skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is slightly different. You're focusing on fees, and open source being an industry in itself. Quoting from the linked comment:

> This lack of awareness hampers [open source community's] ability to participate effectively in the marketplace, including financial transactions to sustain itself.

Thing is, a large part of that community doesn't want to "participate effectively in the marketplace". The community started as a way to refuse playing the market game. Good or bad, visionary or naive, this was the OG culture, and remains potent in a subset of the larger OSS world.

> While I agree that small fees can serve as proof of identity—verifying that the software indeed comes from the claimed source, which seems to be one main intent of signatures—I don’t understand why these fees have to be exorbitant.

Again, I don't think the price is the problem, nor even that there is a fee. The problem is that "verifying that the software indeed comes from the claimed source" is done by requiring the software to be developed or controlled by a specific legal entity, and requiring that entity to establish trust via business relationships with the network of companies centered around major software corporations. It's forcing the entire OSS ecosystem (or at least the parts that directly, or transitively, target proprietary platforms) to commercialize.

Now, while I'm strongly biased against what I consider "security disempowering users and sucking out all the fun from computing", I'm not going to argue that this is entirely 100% bad, or that software devs have right to remain anonymous. Maybe, long-term, it's the only way forward. But right now, it feels like being colonized. "Yes, nice stuff you're making there, our citizens love it, and we've made some good money on it too. But from now on, you're no longer welcome on this land, unless you accept citizenship and become legible to our bureaucracy."
> It has a huge cognitive load

This. Its like trying to keep three distinct languages (C, old C++, new C++) in one's head at the same time. It is much better use of one's mental energy to spend that effort on three actually distinct languages that are, e.g., tuned to different domains and use cases.

Imho the C++ community needs to address this or eventually become irrelevant as people gravitate to more sane and user-friendly ecosystems. Not sure how that can be done without breaking some eggs. My preference would be for a simplified and streamlined C+++ that tackles this complexity head on.
A thing stands out to me about the machine learning is their ability to recognize patterns. We all know that human brain is also well adapted to this task. So adapted in fact that it is probably one of the most fundamental, ingrained thing that we have in the lizard part of our brains.

For some reason, to me this kind of subconscious thing hold some special meanings. It feels like the current LLMs are actually going in the right direction to eventually emulate a conscious mind and it shows this by imitating what a mind without consciousness would look like.

Personally, if I have to compare the current LLMs to an organic equivalent, I would say we are at the insect level. It can respond to things, know a few surprisingly complex knowledge (spider webs), but ultimately doesn't "understand" what it is doing and just robotically do what it was programmed to do.

Good thing is an insect to even the dumbest vertebrate is pretty far away in term of mental cognitive ability so AIs aren't going to spontaneously gain awareness anytime soon.
> I asked them via email about this and they responded promptly and said that there was nothing they could do, which is understandable

No, this is not "understandable", you paid for the product, it's a problem that should be fixed
My bad, somebody else noted that the main product is N2 and not NOx, but I am not knowledgeable on this enough to point out the results. I was referring to https://nh3fuelassociation.org/2018/12/07/performance-of-amm... which is specifically for co-firing on natgas turbines.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls the remote work 'experiment' a mistake
Because that's not what unions do. Unions are against management, not customers.
>It also significantly reduces the usefulness of code signing for the vast majority

I'd argue that code signing for the average person has zero utility on Windows, and negative utility on macOS.

I really don't think anybody understands or even cares what a certificate means, and the only practical outcome is that sometimes they get scary messages when the app they're installing didn't pay MS for a license.
Transportable in mass quantities, which is hard with electricity.
I'm not clear as to what your actual issue with the article is? It's a very short article, that clearly sets out the potential and alerts the reader to an interesting development. It includes a quote from an author, so they have spoken to him.
Doubtful. Wii U has been thrown open for years, the last update was 13 months ago and weirdly only for North America and didn't break any current exploits. The store is dead, it loses online play in a few months and the hardware is long discontinued. I don't think they really care about it.
To each their own, but for me, high quality wireless buds with ANC are worth every penny.
Work is a mixture of thinking through problems, writing down the answer, debugging systems, talking to stakeholders, writing prose for engineers or management.

An idea from the creative artist world is to consciously divide the tasks into creative and other. Game plan goes:

Wake up. Do not read email. Or slack. Breakfast then walk, thinking about things.

Write down the ideas you want to come back to. Then lunch.

Then take a look at email, slack. Do the traditional fire fighting while trying to write code simultaneously game until the evening.

Spend the evening socialising, reading, generally taking in new information, probably in the hope that it gets sorted while you sleep and takes your mind off the fires of the afternoon.

