skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAICS, it doesn't "remove" that benefit. It just adds a second way to access your databases.

I believe FirebirdSQL has done this for a while - you can either link the whole database library to your code, or with the same API, link a client library that talks to a remote database over the network.

It's a great idea because you can link to the embedded version for development and unit testing, but upgrade to a full networked DB server for the live deployment.
It's not? What is it measured in then?
Not to mention this new Slack competitor: https://threads.com. If Instagram Threads takes off I fully expect this app will be forced to change its name by Meta.
See also Alberta, Canada
And how successful has Workplace been compared to Microsoft Teams or Slack?
As an example, RTs have been an official feature since late 2009 (https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2009/retweet-limit...), more than three years after Twitter has first gone live.
Do you have any thoughts on why they attached to the IG graph and not the FB graph?

Maybe I'm in a bubble, IG seems very low text, low drama, low politics. Not very Twitter-y
That could still be a good trade off. It's fine for the feedforward blocks to be a bit slower (due to higher model dimension) if the 'attention' blocks are much faster (due to better complexity).
They did? Who are "they"? Certainly not Google or Youtube. Do you now not pay for anything because "they may be lying"?
The author chose a BSD-style license that has no problem with use in proprietary software. It's too late to do something like a dual AGPL and commercial license (unless some amazing new features are added), as it's already in widespread commercial use.
Read my comment again, I am asking for a single standalone product that's fully incubated inside Facebook and that's successful.
Congrats on achieving your MVP! Marketing (and sales) are a crucial function of your launch and future success, assuming your business model and MVP are solid so far.

Finding the right marketing person will determine how much revenue you take in. This can lead to great success, or a total flop if the marketing & sales don't work.

Keeping that in mind, there's about 100 questions to consider for such a candidate, which you can find in the list of questions for cofounders or business partners.

I strongly recommend a phased approach to collaboration, with an initial trial period, and benefits or rewards coming only after proven results.

Ultimately, when you work with the person for at least a full year, you will know if they are "not a fit", just mediocre, or totally amazing for your business.

Feel free to DM if I can help further.
Only a select group of users for now, apparently. That's probably why I haven't experienced this yet.

If I do run into this limit, I'm not sure what I'll do. No YouTube will win me back a lot of free time. I want to read more, but somehow all my free time seems to be eaten up by Youtube. Maybe less Youtube would be good for me.
I wonder if this also will apply to Google's ad related spyware? Going after just Analytics seems like quite a small step.
This reads like Lombok all over again.

If you want extension methods on the JVM, do yourself a favor and pick kotlin.

I know I know, stuff like this exists for when corporate policy insists on sticking with java, but a corporate policy that at the same time rejects kotlin but allows bastardizing java like this it's a broken corporate policy. The good news however is that stuff like this can be an excellent tool to put pressure on that kind of policy ("if we don't get to use the good stuff we'll use the bad stuff!") and if it was made for that use case, I'll wholeheartedly applaude.

That being said, I'd really, really love to see the kotlin treatment applied to other languages, stuff that doesn't have actual kotlin waiting on the sidelines. Once I got used to the ease of left-to-right provided by kotlin context method funnels it's really painful to go back to nested if blocks (even in languages like typescript that apply the type inference of the conditional to the nested block just fine).
Doesn't DuckDB do this.
Thanks, I think this is a very astute analysis
No, because the sites would have no obligation to pass it on to people like the author of libjpeg-turbo whose work they use.
I'm not saying it's illegal nor that it should be. I was just pushing against the idea that it's a totally reasonable thing to do.

> but that's not what Google Search does, that's what Google Bard does.

Agree which is why I said "Google’s AI". The problem I see is that AI creates this weird middle man that now also acts as a translation layer.

It used to be that you only had a search engine between you and the actual content and a search engine might only show you an excerpt of the original content (which can also be problematic) but at least it was the original content.

Now you have all these AI tools that try to make summaries of the original content and that IMO is very problematic.
I wouldn't use "bias" here. It's a very ambiguous term in machine learning.
IMHO, Angular was superior to React.

However, Google being Google, they shot themselves in the foot with Angular 2.
Start with the question of whether this will solve a big enough problem for your target audience that they'd be willing to pay for it?

In your example case - most likely not. The problem is there, but menus going out of sync on delivery apps probably doesn't generate enough troubles to be worth paying for.

Follow-up with if they will be willing to pay, how much? Then take that number multiply it by the audience size and see if it's worth it.

