skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automated system should intervene in an emergency not the other way around. Humans are bad at babysitting computers.

Those who authorised testing this on public roads should also go to jail.
https://archive.is/1d6ia
Meetings in teams are not bad it's the chat experience that's beyond bad.
All the examples where FOSS is ahead, is in tools by and for programmers. They're acceptable, maybe with an advantage due to cost or lack of cloud subscription stuff, but otherwise not great for the rest.

Most everything I like about Linux seems to be driven by the red hat types more than the general community.

Home automation software is pretty trivial, HW is what matters, and until very recently the HW was tied to the proprietary software. Plus the software can't rely on you being the product like commercial stuff, so you have to pay for easy remote access on home assistant.

The other issue is even though the functionality is simple, two important features are good UI, and not randomly breaking on updates, which FOSS isn't great at.

I use FreeCAD, KDEnlive, and others all the time, because the commercial stuff just isn't practical, if you're not making 40k a year or having a company that is tech focused enough to have a license.

I'm glad it exists, I'll continue to contribute in GitHub if I see an easy to fix bug..., I'll probably keep using my DIY automation system because of a few specific features, But I'd really rather FOSS do stuff a tiny bit more like commercial does.
I think we make selective religious accommodations and exemptions for no good reason. Why is one person’s fiction more deserving or more valid than another? Followers of CotFSM and Scientology have as much of a claim on special treatment as do older religions.
So relatively simple that it took 12 years to even begin? Can you really blame people for using Git when it took them 9 years to even accept that Python performance was a problem?

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-May/134528...
Better mounting gear and power options for the sensors? I'm not really sure. Also, cars in general might have less drop-in replacement options than SUVs in the US, and even if their platform stopped being made there's probably a bunch of used SUVs they could use. Ford stopped selling cars in the US as well, right?
It "just" makes Twitter readable to the Internet at large.
Having up-to-date packages means having old bugs fixed as much as it means new bugs introduced. In my experience, most programs get more stable over time, and not less. They fix older bugs, add features that resolve old limitations, etc.

'Stability' is an overloaded and confusing term. In the world of Linux distributions and their variants, 'stable' doesn't mean 'less likely to crash', but just 'unchanging'. Arch Linux isn't less 'stable' in the sense that it is more prone to bugs or glitches. It's less stable in the sense that it's always up to date.

The main benefit of stable distributions is that proprietary software works better on them. Hardware that only has drivers for particular kernel versions work forever. That sort of thing. They're not actually more stable in the sense that they're more reliable, at least not just because they don't update. I think they tend to have more bugs, because they tend to patch the software more and the upstream is usually better at doing that than the random Debian maintainer (or whatever) is.

>Never understood people obsession with distro, whatever work for you is fine, they are all linux+open source tools

Yeah there are differences though. The people that distrohop between a bunch of distros only to install the same big GNOME or KDE stack every time... I don't get it at all. On the other hand, Gentoo and Arch and Debian, for example, are all very different in the way they organise and install packages. The user experience at the end of the day isn't really so different though. It matters far more which desktop environment you use (if any) than what distro you run.
https://archive.is/K978L
I've seen it in France, because there are two types of contracts here - week (you get paid for 35h/week or up to 39h/week with bonus time off to compensate for the extra up to 4h on top of the "maximum" legal 35h) or day, where you get paid for 200-something work days in the year, regardless of hours worked (2 or 10, as long as the work is done and the maximum work hours in a day/week/month and the minimum rest periods are followed, all is good), which comes with a slightly different tax regime, more days off to compensate for the higher workload, etc. If you're on the first type of contract (as I was at my previous job), you have to keep track of your hours, you get overtime, etc.
It's incredible that you can click a button and within 3 seconds see the entire map of GTA III in your browser :0 And fly around in it.
> are responsible for a significant proportion of progress

it's arguable that they are responsible. They help incentivize sure (at least in theory), but would the counterfactual world, in which there's no IP laws, be just as progressive?
If you're Afghan, it sounds like taking control of it might be the way to go. .af domains sounds like they should be lucrative af, even more so than than .tv or .me.

So it seems like the sweet spot of being a problem that's hard to solve and worth solving.
I have some insight into this and it's not good. Quite a while back I supported a charitable drive for a good cause on a well known site (you'll have heard of it).

So, total donations were by about 20 people who really funded all of it, the total take for that was distinctly under £1000. At the time that site had between 2 and 4 million views a month. tl;dr few people will consider paying, far fewer will actually pay, even when it benefits them in the long term.

What really upset me about that is if everyone who looked at that charitable request and had simply coughed up £1, and most of them could (sometimes you can't; I've been in that position so I understand) a real difference could have been made.

