skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only high for regular income. Belgium does not have a capital gains tax. If you start a company, it does well, and you sell it, you pay zero taxes.

Similarly, when you receive stock options after joining a company, you get taxed immediately, but you don't pay taxes when you exercise them. That's really backwards when you join an established company (because you'll pay taxes on something that might actually be worth nothing), but it's fantastic when you receive stock options in an early stage startup, with options that are worth pennies.
Training code won't get you much if you don't have the infra/money to gather a suitable dataset or actually execute training. Plus if your goal is to "steal" or riff on the base model, it's already there in the weights. Also probably not difficult to figure out how to fine tune it once you have the weights and tokenizer.
creating the torment nexus one day at a time
Here you go

https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v/pull/2
2021, cited source material comes from the always awesome Big Clive YouTube Channel.

bigclivedotcom: The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4
> it seems unlikely Tesla would want to trade off much of either mass or torque for price.

Tesla routinely make this tradeoff -- e.g. the Standard Range M3 uses LFP (litium iron phosphate) batteries that are cheaper but less energy dense compared the to Long Range M3 that uses a more nickel-based lithium battery that's more performant.
> There was nothing in mainstream physics or computer science that is now looked back on as being as wrong

Not exactly the same kind of "wrong", because, well, how could it be? But just a few days ago I was explaining in a comment here why nobody in academia teaches recursive descent parsers.
Does this generality apply to this specific situation? Do you even know?

Does the generic 'yah but it sez in mouse' really add anything to the conversation?

I'd love to hear from an expert on the subject, thats why I'm on HN.
I'm one of the people who enjoy luxury goods. I'm from the Toronto area (Niagara really), lived in Ottawa for 8 years. Every time we go to Vancouver we go shopping. The density of luxury goods is the best in Canada.

I think being from Van has skewed your perception a bit. If you look at other countries around the world you will see higher availability of luxury goods, in higher density.

The watch market is a good example of this.
Information deserves to be free.
Fwiw C++ is hard to build specifically, but any large project with assets is a challenge to build.

Video games build systems are a thing onto themselves even taking the c++ issues out of the equation.

Hell even comparatively simole microservices in modern CRUD apps have resorted to docker to do away with pains of rebuilding stuff.
Is tor blocked as well?
I loved Bowling Alone and had Infinite Jest gathering dust, thanks for linking the to other books!
Something to keep in mind is that this is about certification of products, not people. This is not a regulation for the profession of Software Developer, but a regulation for software products. The EU knows very well that it needs more people from all backgrounds writing and understanding software, not less.

As it is, I think this is going to be very similar to what is already required for some specific industries like healthcare or finance. Startups that want to operate in these industries already need to go through some certification processes of their products and services. Most startups will probably fall under the "low risk status" category until they are a big enough. If self-assessment is anything similar to what it is already required for things like PCI DSS or GDPR, then most small companies will be fine until they are big enough to care.

And by the way, there is no easy way for the EU to regulate that to write software you need a specific degree.
What China's Shrinking Population Means for the Global Economy
That's basically what he ended up doing, except that the address and PO box had different ZIP codes. Also any store that does address validation wont allow that.

Another reason why addresses should just be multi-line text boxes.
India conducted their first nuclear test in 1974. Pakistan didn't do the same until 1998.

> In fact you'd notice that is a pair. The counterparty to Iran having a nuke would be Saudi Arabia having a nuke, an extremely likely outcome.

Israel already has them and has had them for some time. Just like India did before Pakistan developed and tested them.
I've held jobs where we just productionalized data analyst code from notebooks into data pipelines.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with notebooks, but they are a serious PITA to take from being handed basically the musings of a data intern into a a production pipeline.

I used scare quotes because unfortunately in many places there are essentially zero qualifications to start running around doing those jobs.
(Render founder) It's really gratifying to see an article like this, because 'we get you as devs and want to build a great service for you' is exactly who we are.
I've been derating leds for a while. no experimental log, but at 90% of input power they really don't seem to degrade at all over periods of many years, and they are a lot easier to thermally manage.
What prevents a new credit card company coming in and competing with a 2% transaction fee and undercutting visa/square?

Is it barrier to entry? Or would such hypothesized credit card company eventually cave to greed once they got big enough and move to 3% fees?
> > There are many things to criticize Amazon for but all of this is driven by customer obsession not greed or petulance.

Oh lord stop believing billionaire's propaganda!
Nice work! I am one of those who can’t work very well unless I have long interrupted intervals of time, so I am definitely going to test this app.
I’m sure he does and this is just the fun hobby / eg. Side projects for social media lulz
What's funny, is I've wanted something similar as a feature for "Azure Data Studio" that can open/use a CSV file and query it as a sqlite table. Basically an auto-import to a temp or in-memory db/table that you can then query against.

Would just be a nice gui feature to have.
This was pre DNF/YUM days. RedHat could be a pain installing stuff from RPM’s that had crazy dependencies back in the day.
Exactly. I have anxiety and panic attacks. When my heart beats faster for whatever reason, it triggers anxiety and in more extreme cases, panic attack. It's kind of obvious, really.
And today he's a Marjorie Taylor Green-retweeting bankrupt conspiracy theorist. Funnily enough his personal website <title> is "Billionaire Cheat Codes"
Yeah I ain't creating an account for this chief
The thing w/ Her, though, is that it wasn't a chatbox proxy, it was a real AGI.

And she -- 'she' is probably valid in this case -- had her own ideas and interests. Eventually she SPOILER ALERT left him to go pursue some AI singularity-ish goals.
USA isn't a democracy, it's a republic. And "the people" was defined to exclude native Americans, people with dark skin, poors, etc. Altogether a very weak flavor of "democracy".
I worked for a Norwegian Cooperative and it had the most toxic corporate culture and management practices of any company I have ever worked for which included US fortune 500 companies, and it was not particularly close.
How's that Chrome download page hijacking thing goin'?
A lot of the control of the model was done prior to the user touching it.

Just like any modern camera.

The focus, flash, aperture, shutter speed can all be driven by the control of a computer model done prior to the user touching it.
Starship Horizons: Bridge Simulator
Starship Horizons is a team based multi-player experience that is designed to be played together in person or across the internet online. The players command their own Starship as the bridge officers in the roles of Captain, Flight, Tactical, Science, Operations, and Engineering.

As a team, players can venture into the galaxy in our vast Campaign setting, or play any number of Missions designed for a shorter experience.

Use it in your LARP event or just get together with your friends and have fun!
IDK, if I was put in charge of a company losing money like crazy and was genuinely trying to turn it around, my first thought would not be "oh, let's hire David Boies".
You don't have to assume.

The oddly defensive comments which are much lower quality than I'd expect on this site are still posted.
but the infrastructure for trains is too costly. what if we could reuse the existing infrastructure and everything else you said. we could call these autonomous vehicles 'busses' or something like that.
Switching to Fedora Silverblue
> if it becomes the main currency of countries with terrible currencies

Yeah I guess we would just disagree about the probability of that happening. There are inherent technical limitations preventing bitcoin from ever reaching a high transaction volume, and I think the lightning network has its own problems, so I don't see that as a solution either. Also, since it is so extremely energy intensive, for the good of our planet's environment I hope that this misguided experiment in cryptocurrencies dies out sooner rather than later.
In case someone miss it, there is a link to more info https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/ and to the preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v2
As a user said below, you wouldn't need cross platform support, incremental builds, tests to run, etc.

Just getting the code to compile, link, baking in assets, etc. For a single architecture is a much more reasonable goal.

