skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the right way to fund these kinds of tools?

Right now, it seems like it only happens a few ways:

- be a giant saas and use your "free for personal use" tier as a loss-lead/way to get devs using you, thus wanting to use you at work, then you charge their work. e.g. github.

- be linux and be a big enough critical piece to where companies actually fund you directly

- pay software engineers oodles of money so that they can have leisure time to maintain the plethora of random FOSS software that's out there

- leech off the social safety nets of other countries and let engineers subsisting off ramen in the netherlands write your foss software

- play the donation-to-COL arbitrage game and write FOSS from a third-world country where a meager stream of USD donations/purchases can sustain you reliably

Pretty much every single one of these except the linux one is pretty awful. And we can't all be Linux. The second least problematic is probably the one where you pay engineers shittons of money and then let them do shit as side projects, but it seems really indirect.
There is also a hazard in this line of thinking. The money that the IRS collects is owed only in the most legal of senses. In reality there is very little reason why any individual should forgo 30% of their income for not much benefit. Thinking of the IRS as a infinite money multiplier implies thinking of the people as a bottomless well of money.

The answer is not to keep funding the IRS until this ratio comes to a saturation point, but to reduce taxation till this ratio reduces to a more sane number
Yeah, who would abuse a free service to store their personal files?

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I'll respond only to draw the parallel between the kind of comment above and the typical religious "how do you know my untestable idea isn't true" type argument. Faith is fine, but it's not part of rational debate.
I agree with this, except I would take 3 out of the list.
Well by that logic they would obviously lay mines themselves, and certainly wouldn't leave tracks all over the place 2 weeks prior to the explosions.

Those tracks are obviously just drifting or perhaps looking for something. I don't think the Russians mislaid their own pipeline. Maybe communications lines? Or smuggling? Looking for lost treasure?

In any case the point stands, it just makes no sense for the Russians to do this, and contrary to what is claimed, this presentation does not offer any support of that theory IMHO.
I largely agree; the questions here are primarily legal, not technical, and a lot will boil down to legislative intent.

As a technical person, I am actually sympathetic to the plaintiff's argument that Section 230 may not necessarily protect recommendation systems designed for engagement maximization, and particularly not in the case of push notifications or the like.

> If they lose the case it won't be because the Supreme Court doesn't "understand".

The honest truth is that if they lose this case it will be because Big Tech pissed off conservatives. The court is in the midst of a legitimacy crisis. If the courts don't pull out of the legitimacy tail-spin and return to a situation where at least issues of commerce are less politicized, the US may start facing some problems reminiscent of emerging markets with weaker rule of law/capital protections.
The US blows my mind. Literally the only country where one has to pay a third-party company to help one do their taxes. I will never understand this.
An organization of B and C players with socialist leanings will have a hard time competing in a free market. See any "worker owned co-op" coffee shop.
Driver Assistance Technologies Reduce Front-to-Rear Crashes by 50%
Serious question: is anyone here using Plan 9 for daily operation?
Silence, in this context, is a metaphor. It’s the degree to which your attention can be focused and does not experience or react to disturbances to the void from within and from without.
> be a giant saas and use your "free for personal use" tier as a loss-lead/way to get devs using you, thus wanting to use you at work, then you charge their work. e.g. github.

Is not a bad option. Devs won’t pay for tools, but their orgs will. Isn’t that how it should be? My plumber’s employer pays for their Rigid $2k hydraulic copper fitting crimper, for example, because it saves time vs sweating pipes (enabling them to do more jobs, and generate more revenue).

Be the hydraulic crimper of dev tools. Expensive, but generating so much value no one batts an eye at paying for it (obligatory patio11 “you’re not charging enough” reference here). Some people will cheap out and pay $100 for the hand crimper and do their crimping by hand; don’t sell to them, they are not evaluating their time value efficiently (or they simply don’t need your tool).

For a recent example of this: Docker, going from $12M to $100M ARR within a year as soon as they started charging enterprise users.
> If your algorithm can't be explained to a judge, someone who is highly educated at understanding logic and reason, then perhaps it is broken anyway.

Yup! I'm proud to say the algorithms we designed in the healthcare space are 100% explainable and deterministic to staff, executives, and lawyers. Everyone that uses our software knows exactly what went into the decisions we made, and they can always make the determination for themselves using all the same data and process.

When hiring, we made a point about deriding FAANG for their stupidity* of throwing their hands up, saying healthcare is too hard, and letting AI do it. It also had a way of filtering out careerists, and a way of finding people with very deep respect for data privacy and security. :)

* Yes, stupidity. Haters can fuck off. There's no other valid excuse you can give that won't make a judge say the same, albeit more politely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
We save the “the”s for our freeways.
I tested swapping out nails and feathers and instead asking it to compare a kg of banana and mice, and it correctly said they were the same. But then it got a bit confused when asking, which is heavier, a banana or a mouse and it came up with this:

> In general, a mouse is heavier than a banana.

