skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tier looks great. But unfortunately Tier's commit history on their main branch looks close to abandoned. I'd much rather pay money than risk picking unmaintained solo-dev OSS. If we're gonna end up having to manage the code ourselves I'd rather we write our own abstractions. Tough chicken and egg problem for them, I hope they solve it.
It is going to be a struggle. Headers work well for full recompilation as they provide significant parallelism. But are very bad for incremental compilation.
ChatGPT and the Educational AI Chatter: Full of Bullshit or Trying
No idea. These regulations and barriers can be bypassed if enough value can be extracted despite laws to the contrary.
The Pros and Cons of Hydrofoils
Any way to proof that the author actually sold his company by a better price than initially said? Otherwise it's just a bad sci-fi.

What I learned from this story? You're always the bad guy in someone's story. Specially if this someone has a blog, time to blog and get linked to HN.
... if you live/do business in the US. Over the decades, I had quite a lot of this situations in parts of our company or the company as a whole; here you cannot get anything done in this case (most cases didn't go to court as they were too silly, the ones that did we won and we didn't even turn up; just our lawyer while the opposition sat there wasting their time). If you get it to court at all (which is a problem to begin with), it will go no-where and 'the broker' will just lose money and time.

A system where you have to pay bullies because it's cheaper and easier than defending yourself is broken.
I'd assume it's the usual human titles-and-status game. If every lower-end worker tinkering with software seems to be a "developer", then an "engineer" must be somebody higher up, or in some cool specialty, or something...right?
Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
I'm not only disappointed with what the author did, but also I am surprised that he chose to negotiate again with the asshole, who had proven to have no interest in reaching a win-win deal. If I were him, I would have spared an amount of money to be used for legal costs and fee, in case the asshole were awarded. I still would have the peace of mind.
Cassini – Organise, explore and interconnect your work within Jupyter Lab
The project is mostly targeted at scientists.

It comprises a Python-side and JupyterLab extension.

The Python-side curates notebooks and data into an intuitive directory structure, breaking a project down into WorkPackages, Experiments, Samples and DataSets. The Python-side can fetch and store data and metadata from anywhere within this structure.

The JupyterLab extension creates a fast UI that allows navigating through the directory structure, displaying key information from notebooks e.g. experimental conditions, cell outputs, without needing to open and run the notebook itself.

The project is open source and is looking for contributors and feedback.
Typically exactly that. New finance has no fees and might steal your money once and suddenly, while regular banks steal it continuously hoping you won't notice.

The average 10 €/month in "account management fees" aka being able to have the privilege to lend them money adds up over the years. Online banking costs extra, because of course it does, SMS alerts cost extra because of course they do. Want a Mastercard/Visa system compatible card to actually do anything with your money? That'll be 50 €/year. Earning interest on your money? Haha, here's your 2 cents a month, don't spend them all in one place. I'm pretty sure I get more interest on the little I keep on Wise than all of my regular bank accounts combined.

Nickle and diming people to death just because they can and they know you have nowhere else to go.
" In spite of my intuition telling me not to."

Always go with your intuition

"There was a lot of work to do to get the materials together for him. I invested months of time in a back-and-forth with him, with me compiling and developing this information."

ROTFL. Old story. You have an seriously interested buyer? Charge a non-reimbursable upfront payment that will be credited towards the deal, should there be one. This will compensate for the amount of time you have to invest. The buyer bulks. Why? Walk away.

His advices 1 to 3 are excellent. I give you a few more for free

a) It is never too early to walk away from something bad

b) Do you know what is the death of every business deal? Lengthy negotiations

c) If someone uses a word, an expression, a sentence that sounds odd to you. Something that you would not use in this context. Never ever let this slide as a hick up, mistake, or whatever. Always make sure to ask what exactly he means by this. E.g. talking about license deals when talking about a VC investment (don't ask, please don't ask for the story).
PG's been writing these essays long before HN or YC. Actually those essays in the beginning made him known and helped him attract the first batches of founders. Those founders (and subsequent ones) have done incredible things. They have created and added tremendous value to countless people's life.

So there is value in these essays. You don't have to see it or appreciate it but denigrating it just turns the question on you: who are you? what have you done? what do you have to show and teach us?
Caching Strat:Understand Write-Through, Write-Behind, Read-Through and Read-Miss
10? I think we'll both be surprised by where we're at in 3.

That's October, 2026.
How many people have you met who are excited about free filing systems, but not excited by simplification of the tax code? Personally I've never met such a person.
Yes, it does. It's the opposite of closed source, and the meaning is implied by the word open.

