skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't really considered either a bug or a feature by the original designers, it was just not something they put any thought into. After it was discovered, some designers had a negative opinion of it, others had a positive opinion, and it was a point of contention when the team got together to make Overload after years away from Descent. My wife and I tried some alternatives (by modding D1) and flew a demo for Mike/Matt/Luke/Dan and whoever else was in the studio that day, and eventually settled on "vector independence just feels good" which is why Overload has the ability to change from a normalized flight mode with faster 1D flight into the trichording mode.
> Don't use OSI open-source unless it's entirely a labor of love that you're giving away free.

Well, know what your secret sauce is. I think performance is really the best differentiator. Make a fully behaviourally compatible (maybe not bug for bug) version available and then sell a proprietary faster version.

Think an compiler that doesn't due any optimisation and outputs naive code. You know have a useful OSI project, and a clear value add, and a clear boundary between the two.

This is really applicable for databases, and it still leaves you with something useful for learning small projects, and for developers to run locally on their own machines.
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Hey all!

I'm Sam, cofounder + CTO at Oso.

Thank you all for the great discussions going on here. If folks are interested in either learning more about the product or working on these kinds of problems, you can email me directly at sam [at] osohq.com.
Descent holds a special place for me, as it was the first game I ever saw played on a PC (I watched my dad play when I was five, ~30 years ago). I recently was able to reminisce by playing the modern successor, Overload: https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/
Elena Verna is the name you're looking for. She's got a lot of stuff all over the place so might take a bit of digging, but imo there is nobody better, she's a PLG wizard for sure.
Something need to be fixed. Opensource is not about license, it's about people.

OSS companies are fighting against cloud vendors to survice.

https://zilliz.com/blog/Redis-tightens-its-license-How-can-a...
If a society has a trend line of poor home environments then I think the society is in some sense at fault for fostering poor home environments. This doesn't and shouldn't take away from the individual's responsibility for raising kids.

But home environments exist in a specific social context that effect how people think they should foster a good home environment. We've lost a lot of societal knowledge and experience around good family structures since probably the 60s. As a society we have definitely encouraged, especially the lower income bands, to outsource it to schools and institutions. That is going to have an effect.
It's funny how the biggest complaint from residents of Long Island, Astoria, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg etc. is that their neighborhoods are getting gentrified and unaffordable, and on the other end politicians argue that big corporations need to be paid billions of dollars in incentives to come "save" them.
Hi, wkirby! I'm the post author, I do DevRel at Oso.

> Permissions have three moving parts, who wants to do it, what do they want to do, and on what object. Any good permission system has to be able to efficiently answer any permutation of those variables. Given this person and this object, what can they do? Given this object and this action, who can do it? Given this person and this action, which objects can they act upon?

> We’ve found most permissioning systems end up with a pick-2 approach, and the most common one to be abused is given a person and an action, give me the collection. This leads to implementing permissions twice, once in code, and once as a query.

I love the way you put this! I'm always looking for good ways to talk about authorization without falling back on jargon and I've never come up with a way to talk about the difference between authorizing an action on a single resource and returning a list of authorized resources that I've been happy with. Would you mind if I adapted this in future writing?
It's Hard to Measure Work Performance. Act Accordingly
I guess the real advantage is, if their server is temporarily compromised, they don't have to make me reset my password to get back in. But it's a per-site password, so the attacker can't use it elsewhere.
This doesn't solve anything as it's still an unconstrained experience and allows ;w2

Space,S is saving by just typing

And you can also use ; for a much more frequent operation - cursor movement
My initial takeaway from this rant is this person doesn't understand how DNS works.

If your ISP making a change is breaking resolution on your local LAN then you are doing it wrong, the problem is 100% on your end.

If you are running properly functioning internal DNS, your ISP cannot make a change that will impact your LAN.

Any OpenWRT device can do this out of the box with zero additional configuration.
This doesn't sound too much different than my garage, really. Just junk and half finished projects piled up.

That might be useful some day. toss

I get why it'd be useful, and stretching the capabilities like that means that browsers get more and more useful and efficient. It just doesn't work for me, and that's alright. If you can open 1000 tabs, my 10 are no problem!
Wait why is the 1 LD from earth sooner than 1 LD from the sun? I'd expect it would be the opposite?
In the competitive ladders some of the best used rotation to "steer" in curved paths when trichording.

It made people really difficult to hit when you were behind them.

I played against some ladder players and was amazed at their other order of magnitude skill.

Part of the reason those og games were so compelling to me is because they didn't really have a skill cap.

It would have been amazing to watch some of those matches in a streaming platform.
> The only reliable solution appears to be running your own router behind AT&T's BWG router-modem-all-in-one.

I'm running Eeros (mesh) with the first one connected by ethernet, and the AT&T router's wifi is disabled, so I don't think I've seen these issues.
Vector databases don't contain ML models. There is nothing that is learned. Here is a typical algorithm: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/faiss/hnsw/

It is all about performance; latency and recall.
"Yarr Force One, reporting."
That works while OpenTofu and Terraform files are compatible - but once they no longer are, presumably you'd have to standardise on one or the other.
"DIVE! DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!"

Man, I still can't believe I actually escaped that one the first time. That was the most amazing moment in the game for me.
I'm playing through Bravely Default.

I have a stack of 3DS games that I never got to play, but now I'm taking some time every once in a while, because the system has some really good titles.
Persuade a Lenire doctor to let you attach an oscilloscope to the device. Then DIY a microcontroller and current source that does the same thing, and put it on GitHub.

People don't gotta get paid. Open source must reign.
Definitely an interesting question. Some things that may explain why --

Mongo was always AGPL and relicensed to SSPL. This had the following consequences:

* Very few companies and zero large cloud companies ever attempted to run the MongoDB codebase in production as a managed service, other than MongoDB the company.

* Mostly because of the above, MongoDB did not receive many code contributions that did not originate from within the company. There were some, but not nearly to the extent of the others you listed

* The difference between AGPL and SSPL is not nearly as large as the difference between BSD and SSPL or Apache and SSPL.
A good chunk of that trillion dollars would be spent fighting lawsuits.

These issues are not the usual working out of bugs in technology. We're hitting a point where decisions are undecidable. It's not the tech, but the opinions about it and usage of it.
> But when Redis started I think we didn't yet boardly understand the limitations of OSI licenses in the era of big tech cloud computing.

According to antirez, he understood the implications of licensing Redis as BSD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863371
American's LOVED eugenics for giving them an excuse to keep believing what they already wanted to believe. Other southerners took the approach of letting their pastors tell them that "it was god's will that the negro serve us" and that keeping slaves was outright the morally upstanding thing to do with "savage races"

We also used eugenics as a "science" to make laws that allowed us to non-consensually sterilize "lesser" people.

We never actually dealt with this hateful undercurrent in our society. Large sections of america still believe in a hierarchical world order where their "type" of person is at the top and other "types" of people are less deserving. It has been holding us back and ruining our country for 250 years.
Agreed, the visualizations don't sell the story.

If you actually take the percentage, it's like 30-50% more likely to have the worse outcome the worse your adverse background gets.

But on the chart, it's only like an extra line of kids. The absolute number increases don't look like much, but the percentage increase is very high. I think the authors could have done a much better job at highlighting that.
It's been more than one generation at this point, and it gets louder with each one

People forget that the "climate cataclysm" doomsaying started decades ago. There are articles about "we will be under water/burning alive/etc in only a few years!!" As far back as the 70s. Maybe before!

So it's been a huge mistake in two ways, because it's led to two types of outcomes:

The first is like you said, the younger generations have basically given up. High rates of depression, anxiety, and just general "checked out of society"

The second is the older generations that have high rates of "They've been saying the world will end in five years for the past fifty years, so clearly this climate stuff isn't a problem at all" and they are behaving accordingly, as though it weren't a problem at all
Building a Ticketing System with Solana Mobile and Metaplex Foundation Umi
Hey, sharing my colleague's @juanArias8 article on Solana Mobile here. He'll answer questions/comments in this thread if any popup.
Which contributors would get the money? Would you allocate it according to number of commits? Would it include corp contributors?
Their mission statement is disingenuous, to say the least, and I sensed it as soon as I started the current post. Here is the mission statement, in bold, and in this form, great, I'd be all for it:

The Pudding explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. We’re not chasing current events or clickbait.

Then we scroll down a bit and see that, in fact, they are not taking a fresh, objective look at issues, but are strongly committed to one side of the culture war, the progressive left:

"We believe in journalism that denounces false equivalence, one that can explicitly say Black Lives Matter"

"We strive for our journalism to be one of key making, not gate keeping, and we won't shy away from stories that tackle racism, sexism, and classism head on."

"We're a small group that operates as a collective rather than hierarchical team."
Then the maintainers of the system have failed in their duty, the evidence cannot be verified, and it must be thrown out.
You must mean something other than 10%, that would be $9 billion by your numbers. 0.1% would be about $9 million so would be closer to your envelope math.
I love everything about this, it's really clean! Doesn't support my L2s, so I won't use it long-term

Constructive feedback:

* the 'typed' word should be discarded in a few cases if you change the L1/L2

* No 'success' feedback after submitting my email for notifications
It's the most straightforward change from a community and development perspective, and it's got most of the core developers.
It isn't clear how "Aloha Unleashed" is different from "Mobile ALOHA"

Paper: Learning Bimanual Mobile Manipulation with Low-Cost Whole-Body Teleoperation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02117

Video set: https://mobile-aloha.github.io/

Tutorial: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3yhWjodSNNYlpxkRCPIlvIA...

Kits for sale: https://www.trossenrobotics.com/aloha-kits
It doesn't give me any benefit over a regular smartphone right now...

But for $700 up front, and $24/month, you think Humane "did not deserve" a bad review? For $700 and a subscription, one does not get to be "aspirational", that shit better work. Apple released a device 17 years ago for very similar pricing, the world thought it would flop, and that device actually worked as advertised.
Crashes my browser.
I recall seeing this photo back in the 90s and it seemed like the pinnacle of display technology

https://web.archive.org/web/20110927044427/https://geek.com/...
The other issue is that it requires the driver to read a screen while driving. in 1988 at the MIT Media Lab I built a system called Back Seat Driver that provides spoken driving directions, allowing the driver to keep their visual attention on the road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0V6lDKQ0Y&t=21s. It ran on a Lisp Machine, not in the vehicle. A later version ran on a Sun computer in the trunk.

The in-car nav system was also augmented dead-reckoning, like Etak. GPS was still denied to civilians at the time.
I'm willing to bet poverty is really what is leading, everything else is a spurious correlation. If you're poor you probably live in a more dangerous area, are in a significantly worse situation to study, need money right now so need to get a job asap after school - or even during school, etc etc. I wish we could easily check this from the data.
Why?

Most weather and climate datasets - including ERA5 - are highly structured on regular latitude-longitude grids. Even if you were solely doing timeseries analyses for specific locations plucked from this grid, the strength of this sort of dataset is its intrinsic spatiotemporal structure and context, and it makes very little sense to completely destroy the dataset's structure unless you were solely and exclusively to extract point timeseries. And even then, you'd probably want to decimate the data pretty dramatically, since there is very little use case for, say, a point timeseries of surface temperature in the middle of the ocean!

The vast majority of research and operational applications of datasets like ERA5 are probably better suited by leveraging cloud-optimized replicas of the original dataset, such as ARCO-ERA5 published on the Google Public Datasets program [1]. These versions of the dataset preserve the original structure, and chunk it in ways that are amenable to massively parallel access via cloud storage. In almost any case I've encountered in my career, a generically chunked Zarr-based archive of a dataset like this will be more than performant enough for the majority of use cases that one might care about.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/public-datasets/era5
How is this destroying society?
It ain't performance, it's cost (which increased performance can improve, but it's far from the only factor).
> and may surprise you at any point in time with ever higher bills without higher usage.

What? really? Do they change your pricing plan? How can they charge more for the same usage?
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Since in AM5 all CPUs have a basic iGPU, for a home server all the normal CPUs already work fine. The advantage of the APUs is they're on a monolithic die so should have quite a bit lower idle power usage which is important if you have a NAS or other homelab server running 24/7.
Great post! Hi Ali!

I think what's missing here is an analysis of what is gained by moving the weather data into a RDBMS. The motivation is to speed up queries. But what's the baseline?

As someone very familiar with this tech landscape (maintainer of Xarray and Zarr, founder of https://earthmover.io/), I know that serverless solutions + object storage can deliver very low latency performance (sub second) for timeseries queries on weather data--much faster than the 30 minutes cited here--_if_ the data are chunked appropriately in Zarr. Given the difficulty of data ingestion described in this post, it's worth seriously evaluating those solutions before going down the RDBMS path.
The Hudson/Jenkins reference is interesting in that Hudson was soon later abandoned (i.e. donated to Eclipse Foundation).

For Redis there could be space for both, but if I want anything larger than a single instance I'd just sooner use MS Garnet[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752504
> And now I think about it, I recon a Segway would solve several of the problems that e-scooters have.

By `problems that e-scooters have` you mean being light, mobile, cheap, and not dorky?

Edit: just found this gem:

"So there may be a way to capture more of the market Segway hoped to reach: make a version that doesn't look so easy for the rider. It would also be helpful if the styling was in the tradition of skateboards or bicycles rather than medical devices." [1]

[1] https://paulgraham.com/segway.html
What's crazier still is that Amazon made all state and local governments sign NDAs which stated that the bidding process and any other specifics could not be shared with the public. Officials nationwide read this and went "yup, sounds good!" Quite literally legalized corruption.
> Because you’re not lighting rent money on fire every month.

I'm not lighting it on fire! I'm getting a place to live.

The homeowner is also lighting money on fire every month! They don't get a check back from the roofing company when they sell their house. They don't get a rebate from GE for the stove they bought 20 years ago. They get the benefit of having a stove in their house and a roof on their home.

In 20 or 30 years or whatever I have a Vanguard account with a couple hundred thousand dollars in it. In 20 or 30 years the homeowner sells and gets a big check as a result. Why do I care if their check is bigger than my Vanguard account?
Why would you have to believe in these things as "real" to still keep a fast? Why would you not answer a simple "no" instead of the answer you give?
Because the earth is a bit closer to Voyager than the sun is.
And how would forcing people to sell their house when they move out increases the number of houses??? Is still 1 house whether is being rented or owner occupied.
1. How many software engineers are necessary for the federal government to build its own office software, or at the very least contribute to open-source projects such as LibreOffice? Depending on the size of the team, this may be a drop in the bucket compared to the federal government's multi-trillion dollar budget, even if the developers made Microsoft-level salaries. Let's make a very liberal estimate: suppose there were a team of 20 engineers dedicated to contributing to LibreOffice, and each engineer costs $400,000 in salary and overhead. The total is $8 million per year. When spread out over a population of 333 million, that's less than 2.5 cents per person. Now compare that $8 million per year to the cost of Microsoft Office licenses.

2. I consider myself a limited government proponent, but even if government were cut down to the bone, there is still a need for the government to maintain in-house software. Just imagine the internal software that the military and the IRS has, for example. The Library of Congress probably has very interesting software for helping manage its collection. It is conceivable for the federal government to build and maintain office software to aid its operations.
The 2b1b video was the first to make it click for me
Would it be possible to put the original Sim Tower/Yoot Tower code up as well as the Web version? I know people who are interested in porting out some of the Mac DLC to Windows platforms in particular
Watching the video And looking at the visualisation rather than the voiceover, I’m surprised that having more adverse experiences in childhood doesn’t have A more significant effect on the adults.
There are people that have successfully added their own ONT setup to by-pass AT&T awful BGW-320 500/505 gateways. But it seems that its an uphill battle. dslreports.com has an entire thread dedicated to this.

I myself looked into it and realized as much as I'd like to have true bridge mode, it just wasn't worth the headache if AT&T made a change on their end. So I have BGW-320 configured for passthrough mode and an OPNSense box behind it. With Unbound recursive DNS resolver and Pihole - I fortunately don't have the problems as described in the github writeup
you can find out your ACE score online easily. It is 10 questions. A lot of folks commenting are getting stuck on poverty. Even folks in higher socioeconomic categories can have high ACE scores; poverty is only part of an ACE score. What is wild is the relationship to health as it ties to ACE scores.

I found a lot of value reading The Deepest Well by Dr. Burke Harris. She notices that some of her patients are having strange health issues and then she realizes that these strange health issues can be tied to their ACE scores. Issues include epigenetic changes and immune system dysfunctions among many others. She advocates for early ACE screening to help address issues as early as possible.
What a wonderful thing to say about a stranger's article! Thank you very much for posting this.
nit: s/founders/executives/ (sometimes they are the same, but not always)
The petitioning is not authoritarian but the measure is.
David Lynch presents 'A Thinking Room'
paired kidney exchange is a Market Design, see “Who Gets What and Why” by Alvin Roth
> Hashicorp was losing to Terragrunt, Spacelift et al, who had decent to good offerings.

Would love some data in support of this statement. Not saying you're wrong necessarily, just it feels like a perception vs. reality comment potentially.
I love how many of us who are IT or software professionals now got our start cobbling things together at the dawn of online gaming. Not as professionals, just as people who happened to be there and wanted to make something work. The 90s were a wild and wonderful time.

It's fun to hear from you! I'm glad you said hello!
In the past, I got AT&T FTTN, and their router somehow managed to break my NAT firewall. I've never had this problem before or since, and spent over a day debugging it. If I had to use their stuff at this point, I'd probably set up an SSH tunnel from my local router to some machine elsewhere, and then run ppp or similar over it. I'd also stick their wifi access point garbage inside a faraday cage.

Annoyingly, I had these problems in California when network neutrality was in full force. One of the rules said that ISPs were not allowed to discriminate against customer-owned network devices. Clearly, it didn't apply to AT&T.
Was expecting more from google than a robot that can tie shoe laces, wats the use case for this? Toys for the 1%?
What makes you think so ?
> a kind of ancient taboo on certain words, like fire, that they are not spoken directly but instead connected with other, similar sources; it is like calling the toilet or jakes the bathroom

I find it amusing that we can reconstruct that PIE speakers had a verb for "to get high", but we can't reconstruct their noun for "bear", because it was taboo: speaking of the bear was like speaking of the devil, and so all we know are all the different ways the different languages chose to talk about the bear without saying its name.
Ask HN: How to lead a paper as an early-career scientist?
Hi! I'm leading my first paper that involves managing the work (kind of) of 5 other co-authors (1 from my group + 2 from another group + 2 group leads). It's a multidisciplinary project and we're having a deadline in approx 1 month. I'm having a first draft done, but I'm not sure how much should I delegate vs. how much I'm expected to do it myself.

What's your advice on leading a project where everyone is higher in seniority than me?

Thanks!