That's not a path to three hours a day of work. But it probably is a way to make progress on hard problems despite a software dev day job that applies pressure against that, via cultural firefighting.
With so faulty an understanding of animal cognition - with not even the knowledge that insects are animals! - I would hesitate in your shoes to attempt any sweeping conclusions about mechanical cognition.
If you just make up a number claim it’s prime and nobody disputes it, it’s prime apparently. I don’t think it’s really possible to have a very large prime number, because unless someone has tried every factor it’s really not prime yet, honestly that explains a lot about the elusiveness of the concept.
I’ll add on to this - I’ve worked closely with a few folks I consider to be in that brilliant mix of charisma, business sense, and technical competency.

I’ve watched them found rock-solid companies and build great teams (I’ve worked on them)… and then for some reason several times in a VC-backed Boards like to bring in their own guys and push out the actual founders.

In short, I’ve watched VC rob my friends of their joy and in some cases cheat them of their blood, sweat, and equity. Good luck exercising those options on a non-IPO firm when you’re scrambling to find a new job to keep the mortgage current.

I’m really soured in the whole “start a startup.” There’s so much chicanery going on in the business world that it’s just sickening to see.
Streaming TV services, like five.tv, somewhat recently started showing ads when one pauses. But often I pause because I'm trying to see something on screen, like 'what did she give him?', 'what did that sign say', you know. Now there's an advert instead of the show.

Also, I think it was Channel 4 (UK), I was vibing to the credits and it just closed them without seemingly offering way to go back.

The high-seas seem more attractive every day.
My apologies - I misread your first comment as '6 km' (rather than 6k km) annually, hence my incredulity.
> There's nothing more abhorrent to our societal myths of a just road for everyone to take than someone who worked years to reach some level of success in a field they want to excel in but only hit a point barely above mediocrity.

I think it depends on how we define mediocrity. Is it mediocre to spend as much time it requires to get a PhD becoming a good pastry chef or carpenter? In the west very likely yes, unless you're an "entrepreneur".
Are we any better at rendering water?

Obviously there’s this which pops in every thread on the matter. Rightfully so. https://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/
The GC tooth mousse linked by OP
In "agile" or "scrum" or whatever story pointing is, the "level of effort" is often touted and rightfully so. The mind can quickly become exhausted after grueling mental labor. Personally, I often get some 5 hours of solid work in one day and consider that enough. Other times, I'll work 10+ hours in a day on less mentally grueling work but I rarely bill over 8 hours in one day even if it's more. I always want my employer to see the cost of me as well worth it.
I think it is much simpler than this. I know a guy that is 35, is ripped and takes model level photos of himself. He will basically brag how he is picky on tinder. He is also 5'7" and has the most average salary.

Whoever has the best looking pictures gets most of the attention. I practically grew up on the old dating sites and my weight fluctuated wildly from eating out when I was young. I can remember it was like two different experiences depending if I was on a diet and weighed 15lbs less. 15lbs was the difference between a massive amount of attention vs basically none.

The idea that all that matters is how good your picture looks is so obvious but it doesn't fit the romantic stories we tell ourselves so we pretend like there are all these deep flaws in dating apps. They are doing exactly what we should expect them to do. Guys with great pictures are getting all the sex and attention at the expense of basically everyone else. Duh.
I'm just seeing a lot of articles about bad rewrites recently, it could have started even before this one. It's just it wasn't as prominent as it is now I think
How do you log in? What user/pass?
It is often taught by its historical development, so first as an alleged imaginary solution to an equation with no real roots.

This has it backwards as far as intuition is concerned. The geometric interpretation is the obvious one, and the use of `i` in finding zeros is a special case.
Thanks for your comprehensive response. I consider these topics deeply important, and worthy of a lot of consideration.

I sensed we had a disagreement but likely tried to side step that to avoid any conflict, because I don’t really want to engage in that online. I’m glad to see I was right with my instinct and thank you for elaborating further just what any disagreement might be there! :)

Please allow me some time to read, understand and consider what you said and maybe I’ll get back to you!
I disagree, there's a lot of prolonged mental fortitude required during hard efforts. So 3x per week during workouts and in every race.
I'm not able to log in on my phone. The login prompt doesn't echo any characters when I typed and I don't get a prompt for password.
The dating app model has rarely worked, but it's a fascinating thing that happened, and there should be more research into why these companies were so successful in peddling it.

Simply, it's not workable if it has contributed to real success (happy ever after) occasionally, while simultaneously causing greater damage in other areas, like making cheating on existing relationships easier or discouraging meeting people in the old ways.

For instance, last I heard is that there's a ratio of 10 to 1, men to women, on them. Necessarily, this isn't published (to sell "superlikes" etc). Completely absurd setup.

But it speaks volumes about modern culture. That there's been no education on the best ways to successfully meet a good life partner, honestly factoring in things like your rank, regarding attractiveness and socioeconomic status and so on.

