skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hat tip for this one: "SaaSS-ification villains"

I agree. People should do what they want with their own projects.

Real question: Has AGPL ever been tested in court? We know GPL has been effectively legally tested via the BusyBox and OpenWRT cases. Armies of lawyers from both sides went into negotiations "guns a blazin'" and GPL came out victorious. I wonder when and how the "A" part will be legally tested.

EDIT

Woah. Double hat tip for teaching me about "SaaS vs SaaSS" in that gnu.org link!
Anyone who's ever started pre-warp in a game of Distant Worlds: Universe[0] knows the hopelessness.

Pirates with FTL ships pop in, destroy your outer gas mining stations. You scramble your planetside navy, which begins to burn toward your system's equivalent of Jupiter. They'll be there in 4 months. In a matter of seconds, the pirates zip out beyond the Oort Cloud. Your navy are currently half-way between Earth and Jupiter, and, at that moment, the pirates pop-in next to your Earthside starport and have their way with your home base. You call your navy back, even as you know it'll make no difference.

(On the flip side, later, once you unlock warp and can zip across your star system in seconds, you feel like a god. Repeat with interstellar travel.)

0: https://store.steampowered.com/app/261470/Distant_Worlds_Uni...
No drama.

I'm Australian and aware that China buys from our state alone (Western Australia) 16x more iron ore per annum than the US has ever managed to produce in a year .. this figure alone undercuts many arguments about China's perceived industrial capacity.

They are easily capable (for example) of producing 14x more shit steel than the max US steel capacity .. while at the same time producing 2x the max US quality steel capacity.

Any China-US naval engagement could very well see a new strategic inflection in any case.

Theres's been ironclad supremacy, an age of battleships, and a time of carriers as king.

China has put up (and taken down) several videos of highly coordinated unmanned drone swarms, in the air, on water, under water.

Very large swarms of drones that are nothing but sensors, engines and explosives that can react and maneuver are very asymmetric in cost.
ah indeed. it should :(
But e.g. does Rust explicitly build with an old version of glibc or something?
I remember there being protests last years. So, the premise of no one organizes political action is not true.

Also, past protests I read about involved employed people. And they involved males too. It is not like stay at home women were sole organizers of protests through the history.
Alas no. I forget how I was even introduced to the subject. Possibly Wikipedia.
Good. His ousting was ridiculous.

https://www.thefp.com/p/he-was-a-world-renowned-cancer-resea...
Every single Fig/Piper workspace is a “branch” in a git-like workflow.

It’s then “merged into g3” from that workspace.
Carbon taxes aren’t necessary to give solar and wind an advantage. More than half of ~55GW new power generation capacity in the US this year is going to be solar.

> while ignoring that we have not managed to lower our carbon usage

We have in the US, both total and per capita. Carbon per person is down nearly 25% since 2000.

People seem to make up statistics in their heads to match what they think is going on.
The problem is that it's an EPA recommended dosage, and not regulated nationwide, leading to a large variance in levels. "The fact that fluoridation of water is not regulated nationwide leads to a challenge for individuals interested in generating meaningful data for nationwide databases." [1] In the short list of measurements in the quoted paper, it ranged from almost nothing to 1.5 mg/L, and that's a very small sample. Borden County in Texas has levels above 5.5 mg/L in some areas [2]

[1] https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Articles/jfca...

[2] https://www.beg.utexas.edu/files/content/beg/research/TCEQ_s...
Yes.
The point above still stands :)
Show HN: Self-host Whisper As a Service with GUI and queueing
Schibsted created a transcription service for our journalists to transcribe audio interviews and podcasts really quick.
> Tinkering gamers aren't the audience anymore.

With gaming becoming popular I'd say tinkering gamers are the same number as before, just not the same proportion of the overall gamers pool.
Reference 16 is cited because of the following paragraph:

> The single biggest debris-generating event happened in 2007, when China used a missile to destroy one of its own satellites. The explosion created more than 3,000 trackable objects and an estimated 150,000 debris particles.

