skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two competing truisms at play when comparing paid software to acceptable-ish FOSS software in the same space.

One is that funded software is almost always going to be more polished and easy to use than unfunded software. The vast majority of successful FOSS projects are either funded by corporations directly or by nonprofits which usually are still getting most of their contributions from corporations. True volunteers have no incentive to fix your bug or provide support.

Another is software provides diminishing returns the more it’s invested in past the point of viability. That’s partly because 95% of people need from the software comes from a small set of important core functionality, with the remaining 5% coming from everything else, but the 5% differing from person to person. Chasing that last 5% is not only very expensive and time consuming, it adds a lot of complexity and overhead. So there is a lot of FOSS that only solves up to the 95% point because it’s not too difficult and the people maintaining the FOSS have a different 5% than you do.

Anyway, it may not be the case that all software will be FOSS any time soon and GIMP will replace photoshop, but I certainly wouldn’t consider GIMP a failure. If you just need something basic and free for some light editing it works fine. It’d be a shame if people with simple needs had no free alternative to expensive licensed software.
Neoliberalism in the Presidency here in the US started with Carter, a.k.a. "The Great Deregulator" in the 70s.

And it wasn't just adopted/pushed by one political party . . .
We need to bring back Kazaa
maybe it wants you to be more than just friends (i.e. is 'shipping' you two) :)
I mean tanks are machines. Why can’t you have a remote controlled anti tank device.
Unfortunately you need to have a cable subscription with TCM to use the TCM app. They have a fantastic catalog that I cannot pay them directly to watch. I have to pay Comcast first. Not cool.

BTW cool angular animation on https://noiralley.tcm.com/?icid=espnav8-noir-alley
I don't consider this an anti-pattern, but part of the flexibility gained by Go's lightweight approach to error handling. I believe Go was even designed with this use case in mind (the standard library uses it in many places, and I don't consider their documentation about it "snarky").

Sometimes you want to return a partial result along with an error. Go's idiom of returning multiple values, with the final value being an error, allows this situation to be easily supported.
Why didn't the free version worked for him?
> The main downside of NACS is that it doesn't support three-phase

The other current downside is it doesn't support up to 1,000V like CCS does, which matters for the currently deployed 800v EVs out there. There's a revision to NACS to support this but it's not currently in the wild yet afaik. That's the next generation of superchargers
The submitted link isn't currently loading for me. Here's an article I submitted a few months ago that's likely substantially similar:

https://flashbak.com/the-1924-mikiphone-was-the-worlds-first...
I don't but know folks who do. They keep track of things they want to watch until they get to the point where subscribing for a month makes sense then cancel at the end of the month.

The hard part is keeping track of what you want to watch and what service it's on and whether it's still there when you want to watch.
As a developer who has been coding for last 20 years, the best use of Copilot is to hit the tab. It is not that what to write next is problem, its faster and easier, specially in verbose languages like Java.

As others point out, generating docs is another great example. In one obscure case, Copilot was able to help fix a bug when interfacing between Golang/CGO/Cocoa framework - I had deleted the code block to rethink and it just displayed the suggestion. I just tried it by luck and it worked.
Unemployment is at a generational low right now. In fact, lower than USA. Seems like the jobs are there, somehow.
He can invest time/work or money. If enough people are willing to pay someone will offer it and he can pay. If not he has to write it himself.
This evidence supports Robert M. Schoch "Solar induced dark age" theory.

I've always been a sucker for fringe archeology. Looks like Hancock et. Al. were right about an ancient cataclysm around this time, but wrong on the cause.
>That was a long wall of text for stating that a subscription isn't worth it

That was an industry insider's view about WHY it's not worth it, especially right now. He sounds like a VFX guy in LA/Hollywood, and his perspective is valuable especially with regards to "who's fault is this situation".
Did you mean German humor?
That's actually a pretty good analogy.
Except in the case I'm talking about, there was a resource to be reclaimed, the GC didn't cover it.

