skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re not leasing your phone: you don’t have to pay the owner for continued use of it or be forced to return it.

Call it what you want. I pay a lump sum for something that doesn't technically belong to me. And, if I break their ToS, they reserve the right to disable it.

People are rightfully upset about carmakers putting common features behind a paywall. It seems appropriate that they would be too, if they were forbidden to use their car as they pleased.

> Ownership has never meant that you are free to do what you want with your property. You take the property as is, and sometimes there are even legal restrictions to what you can do with it. For example, I’m not allowed to build a slaughterhouse on my land.

This is absurd.

Of course the rule of the law forbids you from having a slaughterhouse in your land if you don't comply with regulations. The terms of the App Store are part of a contract, not a law. Contracts may be initially binding, but they may also be illegal after review, and I personally hope they are in this regard.

In other words, there is no law saying that I shall not distribute porn on the App Store, that is just Apple's prerogative.

On the other hand, if you are arguing that federal and state laws are equivalent to private contracts, then your previous point about the Great Firewall and the App Store is moot.
RomRaider – open-source ECU Tuning
Yes. Most information is truly worthless.
> I wonder how they make transactional workloads 2x faster vs normal Postgres

There can be improvements like what OrioleDB is trying to do: https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb/
I don't even know what I want to do.

Maybe I'd recommend stuff like healthcare since that's going to still need individuals for a long time.
> For some reason we demand significantly stricter controls over anything "lab-grown" than on anything "natural".

Because we overall know the natural products, how they are to handle and how they interact with each other. And yet we still have many problems from poor handling and still unknown interactions and also new "optimizations" coming from the business-side. And GMO&lab-grown is this, just worst, it's unknown territory, coming from a mindset which quite often has not the benefit of consumers and mankind on its focus. Basically, we have learned to not trust big business, and these are cases where they can shine with all their evil ignorance, so many trust them even less than normally.
I have many thoughts here...but let's start with: Do you have your process of how you tested performance? My guess is the eng team would love to look at what you tested.
"Truly novel" is kinda difficult to define requirement. With literally any movie, you can argue for hours whether it was truly novel or not. But for me, just browsing netfix got me much bigger variance then what was available to me 20 to years ago.

Back then, all films were the same action movie plus some comedies, basically. They all ended well. There are good and bad characters, no nuance and good ones win. The structure was also the same and formulaic.

You could go to indie theater and see something else once in a while, but that was it. I have seen more novel things (at least novel for a movie). Not all of them were well executed, but the writers at least tried a new idea here and there. Twin sisters that switch families every year for example. It was not too good, but was not too bad and mainly it was something different.
This is pretty cool idea! I like the simplicity of the app.
My understanding is that he was more like exploring the ways to his objective to set up some sort of "backdoor". Discovering that shell gave only the read-only access to fs, he went on the fw modding way.

Almost there, should he not put that <h1> before <head>... Good old HTML!
I mean isn't this the actual problem? That teams are incentivized to pump out features and not delivery quality software? I remember a time in my career where I had to spend a good 2 months coming up with ways to reduce our build time in like 2014/2015. I was lucky to work at a company where most of leadership were engineers with engineering backgrounds but I can only imagine how bad my environment would have been if the room was full of MBAs.

Seems like when you hire bean counters and MBAs, the incentive/value structure of your team/org/company changes for the worse.
I often think about storage mediums and how they degrade. I still have some Amiga 880k diskettes that probably don't work. I had to ship my old VHS home movies off to a service to get them digitized because we don't have a VCR anymore. Guess where I stashed those files? Yes, in an S3 bucket.

Hell, I can't (conveniently) access CDs/DVDs, and that format is still popular. None of my current computers have drives for those formats. I do have a couple of external USB drives that I can dig out if I need to, but home much longer will those things be available?

As long as you have power and some sort of network access, you can get to S3 buckets. Maybe instead of writing notes to people (postcards, thank you letters, etc.) we should start sending S3 links.
One essayist calls this phenomenon “refinement culture”: https://medium.com/@lindynewsletter/refinement-culture-51d96...

Another essay that I can't find anymore called it "expedience." As in, we all converge on the same products not because they are the best, but because they are "good enough"
The things to no longer subsidize would be road use (as part of a land tax) and generated externalities of pollution, including the military and political cost of maintaining a stable oil-producing middle east, the change to the global climate, and more local issues such as oil spills and rubber particulates.

However road users like socialism when it's stuff they want to be subsidized.

Taxing sales directly doesn't make sense - sure recoup the externalities of lithium mining when the manufacturers buy the lithium, but to charge a consumption tax unrelated to damage done doesn't seem much sense to me.
Gnome keeps me off of pop. I look forward to the popos team are ready to ship cosmic as the default desktop.

