skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they are definitely making progress but that's clearly not the most open ecosystem. for example there is no open source debugger available (there is netcoredbg which is community maintained and lack important features or there is the vscode one which is licensed as "you need an official vscode version to use it, even vscodium can't use it")
Vacuum energy is the product of the uncertainty principle though - the Casimir force is the result of the fact that in any given volume of free space there's a certain number of standing electromagnetic waves which could fit, and thanks to quantum mechanics these are in fact quite real.

Put a pair of parallel conducting plates between a given bounded volume though, and interesting thing happens: while shorter, higher energy standing waves can still fit between them, the longer, lower energy ones cannot.

As a result, there is now no longer an unbounded number of virtual photons between the inside plates and the outside ones, and this manifests as a very slight force on the plates because you now have a higher energy on the outside then on the inside. But it's a lossy process: the plates can only exclude longer, lower energy wavelengths, so there's a very finite upper bound on how much energy any given arrangement of this system can produce since as you move the plates closer together the remaining energy inside grows much faster then the energy outside (shorter virtual wavelengths).

If you're wondering how this affects you: it's all around you. Vacuum energy - the Casimir force - is believed to account for most of the force known to be due to van der Waal's forces in chemistry - i.e. the basic force which sticks non-ionic, non-covalent things together. The difficulty of removing dust for example, is being driven by that.

EDIT: "Dark Energy" - which is what's being discussed here, is very different.
I think it's important to understand that consent was indeed given, and most users likely understood that they did not own any non-copyrightable portion of their user-generated content.

Rather, the conversation should focus on how to improve parsing of ToS (I personally believe we should use symbolic labeling like we do with food), as well as regulation around what terms can change for content which was generated under the premise of an older ToS.

OP's statement, "It's immediately and self-evidently obvious that no end-user in 2007 consented to photos of their 2007 era teenage self being used to train an AI how to identify an emo kid," is simply false. Many, if not most users, understood that they gave permission for their UGC to be used to improve the services. This is what I am rebuking.
Your term may not map cleanly to a single OOP class, and it may also be used in other function/variable names. There's also how you will express yourself in the code comments.

I mean, I'm guessing the dictionary is not just for nouns, but also verbs and adverbs. What will "transact" usually mean in this codebase? What will "safely" mean?
Apple and Microsoft are competing on who can make the worst UX in the desktop arena. Window management is so bad in osx and I refuse to pay for add-ons to make things slightly better when Linux and the small galaxy of window managers have been doing it so well, and for free, for literally decades.
And they would genuinely believe Xen is secure from NSA. Qubes is fun because it locks you into Intel processors; manufacturer notorious for sending cease-and-desist letters to researchers who had attempted to disable IME.
Probably because basecamp is a product by 37Signals
Some HN folks here are so thin skinned that they down vote a reference to Strunk and White?
300A of current is going through the wire, at high voltage - that's the transmission current. Drone is not charging directly from that, it lacks a ground / other phase connection to directly tap into the wire voltage (also, it lacks a... power substation and a bunch of other stuff to step down and convert the high-voltage AC from the line to low-voltage DC for the battery). Instead it uses an induction charger that "leeches" off of the magnetic field of the wire. If the wire current is higher, the magnetic field is stronger, so it can pull more power than the currently possible 50W.
Factuality: An LLM based fact checker for any text
AI trained on Van Gogh's works turns selfies into Post-Impressionist portraits
Sounds a lot like making people more machine-like. I hate stuff like this. If we have to do stuff like this to "function" in the world, then we have already lost our humanity. Our world should not be so obsessed by productivity in the first place.
Are you always using full screen apps? If you are, yeah it’s bad. If you got a big enough screen, know the shortcuts, and you are not using full screen apps, macOS is untouchable.
Yup, Linux was just patches and a sequence of tarballs.

Another weird one is a distributed version control system over UUCP [1]. Although not distributed in the modern sense

[1] O'Donovan, Brian, and Jane B. Grimson. "A distributed version control system for wide area networks." Software Engineering Journal 5.5 (1990): 255-262.
> I don’t disagree much with the paper’s premise, except that I am turned off whenever there is a handy new tool for us to use and then some people come up with reasons why using the new tool is a harmful thing to do.

I get turned off when people invent new tools.
Some (sub)orbital geopolitics don't seem to have changed much in 8 decades:

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German oder English I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese" says Wernher von Braun

(for countdowns in a Japanese translation, see "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise")

Someone on HN convinced me recently that "Hitler in his Bunker" was on the looney side, but up until then the only non-looney explanation I had found for his behaviour was that he had been hoping he could sell germany wholesale either to the US[0] or to the USSR, not anticipating they would actually stay allied until after the war, each picking up the bits[1] they wanted retail (Operations Paperclip and Осоавиахим, respectively).

[0] had the Sportpalast speech been given in 1953 instead of 1943, the "only we are protecting the West against communism" shtick might have gone over much better in the States.

[1] it turns out that developing not just rockets but also jets is far less useful when, logistically speaking, you no longer have much oil and can no longer refine or synthesise sufficient jet fuel.

(someday I'd like to figure out how much early-50's graph theory may have been just the first unclassified publication of network analyses developed during the war for strategic bombing purposes; compare Kantorovich' development and application of linear programming during the Siege of Leningrad)

Linebarger relates that at the end of WWII, when getting Nazi units to surrender, they had difficulties[2] because although the officer corps was aware how operationally screwed they were, morale in the ranks was still high.

[2] supposedly the difficulties decreased after the psychological warfare operators created an official looking "surrender form", in the blanks of which soldiers could fill in their name, birthplace and Jahrgang, occupation, etc. etc. then provide, dutifully filled out, to Allied units. As an anglophone, it's certainly plausible, but maybe those are just my stereotypes speaking?
This is super exciting! The bit about being able to chain methods and have it only make one request is wild!
As for someone who grew up in post-soviet 90ties with Disney comics and would like to get to know what the other kids (and adults) of the world were reading - what would you suggest me to search for?
Frouros: An open-source Python library for drift detection in machine learning
Amazon pulls new Fire TV feature to investigate its possible security concern
Why not simply use an example that isn't confusing? Many developers, and especially academics, love wasting effort and time on solving issues they made up but that have no real life examples. When using examples that have trivial alternative solutions, it does not help me as a reader to distinguish whether this is a real problem, or something made up.
A media list. It is just a list of movies and mp3s with their metadata (id3 tags) and hash values. The output is just a html table that allows sorting and filtering with a hyperlink to play the media in the browser. Convenient for playing home media on the phone.
> I would be fine with them publishing articles about our security set up - as long as it wasn't 100% accurate.

It reads, at least to me, as a PoC on them wanting to "standardise" end point creation to talk to them securely; given the introduction points to "you may have come across the ‘Contact the Guardian securely’ banner".
This is a fantastic list of like, "suggestions to writers by editors" but I don't think it's a great list of "how to edit." The single most important thing when editing (imo) is "how can I preserve the author's voice?" Editing is not writing a new draft, it's amplifying the original.
We really need to investigate the implications of monopoly power mixed with open source. That really wasn't contemplated originally.
Developing Quality Technical Information - https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Quality-Technical-Informat...

My review + some notes - https://river.me/blog/book-review-quality-technical-informat... (it's very good)
"They merged the pull request" sounds fine to me.
The astronauts add that raw aspect of bravery and potential sacrifice to the story. Not that long hours over years and years dedicated to a single project is not sacrifice. But that doesn't hold a candle to a risk your life type of sacrifice.

In 2024 people still get nervous going on domestic flights. I can't imagine how someone could muster the sheer courage to volunteer as an astronaut, either then or now. It's a testament to humanity's willingness to risk even death in pursuit of something greater.
> American military would long since have arrested its own soldiers for these minor infractions

Really? I was under under the impression that the US is actively threatening the International Criminal Court to protect its soldiers from prosecution for war crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

Australia is in the process of investigating its armed forces for war crimes committed in Afghanistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report Is there a similar effort in the US?
> Ownership is an important concept in Rust — but I’m not talking about the type system. I’m talking about in our open source project.
This could just be a case of the profit motive aligning with the good for society as a whole.

New buildings can house new students and academics which is good and also helps bring in more money in future.

New buildings also preserve the status of the university as a top institution - there is some level of competition for students and talented academics and if Harvard fell behind other universities it would be harder to bring in grants. Of course this is a good thing for the university but it's also good for any administrator who wants to preserve their pay.
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
Early linux versions as a git repository are available here: https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux
Absolutely hilarious and ironic for AWS to say they support an Apache project fork of Redis when it was their hosting Redis and ostensibly not paying Redis or somehow working with them to do it causing RedisLabs to do what only they can and go closed to be able to sell their own hosted services providing Redis. How else would they compete with AWS?
Not only password policies, but authentication policies as a while. For example, the location from where you may authenticate, or the times, the IP address ranges, the device you're using, and so on.

It is also important for user account lifecycle. If a user joins or leaves the company, IT need to be able to grant or revoke access without having to go on an individual account hunt.

If a service does not offer SSO (or a good implementation of it, because most services seem to follow some YouTube guide in how to add SSO - it's that bad) our policies forbid us from buying it.
$500k/year of grants for a single research institute would have been outrageous, and I used to be in NLP.
You're wrong about that. See this for example: https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances

Not only is sports usually profitable on the surface but it draws donations and new students. Administrators aren't as stupid as you think.
Probably less than you would imagine. Only so many people are qualified to be able to scrutinize anything for these probes. It’s likely that whatever small team is doing this debugging has the capability within the group to sign off.
I have to agree with others here. It's better to use Wix as a thin layer on top of Windows Installer but the documentation is very, very poor.

I spent a week of trial and error to create an installer just to find out that I had several installations of my app because of some misconfigured xml document from testing. A nightmare to uninstall to say the least.

I highly recommend to test your installers inside a VM or you'll screw up your system.

Also good luck if you want custom behaviour from the installer. The documentation for that is far worse than it is for the standard msi installer.
Did Linux have version control? That would depend on your definition of version control. It did not have a canonical version control system, but it did have the data structure for it in the form of the linux-kernel mailing list. From that a series of patches could be extracted that mirrors development quite accurately.

All subsystem maintainers had their own way of working with this. Some used svn, some used bespoke scripts.

The main reason for creating bk and git was that none of the existing version control systems matched the workflow of sending patches via a mailing list. This is quite clearly reflected in the design of git, a tool for quickly wiping and recreating a whole project directory.

Linux development history was imported to git, and you can follow it back in time since long before the introduction of git, so in that sense some form of version control can be said to have existed.
Transistor takes advantage of quantum interference
Plan 9 history in Git, from 1992-09-21 to 2015-01-10. (2021)
DuckDB JIT Compiled UDFs with Numba
They talk about OpenTofu, are they going to do cdktf for opentofu then?
Life on Willis Island, one of the most remote weather stations
stdout and human observation if you can't be bothered to do it close to right.
> Face to face communication is very underrated nowadays, probably because of the negative connotations associated with meetings. Talking to someone is by far the fastest way to convey information.

Really depends on how the conversation is handled/going. I recently had a feedback from two people having a face to face meeting. One week later they followed up and they found out they completely misunderstood what they had said to each other.
>One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it.

This piece of advice is maybe the only thing I remember from my college English class. A naked "this" or "that" now feels shamefully lazy to me.
Gretel releases largest open source Text-to-SQL dataset
Best Solar Batteries of April 2024: New Winner
> start with BSD license and keep it for 15 years and then change to SSPL

Well, the competition landscape was a lot different 15 yrs ago.

In the same way, GPL went from version 2 to 3, in response to the landscape

I think it's unwise to not respond to environment changes.
I won't say these are the best sources, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_... suggest that at its peak during the space race, NASA spending reached 4% of the government budget while if I'm reading the charts correctly, the government routinely spends up to 4% on the millitary every year since. I'd personally classify the Apollo program then as a rounding error as I pay more than that in sales tax and often don't notice... and that was at its peak.
> It's very bad publicity for MS who might get blamed by some: "my computer isn't starting anymore after a windows update, I hate MS" so it makes perfect sense to prevent this program from launching in a new major update.

They deserve to be blamed but for something else: 1) create a problem, 2) refuse to solve it, 3) prevent third-party solutions. People used to ungroup tasks and have the taskbar to the side etc. for two decades. At least the ungrouping thing is coming back but Microsoft stubbornness about blocking the remaining features makes me thing something else might be at play other than someone's hurt ego or some designers aesthetic vision.
Actually on reflection perhaps I'm being too cynical here. The motivation of administration doesn't need to be lining their pockets. They may simply see increased revenue as a means to invest in staff and facilities which they can use to further the university's mission of research and education. There doesn't have to be any bad intent.
Those don't seem like references that have anything to do with Christian tradition and practice, certainly not as I understand it from my background. For example, meditation is not a Christian concept.

I would kindly suggest that if you want to understand the meaning of Christian symbolism you should rely on the New Testament and possibly the Old Testament also. You don't need internet searches and chatbots for that.

Or, of course, you could chat with a Christian.

Specifically for this:

>> However I think you are likely correct that the accuracy of the connection is potentially flawed, however it’s the beliefs that matter, and a large number of Christians believe there is a direct connection.

That is what needs a source and I can't find one in what you have provided. Who says that "a large number of Christians believe..." etc? In my experience, nobody I know who is Christian believes that.
I wonder how long natural providences like that hold as we get more and more alien to nature. We already learned we can f-up with global warming. We can fall off the cliff. It's not impossible. Maybe in the olden days when our boldest ideas were still relatively 'natural', we couldn't.
If I had real concerns that my own house was bugged with hidden cameras I would either contract with someone who specializes in handling that sort of thing or sell the house. If doing the latter, consider any applicable disclosure laws and what you do or do not know about the house.
I once worked for a multi-national food processing automation company.

We had an internal control system based on RT_PREEMPT Linux and busybox. This system was created before buildroot and yocto became a thing. It was compatible with the company's previous control system, which ran on bare-metal 68k. I was on the team that maintained and developed this Linux based system. This all ran on hardware that was developed and manufactured in-house.

The company had also acquired many smaller companies over the years, all of which came with their own way of doing things. Most used PLC, but not always from the same vendor, some even used elaborate mechanical clockwork.

The Linux based stuff was actually pretty good for gluing all this stuff together.

At some point, a consulting company came in, and shortly after that, the management decided that the company should focus on its "core competencies". So, they hired a guy to find a replacement for all the different control systems within the company: One system to rule them all. It was to replace all the software and the hardware.

We told them, that they should rather focus on creating and documenting common interfaces; replacing everything was very clearly an impossible task. They ignored this advice, entered a contract with a single PLC company and deprecated the system that I was working on along with everything else.

A few years later, they fired that guy they hired and the CTO, but in the meantime, we all kept working on the "deprecated" systems while the replacement was "just around the corner".

Anyway, whether they were going to proceed or not didn't really matter to me. It's all about the journey, not the destination. You can keep learning whether you're doing something useful or not. You can still craft software to the best of your abilities and take pride in the art. In fact, don't think of yourself as a software engineer. Think of yourself as a software artist!
I’ll push back on that. Notarization is a great feature. The fact computing didn’t include it was what led to decades of malware stealing billions from people.

Properly implemented, everyone could freely and easily notarize every single piece of code they need to run. Total freedom, with notarized code to give the leeway to the OS maker to remove code when it’s malware.

The fact of the matter is that the OS makers are greedy AF, and don’t stop at requiring notarization. Windows could get rid of most of its malware issues if they allowed everyone to freely notarize, yet they try and ram the Windows Store down everyone’s throat with their locked down Windows attempts. Can’t let a feature get in the way of a play at even more rent-seeking, am I right ?
> Your term may not map cleanly to a single OOP class

That's not really an argument, as it will map to either entities or functions, both of which can be annotated with this information.

An argument against documenting it on the entities and functions would be that this would spread the information across the repository. The value you get from doing this in a single markdown file is the overview it provides, I think.

These kinds of methodologies enable development with high turnover in large enterprise, which treat developers more like cogs that temporarily work on a given software. And if it's just a comment on a file, it'll likely not even be seen
I get that people get upset that their software of choice license is changed at the philosophical level. But I don’t get it at the economical level. When a project changes the license for a future version, the older versions are still available in the older open license right? So the contributions from collaborative effort is still usable under the same terms in those versions. So what’s this “bait and switch”? License changes, people don’t like the new license, they don’t contribute anymore (let’s keep the forks aside for a second), all new change are now by the employees of the company, they own the rights to that like every other product company. What am I missing here? Why do people get upset about the economics of effort and benefit?

I have always been to afraid to ask this ask this question for fear of appearing stupid. But gotta live and learn. So here goes nothing.
It's built on AWS, I think they are actually hoping to be the next dropbox. It's a completely different meaning of cloud platform. I don't see anything disruptive.
Been using SearX/SearXNG a lot over the years, in large part because I used and preferred the Dogpile meta search many, many years ago.

Apparently Dogpile still exists, didn't expect that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile
The quilt tool by Andrew Morton is one of these tools used for maintainance (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/quilt.1.html) of the kernel. It's actually quite nice to use. Early versions of git and mercurial had tooling around similar workflows on top of git/hg repositoires (guilt, being one of these tools).

My understanding is that even during the BK years, some maintainers refused to use it and would continue to use tarballs + patches.