skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may have to do something with the fact that if you cannot trust Apple not to break web apps like they are planning to do now, companies will not invest in web apps.

Also, most companies have native apps already so no need to reproduce them.

Web apps are a future competitor, not a present one. They are really suited for smaller cross platform projects but if you follow how the web evolves, nowadays they are just a serious thing to consider for any kinds of software projects.
There is a difference between "crafting the perfect software" and "crafting good software". It is way too common to not realize it and settle on "crafting crappy software" instead. The problem being that crappy software is often very hard to improve later, if it's worth it.

I have lived through multiple examples of this, the biggest one being a bad protocol (that was provably badly designed at the beginning) that got adoption, many tools built around it, and ten years later everybody hates it and keeps complaining but it's so hard to replace because of all the tooling built around it.
> I guess you don't need as many unmotivated employees / management / DEI types as previously thought. All of my friends who feel real love for their work and live and breathe tech are still employed or have no problem finding employment.

In my circles, those who get offers and those who are still employed are artisans par excellence, of course. No exceptions. Luck and circumstances have nothing to do with it. Others must really be shit or DEI.
Our apps are available as webapps. 100% identical user experience. All functionality. Including notifications, offline, storage, performance and more. We have over 50m installs. Where do you get your info from? Really curious.
I'm curious what you're using all these Pis for when you've got a server on the network to provide network boot. Can you not just use the device that's providing network boot to provide whatever you're running on the Pis?
This is why harm reduction is absolutely crucial. A lot of people will recover on their own given time, but you can't recover if you're dead. A moralistic model based primarily or solely on abstinence-based recovery fails addicts, their families and society.
I stole these from stackoverflow some time ago. Shows the branches with a bit more useful information

[alias]
# show a list of local git branches sorted by the commit date
branches = "for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads --format='%(authordate:short) %(color:yellow)%(objectname:short) %(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) (%(color:cyan)%(committerdate:relative)%(color:reset)) %(authorname)'"

# show a list of local and remote git branches sorted by the commit date
branches-remote = "for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads refs/remotes --format='%(authordate:short) %(color:yellow)%(objectname:short) %(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) (%(color:cyan)%(committerdate:relative)%(color:reset)) %(authorname)'"
I'm glad it helps! \o/
Mysterious 280M-year-old fossil is mostly just black paint
Dav1d 1.4 Released with More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V and LoongArch Support
This isn't vulnerability scanning, it's proceeding to a full exploit.
The customer can demand that, but they need to understand that that also demands waterfall. It's unrealistic to have that kind of expectation and get anything other than cargo cult agile.

There are lots of consequences of doing "agile" properly that go way above the programmers' heads. That includes clients being able to specify requirements and price but not both at the same time.

I've worked on tons of teams where it was dictated from up on high that we should do agile and also do waterfall planning (always called something else). Agile consultants often have a tendency to accommodate this contradiction because up on high controls the purse strings and they need to eat.

The danger is that over time the things they do to eat become their identity and the genuine people get washed out of the industry.

We do need a sensemaking framework and a term which can be used to rule this type of thing out.
I'm sorry, but who needs this? If the answer is "we will discover new math methods trying to solve that puzzle", isn't it better to discover new math methods trying to solve something useful?
Anyone have an idea of how existing solar farms in the Philippines have weathered typhoon season over the past decade?

The country is a proverbial magnet for typhoons, and it seems like a major disaster strikes every year; wiki[1] claims half of the top 10 deadliest were within the past 2 decades, and the top 10 most destructive were all in the past 15 years!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoons_in_the_Philippines
That existed before agile.
i am sorry you had to go through this. my dad wasn't as bad. from todays perspective what i experienced looks more like loss of self-control than intentional action. in any case i probably would never have been able to stand up for myself. partly because the outbursts were always connected to something we did, so it was easy to see it like the reason or the trigger was caused by us, and not my dad just being in a bad mood. like what you experienced. we blamed ourselves and didn't have any way to defend ourselves.

however, once my dad was going at my one year younger brother, and for some reason i had enough. interestingly i can't even remember my brother being a target before that, so maybe that was why it was to much for me. it wasn't something i was used to seeing.

i got between the two and pushed my dad against the wall, and told him "that's enough". i was not strong by any means but strong enough to do that.

that was the end of it.

the key element of that experience is that while i never tried to defend myself, something in that situation triggered me to defend my brother. and we were not close as brothers go. and still are not, this brother in particular. so the desire to protect and stand up for others is what helped me to get out of this experience.

i can still sense something like what you feel when someone is going at me. but if anyone is going at someone that i am somehow responsible for or have the ability to support, be it people under me in my team, or children or my partner or even friends, then my reaction is different. at a minimum i will get the person out of harms way and have them going at me instead.

i don't know if this is helpful to anyone. i suppose that wanting to protect others helps me tolerate abuse better. but the other thing i learned from that is to simply walk away when the abuse gets to much. i have cut of contact with anyone who is in any way critical of any aspect of my life or my work. i just don't have the desire to defend myself, and i don't need that kind of unfounded criticism. (i love constructive criticism however, and find that very helpful, so it's not like i can't tolerate any criticism at all)
This was linked randomly on Mistrals Discord chat, nothing "official" yet.

