skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the French Wikipedia:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Brevets

France Brevets (FB) was an intellectual property investment fund created by the French State, the National Research Agency (ANR), and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations. The entity was created on June 9, 2011 as a simplified joint-stock company. It received 50 million euros. This capital was subsequently increased to 100 million. Its activity was negotiating the rights to the patents for which it was responsible. In particular, it could gather patents to propose a coherent offer to the lessees, or even look for new areas of use. It was part of the French public policy known as competitiveness clusters, to support the country's industrial activity.

Faced with the structure's lack of profitability, pointed out several times by the Court of Auditors, the French State requested the cessation of France Brevets's activity, a decision ratified on October 20, 2022, by the board of directors.

France Brevets is criticized for having a "patent troll" type of activity and is taking legal action against companies such as the Taiwanese HTC or the Korean LG without industrial production.

In addition, the granting of public subsidies to an SAS would be contrary to Article 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Therefore the very status of France Brevets would be illegal.
Science informs policy, but it doesn't create or judge it. Science can help you predict the effects of vaccinating every adult in a population, but it can't say whether you should mandate that

This is hopefully incredibly obvious stuff, but unfortunately during the covid era "trust the science" was used to mean "my particular policy views are objectively correct and above criticism", and "antivax" targeted at people who had a vaccine themselves, but just did not believe it should be coerced on others

And is it still controversial to say that the efficacy of covid vaccine was a lot more disappointing than we were basically all expecting? Despite the revisionism of "well we never said that" (even when they did). Or that the apocalyptic predictions of lockdown-lifting were just a tiny bit overstated
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If they were all truly outdated, then sure. But as the comments have pointed out, Github also closed at least half a dozen still-relevant issues like "Commenting on unchanged lines in a pull request" that would be significant UX improvements.
I don't fly anymore if I don't have to because of this security theatre, so the one thing it has a positive effect on is perhaps ecological. Otherwise it is completely hysterical, a remnant of some US lawmakers that wanted to look though at some point. It has grown and grown and just is a caricature of sensible security policies.

That autocratic states readily pick up on it should give you pause, but instead of questioning the efficiency of a security apparatus, it is excused because the status quo is already shitty.
I've declined several times now, and have gotten harassed about it about 3/4 times. Whoever designed the program really did a good job getting buy-in from the lower-level employees.
Perhaps a more crude label of what you ascribing to technocrats is the term "Soulless".
You perhaps overestimate the utility of writing outside urban civilization - and underestimate the immense difficulty of its invention. Not only is symbolic thought required, but so too a cultural substrate which can find use for, agree upon, and preserve written works. One man may invent the wheel; only a people can invent writing.
It's important to differentiate between tail-recursive functions and non-tail-recursive functions. Compilers will often convert tail-recursive functions into their iterative counterparts. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call

In contrast, non-tail-recursive functions will make the call stack grow with each call.
> Faithfully reproducing almost 40 years of evolution in the layout engine (some of which co-evolution with the Windows OS and the font system) necessitates a development program of mind-boggling proportions.

I wonder what copyright would say about a machine learning approach attempting to exactly duplicate MS Office layouts ...
The core of the OP’s argument as I see it is that the RS requires its fellows to treat other scientists with curtesy. Elon clearly doesn’t feel bound by that, but the OP does.

This is something I’ve noticed more and more: there are essentially two very different ways to look at rules of various kinds (including laws).

Some people focus on consequences, and have a mental model along the lines of “if I do X, Y could realistically happen to me”. When they read the Statutes and Code of Conduct of the RS they see literally nothing of note, because there are no realistic consequences.

Other people essentially see rules as expressions of the will of some abstract entity, in this case the RS, and feel honor-bound to comply with them or at least take them into account. The consequences are not very important to them. When they read the CoC of the RS they come way with a lot of limits on their behavior.

We used to live in a world where most people who could aspire to be a FRS were clearly in the latter category. We don’t any more. IMHO we therefore need to adjust the rules so that the two categories of people come way with similar mental models of them.
This is exactly why HN discourages editorialising titles. This one was clearly modified to spark outrage. People click on it with a predisposition to be mad instead of being given the chance to reflect first.
It's good if you just want to talk to some sensors or add logic to a motor. I enjoy learning about all of the low level details.
Good to see you too! Lets catchup sometime - tried to connect with you separately but no luck.
Not in the context of the royal society they aren't. Or they shouldn't be. That's kinda the point of its existence.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. If you want to build a blinking LED thing, a USB controller, or similar small IoT thing, I find microcontrollers to be easier and more natural than running an entire Linux single-board-computer to do it.