If a charitable health-based cause pulls in so little cash, even fewer people will donate just to keep a site running.
yes poor choice of words - I am one of those who wants to believe! - definitely meant "make" :)
The Vision Pro has 23 million pixels total, or 11.5 million per eye, or 3,391 x 3,391 if square
Yeah to me NixOS doesn't even really feel like a 'Linux distribution'. It's just a totally different sort of experience. A cool one, but if someone had only ever used NixOS I think they'd struggle as much with a normal distro as someone that's only ever run a normal distro would struggle with NixOS.
There were a couple of unofficial statements from the Chair of KSSC though. He is now known as the "Mr. Bahahaha" in the Korean internet because he initially dismissed a mail from Q-Center wrongly sent to him by starting his Facebook post---now removed---with "Bahahaha, the era of room-temperature superconductivity is here. Ambient pressure too! Shouldn't my fortune get better?" (translation mine).
Racket begs to differ. Also does things right.

> (/ 1.0 3.0)
0.3333333333333333
> (/ 1 3)
1/3
> (- (+ 0.1 0.2) 0.3)
5.551115123125783e-17
Is Grammarly a third party when you interact with them or their product? And they don't actually record the data without the user's knowledge, do they?

They might not be a keylogger by their own definition, but everyone can design a definition like that: a thief steals stuff, gives it to a third party for the benefit of that party, and does so without the users's knowledge.
Seeing mistakes about Korean names in the media is very common. It's a lost cause at this point
I think you are missing the point: a typical ohmmeter would have metal probes, so with a superconductor you would just be measuring the resistance of those probes. Any attempt to overcome that problem probably introduces a lot of chances for error or noise, or require some huge sample of the superconductor.
From the article:

Given that lengthy lists are unachievable, they need to be slimmed down to a manageable and realistic size.

I was reading Ted Turner’s biography yesterday and this advice by his father stood out to me:

[Turner’s father] was having a really tough time reevaluating things and coming up with a plan for the rest of his life. He then told me something I've never forgotten. He said, "Son, you be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.”

His father ended up dying early and right in the midst of trying to sell his company out of fear, which the son Ted Turner wanted to run.

I think his father was basically right in that you shouldn’t set limits on your goals, as you just might achieve them all and not know what to do with yourself. Getting stuck in a local maximum is a very real risk for most people.

It’s better to adopt a mindset that accepts the fact that you won’t quite get everything you want, but what you do get will be vastly more than if you had just settled and “sacrificed for”, to use the author’s term. It’s more of a process-oriented outlook than a goal-achievement one.
thank you. Makes sense.
Amazon don't want to pay Apple's ransom, Apple has no part in the transaction, has no costs, yet is acting as the Mafia, demanding their cut if you operate on their territory. Giving in to Apple's crimes would be immoral.
what happens with these gig-economy type models.

eventually you will have devs gaming the system by working on multiple tasks from multiple outsourcers (like multi-apping for food delivery)

then the quality of the work declines. rejection rate increases. then the base salary will have to go down or become entirely task based.
If something has to be regulated as public utility it might as well be a public utility. That this cornered "market" will never produce competition is clear enough. But there has never been a device so intimately coupled with the lives of so many people. Past approaches dont apply to new challenges.

The question is how can the foss community use its limited resources to facilitate a "third way". There is some precedent in this respect from the fediverse/mastodon experience. The easy availability of a near substitute removes the TINA excuse from various stakeholders and policy makers.

Its neither a concrete path nor a certainty. My comment was simply that people should not create further obstacles by pursuing self-indulgent agendas
One bad marketing message and one security mistake that could have very well been accidental are enough to entirely ban list software for you? I'd love to hear what sort of software is in your allowed list, because I can't imagine it contains many "Enterprise" vendors.
The top comment on every thread about every new thing on HackerNews is a half-assed debunking of it
This is a pretty interesting idea, especially for companies that have come out of the growth phase and operate as more or less open source projects.

I suppose that the need for this comes out of the fact that.. we've written a ton of code that needs to be maintained at this point. It's not interesting work, but it's busy work that's still important.
Copyright terms were a lot shorter in the past. 70 years after death is absolutely unreasonable. Also crap like DRM prevents works from going into public domain.
https://archive.is/KtIQu
I have exactly opposite experience with Subversion and Tortoise Git from pre 2011.

