skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a lot of information about this one. Does the Coast Guard have a submersible of their own that they could use to recover, even if they were able to find them?
My dad always had a radio tuned to a local country station playing lowly in the garage, 24/7. The thing never turned off.

He passed in 2016, and now the radio plays away situated on a workbench in my brothers garage. It gets turned up when someone is actually working out there, but only turned down and not off when they retire to the house.

As I recall this, I remember it wasn't even just the most recent model. Repairing radios wasn't his thing so eventually they'd get replaced when broken, but I can recall at least two distinct radios over the years so I really think he'd been doing that for quite many years.
what's the durability of R2?
I have been think about this also. I am about to turn 50 in six months, and probably will not have the opportunity to have children (I am not dating 20-30 year olds).

I see more of the population in the US going the way of Asian cultures (I am first generation Indian) where you have multi generational house holds being more common. It is going to be a painful cultural shift, especially for the highly individualistic American culture - but that is the only way I see future generations surviving.
Yes that is a fair comparison. In the latter you have to write down or remember what you did to reproduce it, and even if you make a script it could screw up and leave your system in a bad state.
Isn't wage theft like $30 billion/year or something ridiculous like that? Regardless of what ends up happening with this one I think most of them are getting away with it.
Such as...

I have yet to see a rational claim by an ex employee of actual harm that was outside the bounds of US law, or individual contract.

Many of the wider claims (such as violation of WARN) have been disproven .
The article doesn't give out numbers, but we can estimate. As per levels.fyi, an average Software Developer at Twitter earns approximately $160,000/year. Not everyone laid off was a developer but some were also more senior, so let's accept the aforementioned salary as a baseline, roughly $13,000 a month per employee.

There are approximately 2000 litigants so far, and they are each charging for two months of severance that was not paid. So, we approach a figure of $50M USD for collective damages here.

I don't know how much added punitive charges would be added in this case, but at first glance it seems that even at double or triple this estimate would be a rather cheap way of quickly firing a third of your staff for an organization like Twitter.
There's an nginx Lua build that can do it on nginx through a Lua module: https://github.com/zmartzone/lua-resty-openidc

Apache is a lot easier to configure, though.
Maybe I’m naive but I’ve just never found various “states” to be desired in config management. It’s always binary: either in the “right” state or a bad one!
> Compromises (and limited-choice situations) test our values.

Testing values strengthens them. People dig into their positions when they are challenged. That's why it's so hard to convince anybody to anything. When values are not challenged they fade.
In Europe, TeamSpeak is still very popular.
What legal fees? Aren’t there lawyers who are going to take this on contingency given that it looks like a slam dunk (assuming Twitter has the money to pay)?
You're seriously comparing a cancer diagnosis with being bored while reveling in nigh-infinite opportunity?

There is a simple and obvious solution to this "abundance boredom": remove the abundance. There. Done. Put all your money in charity or, if that's too altruistic of you, lock it away in investments where you can't get at it easily and force yourself to live off of the national median income (~$38k individual, $70k household in the us).

The thing about being poorer is that you can't do the opposite, so it is quite understandable that no one in a poorer position has any sympathy.
As this is a government contract, and there are strict public transparency rules on government contracts, I went digging.

Here's the call for tenders: https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=...

And here's the award: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:120998-2022:TEXT:EN...

Some interesting things:

1. This is a broad framework contract for marketing, for the eye-watering amount of 300 million euro. The title is "Belgium-Brussels: Framework Service Contract for the Organisation of Large-scale Travels of Participants in the Context of Erasmus+/DiscoverEU"

The reason they do these kinds of framework contracts is because the legally required tendering procedures surrounding government contracts are so onerous that it's better to do a broad contract once and bundle a lot of projects inside of them, than to have one contract per project.

2. The executing party (Caracal) is nowhere to be seen, instead the contract is awarded to EURail and MCI.

EURail is the intermediary I suspect, responsible for navigating the wild world of government contracting, and MCI is a marketing agency. They have no doubt built up years of expertise in how to successfully navigate these kinds of tendering procedures, and they probably are not the lowest bidder. Caracal is no doubt subcontracted by MCI, but as MCI is a private company we cannot see how much they were paid or how they were selected. So much for transparency.

In my own experience in government contracting, price is a factor but usually not the largest factor. There's a large set of requirements (which you can read through if you follow the first link), and the ability to prove that you will be able to meet them is mostly what determines who wins the contract. However, because it is so difficult to know how to do that, only a few parties will have submitted a tender, and the best of a poor batch may still not be very good.

