skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a brief minute I was hoping that this would be a built-in solution for mirroring host files to the linux VM, but alas...

I think development on windows has come a long, long way over the years, but I still feel like these days you're all but stuck going all-in on WSL -- meaning no more GUIs -- or keeping the GUIs but losing WSL. For example: if I want to use sourcetree for git on the host, but autoreload processes within docker when I change code, I'm basically out of luck: sourcetree can't deal with files on the linux filesystem (or at least, not on my setup, though that could be more than just an issue with sourcetree), so I have to store the files on the host. But things like inotify can't cross the filesystem boundary, so now autoreloading works. Which is why the advice is always just to keep all of your code within the WSL filesystem, but now the GUIs don't work. (I mean, I think in theory you can get GUIs from inside WSL, but I have absolutely no interest setting that up -- now it's like a Matryoshka doll of virtualization. Plus, some of the programs I want to use don't ship a linux version, so it's a moot point).

My workaround is annoying but effective, as long as you have a good enough system for it: I run a watcher process on the host and an rsync server within a dedicated docker container, and it syncs my code for me into a named docker volume. I guess this has the added benefit of allowing me to have my own filter files for whether or not things get copied over (I have multiple git repos, and I'd like each of them to obey their gitignores when copying), but... it's definitely pretty rough around the edges.

But still: any improvements are good!
What culture? Microsoft makes great games
How is it retroactively? Publishers are only charged for new installs from next year on.
The sooner X rots into obscurity the better, it will make room for a new product that's still loved by its creators and perhaps even nurtures a less superficial culture within its community.
These low code platforms are like blueprints in game dev engines. They are cool for the first 2-3 iterations and a nightmare after.
I have not heard the transphobic claims either.

I have come across multiple sources which describe Stallman's creepy behavior towards women, which I listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21008835 .

One of them worked in the same building as Stallman. She writes software under an open source license and co-organizes an open source conference, so definitely "involved in free software."

You can't trust me though. Stallman said I'm an enemy of free software since I wouldn't say "GNU/Linux" to him.
Thats hilarious :D I told it to sound like a senior dev but yours gets the gist of it better
Good point! But what... if it's French Belgian person from France... is this still "French from France", or "French from Belgium" ? The Belgian person lives in France ;-)

Also, you missed other language codes for French: fr_BI, fr_BJ, fr_BL, fr_CA, fr_CD, fr_CF, fr_CG, fr_CH, fr_CI, fr_CM, fr_DJ, fr_DZ, fr_GA, fr_GF, fr_GN, fr_GP, fr_GQ, fr_HT, fr_KM, fr_LU, fr_MA, fr_MC, fr_MF, fr_MG, fr_ML, fr_MQ, fr_MR, fr_MU, fr_NC, fr_NE, fr_PF, fr_PM, fr_RE, fr_RW, fr_SC, fr_SN, fr_SY, fr_TD, fr_TG, fr_TN, fr_VU, fr_WF, fr_YT.
I have a theory that if a postman wants to deliver something, then it will be delivered. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
"The Bürgeramt also wants to know that you live on the second floor on the right."

Meanwhile in Sweden, the government instituted a nationwide "Dwelling Units Register", where each apartment etc is uniquely numbered.

There is a precise way to number apartments based on the floor number, order of front doors on each floor etc.

Do you live on a steep hill, and have to go down two floors to reach your apartment which has windows facing out the other side of the building? No problem, the numbering system handles that.

https://www.lantmateriet.se/en/real-property/property-inform...

https://www.lantmateriet.se/globalassets/fastigheter/fastigh...
Strange that it mentions nicknames for Indonesia, but not for Thailand, where you'd almost exclusively use someone's nickname for addressing them by name.

Also, Balinese names[0] are a trip if you're not familiar with them, where people are named by birth order (up to 4 -- after that you stick "again" on the name).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_name
“Recipes” aren’t the key patents in pharma, it’s new molecules - new composition of matter. Occasionally processes are patented but competitors could still make the molecule other ways.

And considering the pharma industry never really took off until the mid-century I’m not sure your claim of “saw the biggest industry develop” before the parents we have today holds any weight.
>Have you even made a small game with gdscript? If Godot doesn’t meet your needs then there are dozens of other game engines to choose from, some are native c#.

This dismissal of honest performance benchmarks is why I'm glad you're not leading Godot. We're not talking about some esoteric cloth simulation code being nitpicked. These are core architectures issues costing you 2x performance minimum, simply due to how the c++ and C#/GDSctipt/GDExtension layers talk.

Take this as a warning, not a dismissal. Unity went down this exact path and we see how viable it became for large scale game development. I sympathize with you for those who are outright trashing the GDScript for being a scipting language, and I do wish those arguments would die down (it's simply language wars). But there are definitely fixes here that would improve all diferent bindings, even if they never diverged (which IMO, they should).

