skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even within software there are a lot of excellent projects created by financially secure people. Clearly at least some people do enjoy doing hard work without being threatened for their livelihood.
> Yes, because you literally can't look in a random Windows installer

Most windows installers are regular archive formats, with either msi information or an executable tacked on. They open just fine in 7zip. Of course analyzing the binary files inside the installer is another matter.
Proper sandboxing in Unix was a missing feature forever since SUID bit was introduced and was slowly mitigated by adding layers of virtualization instead of OS-level controls.
Most of the LSD had been made by a few big time chemists...
Owsley, Nick Sand, William Pickard..

They are each responsible for probably tens of millions of doses.

On Pickard's arrest in late 90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard) :
According to court testimony, Pickard's lab produced up to a kilogram of LSD approximately every five weeks for short periods. Despite criticism for their methodology, the DEA contends that there was a 99.5% drop in the availability of LSD in the US in the two years following the arrest.[7] Pickard himself has long denied these claims. In his 2007 paper "International LSD Prevalence – Factors Affecting Proliferation and Control", Pickard suggests that since the 1960s, LSD production has always been de-centralized. As to a turn-of-the-century decline in availability due to his own arrest, Pickard highlights the fact that LSD availability had been on the decline since 1996, a fact which he correlates in part with the exponential growth of availability and demand for MDMA and other hallucinogenic drugs.[8] The actual quantity of LSD seized by the DEA remains unclear, with figures ranging from 198.9 grams to 41.3 kilograms (410 million 100 µg hits of LSD).[9]

Nick Sand estimated that he produced about 140 million doses in his lifetime. (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-nicholas-sand-2017...)
Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can (2021)
I am blown away that we, as human species, drive our world with advertising. It feels like cromagnon stuff.
> UBI is a bane because it kills meritocracy.

UBI enables meritocracy, it doesn’t kill it.
https://namegrep.com/#%28%3Acolors%3A%7Ccrimson%7Camber%7Cem...

None of the the domains listed in this thread appear to be taken (the site uses godaddy to verify, and is updated every 24h), but there are others in this scheme that may be related.
With the EU, effectively yes.
I think it was meant as "compared to streaming". My parents still have cable tv and the image quality is still noticeable better than even 4K streaming of the same channels.
Thanks, Nick! All credit to FoundationDB.
An entry level cheese grater or trash can definitely wasn’t top end of their times. Middle end parts in a top end case, sure.
Not at all. They do exactly what you were suggesting. If you think they’re a bandaid, then you’d need to explain why your own suggestion isn’t a bandaid.
>> and has a massive security ecosystem.

lol and we all know why
It's sad you can't think of any way except literally violently overthrowing him! But I'm happy to share my ideas.

The most important thing is to build support against him. Putin isn't in power because he pays everyone so well, but because he has enough support that nobody can easily overthrow him without themselves suffering for it afterwards. But just look a couple of weeks back - Wagner has at most 50k people, and they could have succeeded. They probably would have if the russian public was outspoken against Putin, because other supporters would have joined. It's all about the key supporters, and ultimately about public support. But what can you do to strengthen suport against him?

- Spread non-russian news to people

- Tell them about the horrors the russian military is inflicting on Ukraine

- Tell people about Putins close supporters who seem to be building support against him

- Tell people about the terrible effect the war has on those drafted

Any problems?
They changed to a for profit company, are currently trying to do regulatory capture, and still refuse to release thier models.
Add onescentvision.com to the list
Articles like the one posted are usually written by amateurs with no clue as to the real dynamics of such sectors as agriculture forecasts in Australia, for example.

The real specialists in most sectors don't share it publicly.
Thanks, Frank!
I think there's some talking past each other going here.

I think it's useful to bisect music into commodity/non-commidty categories.

Category 1 is things like Taylor swift's music which is not a commodity.

Category 2 is the music playing on lofi hip hop radio[0] is a commodity. 28,000 people are listening to the music on that channel as I type this and and approximately zero people know or care who made that music. The specific song basically doesn't matter so long as it fits the genre and meets a quality bar. They're analogous to handmade rugs - all slightly different but not in a way the consumer cares about.

So far as I can tell, most music that gets made is treated like it's in this second category: Generic Genre X song. Producing something that manages to break out of this commodity status is deeply unusual.

In anecdotal support of this, I often go to venues to listen to "bluegrass" (category 1) in much the same way I go out to buy an apple. I want the bluegrass to be good, just as I want good tasting apples, but the particular purveyor does not really matter unless it's someone special like the Punch Brothers (category 2).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk
This news has nothing to do with lack of innovation. The entire beer market is currently contracting.