Also, comparing the BBC to Fox on coverage of anything is disingenuous at best. Even if they have clear biases, the BBC is one of the most respected news outlets in the world, and have been very rarely just lying about facts.

Edit: also, reference 15 includes an archive link, so the fact that it is currently unreachable is entirely irrelevant. Here is a sample from the archive link you misleadingly ignored:

> The official debris count from China’s anti-satellite missile test has reached 1,337 pieces big enough to be tracked and NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office is estimating more than 35,000 pieces larger than 1 cm [...] This makes the January 11 test the largest debris-generating event in history, surpassing the previous record set in 1996, according to Dr. T.S. Kelso. Dr. Kelso serves as Senior Research Astrodynamicist in the Center for Space Standards & Innovation (CSSI) and webmaster of CelesTrak, a site dedicated to tracking space objects and monitoring them for in-orbit collisions.
Some of this went to customers as rebate. So it's pump priming money, in effect preventing other funds from having to be spent on fuel cost.

Some of this went to strategic reserves filling reservoirs and will come back as its drawn down, albeit at a loss: bought marginal price sold cheaper.

Europe is $16.5t economy. This is just shy of 5% of the overall economy and I would suggest 2% or less will turn out to be direct to supply.

Economically speaking what would the cost of depressed consumption, job losses, export income if they hadn't done this?
Maybe that's just me or selective geolocation but in my experience Medium almost never hits with a paywall, and because a lot of useful material is there I am not seeing it a problem. Substack links, for example, are significantly more annoying so I actually take a moment and think if I should even bother.
I preferred the alternative title: "What happens when you pour gasoline on your own bias"
For some extra context, I have been applying every ML research engineer/scientist job that would take a new grad.

I don't have any sense for what a hiring manager wants, it's especially hard with all the layoffs, I'm sure plenty of people are applying for the same research engineer positions. I certainly consider myself to be strong at coding. I've done a couple coding challenges on hackerrank that I do well on. But I have not been lucky at getting a phone interview yet. (I do have a personal website and CV)
Whenever I stumble on an article like that*, I can't stop wondering why do so many developers think that SQL is hard/clunky in comparaison?

*(any article where author seemingly rebuild a database engine from scratch with maybe 0,1% to 1% of features count present in any RDBMS including sqlite)
The line must be drawn, or else open source freedoms will be whittled away by a thousand cuts. The OSI takes the position that the SSPL is a de facto violation of the freedom to run the program as you wish, because it puts complex and far-reaching restrictions on what other software you can use with the covered software, and I'm not aware of any significant entity claiming otherwise.
I don’t agree with your assessment.

“Merging to live” builds and tests all packages that depend on the update.

So for example, building the new JDK to live will build and test all Java packages in previous live, all of them need to pass their package’s tests, only then will the JDK update be “committed into live”.

The only difference is that Google runs all the presubmits / “dry run to live checks” in the CL workflow. Amazon runs them post CL in the “merge VersionSet” workflow.
errno is thread-local, so you don’t have to worry about context switches.
Whatever you can buy in SF will be 2x as nice for 0.5x the money if you buy it elsewhere, though. There is no need to live in the metro area if you WFH.

That's just one factor that wasn't in play in 2000 and 2008.
Cool, know what's the equivalent of that in academia?

Remember to work hard to please your advisor. But don't forget you get barely no raises. No RSUs/Stock Options. Benefits? What are those?

Oh cool, now you have a PhD. Tenure? Best we can do is a 2yr contract...
Funny how you stopped checking after the first gif....didn't scroll any further?!

I'm talking about the second gif on the page. The big one. The 90+ meg one!
The Simple e/acc Thesis
It's like trying to drink a bucket of coffee everyday
I constantly feel like I do not have enough time to learn this or learn that. The amount of things I want to learn always seems to be outside my capacity and available time...
I like the way you flipped it around.