It's a preview of their newest prototype model.

To use it, click "Direct Chat" tab and choose "Mistral next"
Arch has you set up your own fstab so pushes the choice to the user?
I would take libertarians, filo-libertarians, the "small-government" gang, put them on a spaceX and just send them to Mars, a small trip for those men, a giant leap for mankind
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It seems these are going onto existing pastureland, which should be able to continue present production.

The Philippines has a great deal of sheltered water that could host floatovoltaic installations that can opoerate more efficiently than on land.

One of the great advantages of solar is that many small installations, close to where power is needed, are better than one big one. We may hope they are taking advantage of this capability, too often ignored.
There's a lot to indicate at least the vast majority of the tribes didn't understand seeds (or sex-childbirth link for that matter).

>Why clear the land and plant a "crop" when you get enough from the plants that all the other animals rely on?

So that you don't have to walk many miles a day foraging and kill all but one of your babies at a time, cause you can't carry any more. Basically, same reason as anyone else who went from hunting/gathering to farming.

Also Aborigines had no trouble burning forests to make grounds more attractive to animals they hunted, eventually converting varied biomes to eucalyptus forests, so the purported do-no-harm attitude is proven bullshit.
Not if you're piping it to sed though, right?
Rules for thee not for me. Scraping for instance is bad only when other people do it.

Technically speaking though, user facing websites are built with quite weak UI accessibility in mind. Partly to prevent others bots from using it. I worry less about the LLM/AI particularities, and more about adding yet another comprehensive layer to the stack. It’d not exactly be standing on solid foundation.

During the 2010s Web 2.0 there was a brief moment where open APIs and such were trending, which was a bit of rejuvenation of interoperability across companies, domains, applications etc. To simplify we can call it cross-app interactions, like auto hotkey, Automator, etc. An LLM controlled broker falls in that domain as well. But now that “closed binary fuck you” model came back industry wide, it’s almost impossible to build such things. (It’s hard enough to build integrations when people are cooperating. When they’re actively adversarial, things generally break quickly, if they work at all)
But then again, c++ hft and payment processing aren't exactly low-stress jobs either
Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool
with dividends, you might just about broke even on your 25 year investment.

If the goal is to go after 'extremely profitable' companies, maybe we should be looking at tech companies, that are in fact, 'extremely profitable', unlike most pharma companies.

and for the record, I have zero love for pharma companies, or how they operate - but they are not - in general - 'extremely profitable' companies. Far from it.
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Conspiracy view... Maybe just an indirect bribe so German government votes in favour for the tech giant on EU level laws...
Yeah, I think that the email workflow (which I love) is more adapted to this!
I have a cluster of 7 SBCs, 1 pi 3b and 6 Tinkerboards of various models. The Pi I got in 2016/17 and ran Gitlab without issue until 2022, something in the SD card got corrupt and linux was no longer able to boot, I was able to salvage all of the data and continued with a new SD card. The tinkerboards, which have various tasks as VPN, Nextcloud, staging servers using docker have never corrupted an SD card.

I think the tinkerboards are better than Pi’s especially the ones that come with 16gb of onboard flash storage. However you don’t get all the niceness of PiOS but have to use TinkerOS (which was less than barebones when it came out) or Armbian which is nice but not built specifically for the tinkerboard.

I have a few friends who complained about Pi’s corrupting SD cards and it also happened to my only long running Pi so there is something going on.
I made the mistake of only carrying an iPad during my most recent holidays. What a useless piece of junk this is.

iPads work well enough at home to watch movies or play a couple of games, but trying to do any kind of serious work on them, either editing photos, writing something, sending files, even trying to use a sequencer is an exercise in frustration.

We are sooo lucky there (still) exist alternative computing solutions other than these things made by a company obsessed with control and extracting the maximum possible value out of every movement of their users.

Apple is the evilest of evils. It must be fought with great determination if we are concerned with freedom.
Japan's space agency successfully launches latest H3 rocket
> How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.

One thing I find fascinating in all this, is how Sam Altman is demonised simultaneously for pushing everything too fast and also for calling for legislation to slow things down.

He may well be wrong about large aspects of this[0], but I do find it curious how his critics on each side of this divide seem to be oblivious to their mirror images.

