skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I'm arguing that there is consciousness, the processing systems of the brain are just too disoriented to pull together unitary consciousness sufficient to actively drive the body. Being knocked out doesn't turn the lights out, it just scatters them into a bunch of individual lights that are no longer working together, and don't imprint memories well.
I’d love to poke at this if you don’t mind. One advantage of downloading everything is that you only download it once. If the user is enabling/disabling features, you’ll have to then re-ship a new js bundle, no?
Debian does include the third party packages. This is either a mirror of the git repository, or a tarball of the upstream code.
You can download the "all" config from Mullvad and upload that into stock wireguard. Every Mullvad location becomes available via a huge dropdown in wireguard.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/wireguard-configuration-tool-has...
Already discussed 2 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39874466
GitHub/GitLab can generate tarballs from specific git commits, and those are cacheable and don’t change (when GitHub deployed some changes to the format, many places noticed and GitHub had to undo the changes).
I'd PSA recommend anyone just add 0.25mm fit clearance to every single mating surfaces within their designs. It's not ISO or anything compliant - somewhere between Atrocious and Enormous range and perhaps an mechanical equivalent of Python code with no __main__, but just works for me, and it should for lots of purposes.
>I know the idiom, but [that] was ambiguous in your original comment.

I thought (incorrectly, apparently) that was made clear by the context and quote.

Perhaps you're not as fluent as you think.

And you're welcome. I can be paternalistic as well as patronizing if you like.
Microsoft is working on an Xbox AI chatbot
This includes the sources of all the Debian packages.

In general this is a good idea, and it is close to how nixpkgs works (which is, in some sense, a "distributed monorepo"), but git, the Debian tooling and so on wouldn't actually be able to support a good workflow here.
At 1.4 Nm torque, the main motors would likely struggle manipulating a 0.5 kg item, they aren't strong enough to hold a monitor.
Why use submodules when you can properly vendor the upstream git, and export/import commits without breaking hashes on either side?

https://github.com/josh-project/josh

We've been using josh at TVL for years and it's just amazing.
The parent referred to "questionable" (i.e., unsigned) tarballs.

Your answer, while excellent, is answering a question that wasn't asked.
Actually, genetic studies found that Al-Andalus did leave a sizable admixture behind.

Lots of references here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_Iberian...
We have seen this before...
Out of curiosity, why does this work better for you?

I used to do a similar thing using a Docker container on a Raspberry Pi, but being able to run this on any OS and with a guarantee that it won’t accidentally mess up the host’s routing table makes the user space solution a much better choice in my view.
Plenty of open source maintainers spend only a few hours a month on their projects.

For many projects, that is enough to become the main contributor.
They might try - that's why it's important if you're generating + committing generated code that you also have a CI step that runs before merging anything which ensures that the generated code is up-to-date and rejects any change request where generated code is out of date.

Mostly this helps with people simply forgetting to re-run the generator in their PR but it's a useful defence against people trying to smuggle things into the generated files, too!
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Same. I was hoping to be wrong in my cynicism but…
Software projects will outlive git. Mine has gone CVS -> Monotone -> Mercurial -> Git over 20 years, it'll probably move again. But you can still download the tarballs from any of the releases made with those various systems, and they still have the same sha1sum (or now sha256sum).

Making reproducible tarballs from VCS isn't hard - with the advice from https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/ (and requiring gnu tar) it's possible to get byte exact output from both Mercurial or git mirrors, on both Linux and MacOS. Put that in the github CI and it's reasonably difficult to subvert (compare against a local build too at release time).

It would be nice if "git archive" had guarantees about archive format, and if the github "download a tar.gz" matched that, but it doesn't seem to be the case at present.
The Jigar Kumar nudges are so incredibly rude. I would have banned the account, but perhaps they contributed something positive as well that isn't mentioned.

I wonder if it would be possible to crowdsource FOSS mailing list moderation.
> Git history can be changed with a simple command and is unreliable.

Not if other people have cloned your repo. That's the whole point of having a distributed VCS. Your repo is no longer the single source of truth because other repos remember what truth looked like 3 days, 3 months, 3 years ago. You renounce the right to dictate truth as you wish, and gain trust in exchange.

I don't understand why this idea comes up again and again: "You trust the developer, you might as well trust the code they distribute." That makes no sense. Why do you trust them in the first place? Do you know them? Have you met them in person, had a few beers with them? Or is your trust merely based on their past performance as an open-source developer? If it's the latter, whether they have been willing to work in a way that facilitates independent inspection and verification of their output should be a very important factor in whether you should trust them at all. Hardware vendors who dump opaque binary blobs at the kernel's doorstep tend not to receive much respect, after all.
unfortunately there's no way to "opt out" of the hell we've created for ourselves so coping mechanisms which make it even slightly bearable are the only thing we can hope for at this point
Is this not something that can be addressed with cameras and (maybe) learnt approaches now? You don't need blind repeatability if you've got good visual monitoring to close the control loop, you just (just!) need good accuracy and low latency from video to motor control.
Terry's Tea Making Simulator
I was looking at electroactive polymers (EAPs) and I could not find a single company with consumer pricing...

