skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, The Qt Company remains a topic of concern, publishing (also on LinkedIn by employees, with lame/thin "does not necessarily represent my employer's opinion" disclaimers) lots of "why open source software is scary" content lately, apparently unaware that the only reason anyone cares about their product is its open source pedigree and credibility: https://www.qt.io/blog/is-open-source-really-free

I don't think that article is really pushing for Qt to go closed source; rather, they're just trying to sell commercial subscriptions in order to make money (after all, the Qt Company has to stay alive somehow). And Schnieder makes it clear that building your stuff opensource is not a bad idea in many situations; he's just promoting Qt's commercial subscriptions (which IMO really are probably nice for corporations who want priority support and who don't want to deal with licensing issues).
what if I told you that to be actually sustainable at current population levels long term, we'd need to surrender 70% or more of currently used pastureland and farmland?

Oh wait, we aren't going to stay at current population levels. Still at least have, what, another 4-5 billion people to crank out before we allegedly plateau?

Wind power doesn't take up a lot of space, especially offshore. Solar? There's this thing called a desert.

People, we are in the midst of a mass extinction. We NEED that land for biodiversity. Mass extinctions occurred over long periods of time that enabled evolutionary adapatation to some degree. We're doing ours over the span of a thousand years. Most mass extinctions at least get to "experiment" will all Earth's land surface to find new adapted animals. We've taken a huge portion of the world's biodiverse and fertile lands and industrialized them.

Otherwise, yeah, we'll have vertical farms... in space, because we won't be on earth.

I guess you think solutions to traditional farming, which is unsustainable, will come out of THIN AIR.
>Everybody will see that you can invade a weaker country, for whatever made up reason, and nothing happens.

I think that most people who make foreign policy decisions in countries around the world already knew that if you are strong enough, you can invade a weaker country, for whatever reason, and nothing happens. This is just plain common sense and has been discussed going back to Thucydides' Melian Dialogue or earlier. And if anyone somehow did not realize that the strong can get away with invading the weak, they should have realized it in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq.
Convictional:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQFFCUWlf-32D3mV...
> bunch of brand-new pex tubing

Be careful if it’s been sitting in the sun. Lived in a building that had its hot water recirc lines fail one after the next like 5y after construction and I suspect that was why.
Don't be. There is legally binding contract that prevents Qt Company from unilaterally changing the licensing deal (until KDE stops using Qt).

Qt is a great example of how you can force commercial highly profitable company to develop open source against their will even after it's sold multiple times. Trolltech and KDE jointly formed the foundation to make sure that Qt core stays open source.

Licensing agreement has not changed. Qt Company just stopped doing anything not required by the agreement between The KDE Free Qt Foundation and The Qt Company. https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...
That’s not necessarily the case. Hawaii has limited bandwidth and higher latency.
Feels like a shotgun approach. They have x86-64 (Zhaoxin), RISC-V (Xiangshan, Alibaba), MIPS -> Loongarch (Loongson), and aarch64 (Phytium). My guess is the central government is trying to build domestic chips by throwing piles of money at anyone who says they can make one.

Result: a pile of different architectures running different instruction sets, none of which come close to being a high performance design.
In the context of a language that needs to coexist with C++ codebases, it is a weird decision.

However, Carbon's syntax makes technical sense, and is in line with many contemporary languages (Rust, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin). It is easier to parse, which is important for tooling and IDEs. `fn name` is easy to grep for. `let` works well with type inference and destructuring assignment, which are becoming standard features in modern languages (although Carbon still supports C-style aggregate initializers, which is not so great).
There are other materials we could use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgg0zpckGRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8OTH0eEM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgE6Tzi3Lg
Discover really has never worked all that well for me when it comes to updating packages. I have used the terminal to install updates for a long time now, with both Ubuntu and openSUSE.
>Pandemic productivity actually rose, despite a couple of quarters of setbacks?

Covid did not create Universal Basic Income. Everyone knew that Covid money will run out, so most people didn't quit their jobs (although still many did, which was GP's point). Also, the amount of debt raised during covid was no joke, and we don't know the long term effects. But even disregarding that last point Covid isn't a useful datapoint for disproving GP's claim. The fundamental issue is with UBI is people will not want to work and that is GP's central claim.
>I wonder if the novelty effect is gone. It was an enticing game.

It was 10 years ago. Now it is unplayable.
> Kinda like biofuels, sounds really cool, but in practice it just creates more waste then the alternatives.