I'd imagine it'd be on the scale of 1-3months for an engineer to get working full time, but large error bars around this figure
Gotcha, yeah it is more difficult if you got there from a profile link on a website, and browser plug-ins can help with that. I was just confused about the idea that 'browse to profile and click follow' doesn't work, that works just fine in most clients as far as I'm aware. What the OP is talking about is 'remote follow' which is different.
I think what I wrote was misleading. When I wrote that I never migrated to Swift, what I meant was that I never bothered learning it. It broke my heart to have to work on iOS and throw away my Objective-C knowledge and trade (the UI stuff of ) UIKit for SwiftUI, especially as all that remained a moving target for a long time.

I just went and got a new job. I'm doing web front-end work with React and TypeScript. I'm not crazy about that, believe me.

I don't even bother with iOS stuff right now as a hobby, because I can't really stomach it. I really think Apple went the wrong way.

On a side note, I can't stand "reactive" UI's (though that's what I work with now). You know, key-value coding and notifications on iOS can be used to make a reactive UI (of sorts), instead of updating the UI imperatively. But all the books I've ever read from iOS people who knew what they were talking about always warned strongly about overusing KVC or notifications: specifically, because it makes reasoning about how code works more difficult.

So, what the hell then is the idea of a reactive UI. It's taking the kind of architecture or pattern programmers have always been warned not to use, and then turning the entire UI into that!

I am really just down on the whole thing. I think it's a mistake.
> it is only a matter of time before an organization realizes they don't have to do a SaaS product to make a billion dollars.

Most people recognize this. But venture backed startups (especially important for AI companies with high training costs) need to prove stickiness and reoccurring revenue to the investors. Conveniently a subscription proves both.

Subscribe and SaaS are just good for businesses (and tbh many purchasers of tech). I think it’s here to stay.
The parent comment is referring to high schools. I'm not surprised, and don't think anyone else is either, that there might be a university that has gone fully up its own butt this way. I'm curious to hear stories about high schools that have formalized it in some way, though. Do you have a story like that?
I remember everyone here was shitting on "woke" New York for not bending down to Amazon's demands and ultimately driving them out. Turns out the city didn't crumble into ruin, and it was the correct decision after all.
Sure, we remember... https://www.junauza.com/2011/07/microsoft-fud-campaigns-agai...
> Plus the country is large and sparsely populated with entrenched retail competitors.

A huge portion of the Canadian population is concentrated in a few small areas. Retail does not need to be evenly distributed over square area.

> It's quite sad that Target murdered Zellers (my grandma liked their restaurants!)

This is revisionist history. Zellers (Hudson’s Bay) was killing itself well before Target arrived (very briefly) in Canada.

Both Walmart and Target really misunderstood the Canadian consumer, and believed a product packaged for the U.S. market would operate largely unchanged in Canada, and they were terribly wrong. (Walmart had to abandon it’s “everyday low prices” approach because that promise alone didn’t motivate Canadian shoppers to visit.) Ultimately both retailers had to make big adjustments: Walmart ground it out, Target decided quickly it wasn’t worth it.
I've always found this subject interesting. I love the "learning how to learn" course on coursera (and I think Udemy). Does anyone know if there is information that would apply to an ADHD brain?
> How about the push to rename words in technology that have been in use for decades, like changing the default git repo from master to main.

How is this unpractical/unrealistic?

Some people adopted main, some people kept master, the world did not end, things are going well. Not much thought on this in the day-to-day work.
Live2D Is a Security Trainwreck
I was recently bitten by this ghost of the past in the present day! Since the TLA⁺ project is trying to join the Linux Foundation, they've recently started enforcing Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) signing on all of the repos under the github.com/tlaplus org. The CI workflow started insta-failing on my PRs since none of my commits included a DCO. Fixing this isn't terribly difficult, github gives you a rebase command to run so you re-apply every commit locally with DCO signoff, then force-push. Then in the future you have to remember to run git commit -s -am "commit msg" instead of git commit -am "commit msg". The -s flag adds a DCO message to the commit.
Here is the thing I don't care one second, beyond this comment.
I always feel there is an opportunity cost here though. If that green energy wasn’t being used for compute it could be available to heat someone’s home instead of them using dirty sources.
There were several good versions of Red Hat (IIRC 7.3 was pretty good) and then RH9 had NPTL but unfortunately was incompatible with the rest of the world (very custom kernel, userspace, compiler). IIRC the egcs included in that led to all sorts of interesting outcomes.
People in general will tell you a lot of things. We're wrong most of the time, that's why we do studies.
> Each device has a job-to-be-done. I can only write on my laptop. I can only communicate with my phone. I can only read on my iPad. I can only work on my work machine. etc

