skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This essay lost the plot!

There’s nothing about the whole situation that open source fixes. Your champion open source project can change its license and pricing too.

The only way to protect yourself here is to enter into a non-ambiguous and non-shitty contract with your vendor.

If the software industry learns anything from this it should be that it’s not super smart to build your business on a technology with variable pricing that you don’t have control over (or something to that effect).
The problem is that as the market increasingly becomes removed from reality the only thing left for "leadership" to do is follow the trends that their biggest investors are following.

What benefit would sound, thoughtful leadership provide in a world where the fundamentals have no connection with real world success? For years if you had made a profitable, viable and sustainable company investors would have scoffed at you. You would have been crushed by some investor hype fueled, unprofitable, impossible to sustain company chasing trends.

Reality keeps threatening to rear it's ugly head, but then we find a way to keep it at bay for another round of delusion. We all know something is not quite right but as long as there's money on the table we all keep playing the game. I mean we all know by now that crypto is a scam and COIN has more than doubled it's opening price at the start of the year.
Driving the Global Conversation about “Open Source AI” – Voices of Open Source
To combat this, manufacturers can just rename the product.
Where did I insinuate about astroturfing mate?
Technically, any level of CO2 causes detriment. Even our ambient level is higher than some decades ago and apparently it is possible to measure the effect on us (mostly related to nervous system).

Personally, I can't discern any difference below 600 any way I tried to measure it.

I carry my Aranet4 with me and in some apartments of my friends and family it is normal for CO2 to not go below 2000ppm in winter. So you are doing pretty well.
(for those downvoting I think this, because this is what I remember to have read years ago when this font came out)
Everyone but companies can suffer from the effects of inflation, got it.
"man 5 elf" should be the ultimate source of truth :-)
I'm not Musk, but I assume it is based on who started each conflict within the war. If Russia moves troops further into Ukraine stopping that push would be defensive. If Ukraine tries to remove Russian troops that would be offensive. Maybe that is arbitrary, but it is what the Ukrainians agreed to.
How can I prevent myself from using a parameter after I’ve extracted all value
There are lots of alternatives to PepsiCo, Unilever, and Nestle.
Yeah, if there’s a way to discriminate AI from human writing that could also be used to train a better AI and become indistinguishable again.
Ah, well your original point was basically saying nobody connected their phone to a computer :)
On look at Mayhew's London Labor and the London Poor, which you can find at gutenberg.org
^^^ I don't understand how's that sentence controversial or rude

I mean, what's the difference of how you distribute empty space in a product, either having a few high density components and empty space visible by naked eye, or using less dense material where empty space is between molecules
I'm less concerned about Unreal pulling a Unity. The bigger issue is just a lack of attention. The last numbers I saw was that Unreal was pulling in $100m a year for Epic. That's a drop in the bucket compared to what Epic makes off of Fortnite. In my experience, products that matter a lot to the consumer but not the company tend to stagnate. Just look at Google outside of search.
> bands play each others songs without asking

Live performances are a different act than recording and selling albums. Live performances are always (?) allowed, but IIRC, the songwriter/composer is due a royalty.

How often that happens in real life is a question, but live performances (currently) have a different set of rules.
No problem about the cynicism, I appreciate any questions.
Honest answer: I know Laravel, I know how to use a template to make a nice looking landing page, and I know how to plug in Stripe to receive payments.
I don't really write books or sell courses, Notion templates or any of the things that are big on Gumroad, so for now it's better for me to provide this information and charge for it rather than trying to learn how to write an ebook.
>A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming

This is no "wake-up call" as there was never any doubt that all things being equal, FOSS would be a better option.

There are already where plenty of FOSS options to build games. The developers who didn't pick them up did it because Unity/Unreal give them features and convenience and such they don't get from them.
I appreciated reading this because I work in the collections department at a large bank, and it was interesting to see a lot of what I already know confirmed while also learning a lot of new things about what happens to the debt after it leaves the bank. But come on... After all that griping, just two pathetic little paragraphs at the end under "What can be done about this?" that basically say "I'll leave it to the lawmakers." The writer is a lawyer; he couldn't come up with ANY solutions himself?
Looks like it was made possible by the Pico's PIO assembly/chip
https://github.com/mackieks/MaplePad/blob/main/src/maple.pio

The cycle accurate assembly language has enabled a number of timing sensitive FIFO data processes. What had to be done with FPGA's before has some limited support with PIO. I hope RPI increases the number of instructions and simultaneous running PIO machines in the future.
Still better CO2 footprint than anything else on the market
nah, there's a broad consensus of US (and alas also in most countries') population of not wanting to pay for "externalities", they want cheap gas and cheap labor, cultural homogeneity, and so on.

if a few thousand private school darlings can bamboozle hundreds of millions for decades, then the problem is not just with them.

of course it's cultural and it's due to the very strong biases of the last who-knows-how-many centuries.