I'm a big believer of using all these new AI services/programs as tools to enhance my workflows, not replacing them.
Don't trust the output to reflect what's in the paper.
Yes you can, it is no different from using OCaml or Haskell REPLs, for example.

https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_jupyter/samp...
There were fewer people and more land that wasn't being used. It's fairly simple, supply was higher, demand was lower. As our population increased and we developed more and more land, the supply shrunk while the demand grew.
I found the Metamask email in my spam, with the subject:
"MetaMask : Your wallet is about to be suspended", with the headline of the mail "Your wallet is about to be suspended
Apply for KYC Verification"

Hopefully no one falls for these, sneaky to hind the redirect behind the links.namecheap
Supercontinuum lasers are actually white, in that they are a broad range of frequencies of light. It is recommended you don't try to use laser safety googles with them, as there is no specific frequency you can guard against. Whether this applies to the weapons power laser discussed is another question entirely.
It’s not 1950. I know plenty of women who want to be breadwinners of the household and men who’d be happy to stay at home and manage the family not to mention folks who are rejecting the gendered identity all together.

Also plenty of people in lower income brackets are finding that a second partner having a job is more expensive than staying home because of the high costs of child care.

A few people want that kind of subjugation but broadly it just wouldn’t happen again, the vast majority of men and women wouldn’t stand for it.
I use it alongside with my main PC, macbook pro 14.

I decided not to alter rootfs, so I left it in RO mode. Instead I installed everything I need via flatpak and installed homebrew to have a build tools, compilers and so on.

Using thunderbolt monitor makes it a decent work horse. Basically some days I commute only with steam deck to my office, because I have monitor, keyboard and mouse there as well.

EDIT: I work on 4K monitor. And by the way, I have a running VM on my steam deck just in case I need something extra.
This seems like such great feature. Why isn't in more prominent? Would this be replacement for Chrome profiles?
All the Linux-y/FOSS-y things are great. I wish my laptop had Coreboot. Luckily you can switch the keyboard to ANSI too.

The biggest flaws are this is the tail-end of these CPUs being current gen with the newer chips already announced & the display panel only covers sRGB in a world that's been transitioning to DCI-P3. With the former, it's a shame smaller ODMs & OEMs can't get access to the latest chips like the bigger players. With latter, I just don't know—we have the tech and the eyeballs to perceive more colors but most laptops still aren't embracing it even if phones have latterly moved to wider gamut (which makes using them for content creation subpar).
Sure SQL DBs can have all the advantages of NoSQL DBs and then some... but they will never have a lower price tag. And that's because NoSQL DBs use very, very little CPU. All that's needed is giving up reliance on SQL. Design your NoSQL "schema" with this in mind, and you're golden
Why did you apply, if you didn’t intend to accept if offered?
> It makes no sense at all.

Don't underestimate the inertia of processes at established companies. If a company maintains a part library, if the company has more than a few EEs- it can be a multi-man-month effort with potential for costly mistakes.

I like KiCad very much, I use it professionally but I also was the one that mandated AD to be the tool everyone at $WORK must use for production designs a few years ago- solely because it was the common denominator CAD that all EEs at the company/time knew to some degree. The cost of having production designs in a mixture of CAD tools was definitely larger than a few Altium licenses.

Now, if that was a new/my own company, I would mandate KiCad or GTFO.
Even if it gave the correct answer I'm not sure how a chat interface is better than what Google or Bing show right now

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=when+is+avatar+showing...

https://www.bing.com/search?q=when%20is%20avatar%20showing%2...
VVenC and VVdeC H.266 open source video encoder and decoder work on x86 and Arm
There are always the traditional vistas of retail scams.
Trade groups in the US routinely try to influence state legislation outside the state where they are domiciled, and sometimes outside the country.

