skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandoc saved my ass so many times when I worked in research. I would write a beautiful typeset paper in latex and then have to send a colleague a word doc.

You can turn any file into anything. PDF to rtf, latex to .doc, etc. It does a great job. Written in Haskell, too!
I think medium software sized shops - 500 employees are large enough to afford the details and so will be okay. Anything smaller though and this is too much overhead. Of course many projects don't need 500 people. If you use Linux you can buy support from several actors of this size who can afford the overhead (also covering tools like ls that are part of an OS, maybe covering the basic gnome desktop, but not many of the lesser used tools that make linux useful). I'm sure the Apache and FreeBSD foundations will look into this and decide that they are able to handle the overhead by starting (legally this may be finding people to start?) such a company. However I'm not sure OpenBSD is large enough to be worth starting such an organization.

There are a lot of tools that are not large/popular enough. Who will support OpenScad, FreeCad, cppcheck, and all the other open source projects that don't have a large company behind them and probably are not interesting to enough companies to be worth starting something to support them just for legal purposes. There are also projects that are supported by a company today, but the company is not large enough - will enough more customers come in to make it worth hiring a dozen laywers - cmake and sqlite come into mind as projects in this category.
I wasn't thinking of general dev jobs. In fact, when I moved from science to dev, a friendly manager I knew recommended that I take all my previous career stuff off my CV unless it was directly software-related.

In my experience applying for jobs a couple of years ago, pharma and health-tech companies around where I live were not interested in my background. I was rejected by a couple of places allegedly because I didn't have a CS degree, and in one case because I didn't have a bioinformatics degree.

(Obviously, the truth behind such feedback is questionable)
Stanford-led study shows why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease
Like the other person, I'm not exactly Catholic. I just find it interesting to retcon a plot hole a few thousand years later.
A team that handles security vulnerability reports should never say "oh - that's another internal team. Go ask them...".

In fact almost any staff member inside an organisation that receives a plausible vulnerability report should ensure it reaches the right people. It's not something you should shrug off.
That post also very helpfully links to another paper they published alongside the OLMo paper just on the dataset.

Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00159
Uuu, wasn't aware that Sage is built on top of Python. This seems promising :D

Yeah. I don't think I'll be after achieving a dense knowledge of the language. I'm at the age (and mindset) for some pragmatics in my choice of learning tools.
Figma's approach to color is so frustrating and bonkers that I don't even bother. I've tried to make it work several times, and it's just so manual and tedious that I give up.
I find it interesting to see the words "twin cities" referred to here as if we all know what that is. I can see that this is referring to Minneapolis as per the link, but without that we would be left to guess.

Here's a list of many twin cities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_cities
Same, with the added benefit that in the browser I have lots of knobs and dials I can turn with uMatrix and other Dev tools. Oh and of course, sponsor block. Youtube should be insanely grateful for sponsor block, because if not for that tool I would have canceled my premium membership because I hate seeing ads. I will simply find something else to watch if I have to watch ads.
I am pretty sure that does not activate the hardware encoder. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
I thought that it was a very clear explanation that I appreciated, I didn't detect any ego boosting nonsense
Oh and how about the fact that our last PM decided to run half the cabinet himself, in secret, for several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison#Secret_minister...
I like https://huemint.com/
Freshly made pasta is different to dried pasta, not necessarily better. It depends what you want. It works much better for lasagne, IMO.
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No, it doesn‘t, it‘s a huge mess and a lot of effort.

We are gonna sell our very expensive machine again.
The website does a terrible job of communicating what they are. Had to click to the docs to kind of get a quick summary.

In the context of their business I guess this writeup makes sense, it is afterall a marketing piece for their service. I don't agree with it though. I get the simplicity of running everything in a single db stack but I don't think any of the tools they listed were really going to be required to build something like this into another data warehouse.
There is a big difference in texture. Homemade pasta is a lot chewier, which I really like.

Edit: I see other commenters say it is a lot of work and really messy. In my experience, it doesn't have to be. The first few times I tried I made a big mess, but after just a few times I got both faster and less messy.
> with your hands and nothing more than a single tool

And doing 8kg a day for 50 years

Another video, with an explanation of the "dimple":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZfc82ucaBQ
I think it was different and more like the Vietnam fallout, "with the new reconassiance data, it turns out we fought against ourselves"

The idea which ended both wars was that continuing this war is a war crime against our own nation even as we continue to score victories.
IMO it does not, but maybe I’m just making it wrong.. It’s notable that places like French Laundry explicitly dry their home made pasta before cooking with it, IMO the al-dente texture is way better in dried pasta than freshly made.