[0] it would be surprising if he wasn't wrong about lots of this, given this stuff is all new in practice — millennia of fiction about magical automatons that do our work for us doesn't really prepare us for the reality of it
The majority of a small child's activities are a genuine threat to the child's life.

I'm naturally prone to anger, so were my parents, in my experience with my parents, and my kids, the line is how you react once angry.
The history of math is rife with useless puzzles generating useful solutions for other things.
Electricity for the industry is cheaper, they are freed from some taxes (not sure which one) and obviously VAT is deductible which is not the case for end consumers.

Regardless of that it's a myth anyway. Germany has a very competitive electricity market, and it basically works by having all the costs on the actual electricity bill (will not be 100% true in the coming years, but it was until now). Some other countries have cheaper electricity on paper, but cover the real costs with government money / taxes. France is the most obvious example as a neighbouring country.
I'm not sure I follow you. The problem isn't that people lose their passion. The problem is that people lose their means of subsistence. The factory workers displaced by automation share the same plight as the farmers before them: how do I feed my family when I have no job?

Efficiency puts people out of work. They can be relocated to other useful pursuits, but usually they're left to do that on their own.
I like that on VS Studio, run is F5. It's also the run command on MS QuickBasic in DOS days.
yes, it is easy to come up with a change that seems to make sense. but it is not at all easy to vet that change legally. and no: "we have talked to our lawyers about this" is not enough. your lawyers operate in your interest. they are not operating in the interest of the Free Software or Open Source definitions. the bar for a license that would be acceptable to OSI is much much higher. and my claim that it is not easy to come up with a new license is based on that.
Did this just get marked as dupe to pull it off the front page? How outrageous.

The link has not been posted before.
Could a Paywall Have Saved Pitchfork?
Ask HN: How to navigate work environments with no product management?
I am in the industry for around 15 years at this point. I started shortly before SCRUM took off everywhere, and it was apparent that too many meetings and processes killed any creativity and productivity.

Fast forward to a few years ago, I am having the third, very high paying (for my standards) job. I am getting around 250k USD for a remote job. Basically 75% more than I need to survive.

However, these higher paying job have no process for cutting down work or meeting regularly to figure out what to do next. It's mostly coders "seeing something which needs to be improved" and then doing it.

I personally struggle with that mindset a bit. You see young people thinking about the stack day and night, on weekends, and wanting it to look and behave a certain way.

Whereas I have seen so many StartUps and companies fail, I am more pragmatic and think: "If customers want it, we built it, otherwise: What's the point, really? Go out and enjoy the sun!".

I wonder which companies or pay ranges offer a middle ground between "do whatever you think needs to be doing vs. every day meetings with the team to decide what to work on".

Do others feel similar?
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Being in business is about power and control, the money is a byproduct and a tool. The feds cut off funding and told the business world to sacrifice as much canon fodder as possible. “Leadership” loves cuts. They feel bold and dramatic, leaderly.
Now that you got there, which distribution released in 2023 allows me to run a GNU/Linux binary compiled in 2000, regardless of the distribution it was compiled on back in 2000?
They are more stable in the long run since there is no OS. Honestly people make their lives harder using a Pi when using a microcontroller would be much easier and stable in the long run.
shit code is proportional to number of people developing. on average, about 98.56% of developers don’t know what they are doing and with millions of them writing their shit in python you end up with…
I think as it was mentioned in the article it was mostly due to lack of need to travel: they were poor and didn’t have things to trade to justify seagoing. And then the other additional factors: lack of iron, the fact that shores were less habitable than mountains ( lack of freshwater), wind and currents between islands.
Can I run a media server on an ESP32? No.

Can I run my password manager server on an ESP32? No

PiHole? No. Unifi controller? No

I think people making this comment are envisioning people use Pis as garage door controllers etc., but reflexively suggesting ESP32s as Pi replacements isn't helpful.
I've spent that much on laptops before. I don't think it's excessive to spend that on a device that you use every day to earn a large income.
> It is hard to imagine the FCC wouldn’t notice that there was no signal on that AM station for that amount of time, or the owner, or the power company.

Maybe the typical approach of having flaky monitoring and after enough time, you simply chalk it up to "well, seems the monitoring is offline again, but no one is complaining so probably the thing still works"?

Alternatively, the owner did notice it was missing, but reporting it as missing would also mean they have to shut down FM service, so they left it until someone complained/noticed.
It would surprisingly fit some 2020s aesthetic trends (or maybe we're just cycling)
For those unfamiliar with the LMSys interface:

Click/tap on "Direct Chat" in the top tab navigation and you can select "mistral-next" as model.
Isn't preventing a user from voting twice on the same post something that has to be done on the server?
Counting your steps is unlikely to destroy your life, but a lot of people do suffer serious harms due to behaviours like compulsive exercise and orthorexia. Obsessive-compulsive behaviour around exercise often overlaps with anorexia nervosa, which has the highest risk of mortality of any mental disorder (~5% at 10 years). There is a surprisingly fine line between compulsive health tracking and a life-threatening eating disorder.
Hint: that was the case in "civilized" places with access to an abundance of introduced diseases, and poor diet dominated by cereal crops. Hunter-gatherer societies were typically healthier, judging by size of skeletons we find.

