skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
intredasting, they rather explicitly appear to be tilting against viral licensing:

> 5.10.4 Provider represents and warrants that its Assets shall not contain (a) any software licensed under the GNU General Public License or GNU Library or Lesser General Public License, or any other license with terms that include a requirement to extend such license to any modification or combined work and provide for the distribution of the combined or modified product’s source code upon demand so that Customer content becomes subject to the terms of such license; or (b) any software that is a modification or derivative of any software licensed under the GNU General Public License or Library or Lesser Public License, or any other license with terms similar thereto so that Customer content become subject to the terms of such license.

LGPL doesn't impose combined redistribution requirements, does it? They're just tilting against that whole ecosystem specially. And if you apply the same standard as LGPL, MIT/BSD are basically the same right? Probably CDDL falls in too? that's absolutely a crazy thing but it's pretty straightforward in the licensing agreement.

No, no, they got it all wrong:

"not, invented here!"
Massive overhiring in the sector, especially for non-tech positions or soft tech-adjacent roles.

Unfortunately when it comes to layoffs, many of the factors that lead to this overexpansion will also ensure that the parts that ballooned are not axed more than the actual tech positions.
The last chance to get reliable information that hasn't been tainted by the bullshit of LLM hallucinations is CyberPravda (dot) com project. The window of opportunity is closing fast.
What an amazing review-Thanks for that. It really brings together a lot of sad threads in my mind from that time. Having been the kind of guy who waited patiently for hours for home-made CAs to wiggle about on my VGA monitor and/or wrote little artificial life simulations etc for years in lonely isolation I bought "A New Kind of Science" with great expectation when it was in huge piles in every bookshop and was kind of devastated by how empty it was. I had really hoped for so much.
You're rebutting an argument I didn't make. Not being like Russia doesn't excuse war crimes.
Profit is a great incentive. All sides can profit.

Life is positive-sum.
Smart switches are always on to the switch, which then switches the light on/off either via buttons or the network.

So it doesn't matter if you manually turn them on/off - they remain network accessible.

This is why they're strictly nicer to use than smart bulbs. Even if you want smart bulbs, you'll probably want smart switches too, but if you have smart switches you only really get a benefit from smart bulbs if you want to control the colour of the light.
It is a great sticker: bold, all caps, tons of contrast. I think it would be really hard to fit more attention-gettingness in that little space.
Only 700 new IT jobs created in the last year for the whole of the US:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/700_it_jobs_us/

The blood-letting is still ongoing (Pixar and Discord, just talking about today).

I think the overall reason is that a lot of startups and services have been unprofitable for a while, and the zero-interest-rate environment of the past decade was the high tide that covered a lot of people swimming naked, as Buffett once put it. There might be other reasons for example SAAS platforms being consolidated into fewer and fewer big players. Long term AI will play its part - perhaps creating lots of junk code, but CEOs don't really care about long term quality these days, just short term earnings calls.

Of course there are going to be niches and things like payroll or flight booking programs that will need maintenance work from now until the end of time, and some programmers will be around in 10 years, just not as many.

Again, I would love to be proven wrong.
Known Exploitable Vulnerabilities: Catching them all
> You can get access with customer permission for a limited time window which is audited. In the normal course of business no.

Right but no one is saying your department is violating our privacy. I'm not sure why you feel a need to defend it.

I think we can safely say that MS's methods of violating our privacy are all automated and that you + coworkers aren't eyeballing our personal data. So we can move on from that.

If you'd like to speak to the privacy violations that are referenced in the article, we're all ears. Education guesses about methods or who some of the 3rd parties are would be terrific.
What extreme gaming when most discrete GPUs will going to beat them?
> The interface is an opaque number

While opaque for a subset of the API, it's not fully opaque since certain assumptions are made by the client based on their value: they are guaranteed to be reused and minimal.

What this means is I can do close(0); open(...) to redirect stdin.

> the implementation describes state, some of which is guaranteed to be present, one of which you can access using lseek()

>> Which are flags and a current offset at a minimum.

Uhh... no. Try that with pipes, sockets, FIFOs or any of the myriad other file types, eventfds, signalfds, kqueue, etc there are. Most open fds on a data center server likely don't meet your criteria.

Even POSIX disagrees for the concept you are trying to convey cf "file description".
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
Look, I'm frustrated with Unity as a company too, but a hit piece as a product announcement?
“Generally, dynamic linking of LGPL code is considered best practice, as static linking makes meeting the license requirements more complicated. While it is possible to comply with LGPL code that is integrated into proprietary code as a statically linked library, it requires more effort. There is a kind of safe harbor for using LGPL code as a dynamically linked library; for statically linked libraries, a distributor must offer access to not only the library’s source code, but other information or materials necessary to rebuild the program.”

