skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good. I don't see this as a safety issue so much as a make-work law. If a human would have to be in a self-driving truck at all times and ready to assume the controls on a moment's notice, that's basically human-driven with extra steps. Either the tech is good enough to be autonomous, or it's not good enough to replace a human driver in the first place. And as a driver, I don't think I'd want to be legally responsible for whatever boneheaded move a truck might take in the moments before I could regain control over it. "Hey, I know it was the AI that decided to swerve into the crowd of toddlers, and you only had 300ms to respond, but you were the one sitting in the driver's seat..."

Now, I'm not thrilled with the idea of ending human jobs without giving those people a way to survive. Even if I weren't sympathetic to those hard-working people who are ready and willing to do the tough jobs that keep society running -- and I hope it's obvious that I am -- enlightened self interest means that I don't want all of to be unemployed and hungry. That's bad for everyone. I also wish we shipped more freight via train, which is cheaper and way more environmentally friendly. Making it easier and cheaper to ship even more via truck is probably the wrong path to optimize.

But all that aside, I still think this is a well intended but ultimately wrong solution. Frankly, it seems like it'd be cheaper and more efficient to pay those drivers to stay home rather than pay them to perch in a self-driving truck.
It actually improved a lot. There are a lot of pretty decent multiplatform libraries out there. I've developed a few myself. It's pretty easy and straightforward. You are right that the tools were a bit rough a year ago. But they worked. I've been developing kotlin-js and multiplatform stuff since 2020. Definitely very cutting edge back then and not for the faint hearted. But our bet worked out and we now have a nice thriving business and a maintainable code base.

In fairness, KMM and KMP are still in beta and the compiler has been in the process of being overhauled. That's a process that is nearly completed but it is still ongoing. Having used the new k2 compiler with kotlin-js, it's a big upgrade in terms of performance. I expect a lot of stuff to start stabilizing post Kotlin 2.0, which should be out in later winter/spring next year. 1.9.10 is the current release. 1.9.20betas are already out. There might be a .30 but the release after that is basically 2.0. 3-6 months out basically if Jetbrains sticks to their normal release schedule.

IOS support in Compose Multiplatform is alpha quality. You shouldn't use it for anything important. But when it is done, you can expect to be able to develop applications with one code base that run nicely on Android, IOS, the web, or on desktops.

Compose web is actually targeting the new wasm compiler. Which of course is also alpha. That's an interesting one because it uses the WASM standardize GC facilities. That's currently out in browsers already but hidden behind feature flags. Which are very likely to come off soonish.

Give it a year or two. Too early to write it off now when it is basically all early access and alpha/beta quality. IMHO, there is some good tech coming together there.
> Does that really help? Even when open-source, it's only a matter of time before an Oracle or Google or Microsoft or Meta takes it over (if they didn't develop it to begin with).

Of course it can help. For example, when Oracle bought MySQL, it was forked and we got Maria. When Emby pissed off people, it was forked and we got Jellyfin. There are plenty of other examples.

Whether or not you like these products, the point is that open source gives the community the ability to continue development if the original project gets bought and/or otherwise changes its philosophy for the worse.
The article lists several unique items which are not coins, including one unique enough to have its own wikipedia page in 6 languages.

Pretty much by definition, its "full market value" cannot be determined by a committee.
The worry is that in your analogy, we’re the SLR. ChatGPT is a 1MP digital camera.
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what would be better for the community would be not just a decline in devs using the engine, but also the devs working on the engine. working for Unity should now be a stain just like working for FB/socials/ad-tech. there will be tons of people willing to do it, but hopefully the great minds leave the rot
Back in 1980 or so, (almost) laid off from an aerospace company on famous Route 128. Got a transfer to a west coast division of the company, a bonus, a raise and moving expenses.

Eventually married, got to be the proudest Dad, and never stopped taking photos, from the days of film to mirrorless cameras.

Being a generalist, every job change involved some adaptation and big challenges. Aerospace, University, Investment banking, Sales team, Startup, consulting.
It's the difference between:

> "Ask bob on discord and he'll give you commit access to the repo"

and:

> "First you need to fill out the CLA and send 3 pull requests before you can then apply for committer access at the bi-monthly steering group committee. Present your case in an email to them at least 28 days beforehand, and make sure an existing committer seconds it"
Inflation isn't a single number that applies to all goods and services. The price of inputs to residential construction have practically doubled since 2018, nevermind 2010 (https://www.nahb.org/blog/2022/05/building-materials-up-more...).