OSI isn't authoritative of the term.
If you have a case that’s very likely to win, the broker would know that too. Would they want to pay legal fees to chase a fee they are likely not going to get? I think it was a bad decision to pay.
Economic growth is low because of democracy. (A little) more than half of all Brits are against growth (or at least against almost every imaginable policy that stimulates growth) because they reasonably believe this is against their interests. Older people with little education and some accumulated property will only lose from growth, the more of them in a democratic society, the less growth will happen. This isn't some failure of leadership, but a conscious intent by majority of population. UK is a conservative country and not by mistake.
Timely since I just found out that the publisher Usborne has reprinted their Book of the Future, which first came out in 1979.

https://usborne.com/gb/book-of-the-future-9781803709543

I've bought 7 copies to give to friends that I have been going on about this book for most of my life.
Practical effects of the October 2023 Stackoverflow's layoff
Mortal Kombat 1 stores up to 1 GB for each crash report
I don’t have my config readily available but just pick a default that’s close to what you want then make tweaks based on your preferences. It’s an incredibly useful tool for even a solo dev to keep your code looking consistent.
Too bad to see Louis Rossmann of all people selling this source available software as open source. He spend years proving to his audience how Apple bullshiting their users by not providing hardware documentation for "user security" and "safety". And now he pushing commercial source-available software to "protect users freedoms".

Problems he brought with NewPipe can all be solved by copyrighting the logo and registering trademark for software name itself. No need for BS source available licensing.
This is a settled debate. You will not convince anyone to use your definitions. We had this debate when MongoDB switched, when CockroachDB switched and for many others. And nothing has changed.

Open source means OSI-approved licence and that will not change.

This is shared source or source-available, not open source.
Enshittification seems sticky though. It takes a while before customers realize that the "tech banks'" support are like trying to talk to Google.

We will have to pay a premium over today's price for a normal bank.
Sadly the article this refers to that talks about the demise of catalog cards, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/card-catalog-dead-...,
has links to the company that printed cards, OCLC, that are also now dead -
https://www.oclc.org/support/services/worldcat/documentation...
At least the catalog cards would have given you better information than the 404 errors (which would have been live only 8 years ago).
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I think you just outed yourself.
> In its full glory, the pneumatic tubes covered a 27-mile route, connecting 23 post offices.

Berlin once had a 400 km tube mail system [0], which was in service from 1865 until 1976 (West Berlin) or 1986 (East Berlin). Before WWII, there were nearly 8 million items send via tube mail per year. Several hotels, large department stores or newspapers had their own private connection [1, 2, 3]

[0] https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/fileadmin/_processed_/2/...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrpost_in_Berlin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrpost_in_Berlin

[3] https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/verein/forschungsthema-u...
> Peace and love to everyone out there. Including the broker.

The writer warned a lot of founders/owners of a problem they might encounter, in many M&A proceedings, which is great.

Also, maybe they wanted to get it off their chest. And getting blog content out of a bad experience is a silver lining.

But I'm skeptical of "love" for the broker. Especially if people who wanted to know who that broker is could figure it out. Then broker might be more likely to call it "libel" than "love".

My current thinking is that sometimes you should dance around some of the details of warnings that come from experience. Vague but honest phrases like "I've heard of" and "I've seen in the field" can help. As can being informed and motivated by first-hand experience, but using second-hand public examples from other instances of the problem, when communicating about the general problem.
And how do we find out who is the asshole? All people that i heard saying this were convinced its not themselves.
But YouTube uses some weird translations, this behaviour is not fully consistent and also YouTube knows that I don't watch videos of those channels with subtitles.
It isn't as if Go provides those features, which was the suggested alternative to Python.
It's important to remember that Wise is not a bank, they say so themselves: https://wise.com/us/blog/wise-as-bank-account

It doesn't come with the same regulation and guarantees as a bank. It's a financial service and using them as a bank is quite risky in my opinion.
This app we discussing is no free or open source.

No reason to help them with legal defence.

Or to donate to them.
You're half joking probably but this is what a manager should be. Someone who enables you, not someone who makes your job hard.
I think the problem stems from translators being sent a bunch of strings with little context. At least even when we hired professionals it could sometimes be a bit wonky, especially with shorter texts.

For instance the word "speaker" can mean both someone that presents, or a loud-speaker playing music ("høgtaler"). If you tell a translator to translate the string "Speakers:" for a heading, they can't know the context. I once saw a conference program bragging about their loud-speakers in my language..
Upvote, just because you seem to entertain the notion that "the system" wasn't broken. I haven't heard anyone argue that way in a very long time, and it's refreshing.
Sorry but I can't buy into using history to compare if an empire is collapsing or not especially in this case where the USA is apparently doing every fuck up almost all other empires did.