> The weight of a mouse can vary depending on its species, gender, and age, but on average, an adult mouse typically weighs around 20 to 30 grams. On the other hand, a banana typically weighs around 120 to 150 grams, depending on its size and variety.

> Therefore, a mouse is usually much heavier than a banana
Yes, according to Apple official documentation, OpenCL was deprecated as of macOS 10.14. It is reported to work, including on Apple Silicon (M1 and M2), but don't expect any updates.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...
> Not sure why the author insists on "exactly one" server.

I believe the assumption is, if you need more than one server, using containers (option #4) is a better solution in general. Obviously this is not exactly true for your 1 server for app, 1 server for SQL server scenario, but might make sense for most setups.
In hell, workers do not protest.
> going to be a lot of traditional on-site assessment, abandoning the continuous assessment fad

Maybe because I'm from a latin country, but I was always under the impression that only on-site assessment mattered, as continuous assessment provides no signal considering many students cheat. Even what we call "continuous assessment" is done on site.
> A background processing phase, this requires a sense of almost boredom.

I can relate very well to the phases of probleming solving you described. But for me it's forgetting about the problem even for a short period of time instead of boredom.

When I'm deep into the first phase I sometimes get a bit too attached to a point were the problem is the first thought that comes to my mind after waking up (well...if I'm really stuck there might be even some weird dreams about it).

In the past I started to cancel non-work-related activities until I solved the problem. But I've learned that this oftentimes just lead to frustration - when the day is over I missed out on a nice evening with friends and still haven't solved the problem.

But when I just let it go for a few hours more than once the solution came right to me when I was on my bike back home. Just when I noticed that I haven't thought about the problem for the past few hours.

Sometimes this can get a bit demanding if I then happen to be past the Ballmer Peak.
Postman seems to be moving towards not aiming at developers as their main audience. Instead it's for QA, support, managers who want to make some queries against the internal API but can't use curl to do so.
Heck, 60 years ago we had The Monkees.
That process sounds easily automatable! I can’t wait for that to be unleashed so that human pop song writers can delve deeper.
absolutely nobody would debate whether Hollywood or Vancouver was the center of film making
This is pretty rude. The people who were laid off were certainly not "B and C players". When large companies cut, it's often entire business units, so no performance or talent considerations are made.

Plenty of worker-owned coffee shops, book stores, grocery stores, etc are famously successful. Be more open-minded, ya scrooge.
I've worked in one (1) effective agile team in my entire career, and that one had an end user fully integrated into the team, providing near-realtime feedback and prioritizing bugs and feature development.

But this would leave the product manager out of a job, so I've never seen any other company even try it.
The worst of capitalist excess packaged in inside a story of “how I just want to show love to my wife”.
Does this affect the non-Pro?

I was just thinking about getting the entry model M2 Mini as essentially just a build server so that I could build apps in a cross-platform framework and then just use Apple's walled garden to xcode signing. But I'll probably buy the prior gen if the non-Pro M2's also have buddy NICs.
I just used Postman yesterday for the first time in ages and loved how it had all my previous work saved in the cloud and restored it after logging in. Also, the pre-request script feature was great for calculating a signature of the request which had to be included in the request. Do other API clients have the scripting features of Postman?
I literally copied and pasted your objection into Google and got thousands of results from places like the world economic forum, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, IEA, and that's just page 1.

Your objection is equivalent to saying in 1998, "LCD panels don't currently constitute 75% of the market so it's unfeasible that it will ever occupy that position" or in 2005, "nobody has demonstrated large scale rollout of 3G networks so landlines aren't going away"

This style of argument is the same creationists use when they point to something like blood clotting and say "aha, there isn't yet evolutionary evidence for this so therefore Jesus!" And then evolutionary evidence came forth and they gish galloped onward to the next goalpost.

So, #1, golf clap for that rhetorical gambit and #2, please excuse me for ending this here.
Yes, it can autodetect your framework and generate a basic Dockerfile.

Writing a Dockerfile is not harder than deploying to a bare metal server anyway.
It’s only ever to prep for sales of a new version; this is all marketing.

The story is good no matter the characters and those who want the original, cool. Those who want the new version, cool as well.

