skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The professor could advertise their course this way for Term 1, realize their policy isn't working as intended, and then change their policy (and advertising) as of Term 2. That's not a bait and switch. There was no promise that their course would have the generous original policy in for all terms in perpetuity.

As far as I can tell, you are allowed to fork HashiCorp's code up until the point of license change, and continue to use it as you like, rebrand it as a new project, whatever. I could be wrong, but I don't think HashiCorp ever said "we will never ever change our license."
This feels so similar to all the criticisms of the GPL that it would "infect" all software that touches it. But, in the reverse direction. Fascinating.
There are 3rd party data providers like Yext that can syndicate the data to different location services customers. Businesses can create and update in Yext and then data gets updated by the location services. If a location services company sources data from multiple independent locations providers such as Yext, Four Square, Yelp, web scraping it can get a profile that a place exists.
Except I am too busy to read "You’re a busy person"
SSL is but one form of centralization of technology.
I am a regular listener of the podcast "Hacker News Recap" (linked in the post description) and I always doubt if that's a real human reading the script. It is not a simple text-to-speech thing. Instead, it feels like a real human talking, with real emotion in it. I am already in love with Anna, the voice behind the HN Recap podcast!

Also I played around with their podcast generation tool, where it neatly built a podcast from my blog posts. This is a good example of what Generative AI can do in the media domain. Congrats on the production launch! Keep up!
Deep Learning Is Singular, and That's Good
How We Spent $300k and Learned Everything about Coffee Delivery
Or just that he's incompetent. I'm not sure why people are so keen to find an alternative explanation, when Hanlon's razor, well-sharpened after a particularly high-nonsense decade, is right there.

This seems to be basically just a Musk thing. As far as I know, there are no attempts to claim that Leo Apotheker had a master plan, say; it was just generally acknowledged that he was very bad at running HP (or, well, _unusually_ bad at running HP; being merely very bad at running HP is pretty much table stakes if you want to be CEO of HP).
Curious what you use the die roller for?
> It’s also worth remembering that Terraform itself is built on top of multiple open source libraries and an open source ecosystem. Without the volunteer work of hundreds of unpaid individuals, HashiCorp products would not be successful, there would be no ecosystem, and the company would not exist.

Hear, hear! (edited, thx)

EDIT: Also, if you are contributing to open source, read carefully before submitting that PR. Do not contribute to projects that make you agree to a CLA. It's becoming more and more common for projects to include one or two lines in the README and that's it. All your code are belong to us. I don't know if that would hold up, but why contribute your time and effort?
Once or consistently?

If they played 100 games, would AI have at least 55% wr?
Right. I mean that measurements conflicted with theory, and the new CMD-3 measurements suggest a better calculation. Assuming CMD-3 is good, there's no significant gap between theory results and collider results
Yeah I think you misunderstood my point a bit.

What I like best is to use a fully managed service that I can contribute changes or even self host a modified version if that's what I need to do to get what I need. But I don't want to self-host. But I highly value the option. And I highly value the ability to go read the code when I wonder "hmmm why is it doing that?" and maybe contribute a bug fix if it shouldn't be.

All of this works great with model #1 - with full "source available" with a license that limits re-sale - but is limited with model #2, where it only works for the "open core" portions of the product, but not the proprietary SaaS portion.
So to be exact, it's Euclid saying "there is no royal road to geometry". So Euclid means that a king for example couldn't spend a bunch of money to acquire an understanding of geometry, rather, just like a peasant he would have to go through the effort of thought to arrive at a proficiency with the ideas. It's not a saying that means there is no logically coherent path or something like that, it's a socially concerned comment that wealth or power won't necessarily give you a shortcut to true wisdom and knowledge.
PowerSync: Bringing offline-first to Supabase, the right way
Very cool project overall. The only nag being

>Sensor Watch sips single-digit microamperes of power, making this a watch you can wear all year on a single coin cell.

That's a downgrade vs original board.

None of the alternative PCBs, clones and such I have seen so far manage to even match the original.

Is getting into the nanoampere territory really that hard to achieve, with technology that's some 30+ years newer?
Modern historians have largely gone away with attempts to do works like Gibbon. Perhaps in part because of how his attempt ended up. So if you want to take a look at Roman history in general, you have to dip into popular history. And that is very uneven.

Alternatively, you can get books about specific periods, like say late republic, and read those in sequence. But that takes more time.

Finally, and this is my preferred approach, get things written by Romans. Yes, they were biased too, and often quite obviously. But at least they didn't have stake in modern society and politics. As long as you pay notice to fact that they are mostly recording either hearsay, or propaganda, you should be fine. In that course I would recommend Twelve Caesars by Suetonius (hearsay) and Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Caesar (propaganda).

It's not always true, but it gives you a good idea of how they were thinking, what was their morality like and their values.
Well that's the obvious suspect. But those words are so loaded.

Poor ruling? Isn't that an opinion?

Unpopular rulings? Which ones are we talking about? Totally subjective. I get that some rulings are unpopular to those paying for the stories... But which rulings, what funding, and why now?

Grift is just a clever/convenient "reason" to justify rhetoric like this. Show me the man and I'll show you the crime, etc.
Confused about the mentions of Elm. What does this have to do with Elm?
The problem discussed here isn’t these vehicles failing to see people and running them over. These aren’t Teslas. The issue that sometimes when driving the rules of the road break down. A police office stopped to direct traffic or some sticks used to designate that people should merge left. These are situations a human can handle, even if they might get flustered and make more mistakes, but a robot will find very tough. Instead you might see them trying to move slowly by deliberately through a crime scene ignoring the gestures made to try to make them stop
Ask HN: Stuck at $500 MRR and Seeking Distribution/Marketing Advice
Hey everyone!

I'm Milan, founder of Robofy, an AI chatbot tool I've poured countless hours into. Robofy is live for around 3 months now. Our Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) has been stagnant at around $500 for the last 3 months, which has been a tad frustrating. I rebranded in June to Robofy but still am stuck at $500 and I am looking for fresh ideas.

One thing I've noticed is an extremely large number of similar products popping up in the market. It's both exciting and scary because it confirms a demand, but also adds that much more competition. I think most of the competitors are coming up because of the cookbook published by OpenAI and the progress made by Langchain.

Nevertheless, here's where I need your help:

Marketing: I've tried the basic marketing channel's (Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc.) but the ROI hasn't been great. In fact, I would say that I recovered only 20% of my investment of $2500 in ads. Hence am in need of fresh, out-of-the-box strategies that can help stand out in this saturated space.

Distribution: While product is great, I believe our main challenge lies in getting it in front of the right eyes. Any ideas or channels we might not have tapped into yet? I tried Twitter but again I faced the most common problem - not getting enough eyeballs.

I tried creating a reseller plan so as to change target audience from direct customers to smaller IT companies. I got 2 orders for it now and that creates a bulk of my revenue.

A few additional points:

The primary audience is small to medium businesses looking to streamline their customer support.

We have a free tier, as well as paid packages with more features and benefits.

I genuinely believe in Robofy, and I've had really positive feedback from our few users. It's just the scaling and distribution part where we're having a hiccup.

Thanks.
I had the same experience. Spent over an hour trying to strap all the components into a working system just for it to trow error after error. So I gave up learning Clojure and instead went into Pharo. Self-contained environment trivial to set-up, same live environment typical of lisps, but approached from the Smalltalk side. I enjoy it.
Well they didn't really write a lot, so it's understandable.
Painboard: Automatically summarize, group and sort customer feedback
https://archive.is/p76li
I've started making guitars from bulletproof polycarbonate.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4fiQF6o3C3joso5vbH-q4Q
Physics is caught at a strange point in its evolution:
At the moment it is deeply dissatisfying that our theories describe the universe that is accessible to our experiments so well.
I need a teepee for my ass hole.

Hehehehehe (snorts)
This is precisely how bullies act. It’s anti intellectual, disrespectful and flat out cancerous. This culture where people can be as rude as they want, make demands and then flippantly say shit like ‘whoa. triggered’ is a complete disgrace.

Either please develop something interesting. Whether it’s a personality, ideas or expertise doesn’t matter. Just please cut out the bullying shit and become interesting. This is garbage and deserves to be called out.

Your immaturity and disrespect ruined what could have been an interesting thread. I’m very tired of this online wannabe troll shit. It’s immature and fucking boring.
New England should have a minimum speed limit. I'm driving down country roads with 35 mph - this should be criminal!
Best Practices for Writing Solid Software Documentation
You beat me to it. I was just gonna quote the fifth element.
I would agree that business and politics can be intermixed. I would follow up by saying it also depends on the type of business you are running and to whom you're catering to. If you're running a medium sized business and used say DDoS-guard, would anyone notice, care, or even know who that company is? I'd think it would be even less noticed than say CF, as CF stops connections to your site and display that whole verify process.
How do people physically read this much? How comfortable/supportive is that chair?

The only way I've been able to sustain reading for more than a half hour without adverse postural effects is to lie on my side with an e-reader (+ pop-socket). In fact it's the primary reason I read mostly on Kindle - to assume this posture.

I've even gone as far as building a contraption which lets me lie flat underneath it, and read hand-free. The issue with both methods of lying down to read is of course that I fall asleep :) (so much so that I keep a book on my nightstand as a sleep aid).

