal of the last Chagossians in 1973.
The business spends pretax dollars to pay the car payments instead of post tax W2 income or dividends/other cash disbursements that are taxed and then you can depreciate the company car against future income.
Boox is not subsidized either (although they don't release their kernel sources).
Why is this flagged? @dang
I already do this out of OCD. Now I can say I’m am just being more efficient ;)
> In any case I believe the FSF is going to continue to campaign for the ethical freedom of these new classes of software, even if it requires new insight into what it means for them to be free, as they have done before.

And going the quotations in TFA, it seems the FSF's thinking about this is clear and nuanced, as usual:

> [T]he FSF makes a distinction between non-free and unethical in this case:

> > It may be that some nonfree ML have valid moral reasons for not releasing training data, such as personal medical data. In that case, we would describe the application as a whole as nonfree. But using it could be ethically excusable if it helps you do a specialized job that is vital for society, such as diagnosing disease or injury.

If they end up needing new terminology to describe this case, I'm sure they will devise some-- and it will be more explicit than a moniker like 'shared source'.
BLDC motors require electronic commutation. The motor controller must read the current angle of the motor so that it knows which phases U V W to enable via six MOSFETs.

An ESC can cheat by reading out the back EMF but this only works once the motor has started spinning, such as in a drone, but in a robot arm that is supposed to hold its position.
I use the language. The existence of new language features has not forced me to adopt them. The standard library for browsers is a different story but it is always going to be.

Thankfully.. both maintain reasonable backwards compatability where security is not otherwise implicated.
Well what's the next "thing" that will require massively parallel processors?
FM audio does not carry DC either. PLL in the receiver/decoder will eventually catch up with the constant frequency shift.
> need precision light source(s) with adjustable wl's..

Or use some substitute technology, for example, calculate diffraction strips digitally and then implement them with modern femto-second laser.

So could achieve similar result, but (in case of femto-second laser) trade for much larger time and much more energy to create forever storage.
I appreciate the footer on Kagi Assistant: "Assistant can make mistakes. Think for yourself when using it" - a reminder that theres a tendency to outsource your own train of thought
The word "free" on its own is ambiguous, but in the phrase "free software", this is the single unambiguous definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

If it's just free in price, then "freeware" is the correct term.
I really love how eccommerce has done a lot to level a good chunk of the difference between the kit that's available in the West and in SE Asia. We can see each other cobbling stuff together out of what's available and implement and/or improve upon it more quickly because the metaphorical lego bins we're digging in are much more similar than in years past.
Posts #9, #10 and #11 here are about the final (adopted) version of the framework:

https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/
People keep assuming China is only successful because they're dumping, and miss the elephant in the room: China went all-in on EVs over a decade ago, while we were fucking about with hybrids and maybe-just-stick-with-ICE. They have world-class batteries and insatiable domestic demand and it's been that way since before Tesla, what if China is undercutting us because their cars are just better?

In that case our tarrifs are just protectionism, is what.
The whole google shopping case is ridiculous. If you are “big enough” and you change (aka make improvements to) your products you get fined. Foundem could have built a direct relationship with customers but that’s not the direction they went.
This doesn't make any sense. Of course social stuff like abortion and immigration first of all matter to readers, and second can amount to actual, written policy with great detail and nuance, and the consequences of such policies are complicated and meaningful.

On abortion, there's now a national patchwork of policy. You could write a damned book analyzing their implementation and consequences.
I wonder, at what point, the accounting department works out a market becomes unprofitable and Google withdraws. I guess it's good for some local company to take up the reigns. Maybe that's the long term goal of the EU regulation?
All: diffs are what's interesting on HN, not generics. The diff with this article is the historical analysis, so please let's focus on that and avoid generic culturewar fodder, which leads hellward.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Edit: you guys have done a fantastic job and this thread is so much better than it could have been. Thanks!
Interesting, I might need to do some reading, but macOS was terrible for a long time, and seriously lagging behind windows when it came to security. They seemed to just be coasting on the fact that Apple as a platform simply wasn't targeted to anywhere near the extent Windows was.

They didn't even have an ASLR implementation for way too long IIRC.

Does macOS have any form of MAC yet, or do they just rely on sandboxing?
At the end of the day, you will find this prediction markets to be as successful as sports betters. We would be wise to remove all money from politics.
I think it's still king of the hill. I've bought dozens.
Applying Albion’s Seed to California misses out on Spanish missionary culture and the shipping merchants who came from New York City, which does not have the same puritan roots as New England.

American Nations is a more recent book that describes more of the United States, though with less depth.
You don't need to live in China or have family there to be worried about China: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illega...

People should avoid giving more data to China out of sheer principle, regardless of their personal attachment to China.
That thing is all steel and sharp corners. Not at all the same as a delivery truck, adhering to basic pedestrian safety standards and also driven mostly by workers with special driving licenses. Also they are way slower than these steel battering rams.
It’s both. Most manual tests are required to be run whenever the underlying code has changed. And that’s pretty slow and annoying. Interpreting results is usually pretty trivial, like checking the http code or checking against an assert. I don’t think most companies use/should use manual testing but where it’s unavoidable, this is a great workaround.
Most of them are offering nothing more than an ssh or web service. Not really a great or fair comparison.

Linux on the desktop is the least secure option out of Windows and macOS, barring RHEL with it's SELinux policies which probably put it ahead of Windows and macOS as well.
IME, pine doesn't make good hardware. It's pretty terrible quality (cheap flimsy plastic, dead pixels, etc) and then they expect the "community" to work around the short comings/lack of vision and make it into a real, usable product.