I might break it down as: if you know C/C++, I'd start with a microcontroller [Arduino, ESP32, RP2040/2350, etc]; if you know Python, there are still micros that run it, but a full Pi might be an easier starting point for you. (Either way, if you end up doing this for more than a year, you're going to eventually do both...)

Don't think of the microcontroller storage specs in relation to a modern PC. I use an EV CAN diagnostics tool that runs on an ATmega328 (32K of program storage and 2K of RAM).
> Loneliness corresponded with idiosyncratic [unusual, unique] neural representations of celebrities as well as more idiosyncratic communication about celebrities

must be the best argument to date for being more lonely.
> Concretely, is there something like Adblock that can be done for cookies?

I use a combination of two browser extensions: Cookie AutoDelete[0] and I don't care about cookies[1]. The second hides any GDPR 'compliance' popup; the first deletes any cookies set by a website when you close the last tab with it open. Both extensions have whitelist functionality.

[0] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

[1] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
A little bit. You could get an ultra-short throw projector which sits close to the screen, and sit on the other side of the room. Projectors still draw more power than monitors; but, with new tech like LED and laser lighting, it doesn't matter that much.
> Starlink is normally a single hop from a home to a satellite and then down to a base station

Is this true? If yes, how do you know it?
In fairness, Blue Origin has had only a tenth to a half of the funding that SpaceX has had (depending on which sources you trust; figures vary widely). Yet they are hardly doing badly by any measure: they have an almost fully reusable sub-orbital spacecraft which has consistently and safely carried passengers, and they have a orbital rocket ready for testing next month. SpaceX are clearly the market leader, but this is partially because they are into the category of companies who can now convey profitable payloads for NASA/DoD, with the public funding which goes along with that.

Technologically, SpaceX are miles (per second!) ahead of Blue Origin, but in business terms there is perhaps not a great difference between them. First-mover's advantage doesn't often translate into return-on-investment!
The article does not claim this nor support the claim. It merely says that loneliness is associated with being "weird". No causality.
No, I'm just not going to use the software if I encounter this.
I disagree. Etymologically, "enshittification" is the ongoing transformation of something into shit. But here, GitHub is declining to make certain changes; it is expressly resisting transformation. At best you could argue it was already shit due to the lack of these specific enhancements that would deshittify it.

Doctorow, who first studied enshittification, identified three distinct phases of the process: "First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." I don't see how this applies to the specific set of declined enhancements.
You will have to rearrange your room. It shouldn't be totally infeasible, though.
You do need to use a canonical representation, or you will have two distinct blobs that look exactly the same, tricking other users of the data (other posters in a forum, customer service people in a company, etc)
if technological development is exponential while breakthroughs are logarithmic... the advancement is linear... so linear prediction is my best bet
There are travel SIM cards already. Many work in most countries, some even on planes and ships.

Personally, I still buy SIM cards (or, more recently, eSIM plans). Not so hard, but way cheaper, and you can get a local number and use with local services that require one.
That works too. It depends on what you value. If you want more screen real estate while keeping a long distance between your eyes and the screen, then go for the projector.
I use Starlink in Italy and it's been flawless. To be honest it's like magic with how easy it was to setup and use.

One my colleagues tried Starlink at his cabin in the PNW and he had to return it. He just couldn't get a clear and wide enough line of sight through the tree cover. I wonder if that was your issue?
I use Firefox on Windows (on multiple machines), and when somebody has an image embedded in an issue or comment in Github, and I click it to see the original sized image it will not load, and simply shows a blank page instead. It's been like this for two years or so.
It's possible to reverse this and infer the more mainstream your thoughts of these celebrities, the more popular you are / will be.
Not just in consoles. While RTL is solved for most cases, I generally avoid writing Arabic in code for example (hard-coded strings, regex, etc) and just use Unicode escape sequences. Some issues include ASCII punctuation appearing (visually) in the wrong order and very awkward text selection
From the article:

> If you want to test services running on localhost, replace enp3s0 with lo. Though some other programs on your system may Not Like It if localhost is slow, so do that at your own risk :3 (Be sure to replace enp3s0 with lo on the undo script!)

In reality, lo will hate to be slow, esp. any application working through local network sockets (cough X11 cough). I experienced this in the olden times of Fedora 4. Somehow I (or a bug) managed to route local network sockets through my eth0. The more load the card has, the slower the X11 applications were. Esp. during launch.