Otherwise, reading feels worse than working at a computer. I'm hunched over, similar to using a phone. Or I'm holding the book up a little higher and hold that tension in my arms/shoulders/neck.
Versions 3.4 and 3.5 beta of iTerm2 for macOS.
Time-Traveling Ruby Logger
An equivalent generic sort function in C would, at best, require a bunch of additional distracting cruft. This is exactly what C++ templates are for.
I have to agree here, I’ve worked on some tremendously complex control systems and the documentation has been so good that anytime I’ve needed info it was easy to find.

I’ve also worked on relatively simple systems that have required more interrogation due to a lack of, or in one case absolutely terrible documentation.
Milk allergies are different from being lactose intolerant. I developed a mild allergy to dairy in my 30 or so - or so it was discovered then. With lactose intolerance, you can at least take a pill - not so much for an actual allergy. My one child has a much more severe dairy allergy and will get a very upset stomach even with a little dairy.

We both have our appendix.

Though to your point, whether you can develop a milk allergy later in life I am not sure.
> I picked up Lisp during my Freshman year ... I do hate the corporate world (and have trouble staying anywhere long) with a passion and would very much like to find a way out.

maybe we should work together
VED-eBPF: Kernel Exploit and Rootkit Detection Using eBPF
About 15 or 20 years ago I had a work flow using SBCL Common Lisp where I saved images and always restarted a new work session where I left off. Easy to do.

I was motivated to do this because I had a ton of linguistic and text data in my environment which back then took a little while to load. Now, I organize everything I do into small or sometimes tiny Quicklisp projects/libraries and that is much more convenient for me.

If you want to really get into image based programming, the open source Pharo Smalltalk is very good.
PowerPoint provides animation of shapes that would satisfy your application. It’s a short learning curve. You can create a video, as well. Cheers.
Sorry, but I completely disagree with your general take. An AGI is a generalized agent which is able to perform extreme information compression on any available set of inputs. Think Force = m*a and coming up with the laws of the universe. You can store each possible action in memory of all available results OR -- a generalized agent will find the most succinct and least complex form of modelling the state of a system. An AGI to me in other words is a form of intelligence which is able to extract information and compress it such a way to not allow the lossy compression or storage to hinder its ability to predict real outputs from a set of training data fed into it. By the way, I have some ideas on how to create one and I'll be sharing some of the key algorithms and data structures that I'll be using here for anyone interested:

https://github.com/photonlines/AGI-Algorithms-and-Prototypes...
I didn’t knoe about jq.py - any big known pros/cons?
https://archive.is/uRC0G
While I support you I'm not sure you can use "Teraform" in the name, even if it is Terraform.
I'm pretty sure the first shot was fired by Ukrainians.
I don't directly propose blocking the rest of the world, but e.g. using a national social media app implies banning foreign ones. I'd very much like the personal data and the advertising income mined from the eyeball time of citizens to not cross the borders of my country. This is not to mention a state-run app would have just enough ads to pay for the costs of the service, and maybe even none if it's ruled in the parliament that advertisement is harmful to the wellbeing of citizens.
> People tend to just judge Mozilla way more harshly.

It's a self-inflicted problem though. Mozilla uses every opportunity to claim they're on your side and want to protect you from the evil guys.

The nagging itself is annoying to begin with (and incomprehensible - at least ads make sense from a business point of view - but why interrupt my workflow to let me know about Colorways?), but it's made even worse with all their self-righteous BS about privacy while the browser actually being pretty poor (and not GDPR compliant due to default-on telemetry) in its default configuration.
Exactly! They just focus on the one thing that they see as important and screw everything else.

One solution would be to grant free reign without liability for fire & police take any measures they see fit at the moment to solve the problem. If it trashes the driverless vehicle, too bad (and oh yes, the cleanup cost is billed to the driverless car company).

After a few 100K write-offs, maybe the companies will pay attention and actually look at the problem.
Every post like this makes me update my junior engineer watchlist. Then I have to go patiently explain why mucking about in the code to save one instruction because you read a blog post is a horrible idea. Easily half of all silly junior code is pointless optimization.

Having said that, I did enjoy the post.
This is true. The question to me is: does the party to whom you give the rights and authority subscribe to community-oriented FOSS license compliance principles? [1]

[1] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...
Why does adding a ReLU create more layers and parameters? Isn't the total number of neurons the same?
Yes, the people in charge of Mozilla have been doing dumb stuff like this, eroding our trust.

Hardly screwing us over, though.
They’ve been doing even worse things, for example constantly opting us in for “anonymous statistics” etc.

If it one day comes out they’ve been sharing this data deanonymized with 3rd parties, then you can say you’ve been screwed over.
According to wikipedia:

> [gifts to] blood relatives, up to the fifth degree, were excepted,

Did that include for lawyers or only the other part of the law? Relatives to the 5th degree could be a lot of paying people per lawyer.
> Like I found a part of a book that explains how to do logical synthesis and I bookmarked it, so I can keep going back to reread it every now and then in order to do stuff.

