skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it’s an ambiguous designation.

I feel like when I see a shell script in my work, which is not in operating systems development of course, people are targeting bash. I agree many things are careful to target sh for certain reasons (e.g. a script that runs in a container where the base image doesn’t have bash installed) but i still think GP’s question is interesting because it’s not common to see, say, a zsh shell script, but seeing #!/bin/bash is super common.
Is an 8-acre lake ok?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=world+water+area+%2F+wo...
Being ever curious I followed your suggestion which returned OpenPodcar.

Let's see how this response pans out.

Addendum: Perhaps it was Comma.ai instead? Mind you that proves nothing unless there's a bot that tracks edits to old comments .. so ..
> but the full report does outline a path forward should sufficient numbers of people and companies take heed.

Sure, but a path that depends on companies caring about anything other than profit is a dead end.

Companies do not care about ethics, and exceptional (as in, exceptions to the rule) people like Yvonne Chouinard have had to go to great lengths to create atypical corporate structures that may not even work in the long run to try to make companies that don't devolve into amoral profit-seeking. Corporations aren't inherently evil--in most cases being obviously harmful scares away customers--but that's only true as long as the profits don't align with doing harm. And when the profits do align with doing harm, if the people in one company aren't willing to do harm for profit, they'll be outcompeted by a company that is.

I'm working on a degree and recently took a required business ethics class and... Jesus Christ. Corporate culture is rotten to its core. The textbook and class were primarily concerned with whitewashing corporate harms and blaming what it couldn't whitewash on consumers. I didn't do as well in the class as I could have, because I was too disgusted with the material to hide it. They literally had the audacity to talk about "balancing the needs of all stakeholders" as if shareholders matter when some of the stakeholders were slaves.

Until we stop treating companies like they're benevolent friends, problems like climate change and homelessness are going to remain intractable.
It reminds me of Vlang (vlang.io), but where Goplus is a half way step between Go and them. It strikes one as, a lot of people felt there are things missing in Go that they wanted, but how Go is governed it would never be possible to add or make such changes to the language. So we have Vlang and Goplus.

In the case of Goplus, it compiles to Go. Speaking of which, Vlang allows transpiling from Go and possibly to Go, but from and to C is more of their priority.

The intent of the Goplus author and contributors seems to be that their people could easily switch between both, but that their version is more feature rich.
From the paper:

"[I]n-groups controlling abundance have increasingly chosen to produce non-necessary goods, rather than produce services to distribute necessary goods to regions with less abundance of necessary goods"

This claim seems, to say the least, highly implausible given the amount of aid and charity that developed countries give to less developed countries. The chief obstacle to that aid having more of an effect at relieving scarcity in less developed countries is political corruption in those countries: the governments of those countries confiscate the aid and use it to enrich themselves and their cronies, instead of getting it distributed to the people it is supposed to be for.

In other words, solutions to the scarcity problems you describe in less developed countries appear to me to be primarily political, not economic.
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It goes back even further, actually, all the way to the Byzantines. Eastern Orthodoxy has this concept called the "symphony of powers": https://orthochristian.com/93823.html, which in practice means a church strictly subservient to the government under which it operates. Russia is quite possibly the pinnacle of that, seeing how the Russian Orthodox Church managed to apply it even to the Bolsheviks eventually.