This makes IL2CPP kinda hairy in Unity-land. Since it’s being modified to static-link, it must be released as source. So no, I don’t think I’m confused at all.
the bombings will continue until morale improves.
The rational is that you should be able to just install any asset from the store in your game and be good to go. With an LGPL asset now you have to let customers be able to edit that addon and rebuild your game with it which would be a pain, and most developers do not want to give out the unity project files.

Having a simple licensing story for assets on the store lets users have trust in whatever they see they can use in their game worry free.

Edit: Removed bit about LGPL applying to the original code because of static linkage because it was incorrect and distracting from my point
The FAQ reads quite sane, in particular their belief list.

But then they choose a weird mascot. Satan as a metaphor for the rebel is drowned by the other metaphors, like the ultimate evil, the liar who corrupts you, who will happily look nice and friendly if that's what is needed for the job. Especially if you then insist you don't believe in any supernatural, Satan included.

It's a bit like an art movement in Hitler's name, insisting it's nothing to do with Nazism, and only his painting style.

If you want to preach kindness and rational words thinking, but your symbol is a ram's head in a pentagram, then you can't be surprised people are terrified.

I have no personal experience with this organization.
These "puzzled and alarmed" Doctors need to watch the Netflix documentaries: "What the Health" and "Game Changers". There are others too, including 'Forks and Knives".
They will realize what the big pharma and animal products industries are up to.
Plant-based diets save health and lives. Wish I knew this much earlier on.
Sounds like next-stage capitalism: feel the immersion of Mario jumps due to actual free fall.
I hope more people talk about this.

> Last month, we learned that The Linux Foundation has continued to decrease their yearly spending on Linux -- down to just 2% in 2023. With spending on non-Linux project skyrocketing.

This looks like something Mozilla has been doing.

My conspiracy theory is that companies are buying out popular open source brands and killing them via divestment.
It is on you to prove that human intelligence does not follow a normal distribution, if you find that funny and incorrect.
Show HN: The Future Is Remix
Another way of presenting the same facts is that Airbus has done business with a country where corruption and bribes are the norm. The U.S. intercepted communications and used them to blackmail buyers so that they chose Boeing instead of the best airplanes.
A big problem is it's practically unusable on mobile (at least for me) Clicking once via finger tap often results in multiple clicks being applied.
> This might be the end of Pixar.

Classic overreaction on HN. Did you say the same when Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft slashed huge number of employees in last year? How about Spotify?
I do really benefit from finally having a way to use shell scripting. Life is too short to remember hundreds of one letter options with obscure combinations
It's noteworthy that Mathematica invented the notebook UI that Jupyter ended up popularizing.

It has some strengths, but since its syntax highlighting is coupled to the kernel state it didn't have an undo function for the longest time. Also as big vim fan it's disappointing to not being able to use your favorite editor.
How deep are the Crossrail platforms?
Why would transpiling mean anything special?
> These writers can use AI and there will be no difference. Another category is autobiographies written by celebrities with no writing skills

I would argue this is a common fallacy: I can't do something but I can use automation to do it. But chances are, being unable to do it also means you're unable to judge the result and understand what is right/wrong.

This is the standard thing if you try to put together a UI without any design skills, you will use existing components and styles, and it will still look crap.

AI will make it easier for people who know how to write to do automated ghost writing, but it won't allow people who can't to do it.
It's a red herring.
> Even POSIX disagrees for the concept you are trying to convey cf "file description"

You should have kept reading:

3.258 Open File Description
A record of how a process or group of processes is accessing a file. Each file descriptor refers to exactly one open file description, but an open file description can be referred to by more than one file descriptor. The file offset, file status, and file access modes are attributes of an open file description.
How do we measure the distance to those galaxies to be sure that it’s really a ring, rather than something that looks like a ring from our perspective? I know that supernovas provide one technique for distance measurement, but it feels unlikely that we’ve done that for every galaxy in this structure?
> Thirteen. Instagram had thirteen employees when acquired by Facebook.

But then Instagram was mostly just a simple photo editor app without the social graph complexity. Sure you can still build and maintain such an app with thirteen people.
this is still technology I presume?

https://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Want-to-help-...
loving the name of this, super useful thx
No, SEPA/IBAN is Europe-only:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

Only European bank accounts can do SEPA transfers.
Whilst I agree with you in principle it’s also employers being lazy, they absolutely can take on the burden of paying someone in a different country as an employee.

I work for a US based company in Iceland and they pay me as a FTE here and have done/do so in multiple other European countries.
You can declare these good public goods and then publicly own and fund them. That works well for some things and not so well for others. If you want a nursing home in a poor, remote community, you probably need to use public money for that.

You cannot tell a private owner of a privately-owned nursing home that they should keep losing money year over year.