For example, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), founded by Microsoft, operates in over 30 countries. It engages in both lobbying and litigation, around the US and around the world.
Individual companies engage in lobbying outside of trade groups as well.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240234078/Government-op...

The irony of the parent comment is that "tech" companies, the ones that disseminate proprietary software, have done and continue to do more to "subvert democracy" than any individual in history has ever done, and they do this more or less free from civil liability or criminal prosecution.

This bill is interesting because, as it currently reads, it does not force the state to use non-proprietary software. It is not stopping the state from purchasing Microsoft software licenses, for example. Instead it prohibits the state from forcing the residents of NH to use proprietary software in order to interact with the state agencies:

"21-W:1 Mandatory Use of Proprietary Software Prohibited. No person in the state of New Hampshire shall be required to use proprietary software for any interaction with the government, including, but not limited to: the filing or payment of taxes, remote appearance for court proceedings, the taking of standardized tests or the completion of coursework by school students, applying for or receiving unemployment benefits, or other similar benefits, unless the government agency has determined that the proprietary software is the only means available for the required interaction. In such cases of proprietary software use, the agency shall post a notice of its determination and the use of proprietary software on the agency's website."

This is a topic that comes up on HN with moderate frequency. For example, a website tries to force the user to use a specific client, which is effectively proprietary software under the control of a "tech" company.

The client might be a Big Tech advertising-sponsored web browser that no one except Big Tech employees ever audits, modifies or compiles, regardless of whether the source code is available. It might be a closed mobile app that pins TLS certificates to stop anyone from observing what data it records about its user and sends to the "tech" company, sometimes called "phoning home" to the "mothership".

The website might use something like Cloudflare in the name of "protection" primarily to restrict clients to a certain browsers controlled by Big Tech that can be leveraged against users (ad targets) for data collection, surveillance and advertising.

https://www.cloudflare.com/solutions/protect-websites-applic...
What if the paper is longer than what fits in a prompt?
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yeah. 2nd most likely.

there isn't much of "lobbying" that you see in USA, say in turbotax or visa/MC or paypal.

you have payment gateways fighting in terms of functionality and features, the standard is 2% across the board for "most" payments at retail. In volume, that % can go much much lower.

Because of competition, the best bet of any org is to be as open as possible. If amazon implemented their own wallet system, why would i use that when someone else's works ACROSS the board?

there is a victim to this "openness" also. Look up "paytm". a fincorp that made headlines with "Cashback" and stuff but when UPI turned up, their wallet essentially dried up. Earlier, they would PAY users with cashback to use their own wallet but now they CHARGE EXTRA for the privilege of using their services. plus, they went public and lost a lot of money.

>"we're late to market, so we don't have to repeat the mistakes we saw everyone else doing" thing?

i think USA gives too much credit and puts too much reliance on credit cards and "fraud protection". There used to be no autopay until last year i think so EVERY payment had to be a conscious effort. If i paid to amazon and i did not get the goods, well "contact amazon". there is no recourse from banks or cards or gateways. That is not a bad deal.

say you do buying/selling on facebok marketplace, well since you are paying directly to the seller, or recieving funds, there is no one to blame.

then there is actual fraud, like someone takes your ATM card and withdrawls money or takes your password and siphons off funds. In that case, you have to approach the police and have them fix that or contact the bank and have them try to revert the entry. Why should the intermediary "card" be in the middle? why should they earn that much for one-off chance of fraud?
I think the history of this exception comes from the Apache Harmony project which was an early, incomplete fully open source implementation of Java core libraries. As I recall, IBM was heavily involved in this project. (Or was it GNU Classpath? I forget.)

And, please remember that Sun Microsystems open-sourced JDK with great difficulty! (There was a mess of proprietary licenses deep within the core library for years that needed to be dug out one by one.) Some very smart lawyers probably thought long and hard about that linking exception. I doubt Oracle likes it, but it is probably impossible to change now.
Three-finger click is common for middle click.
I don't see any reason why it couldn't. It's just a pull request away!
All programs require user documentation, otherwise they are not understandable.