I guess it’s subjective ofc, but making pasta is a whole thing, hours of work, massive mess to clean up, for an end result that has worse texture than a high end dried pasta
> sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was certainly an adult

18 year old girl, according to the first line of the song. I still think the song has a creepy/desperate tone, but not because she's legally a child.

> "When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf."

For what it's worth, No One Else and The World Has Turned (the following song on the album) are usually taken to be related songs, including by Cuomo himself. The first song is about the jealousy that pushes the girl away, and the second is about life after she leaves.

In the context of Cuomo being into meditation his whole life, I've always taken it as a personification and exaggeration of his actual jealousy, kind of like Mara in the Buddhist tradition. I'd like to hope those lyrics aren't a literal representation of his thinking at the time. At any rate, the two songs together make it clear that the jealousy is a problem rather than something to be celebrated.

As for the half-Japanese stuff... I don't know. I think that's likely accurate to what he was going through in college. Cuomo is in my opinion very likely to be autistic, and for whatever reason lots of people on the spectrum are into Japanese culture and lots of men on the spectrum are attracted to Japanese women.

The context for the whole second album is he feels conflicted about sleeping with groupies (Tired of Sex) and becomes celibate until marriage. So he's at Harvard and unable to have sex until he meets someone he wants to spend the rest of his life with. So yeah the album is dripping with sexual frustration and I don't fault anyone for finding it creepy.

But I do kind of feel like how many of us would go to Harvard as a rock star and refuse to have sex until marriage? The vast majority of men in that situation would be hooking up regularly, and I guess he felt like he couldn't respect himself or the women in his life if he was doing that.
The mechanism is clear: If you use Open Source software commercially, you are now liable if the software misbehaves. Thus, you have an incentive to make sure the software is correct. For (A)GPL software, you have to publish your contributions.

Not a lawyer, but it also seems to me that if you are a small shop, you might decide to pay, e.g. RedHat for taking on the liability. RedHat can pool these resources to make sure their software behaves as advertised.
> Say that you are back in Europe and a EU citizen. The GDPR applies to them too.

Any idea how GDPR works for EU citizens who reside in the USA?

E.g., suppose I want Facebook to forget about me, but I'm using a U.S.-based ISP to tell them that. Does Facebook have any legal justification for rejecting my request?
It tastes different if only because homemade pasta includes eggs. Industrial pasta can get away with not using eggs because machines can exert a lot more pressure than your hand and extrude it cleanly.

Industrial egg-pasta is available, though.
Has this one been replaced by "Python Distilled" by Beazley? Just curious.
Survivorship bias. Any company that launches as many products as Google has to have a couple good ones by pure chance. And all products you mentioned were created two decades ago, when Google was a very different company.
Definitely sounds like a no-brainer / reasonable next step.

Most ISPs have CND appliances in their racks to save on uplink bandwidth. And from a satellite perspective the uplink (in this scenario: the downlink from the satellite to the gateway) definitely is the expensive bottleneck.

You want to avoid congestion and every bit of caching could be helpful.

Then it comes down to the mass and power budget (and the reliability of flash drives in space) - but that doesn't seem too terrible.
The difference is approximately equivalent to a grocery store bought cake and a homemade cake.

Imperfections, more fats, salt, sugar, spices to your precise taste.

And most importantly freshness.
Outsourcing any function that needs software outside the EU.
I'll probably lose some nerd cred: I do most of my writing in MS word, I find it easier to cut and paste and add footnotes and section headers. And then I use Pandoc to convert the docx into the format I want, usually HTML*. I used to do markdown in vim but I found that for most of what I do I prefer word. I do write code in vim...

* I use this css file when converting: https://gist.github.com/killercup/5917178
> It's trivial to follow the history of a file.

If the committer uses the "show history of a file" process model. These days, it's mostly "squash commits until I get a good/flattering 'story' of what I did", which removes typos, failed experiments, mid-thought commits, and any other blemishes of _what actually happened_.

Commits CAN be used as great history, if history is allowed, but I've found that "modern" workflows tend to the rebase/squash side of things and also are mostly write-only.
I work with Oracle daily and implement a lot of logic directly in the database.

Debugging: Extensive logging to tables [0]. Also we have dev, test and prod databases.

Versioning: Git. It's just source code that gets compiled in the db.

Deployment: Upgrade SQL scripts. You already have to do this on any relational DB if you need to alter existing tables. We just also deploy new/updated packages. We trigger them via pipelines.

Also keep in mind that the logic you deploy in the database is generally not as complex as other software as you mostly just query, modify and write highly structured data.

But we still run plenty of tests. There is a great unit testing tool for Oracle: utPLSQL [1]. We also spin up databases and run the installation and upgrade scripts on pull-requests.