Considering that there are other, profitable nursing homes, maybe there is a systemic problem with this nursing home that cannot be fixed (for example too expensive real estate, bad company culture, ...). I this case, liquidating it and then re-using the assets (employees, buildings, ... ) in other economic endeavours is the right choice for the individual and also for society at large.
It’s not illegal to tell the truth, but it might open them up for lawsuits, so there’s little to no upside for the company and an unknown possible downside, so no one does it.
> X300 mobos cannot be sold standalone

Doesn't seem to be an issue for the X600. You may have seen this review [1]. The AM5D4ID-2T/BCM isn't cheap, but it doesn't have a real chipset either.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-am5d4id-2t-bcm-revi...
You've taken some real facts (like debt to gdp ratio) and then made up a whole load of shit after it.
That, but also: the recent films have not been as good.
You could replace the symbolic solving capabilities with wxmaxima[1] (which is free and opensource) and you would also find the linear algebra is waaay faster than mathematica, but the downside is maxima is weird and a bit user-hostile and its visualisation capabilities are kinda janky by comparison to mathematica which produces really nice visualisations.

[1] https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/download.html
A side note: Your RSS feed https://pganalyze.com/feed.xml misses most of your blog articles.

I'm actually subscribed to your blog in my RSS reader, but I completely missed this article (any many others) when it was published because it didn't show up in the RSS feed.
What’s the weird thing?
And using the quiet expensive AM5 platform.
Can't wait for Elon to declare himself sovereign of Mars.
I'd like to see it, but it looks like the sheer number of videos almost freezes my computer...
Manmade structures are not recognised in international law. This is why Sealand cannot be recognised as a nation.
Pydvice: An attempt at bringing (defadvice) from Elisp to Python
Those double digits are getting to be single digits
JavaScript concepts every developer should know
Animators do the characters.

Visual Effects do wind, water, smoke, fire, cloth, etc.
No I do not, however there's terminating employees based on data (0 sales in Q4) and terminating based on data with context. (0 sales in Q4 due to ...). The latter paints a complete picture and weighs all the variables. If it's actually on the employee for the underwhelming performance, then it's whatever the org allows to happen (axe vs performance improvement plan) and how humane they're willing to be about it.

In this scenario, I don't think anyone would predict getting axed for performance reasons if they appeared to be getting along with the team / manager and weren't receiving any red flag feedback.

In the context provided in the clip, it really comes off as using the "performance" as an easy excuse to let her go, without actually providing information to back it up.
That was probably before the invention of robovacs.
Hmm. Maybe not common in some areas but here are some recent busts of retail theft rings in LA:

https://youtu.be/KdiX3g46Ulg

https://youtu.be/l2lSZcTlZAE

https://youtu.be/t2XEe0cJZEs

https://youtu.be/yX77hkB-poo
Folks confused here about the word "extreme" and seeing an iGPU might be missing that Steam Deck exists, and the market for handhelds is huge.

Of course, you won't be putting a 65W CPU into a Steam Deck, but if it scales down nicely, it's an amazing news. Steam Deck already enables playing the vast majority of current gen games (it was my Baldurs Gate 3 machine when BG came out); jumping in power so that I can enjoy some better graphics would be excellent.
Publishing & importing 3rd party code is so easy with npm that everyone is blindly importing code that wouldn't pass their own peer reviews.
> They dont work fulltime 40 hours per week on a single movie, do they?

Absolutely not.

They work 50+ hour weeks for 2+ years (discounting the much smaller team doing pre-production).
The author sums up his gripe here:

The user isn't supposed to read the docs to accomplish something simple. Simple things should be intuitive. Hard things should be discoverably-solvable.

No, just imagine this for a second: you are manipulating a quite complex graph by issuing calls from a bunch of rather obscure set of functions, not knowing what will happen exactly, simply hoping, each time, that everything will be alright.

If this doesn't make you feel wretched, I don't know what can.

It's just a fucking graph. And it just needs the right fucking tool to let you change it, safely, with no tricky bullshit or second-guessing.

It's not asking for much. It's the only way it should be.

So, when you are doing something in a version control system, you ought to be constantly seeing what the state is.
Props to the author for pointing out up front that this is a cool exercise but not a bug/vulnerability.
So they ditches saas by building a saas?
According to the paper, it just selects one AI randomly and then uses it to generate the next response.
Very true, because an experienced engineer had internalised that the hard part of this field is not writing code. A company that focused all on that in their hiring process means they're either misguided, or are looking for inexperienced "coding monkeys."

