skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i was talking to a friend about this the other day, it makes working with other people infuriating, doubly so if you work in the microsoft .net world.

people don't just avoid but they actively oppose thinking for themselves. if it isn't a "principle" or a "rule" then it's wrong, and if there isn't a popular blog post granting you permission to do something, it's probably a bad idea.

you can take an idea, walk them though it, lay out the pros and cons, explain how it helps to solve a problem, even create a working prototype and show it to them, and the entire microsoft-brained team will watch it work then start groaning "hmmmmm, ehhhhhhhh, uhhhhhhh" in unison before deciding that they'd rather not solve the problem at all than do something "scary".
>I have never understood why things like this don't use some sort of sliding scale, rather than absolute dividing line.

Try translating your idea of a sliding scale into a piece of legislation which matches your intention.
End the Phone-Based Childhood Now
https://nango.dev is another open-source option (disclosure: I am one of the founders).

We have heard the opposite argument for AI agents:
The people we spoke with want control over what the AI agents can do in the external systems. With direct API access and non-deterministic behavior, how do you guarantee it doesn't swap the POST /contacts with DELETE /contacts?

Integration platforms that abstract the API provide a safety net for this, and auditability.
Yes Spotify UI/UX is absolute garbage. It's not even possible to simply view a list of all songs by an artist. Also I had to turn off autoplay because the recommendation engine wouldn't stop autoplaying the same song.
NASA's JWT confirms humanity got something 'seriously wrong' about universe
Redis.io no longer mentions open source.

They have still not changed meta description on their page. It still says it is open source ^^

view-source:https://redis.io/
One point this article misses is the size of the cities. Until mid-1800 cities were at most 1-1.5 km long, usually just 2-3 streets. Just look at old maps of Manchester. The only exceptions were the capitals like London, which were an order of magnitude more populous, but still only 2-5 times bigger in distance.

The primary means of transportation was not horse, but feet. You could walk to a destination on the other side of an average city of those times in 15 minutes, so a bike wouldn't bring big gains in time.

Only in 2nd half of 19th century, cities began growing, and transportation became a problem.
Is it really bait and switch if almost zero users are affected by the change? (except philosophically)
I thought Drawmij's Instant Death was a parody spell and not actually real. I still remember that being in one of the Outrages from the Mages spells in Dragon magazine. [1]

[1] https://www.greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Drawmij#Trivia
Well, if you've grown tired of this debate, maybe I shouldn't reply, but maybe someone else wants to have it: Sure, it's not OSI-OSS, but what does that mean for the world, in practical terms?

OSI-defined OSS means "comes with no restrictions, except maybe redistribution", whereas this license adds another restriction (you can't run the software as a service without offering the source, as I understand it). How does this restriction affect us?

It surely can't be that OSS as defined by the OSI is the only good thing, and anything else is horrible, it has to be a continuum. Why is this license so bad, when it only affects AWS? How are my liberties being restricted?

It doesn't really answer anything to say "it's not open source", because that just implies that we already agree on why that's bad.
For me the Android mobile app is sometimes skipping songs or not switching to the next one when swiping or tapping the next icon. Often recognizing another device as playing doesn't work. If it recognizes it then editing the song queue doesn't work more often than not (especially removing songs from the queue). I hate it. It is so bad, I'd be ashamed having so many users, so much money but such an bad app.
For those unaware, spotify is not a podcast player. Most podcasters get no money from spotify. Podcasts are a wild ecosystem, spotify is a business that feeds of that. Some audio productions are labeled spotify exclusive podcasts. Well, they are not podcasts. They are, like audible, audio productions on a single platform.

Fun fact, AFAICT the fastest growing major podcast platform is re-uploads of podcasts to youtube. Which makes no sense on most mobile platforms, but at least the visibility of entries to the public will be high.
https://archive.is/ZBCJl
I think the post that originated all this fuss was because something rimraffed the user's whole root volume. IIRC a variable that wasn't set so it nuked root instead of a specific dir.
Is that similar to Red Hats legal counsel?
By "series" do you mean "parallel"?

Note that Tesla famously used a 6-series/74-parallel configuration in the Model S's battery pack: https://circuitdigest.com/article/tesla-model-s-battery-syst...

Each pack only had a single BMS connection for every clump of 74 cells! Presumably they only got away with doing this by doing extensive binning/characterization of the cells before building them into packs.
This is very cool. Is there a version for browsers?
Ask HN: Is decentralized historical data preservation possible?
People and states are known for burning books and doctoring records. But those are obviously essential for conducting any kind of historical research, whether in academic, judicial, or other contexts. I am not even referring to secret government communications but rather to public and seemingly banal stuff like old newspapers.

