skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't the answer to the question it's the fact he (allegedly) resorted to "You’re telling me the Pope has been wrong for centuries?" which is a comment I'd find embarrassingly stupid from anyone (if he meant it seriously which is unclear).

Either way, it is not intellectually honest to assess someone by the quality of their informal/off-the-record comments made to a colleague while eating/drinking. If he's the kind of person painted in this article then it will be reflected in his judgements/writings.
> Do not contribute to projects that make you agree to a CLA.

There's nothing wrong with a CLA's existence, it just depends what it says. For example, the Caddy CLA [0] is borrowed from The Linux Foundation, and it basically says you either made the change originally, or have the rights to share the contribution, and that this goes into a public record and will be redistributed.

[0]: https://cla-assistant.io/caddyserver/caddy
I feel like there is no good-gal in this saga. This should be forming symbiotic relationships but they're both acting like parasites.

Both sides angle to extract as much revenue as possible. That said, I don't think social media or any technology company is _obligated_ to carry news.
There's a Sensor Watch simulator that demonstrates the features of the various firmware images; this one[1] is running the firmware that shipped with the first boards, and includes a clock, world clock (UTC by default, but customizable by holding the Alarm button), sunrise/sunset, moon phase and temperature. For the sunrise/sunset to work, you'll have to click the "Set Location Register" button, which will prompt for location access.

There are other versions of prebuilt firmware here[2], but my favorite one (even if it's a bit impractical) is the Stargazer firmware[3], whose second watch face can display the locations of the sun, moon and seven planets both in right ascension and declination, as well as altitude and azimuth if you grant location access. We're able to fit a truncated version of the VSOP87 model for planetary motion, right there on your wrist.

[1]: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/firmware/simulate/backer/

[2]: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/firmware/prebuilt/

[3]: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/firmware/simulate/the_starg...
> When did we stop building software for the "Power User" persona?

1996 or 1997. I can't narrow it down further.

Shortly after that, they actively became hostile to power users. Just play with your dumb little consumer appliance like you're supposed to.
https://docusaurus.io/ with its mermaidJS (diagrams as code) plugin.

i am working on turning my portfolio into a docusaurus site

i like it because it offers:

markdown docs w/ markdown diagrams, markdown blog, pages (as JSX)

- I'll use the docs aspect for two sections:

1. a set of portfolio projects

2. a set of boilerplate projects as a demo of my favorite devops & dev stack along with a brief description & tutorial for setting up the boilerplate.

- the pages aspect as the main page of my portfolio website, and maybe 1-2 other pages (perhaps one on career progression and one on the value proposition of my services)

- and then I'll have a markdown blog easily available as well, which I plan to use once a month or so to discuss what I've learned that month.

seems like a good & organized setup to me.
I hate these numerical contractions. I have no intuitive knowledge of how many characters words have even if I'm seeing them spelled out, let alone trying to do it in reverse.
Problem being that despite the fact that getting your content hoovered by socials is stealing ad revenue - Facebook etc al have declared themselves the only sites on the internet that matter, and if they aren't linking to you you don't matter.

Something does need to be done about this, this is something - whether it's the right something or not is debatable, but I find the idea that this is just smug news orgs getting their justified comeuppance silly.
>But is the free market more important than for example the declining life expectancy in the US?

Perhaps the decline of the free market in the US might be exactly as important as the decline of life expectancy in the US.
> American is pretty urbanized. Less than 20% of the population lives in rural areas

i'd like that number put into perspective, but it does not feel like on the low end.

> Yet the most popular vehicle for the past few years has been the ford F150. It's not being bought by rural or working class people, it's a luxury status symbol now.

thanks for the insight! but i struggle with the combination of "most popular" and "luxury status symbol"
It's because of the salaried "UX experts". Paying somebody 6 figures to bikeshed the precise size and color of the home button is obviously farcical so they pretend to be more useful by making more dramatic changes, which amount to shuffling things around to make users relearn the software. They're ostensibly supposed to make things better for users, but in reality there's little to do on that front so they make themselves look productive by sabotaging users instead.

They can never provide rational justification for any of it. Their "data" arguments are farcical. Have you ever tried to push back against a UX expert's decrees? They can't rationally defend their changes with the data that supposedly informs them so it rapidly devolves into "your opinions on UX are invalid because you're an engineer. I'm an expert so you need to trust me." Salaried "UX experts" are a blight on software development; if their services are ever needed at all, they should be given a short contract with clearly defined goals.
> Do not contribute to projects that make you agree to a CLA.

So you think no one should contribute to the Linux Foundation’s projects? This is absurd. CLAs are not evil on their own, only their contents could be objectionable.
> Unlike most other airliners, the control sticks on Airbus models are not mechanically linked and the pilots cannot directly feel what the other pilot is doing.