>This is like showing up for dinner and insulting cooking before you’ve even tasted the meal

cooking is subjective (mostly), performance is not. This is more like asking why the cook is trying to carefully drain out the water with a loose lid instead of using a strainer. Sure, it may work for the cook and they've done it all this time, but I'd rather give a safer solution that won't burn them long term, or spill out excess food.
Always Remember: “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Finally, in iOS-17 Maps app one can download offline maps -- a very useful feature for navigating in areas with poor or no cell-phone coverage. I have mostly switched from Google Maps to Appel Maps due to Apples better UI and ability to control font sizes.
Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services
That's great tvOS now allows VPN - hopefully NordVPN will now release on Apple TV App Store.
NordVPN runs great on Amazon Firestick - works for BBC Iplayer and ITVX when you're outside UK.
As much as Brits like to denigrate the country, the UK outperforms most of it's neighbours in science and technology. Rejoining Horizon is a boon for European science even if the UK is a net benefactor.
> they have to be much more careful in ways that OpenAI doesn't.

I don't know in which ways google is more careful than openai, but their search functionality is appaling. They've probably tied it into some sort of ai already.
I don't need a spreadsheet that much, but I've been finding MS Office 365 version of Excel to be obnoxious to use. They've changed a lot since I used it 5 or 10 years ago. I don't need it enough to learn it, so I've just been using Google Sheets as needed.
I live in Canada. I’m not Italian. I only got into coffee a couple years ago.

If you ask the experts, much of the physics of espresso apply to pour-over coffee as well. Grind size and distribution, water flow rate through the coffee bed, channeling, fine migration and filter clogging.

Of course, the ‘typical’ coffee drinker is just looking for some caffeine with sugar and milk to help start their day, so they don’t care about this stuff. But if you make pour-overs and drink black coffee made with specialty roasts then all of this technique applies, and so a good grinder can help a lot.

Pour-over fans tend to prefer lighter roasts and flat burr (as opposed to conical burr) grinders, which are said to produce a more unimodal grind distribution with fewer fines.
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees
I can't see this ending well for X.

Forcing all users to pay for access seems a pretty heavy handed way of dealing with bots.
Just invalid their full current patent portfolio. Scary enough punishment to solve the issue.
It's retroactive because the publishers originally signed a contract that didn't have any per install fees for that version of unity they're using.

Now, they will be charged, despite not changing the unity version, as if next year. Retroactively applying the new contract terms to the old one.
> permanently ended

A 7 year funding hiatus is pretty bad
No code has its role, there are many simple things it can make easier. For most non trivial systems, no code will get you 80%-90% to a solution and the last 20% of your solution will be extremely difficult, complex, or impossible to deliver in any maintainable way.

Developers are hostile to these types of solutions specifically because once you go past basic CRUD your no code solutions make everything so much harder and complicated compared to if you had of just used JavaScript in the first place.

I’m fully expecting some no code sales people here to disagree. They always do. Those same sales people will try to blame the programmers for getting in the way of saving money or being stuck in their old ways. Have a good long proper conversation with your programmers that you trust and try to understand their resistance better.
Related,because it’s another human problem: lichess is way better than other free options I used to play (freechess.org, yahoo chess) at keeping comments under control.
Surprised no one has said Framer yet
I'm a massive Aliens fan, and your word choice gave me a vivid picture of a vulnerability as a xenomorph egg leads to a swarm of nightmarish monsters invading the colony.

I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them ignoring CVEs for a percentage.
I mean, plenty of countries that aren’t in the EU do have good relations and trade partnerships with the EU, as well as participation in certain EU programs (including several countries that are part of this Horizons program). The problem was probably more the utter incompetence of the people negotiations over leaving more than the idea of not being part of the EU itself (which wouldn’t have mattered that much if a competent framework had been put in place).
They used to have a clause that you could use the old terms of service from when you published your game. But it was removed in favor of even games developed under those terms of services needing to pay. That is very much a retroactive change.
This person is actually quite optimistic: "This is going to take one, two or more years to root out those who are corrupt," he said.

Also being an optimist I wish that everyone accepted that "bad apples" are going to appear in any organisation and that weeding them out is a required part of the governance.

Priests, Police, Teachers, Politicians, Lawyers, Priests, IT Developers, Managers, Doctors, Priests... clear, quick processes are needed in all of these areas to safeguard both victims and alleged miscreants.
Fujitsu? I am sure the link is only the company name, but the Japanese government contracted out the ID card deployment largely to them, leading to a catastrophic rollout:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/30/fujitsu_japan_micjet_...

Some were able to do bank related activities as unrelated people because their cards were issued around the same time, and this thing will be our medical insurance ID at the end of 2024
AI SQL Accuracy: Testing different LLMs and context strategies to generate SQL
It seems there are a lot of Datadog competitor upstarts - also saw Axiom.co recently, though that one doesn't appear to be open source. As a developer not well-versed in observability tooling I don't really have a basis for comparing all these.
It was - and in fact, associate membership of Horizon Europe was part of the original withdrawal agreement, it was just held up by the EU for years over issues with Northern Ireland. Similarly, the parts of the Brexit deal that are currently causing problems for car manufacturers were opposed by the British side but insisted on by the EU, though that didn't stop the British media spinning them as somehow being the UK's responsibility.
Please explain how, without patents, a company would choose to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to discovery a new molecule and get it approved, when another company could start selling it as well without any of the investment at all?

Financially it makes zero sense.

And if the logic is - well the government can fund the research (which is a huge stretch since Pharma R&D is several multiple of gov't funding today), ok, but then you end up paying for the medicine through taxes instead.
Compositors that don't support Wayland protocol extensions are in a tough spot. They are likely on the road to being seen as toy implementations for aforementioned reasons.

The de-facto Wayland standard is not going to be the core protocol, in the same way that the core X protocol is woefully insufficient [0] for actually running a modern linux system. It needs extensions. The core protocol just isn't featureful enough - as has been clearly demonstrated by a decade lost in the woods not supporting basic desktop functionality. If a design goal was to delay adoption by 10-15 years while they think about things then I suppose it could be considered a success. Other systems have managed to move much faster than that without doing much harm.

The sticking point is that at least the core X protocol didn't need a decade of R&D for a screenshot extension [1]. I suppose people could claim with a straight face that screenshots and streaming are unforeseen use cases, but they would be excellent poker players. It was a design mistake not to explicitly address that up front. An honest one, made by very competent people, but nevertheless a mis-step.

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/GraphicsRequirements

[1] I'll admit this is before my time - maybe it did? But the X protocol is a hot mess and Wayland is inching towards the point where it's release is closer to the birth of X windows than the present day.
>The reason I posted the four archive mirrors, is because readers were complaining that either the .is or .ph links were not working

Just post the archive.today version, I don't have a citation right now, but I think the owner said (in blog?) that is the way to properly link, it should redirect to the best domain based on user's IP/location.
In some of these countries, nationality is a weak proxy for what actually matters for name order; ethnicity. Take for example Malaysia. Yes, ~70% of the population are Malay Muslims who (mostly) follow the convention mentioned here. But you also have 20%+ Chinese, ~7% Indians (with considerable ethnic diversity!), and an assortment of native peoples, all who follow their own conventions.
They already tried to buy Nintendo in the early 2000s and got laughed at.
I always feel simplistic rules like these or like wikipedia's "don't be a dick" work well for small communities but never scale.

The ambiguity is really code for "follow implicit unstated behavioral community norms". When a community is small enough and everyone knows each other, a consensus can develop over what is appropriate behaviour. Yes people will push boundries, and there will be disagreements over what is good, but there is enough of a shared consensus on what being "good" means, you can just say "behave" and it sort of works.

The moment the community gets big and elements of it are strangers to one another, there is no shared meaning over what good behaviour is, even roughly, or for that matter shared context for which to evaluate the behavior in. Telling people to just play nice stops working.
It's exactly what I'm wondering. The deal seems to stipulate that on average you'd spend about as much as you receive. If so, why not spend the same amount of money on your own scientist? That way you have full control. I don't get what the UK gets out of it.

For the EU I can understand, a larger budget means more science done, means more results. Who cares if some of it happens in the UK, since we are getting paid for it anyhow.
And Switzerland is still out, without any pathway for getting back, negotiations have stalled. This is an absolute disgrace for our country.
i’ve worked with retool at my past 2 startups and it has been very useful as far as allowing engineers to build out quick internal tools so that things like service requests that occur quite often can be handled manually by the customer service teams.
The intel drivers are mostly written by intel engineers, same for AMD drivers.

I just checked on my works laptop, the only non intel component appearing via lspci is a realtek express card reader whose driver is copyrighted by Realtek Semiconductor Corp:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/misc/c...

Have Apple engineers written a single line of code for linux drivers supporting apple silicium ?
If you’ve gone down you probably don’t want the plane to be announcing it because that will tell the enemy where your pilot and hardware is.

There’s pros and cons to the enemy finding you but generally I’d imagine you want to give the pilot the chance to escape.
More like they pay publishers, who then make great games.