This has led to some interesting quirks historically. For example, in Japan, the local Orthodox Church is the offshoot of the Russian one, and at the time of the Russo-Japanese war in 1905, it had a Russian archbishop heading it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_of_Japan. Upon hearing of the declaration of war, the Japanese clerics under him asked him what they are supposed to do. He told them to pray for the Emperor of Japan and the victory of his hosts, since, as Orthodox, it was their duty to pray for their country's ruler and army during a war. He himself, being a Russian subject, could not do so, but also could not openly pray for the victory of Russia in the war while remaining in his position as the head of the Church of Japan; and he believed that it would be inappropriate for him to abscond from that duty and to flee to Russia. So he gave his bishops the blessing to pray according to the canon, and excused himself from public services for the duration of the war.
Companies and economies who optimize the cost of clients as if their own can see diffuse benefits from it. Even if they consider 0.01 % of that cost it can lead to better decisions. If that will make the website load faster or allow for more realistic product pictures, it can lead to faster growth or less returns etc.
3 days off is significantly different than 2. You get a day where you didn't work yesterday and you don't work tomorrow.
It’s interesting and encouraging to see this working in the real world. I think most “leaders” are concerned about having to come up with what people, especially software engineers, should be getting done in X amount of time, which I sympathize with… but clearly it’s doable. Perhaps the concern is that high-performers will produce less, and low-performers will be canned, only for the high-performers to have to pick up the slack, or there just be a net negative in total work produced in X amount of time because some engineers have been fired for performance but there’s no one to replace them and others aren’t allowed/able to work more to compensate.
If its blatantly illegal how come it took so long for someone to file a lawsuit, which happened to come from someone now in direct business competition with them? Wouldn’t the very public switch from non profit to for profit have been investigated and penalized by the US government, in charge of, you know, punishing people and corporations who do illegal things? Do you really believe that Elon Musk is the only moral actor in this situation?
They manage traffic with “service meshes” which includes anything from relatively” basic” distributed iptables/ipvs VIPs (kube-proxy) + dns to full-blown intercepting proxies a la istio/linkerd
There is absolutely no evidence that prior to the megafauna extinctions, hunter gatherers groups were any less violent and murderous [1] than after the megafauna extinctions. Scarcity would have always existed by virtue of the population always growing to the environment's carrying capacity for that population's level of technology.

If killing a neighbor, or wiping out a neighboring tribe, isn't an expression of competitive scarcity-based mentality, I don't know what is. That kind of behavior has steadily declined as civilization has advanced.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
Hikvision access control camera would not let anyone in the building on Feb 29
Interesting, that wasn't it.

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They also pushed against nuclear, but pro “low-carbon” hydrogen made using russian gas, and that was after russian invasion https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/revealed-how-ge...
I know that this isn't the point of this post exactly, since this is more of the "free as in speech" argument, but I just want to say that I dislike Discord for lots of reasons but it's _amazing_ as a community engagement tool.

When GitHub was young and we were just starting out, we didn't really have anything like this. We had Campfire for internal chat, but not an external IRC like tool for engaging with our early users. The problem with IRC is mostly that nobody used it, it's just not an easy to use platform. We would mostly just use Twitter or something for user conversations.

I remember Leah Culver launching Convore (based on IRC tech) to try to make this easier, but for whatever reason it didn't take off. But somehow, Discord took off and there are _so many_ people there. We opened a server for GitButler and it's been so fantastic for connecting with and supporting our users.

But more importantly, it's amazing to have when you want to engage in a community as a _user_. We started using Planetscale and I had an issue and was able to join their server, ask my question and get a real answer from real PS employees and users almost immediately. Rather than dumping an issue into GitHub and watching it linger. Real time chat is so much more powerful.

Discord has done _so much_ for the open source community. Just look at great projects that embrace it. Go into the ohmyzsh channel and get _anything_ answered, there are like 1000 active users in there all the time.

I just can't imagine the concept of throwing that away because "it's not FOSS".
Some Elon's Musk blind fanboy flagged my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564947
Hikvision access control camera would not let anyone into the building on Feb 29. Had to get tech out to upgrade
> After ChatGPT, every for-profit and its dog is going hard.