For some programs, configuration may be necessary (or helpful) too; it really depends what program. (However, compile time configuration is sometimes better than run time configuration, depending on the specific details, probably.)

I do believe object-oriented programming is overused (although it is sometimes helpful, often it isn't).

Programs should be versatile, but this can be done without too much complexity; often just being able to combine with other programs that can do the other things, can be helpful, like UNIX systems with many programs can use pipes together, etc.
+1 for additional examples or documentation.

Particularly an example that takes a c struct pointer would be awesome.

What happens to const char* return values that are null ? I think it is empty string, but either test case or doc confirming it would be awesome
Pioneer of Turtle Trading system once said

Dennis reasoned that even though he could publish all the rules in a newspaper, only a few traders would heed them since most traders tend to avoid following rules rigidly. He mentioned that most people only follow the trading rules as a method of improvising when they deem it necessary and that deviating from the rules can affect the performance of the trade.
Recruiting Developers into Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Is monorepo an important reason for Google to kill products? Or is it just my imagination?
China’s Balloon May Have Taught the US More Than Beijing Learned from It
Mozilla is on Googles drip. You can't expect this feature seeing much love it's against the donors intents.
That's intensely reductionist. Also, the military's healthcare is some of the worst in the country. They couldn't even be sued for malpractice until 2021.

Some systems have worked historically under gov control, and others have not.
What Is Data Reliability Engineering
Makes me wonder, the more JS functionality creeps into html and css, the less we need JS. I'm curious if that's an acknowledged future that these consortiums and working groups are headed toward, even if unspoken.
Are we certain they’re not from OUR country?
I know a large section of the internet considers it edgy and cool to say things like this but you really should reflect inwardly on this comment and consider that what you're actually doing here is making a joke about child sexual abuse. People who have survived this horrendous crime may not see the funny side.
It possibly depends on your project. If you're running a password manager business, it makes little sense to provide all your source code to a competitor to enable them to build upon your project, make money, and not provide any of the code changes in return.
Thank you for the great video. Works by default on my iPhone 14 in Safari.
This presumes that the big ass heatsink metal can effectively receive the heat from the laser. This is part of why some lasers are pulsed: the average power is not too high, but the instantaneous power is high enough to cause the surface of the material to ablate anyway. At which point your reflectivity goes to crap.
Mindless comments like these are not useful to the discussion. You are speculating on something that didn’t even happen, if indeed it’s just a newsletter provider that got beached.

Namecheap is still responsible for the third parties they work with. But nobody “gave your password”.
PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go into Effect in States in 2023
>seemed like a feature that prioritized user consent over making it easy to transact--

yes. the OTP/PIN concept has been firmly ingrained in everyone. It works fine and people are taught to not proceed if there isn't one or report if you saw a transaction that went without your approval.

edge i would say the competition. Plus, the government is making the infra so companies can develop ON TOP of existing infra and create value.

i am pretty sure you can have UPI across USA/EU in a matter of 2-3 years if people want that. That would also mean VISA/MC and PAYPAL would have to die an instant death but that would be the good thing
Probably in this context,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Epsilon
They may but the GP question was, why would they fly them over Montana and where would they refuel them?
- will the mozilla vpn keep a static ip assigned per container?
- is the browser footprint completely unique per container where the website called on thinks you're a fully different user? or its just seperating cookies and sessions?
- is this just to keep accounts seperate or helps with privacy?
This is so important especially if your parents is old: I once turned down a very good job offer because it required relocating to another country, but I didn't want to leave my dad all alone in his 70s.
We know nothing at all unless we are experts? That is such a difficult life to live. Express an opinion and support it.

Or even more extreme: Everything is possible until we prove the negative? It goes the other way: You need to prove the positive statement for it to be credible.