Halo franchise is a good example of Microsoft culture wrecking a game
For Berlin specifically it is important to note the city-state was super broke until around 10 years ago. Many causes for this including mismanagement by the government, but the main cause is the GDR, how Berlin was divided, and how very little industry settled in or around Berlin.

Now this has changed a lot in the last decade or two, but it has been accompanied by avg. yearly net migration of 80k people which is putting a major strain on all public services.
Hard to believe TBH.
As a senior professional in any field, you would, if you could, move from a reactive strategy to a proactive one.
We are not at the limit : you are replying too soon.

To be able to reply without pause, click the timestamp.
> A bit like programming: url.hostname, or hostname url.

What do you mean? A URL contains its hostname.
posted 5 days ago - chess podcast with: Fabiano Caruana and Cristian Chirila

Special guest - Vladimir Kramnik, who has being researching cheating in chess with stats, quite intersting / disturbing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3lTBAi4Ps
Let's say you want to develop software as a job, and make enough money to live. You also have the ethics not to go into the ad-supported track-everything mobile apps business. There is still good money to be made without selling your soul, but most of it is in the B2B not the B2C market. And there, you negotiate the terms of who owns what individually for each contract anyway, at least if you have any sense.

The problem with the GPL is that its "infectious" nature does not play nicely with how the B2B world works, where you might link against your client's in-house proprietary libraries, which even though they're never planning to distribute them, they very much don't want their own IP to become GPLed as a result.

So if you want to bring in a library to make pretty graphs or something, it very much matters what the licence is - MIT is generally fine though.

(How and whether a FOSS library author should be paid for the fact that one corporation used their library to develop software for another corporation, is an entirely separate matter.)
I'm not surprised. This was one of the aspects of Brexit that seemed completely untenable and disastrous. Some aspects of Brexit are "bad but acceptable" but this was an "if we don't revert this one British R&D and science are screwed" aspect
1. They keep changing the hidden setup prompt to prevent abuse and such. For me it insists on providing sample code and saying "this is just an example". I used to be able to tell it "write production-grade code" but it seems to ignore that now.

2. They fine tune the model. When you do that it tends to overfit on certain things, causing them to have more "weight" and others get pushed back. creativity suffers.

Those are only my thoughts, can't confirm anything.
Oh it does that too! It hides the names of businesses so I can't click them!
There are red license plates for this exact case. Car dealerships generally have them to allow for test drives and bureaucracy drives.

If you buy a car (which is currently unregistered) from a private person that doesn't have those, you just did something that the bureaucracy didn't foresee and at that point, the best course of action is to avoid as much of it as possible.

At this point I have no hope that any of this will getter unless the german state collapses completely.
We used Webflow for our company's landing page for a while but for our uses it was more "slow code" than "no code". To get the layouts we wanted you still had to understand the quirks and intricacies of flex/grid so it was just a clunkier interface than writing code.

That being said, it got us up and running quickly at a time where we didn't have much time to spend on that stuff. I think it's a reasonable progression to start out with something like a no code tool and switch to code when you've got the time/people.
Maybe. This whole brexit thing happened by ignoring researchers and listening to whoever spoke louder :)

On the other hand, since brexit happened most international research teams in UK have lost key members to other countries so maybe someone finally took notice.
Having worked in some projects related to German bureaucracy: It's not exactly correct from my experience but it's close - is usally works like this:

A fixed sum for digitization is allocated and the local government publicly advertises a project. Nobody knows how to write a good tender or the tender is written in such a way that only some specific companies can fullfil the request (I doubt the cousin thing is so common but I might be wrong here) but I saw how people writing the tender and the companies involved (mostly consulting companies or some small specific companies that lack quality) write that thing together.

Now the biggest problem: Often the lowest bidder has to win the tender by law - if you choose the good company often the lowest bidder takes you to court.

The lowest bidder delivers something late and broken and is allowed to get more money for fixing it - often so much money that there is an incentive to be broken by design - i.e. high maintenance costs / overly complicated architectures.

Everone is unhappy and it's of course not the failure of the broken tender or the shitty company - so there needs to be a follow up project that fixes the issues that again is won by the shitty company.

To see how expensive and crazy this gets: einmalzahlung200.de - a form where you could apply for 200€ for heating costs / covid assistance costs multiple million Euros - some consulatancies were involved. It couldn't handle the load but was celebrated to be next level because nothing had to be printed out.

It's not that Germany lacks talent or even companies that could deliver good quality but the process is broken.

Another problem is data protection law - this is a good thing in Germany but it's often used as an excuse in the bureaucracy and a weapon to fight progress.

For me it feels like the public administration was made to be helpless and the public money is stolen by consultancies and shitty companies.
So did Js, it isn’t a counter argument. Many of the gadflies are useful idiots.