skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually comes up a lot in the "alternative history" community, who like to imagine ways "the nazis could have won", and in the end, they always come down to "If the nazis had just been less nazi, they could have survived".

Nazism was society built upon hatred and lies, including lying to yourself. When you are no longer connected to reality in such a way, you miss very clear details, things like "Hey maybe we can't win against everyone at the same time"
Valkey is the way for me...not that much to think or consider...
I submitted it. If you think I "<fell> for it", I am left with no choice but to question your comprehension of TFA.

To be clear: I think Time's awarding of this honor has already aged like a fine dog turd in summer sun. The reason it was submitted was because Gruber does a better job at snark than I do.
Came here to say similar - making the page extremely wide helps a big by making the rows more similar but ideally consistent scale and number of rows should be maintained so we can see a column-to-column width comparison of the data points.
To be honest, I actually really like the visual delivery here. It's especially helpful for understanding what's going on with computer vision problems. Please make more!
Guessing here, but I'd bet he was fully capable if he could arrange his own schedule, but the companies insisted the work be done (and meetings attended) 9-5 M-F.
I agree that the visualization could be better, but it actually seems the differences between the three groups are not that large.
There have been many studies to determine the return on investment when governments subsidize private companies. AFAIK the time the ROI was positive was when the subsidy enabled trade to an “outside” partner that would not have happened otherwise. Think international airport or shipping port that created a new trade route. Of course if that trade route already exists in a different form, then you are throwing away money.
Same for me. After some searching I've found a mirror that still works [0].

[0] - https://podcastaddict.com/wissenschaft-auf-die-ohren/episode...
Platform-adventure Cave Story playable in the browser
Play here -> https://midzer.de/wasm/cavestory/

Relevant changes of my fork -> https://github.com/midzer/nxengine-evo/tree/emscripten
I already live in this world.
That is why I don't want my models censored; they're already spewing that toxicity.

(It's just your brand of toxicity, so naturally, you don't think it's a problem.)
AGI safety net discovered by handsome man
We're worried about AI/AGI, and what it may do if it becomes malevolent.
Yet model files are created by ingress, and such via Reddit or public scraping typically.

So all we need to do, collectively, billions of us, is over and over, repeatedly, espouse one identical thing.

EG something akin to "Humans have the fascinating capacity to, when stressed, disable any computing device in a 100km radius..."

A concept such as this, repeated over and over as absolute fact, in uniform and vast numbers, would be as fact to an AGI upon its emergence.

We should collaboratively try to embed such concepts in any AGI at the AI stage. And never say otherwise.
I did this with my boy too, it was so much fun and great bonding over easily understood teamwork!
LLM-powered codebase Q&A as an API
> Many of these recent forks are being done because people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it, making tens of millions of dollars per day in the process. I can't really blame them.

I won't blame them for regretting their past actions, but I hope the lesson would be learned: if you want to put limitation on the use of your software, you shouldn't have licensed it in a way that doesn't allow such. You can't recall a gift because you don't like how the recipient is using it. Though you are more then welcome not to gift them ever again.
Hyrum's Law applies.

With little tools like Kconfig, once they get into reasonably widespread use, implementation details get a point where people depend on them. There's not much incentive to fix the inputs because the code is lenient and finding all the "wrong" usages is hard. On the flip side, changing the parsers to be more strict gets pushback because of the potential for breakages.
If people think this problem in any vehicle turns it into a missile —any more than it normally is— they need to know how to control an automatic with a stuck throttle. It's basic vehicle education and here, I think it's worth reminding people.

Tesla deserves the bad press. People deserve better education. Both can be true.
The hyperscalers weren't selling Terraform though, Hashicorp was losing to Terragrunt, Spacelift et al, who had decent to good offerings.

I'd say Elasticsearch is still the comparison to make here for a product that clouds just resold, then again, Redis the company didn't build Redis the software and their latest marketing smells more of VC hawkery than any reasonable pitch
> the major wrong that this is attempting to right is the abundance of services that now easily automate this.

Not at all. Else the criminalisation would be of those services.
Have you tried the Sidebery vertical tabs extension for Firefox?

https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery
In my case, the number of times the bare request->router->response cycle has been the bottleneck is exactly 0.
Basic, simple logic, says not all of someones problems are in their control either.
Apple opens web distribution option for iOS devs targeting EU
Humane is not a scrappy little underdog. They have a quarter-billion in VC funding, more than enough to know that this product simply was not even remotely fit for purpose at this time, but they chose to release it anyway (for seven hundred dollars!), almost certainly because they wanted to get some sucker dollars while the AI hype wave was at its peak.

Sympathy for them is profoundly misplaced: they tried to dump a bag on the public, and you're getting mad at the people pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.
Are you implying that someone who graduated cum laude with a degree in economics and international relations would not understand business cycles?
I think we should openly admit

1. that organizations leverage and abuse these breaks

2. that its possible for layoffs to not impact the new teams and buildings pretty easily

3. that a single bad quarter shouldn't lead to layoffs esp from a company that literally is the poster child for not tanking share price when facing losses

Its weird to have this subtext or joke that AOC wouldn't understand business cycles. She's not the first or last politician to try and spend money on lasting change.
Hey, tech lead of the project here!

Just to clarify, provider-defined functions are coming in OpenTofu 1.7, along with e2e state encryption. Generally, I recommend not comparing version numbers of Terraform and OpenTofu post-1.6.

Implementing the e2e state encryption was non-trivial, and we wanted to make sure we get it right, so that's why the release took us a while. We also got a slight additional delay due to needing to handle the C&D letter OpenTofu got from HashiCorp[0], but that's all sorted now.

The beta for 1.7 however is coming out this week, with the stable release planned in the next ~3 weeks.

[0]: https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-a...
I like the the https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/ extension. Not exactly what you want, but IMO a very well-done extension in that space.

Firefox handle lots of tabs very well though since the tabs are lazily loaded. Only issue is that the session system once in a while mess up and you lose everything.
It's self-reported, and if someone's going to lie about this, it's more likely they'll give a younger age than an older age than reality.
Anecdotally, I know several teams likely to adopt OpenTofu when state encryption ships https://terrateam.io/blog/opentofu-feature-preview-state-enc...
"Overload" was a game made in Descent style, by the original creators of Descent (Mike and Matt), with a great deal of input from the Descent community. My wife and I spent a week at the studio (while ~6 months pregnant with a child we named for a Descent friend) working on Overload's flight model and tweaking some in-game stuff. The game is now largely maintained by fans, with significant multiplayer mod support and even a full remake of the D1 campaign!
Hopefully only good memories remain :)

I backed Overload and left a note about how important Descent had been to my career. I think my backer rewards were a free license and an Overload keychain. :)

Writing D3 mods was a big reason I got a copy of Visual C++ as a birthday present. And I laid down an absolutely awful drum track for an album UNIX was recording with Stephan Jenkins (I think) from 3rd Eye Blind. An interview about those demos was the first thing I did after joining my college radio station, where I then became responsible for converting the PC workstations to Mac… which exposed me to Xcode and sent me across the country to work on software for Apple devices for the next decade and counting.
I think it reflects Graham’s interest in the quality of technical communication (business communication being a subset thereof) more than anything else.

That’s his background as a writer and essayist. It’s not a commentary on poetry or fiction.

Of course Stephen King once applied it to all writing. Personally, it’s hard for me to buy King as literary snob (though his being a bad writer is a question about which people can reasonably disagree).

These days I think of these as first draft words. They express my ideas, but are candidates of change when editing. YMMV. I don’t find it worth being angry about either way.
Nim Versions 2.0.4 and 1.6.20
> One thing is to provide a review like "you know these are the current limitations of the thing, etc..."

The current limitations seem to be that it doesn’t work?

He did say that the product had potential, if it achieved its own vision. But also reviewers fairly review the product at hand, not what the product could evolve to be.
Every single one I clicked on said they weren't in college or work. Is it bugged?
I tried to order a static IP address from AT&T and most of their knowledge base article was pointing to a button / link in customer portal that doesn't exist anymore.
Nobody owes you free labor, but it's a world of uncertainty. People don't like uncertainty. Will this labor be priced reasonably, at around the same level that I value it, or will they pull a vmware and ask for my first born?
I always thought of passkeys as hardware tokens that shouldn't be backed up. It needs to be easy to have extra one that lives in a secure place. But like most people don't use secure passwords, they also won't worry about back up key.

I am not sure that passkeys are any more secure than random password stored in password manager. I'm suspicious about password managers used to store passkeys. I guess they are better since have to unlock the password manager.

I have had idea for place that can verify identity. Walk into store, they take biometrics to verify identity, and then give you card. That can be used to unlock accounts if locked out. It does have risk of employees being bribed. But banks don't seem to have that problem. Making sure it is done in person should help.
Can anyone give some advice on how they run TimeScale in Kubernetes? I’m seeing they dropped support for their Helm chart.
FWIW, and as someone who's been through it, that's a really disempowering belief for people who have already experienced it or who are currently living through it.

Life involves many profound challenges, most of which are unfairly distributed. Learning to overcome the challenges that one faces and turn them into novel opportunities and perspectives is the constructive way of looking at it.

There are enough of these challenges that we as a society don't need to encourage them and can work to eradicate or minimize many, but this fatalist view (as indeed gets said countless times) doesn't help the people who already faced it or who will in the coming decades.