If it costs twice as much to build a residential structure as it did 10 years ago, then rent will cost twice as much. There's no conspiracy, it's not Blackrock buying up all the houses, it's not the greedy politicians. It's caused by government spending beyond its means, expansion of the monetary supply, and the increased regulations that create more risk for investors and causes prices to go up.
MariaDB, OpenTofu, etc... Those are the exceptions.

Forking is easy. Maintaining a fork, keeping the quality and innovation alive, and the community involved is hard.

There are many more failed forks than successful forks. So saying "you can fork" is utopist at best. Sure you can, but you'll probably be the only one maintaining it and it will slowly rot as there won't be a community to keep it bug-free and compatible with new hardware/standards.
I don’t think that’s best for small things. Unless you can’t vertically scale your instance to handle to load, being able to join and keep transactions within one data store is massively valuable. I wouldn’t want to open myself to distributed systems problems unless I’m absolutely forced to.
> now is the right time to rethink the OS.

Microsoft is definitely doing this, but they're putting all the effort into making it into an attention-stealing ad delivery platform.
Hold on, You pivoting.

The paragraph you quoted is in context warning the user about MANUAL intervention in the registry, that requires privileged access.
So we aren't comparing it to "what can random app do", but what can super user do.
According to the GPL FAQ, there aren't different license requirements for static linking vs dynamic linking. (The reason you can link glibc, stdc++, etc., which are licensed under the GPL, is because they carve out a "GCC runtime library exception" for such libraries, allowing one to choose a different license anyway).

The FAQ also says that if "establish intimate communication by sharing complex data structures, or shipping complex data structures back and forth," then the that is essentially the same thing as dynamic linking, and so the GPL applies to your program as well.

Link to the FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

The relevant FAQ questions:

----

> Does the GPL have different requirements for statically vs dynamically linked modules with a covered work? (#GPLStaticVsDynamic)

> No. Linking a GPL covered work statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on the GPL covered work. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination.

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> When is a program and its plug-ins considered a single combined program? (#GPLPlugins)

>It depends on how the main program invokes its plug-ins. If the main program uses fork and exec to invoke plug-ins, and they establish intimate communication by sharing complex data structures, or shipping complex data structures back and forth, that can make them one single combined program. A main program that uses simple fork and exec to invoke plug-ins and does not establish intimate communication between them results in the plug-ins being a separate program.

> If the main program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single combined program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. If the main program dynamically links plug-ins, but the communication between them is limited to invoking the ‘main’ function of the plug-in with some options and waiting for it to return, that is a borderline case.

> Using shared memory to communicate with complex data structures is pretty much equivalent to dynamic linking.

----

> Where can I learn more about the GCC Runtime Library Exception? (#LibGCCException)

> The GCC Runtime Library Exception covers libgcc, libstdc++, libfortran, libgomp, libdecnumber, and other libraries distributed with GCC. The exception is meant to allow people to distribute programs compiled with GCC under terms of their choice, even when parts of these libraries are included in the executable as part of the compilation process. To learn more, please read our FAQ about the GCC Runtime Library Exception (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-faq.html).
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How profitable are roads?
> If it wasn't the case, what's the point of these models getting billions of dollars thrown at them?

This is a digression. There are use cases other than creating competing books, do I need to actually list them out?

- Turning unstructured text into structured data.

- Summarizing news

- Sentiment analysis

- Semantic search

- Helping people write research papers

and more.

How do any of those compete with fiction or non-fiction books?

> One of the obvious differences is these models don't cite their sources.

Do I need to cite the math textbook that I used to learn algebra when I write a book on calculus?
Oh, you meant that this site doesn't mention Napoleon.

I don't see a reason for a how-to site on their site to mention whatever this island's claim to fame is? Sounds like someone putting a plaque at Milford Sound that says “You might have heard of New Zealand as the filming location of Lord of the Rings!”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12499
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... more like dead for all practical purposes ?
Passkey support for users arrived in iOS 16, but the necessary API support for integration with 3rd-party password managers was released with iOS 17: https://blog.1password.com/apple-passkey-api-wwdc/
Every password manager browser extension does a similar injection, including 1Password.
No guesstimates, but it's generally very bad.

Especially when there's some corporate "security" software in the loop. And that's the case you have to really code against.
This strategy is still pretty awful. If 2.5% revenue share after $1,000,000 would be enough to survive on, they probably could have opened with matching Unreal's 5% instead of all the bullshit and won people over.
Great advice… Unless you’re a game studio who wants to ship on PlayStation and Switch some day. If you want to build on an engine that lets you target proprietary platforms your options are, in practice, limited.
Yeah I think people generally reach for “big” tools when this “toy” would work fine for the vast majority of projects.
Radiolab also fucked up in their story about some kind of Agent Orange chemical used in Cambodia that messed up a village. Robert Krowlwich (sp?) came off as just a big self important jerk, even in their "we are so sorry we were so insensitive" episode. He basically refused to admit he had hurt people.
"Last year in Britain one in four book buyers used TikTok. The slice of sales directly attributable to the app is still small. Video platforms like TikTok and YouTube drove only around 3% of sales in 2022 in Britain, according to Nielsen, a research firm" - Obviously this can grow, but the article just feels like the publishers are rushing to jump on the new thing rather then TikTok changing the way things are done.
What's under discussion at the moment isn't Google's defense, which AFAIK hasn't yet started, right? It's the evidence and testimony being presented by the plaintiffs. They can get access to trade secrets as part of discovery, and are incentivized to make as much of it public as possible. There's just no downside to it for them.
Hard to run an open source enterprise company when Amazon's playbook is to take your shit for free and host it themselves.
You're right, I shouldn't let a few "bad apples" ruin the whole batch.

It would be great if the law could say something like "range must be +/- %25 of the target salary" (Obviously that's very difficult...)
If you use Postgres logical replication, that is not true.
Depends. Nowadays yes, but younger no. I lived 2 years in west africa where clean water was a premium: I didn't brush my teeth much and drunk a lot of coke.
Always interesting to listen to Thiel, despite so much I dislike about
what he does and the goals he seems to harbour.

It does seem like a grand conspiracy theory that science has been
deliberately muted. But I am also of that age where I also feel that
we were on a trajectory in technology that just plateaued for opaque
political reasons.

Computing feels like it was thrown back 20 years by Microsoft.

He blames "woke" diversity, but a simpler explanation is that progress
was put on hold so that money could be made in a more stable and less
disruptive environment.
I didn't think I could be more annoyed at them, but I guess not! -_-
The question you're posing cites "historian-philosopher" Stephen Molyneux's podcast. I once tried listening to a bit of that, but it was beyond ridiculous. One of the things he posited was a major cause of the fall of the Roman Empire was the loose morals of women, for which his main source was Cicero. Cicero, who died before the Roman Empire even existed.

So I would take anything else they claim with a major pinch of salt, even if they also cite some real sources.
>in Cricket the pitcher (?)

in Cricket, the Bowler
I agree. An open API in browsers would simplify things a lot.
I've been wondering for some time if business success for in-person companies is based on leadership's "better" control of the workforce vs. employees actually being more productive in the office.

Are there strong success stories for remote-first tech firms that operated this way before the pandemic?

The best-case situation from the employee side, IMO, is to have maximum flexibility, where folks can work from home as needed but have a desk available if they want to work in the office regularly, with regular "offsites" where people meet face to face. Yet every company seems convinced that "hybrid" where larger tech companies conveniently get to keep their real estate holdings (AMZN, GOOG, etc.) is the better bet.

In the case of Grindr and Zoom, I can't believe they're requiring RTO. If it truly seems "unsustainable" to companies Grindr's size, then probably every tech company is doomed to forced RTO. Granted, Grindr's case might be more related to unionization efforts (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/business/grindr-rto-union...) than actually deciding on required RTO for its own sake.
Probably not. Most of Congress is rich. They're not going hungry if they stop getting paychecks.

They're more concerned with keeping their jobs in the first place. For a large number of Republicans, that means shutting down the government as much as possible. It's explicitly what their constituents want them to do.

Those aren't a majority, but the remaining Republicans are reluctant to work with Democrats to get majority support. Much of the Republican platform consists of denying Democratic priorities, and collaborating with Democrats could cost them their job in the next primary. Primaries begin in just a few months.

More than the paycheck, the lose the ability to run the country if they lose their jobs. You don't get into politics for a job that pays little more than a recent college grad in Silicon Valley. You get into it so that you get to run the country your way.

Now, if you told them that they could not be a candidate for office while any part of the government was shut down, that might move some action. But then, many of them would be perfectly happy to sacrifice their own jobs if it would get some other people out of office.
Got it. Can’t know what time it is exactly if you have 2 clocks.
It can't work. Simply becouse they trying to skip over parents and family - which are first and always best protection on mass scale.

Also what they propose is LITERALY equivalent of permament ankle monitor, just for not-sentenced members of society ! "Not guilty until found gilty" anyone ?

And imposibility of controling businesses doing that scaning ?

And of course it's just excuse ! LOL, they just trying to downgrade internet encryption to plain text like 80's and 90's :>

Client-side is only way to have _basic sanity_ of that system but such all-seeing system can be used to stream from kids phones in real time ! Just one upgrade away. Or bug. Which is sure as death.

