skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect to get down-voted for this but one line caught my eye;

>> Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better;

I feel this sentiment does (and frankly has always) misunderstood what "better" means.

From a pure software perspective there are very few (genuinely) open source apps which are better than the commercial alternatives.

Yes Linux server, yes if you count Chrome (which us really just commercial distributed for free), but the list is short.

Postures is on par, there are a few others that are on par, but "better" is a tough call.

When you go beyond the root software though, it rapidly does not fare as well. Documentation. UI. Ease of use. These are all areas which have not kept up. Best we don't discuss marketing.

I get that commercial software has other issues (advertising etc) but the attention paid to the ancillaries is usually much higher.

Perhaps OSS would be better served by not "cloning commercial" but rather building new innovative things that change the landscape. (Kinda like OpenSSL has done.
Not even just websites. There are many browser extensions that provide exactly that function right in YouTube's web interface.
Exactly. Go making it's way faster than I expected to be replaced by yet another language that discovers that there's a demand for feature restriction and simplicity. The very thing that made it popular in the first place. It should be rejected but I'm losing hope. I have less and less faith in rsc as time passes.
Yeah was surprised to see Computer Science and some other 'hot fields' in the list of programs getting downsized as well, wonder if there just wasn't that much demand for these majors in this particular college?
Congrats on the launch! Looks like ElevenLabs is your direct competitor. How do you plan to differentiate? So far their pricing is a little better and they also provide the ability to create a custom voice model.
OpenPlugin: Seamlessly integrate with OpenAI's ChatGPT plugins via API
When I was doing my PhD in mathematics in Romania, I had a colleague who was a high school math teacher also getting a PhD in math, so I got intrigued. I get my PhD to access better paid quant jobs in finance, can't see where you could use yours.

Turns out a high school teacher that gets a PhD in his teaching domain gets automatically promoted to the highest class of salary achievable as a teacher. My brother is also a high school math teacher, he's reasonably well paid (higher than the average salary in the country) but took him 25 years and a lot of exams to get the "grades" to get here. A PhD program takes 3 years, if you can do it it shortcuts a lot of time.

Now I should say that I'm getting 4x the salary of my brother so the paradigm "teaching pays peanuts compared to IT" still holds.
“For the greater good”

For us personally, a quick thought experiment with 4 quadrants:

- wear a mask vs don’t wear
- mask helps vs mask doesn’t help

The balance of inconvenience in the “wear mask, mask doesn’t help” vs possible avoidable death in the “don’t wear, mask helps” made it a very easy decision.
Actually, the employers should really pay us rent for WFH because they are using our own facilities to make profits.
I think Helion is most promising for two reasons.
1. Even if the more traditional fusion power plants manage to generate the plasma itself in a device that’s not too expensive (big if) it seems that just the heat exchange mechanism itself would be extremely complicated and expensive. And since they’re thermal power plants you’re limited in where you can put them and how big they must be to be economical.

2. As CO2 emissions come down, I think there will be some focus on thermal power plants contribution to global warming. Helion will still be adding heat to the planet that wasn’t there before, but there will be less heat for a given amount of electric energy. It’s also not going to rely on dumping all that heat in a river.
I don’t know if Helion is feasible. But it feels like it’s the only technology that could be feasible.
LispKit Lisp
In vs code you check out the pr branch and then do cmd-shift-p “show differences with” and then select “main”
Reading “Humanly Possible”
>They still have not presented a lie or an irrational thought by pointing out these risks.

That's not true. In the context of these discussions, the risks are almost always brought up as evidence that you shouldn't get vaccinated, or at least that we should seriously question the vaccines.

To see why it's irrational, we just have to compare the probability of dying from the vaccine to the probability of dying from COVID unvaccinated. The data overwhelmingly support getting vaccinated.

>I don't think it's productive to assume someone is irrational and stupid by association.

I never called anyone stupid. Smart people are irrational all the time. Irrationality means having beliefs that aren't in your own interest or that contradict your other beliefs.
> idea to an option in door dash

I hear ya. The attention span of a TikTok or less.
That doesn't seem to have regressed much, though. I do feel like people are more forgiving of home office interruptions since they became more common, but I don't think it makes that much difference. At the end of the day they still need their stuff fixed quickly and want good advice. And at least the current management believes in human capital and keeps good people for a long time, so people generally get that and turnover is rather low.
So if you got the rights from the BSL but the part about the code becoming Open Source you'd be happy with right? I think that's a completely fine attitude to take, and sure, all other things being equal, code licensed under the BSL is better than not having access to the source at all. But, given (at least) the majority of BSL projects were under an open source license, with external contributions, the spectre of "I have changed the deal, pray I do not alter it further" is raised. Additionally, if you read the actual post by Hashicorp, they do sail quite close to the wind in terms of implying the BSL is open source, so had they been more careful in their language (or even in their CLA), then people would be less annoyed.