Have you tried OpenSuse Tumbleweed or Gecko Linux? Tumbleweed is a rolling distro but the maintainers apparently test all of the updates they push. OpenSuse can feel a but clunky (it asks for passwords for “everything” for instance), but theres Gecko, which acts a bit as a wrapper of a distro to make OpenSuse a bit more user friendly.
In another submission, Yann Lecun says they did not sign this letter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35353484

and in a reply to that tweet, someone points out that "Xi Jinping" had also signed the letter.

So it seems that the supposed signatories are not verifiable and many of them might be faked.

The Reuters editors seem to have done not even a basic verification on this story.
The goal of systemd as an *init system* is not the same thing as the goal of some of the systemd umbrella projects, and they shouldn't be conflated. systemd as an init system is leaps and bounds ahead of sysvinit, openrc, and upstart for distro maintainers, large scale sysadmins, etc. No more need for supervisord, random scripts to flag off and on was part of VPN connection, convoluted "meta" scripts which carefully restart 5 different services in the same order and a huge mess of shell.

That said, no, Lennart did not/does not do things that way on his personal laptop. His position is that users shouldn't need to know how to configure dnsmasq to have a local caching DNS server, that 99% of the options for dhcpcd aren't used by 99% of users (who are perfectly happy to simply get an address in a fraction of the time), that most users don't need to know how to configure /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* or /etc/network/interfaces/* for their use case.

If you do, you can disable those things. You can think this is a good opinion or a bad opinion, but at least he's pushing towards some kind of solution which isn't "RTFM". If you think his ideas are bad, propose new ones. Start a project which does it better. "Just don't change anything" is not a meaningful or productive way to design software or operating systems.
As long as there is unavoidable software made by organizations like Mozilla that don't care for their users's choices there is an important role for distributions: To make sure what you get is what you want.
> It's not an abomination to eat natural food. Any carnivore/omnivore would eat a cow if it could.

If the cow could speak, I believe their opinion would be otherwise.

Humans don't generally appreciate it when lions, tigers, and bears beat them to the top of the food chain.

Perfectly natural, that hypocrisy; as natural as your face being eaten by leopards.

> The fact that you perceive something natural as an abomination is a symptom of a society that's too successful and needs to invent problems where there are none.

Lots of natural stuff has been "an abomination" to one group or another since writing existed, regardless of how successful the societies have been.

Examples in Leviticus, amongst other ancient texts.

Shellfish are natural.
> The only thing I could find is this article that cites a study that's says eating 450gr+ of rice per day regularly can increase your risk of diabetes, which seems like a crazy diet for most of the world.

Is that cooked or uncooked?

The rice I buy is 150 calories for 42g uncooked, so 450g uncooked would be 1600 calories. That does sound high for most places.

But that same rice cooked is 200 calories for 150g, so 450g cooked would be 600 calories. That seems quite reasonable.
this is already the third time github actions is down this week at wednesday morning
I think you missed the point. We are talking about predicting the future, not building it.
I discussed my experience using ChatGPT in HN before and I was accused of being skeptical. But it isn't true at all, I think LLMs are a wonderful tool that will change software development. However I'm not worried about losing my job.

As you say, I find the act of writing code is hardly the bottleneck to my productivity. One of the best case scenarios, LLMs become the ultimate high level language. In that case, Software Engineer roles would switch from coding to more of a mix of old school Software Architect, PM and entrepreneur.

By the way, I find interesting to run the argument of "coding is not the bottleneck" in reverse. What if you design an organization so that coding is the bottleneck? How transformative would LLMs be?
You might, you might not!

Backports do indeed exist for a reason, I just felt like challenging “can’t”
yeah, but is the amazon as big as the next 6 combined (as the wiki suggests), or is it some smaller or larger multiple?
Async is really painful and a "not finished yet" thing.

However, in practice, if you use Tokio you should be fine. And usually this decision will be made for you with the framework you pick.

My #1 tip is to decide on exactly what your use case is, then use cargo and look at the recent number of downloads and go with the most popular framework. Doing this for several tags (http, server, framework) is required for categories that are noisy or not tagged well.

Example: Are you writing a web service API, a web server that has server-side templates, a client-side SPA app, or a server-less function?

