skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no squatting happening. I personally merge PRs as soon as they come in.
Also, entire new forms of bullying, endless porn, and clickbait media with headlines that can be terrifying to adults, let alone kids.
https://omarabid.com

I haven't written in a long time... I should probably re-start soon.
There's also the FLA[0], which guarantees the contributor that the project will only be relicensed to (certain) free software licenses.

0: https://fsfe.org/activities/fla/fla.html
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https://andreschweighofer.com/

It captures my journey between the chairs of IC, engineering manager and product manager but I've mostly written about the latter.
https://cretezy.com

I'm a software developer who's been dipping his toes into making videos recently. I don't blog very often (planning on doing more soon, hopefully), but my videos are posted there as well.

I mainly focus on programming and editor workflows.
... and still no fine-grained control on symbol version to use...
> where we've empirically found hard for classical computing but we maybe could solve with quantum

Are we talking complexity classes here, or just "problems we've found hard in practice, but that which may in fact be in P even if P != NP"?

Like I would've thought that solving BQP problems like integer factorization would be the criterion (since they're proven to be faster under QC assuming P != NP etc.). But that's evidently the researchers aren't holding themselves
up to that standard, so what bar are they using exactly? Are they just going with some sort of "if it walks like a duck then it's a duck" criterion, or are they using problems that they can formally prove lack efficient classical solutions under a well-regarded hypothesis like P != NP?
I like 2FA with an app, not so much SMS.

I really hate all these other trends I keep seeing. Log ins only using Magic Links in emails, which is an ENORMOUS pain in the ass, and now I often have to log in to another service as well.

Or this weird thing sites are doing lately, where the log in page just asks for a username, then loads a second page with the password box. Like WTF is that even accomplishing besides sometimes confusing my password manager. Why do we need this weird intermediate step at all?
> pop out the sim and if it isn't password protected (most aren't IME), they'll have full access to your phone number.

Can they do this without connecting to a cell tower? Otherwise, the carrier would notice the pairing of your SIM to the new IMEI, and further security steps would be possible.
The software is GPL, you do not pay for a license. You pay a subscription.
Hardly so. A bunch of matrix multipliers is a fully deterministic system, a mechanism in other words. There is nothing in it that can experience pain. Using a truly random RNG device will simply "shake" this mechanism randomly. However with a feedback loop from the mechanism back to the RNG device things become murky, for now we can say that the radioactive rock behind the RNG might experience something, it may even feel like a fruit fly.
I don't think Drew would disagree with your point, given he has been vocally critical of the GNU project due to the continued involvement of Stallman and those who support Stallman.

However, it's important to note that practically it's not clear that GNU actually need a CLA if they wanted to pull such a movie. Contributions to GNU projects are GPL-x-or-later licensed, and GNU are the authority to declare something as GPL 4, even if it contained language that allowed the project owner to close the project.
I use my phone to check my blood glucose levels. I use a freestyle libre CGM. What will children do who need their phones as a health device?
Typo: “if you love someone” should be “if you love something”. Am I allowed to point out a typo? If not I’ll delete this.

I liked the article, you’re a good writer.
https://wwww.paolomainardi.com

CTO and founder
Talking about cloud native, Linux and other random stuff I find interesting
> https://adriano.fyi

Beautifully simple layout, I really like it.
> No, as per the GPL they only have to provide sources to paying customers.

If they were providing binaries only to paying customers, that would be right.

But they aren't. Anyone, who spins up RHEL VM in the cloud, uses UBI image or downloads it from the developer account has the same right.

In all cases, RH cannot prevent anyone, who obtained the sources, from distributing them further; not even threatening with contract termination. That would be "further restrictions", which GPL explicitly forbids.
And you have 20% spare budget to pay digital services, which are now full of ads.
ChatGPT account and conversations could be for sale on the dark web
L4 is more of a hypervisor. You have to run another OS, usually Linux, on top of it. So the overall system complexity has been increased, rather than reduced. QNX offers a POSIX-type API, so you can run applications on it directly,
> Most of the time people are just fighting over scraps and the best they can hope for is some steady source of income that pays their rent and affords them some basic luxuries like visiting Las Vegas and watching a few acrobatic shows.

I'm sorry to react so strongly, but I think it's demeaning to suggest that the life condition you described is one of "fighting over scraps". It's also... (I'm struggling to find the right words) really entitled in a materialistic way to suggest (correct me if this is not what you suggest) that it's unfair that almost nobody can move from the average station to the station of uber-wealthy. Who is owed the life of opulence? And who owes it to them? And how many people actually aspire to this extreme wealth, vs. recognize that there is a heck of a lot more meaningful things to do with life than make money?
> How do you prioritize your time?

When I worked in an office this was difficult. I had to assign values to certain activities, sometimes subliminally. For instance, being that my personal coding was a lot more creative it sometimes taught me concrete enough patterns that I could take to work. That made it a higher order of value. I was making enough money at my day job that consulting wasn't needed, but I took less time off as a result. Gardening was a higher order of value because I find it very cathartic, and I'd end each day with a bike ride through San Jose.

Now I work from home and it's much easier. If I need time to think I'll go pull weeds; weeds are a weekly activity and gardens rarely require huge chunks of time commitment unless you're making something new. I do my day job 8-4 and use breaks to garden or ride my bike. In the evening I work on my other money making ventures. I don't need to do so many decompression activities later in the day because they're spread throughout the day in between work.

At least once a month my partner and I reserve a weekend to do something together. It could be restaurant or camping, sometimes a show. This, I think, is key for maintaining healthy relationships as a busy person.

> What I don't have are any for-profit ventures (of my own or with friends)

This took me a while to find. I was always willing to work on new things, but it took my friends getting to stages in their lives where they wanted to do this. Working remotely taught me skills to make this more possible as well.

> Currently I have all of that going towards the same consulting project, and I've found it somewhat unpalatable to "spend" the opportunity cost of working for myself instead.

I found a purpose for my consulting. It funds projects or trips that I already know that I want to do. Knowing that it's a budget extension tool and having a toolkit I can draw from to avoid situations where I have to learn while consulting has helped me a lot.

> I've almost totally stopped coding for myself.

I usually work on stuff where I'll continue to get value out of it day after day. Offline home automation is where I used to sink a ton of time but I yield benefits from it every day. When I got into kombucha brewing I built a system to help me journal batches. Then when I felt confident in that system to produce reproducible results I turned it into an app. It's a shitty Django app with frontend framework but it's actually immensely fun to hack on and it yields delicious kombucha every 10 days.
DietPi review: A lightweight, server-oriented distribution
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https://dustin.lammiman.ca/

Probably the most interesting things are homemade ice cream recipes and a (not very detailed) build journal for the teardrop trailer we made during COVID.
> Filesystem-level de-duplication is scary as hell as a concept

What's scary about it? You have to track references, but it doesn't seem that hard compared to everything else going on in ZFS et al.

> Is this common in filesystems? Or is ZFS striking out new ground here?
At least BTRFS does approximately the same.
..when they _have to_ make you money.

I play a musical instrument for a long long time, nowhere as good as a very good players, but sometimes I get a small paid gig and it is actually a fun thing to do. My life doesn't depend on the income from playing so I just enjoy opportunities when they come and go.
https://robinlinacre.com
Data science, engineering, data linkage
Old article from 2017. More advances were published earlier this year:

https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-cas...
Answer found!
https://ask.metafilter.com/373556/Any-way-to-make-Facebook-s...
I mostly agree with you, but as a counter-point: How would one precisely draw the lines between search engines and LLMs? One provides mostly airtight attributions, and the other is famous for hallucinating citations. But this doesn't sound like a distinction that can be used as the basis for law?

Or are you less concerned with their design and more concerned with their purpose? Providing citations is fine, but creating content is not?
Wasn't the kernel so much as compiling all the other stuff with GCC picking the right arch/optimisation. Cause those were for sure faster than running the stock i386 or i686 or x64 apps. But it's been so long (2005) I don't have the numbers in front of me anymore. Not as critical in 2023.
Based on visiting a lot of Dutch schools this year, that's still very much happening. I tried to google a photo but couldn't figure out what the word for that thing is.
That article is as nebulous as can be: Neither party will comment. No specifics. About all one can say is that Google didn't snub Yaccarino.
Unedited title: "Affirmative Action and the Jewish Elephant in the Room"

I know anti-Blackness is de rigueur here on HN but surely the Jews will be spared?
Tccboot: TinyCC Boot Loader (2004)
I’m also curious. What do you love now that you paused your writing?
Thanks! I'd love to take personal credit, but it's https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal :)
> Smartphones may still be used if they are needed for class, or if there is a medical need. One example of the latter is if a student with diabetes needs to measure sugar levels.
Magazines and newspapers interleaved articles and news; books were just either straight stories or short tale compilations, there were no short tales in the middle of a page or at the bottom/top/edge placed sides.
> the drive-in

Tell me you live in the US :D
Google. It’s not a problem with the default video element. The engineer that into the app and mobile then that’s the primary pitch for premium
I love the application centric model; I find the “window” centric model to be incredibly messy.

I’m assuming you came to macOS from some years using Windows?
Same thing happened with me and music. Granted, I was a teenager and nothing too serious, but loved writing some songs, getting known songs in new arrangements.

It naturally progressed into forming a band, then we started doing small concerts. Before I could realized, most of my time was in spreadsheets to register the costs, the supplies we needed, transportation, on top of getting everyone to learn the same songs.

In the end I got so burned out that I stopped playing almost completely. Went from 3-4 hours a day to 0 over years.

Not the same as the author, but same case of trying to monetize a hobby completely killed the hobby for me.
One benefit is if you pick a major version of RHEL or an LTS Ubuntu, you know that you’ll have 10+ years of consistent APIs and ABIs. If you stick to latest upstream distros, you can run into unexpected API incompatibilities causing bugs and breakage.
Yes, Wintel was huge for desktops, but not for high powered engineering software like EDA tools, modeling, simulation, etc. (I think AutoCAD was the only Windows software that real engineers used).

MacOS wasn't UNIX based until the big MacOS X rewrite which was around 1999, if I remember right. It felt very much like it was a reaction to Linux, especially with them making a big deal about how it was an Official UNIX(TM), not so subtly reminding us that Linux was not.
https://cmart.blog

Goofy stuff that I write for fun. Working on a book review now.
https://raesene.github.io/ - these days, I generally blog about security/containers/k8s stuff that's interesting to me, and not suitable for a corporate blog, although it goes back to other stuff, as I've been posting at varying levels of regularity for almost 20 years now.
Great point about emulation! I thought of a few Retro Games Corps videos I’ve seen when I saw your comment. Is that you?
I have lived in the US (on and off) for decades and have not made this association you describe. It's also common in many European cities, often in middle class neighborhoods.

Palo Alto has street murals scattered around the city in commercial districts and some private homes.
Patriot Missile Crew Shot Down Five Russian Aircraft in Two Minutes
Funny, I bet many of us actually do do programming at home for fun! Also the day job. However I wouldn’t do the day job type of programming at home for fun, so I guess it is a similar concept.
In string theory, which is a branch of theoretical physics, there's an idea called "mirror symmetry." This suggests the existence of two parallel worlds (let's call them A-side and B-side) that are very similar but have certain differences in how their internal six-dimensional spaces are structured (we'll call these spaces A and B).

Until now, we've learned a lot about space A. In particular, we've found that it doesn't undergo extreme changes (or "blow up") under certain conditions. Recently, scientists noticed that spaces A and B can change in certain ways so that objects in them that seem different at first can end up looking the same.

In this research paper, the authors investigated whether space B behaves in the same way as space A. They took a phenomenon that we know happens in space A, moved it over to space B, and checked whether it still works the same way. They found that just like in space A, no blowing up occurs in space B under certain conditions.

This is a big deal because it gives mathematical proof for a similarity between the A-side and B-side that scientists had previously only guessed might be true. To prove their theorem, the authors had to make some assumptions, but in future work, they'll see if their theorem still holds true even without those assumptions.

So in a nutshell, they're trying to explore whether certain properties of one world in string theory also hold true in its "mirror" world. They've found evidence for this in one specific case, but there's still more work to do.
They'd prefer you stop watching. Bandwidth costs them a lot, and they have pretty much the cheapest bandwidth of any tech player. If 1% of users are freeloading like you and I, and they can block us and save 1% on their infrastructure bill, that's still a huge amount of money saved, and could easily turn the whole effort from a loss to a profit.
so my expectation is that this is not a profitable thing to do, and it is interesting to confirm or be surprised
You can always make notes, check later and then confront the teacher the next time you have class.

Still not a reason for a kid t have a smartphone in school.
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Subjects: tech, retrocomputing, retro pop culture, radio, interviews, books, comics, TV, music, movies ...etc.

For the record, it's all static content. It's generated using Hugo.
The Python SQL ecosystem is IMO pretty bad, and the root cause seems to be that DB-API (PEP 249) is really quite awful.

As my least favorite example, DB-API has two transaction modes, both of which are unnecessarily error prone: autocommit on, and autocommit off. Autocommit on makes transactions useless (intentionally), but it still allows commit() and rollback(), so one can write code that thinks transactions are enabled, have it appear to work, and end up with all manner of corruption.

Autocommit off has a bad interface. The begin() function is entirely missing, so you can’t pass it arguments. Worse, since there is no explicit start of a transaction, the library can’t catch misuse of a transaction.

As a result, every SQL library for Python of any reasonable quality implements its own special API, and nothing is particularly interoperable.

This is all sort of fine if the database is only accessed through a higher level library like SQLAlchemy. But sometimes a developer just wants to execute raw SQL against a database, and the situation in Python is not very nice.
Kevin Kelly recently published a link to "The Incredible Secret Money Machine" which is about making a sustainable (but not massive) living from your hobbies.

Might be of interest to somebody: https://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/ismm.pdf
Not active but here it goes: https://mustafaakin.dev/
Open source is labor politics. Copyleft is shorthand for “I labor to create this work for the commons, and all who modify my work must adhere to my labor politics by sharing their modifications with the commons.” It’s designed specifically to counteract commercial exploitation of labor while denying the commons their modified works. Without labor politics, there would be no GPL, no AGPL, no Sharealike.

(Ironically, my single sentence license above would be more likely to win a court challenge than the GPL/AGPL, while also being more resilient to new methodologies and less vulnerable to loopholes; however, it’s incompatible with the “legal contracts should not depend on human judgment calls” viewpoint that’s popular in technical circles.
On desktop, when the ratio of the window approaches 1:1 the whole page jumps around a lot
The QNX Photon GUI: [1]

For the three years (2002-2005) I worked on a DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle, my main desktop machine ran QNX. I could build and run the real time software on it, connected to either a simulator or cabled to the actual vehicle up on jacks.

QNX gave up on the desktop a few years ago.

[1] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0SP1.update/com.qnx....
I though it was due to the world already having Chicken Scheme and Gerbil Scheme, neither of which ends in "bit".

Edit: Rabbit seems to be older than both of those two schemes.
There's a simple recipe for ultra-long life that's guaranteed to work, and would work via the traditional mechanisms of evolution: progressively raise the childbearing age for a group of people over many generations. Start by only allowing childbirth at age 30 or so, then every few generations you raise it more. It would take time, but eventually you could have people living for centuries. It would have the advantage that society would slowly and naturally adapt to it as longevity increased.
Laser “death ray” kills weeds 80x faster than humans
I don't think the bright colors are the problem, just the opposite actually.

Particularly in this example: https://static.frieze.com/files/inline-images/web-cg-h-102-a...

The bright clothes are fine, but his skin is awful. It's flat and lifeless, like a cold corpse drained of blood. It looks like they put the primer coat on then left it unfinished; I think that's literally what they did. Maybe this look is what they were originally going for, but I don't think so. Look at the detail on that guy's knees, they look just like real knees. I don't believe the original artists went through so much trouble to sculpt hyper-realistic knees then let some intern half-ass the paint job.
Indexset: BTreeSet and BTreeMap with O(1) indexing by position
I've applied a desaturation filter to a number of websites. The Register for example:

body {
/* A little less bloody red, eh? */
filter: saturate(33%);
}

(Via the Stylus CSS manager extension.)

I also browse extensively on an e-ink (monochrome) tablet, and find that the lack of high-saturation colour is very welcome. I suspect that even colour-based e-ink displays, given their muted pastel palette, might also be an improvement in general.

Edit: That's Stylus, not Stylish, as I'd initially written, Which has Gone To The Dark Side.
This doesn’t really give perspective, it’s basically what they’re saying. Roman bridges are gravity structures, the entire thing is in compression and heavy, the arches have really limited spans.

Compare to the Millau Viaduct for instance.
> If kids rather want their phones than to listen to school, maybe it's time to change how school works.

Once you start to demand that schools become more entertaining than the most addictive thing the world's entertainment technologists can dream up, you've kind of lost sight of the mission of a school.

> 30 kids having to sit still 6 hours a day and do nothing more than listen and take notes? That's boring as fuck.

Also not how school works, at least not in the Netherlands. There are lots of group projects and multidisciplinary lesson arcs and so on. Maybe in China?

> that's all stuff that only the private schools (Waldorf and friends) provide

Waldorf is an available option for public education in the Netherlands. Likewise Montessori, at the secondary level as well.
https://d13v.com

More than 100 essays on various timeless topics.

Most recently I wrote a series called “how to be a game changer” which focused on creating win win situations in all aspects of life. One of the essays “Opt out of cynicism” made it to #2 on HN.

I’ve been slow to write for the last 1.5y as I was giving a birth to a startup.
Defrag in 2023? On a SSD? Really?
Or getting their phone confiscated and not being able to use it for a week or so will teach them the cost of ignoring laws.

A useful life lesson in any case.
I agree with you, but I started predicting an AI winter in like 2016. I thought the failure of self driving would kill it, but apparently not.

I've predicted 9 of the last 1 AI winters.
It might also encourage adoption of more decorative facades amongst the latter.
> Confœderatio Helvetica

That's Switzerland (or if you're particularly pedantic: the Swiss Confederation) for those not brushed up on their Latin and Latin graphemes.
Depends on the watermark. The current watermark uses a DCT to add a bit of undetectable noise around the edges. It survives resizing but tends to fail after rotation or cropping.

A robust rotationally invariant repeating-but-not-obviously micro watermark would be quite a neat trick.
For which products do you pay more than 100$ in license cost per month and developer? I only know prices like these for fairly specific niches, like development environments for very specific hardware/FPGA, or sophisticated physics simulation software. But this is a code search&navigation tool - a nice one, I'll admit, but still. That's 4x the price for GitLab Premium. Almost 2x of the whole Adobe Creative Suite.
> > Filesystem-level de-duplication is scary as hell as a concept

> What's scary about it?

It's scary because there's only one copy when you might have expected two. A single bad block could lose both "copies" at once.
TrueNAS (www.truenas.com) uses ZFS for the storage layer across it's product range (storage software).

They have both FreeBSD and Linux based stuff, targeting different use cases.