The reason I'm personally annoyed at the attempt to drop the requirement for no restrictions on use is because it is something some academic software does (things like "if you use this code, any results must be shown to me before publishing and require my approval", which as you can imagine isn't great), or with rules around benchmarking (which some DB companies have been known to do), and it's significantly harder to draw the line between something that would allow the BSL, or the above two cases, than it is to require no restrictions on use.
Intel, AMD, ARM, Qualcom, Apple, Samsung, NVidia,IBM, Oracle, Microsoft.... also happen to employ security researchers.

That is how stuff like SPARC ADI, MTE, PAC, Azure Sphere, CHERI, Morello, comes into existence.
https://justinlloyd.li/blog/how-much-cache-you-got-on-you/
> "We can add this on top, it's just basics" can really add up with enough systems.

That's the thing. In my view, you say "we should keep adding wrappers on top of wrappers and libraries on top of libraries, such that juniors can quickly get productive, but nobody actually understands what they are doing anymore and the smallest executable takes 50MB".

I say "we should reduce the number of dependencies such that one can understand the system better, even if it means that juniors need to spend time learning the basics".

Of course there is a balance to find (not everybody needs to master assembly), but the modern way, IMHO, goes too much towards productivity, and not enough towards mastering ones tools.
Probably by number of cores and RAM.
Yup, this too. Half the time I had headphones on, I didn't even have them playing anything. I just had ANC turned on to muffle the background noise (and deter people who didn't actually needy assistance with anything). But I definitely had ear stink/itch at the end of most days.
Manning has already been released from prison.
I'm guessing it's more about the faculty being hard and/or expensive to retain for those majors.
Some of that, some other bad practices. Lots of low-hanging fruit, then more esoteric changes.

https://justinlloyd.li/blog/how-much-cache-you-got-on-you/
That would totally be a thing in Japan where you can pay people to act like they are your family.
I really like Pijul and its underlying libraries, both from a conceptual and implementation perspective.

However over the 6 years of its existence I've lost hope of it ever becoming something that I'll use in my day-to-day, the same way I lost hope on rocket (the Rust web framework). After all those years it's still essentially a single-maintainer side project who is stretched too thin across 3 big projects (Pijul, Sanakirja, Nest).

I really hope that at some point a maintainer/team constellation emerges that can put all the lessons learned from Pijul into something that has a shot at being a successor to git.
I'd been considering getting a Zero versus other brands for over a year, and you comment got me to reconsider, thanks! I wasn't are of this scummy behaviour of theirs until now.
It was midnight and a few beers after celebrating a birthday. I'm sorry I offended your grammatical sensibilities. But you really did go full orange site there, didn't you! I will admit to misquoting Mike Tyson; "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.", which I hope goes someway to restoring peace and order over a tiny, drunken grammatical slip-up.
Professional translation and teaching. For real world use. Then there is research and other such cases.

For teaching you want better understanding than just learning it with self-study and probably for some pedagogy included in the degree.
Why did they shift away from Ada? It seems Boeing’s avionics systems had far fewer incidents before they started adopting other languages.
Well yes, politics is why there's one party line with the alternatives all buried (and yes there are occasional stories showing that this scales down to internal department politics), and the US is big and influential and cares about all the big hotbutton issues.
U.S. Authorities Announce Court-Authorized Seizure of Lolekhosted.net
1. Manning is already free.
2. Snowden fled to Russia
3. Assange hasn't even been to the USA yet and he imprisoned himself for almost a decade in that embassy.
I cannot go too deep. It was some client work.

https://justinlloyd.li/blog/how-much-cache-you-got-on-you/
Ask HN: What Markdown editor do you use?
I'm looking for a Markdown editor to replace my current editor, Apostraphe. It has a sleek UI, but it hasn't been updated in a year. When I was with a Windows laptop for awhile, I used VSCode, which is pretty good, but more oriented to source code editing.

I've heard of Obsidian, and I heard pretty good stuff about it on HN, but the fact it's based on Electron sort of steers me away from it.
I wonder how this works in practice. Is this, in practice, equivalent to some laptops' and newer androids' setting of never fully charging the battery in order to improve the overall battery lifetime if you know you won't use the 100% anyway? Or is it just dead weight which is never touched and you just use fewer cells, but always the same?
So requiring that anyone that runs your code and tries to publish a paper can only do with your approval (which is a real license that exist) is fine also? Saying "anyone can use this however they want" is much easier to check for that coming up with rules (and licenses) that allow for the BSL but not for the above academic licenses.
What are they using now?
Direct link to latest report (dated June 2023, released Aug 11th 2023 by Hong Kong's AAIA)

Deviation from Intended Flightpath
Investigation Report
Boeing 787-9, G-VBOW
Waypoint RIVER of Hong Kong
18 October 2019

https://www.tlb.gov.hk/aaia/doc/Investigation%20Report%206-2... (51 pages)
The work around is that I stash after commit and then test the newly made patch before pushing to the repo.

That describes git in a nutshell. It lives up to its name by providing stupid roundabout ways to get things done, but otherwise mostly doesn’t get in your way. Pijul is in theory better, but GitHub prevents any competition from being serious.
I don't see how your comment address what I wrote. Systems of government are set up to gain and keep power over their citizens, and western governments have this down to a science, which is to give people the illusion they have freedom and self-determination.

I promise you your government does not give the slightest shit if it forces itself to force its citizens to pay more taxes on food and energy. Funny that they have people believing that is a "win" -- socialize the cost of climate change to the commoners. Have you not noticed that it has become fashionable for governments to apologize and promise atonement for such things? Have you ever wondered why that is? It's not because they are looking to take down the banks or the petroleum cartels or the billionaires or whatever. It's because government ~= people. They are accepting blame on your behalf to shield their friends and owners from the blame they deserve.

Wake me up when they dismantle the carbon profiteers and seize their profits and the profits of their profits from the past century or so. Then the war profiteers, and so on.
Most of the previous projects have failed, previous wasted money was $1.1B:

https://gizmodo.com/the-energy-department-blew-1-1-billion-o...

https://thebulletin.org/2022/09/plagued-by-failures-carbon-c...
You're digging up very old stuff. Other countries did far worse things back then. The USA isn't perfect, but it hasn't done anything nearly as bad as the Nazi Germany and the USSR.
Legal studies seems most surprising for me. I thought that those were the expensive, but cheap to teach subjects. Which would make sense from cost perspective. Optimize the cost to return.
Without the actual numbers this is just a more complicated Pascal's wager. The same argument can justify wearing a helmet because you might be hit in the head by falling meteorites, or wearing a life vest to work in case you slip and fall into a pond.

Not to say wearing a mask is bad! It's just that it needs justification by actual or estimated data, not a fuzzy thought experiment.
If only we could revert to this form of writing once more with charm and allure. Perhaps AI could train children to think in this tonality.
The problem is that too many in the US define "scientific dissident" as "Willing to extol my positions even in the face of a mountain of contrary evidence."

Which would be fine, except for the fact that these people can do great harm.

For example, measles was declared gone from the US in 2000. And now it's back because "anti-vax" is considered a valid "scientific dissent" (and note this is not just MAGAs--the Marin dippy-hippies are just as bad). Even in spite of the fact that the people involved in the anti-vax movement were exposed as charlatans.

The scientfic community learned the hard way from anti-vax that if you don't stomp the ever living shit out of the charlantans hard, fast and immediately, you will wind up stuck with the aftermath.

So, now they immediately circle the wagons and start attacking any time something gives off even a whiff of heading into the wingnuts.
> to say that the machine is "expensive" twice.

Makes it twice as expensive
Typora

https://typora.io/
Reading the news, Boeing seems much more affected by critical software bugs than Airbus. I am curious to know how their teams are structured.

As an aircraft industry nerd, I have understood that Boeing has a dedicated software team (with a dedicated software engineering VP [1]). Whereas Airbus seems to have a more integrated structure with software jobs in many teams. Moreover, Airbus was a pioneer in digitalization, while Boeing followed.

I have the feeling that a dedicated software département is more error-prone than if software is more integrated and that it could be generalized to other industries (banking, automotive…etc). Haven’t found any ressources or research paper about it however.

[1]: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2020-11-06-Boeing-Appoints-Jinn...
All the neutrons that don't get caught by the blanket will usually be caught by the support structure of the reactor, damaging it and making it radioactive. This puts a cap on the maximum lifetime of this type of fusion reactor until significant parts of the structure need to be dismantled and replaced, and stored as highly radioactive waste. As far as I know, current estimates suggest something like a decade - one of the biggest problems with the economics of fusion power plants.
You are still not looking at the definition of"domain name" in my context: the ownership context. I totally agree with you on the technical side, in most technical context a root-level domain or subdomain is largely the same thing.

In the ownership context the definition differs. Please if you want to challenge my notion of "subdomain" please only challenge this definition only. You don't own a subdomain as strongly as owning a root-level domain, because in the first case the only attestation is on the database of obl.ong/github.io/etc while in second case your ownership is attested by the ICANN registry, which is how things has been working for the past 20/30 years.
We don’t know about previous cuts, so it could be that unaffected programs were cut to the bone already. Also, they might not just be competitive in those programs to attract students and teachers needed to run them, so it’s better to focus on other things. Not every school can run a viable world class computer science program.
Pine64 Quick update: What’s going on?
I suppose for every situation where a pilot gets confused or panics that results in a serious incident there are dozens(hundreds?) situations that never progressed far enough, because a pilot calmly prevented it.

Personally I consider autopilots etc, boredom relieving devices not an improvement or even replacement for pilots in future. I feel much safer in a plane a human lands by hand than if a computer program could do it.

Also, the whole "software controlled fly by wire" still makes me uneasy. I feel much better when I know there are actual physical cables that let the pilot move control surfaces. In a huge plane I can understand the necessity of using a hydraulic system which can be made to be extremely reliable, but software?

Perhaps it's because I got to see how software is usually developed?

When a bridge or a building is built you get an architect (depending on country also the civil engineer) sign under his/hers responsibility this thing is not going to collapse and kill people. If it does and negligence is proven that person goes to jail for a long time. There is no equivalent in software.

When responsibility is distributed over countless people you often get unreliable products. Why is it we don't build buildings like this? Probably, because people died in shoddy built buildings, also everyone can see cracks in the walls etc. If a software runs badly it's not so obvious.

Sadly, I think more people will die before this 70+ year discipline will come even close to implementing the safety processes devised by millenia of expertise in fields like civil engineering. So what can a person do to lower the probability of getting hurt? Probably not much. If you have to fly, you usually don't get a choice of a plane (and even if you do it's usually an Airbus vs Boeing). But in other areas of life one has much more control. For example, I'll not drive a car that has a computer I can't disable that can slam the brakes any moment at highway speeds if it detects "something" in front.
Yes please, goroutines and gonerators.
I was fortunately already equipped and with reuse (which I, as a superior epidemiologist to many currently so certified, concluded correctly was safe) was able to wear a mask against the advice of the HHS and the NIAID. As someone who already wore masks when ill so as not to infect others, this wasn't too much of a stretch, and it made for an interesting challenge running up Twin Peaks.

However, I have still lost trust in the HHS, who I'd hoped would have been honest about their objectives. A modern shift among institutional scientists has been a substantial loss of truth-speaking. It appears that if they were to consider a random variable x in (0,1) under the conditions:

- that they estimate it to be X

- that they believe the people estimate it to be Y << X

- that they believe the people will estimate it to be Y if they were to reveal that they estimate it to be Z >> X

then they will publicly claim that the variable is valued at Z. That is, despite being tasked with scientific examination, and knowing that they are known to be unreliable they attempt to manipulate the situation so that the public will have the same estimate as they do.

This has the unsurprising effect that their credibility reduces, and therefore the value of Z required rises sufficiently above X that their claims no longer seem reasonable, resulting in a positive feedback loop that results in catastrophically deteriorated credibility.
Diffs come with column offset coordinates, though, so perhaps it's your diff editor that needs some more muscle?
What are the hardware requirements to fine tune llama ?
That is a game of motte and bailey really. The hard definition of science is another than the one we've seen over the years in mass media.
With an index on User (createdAt, id) and one on ContactMethod ( primary,ContactMethod,userId), it should be fast (check that the the execution plan starts with User). Except if lot of recent users have no phones, but that will not be better in a single table (except if columnar storage)
They've been using multiple languages for a long time and were, as far as I can find, never exclusively using Ada. At least with the 787 the language choices we (subcontractor) had were Ada, C, and C++.
Usually people don't explicitly post links to libgen in their public website, but the vast majority of mathematicians makes ample use of libgen and sci-hub without thinking twice
Define "Social beliefs"
I concede this is a thought experiment that rarely happens in real life because yes, most people do use these data points to support something other than "risks exist".
Honestly good riddance to them. Less universities is bad but public colleges are generally cheaper and if equivalent quality.
Building a Rack-Scale Computer with P4 at the Core
The sample image on the github page doesn't look great. Major problems with the eyes, something both SD and MJ have solved, for the most part.
Intel is looking to integrate their ARC GPUs into their CPUs from 14th gen Meteor Lake onwards. If those are anywhere near as powerful as their discrete counterparts, things could become interesting.
Modern container cargo ships are huge. Even though in aggregate the absolute pollution is a big numbers, when you amortize over the volume, shipping an item has about a very close to zero impact on environment.

And this is not some hand-waving explanation either, since other factors dominates the environmental impact (for example, shipping from Newegg to your office is probably a magnitude more polluted), it doesn't matter if the factory is in China or the US. This applies to a lot more things, even lower value stuffs like fruit. Which is why local produce might have more environmental impact than imported mass produce fruits, though I don't have a citation for this on hand.
Those commits you were having issues with in git, have you tried putting them into pijul to be sure it doesn't have the same problem?

Because so far I have yet to understand why pijul's "set of applied patches" would do anything different than git rebase/cherry-pick. Those work by applying the diffs of each commit to the new tree. Sounds like the same thing to me, or at least close enough to result in the same conflicts.