But the articles and “opinions” we keep seeing here and there all smell an awful lot like there’s gonna be a new chocolate factory remake coming out, just “coincidentally”…
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.” — Andy Warhol
To summarize this discussion, we went from "this might mean we don't need a fleet of $10k+ GPUs to even run a LLM" to "yeah but an individual couldn't train one every day though". These goalposts are breaking the sound barrier.
Not true! You can pass any object. In Lit, just put a dot before the attribute name:

<my-component .array=${[1,2,3]} .object=${{this: that, another}} .var=${mySomething}></my-component>

I did a series on Medium. Maybe one of these would be of help to you:

https://link.medium.com/HNhigMgvAxb

https://link.medium.com/TNiNHDkvAxb
> Should that be "gatx" too?

Why settle for gender suffixes, whxn xxx cxn rxplxcx xvxrx vxwxl?
I've had an allogenic stem cell transplant. It was hell. I no longer have cancer, so it was worth it. But HIV/AIDS (with standard treatment and testing) no longer significantly reduces life expectancy.

I have a hard time imagining a future where allogenic stem cell transplants are used to treat HIV. The procedures are incredibly risky and carry long term consequences (and in many cases, like mine, also unbearably painful for weeks).

To me, the most likely practical consequence of these findings is to spur on interest in using CRISPR (or other in-vivo genetic modification strategies) to alter the genome of an HIV patient to be "immune" to HIV. (A similar idea is used in treatment of some blood cancers. Chase the rabbit-hole of "CAR T Cell therapy" to get started.)
> It seems that worrying about the blogging system stops a lot of people from blogging in the first place.

I couldn’t agree more, and I’ve been a victim of it myself. This is why I like zero-config setups now. Choosing themes is the most attractive nuisance ever…
Also a raw HTML writer, but I’ve been considering the SSG route to make site updates (global nav changes, redesigns, etc.) manageable. You seem to have some method of handling this on your site, given that I can view a page of posts from 10 years ago and still see links to this year’s posts. How are you doing that with raw HTML? (If this question doesn’t make it clear, I am quite amateur.)
Technically there is nothing preventing you from stacking 10 eggs on top of each other, If you balance it just right, they won't move assuming no outside forces.

Realistically, you may as well talk about it as something that can't be done. If anything, it's probably easier to stack eggs than to get more than 4 people to work collaboratively without the current incentives and rules making it all hold together.
Correct, most chickens are raised in enclosed buildings. And most pigs are farmed intensively, whether that be fully outside or with a roof.

Dairy cows in the US are a mix of confined and pastured; it's kind of an ongoing experiment. Dairy calves are more likely to be raised in some form of shelter/confinement than beef calves. (Here, a "beef calf" is one being raised specifically with the intent to raise it for slaughter; many dairy cows will end up becoming beef eventually but the path to getting there is different.)

Beef cattle outnumber dairy cattle about 3:1 in the US.
It is unfortunate that there is no group that sits down and harmonizes all these laws across state lines. Why should it be that the way to do business is slightly different in CA vs NC? If this remains the situation, then the only companies which thrive will be the ones with an army of lawyers. There is not much hope for smaller businesses in such an environment
And hope they never change. Say something happens in one of their lives and they no longer contribute anything. Getting rid of them would be exactly what the OP post is criticizing.
Sure, but if carbon capture is the goal there are easier methods than artificial photosynthesis. The point of artificial photosynthesis is to create a fuel you can eventually burn again.

Re-using the CO2 in the atmosphere certainly beats simply adding to it, I'm guessing that's the point here.
That's the received wisdom, but it really seems trite.

HAART leaves people extremely vulnerable to infection as well, after all. The difference is that HAART means that point will come at some unpredictable point in the future, whereas a bone marrow transplant makes the window more predictable. And beyond that, it fails to consider the risks of decades of really toxic medication.

Is a bone marrow transplant really worse than decades of liver damage followed by developing AIDS eventually anyway?

Maybe, maybe not, but dismissing the heavy questions of a persons life with "basically normal" is not helpful.
Interestingly though attorneys and accountants charge by the hour to customers. So their individual value to the group is easy to quantify and measure.

And while they may have support staff, they typically "work alone" in the sense that there's one partner per account, so very little oversight or management is needed.

The primary purpose of this "collective" is to create a "brand" of sorts. Ernst and Young has more prestige than say Franklin and Franklin. This draws in higher paying customers.

I feel like there are sufficient differences in this kind of business to a typical software business that the comparison is not especially useful.

Which is not to say that a coop can't work, just that the comparison to accountants and lawyers doesn't work.
There was no civil war before Russia manufactured it to take advantage of political instability and invade. There is no reason to speak of "pro-Russian separatists" as anything distinct from Russian armed forces. It's baffling how so many people in the west can't see through this simple deception. Russia saw an opportunity to invade, set up puppet states and then came to their rescue.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled last month:

> Among other things, the Court found that areas in eastern Ukraine in separatist hands were, from 11 May 2014 and up to at least 26 January 2022, under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. It referred to the presence in eastern Ukraine of Russian military personnel from April 2014 and the large-scale deployment of Russian troops from August 2014 at the latest. It further found that the respondent State had a significant influence on the separatists’ military strategy; that it had provided weapons and other military equipment to separatists on a significant scale from the earliest days of the “DPR” and the “LPR” and over the following months and years; that it had carried out artillery attacks upon requests from the separatists; and that it had provided political and economic support to the separatists.

