skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meta-answer is that:

Mods of a community only want to direct users to something that a) they're personally familiar with and b) that they believe most of their users will be familiar with and c) that they believe enough people will join/use.

If I'm a mod of a community (and I do mod a few), the only option I'd consider would be Discord (sadly).

With a short term urgent need to switch to something else, I'm not going to take a bet on some platform that I'm not familiar with, or that most of my users won't be familiar with, or that might be confusing or hard to use.

I've used discourse, I personally feel the UX is worse than reddit, and still also worse than discord (reddit is best of the three because of voting), and I also feel that most of the users of my communities would know Discord and many of them would've used it before and already have accounts, whereas very few of them will have used Discourse and none of them will have accounts (and Discourse doesn't work like that).

This is part of the network effect of community platforms. People want to use things that they think other people want to use.

The two things needed to break that network effect are:

1) Another platform that's a better user experience than Discord/Reddit, or at least, equally good, assuming no users/no content

2) Everyone needs to be aware that everyone else is aware of this new better thing (either because it grows and gets popular, or people can see that lots of other people are using it, or through surveys that break the 'pluralistic ignorance' etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance)
They have a section about it in the README:

https://github.com/bentoml/OpenLLM#-telemetry
TBF the `__enter__` hook is not the most useful.
Commons Clause is non-free. It does not meet freedom 0:

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/four-freedoms/#0-use-the...

There are also specific comments about non-free source-available software here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/#what-is-source-availabl...
As such, the user benefits are all indirect.

Plasma needs to be ported to Qt6, and thus Plasma 5 becomes Plasma 6. In the process a lot of code is cleaned up, and it is easier to find and eliminate bugs, and also to add new features.

Several new user facing features and improvements are still coming with the release of Plasma 6, and lots more will keep coming in subsequent versions.
I'm listening to Spotify on a stock M1 MacBook Pro 16", and when I opened this Github demo the speakers started crackling, until I closed the tab.
I think the Dairy Association recently has tried to litigate against products like Almond Milk to prevent them from using the word "milk".
I think you have misunderstood the Qt licensing model when you say that you need two Qt licenses if you are building two separate applications?

The commercial licenses are a) per developer and b) per distributed device (if you distribute your software as part of a device), there is no per application licensing requirement.
Trailers are important and this one doesn’t convey what’s going on or why someone should be interested.

Couch coop only is an obvious mistake too because your convincing someone to buy on the off chance people will want to play it with them
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Enable HDR, disable power saving and don't have screen brightness on max.
Well, you could read the proposal? Using them in iterators is one of the use cases it specifically calls out. Hazard pointers are a key part of how Folly's ConcurrentHashMap lets you mutate the hash map without invalidating existing iterators into it, and while that's intended for multi-threaded cases it also works if the writes happen to be on the same thread as the read.
I certainly worry about that - it's one of the reasons I held out for so long.

My solution to this is a cultural one. Any time a question comes up on Discord that should be in the documentation, I add it to the docs.

If it's a bug report, I open a GitHub issue.

I often copy and paste messages out of Discord and into the relevant issues to keep them searchable and available in the most useful context.

It's a bit of extra admin work for me, but the stronger community I get from having a social space for people to hang out with each other is more than worth it.
> KDE Plasma 6 Has Reached the Point of Being “Fairly Livable”

So it's time for Plasma 7. /s
I was wondering whether such HDR videos are also on YouTube. Yes, same super white video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n__QY3e55Lc

Some other random HDR video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72_rYwzLhjk
It's ok you get scolded for asking an FAQ in many Discord "servers" as well.
When will plasma be livable in general?

I used KDE from 2001 through KDE4, and tried to use KDE Plasma5 for a few years before throwing in the towel and moving to LDXE.

The Plasma versions seemed to embody change-for-change's sake, and were flaky in non-reproducible ways. Things like the compositor crashing, startup scripts not running in a reproducible way, weird behavior around multiple monitors and the dock sticking to the wrong edges etc.

I just want something simple, not as fugly as TWM, that lets me use focus-follows-mouse and several "weird" personal muscle memory shortcuts around mouse buttons and meta keys for window management actions. Old school KDE gave me all that until my distro (FreeBSD) moved to kde plasma5 several years ago. After that it was just horrible. The last vestage of plasma5 on my desktop was sddm which flaked out after an update, presenting just a blank screen, and leavng me unable to login.

At first, I thought it was just me. Then I thought it was just FreeBSD, but every problem I've googled for (sddm most recently) has people from many different linux distros complaining about the same issues.
Gotta say, I wish they'd used a term other than "groomed". As-is, this article headline (and to some extent the content, given its adjacency to the idea of the "deep state") could be seen as an alt-right/QAnon dog whistle...
> What is the practical effect on the user of an instance being "defederated?"