> and it's not relevant for a topic about databases

it's very relevant for the whole concept of FOSS "moon landings" and the commons
The fact there’s a civil war doesn’t give you a right to invade a country. Or does it? I’m confused, it’s always a different answer.
> one of the few Andromeda fans (there’s dozens of us, dozens!)

Maybe even many dozens!

But yeah. I know my nostalgia glasses are strong, and that every game from Oblivion to 4 has a dull main quest and some dully written side quests among the gems, but I thoroughly enjoyed digging for those gems and all the little worldbuilding in between. Andromeda was kinda like that too, but with (IMO) much more solid combat, but the expectations from the public were totally different.

But... I am not running into the gems in my short time in Starfield so far.
I grew up on a farm (which my brother now owns). So my anecdata spans from roughly 1980 until today. The farm cats tended to have two very different life spans. The short lived ones died within their first 3 years. The long lived ones lived 16 years or longer. With most bunched up around 18-20 years and the oldest two living to 25 and 27 years.

We've had no cats that lived between 3 and 16 years.

I have no idea why. To some degree you could get a sense which category a cat was in within the first year or so.

If I were to guess I think a cat will probably have a shorter life span in a city. More cars and more opportunities to get infected with diseases from other cats.
Coming up with unique identifiers for every single specific recognizable product would be an incredible feat, that would have huge impacts beyond this.

Now I'd totally expect a brand to just renew identifiers at random and break any tracking that doesn't help them.
> Yeah but what’s the alternative?

Buy a different brand?

Eat something else?
At least half the problems in the mobile space can be traced to apple being apple.
Looks really interesting, especially the 3-way separation of concerns that include content writers as target users.

I read some of the comments here, then read the linked “Why” page, and realized many comments are missing the point, fixating on less important points. I recommend you make the Why page the front page instead (merging the current front page graphics and video with it).

Move your “Hello World” blurb to the blog instead. It doesn’t really say anything that Why and front pages don’t, and isn’t crucial front page content.

Maybe also include some info on how it works under-the-hood. For example, given the small size I doubt it’s a virtual-dom based. Is it a compiler model like Svelte and Solidjs? Or something else?
And what am I paying for, an empty shell?
The GDPR applies to all companies, social network platforms or not. It's not even about the internet in particular, it's about how companies can store and process private information of EU citizens.
> If you can pay less someone for the same result, it's an obvious win.

I guess if the only thing in the world that matters to you is money, sure. I think people who think like that should be shunned from society.
In France, at least the law requires showing the current price per kilogram. So what Carrefour is doing is highlighting that this has changed compared to the previous price.
I'd find it more concerning if it came from someone else close to Fravor that he'd trolled people before, but not from Fravor himself. He spoke about it on a public interview. Obviously it's not something he's worried about being known, and he's not worried about it hurting his credibility.

Sure, it seems unlikely that someone who has hoaxed UFOs in the past would be the one to have an actual encounter, but UFOs are pretty common in conversation and on peoples' minds, especially in the last couple decades. I'm sure many pilots have wondered what it might be like to encounter a UFO.
We're competing with $15/hr labor. Businesses are happy to hire developers who deliver 6.4MB login pages quickly, until their customers start to complain.

I'm all about caring and using resources efficiently, and in a sense that's how we get such inefficient tech even though it's not what I mean. Money defines efficiency, and we're getting heavy apps for pretty cheap while lighter apps are more expensive in terms of specialized labor costs.

If engineers with this right attitude collectively work for rates competitive with global head shops and still deliver as quickly then we can have our light weight app cake and eat it too. I'm personally selling my services for $15/hr already, and anyone who hires me will get a pretty well engineered solution with minimal dependencies; who's with me?
except employees aren't really like blocks of aluminum. a lot of their ability to succeed depends on their knowledge about the product and the organization, and their very human relationships with other people.
Not the OP, but why the downvotes? I understand this was a bit off-topic, but I found it a witty reply.
Or a graph of the price per unit over the last 1-3 years.

They would probably change the SKU so the comparison is harder.
Disabling location is annoying yes (a couple levels deep in the settings) - but disabling bluetooth and wifi is at the top level and very easy to do.
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It's a social media platform, of course they need PII.

We need to relax all laws. Our laws are unbelievable cruel. Business are expected to follow so so so many bureaucratic laws. To fine them 2.6% every time they break one is insane. Imagine how many countries there are out there, how many business laws there are, how much they have to comply with.

A lot of these companies already operate on extremely thin margins. This can destroy companies. It doesn't make sense.
This still seems to be an unresolved legal question. Unity will almost certainly be getting sued for this by parties still using versions that shipped with that clause.
You might be right but I'm gonna hold judgment until the interest rates are back down to something more normal for a while. Recession or not, the situation doesn't feel normal, and the current situation doesn't feel sustainable.