Personally I think this kind of public procurement legislation is well intended but ultimately flawed. It does not result in lower costs, faster turnaround, better transparency, or overall better government. I'm in favor of transparency rules, but they need to be a lot more thorough and they need to cover subcontracting as well. I'm against public tendering legislation, as I think it prevents the government from being efficient.

(By the way, how awful is that public tendering website? It's like a flashback to 2003. No doubt built under one of those big framework contracts.)
It sounds like the 2000 employees mentioned in this article should file a class action and cite Judge Alsup in the briefs.
Thanks for this. Looking at our attendee, sponsor and vendor lists, we can thankfully say that we're in the "quality over quantity" boat. My co-founder and I are splitting a pretty serious loss, but we knew the risks going in so it's not the end of the world.

We're also going to be recording each of the presentations and the speakers really are worth the ticket price and then some (as evidenced by either their own ticket prices or the other events they've spoken at), so we're hoping there will be some additional revenue generated from the video lessons.

We're really looking forward to experiencing the conference and making the best of it!
eleven 9's apparently
No More Mr. Nice Boss: Flexible Employers Were a Pandemic Blip
People didn't put documentation in IRC channels because they didn't want to answer the same questions over and over. Info went into a wiki, and you would get flamed for asking a question on IRC that was answered on the wiki. Discord is not a good place to stash documentation.
Yes, buildNpmPackage works great.
Unless you're a theoretical water container and you burn the food to heat yourself it's much much much more complicated than that

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-reveals-w...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396444/
What makes you think that the versions specified in the requirements.txt aren't reasonable ranges? All OP is saying is that if you're outside the version ranges in requirements.txt then you're outside the supported range. It's literally in the name of the file—requirements.
Works on my macbook.
You should give us educators a free license :) I'd use this in my classes if I could.

I'm keen to use it with c++ and rust
How about fuck Apple? This is not the intent of IP and trademark laws, and Apple are the ones actually trying to abuse these laws to their advantage.
Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing
What happened with that? Did the arbitration go through? Do we know the % of wins for the dashers?
Which isn’t what’s happening. A fruit seller has a hypothetical concern over a trademark application, which is how you turn a non story into a story on a slow news day.
Is it true though? Doesn't seem to be the case for healthcare outcomes [0], vacation time [1], labor rights, parental leave, etc.
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33369633/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...
What's the rationale for telemetry tracking?

https://github.com/bentoml/OpenLLM/blob/main/src/openllm/uti...
A CBS article identified this company’s sub as the one involved;

https://twitter.com/OceanGateExped
Looks fantastic of course, but I'm not sure it survives contact with reality. Just 7-8 tasks per week?
It took years, but yes.

Years after that, Apple was going to fix another one: The Delete key (the real one, not the Backspace key that Apple mislabels "delete") does nothing in Finder. It should send files to the trash, as it does in Windows (and probably every other desktop GUI).

They pushed the bug back to me as "will not do," which I bounced back with an argument that forcing people to drag, drag, drag stuff to the trash all day made the Mac look clumsy and dumb in comparison to Windows. To my surprise, they actually reconsidered and added the deletion function to Finder. I don't remember the OS version, but it may have been Jaguar betas.

A few months later, someone on an internal mailing list posted, "Hey, what happened to the Delete key working in Finder? I was really enjoying that!" Sure enough, the function had been pulled at the last minute before release.

I investigated, and was told that ONE person had objected to the behavior, claiming that his cat might delete stuff by walking on the keyboard. Seriously.

I wrote an even longer protest, pointing out that this was the entire purpose of the trash-can paradigm: to prevent accidental deletions. I also observed that it was pretty sad that Apple no longer understood a paradigm that it had popularized.

But to this day, the Delete key does nothing in Finder. Absurd.
How would you measure that realistically? How durable is Backblaze or Azure?

Cloudflare has been reliable on storage adjacent uses (caching) for a long time. Presumably you're more likely to be the cause of errors than R2 is by a few orders of magnitude.
Facebook already added pixels to every website and gathered all your data without your express consent. Then, requires a government issued ID + current picture to delete any account. In contrast to Amazon, Facebook doesn't want your account to be deleted; it's actively compiling data to form a "persona" of you.

I'd argue Google falls in the same category as Facebook. You have to try very hard to get a suspension from Google.

A situation like the one described in the article is not enough evidence for Facebook, Google, or Apple to suspend an account.
There's a simple algorithm, based on this idea, for eliciting your hierarchy of values. IIRC it goes something like this:

- - - -

Imagine a mundane task of medium importance, e.g. brushing your teeth or doing the dishes.

Now imagine something comes up that interrupts that task, and it's important enough to make you stop doing the previous task and attend to the new thing.

Repeat previous step.

