skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The code he developed will still be licensed under the old license, just going forward new changes won't be. You can fork it right now and keep a FOSS version if you'd like.

But it's not a bait and switch because we don't have a right to his future work under whatever license we like. Imagine the developer was hit by a bus right now, or became a cloistered monk. Same difference.
Dedicate yourself to learning finance and FIRE appropriately. Take up Options Trading.
What’s with that Quillette site being so right wing? Seems sus
I don't consider it normal at all. Seems like the words of an out-of-touch upper cruster.

Most people make a 1k$ purchase last decades. Enthusiasts may be dropping 5-10k$ but not your average joe.
I love being a UNIX sysadmin and there is nothing else I've ever wanted to do.

However, if I were in your position and didn't want to do this work I think I would either get formally certified as an electrician and do electrical work or I would get certified as a paramedic (not merely EMT/EMR) and work as a firefighter.

I think electrician is an easier route - especially if you are not very physically robust - but the firefighter route typically has a very good pension 20 years later.
> Maybe a few companies selling build pipeline services could be persuaded, like Github and Gitlab

The problem is almost all CI/CD jobs use custom docker images bundled with distro provided compiler toolchains.

Replacing linker in CI/CD jobs transparently is extremely hard/impossible/undesirable.
I don't disagree with that point as an idea. But I do disagree that that's the direction the market is going. E.g., we're here discussing a startup pivoting away from a bet on exactly the idea you're expressing here.

Today the onus is on people who still believe in that idea to express why they think Mighty failed (without falling into the well-worn "year of the desktop linux" trap).

Personally I don't care about the idea either way, I'm just looking at is where the market is going (e.g., how the market share of various software packages are trending). Ideas that sound good fail all the time in the market.

And so far, outside of Figma, the idea you're expressing looks to me like a failure? And personally, I've started to look at other things different about Figma that might have accounted for its success.
“RTA” is against HN’s guidelines.

As far as I can see he didn’t retain a lawyer. He just had a consultation at best. That’s essentially meaningless. If you’ve ever worked with lawyers before, a consultation just gives you an overview of how the law works in the area you need help.

Unless you actually hire a lawyer, they aren’t going to look at the details of the case, and are just going to offer opinions on what you tell them.

Nothing was “confirmed by a lawyer” in any meaningful way.
The package is obtained via your package manager, so you do not need to use your web browser to get it.
I have the unfortunate pleasure of being very sensitive to CO2 levels. At around 800-900 ppm I get a general feeling that something is abnormal. If it goes to 1000 ppm then I can usually tell that I am not thinking well anymore. It is a similar feeling to being slightly drunk - for example, I start a thought but find it difficult to carry it through to the conclusion.

Before I got a CO2 meter, I could always tell within hours when my building's flaky central ventilation fan had failed because I simply felt something was off.

Unless you are similarly cursed/blessed, just get a CO2 meter. I could not imagine learning this, it is like learning to feel temperature.
Putting aside anything relating to the underlying goals, the questions of employment law are really interesting.

In Canada (unless it’s changed since I was there), you are allowed to state that a position has a preference for four specific groups: women, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and visible minorities. These are defined by the Employment Equity Act, and certain companies (those that are federally regulated) are required to implement proactive practices to increase the representation of those groups.

So you’d think this would create clarity, right? Nope! The Canadian Human Rights Act is still in force and makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, race and other protected categories. So those companies must somehow balance proactive employment practices without any kind of discrimination. I’m pretty sure even though you could state that preference, a decision not to hire someone exclusively on the basis of one of the classes would still be illegal. (And to be clear, I also believe that stating such a preference would also be illegal unless it was specifically to further representation of those groups. This comes up in the context of e.g. a preference for female servers or retail workers.)
Liars Poker and The New New Thing are 2 great books to warm you up for the upcoming Bankman-Fried write up. If you aren't familiar with Michael Lewis and his style of writing, mildly put, it's very very good and you will like it.
I have re-read the post many times and I don't quite get the point.

The first example is not FOSS because of its license. There are loads of examples like that. I don't see how it relates to the complexity of build systems or how it affects freedoms.

The obfuscation point is kind of interesting. I'm guessing a minified JavaScript file does not count as open source even if it is distributed with the correct license because it's been transformed by a machine. If you hand wrote some obfuscated JavaScript I'm guessing it's fine. You could argue the end result is the same, or how can you tell it's not hand written, and you'd be right.

Then it goes on to talk about upstream and what not, but I don't get what the point is.

Then the last paragraph talks about forcing software to be audited and enforcing regulation. To me, this is the epitome of anti-free software. Now you can no longer run whatever program you want and instead only what <someone>(your OS vendor? The government?) wants you to run.
TFA says "The `source, dest' convention is maintained for compatibility with previous Unix assemblers."
> I think it really was the M1 Chip that killed Mighty. The product itself looked like it was working great.