Also, not everything needs to innovate. Every field needs a canon of notable creations that have stood the test of centuries or millennia and beer brewing is no exception.
Oh, that makes sense, I get you now.
Your own links suggest that peak migration was in 2021, when California lost 360,000 people. That's less than 1% of the population.

You're also ignoring the fact that Anchor Steam is owned by Sapporo and has been for the last 6 years. This isn't a decision being made by people working in the factory who are angry that they had to wear masks or upset about a rise in homelessness.

Despite Musk's political nonsense claims about moving the Tesla HQ, he's still expanding the Fremont factory: https://www.tesla.com/fremont-factory

The most common reason cited for normal companies to leave California is the cost of living, especially housing and labor costs. If the economy were collapsing those costs would be decreasing.

California's GDP has also continued to rise, with only a brief blip at the beginning of 2020: https://www.statista.com/statistics/187834/gdp-of-the-us-fed...

California saw historic budget surpluses from 2021 to 2023: "As a result, in the last two years, the state saw historic budget surpluses—including $47 billion in 2021‑22 and $55 billion in 2022‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4687
Oh boy, they snagged on of the least useful repos of mine. So I apologize ahead of time for it being in that arctic vault for any people in the future. I didn't get to pick which one they selected.
Every prediction has error bars, some error bars are smaller than others. I wouldn’t be so quick to throw my hands up.

For example, the yield curve inversion has had quite good predictive ability so far, and it’s predicting a recession. If you buy the fed’s data driven approach, that means its predicting rate decreases.

In that case the long term bond market’s prediction is supported more strongly than the fed’s prediction.
Not much! It's still very young, still in the prototype phases. When it's more mature and polished I hope it will be useful for those writing servers and games mostly.
I was downvoted first, and then edited it. Way I see it, what I responded to is flamebait, and what I said it common sense. I think it says a lot you're trying to spin it the other way around. No, no one wants to get his comment downvoted and cry about it. That's an assinine misrepresentation. But what could I expect from the permanently offended brigade.
Why not? Should we shun good ideas because they can be associated with the current Big Bad?

You could just as easily have pointed to Ukraine or other Good Western Democracies countries that also have forms of digital citizenship.
I've recently made a presentation on this topic exactly.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGRNcftpqAk
Slides: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup74/ai/
Choosing not to interact with people has opportunity costs, but we do it. For example, many of us choose not to interact with people with certain views (political or moral), even if we would gain a whole lot if we did.
high end network cards with insane packet buffers and short, fast, expensive fiber runs to their hedgies servers.
If there's a better metaphor for 2023 I don't know what it would be.

Something involving submersibles... Yeah, no, I'm going to go with Barbenheimer.
ML vs. DL vs. LLM, from the perspective of uncertainty quantification
I believe the thinking is that reducing tax and regulatory burden promotes entrepreneurship and job creation. Higher rates of employment reduce poverty. Additionally, the government is woefully inefficient at (re)distributing resources (and even worse at picking winners). There is a school of thought that believes many "social services" can be better provided by community led organizations and charities.

No doubt there's no perfect solution and this topic has a lot more nuance to it, but I think that's the jist of it.
What about this does not apply to software, or any other highly paid profession?
I think consumers are not reluctant to spend money. They are just averse to the friction of doing the paying. If nanopayments for e.g. reading a news article could become totally automated and transparent, I think this would work.
Yes, we need a dynamic list of private alleyways where trespassing laws are difficult to enforce.
Why are there no women involved? (Please not trolling, I am curious.)
Just fyi:

Neither are critical but I recommend your repo have underscore instead of hyphen for an elixir project, and using "ex" in the name of your project is generally (informally) considered to be a signal for low code quality in the community.
This. There's more understanding now, and less ambiguity. Long COVID is an inflammation disease, and can be seen in MRI scans of heart, lungs, and brain.

Recovery seems to be in the first year or not at all. “As soon as it’s 12 months, it plateaus,” says study co-author Tala Ballouz, an epidemiologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. “You have a higher chance of recovery during the first year, and after one year it really becomes more of a chronic condition.”[1]

The incidence is estimated at 10–30% of non-hospitalized cases, 50–70% of hospitalized cases, and 10–12% of vaccinated cases.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02121-7

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02121-7
In my market, most local TV stations stream through their own app. OTA serves the users that struggle to understand how to get a TV antenna working properly, let alone an app or IPTV device.

Local advertisers also like the assurance that their ad dollars aren’t being wasted on out-of-market viewers. OTA provides that naturally.
In case anyone wants to read the rendered markdown:

https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/proposals/graduation/i...
Because StubHub et al have done so much to drive up ticket prices, some bands/venues/etc. are pushing back by blocking ticket brokers and only allowing "fan-to-fan" ticket sales. StubHub may be inserting itself as a middleman/escrow agent to allow brokers to sell without necessarily showing up as ticket brokers.
That makes sense. Working with developers in India has always been frustrating to me. There is so much talent and potential there but it just gets drowned out by the noise of so many scams and low quality/effort grifters that it is hard to justify the time needed to find someone who can actually deliver. I am sure on your side it's frustrating as well trying to break through and be seen for the high quality work you do.
Compared to Linux that doesn't use file extensions at all to mark executables?
I like that you’re familiar enough with Andrew Tate that you feel it necessary to point out that you’re not a “supporter” but not familiar enough with him that you need strangers on HN to explain him to you.
It has not. It’s way to early to see any market affects from chat gpt.
Pre-hacked: Open Design and the democratisation of product development (2016)
>UBI is a bane because it kills meritocracy.

Meritocracy is already dead (if it existed in the first place).
What have you switched to using? I have the same pain point with Markdown support. I've played with a few of the ChatGPT integrations and haven't loved any.
>Nobody EXCEPT the parasitic data miners/advertisement class want this

they might not want this specifically, but there's a whole lot of people out there who want free TV, whatever the easiest way to get it is.
My font is terminus https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ and is because byte dumps are blocky (no round edges) which makes easy to the eye and is somewhat vintage. At least in my experience.
Shouldn't perhaps (with caveats, and therein lies the rub), but is there a reason to believe that they won't?

I'm torn on this. On the one hand, yes, a "regular" user should be using a distro that has a wide array of natively packaged software, and relying on that as much as possible. But not all software is distributed this way.

And many "regular" users will be coming from a Windows background, meaning they're not going to recognize the fact that the site they found when googling for "Install Spotify on Ubuntu" that tells them to open a command prompt and paste this command or download this .deb file is actually malicious.

In practice, they're susceptible to the same kinds of attacks they would be on Windows.
I wonder if you would say the same with many nations doing their own space program? Why copy NASA and others when you can focus on poverty and other things than to worry about the rest of the Universe?

Some competition would be great IMO.

I wish Elon started a TSMC competitor though. A moat so high it affects geopolitics.
SargeDebian bit up there explains why they decided to deploy their Mastodon server - the reason seem pretty valid.
Now you see a resort to personal attacks. If you can't engage in debate on the topic this is exactly what you do.

Your own narcissism is evidence in the fact that apparently having an opinion is evidently offensive to you? Instead I must kowtow and beg for counterpoints, instead of having an opinion, stating it emphatically and leaving it there for response. The simple fact of a public post and a public response invites a response on the issues. Instead you leverage personal attacks which means you have nothing to say on the issue.

It's as if you have knowingly or unknowingly substantiated every point that I've made in my comments.
The German federal government also operates a mastodon server, which a number of ministries and governmental organizations use: https://social.bund.de/public/local
But we are the same species as cromagnons, not sure what you mean
We're already in the phase of AI self improvement, albeit through human mediation for the time being with copilot and other code generation tools that are used to get the next improved version out faster.
Interestingly enough, Consumers Union -- the nonprofit that publishes Consumer Reports -- was started by striking workers in the mid 1930s for just this purpose.
What if most people paying taxes now opt for UBI instead?
Comparing strings is extremely common, sure.

Is comparing two strings of the same length but different encodings all that common?
GPT-4 details revealed: architecture, training, parameters, etc.
Not sure about web dev but many of the applications I received from freelancers this time around had obvious signs of ChatGPT use in them.
This is certainly not going to help the industry.

It was already hard enough to kill off NTSC. Now, with ATSC 3.0 they want anyone that's still watching OTA to also need to provide internet access to their receiver so it can give them advertisements?

Have you watched the ads for OTA content? They are all geared towards geriatrics. That's because almost nobody under 60 is watching OTA (except maybe exceptions like you and I that don't mind older TV shows and are willing to DVR it).

So, for a media format primarily consumed by geriatric people the new standard proposes they now need a functional internet connection hooked up just to watch M*A*S*H. The previous standards just needed a coax cable hooked up to an antenna.

I love that ATSC 3.0 uses better codecs. But, it's really dumb that they added the internet backend requirement. The entire point of OTA is you don't want to stream stuff over the internet.
Let's not forget the single largest "accidental" release of methane in recorded history [0]. Which is now solidly shown to have been strongly influenced by American interests... via DoD payments of 4.75 Million to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. for I kid you not "PRO SAPPER AND EOD EQUIPMENT [CONTRACTING SQUADRON] UKRAINE" (yes, the public military contract RFP literally displays this) [1]

I initially supported the aid to Ukraine, but even ignoring environmental concerns this conflict has lost the plot beyond measure. We are prolonging the war now for the military industrial complex to sell weapons, and it's just a shame. As a democrat I'm sad to see my party championing death and war.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126562195/the-nord-stream-pi...

[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_SPE8EL23F11JV_970...

[1] https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1673749817820950528
Those are two great things for security that prevent you from:

$ rm -rf *

No permissions in this directory - want to try with sudo? (Y/n)
One can think of music teachers as a zero interest rate phenomenon then by proxy, so maybe it wasn’t all bad (but most of it was).
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm pretty surprised that software doesn't run into the mean skew. I guess you stop calling yourself a programmer when you're a CTO/CEO of your tech company you founded.
I mostly followed cyber/infosec and some science dudes. To me, mastodon is like 2015 Twitter right now (I never consumed much tbh).

I understand that for sports fans, or other stuff where the 'load of live react' is the main Twitter appeal, Mastodon will never be Twitter. And that's for the best? Twitter might be better without the sciency/boring stuff, and Mastodon for sure is better without the Twitter noise. Only stuff I miss are universe collisions, when a bball fan meet a statistician, i learned a lot.
Could you point me in the direction of writing on this argument?

I'd always heard that there was significant justification for using the atomic bombs on the basis of overall loss-of-life that was expected in an invasion of Japan. I've never read any detailed analysis of this claim and I've mostly taken it at face value.
Finally… took a while.

Now CNCF needs to figure out how to get Istio to work nicely with the networking k8s addons
The effect magnitude seems about the same as that between obesity and long Covid, sever Covid, and Covid mortality. I wonder if this gene is also associated with higher BMI.
Emacs pretty clearly needs to be split into 3 layers.
Elisp
The editor - written in elisp
GUI/TUI - Also in elisp that call back to the editor functions.
Although it leverages existing architecture, many of the ATSC 3.0 standard’s capabilities are new. Unlike past broadcasting technology, the standard not only provides content on-demand but ensures the content is delivered rapidly. Its unique design allows broadcasters to send data to several users concurrently through a single signal. To transmit 1 GB of data to 1 million consumers with ATSC 3.0, broadcasters only need one-millionth of the capacity required by broadband.

https://www.harmonicinc.com/insights/blog/understanding-atsc...
If the alternative is not even sources but just a black box binary, then its at least better to be able to inspect the sources.
How so? A big motivating factor to be successful for most people is to set themselves apart financially from the masses.

Edit: And of course, what would be the motivating factor for someone to give their best possible work, if the other 12 guys in their position get paid the same for less quality work?
>These features aren't abandoned, they're used by millions across the globe.

abandonment refers to the lack of support, not lack of usage
wow, blast from the past. Ben Forta's books taught me ColdFusion WAY back in the late 90's. Very cool to see him still active in this space.
It's Russia murdering their neighbors, however you cloak it in "it was bound to happen" or whatever political smoke you want to blow.
I don't post things on social networks but I follow people. There are plenty of examples where people on Twitter (pre Musk) got censored for alleged "hate speech", which was just an excuse to censor tweets or people the (yes, far-left) censors hated.
Don’t we already know the answer is 42? /s
Their Porter is fantastic and on par with Fuller's.
> If the downsides outweigh the upsides, why aren't we just eliminating them, as we have done for more deadly viruses like smallpox and polio?

- We don't have an effective vaccine yet, let alone one that is sterilizing.

- More than half of the population has HSV-1.

- HSV-1 lies dormant then reactivates and sheds, often asymptomatically.

It's unclear how you'd eradicate it, given these facts.
Makes sense.

Heineken, the world's #2 beer producer, bought them for ~$1B (half in 2015, rest in 2017).
What do you want Musk to do? Visit every university in the US and Europe to poach off the top women in AI, so that he could have a mixed team? Would that actually be good for the world? Those poor uni AI departments worked really hard to find a woman to hire and then Musk comes along and poaches her off.

And then somehow that would be better, because?
Corporate decision making power is value in a certain sense.
Is commercial software incapable of being packaged?
> The contract doesn't override or contradict the GPL.

I never said it did.

> The GPL doesn't cover rights to future versions of the software, only the versions customers receive.

Is anyone claiming this?

> The contract termination is only for future versions of the software, not the versions customers receive.

[[Citation needed]]

> Also, the contract termination only happens when a customer gives someone who is not a customer the benefit of a subscription

[[Citation needed]]

> it presumably wouldn't happen in other cases of exercising GPL rights.

Wouldn't it? Why not?

I am not arguing here. I am not saying you are wrong.

But these are significant specific statements. Can you provide evidence to support them?
I ran the default formatter in pycharm. Oh man someone who grades on formatting is a nightmare.

I addressed the unit testing thing in other comments. First I'm not an adherent to unit testing much of the code is io based and very little logic can actually be unit tested.

But everyone, literally everyone is calling out the lack of tests. So likely I will do it next time.