skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you guys implement versioning and grandfathering yet? Iterating on pricing and packaging without overwriting the whole config and f-ing up existing subscriptions is important.

I remember when I last time looked into lago, there was no versioning and the json configs were unintuitive and difficult to use. (I think it was also impossible to create a metered usage with a fixed one time fee$
Reviving an 800-Year-Old Japanese Tea Farm
This is wrong. The UG offers the same protection as the GmbH. It's probably less trusted.

Funfact: you should always use the full title, Companyname UG (haftungsbeschränkt) on all communications and contracts. Emitting the 'haftungsbeschränkt' or shortening it 'haftungsb.' may make you as a CEO personally liable for damages occured.
> megalomaniacal persons with lust for power and disregard of others - with enough resources might manufacture a machine army

Mercenaries already exist. Commonly.

Though in a developed country it's cheaper to buy lobbyists.
Yes, the genius hero worship can be tiring. The man was intelligent, no doubt – but that doesn’t seem to have translated into any real world ethical understanding. A good example of why “meritocratic” systems based on raw intelligence probably don’t lead to wise outcomes.
Definitely. Prohibitions on land mines and cluster weapons are pure political theater. Mines and cluster weapons don't exist to be cruel, they exist because they work, and the collateral damage caused by their persistence after a conflict is over is an unfortunate consequence.

Essentially all of the countries that signed onto these bans either (1) did so in a moment of blinding post-cold war naivety, where they could spin downsizing their armed forces into a good thing for the world, or (2) are too small and/or uninvolved to matter. Anyone else who actually expected to need to fight a war again didn't sign, because they knew exactly how useful these weapons are. The US and SK will never accept a land mine prohibition that includes the minefields of the DMZ, since those minefields are an important speedbump against any sort of ground invasion. Likewise, a cluster munition ban is practically DoA because cluster munitions are the best weapons to attack columns of lightly/unarmored equipment and dispersed aircraft/helicopters. But until February 2022 in Ukraine, a whole bunch of countries (primarily European) had convinced themselves that the possibility of a ground invasion was a thing of the past.
We do have the National Research Council, which does real research (and then spins off companies from developed tech.) Sounds useful to me.
> and are incentivised not to

Could you elaborate on that?
Would you consider systems administration/related work? When I started out, it was mostly manual work, and I automated things as I went along. It's much more sophisticated, large and automated (run by software tools) than before.

In other words, could you support what you used?

In effect, doing larger scale things with less complex code?

My feeling is that companies are betting on AI at the expense of everything else at this time, but I imagine that results are going to be very unevenly distributed, since so many are new to the field, and like software engineering, it may be easy to get started, but very hard to do well, so there is a lot of uncertainty right now.

However, big systems seem to be getting bigger. I tell low-tech people to become electricians, because energy demand is skyrocketing.

Just some outside the box ideas, in case they help.
It's entirely feasible that the modern Nicolas Bourbaki that was Satoshi have lost a member, or can no longer reach a pooled key quorum.

The argument can be made that not releasing early blocks contributed greatly to the perception that lifted bitcoin and there was never the intent to release them, to which sufficient early members still hold fast.

Or not.

Many things are possible.
Most of the original MoE implementations around LLMs were in fact recursive
The extradition treaty with Brazil only applies "if the offense(s) committed are considered crimes by both countries"[0]. That is almost certainly not the case here.

[0] https://br.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/arrest-of-a-u-...
Both.

Firstly im very cautious of any "single-dev" built side project, and when its closed source im even more aware of the dangers installing. And with russia in 2024 i cant trust any software produced over there. So, combine all three (close-source, single dev and russia) and you have a something really suspicious.
Surface drones like the ones used in Ukraine are also not to be underestimated. Russia is struggling to combat these effectively, and even the US navy doesn’t have any specific technological answer to them at present.
> where the mechanics who take the planes apart (completely) and put them back together (or almost) may not even be able to read or speak English

Maybe I’m missing something but wtf does being able to speak English have to do with the ability to maintain an aircraft?