- - - -

I'm skipping over all the details, of course, but the point is that if you do it right you wind up with a ranked or graded list of values, motives for action.
I am not the owner of this channel BTW
It doesn't, but you need to ditch requirements.txt and just overridePythonPackage with the correct github revision hash.

It's a PITA but unlike pip and conda it's 100% reliable.
I used to play EVE Online a fair bit, and always thought it interesting how some of the groups used Discord but only for text communications. Voice was still done over Teamspeak or Mumble.
I hope it would be alight from a train or tram? As for “setting off”, how is that used in a sentence (with what subject and object)? In Victoria, the bus (or driver) could set you down or let you off, is that the structure you’re talking about? “Set off” has long been used in English to describe when you get underway on a journey (“and so we set off on our journey”).
Pretty weird "just so" assertion. conservative-progressive axis is devoid of insight
Okay, apparently that is a reference to something I'm not getting. Could anyone please explain?
I couldn't not edit it anymore
That's a good point. Trying to attain milestones because of some absorbed societal pressure is a recipe for unhappiness.

But that's not really what this article says. If they had someone who said "I thought I needed kids, then I didn't and I'm totally happy with it" that would be aligned with that message. But to have someone who says "I didn't have kids until I was 50" is a bit dishonest, because biological realities make that almost impossible (for women, anyway).

It's really uplifting to show lots of examples of people who took a different path and found happiness in a less conventional way. It's less uplifting to show lots of examples of people who did the conventional stuff, but later in life, because statistically that is unlikely to be possible for most people who leave those things until later. It feels more like building false hope.
Suing an employer is hard. It's emotionally draining. It's expensive. It potentially harms you; future employers are going to look at that lawsuit and wonder if they should take the risk of hiring you.
It sounds nothing like existentialism.
>Rich people usually don't have to pay, that's how it works.

The reason why Musk is the current owner of Twitter (or X) is because he had to pay, even though he really didn't want to.
I’m convinced there has been a concerted effort recently by the media to gaslight us in to not desiring things like a home, money and possessions.
Sure but assuming you're traveling from centre to centre, which is where population densities are highest, is a sound assumption. Otherwise you can always find spots where getting to the airport, train station, flixbus stop or whatever takes extremely long with one mode of transport over the other.

Doesn't distract from the point that long distances busses are very much not an alternative to rail (or planes for that matter) unless price is the deciding factor. And even the latter is questionable in many cases thanks to the 49€ ticket.
We've had shape-shifting robots for decades, so why would this one be the one going to Mars "one day"? Between now and then there is still decades, I suppose, so I find a title like this a bit sensational.
You need to have HDR enabled on your device
I would think a class action suit would be more favorable to Twitter (and lawyers) and less favorable to the ex-employees. Every time I read about them, they seem to sum up total damages which are less than the individual damages, and members of the class get a small check at the end.
This isn't about wanting sympathy. It's merely an observation.
Quibbling about what is and is not state isn't particularly productive. There is intrinsic and unavoidable subjectivity in the definition of state. The common pattern is to ignore out-of-memory errors, completely ignore the fact that in the real world time-of-execution is irreducibly an observable side effect, and that whether or not a given computation completes may even depend on whether or not an entirely separate OS process has or has not consumed the memory on the system. There's already non-zero pragmatism in the definition of "statefulness", and adding "whether or not the state of the disk has changed as a result of this 'pure computation'" isn't exactly an impossible stretch. It isn't a binary characteristic; when you really get into the nitty-gritty it is unavoidably a continuum. All real systems have state of some kind.
If this was a class action lawsuit it would likely be dismissed or not even allowed to form. AFAIK they didn't violate any laws.
Here's an even less popular take: as someone just casually browsing twitter, it seems to work pretty much the same or slightly better than it used to, with the same (or slightly better) content. The fact that they achieve this with one quarter (!) or so [*] of their previous headcount is truly amazing, and more interesting than some of the other takes media tries to spin on it.

[* by some accounts one tenth -- this is even more amazing if true]
You can think of the function inputs as:

1. All the package definitions in nixpkgs

2. Any external sources

When a package is updated in nixpkgs, input #1 changes.
Is there any indication that games that do have excellent art and storytelling are much more likely to succeed?
Personalized Protection Against Stable Diffusion Deepfaking
Then you're not paying enough attention. There are plenty of companies using nix to distribute a reproducible environment (if you don't believe me, why not go search GitHub for "flake.nix" and see how many "industry" repos you find).

