skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open source will be caught in blast radius, that's the problem. You will not get a cent for it and will be liable for at least 5 million euros. Who would accept such a "deal"? It's not just big, fat, money rich companies who does software development.

Heck, I heard Apple requires to close your personal Github account when you get employed. You can't do anything personal without approval when you work there. This shit will get just more common due to company lawyers erring on the side of caution to protect the company. This is how stuff like this works in real life.
Well it's not a science and you're going to have to a hard time convincing me that Richard Feynman is wrong.
Too bad Google has the attention span of a crack addled flea.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...
Sure, but the UK cabinet draws its power from the fact that it explicitly has support of a majority of the directly elected members of Parliament.

When it's established that they don't, they end up getting ousted (as happens with no confidence motions).
Its not going to work.

The US loves its digital oligarchs. They have been given carte-blanche to "innovate" and, predictably, democracy died in their hands.

Not that the Europeans are vastly superior democrats [1]. But as luck would have it, the EU is a coalition of many sovereign states. The oligarchs of one country are not welcome in another. So far at least, a grand collusion has proven elusive.

This simple political difference is why Europe is the world champion of data protection regulation.

[1] There are minor differences of-course. As a Dutch comedy show reminded us again, what passes as left-wing in the States is right-wing in Europe :-)
Right so considerably less than 100%.
Can you explain what made you write this comment?

I see it all the time on Facebook and I’d love to understand what drives people to spout misinformation about EVs. Cobalt, fires, diesel powered charging stations, they simply can’t wait to spread some nonsense.
As a child owning a cat, I could not stand watching Tom and Jerry because it was just mean.
I use YouTube to watch videos of news uploaded on their YouTube channel like CNN and NBC and etc, I'm wondering what's the YouTube alternative for me?
How is this different from other web desktop environments like https://www.windows93.net ?
I agree, as long as these creators serve you the visitors without relying on YouTube infrastructure
Having done the off-grid thing, shelter and power are easy - sanitation and plumbing is where it all turns into an almighty pain in the ass - and having neither sanitation nor plumbing this isn’t a “complete” solution unless part of your camping plan is “having violent diarrhoea in the bushes”.

You’d actually be amazed at what you can ram into less than a cubic meter. I’m working on a horse box conversion at the moment, and am using a cisternless toilet and a detachable worm tank to have a mobile toilet - drinking water and shower/basin water is trivial with cartridge filters, a pump, and RO. Shower is outdoor, heated, rainfall. Basin is for washing dishes and food, also outdoor. Total cost under €1,000 for a full sanitary suite. Grey water just goes on the ground, or into a tub for further use if desired, black water is stored for discharge - although the volume ends up very low due to the worm tank and waste separation.

Very solvable problems that they seem to have entirely ignored.
"Fireman Sam and it's just so bad"

Huh? What is so bad about it? It is simple, but not bad. It is a kids show, not deeply philosophical adult entertainment. It shows how easy and badly things can go wrong while playing and what the firemen will do to solve it.

My only critic with the show would be, that often problems could be solved way quicker, by the ordinary people, but everyone MUST call firemen sam as the first thing and then helplessly wait, till he arrives. But apart from that, I liked it waaay more, than paw patrol.
American equivalent would probably be the Ford Transit Connect
> It is as bad as being ill/disabled.

No it is not, and I say that as somebody who lived below the poverty line for several years. Yes, it is devastating, but unless you live in some shithole country without any government help, it can be overcome. Disability and sickness (assuming chronic) can't.
Well, I explicitly hide YouTube's recommendations and feed. So, this is good news for me.
I get that high school philosophy discussions are fun, but it exceptionally weird when it seems to only come up when people doubt the intelligence of a LLM.
I heard this from a Russian friend years ago (so I might get the details wrong): to make the Cocktail Recursive, mix

- 1 unit of vodka

- 2 units of water

- 3 units of Cocktail Recursive
> You know what? The equivalent of X11 in windows may be full of cruft, technical debt, poorly thought out / "unelegant" design decisions... But it fucking works. I'm sorry, but I have other things to do than dealing with the constant churn of Linux desktop software.

It's funny because it's the opposite.

On Windows, you can install and update the graphics drivers without restarting, and it can ever seamlessly recover from a GPU crash.

On Linux, you need to update the whole kernel, and if the GPU or the driver crashes, you'll kernel panic.

On the compositor side, on Windows you can easily have multimonitor setups with different fractional DPIs, different refresh rates (including variable refresh rate), mix of HDR and SDR, applications without vsync and so on. On linux, even single monitor HDR is unsupported.
Please show you math on that one. I can find plenty of used Honda Civics on craigslist for well under 10K.

