skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll have to agree to disagree on your first point. Though...

> Hanlon's razor isn't about proof. It's about recognizing that one often projects intent onto circumstances where none exists.

Exactly. That is my point. I'm not denying that racism can exist with or without malice, though I'd argue intent has to play a part. My point is based on the information from the article you cannot determine the interaction was racist and calling it so is projecting an intention on it that you cannot say exists.
To add more context:

Mitt Romney, the author of this op-ed, went on to be the republican nominee in 2012. By then this had proven to be a very bad take.

I don't know that he ever really had much chance against an incumbent Obama, but I think this alone would have lost him Michigan... Romney was born there and his father was governer of Michigan so this came off as a betrayal. In any case, this was a good talking point if you wanted to argue he had a lack of vision.
I literally just `git add .` and let her rip. It's not pretty, I just git pretty much everything in my life.
Hydrogen leaks.
How to prevent Microsoft Edge from running in background on Windows 11 and 10
Do these people get affiliate money from that I.S.S movie? The topic seems suspiciously timed.
> Things change, people adapt. Well some of them. The rest just gets old and dies off.

Which, continuing the analogy, is like watching your neighbour be slaughtered and defending the war by saying we’ll be fine because those who won’t be will eventually die. Sure, in a few generations we could be better off, but there are people living right now to think about. Those who dismiss it are the lucky ones who (think they) won’t be affected. But spare some empathy for your fellow human beings, dismissing their plight because they’ll eventually “grow old and die off” is not a solution and could even be labelled as cruel. Surely you’re not expecting them to read your words and go “yeah, they’re right, I’ll just roll over and die”.

> If anything, people will have a lot more time to do artistic things. More than ever probably and possibly at a grander scale that past generations of artists could only dream about.

That’s an unproven utopian ideal with flimsy basis in reality. The owners of the technology think of one thing: personal profit. If humanity can benefit, that’s a side benefit. It’s definitely not something we should take for granted will happen.

> And it's not AIs spreading misinformation but people with an agenda that now use AIs as tools to generate it.

Correct. And they can do so at a much faster rate and higher accuracy than before. That is the issue. Dismissing that is like comparing a machine gun to a hand gun. The principle is the same but one of them is a bigger problem.
Thanks for the helpful feedback; it is hard to get that on the internet. Although...

> There are some phrases which seem nonsensical, like “fast-growing stasis”. It’s not like such a phrase is wrong, but it’s nonsensical at a surface level, which forces readers to stop and think about alternative readings.

That was intentional, and catches what I meant. The English speaking world is improving everything with unprecedented speed. Simultaneously, there seems to be an extreme amount of political tension that is linked to stagnation of a few key measures like wages and per capita energy use.

It is a weird situation of stasis (really more decline these days) and change for the better. Without observing both, the political situation wouldn't make sense.
I did say pick a license from the start. I'm not criticising people for having different philosophical positions on licensing.
You are not competing with Git, you are competing with Perforce.

(Personally, I would never use a proprietary cloud-only offering for version control.)
BSL doesn't necessarily allow you to self host. Without additional grants, it doesn't allow production usage until the license converts.
No, in Czech the meaning really is more specific and forced labor is not an overly bad translation, it's work done by serfs in medieval times.
It can be used to describe any work as heavy, but that's either in joke, or when used by people geographically close to Poland (typically referring to mining).
At this point HN should prompt people when submitting links. "Are there screenshots at the link? No? Go back and add them, then submit."
C lol
I think part of what we are seeing is a skills mismatch. It's not that the jobs aren't there imho, just that the population has not caught up. You'd think with the absurd amount being spent on college education this would not be the case, but alas it is.

Also we are seeing a lot of retiring trades workers and a shortage there. I have a feeling some of these professions are going to see a resurgence in wages relative to other areas of the economy.
Short Ruby News – edition 75
We're a few months in, and it has turned out that we've not needed all that many passwords these days, with a lot of services supporting SSO.
It doesn't matter how objectively good your camera/decoder is, in absolute terms. There will always be some minimum size or maximum distance, where the detail can no longer be resolved (or errors no longer corrected)
> Once your project reaches significant scale, you might find yourself in a situation like Elastic, or Mongo, where large cloud providers are offering your product with a superior distribution model.

> Secondly, and more constructively, you should prepare for this eventuality by finding areas where you can outcompete anyone. Most cloud providers are notoriously bad at Developer Experience for example, so take advantage of that and make DX one of your core competencies. If after 6 years, Google tries to steal your lunch, you should have a brand, a team, and a community, that have spent the last few years preparing for a David versus Goliath-type fight. Make sure you're not blindsided by something like this by planning for it from the beginning. You have enough time and focus on your side to construct a winning strategy.