Agree with this take. It's amazing he was able to get this funded at a time it was fairly obvious from their product roadmap and language that Apple was going to release ARM Macs. Props to him for the skill it took to get funding in the door.
What drones developed by googlers are being used for terror campaigns against civilian infrastructure?
Really insightful, thank you for taking the time to give such a thorough account.
A core part of inceldom is hating women. That goes above any other hate. This is based on my own browsing through incel history and communities.
That's why we host everything in the EU, with EU cloud.

Cloud: OVH.
CDN: OVH.
Email/support: HKN.
... and few other smaller ones.

You do not need AWS/GCP to be successful.

Just shop around. Solutions we picked, ended up being cheaper and friendlier (human support) than US counter parts.

https://wideangle.co/blog/saas-business-without-us-cloud
> Like how can something not have a beginning or ending and just exist?

The problem is that the other possibility is equally troubling -- how could there be nothing and then suddenly some stuff just exists?
Do naturalistic fallacies apply, when you are talking about nature itself? When you are saying that something is artificial because something really has been changed in the diet, environment, etc?

Perhaps you are disputing the idea that the environment has changed - with the widespread introduction of, say, plastics, massive use of medication that is re-imbibed in the water, by the use of petroleum based fertilisers, by the application of chemicals to crops, etc? Please say if that is your argument.

So, I'm not saying what is old is better. I'm saying the environment really has changed, perhaps by design. That is not fallacious.
Mongo, Graylog, and Elastic use the SSPL.
> Dumping the carbon to ship a panelized structure from western Europe is a huge use of resources,

Containerised hipping is very efficient. My point is it is better to use those resources rather than the local building industry. Very odd.
I pay for premium but still have to use vanced to avoid the sponsor segments that are in literally every video now. I totally understand why people wouldn't bother with premium until youtube offers a native sponsorblock-like alternative
I think the satiated feeling is from your body having enough fat. Rich, heavy meals will trigger it.

Carbs cause the opposite, they trigger the need to eat more (carbs).
You clearly didn't read the rest of my comment.
I think it may have to do with the fact that Win10 disabled Guest access for SMB. Got bitten by this.
There is no greater injustice than punishing the innocent.
I assume that people want to hear about our story and why we decided to build "just-another-PM-tool", rather than who I am, since it's boring and makes no difference unless I'm a well-known founder.
What Bitcoin and Crypto Are For
The most incredible thing about Mighty, for me, was that VCs bought into it. That... is just, wow.

I guess it goes to show that the idea is apparently only a small part of their decision making process - how it's sold to them is the bigger piece by far.
> lithium is more common than lead on Earth

Lithium isn't a rare earth mineral.
There's definitely PMF for AI image tools...

...but that particular industry is moving so fast it's already homogenized (with the best and cheapest tools being made by the core AI developers themselves), so without extreme differentiation a new player can't compete.

The beta app in the Twitter thread has less features than current open-source AI Image tooling.
What helped for me was switching from a 5000 employee company to a 50 employee one. I really loved my previous job, but just witnessing the politics made me want to quit, and I'm glad I did.
Head in the sand approach of some EU companies is flabbergasting.
I think pg likes slightly naughty ideas. Didn't he famously want to program a server using instructions send over email? And this Mighty idea was quite naughty. Stream like Netflix but it is your whole browser. And also pg really hypes YC companies which, bless his heart, is what we all expect and why YC is such a beast.
This is why general prediction markets need to continue to flourish. They're an antidote to bullshit. Also, ban the bettors that things wrong because they're probably just gambling addicts.
I think the Reddit thread sums it up--this isn't about Google, it's about the scumbags filing a false complaint against the app.
why would i need this ?
not meaning to sound rude, haven't used containers so much and this is curiousity. Can't you just shh into the server and do git pull & restart what ever your app is?
I don't totally remember what I did in that video, but I would have set up some ratios on the oscillators, and then shifted the amplitudes and phases a bit.

Here's a copy of the Puredata sketch https://stefanpowell.ca/project/Robodrummer/drumming_v4.zip
I'm not sure if anything in there makes any sense. I'm not a drummer. I can't drum. I feel like my body has a palsy that completely prevents me from being able to keep a rhythm, so this is why I'm working on this drumming robot project.

For this sketch I'm using a Korg Nano Kontrol v1 with an abstraction to hook connect the knobs and sliders to Pd, and then I abstract it further to turn the sliders and knobs into floats. This patch, and variations on it, have been serving as a mental sketch board for thinking about rhythms. The output can be used to trigger a modular synth using L/R channels, but I'm using it to send OSC commands to my drumming robot. I'm not sticking with this setup because I don't want to send the individual hit instructions over the network, rather I want to only send parameter changes.