These two questions tend to eliminate the vast majority of half-baked ideas very quickly.
In life, when people say they "would pay, but....", the goalposts often conveniently move again if/when the situation comes about.
Increasing numbers of content creators are also on Nebula these days. Maybe that's going to be the paid ad-free Youtube of the future.
Agree. I was a couple of pages in before I learned what the "Lone Banana Problem" is. That took two paras, and was followed by a lot of sophomoric philosophical noodling.
Read my original comment again.
I asked for successful standalone products.
Oh, yes. I totally agree with that philosophy.

The part about classes only acting on themselves resonates heavily with me. To me it's the same with components in frontend apps: the more independent they are, the better.

I'm probably never going to be copy-pasting my classes and components into other apps, but a good class/component should be copy-paste-able without needing many dependencies. This avoids the "banana gorilla jungle problem", as named by Joe Armstrong.

"Free Functions" also help with keeping those classes even more self-contained and decoupled: you can use Function types for callbacks and things like that, instead of having to couple the class to some other class or interface. The only thing the class has to worry about is that the function conforms to the type.

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"Keep data (= classes) and functions separate. Divide and conquer complexity."

Yep, 100% agree. Amen to that.
This would work if the OSI wouldn't vehemently oppose usecase-based restrictions for open source. I think more people should say "it's forbidden to use it for <list things like LLMs, social media, etc.>, if you want to use it, buy a licence from me"

Right now, those corporations just steal the code and sponsor the OSI's gatekeeping.
Hmm looking here: https://docs.atlasos.net/troubleshooting/removed-features/

It just seems to remove a lot of security modules, out of all the bloat out there why would I want to just remove the sec modules? Also it now adds an option to include those, so all in all, it then removes:

- Some APPX and UWP applications

- Logging of Network Configuration

- Microsoft Edge and WebView

- Restore Points and System Reset

- Telemetry

- Windows Error Reporting

- Windows Updates

- Hyper-V and VBS

- Background Apps

- Disk Defragmentation

- User Account Control (UAC)

I can use https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 and https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 and https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster to do most of the debloating and telemetry tasks.

I don't see the point of removing

- Disk Defragmentation (how much does this even affect general usage?)

- UAC (?)

- Hyper-V (since this is an optional feature anyway)

- Edge (it's not that bad once the telemetry is removed from it, sleeping tabs are very good)

- System Restore Points (haven't they ever bricked a system?)

All are pretty useful, and we end up using them one way or the other

I also took a look at their scripts: https://docs.atlasos.net/troubleshooting/scripts/ ; nothing that interesting and seems to be there just to troubleshoot/fix issues caused by Atlas.
Yep, with a visual studio style IDE for Rust. so Big project.
The best reason to have it broken up is for posterity to be able to annotate the changes. If there is a 100 line refactor followed by the 10 line actual functional change, then it's a blessing to be able to look at that in isolation when something has gone wrong with it 5 or 10 years later.
> Almost two decades worth of content now locked behind worsening ad dystopia. I wish they didn't have this amount of immense power over the human race and the information it has access to.

It's not neccessarily all locked behind - hopefully, a lot of the creators have local copies of the videos, which they can upload to a competitor, if need be.
Gravel, $20 a ton.
You should tell him this story!
The RustNL presentation is a nice up to date view of where we are with makepad.
K, not °K
The topic is entirely moot.

What is "dehumanizing" is the unprovoked war of racist, colonial aggression, enacted by the Russian Federation upon Ukraine - and conducted from the start with a policy of terror, directed at civilians. If you care at all about the subject, that is what you should be focusing on.

If a bunch of assholes came into your neighborhood, started raping people and shooting randomly at whoever was walking on the street - you wouldn't have the kindest words for them either.
Thanks :) All the work of 'this is not rocket science'
I can hardly believe they care about fines. It's like letting 3 flies inside of a murderer apartment as a punishment
I have Facebook and Instagram DNS-blocked on my network and have negative feelings towards Meta.

But I wouldn't feel bad if Threads took over Twitter's most important data generators (politicians, journalists, newssites). I dislike what Twitter has been turned into, it's close to nothing else but a megaphone for the owner to mostly troll the world.

If Threads would be usable on a desktop via a website, I'd gladly register, but I won't install social media apps on my phone except for HN and Reddit via a 3rd party apps of good reputation.
It's the opposite for me; I have to move small things away in order to focus on them.

I always joke that if it gets much more worse my arms won't be long enough to hold my phone :-)
I only know very little. But we had a great guy in our company who was a big proponent of rigorous methods even for non-critical software and he made a very interesting training about it. Here's the list of his recommended resources:

Increasing QA maturity level:

– B.Beizer – „Black-box testing“ ($), „SW testing techniques“ ($)

– ISTQB Foundation level

– RTCA DO-178C ($) / EUROCAE ED-12C ($), DO-248C

– Joint Software Systems Safety Engineering Handbook

Test analysis specification-based techniques (EP, BVA, EP DI, STT, TCl):

– ISTQB „Advanced Test Analyst“, „Advanced Technical Test Analyst“ courses and Syllabi

– BS 7925-2 „Standard for SW Component testing”, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-4:2015 „Test techniques” ($)

– IEEE 829:2008 „Standard for SW testing documentation” ($)

Test analysis failure/risk-based techniques (FMEA, FTA, RCA):

– C.Wilhelmsen, L.T.Ostrom – „Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications” ($)

– C.S.Carlson – „Effective FMEAs” ($)

– MIL-STD-1629A „Procedures for performing FMEA”

– NUREG-0492 „Fault Tree Handbook”

– NASA Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications

– DOE-HDBK-1208-2012 Volume 1 „Accident and Operational Safety Analysis Techniques”

– TOR-2014-02202 „RCA Best Practices Guide” ($)
It would be interesting but I prefer the approach in this post - because the templating macros are isolated out into a "module" and it does not great spread across the user code.
Licensing for Open Source Software
Hi guys,

I'm currently trying to understand the economics of open source vs closed source software and was wondering why are companies based on open source not adoption a similar license to MongoDB given the predatory behavior of hyperscalers?

Second question, if I may, why is SSPL not considered open source given that any one developer can use the software as long as they don't sell it

Thanks
> Personally, I prefer not to listen to certain peoples’ Important Opinions

Of course you can avoid hearing this!

You do so by not following said person. Mastodon works just like Twitter or Facebook in this regard.

This is not the problem that I'm talking about at all. I'm talking about the infrastructure problem. It's about instances shutting down, people not having had time to migrate, and thousands of users losing everything (their entire account and content) because some admin decided he didn't like furries enough or let any political party member join his instance, admin is defederated, admin says fuck this.

Sure, I can make my own instance to guarantee my place on the network if I buy a server and run it on that but how many do you guys expect are enough Mastodon enhtusiasts (of all things, haha) to even bother with learning and doing so. It's a stillborn workaround if this problem keeps resurfacing.
If their business model depends on breaking the law, maybe it's not a viable one.
Threads may be very popular among the existing Instagram user base, but the question is whether Twitter users are going to switch.

Elon’s understanding of Twitter is poor, but Zuck’s may be worse. After all, there’s a reason that Twitter users have been on Twitter and not on Facebook all this time. Facebook is a byword for a locked down, unpleasant social network experience.

Twitter gets all the headlines because it’s becoming shittier, but Facebook has been consistently shit for a very long time and Zuck hasn’t seen fit to do anything about that.
fly.org by any chance?
So, because it's open source, he can't ask for a salary and do some marketing to get funding?
What entitles you to decide that this guy doesn't have the right to try to monetise his project?
OpenBSD: [CFT] SEC(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs
That's not YouTube, that's the content creators on there. These sponsorship deals make them a lot more money than what they get from YouTube itself. It's annoying and frustrating, but I totally get that they need to do this if they want to make a living from their channel.

If you don't like this, I suppose you can block the channels that do this and only watch amateur channels that aren't in it for the money. Or they make their money from Patreon or other sources.
Your phone number is a public number. There are databases of caller ID information out there.

Your payment details are generally throwaway - and expire. Additionally, you can use virtual card numbers nowadays.

Not sure why the angst.
Thank you for pointing this out, you're right
Unfortunately not (yet).

By saving do you mean saving in-browser or exporting as a new GIF?
> AI should be a tool, not a moral compass.

Unless someone wants that for themselves. I could easily see AI used for helping people who want to become better people (at least online).
Twitter links are pretty useless now that non-users can't see the tweets any more
Radians is there (on laptop at least). Never heard of gons before, but it's missing mils (used in the military as 1 mil with a radius of 1km subtends an arc of about 1m. Actually, never thought about whether the US military would use it, what with their funny units and all). Though I suppose a mil is a milli-radian.
Absolutely nailed it. I love articles by people like Tao and Wolfram as they tend cut the B.S. and get down to the real utility of it, rather quickly.

I was also pleased, in a schadenfreude kind of way, that Tao followed the same dead-end paths as me, and I presume most others, when learning GPT-4. Like, starting out by trying to be very precise and descriptive, before throwing caution to the wind and embracing the non-deterministic nature of the thing, and just throwing a ton of keywords and loosely worded requests at it.

The good thing, is that as I know the LLM can provide answers which are totally wrong, I am forced to be more critical of the answer than just reading a book on the subject.

Yep, having to fact-check it's hallucinations has been far less detrimental than I expected. I find, often, if it's a subject I am vaguely familiar with, that the surprises jump out at me, then I can fact-check them and learn something. Actually, many times I was convinced it was hallucinating some cli tool or option flag, and it actually turned out to be correct. And, those times when we are embarrassingly wrong, tend to be the most instructive.

Browsing mode, when used right, was a huge boost for this. I found the optimal use, was to structure a prompt like normal, as if targeting GPT-4 WITHOUT the browser mode, and then tack on to the end a carefully crafted search request, or two. This way, it writes a response first before performing the web searches and augmenting the answer. This acts like chain-of-thought reasoning by expanding the information in the initial prompt. And, as a bonus, it meant you had something to read while waiting for it to finish browsing.
Small Claims Court. Works. Default judgement.
Why do you complain about someone else complaining over someone else's complaints?
The author could release new versions with a more restrictive license.
There must be an xkcd about that.
> 15° is the angle the Earth turns in one hour

It's actually more like 15.0411° in an hour. This matters if you're keeping a telescope pointed at something in the night sky to take a picture of it.
When I read others on HN talk about the Facebook experience it often feels like they have a completely foreign viewpoint to you and me.

When I open Facebook, I don't see ranting family members. I see half a dozen groups and pages full of or operated by people I don't know.
Analytics right now is basically "you won't get any useful information for your website because we value users' privacy, don't worry we see all of the data anyway"

Remember, you aren't the customer if you embed Google Analytics, Google is.

edit: if you want analytics, honestly just roll your own... you can't trust advertising companies with your users' data
In their report on page 7, they say they drilled to 2200m: https://norgemining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Norge-Min...
> (important distinction in mining)

Any chance you could explain the distinction to a layman? To me they seem to mean roughly the same thing.
I agree about the algorithm. People wanting a strictly chronological timeline seem to largely be a very particular tech crowd.

I don't personally notice a lack of engagement. Maybe not everyone migrated, but I feel like the most important people have.
What programming language has the most beautiful syntax?
What programming language has the most beautiful syntax?

The most beautiful syntax is subjective and varies from person to person. Some people might find a particular programming language's syntax to be elegant and straightforward, while others might find it unnecessarily complex. Ultimately, the choice of programming language depends on the specific requirements of the project and the preferences of the programmer or development team.
Yeah I would imagine that too. Specifically that the later process would hang on acquiring the lock.
I'd pay 4x for ad-free YT, but you can't steal my data. Deal? haha

Time to hurriedly download every valuable video we can before the enshitification is complete...
Technically the Saudi PIF and the Saudi ownership of Aramco, which runs into trillions, is all property of the Saudi royalty, and increasingly the personal property of the current rulers, father and son. So no, Musk isn't the richest man on the planet.
I think they made a mistake in how they made process-wide signals (so I mean signals like SIGINT not an inherently thread-specific signal such as SIGSEGV) interact with threads. What they should have done with process-wide signals, is have a dedicated thread per each signal handler which does nothing but handle the associated signal (sequentially, blocking it while the handler runs). Yes, it is possible to do this today, but it takes work, and I don’t understand why it wasn’t just the default.

I think a handle-based API would have been superior to fork(). So every API which changes shared process state takes a process handle, which could be either the current process or a yet-to-be-started child process. That would have provided most of the advantages of fork() without the many disadvantages.
I just wanted to concur here. What some times happens is that fear of inflation leads people to get rid of the currency. The state then increases interest rates to convince people to hold the currency. So if you see high interest rates you should ask why.

Basically if someone tells you you can have low risk and high reward you should immediately assume they're lying to you.
Don't let web server access app's code, soo many security problems solved...
> If so, can I download this data about me? Is there a way to download everything Facebook stores about me and then I will see all the websites and pages I visited that Facebook knows about?

If you live in the EU, you have the legal right to ask for all information Facebook has on you.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
I recently started paying for Youtube's ad-free experience. It's been wonderful. I pay for all these other streaming services - but I would gladly replace it all with just Youtube given the breadth and diversity of content on there.

When I wasn't paying for it - the ads were atrocious. The worst part is that my kids would have to slog through ads too - and I just didnt need them being advertised to.

Youtube is a benefit to humanity and I am happy to dish out the $12/month it costs for Premium. (Yes, sure, I drank the koolaid)
Not only zero ads, it's strictly no product placement and no brand promotion of any kind.
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Give me the power. Or those with more nefarious intentions will have that power over me.
> Could FB simply say: this service costs money to run, either you pay for it or you watch ads, if you don't want to pay or watch ads press here to delete your account. Then, to the people that stay, yes or no to targeted ads.

Ads or no ads is beside the point, GDPR doesn't address advertising, only data privacy. Facebook is allowed to run non targeted ads at any time. If you're asking if they can offer to invade your privacy or pay a fee, no that would not be legal. User consent must be given freely, with no change in level of received service if they say no to tracking.