skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why the open source communities themselves should be funding their own projects. Because if the communities and users dont fund their own projects, private corporations will fund them and they will have the say. Open Source must not become outsourced 'free labor' which major corporations can leech on. The best way to do it has been the 'freemium' format that is used in the Wordpress ecosystem and a few others - the open source shop creates and maintains a free version of their software under GPL2+, and sells downloads, update licenses & support for more advanced addons. The WP ecosystem was able to float itself with this method without taking in investor money or corporate money, and the software shops that exist in that ecosystem are able to pay their developers living wages. The entire ecosystem was created and is still floated by the open source software producers and the community members.

Basically, open source is like politics: Who funds it gets the say. And just like politics, we need to make sure that the communities are self-sustaining economically so that external money wont call the shots.

I know that a lot of us in open source software are very proud with our voluntary work and its contributions to open source. That is accurate and praise worthy.

But what do we do when we get up in the morning and go to work?

We each work in a private company that seeks to maximize its market share and gain more control of the economy, bar a minority of us who work in actual open source jobs. In one hand, we are giving something tangible to open source with our contributions, but the work that we have to do in our day job in a private corporation takes a lot of that away because the organized, concentrated impact of a large private organization with a lot of money goes much further than the heroic efforts of collectives of volunteers.

That is why open source must fund itself and become its own economic and political power. Otherwise we will always be giving with one hand with our contributions but involuntarily taking back with the other hand because of the work we have to do in private corporations. And this is without mentioning that if we dont fund & float our own ecosystems and become a collective economic and political power as a community in our own right, we will always be rule-takers and will always have to fight the attempts of the private lobbies at destroying open source.

Basically we must create our own world. And in that world, we must be able to work in, make money with, and live with open source.
You're not the only ones, but I can't understand this approach. Do people never then read the version history? It must be impossible to understand commits' diffs with the changes all squashed together.
I mean .. or you could click the github to the actual project
I've noticed it too. There's a weird online bubble that really has it out for Tesla/Elon, and then gets offended when you question it. Don't know if it's organic or incited by some motivated group or what. It's annoying at first but now it's just part of the daily news/social media filter I apply to anything I read these days.

In real life, in my Asian tech friend circle, no one cares, we just keep driving and buying our Teslas (or Rivians or BMWs). Elon's shenanigans is never a subject that comes up because it has no bearing on our lives. My American friend circle spends time on reddit/twitter and sometimes they have negative opinions but generally don't care much either.
Atom is not around. Not 100 percent sure that VSCode will be around. (But I also don’t think that this should hold anyone back who finds VSCode to fit their needs best. There’ll be something else that will take its place.)
Yeah the data seems sketchy but then Elon-haters anxious to see X fail will gobble it up as if it were gospel just to satiate their confirmation bias.

The truth is probably somewhere in between... there are probably actually a lot of bots on X but not nearly as bad as this report makes it seem.
this is based on the port to svelte shadcn-svelte :)
This is just a lead-up to one hell of an election.
In my locale, throwing aluminum cans in the recycle bin earns me a disparagement from my garbage/recycling company and maybe even threats to cancel my service. The only thing accepted in the bin is relatively clean paper materials.

I have to take the cans down to the recycling center and throw them one by one into some machine and maybe they'll get recycled. Any compensation I might get is from the state, which is basically a dime for a can.

At that point I'm just going to throw them all in the trash, not worth my time nor fuel to drive down.
Ukrainian isn’t a dialect continuum with Russian. That’s a myth commonly pushed by Russia and Russian nationalists. It’s a separate language with roots diverging from a rather early point with different history. It actually shares more similarity with Polish or Bulgarian than it does with Russian. Here’s a good video on the languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLM62r5nLI

(Note: It was published before the war so the statistics of where what languages are commonly used have changed dramatically.)
> 1. App crashes back to the desktop/Home Screen/etc

Why do think it would crash, rather that simply return to main loop?
I did not know that! Thanks. Indeed, "family run", depending on where they are in the internal-to-the-family management-transition cycle, is more encouraging to me than "publicly held". ("Private equity" is always and everywhere a huge red flag.)

It's depressing to me that we have to think about those things. I mean, "buyer beware" has always been the case, but it seems like we have to be more wary (or more wary of more factors) than we did a decade or two ago. Or maybe I'm just getting older. I dunno.
Why wouldn't they add sacrificial anodes which should be replaced every year or something like that? It seems like a cheap an effective solution but I'm no rust expert.
You're right, there's a very real danger that bad actors within OpenAI could hand their research to China. But that's not an inevitability. We've managed to block certain countries from developing nuclear weapons technology. We can do it with this too.
The decline of "The West" (really The US and client states err Europe) is inevitable now that Russia and China have dismantled any social unity we had. Americans all hate each other and that division is not getting reconciled. They will continue to use it to disrupt us. You can basically destroy momentum in the US by bombarding the population with propaganda and forcing political destabilization.

We are screwed in the long run because there is no antidote to this that is compatible with our constitution.
Everyone makes mistakes, it's about learning from them and what you change to try to make things better in the future.

Generally speaking, the west has been significantly improving the living conditions and human rights protections for its citizens over the last several hundred years, many times in direct response to some horrible mistake that was made and then subsequently learned from (slavery, Vietnam, etc.)

The same cannot be said at all about Russia. All the intelligent, brave people who could see through the propaganda or who had the bravery to do something about it have largely either been killed off or emigrated away at this point. The country has been in a continuous cycle of totalitarian suffering for hundreds of years, with no end in sight.
maybe people just don't think he's so smart anymore after seeing how he acts on twitter and seeing the ugly, poorly produced truck he sort of put out.
Pentagon launches nuke-spotting satellites amid Russian space bomb rumors
Well that doesn't make it non-deterministic in behavior.
Being an anti-meeting crusader is great, but if you don't step up to monitor and properly respond in all async channels, then know that your behaviour in the eyes of a lot of people who matter is straight up career-limiting. Do not do that.
I worked at NIO. The consensus there was that Tesla routinely ignored auto industry best practices from UI to manufacturing, across the board.
I tried it and it doesn't really work, the models have no knowledge of my notes.

I tried llama-2-7b-chat.Q4_K_M.gguf and phi-2.Q4_K_M.gguf and neither showed any knowledge of the notes I added to the folder.

Does anyone know of a good way to test if it's working (a prompt?) and does anyone know of other projects like this?
The rib breaking is very real. And 93% of the time it only traumatizes the giver and adds more suffering to the receiver who dies anyway. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914...

There are also "humans are space orcs" devices like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device that can keep blood circulating even when the heart cannot.

Or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_pre... that can push all the blood in your lungs from congestive heart failure back into your arteries, only for the lungs to start to slowly fill again, drowning them slowly.

Not saying these measures are bad or that we should withhold care, but there is very much an attitude of "keep alive at all costs" to modern medicine that can be hard to witness and potentially traumatizing for caregivers.
I agree but that's beside the concern I'm raising. How do you ensure freedom on the non-free part? The answer is in the question, I'm afraid.

The thing you sell also don't need to be proprietary. I work for an open source company that sells free software [1], support, hosting and consultancy. It specifically rejects doing open core in our business decisions. I'm glad it has worked so far (and has been for 20 years this year).

(coincidentally, CryptPad is one thing the company makes :-))

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403811
>Folks love Shopify, and it does work very well. But for my small businesses I've been very happily using Woocommerce on Wordpress, basically nothing but the hosting cost for Wordpress, and it's been delivering very well. I've done several million annually on the Woocommerce / Wordpress combo.

I don't love Shopify, but it's been overall fine. It mostly does what we need, and it's been stable, so I've been reluctant to change. Even if we swap out Shopify, we still have to pay someone whatever credit card processing fee.

>Regardless, Those 2 only add up to $7.1k so I'm curious where the bigger ~$9k remainder is coming from.

It's just a lot of little things. A lot of them are around team collaboration. Here are the next top five:

CircleCI: $2.3k

Plane (contractor management): $1k

Time tracking: $700

TalkYard (support forum): $700

Inventory management: $600 (we stopped using this after we switched to the contract manufacturer)
Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer
The burden should be on the prosecution to prove that the algorithm is fair and reliable; the defendant is presumed innocent, ie falsely accused.
I got a fake AI robocall from Roger Goodell telling me the Superbowl was happening a week later, so I missed it!
Coding in Vision Pro
At first I thought it would be weird, but after a few minutes it all felt very natural and a deep work focus was achieved without me really realising it. I tried to grasp some of the awe I experienced in this blog post.
>Russia is a gigantic country with vast resources that isn’t bordered by Europe

Maybe you should look at the map before writing such nonsense.

1. Russia does have borders both with EU and NATO. Norway, Finland, Baltic states, Poland.

2. Russia is geographically in Europe too. Most of its population and the capital are in Europe.

Among European countries it does have the largest territory, population and nuclear arsenal, but it is not even the biggest economy. Ex-superpower is not a now-superpower. Mindset-wise it has a lot in common with other EU members.
Yea. This is exactly when I flipped on him too.

Do understand that I’m not asking about Elon, I’m asking about the media machine that’s coming after him, and pointing out that any discussion of the rather obvious and concerted effort going after the man gets shouted down by populist opinions and social media haters.

Is there no room to question the machine? Everyone seems to have the same opinions and asking, “hey, anyone else see the concerted effort to destroy this man through the media as evidence of a pretty clear coordinated system?”Just leads to obliteration on social media. It’s crazy hard to discuss the evidence of opinion engineering efforts around unpopular people without people using the opinions generated by that machine to try to silence you from questioning its existence. I mean it’s been a minute since I’ve heard a considered opinion on Elon or Tesla that wasn’t based on an article talking point, and that’s what I’m trying to talk about.
> I'm pretty sure that Parisiens saw all other kinds of frenchmen as untermenschen and actively eradricated their languages until, like, late XX century.

That has nothing to do with Russia vs Russian conquered territories, besides, France has Occitan, there is the German based dialects, Catalan, some Basque and a whole raft of others.

> Since they held absolute political powers nobody was even there to question it.

Except that that didn't quite happen in the way you suggest. You could make a similar statement about Fries in NL or maybe Limburgs or Diets. And it would be just as much wrong.

> Compared to that, Russians have super great attitude towards southwestern Russian variety. They do recognize the existence of Ukrainian language (dialect continuum) and that some people might want to speak it unharmed, for starters.

Sorry, are we on different planets or something? You mean: those very same Russians that are currently bombing the shit out of anything Ukrainian and who wish to eradicate the Ukrainian nation and culture?

> I'm also pretty sure that Germans from different parts of Germany aren't big fans of each other as a group.

They are as alike as the Dutch and the Belgians, we joke about each other but at the end of the day there is no hate and zero chance of a war.
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches
Hi there! I'm Allison, I've spent lots of time working in R, R Markdown, and more recently Quarto for environmental data science work & teaching. Working in Quarto is actually what introduced me to Observable ("what is this 'OJS' business?")! Now I'm a Developer Marketing Manager at Observable and am really enjoying working in Observable Framework.

I still love Quarto. It lets me tinker, explore & troubleshoot in R easily while building things (I still have a bit of a hard time troubleshooting data loaders). I like that I can use Quarto for dashboards, but also for a personal blog, a scientific article, a nicely formatted PDF, etc. -- it feels like I only need to know one system to be able to create a bunch of different products. There are options for people like me who are more data scientist, less developer to quickly customize some biggies like fonts, background colors, etc. right in the yaml. There are really nice helpers (e.g. for cross referencing and citations, among others) that are great for researchers.

What I like about Observable Framework is that getting started is so fast - minutes from install, to a dashboard I can preview & update locally, to deploy - with really clear prompts to walk me through it. I do really like data loaders. It feels better to just prep my data in an R script (or Python, or whatever else), then access the data I need from the loader (rather than to pass outputs from R code to an OJS cell in Quarto). Using any JS libraries and components feels more streamlined in Observable Framework (not sure why - the syntax isn't that different, though Framework uses import rather than require now). And dashboard layouts are easier for me in Framework using our grid class.

I like how focused Observable Framework feels. Quarto feels awesome with is breadth of possibilities (output to PDF, or Word, or slides, or blogs, or ebooks, or websites, or ...!), whereas Framework feels sleek in its focus and design for developers creating beautiful, fast data apps & dashboards.
I say this with all sincerity, if you're not overwhelmingly impressed with Sora then you haven't been involved in the field of AI generated video recently. While we understand that we're on the exponential curve of AI progress, it's always hard to intuit just what that means.

Sora represents a monumental leap forward, it's comically a 3000% improvement in 'coherent' video generation seconds. Coupled with a significantly enhanced understanding of contextual prompts and overall quality, it's has achieved what many (most?) thought would take another year or two.

I think we will see studios like ILM pivoting to AI in the near future. There's no need for 200 VFX artists when you can have 15 artists working with AI tooling to generate all the frame-by-frame effects, backgrounds, and compositing for movies. It'll open the door for indie projects that can take place in settings that were previously the domain of big Hollywood. A sci-fi opera could be put together with a few talented actors, AI effects and a small team to handle post-production. This could conceivably include AI scoring.

Sure, Hollywood and various guilds will strongly resist but it'll require just a handful of streaming companies to pivot. Suddenly content creation costs for Netflix drops an order of magnitude. The economics of content creation will fundamentally change.

At the risk of being proven very wrong, I think replacing actors is still fairly distant in the future but again... humans are bad at conceptualizing exponential progress.
> Surely a crappy iPhone app running on iPad is better than no app at all?

Bogus comparison. Non-crappy apps are a thing.
Cutting kids off from the dark web – the solution can only ever be social
Germans unfortunately like to complain a lot. Many things are better elsewhere, is claimed. Except for many other countries nearby. And the weirdos from UK leaving EU. And the weirdos from US with Trump.
And we have it so bad, so bad. Sometimes I hate my fellow Germans.
> Assuming there is such a thing as opposition in Russia

Oh, that reminds me about people in russian internet who said that Navalny was managed from Kremlin. They kept saying this even when he went to prison.