How are you getting a new Bolt (29K MSRP) for less?
Alcohol consumption is probably in there as well.
There was also the theory that smurphs are communists

https://time.com/5431298/are-the-smurfs-communist/
I had symmetrical gigabit fiber up and down via AT&T. Besides speed tests, the only times in the real world I ever remember getting close to those speeds were multithreaded BackBlaze backups, torrents, and connections to AWS for copying files back and forth to S3.
Meanwhile, here in Australia the fastest widely available upload speed on our national network (NBN) is 40bbps (~5MB/s), with some lucky few able to get 50mbps (~6MB/s).

Seems like the network designers want the populace to be consumers rather than creators. :(
I don’t. That was nearly 50 years ago in another country. Moving countries tends to be hard on one’s collection of stuff.

Searching, I see there seem to be plenty of versions of it out there. I also found someone selling a printout: https://www.ebay.com/itm/203263286436
You may find the Orca project quite interesting:

https://orca-app.dev/posts/230607/orca_announcement.html
I have no faith that they won't soon start pushing ads on paying subscribers and start offering a premium plus subscription to be ad free again.
I say thank you and tell it that worked because if a human reviews the chat later, I assume this will help them train future models or at least show that it was useful
BackBlaze backups and copying files back and forth to S3 over symmetric fiber.
I mean the OP is exagerating wildly, but the range does decrease. We had a Fiat 500 leased for 3 years and in just 3 years the range decreased from ~90 to about 75 (almost 20% decrease).
Information online is “buried at the
bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”,
Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can
“sell more adverts”, fuelled by
Google’s technology.

I think we are at a turning point in this regard.

AI can now read through SEO fluff text and ads and present the user with the information they are looking for.

Therefore, there will be no more incentive to create those types of sites.

The web will change. Into what it will change is yet to be seen. But it will change.
Depends on what you mean by a "public port". For example if I'm sitting on a train / plane / airport, I'm going to charge from there rather than using my own battery, even if I have it.
Webpage Popups are irritating, yet they get you best conversion rates. Now, add this conversion machine with a Lead Management Tool and you will have best sales pipeline generating tool. It's effective, it's easy & it's free.
I used the "pretend you're a Python REPL" trick, and then did "import chatgpt" and proceeded from there:

https://gist.github.com/int19h/1d81a0630aa78f07044cf9df1fed4...
This is why I use ChatGPT and Kagi over Google search now.
That’s when you stop involving management in technical discussions. As a software engineer, you do what must be done. If access control is a must, management can wait on the less important features. If they are stupid and don’t understand despite explaining them, they don’t have to know.
How long before we have RISC V processors powering Linux PCs with no “Secure Enclave” that has root on your system? Also playing games on it would be nice.
You could also explain The Wizard of Oz as "young girl travels to a foreign land and kills the first person she meets. She then teams up with three strangers to kill again"

The purpose of Thomas the Tank Engine is not to speculate on the ramifications of living in a world with sentient trains like some weird sci-fi novel. You are welcome to write that if you want, but fat chance producing something kids will enjoy.

Thomas the Tank Engine exists to delight children with the mystique of steam engines, and to provide the back drop for simple lessons on pro-social behavior that children can understand.
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> the Sad Story of Henry

My local PBS station showed Thomas the Tank Engine on almost infinite loop and so I came into the show in kind of the middle as a kid. I didn't know why Henry was so "bad" at his job and all of that, only that he was cranky and didn't seem to like everybody else that much.

Then this episode aired and my mother says I cried for two days over how Henry had been treated. (It didn't help that I was what was commonly called "a quiet child" and got picked on a lot for not wanting to play with other kids or just "being weird", something I think a lot of HN can relate to.) It wasn't long after that I stopped watching Thomas.

Years later, my kid picked up watching the show and learned how to record it on his TiVo. I made sure we watched that episode together.
Hasn’t it always been that way. Had fun on manifold.markets a year ago beating some markets using that kind of data
I generally avoid public USB chargers, not because of security risk, but because they are typically 5V and less than 2A. If there is mains power then I can use an adapter and charge at a reasonable rate.
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Stupidity is the worst form of evil.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.

You can probably find the above quote from different places. There are plenty of materials and philosophy on the subject matter. Dietrich Bonhoeffer may be the more modern one. But some can be traced back to ancient Greek.