Is everyone at Embraer or Airbus or Bombardier expected to speak English?

I’m starting to feel like this is some kind of gaslighting. Boeing aircraft have had major design flaws that have resulted in the death of hundreds of people, why suddenly are we seeing discussions about maintenance?
> wtf does being able to speak English have to do with the ability to maintain an aircraft?

If the maintenance crew speaks one language, and airline management, pilots and regulators speak another, that’s a problem.
Thanks, really great anecdote for US centric folks.
Ask HN: How do you leave hobby mode and enter business mode, for a side project?
Like many of you, I seek refuge in my programming side-projects by treating them as hobbies. I pursue projects and learn things that have no relevance to my specific day job. I spend weeks exploring rabbit holes because, well, it's fun. I am under no pressures in my hobbies.

One of my programming hobby projects has become a joint venture with a friend, and now we're getting serious about turning it into a business. What started out as a way for me to try out some new frameworks and tools I've wanted to experiment with, is now on the cusp of being the IP for a registered business. We want to start paying contractors to do more coding work (I have barely any time, but will continue to oversee and guide the higher vision while someone does more of the coding). We want to also be able to accept money from people in exchange for licenses.

The thing is...this all seems like a pipe dream still, even though it's becoming very real. I still retain those hobbyist tendencies with this project. I spend hours tweaking things just so, spending times staring at the trees and forgetting about the forest. I know I need to step back and get this project done, but I'm having trouble taking that final step back (likely for good, once we hire someone else).

Does this make sense? Am I overthinking things? Does anyone have words of advice?
Ironically WSL uses a VM as well
Nothing made me feel older than going to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and seeing a Palm Pilot in the display case.

It should be illegal to show things which were an integral part of your life, a short 30'ish years ago, as if they were uncovered in the ruins of some pre-civilization. Not fair at all.
I am an Israeli, and I agree with you. I just wanted to point out that trying to speculate a location for the attacker based on what days they worked isn't going to be remotely accurate

Speaking of innacurate things, since the actual XZ git.repository isn't hosted on GitHub, could there be logs of which IP address the attacker was operating from?
It would be nice if more effort was put into the optomisation and stabilisation on modern mobile operating systems.
Everything you just said is also true about water.
Have Etymology – Will Travel
Thank you for the feedback. I totally agree there and we'll address this.
OK, that goal makes sense, thanks for explaining. For what it's worth I'm pretty sure you can do this with postgres, tmpfs, and template databases — see my project, pgtestdb [0]. I haven't done a formal perf measurement, but each test would get a fresh and migrated database in about 20ms on my local machine. The setup described runs postgres in a container for convenience, but you could probably also just run a postgres binary and store the data on a memory-backed filesystem.

[0] https://github.com/peterldowns/pgtestdb
(I left this comment earlier but I'll c+p here as well)

I wrote a blog post comparing Cody to Copilot a little while ago. Some of the stuff might be outdated now, but I think it still captures the essence of the differences between the two. Obviously I'm a little biased as I work for Sourcegraph, but I tried to be as fair as one could be. Happy to dive deeper into any details.
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/copilot-vs-cody-why-context-mat...

Our biggest differentiators are context, choice, and scale. We've been helping developers find and understand code for the last 10 years and are now applying a lot of that to Cody in regards to fetching the right context. When it comes choice, we support multiple LLMs and are always on the lookout in supporting the right LLM for the job. We recently rolled out Claude 3 Opus as well as Ollama support for offline/local inference.

Cody also has a free tier where you can give it a try and compare for yourself, which is what I always recommend people do :)
I've always wondered if it were possible to extract the good immune cells from blood stimulating the body to produce more and then dump them back in, like with athletes to increase rbc.
> Europe leading up to WWI was not exactly a land of peace and harmony

As opposed to the South China Sea? (Keep in mind, we’re comparing pre- and post-nuclear strategy.)
> And because the X11 maintainers decided that Wayland is the way forward and X11 will simply not get new display features like HDR.

Is Wayland a racket? Barely maintain the previous code instead of making clear that others should take it over because you are insterested in something else, then force everyone into your new incomplete code base, and probably bill for the reimplementation of basic capabilities, piece by piece.

OTOH, not everyone involved with X11 thinks it has no future. Keith Packard posted ideas [0] about how to improve it further.

[0] https://keithp.com/x-ideas/
The system specifically target members when they're home with their families, even when theyhave chances to hit them during combat.

At this point it's just an excuse, they've found the best way to maximize the civilians they can kill but still use the "human shields" blood libel.
Guess what happens with most civilians when they are obsolete as a source of wealth and power.

It does not take much imagination to see that the core skill of politicians, persuasion, will be obsolete as well. There will be no persuasion, no speeches, no campaigns. It will be just simply do as they say or perish. It's the end of democracy and the start of a new form of feudalism, but more violent.

If we add brain implants to the mix, the prospect future gets even more grim. If you are important, information will be exfiltrated from your brain without your cooperation.
Is there an open source Matryoshka embedding model?
US airlines are trying to reduce their costs so they can offer lower fares, for which there is intense competition. You may have noticed that airlines are not a hugely profitable business, with profit margins of a few percent.

US regulators are at fault for not setting regulations which define whatever behavior you think is missing here.
I’m so curious about this. It’s only ever happened to me when I woke up in the middle of a vivid dream, and lasted 10 or 15 seconds. It also happened when I was on oxycodone after a surgery. Do you feel like you are in a dreamlike state or slightly high all the time? Have you ever experienced depression?
> That is almost certainly not the case here

The original infraction, no. Not sure how obstruction of justice maps in such scenarios.
Wow, ok thanks that makes sense — I never thought of an environment like that.
The aircraft in question has been flying since 2015, it's much more likely that this was a post-inspection fuckup (somebody fastened the cowling improperly etc) than a Boeing manufacturing/design defect. In any case engine cowlings are not safety-critical, and the airplane returned to base safely with no injuries, meaning everything else worked as intended. This would literally not be news if Boeing hadn't been in the headlines recently for entirely deserved reasons.

For what it's worth, PPRuNe notes that the Airbus A320 has had over 30 (!) similar incidents: https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/658527-southwest-738-str...
Just for information this is the same in Switzerland, but please note we are not the same :)
What's the name for this logical fallacy? The last few months the trend has been that every single problem that affected a Boeing plane in any way, 99.9% of which are maintenance issues, are blasted far and wide all over HN, Reddit, mainstream media, everywhere, and every single one of them is taken as some condemnation of the company and their planes as a whole. Now, we get an article pointing out worrying maintenance patterns and the response is "so what? don't look at that, why do we care about maintenance issues?". Tomorrow some mechanic will forget to tighten down an engine cowling and it'll come loose in flight and the video will be front page on HN and the comments will be about how horrible Boeing is. So yes, I do care about maintenance issues and their causes.
W.W.R.D.?

What Would Rickover Do?
Many parties can be at fault simultaneously.
On the one hand, totally reasonable to ask “what does speaking English have to do with building airplanes”.

On the other, the vast majority of technical and scientific literature worldwide is English language based. As is all air traffic control. So, reasonable chance the maintenance manuals are in English.