Usually you will see they are all aligning on the same stack tokio, serde, etc but this is definitely something to be aware of. It is critical that an application uses the same version of dependencies for cross cutting concerns.
Yup, I noticed that too, and it seemed at best an afterthought.
Thanks. I have followed you on Twitter, and will discuss this with my RF fellas and get back to you on Discord or email.
However, for now, I could mention 2 things that can be attractive to me as a radio amateur and RF hobbyist:
1. Any daughter board that can provide HF coverage, ideally with a few filters for the ham bands.
2. A proper shielding enclosure (shield from external noise, plus provide some heat dissipation)

and 3rd would be on the software side: support in Soapy and GNURadio (osmosdr) but I guess that would eventually come from the community.

This is exciting, and as supporter of previous open source SDR projects, I'm looking forward to more updates and news from you.
Anecdotally, the us teams I have worked with are surprisingly bureaucratic and super bloated. The reason they were NOT liquidated was because they controlled the purse strings.
I've seen this happen several times before, and it's never been because people weren't typing fast enough: it's always bad or nonexistent management, unclear accountabilities, or lack of technical direction or oversight (one failed CRUD project was written purely functionally by an engineer in Scala + Scalaz, absolute insanity). None of these are solvable by LLMs.
At least in my experience, those lower level functions need to integrate well. From what I'm hearing, these AI systems don't play well with integration, especially outside of well defined API specs.
How Wix manages Schemas for Kafka (and gRPC) used by 2000 microservices
So is your product backlog. Most of them doesn't matter. Throw them away and rethink what matter most at the very moment.

It is hard to do if you are continuously "sprinting". Or it doesn't matter if you outsourced the thinking of "what matters" to someone else.
Wow I love the sliders.

Now do running?!

https://fellrnr.com/wiki/Running_Form#Running_Movements

I'd love to be able to see a runner in motion like the bicycle and then use sliders to adjust legs and arm movements with physics applied correctly.
Try to assume a responsible perspective for once, and not limit your thinking horizon to yourself. It works wonders.
Wow. Not just an opera singer rapping, but an opera singer rapping over a drum-machine beat with what sounds like a tuba playing the bassline and discordant accordion, bagpipe, and harp riffs coming in and out.

Hahaha, this is beautifully terrible. Thanks for linking it.
For users who want to install something like Slack who realise their distro supports Flatpak but only Snap is available, it's definitely a source of frustration.
> I find it funny that now fuzzers are being written in rust, as if that translates to better quality bugs being found.

I can't find any such claim in the article. It says the tools are written in Rust and Python. I don't see any claims that fuzzing with a Rust-based fuzzer produces "better quality bugs". That seems to be your own assumptions projected on to the authors?

It's more likely that the authors wrote the tools in languages they're comfortable working with. It's not surprising that security researchers would be familiar with writing Rust.
Please read https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/feature-freeze-exception-seed...
Where did I last read about high meat, again?

Ah yes, the Nov 22, 2010 issue of the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/22/natures-spoils

big h/t for "deeper circles of online carnivoria", you win phrase of the day
Maybe you should, those dependencies may contain vulnerabilities.
Totally or even have a case with a touch screen display built in like some RPi setups
Yeah these people are sketchy as hell, glorified middlemen trying to continue making billions for contributing nothing. Thanks for posting.
I know nothing about Custodia, but I'd guess they either wouldn't accept your deposit or would charge an 8% fee on it.
I agree, I'm looking forward to a design factor like the following
https://www.roadtovr.com/bigscreen-beyond-pc-vr-steam-releas...
What Is a MCR DIMM or Multiplexer Combined Ranks DIMM
What's a retro? And how to run one
That could never work for me personally. A book isn't something that's uniform in quality or engagement throughout, in fact they're often predictably lopsided where the the first few pages are getting you familiar with the characters and setting. I also have to know the ending to even begin to think about the book as a whole. Never not finished a book myself and I read a lot - can't say I loved every book I've ever read, but I don't regret the time spent finishing them, even the least enjoyable ones.
Bugs should be fixed upstream but unfortunately sometimes upstream does not see them as bugs - for example, telemetry.
And the advantage of doing this over letting application authors maintain their own packages and deptrees with flatpaks/appimage/whatever is...?

They could be based on top of Nix. In practice, it's more likely they'd be based on top of rpm-ostree. But that doesn't do anything to close the gap between the wild west of copr/ppa/aur and "get your application accepted into mainline repos" for someone who wants to distribute their app.
Fermentation implies an intentional process that protects against spoilage. I don't think anyone considers sauerkraut or wine rotten food.
If a private key made it into a repo, it was probably everywhere.
These are engineers, not normal people.

It's fair to expect a professional cook to be able to cook well. Guarding their feelings for their incompetent cooking serves no purpose, since they become useless to their firm, and customers will want to avoid what they cook.