What’s the book?

I’ve never developed a good system for note-taking while I read, apart from marking up books and making marginal notes, which can be somewhat helpful. But I never developed the discipline of turning those into useful notes. My memory, which has never been good, has naturally gotten worse as I’ve gotten older and more sleep-deprived, so I now feel like most of my reading is retained for about twenty minutes after I’ve read something.
Ask HN: Distributed Data Management Solutions?
I run a small earth sciences research group. I have a need for a good distributed management solution so group members can access data, contribute changes, etc. The aim is to be able to track changes to both data processing scripts, civ-type data text files, and processed binary files (think MatLab .mat files or NetCDF).

I've been experimenting with DataLad (https://www.datalad.org) which is a front-end for git+git-annex. It's ok although painfully slow as we have many small files to put into git-annex. It also requires quite granular understanding of how git-annex and git work, and it doesn't have any nice front-ends.

Are there any other open source solutions for this out there?
A lot of people shirk at the Guardian because it's a notoriously left-wing, progressive paper politically. People often mirror their sentiments about that onto other, none political articles unfortunately.

On the science side it's mostly written by Nicola Davis. She has a MChem and DPhil in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, which is more than most sciences journalists can say. However, she has a pretty prestigious output; anywhere between 5 and 20 articles a month. Seems like a lot of "read a journal article, write a slightly sensationalist story around it". Not the worst in the industry by any means.

Her Guardian bio: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nicola-davis
Proprietary software is "viral", indeed. As soon as it's part of a combined work, the entire work devolves into proprietary software.
The passengers don't get any money. The driver got money from Uber and from the passenger. Even if a passenger got a completely free ride, that's the driver getting paid by Uber for a ride he wouldn't have gotten as easily otherwise. So I'd count it as the driver getting paid still by VC money.
Herbivores that cut plants when they bite are far more benign than those that pull up the whole plant and eat the roots.

For example, camels have evolved to coexist with the plants that briefly flourish in the desert after
rains. Goats just consume everything and will die in a second season.
Ask HN: Am I the only one suffering from bullet points fatigue?
I (tech worker) am not sure if I'm the only one, but I'm getting a bit tired of bullet points at work (tech company). I don't know if it's because I'm getting older (30+) and maybe crankier, or my eyesight is getting worse, but I'm finding I'm skipping over bullet points more and more. The problem is bullet points is all there is.

I don't mind bullet points per se. When I'm taking notes for myself, or writing requirements, I tend to start with a list of all the raw and dumb ideas that cross my mind. Then I iterate over it and give it form and structure until, at least in my mind, it's reasonably readable: text is clear; flow is logical, uninterrupted; document has a clear outline; things are easy to find etc. I do use actual lists when it makes sense to do so e.g. things to do, steps to follow.

It seems other people don't do that. Mails, memos, requirements, tickets, more often than not the entire thing's a list of lists of lists. Sometimes you get a skinny-fat, 13 pages long document with bullet points 7 levels deep. Literally each sentence is an item on a list, and it's all expertly decorated with tables and improperly formatted code examples. I'm finding it very difficult to read that. It has no structure, no direction, no flow, no logic, no nothing. Oftentimes there's not even a summary introduction, the document jumps right into a list. You have to read the whole thing 2-3 times before you get the basic idea, then another 2-3 times to be able to ask for explanations and do so coherently. And the subjects are very far from sending rockets to space.

I sometimes get so exhausted that I just give up trying, and seek to understand the problem intuitively i.e. WWID. I've seen other colleagues employ a different strategy. They simply dive into coding regardless of whether they got it or not. After several rounds of code reviews by seasoned engineers, multiple testing sessions by at least a tester and the PO, and a couple of weeks later, they will eventually get it. Paradoxically, business is often frustrated about folks not getting it, though doesn't seem to mind this style of working. It's their fault, after all, but I suspect they don't imagine things could be any different. I don't know if it's because they don't have the time, don't know how to do it, don't know how to write, don't think clearly enough, or simply don't care. I'm talking about people with academic degrees, some MBAs, and I'm disapointed. And tired.

What are other people's experiences?
My favorite is when google "helpfully" sets up a different phone number for a restaurant than their actual phone number for some reason. Super sketchy
What would you change then? Practically only the 4th criteria would be one I'd change (but presumably it's there for a reason):
"Integrity of the author's source code: The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software."

As for the commons, you are aware that the OSD comes from the Debian Free Software Guidelines (it's the same thing but for some minor working changes)? That is the commons that's been talked about, and it's deployed on far more systems than any BSL code is. So moving to completely propriety (note that this doesn't mean it's not Source Available) means that everyone is upfront about what the state is, whereas something like the BSL is leaning into the halo effect under the justification that the code will be open source at some future point.