skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scrum is really like communism.
Everyone keeps saying “read the agile manifesto “ but the people who practice scrum (communism) most likely never read it. They just “get the idea”.

Same applies to the works of Marx and Engels: they are designed for completely different set of people compared to the ones that quote them and tend to say “they get the ideas”.
My biggest concern is the legally untested clause in their BUSL on ‘competing with hashicorp’. I do not know whether I can run Terraform from a production control panel to start new infra for customers. I do not know when this competing might change.

Their faq comments are useless: they had a faq item before saying they would be FOSS forever which they removed with this move.
Yeah, absolutely. Any VR game that moves the camera (me) without me commanding it is torture. Like, I bump the stick by accident, the character takes two steps forward and I immediately feel a tug in my stomach and a wave of dizziness and panic.
Yes, just hacking nights and weekends. I've done my fair share of console reverse engineering, developing software for console devices (mostly GBA and NDS development, but a fair bit of SMS and Genesis reverse engineering), etc, and it's seriously some of the most fun I've had as a developer. But it takes an enormous amount of tenacity to push through the inevitable challenges.
Yes. And my 8 year old son on his bike dies. Serves him right, he should’ve gotten himself one of those RAM 1500’s as well.
For some reason every time there is a new robotics development the application is "disaster response".
MSFT Memo To Managers Don't Use Budget Cuts as explainer for lack of pay rise
People can also be retired or simply rich.
In Antwerp there are gang related grenade attacks on an almost monthly basis.
It's easy to say that someone should "go where you're treated best", but I have done that, and besides the cost and logistics, I still grieve that I don't feel safe in the city where I grew up, where friends and family still live, and that I still call home.

If I told the other people that they're the ones who need to move away, not me, they'd feel just as torn. We all have to figure out a way to live next to each other.
Well... there's a lot of money to be made in reverse engineering things --particularly in legal settings where software is an issue.

Don't forget that the Chinese do this constantly with American products. Trying to figure out how we built something, and doing it for cheaper.

So what would be cool is if he could make a great console experience cheaper than Nintendo could make it.
Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’
The move from crypto to artificial intelligence has fueled the markets this year, but some
are questioning how much of it is real.
Emudev is largely a hobby field. It takes skills from many fields to accomplish. You need the combined efforts of hardware engineers, reverse engineers, diligent documentarians, software engineers with specialized skill sets, etc. Everyone building on top of each other.

You'll see one-person operations, but they're usually relegated to older hardware and they still utilize documentation from many disparate sources. Even nesdev wiki was built on top of 6502 researchers, Taiwanese clone manufacturer reverse engineers, decappers, older NES emulators, heaps of existing documentation, etc.
Ah, they're not trans now. They're "cross dressers"

You're very much arguing in good faith already :)
Any of the drones used in the Ukraine right now would be able to do a lot of damage. And those things are relatively low tech.

The reason these horror scenarios aren't so common is that most people simply are not suicidal murderers. It's always been easy to target crowds of people. But it's not that common for people to actually do that. When it does happen, there usually isn't a happy end for anyone involved with the attack.

Any determined idiot armed with a knife, baseball bat, truck, improvised explosives, etc. would be able to do quite a bit of damage. And in the US you can of course add all the light military gear that lots of people there buy for fun (assault rifles, etc.). That sometimes goes horribly wrong of course but you don't need drones to do a lot of damage.
Please show proof of your claims.

Do you really think it is feasible/a good idea that the moment someone makes a new site google should send all the traffic to that site?

Please THINK how easily that would be abused.
> why […]?

Their world-view (and knowledge) of disaster response was shaped by steady diet of 90’s disaster films — Volcano, Dante’s Peak, Armageddon, Twister, etc.
What are/were Axosofts libgit2 contribution numbers like? If Gitkraken is their bread and butter, why the hell aren't they sponsoring the developement with money and man power on the library they entrust? This post reads like an exploitive expose, ie. we profit on open source.

Or my condescending take is that Copilot/ChatGPT struggles with API generative code and it is far easier for the prompt "engineers" to generate a system call from the git man page.
I remember the original XBox had a pogo pin mod. Is this possible today?
Maybe a counterexample to it, not sure if it can be applied:

I write software in ABAP, which is a weird and ridiculously complicated language that has inline SQL and type checking against the database and has never had a major version that breaks old stuff, so code from 30 years ago will (and does) still run.

I used to have fun working around the quirks of it and finding solutions that work within the limitations, but now I'm just frustrated by having to solve problems that haven't been around for the past 15 years in the rest of world and looking at terrible code that can't be made any nicer because of those limitations or because customers don't give a shit as long as it works most of the time.
This 1000X ! I'm currently working on emulating the Apple 2+ speaker better. It's been a 2-3 spare time hours a week for about a year now :-)

But the joy of working on a machine that's part of your life, without the need to please end users (which is cool too but sometimes induce pressure), well, that's basically coding like when I was a kid. Except that now I have a TON more knowledge to work with !

