skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Apollo Program, Academia, and the BBC all pay their workers, which makes it profitable for them to do the work.

I get your point: These are not for profit enterprises and they still get important work done.

I'm making a different point: People don't work for the benefit of others without being rewarded.

Open Source Software is not a bad counter example. I think there are rewards in the joy of programming, making a name for yourself, and a few other things, but I'll concede that there is some nuance there.
It’s like the US is literally one of the most diverse countries out there.

Nearly every meal I have has rice.
Balloons are exempt from the ADS-B requirements to broadcast location. Most balloons are above 60,000 ft, away from all airplanes. Larger ones need to get exclusion zone when they launch. Small ones are assumed to be safe from small size.

To launch balloons you buy balloon, build tiny payload, inflate it, and launch. Most balloons transmit location in other ways. They also explode when get too high, and then payload parachutes back to Earth, where it is collected.
America is extremely diverse. There is no “standard diet”.
NTIA Solicits Comments on Open-Weight AI Models
Ah I see, quality can also mean ingenuity, but in my case as a software developer ingenious solutions don’t always present themselves. I’d settle for old boring plain solution that works well enough, but is of enough quality that it doesn’t cause fires, and is quick to change with the business
Your Asia observation is relevant only if Asian levels of arsenic in the soil is comprable US levels, but I always thought levels in the soil in the southern US are an order of magnitude or 2 higher.
Corollary: we have to kill these organizations off every now and then so that the herd doesn't get too ossified.
Proving a negative to something you asserted with no evidence of your own but guesswork at op-eds and quips from interviews is not possible or worthwhile.

If you would like to update your article with primary sources and evidence that can be verified, please do so instead.
Please don't make silly comments like this.
> It is interesting to note that all higher lifeforms have evolved to die (presumably to avoid out-competing their descendants).

I need a source on that, because for the most part that's not how evolution works.

At the point of reproduction, the moment genes are passed on, the paternal time of death isn't "known" to natural selection. Generally speaking, there really is no way to put pressure on death like you suggested. Except maybe for some group selection mechanics, where scientific consensus would be far from settled, and it wouldn't qualify for any statement on "all higher lifeforms", anyway.

What's true tho, evolution doesn't care too much about your survival after reproduction, either. So, eg. some early in life adaptations may increase your chances of death later in life - live fast, die young.

But that's really different than saying death has this evolutionary purpose like you suggested. Complicated things just fall apart at some point. That's so much a fact, that large animals like whales and elephants actually do need "anti-cancer" adaptations to bring their plenty of cells into reproductive age.

Also, I think people may be prone to an anachronistic fallacy in regard to dying here. See, 1 in 5 people will die because of cancer, it's a pretty "natural" thing in our lives, but.... human cancer rates are actually mostly down to environmental and lifestyle factors. Before civilization and industrialization cancer was rare. Yes, people live longer to see it happen, but for example lung cancer is almost always attributable to some hazard exposure. Smoking increases your risk by 2000% (!), yet most smokers won't get lung cancer - lung cancer is that rare!

Alcohol, houses on radon soil, highly processed food, VOCs, hexavalent chromium, heavy metals, estrogenic plasticizer, asbestos, sedentary lives, obesity, microplastic, nanoparticles, ... stress. We could have cashed in on maternal and child mortality to fix our stats, but hey: you win, you lose.
Had never even heard of it.

And their website doesn't help at all - https://www.onlyoffice.com/ - At first, I thought it is selling some kind of add-on for Businesses to use with Microsoft Office. Then I clicked "Get it now" and saw a page that gives me options to download a Docker Image, or Cloud Images or VM Images. What the heck? Then I see the "GET OnlyOffice" link in the navigation menu and go to it - the menu pop-up talks about DocSpace, Enterprise, Workspace etc. etc. and asks to sign-in for cloud. Again, what the heck?? Then I go to the PRODUCT link that also pop-ups lot of options - like - Doc editors to integrate into your business platform .... ??? Then I see the "Desktop and Mobile Apps" option in it and click 'For Desktop'. And finally, here I find what I had been searching for - Get free desktop office suite for document editing and collaboration ( https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop.aspx ).

When a website is designed to be "Enterprisey" - only targetting and catering to a particular audience, and totally ignores everyone else - I am not surprised its user-base is limited. As others pointed out, it doesn't seem like a place where you find free open-source software.

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I downloaded and installed it to try it out, and when I opened it, the first thing I am greeted with, without any warning or information, is a pop-up by the OS informing me that OnlyOffice wants access to my "Chromium Safe Storage" ( https://imgur.com/a/yjA3aJo ). That felt weird and confusing.

But yeah, overall, it does seem more polished than LibreOffice, with a better UI.
Also the 2nd group will game the system to funnel a bigger percentage of the income to themselves while raising prices on students.
Is it me or is the website no longer loading?
Snøhetta's Environmentally-Friendly Website
Well, at least they didn’t fire a $400,000 rocket from $65,000,000 fighter jet that costs $50,000 minimum to start and get in the air, only to miss… this time.
Par-boiling then steaming also happens to be The Right Way to cook it, to my taste.
Also people share articles. If you have a feed there is roughly 0% chance of me sharing one of your articles. If I subscribe to your feed and like the article then I may share it with friends or post to Reddit or Hacker News.

Of course while you may reach some users that you wouldn't have otherwise, you may also lose some ad views from people who would still check your site if there was no feed. So it is a balance.
But the ads are baked into the content.
Lego 8880 Super Car
Not a bad approach. Minor nitpick to your hypothetical (lol) -- in this case one may want to use a 302 redirect since you might want to be consulted again for a subsequent download, rather than have your response cached (potentially on behalf of multiple users).
That’s not true. Arsenic levels are geo bound so cracking down on it does nothing. It’s in the soil and the ground water.
You don't think the social context in which the energy was made available has anything to do with the fact that the growth occurred?
Sort of. You can just poll it like it is a feed. However annoyingly if you want push updates you need to subscribe which is a publicly visible action. There is no way to follow a feed without having some profile to appear as a "follower".
They do so because, just because something is greener does not make it better for humanity. For example, we can have "greener" algae blooms that nevertheless eat up the oxygen in a lake or ocean and then we have no fish to eat.
Isn't it even more racist to replace them in a picture? Being told that your skin colour is too offensive to show sounds a lot worse to me than calling them "white" considering their skin is very white
This train of thought has very “just build more housing to solve homelessness” character. While it’s a true statement, there are people in need in the interim that would eventually be helped by more housing, but will be irrevocably harmed without short and mid term interventions.

In your case, yeah, eradicating corruption might solve the issue, but that’s something that has eluded the entire human race since time immemorial. So in the meantime while we work to solve the human equivalent of an NP Hard problem, let’s help people out.
No, no one wants to do the useful things that need to be done, such as fixing my sewage pipes. Not even me, even if I was paid SWE salaries.
Probably in the base installation because it's a standard POSIX utility.
> the change and result are both possibly good and bad, but we don't really know yet.

I'm no scientist, but I believe the current ecological disaster effecting the UK's largest lake may be an example of the type of bad outcome we could expect to see more of.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/19/like-the...

It appears that a large algal bloom might be the immediate cause. Apparently algal blooms benefit from higher CO2 levels.

https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/climate-change-and-har...

I can't find it now, but I do remember reading some theory that previous extinction events on earth were driven by large amounts of organic matter breaking down anaerobically (i.e. underwater) which leads to a huge increase in some pretty nasty gases in the atmosphere. There have (apparently) even been times when some of the world's oceans were effectively large swamps.

Edit: My mistake, I didn't read about what I mentioned in that last paragraph - I heard it on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eM1aakTzMw

To give the general gist of what's covered in the above video/interview with paleobiologist Peter Ward:

03:00 - We need a little bit of CO2, but it’s easy to have too much CO2

04:20 - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (co-written with Dan Brownlee)

04:40 - Excessive heat and mortality

05:12 - Volcanic activity responsible for past CO2 spikes

05:40 - Previous mass extinctions

05:57 - Non-animal mass extinctions

07:18 - Uneven atmospheric heating

and much more...

Well worth a listen if you have the time.
That’s not what I said. I said they can get away with it.

“Getting away with it” for bigoted jokes has a lot of nuance and context sensitivity.

For comedians including bigoted jokes in their set, it’s usually surrounded with self deprecation, self awareness, not the whole set, and is extremely careful about how they go about crossing the line, they know that they crossed a line and bring it back.

This is contrary to bigoted people telling bigoted “jokes”. It’s usually their whole set. They keep the set over the line. There’s no self reflection. It is bigotry coming from a place of bigotry.

I know that you on the alt-right tend to lack the capability to process nuance, and that you’re going to completely latch on to that single byte. So further explanation of why there’s a difference means nothing to you, but hopefully others see that being able to get away with a bigoted joke now and again is absolutely not the same thing as it “being okay”.
Are you looking for something like a call graph?

There's pyan3 [1] which although doesn't support python 3.7+, I've still had luck with v1.0.4 which works better for me than its most recent version with python 3.11, but there can be some weird issues though depending on your code style.

A quick search also turned up crabviz [2] which has support for more languages than just python.

[1] https://github.com/Technologicat/pyan

[2] https://github.com/chanhx/crabviz
I'll add a separate comment, because I don't feel I specifically addressed your observation that Boeing can go bankrupt, split, etc.

Boeing is today, the conglomeration of previous companies that did become distressed enough to be consumed or split and acquired. That actually exacerbated the systemic problems of the current Boeing. So this idea that private enterprise can't accumulate systemic issues seems like an optimistic concept that is invalidated by Boeing's current circumstances.
maybe it is true for some cases...
https://archive.is/0oJG7
/me raises hand. idealist here, and I do want everything rewritten. Please ensure you provide your idealists with all business goals and limitations rather than shield/protect them. You’ll find that then their suggestions take those things into account
In hindsight I think the post was overly negative, even though I am no Gemma fan. People are downvoting just because of that.

Now, what's a little odd to me is that there was so much interest positive interest from HNers? People submit really good new models/finetunes all the time, but there's usually no interest in them, at least not unless I bring them up in tangentially related comment sections.
Without digging deep, it's an optional POSIX utility; likely still included for historical reasons, and/or a couple developers still use it somewhere
Interestingly enough, I believe while Kamelot was founded in the US, most of the members are from Europe currently.

One thing I learned ~15 years ago was that Nightwish commissioned lyrics from lyricists (one such commissioned person told me himself I believe a year or two after Dark Passion Play was released - they never used what he wrote for them though) - maybe that helps give the polished impression for some.
Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants
If you have disability/medical issues, keep your mouth shut about them. Source: I have some.
https://www.athene-center.de/fileadmin/content/PDF/Keytrap_2...

> https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/dns-exploit-keytrap-pos...

> > https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/keytrap-attac...
Thank you so much for an actual action item. I wish that it was possible that each post could have one as useful as this.
It's not limited to local chat.
A/ According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_space theory, the path to greatness involves mastering join-irreducible concepts/skills.

Mediocrity can always be achieved via the join of two existing skills (if you know A and you know B, then doing C is "just" doing both A and B at the same time), but greatness requires leaps (if you know A, but the path from there to B doesn't involve any combination of other existing skills, you'll just have to try a bunch of stuff until the penny drops/inspiration strikes/the muse vists/etc.)

(being mediocre myself, I can't speak from personal experience, but this is certainly how it looks when regarding the acknowledged [Nobel/Olympic/Turing] greats with whom I have studied/trained/collaborated over the decades)

B/ Consider Niels Henrik Abel's opinion on whom to study.
Follow 'jcranmer. He's great.
Any trend. I’m not making a claim—simply a logical statement. Those making claims need to show evidence.
As I want to learn, outside of the problems with cargo culting, why having the SOLID principals as the default _ideal_ when programming cause problems.

Sure he was pulling from Structural design ideas, which even Tom DeMarco, the author of the canonical book on SD, now says should have been iterative and Agile-like, but he was also pulling from papers like the following from 1972 about modularity.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361598.361623

The SOLID principles are a specific application of computer science principles to OO.

Separation of Concerns is a specific example of core CS principals that he pulled from but are from Dykstra.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD447.PDF

So is your reason for discrediting him that he aspired to be a professional writer, or that he tried to collect concepts from the wider tent into a more domain specific presentation?

Because structural design is an example where the founders realized that not paying attention to that first paper was problematic.

"We have tried to demonstrate by these examples that
it is almost always incorrect to begin the decomposition
of a system into modules on the basis of a flowchart.

We propose instead that one begins with a list of
difficult design decisions or design decisions which are
likely to change. Each module is then designed to hide
such a decision from the others. Since, in most cases,
design decisions transcend time of execution, modules
will not correspond to steps in the processing. To
achieve an efficient implementation we must abandon
the assumption that a module is one or more sub-
routines, and instead allow subroutines and programs
to be assembled collections of code from various
modules."

How about addressing Robert Martin's position, instead of irrelevantly attacking random aspects of the person who is making the argument. A.K.A Ad Hominem fallacies.

In the context of this thread, if a candidate could only express their objections to _ideals_ that are intended to be the defaults, and couldn't express their objections in a way that related to business and customer needs, I would be a hard no on the hiring position.

It is OK to not agree with these ideals, but to only offer personal attacks to dismiss them, it indicates someone who will probably be a difficult team member and lack customer focus.

Ad Hominem's never address the real concerns or needs of a project and are simply not constructive.

We know that EA failed, we know SOA works better if imperfect, we know that aiming for loosely coupled and highly cohesive code results in systems that are easier to maintain and scale, and we know that with the rise of the cloud most needs will be distributed. All of those apply the same principles at a different scale or domain.