The entire instance is sort of "shadow banned". Everyone on it can post, but no one will ever read it (except for the few dozen people on that instance). Since forums have some minimum number of users/readers that if the number falls below this people just give up and go away, it will be dead within a month.

Not only is it like being shadow-banned, but you get to be shadow-banned for what the other people on the instance are posting.

The Fediverse might be a good model for a Twitter-alike (it's debatable), but I don't think it's a good model at all for a reddit-alike.

Conversations aren't meant to always be civil. If you enforce that harshly, it turns into a place to post cat pictures.
>> No they can't. ... virtually every single software issue requires a bespoke solution that will take specific knowledge of that specific piece of software. The best Linux kernel hacker will still need to spend days to learn how to fix a bug in GNU sed. And the majority of bugfixes take at least a couple of days of dedicated work, and often require access to the specific environment where the issue reproduces

You say, "No they can't" and then say it might take a few days. When I stated that I hire a car mechanic to fix my car, I do so because I do not have the specialized knowledge and tools to do it myself.

Software is the same way. If your C software needs a fix, you can hire a C developer to examine it, find the problem, and fix it. Yes, it might take a few days depending on the complexity of the software, but it IS possible and most professional software developers would be able to do it for the right price.

>> No it can't. There are 0 examples of GPL software being sold commercially.

There are many examples of GPL software sold commercially:

https://www.oracle.com/java/java-se-subscription/

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enter...

https://www.cloudera.com/products/cloudera-data-platform.htm...

>> What you can do is sell consulting services for free software, but we're back to B2B only.

These are not just "support contracts" or "consulting services", they are subscriptions for the software. Support and consulting is usually available to, but at additional cost.
Not sure how this comes across as self-serving or what the nature of this protest is, but if you explain it in more detail perhaps I can make a correction.
“Breeder” is a slur, so I’m way less likely to hear that word and think the utterer is on an even keel.
just curious: what would be the answer from FSF/OSS people to , cheating and opensource games/libraries?. i mean if for example dota2 were open source it would be fairly trivial to make scripts to send commands on events (even closed source games get cheat mods!).

off topic : on the other side, i think is inevitable that at some point in the future players will have AI assistants looking at their screens , making decisions and inputs just like a real human, (heck! you can sort of do that now with linux/x11 , screen grab and proton very easily), i personally would love to see competitive gaming involving AI agents and assistance.
Wow. There's one with _three active users_ which has been blocked by 12 instances. Those three users must have been busy.
And you forget the depreciation. 20$ small indie game compete with 4 or 5y old AAA games with much bigger content that are now sold at 20$.
> “We’re not looking to compete with Apple; we have no intention of going into the same field as them,” Mariéthoz says, adding that one of the biggest gripes the 8,000-odd apple farmers he represents had with the attempted fruit grab was that, “you know, Apple didn’t invent apples … We have been around for 111 years. And I think apples have been around for a few thousand more.”

Heh, succinctly put. What is Apple Inc. going to go after next? Actual Macintosh apples[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)
Well, someone has to make that experiment and see if it’s right for them, right? It’s only a few years old, and most bigger companies are already sold on whatever they’re using. Smaller companies you’ve never heard of will be the first drivers, most likely.

FWIW, I have an EU region cluster (3 nodes per inner-region in the North, West and South). It’s all one logical region to S3 libraries and holds nearly half a terabyte.

It’s probably one of the most stable parts of my infrastructure. I don’t know (or need to know) what the replication lag is between regions, but IIRC, there’s some configuration of consistency.
GPTQ support would be amazing (AutoGPTQ is an easy way to integrate GPTQ support - it's basically just importing autogptq and switching out 1 line in the model loading code).
As I understand it, continuous running means actually putting (fake) sunlight on the panel continuously for 600 hours. This is done as rapid aging test. A quick google tought me this is within range of commercial cells. As they say in the article, if I might quote fully;
"The perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are capable of retaining over 90 per cent of their initial performance after 600 hours of continuous operation, the team noted, making them suitable for commercial use."
Neat story, thanks for sharing. Sounds like he would have got away with it if he was just a tad brighter.
I think the point is believe.

I agree that it takes just little to believe anything. But my point is that we can not divorce the belief
A lot of people here on HN seem to have an almost religious belief that large corporations are rational, lean and efficient at every level.

If you believe everything has already been cut to the bone, or pay for themselves, or are vital to the company's long-term strategy - you might believe there isn't any bloat to cut.

