skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You seem to be saying "See that idle factory over there!? Look at everything it's contributing to the economy!" and I'm saying "It's not contributing anything because it's idle."

I'm saying that factory has value - sometimes quite a lot of economic value.

The specific example you chose is actually interesting because in the west we largely do view idled factories as valueless and have shifted to a just-in-time manufacturing philosophy whereas Russia has taken the opposite approach of building in a lot of slack into their industrial capacity so that they can scale up quickly.

The practical upshot of this is that our differing conceptions of value are a large part of why we are no losing the largest land war in Europe since WW2. We simply don't have the capacity to scale production to necessary levels.

This is an aside, though.

>Since this discussion concerns wages, my claim was that economic value addition is the most highly correlated with pay.

Yes, this is still false. It correlates with leverage, of which your ability to give the impression of economic value addition is just one part.
Governments, businesses, they're all just institutions and I see no reason not to use them as illustrative examples.

The MIT maximally enables exploitation; copyleft maximally enables freedom. From the point of a proprietary fork of a permissively licensed project onwards, users of the proprietary fork enjoy fewer freedoms than before. You are advocating for freedoms for the few (business owners making proprietary forks of free software for profit) at the expense of the freedom of many (everyone else).

Redict would also be possible if Redis used a copyleft license. The space for Redict to exist is not afforded to us because of the use of a permissive license in some way that Redict denies to anyone else through the use of a copyleft license.
This is 100% a state actor. We can also kind of narrow down who.
I initially started Retro AIM Server to satisfy my own curiosity, not intending to publish it as an open source project. As I observed general interest in software that allows them to experience (or re-experience) instant messaging from a time when we weren’t always online, I became more serious about the project.

Reviving AIM is not an original idea of mine. Some revival AIM networks have been created since the official AIM’s 2017 shutdown, but their software is not open-source. There are some open source servers that implement subsets of AIM functionality. As far as I can tell, Retro AIM server is the most feature-complete open source implementation available.

The OSCAR protocol (AIM’s protocol) is proprietary and has never been officially documented in full. Implementing a server compatible with a defunct instant messaging service required a significant amount of detective work, drawing on scrappy community documentation created two decades ago, abandoned alternative AIM client source code from the 2000s, and observations made through simple trial and error.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts, constructive feedback, or even stories of your own AIM experiences. And, of course, PR’s are welcome!
But you also want to count where the $600M go to. Yes, US taxpayers pay for it eventually, but they pay it to some other taxpayers (assuming the developers also US-based). So the money get back to US economy in the end.

Granted it's still bad for the economy, but just counting money is not enough. E.g. spending huge money on Hoover dam and Golden Gate bridge was good for the economy at the time.
If they ran on gas or Diesel it would be easier.
As far as I'm aware, Rust has been doing this for 9 years now (77 new versions), I'm not sure if that's been "expensive" but people seem to like it and it's working well so far
Gigaset Smart Home/Care discontinues its services as of 29 March 2024
My wife received a new phone case today. Hard to brake by design and function it was already encased in it’s retail box. And wrapped in a bubble bag. And in a plastic bag. And in another plastic bag.
That one's specifically to keep away Klingons.
There's the Max GPU (Ponte Vecchio), their datacentre offering, with 128GB of HBM2e memory, 408 MB of L2 cache, and 64 MB of L1 cache. Then there's Gaudi, which has similar numbers but with cores specific for AI workloads (as far as I know from the marketing).

You can pick them up in prebuilds from Dell and Supermicro: https://www.supermicro.com/en/accelerators/intel

Read more about them here: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-shows-gpu-max-1550-perfor...
This will sound strange, but try Godot.

15 Apps Created using the Godot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJ-3DJN1yI
Amazon Web Services cuts jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group
It’s an issue of how the games are evaluated. At most skill levels a human being slowly outplayed is trading blunders from a computer’s perspective.

For a 1400 a game where an 800 crushed a 500 is most likely a comedy of errors. For a GM that 1400 crushing a 1100 will similarly be filled with missed opportunities. And for a top chess engine on significant depth, most games are practically a slapstick comedy because the best of the best represent such a small fraction of overall players.
That one amuses me because of a character in a (iirc) fantasy book that swore all the time but used just -ing everywhere. Sadly I don’t remember what character of which book…
I think it’s a very shrewd use of that history: their goal was to get a potential reviewer to ignore it and pretty everyone qualified to look at that code has seen those specific values enough to likely tune it out as more tabs vs. spaces noise or perhaps think the original test case started with a file corrupted by some whitespace conversion process, which would be a very easy explanation since very similar things have legitimately happened to other projects.

Whoever did this shows signs of being very familiar with programming culture and I’d bet that this was another deliberate attempt to hide in the background noise.
> The software that I work on is very specialized software that is used by the company's employees and customers for specialized purposes

Oh really? Welcome to the club. Our very specialized software for very specialized purposes used Django with a certain auth provider. So I refactored that into a standalone Django app that painlessly handles this specific OAuth provider, configurable via settings with sane defaults, and open-sourced it. (The refactoring was very beneficial to myself, that part of the project got instantly nicer to work with.)

Of course, it is small beans compared to something algorithmically hardcore (I was a junior myself back then), but it’s just an example.

Any software, no matter how specialized and bespoke, can be expressed as many self-contained isolated components that individually know nothing about that specialization and bespokeness. In fact, such factoring is generally a sign of good design: you may have heard of the loose coupling & high cohesion principle—once you follow it, open-sourcing a particular component is very straightforward.

Note, though, that if your contract has certain licensing provisions in certain countries you may not be allowed to unilaterally open-source anything during the full term of employment (even if it is unrelated to your dayjob). You may need to get approval first. However, many good tech companies are reasonable when it comes to open-sourcing non-core components.
The bridge opened in March 1977.

A cargo ship at that time would have maxed around 3000 TEU (pre-Panamax).

Dali is close to 3x that size at just shy of 10,000 TEU.

And Dali basically center-punched that bridge support. And swerved very close to the bridge. A dolphin might have mitigated a glancing blow, but I doubt it would have stopped a direct hit such as this.

I'm sure the replacement bridge will have more protection, for the optics if nothing else. But, we can't really afford to redesign bridges every time a larger ship is built.
> I can't simply copy off some data and actually hand that data to anyone else like I did do with a CD-R. There's always a third party involved

The only thing is writing to a CD/DVD can be a PITA. To me diskettes were very easy when it came to read and write to physical media.

>Sure, I can attempt to lend another person a thumb drive, but that's a much more complicated thing than giving them a throwaway DVD-R was

This I agree with, I have a tough time giving flash drives away for some reason. If one could buy a pack of 10 1gig flash drives for the same price as a box of Diskettes, it would be easier. Right now you can only buy flash drives 1 at a time.
I'm stacking my chips in the study of quantum computing. It might be fruitless, it might not. I just think its really cool. Plus it feels like I'm casting a wide net. If quantum does become more practical, what is every tech company in the world going to gravitate to, no matter their field?
I thought at first you were referring to Charles Babbage!
Some analysis about the fact: https://www.pymnts.com/meta/2024/making-sense-of-metas-move-...
An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries
Do we need this for JavaScript ? ;-p
Greece is certainly a nation state, being primarily occupied by "Greeks" (referring the the nebulous concept of a national identity). It doesn't matter if some French or Turks live there.

A country that strictly limited residency by ethnic identity might be called an "ethnostate" and indeed it's hard to find a pure example of one of those.
Thanks a lot. Do you happen to know of any products that make it easy to implement this without being too technical?
Not necessarily. Tons of people using Python aren't even aware of the Python docs. The data model page is my favourite page of the whole Python docs and every dev should at least know of its existence. The OP does not link to the original page so doesn't help in this respect.
There are 10 data points, divided in 6 subcategories. It's hard to do meaningful statistics.

And we don't know if EU means Denmark or Romania.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if the NSA also has a couple of Microsoft employees on their payroll.
True, if you have Prime anyway it’s a no-brainer.
It's a bit ironic that after a trust attack this person ends the article sayin

> I do have a xz-unscathed fork which I've carefully constructed to avoid all "Jia Tan" involved commits.

He may be fully legitimate, and perhaps a famous person in OSS (which I was unfamiliar with), but still ironic :)
I don’t know, there seems to be more evidence in support of this fact than there seems to be of it being propaganda: https://www.twz.com/45098/ukraine-situation-report-evidence-...
Related:

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its [Amazon Fresh] Grocery Stores

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908579
Same at many UK banks, sadly.
Brazilian here. I'm 100% for combating and arresting illegal miners, loggers and farmers, but I also know how big the rainforest is, how long the borders are, and how little personnel there is to do the work. Most people don't have a sense of how vast that region is: the brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest is about half the area of the U.S. Now look up how many soldiers and federal police officers are working there. It's daunting, feels like the drug war, only fifty times worse, because there's no solution anywhere close to something like legalization.
I think if we dissected chip demand by company we would see that TSMC/Nvidia are over represented. Chip demand as a whole can grow while demand for Intel or AMD chips shrink.
> As far as we're concerned, not being copyleft was a bug that was exploited by Redis Ltd

Disclaimer: I don’t have anything against the relicensing to LGPL. I think it’s your right and I root for you.

That said, correct me if I’m wrong, but, as far as I understand, what Redis Ltd did, they could do regardless of the license. Copyleft wouldn’t have stopped them, given the CLA.

Moreover I wouldn’t call that exploitation. To people outside of Redis Ltd who don’t want to be Redis Ltd customers this move is indistinguishable from them just closing down business and stopping development of Redis. Would that be exploitation? Are they obliged to provide free work on Redis indefinitely? They can’t retroactively change the licence of previous versions of Redis, so they can’t actually take anything away. The existence of the 2 forks is proof of that.
Pretty much every large merchant ship already has insurance. The market is saturated and there's no way for sales to go up. Marine insurers might use this incident to justify increasing premiums, though.
> This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

I've used this a comment on more than block of code.

I'm not sure what it is about these warnings but I always enjoy reading through them and thinking about how they might be perceived but future generations.
i see control and influence as being two separate things. mainly, control is forced by the controller while influence is granted from the influenced.
They might even get higher accuracies with a dedicated classification layer. By using the existing vocabulary they are spreading the probability mass across a much larger space. If they stuck to N options where N is the total number of functions available to the model I suspect they could get to 100% accuracy.

It's also not clear whether there is sufficient ambiguity in the test data for this to be a generalizable model. The difficulty with "intent recognition" (which they don't mention but is what this problem is called for agents like Siri) is that human generated inputs vary widely and are often badly formed. If they haven't done extensive evaluation with human users and/or they've constrained the functions to be quite distinct then they aren't yet tackling a hard problem, they've just got a complex setting.
Interesting, this would suggest exploits other than the known sshd one.
The corollary is the scenes from the movie “The Grifters” where one aspect of Angelica Huston’s character is she goes to tracks to put large bets on long shots to lower the impact on the mobs illegal bookmaking system, in case the horse actually wins.

It’s not mentioned in the movie. I have to guess that they only do that if there is a large bet pending, rather doing it to all the long shot horses.

Some gambler dropping a 10k bet, and have her put $1k on the horse is enough to really rock the odds. Perhaps, mob accounting is not my specialty. And, of course, it’s just a movie.
Let's just recap

>"I read the post and it’s not clear why it’s not MIT licensed. Why not allow attempts to “create proprietary distributions?” That’s what open source would allow, no? "

Your "That's what Open Source would allow", clearly implies anything but MIT / BSD license are not Open Source. Hence why people ask about Linux, which is Open Source but copy left aka non MIT / BSD.

>Edit: Linux was always GPL, Redis was not, so I don’t see the relevance.

Your first sentence implies GPL are not open source, the relevance here is why the parent ask "do you think Linux as Open Source" or happy with it. And:

>My happiness with Linux is irrelevant because Linux to my knowledge was not re licensed to be more restrictive.

Your happiness with Linux contradict with the first "quoted" sentence to what a lot of people think you meant.

Just in case, I am on the BSD / MIT camp but what you wrote create a lot of confusion.
> Could be super cool to build a 'mobile phone' that runs on floppy disks.

that would be beyond cool!

> Have you documented this somewhere?

not yet, sending the proper commands the endpoints always go stale so I am trying to debug the usb packets send from my pc vs the esp32, but usbpcap is not enough because the thing I send is the same (as far as I can see) as linux/windows, so I am trying to debug it on the wire
> Keep in mind that you're not meant to invent your own dunder methods. Sometimes you'll see third-party libraries that do invent their own dunder method, but this isn't encouraged and it can be quite confusing for users who run across such methods and assume they're "real" dunder methods.

I don't think this is good advice. Example: the dunder methods implemented and used by the Scientific Python/PyData community (__array__, __array_ufunc__, __array_func__, etc.) are so, so, so important to that ecosystem.
I'm curious, do you have any source (for or against)?
Onitama is brilliant. For me the best along with Hive and Santorini.
How much RAM browser wants to run LLM local processing?
Just ask the pope to make a reminder every year and have it passed on to the next pope. Catholics are going to be around forever.
> I do NOT want to rely on the unreliable California power utility to not have a scheduled or unscheduled outage, causing the elevator fail, and also shutting off power to a cable box powering some VOIP service. Really?

To be fair, how about fixing the actual disease (insane policies in commiefornia) rather than some minor symptom fixes?
She said she doesn't want to do this - people complain that it's sexist.

She did this - people complain it's hipocrisy.

With that amount of bad will communication is impossible.
Lol as if there weren't enough general archivers already.
They're telling you average salary grouped by how much has been raised by the founded company when the interview occurred.

So for companies that raised at least 100k but but not more than the next band of 5m, the average salary was 75k.
If one sells a copyright to another, how can that be considered sleazy ? Someone made the sell - to make money I presume - and another bought it, to perhaps make more money ? Seems not that out of reach ?

I don't understand the bitterness around this debate, it seems most people are frustated that they have to pay for something that was free, but at the same time, they probably made money from what was free.

I totally understand, with todays mess of maintainers not getting paid in full, that at some point, someone wants money for their work. Be it a person, a company or you doesn't matter. But right has to be right.

I think we will see a lot of this the next 10 years, simply because we cannot afford maintainers not detecting backdoors in a code-review from some bad actor.
The question I have is, why should your browser also be the interface to local AI models? Seems totally unrelated to be honest.
What would the crime be? Misuse of computers? Espionage?

Curious as to the legal angle of it
It’s purely API based communication, but we route it through our own API and your communication with it gets sent to OpenAI or Mistral. No unique identifiers for sent messages, we do have some custom content filtering in place for safety.
3.5 floppies were the peak of media for me. Built in case, small enough to fit in a pocket, small and light enough to carry a handful around all the time, cheap enough to share freely, tactile. Nostalgia alert, I recall this from my school days, jacket pocket with all my discs in, we would roam around the school looking for empty rooms with computers, then bang; in goes the floppy and I have all my files. Share something with someone? No issue, copy it on a spare and hand it over... CDs didn't fit in a pocket and had an annoying case, though you needed much fewer of them.
No, I don’t have those numbers on hand. If you upload from your local machine, none of this applies to you. It only applies to people using CI to upload, who want to reduce the overall scope of their shared access by not relying on permanent credentials. That’s the whole point of trusted publishing; it has nothing to do with locally initiated uploads.

> I'd say that's a major design flaw of pypi, that it is impossible to create per-package scoped tokens directly, unless one is configuring trusted publishers (which translates to github).

I think you’ve misunderstood. PyPI allows you to create project scoped tokens completely independent of trusted publishing. Trusted publishing is only distinguished in that the scopes are automatic, meaning that the user cannot overscope their token.

The point about security modules is a red herring; it was supposed to emphasize that this is outside of PyPI’s domain of interest. But no, I do it for myself, not because my employer requires it.
Strike That Killed WCK Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240403111625/https://www.belli...

The way these aid workers were attacked despite their movements being previously coordinated with the IDF is reminiscent of the modus operandi back when the 6-year-old Hind Rajab was killed. In that occasion she was the sole survivor after her family vehicle was hit by tank fire. Red crescent coordinated her rescue with the IDF, which greenlighted the dispatch of an ambulance, just to attack it on arrival. Weeks later the ambulance was found destroyed and the paramedics dead, hit by a tank, near the bodies of the girl and her family. See:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/birds-eye-view/2024/2/22/t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
Ah that's right. So there's only one or two people sampled per subcategory.
This is definitely bad advice and goes against the python data model. As far as I am concerned, dunder methods are key to idiomatic python.
I really don’t understand you. Even if there was a closed source fork, users would still be free to use the open source one. There is no restriction or diminishing of options. In fact, now there are even more options and thus more freedom.

In any case we can agree to disagree.
But python docs doesn’t have emojis :(
No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
After watching a recent talk with Linus Torvalds[0], it seems that he's become more soft spoken.

[0] clip about the Nvidia "incident" https://youtu.be/wvQ0N56pW74
Doesn't .gov do a bit of that already?

Part of the problem is, no one knows who's really working on what. If you asked some of the most knowledgeable people in the GNU/Linux ecosystem who maintained xz before last week, there's a real chance they couldn't have told you, not without some investigating first. And that would only have gotten them a name, not the maintainer's personality, resources situation, etc.

There needs to be a census of sorts over the stuff that goes into the GNU/Linux ecosystem to see who needs what.
ok I believe you
I didn't say anything about telling people to eat better. Perhaps what might work would be to make good healthy food more available and affordable and the rubbish less affordable and less available.
Clearly didn’t ask Elon musk
> The OSI doesn’t represent everyone.

Sure, sure. But the term Open Source has a meaning. Ultimately terms have meaning based on their usage in the language. For 'Open Source', its usage happens to reflect the same meaning enshrined by OSI.

> It is maximally permissive.

It appears that there are now several redis forks, with several licenses. For the most part: everybody wins. If you prefer the MIT license, maybe you would prefer to contribute to the BSD-licensed Valkey. And if not, you can fork redis too.
The author's name may be a decoy. I'd have done that.
A good example would be Elizabeth Swaney[0] who somehow found her way into the 2018 Winter Olympics simply by showing up at qualifying.

In order to qualify for the Olympics, athletes needed to place in the top 30 at either a FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup event or FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, and score a minimum of 50.00 FIS points.[9] Swaney achieved this by attending competitions with fewer than thirty participants,[6] with one event in China having fifteen (in which she placed thirteenth). Thirteen of her top 30 finishes were a result of her showing up, not falling, and recording a score

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swaney
Or maybe ask the current institutions (monasteries of various traditions) if things could be stored underneath them: they've managed to survive for a few hundred/thousand years already, and per the Lindy effect, [1] they may be more likely to survive longer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect