skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those domains are up, but downloading doesn't work right now, possibly because their CDN uses non-onion domain names. They're timing out.
I knew that, however I wanted to make a point over the wordplay.
If you're only talking in hypotheticals then they're already optional and replaceable. Someone just needs to do the work to replace them.

You're missing that these parts have to get replaced for a practical reason. Not just because someone vaguely feels it would be more fault tolerant. For example, think of some other libc that's optimized for a certain hardware. Distros that don't support that hardware would have no reason to ever use that libc. If you say all distros should support it, then your opinion is really "all distros should support this random hardware that might be rare, expensive, highly specialized, hard to develop for, etc" and now that's a much more complex and demanding task you're asking someone to do, for very little benefit.
Im talking about writing a letter
But Musk took Twitter private, there’s no shareholders to please.
>The musical scene relies on live sessions to generate any money

That's true even in USA (with strong copyrights), apart from for top .1%
https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/158770970548883046...
A lot, but far from every piece of text. Hebrew-only menus are quite common and I'm still a bit scared of them.
Can someone explain to me Microsoft’s decision here to use GPL code in the training set? It would seem like sticking to non-attribution / non-viral licenses would have kept them in the clear. Was that an insufficient size data set?
Engagement is shit. Im not on Twitter anymore but being in an alive place where the presence of humanity is tangible, where any given post might resound or get replies... that was so much better than time spent in my own isolated little blog.
What's the cause of this pain, if you don't mind me asking? Did it eventually resolve?
Thank you for the msgpack reference.
not an argument but just an FYI for people reading about that idea for the first time: some NAS enclosures (QNAP, Synology?) and some power supplies can use the drives directly without disabling that 3.3V pin.
Wasn't there a Counting Crows song in the 90s about this?

Don't it always seem to go \
That you don't know what you got 'till it's gone \
They dismantled Hyperloop, and put up a parking lot \
Hey now! \
They dismantled Hyperloop, to put up a parking lot
"Some people are just destructive for some reason, and it's entirely from carelessness, not malice. "

And then some people simply consider books as objects for use, and not sacred reliques to be touched only with glothes.

(unless we are talking about historical books)

I mean, books or rather the information in them is kind of sacred to me. But the physical objects are just paper, that can be printed out again, if it has been in too heavy use. And heavy use includes them to be in a tightly packed backpack, close to saltwater or rain, among other things. If I would treat books as fragile things, I would only read them at home, which means, I would miss out on them a lot, as I like to go outside and travel.
There should be a eurobsdcon video about this, and there is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qZYL5RlgY
Firing 50% is not disgusting or malicious if the company is 50% overstaffed and losing money. It's acknowledging reality.

Letting people coast by in jobs they've given up on is not compassionate. Those people would be happier in a job where they can make a difference, and society would be better off too. I see a lot of people lamenting how the greatest minds of our generation have been stuck in big tech golden handcuffs putting eyeballs on ads. Well, this is what the fix looks like!

It's unfortunate that it's happening in a downturn but it's not Musk's fault that the economy started tanking during the acquisition.
I think that's misunderstanding of what the Open Source Definition refers to. The way I read it, you must be allowed to run the binary to further any goal.

But it doesn't mean you can share the source code however you want. Most FOSS licenses add restrictions on that, that's why there are so many of them. To be fair OP might need to reword a little to clarify that you can use the binary to accomplish training but doesn't allow you to create derived works of the source or binary by training on them.
I think Elon treats _human labor_ with disgust, not just assembly line crew but also in high tech labor. Likely he believes a significant percentage of the employed talent pool is waste at a company like Twitter (and probably many others), by showering a smaller group of heavy hitters with more money he could be more nimble in ways he is with SpaceX, maybe even Tesla.
I wonder if there's any worthwhile public domain content in that backup? E.g. stuff published prior to 1925, that's not otherwise findable on the usual services (Gutenberg, IA etc.)
Also recently seen is the commercialization[1] of Fe16N2, which appears to have suitable characteristics as well.

[1] https://www.nironmagnetics.com/
Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think this document needs to be a comprehensive record of every piece of copyrighted material that Copilot or Codex produce. That's something that will be produced during/for the trial process itself. Right now, this is just establishing the basic premise, and the claims for the type of behavior that is going on.