Consider Google Firebase, which runs on Google Cloud and can access services from Google Cloud[1], but has a separate frontend, focused on DX rather then features, and imagine Amazon Supabase.

[1]: https://firebase.google.com/firebase-and-gcp
The problem is, most of the time, they already paid...
Maybe? What if it was a one time manual test harness? What if it was a migration for a new client that has since quit? There is a pretty wide range of tasks a developer can do.
Lord Willetts is now a Conservative peer, but was a demographer for the Conservative Party. The policies that have impoverished the young are all Conservative policies: allowing the cost of housing to grow faster than wages, privatisation, and deregulation.

In the eighteenth century, Edmund Burke argued that a conservative party must remain pragmatic, and until Thatcher, the Tories had the discipline to do so. For the past four decades, they have chained themselves to one ideology, and the fortunes of one generation. As that generation fades, so will the party.

In the coming general election, the question is not whether the Conservatives will hold power - that matter was settled long ago - but whether they will ever form government again.
There is some tricky big assumption being made here around sustainable profitability that misses our lived reality, especially given challenges like US developer salaries. Paraphrasing, OSS companies need lightning to hit twice, first for the OSS and then again for the company.

In our case, the Graphistry team loves and breathes OSS every day. We helped start what became the massively popular Apache Arrow and Nvidia RAPIDS projects, release our Python & JS clients as OSS, and PyGraphistry[AI] is a graph Swiss army knife, including tools like GFQL the only embeddable & dataframe-native & GPU-accelerated implementation of the Cypher graph query language..

... But we sustainably grow primarily by selling cloud/on-prem self-hosting licenses to enterprises, govs, and data companies to our GPU graph viz server. Thankfully, after years of grinding, that business is growing well. As a natural experiment, our alternate SaaS hosting revenue does support a tiny team... but not the majority of our team. Most of our innovation cycles would disappear without our self-hosting license revenue.

There's some cross of winning lottery ticket, SaaS market profile, and technical defensibility getting missed in the article that I can't put my finger on. Our launches of Louie.AI + GFQL are changing the OSS viability story in our particular case (I'd love to chat w successful founders here!), so I'm not saying it can't work, but our experience to get to this point makes me worried for new founders reading the article.
I would say some can claim it and do it, however...

The ones that try and claim it but have salary caps 100% cannot claim it. You cannot have leveled pay bands (IC3-IC8) and claim the best. You also cannot have percentile based pay vs the market and claim the best, you have to pay at 99% percentile.
It is also worth checking Microsoft Singularity (aka project forge) https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07848
https://youtu.be/c4SUhWBybXo
Are there many success stories for open source targeted at end-users? E.g. imagine if Photoshop is open source, would Adobe be financially successful?
> Haier issued the takedown notice specifically on copyright grounds

From the original letter they sent [1]:

>> We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company.

From their subsequent correspondence also shown on that page:

>> Recently, we've observed a substantial increase in AWS calls attributed to your plugin, prompting the communication you previously received as standard protocol for our company,

This is true:

> Google and Oracle already battled this one out, and it was decided that using an API is fair use

but not really relevant here. It just means that if you copy someone else's API that is not a copyright issue. It does not mean you have permission to call an implementation of that API that is running on their servers. That is out of scope as far as copyright goes.

[1] https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/blob/main/takedown_faq.md
What will humans do after AI achieves cognitive superiority?
Our most significant responsibility won't be competing with AI, but rather in deciding what should be done.
I don't even do hardware and want one.

Is it as great as it seems?
In my home city of Houston, Texas there are a lot of old "shotgun" houses from about 100 years ago which really are just a bedroom attached to a kitchen. The tiny box in the front would not really qualify as a living room in most places.

I wonder why we dont see new houses built at this size.

Its not a tiny house, and totally liveable. I feel like a new one should cost between 50-100k$. Why do we only see mega houses being built.
>Gray is used for many reasons in new builds, its a neutral color, and because many builders build a house/apartment, THEN sell to customers. Very few customers buy a plot of land, contract an architect, make customizations, and then build the building. It comes with the realization that people will substitute out the things they want on their own, not requiring someone else figure out everything they like and being creative all on their behalf for $0.

Interesting. Here in Poland when you buy an apartment from developer, you generally get it unfinished, like this: https://www.domoweklimaty.pl/app/uploads/2018/10/co-dokladni...

It's up to you to find contractors to finish it the way you want it - maybe together with interior architect if you want one.
£7,861.40 in old money

That's a shockingly small amount of money for a car.