Do you as well believe in the shadow government which controls every public figure?
Sounds reasonable. Also, when squashing a PR would conflate unrelated commits then maybe those commits should have been separate PRs instead.

I've recently started to like squashing after usually preferring rebase merges, because with squashes I have an easy option to rewrite the commit message and edit out all of those meaningless "fix typo", "improve" and "now actually working" lines...
> One repo uses `master` but a subtree uses `main`. If you make a mistake and checkout `main` you end up clobbering your whole working tree with the subtree.

If you replace checkout with switch/restore, that foot gun goes away.
I can't understand being sad about someone not restricting what they created

I can. The guy giving away the ice cream is destroying the market. You can't compete against free. If programmers would stop surrendering their labor, personal data resellers like Google and Facebook wouldn't be our primary means of making a comfortable living. Say what you will about Microsoft's monopoly in the 90s. At least they took your money with your eyes open.

The irony of course is free software zealots are pissed at the free ice cream guy for completely different, and I agree with you, utterly stupid reasons.
Well thank you for that well sourced critique.
Didn't they just use consumer-grade LCDs to get that massive (especially for the time) 17-inch screen in the Model S that then started failing?

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...
Absolutely. It’s clear he is trying to set up his own influence machine. It should make the use of an influence machine against him a more realistic point of conversation, but just raising the question on social media is almost impossible.
I believe AMD implements this since Zen2.
Seems like a good time to share https://youtu.be/qFXWjv65JWg?si=zI7TuqZRLomXFlhq

sacrificial anode

For the truck might be really easy to attach and not such a bad idea
I have the same reaction. It seems to me that we could pay every business impacted by the work and come out ahead financially AND ahead on quality of service.
Leak of Russian 'Threat' Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources
This seems vibes based. Twitter censored in the past and continues to censor. If you were in the out group and now are in the in group you’re happy even tho you were unlikely to have been censored
If it's so easy can you do it right now and show me the result? Hell, I'll even give you the whole day.
Python will do a lot under the hood that a hand-rolled C solution wouldn’t. So I wouldn’t expect the C equivalent to make the same number of syscalls as Python.
So you want to code a convolution – a bite-sized image processing with kernel
> Are they literally printing money? No, not to any significant degree.

Right. So talk about what they are actually doing, be it routine deficit financing (not "printing" under any reasonable definition) or QE (arguably I guess, depending on how you want to spin the repurchase scheduling). Under no circumstances does the government actually create money "out of thin air".

Which under some circumstances is fine. If you're discussing a political topic with a bunch of like-minded gold standard fans (or whatever), then you can use this as a shorthand for "the fiat currency policy we all hate". And no one is confused.

But THIS subthread is actually talking about financing public policy. So trying to shorthand the issue away is just a rhetorical trick. If you want to argue against public financing of a UBI, you have to do more than just shout "Money Printing!".

Edit, because I missed this bit:

> if you grow M1 from $4T to $18T

I shouldn't have replied. That's a 100% bad faith argument, owing to a redefinition of the M1 money supply in May 2020 (to include "savings" accounts, which were previously ignored) that created a big discontinuity in the graph. You can argue that the new measurement is better or worse than the old, you can't use a delta between them as "growth". That's just a lie, and you should know better.
Here's my startup thesis for this space, free for anyone who wants it

1. Most delays in tunneling projects are due to elongated decision making processes
2. The majority of the cost of the machines are their initial construction, not operation or maintenance

Solution: fleet of TBMS are set off in arbitrary directions that bounce off the city borders like the screen saver with the bouncing ball. This creates a large network of tunnels all across the city. When it comes time to decide to put new infrastructure in, one of these tunnels is already there somewhere close, just have to dig down to it. 0 decision fatigue/cost, max efficiency for cost per tunnel foot.
>Not sure about the Falkland war

Do you mean the war between Argentina and England?
Argentina was not only under a military dictatorship then, but the war was definitely triggered by the military junta.
> It is absolutely infuriating as a programmer to call a function and not know if it can throw and, if it can, not know what it can throw. It’s a disaster.

Every nontrivial function can fail (in C even a unary operation on an int), it's just a question of whether and how the caller is informed, how easily the failure is to ignore and continue processing in an undefined corrupted state, and what percentage of the code ends up being dead branches for impossible-but-unprovable error paths.

> I so desperately wish that C++ had Rust’s Result type and pattern matching.

I'm a fan of Rust too, but what do you think panic() is?

Rust has no concept of code that always succeeds. It's all-but impossible on current CPUs.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Arust-lang%2Frust+path%3A%...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/enum.Result.html#method...