The hope with digitization was that it would preserve all of these artifacts. However, AI approaches the point where imagery and textual data could be doctored on a large scale for pennies, and if data is stored only in a few places controlled by the same entities, altering it becomes trivial. If now I can obtain a scan of an old newspaper from a state library website and trust that it is authentic (because who has the time to professionally photoshop it?), soon there will be no way to be sure since one ill intended person with access could mix things up.

Decentralization seems like a modern solution to this problem, but I wonder if it is sustainable. To run some numbers, if we take the US as an example and just consider the Library of Congress, we would need to distribute 21 petabytes between 2,000-3,000 people with 10TB drives. Therefore, something like this seems to be feasible with a couple of thousand volunteers and $1-2 million for hard drives to start ($50-100 per TB), and then $100-200k per year (assuming a 10-year lifespan of a hard drive). But that's only one archive and quite a lot of people to organize.

To me, it seems that something like this is essential to preserve some form of trust in historical truth. And now is the time to act because otherwise, soon there will always be a second thought that what we are looking at is not real.

- Is there a smart way to solve this problem more easily and cheaply?
- Or am I crazy and we should not be worried about it?
KeyDB? :)
How Radicle Works Under the Hood
What’s the easiest test available to the man on the street?
They used to have simpler UI which supported default key bindings etc but then kept forcing redesigns which made the UI worse and removed things like ^F search. I switched to Apple Music few iterations ago. It's not as good as the old Spotify UI but still leagues ahead the current one.

I wish Spotify/Deezer/Apple had an SDK like libspotify used to be so that one could just write a simpler & faster client.
Anyone can recommend an IP KVM to connect to DOS machines that have 1 VGA signal, 1 component video signal (this is a secondary video signal from an old camera on this machine), DIN keyboard connector and RS232 mouse? So far PiKVM looks like the best candidate.
It's salami bait and switch.
The UK's National Health Service advises to eat no more than 70g a day (on average, I assume) to reduce the risks of bowel cancer. So 500g daily seems quite high.
Also - as a side note - everyone in this comment thread kvetching about your tool’s price clearly doesn’t understand:

1) the value a good EE design brings to an organization, or

2) the amount of money selling electronics is worth to a company

You have to feed yourselves and your employees, and all the companies who really need this tool are ones that have no problem spending 10k per year to make their engineers more effective. (Thinking of Lockheed Martin here as they’re one of your flagship customers.)

The average Kicad hobbiest wants this, but doesn’t need it. At least, not in the same way someone with a boss, a program manager, a deadline, and four projects to support does.
Will no one think of Amazon's profit margins?

We need new licenses that let developers get more of the pie because no one is benefiting from the GPL in the age of cloud computing. Who cares that Linux is open source when I'm locked in aws and can never leave? What does it matter to users when their data is stolen to train Ai models and they don't even know what's in it?
Space is mostly vacuum, the sea is mostly water and wind, with some dangerous shoals/rocks thrown in for good measure.

Sailing from Britain to Australia on a wooden ship took approximately the same time as flying from the Earth to Mars. I bet that the sailors met a lot more dangerous weather conditions on the way to Australia than the spacecraft on their way to Mars.

"Hull losses" due to cosmic dust are basically zero, the only recorded instances are on low Earth orbit due to space debris.

"Hull losses" due to storms or navigational mistakes were absolutely normal during the Age of Exploration, and long after.
That‘s why I keep some physical gold.
Good. Now jail 'em for 10 years.
Yikes, that's still pretty stupid though, I'd check if after variable expansion I am getting `rm -rf /`.

Thanks for context. After all these years, the Linux community is as fringe as always, sadly.
That’s a cope. It comes from the same factory. It’s just small mass produced plastic, it’s not exactly complicated.
MIT allows for Microsoft's "our very slightly internally changed version does behave slightly differently enough so the two can't interoperate" shenanigans, though.
> you're completely free to run firefox from 5 years ago

> Firefox 53 from 2017

not the same. I was talking about post-quantum Firefox releases, which added the mentioned dependencies on Mozilla's SSL certificate.

(The grandparent's comment was also about post-quantum, obviously)
It’s bait and switch to community developers who contributed free labor to a for profit company for what is now either a fork or a more restrictive license
> We need new licenses that let developers get more of the pie because no one is benefiting from the GPL in the age of cloud computing.

Try the AGPL.
At this point C# little to nothing common with Java and builds a perfectly runnable binaries. C# is extremely capable and strong and arguably is one of the best dev platforms there is.