Of course the Canary Islands were settled by "civilized" people.
Not necessarily! You can just hang in tight and let someone else eat the team lead. In my experience it is often product people wishing to cosplay as tech lead (and they will promptly proceed trying do the same to you), or a middle manager/CTO (ditto).
> condemning the BSL

Are they "condemning" the BSL by saying "it is bad, don't use it", or are they just saying "BSL is not open source"?

Because my understanding is that BSL is not open source. Rather it is a commitment of becoming open source (GPLv2) at a point later (maximum 4 years). So BSL is effectively source available until GPLv2 is added. Which does not make BSL open source: GPLv2 is.
Yeah, I imagined. Also guessing Leandro Leviste had help to acquire their shares in the first place, as it's not super common for people to have funds available for stocks when they join university, unless someone help them afford it.
I cannot quite put it into words, but something looks eerily uncanny about them.
I didn't do anything special at all. My two pis have been running 24/7/365 for 5 years with no problems. I often completely forget about them. One is a pi hole and the other our print server.
I had an older rpi model without wifi where the network adapter got broken.

Other than that, I've been running 3 rpi at home for home automation they have been working with no issue. But it turns out that they are a bit underpowered to be used as a minetest server.

I never had a corrupted sd card on those. But I had an android nokia phone that corrupted like 3 sd cards before i gave up and stopped putting new ones.
Yup, I believe this is the Cobra Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina...

It comes up a bit on hacker news
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Claims census 1897 is "fantasy map" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire_census

Roma, Romania, do you claim Italian is "Romanian dialect"? Muscovy was Rus colony, grew under Golden Horde, renamed in 1721. Rus Grand Prince Володимѣръ Свѧтославичъ — Ukrainian name Володимир (Volodymyr) not Moscow Владимир (Vladimir). Language of Kyiv can't be dialect of its former colonies language.

Slav languages are mutually intelligible. I've checked spoken Slovak, Polish, Croatian, Bulgarian. Do you claim these are "dialects" of Moscow language?

Eneida translated to Polish:

Eneasz rzutkim był młodzianem,
Podobnym całkiem do Kozaków,
Radzącym z każdym złem spotkanym,
Zawziętszym nawet od burłaków.

"50% of this text right off bat"
Just to be completely clear, could you address my rephrased question directly?
Look up diskless booting, it's a very general thing on linux (i.e. not Pi-specific, although there are plenty of Pi-specific tutorials on the 'net.

As a minimal first step, install an NFS server (which can be X86, Pi, other) on your LAN and make sure you can mount it from the pi ("mount $SERVER:/some/dir /mnt/tmp"). Then copy the contents of a Pi SD card to the server, make it exportable (see '/etc/exports') then edit '/etc/fstab' on the Pi to mount the (now remote) copy of the SD card instead of the usual root. That should get you started - beyond that, with some of the Pi's you don't even need to have an SD card installed (however you'll then need to set up things like DHCP and TFTP on your server).
I have been running a Raspberry 2 cluster for 10 years.

A few weeks back the first SD card to fail got so corrupted it failed to reboot!

My key learning is use oversized cards, because then the bitcycling will wear slower!

I'm going from 32GB to 256/512/1024!

That said "High Endurance" cards are a scam, they fail way quicker than regular cards!

All SD cards except SanDisk have latency problems. There is no competition.

If you can get SLC SD cards use them for workload instances = no db or file storage.
sleep deprivation is a helluva drug

But seriously, it's important to be able to have, and use, an authoritative voice without becoming angry. I didn't realize how loud I can be (without screaming or yelling) before having children.

They can't read your mind and I think most people get angry with others when there is some fundamental miscommunication or missed expectation.
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this is why PrEP has no double blind study. it was considered unethical
This is mostly what I do for “critical” Pi things. The cable Ethernet and the SSD are major. Do you have any recommendations for a cheap UPS? What are your considerations here?
well if you trusted Apple with Safari you can do so

why is it such a problem foryou if I trust Google with Chrome on an iPhone or Microsoft or Mozilla?

I find this extremely misleading: "the exception is already bad for iPhone security"... not if you stay with Safari

I travel regularly on rails with a private train company instead of the train company that actually built those rails... Apple has nothing to do with iPhones that get compromised because of Google or Microsoft or Mozilla

Apple should concentrate on Safari and stop fearmongering... or just solve these iOS challenges to make every web browser more secure

how come macOS is just fine with fully capable web browsers?