skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for me the door do solve many of those problems

A door might solve many of these problems in such a way which do not require you to ask people to be quiet and respect your need to concentrate. You can still ask people to do so. You can ask management to do so. If there isn't a, shall we call it "library" culture, where people are reading in a great big open space together together quietly, then it sounds like a bad culture fit to me, not a problem with the open space itself. A door might not solve these problems if people barge in whenever they feel like it; if you lock the door, if people knock incessantly until you answer.

> Also private offices are way more social, as you can have meetings, chat and cooperate without ruining everyone elses day.

This is literally what conference rooms are for.
Git LFS isn’t a real alternative?

https://git-lfs.com/
3G networks in Europe are already being retired, in the UK the last provider will switch off in 2025 acording to Ofcom.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice...
At the same time text is to narrow a category to cover many project needs. There are lots of projects where needing manage and version GBs of various binary data is vital. Git defaulting everything being plain text will miss out a lot of special cases where are more specialised tool might help, but on the whole is probably a good balance and 'good enough' for the vast majority of use cases.
Looks very impressive!
To add to the other comment. Game music/soundtracks can be good for that, lots of options there, usually that music is to fill the background and keep someone engaged with the game. I also find LoFi music good for that purpose.
That's an interesting point. When arithmetic and memory accesses cost about the same, pointer chasing through graphs works great. The currently popular struct-of-arrays and cache oblivious datastructure patterns only really make sense when arithmetic is essentially free relative to memory.
Isn't Git LFS enough for those cases?
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Yes, but that is not trying to block a court and it was done six months before the data was requested.
Graphite attempts to make stacked diffs more palatable, built on top of git. Never used it myself but have a colleague who swears by it.
Having gone down the rabbit hole of creating printable media/pages from html/css, I also discovered paged media. Generating printable pdfs using only the standard is very cumbersome but thankfully pagedjs[1] exists, which makes this a breeze.

[1] https://github.com/pagedjs/pagedjs
Whether a private individual puts in the risk or a nation state it doesn't matter. Ultimately your point is we should enrich everybody which is a fair point. But underlying that sentiment is the fact there should be products and services worth buying for that much money otherwise you would just be increasing inflation.
Pretty sure in some jurisdictions your public code is automatically copyright you.

You may not care but the potential users will, to be protected from you chaging your mind in the future.
So why make the decision to work for a company with an open office? Why not apply to work for a remote-only company with a proper remote-only culture?
> I’m glad there’s finally some cases setting precedent for the GPL.

Given that France uses Civil law and not Common law, does precedent / case law actually matter? (IANAL.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Are you saying HDCP is a reason to keep HDMI? Because I think it would rather be a reason to nuke it from orbit.
How Regulations Fractured Apple's App Store
Porous concrete has been useless. It clogs up eventually and loss it's ability to transport water.

The groundwater disappearing is a problem if you build up ag/industry/development based on the groundwater availability and then lose that source of water with no economical alternative.
Naah, dude really didn't have a choice here. His two options were to be shown the door by Microsoft (where he worked) because he (inadvertently) wrote and released a piece of software that competed with an upcoming Windows feature... or he could sell them his app, which they would then functionally abandon, and he'd get enough money to buy a sweet 'Vette. There's an absurdity to that situation that says more about the Microsoft of the '90s than about anything this dude did.
Are the exact words of a language arbitrary or necessary? Essays
http://archive.today/95G3x
Yeah, it's her. This piece is linked from her blog at: https://sibilantfricative.wordpress.com/

First paragraph of the OP and I knew in my bones it was written by someone with a personality disorder. Since her death, her husband published his memoir in 2023. The serial cheating, open suicide ideation, unresolved childhood trauma and general toxicity to herself and others is completely consistent with the tone of the article.
Maybe they were using earth measurements? 3500 metered is getting pretty close to 11000 imperial feet.
It's not an artificially created choice. It's a market created choice. People won't pay for software, so the privacy-enabling options are put together by a few volunteers with no funding.

We are not talking about a lot of money in most cases. I usually compare it to coffee shops. People will pay $10 at a coffee shop for a latte and a snack, but they refuse to pay even $5 for a software app or game that they might use every day.
Our concern was not that our contribution would be GPL licensed, our concern was that we didn't have permission under GPL to distribute the contributions even if we were fine with them being GPL licensed. For details as to why we were concerned, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLPlugins - for any company that should be a clear signal to stay away.