So Porsche e-fuels are gonna be a scam?
I often game at night and less noise is definitely a point in favour to AMD!
And you still haven’t address the questions…
Some need to walk before running. Walk the distance you want to run (e.g., 10K) and your body will tell you where your fitness level is at. I walked a month before running.
Ah, but the apps have become 8x less efficient. So if you haven't updated they will be running to slow to be usable.
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As someone who is using a lot of C++20, I can't wait to use this feature when C++23 is finally ready :)
I was going to make an edit with something along the lines of "or the poster was taking the piss out of the concept being real", but left it alone ;-)
Yes you are basically describing home-manager. I dont use NixOS so I'm not sure if home-manager is a necessary addon there, but on Mac I use nixpkgs + home-manager.
I suppose you could mail one of the KDE mailing lists[0] to ask about this. Probably you want either kde or kde-devel.

[0]: https://kde.org/support/mailinglists/
They tell you how to detect support but don't describe the instructions or execution environment (registers, etc).
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Pretty amazing how many people's ethics are less valuable to them than their product design opinions.
Exercise does nothing for obesity whatsoever. Every single weight loss study reaches the same conclusion: the impact of exercise alone is negligible.

There's long been a stigma that only fat people have sleep apnea, which is not only false, but it is virtually impossible to lose weight when you have untreated sleep apnea. Meaning that people with sleep apnea are likely to get fat. And even with CPAP, which will greatly improve sleep apnea, you might still end up with UARS which will still make it impossible to lose weight.

Fact of the matter is, we don't know what causes sleep apnea in most people. It is certainly true that excess weight (especially on the chest and neck) can worsen or even cause sleep apnea in some people, but there are plenty of fat folks who don't get apneas. While there are also plenty of skinny folks whose airways collapse in their sleep.
> One of the best times/places to go is university housing during move-out week.

Had a friend that would make a few thousand every September selling the stuff he scavenged in April/May.

Helped that he was an athlete and ran around anyway and could go back and forth running with a cart.
They are ignored because their prices are not competitive. I really like their design but can't justify the cost.
I've mentioned it in many posts here, because I still have trouble processing it. I could write a book.

I wrote an application (in engineering) that did a thing that everyone loved. It had a thousand internal users. Another group (in IT) thought my project was their domain, and tried to kill it. When they couldn't, they staffed up and wrote their own version. I wrote mine in a year and a half; it took them 10 people and 3 years. Their version sucked so hard, no one would use it. They hired Microsoft to help them make it better; they failed.

In frustration with the situation, the IT manager managed to replace my boss' boss with someone he had mentored into the company, and lo and behold, we were told to stop working on my project. We made a patch to fix a bug, and they feigned outrage, and pulled the plug and made us hand over my application, which has now run for about 6 years without update, while they try to force more people to use their piece of junk. I hear they've gotten most people transferred now.

Right about the time the management change was happening, my boss and I were starting to go off in several directions of other useful things we could do with the data. One of them was the function I mentioned. It was a very manual process, but very scriptable. I created a message queue in Azure, to "release" the job, and had another machine (with a proprietary program this process needed) pick up the message and just crank through it. I had just gotten that done when they pulled the plug, and it was never used in anger.

A lot of times, people tell war stories like this, and you think, aww, come on; it couldn't have been THAT bad. But this bad enough that the CIO called the IT manager to a special meeting about it, and he was reassigned to a lead a new group. You're free to speculate if that was a promotion or a chastisement. My boss thinks it was the former. I'm not so sure.
> How could you possibly be agile in that environment?

You couldn't. There are a lot of real-world scenarios where you can't be agile. For one, it suggests that it won't work if you don't have motivated individuals. There aren't enough motivated individual developers to go around, so someone is going to get stuck with unmotivated individuals and won't be able to be agile.

Such is life. It is not some kind of commandment. It's okay to not be agile.
Even if it dies tomorrow, it already achieved more than many wannabe OS out there, so there is that.

And who knows, just like it happened with Singularity and Midori having an impact on .NET design since WinRT, some Fuchsia ideas can be brought into Android in that case.
That is a monster prompt prefix! Suggest attempting to create a fine tuning set which would provide similar results. Of course fined tuned models are (currently) 6X more expensive to run than stock models, so a super long prompt may end up being less expensive to run.
"gitgpt make me a sandwich" isn't going anywhere fast.

Understanding what you can tell gitgpt to do is extremely adjacent to knowing actual git commands.
> I don't think they necessarily are good to validate work though, or at least, they do so poorly.

For me, I've found they actually do help significantly to catch bugs even for my initial PRs. To know your code works, you either have to run it manually or else write a unit test, and you must do so for all relevant code paths. How much time do you save by avoiding the unit test, if any at all, and how long before you recoup that time via your integral? In some projects, I think the time saved is closed to zero, whereas the benefits accrue almost immediately.

You are right that there is a tradeoff here, and I have been part of a project where I wrote a bunch of tests for code that ended up being a throwaway prototype. You could argue that I wasted time and resources there. On the other hand, I've seen more prototypes get shipped to production than scrapped, so maybe the calculated risk is worth it even in scrappier contexts.
Family farm operations astound me.

The amount of things your average farmer has to understand astounds me - finance, labor management, investing, market conditions, futures, contract negotiation. And then on top of that, mastery of up-to-date farming technology.

Even a modest 100 acre operation can be a multi-million dollar enterprise designed to eke out cents on the dollar.
I once advocated at this when at Disney, but the truth is that Nintendo has no interest in selling to anyone and they don't have to
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Out of curiosity, what do you need a database for? Could you just regenerate your static site when the database updates, thus allowing you to keep serving static HTML?
Multi-user seems to have been something which was dropped when MS/DOS was CP/M inspired by CP/M. CP/M (and I do mean CP/M, not just MP/M) had the concept of user areas. These were a different concept from Unix users: there were 16 user areas numbered 0..15, and one could change between them with the USER command. I believe that user area 0 was in some sense shared, possibly only as a place to load .COM files from. There was no security boundary: it was just an organisational tool.
Ah yes, sorry, slower than expected growth was the data point. In my defense I had a screaming toddler in the car!

That said I think the point generally remains - one could argue slower than expected growth in cloud services is a revenue drop (in a way) vs expectations. The market responded accordingly[0] - "However, Azure growth is decelerating." Note that this is all including the explosion in "2023 AI hotness" which is almost certainly offsetting what would be larger losses due to the shift I'm arguing. As the All In Guys noted "you won't see a pitch deck without the letters AI in it" - and a good chunk of that is still going to cloud providers as (in my opinion) there are long tails to these changes and many existing solutions/applications getting "AI" slapped on them are effectively trapped in $BIGCLOUD.

Self-hosting AI is also significantly more difficult and upfront more expensive when you start looking at dealing with (typically) Nvidia hardware costs and software stack complexity. I can definitely see many of these "pivots" to "something AI, we need to throw AI in this" the more well understood and initially faster and "cheaper" utilization of cloud services will continue until the AI trend stabilizes.

From what I could hear (and process) over the screaming the All In Guys presented the argument I tend to agree with - a resurgence of self-hosted infrastructure.

Companies are also dialing back cloud spend because they're realizing for many applications it's very expensive relatively and can actually be limiting compared to self-hosting[1]. Per usual when the cheap money and economic boom retracts they start actually looking at costs they were once happy to just keep writing checks for.

I'd like to reiterate there's a lot of calculation and strategy when it comes down to selecting infrastructure hosting. Again, I think we're in a period where there's a bit of a sea change/wakeup from the past decade of "of course you always build and host everything in $BIGCLOUD" - without even remotely considering alternatives. It's been the default for a while and it isn't as much anymore - and I'd argue that trend is accelerating. There is no "one size fits all".

[0] - https://www.investors.com/news/technology/msft-stock-microso...

[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/snapchat-earnings-case-runawa...
That would be Circle, not a language with another syntax.
Hard to tell if you're trolling or not, the sort of solar mass ejections that drive today's Aurora strike both hemispheres
I'm delighted to see your edit :). Our installer makes a few configuration choices that upstream doesn't, but the main driving goal for us is to be reliable, safe, and easy to undo.
I've been badly burned by Eclipse. Like people tell me to download a particular edition out of like 25 on the download page, I spend quite a few hours or days trying to get it to work for building a complex product, and it turns out they meant a different edition.

Eclipse in my opinion frequently suffers from "pluginitis". I say it works OK as a Java IDE if you install a minimum number of plugins but once you start installing plugins all bets are off. Every product I've seen that configures Eclipse for something other than Java development such as Python, Scala, or the commercial product Topbraid Composer that allegedly functions as an ontology editor has failed for me.

IntelliJ IDEA "just works" for me but so does PyCharm and WebStorm, even CLion works OK. I wanted to like DataGrip but it doesn't seem to support arrays in postgresql which we use all the time.
All bubbles have something wasteful about them as they do not represent calculated risk-taking but rather a suspension of healthy skepticism that is driven by informational echo chambers, ultra-cheap money and other such degenerate macro phenomena. This leads to more widespread failures than what is warranted for a given quantum of risk because they are all copycat failures.