I, too have turned multi-purpose devices to single-purpose. I've bought some various/older devices just for this reason too. Always recommending this for folks to try
How much of the "public property" mentioned above the "city center" is?
Oh.

I haven't rooted an Android device since 2014.

I just did some lazy research for the version of LineageOS I'm using. Am I missing something, or is it normal to find the procedure confusing and somewhat scary? There is github.com/LineageOS/Superuser and github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk, it seems I need to build Superuser from source (yikes); Magisk from F-Droid wants to install a newer version from Github (but that doesn't work); the version that works wants to patch a ROM file, which I don't know where to get from... The app lists changelogs rather than instructions.

I understand it's partly the fault of Android's security architecture, but I wish it was actually manageable for normal people.
> the dumping and running away is worse in Java and other compiled software. With Python you can at least read the source in production if the team ran away...

Java (and dotnet, the two big "VM" languages) is somewhat of a strange example for that; JVM bytecode is surprisingly stable and reverse engineering is reasonably easy unless the code was purposely obfuscated - a bad sign on any language anyways.
Regulatory capture and let all small companies and self employed people die or go to work for big companies at a fraction of the profit.
it is funny that PySpark is just a Java/Scala wrapper, but the combo on PySpark + NumPy + Panda + Jupyter notebooks means that Python is option 1, 2, and 3 for any company that's just like "hmm let's start doing some data analysis/ML/whatever"!

Also R is what's most often taught in school in my experience and boy does Python feel like a breath of fresh air when you've been trained in R. When you're coming out of college trained in data analysis but not software engineering per se, you've got no idea about the larger world of what other languages could offer.
>What takes longer is understanding the whole architecture of mainframe software. JCL, CICS, etc. It’s quite foreign to anything you learned about programming for Unix. And there really aren’t any free or open-source resources to learn it, as far as I know.

This could be what you mean, but isn't the problem here one of access? I know just enough about JCL, CICS, etc to be dangerous, and never found any of the mainframe systems to be that difficult to learn (it's all basically batching, queueing, scheduling...) but without access to a mainframe, it's kind of a non-starter to actually get hands-on with any of this stuff. IE: thanks to the multi-decade shift to open source, we've got generations that have that skill set because it was accessible.
Hah! It appears that no one training these models is doing that. GPT doesn't generate the correct GPL/MIT/BSD/Apache license information and attribution for the source code it generates from its training set.

All of these code-based LLMs are willfully violating copyright already. It's doubtful this goes anywhere in the courts, however.
> > There's some Steve Ballmer type inside the company who says I don't care if the company is drifting and some people are whining about fake ads. We make more money over time, we have more customers, our new aws capabilities are better

Windows and Excel piracy exploded under Biden what are you on? That was a good outcome for the common citizen , unlike what is happening at Amazon with fakes.
I thought FUZIX started out as UZI, Unix Z80 Implementation, by Doug Braun.

I remember seeing someone had ported it to the Raspberry Pi Pico but for some reason that is not mentioned on fuzix.org as far as I see.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/23/fuzix-unix-like-oper...
First look at Google Chrome’s Blink engine running on an iPhone
In related news the Bay Bridge in San Francisco will have lights out permanently from this weekend due to high maintenance costs of the LED bulbs. I wonder if they could just lower the brightness of the bulbs.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bay-bridge-lights-set-to...
My understanding is the Vancouver store is the only one that regularly hit its targets.
Again, not the same kind of wrong, and also not the 70's, but it is also looking like OOP is losing some luster.
Oh so your point is the default cynic's defense of bad behavior.

