skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMO, the only real solution to this mess is getting past the stigma of paying for software and libraries. There is not enough goodwill/karma in the world to convince enough folks to pay for something they receive for free.

For that to work you'd need to solve liabilities internationally.

Taxes are the most pressing issue - if the company and the (F)OSS developer are in the US, it's relatively easy, but a lot of developers aren't in the US but in Europe, Africa or Asia. Some of these places have authorities that don't care about anything, but others (like Germany) are bureaucratic monsters.

Then come sanctions and AML/KYC issues - it's easy enough for an anonymous person from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela or Syria to participate in a (F)OSS project. But once payments come into play, the usual regulatory bullshit comes into play as well. As, say, Microsoft, you can't just go and Western Union a few hundred dollars to an (effectively) anonymous person, you have to verify their identity and make sure that they're not the target of sanctions against themselves or their country. European countries have it easier because the only place we're seriously sanctioning outside of North Korea is Russia and Belarus, but that's a headache as well.

And then come civil liabilities. As a (F)OSS developer, all major licenses explicitly disallow warranty claims or patent claims. But once you get paid for something, that implicitly or explicitly (depending on jurisdiction) makes you a commercial trade partner, which means you can be held liable should your code prove to be the cause of a security vulnerability. And that's not even getting into the minefield of software patents and DRM, which add criminal liabilities on top of all that crap.

Even if Microsoft or whoever wanted to drop me some money for something I wrote, there's no way in hell I'd accept anything below 100k simply because all of the overhead of shielding myself. I'd need to start up the German equivalent of a LLC which costs a few thousand euros plus recurring fees for accounting requirements, I'd need to purchase insurance which given the potential claims of a company like Microsoft would run many thousand euros a month...

In an ideal world, at least the G18 (i.e. G20 minus China and Russia who already don't cooperate with the RoW that much regarding anything IP-related) would come together and agree on a common framework that makes funding for open source developers easy and hassle free, but I'd guess it would take a few xz and log4j2-level events on a global scale to even move the issue high enough that regular politicians pick it up.
The key ingredient is leveled reads across topics.

A task which is transforming across multiple joined topics, or is materializing multiple topics to an external system, needs to read across those topics in a coordinated order so that _doesn't_ happen.

Minimally by using wall-clock publication time of the events so that "A before B" relationships are preserved, and ideally using transaction metadata captured from the source system(s) so that transaction boundaries propagate through the data flow.

Essentially, you have to do a streaming data shuffle where you're holding back some records to let other records catch up. We've implemented this in our own platform [1] (I'm co-founder).

You can also attenuate this further by deliberately holding back data from certain streams. This is handy when stream processing because you sometimes want to react when an event _doesn't_ happen. [2] We have an example that generates events when a bike-share bike hasn't moved from it's last parked station in 48 hours, for example, indicating it's probably broke [3]. It's accomplished by statefully joining a stream of rides, with that same stream but delayed 48 hours.

[1] https://www.estuary.dev
[2] https://docs.estuary.dev/concepts/derivations/#read-delay
[3] https://github.com/estuary/flow/blob/master/examples/citi-bi...
The statements are independent. It having a closed form solution and it being unstable don't contradict or confirm one another.

In solutions to ODEs converge very often exponentially from the true result. That the 3 Body problem for this makes it characteristic, not special.

>So, even having a closed form solution isn’t helpful when computing real world situations.

Simply not true. It is helpful or not depending on your problem. Often you are interested in short term behavior, which can be studied by numerical methods or, if existing, analytic solutions.
- “G4” the TV network, not to be confused with the series of Mac computers
...because union members overwhelmingly already vote for the candidates their unions are donating money to? Not sure what point you're trying to make.
Thank you very much. This is exactly why I'd love to find a place where people could discuss about those topics and maybe unite forces to make something.

If such place does not exist, well, maybe we could make one.
That's literally wrong and a gross misnomer.
Yes, and then it gets interesting to think about procedurally generated splats, such as spawning a randomized distribution of grass splats on a field for example
S and X are not their bread and butter. Look at how well LFP 3's and y's hold up.
That OP has every reason to be concerned if/when they lose this case. As mentioned, it opens the door to even more lawsuits (they're already fighting the record labels for instance) and I don't know if they can survive those.

It's best to take action now and backup what you want than waiting until it's too late.

The OP did post Brewster's response at the end of the post.
"not honest" might not be the right phrasing. What I was trying to say is that when learning this stuff I felt like they hid a lot of information from me which later surprised me. But they hid it because they have no answers for it.

