skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia mentions their impact on U.S. fundraising law, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelList

In mid-2012, Naval Ravikant and Kevin Laws, AngelList's chief operating officer, were active in Washington in his support for the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), a law that eased many of the United States' securities regulations with the aim of making it easier for companies to either go public or to remain private longer while continuing to raise capital.

Some stats, https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/28/angellist-expands-into-pri...

Assets supported for investors on AngelList increased by 50% to $15 billion year-over-year in 2022.. [AngelList] turned to venture to fund its own growth — raising a $100 million Series B co-led by Tiger Global and Accomplice at a $4 billion valuation.. AngelList has 130 employees.
> In contrast licenses like the LGPL for example talk about having to supply the means to rebuild it and such. What that means exactly and where it begins and ends? That's for a judge to decide.

That... makes sense? Otherwise you could release your Free Software and at the same time create a proprietary compiler that cannot be reverse engineered because it would break your IP, but hey, you can license it at a nice recurring fee and you are still producing Free Software!
> In some ways America’s short memory is a strength. It keeps us from getting caught up in stupid ancient conflicts like the Middle East. America tends to at least mostly move on. But it also means we walk around in this perpetual fugue state not understanding why anything is happening.

I recently heard that depressed people are unable to habituate to things. I think I might be very depressed because I was never able to accept the increasing inequality, pointless wars against "terror" (how do you ever win a war against an emotion/concept?), surveillance/ad-driven capitalism, and environmental degradation. I feel like I'm the one taking crazy pills.
For better or worse, TV is paid for by advertisers. On the upside, that does put some limits on how objectionable the content can be before nobody's willing to pay for its distribution.
How do you get "Jigar Kumar"'s email address?

I can't seem to find it in the (web version of) the maillist.

Another question:

What is the typo exactly in this commit? I can't seem to find it.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=a100f9111c8...
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Party of the benefit of funding through platforms like AngelList is not having to deal with questions from 25 different investors, and instead having one, freeing your time up to work on the business instead of having to respond to 25 different well intentioned but not fully plugged in investors.
> Somewhat funnily both Airbus and their suppliers have a much harder time firing staff, due to stricter EU employment regulations, meaning that they unintentionally were better off when demand started up again, nevertheless Airbus and suppliers are currently hiring massively as well.

I don't think stability is unintentional. You can see how France economically always "lags behind" other economies in good times, but is also barely affected in bad times. On average, over time, it just performs like the rest of the EU.
JavaScript Visualized – Promise Execution
Future proofing for when they evolve into flying foxes! You'll need the extra degrees of freedom
Yes, ChatGPT is a great learning resource, great for fearless exploration, and is available 0-24 and scalable (whereas the usual maintainers are, unfortunately more often than not, the diametrical opposite of these).

The big elephant in the room problem is that software/tech/opensource is this Schroedinger's safest cat.

Because on one hand we have 3-redundant hardware and independent implementations and we can go to the moon and back with it, and let it drive our cars, and we have LetsEncrypt, and browsers pushing for TLS1.3 everywhere, and Civil Infrastructure Platform with all the extended lifetime, Jepsen tests, and TLA+ and rewriting the world in Rust ... and on the other hand billions of people blindly download/open anything on their Android 6 device with expired root TLS certs and running unpatched Linux checks notes 3.18.10 ... WTF.

Sure, that might not be the most apples-to-apples comparison (or maybe it's apples v2 to v42), but this is mostly the reality everywhere ... I have very good friends working in ITsec (from managers to bugbounty-reapers), and ... things are highly comical.

It's the whole culture that's lacking. Sure, it's relatively new, a mere decade basically, so we'll see. (And incidents like this are definitely raising awareness, maybe even "vindicating" some people who boldly said fuck this shit upon seeing autoconf/automake/make/configure and started to write yet another build system.)

All in all, the pressure is rising, which will probably lead to some phase transition, and maybe - if we are lucky - systems and platform with top-to-bottom secure-by-default engineering mindset will start to precipitate out of this brewing chaos. (And this might make it even less fun to do open source maintenance.)
You can see where the “library” is used. Often the bit you want to change is only used by your project so you can change it freely. If someone else is using it you know who to talk to about changing it.
Nice story! My guess was on either the water cooling an overheated device, or weight of water bending the roof on which the antenna is attached.
Didn’t Redis Labs do the exact same thing? They took redis which was free and made it commercial?

