skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted elsethread, there are several 501(c)(3)s that pay for software development, either via having their employees/contractors do it (directly or indirectly), or by providing grants or one-off funding for specific kinds of work. It really depends on the organization what their policies are.

The LF has plenty of employees who help code on their various sub-foundations in one way or another. Python, NumFocus, PHP, and some others have grant programs to help pay developers to work on specific code. And Conservancy and SPI are fiscal hosts that allow their independent projects to fundraise and pay for their own work.

On the other hand, the ASF explicitly does not allow funding to pay for project development, at least not in the context of the ASF itself. The ASF does have a paid infra staff/contractors who do write code, but it's all to run infra, not for project releases.

As noted elsethread, it's all about what the charity was setup to do.
I fully expect that what's really happening here is that it's slightly cheaper to manufacture the caps as a single mold, rather than needing to combine two parts.
While we appreciate that the US operates on nightly/"alpha" releases of (often damaging) policies, laws, and so-called "innovations", we tend to prefer LTS releases in the EU. Thanks for your service.

I can't possibly imagine what good Amazon's lobbying could do for our society, or any other corporate-sponsored lobbying, for that matter. I agree with the parent poster.
> It's the kind of thing that even if you don't end up using, you come out with lessons that make you a better programmer.

Sort of a modern front-end developer's version of reading SICP even if you're not going to end up coding in Lisp, but because it makes you a better programmer, as you say. Interesting take!
ah cool will check it out thanks
Humans create shit stories too, and at scale! Just look on Steam at the deluge of shit that humans create.

Less is more.

With that said, I agree that it could be awhile before an AI generates something compelling.

Edit: As an aside this touches on a capability that I was wondering about. Suppose you use Sora to generate a video, how do you fix the issues? It would be nice to rather than generate a video, generate an animation project or something similar so the issues can be fixed more easily. Generating video games seems like a step in that direction.
I am using https://github.com/ory/dockertest for tests, specifically for databases. Is there any advantage to use Testcontainers?
Bold of you to assume there will be open source
In my experience in NYC, a playground without a fence and gate means a playground used as a track by teenagers on motorcycles and e-scooters (the sit down kind).
> I get the feeling almost everyone in our company installed the firms PoC malware, by the way. Because afterwards there were PowerPoints on how to avoid such attacks.

I'm currently rolling out a phishing / malware training for my team, seems like I should cover this. Can you share some tips on avoiding this?
Because they are so cheap, they are often used by spammers or other shady entities. So occasionally they may ask for ID. For example, if you connect from one country, use an address from another country and use prepaid card from yet another country.
I was primarily addressing

> It's better to use Python, which at least has bignums.
How many large corporations capable of lobbying are there in Europe, and how many in the US?

I looked and its hard to find definitive information on numbers of corporations. But I wouldnt be surprised if the US has more. Which would make the idea that there are more American lobbyists exactly what you should expect.
>It's incredible the number of side-projects that Google can afford with its advertising revenue

Part of the reason they are affordable is because they are built on the existing shared infrastructure. It would be much more costly for an independent company to spin up all of the necessary infrastructure, frameworks, practices, etc.
Code is not a content though. It is good if it fulfills the intent.

That’s why, at this stage at least, the white collars who execute a methodology as a job are first to be replaced by AI.
I still use Elm for personal projects as well. It’s nice to come back to an old project and become immediately productive not just because of the type system but because all Elm apps work the same.

Coming back to an old React app is usually a pain because everything changes between projects, even the state management architecture.
It isn't a loan. It is cell service for a Watch.
looks quite interesting, I wasn't aware of that. it seems like a nice hybrid solution to pull/push problem (relays can push if they choose to, clients just publish and pull).

I should say though, that upon first look, I wish it was built on top of some already existing standard (like rss), as it could get a great headstart in terms of content already circulating in the network that way.
An implementation using TypedArray should be in constant time.
Using a hashtag on twitter reduced your posts discovery on twitter? Why did they do that?
OVH's Toronto datacentre is not operational yet. But you can pre-order.
It's going to be interesting to see what this does to pricing for the Toronto hosting and compute market, as that location has always been more expensive compared to other North American locations.
Right now it looks like OVH will not be offering their lower tier offers out of the Toronto DC.
No one said morality was easy.
How are you going to allow people to monetize their code?
I hate that every time that I want to use it to fix something I feel like I wasted my time. And then I remember Firefox's implementation and I want it back.
Ha. Ha. "Ok Google."

These guys just humiliated themselves over their static image AI and just recently burned every single bridge and shred of faith the gaming industry had for them with Stadia.