One simple example is what happens when you don't consider these as points but instead spheres. Also what happens when the spheres come close? The math starts breaking down, you start seeing infinities. I.e, in reality spheres come close and gravity doesn't go infinity.
Yes, it was eaten and is eaten. It's red meat. It's calories. Of course humans ate/eat it.
The oldest evidence is 1.8m years old.
According to wiki, in 2007 it seemed to be selling for like $5-6/lb in Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQwtPh4wOA
What's the value to users if you are NextJS based?

- internal tools rarely (never?) need SEO

- the complexity of NextJS rings alarm bells as infra product. A look at your docs confirms my suspicion https://docs.trycreo.com/core-concepts/server-and-client-com...
nah, it's hashed and salted. otherwise just === not bcrypt compare

import { compare } from "bcrypt";
In some ways it is better, but mostly it comes across like a bot. Which makes me not trust the words. And in that way it is a net loss.

Your english is good enough. Keep writing the comments yourself!
little hard to understand why it's worth explaining the details if you're going to gloss over the issue of endurance and erase cycle limits.

if you do very little writing, you have nothing to worry about with SSD endurance. just read-disturb.

do you do very little writing?
Personally, I'd just use one of my local MacBook models (e.g. Mixtral 8x7b) and forget about any wasted branches & cents. My debugging time costs many orders of magnitude more than SWE-agent, so even a 5% backlog savings would be spectacular!
Discord is free and is an incredibly strong tool with few limitations.

Discord aimed to replace TeamSpeak and Skype but it is such a stable platform with so much customization it can be used for almost anything.

People even use it as a customer support system or as a command and control center.

My university uses Discord, my skydiving club uses Discord, many FOSS communities use Discord.

Discord has also open sourced quite a few of their tools.

And Discord has always supported the creation of bots via their stable REST api.
It's not quite as bad as hunger-based pricing where EatUp would cost more on longer flights.
New Zealand is the most amazing country I've ever visited. Scenery wise, but also super nice people and politically sane (Andern in particular was great, too bad she left)

I'd live there too if it wasn't literally on the other side of the planet for me and I don't want to cause hundreds of tons of CO2 every time I want to see my family :'(
Effortless communication at work – alternative to Zoom/Teams/Slack at work
I want to validate my idea - platform for effortless communication at work - a platform that would enable people to personalize their characters and have their own spaces, option to personalise the space for companies
what you all think? Gather town is in the market already but there's much room for more focus on companies using that for work not people for socialisation

shoot your thoughts!
I think this was tongue in cheek but some reasons:

* Apple products are status symbols

* Induced demand through marketing

* Ecosystem lock-in, once you go Apple it's hard to switch back out
I went from a solo dev to having a top most wishlisted game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile#:~:text....
Do you want ghost numbers counting down on your retinas? Because this is how you get ghost numbers counting down on your retinas.
How would you rate someone with a background in military cyber? (Or I wonder if you would see them at all, because defense contractors would sweep them up first?)
I don't want to come off as overly harsh, but calling this "Virtual Camera for Linux written in Python" seems a bit too generous considering all this seems to do is ask you for an input file and an output device and then call `ffmpeg -re -i {input_file} -f v4l2 {selected_device}`. Cool idea though, I didn't know you can do this that easily with ffmpeg.
> pathetic to make silly threats

The embedded threat is reducing anti-poaching enforcement and penalties, or exploring re-legalising the ivory trade with China.
The way I see it, its undetermined if Generative AI will be able to fully do a SWE job.

But, for most of the debates I've seen, I don't think it the answer matters all too much.

Once we have models that can act as full senior SWEs.. the models can engineer the models. And then we've hit the recursive case.

Once models can engineer models better and faster than humans, all bets are off. Its the foggy future. Its the singularity.
A lot of these things are just not fixable within the short term either, so a new leader probably won't improve things much. Take poor build quality, for example, which takes many years of iteration to improve.
Does 'sat over' imply 'shat on'?
Tesla sold 1.8 million cars last year and Toyota sold 11.23 million cars last year. so a 6.2x multiple, not a ~20x multiple
The crash dump thing was just a hypothesis, then. Not great that they have no idea where they got signing keys, still.
I meant to control single segments to compensate for build quality.

1 AI model per motor
Things NOT to do when building a SaaS company
Mainly their implementation of React Server Components, which is a far simpler set of APIs to work with compared to traditional React. (Also very LLM friendly)
Send them on a barge across the Med, and German-funded rescue boats will drop them off in Italy or other coasts in Europe. Tattoo them with "To Germany with Love" and a few might find their way there. Hannibal brought elephants over the Alps, could be a great time for reenactment filming.
> The value is in being able to prompt AI something like "Here's my data that comes from endpoint X. Give me a table that shows this data that is also searchable."