I wish there was more visibility here without requiring a PhD.
Once I had an Internet cable that stopped for a while whenever I turned on the microwave (understandable), and also stopped when started raining. The trickiest part was that it turned off just for a while and ONLY at the beginning of the rain.

I called the telecom company many times. They charge per visit in case no problem is found. I always had to explain the situation and ask the technician not to charge me and come when it started raining, a very hard thing to do because we cannot predict forecast and the network went down for 10 min only.

It does not seem a big problem, after all, I could just wait 10 minutes. After this happened multiple times a day every rainy week, making me lose meetings, work, server connections, etc... I had to patiently chase the telecom company and even ask for the personal phone numbers of technicians (to ping them when it was going to rain) until they finally found a solution.
Sorry, by "they" I mean "Debian and Fedora", which (when including derivatives) include most Linux systems which use a Linux distro in the standard sense.
Guix does provide a guix challenge command to verify that the binaries correspond to the source code [0].

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...
Is nixpkgs really a monorepo as usually discussed? It's got packages, os modules, and some supporting scripts. Nix itself lives in a different place, so does the RFC planning, system artwork and a few other things. I would expect it all together to become a monorepo.

> even though they have far fewer maintainers than Debian.

Debian has ~1.5k contributors, nixpkgs lists >3.5k maintainers. (Although that list is not pruned over time)
3 years ago I would've stupidly agreed with you. Not right now.
A list of only-archive-published projects will be interesting. 7-Zip is another. Regarding that .git web directory, is there an existent tool/script that does something similar to `git clone` for it?
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I could really use something like this but with more USB-A ports
I think its less maintenance and more for pinning versions of software to ensure stability. I guess that comes with maintaining a package manager like apt.

Definitely with you on not realizing it was a joke at first. Don't google have a company wide mono repo, that I'd guess includes all search and chrome? Or is that just an urban legend?
A lifetime under the Moon's shadow
I found this link on Zhihu: https://www.zhihu.com/question/650826484
We could create and hash the tarball from git and compare it to the released tarball, even if it wasn't originally signed. We could even use Merkle trees (perhaps combining with find) to ensure that individual files were unchanged.

At least then we could verify that the tarball was derived from that exact git commit.
It might work if AI stops producing random output and bullshit (which proponents call hallucinations to make it sound nice), and produces correct responses deterministically. Which may take forever.
No, what doesn’t make sense is you.

The guy made it obvious he was struggling. He needed somebody to take it over and someone came to his ‘rescue’… and he trusted every single change they brought.

Why am I saying that you don’t make sense? …because you haven’t even suggested a single resolution. You attack me even though I’m saying it how it is.

Now how about making use of your reply and suggesting something more useful? Because the status quo is actually what led to this, people just ignoring the issue and leaving the guy to his devices when his heart clearly isn’t in it.

Can I remind everyone that the entire world was nearly hacked?
It's interesting how they work to gain trust: just finance movies like Sicario so people accept they have no other option but to break the law. And of course they only want to serve the interest of the nation, not their selfish interests or private interests. Next movies will probably justify how they have to run the country. Just like the greatest ally in the Middle East does, where most presidents come from intelligence. War is peace.
Ubisoft pulls the plug on The Crew, game not playable from April 1, 2024
I always liked Datadog as a product but it's also true that it is simply way too expensive if you don't spend significant time cost optimizing.
But hosting it myself doesn't really seem like a great solution, I rather invest time in making my app robust than making my monitoring stable.
Defining crazy is a weird thing. Most people don't hear voices in their head (unless its chalked up to a religious experience), so hearing voices is on the list of things that make one "crazy."

If its all about what is normal, actually caring about the things you mentioned are indeed crazy. Growing your own food, or even knowing where your food comes from, is then also crazy. Ironically, not taking any prescription pills is also on the list of taking crazy pills, as I think the last stat I saw was that something like 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug and a little over 50% are on two or more.