This is a very bad design - at a bare minimum an incredibly loud and annoying alarm should go off if the pilots are fighting controls, because neither knows what the plane is receiving as an input.
Here is a direct response to the author's other work on the same topic: http://dorkmission.blogspot.com/2016/05/yes-folks-its-xenon-... (2016)
99% Invisible had a great podcast on this … it’s a particularly interesting listen with all the frothing over AI.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...
I think it’s cute you think most developers let exceptions rise.

Most developers I notice just catch the error right away and make the function return something non-sensible like a 0 for a string value function.

Slightly better developers just let the exceptions bubble.

The rare breed looks at what exceptions are being thrown, decides which ones to handle at which stack level, and repackages them as needed when the error cannot be handled that deep in that stack due to a lack of context. Then they write framework-level exception handlers for errors that rise to the top because they cannot be corrected at a higher stack level to give users specific error messages with user-correctable actions without revealing anything sensitive. “Your image is too small, wanker.”
>If Data from Star Trek (or Eva from Ex Machina) walked out of a lab, we’d have no problem accepting that AGI had been accomplished

Lol no.

What testable definition of general intelligence does GPT-4 fail that a good chunk of humans also wouldn't ?

If you can answer this then you have a point, otherwise I really beg to differ.
I think there's a compelling argument to be made for bug fixes and small changes being derivative works of the originally licensed open source software. As such, it's unlikely that the 'copyright' of those small changes would be able to stand on their own.

Perhaps 'derivative works' isn't the right term. I know there's some exceptions for copyright when there's 'one way' to do something, or something that substantially is not a creative work, such as a function that adds two numbers.
> I really disagree with the pros listed on over-engineering, specifically "future-proving" and "reusability"

Yes, someone who argues that "over-engineering" leads to "future-proving" is caught by the bug.

When you future-prove something, that's called "engineering". Over-engineering is by definition failing to foresee future needs, imagining generic future needs ten steps ahead instead of the less ambitious future needs two steps ahead.

It is easier to modify early, simplistic assumptions than it is to walk back from premature generalisations over the wrong things.
the article covers that right at the top: “branchless” because the if compiles down to a conditional move instruction rather than a branch/conditional jump.
Even as a flying novice, I was screaming to myself when they kept trying to pull up in a stall. I guess there had to have been some element of panic clouding their judgement, which is why pilots need to drill routine into their head so hard.
Googling "overfitting" gives this definition:

> Overfitting is an undesirable machine learning behavior that occurs when the machine learning model gives accurate predictions for training data but not for new data.

However, most of the particles introduced in physics have been done with concrete predictions. For instance, when the top/bottom quarks were first proposed (1973-1975) the theoretical paper also included a bunch of predictions. In the following years all of the predictions turns out to be true.

Trust me, everyone wishes the Standard Model was simpler and was more "fundamental", but no one has figured out how to make it work. I'm not quite sure how "overfitting" fits here.
That particular branch is well-predicted for long arrays. You probably only gonna have a single misprediction for the complete binary search function, the performance consequence of that branch is negligible.

People (and compilers, too) don’t write branchless code just for the sake of it, they do because it helps with performance.
Equating any of the three examples the OP gave with "Hitler wasn't such a bad guy" is... an interesting take. But nevertheless, you're only looking at one thing. Why not look at the Firefox release notes?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/116.0/releasenotes/

Three releases so far this month! Look at that technical organization iterating on its core product!
A third dev locale worth considering is one which consists of random emojis. Makes it very easy to find hardcoded strings.
What is the ignorance you’re seeing here?
I’m not sure if there are studies, though it is probably something you could do. Maybe look at GPL vs MIT licensed software and see how each grows over time in terms of commits, lines of code, number of committers, number of issues, average time to close issues, total monthly downloads, etc. Of course metrics like these are pretty general, but at a large enough sample size I imagine there could be some observable patterns.

Of course, not everything is an optimization problem. So even if the metrics are better for x or y in general, people have their own reasons and beliefs about the world that might make one or the other better. I have generally felt that unless restrictiveness is important to you, minimally restrictive licensing is a good default choice.
This entire article was a pretext for that "Ass Holes" pun in the middle, wasn't it. xD
Thanks for sharing those. We're currently testing out the release of personalised podcasts, as the combination of LLMs and the realistic text-to-speech can lead to a solution of a quality level that has not been available until now.
> if you respond to a request for a web page with a HTTP 200, 4xx, or 5xx code outside of these specific ones and some HTML, almost all browsers will display the HTML to the user

Chrome outright refuses to show the HTML of a 500 response in favor of its own dinosaur animation or some garbage, or did that change?
Oh you were definitely harmed by the company using their money to buy a semi-popular bookmarking alternative for their users, that someone probably thought their users would like to use, with zero requirement to ever use pocket. My firefox install hasn't even had the pocket icon in however long, I can't remember.