And now they complain about AWS? Fwiw - I think an earlier post had pointed out that from the commit history AWS had been contributing significant code back to the open source.
The git repository has been scanned by many eyes. People, other than the authors, do read the source code on GitHub or clone/fork the repo and try to build / modify when they want to contribute. By contrast, almost no one reads through the tarball contents. They just assume that it is essential the same as the git repo.
Will dbt adopt a proprietary licence? I think so
"You won't find us on AltaVista"
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898619
Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid
> low cost robot platform able to follow people and carry stuff around and avoid obstacles.

So, basically autonomous self-driving mini vehicle. Сompanies spend billions on self-driving cars with quite limited luck.
Yes, that is kind of the point. The internet is full of bullies and that isn’t going to change - his heart wasn’t in it and he had bad judgement. He was played, I get it, but I know a tonne of professions where you’d be out the door if you messed up on that scale.
You would probably get reasonable results from simply feeding the POSIX grammar to lrparsing[1], but unfortunately it doesn’t look like there’s much support in it for lexer feedback (aka the “lexer hack”), which you’ll need for the regular expression syntax. It’s likely possible to hack that in, but I don’t know how much work it’d be.

[1] https://lrparsing.sourceforge.net/
In languages like C++ and Rust the majority of objects have trivial lifetimes and don't need reference counting at all. It is less than 0.1% of heap objects that need to be tracked by Rc/Arc, and even for them the reference updates are usually rare - like only at the moment of creating a new thread / task / request etc.

Hence, even if per object the cost of RC may be higher than tracing, the fact that there are 1000x fewer objects to manage makes RC a huge win. I guess Swift is also not that stupid and doesn't update the references every time a temporary is created, etc.
Your software will still "lose" cents if you use integers, for operations such as dividing a bill (e.g. divide by 3), or applying 3% APR in monthly increments.

The goal is not to avoid rounding errors (which would be quite difficult when the true account value can be an irrational number, as with 3% APR compounding monthly), but to have the exact same rounding errors that are prescribed by the accounting practices. Which may vary depending on legislation.

A decimal floating point is usually a better starting point than integers are.
Reproducible builds could help here, perhaps.

If GitHub's CI runners and GitLab's CI runners (for example) are producing the same tarballs, that's probably a good sign.
Please stop gluing 3 servos together and claiming you built a robot :D

(servos motion is quite jerky, that is why they don't have a video showing off this "robot" operating)
"oops, our bad, we'll improve security"

It won't end their business and it's currently a single point of failure.

Having and checking pgp signatures would mean the developer and Microsoft/GitHub have to both get compromised, which is a risk I'd much more readily take than github never ever getting compromised for security-critical software like ssh or its dependencies

Edit: realised this isn't true unless github starts doing code reviews. The developer can still always push anything. But by having digital signatures, you could require both devs to OK a change or release. Or, at least not everything is compromised if github is compromised: every developer would have to be compromised separately to forge all signatures. Using github as the single point of trust seems like an exceedingly large problem waiting to happen at least once in our lifetimes
Here is our approach: From Markdown to a Docusaurus Website via GitHub, gh Actions, and gh pages

https://baky0905.github.io/personal-website/blog/2021/04/02/...
I never realized how the late Bronze Age collapse still plays out today. As Steve Jobs said, A players hire other A players, but B players hire Sea People and it doesn’t take long for things to get a lot worse.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/391717-steve-jobs-has-a-say...
Ah, I was wrong assuming that npm is cloning every git repo of the dependencies.
"Given that the Greens have been shutting down nuclear plants due to general fear of nuclear technology" - so true... Something that Greens do not want to admit today. For long, long years they were fighting nuclear, thanks to them people who wanted to work in the are of nuclear energy field were treated like Holocaust deniers.

Maybe one day someone will calculate how much money was spent on fighting nuclear energy (all those grants, donations, etc.) that led us to only one outcome: today exactly the same people are taking again grants and donations. This time to fight global warming (sorry, now we should say "climate catastrophe" as warming does not sound scary enough).
Potentially stupid question: did she work with them and watched them live or is there some kind of recording?
It's no mystery why companies hate AGPL. It's a hugely risky license that can, in some cases, endanger entire companies.

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
Games with anti-cheat, Adobe apps, a few apps for work that only run on Windows
Very sloppily written and striking for the lack of real progress but promises it will come.

"I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness. It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die"

That is quite a prediction, and quite a guess.

"One influential camp was made up of spiritualists, some of them evangelical Christians"

I know what it means in this context, but often in a general religious context "spiritualist" refers to a specific set of beliefs that are significantly different from those of evangelical Christians (or Christians in general for that matter).

"If the field of near-death studies is at the threshold of new discoveries about consciousness and death, it is in large part because of a revolution in our ability to resuscitate people who have suffered cardiac arrest. Lance Becker has been a leader in resuscitation science for more than 30 years"

SO we have a greater volume of data, but if that data is just more of the same it is hard to see how it will lead to breakthroughs.

The one thing that we know that is different is that brain function can be restored after the brain essentially stops: it is not a dynamic system that loses stuff it if it does not keep running - its not keeping essential stuff in something analogous to RAM. It is not proof that there is anything beyond the brain (I happen to think there is, but its no scientifically proven by a long way).
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While we are speculating, there was this case of university students trying to introduce malicious commits in the kernel in order to test open source to such attack vectors. Perhaps this was similar "research" by some students.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/04/22/phd-students-willful...
Even though current specification only covers the Build track, complying with Build L3 would greatly benefit the software industry.

And future directions[0] include Source track that is supposed to to prevent a single compromised actor or account from introducing malicious changes.

[0] - https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/future-directions
Sure, the goal of these employment laws is to create stability at the cost of a more dynamic market (Startups are very hard to do in the EU for some of those reasons). Although at the time Airbus would have liked to lay of many more employees, but couldn't. Which ultimately benefitted them.

Also, such labor laws exist in Germany as well which is Airbuses other big country.
Related—I still use my old iPhone 5s with Libby, WNYC, and SoundCloud apps—all for streaming audio.

SoundCloud made an update last year, and something broke. I emailed the support line at SoundCloud and it was shortly fixed. Can’t say they ‘support’ iPhone 5’s, but they didn’t balk.
Certainly there's nothing in FOSS that mandates source control, but source control is one of the most important technologies discovered for developing software, and I'd be hard pressed to imagine a justification for relying on software that didn't use it.
> why they didnt say "removed from our servers" rather than "removed from the internet"

The data is on servers "not on the Internet"?
Deep dive of Agilex 5 Architecture
Qt slowly replaces all LGPL code with GPL/Commercial code. For example, they will remove Qt3D in a future release[0] and the replacement is QtQuick3d that is GPL/Commercial.

Most of new modules are GPL/Commercial only:

- QtGraphs (rewrite of the old QtGraphs that was also GPL/Commercial only)

- QtQuick3d

- QtWebAssembly

- QtProtobuf

- QtHttpServer

- Quick Timeline

- Qt Lottie

[0] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2024-Marc...
This is very different. wireproxy seems to contain a userspace implementation of TCP and Wireguard. soks looks like an IP router than can only handle TCP, replacing routing tables as the control mechanism with something that decides to use or not use a SOCKS5 proxy.
Why streamers are shrinking their content libraries
The problem is, this became a behavior that is encouraged. Whether posting job ad is free or payed, a lot of companies do this to gain additional exposure, advertising themselves actually via job ad.

As an HR professional, I have seen this happening more and more. To add insult to the wound, most of those companies never respond to applications.

The whole point around it is that is cheaper to use job posting ad to advertise yourself than to pay real advertisement in form of banner or sponsored text ad. Most of those come minimum retention date, and are a lot more expensive.
I had no idea there was a Make standard library. Very cool, looking forward to using this in future projects.
I have found JiaT75 - Jia Tan mentioned in Microsoft C++, C, and Assembler as an community contributor ... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/overview/whats-new-cpp...

Also check this... https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/64.23.252.16
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This would be ideal, but what percentage of the world's population can afford the hardware required for that?
> but it was still the language used for diplomatic purposes as far away as the Aegean Sea and the Egyptian imperial court.

And also the language in general use in southern Mesopotamia, presumably subject to historical changes.

Note that while the various states in that region didn't call themselves "the Akkadians", they did tend to claim the title by giving their king the very traditional royal honor "King of Sumer and Akkad". By the twelfth century BC, the title was attached to Babylon.
Given that the US isn't a perfect capitalist system (i.e. what supports of capitalism often refer to as corporatocracy or crony capitalism) why would you assume that he didn't do the closest thing to illegal that he could get away with if it was most profitable to do so?

That said, the actual reason for his philanthropy seems to be fairly well documented: he did almost all of his philanthropy in the last two decades of his life (i.e. past what we would now call the age of retirement) and he was regarded as a shrewd business man up to that point and is now instead remembered as a generous philanthropist instead. So in other words, it was a very successful PR campaign to establish his personal legacy to survive his physical existence (i.e. "to secure his legacy" as the comment you originally replied to stated).

That said, he was also supportive of the ideas of progressive taxation and an estate tax, so the philanthropy may have simply been an act of last resort to part with his money when the government won't take it away through taxation. In that light it sounds more like his philanthropy aimed to meet the needs the welfare system failed to address. This is very different from the kind of philanthropy most billionaires (or "tycoons") get/got up to who are often very much against being taxed more (sometimes even despite publicly stating the opposite).
Another fun story is the "My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla ice cream": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21779857
What do you think is missing from the "standard library" as of ES2024?

That's a complaint I've heard since ES3 if not earlier and the trend ever since ES2015 has been to address that so I'm genuinely wondering what you think the JS "standard library" (aka built-ins) is lacking right now.

Given the different environments JS runs in these days, I'm also okay with extending the definition of "standard library" to "things browsers should have as built-ins" or "things Node.js should offer as a built-in module".
I see that different clients implemented in different languages will need different client-libraries and maintaining all that is not something, a core project is going to do but if using the raw protocol instead of the convenience of libsystemd is a (commonly ignored) recommendation which makes a lot of sense in terms of segmentation, providing at least one reference implementation would point all systemd users into the right direction.
Recommending that each client should just implement the (trivial) protocol access itself does not make so much sense to me.
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For the curious, "do be do be do" is a seminal paper in the literature on algebraic effects that introduces frank, quirky little language that has algebraic effects but not handlers, at least in the traditional sense.

Traditionally, an effect handler is an interpreter for a stream of commands, conforming to a specific interface. Generally, handlers surface in languages as a sort of generalized try/catch mechanism, that receive a "callback" to resume the "exception" that produced the command. In frank, not so.

Frank is based around the idea of operators, which generalize functions with the capability of interpreting multiple streams of commands. A plain function can be seen, in fact, as the special case of an operator that interprets no commands.

Operators are organized around ports and pegs. Pegs are the set of side effects that a computation needs. Each port is an offer to extend that set for downstream callers. Instead of building up a union of effects that each function needs, Frank propogated ambient ability inwards. Operators can then be composed based on the ports and pegs they offer.

operator: <port>X → [peg]Y

This works partially because operators are shallow handlers and not deep handlers. Handlers interpret commands: if the handler itself is in scope when interpreting a command, then the language is said to have deep handlers. Frank has shallow handlers, meaning that commands are interpreted in an environment without the handling operator present. Shallow handlers give greater control to the programmer with respect to how commands are interpreted: operators can propagate ambient ability, or choose not to.

(This is a bad explanation because you already need to know what I'm talking about to understand what I'm talking about, but oh well.)

My one critism of frank is that the effect model is kinda hard for the working programmer to understand. I can explain Koka effects as "exceptions plus multiple resumption". I don't really have a categorical phrase for frank, and that's its innovation. This isn't so much a criticism but a plea for the pedagogical ramp to this research to improve.

do be do be do.

If you're still curious, check out the compiler github repo:

https://github.com/frank-lang/frank

And if anything is wrong in the above explanation, please correct me, because we all benefit from Cunningham's Law in the end. Allow me to be the fool.