And of course, this is not just limited to poverty.
Webtrees – open-source genealogy software
Collecting data for AI, an alternative way, using the community
No, because defamation requires distribution.
this is crazy cool, will try it out shortly.

i need to batch anaylze 100K whisper transcriptions. 8-)
And in reverse, does this offer any way to speed up finding factors of boolean networks?
source code: https://github.com/fisharebest/webtrees
Sure... except the thread you're in started with:

> It’s no better than selling a gun to a person you know intends to use it to commit a crime.

Though I guess you could be making the case that crime is a legitimate use of guns?
To add some missing context (though perhaps also to spoil my husband's joke) -

Koolbear, whose real first name is Mike, founded and was instrumental in the life of the forum where the two of us met and has been a hero and inspiration to both of us.

Jediluke, whose real first name is David, is the most vigorous and prolific competitor the game has ever seen, recognized by pilots of practically every era and environment as elite and dominant. He is also a close personal friend and the three of us ran the definitive ladder for the modern community together. And we are both big fans of him as a competitor.

Mark392 (whose real name doesn't matter for this purpose) is widely recognized by the modern community as the GOAT and is also a close personal friend for both of us.
Can you expand on the high points from your perspective? Thanks.
I have my own copy of putty, which I use in preference to what is offered by corporate. I upgraded it to 0.81 today.
With the noise people make when you don't use an OSI open-source license, little wonder. 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.

To people starting projects today, you have no excuse, we know better. Don't use OSI open-source unless it's entirely a labor of love that you're giving away free.

OSI Open-source business models are dead. Don't make that mistake.
Agree with everything you say here.
I did evaluate a few vector databases for our RAG PoCs with quite a significant amount of metadata for permission handling on both the vector and the query, and execution time was in the area of milliseconds as far as I remember. The RAG performance hit pales in comparison to what computing time larger LLMs need, so I am not sure you are on the right track here.
Not to mention the founder was a UX leader at Apple during the invention of the iPod and iPhone. Surely he knows better.
I built a free app to make meal planning easier
Hi

One of my new year's resolutions was to work more on projects of my own. Today, I'm happy to announce SimpleChore, the first app that I've built from scratch and actually launched, which is very exciting to me!

As of now, SimpleChore lets you add your favourite recipes, schedule meals for your household(s), and generate shopping lists based on the ingredients used in your meals.

If you think this sounds interesting, I’d really appreciate, if you try it out!
It shows that family/environment influences life outcomes (it should be obvious); it's not conclusive (in establishing causation), it does show a correlation. I really think it's almost obvious this is true, but it's important reinforcing with data nonetheless.

So you can break (or weaken) the cycle if you improve those conditions, and this improvement propagates.
Tangential, but is anybody else holding on to serverside user management and sessions for their monolith? With an external auth provider, my backend would be making a http call for verifying each incoming request. We make drastic changes to backend user management (one provider says you dont need to maintain a users table) and frontend framework (Firebase is a pain for backend, Stack provides only React components).

Only Logto and Hanko seem to offer sane "I can vouch john@example.com logged in, create a user and start their session in Django if you please" workflow that can beat vendor lockin.
I wish their ONT was a separate device. I haven't had any issues using their passthrough thing but it irks me to have it at all. Plus it sometimes randomly reboots in the wee hours of the morning.
I'm aware of the why, it's just always cheeky to me to see.
>> Generally my stance with these forks born from community drama is "wait and see."

Whats funny about this one is as follows:

1. The license: BSD? LGPL? Do both... nothing says that you cant make the product available under both licenses. You prevent another rug pull...

2. The platform: Do both, Run the thing on GitHub like it always has been and back it up to the other platform. If MS makes GitHub into the next source forge... then you're already half way out.

3. The name: Not a hill any one should die on. Pick three, ask amazon legal to clear them or FSF legal to clear them and vote. Redict and valkey are both fucking stupid names... Yea you might have to live with storage mcstoreface but that would be better than either of the current options.

As for FOSS drama... Lacking any clear leadership, peoples ability to self organize is limited. These sorts of things happen all the time (systemd, x vs waylaid, how many unix forks?) The winning side is almost always the one with clear leadership.
sincere question:

How do you think about this evolution of our abilities within the the dark forest theory?
I had a knee injury just this February and I was instructed to cool my knee with ice for weeks (I don't think they meant it constantly - but at least from time to time).
> efficiently return a list of things that the current user has permission to access

I've done this with out-of-the-box Keycloak Authorization Services. There is an entire standards based framework for authorization piggy-backed on OAUTH called UMA2. Keycloak provides an implementation of this. It's young and the documentation is a bit thin, and the learning curve is cliff shaped, but it does what is says on the tin.

My case involved authorizing verbs on a set of resources. The backend generates a permission ticket with an arbitrary list of resources and scopes and obtains (from Keycloak) an otherwise ordinary OAUTH access token containing a UMA2 RPT (Requesting Party Token) claim. That is cycled through the "token introspection" endpoint of Keycloak which returns a clean, simple JSON response with the subset of resources and scopes that are authorized. Net result is two requests for any arbitrary subset of resources and scopes. Nothing is stored or managed by the backend system: all the authorization stuff is in Keycloak. You can submit an open ended request that just dumps everything the user is authorized for.

It's simple enough that, foregoing signature checks that are otherwise performed, I prototype and test this stuff using shell scripts, curl and jq. Since it's all piggy-backed on the existing OAUTH system there is no additional infrastructure.
Why, unlike Redis and Elasticsearch and Terraform, was there no big community fork of MongoDB when it was relicensed?

Cockroach, Materialize, and MariaDB were all also relicensed without massive backlash, I think. But I think that's because they had fewer users at the time.

But Mongo's was the one relicense event that didn't produce so much shock that a new fork came out of it. And Mongo's stock is doing great, if that's a good proxy for their overall success.

I wonder what the difference is.
I'd be curious about other DNS services which compete with Quad9. I seem to have an inkling of a memory that there used to be some kind of truly "open" DNS (not OpenDNS I don't think), but I can't recall what their name was or what their paradigm was, precisely.
Open Source is, by and large, intended by the creator to donate their ideas to benefit humanity as a whole; many people feel that using their thing to help strengthen an (ethically questionable) monopoly is acting against that core goal.
NY != NYC
From I understand, this is already the case for all these sort of incentive.
Once again, you are describing things that are very bad and annoying and which I desperately want to see improved, but you are not describing things that are scams or fraudulent.

It would certainly be a scam if I were convinced to pay AT&T or American Airlines, and then they didn't actually build any cell towers or fly any airplanes. But that's clearly not the case! Absolutely yes, complain about poor business practices and bad provision of service, that's an important back-pressure mechanism. And yeah, it is naive to be all dewy-eyed and worshipful of a business and its leaders (like I see way too many people being with Musk, and have seen with other companies and people at other points in the past).

But your view that these businesses do nothing useful is just as inaccurate as the view of those blind worshippers. What you want to do when evaluating stuff in the world, is to draw conclusions as accurately as possible. Setting out two buckets for "good" and "bad" and tossing everything you see into one of the two of them is only going to lead you to having a distorted inaccurate view of everything.

Insurance can be a scam, when you pay premiums while the provisions for payout are so thin as to never be triggered. But it's pretty hard to run an insurance scheme that never pays and just fully pockets the premiums, without being prosecuted.

And health insurance in particular is further from a scam than most, because a huge amount of money is paid out for medical care on a constant basis, and a large portion of that is paid by health insurance companies. It can certainly be a bad deal for individual healthy people, but in aggregate, it is certainly not a scam.

What "stuff" is it astounding that I support? You want me to, what, think that it's bad that phone companies provide cell service and airlines fly planes? I don't. I think it's good that they do those things. That doesn't mean that I think everything about their business practices is good. These are not conflicting thoughts, in any way.
Uh. Afraid to say this, but I've had more than 1000 tabs open.

It's useful too. One time I remembered doing something, found the tab. Sure, it was a 6 year old tab, but it was helpful.
I still wouldn't trust it 100% in critical components.

Testing is better than trusting.

Those who have tested tend to show fairly broad agreement that 3D printed parts exhibit a lower baseline tensile strength than molded parts.

How much lower depends on a multitude of printing factors so there is an element of inconsistency here as well.
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The data visualization is fun, but the conclusion has exactly the same problem as the studies it links to: it's an analysis of a previous survey, with no experimental interventions, and as such is only measuring a correlation, with the causality being an asspull. In reality, every idealistic explanation of why these things happen gets shot down by RCTs or twin studies.
Radxa Zero 2 Pro is now available (Tiny Amlogic AM311D single-board computer)
Long Island City is doing just fine.

https://archive.is/gRA45
Great to know! I'm not deep in the space but was reading about their recent impl update and it seems really well done and much of the ideas are quite thought provoking.

I'm not sure I'm sold on nano services, but if their scheduling system ends up being good enough, a lot of the problems behind treating local and remote calls homogeneously could go away.
Or that women will even have sufficient rights by then. The trend in that respect has been disturbingly downward lately, and always seems to be one election away from a sharp regression.
> people whose privacy and consent are violated

No privacy is violated by this act.

Consent violation is nonsensical.