skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it differently

> Meta faces a penalty of one thousand euros per day, up to a maximum of one hundred thousand euros, if it fails to comply with the court's decision

Only 100K to completely ignore the court's ruling... Easy.
> The other problem is really with consumers. All (the vast majority of) consumers care about is convenience, cost, and looks. They want a fridge that has the ice maker and the water dispenser, stainless steel, french double door, etc. They don't care about the reputation of the brand - they just buy the cheapest one that fits those checkboxes. That leads manufacturers to cut cost as much as possible - especially since they now have to compete with companies all over the world with cheap labor, which 70 years ago was not nearly as true.

I don't think you're wrong, but I think the why is the crux of the issue, as in why are consumers so cheap? IMO, it's the same reason businesses are happy to cut corners to make them as cheap as possible as well. Turns out it's a negative feedback cycle.

Some consumers pay less, so businesses charge less, so businesses pay less, so their employees (customers by another name) have less to spend, etc.
I had some interest in HEX after I saw an airplane with a "BUY HEX" banner fly over my house. The major trick is the decimal point. Launch a crypto worth 0.000000001 USD per unit, then when it goes to 0.0000001 USD per unit because of low supply, scream into YouTube: "I GAVE YOU 100X PEOPLE, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?"
You can't have both.

If anonymity isn't allowed why can't advertisers track you in the EU without your consent.

What privacy are you in favor of?
Identities should be private when in public? Until someone requests it and then it goes into the public record?
I think that's precisely why the investors aren't as interested - bitcoin had very little value by itself, so investors got dollar signs in their eyes when a startup claimed to be able to add the value it was missing.

ChatGPT already has a lot of value by itself, the value added by any startup is going to be marginal at best.
I can sense you're a sage from the online realms where squirrels with prodigious love nuggets were revered.
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In many cases these open core companies are not “giving nothing back”, but are funding engineer salaries on the order of millions of dollars per year to invest in the OSS project that they use as customer acquisition for a commercial cloud and enterprise offering on top. Companies like Vercel and Ionic both employ this model. I think people often forget how much these companies invest and “give back” to the community in terms of raw dollar investment
Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
Hi, I have a different view on climate change than people from left.
I'm trying to use arguments with links on wikipedia, some science articles etc.

However I end up with bans (2 servers so far) and reason is something like science denial.

So I would like to ask - is mastodon only for people from far left?

Btw I'm programmer with stock market hobby. So I'm analysing things.

Thanks
Labor unions which have members at multiple companies in one sector are often reluctant to make concessions at any one company, lest it erode their bargaining positions at the others.
Hmm. Sounds like Canada and Toronto.
Cool. Yes, I am interested in hearing more.
Oh my gosh! I didn't know this was a trend. This is somehow very reassuring to hear, all these years later. Thanks for mentioning this.
Ehhh, hotel websites aren't all so clear either. Often there is a public rate and a member rate. Cancellable and non. With breakfast and without. And various confusing packages and offers for booking multiple nights or in advance, etc.

Right now for the same room on the same dates at Hilton Waikiki Beach, Hilton.com shows 9 different rates (all of which don't directly include resort fee or taxes).

And when a resort charges for parking, that fee is almost never included.
People will see what they want to see. I think it is fine if he wants to keep his username and letting his interactions define who he is.
> consume a significant amount of your dev efforts

If managing revenue is a core component of your business, as it is for most non-startup companies, in-housing a handful of API calls then transforming storing and visualizing the data is a worthy investment.

As the OP indicated they've barely had to touch it for 4 years. A couple weeks of effort and a few hours of maintenance here or there can be superior to another ephemeral third party vendor that can grind your core business to a halt with an outage, acquisition, pricing change, etc.
You can say that again. A total narcissist scammer of the worst kind. He started with Viagra spam and then found crypto shilling. He liked to hang out on HN to shill his scams and recruit developers, but I may have accidentally made him feel uncomfortable by asking him lots of pointed questions about his past, and he hasn't shown his face in a while. His go-to response is literally "Dodge, dodge!"

His real name is actually Richard J Schueler, under which he is famously known as the "Spam King", for being one of the first people in the world to be successfully sued for online spam, specifically the Viagra spam scheme that he ran from Panama (which he lost).

Richard Hart (aka "Spam King" Richard J Schueler) wins the "Golden Pump Award" for "Best New Scam" for his POS shitcoin Ponzi scheme "HEX":

https://twitter.com/JuanSGalt/status/1233242355995750400

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=857&v=tf-lJu5iDh...

Peacefire.org beats spammers in court.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/peacefire-org-beats-spammers-i...

>Free-speech group Peacefire.org wins a legal round in its fight against unsolicited e-mail, invoking Washington state's anti-spam law.