Each empire they bring up was torn apart with an entirely different world and multiple factors that the author didn't include.
Nice maths. Would each router then hold 64TB and doing a lookup per request in that volume of data would be slow

Question: how does dns lookup differ from MAC lookup. Why is domain name lookup feasible, but not MAC?
GPT-4 is actually quite good with languages. You can even get it to do some local Dutch dialects. We use it (via the code gpt plugin) for helping us with localization files for apps. We just give it whole chunks of localization files (mozilla fluent) and task it with translating those while preserving the id structure. Aside from minor formatting issues, I've not caught it making any mistakes. I doubt we'll be working with external contractors for localizations again.

It's also really good at doing things like synonyms. We used this to improve our icon search by letting it come up with comma separated lists of alternatives for each icon name. Worked really well too.

And it can do fictional languages. We did a pirate speak localization a few weeks ago for international pirate day. Just for giggles but it works.
C++ is really becoming easier to use!

compiler error: you have to match the flags of that one dependency you're not familiar with and you didn't even compile yourself, rookie!
An affine space is a tuple (𝗔, 𝗩) where 𝗩 is a vector space and 𝗔 has the same structure as 𝗩 but has "forgotten its origin"; ie. unlike a vector space, has no privileged zero point. As such, multiplication by a scalar is not meaningful, and neither is the addition of two elements of 𝗔. The elements of 𝗔 are called points, and the elements of 𝗩 are translation vectors, or simply translations. The fundamental operations are:

(−): 𝗔 × 𝗔 → 𝗩 — gives the translation from a point to another point, and

(+): 𝗔 × 𝗩 → 𝗔 — applies a translation to a point.

(For convenience we can also write 𝒂 − 𝒗 = 𝒂 + −𝒗 for all 𝒂 ∊ 𝗔, 𝒗 ∊ 𝗩).

The Celsius and Fahrenheit scales are affine, and technically should have separate units for temperatures and temperature differences so that mishaps like in TFA would be less likely to happen.
Autogen: Enable next-gen large language model applications
There seems to be quite a lot of overlap between Falcon and what the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is ostensibly working on. As well as Amazon's Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) thing. All of them, in a way, are about addressing deficiencies in RoCEv2 for large scale latency sensitive networking that you see in HPC and DL training.

But none of these are things you can buy today. Well, there's InfiniBand, but if you're wed to Ethernet..
That is not a settled debate IMO, even Stallman said as much. Sure its not FOSS / FLOSS, but trying to push for a position where open source doesn't mean I can see the code is very much not agreed by everybody.

EDIT: See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
“Not A Bot”, a new subscription method for new users in two countries
Talking about rewind mechanic in games, you can't possibly leave out Braid.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/Braid/
You aren't authorative for the term either.

And, obviously, thanks to your comments, the debate doesn't seem to be settled.
I have, and I don't disagree that other countries are vastly simpler than the average, or even most simple, US tax return.

I just think it's disingenuous to paint all US tax returns as this difficult, complex beast.
The US’s biggest problem right now appears to be an inability to build.

The U.S. is the world’s biggest arms seller in terms of revenue and yet it seems it’s incapable of ramping up ammunition production to meet the needs of the Ukrainian military, which would be a fraction of the needs of what a war that involved the U.S. fighting a symmetric power like China or Russia, as opposed to cave dwellers from the 19th century would require.

Add to that the general inability for the U.S. across both private and public sectors to do anything cheaply which means even a poorer nation might still have greater resource capacity than the U.S. So even though China's economy, contrary to expectations even a year ago, might now never grow as large as the US’s economy in dollar terms, it would still have greater capacity because it’s able to wrangle out a lot more output for every dollar than the U.S. is.

Finally, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thoroughly discredited the Russian military, it’s also exposed the US’s lack of preparedness for the next version of war which will be heavily driven by drones and the like. Unfortunately the U.S. is relying on heavy expensive weaponry and doesn’t seem to have a great counter for inexpensive weaponry deployed in mass. So, Russia can fire large number of cheap Iranian drones at Ukraine, but Ukraine has to spend a million dollars worth of defensive weaponry to take down 100k worth of those drones, an economic difference which would not be sustainable in a larger war.
Now you’re moving the goal posts. You argued that writings from the past are worthless; I pointed out that they have great historical value. Cost-benefit analysis is beside the point. But we’re both here writing comments in a Hacker News thread so the option value of our time can’t be all that high.
I think with the current focus on the issue, we will probably find out.

Macabre as it may sound, it might not really matter who is responsible, people have made up their minds. Doesn't help any victim in the end.
Very impressive stuff. Seems like a huge improvement over Dreamfusion, released only a year ago.
The idea that Russia or China would magically become democratic utopias without violent social upheaval is extraordinarily naive. In addition to the US just deciding to "solve seemingly intractable social problems, like drug addiction" - human-made problems caused by the same human-made systems that the article is praising.

The only thing I really feel they got close was all 10 of the "Scenario Spoilers". If they wrote an article just focusing on those instead I think all of our minds would have been truly blown. But I suppose this article was written at a particularly optimistic point in time.
Showing it is vulnerable to such a simple garbage-in attack is helping it.

"AI art" is an oxymoron.
> This is the part that I don't get either. I can imagine hearing "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but I know I have heard "this place used to be good until it changed owners". And since the new owners have paid X years of profit which they arguably want to recover in less than X years, it is more than likely that they'll start cutting costs as a result.

To be fair, I know at least one case of "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but to be fair, it's because coffee shops are not really comparable to startups - namely because a very unsuccessful café can still hold huge real estate value.

Namely, in this case I'm talking about a café near a city center and a huge office building, but it was very dark, had old moldy sandwiches exposed and mixed low quality coffee with the brand coffee.

As you can imagine, after it was acquired by the new owners they just had to redecorate and sell normal products, and it quickly got packed every day.

Not sure if there's any possible equivalent for tech companies, though.
Very cool renderings, but ironically my browser is having a heck of a time rendering their website. The short videos keep jumping around, starting and stopping randomly... which i guess is very VR.
This is addressed on the video here:

https://youtu.be/5DePDzfyWkw?t=628

TLDR: they used an OSI-approved version on a previous app, someone forked it, filled it with ads, and published it in the app store trying to make it look like the original one. They are ok with people modifying the app, just not doing that.

I am not saying that this is the best approach, but that is their justification at least.

To me personally, as long as I can see the source and modify it, it is open source. OSI-certified is a subset of that. OSI clains that they "define"
Open Source, and I think that is mostly true, just not 100%.

The fact that OSI doesn't have a license which prevents the malicious forking mentioned above seems like an indication that they won't (or can't) cover some cases that I believe are open source.
This debate has been had many many times before and you are simply wrong. Your effort is malicious.

Regardless of what other uses the word open has/had, "open source" was defined by OSI and they are authoritative over the term.
"This guy was trying to make a profit, what an asshole. I, on the other hand, made and sold a snake-oil SEO shopify plugin, and sure, some of the shopify users who have purchased fine snake-oil from me may think I'm an asshole ..."

If you're going to take the moral high ground, I feel like table stakes are to not have made a ponzi, cryptocurrency, ad network, murder-for-hire, timeshare, or SEO service.
I can't help myself and have to speculate how to reverse UNO this:
Basically the scam works because as a "defender" in this legal attack our plucky founder has to do a good and expensive job defending himself while the ass-tacker knowing he has no hope of winning can do a crappy bad job just dragging stuff out. The business relationship they had gives this probably enough of a cover to not get tossed out right away. Since generally in the US each party pays their own expenses this works for ass-tacker.

Now if you turn this around simply pay ass-tacker what he asked for then sue him for having done a bad job on the sale he had no part in but invoiced you for. Since ass-tacker now needs to defend he has to spend money disproportionately. There have to be legal firms that do this service for you.
Thousands of elderly twins assure me that my kids will be alright
Vitalik Buterin Has Invested 400 ETH into SimulaVR
Somebody wrote a whole book about this. I've not actually read it, but at least wikipedia's summary is something I agree with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule#Recognitio...
Allied Spy Chiefs Warn of Chinese Espionage Targeting Tech Firms
Or perhaps they need to try longer and harder. They're the ones with the bigger guns, more powerful allies, more overall resources and more stable government.

If you look into the history of settlements in the West Bank, the picture gets a bit more complex than "Israel has tried".
It didn’t archive any of the files
Which is also nonsense.

I dislike smoking as much as anyone, but banning it altogether for recreational consumption? Completely ridiculous.

Education and support to help people quit is the best defense against stupid. Not bans.
>What did give me pause was how he handled negotiations over a clause in our potential agreement. He didn't listen to my concerns, and didn't budge one inch.

I've learned to listen to my gut in these situations. The worse your gut feeling is about an agreement, the harder you should push back on it until you can negotiate something that you're comfortable with. I usually give new relationships the benefit of the doubt once. Your first bad gut feeling can be wrong, but I've always regretted moving past a second bad gut feeling.

Be extremely suspicious if your counterpart tries to rush you through a contract negotiation process by downplaying the importance of the agreement while simultaneously refusing to budge on it.
I think it's a mistake to assume that an organization this large and sophisticated simply failed to try RoCE. They probably gave it a go but it didn't work out for some technical or economic reason.
You use a counting board rather than paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVB27kKAcRs&t=111

The main advantage of Arabic numerals on paper have is that operations are non destructive and you can restarts a calculation if you lose your place. The main disadvantage is memorising the times table and the amount of scratch paper you need.