skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think that people who sell a commodity that has increased demand wouldn't make more money?

There's no need for a conspiracy. The people who make money from the gas extracted and exported from Australia will profit at the expense of the average Australian who pays more for the gas extracted from under their own soil. You could vote to have them distribute the windfall profits to the people, if they didn't have such a stranglehold on your politicians.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australias-east-coas...

This is the same as many historical famines, where people starved to death while the crops grown in the same country were exported and sold overseas because rich, non-starving people can pay more than poor starving farmers. Banning or limiting exports might have helped in a roundabout way, but just not intentionally letting poor people starve to death would have been a simpler policy to implement.
As predicted years ago.

The joys of a monopoly web browser.

Proof again that we never learn from the past. MSFT made Firefox take off because they made IE suck so hard, Mozilla have tried ever since to make us not use it but some of us are spiteful and use it anyway.

Time to get a job with Mozilla and try to change them from within. Make Firefox a popular and useful, privacy friendly, extensible, user focussed piece of FOSS.

I'm bitter because Phoenix/Firebird were so promising and the geeks loved them for standards and openness.
AFAIK nothing is released yet? They are probably still trying to, like Dall-E 1/2, remove every every image and ban every word that might generate even the slightest hint of controversial imagery before releasing it to the public. To be fair, Stable Diffusion spent months basically doing the same on Discord with thousands of beta users, and had an army of moderators flagging images which were subsequently removed in order to prevent people from generating porn. Didn't help though, as people got access to the beta models (for "research" purposes) a few weeks before the official release and are using that to e.g. create "porn"[0].

[0] pornpen.ai: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572770
>In a sense being rude is being humble. If I'm rude to bad complaints it's because I'm realistic about my limited capacity to deal with stuff. It's ironically often generous people who end up resenting what they're working on.

??? I don't know how you define rude but I see no reason to go from something like `I'm sorry your suggestion do not align with my vision of the project` and close the issue to anything more insulting.
Yup the speed was refreshing, refreshing from all the dumb news sites which take for ever to load.
Don't know French, but I wonder if the meaning of "etage" is similar to Polish "piętro", which literaly means something like "elevation". So, basically in Polish we have a specific word for ground level, and then we count how much elevated above the the ground the current level is. That's why "1st floor" is the one "elevated one level above the ground".

In English you count "floors" and floor is a usable, hard surface on which you can put something, like a chair. That's why a floor on the ground level is treated the same as the floor above it - it is equally good on accommodating chairs, beds, and other stuff.
I think there is a case for class action suit from all the ripped off artists and photographers.
Hmm I'm not sure it's fair to consider student loan repayment a tax. It's limited and many people will pay it off fast. I presume you're based in London if you're on £95k and still have outstanding student loads?
Obligatory GDPR

Poorly securing personal data in the UK/EU is rather illegal. So no, any reputable shop *will* care about security, ensuring personal data is kept secure and bugs patched as a priority.

Going up the food chain, "huge clients which you all heard of, multinationals, some parts of governments" will not be impressed if you are found to be slack when it comes to leaking customers data.
It’s worth trying because it could be that there is a chemical mechanism rather than it being the trip. For example ketamine can ‘cure’ people of alcoholism and depression at doses that do not produce ‘profound’ experiences or at doses that do. Having said that I accidentally had a ‘therapy’ session while completely off my tits on LSD and it helped with things that I’d not previously been helped with on other trips.

The issues at hand are complex, it’s worth trying to control just to find out what the mechanisms are.

Also apologies for all of the air quotes in this ‘comment’
> There is no need to abuse the maintainer, repeatedly post the bug, harass them over twitter.

I see. The mistake was letting people know your twitter account.
> They're more fun to drive if you're driving for fun

I've always preferred a good CVT when it comes to fun. There's nothing like being snapped from 0-100 with no pause in the action. And the scream of a hydrostatic on a 30,000 pound combine is a treat. Manuals might be more fun than your average slush box, but in the grand scheme of things...
Page / ad impressions is another metric for google; that's one reason why they have made such big improvements in the speed of internet and browsing with Chrome, their own DNS, HTTP/2 and 3, etc; the reasoning being that the faster people can browse, the more ads they will see, the more revenue Google gets. And it bought them a lot of goodwill.

But this may apply on a smaller scale too. For Amazon, it's giving people less time to rethink their impulsive decision.
It will be interesting to see how constraint based modelling in Blender comes along. Seems like the most promising route at the moment.
I don't think you actually read what I described since you are completely oblivious to all facts stated by me and not even reacting on any of them, just dismissing everything as my fault. Looks to me exactly as cyclist mindset I write about - its not about me, rules are not for me and so on.