>The King County District Court in Bellevue, Wash., on Monday granted Peacefire $1,000 in damages in each of three complaints filed by Peacefire Webmaster Bennett Haselton. The small-claims suit alleged that Red Moss Media, Paulann Allison and Richard Schueler [who now operates under the pseudonum "Richard Hart"] sent unsolicited commercial messages to Haselton that bore deceptive information such as a forged return e-mail address or misleading subject line.

More embarrassing facts and proof he doesn't want you to read here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944841
"It's a catastrophe, but of little importance" -- Zizek

"RFC" is Request For Comments. Some RFCs become standards. But there are no internet police, notwithstanding that the internet is a fascist state (run by corporations for the benefit of corporations). Understanding it as a fascist state is the rational way to view "enforcement" as well as the natterings over whether something is a standard and who is going to enforce it anyway.
Okay, I think I've got it.

Stone Age

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Steel Age (1800 - 1940. The development of mass-produced steel of high quality, and its widespread adoption and use in construction and by industry.)

Aluminum Age (1940 - 1965. Tremendous growth in the aeronautical and space industries, enabled by the futuristic light alloy.)

Plastics Age (1965 - 1985. Ubiquitization of lightweight, durable plastics in all forms of consumer goods and media. The M-16 "plastic rifle" and the polycarbonate compact disc are symbolic of this era.)

Silicon Age (1985 - 2023. The age of computers in everything, the internet, "smart" devices, gig economy, etc.)

LK-99 Age (2023 - ??. Could end next week, could last a while. Nobody knows.)
> the product they sold you doesn't result in enough income to foot the bill within X years.

Honestly this is the issue. Colleges sell education. People think they are buying a future income stream. I don't blame people, because employers have by and large conflated the two. But this misalignment is at the heart of a lot of the cost discourse.
> But she has also considered marrying, then being a stay at home mom or working under the table jobs so that she can default without getting her wages garnished.

The denial of emotional toll here is shocking. She has limited her options to decades of a) un-remunerated childcare or (and?) b) being a tax resister.

To drive this home:

* imagine the difficulty of "changing jobs" in either scenario. Especially if you have an abusive boss.

* imagine four years living with your parents, trading chores for ability to work and pay off debt. That's less of an emotional toll because at least there'd be an end-date.
> The answer is to charge what it costs you to deliver plus a profit. If you can't compete directly on price make up for it in service and reputation.

I'm guessing the cause is more complicated than them just not knowing they should make a profit. If I'm wrong, write them a letter with this advice, there may still be time to save the company.
Hi Leandro, I've been reading and thinking a lot about OSS sustainability recently, so this sounds interesting to me. I have several questions:

1. Have you seen StackAid https://www.stackaid.us? it seems like a similar distribution model, although for donations and not for access as I understand your proposal would be.

2. How would you enforce paying for the subscription to get access to the software?

- e.g. would people have to publish exclusively in your platform instead of e.g. GitHub?
- would the source be available for non subscriptors?
- would some sort of license hack be involved?

3. Wouldn't people working on non (yet) profitable OSS be disencouraged from using your project if it requires paying upfront?

is the assumption that most OSS devs would already be paying their low rate subscription?

wouldn't it make sense for the rate to be somehow proportional to the benefit the company gets from the software? e.g. you'd want Amazon to pay more than 2k a year if they are selling a product around some OSS project.

4. Having to put your work (and potential source of income) in a private/closed platform seems to be a growing concern for creators (e.g. artists in twitter and devs in Github/Microsoft). Perhaps you'd want to clarify a bit better how it'd be different for this platform, how authors would still be in control of their stuff, etc.

5. Have you done the math for this, e.g. how much money would be available if most companies payed for this subscription and how much would maintainers receive?
I had an old chest freezer from the 80s.

You had to manually defrost it for it to keep working. Modern ones have automatic defrosters and other such features.

Yes, the old one "kept working", but at worse-and-worse reliability as the frost built up, until you manually removed everything from the freezer and ran a proper defrost cycle (aka: turn it off, wait for everything to melt, sponge out the water).

I think I'll stick with my "less reliable" heater-inside-a-freezer with an escape hole to automatically siphon + pump the water out. More moving parts means less reliability, but these features are absolutely worth the loss in reliability.
gpus have been at the center of the last 2 tech trends - crypto and now ai and the managed to low-key handicap both
Way back in the day I remember using a terminal (TeleVideo maybe?) where the characters just sort of faded in as you typed. The latency was really bad. But I got used to it pretty quickly and didn't find it really bothersome.
But Mastodon is not the only way to manage accounts and publish stuff. It has so much overhead because it has to look and behave like a Twitter clone, whereas you could simply have a barebones password protected web admin panel to allow each journalist to publish with their BBC-approved credentials.
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Whenever I tried to get into packaging something during the years, I've bumped into politics and policy issues associated with each project to a lesser or greater degree. Technical knowledge is not enough, you must also really get into each project's rules and mindset, find a sponsor/mentor, adhere to its standards, gain trust, attend meetings, learn a specific tool set, all of which is a whole different ballpark compared to throwing a working technical solution over the wall.
My dad worked for Yellow on the loading docks from the day he returned from Vietnam to the late-90s. He earned a good wage for a guy who only graduated high school; provided a solid middle-class life for his family. And it was all because of the union. The Teamsters was like religion to my dad.