This is a billion dollar idea even if at like a 70%+ success rate. And as a data engineer, I assure you the success rate is not there. There are so many edge cases, so many caveats, so many headaches; an AI generated solution will only work in the perfect API scenario (which never happens in the real world).
Oh wow, a second person who connected a Baudot teleprinter to a KIM-1!
> All of them?

> literally all of part a

It's not (1) or (2) as no exfiltration has occurred. It's not (3) as a government system has not been targeted. It's not (4) as "the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer". It's not (5) as no system has been targeted or damaged (based on the statutory definition of 'damage'). It's not (6) as we have no evidence of the attacker sharing their Ed448 private key. It's not (7) as there has been no act of extortion.

> did someone just trip and fall on their keyboard over a period of months to accidentally carry out sophisticated social engineering to write a carefully hidden backdoor into a package targeted at hijacking widely used operating systems?

I'm not arguing that it was a weird accident. I'm arguing that this clearly malicious act does not, based solely on the information we have today, constitute a violation of the CFAA.
The most relevant companies focused on this aren't publicly traded. The ones that are publicly traded like MSFT have way too many other factors affecting their value - not to mention the fact that they'll make money on generative AI that has nothing to do with coding regardless of if an SWE-agent ever works.
That's likely to be an even bigger win for commercial guys beyond suppressing varroa. It's startling how quick a hive stacks up resources when there's no brood present to tend.
Could've happened just as easily if not more easily with proprietary software.
Ask HN: Do you write specs/requirements for things you work on, do you like it?
Hi, i am wondering, now that i am starting a new startup what are best practices around specs/requirements:

1. Do you/your team write product specifications/requirements diligently?
2. Do you like writing them?
3. Who in your organisation/team is doing it?
4. How frequently are you doing it?
5. How do you maintain them? (if change happens)
6. What tool do you prefer to collect requirements?
7. Do you use some templates or standards while writing them, like is there any standardised formatting?
8. Any advice how to format it for best results?
9. Open answer what ever comes to mind, conversation theme should be clear by now.

Answer one or more, everything is welcomed, i hope this helps me and others wondering the same.

Thanks
Even as a non-native speaker it really stood out:
"This situation is exacerbated by the fact that", "In contrast", "Given the outlined".

I would call this style something like fluid enumeration of facts, typical for GPT generated texts.
Yes, it's possible to create gaussian splats from a mesh. See for example step 3 in SuGaR: https://imagine.enpc.fr/~guedona/sugar/
What did you read? I search [houthi racism] and get pages upon pages of it (unsurprisingly, given how Houthi theology works). I'm interested in a single source you've read that warmly treats the Houthi movement as legitimate. Even the founder of Believing Youth condemns them.
Rivian deliveries beat expectations; Tesla dampens industry hopes
Appreciate it! Yea that video is pretty bad from a marketing perspective. I was kinda just thinking technical proof of concept shows it reading and replying...

Buttons and other actions are a bit tough. Currently it extracts the inner html from the chat wrapper div and gets all the text from the chat. This is great for being universal for different providers but it does have trade offs. detecting new messages can be tough if the inner html changes alot without an actual reply being received.... And depending on how the messages are labeled it sometimes has no way of detecting who is who, it relies mainly just off context.... Lots to improve. Overall supporting providers is good approach get alot of different website compatibility for integrating a single provider. So long as the customizations dont break anything. Main thing is making everything universal for it work on any site. That's the main challenge supporting lots of sites while still providing good context and the information needed.
Appreciate the advice! I may post again when i have some of this stuff dialed in
>For executives in a tight race with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, where a schedule slipping even 1 day can matter, sometimes flying private does actually make financial sense.

I'm not an executive.

I would never disgrace my ancestors or embarrass my descendants by getting an MBA.

But I have been around the block a few times and if you're in a situation where missing a flight will torpedo a "hundred million dollar" deal you're a shitty businessperson.

It has been my experience that the best way to keep a schedule from slipping is for executives to keep their mouths shut, cloistered in their office, waiting for an assistant to build some slides for them.
Self checkout is a better customer experience for me personally.
I don’t see any discussion of Apple products at all on here outside of the reveal.
I make apps call home and aggregate incoming pings in grafana, because some of them are behind a vpn.
Your work should have the ability to pay for software, and presumably they will offer an ad-free version.

You get what you pay for.
WeWork targets Chapter 11 exit by May 31, secures $8B in rent reduction
Detecting that a planet might barely support life is impossible to do remotely for our next door neighbor Mars, and we have rovers and orbiters sending high resolution images every day. For exoplanets, we're working with 1 pixel images. Not 1 megapixel, 1 pixel. So for now we can only look for things that would make scientists say whoa, how can that possibly happen?
Heh my SO just showed me her Garmin-something tracker log the other day, and it showed her having an hour of deep sleep when she'd been lying on the couch watching TV.