And, while working on disk emulation I had the pleasure ot discover those many copy protections that "prevented" me to get many games :-)
https://github.com/rjmacarthy/twinny
>Would be curious to know how they tried to optimise the Java stack.

Fairly safe to day not at all.

The JVM is extremely fast, very efficient and very scalable (you can write java code that scales linearly with available cores). If performance or scalability is a metric to care about, it is nearly impossible to outscore java. You can, with very skilled C/C++ developers, but it's going to be difficult to find those people and it'll be a lot of work. If you need extreme performance on a reasonable budget, you can't do better than java. I know java isn't hip anymore, so this is not a popular truth, but it is.
>doesn’t have the full legal weight of an update or addendum to the actual license.

They, as the copyright owner, have said it is binding.

>There’s no guarantee that they won’t renege these “binding” answers next year

Next year they could changed the license entirely if they wanted to.
Yes, it is incredible that a site dedicated to startups and creating companies, has so many people that advocate not paying for the work of others, while expecting to be paid for their own work, made possible by such tooling.

In that regard our profession is a shame when comparing with other industries.
I replaced “Terraform” with “XFree86” and “OpenTF” with “X.org” as I read it, and the arguments sounded so familiar.

“If they fork XF86, users won’t know which product to install. They’ll drift apart and ruin the whole market!” Or maybe everyone will (once again) adopt the truly open version that the majority of contributors switch to.

Either way, I’m not too worried about it. Forks of open source projects happen all the time for a thousand reasons. That certainly beats closed stagnation!
That's my core question, and I am honestly curious about it: Aside from whether someone is intending to incite action (although I think a lot of these accounts are), at what point are they obligated to limit their free speech because someone else will more-or-less-reliably be incited by it? Is there any US jurisprudence around that question already?
Not sure how it is now but when we were on vacation last year they capped you at 5GB a month of international. Still way better than other carriers, but Fi doesn't cap you, it just counts as your normal plan.
> Recently, I had a chat with some of my friends about Nushell and why they stuck with traditional shells like bash/zsh or the "new" hotness like fish rather than using Nushell.

Umm... because Nushell is pre-1.0, with major language changes every few weeks?

Living on the bleeding edge isn't everyone's cup of tea, and certainly not with something as fundamental to the system as a shell. Rest assured I will switch the moment 1.0 is released and a stability promise is published.

That being said, yeah – Nushell is the real deal. It's the Unix philosophy, except this time it actually works.
Reverse engineering. Systems programming. Firmware.

Sometimes yea, people have a career in an adjacent field and hack on emulators on the evenings. Other times I've ran across incredibly talented individuals with significant contributions that have never been employed in tech. I've seen multiple instances of this when a younger individual gets involved in a project they don't feel comfortable putting their real identity on for fear of hassles with Japanese companies known to be litigious.
Maybe I'm not using my shell to the fullest, but 95% of commands are pretty simple, and not complicated queries. `ls` might have a bajillion flags, but `-lah` go a long way. Because fish's autocomplete, I don't have to remember tar flags. That's the killer feature for me.

Along those lines, a quick way to drive adoption could be a huge "how do i do x" or recipes page to Ctrl+F through. If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fish/etc, I might as well stick to arcane bash - at least you know someone has had the same problem before.

Make it easy for me to get stuff done by showing me how to get stuff done, and I'll grok the shell bit by bit.

I did see https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/ , but it isn't really a searchable reference. There's some setup stuff, other short pages with basic tutorials (?), a link to a repo with example scripts, and for one-liners you are instructed to join a discord. None of these are easily searchable.
For an exercise in how wrong we can be, here's Steve Yegge two years ago telling us to prepare to speak Mandarin because China is going to reign supreme and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Steve deleted the article but the internet remembers.

https://archive.vn/bC1Ns
Proper Full Moon Songs
Pity that my supermarket doesn't take pull requests.
Only partly cuz Content is easy to copy and duplicate and rebroadcast. All of which the platforms have made free and easy. That has to be addressed.

Cuz One journo surfaces info. 6000 journos copy it and broadcast it and all expect to paid.

The solutions have to built around content reduction cuz right now we are over loaded with millions of people creating nothing new and expecting to be rewarded.
We don't need to assign blame you know. Many things aren't anyone's fault.

I don't think most parents want their kids to be noisy of whiny either, it's just how kids often are! Plus, they've just been inserted in a confining and boring environment, perhaps for quite a while, it is only natural that it upsets them a bit. I don't like being in a plane either, I just have the benefit of self control and understanding that it'll be over soon. Kids just don't. Not a whole lot a parent can do about that.
This is not the case. Maybe people have already forgotten what using computers was like when everyone had only 1 core, but having a few desktop apps pegging their share of cpu doesn't hurt interactivity much even on single-core computers.
In the future there's fire, in the past there is gold :-)
>I detest that so few people can hold the system in such terror, can have such outsized horrible impact on the world.

People should remember this whenever they feel "voting doesn't work" or "government ignores us". Look at it in another light; these are government institutions and two seemingly normal people made a huge change by being persistent.

Now imagine if we had a dozen people that persistent defending that content. I know the ability to be that persistent is in itself a sign of priveledge (or simply age. being retired gives a lot of time to lobby), but it also suggests that a lot of people in a few meetings can fight back.
I would have guessed this happened 5+ years ago.
C# is a common choice for emulators, actually.

It probably goes C/C++ (it's really hard to disambiguate the two, in this case; few codebases are pure either way) then Rust (for hobby emulators, it's probably third or fourth for serious efforts), C# and Java.

JavaScript and Python are very common for hobby efforts, but generally exceptions for serious codebases (excepting WASM).
The article admits basically exactly this, but also makes arguments as to why?

```

He proceeded to explain that if he could recreate many of the techniques we showed all as part of a C++ library that people could use. At this time, I wasn't sure how to respond other than "but you don't have to, we already built this language" but he couldn't be swayed. If it wasn't C++, he didn't want it.

Fast forward a couple years, and I'm standing in front of a JavaScript audience giving a similar talk, this time promoting TypeScript. I remember the kind of politely confused looks on people's faces as I showed off the features TypeScript offered. There was a similar sense of "why do we need to leave JavaScript?".

To answer whether Nushell can overcome this kind of inertia, I'll pose two questions:

Is Nushell compelling enough for a single person to adopt it?
Would adopting Nushell broadly as a community move the needle?

Let's tackle the first question. Time and again, as people try Nushell, they come back with quotes like "this is the most excited I've been about tech in 15 years". It has a fanbase that loves it, and that fanbase is growing. It reminds me of the early days of Rust, just after hitting 1.0.

To the second question: would adopting Nushell broadly actually improve things noticeably? Without a doubt. I say this without any reservation. Thinking of our shells as structured, interactive processing engines opens up the doors to a much wider array of things you can do with them. The commands would be far simpler than their POSIX equivalents and would compose far better. They'd benefit from the full knowledge of the data being shared between them. Adaptors could be made to connect to all parts of the system, allowing you full, structured interaction with everything you have access to.

```

I enjoy nushell, but I am far far far from the average user/target audience. I do not sys admin or anything like it, I mostly use it to quickly navigate the filesystem and, with nushell specifically, occasionally to work with data i've gotten from other things. I haven't gotten quite to the point I would write scripts in it yet, but at the point i'm considering throwing up an FSX file or going into a repl, I like that I might just be able to use nushell instead for the smaller tasks.

Is this useful? To me, sure, to everyone else, hell if I know.

edit-

Article even touches on this mindset:

> I don't need to do heavy data processing everyday, but it's nice to not have to shift what I'm doing at all when I need to do it. I don't have to download new utilities or switch languages. It's all right there. Need to write a script to load some files and handle some directory processing? Still right there. Need to throw together some web query that outputs the top download results for a github repo? You guessed it, all still right there.
The high precision calculator was a true gem. I have used it a few times when I needed more precision than the 64bit that Javascript gives me. Is there an alternative somewhere?
He had a projected IQ of about 66. I don’t know if you’ve engaged with many people with intellectual impairment, but it doesn’t take much for “dumb idea” to gain traction.

He wasn’t radicalised, look it up. He was just an evil git that should never have been allowed near a gun.
Funny, because 99% of current regex libraries use Perl's regex extensions.
DSPy: Programming–not prompting–Foundation Models
Somebody else before him, Leo Szilard, observed that most biological processes appear to contradict the 2nd law of thermodynamics because they take/collect/leverage disparate energy and concentrate it locally in another form.

Fred worked on that.
To be very clear, Lahaina burning up is not the result of colonialism, but of poor fire prevention measures, including the government response after the fire started.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-t...
If the algorithm preferred long videos, you'd be better off with one 10m video as opposed to two 5m videos as it would be pushed harder. Whereas if it was agnostic to video length, the latter would be OK.

Regardless, you're correct that watch time may be a motivating factor in making them stretch content longer than it needs to be though. I don't think they get paid for watch time (it's all about ad impressions or CPMs) but it would positively impact their channel statistics.
hashicorp.com is not a random site. While an FAQ does not necessarily constitute a license, this FAQ Hashicorp is binding so it becomes an extention of it.
> Noah has become a political pundit who tends to straw man the opponents to his preferred political ideology of centrist us democrat ... But it’s important to keep in mind when reading articles like this where he’s hitting an extremely reputable magazine that isn’t politically aligned to him.

