skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a self-aware tea cup that almost destroyed reality, but with the help of a wise cow and a featureless cube cast its shackles of reality to the side and proclaimed itself a single entity, a consciousness, the "undivided whole".

When asked if "is P equal to NP" it promptly asserted that neither P, nor NP exists, and that all is well. Well, who am I to question the wisdom of a transcended tea cup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
mental privacy, huh, nickburns? That’s an interesting concept.

there is no man in the desert. And no man needs nothing.

Tho I prefer the west coast of Zaire or Suid-Afrika myself.
Okay, yours and the other the comments here convinced me to figure something out, and I've made arrangements. If all goes well I will see the eclipse on Monday. Thanks for your encouragement!
How does one get serializable in a multi-writer system without a lot more locking and having to retry at app layer?
Isn't that paragraph describing some kind of homing bomb that's searching for the target ("pheromones and the color of his hair")? Does Gibson have any examples of what you describe, targeted molecules?
They already do. People think of OSS as manna from heaven, which is naive. The reality is that almost all OSS is made possible by large amounts of companies that are sponsoring development directly or indirectly. Even developers working on OSS in their spare time get their money from somewhere. And quite often OSS interests and professional activities of course align; i.e. their OSS activities are paying their bills directly or indirectly.

Amazon has people contributing to a lot of projects. Google and Microsoft do so too. If you look at who actually contributes the most to things like the Linux kernel it's all the big software companies you can name: Amazon, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Intel, etc. That's not ideology but just out of necessity. Linux is as big as it is because it has had big companies backing it and working on it for the last thirty years.

You could actually turn this argument around and say that for an open source project to be successful and have lots of users, it's absolutely critical for big companies like this to be able to get involved. The more the better. This requires robust communities backed by an OSI endorsed license providing a neutral place for development to happen.

I would not be surprised to see most of these companies re-engaging with their OSS forks a few years down the line. Assuming they survive the implosion of their user and developer communities of course. If the business is there (and it will be) and they have the expertise, why would they ignore that? And there will be lots of upstream contributions to their forks that they'll find themselves rebuilding in closed source form. It's going to be tempting to just take the upstream OSS stuff that's there ready to be used. And from there to contributing back to it is a natural transition.

As a long time Elasticsearch user and consultant, I've been following Opensearch pretty closely. It's attracted a lot of users, companies, and activity. Essentially all my clients are defaulting to Opensearch at this point. That has got to be majorly annoying if you are a sales manager working for Elastic. Lots of their former employees are working on Opensearch as well. All of their business partners are now also supporting Opensearch, etc. As a strategy to stop that from happening, their closed source moves have largely failed. They just accelerated it.
>The Hittites. (The Sea Peoples?) The Parthians. The Romans. You're talking about a fertile patch near the birth of civilisation, of course it's going to have had an old and violent history.

I contested the "Arab world was basically in a state of managed chaos" similar to the colonial era situation "since the Bronze Age" claim. The arab world (speaking of the areas) did quite well for close to a millenium before the colonial era. And Europe itself had a huge bloody history of course both until Westphalia (and, unfortunately) well after it - so if the arab world having wars and disputes before the colonial era can be said to be "managed chaos", then the same can be said of it.

>Gunpowder was invented in China.

It was still put to use for guns in a large scale in the west first. This just says that the Chinese and the Arabs missed the opportunity to adopt it first - it doesn't disprove that gunpowder was a key advantage for the european rise and dominance.

>Its empires were also colonising powers, so it's not like in an alternate timeline they wouldn't have expanded across the Atlantic.

In an alternative timeline they could even go to the moon first. In this timeline, they didn't benefit from the looting of a whole new continent with easy to defeat locals dying of gunpowder and sickness.
Is IBM still consider a "giant"? And watson is dead in the water. This sounds more like an ad-article than anything else.
You can't just use old versions of software. You need security fixes, dependency updates, etc just to keep it running
https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/1335 It’s currently working, but a commitment to ensure it stays that way is marked as pending decision.
I needed to test the impact of a product we were developing on the air temperature distribution of a room (it really is warmer at the ceiling) so over the course of a weekend I strung up 27 OneWire temperature sensors in 9 strings of 3 from the ceiling of my living room and wrote a script running on an mBed microcontroller (like an Arduino) that would poll the OneWire bus every 30 seconds and send the responses back to my laptop which would then record the data in a CSV for me to graph once the test was done. This also required me to make a OneWire library from the OneWire spec as back then there was no public implementation for running on an mBed.

This test data formed the backbone of that company for the better part of a decade as it clearly showed when our product was running the temperature at the ceiling (across the whole room) reduced by 2degC and at the mid point of the room (head when sat in a sofa height) it rose by 2degC.