Pedophiles will voluntire as system operators, as they did with other systems.

Or FBI or other TLA will try some sting operation by allowing system abuse... And "what's once in net then alway in net".

Technical imposibility of abuse is only way to prevent abuse. Do not create such posibility. Actively prevent it ! Pedophiles already are opening bottles...

And that hollywood mogul will be doing censoring ?? Probably they already hoarding storage...

Let's start with ankle monitor with microphone and camera for Mrs. Ursula and rest of commision and commisaries. And Kutcher and More, no excuse.

Family first for kids protection or you will destroy your own society EU DOT
I'm on my second Honda Fit. I can't say it it's the most exciting car to drive but both have had zero trouble with the CVT at 110,000+ miles. The first one died a violent death (totaled twice in a year) and the second is going strong. All the major systems performed flawlessly, though there were some struggles with the hatchback handle and the tire pressure monitoring system.

I do remember renting a Dodge Caliber year back when the CVT performed terribly going up hills as automatic but it wasn't bad at all if you used the paddle shifters. I did read reviews of people who bought the things, drove 20,000 miles and complained bitterly about performance and never figured out about the paddle shifters though.
Yes, that involves getting lawyers involved which is the aforementioned headache.
If they don't want to sell, and don't want to rent, what are they going to do with it then?
Cheaper than Itanium I bet.
a perfect example of the thinking behind most frameworks. I don’t think most people are looking for minimal. For those that are, this might be right up their alley.

Minimalism is an interesting ideology. it’s about choosing to do more with less, and there’s a great deal of ingenuity in saying, i only have this one knife and a rope, how do i cross this chasm. so to speak.

no offense intended to the batteries included crowd. this is just something i have developed a taste for.
I didn't learn how to tie my shoes correctly until I read this website in my 20s. As a child, I was constantly harangued about keeping my shoes tied, but none of the adults doing the haranguing ever stopped to teach me the difference between a granny knot and a proper square knot. Thanks, Ian, for filling in that gap in my childhood education.
I think trial and error at first. We'd probably find out that states cover most of these redundant tasks and federal employment is a giant welfare grift for workers, and does not benefit the citizen/taxpayers. For example, we pretty much have 50 Department of Educations for each state + the Federal agency. Seems like a big waste to me. Def benefits the federal workers and their nice benefit/pension packages. Also, they're unionized, which is unjust to the taxpayer.

I'd rather have that money stay within the states so they can choose how to use it. As a bonus, if federal income tax was eliminated, people would have more money in their pockets and taxes could be exercised locally/statewide, vs administered in DC, by out of touch advisors.
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From personal experience, I’ve saved hundreds of hours with ChatGPT already. It can piece together large neural nets in PyTorch that would take me an hour or more to get right, or annoying pieces of code which I don’t feel like correlating the disparate pieces of online info for. Of course I will review it and unit test it to make sure it works, but I honestly make more mistakes integrating it in my larger project than ChatGPT does in the code itself. And this is on the free version.

There are limitations of course but I’ve been impressed more often than not.
Could come in handy. Does Chrome Devtools have a way to do this?
You make a highway sound like a mass murderer convention.
It's fairly clear that paper is being driven out of most white collar settings. It's still invaluable in many blue collar jobs. Phones don't work all that well when you're wearing work gloves, ports get clogged with debris, screens crack when you're crawling through narrow openings or pushing heavy stuff.

I have pencils and post-its in my electronics lab and I use them when working on digital circuits.
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"It's like chewing glass and staring into the void"
- "It's like paving a road with your face"
- "You wake up everyday and bang your head on the wall until something works"
They should be thrilled, they can spend more of their time treating people who need it and less time guessing about who those people are.
I’m not sure different people would produce a different outcome. Maybe?

But if you think of it as a statistical mixture problem, there is some sample size where the same aggregate personality emerges in the crowd, much like we expect any given sample of air to have the same characteristics.

So many it’s a question of whether the sample size was large enough to represent the overall population? (“Population” might just be “those who go to this kind of thing” and not all humanity)
Anecdotally, none of my girlfriends seem to have developped any similar immunity. If the article is right, my flora should have replace theirs on the long run, no?
Often I think some of that stuff is strategically made to be just good enough to discourage competition and so it never actually becomes good enough to be mainstream.

Look at how WinGet was launched with just enough effort to kill AppGet. It was a big announcement that was the equivalent of “avoid this space or we’ll crush you” and then what? Nothing innovative has happened since they killed the innovator (AppGet).