Edit: In reply to those who feel "normal" isn't a thing: replace it with "sustainable".
> no reason

1) The UI is trash, bloated and unreliable.

2) The UI regularly tries to convince me to look at their junk TV/movie sales pages.

3) The UI doesn't provide proper feedback during the media library tagging/discovery process.

4) Oh yeah even though it's hosted in my network only using resources in my network, it feels the need to call home regularly.

Sorry, you seemed confused, and I'm not the person you're replying to, but I thought I'd help you out anyway. This list isn't comprehensive, but it should at least help you understand people might actually be shitting on Plex for actual reasons that exist :)
Do you have hobbies? You should have hobbies.
You weren't killed by the push, you were killed by the oncoming train. Big difference.
What you are proposing is literally impossible. If I were to comb through every ToS and EULA and every other legal text related to tools I use as a developer, I would not have any hours left in the day for, you know, actual development. Even then, I wouldn't have time to read and comprehend all of the legal contracts. Hell, if I stopped sleeping entirely and spent 24 hours a day combing through legal contracts, I still wouldn't have enough time to go through all of them.

So, no, your request is not reasonable.
I'm on Monterey 12.6.9, and confirm can run the latest FASM.
Current problem is how to configure the include path so I can build programs.

On Windows it's very easy:
check "Environment Variables", create an "INCLUDE" variable (if not exist), then set "C:\FASM\INCLUDE", for example.
Blog: https://lfortran.org/blog/2023/09/lfortran-compiles-fastgpt/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lfortranorg/status/1699441550424420718

LFortran is in alpha (it is expected to not work on third-party codes and users enthusiastically participate in bug reporting and fixing).
LFortran will reach beta when it can reliably compile 10 third-party production codes.
see exec builtin in the bash shell. otherwise man execvp etc.
Well, you just mentioned the companies that own about 90% of what is in Walmart. So, I wouldn't say, "lots".
It's hard to believe all this creative writing talent is being wasted on making up excuses for a billionaire man child.
> why wouldn't they?

Loss of institutional knowledge.
What I wonder, why would someone go out of their way and trying to discredit Grusch because he had PTS?
Is that all part of the game to make his testimony seem more plausible?
Or just a bad attempt at smearing his reputation?
Idk.
I'm still shocked at how quickly and easily most of the industry shifted away from half gallon ice cream containers.
There's a lot of Girl Genius stuff on AO3. The Foglios (authors) seem okay with fanwork existing (there's even a fanfic-discussion channel on the semi-official Girl Genius Discord server). Of course, stuff on AO3 doesn't make money, which may be a sticking point.
> mass long-tern incarceration of drug users

This is different from the ban overall, which is what the GP post was discussing. I don't dispute that sentencing lengths for a crime could be or were determined by specific individuals.

I dispute that the ban broadly can be attributed to this, and that, by implication, the public opinion at the time was caused by some sort of propaganda brainwashing.

Also just want to add that a common trope of anti-minority sentiment is that the majority group believes that the minority group engages in immoral behavior. This does not logically imply that the majority group's belief in the immorality of whatever behavior was caused by anti-minority sentiment.
Not if you're making use of VBA.
You are deliberately ignoring the point with extraneous details. I hope it makes you feel good, like you've won something? Congratulations.

Meanwhile, everyone else can clearly understand the point that government interactions have the court system to make challenges, writs to compel the government to act, and so on.

Have a good rest of your day.
Nitinol is not "NASA's metal". It was developed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, which is where the last three letters of nitinol come from.
what is 'less dense' component, is the battery full of air?
https://archive.md/tpqui

At this point basically any third party booking should be considered a scam. Even if the booking company is "legit", you're still a second class citizen with the hotel or whatever you booked and subject to no help, arbitrary fees, no points, etc.

It's just as much scamming on the side of the hotels - they accept third party booking but misrepresent that they treat you the same.
Ontario (and maybe all of Canada?) has the former. Adding the previous price would be nice, but I wonder if it can be games by changing prices frequently.
Unreal is source available
As a sanity check I looked at it from the standpoint of a 2400-calorie diet of 100% carbs (glucose) and it works out to around 32 grams per hour of CO2, which agrees with a figure of around 1000 liters per minute to dilute it down to 400 ppm over ambient.
Well, it's possible to increase prices without using these tactics to make it seem like it's not increasing.
True, but we can't let its strategic timing destroy its validity. We take in the information while still focusing on the scandals.
Yes, not being small fines is the whole point. If this was a 5 Million Euro fine, TikTok wouldn't care at all and factor it into their cost of doing business.