Yes, this approach can generate some interesting emergent patterns especially when you play with the ratios like using something very slightly off and then you get phasing patterns.

My general goal is to make an autonomous drummer that will jam my other autonomous instruments.
Apprentice electricians need to be in good shape. You'll be out on job sites, in buildings under construction, climbing ladders, pulling wire (long runs of wire are heavy, etc. possibly in cold or windy or rainy weather, etc.

This is true of most trades, except maybe machinist. That is what I'd look into, personally. If you're a programmer, you can still continue that by learning CNC programming.

I honestly don't know how easy it is to get into trade work in your 40s with no experience though. I think most people in those jobs start straight out of high school.
Pretty cool! Congratulations on launching a useful product.

As a side conversation, this project and how you described it made me think about why I have such issues with Jira. Jira is actually fucking useless to me. To the business, it's indispensible because it captures the larger tasks that roll up to a larger business objective. However, for each of those larger tasks I have a series of conversations and cross-functional dependencies that must be negotiated. More basically, my minutiae is much more than the larger tasks can ever describe, and that minutiae is much too noisy for the business to track - which is why we cover it informally in stand ups.

What I need is something offline that tracks my minutiae like stories where the larger tasks (that are currently stories to the business) get tracked like epics on my end.

I say this from the perspective of working at a very large, top-level engineering firm.
We (Zenly) would have absolutely paid for mold (should we have lived). Linking the app was 40s on a M1 Pro.
Short bitcoin, long shitcoin... that's been a slow road to insolvency for most of a decade.
Yes, every process a person/language/company/country/etc.. adopts has a cost. It's not free. The question is if being forced to always deal with errors is worth the cost of always dealing with errors.

I think it is. I will gladly trade a couple of hours of extra error handling code every week in exchange for no pager duty alarms on the weekend.
Obsidian meets all my (personal productivity / PKM / Tools for Thought) needs for this kind of thing for now and the forseeable future. But I'm happy to share my thoughts as someone who's been fairly deep in this space for several years.

If you're looking for broad adoption, I'd focus heavily on your interop and portability story: import and export. If it's easy to try with "bring your own extant content", and
mitigated risk of lockin via robust export, the PKM / TFT community will be much more likely to engage. And the community per se is a huge factor in such tools' appeal and viabilty.

Thanks for sharing, good on you for actually shipping, and good luck!
In mathematics variable = value, variable receives value, ergo op dest src.

That is logic.
Given ETH only switched to proof-of-stake this year, I think perhaps it's a bit early to call it out as a long-standing energy efficiency success.
Men don't have nearly the same biological or societal obligations, should a condom fail. The law may compensate.

Those who think this is still unfair have other means besides condoms alone: withdrawal, vasectomy, alternative acts, even abstinence. And they can negotiate with their partners about other forms of contraception.
Some bodybuilders advocate not lowering e unless your boobs start to grow ;) better on the mood, joints, skin etc.
Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account
People hate on the dietary guidelines a lot but adherence is only 50-60% in the US.

A slight overconsumption of grains, large overconsumption of meat, and massive under consumption of vegetables and fruits and dairy.

I looked this up recently. On my phone but googling “adherence of us population to dietary guidelines” may help.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They would do great in Ukraine right now for direction finding shitty Baofeng UHF radios ru have to use after their general embezzled funds for development of Azart system

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1184964805565792257

>Interfax reports that the Deputy Chief of the General Staff and the most senior communications officer in the Russian military, Colonel General Khalil Arslanov, has been arrested for fraud in relation to the purchase of special equipment.

>The investigation isn't limited to 2.2 B RUB worth of theft, but also to fraud related to contracts for the Azart comm system built by NPO Angstrem JSC and Yaroslavl Radio Plant. Of 18 B RUB spent on the radios, 6.5 B RUB might have been stolen due to artificially high prices.
I created gpxif [1] to update time and location data on image files from my camera.

With this tool I can keep the camera in UTC and use gpx data from Garmin or OwnTracks to tag photos with the correct location and offset time.

- [1] https://github.com/charlieegan3/gpxif
Cyanide is just carbon and nitrogen. How could it be possibly toxic?
I want to like Teal, but the lack of nil checks[1] is a pretty big sacrifice in the name of "staying true to Lua idioms".

>>> Every type in Teal accepts nil as a valid value, even if, like in Lua, attempting to use it with some operations would cause a runtime error, so be aware!

I know you can use (or implement your own in about 8 lines) strict.lua[2], but that just seems like such a shame to omit nil checks from a gradual type system. I still follow the project, but I put a little more hope in Pallene's[3] development, although the aims are slightly different.

[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/blob/master/docs/tutoria...

[2]: https://www.lua.org/extras/5.1/strict.lua

[3]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
Picking screen metrics from 4-5 years ago is a pretty terrible, metric - I have maybe 14 screens but only 2 or 3 of them see active use or are hooked up to anything.