I've been burned by the allure of Pine's hacker vibe. It's bullshit, IMO.
Ime it's fairly common to name things "community edition" if they were created with the help of the community, which is the case here.
This doesn't really touch on the core of the issue, which is business expectations that don't match up with reality.

Business leaders like to project success and promise growth that there is no evidence they will or can achieve, and then put it on workers to deliver that, and when there's no way to achieve the outcome other than to cheat the numbers, the workers will (and will have to).

At some point businesses stopped treating outperforming the previous year's quarter as over-delivering, and made it an expectation, regardless of what is actually doable.
Yes. For example, in the town where I was born there's a US airbase. Well, I say airbase because that's what the paperwork says, its actual function as I understand it was a site for a school for the kids of American military personnel, there are no planes there.

When I worked for a defence contractor the Troubles were still a thing, so on the British base there'd be a chicane and armed gate guards, no crashing through the gates and blowing stuff up inside the base for you. But at the US airbase there was just a sign saying Condition Black (ie no danger) and you could walk in, presumably the terrorists weren't dumb enough to attack a bunch of American school kids whose parents were military given that a lot of their funding came from America...

Ostensibly the reason I'd be visiting that US airbase was vital urgent paperwork being transported personally by a British officer, who was entitled to the use of a vehicle which I was driving, to some senior American personnel - but we sure did seem to generate a lot of such paperwork and we always bought back donuts (which the Americans have on their airbase) ...

Anyway, that US airbase is definitely not American soil. I did actually own a passport, and I had the right to enter the US, but I was never asked about it because the airbase was in Britain, on British land, merely on loan to the Americans indefinitely.
> This is what StackOverflow tells me (2020)

Web Workers can't directly access the DOM in JavaScript either. This is not a WebAssembly problem. If you want a Web Worker to manipulate your document, you're going to post events back and forth to the main thread, and Web Assembly could call imported functions to do that too.

I don't even know what he's on about with Preact/React...

Save the following as "ergonomic.html" and you'll see that WebAssembly is manipulating the DOM.

<!doctype html><title>Not that hard</title>
<script type="module">

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
/* Compile this module with wat2wasm to make the binary below:

(module
(import "env" "easy" (func $easy (param i32)))
(func $run (param) (result)
(call $easy (i32.const 123))
(call $easy (i32.const 456))
)
(memory $mem 1)
(export "run" (func $run))
(export "mem" (memory $mem))
)
*/

const binary = new Uint8Array([
0, 97, 115, 109, 1, 0, 0, 0,
1, 8, 2, 96, 1, 127, 0, 96,
0, 0, 2, 12, 1, 3, 101, 110,
118, 4, 101, 97, 115, 121, 0, 0,
3, 2, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 0,
1, 7, 13, 2, 3, 114, 117, 110,
0, 1, 3, 109, 101, 109, 2, 0,
10, 14, 1, 12, 0, 65, 251, 0,
16, 0, 65, 200, 3, 16, 0, 11,
]);

const imports = {
easy(arg) {
const div = document.createElement("div");
div.textContent = "DOM this: " + String(arg);
document.body.appendChild(div);
}
};

const module = new WebAssembly.Module(binary);
const instance = new WebAssembly.Instance(module, { env: imports });
instance.exports.run();
});

</script>

That `easy(arg)` function could do much more elaborate things, and you could pass lots of data in and out using the memory export.

I'd like to believe a simple standalone example like this would be enough to get people to shutup about the DOM thing, but I know better. It'll be the same people who think you need to link with all of SDL in an Emscripten project in order to draw a line on a canvas.

> This feels like "we can have DOM access at home" meme.

And I'm sure somebody (maybe you) will try to move the goal posts and claim some other meme applies.
I sincerely hope that if the remaining stations shut down, the band will become an amateur band. Existing 2200m and 630m are narrow, so allocating this entire range is something of a pipe dream, but it would be the best outcome.

(Not sure how 1750m LowFER would be handled; maybe just keep it on as an unlicensed exception?)
Building a more robust Wikipedia interface by spotting the differences (2023)
Should we not, instead, write tests ourselves and have LLMs write the code to make them pass?
If it can be trusted to let the dog out on mornings when I'm sleeping in, then I'll credit it as real. Bonus if it'll also empty/rinse/refill her water dish, and take care of her breakfast. But serious penalties if it isn't reliable about giving her half the can, or leaves a can or lid where she can get at it. (The vet bill from that bloody gash on her tongue was not trivial.)

More generally - reliable, useful, macroscopic physical actions, requiring non-trivial judgement.
I worked in the factory. I remember it well even from the one photo. The factory had a Winchester Mystery House air about it. It had been added to many times over the decades. So it was more like Rome and less like Turino with no obvious way to get from here to there. They made typewriters there well into the 80s. Olivetti had commuter buses in Ivrea and Milan well before Google buses were invented. They had wine at the company cafeteria for lunch. It was the 80s and I would bet my boss an ice cream on NBA games which I already knew the scores of from an email. Hotel La Serra was structured like a typewriter. A river runs through Ivrea and it had a kayaking center.

I'd love to go back and take a tour.
Alternative title: State officials endanger Californians by silently ignoring waste violations for years so they can collect a bigger extortion fee of $7.5 million at a later time
Are you sharing your work anywhere? Sounds really interesting