It's also showing various sleep stages whens he knows she's been awake, trying to sleep.
From what i remember, Botswana have two giant natural parks, a strong government and isn't as destabilized by the DRC (and let's be honest, the metal found in southern DRC) as its northern neighbours, so i can see that their elephant population could reach level so high they have to kill some. Canadians/USians do the same with wolves (and/or deers in the Appalachians), we do the same with hogs, and all those animals are ultimately less damaging than elephants, so it reeks of useless activism.

Botswana should have threatened to do that, because it's ultimately a ridiculous threat, but to be fair, i would rather have rich people go kill designated animals and pay through the nose for it to curb population, rather than letting poachers and illegal safaris do the same. At least it move money from people who do not need it, to people who do.
Discord has been detrimental to many aspects of the internet. We really need a "next-gen" forum software, and for people to move back to using forums.

Discord is fine for gaming, sharing memes, and chatting with friends. We really need to stop using it for everything else.
can you not set up android vms?
TeXmacs 2.1.4 released with option to run TeXmacs as a window-less script
My argument, and I believe that of the article, is not about how the industry is handling this but instead how people and the press are handling this. Right now the industry, via regulations and internal pressures, is digging deep into Boeing and the entire culture that allowed this one thing to happen. I have not once argued this is a bad thing. I am continuing to argue that the level of reporting and public reactions deserve the title of 'panic' since they, to me, meet an irrational fear level given the safety track record of the industry as a whole. I encourage you to re-read my comment and tell me where I said the industry should ignore this. People and the press are panicking. The industry is reacting in a sane, well rehearsed and ultimately successful way.
One of the first programs I ever wrote was a simulator for a planet rotating a star with a naive difference equation approximation to Newton's law. I was a bit disappointed to see the planet reliably spiral into the sun.

The main thing is that something like Euler's method (naive iterative approximation) doesn't guarantee conservation of energy. I believe that this is why planetary dynamics are usually handled with Lagrangian equations rather than the naive approximation approach.

Edit: It would be nice to see what the author's system does for two bodies as a sanity check. Three body system was indeed chaotic but still conserve energy - would this system do that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics
I think it's reasonable to *request* that a bug be treated as "High Priority because it affects my $IMPORTANT_USE_CASE". Who knows, the devs might sympathize and actually prioritize it, say because they were under the impression that it was a minor bug / rare corner case. But it's also possible that they don't, so you just shouldn't have any expectation that your request will be accepted.
Epic acquired the photogrammetry company Quixel a while ago, so it's quite likely they used their photo-scanned asset library when building the Matrix city. Funnily that would mean the OP is doing reconstructions of reconstructions of real objects.
You are complaining that you study the simple cases or simplified cases first before you study near unsolvable systems?

Besides, very often the simplified case gets you surprisingly far because the difference between idealized situations and reality is often negligible or at least easily describable - see perturbation theory. The simplified cases are well worth studying.
It should do, I bought before the web app and I think everyone from before then was grandfathered in
It should do, I bought before the web app and I think everyone from before then was grandfathered in.
There’s the fuel savings (and saved time from lining up at the busy Costco gas station) and then there’s the time and money saved from not having to get oil changes/ planned maintenances and unplanned maintenances. I can’t wait to trade in my family’s last ICE for an EV, after the 60K maintenance was quoted at thousands of dollars.

I’ve owned several EVs over the past 5 years and I’ve only ever had to add windshield washer fluid and replace the tires. I’m a fairly right-leaning guy for whatever that counts for, but the time savings and convenience are undeniable.
Completely anecdotal, but I recently drove by a mall parking lot here in NJ and noticed that there was a whole section parked with new Teslas. There have typically been inventory in this lot as there is a sales/service center ~1 mile away. But I did a double take because there were so many more than usual.

I myself recently purchased a Prius Prime (plugin hybrid) and it's been fantastic. 1000 miles on the first tank and $32 to fill it. My driving pattern means that 3 days a week, I'll burn a few miles worth of fuel. But otherwise, I'm electric. I like that I can charge it up overnight on a standard 120v outlet and didn't need any new wiring or installing a charger. I like that I'll never have range anxiety and I can always just drive it as a very efficient gas vehicle.
I guess it's a FF thing...
It's still abysmal from POV of actually using it in production, but it's a very impressive rate of improvement. Given what happened with LLMs and image generation in the last few years, we can probably assume that these systems will be able to fix most trivial bugs pretty soon.
I'll be honest, I don't have a ton of technical insights into these but anecdotally, I found that using KIRI Engine's Gaussian Splatting scans (versus Photogrammetry scans) the GS scans were way more accurate and true to life and required a lot less cleanup!
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