skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always headlines when this happens, but shutting down production like this is what Toyota believes is part of their magic sauce. They lose productivity when a problem shuts them down, but most of the time when things are working they gain due to lack of waste. But despite being a common part of curriculum around the world, it isn't that common to see, I think because intuitively it seems wrong somehow.
If you use WASM+WebGL, you'd typically debug a native build outside the browser.

According to here GLES3.2 support on Android is currently sitting at 80%, while with GLES3.0 you would reach about 95%, and with GLES2 100%.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards#OpenGL

If I would try to ship a native app on Android I would still at least try to only use GLES3.0 features to get that extra 15%.

You enthusiastic charactization of Android debugging tools isn't exactly how I would describe the situation ;)
Well, they continue to be sold for 2 years or more, which demonstrates the paucity of the 3 years of updates from the release date.

Meanwhile Apple quietly is bugging me to update my 9 year old ipad.
Seriously, the competing library problem is stale news. It might've contributed to things stalling a long time back, but I think the main reason right now perhaps is due to no mainstream FOSS software that is used by a large population being written in D. Nowadays, there are too many alternate choices in capable languages with more backing and some of them have more mind-share like Go and Rust and Zig. Mostly Rust perhaps. And C++ is catching up. D doesn't really have a niche where it might be a good language to use.
I agree that if open source client software requires a proprietary web service to be used, that software as a whole is not open source. That doesn't mean the test of the four freedoms is insufficient, it simply means that the test needs to be applied to both the client and the server.

> VSCodium may be open source in theory, but it's designed to be deployed in a less functional fashion than VSCode, more like a "Freemium", hence the "Codium", ringing me like "-ish", or "looks like".

VSCodium is not "designed" to be less functional, since it is a project maintained by developers who are unaffiliated with Microsoft. VSCodium is an application that is "deployed" in the exact same way as Visual Studio Code on the desktop. The name VSCodium is a nod to Chromium, not "freemium".[1]

Using the Chrome analogy, Visual Studio Code is like Chrome, proprietary and closed source. Microsoft's "Code - OSS" repo[2] is like Chromium, and serves as a functional open source base for the closed source software with the proprietary client-side features omitted. VSCodium[3] is like Ungoogled Chromium,[4] with both being community projects unaffiliated with Microsoft/Google. VSCodium takes "Code - OSS", strips out the telemetry, and uses the Open VSX Registry[5] for extensions by default instead of Microsoft's proprietary Visual Studio Marketplace.

> Or you can embed it as an editor to your project, but not much more.

Have you ever used VSCodium? It's a full editor that includes almost all of the features of Visual Studio Code. It does not need to be embedded to be used.

> Heck even Atom or its current incarnation is better.

You're entitled to your own opinion, but Atom was developed by GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft. After the acquisition, Microsoft diverted development efforts to Visual Studio Code, and both VSCodium and "Code - OSS" currently run circles around Atom in both performance and features. It doesn't help that Atom was discontinued last year, with the final version having been released in March 2022.[7]

[1] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/28

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

[3] https://vscodium.com / Source: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

[4] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

[5] https://open-vsx.org / Source: https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx

[6] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/VSCode

[7] https://github.com/atom/atom
Cotton in particular is a bad crop choice because it uses a lot of water. Cotton cultivation is a contributing factor to the shrinking of the Aral Sea.
1-click link to Uniffi https://mozilla.github.io/uniffi-rs/
I've been experiencing carpal tunnel on and off for a couple of weeks now.
I can tell you that reading through some code generated by "insert llm x" is substantially less painful than writing all of it by my own hand.

Especially if you start understanding how to refine your prompts to the point where you use a single thread for project management and use that thread to generate prompts for other threads.

Not all value to be gained from this is purely copypasta.
> All open-source programming languages are allowed to get or ask for donations and have sponsors, [...]

> Particularly, when the actual intent or agenda is that such persons are detractors or competitors from rival languages.

V was not open-sourced when the accusation was made, and there were probably two or three people qualifying your description of "rivals" (even after assuming bad intents). Stop diluting the context.

> Lastly, various financial supporters of the V language have even come on HN to tell and explain how proud they are of the language and the progress it has made.