I had to add another card and use it for external traffic, leaving eth0 free.
So, basically using Bluesky as an RSS feed for arbitrary data? Kind of?
i believe it’s pronounced H4x0r
My hate for Vivendi and his owner, Vincent Bolloré, grows every time I read about either of them. He is a known far-right billionaire attempting to get his hands on the most media he can, to push his fascist agenda in France. That his company uses scummy practices to bully smaller ones in court is not really surprising.
>>You very well know the answer to that.

I genuienly honestly don't know.
You're already ready Neo.
SQLiteStudio is fantastic, I've been using it on and off for a few years already and it's saved my ass so many times. Once, we were doing many many meetings discussing a potential implementation for a sales incentive scheme and it was very difficult to get everyone onboard. Fed up with this I built a demo database in sqlite using a portable SQLiteStudio instance and prepared a bunch of queries. This "reference implementation" made it possible to get everyone aligned in record time !! This would not have been possible at all with the "frictions" of a convential RDBMS.
Also, analyzing and cleaning up client data during project UATs is so damn convenient in SQLiteStudio. Thanks !!!!
I however don't trust the browser sandbox when it is continuously expanded with bloat that normal websites don't need.
One would argue that if you're that much at risk and still find time to click non-https-blog-posts the issue is in front of the screen, not in the connection
> were very rare side effects, and once those were recognized they were addressed in various ways

Such as initially calling it all misinformation, and asking social media to censor it
The biggest problem I feel with "meritocracy" is that we're incurring huge costs on society all to pick up the best and brightest, but with very little returns in terms of societal benefits.

I don't care about the guy who is higher up in the ladder than me, what I care about is the guy who builds more ladders, shorter ladders, elevators or such. And I think that most of our elites don't or can't do that.

The birthrate crisis, the competition crisis, the housing crisis, etc, I don't think these people have the capability to solve them.
Spending money on scientific endeavors that turn out to be successful typically requires thinking.
ublock origin now has specific filters for cookie popups, you just need to turn them on in the filter lists. I'd say this is probably preferential to downloading another addon (that already had a scare with being sold off)
>> The moon was created far before life formed

not in the panspermia theory
Then you must be avoiding situations that traditionally use OOP
"At GitHub, transparency and clarity are at the heart of our relationship with the community."

When these kind of carefully crafted prety slogans has to be a prime statement before anything is told then my suspicious mind gets very alert. Probably even overcompensate. Do people take these kind of forefront self evaluations as facts or have suspicion when this has to be announced and highlighted, stated (instead of being obvious). I do not know why (of course I do!) but these kind of self admirative statements have the opposite effect on me. Even when they are true.
> Or when they built their own GPS system and it ended up being far more accurate than any other system in use?

It actually is. But yes - that project was a shitshow for a long time.

Galileo HAS now offers 30cm accuracy with less than 100s convergence time not needing additional correction servers/stations.

Also spoofing resistant thanks to cryptographic signing (Galileo Open Service Navigation Message Authentication).

Both free for use. Forever. Classic GPS doesn't offer this.
Yeah, I'd class that as high- and low- status behaviour. One of the things that high-status people have to deal with is that they basically create the rules by their behaviour and actions. That leads to a certain disregard for what is written on-paper because they can write different things on it if they want to.

I'd imagine the RS people actually probably tended more towards the former in the early days. There was more of an aristocratic bent and the more vigorous a scientific body is the less respect it has for established rules - more than one of the good scientists from back when were also legit heretics (I've been reading the wiki page for Newton, for example - or the grave robbing doctors).
For a moment there I thought you were referring to this trademark: https://pcsoft.fr/windev/index.html Which was known at a time for having young women in light clothing in their marketing material.
IMHO these internal and external high speed interconnects will be more and more important in the future, as More's law is dying, GHz aren't increasing, and newer FAB nodes are becoming monstrously expensive, so connecting cheaper made dies together is the only way to scale compute performance for consumer applications where cost matters. Apple did the same on the high end M chips.

The only challenge is SW also needs to be rewritten to use these new architectures efficiently otherwise we see performance decreases instand of increases.
> WebAssembly brings all languages to the browser. Why shouldn't I be able to use C#, Rust, Go, Dart, Python, or whatever else in browser?

This has zero end-user benefit. While having the end-user drawbacks gp mentioned (reduced ability to inspect and modify content).

> WebAssembly brings better performance.

Wirth's law says "hold my beer".
The point of this program isn't that it makes things substantially quicker at the checkpoint – it is a minor speed-up at best. The goal is to normalize the collection of biometric data, to shift the Overton window of surveillance.
> Ask your local waiter with a college degree if they would have studied something else if they got the chance. My experience is that many would.

