skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to figure out what does it mean and this is the summary from Bard so take it with a grain of salt.

The CC BY-NC 4.0 license allows for the following uses of the licensed material:

* Reproduction: You can copy and distribute the licensed material in any medium or format.

* Distribution: You can distribute the licensed material to others.

* Public performance: You can perform the licensed material publicly.

* Public display: You can display the licensed material publicly.

* Modification: You can remix, transform, and build upon the licensed material.

* Derivative works: You can create derivative works based on the licensed material.

However, there are some restrictions on how you can use the licensed material under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license:

* Commercial use: You cannot use the licensed material for commercial purposes.

* Sublicensing: You cannot sublicense the licensed material.

* Moral rights: The licensor retains all moral rights in the licensed material.

Here are some examples of how the CC BY-NC 4.0 license can be used:

* A teacher can use a CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed image in a
presentation for their class.

* A student can create a CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed remix of a song.

* A software developer can use a CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed library in their open source project.

* A photographer can share their photos on a CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed website.
> I've tried finding alternatives on my last upgrade cycle and it's like having to live with endless amounts of compromises just to get away from Apple.

Everything is a compromise.

A while ago, I wanted a new notebook:

I looked very hard at a 16" M1 Pro with 64 GB of RAM, at approximately USD 4000, tiniest storage possible. I really really wanted to run this with Asahi Linux.

I purchased a Dell Inspiron 7610 with 16" display (and known design touchpad design defects), 3K resolution, sort of light-weight, Tiger Lake 11800H CPU, Intel + Nvidia hybrid graphics, now running at 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, 2 TB of very fast PCIe 4 SSD, 1 TB of PCIe 3 SSD.

Professionally I run this with Windows 11 Professional + VMware Workstation -> Fedora 38 because of an Azure VPN; in my private life this is plain Fedora 38 dual-booted.

Why? USD 1700. Less than half the cost.

Native podman / docker. CUDA. The (still) dominant architecture (x86). I am typing on Proper Keyboards anyway.
Yep. Just switched to PC for Davinci Resolve renders/exports and built a threadripper 64 core with 128G of RAM, 16 TB of SSD, dual RTX 4090 GPUs and dual thunderbolt 4 ports with awesome cooling for $15K. Something worse from Apple would cost you three times that and be less serviceable.
That's really an interesting story; thanks for sharing it.
I lived in Berlin in 2008/2009. They must have been banned since then, because they were very common at that time.

And yes, the christmas market version of being outside is obviously much older, but in my experience (also, Heidelberg in 1986) was less sitting around and more moving around outside (or in heated tents).
A list of active, free, open source microkernel projects
Did Lenovo sell you the laptop with Linux compatibility explicitly stated?
Never tried it myself, but the Atari Flashback consoles [1] had an SD card slot that you could use to play your own ROMs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Flashback_series
Is this some sort of parody or high-concept humor that has just gone over my head?

The big failures were fundamentally flawed in some way, and weren’t <my economic system of choice>. Here’s a small scale <commune|kibbutz|corner store> model that shows it could work if only given a chance, just need to scale it up.
No? Those are both pretty common. You've never met anyone who drives a crappy car or leaves a little bit of trash on the dash to to avoid it being broken into?

If you've never even met someone who does any of these things I think you're living a pretty charmed existence removed from a lot of the realities of the world. I sometimes wonder what proportion of the HN audience is lacking these same basic experiences. Some of the comments I see on here make me wonder...
Tim Minchin wrote this song on an airport piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAFMSplS4y8
What? I'd argue the graphics APIs are one of the most important interfaces right now. It's not that we all feel good if apple would adhere to standards for once, it's supporting a legacy of applications that have been build over the last 20 years or so. Allowing a platform to be used however the rest of the industry has been evolving, not cheap vendor locking
There are a thousand reasons why reasonable people might have found themselves in that position. Maybe they inherited a code base after an acquisition or from some outside consultancy who didn't do a great job. Maybe management made a rational business decision to ship something that would make enough money to keep the company going and knowingly took on the tech debt that they would then have some chance of fixing before the company failed. Maybe it actually had very high numbers from coverage tools but then someone realised that a relatively complex part of the code still wasn't being tested very thoroughly.

If a team has identified a weakness in testing and transparently reported it, presumably with the intention of making it better, then why would we assume that setting arbitrary targets based on some metric with no direct connection to the real problem would help them do that?
I'm curious about this too. Lately I've been building an open source tool to help bring make pulling + running models easier locally – https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama – right now we work with the awesome llama.cpp project, however, other model types have definitely come up. LLMs are a small section of what's available on huggingface for example.