I think they intentionally picked (literal) textbook examples because they're short and easy for non-experts to grasp and have some understanding of. But I don't think we've seen any of the code from the respective J. Doe's yet, and I would assume we would in the trial (possibly in addition to more cases).
There's a scene in the movie "Margin Call" (about the 2007-2008 financial crisis) in which most of a floor of employees in an investment bank is laid off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn2Xf9hAFcE
Thanks very much for posting that. I didn't realize the OP was the author of this comic, which is one of my favorite software-related comics of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Cornet#/media/File:2011.1...
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I have been thinking on these lines or more specifically; a generalized application of distributed architecture techniques ever since i came across Roman Obermaisser's book; Event-Triggered and Time-Triggered Control Paradigms. and exposure to ideas from the Erlang language/system. From the pov of architecting the structure of the system there are some similarities between Web and Embedded systems but it is at a high abstract level rather than specifics. The key is to understand the difference between Federated (most Web systems) and Integrated (most Embedded systems) and how they directly affect Reliability, Fault-Tolerance, Latency etc. system parameters. It is also the case that due to a low-barrier to entry for Web Development there is a lot of Incidental/Accidental complexity in it which is not the case for Embedded Development (i.e. less forgiving). It would be interesting/educational to do a Commonality-Variability Analysis between the two types of Systems and learn lessons which are more generally applicable.
I love feeding my little neighborhood birds so this article warmed my heart. Thanks for sharing.
Facts such as: a) he voluntarily waived due dilligence b) he explicitly claimed he was buying twitter to fix the bot problem c) no-one has ever shown that twitter were lying about bot numbers, and the only way you can pretend they were is if you pretend they were claiming their mDAU number was their user account number.
It sounds like you're one of those people who can't handle everyday objects without breaking them somehow.

I'm not talking about treating things as extremely fragile, I'm just referring to being able to use and handle things without somehow destroying them in short order. The people who do this are just like you: they think it's normal and think everyone else is overly cautious, when in reality they're just a clumsy oaf. These are also the kind of people you can't lend tool to, because they'll destroy them, by doing things like using a screwdriver as a pry-bar.
Hi, can you please refrain from posting political flamebait here? It's not very productive, and it's against the commenting guidelines

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The longest periods of British Summer Time
How comes I had never heard of this?
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We think that our solution to productivity makes us quite different from the other tools in the market: Consolidation + Time Blocking. Happy to share more about this

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God, so its over?
Of course they were influenced by the author of programs they use. They were also influenced by Linus Torvalds when they decided to use his kernel. I don't see any problems with this. That's what you do when you make something that you're proud of. You go around to other people and try to convince them to use it.
Twitter trained its users to react to a blue check for years. Now it's different and for sale.

It's like a psychic rugpull.
Read pep8, as others suggest, but don’t use a linter.

> However, know when to be inconsistent – sometimes style guide recommendations just aren’t applicable. When in doubt, use your best judgment. Look at other examples and decide what looks best.

-pep8
koreader also works on my Kindle. This used to belong to my wife, and got passed to me, and got rooted by me, and koreader installed on it, thus keeping it out of a landfill or generating more e-waste.
But Tesla and Spacex have notoriously low pay compared to their peers. Eg a Tesla swe makes 40% less than at Google
Big companies pay for lots of them. I think we had 4 or 5 gant chart plugins at one point.
I'd wager anyone doing that for 30 years will do quite well. It's when people get impatient and take crazy risks that they get in trouble.

> buying whatever Blackrock is dumping

The amount of money it would take to move the price of the S&P 500 is incredible.
IPFS would be a start.

Actually, aren't they already using that?
Didn't this conversation become political flamebait with the remark about the NZ PM "scaring" someone?
So they steal them. Sometimes you need to do what you need to do in order to survive. I'm just saying you shouldn't try to argue that it's "not stealing" if you decide the reward is greater than the risk, or the net benefit exceeds the transgression.
All of the use-cases you listed I would flag in a code-review as fundamentally misguided.

If you have formats "A" and "B" with serialization functions A() and B() that take document object models as inputs (not strings!), then nesting them is valid, but a bit of a code smell.

What you're saying is that there are scenarios where A() and B() take strings and return strings, and those strings can have control codes that "mean something" for A and/or B.

That's inherently bad and dangerous, and was the direct cause of one of the WORST vulnerabilities in history. Literally as bad as anything ever out there.

You're saying "maximum bad" is a good idea sometimes. This is like making the argument that a little nuclear war is acceptable on occasion.

> there are legitimate reasons for processing stored JSON documents as text

No, there isn't. Stop. Never do this. Ever.

Don't parse HTML or XML with Regex either. It leads to m̷͉̈a̴̳̚d̶̟̐n̴̩̓e̷̘̿s̴̤͆s̵͉͗: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
He's referring to third-party recruiters, who could use your resume (or information about who you've recently applied with, which they'll usually ask) to find potential clients. Doesn't make a lot of sense if we're talking Google or Amazon recruiters.
Are you trying to interview for principal eng positions? Imo it’s hard to do except for some super early stage enterprises no matter the market conditions
I'm only here because we're all here. But summer child seems like the most prosaic insult possible, if one can even call it that, and it serves as a sort of useful shorthand. With a certainty approaching 99%, I think there is something better to be annoyed at.
I've had a slogan bouncing around my head for a while now without an outlet for it; here goes:

Censorship is policy, content removal is capability.
> The deal was always contingent on the confirmation

Any citation for that? I thought Elon waived most of the contingencies.

> but facts matter

true, they do. And the fact here is that Elon backed out of the legal fight and purchased the company. Why do you think that happened?
Oh sure. The board and upper management were inept and ineffectual, I don't think anyone will argue otherwise. But so what?
I just started making openssl -Werror safe. Oh my, what did I get into.

Halfway through it's about 125 changed files, > 1000 changes. look at the WIP commit. The API is insane. 50% of args are unused. All the structs and vtables updates are uninitialized, ie missing methods.

https://github.com/rurban/openssl/commits/Werror
Flying birds of necessity optimize heavily for weight. This implies their bird-brains must be remarkably efficient for their size.
New ways of using books are coming up - you put 1TB of books on your SSD, index it for search and use a neural net on it. Ask a question or pose a task, the model retrieves passages and then computes the reply.

For this to work what is needed is a blanket license for search and snippet use. Can't buy a whole library for such a sparse use case, ain't gonna read it in the classical sense. This approach can guarantee the generated text will not replicate the source material, just use it for reference, with citations.

- DeepMind RETRO - https://www.deepmind.com/publications/improving-language-mod...
Dear Mozilla.
Can you venture fund yourselves to fuel development of Firefox so it is less sucky? Or just fully fun development of rust and rust ecosystem and get out of browser business.
Thank you! I've always been a fan of your product, great design! Happy to connect ;)
This was indeed the misunderstanding.

When I made my original comment I thought what I was replying to was an example of "tabs to indent and spaces to align" immediately followed by a statement that the only way to use tabs is to both indent and align.
how about !password
Sorry but I need to browse through your book before I buy it. I do this for all the books I own. I need to see if I’d like it or not. Also, I hate reading on the computer and Kindle is ok but I like making notes in my books so I want the physical copy. If it wasn’t for library genesis or Z-lib I wouldn’t have bought as many books as I have. It’s an indispensable bullshit filter for me. There is no other option for me to browse through books without leaving my house, or even looking at much older books that are only available second hand without these digital catalogues.
> Also, FWIW, the latest win 11 22h2 update brought tabs to the windows explorer.

Ah right, I remember reading that and noting that they always seem to playing catch up with KDE Plasma’s features. I doubt I have this update yes, but someday my work’s IT will thrust it upon us.
"Elon is so worshipped"

Is that really still the case? Most of the time I read something about Elon the comment section is very negative, compared to some years ago and it seems rare to encounter a Musk fanboy anymore.
> obfuscating the dates

I don't put dates on at all. I never have, even when I was 20.
Does the ordinary company need professional Leetcode player that FAANGs are looking for? Or does it need someone who is about average on web development and willing to work for about average salary? Not every guy should aspire to date a supermodel and not every company should cargo-cult FAANG interview process.
Twitter Is Already a Hellscape
imo the meaning of "principal engineer" is wildly different between companies anyway. That means something if you're in a FAANG shop but if it's some place nobody's ever heard of it's just needed because all the midlevels already have senior titles.
Ask HN: Requesting feedback for debugging CI/CD for beginners book outline
Hi. I am writing a book about debugging, speeding up, and profiling CI/CD for beginners. I would like your feedback on my outline regarding if you think this book would be useful for a beginner, and if the treatment of the topics is adequate.

I have a very messy outline here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14iEQUTDqB-QdqEzvkvvN1qoCT0JfiNZKodfcMKaYI4w/edit

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
We keep working on this, but it's so much better that it used to be!
Sounds exactly like a yacht.
Yes, but that is not possible to know a priori. So people rely on heuristics. And if things go wrong, execs want to make sure that they have a golden parachute.

Do you have an idea to judge exec competence effectively? If so, you can have a very successful company based on that.
The article said that USA has a 1% tax on buybacks.
Embrace and extend is a fundamental part of the OSS model. That's what you're supposed to do: pick some OSS, make some custom add-ons to it, then upsell it to your customers. The license encourages everyone to do this. Tons and tons of OSS companies are doing this. Microsoft isn't doing anything out of the ordinary here.

Just a reminder holding grudges isn't good for your mental health.
During my worst gout flareups, breathing techniques helped a bit. There’s not much one can do when the pain is brilliant - especially if you don’t have drugs at hand, but very controlled breathing seemed to help.

Also helped me through a infected root canal. Anesthesia didn’t work, it was absolute agony. But focus and breathing helped.
How do you actually host something like this without being shut down, arrested, etc? Do you pay your server provider in bitcoin or something?
It's not, we'll do our best to ship everywhere we can.
I know this person is talented and well-known (though I'm not familiar with their work outside of the org charts comic), but the whole "tee hee I'm such a troublemaker!!!" focus makes me understand why some people are reacting the way they are here.

To me, it would come off as insincere, passive-aggressive, and demeaning if someone talked to me like this, especially at work. And before I see a "you must be fun at parties" comment, there is a very distinct difference between friendliness and patronizing.

However:

>Survivor of late stage cancer [1]

I have no idea what this sort of thing does to the psyche, outlook, and communication style of a human being, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here.

[1] https://twitter.com/lmanul
Lets rephrase it as “most expensive engineer company has on its roster”
I assume you’ve played Factorio?

It would be interesting to play Factorio on a very small map, with some mechanic where you get to duplicate items you’ve managed to produce - the idea being that you are continuously tearing down older parts of your factory so you can build new production lines, and always being constrained by space.

I couldn’t really get into Reactor Incremental in the time I had today, it took me too long to understand how to get going. I’ll give it another go this weekend.
I don't think you need to worry.

From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-25/can-you-b...

> One year ago, Amtrak issued a policy notice saying it would make drastic cuts in operating charter services run by private owners. “These operations caused significant operational distraction, failed to capture fully allocated profitable margins, and sometimes delayed our paying customers on our scheduled trains,” read the notice from March 2018. “There may be a few narrow exceptions to this policy. ... Otherwise, one-time trips and charters are immediately discontinued.”
> Zero Covid may actually be plausible for small, isolated island nations with limited entry points, like NZ, even without locking everyone inside their homes like in China.

So why doesn't Japan and Sri Lanka and Hong Kong and Taiwan and every island Caribbean/Pacific nation not have limited zero-COVID policies right now? It works right? The data shows Delta is still kicking.

At least be honest they made a very serious gamble with their citizen's freedoms, the economic well being of the poor, and the livelihood of small businesses and it didn't work. And every time a compromise is made in the future it will be easier to make the second time.

You can argue it might have worked, people were scared, they were working with limited information, the media cheered them on for acting boldly, etc, etc. But that's how we evolve. We learn from mistakes. Which is critically important for discourse going forward.
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Yes it's incredible to see so many people on _hacker news_ who don't understand how much work it is to keep even moderately large (low millions of users) services running.
> it's probably best to buy stocks and crypto when they are in valleys like this rather than at peaks

Robinhood was not optimised for investors. It was built to resemble a slot machine.
That is a lame analogy.

The skills to run SpaceX and Tesla transfer to running Twitter a lot more than basketball to cooking. For one thing, they all (leading SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter) have running a large business in common.
A 5000+ person company I have consulted for is hopelessly unable to find anyone who has advanced Python ecosystem experience for less than $200k. There's lots of boring companies that pay competitive-ish salaries ($140-180k), but most people gravitate to the shiny big companies that look good on a resume.
Yes, it's a way for companies with massive profits to route them to their employees (read: executives), not their shareholders.
Who should be sued? Microsoft who produces an application known as "Copilot" which itself contains nobody else's code but Microsoft's? OR the person who USES Copilot, to produce code which contains somebody else's copyrighted code?

Using Copilot is a bit like using a shotgun, can be very illegal depending on what you shoot at. Creating and distributing the app Copilot is like creating and selling a shotgun.
Would it be possible to instead buy an Amtrak car and then just do the interior upgrades? Seems like it would save a lot of work on upgrades. I have to assume that Amtrak eventually retires the cars at some point. Or heck, if you're rich just buy an unfinished car from whatever company makes Amtrak cars and then finish it yourself.