This is not different from how many investors to failed crowdfunding campaigns would behave before the actual failure. They will either acknolwedge risks (but few actually evaluate them) or "answer" every criticism with non sequiturs. It is not really their fault, but still useless as an evidence.
This + geo locked streaming/payment. I am never sure what Prime will allow me to pay for and watch.
https://archive.is/xOl9t
Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness
Chess Cheating Saga Ends: Hans Niemann Will Be Allowed Back on Chess.com
It is very cathartic to see someone as irritated by these things as I am. One thing that stands out to me is how surprisingly often these Big Tech companies seem to appear here. Apple and Google seem to constantly be fiddling with their UIs (on their mobile OSs and various web products) and they seem frequently incapable of implementing extremely basic stuff correctly
https://archive.is/rAMMC
> What does "never been defeated" mean, exactly?

Universal statements like this are hard to prove, and easy to disprove.

All you need to do is provide one of your many successful examples.
> Are you claiming this because they used copyrighted material as training data? If so, I think you're starting from the wrong point.

All open source license comes under copyright law. It means if they violate the OSS license, the license is void and the tech/material becomes copyright protected. So yes, it would mean that it is trained on copyrighted material.

> Additionally, I don't think many open source licenses explicitly forbid using their code as training data.

It doesn't forbid. For example, permissive license like MIT can be used to train LLM's if they are in compliance. The only requirement when you train on a MIT licensed codebase is that you need to provide attribution. It is one of the easiest license to comply. It means, you just need to copy paste the copyright notice. The below is the MIT license of Emberjs.

Copyright (c) 2011 Yehuda Katz, Tom Dale and Ember.js contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

This copyright notice needs to be somewhere in ChatGPT's website/product to be in compliance with MIT license. If it is not, MIT license is void and you are violating the license. The end result is you are training on copyrighted material. I am more than happy to be corrected if you could find me any single OSS license attribution shown somewhere for training the openai model.

Also, this can be still be fixed by adding the attribution for the code that is trained on. THIS IS MY ARGUMENT. The absolute ignorance and arrogance is their motivation and agenda.

Which is why I am asking, WHAT IS STOPPING THEM FROM VIOLATING THEIR OWN TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR CHATGPT ENTERPRISE?
Show HN: SSH-crypt – helps to keep passwords in your shell scripts safely
This tool encrypts/decrypts passwords(or any other type of data) using the key from your ssh-agent which allows you to keep encrypted passwords inside you shell scripts
One of my favorite aspects of coding a project from the ground up is designing the database schema, anticipating how things will need to scale. To me it's something better done first with paper and pencil. Then I'm constantly discovering the ways in which I need to reconsider parts of the data structure as I begin writing and tuning queries, figuring out where bottlenecks will be. I don't consider it "just implementation" in the way I do, like, writing UI components or user action trees. My concern is that if I didn't go through that process, mentally and on paper, but took GPT's suggestions at some turns, I would never really have the handle on the strengths and weakness of the underlying model that I have from knowing every nut and bolt. Which would likely lead to all the software I wrote on top of it being less robust than it could be.
Collect taxes and build artificial reefs.
That's true, but it seems irrelevant. Mind explaining the connection with what I said more directly?
ITA: Sensationalist takes on the startup ecosystem driven by examples of NFT and web3 startups failing.

Move along.
Seek help
When it comes to investing in startups, I think the answer is yes, because there are presumably a limited number of winners
An ebook reader is pointless if it doesn't run on eink devices. Surely nobody is reading entire books on a laptop screen?
> Also I think you need to better understand how much hallucination has been driven down recently and its clear path going forward.

Unless it’s essentially fully eliminated, it doesn’t qualitatively change the argument. The output cannot be trusted to go directly to customers and/or business partners. It can’t even be trusted to go to employees that don’t know it’s from AI and might lie if you ask if something strange.

> You even contradict yourself at the end.

There is no contradiction. Read it again.
I think about this a lot recently. I've been using computers since the 80s in one form or another, but so much of "the early stuff" is just lost -- Amiga floppy disks that got taken and not returned. Content I did backup is in formats for apps that no longer exist.

Aside from personal examples there is also all of the "right to repair", DRM, type stuff that gets taken down from YouTube, GitHub. There are exotic examples like TornadoCash (for AML rather than the above categories), but there are far more mundane examples of content just disappearing as well.

I've started a personal setup of mirroring the top starred repos and downloading youtube channels for content that I consider important (there is, of course, too much for me to capture it all).

It fits into my thinking about the Long Now. Working in formats that can be opened in 100 or 1000 years. I don't have the hubris to think my own content is particularly remarkable and worthy of persisting for 1000 years, if I find other peoples content interesting though I can help persist that for the future.

For my personal knowledge base I use Obsidian and link everything (including downloaded YouTube videos). I also use the Firefox extension "SingleFile" which allows the easy capture of web pages that you're reading (and supports a direct upload to github, which then publishes to vercel).

It's far from perfect but it's better than some of my early knowledge base efforts where I've come back and clicked on links only to find that they've disappeared (and in some case not even on the Wayback Machine).
In The Left Hand of Darkness, Genly Ai is at one point sent to a prison camp, in what is basically a communist country by a different name. Basically gulag, in Siberia.
I have a phone going on 6 years now. Replaced the battery a few years ago and slapped on a custom ROM once mine was invariably not supported. I don't have a huge case on it or keep it plugged most of the time.

It's my daily driver, so I use it all the time and it basically runs everything I need.
It is true, but normally CCP is not worried about private companies. Many times, they would ask private companies to help in developing an area, creating jobs. Sometimes private companies are asked to take over a bankrupted company to save jobs at the cost of private company, very few companies would say no because they know they are going to be rewarded later. It is very interesting dynamic in business sector.

If CCP does have agents in those big businesses, there would be no recent bad news from the real estate companies.
> if you’re building a product and company that provides real people, real value

Ah shoot…this old thing again.
https://archive.is/L1xlT
Android Live Transcribe works offline now on some phones. Seems like offline features are getting more popular.

I would imagine Apple has some stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if you could do everything you described offline with just Google or Apple stuff. Much as I hate Apple I suspect an iPhone would be better.

Does Mycroft AI work well/at all on mobile(No extra battery drain, etc)? If not, what happens when she travels? Why should she have to lug around extra stuff?

Unless she's a fairly strongly privacy-interested type, doing any original software, or in depth configuration even, seems like a bad plan if existing stuff can do it.

What if you're busy, and it crashes in a way that's hard to recover from without eyesight? With Commercial tech everyone knows, any friend can help her.

Most people don't appreciate tech toys as much as people on HN do. They don't care if it's open source, private, and you can see the code and improve every part. They're users, not FOSS philosophers, and they get annoyed if you put code before convenience, maybe even feeling like you're making their situation a Jimmy Neutron episode, just another chance to tinker with broken apps.

But I could be totally wrong and Mycroft could be doing something absolutely amazing that would really help a blind person. I'm neither blind, nor a Mycroft user, nor an accessibility expert.

I do see blind YouTubers who seem happy with their iPhones though.
Hi! We at Aeroscan.nl also facilitate power line inspection in The Netherlands besides real estate, it's a smaller market but with higher margins here.

We used to pitch our expensive long range UAV to do power line inspections but by the time we got to run our first pilots DJI had already launched an actual good professional drone (M300) that was more economical to run and by the time we started production DJI had launched a small drone that achieves effectively the same thing without heavy cameras (M30E).

Make sure you've got at least 2 years of runway, customer acquisition in this market can take years. I'd agree with crubier on focusing on either hardware or software but the reality is that the customers are going to want a full solution, so if you're not going to do something make sure you've got partners to do it with.

If you need a partner for Cloud based power line inspection we could be it. Our main focus is real estate but as I said we did land a big powerline job and our platform works fine for it (powerline inspection is actually a lot less demanding than real estate inspection believe it or not).
Ok, so now Magnus says:

As part of the settlement, chess world champion Carlsen said “there is no determinative evidence that Niemann cheated in his game against me at the Sinquefield Cup. I am willing to play Niemann in future events, should we be paired together.”