[0] https://github.com/OraOpenSource/Logger
[1] https://github.com/utPLSQL/utPLSQL
At this point I'm feeling pretty good about my assessment that k8s' major utility has been for organizations that felt their engineering departments were too comfortable, organized and productive and needed to distract the nuts-and-bolts types so the executives can prance around and play silly games.

I don't think we can go back, mind you. We're stuck with it as an abstraction layer that's never going to go away. But Jesus, containers and orchestration have caused way more problems than they ever solved, in my experience.

Throwing away decades of architectural mental models had-- shock!!!!-- downsides.
I believe you, scam is everywhere. What you experience in the US is different. In the news article you sent it's obviously something that they could track down and sentence the fraudsters to jail. In the US you get multiple calls from those robo-callers per day and you practically can't do nothing about it. This is why Apple added "mute unknown callers" to iPhones. This is the best strategy most people have at this point.
I have a very similar homegrown mess. I wonder how many of us there are doing the same thing for this use case.
We can debate about whether it should be normal, but clearly it is, right? For example we have the Darwin Award, where we mock people who actually died (not just rhetorically). I’m not the least bit edgy as far as millennials go, and I’ve made the joke that “the best thing Trump could do for the GOP is to get assassinated.” It always gets a laugh.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans...

> Half a dozen lawyers and judges told Mission Local that, however ill-advised, Tan’s comments do not rise to the legal definition of a death threat.

Your interpretation involves a large change to how free speech has been legally defined in America for a long time.

You may be interested in this case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

Where the Supreme Court clarified that even more disgusting speech tinged with violence-encouraging rhetoric was, in fact, legally free speech. (Please, let's not call rhetoric itself violence.)
Cables.gl nocode environment February update
I read that Google Play Services can even grant itself new permissions[1]. How does that work? Does it have root?

[1]https://developers.google.com/android/guides/permissions
You Don't Have to Be a Jerk to Succeed
I'm the kind of person that physically churns at the idea of networking, but realize I benefited from it

My suggestion: keep unusual avenues open. I got my start through a game - Counter Strike

I met the right person who worked at the right place/knew my interests
This is what I used to typeset my novel. My editor and publisher tried multiple methods and they kept being impressed by how clean and "just right" the versions I sent them were... In the end, we ended up using the PDFs generated by Pandoc instead of InDesign or whatever proprietary stuff they used.
I can assure you that company's Oberon code base is alive and will outlive COBOL.
But in an LLM it is not an arbitrary computation. Very specifically, it is a single forward pass through a neural network.

Neural networks are very general function approximators so yes, there is some room for emergent behavior. But it could _not_ be "quite literally anything." It's plugging in values for a single (very big) equation.

I think we do ourselves a disservice by pretending it's more of a black box than it is.
The question wasn't over $5. The question was over an extra $5, for a total of $10. $5 is basically the upper bound of where I'm willing to experiment.

The question is also very much about whether I am "supporting an independent developer with a tiny donation." A lot of stuff on app stores is spammy, scammy, and I explicitly don't want to support. Our dollars determine where our resources (as a society) go. I don't mind supporting good things, even with donations. I am currently fighting a company over <$3 which they got by fraud, not because it's worth my time, but because it's my civic duty; if I don't, they'll scam another million people.

The audience are HN readers -- entrepreneurs trying to make apps. The point isn't about me as what I ought to be doing (or about convincing others to be like me). The point is to honestly give customer insight, again, with an n=1. If enough people do that, there's a sample bias, but you do get better insight than nothing.

I'm probably going to stop doing that since "customers doing what we don't like" increasingly leads to downvotes. Either I'm communicating badly, people reading are increasingly bad at reading comprehension, or some combination there-of. These posts used to be valued a few years back.

However, as much as it didn't come across, the take-home message was intended to be that if you're running an honest business, you want to (and can) charge me more if you:

1) Clearly signal you're not evil. E.g. my data is treated with respect, you won't scam me, etc.

2) Give me enough information to be able to determine it's a product I want.

That's basic transparency, and a lot of startups lose my business because they screw it up.
> Seriously, as somebody who reviews a lot of code, well-written commit messages are a godsend.

This is the issue; are commits in your codebase for the reviewers? Or for FutureDev to see what the hell happened? These are often very different things, and most process models favor one of these at the total expense of the other.
It depends on the recipe. When I make homemade pasta, I use high-protein flour and a recipe that will use more eggs than usual - so the texture is noticeably more "al dente" than store bought pasta.
Why on Earth would you want to replace the robust, round connector with fragile USB-C?
I do videos on YouTube where I take an improvised look at open source code bases. I've had it on my list to do one of the Rivers Cuomo repos, but I haven't figured out which one I want to look at.

