skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I just can't wait for all the wunderbar cannabis strains to come out of Germany:

Zwischenrauchgenusserlebnisgrünblattsorte (Inter-smoke-enjoyment-green-leaf-variety): Das ist für die Zwischendurch Raucher. Machst du happy ohne zu viel Trubel. Gutes Grünblatt!

Wolkenkuckucksheimtraumwolkenpuff (Cloud-cuckoo-land-dream-cloud-puff):Dieses bringt dich hoch, hoch, bis zu den Wolken! Man träumt schön und fühlt sich wie im Märchenland.

Glückseligkeitsgefühlsauslöserkraut (Happiness-feeling-trigger-weed): Einmal puffen und du bist im Glückseligkeits-Himmel. Alles fühlt sich super an.

Gedankensprunghochflugblütezeit (Thought-leap-high-flight-blooming-time): Für die Kreativen Köpfe! Deine Gedanken machen Sprünge und fliegen hoch – Boom, Ideen überall!

Entspannungswunderwirkungsgewächs (Relaxation-miracle-effect-plant): Mega Entspannung garantiert. Nach einem Zug, alles ist chillig. Wie ein Wunder!

Lachanfallverursachendeswundergras (Giggle-fit-causing-wonder-grass): Vorsicht, Lachkrämpfe vorprogrammiert! Mit Freunden rauchen und der Spaß hört nicht auf.

Seelenruhigbalsamblattgenussmittel (Soul-calm-balm-leaf-enjoyment-substance): Deine Seele wird super ruhig. Stress? Welcher Stress? Alles easy.

Tiefenentspannungsnaturgenusserlebnis (Deep-relaxation-nature-enjoyment-experience): Bringt dich runter auf die Erde. Natur pur, tiefenentspannt und glücklich.

Kreativitätsschubgrünblattinspiration (Creativity-boost-green-leaf-inspiration): Künstler? Musiker? Hier kommt deine Inspiration! Kreativitätsschub im Anflug.

Wolkenreitertraumwiesengenusskraut (Cloud-rider-dream-meadow-enjoyment-weed): Fühl dich wie auf einer weichen Wiese, fliegend durch die Träume. Totaler Genuss!
Programming for Luddites
Wanting everything for free is certainly a problem though.

I’m not sure how anything can compete with free and convenient, even things that work really well that take time to set up are hugely inferior because hosting is a cost if nothing else.

If something is free you have a responsibility to be even more diligent to understand what happens when it goes away, is no longer free, or how they plan to extract value from you. Discord is not a charity or government subsidized project.
Not true; we have podman
> stereotypes aside, hackers

If we're putting stereotypes aside, wouldn't we also put aside the word "hackers"?

In the xz case, the term may be accurate, but we don't know the identity of the culprit(s) and have no empirical basis for even speculating about the work schedules of such people.

> If you're having peaceful mornings, I envy you.

Well, I don't work in an office. I work alone. Like a stereotypical "hacker".
I’m guessing the original maintainer of xz handed responsibilities to Jia Tan without ever seeing him/her or at least sharing a phone call. Is that common to only communicate only through email/github? I guess some maintainers of open source projects will be more cautious after this story.
Taplio: LinkedIn AI spam
Thanks. Colour was identical.
You're making a lot of assumptions and predictions there. Not to say that you're wrong, but we don't yet know if you're right. My opinion is that we're seeing the shape of the limitations of these LLMs. I use them a lot for coding, it's a sea change. But you still have to understand what you're doing, they don't produce accurate code all the time, and I'm not convinced they'll be able to just insert working code into existing complex systems.

> but what if AI creates much better, more powerful, exciting, better films than those you could imagine?

Well, something to deal with when it can. Right now it cannot do this.
Jabber?
Signals are fine grained reactivity. React is coarse grained reactivity. Legend-state adds signals to React and I'd recommend it over Redux/zustand which we used to use.
Yes, X11 works. Feature chart here: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/apple/
C++ is designed for good performance. Solving ABI problems permanently usually means an extra layer of indirection, which hurts performance.

There are also concerns about what you can link against or not once you modify the ABI of widely used types. This is of real concern at least for closed-source software or software that just cannot be recompiled.

I am not saying it should be the right choice, some of that software is legacy. I just say this is a real concern.

As for the private function. You can use a pimpl and use a private (on the cop file instead of header) and use that, for example, in many cases. This keeps compile time down.
As someone who used to work in an imaging research group, we quit using Lena years ago specifically because the women researchers in our group brought it up. We came to the decision to retire it and move on. It's a small change, but it's important to promote an environment where everyone feels comfortable and is able to do their best work. I can't quite understand why people waste their time debating a technically inferior test image.
What can we expect we billions are poured as investments? And worse and more dangerous than the commercial culture for me is the resulting aggressive push against any health questions, again I imagine due to huge financial interests. Unfortunately as always recently the debate has been binarized in pro or against camps. Plenty of things are legal and bad for you, that should be another debate.
> Taxing “carbon” is ridiculous. Literally everything is carbon. A tax on carbon is a tax on life itself.

This is complete nonsense, to the point where I don't think it's worth reading the rest of the comment, if it's the sort of comment that takes a word out of context and then attacks that straw man.
Probably just an April's Fool joke.
I guess if you forward it as content but I'm surprised you don't default always to forwarding as an attachment.
There are public servers for Jabber working just fine.
> I had certain expectations for the future. Smart homes that did my bidding, palm-sized computers that were truly my own, and functional ecosystems that accurately responded to my voice or presence all felt right

You can have your family set up with Fairphones that run /e/ or similar and self host everything today (nextcloud, hass, VPN).

This does get you very close. It also means you have to put up with significant maintenance work, especially catering towards the corporate edges.

Case in point, I just spent an hour debugging why we couldn't share YouTube links to our Kodi TVs anymore...
RFC 1607 by Vint Cerf: A View From the 21st Century (April 1, 1994)
Logitech Wave Keys remined me (slightly) of it.
It’s been legal since 2018, up here in Canada, and other than extreme amount of cannabis shops in every other block, it’s basically been the same as pre-legalization. People who were into it, still into it. People who didn’t still don’t. Maybe just the people who were curious but didn’t want to try it because it was illegal tried it out and joined either of the camps.

I’m not the biggest fan, but as a person who enjoys drinking from time to time, who am I to rob people from their good times when I get to do it freely?
> there are more people destroying their lives with drugs than people who can regulate their use

I agree with that for some drugs, but certainly not cannabis. That's observational; there are simply not enough reported cases of problems to make that true wrt cannabis use. Of course, that leaves the possibility that cases aren't reported.

Again, based on personal observation, I would be amazed if the ratio of cannabis users that 'waste their life' on the drug is as high as the ratio of alcohol users that do the same. And that's before you even take into account the harm caused to others.
Pimpl is both. I use it as black box also, but it does both things.
NPM install scripts can be weaponized
Exactly - but what about total per capita meat consumption?

For the US that runs at ~ 100 kilograms per person per year.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-usa

https://sentientmedia.org/meat-consumption-in-the-us

Is this number exceeded by many EU countries?
I think of this as what does it mean to be human and what craft do we enjoy - does knowing that chess engines can beat most of us take away the fun of playing chess with another person. Similarily does knowing that an factory can mass produce my furniture take away the pleasure of making a chair with my hand - there will be place for both as well as there will be new kinds of chairs to be made with AI.

Hitherto we have always thought of software as one for many - the aspects of adoption of software is left to humans.

Maybe we will shift more of our skills to higher level skills - how do we make more enjoyable products rather than how do we learn the nuance of programming languages, software paradigms and we may evolve software and technical paradigms around these.

I doubt this is the age of the death of building. We will just invent and build new things.

Generative Media by AI - while dystopian can also make us think what does media really means - will there be more value on in-person media rather than digital media?