That said I am with you on disliking the implicit xenophobia in the question.
A lot of companies do not want to deal with GbR / freelancers anymore as it quickly gets them on the hook for evading social security taxes (Scheinselbstständigkeit) - in my experience having a limited is helpful for landing projects with big corps
Do they though? I mean I certainly feel like the author's life has a lot more moving and disturbing parts than most people.
Nevada and Montana didn't have posted speed limits on many or any highways, respectively, until 1999.
Good call. Will get that into the next release
AI instructed brainwashing effectively nullifies conspiracy beliefs
Nacos: Dynamic Naming and Configuration Service
Nobody could ever say Schonfinkeling a function with a straight face.
Often, I feel things are taught poorly. Most just want to sort things out, then teach it systematically from bottom to top. I understand this, it is a lot simpler, but that is not how we figure things out. there are false starts, things that did not work The best teachers, guide you in this process of discovery.
Good ideas! Thanks for the notes :)

Yes dictionary is a tough thing to nail down perfectly — to start with we're going to highlight existing words on the board that are invalid, but have a similar line of thinking around the "commit" tap after placing, at least behind some learning setting. There'll be a changelog screen for when things like that make it in :)
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> Maybe I’m missing something but wtf does being able to speak English have to do with the ability to maintain an aircraft?

From TFA:

> The work is labor-intensive and complicated, and the technical manuals are written in English, the language of international aviation. According to regulations, in order to receive F.A.A. certification as a mechanic, a worker needs to be able to “read, speak, write, and comprehend spoken English.”
Within Europe: Austria, Switzerland, UK, NL are better than Germany for bureaucracy. Brexit may be an issue for Europeans, but the system is now more fair for non Europeans who want to go to UK.

Outside Europe: Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore is better than Germany.
Thanks for the kind words!

Many good notes, we'll look into a lot of that. And yes currently it's deliberate, but I think we can squeeze some AI swaps in!
Yes Bundaberg Lemon Lime and Bitters is excellent. I believe they were originally an alcohol company Bundaberg Rum, is a relatively popular spirit.
The "obstruction" is simply disobeying the court order to block certain accounts, right? It's hard to imagine that disobeying a Brazillian court order could be considered a crime in the US when the underlying court order is one that a US court could never issue.
I don’t like this mindset that just because an individual can see why something needs to be better, it shouldn’t be.
Looks correct to me. You must specially mark data that is trusted as trusted. All other daya is not trusted.
How does it interface with the cards? IIRC the rust pcsc library used by Sequoia needed C libraries. I've been doing some NFC stuff too and was looking for a pure-rust solution if there was one.
Black Hole Alternatives
Is your "recall probability estimating algorithm" similar to FSRS's retrievability?

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/ABC...

If you ever feel like moving beyond the Apple market you might look into https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite I've been using it in my own Anki-clone and am very happy with it.
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is a music industry startup (I think)? So they are in the role (maybe LARPing, maybe genuine) but definitely on brand. I don’t think it is “2013ish” that caused it.
I still have a copy of "Assembly language step-by-step" which started with DEBUG then moved to nasm in later chapters.
> nothing much is shared with the "IBM PC" architecture-wise

Gate A20 begs to differ.
Nice. Nice nice nice. Super expert optimizations.

I knew Zstd & custom-dictionaries were coming to browsers soon, but v8's coverage expounded on this in a lot of directions I didn't expect. Really neat. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39892119 https://chromestatus.com/feature/6186023867908096

Being able to use existing code as the dictionary for new code seems like it might claim a ton of the bandwidth wins here. A ton.

But! But this idea that V8 caches the bytecode, that really adds a huge dimension of mechanistic sympathy that can be tapped, that can be evaluated.

With a little rejiggering most of these optimizations would probably be able to be kept as is, plus a little extra dictionary encoded to eek a decent but more transport wins out with. But I do love how Zstd work does gain a lot of the transport wins here. Stellar work all around, awesome to see great ideas concur & converge.
Yeah haven't seen it much. Think Sveltekit though compiles and ships min. sizes as well.
From the annals of scientific discovery, can we point to anything that was "always obvious"?
There's no way to get around the feeling that many people are NPCs if you spend time in sterile urban or suburban environments. The amount of people whose existence consist of very little more than work to fuel consumption is really high.