I think it would be more productive for you to sit down and give it a fair chance than posting little rebukes all over this thread.
> from the actual University

In my experience, Nature News summaries are generally more trustworthy than university press releases. Nature News can suffer from hype problems seen in all scientific journalism, but it's one of the least bad sources. On the other hand, university press releases are basically unbound by journalism best practices; they can be almost pure marketing and should not be considered more authoritative just because they are associated with the university.
Seems like the real surprise here isn't the chemistry itself (which matches modern forms), it's that evidence for eukaryotic life from this era is scarce. Eukaryotes apparently hid for a billion years in an ecosystem completely dominated by prokaryote life. Which I guess is surprising since in theory they're supposed to be more complex and adaptable.
> Like, if Lemmy has no interest in being a viable option to most people, then fine. People just need to stop pretending that it is.

Sure, but i think viable is in the eye of the beholder. In this case it's bleeding edge software not even 1.0 yet, with a massive influx of sudden, demanding users, and no dedicated employees or income (i think). I'd counter that people need to set their expectations accordingly.

For those people unable to deal with reality on this subject Reddit still exists. Stay on it if you want VC polish and the funding that requires. No one is out here making purposefully bad software.

Your frustrations seem better spent on individuals arguing everyone move to Lemmy than it is Lemmy (devs) directly. Stay on Reddit, it sounds like you prefer the VC experience. There's nothing wrong with that.

The FOSS devs are just doing the best they can with the time and resources they have.
Small CLs
Nobody loses time on Nix issues?
I'm really reminded of Peter Thiel's talk about competition is for losers when I read this list. Thiel makes the salient point that most of a companies value is generated 10-15 years after it's founding or even IPO. This basically means, a sureshot to startup success is a company that will survive and thrive even after 10-15 years. One deficiency is I never feel any of the YCombinator companies will survive and thrive after 10-15 years. To do so, you need a strong monopoly that is unassailable unless your competitor gets very lucky or has extremely deep pockets and competence. You need an edge, that makes it hard for competitors to compete. The prevailing wisdom is that this edge can be generated through network effects, and there is some truth to it but I feel even the posterboy example of Network Effects, i.e. Meta, is losing it's network effect. A real edge is generated by a product so superior to the competition, that the competition almost never catches up or gives up midway due to running out of money. Some of the largest tech companies have multiple such products and a culture of releasing such products. On the top of my head:

1. Microsoft Office has no real competitor (Google Suite came close but they gave up midway, LibreOffice is unpolished relatively). Surprisingly Microsoft released VSCode which also has no real competitor anymore (As a long term vim enthusiast, I switched to VSCode with VIM bindings). This is ignoring Windows which is not as big of a monopoly anymore but I reckon would endure another few decades.

2. Early Google released a suite of products that got no real competitors. Think Google Maps, Google Chrome, only recently have they been facing competition in these categories through companies with deeper pockets. Search is still firmly Google's monopoly (though these days I feel it's losing it's edge)

3. Amazon Customer Service is bar none. AWS is amazing, I still use it over Azure. Amazon recently though has not had any major products, I can think of that are dominant.

4. And of course, the king of building monopolies in products is Apple, IPhones, IPads, even Macbook Pros are a monopoly to a certain class of laptop users (hip working professional, non gamers). Everything Apple touches, it tries to monopolize from Airpods, to Safari to Maps and so. Consequently it is the worlds most valuable and profitable company.

I've never started a business, this is a lot of armchair theorizing but the next set of enduring monopolies in my opinion are Nvidia (Customers keep asking but can't get a CUDA competitor), Tesla (Again Analysts keep talking competition, but Tesla's moat seems deeper than people realize), OpenAI, SpaceX (though it's market is likely smaller than Elon thinks), Boston Dynamics? (It's market may never get big enough). A few companies I think will lose their monopoly status is Meta, Netflix, Snapchat, TikTok, maybe Google.
Titanic tourist submarine goes missing in the Atlantic Ocean
It feels like this sort of syntax convention could be used to bolt on all sorts of interesting features to the language. Like, at this point, this is basically a sort of compiler hack to add features rather than really do any typechecking.
run poorly? what about the previous management, I bet they did a better job
Some additional research here: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/
Do you know any "standard" way or measures to determine the approximate hardware requirements of a model?
No, but static code analysis could do a good job at catching this (at least it does in C#).
Analogously:

I wonder if many of the low budget films, especially narrative focused films, might be better off as games. Given how everybody has a computer these days, AAA games are formulaic garbage and games aren't centered around a single developer any more, there's probably a market for innovative low budget games made in a basement on a single computer by a few friends and with little to no art assets. That seems like it'd be lower time/money cost and higher expected reward than movie production, plus you'd get to spend time on the internet researching interesting technical problems rather than just sitting in a movie editor for years, working on a movie that will most likely be watched by a few dozen people.

tl;dr: I don't think a good movie is any easier to make than a good game.