I used to play his Weezer wordle game. It was pretty good. I believe it was written in Flutter. The game seems to be defunct now.
> Does it have root?

Not really, but it is a privileged System app, which pretty much means it can do a factory load of things that installed apps cannot without root.
The point about trust hit home for me. I have always felt like a jack of all trades. I can solve any problem you throw at me. At least get it to an MVP phase then move on to something else (unless I lose interest in it).

Like the author, this was okay early in my career. But once “front-end development” became a thing, I quickly realized that:

a) I was good at it
b) Not many JS developers had a sense for UX

So the rebranding did help with getting more job opportunities. This meant I could be picky about who I said yes to. You don’t really have that choice when you only have one option.
Set a huge number for your shell history and dedup. You’ll effectively save every command you ever typed in chronological order. You can even append comments to the end of the command for your future self.

Then, fzf your history.
I think you may have a strong future in the audiophile selling business. :)

Without the -12V, the silent sections in the music just isn't as airy.
On the other hand, even here and even today people argue "if we don't do it someone else will" to resist switching from oil to anything else. So I wouldn't blame it on the industrial lobby, or at least not entirely. The status quo is a powerful argument.
Companies seem to think that because there is a screen attached somewhere/somehow to the device they made it's carte blanche for them to turn that screen into a billboard.

I'm not "100%" against adverts (However I will avoid them if I can, for example I'm happy to pay for YouTube Premium simply to disable the ads and still support the creators I watch), I understand that services need to pay the bills, Take YouTube or Twitch an examples, they can't exist without monetization because servers, staff, bandwidth all need to be paid for and obv content creators need an income if the platform/viewers expect high quality content from a wide variety of creators (not just those who can afford to do it as a hobby/fun).

But its the "bait and switch" of these companies that disgusts me, esp when its on locked down hardware we have purchased. It's changing the sales contract after the purchase has been made. How would we feel if for example 2 years after purchasing a car, it now refused to start (or for something more "mild" changing the climate controls) until you had listened to 3 mins of ad's though its infotainment system? People would be up in arms about it. But for some reason, people just seem to accept it when it comes to our entertainment devices.
I assume that's the reason he just made a writeup about it instead.
i think being terse is a valuable skill. i was aiming to highlight that last sentence:

> “Sometimes in an attempt to be more efficient, we do things that make the process less efficient.”

in the article it is followed immediately by:

> In enacting civility, two themes emerged:

>

> Civility was viewed as preventing a situation from escalating, and ultimately attaining a beneficial outcome. “We would not want events to get out of hand,” said one employee.

>

> Employees believe it is intrinsically important to be respectful and understanding. Said one participant, “consideration should be given to the feelings and ideas of each person.”

i think that civility and being respectful (which would mean curtailing extraneous conversation) is considerably different from wasting someone's time with irrelevant discussion
I use a RedMed. I wish I didn't have to. Anyone successfully 'lower their sleep apnea?' what protocol?
Of course, an SME company will not hire a developer to constantly perform security checks and apply patches for an important library libImportant.

What will happen is that company A will hire company B to do this and assume liability for it. If we set the annual cost of this at 100k, the monthly cost is about 8333 EUR. Let's say company B has 20 customers to protect the security of libImportant, that is 416 EUR per month and SME can afford that. There are OS that are of course used more frequently and that scales much better (i.e. cheaper per month). I actually see a new market niche here and perhaps they will find resourceful entrepreneurs.
Pandora is awesome. Add a self published author, this is a key tool in my tickets to have a single source of truth and (relatively) easily create beautiful PDFs and EPUBs.

I previously used restructured text and had to write custom tooling, but now I can write markdown on Jupyter.
Here is a sample of some of the corruption, this is only of a few politicians in NSW, and doesn't go back very far.
https://youtu.be/ihoirTYqf2c

The Coronation video only caught traction because of this man:
https://www.youtube.com/@friendlyjordies/search?query=john
John Barilaro, and he has been extensively documented, and his joining of Coronation real estate.

Real estate businesses have serious political power in Australia, this is well known.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39228250
After horrible launches for GPT2, GPT3 and GPT3.5 where most hype and momentum was smothered by a long waitlist. ChatGPT was a 180 degree reversal from their usual release process and an instant hit.
Italian nonnas can make pasta in 10 minutes:

https://www.pastagrannies.com/

Like if you're going by French Laundry standards then that's a different ball game.
I've done this, and it... works, mostly, for me.

The problem is I have a family, and I couldn't make the schedule work out to where I get a good polyphasic sleep cycle in and still be a part of the family with the normal food-oriented together times.
I chuckled at this. Thanks :)