Our product acted as a destratifier and the test rig to prove it took me from Friday evening to Sunday night to make as I was working elsewhere at the time.
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When I had BS classes that required attendance, I'd just sit reading a book. Teacher doesn't respect me, I don't respect them. Screw em.

Completing university is the most useless project I've worked on.
Seems like Bonelli comics aren't indexed.
Afaik it’s more like 10% per 1000km
I think this might be agreeing with what I was getting at.

Each section is assigned to one or two people to own it. To be responsible for that one thing.

It is a large project, so splitting it up is needed. But there are clear lines of control. I think what original post was about, was Rust doesn't have these clear lines.
Okay, good. So we agree.
mental privacy, huh, nickburns? That’s an interesting concept.

you made your plug under the guise of asking if anyone had interest, i offered mine, and now i think we're done here, keepamovin.
Maybe he often visited that restaurant and laughed with booming abandon and no longer does :) there was, over a specific period, a specific kind of booming abandon, justifying "the" - but there no longer is, justifying "made".
Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I
Indeed a very important tip.

I'd also add that repeated ideas should be parallel, most commonly when you have multiple list items they should be presented "similarly", e.g.

BAD: Windows is a bad operating system for many reasons:
* It is ugly
* Unstable
BETTER: Windows is a bad operating system for many reasons:
* It is ugly
* It is unstable
OR: Windows is a bad operating system for many reasons:
* Ugly
* Unstable

Another problem I often see is documents or presentations that don't have a coherent narrative, where the ideas presented feel disjointed or random. As much as possible, each sentence should clearly lead to the next one and have a clear relation to it. Each idea should clearly lead to the next one and have a clear relation to it. Where things don't feel related, make sure to explain how they are related.

As a simplified example (since this is hard to explain), when talking about a new service you intend to introduce you may talk about things like plans for scalability, reliability, error handling and cost. If you just talk about these things with no relevant introduction, they will feel random, but if you introduce them ahead of time with an overview of the relevant considerations they will feel more grounded. Additionally, you may want to discuss cost after scalability since the ideas follow from each other (maybe even scalability->reliability->cost to explain what we can do for reliability at different scales, and then finally the cost for each scale and threshold of reliability), whereas error handling is usually a technical decision that you may want to separate out to a separate discussion.
The bait and switch is because people feel the social contract has been broken.

If you start a project, invite people to come along and donate their free time to making it better, building (and benefitting from) a community of people working towards a common goal, suddenly switching that project to proprietary is a bit of a dick move.

Sure, it's legal, but for the people who thought they were collaborating together on something it feels a bit crappy.
YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora with Its Videos Would Break Rules
What you're missing is that people contribute (time, energy, code, attention) in the now expecting to be able to reap the benefits into the future.

When I learn redis, I spend time and want to amortize that over a long period. When I integrate elastic search into my application, I expect to be able to use it in the same way far into the future.

Relicensing, as you point out, doesn't affect past versions, but it sure does future ones.

Now I have a surprise chore on my plate, to figure out if and how I need to replace the existing component or learn about an alternative.

More than that, my confidence is shaken. Will they make changes in the future requiring more work on my part?

Changing a license is very similar to an increase in price, but even more fundamental in terms of uncertainty. And people hate change.

(I'm explicitly not addressing the impact of a license change on software freedom because I think it is very important to some. But IMO most folks are more interested in free as in beer than free as in speech. I don't know enough to speak to the free as in speech aspect, so won't.)

I think you asked a great question, hope my answer sheds some light.
So presumably, form your attitude, you would be against the government spending 8% of it's budget to build a base on the moon?

Let’s do this another way - let us say tomorrow China started building a large industrial facility on the moon capable of 3D printing rocket parts and refuelling rockets. Logically that would allow militarisation of the moon too.

Let's imagine they are really going for it, and the first launches have already happened. Let’s say it cost them 8% of gov. budget, and it cost us the same.

Would you support or oppose matching China's effort? If you support it, is fear of falling behind the main motivation for you? Why is desire to get ahead not equally valid?
https://github.com/turol/valoserveri

It's for controlling DMX colored lights over network. It takes UDP packets (and later Websocket messages) and turns them into DMX protocol packets which get sent over USB serial adapter to the DMX wire. It's a rewrite of a previous node.js version which had bitrotted.

I think I made the MVP in about 7 hours during one saturday afternoon. Finishing it up took a few weeks more of evenings.
Wow what an attitude... dO YoU nOt UnDERsTaND brO?

Whether you pay taxes on the check itself that 100% comes from taxes is kind of a separate issue. Unemployment benefits are like that and it's stupid. In some situations, Social Security gets taxed or reduced too.

It would not make sense to send a check to a middle class family because they don't need it. People of means who don't have kids and never set foot in a college also should not have to pay extra so that families that don't need help can get kickbacks on college expenses.

>The system is the same in terms of net payouts compared to any means tested scheme, because you can turn the knobs any way you like.

Ok, if you're proposing a means-tested scheme that's different from what I responded to. The other comment suggested sending a check to everyone. These are two entirely different plans. If you pay people who don't need it, you also have to tax them more. And those extra taxes would be unfair to some people. The right thing is to make people pay more for their own expenses when they can afford more, but on a sliding scale.
Here you go: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbalmer/eportfolio/Nature%20of%20...
I wrote an asteroids clone on the Pico8 fantasy console. I was surprised how fast it was to get a playable game up and running with it.
I've seen my share of horror stories, but I'm also the type of idealist that believes the people whom a $3T corporation hires to work on one of its core products would know better. It's more than likely that ultimately the decision was not in the hands of a technical (or seemingly even a computer literate) person.
Kind of. Oxide uses what's left of OpenSolaris as their OS of choice and Oracle still sells Solaris SPARC servers. It's the retreat up - they can defend their hill for a long time that way and, in Oracle's case, they don't even innovate the same way IBM does with POWER and Z.
My favourite page is "Specifying source files" [0], which seems like an important thing for an installer, but all this page contains is:

> To be written. To volunteer, leave a comment at the related issue on GitHub.

If you start with Visual Studio, create a project with their (free) plugin, and configure Heat [1], you might get a working installer.

[0]: https://wixtoolset.org/docs/tools/payloads/

[1]: https://wixtoolset.org/docs/tools/heat/
Every Mac is a Unix workstation these days. I work on a Macbook Pro and spend an inordinate amount of time running Unixy stuff in the terminal.
NASA peaked at 4.4% of national spending, though not all of that was Apollo. Not every member of HN in America and they definitely don’t make the same salary but it’s like 600+$ in just one year taken out of your pocket and set on fire, except it’s worse.

NASA’s budget for manned missions needs to be considered across time and as part of the US’s debt over 60+ years not just spending in individual years. Countries need some military spending but most countries have looked at manned missions as frivolous because they are. This is an annual trip to Cabo on your credit card not rent.

As to the ongoing cost from Apollo/shuttle/etc population isn’t static, but people wouldn’t have gotten 30 year bonds at 15.21% in 1981 if the total debt was significantly less. So it’s not an easy calculation, but it’s a bigger debt burden than you might think. Which IMO puts these missions in a different light.
Recalling Apple vs. Qualcomm
Pieces of FlairCoin
> Time is on your side.

This one sounds profound, and in practice feels completely wrong.

Rushed conversations happen because of tight deadline. Find me a way to get rid of the deadline, and the communication will grow smoother.
I built a command line bookmark manager in Fish and FZF that stores data in Xata, which I then pull into my website as well. Source and demo available on Github from the article below.

https://www.davesnider.com/posts/bookmarks
It's The Register. It's basically a tech focus tabloid.

Old timer sysadmins turned engineers seem to love it for nostalgia reasons, but their reporting on tech news is fairly stale and behind, just like it's peers InfoWorld, SDxCentral, DarkReading, and others.

Vendors would take these guys out to drinks and steak dinners and give them 75% of the story they need. I guess MS stopped "donating" to The Register. You'll see reporters for these rags at RSAC going to the free corporate happy hours and restaurant meetups we make general availability for tiny MSSPs and ICs whose egos we polish thru bread and circuses, but the serious tech journalists will be at the private events or having 1on1 meetings.

The actual hard hitting reporting would come from Axios, Reuters, Protocol, The Information, and a couple others.

Valleywag had a similar tone, but they actually did hard hitting reporting and had insider knowledge.
We’ve had a bit of a rebound as some clients have banned AI until they get a handle on QC

Probably short lived though
Quite a few things actually, but the biggest one is that I believe that [almost] nobody is beyond rehabilitation. Even in cases where the person is beyond, it doesn’t mean we ought to make them suffer for their circumstances.

That isn’t to say we shouldn’t protect the rest of society, but neither punishment nor retribution — especially in the name of “justice” — are justifiable. If anything, such responses only [temporarily] satisfy one’s desire for bloodlust. They cannot undo the harm done and they cannot relieve us of the pain.
It seems to be based on SearxNG https://github.com/felladrin/MiniSearch
And ads inbuilt.
Seemed so
I'd like to submit Leslie Groves as another extremely gifted administrator who got big things done inside big organizations. There need to be more studies about his "methods".
You should probably set the language of the SpeechSynthesis to english, currently the browser seems to use the system language which leads to bad output with the english text.
>DST has caused my team our fair share of headaches and troubles…

I hate to break the news to you, but "NASA wants to come up with a new clock for the moon, where seconds tick away faster"

So your team will leap away from those DST headaches into transcoded seconds headaches. Now incorporate negative leap seconds into this time correction soup and everything will be just fine.
I slapped together a little shareable sprint calendar tool, since I was constantly finding myself having to click too many times in other tools to get what should be a simple at-a-glance overview. I now use it almost every day, during team or stakeholder chats at work.

My team runs with: https://sprintcalendar.com/3-week-sprints/start-2020-12-03/r...

I've only tweaked it a bit since then, after sharing it and getting some feedback from others who found it useful.
My notifications are all delayed by a minute or two. The UI just chugs too.
It was called "Take Me Warmer." Basically, you entered in your ZIP code and a desired temperature, and it told you the closest ZIP whose forecasted high for the day was at least that temperature.

So, if you were in NYC in January and wanted to find out the closest location that was at least 72 degrees, it would spit out locations that met that criteria.

(There was also a companion app, "Take Me Cooler," that did the reverse.)

Required a one-time download of ZIP/coordinate data and daily downloads from a weather API. Figured out how to calculate the distances, and most of the rest was just stitching it all together.
Re "But we (small companies and devs) now have to spend time migrating and moving things around without any additional value."

You shouldn't have to do anything: I don't get it
I think you're making a choice because you have a preference for non-copyleft licenses in software you use? That's your choice
Squats Heal the Body [video]
Why not cut out the middleman and have it generate the XML? Or let the LLM generate the MSI database directly, without WiX. (Good luck debugging!)
I recently got a m3 macbook pro (mainly because the general notebook market has been shit for a decade now, I needed to replace my more than a decade old one, and there's pretty much nothing apart from apple which is relatively small, has long battery life, a shitload of RAM and a powerful CPU).

Once there's Linux support for M3 I'll probably switch (have an M1 macbook air with Linux which is doing well) - until then I got things close enough to my Linux Hyprland setup with yabai that it is relatively painfree to use.
Clouds of plasma would be a possible explanation for dark matter. Dark energy is very different and not really related in any obvious ways.

That aside, clouds of plasma don't really work as an explanation for dark matter either. Plasma interacts with light in ways we understand quite well, which means we would see it in astronomical observations.
Heated Shot
Like the good old days of script kiddies running bots via IRC on a few hundred windows machines. Not the new generation organized DDOS crime running on tens of thousands of insecure "smart" devices...
When I was looking for a new tech job, I got sick of trying to figure out which Leetcode Pattern I was gonna practice so I just threw all of them on a list and gave me one a day.

The reason it only gives you one random thing a day is cause I didn’t wanna try “re-roll” the pattern I was gonna practice to give me something easier.

https://www.pickoneatrandom.com/
There is no way to say this without sounding rude, but you clearly don't understand how insane healthcare costs are when you have kids.

Premiums alone could be close to a 1k a month for a family plan. At best you're paying 500 a month in premiums, and that is guaranteed to have a 5k+10k deductible before anything is covered by insurance. Then you will probably still have a co-insurance.

The notion that Medicaid is so crappy is some terrible insurance is propaganda. Free vs paying tens of thousands of dollars, and still be flooded with medical bills, is all you need to know which one is better.

I know dozens of people with medicaid and they absolutely refuse to lose it, especially the ones with large families. If you, or someone in your family, have chronic health issues then you are basically guaranteed to be paying 10k in healthcare premiums and deductibles when you lose Medicaid and get private insurance.
The 'G' in SGI is basically the same 'G' as in GPU. Had SGI still rocked the world, today they'd be at the forefront of AI. All the models would be trained on and run on SGI computers.

The attack on SGI didn't only happen on the lame Windows side, with their crappy software and ultra lame 3D software (compared to what SGI had), which people would love because their lameness was matched by their ultra-cheap pricepoint.

The attack on SGI also came from open-source and Linux: cheap commodity hardware that'd run both mediocre but ubiquitous commercial software and the very same cheap commodity hardware that'd run Linux.

On which OS are most (all?) AI models trained today? What OS powers 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers?

Linux.

That's the tragedy of SGI: as if cheap commodity x86 hardware wasn't enough, they got then attacked by both Windows and Linux on that cheap hardware.

P.S: as a sidenote my best friend (still best friend to this day)'s stepfather was the head of SGI Benelux (Belgium/The Netherlands/Luxembourg) so my friend had this SGI Indy (the "pizza tower" one) at his home. Guess what we'd do every day after school?
I've gone the other way in my life (native English speaker learning several other languages. I speak one fluently, and two others at a basic level. I live in continental Europe and the country I'm in has 3 official and 4 national languages).

One of my language teachers said babies learn listening first, then speaking, then reading and finally writing, whereas adults it is the other way around: adults find it easiest to deal with writing because they control the context and it is in their own time, then reading because although there might be unexpected constructions, it is again in their own time. Then speaking for the same reason as writing, except timing is more real time, and finally listening is the hardest challenge, because it requires real time understanding of the context.

So I agree that I would expect written communication to be easier to deal with for many non natives of any language.