(On the other hand, call me an old fart, but my trust in Microsoft has been completely eroded in early millennium and did not came back.)
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At least for a while, there will still be humans needed to manufacture those drones.
A license for the internet of the 90s, not the one we have today.
> As far as I understand it they want to preserve "open sourceness" for self hosted projects - ie. if you run redis in your docker/vm/k8s, you're fine. But if mega corp clouds are offering managed service, they need to give back a cut from premium they're charging end users.

I like it and I think this is how open source should work to thrive.
Who will build the drones? Who will provide the raw materials?
I actually like the Spotify app.

For things I am (and maybe most normal users?) interested in, it works really nice: choose a song, listen to it, listen to the bands other songs, listen to their "radio" with similar songs, find new interesting bands, repeat.
> As some of you have noticed, GPS jamming is highly correlated with conflict zones.

It might be sampling bias. More military aviation with erratic movement and also planes turning off and on their transmitters.

To measure GPS jamming, you should measure from a fixed object. Trying to do that with planes is unnecessary hard.
Debian too: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915537#15
Take a look at the TI BQ79616-Q1, which has been used in some Tesla packs: https://www.ti.com/product/BQ79616-Q1

Yes, it's programmable. Even has eight GPIO pins. It would be "field programmable" in the sense that if you scraped the conformal coating off the pogo pin pads you could reflash it... which you probably don't want to do.

Despite what the article says, a BMS doesn't actually do many of the things you mention. It balances cells, monitors temps, and sets fault flags if something's wrong. A BMS chip does not charge the battery, it doesn't determine max voltage, (the charger does that) and it can't isolate a bad cell. (Because they're all welded together! Pack current doesn't actually pass through the BMS-- it only has thin balancing wires to each cell which can't handle much current.)
Anybody know how the visualisation was done?
Good. I trust people who lie about their education and exceed the expected ability of a BA, vs. the huge amounts of barely articulate and completely disinterested CS graduates entering the workforce as of late
Resource hog as well
What about on the countryside? Villagers traveled to church and other villages regularly. That can easily take a couple of hours by foot – and by horse, at a normal pace – but would go significantly faster on bicycle.

I know there are reasons they didn't have bicycles, but I don't think "going by feet is equally good" is one of those reasons.
Plus, there were no sidewalks to begin with, the road in my grandma's village close to the Carpathians Mountains still hasn't got one (they've only paved over what it used to be the village road about 10 years ago).

And people tend to forget rain and hence mud when it comes to the state of pre-modern roads, there's no way one could have ridden a bicycle through a lot of mud and rain puddles. Being high up there in a horse-driven coach meant that you were also avoiding all that mud hassle.
Buy this parrot YouTube Premium! I don't know the exact species of parrot this is, but if it has a lifespan of 25 years, a 1 minute ad is like a 4 minute ad for them. Just imagine sitting through that!
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> community and developers will move to.

I have never seen a fork last long enough.
Hardly anyone would use a horse for this. The tavern is within walking/staggering distance of all the houses.
This isn't particular to Microsoft. The current profusion of reaching attempts to tack AI onto everything following the popularity of LLM-based products fits the familiar arc of any hyped next big thing in tech.

I encourage people to regularly browse HN stories and comments from N years ago to force yourself to confront the cultural obsessions of yesteryear that have faded from memory.
I would not say much more, perhaps a little more. and that was really only the early ones. after the 70's she was more stylized. until the 90's version featured in the article.

The article actually confused me because I was sure that Columbia pictures had been using illuminating Columbia since.. well a lot longer than 1993.

And I was sort of right, it was a series of similar women in similar poses since 1928.

I did find this handy collection of logos however, which was fun to go through.

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Columbia_Pictures/Other
For me the big signal is when there are tons of years-old quality of life feature requests that are unaddressed, like blocking podcasts from your podcast feed (listen to one startup podcast and it'll constantly put more of those automatically playing), or even a less awful high contrast dark mode (or even a light mode).

My biggest bugbear is how the web app is just as atrocious. If you leave it open too long without playing something, it just won't play the next song you select (just keeps loading forever) until you reload the page. That and the general latency in UI responsiveness (Is this a server issue because I'm in Africa?)

For a company with so many engineers, designers, etc, they really miss enough low hanging fruit that they turn into papercuts. All of what I've mentioned have been issues for years.

All that being said, I haven't moved off. I still like the Discover Weekly list and the algo is pretty well tuned to my likes so I can't be bothered to train YT Music/Apple Music/whatever to find me new stuff.
Apple Music and Tidal are the only two with high-res audio.

And since they often encode from the 24-bit studio masters you will get better audio quality than ripping from CDs yourself and likely from most “pay as you go” sites.
More Open Source projects should adopt SSPL, or experiment with LLama 2 style limitations on the size of companies which may use the work for free (for example, Open Source but not if you're a multi-billion cloud megacorp). When individual developers contribute back, they weren't doing it to enable AWS to freeload.

AWS of course is the single biggest reason why projects are flocking to more restrictive licenses. The right thing to do for AWS would have been to respect the work of the original authors (/company) and throw their weight behind an offering supported by the original developers. Instead, AWS builds a competing product when they see an OSS product succeeding. Third party vendors stand no chance after that due to the tighter integration and marketing muscle.

Not to mention, Amazon and AWS give so little back to Open Source despite being a big (the biggest?) beneficiary. Google, Microsoft and even Oracle do more for Open Source than Amazon.
MariaDB called and said, "I'm still here" ;)
No such requirement if you get it from F-Droid, which you should.
A Design Program That Uses Code
Is there a design program alternative to Photoshop that uses code instead of a visual UI?

Eg put this jpg at coordinates 30,40 make it greyscale 80% and put a 5mm blue border.

Center text over it it font Times New Roman text "Hello"

something like:

image1
file[../text.jpg]
position(30,40)
grayscale(80%)

text(Hello World)
font(Times New Roman)
center[image1]

difference
rectangle
size[20,30]
position(100, 150)
rectangle
size[20,30]
position(120, 160)

image2
file[smile.png]
crop[circle]
DLRover makes the distributed training of large AI models easy, stable, fast and green

DLRover can restore the training when the process fails without stopping the training job.

In addition to fault tolerance, DLRover provides the flash checkpoint to save/load checkpoint in seconds.

I've personally never trained a model large enough to warrant the use of tools like DLRover, but I definetly see the intended usecase. I do however wonder if re-scheduling a task that failed due to OOM (one of the provided examples) won't just fail again due to OOM on another node.

I'm a stickler for using correct terms, one nitpick I have is the "green" descriptor. The repo does not ellaborate on how DLRover makes the process more "green", but I can only assume that they mean it helps with resource management, which in turn could make the process more energy efficient. If that is true, the authors might consider replacing "green" with "resource efficient".
Oracle?

From frying pan to fire.
offline content not playing smoothly with a spotty connection is something i noticed in the last years as well; driving me nuts
Sticking to the truth & what you really know, and not scape goating?
> US led NATO expansion lead to the war in Ukraine, and Europeans are paying the price.

As an Eastern European, I cannot thank the US enough for pushing NATO. It makes me feel safe. I'm just sad that they could not get Ukraine into NATO before all this madness started.
> I entered tech in 2004, during the immediate aftermath of the dotcom crash.

I entered in 1999, when there were plenty of jobs mostly filled with people who liked paychecks a lot more than coding. It was hard to find jobs doing anything hard or nerdy in the sea of webmasters.

I remember working at startups in the mid-late oughts after the bubble burst and the industry was awash in get-rich-quick, gimmicky companies. Those founders had learned the lessons of the dotcom bubble: make your money and get out before it happens again! There was a VC slot-machine for quick, happy exits. And if you don't do well at the slot machine, well you've learned important leadership lessons, so start another startup.

If there was a golden age of nerds, it must have happened before I was in the industry. But, on examination, I'm not sure those actually existed either.

I think it's worth focusing on the work and atmosphere and how makers get stuff done, but I balk at about appeals to former glories. Make Software Great Again? Hmph.
Spotify plays the music when you tell it to though. I've heard Apple Music streaming can be a bit laggy to start.
I'm also of the faith and of course we don't describe it that way in most church discourse because it'd lose one of the most valued functions: framing human experience in a sacred narrative and privileging LDS participation and perspective.

Probably not correct to chalk all transcendent experiences up to that, and sometimes church discourse also steers towards real effort in genuinely engaging fine points of recognition, cultivation, and (occasionally) limits of extra-rational faculties and their integration into overall efforts at perception and understanding (and I consider this a helpful formative part of my development), but frequently we behave in a way that doesn't take the topic seriously as much beyond a vehicle for institutional affirmation & sacralized participation, and that's leaving alone times when we discount or even outright discard that study-it-out-in-your-mind step.

But hey, I get it, maybe keeping revelation yoked to a few valued goals is reasonable enough, because the quality of self-reported holy spirit guidance is best case bell-curve shaped and the lower 50% slopes crazy. Pretty sure every Latter-day Saint has heard some crazy stuff passed off as personal revelation (from either a kooky ward member or that handful of leaders that you're not sure the call was quite right on) and learns how to talk around that. Maybe it's better to have a low ceiling with a high floor.