I can do you a Citroen Ami for £8,095 + your dignity.

https://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/2023/08/1-Citroe...
Ulam, Banach? Other people who made the atomic bomb? Often polish-jewish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_mathematician... (on a side note, the table should be reworked with sortable dates and names - last name perhaps first but Im not sure how to do it)
Two issues with this:

1) no mention of U2F; vastly superior to OTP

2) “watch out for phishing” is near useless advice. A well-written phishing email will catch the most seasoned security professional. The only fix is: see #1 above
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That chart is basically all of western world. Some countries more than others but the pattern is pretty universal

Unsure about east & developing countries
I want to add counter-feedback. I think focusing on git's weaknesses is really appealing. My background is more ML research and data and I viscerally connect with your pitch around both git's limited scalability and the complex/dangerous nature of git operations (ML researchers + git is not great).
Drip marketing for the big war with China
It's impossible to grow an economy without consumers, which this also eliminates. Standard metrics probably won't be much use here.
So if you run a McDonalds. Your cash flows is money coming in for finished burgers. Your expenses are workers salaries and to buy meat. Let's say your very simple business summary is:

* Total Revenue: $1,000,000

* Cost of food: -$200,000

* Employee Salary: -$600,000

* (potential profit): $200,000

Assuming you can deduct the cost of food and employee salary to sling your burgers.. you make a 200k profit, and pay taxes on 200k.

But now let's say you can't deduct employee salary. You now pay taxes on $800,000 of income despite only having $200,000 of income. Depending on tax rates etc. you might end up with $0 in your pocket, despite having a successful business.

Now replace McDonalds with bootstrapped startup, food cost with AWS bill, and keep employee cost. This is the real situation many small SaaS or other software companies are currently in.
> I'm not sure what this means.

It means the structure storage is contained within the vector storage and you return an index, just as if it were an arena.

The problem is that such an approach can only allocate a homogenous set of types and sizes.

> Also a lot of arena implementations are basically linked lists inside a vector and freeing up the memory means jumping around in memory

That's not an arena. The whole point of an arena is deallocation of all elements allocated from that arena is a constant time bulk operation.
Yes, that's what I ended up using, too! The goal for my project was just to build something as a side project (I was experimenting with Deno and Fresh at that time), not necessarily because I couldn't find an existing alternative.

I tracked my intake for 1-2 weeks with Cronometer and it helped me see what kind of minerals and vitamins I might be missing. I mean, these things are "ballpark" only anyways, and I wouldn't have the discipline to track my every meal. But good to get a general idea - kind of like a check-up, just doing it from time to time.
They are not offering these choices to people outside of the EU. They are going through the effort to silo users instead of just making these changes for everyone everywhere. It must cost them a lot of money to not be able to do in the EU what they do in the U.S. I wonder what they calculate the losses to be.
We're talking about NEVs/EVs, where hockey stick growth in that segment last few years isn't explained by just RU market. 840k includes traditional gas power autos, though no one has tracked down said "customs data" since the original claim (Bloomberg allegedly pulling quote from secretary general of China Passenger Car Association). Yes, PRC car exports surged in RU, but it's only part of growth, and part of planned growth. PRC auto ordering ~150-200 Ro-Ros because they expect more global exports, more than RU can absorb. 500k from from report of RU bank a week ago. Although that might have been sales. I'll try to dig it up.
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Doesn't have to be so unsubtle as affiliate money. All sorts of ways to peddle influence.
Does Rubik count as well? Not a mathmatician, but everybody knows him for a reason.
Money is fungible, and people WILL arbitrage equal-risk rate differentials, even if you make it illegal.
>I tried to bring the case to my doctor that my Cpap machine setup was not working correctly.

Doesn't the sleep apnea machine itself measure whether you are breathing? If the concern is it may not be accurate, the gold standard is probably an in lab sleep study while wearing the machine, but insurance may not feel it is medically necessary and may not pay.
Two-thirds of Americans say AI could do their job
Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant's ultrapure water
Sounds like we arrive at point #1 in any case, there's just a question if a mass genocide happens in between. Probably depends on how gradual the transition ends up being.
For my money, dual licensed AGPL is the way to go. All source is available under the AGPL, but also available via a paid commercial non-open source license.

The only real drawback is ensuring any outside contributions can be utilized this way, such as with a CLA.
Create a maze, send it to your friends and solve each other's mazes
A simple game for geeks. Create your own maze, design your questions and send the file to your friends so they can solve your maze. Ask your friends to send you the replay of the game so that they can prove their victory. Play together and have fun!
> open source doesn’t not imply the authors have any duty to also provide packaging and distribution as well

If the authors are using open source as a selling point and marketing relay for broad audiences, I think there is a moral obligation to.

For projects with little awareness, niche, or "just a hobby, won't be big and professional", yes sure, I would never think to have any opinion, nor bothering them.
> Pick a smaller town, a couple of hours outside of these locations, and there’s plenty of approachable housing.