After ChatGPT was not released to the public, every for-profit raced to reproduce and improve on it. The decision not to release early and often with a restrictive license helped create that competition for funds and talent. If the company had been truly open, competition would have either had the choice of moving quickly, spending less money and contributing to the common core, or spending more money, going slower as they clean room implement the open code they can't use, and trying to compete alone. This might have been a huge win for the open source model, making the profitable decision to be to contribute to the commons.
Vilifying opposing views on "worthwhile" as "borderline sociopathic self-gratification" seems dogmatic and perhaps even projective.
Their business model is selling premium. But, I’ve never
met anybody who’s paid for it.

anecdotally, paid upgraded users do not seem uncommon to me. feels like a few percent? maybe 5%?

boosted servers seem quite common
I'm actually shocked by how poorly the lossless versions of new image formats (AVIF and HEIC) perform compared to the venerable png.
I have small cluster and the only reason I’d want service mesh is to inspect req/resp between services for better debug. And I’m not even sure they can do that.

Retries for free are good I guess, but not something essential. MTLS is something I don’t want at all.
Sunsynk inverter seemed stuck on Feb 29 today 2 March, not sure if leap day or other cause
> But I don't think the conclusion here is you don't have to worry about destructive AGIs.

In fact my argument is precisely that you should worry because there is no possibility of anything but destructive or Nerfed, AGIs if we continue on the current data generation path
>Discord is a much more usable version of IRC

Requires a phone number to even sign up. How is that more usable than say opening up https://web.libera.chat and typing `/join #channel`

>most IRC channels didn't log

That is a good thing. And those who log, presented it as a searchable js-less plain text so I can easily search for a string in chat messages from 2011.
Unlike Discord that I don't recall the last time I did a successful query in that weird search UI at the right side of screen.

Actually awful search ergonomics alone, makes Discord more of a "blackhole" than IRC.

>Increasingly I don't really think decentralized open source is what we need, we could really use a centralized nonprofit mission-driven org that is committed to operating something like Github

Well, let's see how long the status quo remains.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

I don't think Drew makes, or has made in this blog post on his personal website, any secret of the fact that he founded and operates Sourcehut.

> Ahh, $10/month for an alpha system

Actually, $5/month for the "Hacker" plan or $2/month for the "Amateur Hacker" plan. If you bothered to read that page rather than cherry picking, you'd note the following text in the third sentence of the page:

> You should pick the plan which best matches your financial needs and best represents the level of investment you have in sourcehut.

Ironic that one of the most honest and clear pricing pages that still exist in the cesspool of the Internet today yields such a dishonest interpretation from people like you...

> Also, it's not about form over function, but are we comparing https://sourcehut.org/chat.png to Discord?

It's been litigated to death in previous HN posts similar to this one, but some people actually prefer this kind of chat interface, rather than a million animated emojis, "rich" text formatting and metadata insertions...
It’s very 101 but covers sensible topics in a sensible order but yeah, lacks a lot of depth.

If you’re looking for a genuinely awesome introduction to the topic I’d recommend this lecture series https://youtube.com/@securityengineering1350?feature=shared

Which accompanies this book https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
Speaking as someone who grew up in Russia and lived for 12 years in US, your average American might be just as gullible as your average Russian, but they are certainly a lot less conformist when it comes to government policies.
You are absolutely right. In ecology (which mimics the scaling of any physical system) population responds to resource stresses. I consider this a signal of resource scarcity.

As for why it's inevitable: we have unbounded ability to innovate and become resource efficient -market forces will guide this. However there are fixed constraints that will stress human behavior in ways we can't necessarily predict. Some of this is being seen now with shocks to supply chains with climate change. Prices will rise across society as more of our productive capacity is dealt with dealing with the effects of climate change.
> He got them started, but owning something isn't a contribution, frankly.

Just an aside, he didn't get Tesla started. Although, he's often cited as the founder by news organizations, there is zero case for that claim.
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It's weird that you would say Altman is a sociopath without also mentioning that Musk is one as well. Musk is also a narcissist and you can't be one without also being a sociopath.

Are you perhaps a member of the Musk cult of personality?

Just trying to create informational balance.
Stallman said (paraphrasing) "If free software were inferior, using it would still be the right thing to do. Fortunately, it is also superior in terms of features and experience."