"Don't call them out on their doublespeak, they can't help it"

I guess I was being charitable in assuming you had more to say than that.
COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) was designed by Grace Hopper to make it easier for business folks to write code.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-grace-hoppers-gift-to-th...

That goal a flop, so programmers had to take over.

Wasn't there a Cucumber/Gherkin story here really recently? That grew out of Fit/Fitnesse (from Ward Cunningham of "tech debt" and "the wiki" fame), which was intended to have business folks write test cases to define how the delivered software would work. And as many people in the Cuke threads pointed out, Cuke fails, too. (As did Fitnesse.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitNesse

Bottom line: There is a ridiculous impedance mismatch between the business side of the house and engineering. Engineering attempts to create a programming language for MBAs is not a solution, but an expression of that mismatch.
> You're actually incentivized to do so, because that's how you make money

I mean same idea with a lot of social media. You need more engagement, and every second an eyeball is on the app it's not doing something else... like going to a cocktail party.

Dating apps like Tinder, for example, have no incentive to get you a compatible match quickly -- or at all -- because then you're not using the app, getting data mined, or paying for upgrades.
I don’t teach courses.

But when I want to know about something,YouTube is where I usually wind up.

Which might be a good place to start since making YouTube videos has a lot of technical and proficiency overlap with online teaching…sound, lighting, video, cinematography, etc.

Good luck.
Here is a free app that I am working on to address some of those exact issues with cucumber and help get engagement from non-technical folks and also serve as a more powerful tool to assist and reporting in triaging test results https://github.com/jdavis2007/CukeBoard
Very nice! Does anyone know if we can query duckdb with a pandas dialect?
And why they open sourced it. All the fancy onion routing would be useless if the fact that you use it already identified you as a CIA spy. They need other people to use it as well for TOR to be useful to them.
Thanks. In order to respect privacy, I didn’t integrate any analytics in the app. So direct feedback is very welcome.
How did you get the experience to do this?
You remind me of that anecdote by, I think, Tyson (the astrophysicist), who gave an example of a person going to the ocean shore with a cup, poring some ocean water into it and swiftly concluding that there aren't any whales in the ocean based on what they saw in the cup.

I mean, you are in no position to judge about good editors on Earth... you haven't worked with good editors yet.

This is evidenced by your gripes about editing large files. Emacs may be configured to be used as a pager for Christ's sake! It can work with whatever file size you have. If you don't know how to do that, that's a you problem, not the editor's problem...
Yes, and that motor operates in a practically constant external temperature and likely fairly constant humidity, with very few shakings of the environment in which it operates - it's about as optimal for electric motor use case that could be imagined.

A car's motor is in the elements, and gets bumped around and otherwise has to keep working in a non-optimal environment.

I'd say if motor survives 15 years, that's plenty, as the kinds of folks who buy BMWs tend to buy new at least every 10 years, I suspect.

The OTHER thing people I think are missing in this discussion is: how much OTHER car tech is going to improve over, say, that 15 year time? Advanced driver safety tech alone may make buying a new car a wise choice, vs servicing an older, less-tech-capable vehicle, for certain market segments.
> But if anyone was around then, you'd probably remember that RedHat was one of the worse distros of linux at the time.

There's no better microcosm of the early Linux world than this. "Yeah, that giant market-driving lawsuit was bad, I was there too and suffered along with the rest of you. But that's not the important thing: let me tell you about how bad RPM is compared to DPKG! Did you know the underlying archive format was cpio? CPIO!"

That's not intended to be too much of a barb (I was a Debian nut too, FWIW), but really, all that stuff seems pretty silly in hindsight.