It will be interesting to see which of the countless tech-related bubbles of the last decade will grow roots. Vertical farming is not the worst offender, hopefully something has been learned in the process.
It's funny that we are always chasing after 'personalization', which is of course only a problem created by industrialization and massive scale.
Oh believe me they want. they just can not afford it. In the 90's I easily bought house in Toronto and I did not need to have high income. Now it is nigh to impossible for majority of working people.
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This could be done automatically by pinging the root and searching for a header set by railway's default page. If it doesn't exist then the service is live.
As opposed to the US where cops were called on folks BBQing in a public park (where BBQing is allowed)? And the US lacks hate speech regulations. So… no difference? When someone calls with some BS, the police are usually obligated to follow up. Now if you want to discuss how there should be penalties for wasting everyone's time with frivolous or hateful calls to the police, we can discuss that.

> I'm sorry, is the UK not in Europe now?

For the purposes of examining hate speech regulations, no, it's not. Different currency. Separate economic zone. Limited to no hate speech regulation especially as it regards Nazi/fascism.

The US and Mexico are on the same continent as well. Closer in fact due to the huge shared border and no large salt water channel between. Should we lump the laws of Mexico and the US together haphazardly as well? No? Then why would you automatically lump the UK and Germany together like that when they are in fact quite distinct entities?
Expose APIs from Apache Apisix to the Power Platform
I still claim that you can’t just declare that the reason he makes some argument or other is “he’s just afraid that X”. Argue with the point, not the person.
Your company sounds like a company who just connects companies with code which does exactly what the company needs.

No product, no product strategy just pure company integration.

I bet the train is gone for years already.

And instead of creating a real product and forcing companies in a clean workflow and driving it you are being driven.

The message queue thing you mentione sounds exactly like other companies I have seen with the exact same issue were suddenly some random tech is used to add things to that pile 'easier' just digging the grave deeper.

But I can be wrong.
I think the problem is that it’s just fundamentally difficult and very expensive to scale up LLM inference to millions of users. OpenAI did not invent this type of model and it’s not like the tech is secret—they were just the first to scale it up. It’s hard to imagine a scrappy startup being able to even afford the compute cost of such an undertaking without significant venture backing
The version I linked is an outwardly more measured, balanced take as it's trying to appear academic and researched. Here is what their sales people turn it into:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/severe-risks-open-source-soft...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/total-cost-ownership-open-sou...

> Additionally the organization has to look at remarkable costs when it comes to hardware and OS porting of the whole software product to be more hardware independent eg. to react on hardware shortages. Commercial software comes with a long list of supported hardware, sometimes with a list of more than 25 different hardware platforms.

Yes, open source software has such a terrible track record at portability indeed.

You're right that with a lot of goodwill, you can choose to interpret all of those publications as "it's good to have a commercial license option and that you can buy support if needed". Which I would agree with for many reasons, including supporting technology you rely on. But the way it's presented is in a fear-mongering style that's detrimental to the open source project that is also Qt, and I believe is vital to its overall wellbeing.
I have a feeling PackageKit is to blame here, since I remember Gnome Software being just as bad.
The article says five acres of solar panels for one of lettuce. That seems to imply a total efficiency of 20%.
> They are a subset of microplastics

Are they? Not trying to be difficult. Micro plastics are just tiny particles that break off of macroscopic plastic objects. They can be made of any kind of plastic. And phthalates are found in macroscopic plastic objects. Hence, orthogonal
No seriously you get into huge groove after a while. But it’s never back to the life you had before.
As far as I know, nothing about Iran's foreign policy decisions in the last 43 years shows that Iran's government makes foreign policy decisions in a less pragmatic way than the average country. If Iran got nukes, they would almost certainly just use them for deterrence purposes like all other countries have since 1945. Even if they didn't, though, I have no desire to definitely go kill Iranians now just to prevent some hypothetical future deaths of Israelis. If it was up to me I would cut off all US support of Israel tomorrow and let them figure out their own issues. If you personally want to go fight against Iran, there is nothing stopping you. I would rather not get dragged in to it, though, and I would not want my tax money as a US tax payer to go to murdering Iranians for the sake of soothing your bloodlust and/or your fears.
All of that other stuff is also fake.
Not forever if this ever comes through,

https://github.com/Jack-Works/proposal-enum
While I agree with you, it's pretty easy to claim ownership of an item from your store that you put into your trashcan on your property that you then hire someone to come get.
In a practical sense this is pretty avoidable for the general population, however. Because you just choose something that would be useful, e.g. public works.