My oldest (working) devices are already all closing in on or past a decade. This metric is flawed in many ways...
Source-code freedom is user freedom. It's effectively a sort of guarantee.

The additional freedom that BSD licences provide is freedom for developers to do what they like, not anything to do with users.

(The biggest practical advantage of a BSD licence for most developers is that if you use one when publishing your code while you work for a company, you yourself will still be able to reuse that code after you leave.)
Nor with the fact that OP is approaching retirement age... if you figure 10 years from beginning a PhD program to tenure (which certainly isn't a hard limit, but probably isn't an unreasonable basis to start from) then they might have only 10-15 working years left after 'getting there'. While hiring and tenure considerations would word it _very_ carefully to avoid the appearance of age discrimination, I suspect that would factor into any such decisions.
Follow your hobby or curiosity, not other people's advice. You'll probably make less money, but is that the most important thing for you now?

I started helping my wife baking as well as setting up business selling baked goods online and at the farmers market while zooming with my tech friends on the other side of the planet at night and helping them at the margin with their new startup.

The baking business has been growing that demand is far surpassing our capacity. Right now having hard time hiring people to help in the kitchen. My knee is hurting because of standing and walking in the kitchen for at least 12 hrs non stop at least 5 days a week for the last few months. It's been highly therapeutic and very satisfying though.
That was a nice letter and great advice for any career.
Don't run away from tech.

Run towards something you like. What that is, depends on you.
If you want to get away from coding, either QA or tech writing will make you want to code again because you'll deal with other people's coding problems but have no ability to fix the problems.
I 100% agree w/ this and play an enterprise architect type role at my employer but I would totally get lambasted if I proposed this. Honestly a lot of the ppl I work w/ aren't developers and never were. They just have big mouths and climbed the ranks. Sadly they're the ones who write my reviews and could get me canned so I have to play ball.
Tonight at 9: Surprising doomsayers, the market worked again!
Web browsers for the last 28 years
Haha those two sentences are the opposite of each other.
When I saw “a project management suite for solos and small teams”, it made me go back and re-consider it under a new perspective. Loved it.

I will try it out soon! Good luck!
The assertion that monoliths are taboo is a bit odd; “monolith first” has been pragmatic best practice for years: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html.
How is that a relevant question? It's like asking if people really widely used credit cards for payments in the early days of their development.

If you study the history of credit cards there are amusing stories likes companies even mailing credit cards to households (without their request) so they are encouraged to use them.

So, the better question is: are upcoming technologies doing a better job and providing benefits older technologies can't deliver?

There are many factors that I personally find very appealing, like credible neutrality of the infrastructure itself.
Ask HN: What important truth do few people agree with you on?
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
GDPR is same in whole EU. Ruling about country's specific laws is relegated to local Data Protection Authorities. That's why Facebook was able to get away with Irish DPA from ruling against it. There was even a suggestion of foul play.

In theory, a DPA in your country must make a ruling. That's why Google Analytics is officially "illegal" in certain, but not all EU countries.

That said, it would be weird if subsequent rulings were not in line with previous.
Replaced that specific link with improved citations.
Good to see the pivot before cash ran out, but sad news :( Good luck to the team!

IMO Mighty is too early bc they didn't tackle the SW side, 'just' the remote nature, so couldn't get their 10X. The 10-100X shift today comes from apps running differently on cloud resources, not just lift-and-shift. That already exists as the VDI market.

Ex: We do client GPU <> cloud multi-GPU for cyber/fraud/etc analysts wanting to visually investigate how their many events stitch together, and Otoy does same for movie effects. In the consumer market, seeing same rewrites in say gaming. In a sense, Mighty's pivot to generative AI is the same -- faster to use remote multi-GPU services.. but custom built accelerated visual app for 100Xs, not lift-and-shift.

Without tackling the SW rewrite problem, hard for Mighty to get these wins via a lift-and-shift :( I do think federating cloud resources so users can bring their own and devs can reliably tap them would be amazing, but we seem still in the dev-controlled-server era. As someone trying to build predictable 100X experiences, that feels likely for awhile. Such a shift could have been webgl2 etc standards enabling modern multigpu apps in the browser... but Google and Apple web GPU browser/standards leadership have long strangled that path.

In a related note, we are starting to launch our global GPU edge network, and looking for a backend/infra eng on that + related AI services build out -- Nodejs/python/k8s. We are profitably growing: I agreed with Mighty's pattern before it even existed (my PhD at Berkeley explored it!), just easier ROI right now by sticking at the app layer.
"Terms subject to change without notice."

If commercial entities can do it, so can the FOSS community.
Finding the Darkest Pencil
You don’t know much about companies if that’s what you think.
> Changed it to "claim".

The "objective" qualifier is what's problematic.