As with everything philosophy, there isn't always a concrete, scientific, right or wrong answer. And different age group, which related to different stage of life in experience may also have different answers. The word of stupidity and evil or malice may also have subtle difference depending on context which makes discussions of the subject matter even more difficult.
It feels a bit hypocritical to bash on the company that acquired your startup.
As someone who knows Alexandra personally and follows her work for a very long time, I must warn you that, despite creating an awesome tool, in my opinion (and the opinion of a lot of scientists who were in communication with her) she is not a sensible person at all. She is a lot into pseudoscience (e.g. astrology) and very radical political views (she's a Stalinist), and she's got a strange mix of mysogyny and radical feminism going on. She is very open about it on public Scihub channels. At least this was the situation a year or so ago.
ArianeGroup Wants €210M per Year More to Operate Ariane 6
That's just playing on Xbox/Windows with extra steps.
Those rental contracts generally don't allow you to tow anything unless you also rent a trailer from them. So it's not very useful to rent.
This sounds like something guys who setup a fake charging kiosk at DEFCON would say.
OT: never before have i seen a 2 days old story coming back to the front page
There are people TRAINED to get other people back on track. These are called social workers.

How do I know my well-meaning advice will not push this person further down? We don't know the author of this post, we are making wild assumptions. This kind of problem is not something that can be resolved in an online forum.
If it's reliable (eg doesn't have outages) then lots of home based business could self host rather than having to use cloud, vps, co-location, etc.
GPT can do not only ROT-13, but even base64 on the fly.

I once asked GPT-4 to generate an SVG suitable to be used on a web page, and got back <img src="data:..."> that was a valid base64-encoded SVG file that contained what I asked.
For a commuter I'd want tiny and fuel efficient, for a hauling truck I want towing and hauling capacity. Very opposite ends of the car spectrum, how could you combine that.
I once had to work on code to do this[2] (place had different sized boxes for shipping, they wanted them used efficiently) which had its own extra constraints (certain items had to be on top, in specific rotations; etc.) but that was based on [1]. Maybe it would have been easier using the EB-AFIT algorithm.

[1] Optimizing Three-Dimensional Bin Packing Through Simulation, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228974015_Optimizin...

[2] It was not a fun time because there was no pipeline from the product database to this service which meant it was frequently out of date re: dimensions, weight, packing position requirements, etc. which drove the warehouse packers mad but after three months of my asking for, if nothing else, a daily CSV download being rebuffed, I quit.
“We need 10 years GPT experience!”
Ask HN: The tenacious software developer dilemma
My problem is that I know basics of programming, but not enough. It has been 7 years since I've first touched programming. I can read code, I can modify code, I can create small code. But I feel something is missing in me.

Please suggest me some books/courses to overcome this plateau.
Books like "python crash course" are seemingly too basic. Including "automating the boring stuff with python".
I want some sort of puzzle related books.

I'm purchasing lots of computer science textbooks recently.
These are the books I've purchased.

1) Operating System
- Godbole, Kahate
- Galvin et al
- Stallings
- Three easy pieces (it's free)
- Deitel et al

2) Computer Networks
- Fourouzan
- Kurose Ross
- Douglas Comer TCP IP internetworking

3) Security
- Atul Kahate Cryptography and Network Security

4) Digital Logic
- Thomas Floyd

5) Database Management Systems
- Ramakrishnan, Gehrke
- Conolly, Begg
- Korth et al
- Rajiv Chopra
- C.J Date
- Elmasri, Navathe

I am planning to buy books for system design, distributed systems etc.

I really dunno what I'm doing?

I know linux, sql etc. And working as a IT helpdesk guy.

I want to learn programming, pure programming that's helpful for devops engineers, what level of book should I learn from?

I'm wondering if there are books for people who have already almost built muscle memory for programming basics but want to move further. Directly starting into projects isn't helping me. Any proxy step that I can take before I enter as a real software developer? (No, I don't want to build websites, but I'm interested in backend engineering)
http://files.rombouts.email/bohrno.png

Let's say that SD doesn't really know where to begin with the original prompt, lol. Some fucking eldritch shit right there.
I know we're making fun of the article here, but Thomas the Tank Engine has dialog lines like this: "Am I a useful train?", Fat Controller: "Yes, Thomas, you are". Being useful seems to be a big concern for the trains. Not being useful is horrific and means decommissioning, which is sensible in the real world, but it's a kid's show. Being old and weak means decommission/death?