Meanwhile google is pushing an attempt to strangle the open internet to death, in the open, for all eyes to see.

But no, lets keep pretending that mozilla doing a poorly executed ad is comparable to THAT
> Surely there are already existing laws for first responders and if the robo-taxis aren't following them they can just be ? for violating them.

The concern is probably that the consequences designed as an incentive for human drivers to be attentive to the rules (and which are not, otherwise, a compensation for the harms of the rules not being followed) are not a solution if robotaxis are irreducibly unable to follow the rules.
Jet-A fuel usually goes in the wings also because it fits there, and the space (not usable for cargo) would otherwise be wasted. It would otherwise need to be in tanks between the wings, for the balance reason you note.

H2 fuel would not fit in the wings, in any case. LH2 is lighter than Jet-A, but it does weigh, and so still affects balance. LH2 storage does not demand a pressure vessel, but does need insulation. You still want to minimize insulated surface area, so still favor a cylindrical container. So, nacelles slung under the wings seems like the best solution, provided their parasitic drag is not excessive.
Hi, parent of 4 here.
Yep, the change from 1->2 is as hard as from 0->1. After 2+ it's log2n, not even linearly harder. The chores & experience you already have, you don't have less time ( because you don't have any anyway) and you just ruthlessly priorize between tasks. With two child you need to have a way to create free time to yourself. It's doable but it requires conscious effort, it's not the default mode anymore.

They will play with each other a lot and that gives free time back. With one child you are the only one she can count on in the early years. Sibling in my view are essential to build emotional intelligence, the skill to be able to lose and try again, cooperate and fight, and able to find a compromise.

Around 5 or 6year+ they start to actually help.

After the first child I missed my childless life. After the 4th I really don't, it really helped me grow many ways I did not thought was possible.
> Facebook etc al have declared themselves the only sites on the internet that matter

Users have done that.
The problem is these companies almost universally could not exist without open source software that allowed them to commercialize things. It is impossible for the vast majority of companies to ever "give back" as much to open source as they profit off of it - from the Linux kernel, all the GNU stuff, the nginx or apache webservers hosting webpages and API access, the haproxy load balancers, the corosync/pacemaker they're using to keep things online, etc. etc. etc.

How many of these companies could exist if all these projects underpinning their own swapped to the SSPL, BSL, etc? And I don't mean now - once you reach a certain size, if you have to replace a bunch of dependencies, you have the resources to do it. But when these companies were smaller, would they have been able to create their own implementation of all these dependencies and still get their product to market? Would they have had the resources to commit to all of it? Would they have had the money to pay for non-FOSS options?

How many of these projects would still exist if the community couldn't commercialize them? We're not even talking about whether or not they ultimately end up contributing code back, etc., because it's not like these licenses give you some threshold of code contribution after which you can commercialize it. Sure, the possibility exists of some special private licensing agreement being struck, but that's possible with proprietary code, too.

Source available might sound fine from a personal use perspective, but it ignores the fact that the environment that made all of this possible would not have been possible under that model.
The alarm in question was the same one used for invalid takeoff configuration, as hypoxia was already setting in.
"Lost the battle?" Ruby is a far better ecosystem now than it was when it was getting popular. C is "dying" according to your definition. It's number 2 on the TIOBE index, while Ruby is in the top twenty. I'm using Common Lisp do build my product, and that one is long dead and buried according to popularity.

Maybe there are business reasons to avoid less popular programming languages, but there aren't any programming reasons to avoid them. Maybe we should stop treating tools as if they were candidates for homecoming king and queen.
X/Twitter executives had a bad day defending Musk's platform
> This is a solved problem. The left lane is the passing lane, the right lane is the cruising lane. If you're not passing, you should be in the right lane. Highway traffic organizes itself if you do this.

Ok, but what about the other five lanes? Only use the left lane for passing works when traffic is light. When traffic gets heavier, you need to use all lanes to increase throughput; even though it makes passing more difficult.
"At 25, she left her software business and spent a year talking to young people"

No offense (well ok, when you say that you are about to offend), but I almost spit out my coffee laughing at that statement. You know, the _young_ people I was talking too.. because, well, I am so _OLD_ at 25.

Damn. I wonder what you tell your therapist at 50? That you are ancient?

And I still have no idea what the game looks like, as the other poster said, why no in game shots?
Rephrase: "Ted would not recognize an important moment in jazz if it happened in his presence."
That is not accurate. BSL does not prevent simply using the products, it prevents packaging them into a competing offering.