It's especially interesting how you could combine different model types - e.g. translation + text completion (or image generation) – it could be a pretty powerful combination...
There are more reasons to do this, other than theft. Often photographer does NOT want to appear professional, as it affects their subjects.
Why not tell us the data they already have so people don't waste time? Naming a few popular sites and saying 'etc... '

Also, they want the source code? Are they buying it from me as well? I would not just give out the code for free. Otherwise 100 per gig is fine
In Paris I know a lot of people who use old bikes because anything shiny or pricy gets stolen. For the same reason, e-scooters and e-bikes are very often stored indoors even during the day.

The issue is not only in solar panels in South Africa or cars in San Francisco.
I bet if there were meaningful consequences for sloppy custody of data (i.e. fines large enough to hurt, as opposed to the "LOL whoopsie doopsie have some free credit monitoring" nonsense), credit bureaus would clean up their act. I do not anticipate this happening anytime soon.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on leaving retirement to work on AI
They also see zero reason to spend even a dime on better security of processes when they saw that the entire company could be pwned and distributed on the dark web and you end up losing zero revenue, maybe a million bucks in a class action suit.
There's nothing convenient about about:profiles.

It's designed like their goal was to make the few buttons you want to use most the hardest to find.

I'm not going to the profiles page to restart Firefox, show my profile directory in Finder/Explorer, Rename a profile, or Remove a profile. For some reason all those buttons get first placement.

I have to scroll the page down to find the one and only button I want to click every single day.
> Supernatural claims made by meditators that are obviously not true are what keep me from experimenting with meditation. I don't want to mess up my brain. I value it.

A religious friend went on a road trip and hiked deep into the Rocky Mountains. They experienced the awe and wonder of the landscape, and to them, this was God revealing himself to them.

Supernatural claims by meditators are interpretations of the experience, much like God-in-the-mountains is an interpretation of experience.

I held the view you’re describing for many years until I spontaneously experienced what some meditators describe while I was practicing photography out in nature.

Learning to be a better photographer by immersing myself in the environment I was in had inadvertently led me to states of presence that meditators train to achieve. This is what ultimately made me explore meditation further.

I’d be cautious about linking that openness with what you’re framing as gullability. In my own exploration, I’ve applied rigorous rational examination as I go, and while I understand why people who are predisposed to religiosity reach supernatural conclusions, that is more about each individual’s existing beliefs and the resulting framing of the experience.
That is the danger. Remember when 300 Sri Lankan's showed up on the West Coast? People were demanding they be sent back out to sea and some were calling on sinking the vessel. What happens when 30k show up everyday fleeing climate change, hunger, poverty and war crashing ships on Canadian shores? It is the worst scenario but a possible one.
Even with RealID, state-issued IDs aren't intended to be general proof of ID. It's pretty weird - they're ok for domestic travel and entering federal facilities, so you'd think they were a good general purpose ID, but they explicitly aren't that.
Considering this was something I was creating for a specific use case for the fun of it, unless it becomes useful to my goals, and shelling out is preferable as far as I am concerned
> In the first quarter of 2023, South Africa imported five times as many batteries as it did in the whole of last year.

> It shows South African households and businesses are becoming energy-independent and kissing Eskom goodbye.

I know this is kind of painted as a humorous article, but things are pretty dire in South Africa. You are seeing a lot of hallmarks of a failing state - there's just an overwhelming lack of faith in the government to provide basic services. Either providing utilities or deterring crime.

An underrated aspect of what is going on in the solar market is the enablement of off-grid living. This is HUGE right now, around the world. And while there is a positives that can come with individual self-sufficiency, it's important to note that it's not necessarily for the betterment of society. The people doing this are going to live in further remote areas - cutting down green spaces and consuming more fuel and resources than they would living on a city grid.

This particular green revolution is going to be privatized and inegalitarian.
Yes, but...what about nurses? teachers? daycare workers? construction workers? and the list goes on - cities don't run on software engineers, to put it that way.
Debit cards are (typically) connected to a checking account, and most banks and credit unions use the credit reporting agency ChexSystems to check for a history of checking account infractions and report infractions there as well. However, accounts in good standing aren't typically reported. So once your account opening falls off the report, assuming you don't kite checks or overdraft, your report will be empty. I think overdrafts likely need to be frequent or left unresolved for a long enough time to get on your report too, but I'm not 100% sure.

Some banks will run a credit report from other agencies while opening too, but if you don't ask for or refuse any credit cards offered, you should have an empty report from them, once everything falls off.
Rich people don't dress down to avoid being robbed. It's been covered to death. It's a flex.
I know a guy who bought an expensive bicycle and then gave it a hideous rattle-can paintjob. He did not care about resale value or looking cool, he just loved riding the bike and was tired of his bikes getting stolen while running errands around town.
To put it into perspective, in 2021, the US generated ~1,800,000,000 tons of carbon (just the carbon part) from electricity generation. So yes, burying 11,000 tons per year would be far better than pumping 2B tons into the air and hoping for the best...
When you give people a target and it is the ONLY thing they care about, people find a way to hit it.

So be careful what you measure and you reward.

For every company cash flow and profits are undoubtedly the most important metric. It is almost impossible to argue that maximize those numbers should NOT be a goal.

At the same time when that becomes the ONLY target that matters, the consequences are dreadful.

At least in US, that is how we ended up with appliances that only last a small fraction of time that used to last 40 years ago.

And even worse it is how we ended up with the food industry creating more and more addicting food resulting in 70% of the population be obese.
And it is how we ended up with a heath system that costs multiples of what costs in any other country in the world, that, instead of healing people for good, make them "less sick" addicting them to a few pills for the rest of their life. Because there is no money to be made with a healthy person.

When you build KPIs, make sure you "think a few moves ahead" and you put other correcting metrics and checks in place. At least make sure who establishes the metrics has a way to become aware of the possible shortcomings and plan corrections in a timely manner.
Just get one of those where you have ~10 to 20 of each and get replacements for the ones you suspect to burn through fast (e.g. 1k, 4k7, 10k, 100k and similar common ones). But them in a drawer and refill when you need it.

I had one from a German reseller that doesn't exist anymore. For the university I made my own sortiment buy buying resistors and sorting them into boxes myself. It took 4 days to sort it, which is probably what you pay for when you get a sortiment.
People say our job is safe, but aren't we in similar position to the horses who got replaced by cars or telegraph operators who just vanished?
It makes little difference if it's a VM or bare metal - what matters is network connectivity. If it's on, you lose control over the data leaving your computer. In Linux, BSD and others, you can control it in a very precise way.
Wouldn’t the appearance of shutterstock’s mark suggest to the consumer that the provenance of the image was shutterstock, when it is not?

But upon the absence of the mark, shutterstock would argue that the provenance of the image WAS shutterstock?

I don’t think this is the salient feature of this phenomenon, but the proximity of these two arguments is interesting.
The current iteration does. Research often brings costs down, though there is no guarantee.
macOS 0day: App Management
It's a spreadsheet, Excel was always our primary competition! :) The more Excel follows us, the better for everyone. Python is a start, but they have a way to go. Imagine proper relational data, self-hosting for cloud Excel, open-source, access rules....
Sorry, all this piece did was illustrate how auth is turning into an undifferentiated commodity market, not why FusionAuth is better than the alternatives. In this market, there are three winners: BigCloud's Pareto offering giving you 80% of what's possible plus integration with the rest of BigCloud, the free offering, and the premium offering. You're not BigCloud, and you won't make money off the free offering, so where's the 20% not covered by the BigCloud offering?

> We’re built for devs, by devs, and you’ll be supported by devs. Can you tell we speak dev?

No, you speak marketing (/snark). I think pretty much every tool in this space is built for devs (you need a dev to implement it), by devs (can you build auth software without devs?), and supported by devs (who else would be fixing the bugs?).
They have a smaller model[1] that might be amenable to Whisper-ization.

Much smaller language matrix though.

[1]: https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/b...
Nobel-winning bodily 'pressure sensors' filmed for first time
Christiaan Huygens > Legacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens

Horologium Oscillatorium by Huygens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horologium_Oscillatorium

Parallel axis theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_axis_theorem :

> The parallel axis theorem, also known as Huygens–Steiner theorem, or just as Steiner's theorem,[1] named after Christiaan Huygens and Jakob Steiner, can be used to determine the moment of inertia or the second moment of area of a rigid body about any axis, given the body's moment of inertia about a parallel axis through the object's center of gravity and the perpendicular distance between the axes

...

Harmonic oscillator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_oscillator

Quantum Harmonic Oscillator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator

Pendulum (mechanics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_(mechanics)
That construction is for condos priced at around CAD$600K-1mil. Victoria is Canada's Florida (where Canadians go to retire).

Most of the property built there is being built for investment purposes and doesn't impact affordability.

At least in Western WA you can move to Vancouver WA, Olympia, Spokane, or Boise.

When you're priced out or Vancouver Island, depending on your education you might not find any real options for employment outside of the oil fields in Alberta, especially because all the factories ended up shutting down in the 90s and 2000s
I stayed at my relatives’ house that has a landline recently, and it drove me nuts.

Instead of being able to just pull the vibrating phone out of my pocket like a normal person, I had to drop whatever I was doing and walk over to a room where the phone was ringing loudly. It routinely threatened to wake up my sleeping toddler!

Of course, if you miss it, you can’t just send a text back. (They don’t have an answering machine, which is on them, but still, that’s how all phones were until the 70s or 80s).

Then I had to take a message for someone else. Okay, that part was worse than normal because it’s not my house, but the principle is the same: a landline is a location not a person, and whatever person happens to be there has to relay the message to its intended recipient. It’s a bad system. No one wants to talk to a house, they want to talk to a specific person.

It sucks. I already hadn’t used a landline for ten plus years, but it really reminded me of why I abandoned them. The only good thing is the signal clarity, and using a portable phone hurts that too.
>> I just don't see how it's incumbent on Apple to implement a standard only because it exists.

Well Apple does implement the standard. They DO have OpenGL, but their driver is not fully compliant apparently.

>> It takes significant resources and impacts release schedules

Well it seems 2 people working for a couple years managed to do it without much in the way of documentation that Apple clearly has (they built the F-ing thing).

Apple has considered OpenGL deprecated for a long time now, but they do support it (they brought it to M1 and M2) and it makes sense to keep doing so. They really should be more conformant. If a standard is worth supporting, it's worth supporting well - and Apply has unlimited funds in comparison to these two people.
In terms of "premium finish" feeling, I think that the Starbook from Star Labs might be in the convo - they actually make their own chassis, unlike so many other vendors.

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starbook

(I know Framework isn't rebranding stuff - just throwing another in the mix)

Good luck getting one though, wait times seem bad every time I look.
You should ask South Africans of any race if they preferred the "colonialism and apartheid" or what they have now.
Employer is required to verify citizen or immigration status. For an American with a passport, the passport works okay.

Passport works great for ID all around, because it does not require SSN and does not have home address.

Many things, like TSA (Soviet era) checkpoints don't actually require ID. People seemingly prefer to act like cattle and show IDs everywhere and voluntarily consent to full body scans. Then people complain that their bits of privacy got leaked. Of course it leaked, and you voluntarily consented.
Funding Clean Electricity Will Help Grow the Hydrogen Economy
A lot depends on the terrain and the condition of the trail/road. (Pavement does tend to be a bit harder on your feet than a nice dirt trail.)

25km (~15mi) per day on level terrain on a path in good condition is a good walk but not anything exceptional. If there are ups and downs and the trail is rock and rough that's a whole different story.
I'm "involved" in plenty outside of work, with an active social life, including regularly meeting new people, volunteering, and more.

I can't remember the last time I got a legitimate phone call except from work. It's been several years at the very least.
Honestly when I discovered the dnd feature and even the simple ones like sleep mode. It's been a godsend. It's automatic and I only use the phone "casually" when in the bathroom.
That’s backwards is it not?

A fossil fuels company has deep incentive to minimize the harm of fossil fuels. A solar company has incentives to make fossil fuels as bad as they can.

Even if you generally perceive fossil fuels guys as bad guys.

Regardless. Any company has incentives to do this if someone (government) will pay for it. It doesn’t really harm any profits.
I have an AMD 5700U linux notebook for work. I'll second that they're really quite great on battery and speed.
I wish the article went more in-depth with less advertising. While this is very interesting, I felt like it was also very superficial.
https://archive.ph/rRVo4
I grew up in rural Appalachia in coal country. there’s no generational money. I am not married and don’t split expenses. I taught myself programming and worked my way up, yeah. I sold all of my stuff to get into the property market in the SF Bay Area (I own a SFH with no family help, no rsu buyout and no partner). This is what I’m suggesting, yes. It sucks, I realize it’s unrealistic . I am just telling you how I got it done. I’m greatly sorry about how things in Canada are going. I wish I did not have to make this unrealistic suggestion.
>transunion absolutely do not give a shit.

I'm sure they would respond to a subpoena if you were willing to work with an attorney
Nice! I've always been skeptical of coarse metrics like "X million miles per accident" because they don't differentiate between different driving environments like freeways and cities. I'm glad there's research breaking the data down in a more fine-grained way.
... and lead to a massive increase in iatrogenic deaths, and deaths from diversion of scarce medical resources from more important diseases.

Sounds like a net negative, even if restricted to males from 20-44.
Great write-up! I'd add that most of the shortcomings of each archetype can be overcome by good process and communication. I think this is what highly technically minded engineers find most frustrating in team-based workplaces, that the hardest problems are not technical, but rather social and structural. However, the answer isn't to throw one's hands up in the air at lack of mandate, knowledge, or responsibility, but rather to communicate continuously with those who have those elements until you have gained them as well. This does require people higher up willing to give up control though, as referenced in the mentioned book "Turn the Ship Around" the further down you can push control the better as it leads to good developers at least having the opportunity to gain all the elements needed to be successful.
I don't know the numbers but I'm sure the electrical grid that EV cars rely on is prettily heavily subsidized by the government as well. And the upstream electricity producers generate electricity in a number of ways, including with fossil fuels.