Large companies have repeatedly shown that they don't care about small fine. As were speaking Meta is paying to the tune of 100k a day in Norway.
Meta knew this was an ongoing issue because the Irish DPC has ruled against them in December, yet they did nothing.
The EU should go further: ban TikTok. And regulate social media to death.
They have bosses/people with power over them like everyone else.

CEO is day to day in charge, but they have a board to report to, investors who will gripe, banks that will want more collateral of the share price falls, etc.

I’ve done all sorts of damaging things to keep people above me satisfied.

And I will do it thousands of times more over my career.
iPhone 15 USB-C port is 100% standard; MFi certification rumors wrong
Does your app have control over the config? Could you hash/compare/overwrite with correct config at each startup?
Why should the parent's deny the child a smartphone because Tik Tok has terrible data use policies?

You can also use Tik Tok on a laptop, but schoolwork is all online, what's the plan there?
Meanwhile the tale that we need interest rate hikes to soften consumer spending rather than enforcement by market authority continues to be peddled
Nice, avoids the dreaded four day hike with a popped camping pad.
The data say wages have been outpacing inflation: https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1702134443203289513?s=20
> I wish the West was set up where we could volunteer family members

This sounds insane so I surely must be misreading. Do you not mean "where we could volunteer [ourselves]"? I'm imagining a scene in the style of "The Death of Stalin" where I am woken up in the middle of the night and told "your brother has nominated you for relief efforts in Morocco, you have 10 minutes to gather your things."
In what way is plex's TOS being violated? Without anything specific, we can safely assume it's BS.
Why do writers insist on reversing the comparison numbers in examples like that? It's annoyingly hard to scan.

E.g, they went from Big to Small and then Small to Big.
By historical standards, we just got back to normal interest rates, the last 15 years was not normal - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds
You're trying to peddle a common logical fallacy, reductio ad absurdum. And you've been called out on it.
Cool, as a customer I'd stop purchasing products that had short records.
The worst case scenario for Godot is the same as the worst case scenario for Unity: you can keep using the last release that worked for you. As far as I can tell Unreal has no concept of an LTS version, so if you don't like the new license you're not getting any updates at all.

This is where FOSS comes in: If support ends, you can keep using the latest version just like with proprietary software, but you can also fork it and fix pressing issues. It's not even a question of relying on the community continuing to create major new releases. If that fails, your org could fork it alone and patch any blocking bugs.

My company already does this for several pieces of legacy software that we haven't had the time to migrate away from. We don't make any major changes, but we can and do fix things that get in our way. We'd get no such benefit from proprietary software that changes its terms to be unfavorable.
> When you refuse rigorous research to be conducted in a subject, you can't act surprised when the existing evidence is lacking in rigor.

Alien fans say stuff like this all the time, but where is the evidence that rigorous research on this is being blocked? We spent like a billion dollars on SETI. There are volumes and volumes of actual science looking for extraterrestrial life. _It's not out there_. It's not like the skepticism about aliens is based on a refusal to look at the evidence. If aliens were real and they were visiting earth, you'd expect all of the instruments we have scanning outer space constantly would find _some_ evidence of ships or communication or life or _anything_. There is _nothing_.

People don't take the supposed evidence of UFOs seriously because in the context of _everything else we know about outer space_, it's extraordinarily unlikely that our _only_ evidence of extraterrestrial life would be some grainy video of a lozenge shape object taken from an airplane.

(which isn't to say that there's no life anywhere else in the universe, maybe some level of microbial life is common, I don't know, but if there were civilizations capable of interstellar travel, it would be a lot more obvious)

Any scientist would dearly love to find any extraterrestrial life. It would be world fame and an instant nobel prize. It'd be one of the most important discoveries in the history of mankind. The idea that scientists aren't looking for alien life is just silly.
I made no such assumption; merely pointed out that the original post is about Norway, but the commenter appeared to have confused it with Denmark. Could happen to anybody, really... ;)
A business doesn't have an inherent right to exist. If the only way it can exist is to break the law, then maybe it deserves to be destroyed?

Why should we put up with an abusive business model so some randos can make money?
> the possibility of the company you are licensing from sending you engineers to actually help you fix the problem.

Have you ever tried to use Microsoft "support"?
Even the font's designers were unable to contribute due to a lack of merge rights, since they weren't elected by the Eclipse foundation. https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/10#issuecomment-4719...

The only user who's demonstrated merge rights on the repo is the repo's Eclipse Foundation project lead, Laurent Spaggiari: https://projects.eclipse.org/content/laurent-spaggiari-proje...

Who's the only listed contributor on the repo: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.tx...

And who's been publicly inactive on GitHub since the repo's last merge in March 2019: https://github.com/LaurentSpaggiari?tab=overview&from=2019-0...

I don't think any amount of tooling knowledge could facilitate a contribution at this point. It's a dead project. The best anyone could do is apply the steps in issue #24 to a fork and start promoting it.