For me it was annoying and janky any conflicts were blocking me for ages. With git it’s a breeze and I would never ever want to go back.
Only since 2022, before that they had their headquarters in Moscow (since 1992). It would actually be a much less reliable news source if they were still be allowed to operate in Russia ;)
I think "anticompetitive" is not the right word to use, unless you've got a lot more to back that up. The facts point more toward the TSMC+Apple dominance being a situation that is somewhere along the lines of "market failure" or "natural monopoly": chip and fab R&D costs have grown so large that only a handful of entities can even theoretically compete at the leading edge, because the total global market for semiconductors is finite. You don't need to postulate anticompetitive behavior to explain the shrinking oligopoly, because the fundamental dynamics of the semiconductor market already predict that trend.
USDT and USDC would be the two biggest examples by market cap, though USDT has been mired in... "controversies", and USDC almost got hit by the US Banking Panic this year,
As a noob, this makes me wonder what happens to a body without PD-L1. Does that make the immune cells themselves exhibit cancerous growth? Does it lead to auto-immune issues?
Managing Kubernetes doesn't take time?
Is there really softer demand in the plant-based meat category, as Beyond Meat claims? In Germany, that market has been growing and is projected to grow further. But there are lots of brands competing, including cheap in-store brands. Beyond Meat is available here, but I don't think it's very successful, and it's a luxury option for sure.
Matt Parker has made a few videos on the rhombic dodecahedron. This one is the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7uOj2LRso
It would be a shame if your digital goods were accidentally destroyed by my associates, a fee, of perhaps 30%, would ensure this terrible tragedy would be avoided.

They provide no service, hopefully soon it will be illegal.
Hacking GitHub AWS integrations again
At least five years ago, it was possible to just apt install firefox on arm. It was a little iffy to get any version other than LTS, though.
> how many partitions do I need? Unclear, but better get it right because you can never change it!

That is.. simply wrong. You can change the number of partitions.

Plus I really don't get the "you need an entire team of engineers to operate Kafka" claim you keep repeating. That is simply not true, speaking from experience. It is certainly expensive to run, but doesn't require a lot of engineering hours in our team.
They should use more Python.
I think a poweruser is a highly proficient and knowledgeable user. That means a Linux poweruser is comfortable configuring their system, writing shell scripts, installing software, fixing issues they encounter, etc. A Linux poweruser understands the layout and organisation of the system, so they tend not to lead themselves down blind alleys as much as beginners do.

I wouldn't consider myself a systemd poweruser, for example. I still haven't really wrapped my head around its operating model. I have to read the documentation too much, and I often think one thing is wrong but something else entirely is going on.
Author here.

There's been a lot of great work recently on hacking Github-AWS OIDC integrations but I've think we've undersold how bad it is. Here's my guide to finding all the vulnerable roles in all public repos, including new commits in real time.

For those that aren't aware, it's devastating for anyone affected. You give an AWS role permission to be assumed by Githuab Actions, only you misconfigure it not to match the repo or org name. The result is a classic confused deputy, where any repo in Github can assume your role.
Distros ship ARM builds; for some reason Mozilla do not.
If you use Slack their video calling is pretty good these days, at least for internal calls.
As a Russian I'd say this guy lives in some other country. Probably imaginary. Based on how little reality there is in the comment I would not believe comments about airplane brakes either...

Not a single person I know much less their kids has "foreign crypto virtual cards" etc. Ofc even if they had they would be locked out of transacting with any serious business that doesn't take crypto.

The exodus is real, ask Armenians, Kazakhs, Georgians Finns or by now probably Argentinians. 30% of all people I know left. The government declared amnesty for any criminal who agrees to serve in the army for some time, and people know that all those murderers and rapists are coming back to the streets and dark alleys when Russia is kicked out of Ukraine. (Some people want to leave but stay because in their head they think everyone abroad except China hates them for actions of Putler, which is part of Russian propaganda designed to slow down brain drain.)
A refresher on business air-travel etiquette
18'9"? That beats the 12'2" piano I heard in LA nearly 20 years ago by over 50%!
DNS Hijacking (DNS Poisoning, or DNS Redirection)
Why is installing your preferred font and theme included in this?
But in Perforce you can have your own private branch, in practice it feels not much different than having a local git one. You can then merge to main as you want.
There are tons of them available.

Here's the Creative Commons Search portal: https://search.creativecommons.org/

I tried Openverse and Europeana. Some of these appear to categorize eBooks as "images", or perhaps they are just promotional images for unfree books. Tens of thousands of results.

Here's a Google Books search. I was unable to find a "search for license" type thing, but you can search for "Fully viewable" or "Google eBooks only":

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=-copyright&tbs...

My father loves HathiTrust, and so do many other people who love freedom: https://www.hathitrust.org/

Of course you know the Internet Archive and Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/

Wikisource hosts lots of freely-licensed text, in many, many languages; here's English: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Never forget the O.G. PD site, Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/

Also, while it is not the written word, it is based on awesome freely-available books, and perhaps you could consider adding to the library at LibriVox: https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=0&search_category=au...

My classmates at school ate this stuff up when I volunteered that there are sites where you can find awesome public domain reference material that's often better-quality than the paywalled stuff you pay for.

Don't forget the Open Textbooks and freely licensed academic materials. Community colleges and universities will direct you to those.

https://oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Don't forget niche uses and special interests. Want to overcome your addiction to porn? Download some free eBooks: https://www.covenanteyes.com/e-books/
This seems like yet another ERC-20 stablecoin with no special "quirks", from a quick reading. My question is, what is the reason for this to exist over existing stablecoins that have much broader acceptance and long history (for crypto anyway), e.g. USDC/USDT?
Not all of us read HN every day or follow each discussion. A lot of people don’t read the comments at all.
Yeah I definitely agree on the proliferation of terrible GUIs. As someone else said, pick a good one when teaching.

> the git commands map so cleanly to the states

They absolutely don't. Someone already mentioned the mess of "checkout" and "reset" but that's only half the issue. The naming is a huge issue with learning.

The worst is the "index" which is apparently named after the data structure used to store it. Such a bad name that it's often called the "staging area" instead. But even that is bad. Why isn't it just called the "draft commit"? That immediately tells you what it is.

Another example is reset's soft/mixed/hard. Terrible meaningless names. They might as well have been called 1, 2 and 3.

And there's more! It's not just the mapping and the naming. The actual CLI is stupidly inconsistent too. Flags have wildly different meanings depending on the command. You do the same action in totally different ways depending on insignificant differences (e.g. git reset --hard Vs git branch -f).

I have to look up the command to delete a remote branch every single time I use it because it's just so unintuitive.

I think people love the Git data model (which is great) sooo much that they think they love all of Git.
The question is does the rapid progress in LLMs continue over the next few years, or do we reach another local maximum. Is "currently" going to improve rapidly?
You are slave of your own thoughts. What is the relevance of being a Stanford MBA? Or to be a YC founder in life if you do not know how to unlock the room that you are locked up. Get out there first and then look around you and discover that life is a survival game often dirty and learn to play it after all it's short and soon it will be over.
Jailer, a unique open-source database tool
Also duckduckgo has apple maps online too:

https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=maps&ia=web&iaxm=maps

Just noticed it recently.
We use Around and I think it’s in the same league.
maybe worldcoin is just another unregistered security offering, launched on dubious exchanges like Binance, to ensure the backers can pump and dump their shitcoins on retail to meet liquidity issues elsewhere?
Nah I totally disagree. This is true of Arch, but Gentoo makes it incredibly easy to screw up your system. You never really truly break things, of course, not in a way you can't fix. But if you start adding USE flags all over the place it's pretty easy to get to the point that you can't update anymore because of endless blockers and other weird stuff.
We just had a roughly three year period where planes meant to be running more or less constantly were consigned to desert parking lots due to lack of travel demand.
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
A case in optimizing auto-vectorized code
Maybe a cautionary reminder to not listen to random influencers on Twitter. The expert community was really silent and reserved from the beginning as they've seen such wonder materials many times.

Having worked in that field for many years I'm personally skeptical that there ever will be an ambient-pressure, room-temperature superconductor. The band structure and interactions that need to be present in the material are just one requirement for superconductivity, the other is that the ground state can actually form and won't be destroyed by thermal noise. However, the strong electron-phonon interaction required for (classical) superconductivity also makes the system susceptible to thermal noise, and in my opinion the thermal noise level at 290 K is just too much even for an ideal superconducting material.
Out of interest - has this new paper been peer reviewed already?
Kafka the Apache open source project is kind of dead/legacy for Confluent.

Confluent re-wrote the backend of Kafka for their SASS product and use the public Kafka wire protocol for public integration https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-data-streaming-ka... .

I don’t think the Apache Kafka distribution is going away, Confluent will still have paying customers with support contracts wanting features and the protocol will likely still need to evolve but the open source version will likely be a burden on Confluent with their own private implementation so it’ll be interesting to see how things look in a few years.

https://www.confluent.io/blog/cloud-native-data-streaming-ka...
Contrary to bored laymen on the internet willing to believe anything for escapism, the stock market usually reflect the outside view base probabilities (~0% in the case of LK-99 being real)
“We may be able to” is such weasel words.
Really nice work ! I don't, as I'm doing 100% visual. Your Sadr region picture is really beautiful with subtle contrasts preserved
My experience is with windows and browser, both work fine. I hate it's chat ux but calls work consistently well.
I think most European layouts suffer from tiny-shift. Mapping it to shift is a good solution.

I have a similar problem with a laptop but with Ctrl/Fn, but thankfully the BIOS let me remap it (the Fn key is not a "real" key to the OS).