Normal today is a very strange thing, in my opinion.
Yeah, that part struck me as something we should be able to block - the number of times where you actually want that must be small enough to make it practical do something like write-protect pages with a small exception list.
Hunting up-to-date Wikidata datasets
Hello there! Does anyone know of / is working on Wikidata datasets that are regularly updated and easy to verify? In the vein of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Heads_of_state_and_government/lists/current_heads
> the RLHF data isn't

There are open sources of RLHF data - for example, the LMSys Chatbot Arena dataset (for same prompt two different responses along with which the human preferred), ShareGPT

It also isn’t hard to use existing leading AIs like GPT-4 or Claude-3 to generate synthetic RLHF datasets. They’ll put words in their terms of service to say you can’t use a dataset generated in that way to a train a competing model, but their ability to enforce those terms in practice is very open to question
Nah, while the list of good things they’ve done is getting shorter, they have pushed the pace in a few areas utterly consistent with their ostensible mandate and they deserve credit for it:

- whisper is really useful, it has good applications in strictly socially positive settings (accessibility as one example), and its scope for abuse is very consistent with how they’ve opened up the weights. the whisper people either still are, or until recently were, doing the right thing.
- the TTS stuff is a little less cut and dried, but TTS is among the more potentially dangerous capability increases, and I can see an argument for going a little slower there, for a number of reasons. I still think they’re behind on opening that up, but the voice group has a case there, even if it is thin and I personally disagree.
- the detection stuff, they were pushing the pace on tools researchers and institutions need. they deserve the same credit for doing that, which I’m giving them, as blame for pulling it, which I’m giving them. that was consistent with their stated mandate.

If you’re going to criticize and institution stridently to the point of calling it a menace, as I am, you are held to a higher standard on being fair, and I acknowledge the good and positive and non-remunerative work, or at lead the headline stuff.

Turning off the good stuff is one more really, really red flag.
my takeaway is that our tech overlords praise science to the sky while making statements that are not scientific at all and bet their enormous resources on it.
Unfortunately, I've pulled and built the PR branches and have only seen about a 5% speed increase on a modern zen4 EPYC system. Hardly front-page worthy news.

Its too bad there doesn't seem to be anyone else in this thread trying to actually replicate the results to evaluate these claims on their merits.
You can be downvoted for anything. Walk it off :)
I've been using Liferea [1] for years, and while it doesn't do automated content analysis, it does allow you to group feeds into folders, then get an aggregated view of the folder as a whole. It also allows "search folders", which are saved cross-feed searches that are exposed through the same folder interface.

I use Liferea as my desktop client, but with TT-RSS running on my VPS as the underlying data source.

[1]: https://lzone.de/liferea/ https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea
Nice writeup and i agree that for most of the time the EU was peaceful alliance focussed on achieving closer economic integration among their members. But these days, i wonder how come, that the EU in tight cooperation with NATO and the US come to support a nation, that is in no way a contracted member of any of these organisations. The EUs' lack in living up to their democratic promises surfaces in a obvious way. Since no citizen was asked if he agrees to spending a fortune on funding and military prepping of a non-member state for a conventional war. The decision to do so, was taken way back in-between 2007-2014 when it must have been clear to every involved diplomat, that Putins position on the Ukraine had already been made very clear within his speech at the NATO-summit in 2007. So one might get the impression that some new form of 'Great Game' has just begun. And NATO - on the brink of not-beeing-needed any longer in a such peaceful Europe, now can live-up again, protecting us from russian tanks. The EU has obviously funds to support military plannings and actions outside its borders - and happily decided to distribute payments it received from its legal members among non-members. No EU-citizen has been asked if he agrees to such adventures - a bet that is how i'd like to call it.
The EU-parliament - a misnomer, since this gremium has no legal power to introduce legislation, which is regarded the major characteristic of any credible parliament.
So the argument of economic-cooperation guarantees peace does not hold any longer - if its true, that the EU wants to expand its territory (welcoming a new member state) by using force.
The only thing to prevent the EU from overstepping their legal and geographic bounds would be citizen pools - and those EU-wide polls have sadly failed, which is why the EU decided not to do any further polls ;) Sure we'll have a election this year, but make no mistake about what the outcome might be. Chances for peace on the new eastern frontier are slim, since this conflict has become a challenge to demonstrate military and economic-power.
Last week a group of high ranked german military officials were caught in working out a strategy to perform a covert-action on foreign grounds. I wonder what happened to the paragraph in our foundation, that states clearly, that supporting - even planing of actions that lead to war is a major crime.
This is what german law §26 has to say ::

"Handlungen, die geeignet sind und in der Absicht vorgenommen werden, das friedliche Zusammenleben der Völker zu stören, insbesondere die Führung eines Angriffskrieges vorzubereiten, sind verfassungswidrig. Sie sind unter Strafe zu stellen."

and in criminal law §80 states ::

"Wer einen Angriffskrieg (Artikel 26 Abs. 1 des Grundgesetzes), an dem die Bundesrepublik Deutschland beteiligt sein soll, vorbereitet und dadurch die Gefahr eines Krieges für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland herbeiführt, wird mit lebenslanger Freiheitsstrafe oder mit Freiheitsstrafe nicht unter zehn Jahren bestraft."
Agree, though I prefer B2B SaaS and someone who has a very solid B2B sales background and, at least, a good idea. This seems to be hard to find.
There are a lot of valid things mentioned in the article. HOWEVER, the most important thing missing is that the idea should be VALIDATED before even starting to build anything.