After all, what rational company would have 80% of the staff doing nothing of importance?
[Show HN]?
One data point from me: it's not unreliable.
Not even that - instruction fetch can cause a page fault. When an NMI happens,the CPU still has the choice of when to service it. If it needs to flush the pipeline, it might as well retire the instructions up to the first store.
Wouldn't `cal -m 1` show the year 0001 ?
That's assuming they're in for damages, and not for retaliation. It's been an open secret for the past year or two that arbitration process only favors the company if triggered sparingly, as costs to the company grow rapidly with the number of simultaneous claimants.

At this scale, and with Twitter being in the shape it is, I wouldn't put it past those claimants to be acting in hope of sinking Twitter entirely - if I were in their position, I'd definitely consider it.
This is a pointless comment, nix is more than robust enough for servers, gaming machines, general purpose desktops and developer machines. If you don't understand the tech don't disparage the users or the tech.
Streetcar tracks as well!
I'll ask ChatGPT 4

Q: 'Does the idea that "given that all decisions are a form of action, and that votes, when made conscientiously, represent our values, then every choice is a reaffirmation of our values" sound nothing like existentialism?'

A: 'The idea that you proposed does indeed align with some aspects of existentialist philosophy, which emphasizes the individual, the subjective, and the importance of personal freedom and choice.

Existentialism posits that life has no inherent meaning, and it's up to each individual to create their own purpose or essence. This philosophy emphasizes the act of decision-making and the consequences that come with it. In this light, your statement that "all decisions are a form of action" and that these choices reflect our values is consistent with the existentialist view that we create meaning through our actions and choices.

Moreover, the existentialist emphasis on authenticity—living in accordance with one's true self and values—also resonates with the idea that conscientious voting is a reaffirmation of our values.'
Fair, I shouldn't have hinged on my comment on that as I read some amount of ideological neutrality into the word "platform" that they apparently don't.
The last example:

{
await using { connection } = getConnection();
// Do stuff with connection
} // Automatically closed!

edit: according to the ES proposal issues, this might be something that doesn't actually exist, on purpose (it's rather ambiguous as to what will be disposed of): https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...
This is addressed a bit here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/blog/free-software-games/#but-...

tl;dr: access to the source code will help people develop cheats but it's not really required, your game's gonna have cheaters unless you do server side cheat mitigations.
I have been wondering why Usenet and IRC haven't experienced a resurgence. Discord will be the next casualty of corporate greed. It's really a fallacy that these communities are moving to yet another corporate-controlled entity.
Maybe it's for if you want rescuing from the wreck.
Have you thought about writing your own?

The OS already has an extremely fast, reliable, key-value db built in --- it's called the "file system".

How much data are we talking about here? Gigabytes or megabytes? In many cases, a 3rd party db is like using a sledgehammer to squash a gnat. People use it because --- well, other people do it and that is how it's supposed to work.

I have written medium scale multi-tenant web sites without a db anywhere in site. And I've had "professional" web developers who've seen the result tell me it's just not possible. When a sledgehammer is all you know, everything looks like a rock waiting to be smashed.
The source of immigrants is going away, they are starting to experience the same demographic shift.
Do you support any kind of integration with Vxworks 7 on some platform ?

Vxworks has some Rust support so I wonder if you already had some integration with vxworks drivers
I’m with you there. I feel for employees who got ripped off by Twitter refusing to honor their agreements, and that part’s not funny at all, but this turn of events is delightful.

I wonder if California’s labor department will end up involved at all. It seems like withholding pay would end up being something they’d rub their hands in glee at the thought of fixing.
> very tech bro way

aka psychopath.
Most free software is not copyleft though, and fewer and fewer new free software projects are choosing copyleft licenses.

Ultimately copyleft is mostly a bureaucratic exercise, and it ends up stifling collaboration in all but the most hostile environments (such as the one Linux faced in its early days).
MIT Unveils a Megawatt Motor for Electric Aircraft
When done tastefully it’s actually amazing. Especially videos which have bright sun illuminating some surfaces and other surfaces are in the shadows. It really looks like the sun is shining, I can feel the endorphin is shooting through my veins.

However, for some reason, the human skin tones can look very weird in some conditions. Maybe the iPhone camera settings should be by default off when it comes to HDR. It also complicates sharing and color editing, so it’s a true “pro” feature.
For that reason many modules have options to set the packages used, so that you can eg. patch openssh without rebuilding everyone.
all these monie things seems to me like so much more evolved form of (horse race) betting.. essentialy playing with risk
Now make it less ugly and buggy. I firmly believe that if you gave a MacOS/Windows user Gnome on Fedora 38 they would be quite impressed, whereas I highly doubt I could say the same about KDE.
Probably stayed when he called a guy rescuing kids a Pedofile.
I've been wondering about this myself, and I wonder if anyone here knows: Would Zulip with public conversations be a good alternative? (I've never used public conversations in it and I don't know how they work, but I love Zulip itself).

Presumably they can also be indexed, but I'm not sure at all.
In which scenarios am I allowed to fight for the pay that was legally and contractually promised?
You can hardly blame the tool for that, it's your process that's flawed.
I wouldn’t say they’re relying on it for operations. It’s not like they doing some internet controlled submersible, it is still watercraft with someone at the helm and more than likely, they use some type of local communication for the surface crew to communicate with the expedition crew.
This is why I find this discussion so tiresome. Everyone in this thread takes it as an axiom that they have some oracle that takes a candidate as an input and spits out a number representing their suitability for the job which is then fudged for inclusivity. Absolutely zero introspection about how personal and structural biases affect their magic "oracle".
> Your conclusion does not really follow from what you are quoting.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Emphasis mine: "At its core, section 2 makes it illegal to acquire or maintain monopoly power through improper means." The American system recognizes the notion of proper monopoly; if one company is doing something very well and every other company lacks the tools or skill to do as well, that is not actionable. Using market dominance is also not, by itself, actionable ("Competition is a ruthless process" &c). What the US does consider actionable is consumer harm... undercutting your opponents' prices because you can isn't actionable by itself ("Hey, look at all that competition lowering prices! Consumers love low prices!"), but undercutting them unsustainably and then jacking the price later when you grind them out of business is.

But you're right that we're having a two-ships-passing-in-the-night discussion on the topic now, because Europe takes a very different view upon this (protection of the marketplace, in the European history of antitrust, is protecting the right to make a living competing, not the consumers' right not to be screwed). Much of what I'm saying is in the American mindset, and reasonable people can disagree because reasonable people can come from different philsophical backgrounds on what constitutes protection-worthy antitrust behavior.

(Linux, as example, in the American system it's hard to make the argument that MS being unwilling to spend the money to port software they own to another OS is consumer harm. It can be made though; I believe that's one of the reasons the FCC was blocking the MS / Activision merger. But it's right on the edge of a defendable argument, because the counter-argument is "Who cares if Word doesn't run on Ubuntu distros if OpenOffice is right there?").
Unless we want to be pedantic and take the ambient light reflected off the screen into account. Old CRT monitors, for example, reflected a lot of ambient light and looked grey when turned off in a lit room. And even when operating in a dark room there would be some diffusion from the lit areas of the screen, which is why they did not actually have "perfect blacks" like many believe. If you had a very dark scene you would have less internal diffusion too though so it would indeed look very good. Something similar could be happening in OLEDs, but yeah IMO OLEDs have perfect blacks for all intents and purposes.
They don't always go to jail when they should. They might have a preexisting condition like affluenza that keeps them out.

The goal of fines and punishments should be that they are painful enough to deter the action. It is a strawman to pretend we are discussing "any situation."

Contracts are important for the economy to function. Violating the terms of this many contracts should be painful, like "strip the liability protection of the company structure," painful IMO.
Bare bones as in by default you don't get much unless you turn it on
> Need to release your own changes if you distribute the application.

i'm not sure if this is true. if i released version 1.0 to licencees then i have to give them the source, but i don't think i have to give them version 1.1 source, unless i released that to them.
The only spam I ever get on Mastodon is crypto DMs from mastodon.social; my instance hasn't defederated it (actually, I don't believe defederating .social is very common; it's too big to fail to an extent) but you can see the temptation.
> And that will cost him even more.

We'll see. From my perspective, this is a case where Musk acted with extremely well-publicized malice towards his employees, and towards the very company he bought, to the point that it may not even be able to pay the severance those employees are due. Musk has been talking about bankruptcy; a maneuver that could be used to void those debts.

Should that happen, I want this case to pierce the corporate veil; for those payments (plus legal fees and damages) to come directly out of his pockets. But piercing the corporate veil seems like a bit of a long shot from what I've read of it.

Curiously, twitter corp (california) does not exist, it was merged into X corp (nevada). California is apparently quite liberal with respect to piercing the corporate veil, Nevada is not: another maneuver to protect his pockets.*

Make no mistake, Musk is smart. He's just not the "engineer an electric car and a rocket all by himself" smart that people got so worked up about. He's smart like Trump is smart: he looks out for #1 and knows exactly how to use his wealth to maximize his opportunity to keep playing the game.

* Edit: it gets even juicier from there. He's apparently trying to keep the shareholders of X Holdings secret, going so far as to redact his own name from the list! https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/12/twitter-reveals-that-x-h...