But wait, didn't we have countless commenters explaining how Niemann cheated (also on HN). I really don't like how Magnus tarnished his reputation so casually, probably as the result of an unexpected loss to him.
> I can't imagine ever gaining satisfaction from reducing productivity since the process of programming isn't that interesting to me. It's what I can do with it that motivates me. The faster and easier I get to the state of having built the thing the better.

I enjoy the process of learning and getting better. Would you get the same satisfaction from typing “landscape best quality masterpiece” into Midjourney as you would from painting it yourself?
apple _de facto_ ships software + security updates for many many years, and does so longer than google.

who cares if android has _de jure_ lifetimes, as they are shorter. apple won’t suddenly stop giving any devices updates after 1yr, so it doesnt really matter
Given the reliability, why didn't you buy from them again? (I'm assuming you did not due to use of past tense.)
Time only flows in one direction.
+1 on this. I self hosted for years but it became a time sink, so I moved everything to Fastmail.
I have read many dozens of books (mostly pdf based) from my laptop, and am quite happy with the experience.
If you use a language server, go-to-definition just works.
> People focus myopically on the first aspect, but it's really the second that is the most important and most enduring

But something you can read and write to is not called a file, it is called a stream. It is no accident that Linux differentiates between “files” that you can write to at arbitrary places, or ones that are append-only.
In the spirit of the linked article, remember to also save local copies of interesting stuff from archive.org, because of things like this:

https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive
What I find interesting is the cross platform UI from V which also compiles for Android:
https://github.com/vlang/ui

It does seem to be still in its very early stages but if they are able to make this a more mature library, it may actually be quite useful for tiny, fast apps.
Well they sound like they have picked a higher base wage than average (particularly for servers) and aren’t making a profit.

Personally if it’s owner-run I would assume you would be better picking a lower base wage, then sharing profits (with the profits making up that shortfall).

That way there is also an incentive to be an owner, and the business is more stable - sounds like if they have picked high wages and low/no profit though they are running it hot and risky from a cash flow perspective.

But there aren’t profits for owners to share at the moment - possibly partially because they are overpaying on labour.
I do worry about the loss of so many films and TV series from our culture. With streaming services, they often don't bother with hosting obscure and older media, so lesser known gems can just disappear without most people even realising.

I hoard old scifi films and series (along with anything that I find of interest) and sometimes, the only copy that I can find has been posted to YouTube by some kind sole (as opposed to the copyright holder).

One particular service that really bugs me is the BBC iPlayer. The search is atrocious, so it's one of those sites that it's easier to do a search for "iplayer ..." in google etc. rather than using the BBC's own search. However, what really bugs me are the time restrictions and removal of programmes when as a TV license payer (which is how the BBC is funded), I've already paid towards the production of those programmes.

e.g. The excellent Oppenheimer series from the 1980s wasn't previously available on iPlayer despite being a BBC production and after the new film was released, the series was entirely available on YouTube, but not the BBC (they've since made it available).
In Europe, screenings generally aren't a thing unless you're in some risk group. It's not deemed to be effective enough and staff already have a bunch of actually sick people to treat
That is impressive. Interesting that the prefill (i am guessing this is prompt processing) is so much slower than decoding.

Its my understanding that under normal circumstances decoding is memory bandwidth bound which prompt processing isn't due to batching. Is there some quirk in your setup?
If I had an easily replacable battery and updates on my phone for that long, I would. Right now mine is 3 years old and still perfectly adequate in terms of hardware, but I can't because it will stop getting security updates soon.
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My wife and I together do Wordle, Waffle, Xordle and my own take on Octordle every day. We are retired and in our 70s. My wife is getting better at it and I am getting worse.

Xordle daily is favourite for both of us - solve two words at once. Use https://xordle.org/
I really wish I had been more of a data-hoarder earlier in my life. There are a ton of videos, podcasts and articles that I'd love to have access to today.

Much of it might not be super relevant, e.g. there where a silly podcast called "We hate tech" hosted by two super inappropriate systems administrators, but I'd love to relisten, but it's gone. Videos from conferences who's websites are no long around.

Sadly I was never much of an archivist, but every so often I stumple on an old harddisk or thumbdrive with a small time capsule of my life many years ago.