An employee of a company saying it's fine in an email is also not issuing another licence. We did suggest they use another licence than GPL, which they eventually did after months of arguing with them that just saying "it's okay because we don't care" makes no material difference to us and that GPL does not unambiguously provide us permission to do what they want us to do.
When viewed from distance, progress we had in last 100 years is just magical, and sometimes there are local pockets of old technology. My father told me story about how he learned electronics from an old book where they started with a "crystal radio" from scratch (like finding a conducting region in some mica crystal) and he tried to buy some old diodes in local electronics shop and they were already obsolete and they had much better diodes already on stock. When I started, I had to buy some discrete transistors and amazed him with minimal quantity order of 20pcs, and I bought 100 just because it was still pennies. Recently I was amazed by ssd's being so cheap. We have A LOT of progress, but we have literal explosions of progress in adjacent areas that diminish that little slower progress, so people say "oh, yeah, the progress times are behind us now".
When I was about 10 or so I read the Erich von Däniken book Chariots of the Gods and was absolutely fascinated - eventually (and I don't know how) I came to understand that just because something is written in what seems to be a non-fiction book doesn't mean it's remotely true. Nearly 40 years on I can still remember my rage on realising this.
> 1. Unless you abuse Rust horribly, it is both memory-safe and fast

The fact that you don't mention computational complexity as the primary concern here tells me that there is something wrong with programming as of 2024. And not necessarily with Rust per se but maybe all the other languages.

Why should humans bother with anything else than choosing the right algorithm for the task? And possibly not even that. It should be "combine X with Y such that i get Z"

Rhetorical question. I know I open up for many counter arguments, so please choose wisely to keep the discussion alive.

And maybe it is just as simple that Rust is the answer to that question?
if groundwater lowering categorically caused a lower capacity for water that was impossible to reverse in every case, the earth would not have any aquifers at all. We can see this is untrue. It's therefore not likely there's no nuance.
If it were as simple as water removed can never return, then all ground would eventually become impermeable over time as periodic dry seasons incrementally do their work.

Some aquifers are as he says and others aren't. Some aquifers readily refill when it rains while others cannot, or cannot on human-relevant timescales.
A Recipe for Auth Cookies in the Decoupled Front End and Back End Architecture
"Ukraine doesn’t have air superiority,"

In a near peer conflict, we may not either. That is one part of the scenarios being thought through now. Some of that is already starting to trickle in as changes to things like the Marine Corps restructuring.
> Notice how there is a comment on that answer saying that it's wrong but that comment has only 38 upvotes whereas the answer has 56 upvotes.

A youtube comment won't get more upvotes than the video it refers to. It's just a matter of structure, of visibility.

It's nice that there is a comment. The author apparently also doesn't know he can (propose to) edit the existing answer. If he doesn't have enough reputation, it will have to be approved by another member (it will be in a moderating queue).

I can agree that it is frustrating sometimes to see an invalid answer being upvoted... Especially if you write the correct answer but the invalid one remains with the higher score just because it was there first, or because the voters are unable to tell it's incorrect and unable to tell your critique is correct. But that's not really related to SE.
It looks like it can be:

"a number of courts have issued rulings imposing a duty to preserve before litigation begins if a party knows of the existence of a potential claim and can identify relevant evidence."

https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/delete-at-...
Bailiffs are just one option [0]. But, as in France, you have to go through court to trigger any form of collection after non payment of a judgement.

0: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-to-do-if-a-d...
Why money is not the answer
Git is not ideal for a rebase workflow (such as when maintaining forks of software that you want to keep updated with upstream). Also I would love an option to "fold" commits into larger ones when viewing, as currently I have to choose between a clean history and small, self-contained commits. Bisecting and ending up on some refactoring commit with a twenty thousand line diff is a nightmare, but so is browsing the commit graph of 200 merge commits.

The underlying graph model seems to be underappreciated by upper layers of Git, which instead tries to pretend that history is linear. Lots of useful graph operations like longest path between vertices are missing. Rebasing an entire isolated sub-graph should be possible too.
What do you expect?

When I've sold something - am I expected to continue to maintain it out of the goodness of my own heart? It's not owned by me anymore. If the purchaser wants to maintain it and/or pay me to then that's up to them. It's Microsoft which abandoned it, not the individual.

Probably I can't even create a more-optimal product. Any contract worth the paper it is written on would have a clause which says 'you can't go out and recreate an identical product immediately'.

And yes, it's a luxury purchase, but it was an unexpected windfall. They had a job with Microsoft so were presumably making a decent wage that covered their regular expenses already. Why not buy something to make you happy?
Definitely. It'll take a decade or two and cost millions of dollars. Doesn't actually matter which side wins, GPL will no longer be a thing either way after that long. It's a spectacular play by Microsoft.
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Apache Pekko: Simplifying Concurrent Development with the Actor Model
The phenomenon that ultimately put down the Concorde is actually seen all the time everywhere in everyday life: Bleeding edge performance and tech is almost never economically practical, it's always the stuff well within the margins with room to spare that ultimately define the space.

See for other examples: The 500 Kei Shinkansen, literally every Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 CPU, sports and luxury cars, Boeing 747 "Queen of the Skies" Jumbo and Airbus A380, the Space Shuttle, the F-22 Raptor, and more.

All very impressive pieces of tech and their achievements shouldn't be discounted, but all ultimately an interesting footnote in history as significantly more inferior and practical pieces of tech dominate.
A noble sentiment but not one you can reasonably stick to.
They already started: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
Concorde is in the "faster horse" category. It's a fair bit faster then regular planes at substantially increased cost, and it couldn't do long distances (max range 4143 miles), kind of removing the speed advantage where it would have really helped, i.e. very long trips.

Suborbital spaceflight would be the ultimate: UK to Australia in an hour.
It was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM

Not 10 years, merely 6. I was mistaken and thought it was posted in 2015.
This is a fairer interpretation, thanks.

> be shown the door by Microsoft (where he worked) because he (inadvertently) wrote and released a piece of software that competed with an upcoming Windows feature

It's a shame though that the limitations in the shell integration were never worked out. This manifests itself in myself and probably countless others installing 7-zip as the first thing to install on any fresh windows installation simply because the built in zip support is sooo painfully slow.
Imagine how could the browser could be if they spent all the money that gets donated on the thing people actually donate because of, i.e the browser. It's nice they try to do other things but I don't need them to do that, there is EFF and other non-profits to handle most of the things the Mozilla foundation tries to do. Just stick to the browser and the mission.
> I find those type of blatant anti consumerism and anti competitive so frustrating.

Yes and the correct solution would for the government to start representing their citizens and ensure that their rights aren't being trampled over.
Should be doable using paged.js - https://gitlab.coko.foundation/pagedjs/pagedjs/-/issues/91
Show HN: Hacker News Poetry
I have been experimenting with procedural text generation. I made an application that uses the words on the front-page of the HN homepage to generate poems.

The poems are generated with Tracery, which lets you specify grammars for generating text. Poems are regenerated hourly.

In testing, some poems are delightful (i.e. "for all the radiant night" and "like a zip in the hypothesis", and "my compiler is mathematical", whereas others are... not-so-great.

I wrote about how it works on my blog [0]. I would love to know what rules I could use to improve this tool.

[0]: https://jamesg.blog/hn-poetry/
I will play a devil's advocate.

What about white space sensitive language like Python (that's one of things I hate about the language)?

Diff also gets easily confused, because its context window is pretty small.
Nope, or at the very least, much more complex than just that.

Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit corporation.
This corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.

In order for an organization to be eligible for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, it has to have a “charitable mission”. So it can't just be a “normal” business that simply retains all profits and keeps public financial records. On top of that, if it is determined that the organization is allocating a “significant portion” of its resources to economic activity that does not directly service the nonprofit mission, then it can lose its nonprofit status. Also, lastly, an organization with a 501(c)(3) exemption is literally not allowed to funnel resources into assets which cannot be scrutinized (like a wholly owned for profit subsidiary).

Long story short, literally the only money that Mozilla can use to support Firefox development is the money they get from its commercial ventures, and any profits these commercial ventures would theoretically be for the Mozilla Foundation to use to perform consumer advocacy, which is what they supposedly “really” do, at least as far as the IRS is concerned.

So it is very likely that some of the "stupid things nobody wants" have been initiatives from the foundation.

On top of that, the large majority of revenue of the Mozilla *Corporation* comes from Google as part of a search deal. This makes that income stream very precarious and uncertain.

So, a lot of the remaining things on the list of "stupid things nobody wants" have been the result of the corporation attempting to branch out and find other, more sustainable sources of revenue.

Not to say that all decisions made by the corporation have been to my liking either, but I figured I'd give this context.
Git's model of snapshot-only storage actually facilitates this quite well. All you need it a custom difftool and a custom mergetool which understands syntax. You also get graceful fallback to textual diffs when your cozy dev environment inevitably encounters the real world.
Artificial intelligence outperforms humans in creative thinking
It's not mentioned because it's neither relevant to this article or true at all? As far as courts are concerned right now, LLMs are simply tools and all existing rules and procedures around copyright still apply: a human is liable for it's use, only the work and skill of a human is copyrightable, etc.

Nor are LLMs novel in any way when it comes to copyright violation. Microsoft is already rich enough they could ask developer(s) to reproduce a GPL code base but slightly different and then make an argument of coincidental, parallel thought. Or just pinky promise "we totally didn't steal this." Heck, it'd just be easier to copy and paste without license headers and then just run some basic human-readable obfuscation.

Furthermore, AI still isn't even close to being able to pull this off for even remotely complex projects. The context sizes are too small, the models aren't sophisticated enough, etc. They save time as an assistant, but novel output is extremely finicky and prone to errors. Getting a model that can be trusted to do what you're saying would be approaching AGI, in which case the economic ramifications are far more concerning than those on OSS.

Finally, how exactly would this "disassemble" OSS? The GPL has been violated for forever, especially behind closed doors. If this would kill it, the GPL is already dead and capitalism killed it. After all, if Microsoft - a company with a revenue stream larger than countries - decides to steal from virtually any OSS projext and the developers - a gaggle of volunteers with few liquid assets - try to take them to court, they're about to engage in a battle of attrition with legal fees. The legal system notoriously favors the rich, which is a far greater threat.
Not forgetting the Apollo program.
Wearing a loose white shirt is probably on purpose. Will make easier to the other members of the team to spot him in case of trouble and pull him out of the water. Also could divert a possible attack making easier to detach the snake head.

Anacondas are famously unpredictable and got upset easily. Swimming with them is not a move driven by wisdom. My bet is that "avoiding an attack because I know how to handle it" is not so much the main objective here as: "in case of attack, film and rescue"
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This thoughtful response here is in the spirit of forwardly affording you the benefit of the doubt that you yourself are not a cultist.

>> Show even the slightest level of skepticism

What is it, exactly, you want me to be skeptical about?

That they have a multi-layered self-containing plasma?

That the plasma in the Safire type 2 chamber is self-containing and does not require external magnets like a Tokomak reactor?

That in their plasma chamber fusion is occurring and heavier elements are forming?

The Safire team has been, for close to a decade now, forthcoming and transparent about their guesses, about what they are finding, how often they are finding it, what they think they know, what they are confident they know, so on and so on.

To be clear, the Safire type chamber containing this plasma, has ultimately one and only one at-the-crux differentiating feature, external magnets are not required like Tokomak. The Safire team does not claim to have "invented" the concept of a plasma chamber. Hot plasma does cause fusion to occur, this is not special nor novel (and Safire team did not "invent" nor advent this either). In a Safire plasma chamber the plasma is self-containing, that's the one differentiating thing, that's it.

About 10 years ago members of the Safire team (as it is now named) shared their findings in writings. In addition to their writings they shared several hours of raw video footage of plasma regimes they had in the lab of a Safire type 1 plasma chamber.

I have watched them, albeit remotely, over the years steadily progress from their experimental chambers, to their type 1 plasma chamber, to their type 2 plasma chamber. That plasma in their approach to a plasma chamber is self-containing has never seemed to be in dispute. Hell, I could probably get one of these running in my own industrial garage if I tried to, and I wouldn't be the first one to do this.

People I personally know have met these folks face to face at various conferences. What these people I personally told me was that these plasma tinkerers were no less mild-mannered, candid, forthcoming, willing to listen, and willing to answer than they present themselves online. What I and many others have seen out of them is consistency.

If you think there is some specific detail that is highly questionable, please point out to me what you think it is. I am more than willing to carefully consider what you have to share and disconfirm what seems to be reasonably true. If you have some new information to bring forth, please do.

The saying "old science dies hard" does come to mind here.

Please help me embody the skepticism you are asking of me, you can do this successfully by addressing the very specific details you are concerned about and also by not failing to make a sincere attempt to answer the questions that have been presented to you in this response.
I know there's more to it; I'm just being overly cynical this Monday morning.
I just posted this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589402

tl;dr, whatever the foundation gets, it can't legally spend on the browser.
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