Review the FAQ here: https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq
Gradient descent in isolation is obviously not what they are alluding to. What the models are doing inside the box and what any of those millions or billions of weights mean or do is beyond human understanding.
Could something like GPT help?
> There's a teensy little chance that I may have something valid to contribute to the topic.

That may be true, but the criticism of GP still stands.

Yes, in some special situations your approach might be the only viable one (just as how in every codebase you sometimes have to cut corners), but GP is right in pointing out that this is a problematic approach, especially without qualification ("only use this if ...").
1874 Viele Map of Manhattan
It would be more accurate to say copyright assignment is problematic, rather than CLAs in general, since as you say some CLAs are just about ensuring that you have permission (eg from your employer) to contribute to the project.
If you've ever done a credit card transaction or any form of dollar based transaction, it's using software directly built on top of Consul.
Perhaps these pilots were "Children of the Magenta"[1] ?

These AA instructional videos by Captain Vanderburgh are fascinating - even to a non-pilot like myself.

They are especially relevant as we dip our toes into automobile auto-pilot and the "automation dependency" that comes along with it.

Of particular note in this video:

@ 12:30: "... tactily connected to the airplane ..."

@ 14:15: "... we see automation dependent crews, lacking confidence in their own ability to fly an airplane are turning to ther autopilot ..."

@ 17:35 - 18:15: (just listen)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs
This was what I was taught in high school.
Are you pretending that chrome doesn't advertise? Every single fucking day for a decade now, google.com told me to install chrome, and would even render "pop up" dialogs to that effect on google properties!!

What are you all smoking?
The closest are probably modern media consultants. They plead one's case in public forums in an attempt to bend outcomes, even legal outcomes. For high-worth /profile individuals public opinion directly shapes eventual legal outcomes.

If you read roman histories, it is full of exceptions from the law that were based on little more than mob opinion. Rules such as term limits, pay or inheritance were regularly bypassed by high-profile people if they could get the plebs into the streets.
>why don’t more people use GPL” questions that seem to always pop up any time software licensing is discussed

millions of people use it. the perennial question is why does the license make people so unreasonably angry?

>there’s a reason corps tend to avoid it

it's the same reason they try to assign IP you dreamt up in the shower to themselves in perpetuity with no exceptions - a combination of corporate greed, hubris and lawyerly risk aversion.
ready for the whole industry to shift to a total new tool yet again, what will it be the hot new thing this time? pulumi?
> Despite these ecological benefits in desert environments, feral animals have long been denied the care, curiosity and respect native species deservedly receive...

> However, there are signs of change. New fields such as compassionate conservation and multispecies justice are expanding conservation’s moral world, and challenging the idea that only native species matter.

I never heard anyone make the argument that "only native species matter", that sounds like a framing. The issue with feral species is that in many cases they drive out native species and have a destructive impact on the ecology in a way that is hard to mitigate. I hope that these compassionate conservationists are also big picture conservationists who evaluate the system as a whole.
great if you want to price pc parts for 2021
Smells:

* If you're concatenating sentence bits, you're doing it wrong

* If you're formatting numbers, dates, times, or durations by hand, you're doing it wrong

* If you're formatting strings with placeholders and you don't know the gender and number of your placeholders, your translators are going to have a bad time

There are two more important rules that this article doesn't mention

* Write long descriptions of what the thing is that you're asking someone to translate (button label, menu item, dialog header...), and include a screenshot. Translating very short strings without context is very difficult.

* Ask your translators to do a global once-over QA pass once in a while to detect inconsistencies and weirdness. Once I dealt with a product that had three tabs, and two of the tabs were translated identically. Each tab header translation made sense on its own, but as distinct tab headers side by side, it made no sense to use the same word.
I got my (physical) copy through ABE Books, but as as a sibling comment has pointed out it's also on Kindle. There are very few pictures and they're all in black and white, so Kindle would be fine.
I do not understand the fetishization of “biodiversity.” If an animal removes all others it will quickly begin competing with its own, evolving into new species. We all come from the LUCA after all.
According to the US FDA's labelling requirements, if something contains less than 0.5g of sugar per serving, it can be labelled "sugar free".

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...
I'm sure hashicorp will be offering generous rates to their direct competitors.
"...exotic electromagnet propulsion, compact mobile fusion, gravity modification ..."

Wow, they must be about to completely change the world with technology like that!

More seriously, I really wish claims like that had to be backed up in a court of scientific law or something. The amount of grifters taking money from poorly educated people is really depressing. I know a court of scientific law sounds very authoritarian to some, and I apologize, but this shit harms so many and discredits so much legitimate science. Heck it literally kills people, as seen in the COVID-19 pandemic.