In a productive day as a solo dev, hitting keys on my keyboard is the easiest part, the hardest part is thinking about a problem in front of my notepad, usually staring out my living room window or while taking a shower.
Yes, maybe (some kind of diff/sync could maybe help), but this means using such a cloud is a bad IT practice.
> Fair use doesn’t allow you to pirate the source material in the first place, even if your parody or commentary constitutes fair use.

Why wouldn't it? While the two instances (the initial acquisition of the copy and the actual use of that copy) are analyzed separately, they're still both ultimately copyright infringment.
What's the practical accuracy achievable using models?
Observing macroscopic quantum effects in the dark
How does it compare to https://atuin.sh/ ?
Many countries have completely abolished the death penalty.
Considering how much Drew DeVault hates cryptocurrency and sites that require JavaScript, I don’t think he’s going to like this idea.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/sep/12/unity-engine-f...

Remember this?

I wonder what’s going on in the Unity executive’s heads right now.
ASML was one company formed out of Philips' microchip division (NXP the other part from that division).

So it's not a company built by politicians from many European companies AFAIK.
So people now need a special instructions on how to use a particular model of a car. F*cking amazing
This doesn’t mesh with my experience. I work at big tech co that went through massive rounds of layoffs. The criteria was a mixed bag. A lot of it was just entire products and associated teams being dismantled.

Also, one can make the argument the other way as well. Tools and infra have gotten good enough that the work doesn’t require the “dedicated nerds”. So let’s get rid of the highest paid engineers as that’s the most impactful to our bottom line. They coincidentally happen to be the nerds. We can always hire them back for less because what else are these nerds going to do in this market.

Not saying that’s the case but demonstrating that it’s pretty easy to string together silly notions we might have to explain reality.
It says between the lines that some PE investors are getting worried about high valuations vs the real value of underlying assets and slowly start withdrawing money.

Which is smart as markets come to the realization that PE's had been creating wealth by trading assets among themselves at articficial, ever higher valuations and now - with higher cost of money - could face reality check. Slowly first then suddenly.

For example I have purchased a dog for a million dollars last year and today I have exchanged that with PE for two cats valued at milion dollars each. So we both now have on our books assets that are valued at two million dollars. Which is great only as long as there is someone who wants to buy my cats and PE's dog at four million dollars next year.

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> This complicates true price discovery. Public markets, while not flawless, tend to be a stricter test of fair valuations. The private equity industry deserves credit for finding continuous ways to bypass the issue and keep their fee stream running.

Private equity: financial engineering prevents valuation check - https://www.ft.com/content/d6891146-f8ff-4c26-83e3-739e7793d...

> The firms that used the era of cheap money to become the new financial titans are wrestling with rising interest costs

> “Many of the reasons these guys outperformed had nothing to do with skill,” says Patrick Dwyer, a managing director at NewEdge Wealth, an advisory firm whose clients invest in private equity funds. “Borrowing costs were cheap and the liquidity was there. Now, it’s not there,” he adds. “Private equity is going to have a really hard time for a while . . . The wind is blowing in your face today, not at your back.”

Private equity: higher rates start to pummel dealmakers - https://www.ft.com/content/8b4a5df6-7f6d-480f-8d20-55793854c...
I use htop at least once a day and had no idea it could do that. Thanks!
You get the money right away and depending on the loan terms you may only have to pay interest for a while so you might be able to effectively get the value of the asset at rates that are much less than capital gains. E.g. capital gains mean that you pay 20% if you sell some land but if you get a loan against the land, you can get the value of the land at 5% interest. If the value of the land keeps going up you may be able to keep refinancing it for a while.
Yeah, especially considering that it seems like his personal website is also being DDOS'd. (or maybe it just runs on the same infra)
"The file offset, file status, and file access modes are attributes of an open file description"

That says file description there buddy, not descriptor. The two are defined separately, that is all.

The single integer does not describe state in the way those terms are typically used; we have clearer vocabulary: refers, points to, etc that's fine. But it is a distinction with a difference. (They're not even unique).

Edit: yeah, it says refers, not describes.
Or the illiquid asset tanks in value due to unpredictable future circumstances, and you now either lose the asset or bankrupt.

There's no zero risk profit here. Getting a loan using an asset as collateral is not some loophole to evade tax. The loan isn't used for consumption with zero residual value - otherwise how do the lender expect the borrower to service the interest? The loan is used to produce more profit via investment, increasing overall wealth, which means it's correct to not tax it the same way you would tax profit or capital gains.

At the point of consumption is where the best place to tax occurs.
But why also Codeberg?
How can that be, this is an article from that leftist rag <checks notes>, the Wall Street Journal?
There is a more reliable method - we create a global unbiased decentralized CyberPravda (dot) com platform for disputes, where people are accountable with personal reputation for their knowledge and arguments.
Back in my day, man pages and --help were enough. The thing about great documentation is that it rarely hallucinates.
Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling