skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, and yes it is, but technically we have all the pieces since decades, so while it would be a revolution it's not really something new to be created with uncertain results...

The real revolution is a paradigm shift form the actual development focused on big of IT interests toward a classic desktop centered development, the needed ground is there and battle tested, the rest is "just" to be done on scale. A simple example: we have emails, almost any human on the planet have one, at least between those who use computers in a way or another. Today for 99% mail == webmail, something offered by some third party. We have some desktop MUAs but they are stuck in the '90s at best. However we have for instance OfflineIMAP, notmuch, storage normally big enough, so all we need to have emails on our iron is a MUAs friendly enough for end users, based on notmuch/mu like nomuch-emacs, mu4e, neomutt with notmuch backend and so on, that offer IMAP sync built in so and end user have only to enter relevant credentials and wait for the initial download time. The rest follow naturally.

Similarly you buy an IoT sensor? Your homeserver speak MQTT, CoIoT etc all you need is connecting to the sensor via LAN or to the AP offered by the sensor and then configure your WLAN. You see the sensor pops up in HA or something similar, that's is. No need of a third party "cloud". And so on.

The homeserver is simply a machine on 24/7/365 like most home "router", witch are actually embedded appliance, we only need them more powerful and open to be used by the end user, not only by the ISP. This "center point" offer "sync/services" to all families devices, that's is. The "cloud" became a simple backup/mirror of the homeserver for redundancy, availability, backup.
I'm open sourcing a ChatGPT for Teams alternative
No, Batman is an ostinative "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na". Completely different from the melodic "na-na na-na na-na".
Ars Technica has to be the most careless tech news outlet and I stopped reading them long ago because of how much they just get factually wrong because of woefully inexperienced writers and to grab attention.

Their first sentence is "Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is out of luck for the foreseeable future, at least when it comes to an HDMI connection" but that's plainly not true. Hardware with closed source drivers, such as the standard nvidia ones do support those because they don't have this legal limitation. Then they even end it with that possibility of closed source AMD and didn't bother even asking themselves if anyone else has done this.
I am pretty sure that the term being a trademark doesnt stop me from mentioning it when describing compatibility. Do you think apple could sue me if i release a program and say "This software is compatible with macOS"? As long as I am not impersonating them, using the Logo etc., they probably can not stop me.
Dumb tangential question

When you guys quote salaries in monthly figures.. Is the hourly rate fluctuating month to month based on the number of weekends and holidays? Or it vis a vis some standard amount of work days?
How difficult can it be?
https://www.financialcalendar.com/data/holidays/how-difficul...
This is a deep and fascinating phenomenon

Thanks for posting because I didn't have a name for this
and previously called it "hidden dissent" or "hidden assent".

I've encountered it in research where it's very hard to account for
expressed opinions gathered anonymously compared to the supposed
normative public views. There's always the worry that you've somehow
got a selection bias but can't seem to get a representative sample.

For example - everybody hates security measures (like CCTV) and thinks
they are unnecessary, even the people who seemingly benefit from them
the most... even those people who install or provide it!! But they
wrongly think that everybody else thinks the opposite.

A few years ago I theorised it may be behind weird things like how we
think "everybody is on Facebook" - because everybody thinks "everybody
else is on Facebook", but really most people are at best ambivalent
about Facebook and would happily not be on it.
Locking in general yes, the specific implementation of locks on the DP Plug are annoying.
I see it as the usual USA saying "russia/china/iran/nk bad!"

I'm not aware of any evidence ever being shown about this specific issue.
Supersapiens terminates all memberships amid 'strategic restructuring'
Microwave ovens, strong magnets (depending on the medium), shredders, blast furnaces, the hydraulic press from that YouTube channel, firing it into the sun...
There's more funny on that blog. I particularly liked:

https://www.theolognion.com/p/dev-builds-perfect-note-taking...

Edit: oh, and how about this one:

https://www.theolognion.com/p/ai-solves-all-political-econom...
In order to improve and clarify current agreements, supplemental contracts may be essential. This article will discuss the importance of addenda and how they might clarify information, change conditions, or deal with unanticipated events.
> Aren't we able to create and use open standards?

In theory, sure. In practice you'll have to construct a financially sustainable organization that is able to motivate all interested parties to chip in and is also able to certify the implementation and at the same time also doesn't fall victim to internal corruption (e.g. high C-level compensation making it unsustainable). I think there are few-to-no precedents for that in the open source space in general, and even less when it comes to standards body organizations for maintaining a standard at that level of complexity.

In most domains proprietary specifications form the backbone of everything. A lot of governments refer to ISO standards, which by default are not open access.
I assume it's clangd? It can be used from vim, vscode, ... etc as well and get a uniform IDE diagnostic experience across text editors.
The Elm people themselves worked with the impure browser api all the time. They just don't want me to do it. So it's not even a foolish consistency but just base gatekeeping. Turns me right off.

If you want to divide into two camps how 0.19 was received I'd say it's people who were maintaining a substantial Elm project on the one side and people who weren't on the other. Maybe if you're carrying a torch don't drop it on the ecosystem.
probably not a problem for them because the inks are cheap to produce.
Stick to the company’s scope too. If your business isn’t selling cloud infrastructure, use an off the shelf cloud provider. Especially don’t use k8s if you’re already paying for a cloud provider.
That's why it's so inefficient!
> Simply classify data into buckets for each value of each variable such that each unique combination of buckets for every variable contains at least N items for a suitably large number of N.

What are the variables and what is the value of N when you're talking about "freeform text contracts containing PII"?
My dad frequents a very niche forum. A couple thousand users, many posts made daily, I'd guess a 80/20 split between long-timers/newcomers asking a question about that niche.

Biggest reason they seem to be struggling? The person who set up the PHPBB forum 15+ years ago has long since moved on and there's very few left within that community who know what do if things don't work. One day it'll die/get hacked/server disappears and that'll be it for them.
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman
maxOS hasn't supported floating point 3D textures for a long time. Perhaps they still don't.
to drink and talk about things only billionaire talk about, without the fear that it'll get leaked.

basically the same as the rest of us, but with a weirder threat model.
Exactly. I'm not a rich man, I make about 50k SEK /month. But I work when I want, where I want, travel the world with my dog, no obligations on office hours, dress code, and I realistically work 20-30 hour weeks.

I'm a senior consultant at a large well established partly state owned european telco. Life isn't about work, it's about living.
Limiting choice and freedom is never a good answer to an issue.
> Given person-specific field-structured data

That's not what this data is and that's broadly not what LLMs are trained on.
It has a flag implication because jpeg-xl never came without being hidden behind a flag. Nothing was taken away from ordinary users at any point in time.

And I suppose the Chrome folks have the telemetry to know how many people set that damn flag.
Luckily for now, the Germans, for all their flaws, still have a much better understanding of the concept of privacy than the Dutch, and are pushing back as they can. Being a bit more historically conscious will do that to you, I guess.

And it's not like there haven't been repeated offenses of privacy abuse in the Netherlands the past few years.. (With little to no repercussion whatsoever..) The general response of the average (uninformed) citizen is that they have nothing to hide, so they don't care. And it is well know that abuses only happen in other, less developed countries, with said countries starting at the southern, eastern, and "western" boarders. So, as long as they inconvenience someone else's life, all is well.

As the poem goes:

First they came...
No we should move our birthday celebration up by 6 hours every year. But that would be only relevant if we were celebrating at the exact hour of our birth.
Actually there is. But let us not go there.
> The biggest challenge for Wayland for me was I want to be able to record my screen on obs as easily as I can on x11.

We invested a lot of effort in Plasma6 to make screen recording on Wayland as smooth as possible. With OBS (and our native screenshot/recording tool Spectacle) it just "works".

We also developed a mechanism to make screen recording/sharing work for old XWayland clients (to have things like screen sharing work from i.e. the Electron Discord app)
Happy Little Monoliths
You mean the guys the company laid off last week?
Where are you working now?
Yes, not a software bug but kind of on point https://imgur.com/a/xMKFn3e
Not necessarily lost, but certainly diluted by the content produced later. The lack of AI or even sophisticated computing creates a further problem in keeping that content indexed in ways that preserve its relevance and allow it to be surfaced.

Another consideration is how suppressed previous knowledge was during the time the AI ruled over humans and how much was really lost during the Butlerian Jihad.

I'm not sure the Dune universe is fully elaborated from our days, but I would assume that every early human colony established by sleeper ships or embryo carriers would have a curated subset of human culture selected for maximising colony success. With that kind of redundancy, it'd be difficult to completely eradicate such information.
Fantastic news, I'm sure this will turn out to be a good decision.
This one is even better:

"Company accidentally increased dev productivity 3x by laying off 20% of middle management"

https://www.theolognion.com/p/company-accidentally-increased...
Electric bike injuries, hospitalizations increased significantly in recent years
and AT&T was reason Nokia reduced headcount last month.
Eh in sweden I got asked to do unpaid overtime and the CTO refused to write me a recommendation letter since I had refused to do the (completely illegal) unpaid overtime.

They were hiring mostly young immigrants because they are more pliable to this sort of things.
How to animate objects with Tailwind CSS and Alpinejs intersection observer
People are too obsessed with tech stacks and chasing the best framework they forget the thing they're actually trying to build.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI, wants it to go nonprofit again
XeDN on Tigris
Nokia quietly fired big chunk of their China workforce over last few years.
Write unit tests to make sure your refactoring work.

It better, change job to do something more interesting
For my experience, this article is one of the scenes in my personal version of This is Spinal Tap.

Three times I’ve been involved in a Kubernetes (or competitor) migration where the plot gets lost along the way. At my current company we have canceled the product roadmap to focus on year three of the migration and we likely have at least another year to go.

No one can tell me why our current ECS based deployments are a problem. No one bothered to train people on appropriate uses of Kafka before double abstracting it into a framework.

But hey, the board was promised a cost savings and globally available product from this effort so at least the executive that promised it all has two more years to figure out how to make good on it.

Best of all is we have a new CTO and he has openly questioned why we don’t just use Kubernetes itself instead of the couple of Hashicorp products we’ve settled on. Maybe I’ll get to do this a fourth time once we finish the current migration.
meaning that in practice we would have to fundamentally tweak how capitalism (maybe?) works somehow

in the mean time keep paying taxes, rent, subscription, and utility bills.

i'm not even sure it's capitalism that needs to get modified? maybe it's something about how private/public property works that is cleary off the mark and needs updates?

I'd argue that in the internet specifically, open sourced implementations of the protocols are the backbone of everything not closed proprietary specs; aren't most internet specifications open?
Well, that's kinda the point of the point of the joke. There are many people out there more focused on the technology they are using rather than being focused the product they are making. Being focused on the product implies that yes you know your scope, and don't over-engineer it too soon.

The joke concentrates on Kubernetes (if I wanted to be kind, it's probably because a joke is better with an actual examples, but I actually think it's because the author is in that engineering world, and doesn't know the other places where the same applies), but you could do the same with server-side rendering, with AI, with $modernFrontendLib, $modernLanguage
This sounds so trivial and common sense but is more often violated than not.
"Paul did not like the choices he had (understandable) but can't say he was clearly a hero or an anti-hero."

He became the godlike imperator and inquisitors in his name burned people for questioning his new religion. So yeah, the picture is mixed as Paul was not portrayed as someone who wanted this. But he still did it.

There was a quote in the book about the holocaust and how tiny the numbers were, compared to what Paul was responsible for. And speaking of, Hitler was also not proud of massacring children and women, but he thought this was something that needed to be done.

The difference is of course, that in Dune, there was the plot of the fixed fate and Pauls ability to clearly see the future to a certain point and him not really being able to change anything about it.

(But Hitler also thought he was choosen by god/fate)
ChatGPT can do it very well if you know how to prompt
> The first forums did branch, like usenet. Some software I Used in the late 90s would even sync with a usenet group in some fashion (I never used it)

True, but they didn't have the concept of up/down voting, so readers were never actively involved. Engagement doesn't happen unless the users have a very low effort way of participating.
Machine learning-powered traffic processing in commodity hardware with eBPF
La Bougie Du Sapeur
Since we know is a central thing on which many users wish to change it, the option is also right there in the first page when you open System Settings
> I figured just sort of an obvious point that the Arabic wouldn't have lasted...

Why?
Some of these hit very close to home...
I hear paperclips are new great thing to follow. Have you considered creating paperclips? Just order some metal wire then Cut an 8-10″ piece. Use pliers to bend in desired shape.
For that you'd want an efficient hash update, I think
i'm pretty sure apple would and could sue you if you do that.

but it really depends on how much attention you get

gotta keep an eye on the nintendo emulator lawsuit.... the war on general purpose computation carries on
> I wish it was a three-finger swipe

It's not configurable yet in 6.0, but we do plan to add configurability for touchpad gestures
Thanks, that motivated me to add their rss ( https://www.theolognion.com/feed so people can have 2 clicks less to do)
> An awesome bash one-liner sidekick

Ah running scripts with no idea what they do… what could go wrong? :D
In .NET there is an AddYears function that deals with all of this, and even gives you Feb 29 if the date is valid, otherwise Feb 28: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime...
thats an interesting perspective. I am personally much in favour of reducing unnecessary interdependence in society, specifically to big corps: google can really screw me up just because they provide an email service for me. questions that come to mind though:

- why would someone do that? its not hard, it can be made easier, but what would be the tangible, low-level gain for people to do that? I can think of examples like safe storage of photos and documents (my old dad already does that, he buys hard disks and stores stuff), easy and safe sharing of stuff in the home (airdrop does this tbh), and secure smart home controls. but I can't generalise the pattern to properly understand the underlying benefit here.

- in communications, there is an issue of trust. like how can I trust email coming form a new personal server, to not spam or scam me? I think that can be solved separately though, just can't formulate the solution clearly in my mind atm.
Tangentially related: it now takes our data eng team 6 months to mirror some tables (into databricks) due to data vault modelling... presumably to handle schema changes. And then at the end of it everything is riddled with duplicates and missing data because they don't know what they're doing. But none of the source-systems can do schema evolution anyway, so we know the schemas would never change.

I think as an industry we should stop warning juniors of 'premature optimisation' (kids aren't even choosing the right data-structures/algos/architectures and are getting terrible perf), and instead warn them away from premature scalability and premature 'flexibility'.
Selling expensive intangibles that are hard to value/with an effect that is difficult to attribute is just a tough proposition.
Yeah, when you have inept people.

Hackernews however is a frounder, frontend scene first site. So I'd imagine that is what normal feels like to most of you.
Today is the start of the new tax year here in South Africa and my brother wanted to draw the last years worth of transactions from a local financial institution to be able declare his tax.

Setting the date range from 2023-03-01 to 2024-02-29 was not permitted as it says the date range must be within 12 months. Of course a general limit of 12 months is a bit of a WTF too.
Care to elaborate on the finetune? It's surprisingly very hard to come across a useful finetuning examples.
Blast mainnet launch sparks anticipation in Ethereum’s Layer 2 ecosystem.
Controversy arises over Blast’s bridge and incentive model framing.
Ethereum Layer 2 network, Blast, celebrated the launch of its mainnet on Thursday, marking a milestone in its journey. The platform, boasting assets including approximately 469,000 ETH, 77.3 million USDC, 67.1 million USDT, 148,000 stETH, and 24.7 million DAI, is now allowing users to withdraw their funds, according to data from a Dune Analytics dashboard.
They did get deals with most websites where AI will be used/mine content fro (e.g. stackoverflow), while some of those same website made it public that they will work against (e.g. block crawlers from) "open"AI.
We don't speak the same language... I have no idea what point you are trying to make. Rephrase it in a clear way, please.
Right wing or not, it's hard not to like the "long now" behaviour which emerges when people are prepared to do it. This same year, we added a note to John Cage's organ
European banks want to torpedo the digital euro
Billions in currency won't give you one single second of life more.
> we have canceled the product roadmap to focus on year three of the migration

This is the most surreal thing I've read on here. You went from a company that delivers some product, to a company that delivers a migration.

You sure your company is not the one in the OP? ;)
I could not find a link from where I could access the said archive.
My parents had the same life. They worked for the government.

One thing I realized is that if you don't work hard and generate wealth, your next generation of family won't enjoy the life that you had, as wealth compounds really quickly and not accumulating makes generations start from scratch.

If that is not your life goal—creating a family, looking after generations, etc.—then you are doing the right thing.

It is a cultural thing.
At $dayjob we are in the middle of such a migration, started 2 years ago and still less than 30% complete.
Now, the guys that were most vocals about "we must go Kubernetes, kill the Monolith" etc are already playing with LLMs, and forgot about Kubernetes.

Some people just love proves of concept and the shiny next thing. I guess that role is useful, in its own way.
I checked and found this info from the Wi-Fi Alliance [0]:

> Select brands and logos are offered license free and intended to be used widely throughout the Wi-Fi ecosystem by Wi-Fi Alliance members, non-members, industry partners, media, and analysts to describe products, technology, network deployments, and operating system support.

It sounds to me like anyone could use the trademark "Wi-Fi", since it's listed in the freely available ones.

[0] https://www.wi-fi.org/who-we-are/our-brands
This is an addition to the LFS documentation, not a new version.
It is clearly stated in the first paragraph.
Hustle culture is absolute poison.

I'm absolutely unsurprised people are working themselves into ill health when 'gurus' are telling people "by all means work 7 hours a day, but the guy next to you is working 22 - who do you think will succeed..?!" We've normalised this to a point people fill their days with busywork just to feel like they're achieving. It sucks.

I say this from experience. But I much prefer life with 7 and a bit hours of solid sleep, exercise, making time for a social life, and actually walking away from my desk when I'm just pushing around the cursor.
This is true, but it is also true, that some concepts cannot be taught well in languages, that do not support them well and will get the wrong message to the learner.

Many learn, that recursion is something dangerous for example, because their learning vehicle language has no good implementation for it. Another example is memory allocation. You wouldn't teach that in Python probably. Or a concept like ownership, which would be good to teach in Rust, where the language has that concept explicitly and visibly built into it.
I realise last year I havent used amazon for years.

Its just shit. Its like dumpster diving, need to look out for fakes, deep search to skip the 'recommended' products.

Its incredible hustle now.

I dont know if amazon turned shit or I have more money then time to be dealing with it.
And it's still enough to include Jeanne Calment's supposed age.
adhesive knitting > baroque scaffolding
Wow. since when browsers quit rendering RSS?!?!

also, their homepage does not work well. i can read all the articles but i can't dismiss their "gimme your email" homepage popup. So i guess i'm not adding this site to my list of blogs i read often.