Hand waving away those well known concepts because you have a distaste for an author won't change that. But if you share ideas that address the limits of those ideas perhaps it can help move us further.
No, what we're saying is google made a free service that was accessible everywhere, which meant all the non-google options essentially died off (commercial paid apps were competing with free, non-commercial ones were competing with "synchronized everywhere" which means paying for some cloud system).

Then once the rss ecosystem had been largely wiped out, google killed reader. Sure you could migrate your data out, but to where? It took time for replacements to get to maturity, and they lacked syncing or financial backing that made them free. It was _possible_ to get an alternative, but the overwhelming majority of people are not really able to deal with the immediately available alternatives, and by the time the RSS ecosystem had redeveloped usable software the majority of the people who had been using reader/RSS were no longer going to switch back because they'd migrated to other systems.

The cheaper/free service to drive competitors out of business model is a tool monopolists use all the time because it is effective. In this case google did exactly the same thing, honestly I don't think out of malice, and then realized that they couldn't make a profit of it and so killed the service. But fundamentally their actions were the same as the monopolists, and had the same impact, so when they shut down reader they basically ended rss for the vast majority of users.

For example, NetNewsWire was a good piece of paid commercial software which I used for years, that was essentially killed by reader because they simply couldn't afford to develop or support it when the major competitor was free. NNW is now free and OSS, but that was after the IP became functionally worthless and the company that had bought it simply returned it to Brent Simmons (the original author).
> I've written plenty of maintainable software

This may very well be true, and I'm not saying it is not true, but after working in software for multiple decades, I can tell you that many developers think they are much better than they actually are.

> I have 0 interest in memorizing specific jargon.

This isn't about memorizing jargon. It's about understanding the basics of enterprise software development. It is no more "memorizing jargon" than knowing the difference between private and public interfaces. Do you study and memorize the definitions of private and public methods in order to pass an interview? Of course you don't--this is something you know by virtue of having written production software.

I would be hard pressed that you would even consider spending more time interviewing candidate who can't tell you the difference between private and public methods. "Tell me about SOLID, KISS, and DRY" is another question in the same bucket of fast screening questions.
The large balloon was definitely from China, China never denied that. The dispute was over its intention, which China maintains was meteorological research.

For example, here is a BBC article that takes a skeptical tone but correctly summarizes the statements made by the Chinese government. Under a more charitable interpretation, one could assume that the Chinese government remained silent for some time because they had to determine which research agency had launched it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64633990
So smart
Years ago I had a really bad breakup. We lived together for about 6 months and she slowly got more and more hostile towards me. She moved out and severed all contact with me. She forgot a couple of her daily journals in a drawer. Well, I had to look because I was so confused as to what happened.

Reading through it, I was blown away at how skewed her perception of reality was. The way she recalled events were absolute fantasy. She took all these mundane interactions (a lot of which were genuinely positive) between us and twisted them into somehow being wronged by me.

I had always thought of writing in a journal but after reading that decided I never would. It has the potential to crystalize misremembered, or misinterpreted things into reality. She had created a self propelling feedback loop of negativity.
someone should update talk to ipv6.
> quite impressive for a single author to have a functional, fast language with a working garbage collector

From what I gather from the article, they didn't implement a garbage collector, but rather integrated the Boehm GC. This is a conservative collector, so it doesn't collect all garbage.

> But the fact that these are the features being complained about, not the core of the language, says something in itself.

Memory management is a core part of a language. According to the article this core part doesn't work, which is a pretty big flaw.
What did you find? We know there's plenty of far-right ideas in black metal but other sub-genres?
Yeah, me too.

And vow to someday get around to finding a different music solution.
Biden passed the most comprehensive climate law in US history. The most unbelievable part is that the law was nearly unchanged from what was written by climate experts. Usually bills start out looking good, then get frankensteined by the hundreds of stakeholders that want to cram their shit into it. For once, we got a pretty clean bill that will actually do good (based on the climate experts I've read).

Form your own opinions, but I had to mention real action that happened.
Agree. I think marketing teams killed RSS, they wanted you to "subscribe to our newsletter" and send you what _they_ thought was useful. You wouldn't do that if you already had RSS, so that needed to go.
> I don't think 1000 applicants on a job is "bots applying automatically", that's just developers in disbelief trying to patch their feeble psyche with an explanation they can stomach.

No, this is objectively true. I've posted jobs before and LinkedIn counts those who merely click on the apply button as being an applicant. I've gotten those 500+ "applicants" alerts but I'd be lucky to get even 1/20 of that number of resumes.
It seems many of these - e.g. turbotax - are more specifically regulatory capture.
The capitalistic business that makes a profit on tax preparation surely opposses the government giving it away for free.