How did I make any cyclist unhappy by just standing still with my car on red light in a row of other cars?

How did I insult cyclists by daring to cross on green light as pedestrian?

I don't talk about outliers, I talk about daily experience for past 10 years I live here. Consistently the same. As with cars, you don't notice normal drivers/riders, but a-holes you notice well. And a-holes on bikes I do notice practically every single day, unlike any other traffic on the roads which respects basic traffic rules.
after wikileaks prism/nsa...it's really impossible for me to accept any kind of privacy assurances.

it's like there are public laws and hidden "patriot" laws, and companies are not allowed to disclose those things.

as a privacy company, if you haven't yet been raided by some government office, then you are probably compliant on some visible and invisible levels.
To be honest, I think the real issue with OSS is the whole masquerading of acting like a corporate project and almost red tape attitude that some maintainers have that can block a PR for weeks or months.

Unless you are a very important client who is paying money to the maintainers or unless the project is OSS but let's say, backed by/open sourced by a company like Google (as in, not some unknown person who kind of answers to no one) the chances of meaningful contributions landing are effectively zero.

If you are a client of a given library working for "Unknown company 8965688" and you are using a library and make a PR with a change you need or request it, in my experience, you'll simply be ignored.

Then comes the original post: we'll fork the library to an internal repository, make it our own, and stop depending on the whims of the maintainers who care absolutely nothing for the people who request features precisely _because they are actively using the library_ and need an improvement.

OSS has become a really, really bad place to be when it comes to actively depend on something that is managed by someone who simply doesn't care about you in the slightest.

Then, as we have people competent enough in the technology, forking becomes the natural thing to do.
Languages, Performance, and Intent
Consider working on a database.
Seems inevitable, free stations don't get good maintenance.

I suggest if folks paid for charging station use, then the stations would become profit centers and would get better maintenance.
Luck and hard work do seem to correlate, but they are certainly entirely separate (and both are essential to success).
Second that. I often find myself with the worst self-control late at night or after a few beers.

Young kids mean you can't prevent the tiredness and productivity suffers especially when working from home.
I see critics on Protonmail, but Brave is an absolut legit fully open-sourced project. Nothing Sketchy, and no the opt-in Crypto Program is also nothing sketcht.
Good luck convincing people that they should be happy to raise children with the living standard of 60 years ago and they don't have to worry about money because there's free activities to do with your children.

What you call "chasing the joneses" is perfectly expected human behavior. People compare themselves to their current metaphorical neighborhood in time and space (not to their grandparents or to hunter-gatherers) and they make their life decisions based on that: college, career, having children. It's just nonsense to dismiss it as "hey, that's jealousy" at a population level.
Why would you need that hardware support? It's not like javascript interpreters need any hardware acceleration for garbage collection. Relative to javascript, wasm with GC is going to be the same or faster.

Runtime size can be an issue; though arguably WASM is going to outperform minified javascript probably for the same code.

Typical SPAs only manage to stay small by simply not using a lot of run-time dependencies. The same trick will work with wasm. If you don't need it, don't depend on it. Simple. Or alternatively, trade off not having to reinvent the wheel against a few MB of dependencies. In an age where people watch 4K youtube videos, pulling in a few MB is not that big of a deal anymore.

And incidentally, the lack of any sizable run-time dependencies also makes replacing those not that big of a deal. E.g. most of the React ecosystem involves a lot of compile time dependencies (hundreds of MB typically) but not a whole lot of run-time dependencies that people actually ship with their applications. A few hundred kilo bytes typically. I've used alternatives for React that only measured a few thousand lines of code. There's not a whole lot that those run-time libraries actually do that is that essential.

I've noticed with Kotlin js that there isn't a whole lot that I need or miss. Actually, even just having the Kotlin standard library is already a big upgrade relative to what browsers and Javascript have without any dependencies added. Add co-routines to the mix and few other multi platform libraries (e.g. kotlinx.serialization, kotlinx.datetime, ktor client) and it starts feeling like any other modern Kotlin stack that I've worked with. Except it all works in a browser. Is there a size penalty. Yes. Does it matter that much. Not really.
Every single time I see an article about a new AI model that has a section called "societal impact" I know immediately they are not releasing the model, the training set, nothing...

It seems to be the kind of bullshit statement that those companies put in place of "we paid $500k training this model and we're not giving it for free to anyone".
I'm not a photographer, is a '163mm f/2.5' lens supposed to be in focus only in the middle, or is that an artefact of it being a budget DIY model?

Also, I think the source link might be better: https://www.pixelsandprisms.com/3d-printed-lens/ (more photos, no ads to block, and not sure what OP adds).
I don't quite remember whether it was first used in Vit paper[1], but it's a fairly straight forward idea. You take the patches of an image like they are words in a sentence, reduce the size of the patch(num_of_pixel x num_of_pixel) with a linear projection so that we can actually process it and get rid of sparse pixel information, add in positional encodings to put in location information of the patch and treat them as how you treated words in language models from that point on with transformers. Essentially, words are human constructed but information dense representation of language but images do have quite sparsity in them because individual pixel values don't really change much of an image.

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11929.pdf
You used containers you built yourselves though, right? As opposed to generic ones, eg from Docker Hub?
Which feels a bit sketchy(?) to me, seeing as all models are built on imagery scraped from the net without anyone's permission. It's one reason why I've spent the last month training my own models using my own imagery. If these stock photo sites had any brains, they would also start training models on images in their databases, especially since they already have everything sorted into categories based on keywords (which I'll spend the next year doing, until I can get img2text tools working in recursive batch mode).
If it's "not good enough" then it's the maintainers problem.

I mean, come on, somebody fixed it for you and when you as the maintainer complain about the quality of the fix then the FFF rule applies also!

I also have nothing against occasional little personal forks, but methinks that keeping track of the issues upon each update could be painful.
Librewolf wins those competitions by a mile.
Is there an overview of distributed systems that can be finished in one evening? Preferably in video format.
I’m doubting the person in Italy has a need for ice and snow driving.

Where I am it might snow or ice once a year. However I do own an SUV that has a snow mode. It starts in second to avoid spinning the wheels and will let you manually cycle through the 8 speeds if you want.
In Europe, automatic transmission only really got mainstream in the past decade or so. Yes we have had cars that are fully automatic, but that would be more of the high end cards. Most small consumer cars usually was (and still is) manual
I think this is largely dependent on the car, which is a pro for manual transmission (the consistency and sensitivity when driving). I personally prefer the less sensitive automatics because it's better for fuel economy. In my car, switching to Eco mode helps with this.
Pfizer Covid pill showed no benefit in adults under 65, study finds
Everybody loves devops until they realise that now they also have to do some ops.
The samples I was shown definitely had a theme: robots, raccoons, hats, and raccoons wearing hats.

Our brains are very thoroughly wired to detect faces in general, and flaws in faces. So we have a very, very high standard for what passes muster.

We are apparently much more forgiving with regards to what raccoons and corgis look like.
Not completely on topic but just throwing this out there: Anyone know how to send from any user under a personal domain on an iPhone?

I have a personal mail domain that I have connected to proton. On my laptop I can send from any user@mydomain.com via Thunderbird connected to a free SendGrid outbound server. But on my phone I can only read mail or send from proton registered user@. Wondering if anyone knows of an ios mail client that allows me to setup something like Thunderbird with custom outbound server
A bit off topic, but looking the stable diffusion site there's barely any mention of the people behind the project which I find odd yet refreshing.
I doubt it's changed under real driving conditions, with hills, valleys and overtaking happening frequently, where all types of automatic transmissions perform poorly (they can't possibly anticipate an oncoming hill or overtaking, whereas the driver manually shifts to the correct gear beforehand).
> The other reason is, of course, that document you signed at the dealership stated that you've only purchased the _right_to_use_ the car... not the actual car.

I can assure you that (in the US at least) when you buy a car, pay off any financing, and ultimately hold the title free and clear, you do in fact own the car.
So energy crisis due to war is what was needed for the US to pull ahead? That doesn't speak highly of the current US living standard.
Return to Monkey Island will be released on September 19th
The actual reason of this friction is that essentially, FOSS developers are working for free.

FOSS devs and maintainers don't have _any_ monetary incentives to continue working on a project unless it helps them getting their desired job.

Yeah, you may say some devs have so much passion about their software that they are willing to donate their time for free. But the interest may dwindle after a couple of months and years and that's when the whole thing becomes somehow a burden.

It may not even come down to that. One bad morning + constant pings of "any updates yet" by an entitled user may trip the dev off for good.
I don't disagree with you. I just don't think a programmer should be confused about the statement "item 0 is the 1'st item".
Web client on desktop, native app on my phone. It's the easiest. I use Protonmail because it's not Google and pleasant enough to use.
As the old joke goes:

I've been using vim for the past 20 years. Mainly because I haven't figured out how to exit it.
Also, if you're putting a lot of work into a pull request and it's important to you that it get merged, knowing whether you don't have a good chance of success, in advance, is going to save you and the maintainer potential sadness about your wasted effort.
Why do maintainers owe you support? I assume by your comment that you're a company, in that case, since you're making money off the value added by that OSS project, financially support the developers to get support in return. Then you can act entitled :)
You just explained the TMSI - something that was used since GSM networks in the early 90s
interesting idea. seems equivalent to the trick of paying cash instead of by card as it makes you more conscious of what you spend. also, at the end of the day there is no trick b/c if you're so inclined you'll always find a loophole. so it all comes back to simply being aware of impulses and your ability to have control over them. knowing what time you actually spent so far is an important information. as with all dopaminergic activities (cocaine being an extreme one) you lose oversight of time - an hour can (especially in hindsight) feel like 5 minutes.
Did you sue them as a company or as a person? Because AFAIK it is always a good idea to have lawyer insurance in Germany, however that would only work if you are a person, not a company.
Even if you're paid, they're still not entitled to your time, unless they have a contract (support, hosting, etc).

As an OSS dev on a small project, when I started getting paid (part time, for specific things), I tried being nice with everyone, but people didn't understand the limits of what I could do. They'd get frustrated and abusive. I'm more careful now.

More thoughs here, but it's a bit of a hodgepodge of experiences: https://www.bidon.ca/random/2022-07-25-contributor-journey/
Was also a video[1] over on the Breaking Taps channel about casting clear epoxy resin to make your own lenses. Results were not perfect but good enough for some uses. Of course, that requires some actual lens elements to make the molds from, but it's something.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAGivG9Koc
Ask HN: Is it better to be quick generalist or a slow specialist?
In development world, we often espouse idealistic ways of writing and managing code: readability, maintainability etc...it's a very deep subject.

Compare this to the reality of many jobs, where some manager needs stuff delivered NOW.

It would seem a "hacker", someone that can bodge things together and make them "work" is more valuable often than someone who does everything following best practices....which would be seen as more naive perhaps.

Put another way, is it better to be a ultra pragmatic could-care-less hacker or an opinionated craftsman.

I know people complain, that you leave a mess for others to deal with. But really why would you care? It's not your problem anymore.
I think there's another side to this, which is that if you're the maintainer of some open-source project and you actually want your software to be successful and widely used and generally to make the world a better place, you're going to need to maintain a good relationship with your users.

When people report a bug, that's actually valuable. They're telling you something for free that you would otherwise have had to devote time and effort on validation / quality assurance to find. If someone requests a feature, that's telling you something about what users want (even if you might have perfectly valid reasons to decline the request). For every random email you get, there's probably a hundred more people thinking the same thing but didn't write the email.

I think if I were to contact a maintainer of some project and they sent me to this page, my thought would be: "oh, I guess this project is just a hobby project someone uploaded to github for posterity and they're not actually interested in maintaining it." That's okay! Not everyone has time for that.
Nginx is still faster and that's what matters for highload. If you are not using the server for highload, no need for Nginx.
Stablecoin issuers are one of the largest treasury holder today. They are growing and capitalising fast. It's a matter of few years before they pose systematic risk outside crypto.
Instead of transferring money back and forward, why not have one account that is "our" money that both of you spend from?
And this is a problem because why? It's pretty perfect for the role of "something a little lesser than a small dump truck but that still does the same jobs".
You can change the SMTP servers at:
Settings > Mail > Accounts > -choose account- > Account > SMTP
The thing about free time is we’re all free to choose how to spend it.
I see it as an attempt to bring a perpetual and painful discussion to an end.
I agree, would like to add that:

The FFF rule also applies to submission of fixes to maintainers. If it fixes a problem, but not the way you like it to, you can go and FFF.
So you have ID41323 and ID53242 over night (or at daytime) in the same location, how do you map this back to names?

It's not impossible, but you need data that exists (like house-to-name mapping) from databases outside of the reach of the operators.

And the location information in the network is only as precise as needed. Most of the time this is a cell area, so 100s of m2.
Seriously, at which point this starts affecting the choice founders make in which legal jurisdiction to base their startup?

Personally, despite many advantages I would avoid doing any new technology startup in US.
Literally none of that stands out. These are basic programs whose core anyone can find on stackoverflow. The reason most people don't have these on their github is because they move on to harder, long-term accomplishments like college and internships.

The only factor that stands out is the age he achieved this in but then again I was making C++ aimbots for counter strike at 14.
I had that. It was unpleasant (to say the least) but on a different situation I rejected a direction. User went elsewhere and we all ended up losing.

I disagree with the attitude expressed there. Don't like it. Build your own. Every maintainer has his style, I don't think that's a constructive style and as a maintainer I never use that style. I might disagree with someone, I will never say fuck off. Even if I think someone should fork, I will offer help with the fork, at least in advice.

Writing the code isn't where it ends. I thank every user who uses my code. Otherwise it's just another code dump. The users are what makes the work worthwhile. To me.