The problem of bad choices is orthogonal to the problem you are describing.
I used to be 50% on-call and it was exhausting. I was just glued to my backpack with laptop in it. It just was BAD.

Even that I had very good manager and if something broke at night I could just disable all the morning alarms and get to office when I wake up… but still. Having all the time in head that you're responsible… nope.

When I stopped being on on-calls it was like HUGE breath to take, and clean the head. I feel a lot better now.
Agreed, the factories clearly aren't the same size as Manhattan.
How deep is the focus, or can it be tweaked? Do you find it more tiring than traditional monitors or less?

Do you get dizzy?
In a discovery you don’t really have a choice.

On the other hand, perhaps the summer intern would have had an easier time finding something (and the defense more time to spot potential gaps in their arguments).
I took the time to read those Guardian links (sigh) and that's just misrepresentation.

Vaccines: almost nobody refutes the scientific basis behind vaccines (not even talking about mRNA vs traditional), but trusting vaccine admission means trusting powers that have historically been quite evil (cf Tuskegee syphilis study, MKUltra, contaminated blood scandals in Europe and Japan, etc...). Elon's "meme" isn't about said science and this article/post conflates the two.

Climate: I read the 2024 article and extracts from a mostly informal interview like

“If we were to stop using oil and gas right now, we would all be starving and the economy would collapse,” said Musk, who is also chief executive of the electric car company Tesla. “We do over time want to move to a sustainable energy economy because eventually you do run out of oil and gas.

“We still have quite a bit of time … we don’t need to rush and we don’t need to like, you know, stop farmers from farming or, you know, prevent people from having steaks or basic stuff like that. Like, leave the farmers alone.”

, while not without faults, don't seem anti-scientific in any way to me. Trump's side seemed way more unhinged, from the few cherry-picked quotes in the article.

Misinformation on X: the usual "calling the other side fake news/disinformation/conspiracy theories and touting threat to democracy", not interesting in the least. Also, why is someone writing about that in the British Medical Journal??

tl;dr this is an ideological blog post amongst thousand of others.
Because I heard he was going to have some advisory or executive capacity on government operation. There's a significant conflict of interest there if he's running and owning these companies at the same time.
> What could explain this sales pipeline, if the F-35 was the boondoggle this article implies it to be?

The overwhelming USA sphere of influence over its "allies". I don't really see a NATO member buying new fighter jets from China or Russia instead without that causing a big ruckus.
What question is this? With a US minimum wage with China CoL you are rich.
> Note: I've had this post drafted for 3 YEARS!!! It's finally time to publish it.

Did you say that just so we could imagine the world where you published it earlier?

Thanks anyway, and nice site!
Using Librewolf 131.0.3-1. Going to the GitHub homepage makes the tab freeze and I have to go to /login or a repository page directly.
Unless you have no cell coverage at your house, they can do this right now. I assume ads aren't economically viable unless the viewer pays for the traffic here.
Given that I'm listening to Kennedy's The Real Anthony Fauci while typing this I have a hard time taking this seriously. Both the 'offend the alphabet community' (whatever that might be given that there is no love lost between the L and Q, G and Q, B and Q, L and T and G and T factions in this 'community') as well as the defence of Fauci, a person who declared himself representing The Science™ while recklessly trampling its principles.

Does that mean that everything Kennedy writes and says is the true gospel? Of course it doesn't nor does it need to. What it does say is that Fauci is not the person I'd choose as a representative for how to do science and that prosecuting the man sounds like a good idea. After all, if he is innocent he has nothing to fear, right? Let this cesspit be opened and let those who are shown to have to have abused their power, misled the public and acted for personal gain and against the trust put in them by the public be dealt with. In short, let The Science™ be exposed for what it is, a sham. Let the trust in lower-case science, scientists and the scientific method be restored by exposing the charlatans who sought to abuse the former's standing for their own purposes.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. I think you have a good point.

Perhaps that’s why my feeling is that the best “solution” may actually be to loosen up the Code of Conduct so that the OP doesn’t feel honor-bound to act with curtesy towards Elon.
The difference is that Elon Musk has not challenged scientific consensus by publishing revolutionary studies or conducting risky experiments, but rather by republishing inflammatory statements online. His actual achievements (including super-heavy rockets and electric cars) are largely independent from his unconventional views on vaccines, for instance.

You can't compare him to figures like Newton and Hooke, who made both their names and their living from science.
Any consortium that includes Deutsche Telekom is doomed to failure.

We've seen that when Germany introduced the Autobahn toll, it was a complete disaster.

If I had to guess who's going to have a Starlink competitor up next, I'd point to China.
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