On the contrary if you are in a place where no one really works a normal job and things you bought or paid money to do are rarely topics of conversation then the interactions feel much more living.
I have no experience with Java unfortunately, just a typical vanilla web stack :/
Some fun examples.

The F-15E, F-18E "It's just an upgraded version", don't get me wrong they are good planes, but they are 20 percent larger than previous models it is a different plane, with different jigs, parts, testing, performance.

The tu-22m, A least the f-15e is the same shape as the f-15. "Yes boss, I understand we don't have the money to design a new bomber, we are just going to upgrade the design of one of our existing models" Proceeds to design a completely new plane and gives it the same designation of an existing one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-22M
I think we're in agreement ITT that viewing others as NPCs is not good.
How your community is engaged in your creation ? do you have top fans, by that I mean like 10 persons really into your podcast.
> but that doesn’t seem to have translated into any real world ethical understanding.

Why? Ethics gets muddy, inconsistent, and nonsensical quite quickly and I am not so certain you have figured it all out compared to anyone else, so you'll find it hard for me to believe this position.

von Neumann may have had a certain game theory understanding of the world at the time, and you might as well in the opposite direction today, which one is correct is still up in the air and you won't know, and maybe in fact, you will never know.

von Neumann's fear was that nuclear war was inevitable and that the entire world would die from it should the communist parties of the world, especially the one that ran in the Soviet Union were maintained. I don't think he was far off given a few years after his death the Cuban missle crisis. Then the decades after with the US and Soviet Union clashing in various capacities and interfering respectively reducing each other's influence, or failing to do so. And today with the Soviet Union's successor.
Yep, seen this going quite a bit:

- Server side framework (Hono or ElysiaJS)

- HTMX / Hyperscript, Alpine

Seems simple enough, but still not a lot of batteries so you kind of start building from scratch every time.
The fact it was a whitepaper highly suggests a lifelong academic who has spent their careers publishing papers like these men, not a PHD student.
Also, some of the word choices in the whitepaper and the initial reference to London banks being bailed out again suggest Satoshi is not a native American english speaker.
It's called a peace dividend
Be careful what you say online! Justin Trudeau and Christie Freeland have already shown their willingness to freeze bank accounts and in prison people who demonstrate/Protest against their actions! There is also a new law I believe it's C1 I could be wrong on that number but anyways it's about what you can and cannot say online and the accompanying punishments… I guess they need to develop the AI now in order to track down all the dissident!So all hail are benevolent leader with Great hair!
German trains are evaluated on their timelines. If a train is more then an hour delayed passengers get their money back. So every train that runs into a high delayed is marked as "Cancelled" and if followed by an "Ersatzzug" that is curiously similar to the canceled train, because if the train is cancelled, the passengers don't get their money back if a Ersatz is followed promptly
Ultimately it’s down to how human civilization is structured and trained: To optimize money over everything else.
I was referencing startups by and large. If you have 100 engineers or less.

I expect AWS outages affect revenue. But on the score of the number of companies… very few are in a similar position of AWS.
I am quite far from ML :)

My app is just a few external APIs

- Fetch audio

- transform to text

- let users edit

- save and publish via a form

- send to another external API
Just a few percent profit on 100+ Billion gross, how can they make it work?
I still have my original PalmPilot in a box in the attic. Its existence was a huge life lesson for me.

I asked my boss to pay for it (he did) but he said: do you use anything to organize your life and projects right now? If you don't, I don't think a PalmPilot will help you.

He was so right.
For me personally, two things:

1) Just switching to the new thing because any forum of communication that's been around long enough and becomes big enough becomes corrupted and infiltrated and ruined and HN seems to be at that tipping point.

2) 50-75% of the stuff on HN now is just political/social propaganda (posts about Musk, Boeing, Taxes, Unions, Homelessness, Trump, etc etc etc) and there's no way to filter it out, I just want to read tech stuff.