And if you wanted to do that in rust, that's a valid thing too, either as using a tuple instead of a sum type, or a tuple in the Err side of a result. You can describe what you're trying to do simply with the function signature.
"Ghostwriter is $10/month, yet it uses the same technology one can get for extraordinarily less from OpenAI."

OpenAI is $20/month. Or are they comparing Ghostwriter to what you can knock together yourself on top of the OpenAI API?
That's a personal profile page which has an expired certificate, sorry for that.
If you're (or anyone really) interested in what I did and would like to try it out for curiosity and feedback, please feel free to reach me at j@costantini.pw as I'd be pleased to share it. Thanks
Seaweed is actually delicious. I grew up in New England, as kids we'd eat that stuff straight out of the ocean.
Jetbrains
No comment on the past or the changes, but developer tooling is a very difficult market to be in. Keeping instances always online is an expensive proposition for users that aren't paying.

I would also suspect that for a free product, nonpaying users also consume a disproportionate amount of resources, both in terms of hosting and customer support - based on my experience working on the acquisition of a similar developer product by AWS, Cloud9 IDE (2019). Students and universities and learning, etc., isn't where the money is.

> The final blow came when Replit announced that your repls could only stay online when you are actively within the workspace, now Replit Deployments stand as Replit's only hosting option. This decision seemed to counter Replit's user-friendly ethos, sparking widespread confusion and shock within the community.

Honestly, that sounds a bit entitled to me. Maybe they reversed course, and that sucks, but are people really expecting Replit to provide free hosting? (I didn't even know the product was capable of that). Free tiers for a product like this can be a massive pain in the neck: a lot of cost for little upside. It's probably worthwhile for GitHub for various reasons, but likely not for a product like this, especially for anything involving code hosting.

For Replit to survive as a business they likely need to fast track into a successful B2B model. A lot of what they built, Cloud9 IDE had developed as of 2016: a web-based IDE backed by a container that you could launch on a dime. https://web.archive.org/web/20160403092511/http://c9.io/ - perhaps it was ahead of its time.

I do think that there's a growing market now, with offerings like GitHub Codespaces; and AWS continues to offer it as AWS Cloud9 post-acquistiion, but ... I see it being very difficult for a company to break into that space with a standalone offering, while competing with integrated offerings like primarily GitHub Codespaces (that build on existing GitHub and VS Code ecosystems) or to a lesser extent AWS Cloud9 (that integrates with AWS). There is a market for cloud-hosted IDEs, and probably web-based ones, but they need to super tightly integrate with everything else to provide a better UX than local IDEs.
I’ve tried to dig a bit through the libgen fiction archive. Surprising to me, I found that the vast majority was Romance novels. I’ve since heard this from others too that most published books are Romance.

If this collection is trying to solve the problem of having large tagged and sorted data for training, even if it can’t be commercialized, it might also be introducing another where the data still needs to be weighted and filtered. Not to knock on Romance specifically but even training on all scientific papers ever written, whether peer-reviewed, highly cited, retracted, debunked, etc. might explain some hallucinations it ends up making.
Somebody once said “Specializing is for insects” - I agree with that.