Will it also mean we have a larger spectrum of artists who can now create - not just books and blogs but multi-media experiences that are immersive worlds/moments?
Bpftop
You seem to be more offended by the words than the content. That’s the guilt making you defensive.
and I run an IRC network from my own pocket.

But when I die there needs to be some altruistic nerd who has the capability and desire to take it over.
Java and C# are in their "let's get functional" phase.
Wow, I had no idea we even had at will employment anywhere in Europe!

Like here in Spain if I'd get fired I would get a redundancy package for sure. And of course France has even better protections (we're all jealous of their 2 months holidays of course :P ).

I'm not sure if we're unionised though.

Thanks for letting me know. I was not really considering it as a place to live but I won't now - especially as I'm getting older.
This makes sense. Kind of.

Headlines are good but not a replacement for long term thinking. The devs debating how to meet the next 3 years goals is still valuable and those insights can lead to better ordering, flushing out crap that ain’t really needed and architecture in general.

For example those discussion might lead you to choose kubernetes or avoid it. I don’t think headlines alone get you there. Also things like what teams to have, what roles to hire etc.

Headlines (Aka… user story “epics”? OKR objectives?) are a good tool though.
- "...societal impact not only in clean energy production and a cleaner environment but also on rural economies as guano once again becomes a valuable and highly sought-after product."

Apropos of nothing, the Guano Islands Act of 1856 is still, apparently, standing US law [0]. This research is an exciting opportunity for any who'd like to serve as mercenary privateers under the flag of the United States, while advancing science.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
“We’ll pay you in exposure”
Nearly everyone who died from COVID had multiple comorbidities. Biggest nothingburger of this century.
Agents Need Not Know Their Purpose
Yes, and they are eventually discovered by reverse engineering.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
XMPP does far more than IRC. And, as I said, there are public servers with nice clients everywhere, such as Monocles Chat for Android, Dino for GNU/Linux/BSD, or PSI+ for Windows. With video chat and everything.
It is. You don’t spend money if you don’t have to unless you are motivated by something that isn’t ‘more money‘. E.g. taxes or charity (which let’s face it is usually taxes).

Thus if the license says ‘you don’t have to pay money to use this, nor do you have to do anything at all’ it’s no wonder it gets used for nothing in return. Stallman was obviously right with the GPL keeping the source free instead of end users.
For me Hylo is the most elegant object model I have seen so far in the sense that it achieves dafety without all the anniyations and borrow checks that Rust performs. It just fits well the model for thinking yet it enables lots of optimizations. Of particular mention is that copies are lazy and can be passed freely and will only be done transparently on demand. That is what keeps the model simple.
Agreed and I dont believe "no warranty" can last that much longer, or in fact should. It was encouraged back in the day when all this computer stuff was new and either walled-off in unis or enterprises or in hobbyist's basements. But the real risk now is in the interconnections; the potential impact is order of magnitudes larger.

The closest metaphor is cars I think. And yes you can argue that innovation in cars has slowed down but also a 'minimum floor' of safety and efficiency forced by governments and insurers has made new entrants more likely. I.e. you shouldn't need to only trust Oracle, SAP with your business because then, erm, you'd have exactly the current situation in enterprise software...
> This is not how AI will work. It's not I want something to build, the AI will just do the things. There will no longer be things to "build". We will no longer think of code as something that exists, but things that just happen.

That’s a _huge_ assumption. There’s really, at this point, very little reason to think it will come to pass; if it does, it likely won’t be due to anything particularly similar to the current crop of generative AI stuff.
The US government suppressed strikes back then, which proved it was a democracy for capitalists, and a dictatorship for workers.

No need to suppress them nowadays, for unions have been significantly weakened by decades of red scare propaganda, which makes the US government a democracy for capitalists, and a dictatorship for workers.
Kids and their parents have dozens of small use cases.

I bought a color inkjet printer after years without a printer (I had one for artistic usages before) because the kids needed one (for school and personal activities, work and fun).

We use it every week now that we have it, for many family usages where color is often needed (but not always). We often go beyond 50 pages a month, but not every month, so it’s a moderate usage.
IF (a big if!) all your forecast will become true, I don't think what people will mourn most at the time is losing the fun part of coding/developing SW.

Like those laborers who went jobless after the waves of industrial evolution, they should have been planning earlier for other jobs and skills, rather than focusing solely on the fulfillment from making goods.
Did photography replace drawing? Of course not. Did instagram kill photography? No, but it made photography as a career choice a much more complicated decision.

It will probably be similar for AI and programming.
Everything about the future is based on assumptions.

Nevertheless we talk about the future.
People also waste their lives with TV and social media.

Some people are just lazy
and, cross bred from the popular silicon valey strain;

Relaxenundwatschenderblinkenlichten (Relax-watch-blinking-lights)
my point is about offering services free at point of sale for communities. Not necessarily about what technology I use to do that.

If I stop running the community it will die unless a benefactor steps in as I pay it from my pocket. thats the point.

We are coded to expect services for free but it rests on the altruism of individuals or as an investment for companies.

If its an investment: at some point those companies will want something back and likely more and more over time.
Show HN: Save agent time with AI-powered customer support
xz utils is open source, so whats your point?
arch was unaffected as far as we know.
I think the internet always had anonymity. I do think it was easier to be anonymous on the surface but at the same time there were so many fewer people on the internet that it wasn't that hard to uncover the person behind the curtain.

I do however think that this is unrelated to the Open Source angle. You will still find this sentence on Eric S. Raymond's "How To Become A Hacker" guide which in some ways shows how much this attitude has changed in the years since:

> Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser.

I don't think a lot of people will still subscribe to that idea today.
Suddenly the West cares about environmental disasters. Very convenient.
Depends on if they smoke pot and hashish, to me. If you ever pour out a Carlsberg, their hops smell extremely like fresh, nice pot. Most non-smokers (canna or otherwise) seem to like it, or at least tolerate it. Hashish does have a much more pungent smell, and can be uncomfortable at times -- even to me, a smoker for 25 years now.
That's ... how autoconf works?

If you explicitly set the enable-landlock flag, configure will fail when the feature doesn't compile.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877604
There is no point in subsidising profitable behavior.
I heard cannabis is no longer openly sold in Copenhagen.
Tesla 'must' do nothing. They do what is correct for them. Building 'better' chargers isn't hard. Building 10000s of better chargers is hard. There have been a wealth of alternative charger companies for a while, and having an example that works isn't that hard. Tesla however has to scale and deploy those charges in huge volumes.

And this is specially true if you want to make stations that have more then a low number of chargers. Because the connection to the local grid becomes a huge problem, and this problem is increased is you move to higher voltage.

Tesla moves at the pace of the market, and their own cars. Not at a pace that to enable Hyundai to make as much money as possible without investing themselves.

Hyundai should be grateful Tesla opened their charges at all. Because actual 350kW chargers are incredibly rare and broken incredibly often.
That’s basically how it is right now. Millions of companies freeloading off the work of unpaid open source developers. Unsurprisingly they sometimes leave and it causes problems.
>and argued that Lasse Collin, the longtime maintainer of xz Utils, hadn’t been updating the software often or fast enough.

This meme was a mistake.
Maybe

But why in tarnation they need libxz to talk to systemd over dbus? Harm reduction should start there

And also maybe let's rethink dbus or bring it to a modern standard and not be just Corba for geeks.
> You could also see how this is a winner take all monopoly once self driving gets cracked.

… _Why_, though? Even if you buy the idea that Tesla is going to come out with self-driving cars Any Day Now(TM), that really seems like the underpants gnome part of the narrative. It’s most unclear why it would be a winner takes all thing.
Would an OpenBSD-style minimum functionality Unix philosophy designed init system stop a developer from taking over as maintainer of a different upstream project, allowing them to submit malicious patches?
"ST is not a playable word" per https://scrabble.merriam.com
I have been searched twice crossing Øresundsbroen into Sweden, and both times I was the only one in the carriage to be searched. I have never seen them search anyone else.

They will always be under time pressure as the train needs to depart promptly.

(This is Swedish customs, nothing to do with identity checks. I don't use cannabis or socialise with people that do.)
I do think coders will ;-)

But yes, like with the Waymo destruction and people booing AI SWSX and the recent study the UK will at least lose 8 million jobs to AI, the changes are hard to imagine.

Like watching Terminator where Sarah is running around searching for a public telephone.
But, you can still bet on the pricing to be such that you'd be insane not to subscribe to both.
Isnt it reasonable to penalize drug trafficking over consumption, which just targets end users
By what means does a government have the ability to a/ take choice away, b/ give it back? Is it a moral consensus, if it is backed by force?

It's simply that the whole thing is an illusion agreed upon. Or rather, stumbled into, educated into, assumed! There's no agreed consensus.

Is it ok to mislead people into false beliefs?

> if you think that a lawless society would afford you any freedom, you are entirely mistaken.

Why not?

I could return the question, and ask, how do you think a lawbound state will give you freedom? Has it ever done anything other than bind individuals?
What that article doesn't tell you is that those are illegal immigrants, who would be working illegally even if they weren't children. Those companies obviously don't care about the law.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-la...
oh totally, I was lost, turned around, for the first few months I lived in the US, never really realised I subconsciously navigated by the sun
simplex.chat? I heard it improved a lot.

When do you need voice and video with a big community btw? I can see if you have a group of like 8 core devs having their own communication channel, but that is something else then hosting the whole community.

Also, your boring, regular forum is searchable. Discord is a black hole, so if the value of information is more than just personal, Discord-like things should be a no-no, even if one doesn't value privacy issues.
Yes, please ax "st".
Happy to speak on that! I mostly wanted to dig into something I hadn't done before, with a whole new set of tools to learn. In this case, I had been super interested lately in the Apple ecosystem/platform. I'd spent some of my career in .NET/Windows land and got to see a bunch of stuff there and how it all worked, so I figured why not try out what Apple has to offer.

I also felt like since I have no real intent to try and turn what I'm learning into something that makes money, I could go a little crazy/niche and dig in.

This all being said, If someone asked me about making an app as something they want to release/make money off/turn into a company I'd fully be pointing them at tooling like React Native.
How high were you when you wrote this ;)
How is identity a human right?

The article doesn't explain that. Or anything, really.

I learned that UN Human Rights Day turned 75 last December. And that Hannah Sutor is "passionate" about DevSecOps
I know you can’t see me, but it really enriched my life. I wish
more people knew how to be a virtuous cannabis smoker — it takes some effort
Tobacco is actually more addictive than weed. I have a friend in Berlin who substituted tobacco for some herbal mix some years ago. He was a heavy smoker until then. Basically he just kept on smoking but swapped out the tobacco. A few weeks in he realized he didn't need to any more. It, smells a bit unpleasant but it got him completely off the tobacco with essentially zero effort. He rolls like one or two a day max. Usually with some weed and a beer on the side.

I don't smoke myself (tobacco or weed) but I know plenty of people who do, or who used to (multiple packs a day, like my friend above). Quitting is hard apparently. So, from that to one or two per day sounds like it should be an improvement.

The nastiest thing with weed is having to deal with drug dealers to get it. Bringing it out of the criminal corner is a good thing. There are a lot of drug dealers who also sell far nastier stuff than weed. Crack cocaine apparently is a growing problem in Berlin.
Personal anecdotal experience in a car != Facts as it pertains to this story.

Semi drivers do that 220 miles (and then some), each and every day, on quiet interstates and havoc strewn city highways.

And we’re also talking big rigs here with significantly longer stopping distances and far less maneuverability.

And they have to deal with the vagaries of weather. A fully automated rig is no good to anyone if the software decides to not proceed with no driver to override it.