The best model is most likely: maximising your meeting of friends of friends. But who's out there touting that? Parents are asleep at the wheel.
Finally, someone they can use to do a Bond/Zorin parody
Link for those who are curious: https://github.com/IAmStoxe/oracle-free-tier-wirehole .

Thanks for sharing that repo. I have a similar setup, but with each service in its own compose file as I added them over time. I would definitely use WireHole if I didn't have everything running already.
Performance has absolutely nothing to do with sandboxing.

Heck you could already apply many sandboxing techniques with Linux 0.x by chroot() to an empty directory followed by setuid() to "nobody". If that process needs file access, fork() a broker process before the chroot() that funnels file descriptors over an unix socket to the sandboxed process. The broker strictly checks file access permissions of course or could even present the file open dialog to the user.

This is next to no overhead in many cases (keep in mind you'll stat/open/mmap a bunch of .so's anyways on startup), except for the fork() maybe. And that can be fixed by proper sandboxing API's by the OS.

The problem is that these OS's give the processes to much permissions in the fist place (access to all the user's files, ...).
Things built during communist times often did not have any planned obsolescence.

The vacuum cleaners, refridgerators - are inefficient but built like tanks. Also often primitive enough to be repaired.
They are really easy to spot though. The ones that have no intention to meet and just signed up because of boredom, that's harder and wastes time.
So, why are center positive barrel jacks risky when used with rechargeable batteries? I tried googling and asking ChatGPT about that to no avail.
Certainly happens in the UK and some of the Eastern European countries
Multipeer Connectivity Tutorial
Today is just tomorrow's yesterday.

I'll just avoid C++ for now, and wait for future articles to say that the C++ of 2023 was too complicated to use.
I believe people who know about the current state of LLMs and/or human/animal brains have very different opinions than yours

Common sense and metaphors don't really hold up in this context
Do you have a lot of experience with competitive running (racing)?
Well, Germany is not exactly a powerhouse of IT innovation these days.

I took a few week-long professional courses related to low-level stuff in Munich and elsewhere in Germany, and it felt as is most other students were either working in finance or car making industries.

Both industries are conservative (for a good reason), and generally lag behind the mainstream by at least 10 years. I am not even saying Silicon Valley maintream, no. It's more like moving from pure embedded to Linux, or replacing a 30-40 year old OS with Linux. A lot of Windows machines.

To explain why this feelt so strange to me. In London, UK outside of City any decent IT company looks like the following: developers use either Mac or Linux machines (4 to 1); non-technical or semi-technical audience (HR, DevRels, marketing, design, etc) uses Macs; finance and legal teams mostly use Windows.

Technically speaking, all backends, all of compute, everything is based on Linux. On-prem, cloud, whatever - always Linux.

So for somebody wanting to stick with Windows WSL becomes a necessity.
I like this one: https://youtu.be/OIXVDdH3o6g?si=5zmNifE_Zzm4Rasb
The Haber Bosch reaction does not produce any CO2:

N2 + 3H2 -> 2NH3

The challenge is getting the zero emission Hydrogen. The process presented here is somewhat better than using electricity for the electrolysis split water, but still substantially more expensive than the gray Hydrogen obtain by cracking Methane gas and releasing the CO2.
That's the beauty of flexibility - for those cases where beauty matters, it's reachable, but not forced upon anyone else

I don't even find it that hard to imagine (I can even imagine multiple seamlessly integrated AI-suggested options generated based on your previously handcrafted examples), but agree with your underlying point that that's likely not going to happen given the state of tooling design across the board
The exorcist must be some of the most devoted Christian on the planet. If someone is believing something that much, they can't be considered a fair or reliable observer. Even a staunch atheist when pressured enough and presented with an ambiguous situation (e.g. a weird picture where the shape and shadows just conveniently form a paranormal figure) would start to make false assumptions. Now make it a priest whose entire life is spent on seeing "demons" and I would not be surprised if these guys are going to hallucinate while waking.
Do you have any legit source to support that claim ?

It's really surprising indeed that they were not aware of the attack and that they could not defend their settlements. But that could also be explained by thinking themselves untouchable, leading now to an overreaction to hide their responsibility in this failure to protect their citizens.
RFC 5211 – An Internet Transition Plan (2008)
Dummy login / no password
Well the most important thing is that the cat's out of the bag.

So the self-serving rules-for-thee flying around the world executive hypocrites can only complain impotently that their serfs aren't attached to their allotments.
It's the kind of thing that might make sense if you understood it, but that's hardly going to help a newbie. I also have some real doubt whether it's actually accurate or helpful. For instance

"If an execution is represented by a curve showing the evolution of the vector x(t) of values of the input, state and output variables of the program as a function of the time t, this concrete semantics can be represented by a set of curves (with continuous time for short):
x(t)"

To call these curves is just weird, and suggest this could be plotted on a two-dimensional graph is hugely misleading (And 'continuous time'???)

"The concrete semantics of a program is an "infinite" mathematical object which is not computable: it is not possible to write a program able to represent and to compute all possible executions of any program in all its possible execution environments"

Really? Let's determine if a program halts, that can't be trivial can it. Here's my program:

HALT;

"In formal methods the abstract semantics must be chosen as a superset of the concrete semantics since otherwise reasonings in the abstract might not be correct in the concrete"

By 'superset' I think he means a subset, or more restrictive, because otherwise you could have abstract semantics that allow more behaviour than the programming language. Or maybe it doesn't, but it's so bloody unclear that even I'm getting confused.

etc.

Abstract interpretation is an interest of mine (doesn't mean I know much about it though) and I think this post is a bloody mess.

I will look at the references he's provided and also at the other links people here have posted (thanks). I hope his books are better than his blog.

(Also AFAICT from the linked coures, this is circa 2005)
But they don't care - instead, they just start a new one and repeat the process all over again.

The mistake here - made not just by the devs complaining about tech debt, but also by all of the company's customers - is that the goal is to produce something of value. It's not. It's to produce something promising to be of value at some point in the future, getting as many people as possible, as fast as possible, to buy into that promise (and stringing the paying users, if any, along for as long as possible), and then jettisoning the whole thing once it's past its peak, escaping with riches, to do it all again, or finally go FIRE.
Yeah this is a good point. I guess genetic determinism is just the contemporary scientific justification for a mentality that’s existed in some for a long time or indeed forever. (I’d be interested to know if other human cultures were more and accepting and supportive of personal growth.)
Yeah and I don't regret it either
I heard few times that the Skodas were too good and started cannibalizing VW sales, so the newer models were made worse.
"Hey Alexa, document civilization"
You're literally "made to feel" certain ways. During your formative years someone was shouting you suck and generally acting as you're a burden and unwanted? You'll feel that shit for the rest of your life no matter what you "decide to think". It becomes ingrained in you. It becomes who you are. You can work on it like GP said and improve the situation but don't act like it's trivial or just a change of perspective. It isn't. It's like your body needs healing after a fractured bone. Your mind also needs that time and setting.
I find I need at least 2 hours of continuous focus to get any real work done and 3 hours to be really productive. If I start at 9:00 am and have no meetings in the morning that means I can get a meaningful piece of work done by the time I eat lunch. Then if I have no meetings in the afternoon I can get another meaningful chunk of work done. Oftentimes though, days are wasted because of meetings thrown in haphazardly.
Good point about being clear if you have a hard line about something and it's your company.

But it makes no sense to say this other person who wants to get into Go made a mistake. That sounds like a very small time political take.
I use a shortcut and Siri for things like this:

1. Save the image to Photos, favorite it, and get the name (e.g IMG_2678).

2. Make a shortcut with two actions:

- find All Photos where name is IMG_2678 and is favorite.

- Quick look

I most often use “Siri, share my contact”, which shows a QR code for my contact with my cell and email address. It’s proven handy when I was busy (making drinks) but wanted to give someone my contact. Qrafter is what I use to make QR codes on iOS.
Well, I know of several companies in Wales doing Windows development.
A gaussian mixture is a universal density approximator, so you can definitely approximate a lognormal with such a model.
Damn, I can see it: basic cables with ads, mid-tier with pay-once-to-remove or a subscription model and "premium" cables without at first that will eventually introduce ads. And of course various influencers teaming up with shady manufacturers selling their gold plated cables that soon or later lead to some scam scandal.

I dreamed about future from Clarke's books and we got "drink a verification can" mixed with Brave New World and 1984 instead
“Hey Alexa, survey North Sentinel Island”
People might be interested in BirdWeather (https://app.birdweather.com/) which collates data from people's bird listening stations (raspberry pi's with a mic and a modest NN to classify what is heard). Basically, the technology for this has already arrived as consumer tech.

As someone who is a fairly serious volunteer birdwatcher, we could absolutely do with more of this. There are not enough bird surveyors (paid or volunteer) and audio moths hooked up to AI capable of filling in the gaps are badly needed to support conservation and re-wilding efforts.
A sad state of affairs in the realm of hardware and firmware design when fixing such trivialities requires so much effort
> I don’t like ads, but I think the only ethical options are posting to avoid them (preferably direct to artists) or watching ads

I think that ethical position is weakened by the fact many ads are links to scams and unethical things. You aren't just supporting creators by watching adverts, you're also potentially exposing yourself to bad faith actors.
This is the reason the Childfree dating site I'm on is entirely useless. There are literally dozens of us! All spread out geographically.