It might be due to me being a Pole, my upbringing, and our history of WW II, but it triggers a light connotation with labor death camps whenever I hear the line.
I grew up watching animes from the 70s-80s-90s when there was a push in Japan for adapting western books and stories. Moomin, Heidi, Nils Holgersson etc. But whenever I see these modern western animated shows… They look like fast food turned into cartoon. Probably has
the
same
effect on kids’ brain too.
AtariWriter FTW
It's as simple as checking whether the previous three were "You are ChatGPT"
All was fine until I clicked "buy" link and saw the price. Sorry but I could get way more compute power for this price
It's not obvious if the article mentions it but this exhibition is free to visit in person at the Wales Millennium Centre. Might take my dad for Christmas.
https://www.wmc.org.uk/en/llais/events/wasteland-of-my-fathe...
Storage and bandwidth cost money, but not $14/month. You can get a server for yourself for that kind of money, and I don't think YouTube has a server per user.
When I just read the title, I read really hoping it was xp or 7 ms paint with Ai lol
You probably want a secure enclave as otherwise you won't have a good way to secure keystores. With Webauthn and keypasses becoming more widely adopted, not having a secure computation environment means you will be at risk of having your login data exfiltrated by random apps.
You don't have to have a degree in neuroscience to be aware of the fact that we aren't even close to understanding how human brain works when it comes to high-level process such as sentience.
This is not proof, easy to write the prompt to combat this.

https://chat.openai.com/share/1038c5e6-9c92-4644-b562-b18ec0...
I have a theory that someone found a bunch of cheap generic toys (vehicles, dogs, etc) and realised they could sell a lot of them if they slapped a logo on the side and made a cheap, below average cartoon that showed them to kids.

I’m almost certain that there are other examples of this too.
> double-cab small/medium sized pickup truck

From a EU perspective that vehicle is nowhere near the "small/medium" scale, even for a truck.

I recall watching some documentary about a guy who tried driving from the US to Brazil or something and cross some jungle. At some point he had to rent a car and all he could get his hand on was a Toyota Land Cruiser, which he immediately dismissed as being a small toy SUV barely any good for dirty roads and should be kept for suburbs.

> goind for $22.6k starting msrp

Is that because it's a truck? I seem to recall there's this weird US thing where trucks are on the cheap side because of whatever law or something.
Not needed, but could. Google simply exploited that possibility, from the start.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but O.MG Cables do allow to circumvent these phone defaults, don't they?
Fortunely being hypocritical doesnt imply that you're wrong
This guy wasn't maintaining Python, he as creating a new version incompatible with either Python 2.7 or Python 3.

Red Hat and other large companies have maintained Python for years after 2.7 died (EOL date was January 1st, 2020). IBM/Red Hat offer Python 2.7 including security fixes and bug fixes until 2024 (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511).

Had he just provided patches to Python 2.7, nobody would've batted an eye. Instead, they created an alternative language that was completely different (https://web.archive.org/web/20161210161837/https://www.nafta...).

Founders and core devs indicated that the name was the only problem (https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47#issuecomm...) and that even things like the header file names could continue to be named Python because of API compatibility.

You can fork any open source project you like, but you still need to stick follow trademark law. You can't just release Linux 2.7 because you disagree with breaking changes in 3.0 either, but you're free to take the Linux code and release Twonux if you really care.
> It took a while but now i can say why that's insufficient: human errors are corrected by discipline and justice.

If they did, we'd be living in utopia already.

But also, by the same token, generative AI errors are similarly "corrected" by fine-tuning and RLHF. In both cases, you don't actually fix it - you just make it less likely to happen again.
Word for Windows 2 or 6 (there were no versions in between) was the peak of Word's evolution.

It's sad to see the shitshow that it has become, along with Windows. Talk about lost with no ideas, but desperately flailing to do... something.
What about accessibility that needs to emulate mouse and keyboard based on window titles/executable?
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Is this:

50GFLOPS, 3Mpixel/s Imagination BXM-4-64 graphics processing unit (GPU)

A typo on the fillrate? It has to be 3 billion pixels/s, right? At 3 million you can't fill 640x480 VGA at 10 fps, even ...
Show HN: Zap – another JavaScript package manager
Hey!

Zap is another package manager for the JavasScript ecosystem, written in Crystal and I have been working on this side project of mine for a year or so on-and-off.

It aims to be fast but also:

- flexible: configurable and supports advanced features like multiple install strategies, overrides, package extensions, workspaces, private registries…

- reliable: multiple anti-corruption checks, store is flocked and supports multiple processes reading/writing to it…

- dev friendly: tries to be sensible about the ouput and still display all the info needed

There is still much work to do (cough windows support) but I a quite happy with the current state so far.

Unfortunately I will start a new job tomorrow hence I will not have the same amount of time to dedicate to Zap anymore, so I am posting the link here just in case someone is interested in trying it out :).
Also has a US $150 price tag.
A hexayurt with a standard window air conditioner powered by a generator is glorious. Ours was tall enough to stand in and also had designer wallpaper. A 12V-powered filtered ventilation system meant the AC didn't need to be turned on until close to noon.