If a business founder did their research and has a line of people just waiting to get hands on the product, then he can simply get a loan and build the damn thing because the money is just there on the street waiting to be picked up.

So many times people start with the build without making sure there is market for their product - that is the original sin of any startup.
> But what exactly are you even asking the banks to do?

I don’t think I’m asking banks to do anything in that comment.

What I am trying to do is set out a problem statement, and given your knowledge (and handle), I’d greatly appreciate your input on it:

1. Banks have a powerful ability to determine which projects happen and which don’t through the credit mechanism. Because often times no credit = no project.

2. When projects are evaluated on narrow financial criteria, wealth can be destroyed rather than made. The project will create free cashflow and the loan will be repaid, but the credit issuance process will not take into account whether the project is a net benefit to human wealth across other important metrics such as environmental and human heath.

3. To avoid the competition issue, governments could regulate to change market rules, but banks themselves frustrate this by lobbying against change.

If we have agreement on a problem statement, then we are in a position to discuss responses. Your response might well be do nothing, but that should be justified to be credible.
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Show HN: Rig, the Zero Magic, Zero Dependency Build System
Announcement: https://yzena.com/2024/04/rig-24.04.00-has-been-released/

Okay, it's not zero dependency, but it does only need a C99 compiler and some way to run a command. (C11 preferred, though.)

Anyway, after more than three years of work, Rig is finally ready because it can build itself on non-Windows platforms. (Windows support only needs to figure out how to access the compiler.)

Rig's website: https://rigbuild.dev/

That website has the docs as well, but for anyone who can contact me [1], feel free to do so if the docs are not sufficient for how you want to try it; I will do my best to make Rig work for you as quickly as I can.

FAQ: https://rigbuild.dev/rig-faq/

The FAQ will answer the questions I already thought of, including a lot of license questions, because Rig is not FOSS, but SAMS [2]. If I refer to Rig as FOSS somewhere, I'm sorry; it's historical accident. Tell me, and I'll fix it.

Note that while Rig is a commercial project, everyone, including any company, is free to try it for 30 days, and as long as companies meet the criteria for contacting me, I am open to helping them with Rig for free for 30 days.

Also included with Rig is Yao, a language that could be used to replace bash scripts with less bugs.

[1]: https://yzena.com/contact/

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/is-source-available-really-t...
It's really very extreme. Even with Apple, which is traditionally viewed as one of the more cult-adjacent tech companies, the user community was generally, say, pretty derisive of "you're holding it wrong". I can't think of another example of a company which has such an extreme assumption of infallibility by its fans; it's usually more something you see from actual bona fide cults.
Another unikernel.

I wonder how mature is that.
> become your own technical cofounder.

Eh, maybe. Software is legitimately challenging and time consuming to learn. Especially for people to whom math doesn’t come naturally.

Sure, it doesn’t take too long to learn how to throw together a crappy website. But building a business on top of beginner skills would be like trying to compose the score for a movie after 6 months of piano lessons. You can do it, but the output will be visibly crap.

I agree a lot more with the advice in this blog post. If you’re struggling to hire a technical cofounder, find someone who knows their craft well and hire them.
I felt the same, but to be fair to the author, the information was probably buried in the back of their mind too - when you've had a set up like this for years, many of its details become invisible to yourself, part of "obvious" background information that your mind doesn't bother bringing to the forefront.
The article makes some good points, but at the same time, hiring somebody to built the first version of your product is maybe even harder. Especially if you don't have a technical background it is really hard to judge whether what they built makes any sense. The initial trade-offs of what to built and where to take short-cuts requires somebody with technical insight. That first proto-type that you are building to throw away ends of course up being the first product you ship.
Should we incorporate prior to applying to YC?
Hi, i have a genuine question. My Co-Founder and I have great jobs and would be transitioning to our startup idea full time only in case we get pre-seed funding.
If we don't get pre-seed we would shelf the idea or keep or work in with much slower tempo.
Incorporating without pre-seed investment already being agreed would generate unwanted cost for us.
What should we do? Apply to YC, then incorporate if we get in or should we eat the cost and incorporate prior to applying?
Thanks
At best they could determine something was wrong, maybe that they were tired more than they should be, and would have to go to a doctor for answers. I very much doubt anyone could go "Yup, I have pancreatic cancer." It's really hoping that someone could pick up very slight symptoms, and I don't think that they'll always be as apparent as you'd hope. It almost feels like victim blaming to say that if they'd just been more in touch they could have detected the barely detectable. Are there any examples of someone detecting pancreatic cancer early on their own?