I always respected the union for what it provided for my dad and his family. I can't stress that enough. However, I can't forget the stories he would tell about new guys who got beat up because they did too much work (made the veteran guys look bad) or didn't follow the unwritten rules (drivers used to carry cash to bribe the dock workers to unload their trucks. without the bribes your truck would just sit there, untouched. however, sometimes a rookie would unload a truck that hadn't made a payment, and that earned him a beatdown). And the stories about pallets that would go missing and end up in my house. One year, for Christmas, everyone got brand new color TVs (a big deal back then); they were all the exact same make/model. My dad must've given away a dozen of them to friends/family. This happened all the time. So yeah, while I respect the union and what it provided, I have a difficult time overlooking the corruption and inefficiencies.
Under the assumption that it is bricked, the value is indeed now zero.
I think where we differ is that you are assuming it will be replaced, but I don't think it will be. It's way past its design life so it was going to expire at some point.

For science, I would want to do an enquiry anyway - I'm just commenting on the financial/accountability aspect.
Haha you're right. I was mistaken.
Yes, I confirm. I have many articles in Russian language and the search can not find relative information, but if I try to search in English it works fine and can find documents that use English
New Ultrasound Therapy Could Help Treat Alzheimer’s, Cancer
All I can say is, as an NYC resident who occasionally takes a cab or borrows a friend’s car and does not ride any sort of bike, the vehicle that has the most net negative impact on my day-to-day life is the automobile.
The problem isn't the unions. If you've interacted with Yellow you'd know that. It's that the company is disorganized and management is nowhere to be found.

Look at UPS - union shop, going strong. Management is organized. Company is doing fine.
In 2006 or so I was working for an agency that was angling for a contract for the City of Ithaca to develop a system for building inspectors to use cell-phone connected PDAs to do their paperwork on the go.

At the time I advocated for an “always connected” model but we were concerned that cellular connections wouldn’t be that reliable so we thought disconnected operation would be necessary.

A few year back I was thinking about the future of “low code” and thought an open-source project similar to Lotus Notes but JSON-centric would be a good thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Domino

In particular, Lotus notes has a model for disconnected operation that works quite well. My take is that “progressive web apps” haven’t gotten that far because they don’t have enough batteries included, a really good bidirectional sync model would make a difference.

For years you could say ideas from Lotus Notes didn’t make it into the open source world because they were patented but the patents have long since expired and the main reason they are obscure is ignorance.
Great question, Linkwarden was initially a personal project but then we decided to scale it up into a fully fledged product. Regarding monetization, we already included the paid hosting plan for the users who don’t want to self-host, but the self-hosted option will remain free forever and will always be supported alongside the paid hosting.
RIP. Unfortunately this will mean more layoffs and paring things down to just ride out into the sunset as a cash cow for a decade. I'm preemptively sad for the further cuts they'll be making to their already diminished role in OpenTelemetry, as I'm sure a PE firm has no interest in continuing the advancement of open standards.
I was talking chiefly about typing on EPD :) (Soooo many keystrokes, so many hours.) I personally felt no eye strain - it may depend on your ability to adapt into the process.
My refrigerator does just fine keeping things cold. The plastics shelves just decompose. My guess is that if they get a warranty claim based on a broken shelf they can just send one out easily. They make the things that will be hard to fix (compressor, etc.) so they last long enough to get through the warranty period.
"tax dollars are just subsidizing bad business" is the definition of most bailouts.
That's actually pretty embarrassing given the product's purpose. I believe there are uncensored LLAMA models out there that might be worth a shot
Every time I think about this I keep coming back to anti-trust enforcement, we need more of it. And perhaps a single entity having enough money to essentially buy an entire industry isn't a good thing.
Ahh, got it, thanks :D
So the only way to see the posts and interactions on the web would be via other instances?
Superb! Thanks for the link.
There are so many options for vector databases that it's so confusing. But those are just a piece of the puzzle when you create applications using large language models.
As mentioned in the comments, you have to choose an embeddings model, the LLM, and manage all the interaction in between.
With Vectara (full disclosure: I work there; https://vectara.com) we provide a simple API to implement applications with Grounded Generation (aka retrieval augmented generation). The embeddings model, the vector store, the retrieval engine and all the other functionality - implemented by the Vectara platform, so you don't have to choose which vector DB to use, which embeddings model to use, and so on. Makes life easy and simple, and you can focus on developing your application.
Here's the definition of "Edge Computing" from State of Edge 2022

> The delivery of computing capabilities to the logical extremes of a network in order to improve the performance, operating cost and reliability of applications and services. By shortening the distance between devices and the cloud resources that serve them, and also reducing network hops, edge computing mitigates the latency and bandwidth constraints of today’s Internet, ushering in new classes of applications. In practical terms, this means distributing new resources and software stacks along the path between today’s centralized data centers and the increasingly large number of devices in the field, concentrated, in particular, but not exclusively, in close proximity to the last mile network, on both the infrastructure and device sides.

Ps. I work at https://edgenode.com
Great article -- it calls to mind for me a quote I learned of through John Ousterhout: "Use your intuition to ask questions, not to answer them". Science is the follow through, but intuition is the start.
eksctl is an awesome tool. It reduces the complexity of Kubernetes deployment to AWS. It makes Kubernetes, Elastic Kubernetes Service and AWS Concepts accessible.

This project, eksctl-explorer, creates a website https://eksctl.learntosolveit.com that gives eksctl commands for cluster management operations.

Let me know your thoughts on this tool.
As usual when it comes to computing freedom, RMS was right[1]. "Open Source" was conceived as a way to market to corporate executives. It's unsurprising then that corporate executives took it for exactly what they were sold it as, a way to get developers' work without paying for it.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
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They ride against traffic because most streets in NYC are one-way to accommodate cars.
After trying to optimize my laptops energy settings under linux, I once also ended up with a device that was operating low level autonomously for some time. It just would not accept commands from me, nor the power button, nor anything else. The CPU also wasn't running, but something was.

In other words it was effectivly a brick to me.

But since it was not a surface pro (I considered buying instead of that one), I could open it and disconnect the battery.

And in effect, unbricking it. Quite trivial fix sure, but nearly impossible with many modern devices, where the battery is glued in.

My point is, not every mode of operation is desired, especially if you cannot change it. Then you might as well have a brick in terms of usefulness.
Also configure fail2ban and enable it for ssh.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prot...
I've been looking into hacking ActivityPub into some projects that I run but there are a lot of caveats. For one, there's "ActivityPub" and there's "ActivityPub that Mastodon (and therefore most of the Fediverse) can interoperate with reliably".

For example, Mastodon has some artifical requirements that add signature requirements to public APIs to reduce bot and spam load. This isn't in the spec as a mandatory requirement, but if you don't do it then parts of the Fediverse won't be able to follow you. There are also expectations attached to certain activities that aren't in the spec but will confuse people on most other servers.

The easiest solution I came up with was to run a server that already does all of the hard work (gotosocial, Mastodon, etc) and call its API to add new posts.
I loved the series as young teen but rereading the first book was a disappointment. I'll be checking out Foundation after I finish Silo.
I think there's rather more to it than that. Two of these guys are on the Llama paper; the hype and momentum from that is surely responsible for a huge chunk of their valuation. If you take the big LLM-relevant papers, most of the folks with this kind of profile are already off doing some kind of startup.

The Mistral folks have impeccable timing, but are leaving FAANG somewhat late compared to their peers.
$1 billion in crypto, so not real money. $1 billion on IOU's from some other ponzi scheme. Right after it states that they're also charged "misappropriating at least $12 million of offering proceeds" which seems like a more reasonable figure. They probably stole in the order of $12-20 million.
it would seem like the bottom 30-40 percent of America struggle no matter what...high or low inflation. in low inflation , they get fired or pay cuts. in high inflation, pay lags inflation.
My mom still has the fridge from my childhood in the garage. It's been working at this point for at least 40 years. I bought a brand new Samsung fridge, and it completely broke down within 9 months. Thankfully the State of New Jersey sued the pants off Samsung and made it where consumers could recoup their losses.
My point was more that "transformers", "DSL", and "stacks" all have long established meanings that have been bastardized by unimaginative software companies.
But aren't their also mid-end appliance manufacturers that make very reliable appliances?

Who are the high-end ones that are really that much more reliable??
Relay-Style GraphQL
I generally just call up goggle and ask them how my system is doing...
Funnily enough, if you mine underground you spend an incredible amount of electricity trying to keep the air fresh down there, mostly due to whatever combustion reaction is powering your vehicles.

I’ve seen reports claiming you break even or even use less electricity when operating electric vehicles since your ventilation requirements are significantly reduced.
Yes I have and no it’s not.
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed, and what I've been looking for for years! Open source, lightweight, and stable.
That's the wrong direction (IPv6 clients calling IPv4 services). That doesn't help you for running a service yourself.
fun fact, Richard used to sell email spam software. Is shitcoin pumping a step up or a step down?

Richard is a very charming fellow, very likable, but in a way that cautions you not to let any of your money within a mile of him.