Also saying that fair wages is a problem of parenting makes you seem quite disconnected with the reality of what the masses face. I think what you say is correct but only to a certain degree. Circumstances matter a lot and most of the time one may not have control over that. People come out of that kind of hardship should not fall victim to unfettered capitalism where low cost is attained any cost. Minimum mage protects against that. Keeping the minimum wage low artificially keeps cost of everything artificially low - including your wages that you get for possessing specialized knowledge (white collar jobs). This results in the middle class having a low quality of life non materialistically speaking. This is what’s going on in America. Over the quality of life from a material goods perspective is better than third world countries but softer/finer things of life - family,relations etc people have very little time for and is objectively worse than most other developed countries as people spend their time doing multiple jobs or side hustles in the hopes to escape the rat race for good. Very few succeed.
Beta TESTERS for job search application
Simple google chrome extension to help students and tech professionals understand job descriptions and update their resumes.
If you are not allowed to talk about vaccine's problems, how do you expect to fix them? It's all fun and games until it hits you or someone you know. Yes, anti-vaxers will use it, but so what? We are not supposed to research vaccine safety because of that?
If you have kids, try PBS Kids. They have good stuff and it's free. Also, try telling your kids you can't afford streaming services anymore. They will be surprisingly understanding because, especially if they're small, they don't have money and know what that's like.
> During testing, we have noticed that this capability is unreliable as words are have missing or extra characters. We suspect this may have to do with the T5 text encoder we used: when the model encounters text in a prompt, it actually sees tokens that represent whole words and must map those to letters in an image.

Ah, interesting remark regarding text rendering.
(This isn't really for kids, but for anyone else who has a similar question.)

Dropout.tv is by far the best value of any streaming service. If you can get into their kind of content (it's only Dropout originals), it's endless entertainment for $5/month.

Examples of what they make:

GameChanger ("the only game show that changes every show") is a cool concept where they come up with a new game show for every episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsDyNOB1hZs

Dimension 20 is a D&D actual play show with high production value and an insanely creative premise for every season. (Candy Land but Game of Thrones, Manhattan: firefighter is a paladin, ER nurse is a cleric, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zZxCVBi7-k

They have tons of great shows.
Well sure, but I don't see how that contradicts anything I said.
Ok, so it's illegal. Now what? Strike anyway.
I don't see how you see it as bizarre. There is always some spread between what a person is paid and the marginal value they generate -- if there were not, then there is no way companies could return profits to shareholders. How much of that spread people capture necessarily depends on their ability to negotiate for it and unions can improve their negotiating position.
> it'd be hard for a trustee to argue that making severance payments to rank and file employees is not something "made in the ordinary course of business"

Typically in exchange for value and in Chapter 11, where you’re trying to preserve asset values.

> can't find any cases where unsecured creditors have successfully injuncted a bankrupt company from making severance payments

Senior unsecured. Higher priority than employee claims.

> mediators who were handling part of the bankruptcy proceedings

Mediation is voluntary. In the Toys ‘r’ Us bankruptcy, the original equity was wiped and creditors took over. They may have owned both debt and equity. But they were acting qua former creditors.

I’m not going to argue who would win. What I will say is the creditors would sue. There would be months of litigation, not a smooth transition to handing the firm’s last cash to employees. (Different picture had they never issued debt.)
That's not the code that a user would write to use this pattern, that's code that a library that implements this pattern might use.
Ah, I see what you meant. Sorry if I misunderstood. We're in agreement :-)
Common sense left the building a long, long time ago.
I picked polar bears assuming probability of zoo (public or private) escape or ice age over the next 15k years means there's some real, but minuscule, risk.
openscAId?
I stoped reading when it said "unable to pay the extra $292.20/year for 4 more always on repl"... if you're switching cost is so low, then yeah, switch off. But for me <$1 a day sounds worth it for the value.
The voting power of a person in NYC is 0.8 compared to 3.04 in Wyoming. [https://medium.com/practical-coding/whats-my-vote-worth-3ca2...]

I understand that there's a privilege involved in even having a close community, I recognize that and cherish that I have not only neighbors but close friends living less than 30 feet from me. I also recognize that the problems I have in a city are a planet's difference compared to rural living.

That said, I think people who live rural are putting themselves at serious risk by embracing social isolation, and the data describes that. I'm extremely happy about starlink because for people's health, we need that kind of infrastructure to keep people connected, and extremely unhappy that we couldn't build it out faster. Everyone should have a right to community.

As for guns, the UK allows anyone to own a gun through a licensing program [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58198857]. It's probably the most onerous requirements in the world, but they also have the lowest rates of gun death (both homicide and suicide) [https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...]. Guns are considered a privilege, not a right, and so the likelihood of even running into someone with a gun who might be threatening your life either in the city or the country, is significantly smaller.