The same expectation should hold for professional engineers. If they are incompetent hacks, tell them they are. Guarding their feelings above describing reality to them only lets their illusion of competence to continue, and is what causes poor software, more incompetent incompetent engineers, and troubled users.
I see, not open source, ambiguous long term licensing, or even a commitment to a forever free.

I did notice the release reads just like an internal AWS PR with Andy’s preferred structure… guess all those aws folks they recruited are making an impact.
Were you actually stuck shipping at only the local "Mom and Pop" shops at any point? There's a reason Walmart/Amazon crushed them all.

I shop to get cool stuff. Not to convey meaning.
Ask HN: How to verify if employer fooled you for H1B visa?
I feel that I've been fooled by my current employer for H1B visa application.

They told me that they've started the application for lottery when I inquired for it in the end of Feb-23, and they replied that they're on it already and will file the application on time and let me know.

But, I could not see any new updates on the last year's application in attorney's website where they had created my case for H1B application (it didn't get selected in last year's lottery as well as this year's)
I'm really interested in what you did, because it sounds like what I'm trying to do!

Are you able to help me with these questions?

1. How did you decide which services to start? Did you have any criteria on what types of services you did and didn't want to start?

2. Was all of the income from those services advertising? Or were you charging users directly for some?

3. After it was built, how did you market a service and attract users?
The problem is not cows take up a lot of resources. The problem is their upkeep is too intensive that the economies of scale contribute to large scale destruction of resource.

I don't buy the future decarbonization transport argument. It is a mirage. But put that aside.

Cows are incredibly powerful creatures. Their uses were in not just taking up a lot of land but also moving lots of farm equipment and cultivating land. With machinery, they are displaced and no parallel uses are found.

The huge consumption of meat has incentivized capitalist industries to destruct land for profit. Blaming this on cows is like blaming a worker instead of the boss. Blame the overly large consumers who cannot forgo meat, and blame the capitalists for feeding that frenzy. How despicable have we become if our arguments are now based on “lab grown meat" being a solution. Like we refuse to see our own feces as a stinker.
> Also, idk, maybe there is a much more right party I'd never heard of.

There are, but luckily they are not relevant and outside of Parliament.
And at the other end of the scale, you calibrate it too be too suspicious and you end up with "You have been a bad customer, I have been a good Bing" style arguments with lots of legitimate claims and a class action suit. You can absolutely have a bot answer general questions and especially recurring ones, but you're going to want it to escalate to humans pretty early on. Even human agents often escalate to human agents.
Can't agree more.

The problem isn't generating code. It's articulating a functional specification with enough precision and clarity that you can solve for the unknown, which is the program that satisfies the specification.

I agree with the conclusion that tools like ChatGPT won't be replacing programmers any time soon. And it won't be helping us to write programs until it can properly reason about the information it is trained on and prompted with. The problem with natural language is that it is often too imprecise. When you get to concurrency or optimizing data layout an LLM isn't going to understand anything about the problem space and the training data probably won't contain enough examples to produce something remotely plausible let alone good or elegant.

Writing, thinking, and asking the right questions will still be important for quite some time. We're not in the age of having a magical genie in our computers that can do all the work for us... yet.

Although using it as a procedural generation tool for fake data is nice... still not as nice as writing a property test with generators and shrink... but as a little time saver for quick prototyping, neat.
I will stop figuratively dying on this hill when English literally acquires a word that only means "literally" in the single sense of "not figuratively".
I learned recently that a common option for address verification is to concatenate all the numbers and compare that, disregarding all the words.
I'd argue just recycle the batteries and have a proper UPS or backup generator. If the batteries are still good, resell them to people who could actually use them. Otherwise, drop them off at a recycling center. Using them as servers, the batteries wouldn't be doing anything 99.9% of the time, and the constant charging and heat would simply kill the batteries. Simply wasteful.
GitHub Incident History
https://perp.planet.finance/en/futures/BNBUSDT
As someone wanting to read lots of books and articles, this really resonates with me. Not having to read everything but picking and choosing a few here and there
It's pretty fucking obvious that more electric cars will mean, overall, less gasoline and oil use, yes.
Eh. It's not a deterioration, it's just language. It's not like there was a carefully designed "one true language" in the past and this is a fallen world speaking only inferior pidgins.

Even in the bible, we can see Jesus starting a lot of stories with "truly, truly I say unto you..." followed by a parable.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making rapid advancements in recent years, and the introduction of AI chatbots like ChatGPT has led to concerns about job displacement.
Jokes a bit on you, though, for I'm no American, and I certainly value good cuisine. But reflexively excluding insects from your meal options just because they "look scary" is just... not that smart. I suppose you eat shrimps just as fine as anyone, don't you?