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?library=ECHR&...
Exactly. Our best ornithopters still aren't as good as birds and probably will never be. I guess air travel is doomed.
Today it does, but might need to find a way around it.
I was dismissive at first, but I have to admit chatgpt brings a lot of value to programmers. It saves me a lot of time remembering some APIs or syntax for languages I use only occasionally. It's sometimes wrong, but for programming, it's easy to detect and fix.

But it's more problematic for non-programming questions where it's hard to check the answer without googling it.
Thanks! Unfortunately, bookmarklets just doesn't seem to work on iOS... :( I tried using your bookmarklet editor to see if it helped, and the resulting bookmarklets didn't work in iOS Safari nor iOS Firefox.

oh well... Wish I had found your bookmarklet editor when I was trying to use them on Android before!
Just keep reading.

Effort and time spent are the secrets.
Mistress death does not exist in the MCU. That is the universe I'm referring to.

>Out-of-universe the writers needed a villain. So they had Thanos do something evil. As the other poster pointed out, it was also a fairly dumb solution, given exponential growth.

Audiences are more sophisticated nowadays. A generic evil villain wouldn't fly. They made Thanos a villain that was acting, from his perspective, in the universes best interest. But of course audiences nowadays are so sophisticated that even Thanos is still considered generic.

>The important point is that thinking the Thanos 'solution' is somehow rational is based on an arbitrary choice of what is important - life, freedom, nature, order, etc.

I don't think so. Thanos justified his actions with an explanation. The heroes didn't counter his argument. Why? Because the writers were playing off of our moral instincts. The heros don't need to justify shit because the audience automatically writes off genocide as wrong even if it means ultimately saving the universe from civilization eating itself. The writers relied on biases within the audience, which is my point.

The writers wouldn't be able to do this if the audience wasn't biased. A truly unbiased audience member would be like, "WELL wait a minute, thanos sort of has a point, however flawed, why isn't iron man giving a counter argument?"

The audience just accepts Thanos's explanation as evil without thinking and that's that.

As a side note:

It would've been really good if the next phase of the MCU after end game was humanity dealing with a resource constrained universe. Thanos ends up being right and the moral enigma and consequence of the avengers actions makes them question their place in the universe. Was Thanos the villain or the tragic hero?

Audiences are THAT sophisticated nowadays. The multiverse thing is clever but the movie arcs are still good guys vs. bad guys. We need more sophisticated plots that have audiences question classic tropes of good and evil.

The Dark knight was so good in this regard, but strangely no other movie after that was able to copy the way they had joker play with morality.
Is this a problem? It will only leak on the sender and receivers browser history.
> For example, an "artistic" indie group catering to just a tiny minority is not just "as commercial" as a pop production, unless we stretch the term beyond recognition).

But that indie band is not necessarily more artistic.
Anyone have any experience with fake Rolexes?

What's the minimum spend for a decent ChiRolex, one that would look real (or at least not obviously phoney) from six feet away or so?
What the law actually says is that it is illegal to kill another person unless you believe they are actively threatening your life or somebody else's life (i.e., in self-defense). You are wrong if you think that it's the weapon that determines whether the shooting was justified or not. People are not shot by police for having weapons, being a fugitive, or being on drugs even if those things are illegal. They are shot for being an immediate danger to somebody's life.

Ask yourself, what generally causes a person to act violent?

A mentally healthy person controls their emotions and acts intelligently. Healthy people don't lash out at others like wild animals. It's mental illness and drugs that makes people do that.

And guess what? It's easy to observe that the vast majority of people shot by police are addicts or mentally ill (i.e., criminals.) And you're telling me it's the police that are the ones who introduce violence into the equation?
> Aren't solar panels already more efficient at creating energy than photosynthesis?

Solar panels convert light to electricity. Photosynthesis uses light to rebuild molecules into sugars.

Plants are about 1-2% efficient - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency

Modern solar cells easily hit 20% efficiency under decent conditions.

> It's true we haven't found an artificial method of photosynthesis that creates a fuel we can burn that is more efficient than nature, but do we want to?

If we want to use airplanes to quickly travel long distances, yes. Or if we want to haul loads to many arbitrary locations.
Hurrah for the asahi folk! They’ve been working incredibly hard and dealing with some seemingly crappy maintainer pushback to make this happen.