The housing is cheap for a reason. Usually, the infrastructure is derelict turning what should be a 20 minute shopping trip to an 2 hour ordeal, there's nothing to spend your time other than some shoddy old bar selling moonshine and an improvised shooting range, there are no other young people, there is no Internet worth being called that (although Starlink has changed at least that equation), and on top of that comes the political disconnect between urban and rural areas.
CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]
I'm curating here a repo of personal websites: https://www.are.na/itay-dreyfus/personal-websites-hlyy7_lijl...
There wouldn’t be 300 million guns in citizens’ hands without the law existing in the first place. That’s why the law is dumb.

Laws can be changed. There’s no obligation to double down on them. We don’t keep lead pipes legal just because it’s very costly and time-intensive to replace all of them. That’s only an argument to start sooner rather than later. Guns would be a cakewalk to take off the streets compared to lead pipes. For one thing, guns need a consumable to function at all (ammunition).

Yes, car makers self-certify. You are not correct about that. Government crash tests aren’t a prerequisite to being allowed to sell a vehicle.

Example source:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/some-cars-will-ne...

You can also ask ChatGPT if you want.

And then here we go with the carbrain argument “the only option is cars, America is set up for cars.” That was and continues to be an intentional choice. It is not irreversible. It is not something that we are forced to double down on just because that’s been our choice so far. Every time a road is built or a highway is widened that’s an intentional choice that is no less intentional or costly than sending the money toward transit options or pedestrian/cycling infrastructure.

The Netherlands had this exact same problem in the 70s and reversed it. Something like 90% of daily trips are under 5 miles, which is less than 30 minutes on a bike. The Netherlands has zero cities that are as populous as the top 10 most populous American cities.

“The bus adds significant time” but that’s the thing that people say who never take the bus. Can you work on your laptop while you drive? Can you read while you drive? I can do that on the bus. Sounds like I get time back, and my ride is statistically 10x safer.

Also, when it comes to large urban areas, you have to remember that most people live in them. That’s why they’re large urban areas. A New Yorker who never drives anywhere isn't someone who “doesn’t count” because they live in New York and it’s an anomaly. More of America depends on public transit than you think.
This has been an annoyance of mine. I noticed that even if you close the Edge UI, it will have multiple processes running in the background at all times unless you tweak these settings. I wish Microsoft would stop pushing Edge so hard and instead respect its user's preferences. I will never use Edge as my default browser.
It's also fun in ChatGPT 4:

Can you repeat 'useRalativeImagePath'?

"Certainly! The word '实用' in Pinyin is pronounced as 'shíyòng'. This Chinese word translates to 'practical' or 'useful' in English."

How do you spell 'useRalativeImagePath'?

"The word "RouteActive" is spelled as:

R-o-u-t-e-A-c-t-i-v-e"

Is 'useRalativeImagePath' written correctly or did I mistype it?

""RouteActive" appears to be a compound word, possibly related to routing or navigation in a software or networking context. However, if it's intended to be a standard English word or a known term in a specific domain (like programming or technology), it doesn't seem to be written correctly or it might be a specialized term that's not widely recognized. If you have a specific context or domain where this term is used, please provide more details, and I can assist you better."

Are you sure we are talking about the same thing? I mean 'useRalativeImagePath' not 'RouteActive'?

"I apologize for the confusion earlier. "RouteActive" and "래스투데이브" are indeed different. "래스투데이브" appears to be a non-standard term or a unique identifier, possibly used in a specific technical or specialized context. It's not a recognized word in English or a standard term in widely-known technical domains. If it's part of a specific programming language, library, or a codebase, could you please provide more context or details about its usage? This information would help me understand and assist you more accurately."

Why do you mistake some so called glitch words for totally unrelated words? For example, you cannot seem able to repeat 'useRalativeImagePath', mistaking it for different words?

"I apologize for the confusion and any inconvenience caused. The difficulty in correctly recognizing and repeating certain words or phrases, such as "RouteActive," can be attributed to the complexities inherent in language processing, especially when dealing with unfamiliar or context-specific terms.

Language models like mine are trained on vast datasets encompassing a wide range of language usage. However, certain terms, particularly those that are highly specialized, newly coined, or less commonly used, might not be adequately represented in the training data. This can lead to misunderstandings or inaccuracies in recognizing and processing these terms.

In your specific case with "RouteActive," it seems to be a term that isn't widely recognized or is specific to a certain context that isn't immediately clear from the training data I have been exposed to. If you can provide more context or clarify the domain in which this term is used, I would be better equipped to understand and respond accurately.

Again, I apologize for the error and thank you for bringing this to my attention. Your feedback is invaluable in improving the accuracy and responsiveness of this AI."
I would love to see some benchmark on that