I'm not expecting a constitutional amendment, but getting back to my previous argument, we rammed through drug laws without a second thought to the implications of the constitution or the effect it would have on my city, and we could certainly do that here by regulating black powder in the same way we regulate fentanyl.

I have a feeling people don't like this argument on either side because it reveals something hypocritical from both perspectives. The anti-gun crowd is very focused on the machine and the fear it instills, take away the AK47 and you're left with something that doesn't instill the same sort of emotional reaction, and much of their argument is built on that. The pro-gun crowd hates it not just because in creates regulation without taking away their guns (an entirely legal argument i'm sure), it flips the script toward a gun seller being a fentanyl dealer and a gun owner being a fentanyl user, which considering the numbers, isn't that far off apparently.
I agree, especially if you can _choose_ when you want to be a bit more verbose and add more detail, or not.
> Convoy had no exits because their only potential acquirers are in the same industry and are also getting completely crushed.

Some great insights here and you clearly know the business. I’m curious about this last statement however. Just how badly are other players doing?

Uber Freight just announced a major overhaul on a foundation apparently provided by their acquisition of Transplace [1]. There seem to be a number of synergies between Convoy and Uber Freight although I may be naive about that. In any case, I’m curious about your view on Uber Freight and whether they are viable or simply playing the long game based on deep capital reserves, and why you think they didn’t acquire Convoy (if that even makes sense as a possibility).

1: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-freights-new-solution...
Ahh, this does explain it somewhat (I'm mostly a CS-background and econ-background person). Thank you for adding your knowledge.
Assuming it's true, then probably the sensors are fail-safe.

But I'm not totally convinced Tesla is going over the cable rating. A lot goes into the rating of a particular cable -- everything from conductor material and size to the insulation around the conductors, proximity of conductors, etc. Not to mention the liquid cooling. It's plausible that supercharger cables are rated for more than 600A.
I do this. Don’t track as closely as I should, but do periodically subscribe/unsubscribe from HBO, Peacock, and Netflix.
The adapters will be cheap and plentiful. They aren't available yet.
The performance is really amazing with such low cost.
Hey I'd love to chat with you about tech worker coops. Would you mind?
Instead of more bootstraps, why can't we make sure everyone has a livable wage?
I subscribe to Night Flight+ (https://www.nightflightplus.com/). It is very niche and I basically subscribed just for the music documentaries. It is on the cheaper end (~ $40/year) but it doesn’t seem like there is much content added and the app is lacking (at least on the Amazon Fire TV )
I get that losing access to things you got used to sucks. At the same time, IMO, this post comes across quite entitled and whiny. Nobody owes you anything, specially not free hosting and/or server time forever. That stuff isn’t cheap and isn’t easy to manage, and they’re paying people and infra on what I imagine isn’t a great return.

So, free users are sad because it’s not the free they want it to be, except the free they want is essentially free everything forever. That doesn’t really work.

Registering a whole unique domain and taking the time to make this really rubs me the wrong way. If you dislike it, move on, maybe tell your friends.

I’ll also say that if something means so much to you that you paid for a domain but didn’t pay for the thing you paid for the domain to complain about, why didn’t you pay for the thing you complain about?

If something means something to you, adds value to your life, or saves you time, maybe it’s worth considering paying for it if the value provided is worth the cost. Demanding free stuff is entitled and silly and needs to stop.
They also had a lot of people gaming the REPL hibernation system via OnlineOrNot. I ended up banning uptime checks for their domain entirely.
“The eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in January 2022 injected a lot of water vapour into the stratosphere which only reached the south polar regions after the end of the 2022 ozone hole.

“The water vapour could have led to the heightened formation of polar stratospheric clouds, where chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can react and accelerate ozone depletion. The presence of water vapour may also contribute to the cooling of the Antarctic stratosphere, further enhancing the formation of these polar stratospheric clouds and resulting in a more robust polar vortex.”

Sounds like more of a natural expansion of the human created phenomenon, hopefully temporary
The US puts the death toll at 100-300, for whatever unclassified documents from US intelligence are worth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/world/middleeast/gaza-hos...

I can't find the EU number, but I'll take your word for it.

It's entirely possible the death toll is lower. I don't claim that we know anything for certain.
And the Roadmap dates from 2021. Guessing it's a dead project.
> Just add try/catch already.

Although the keywords panic and recover were chosen instead, this functionality has existed since day one.

But we're talking about errors here, not exceptions. They are very different things.
That's why you need to cover up your stealing by lying.
There is a "playground" that's basically just a thin veneer on the OpenAI API and has a conversational interface, where you pay by the token, and it doesn't include any of the ChatGPT capabilities.
How does this differ from Nerves?
Most research scientists I know just use their maiden name indefinitely for ‘work’. No one gets confused. Medical Dr’s too.
> most founders are wealthy or backed by wealth

Back that up
This is / will be SAE J3400:

> This document covers the general physical, electrical, functional, and performance requirements for conductive power transfer to an electric vehicle using a handheld conductive coupler capable of transferring either DC or single-phase power using two current-carrying contacts.

* https://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3400/
> This problem isn’t exclusive to SwiftUI though, WinUI/Windows App SDK is also mobile-flavored likely due to its UWP heritage, lacking basic desktop widgets like a tableview/datagrid.

Hah, it's far worse than that - Microsoft has let their desktop DX story stagnate for 15 years now (WPF was launched in 2006), since then Microsoft hasn't launched any new desktop-first UI framework for Windows, nor offered more than token improvements to User32, CommonControls, and WinForms since then.

It's no lie that everything MS has done in the UI-framework space since Windows 7 in 2009 has been a waste of time and money. It started-off with the "Metro" Windows Phone reboot, then the shoehorning of that into Windows 8, and the various XAML-derived frameworks since then - and none of them have attempted to tackle the very fundamental flaws (declarative data-binding doesn't scale, INotifyPropertyChanged breaks causality tracking and cannot be unit-tested, mutable ViewModels were carved by Lucifer himself!) - and as you said, no care or attention is paid to applications needing high information-density display.

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...so while all this is going on, the Office org came up with its own in-house GPU-accelerated UI introduced in Office 2013 which we can all agree is slow, bloated, glitchy (y'ever used Excel with a 500Hz mouse?), but also proprietary and undocumented, so the wider Windows ecosystem can't benefit from the Office org's framework which would have otherwise (almost) neatly filled the gaps left-behind by the Windows org.

I just want Satya to hire me for the job-title of "VP of Consistent User-Experience" and I'd make it a top-priority that Windows itself comes with a reusable spreadsheet+datagrid component that all applications can use - and it wouldn't cost the company more than a year and a few million dollars - but save billions by avoiding lost developer confidence - and would serve to remind everyone that native desktop UX can always be better than browser-based UX.

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Sorry, am ranting.
Where in Europe did you see so many charging stations? I just drove from Florence to Montalcino and the surrounding areas in Tuscany, and didn’t see a single EV charger. Even gas stations were somewhat rare but at least there.
After having read the document now I think I see the misunderstanding.

From my understanding the attack is:

1. Hold a row open for 70us

2. Ram controller may refresh a row

3. Go to 1

I saw nothing that mentioned a hard requirement of 64ms referenced in the post you replied to - they only mentioned that they kept it within 64ms to
"Prevent data-retention failures from interfering with read-disturb failures"
Prediction: Arxiv has no need of this money, as it has no need of upgrades. This money will exclusively attract salesman, all of whom will offer to make arxiv worse, for money. One of them might succeed
Nearly half of non-Tesla EV owners want to go back to ICE