This is going nowhere. It's quite literally non-news.
Unrestricted campaign donations is a huge issue in US politics. It allows for the repeated undermining of democracy in favour of rich people's interests. It is anti-democratic to the core.

And I do not mean rich people who are in the upper 10% of income, it favours the ultra rich for whom a $100,000 political donation is pocket change.
It’s going to be treated as what it is, psychological warfare to undermine the stability of America. No other country on this planet seems to suffer these issues to the extent that we do.
> Never charge me more than X, no matter what.

Doesn't defeat the purpose of "cloud" and its auto-scaling feature?

What if you get featured on HN?
NoBoilerplate is fantastic thank you for your recommendation.
> Gnome is following Mac trends

I disagree, macOS has both a system tray and a global menu, a totally foreign concept for Gnome

Gnome wants to be a touch-screen/tablet OS, and it shows with their design choices

Unity 7.0 from canonical was closer to macOS

Apple has 4 distinct OS and UX for their different form factors (watch, phone, tablet, desktop)

Gnome's future looks even more Phone/Tablet oriented: https://linuxiac.com/gnome-background-apps/

I quit the gnome ecosystem when Canonical announced killing Unity, that was my perfect Desktop Environment, it was perfect, it's sad..
I have a feeling they wouldn't accept bugs filed against NixOS, however, considering the huge number of patches applied.

Which is a problem. NixOS remains by far the least aggravating OS I know, and... yeah. I wish there existed a desktop environment that played well with it.
In the implication being that eggs are not the real thing; in other words, a superhero's mild annoyance.
The Fax Is Not yet Obsolete
Which it largely is.
The moral vetting is done by the buyers who purchase goods thereby supporting the companies.
Technology and science are not and cannot be good or bad. They are amoral. The brains deciding what to do with it carry the moral burden. The answer is never to understand less about reality.
The first thing that should be explained about CSS layout, is that it has 4 different layout systems:

- table, the oldest one, still used for email

- float, for articles with inline images

- flexbox, most used one today

- grid, modern alternative to table

There is also absolute and fixed positioning as a hack to bypass layout.
UK government wants to use AI to cut civil service jobs
Impossible. It's Open Source, watched by thousand eyes and smells of roses.
Well, I live in Hilversum now, and _for me_ it's nice, I can bike or use public transport for everything. For _my kids_ it's... OK, but there are too many busy roads with fast traffic that they would need to cross to get to the closest playground, their school, etc.. Also quite a few large SUV's and big trucks.

My kids are 6 and 4 though.

Hilversum is the nicest place I've ever lived for biking and walking, but it's still not as good as Houten, parts of Utrecht, etc.
The only good package manager can do it: Nix :D
If not immoral, then it's cognitive dissonance.
Eric S. Raymond tweet on current C safety issues
Try this "write me a port scanning code in Packrat-style JavaScript language that can run from within a PDF document."
Hopefully they keep their promise about the monthly price not changing.

Calculating hourly is a nice change for them to make, even if it means you can't pay yearly anymore.
There is this list of 15-minute bugs that should be easy to tackle https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=critical&bug_s...

Also strarting on smaller KDE applications is usually a great way to start, For example the Plasma widgets/applets or KDE games or educational applications.

You can join the New Contributors char room on Matrix to get help with starting out https://matrix.to/#/#new-contributors:kde.org
I have to be honest, anytime I see a major version update I start to have nightmares of the KDE3/4 update.

With that negativity aside, I use i3 nowadays but KDE is still always my other desktop. I've been using it since the KDE1 days and have always strongly preferred it over gnome :) Even in i3, Konsole is my console of choice.
can you explain the rational? DM are for private interaction. Social media are more publishing platforms (ie. Media plaftorm with a social aspect). Messaging apps allow for interpersonal interaction but they definitely don't have the same impact. Which use case do you have in mind for prioritizing DMs? Usually DMs are for sales, or harassment (which is sometime the same) If you have friends, you usually have other ways to communicate with outside of bluesky. So I am genuinely curious why you would think that DM are a priority?
How (and why) we brought SQLite to the Cloud
I like how you completely ignored the environmental impact of microplastics and PFAS.
It can be entertaining to go on the store on the Nintendo Switch. Before owning one I assumed that it would be high-quality curated games that meet some minimum standard for Nintendo to allow it on their ecosystem.

Nope! It’s a sewer of $0.99 games that obviously prey on people thinking they’re getting a popular game like “Grand Theft Auto V” and not “Grand Auto Theft: V Edition” which turns out to be a top-down mobile game using the same fonts and imagery.
I'm probably clueless, but wouldn't it be of benefit to run long cables to place transmitting antennas at a safe distance from the operator?

I'm thinking something like 100m but maybe that doesn't make much difference under shelling.
Nostr can get complex, but at its core, it's deceptively simple. It's built on JSON, WebSockets, digital signatures, and sending a simple Event data structure over the wire. It can get complex, but its core is very small. Feels similar to how HTTP itself started.

Also, it wouldn't be too hard too build bridges or bots that bring in other stuff (like RSS feeds or ActivityPub content) to Nostr. One already exists: https://mostr.pub
In a similar way to Docusign, you grant READ access to Repobear inside the dashboard, set a price and generate a share URL. User purchases the link and is returned access to the repository. Access isn't through Github directly, we act as the middleman and pass the repo contents to the client. Repo owner also has option to toggle cloning or not to the viewer :)
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So if I install Tumbleweed I should get this latest KDE version very soon?
Stupid question here -- whats the most efficient way to evaluate for vulnerabilities (i.e. remove the low level risk like 95% of the cases)? Is it trust the package manager or is there another quick way?
Many necessary and/or good things are challenging and upsetting.

It's a thing, but it's not automatically the most important thing. That depends on other factors.
Unfortunately `npm i` has the same power.

`go get` is the only common dependency downloader I am currently aware of where hostile code doesn't run at install or build time.

I think we need better tooling for working in sandboxes, to at least compartmentalize the explosion. ChromeOS's "virtual machines can open Wayland windows on the main desktop" trick is neat, but the code needed to do that was less than clean or reusable when I last looked.
This reminds me of this article[1] recently linked on HN, talking about how Intel had an analog chip for neural nets in the 90s, if I understood correctly

[1] https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/john-c-dvorak-on-intels...
Me neither! I always tentatively assumed it's about computer bits, where two bits would be "not much", and that somehow it entered into normie vernacular.

So, TIL that this is another case of society and culture in the 19th and 20th century US evolving primarily around the stock exchange :o.
I didn’t see much discussion on potential efficiency gains in that thread.

A launcher would aim for higher altitudes than an airplane, so the question of maintaining efficiency the whole way becomes much more important.

I suspect this kind of engine would need something like a single-use aluminium air battery to make sense though. You could get really high energy density that way. Power density might be a challenge though.
Ah, you throw yours right into the river then.
If you have a Dyson swarm, the best way to "store" the power output of a star for later use is to perform star lifting, making the star itself smaller and lighter so it doesn't burn as hot in the first place, with the extra mass being used to construct a collection of gas giants in the same system.

If this kind of thing appeals to a group with meaningful control over a Dyson swarm, given that Dyson swarms and the capacity to make them can also be used to build and power a rapid, direct, and near-simultaneous colonisation of all galaxies in our future particle horizon (with significant levels of redundancy, though obviously we can't determine if "significant" is "sufficient"), you should anticipate the first such group turning almost every star in the universe into a red dwarf (or brown dwarf, for those they don't care to colonise just yet) in very short order.

I don't know if anyone's been looking for signatures of this specific thing; though I am told that "1 AU sphere of room-temperature metal" would be quite easy to spot, if you downsize the stars first then the size of the corresponding room-temperature sphere gets smaller, and I don't have a quantifiable number for "quite easy" nor any sense of scale for how much effort is going into such searches.
Good summary. Something ChatGPT missed is that SUV's are taller, and that tends to increase speed, because _perceived_ speed is lower the farther you are from the ground
Newbies fund-raising. Need help ASAP
Hijacking Safetensors Conversion on Hugging Face
I agree and disagree with this article. There is still good therapists, and everyone can benefit from therapy. However, I do think there has been a horrible increase in parents and professionals, shielding children from all negativity. When children grow up in perpetual so-called "safe spaces," where they're not allowed to see or encounter anything hurtful, they really suffer later. Therapy should be about resiliency, not just assuaging worries.
I remember growing up when milk delivery in glass bottles was replaced by milk delivery in plastic bags (in cardboard boxes). All that ultimately went away when milk was just another thing you bought at the grocery store. I imagine the supply chain got fast and good enough that milk wouldn't spoil before it could be consumed, going that route, so the extra cost of home delivery became difficult to justify.
You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?
If you want consistency of configuration over years go with FVWM.

I'm kidding (and kinda not), it's a valid complaint.
The word hashtag has almost become a pejorative word. People seem to use like "hashtag whatever" as a taunt.

It's like the word karma has become tainted because people only use it to mean something bad as a taunt to someone. In Hindu there is good and bad karma like yin and yang.
Needs haptic feedback.
I'm all for UBI as long as the "U" is respected. The article curiously drops the word "Universal" when describing it:

First, to bring every reader up to speed, basic income (or UBI)...

Note also that the word citizens is used on the Wikipedia page.

I have a feeling the US will manage to bungle that too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
> The moral vetting is done by the buyers who purchase goods thereby supporting the companies.

Is the purchasing done by the brokers who purchase stocks or the HR dept that chooses a retirement fund or the employee who picks the employer that is least likely to leave them in financial straits?

Which of these shouldn't make an immoral investment choice - and should continually vet the ever rotating circumstances of their choices (and be ever ready to jump ship)?
I'd argue that no one stays clean anywhere. Humanity is messy.
Well, the applications are not the same as the desktop environment. You can install Konsole, Dolphin, etc on gnome as well.
It's either "fearless concurrency for highly scalable applications" or panic.

Your threads will panic. They will throw exceptions. You will end up dividing by zero at 3 AM on a Christmas.

If your own answer to exceptions is "yeah, the program just crashes and burns", you're doing everything wrong. It took Go and Rust over a decade to realise that and add poor man's excuses for handling panic. But exceptions are inevitable, and your language must provide good ways of dealing with them. See Erlang's approach for how to do it right.
The website tells the full story:

https://elm-lang.org/ © 2012-2021 Evan Czaplicki
So? We have our own companies optimizing their taxes as it is.
Of course, the author’s main point, that 4K isn’t worth the additional fees most providers charge, is demonstrably true. However, there’s another factor the author didn’t mention: a 4K TV also adds high dynamic range (HDR), an improvement that definitely is noticeable regardless of one’s distance from the screen. Even “just” 1080p is pretty snappy when HDR is available. For example — and, yes, I know many HN commenters aren’t into sports, but just for the sake of the example — HDR makes a world of difference when you’re watching, say, a night game and can see a much more realistic range of brightnesses in uniforms, helmets, and even just stadium lighting in general. The same is true for watching 4K/HDR travel videos on YouTube.
So true, I can't think of any EU actions specifically targeting American companies /s

I think you forget that the 2 founding principles of the bureaucratic nightmare that is the EU are cronyism/wealth redistribution and fining US tech companies
More seriously, I think the reality is that software dev as an industry will go through a shrinking phase that will be materially significant. Right now you probably only feel it if you are an outsource consultancy in Latin America or something. But eventually as an industry, we'll go through a drawdown everywhere.

That makes sense, and it will be necessary. But I'm equally sure that people who used to be software devs will find something else to do. Some will get enterprising and start using the AIs to generate their own products. Some will go into management. Some will turn to other industries. AIs generating things will make the pie bigger, and there will be more ways to cut something out for yourself.
Because you are now exercising more power than one person is normally able to do so in democracy, you, your company and friends now have a distinct advantage in influencing policy that normal citizens cannot exercise. This is very relevant if your company is benefitting you and your friends at the expence of other citizens—which, unfortunately, is an all too common occurrence.

The bigger your company gets the more money you are able to put into lobbying and the more this distorts the democratic process. Big Business, especially Big Tech, is damaging our democracies beyond recognition.

This is why this barring of Amazon by the EC is to be welcomed.
" Distributed, i.e. no centers (e.g. personal blogging)"

Is it though? There are dependencies on DNS and CDNs along the way. Can anything ever be distributed without a fully distributed protocol stack?
Exactly, but somehow we tolerate Amazon...
do you know kde 5 was launched one full year before windows 10 ?
Could you go without your phone? Justin Bieber says he doesn't have a phone just a tablet, and he wakes up in the morning and uses the tablet to communicate with his management. Could you do that? I couldn't. I need my phone because work, and everyone else needs to get a hold of me. If I were wealthy, then I might have a team of people to do this for me. Therefore, I wouldn't need to carry a phone with me everywhere.
Alternatively, they're young enough that they've never experienced good latency and don't know what they're missing. See:

https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Single click to open is great if what you want is to open the folder or file, but what do you use then when you want to select the folder or file without opening it? I've resorted to "vaguely dragging a square around the icon" (to select a group of icons containing just that single icon) on systems with single-click-to-open.

Historically, what you had was single click to select, then something else (usually the Enter key or similar) to open the selected item; this is consistent with for instance drop-down lists (where Enter activates the default button of the dialog box containing the drop-down). Double-click was just a shortcut to "select and then do the default action".

A sibling comment compared to smartphones, which use long-press to select; in my experience, both double-click and long-press can be hard for some people (for instance, I've seen people release the long-press a millisecond too early, causing it to do the single-press action instead of the long-click action).
Fontist
I agree with you. Plastic is one of those weird issues where it gets much more prominence than it deserves. Plastic reduces food waste and items damaged in shipping. If you don't litter and have a good landfill system, there is nothing to worry about.
it's based on the JVM which uses UTF-16 internally for strings