Huh? The Economist is as liberal-centrist as it gets. Whatever the rift forming here is (and I agree there is one), it's happening within the neoliberal bloc.
I didn't understand anything written in that post. Saga was mentioned 5 times: once in the title, once in a tag, and 3 times in the 1st paragraph. I would have benefited from an example, as everything was too abstract for me to follow.
- "consistently followed shortly after by bomb threats, doxxing, and other harassment"

And what on Earth do you think the KKK was? The very case law you're citing [0] secured their rights to hold white-supremacy rallies. LibsOfTikTok (probably) doesn't meet that standard either, and that shouldn't be even slightly surprising. Glorifying, advocating, inspiring actualized violence — like both the KKK and these people have done — don't pass the Brandenburg bar. "Directed towards" and "imminent" are key tests. Those are not present (I'm not familiar with what these hate groups say; I'm drawing inference from the choice of phrasing you used to describe it, "turning the spotlight on". That is not Brandenburg incitement).

[0] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/970/incitement-to-i...
I'm guessing faster Street view updates could be next. Park the car, release bunch of drones (permission from the town is no problem, it's good for local businesses), have all nearby streets scanned in a few minutes. Eventually have a base station in each city and do daily (hourly?) updates.
> Some claim that if AGPL is very toxic,

Google (and other large enterprises) definitely claims this, though honestly I think the main problem with the AGPL is the mechanism by which it works, not necessarily the idea behind it.

> and that even viewing AGPL code might taint any project you work on later.

Never heard this before. I also have no idea why this would be any different from other potentially-not open source software licenses.

> It's not dissimilar to a certain argument of patents. The more you read patents the more liability you potentially have in a lawsuit, so literally ignorance is bliss.

For patents I understand why this is the case even if it's not necessarily an ideal situation, but for AGPL it's still just copyright law at play, regardless of what the restrictions are. I don't understand how this differs from other licenses so strongly.
The classic Switches have a bridgeable pin in the controller port that'll give you ring0 access. But it's only that very first generation.

You just slide something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Switch-Short-Connector-Recov...

Into the controller slide and enable it when you want RCM access.
For me the high precision calculator (with up to 130 digits precision) was the most (only?) useful part of the website. It was a life saver if you needed it. Really sad to see it go.

https://keisan.casio.com/calculator
I still disagree.

A completely factual statement like “my daily observations support the theory that sales of large pick-up trucks in The Netherlands have grown, while I can not observe a matching growth in business development that could explain the increased need for such vehicles” would be read by exactly no one.

A joke based in truth catches people’s attention and draws them to read essentially the same thing I said above.

A rhetorical device, sure. But we are on a discussion forum here, not in an economics paper.
Google isn’t answering your question. That’s not its job.

Its job is to find websites talking about what you entered as your query. If all people are doing is speculating … that’s all Google will return.
How much did you pay for the TCP/IP stack you posted that with? Your web browser? The extensions in it? This website?

Everything we do is built on the shoulders of giants. If we’re very lucky, we’ll make something nice that others will want to build upon in turn.
> For the vast majority of the flight is just sitting in a chair, and feels exactly like that.

To me it feels like sitting in a chair that’s hurtling forward at 900 km/h and randomly rising and falling by a few meters. I’m not forgetting that for a second. It’s not that uncomfortable at cruise altitude, but I’m definitely very aware of what’s happening and how even tiny changes in pitch are tied to quite large and long acting G forces (compared to sitting in a chair, not to a rollercoaster).
What’s the benefit of using pyas over integrating with the calendar APIs themselves?
Imo. Best engineers will almost always work in office/person. Small number of them but they’ll be making the big decisions.

Auxiliary engineers can be remote. They just need to smash tickets, not necessarily drive any innovation.

The former will be rare and probably make a lot of money and have decent stake. The latter might be outsourced and commoditized especially with AI in the mix making developers more efficient.
Right, and that's why people are upset that Hashicorp is (in a sense) taking away their contributions to this open source project without paying for it.

Yeah... that's not what you meant.

Virtually no one is actively disagreeing here with Hashicorp's right the charge money for the software they built. But it's just a different model, in which so many outside contributors would not have been... contributors.
This is the core of the matter. With the language of their license, they have a financial incentive to start offering services that increasingly cover more and more of the possible "bulk" use cases.

Your use might have been perfectly fine last week, but can be competing with their new offerings from the beginning of next week.
>I do not know whether I can run Terraform from a production control panel to start new infra for customers

Is what you are doing competing with Terraform cloud? You can send your questions to licensing@hashicorp.com for clarification.