That being said, Stallman (still?) uses mostly terminal based software, so that take is a bit biased.
"[A]ccess to resources is determined strictly by how competent individuals are at acquiring and hoarding resources"

This claim seems highly implausible to me as well. There is enough food in my house to feed its occupants for about a week. Is that "hoarding"? I have retirement savings put by so that I will be able to support myself once I stop working. Is that "hoarding"?

What determines what you call "access to resources" (itself a misleading way to put it, IMO) in developed countries is trade. People trade goods or services they produce for money, which they then trade for things they need or want. And this is not "competition for resources". It is cooperation in creating wealth. Practically nobody in a developed country produces goods or services purely by their own efforts; we all cooperate with many other people in the course of doing our jobs. (Which, btw, is perfectly compatible with private property rights--indeed, it requires them. See below.)

The reason this doesn't happen in less developed countries is that it's not allowed to: just as corrupt governments in those countries confiscate aid from developed countries, they also confiscate any wealth that is created by their people. So their people have no incentive to create any wealth through cooperation and trade, since they're not going to gain any benefit from it anyway. In other words, they know they will have no private property rights in what they produce, so they don't bother producing.
Well, and US also has elections that actually mean something, unlike Russia. Republicans lost in 2008 in large part because of the war.
It depends, you could also interpret it as a compliment or recognition, as the paper is about (pure) ideology
Big discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567597
> requiring a yarn/npm dev environment (which I don't want installed on my machine)

I don't like / trust that stuff either but it's often necessary and easy enough to run in a container (e.g.: Docker/Podman, LXC, Guix Shell) or VM (e.g.: Vagrant, QEMU/libvirt).

I actually run most of my software dev stuff that way these days because all these tools are routinely pulling hundreds of deps from the internet that are doing who knows what in their build systems.
The sequel, Saint_Leibowitz_and_the_Wild_Horse_Woman (434 pp. slightly unfinished for 40 years .. interesting, somewhat tragic story) was as enjoyable as the first to me.

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I haven't had too many true hair-pulling moments in my life as a programmer, but the majority of them were because of datetime issues.

My brain just doesn't get the concept I guess, I always struggle a lot whenever I need to touch anything that does anything with dates/time
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I think OP meant a general solution to this.
> And Mr DeVault should probably disclose in his blog post that SourceHut is, it seems, his.

He did. Footnote 3, linked after the second mention of SourceHost: "Disclaimer: I am the founder of SourceHut."

Disclaimer: My repos are on SourceHut, and I've been a paying customer for several years.
Good catch, I should try Comma.ai and see how I fare.

Addendum: 10 minutes in and no apparent bot activity; might be timezones, might be limited to a follow bot that's on your tail seeing as you're kind of a bigger name than I am.
I see a tax on private property as a form of regulatory restriction, on the basis that its corollary is that if you do not pay the tax, you are prohibited from participating in a certain class of voluntary economic actions and interactions using your private property.
Ask HN: Do you email yourself content? Why?
What do you do with it if so?
How do you know if it's boilerplate? Can you fetch it for me?
> why would I want to make a forum post asking for help, only to get a single response hours later, when I can chat with other users in real-time on Discord

To give you some anecdata, I have found the zig discourse forum (ziggit.dev) to have a much higher quality in response than their discord help channel. Sure you might wait a little longer but the answer is now web searchable and own by the community.
> Also worth thinking about in this context is the so-called “repugnant conclusion”:

I disagree, elaborate ponderings in the absence of non-hypothetical evidence are not worth talking about.

I mean, read the section, "Arriving at the Repugnant Conclusion" with any critical eye at all and it becomes clear that it's total nonsense. They're treating "postponing a pregnancy" (not even aborting an existing pregnancy to have a later pregnancy--literally having sex at a later date) as if it's equivalent to killing the potential child. They've strung together a lot of fancy-sounding words but what they've said is stupid. It doesn't get better from there.

The best philosophers don't call themselves philosophers, because they have enough real-world knowledge to call themselves something else like a politician or an engineer. I have no interest whatsoever in the sort of philosopher who logics themselves around in the absence of any empirical connection to reality.