skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In European terms, this is like moving King's Cross to Stevenage. Or moving Gare de Lyon to Paris Disneyland. The only difference is that both Stevenage and Paris Disneyland are already well-connected to rail: Stevenage is on the East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh and LNER stops there anyway, and Paris Disneyland is a TGV stop.

Why America is allergic to having a big central railway station in the middle of a city, I will never understand.
AI should have a huge impact on attention economics though. One cynical interpretation is that something that goes into their equation is that high availability of very competent open models should drive users to walled gardens since everywhere else is full of bots. I don't think that's the whole story though.
I am guessing you are not familiar with the AI-powered vision features that already ship since a few years. Mostly accessibility related, so I am not surprised you missed it.
I'm currently interviewing with them for a position as instructor. Since I'm located outside of the US, I know nothing about them and decided to do some digging, and I'm happy I did. I'm really passionate about teaching, and they have been actually scamming people instead of helping them out. I am appalled.
How are they arranged? Should Left be well on the left side? Like button being closer to side where action happens. Now I need to think about window switches too...
You were a real hacker. That's exactly how a real hacker would have done it, starting from the simplest method of reverse-engineering, and moving to more difficult methods or complicated tools only as necessary. Luckily for you, this POS app wasn't very well-designed from a security standpoint, but that's not unusual, especially for software that has a very limited market and is written by a very small team.
Doesn't seem to be unique to OSS. Free/cheap stuff attracting the worse kind of people also happen in other fields.
They literally wrote it in their investor presentation.

>Battery prices have not dropped fast enough.

Irrelevant. It is about if they actually want to compete in that segment.
Sure, but OpenAI was not founded (or initially funded) to be an AI product company -- which is OP's point.
Indeed, it's an article on the same topic from a different source.
I would hope we're getting over trying to make other websites look and behave more like Pinterest. Pinterest exemplifies the worst of the web in several ways.
ADB requires USB debugging to be enabled, yes, although modifying the appops settings (App Ops = app that can modify appops on the device itself using ADB, appops = android service that handles application permissions and application operations) doesn't need it to be continuously enabled.

You can just activate it, change the settings and disable it afterwards. Pretty annoying but it is what it is.

This doesn't require root either, although enabling USB debugging is an important step towards rooting, which is probably why you think it's related.
Commoditize your complements.
https://archive.li/ZQnSP (since Reddit blocks VPNs now)
Why? HCL itself is under the MPLv2, and the underpinning go-cty is under MIT. Both of these are perfectly reasonable licenses for even _commercial_ software to use, let alone open source.
Nope, just a big difference between a one-party state and multiparty states.
Nginx doesn’t use SemVer but still does Odd-Even Versioning: odd-numbered releases are “development” and even-numbered are “LTS”. The significance of this release is that there is now a new stable LTS version that includes everything from the latest development branch.

Linux and GNOME used to do Odd-Even Versioning, but stopped many years ago. Other big projects that still do this are Node (major versions) and RHEL (minor versions).
Not really a book, and not sure how similar it would be, but you might enjoy this work from 2001 - "Programmers' stone". Introduction into "mapping" vs "packing" definitely influenced my own understanding of programming vs thinking back then.

https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.ht...
I think the parent commenter's point that it would have been much more useful to extend the main line itself into LA city centre rather than stop ~75 km away in the middle of nowhere. The good thing about railway stations is that they take up much less space than an airport—they're about the size of a large condominium complex—so cities could actually fit them inside, without having to do the whole airport thing and put the terminal tens of kilometres away.

And many cities even build office blocks and hotels on top of their railway stations. See London, Paris, Berlin, etc.
Why is this crucial?
Zoho (or whatever payment processor they use) has to handle N countries, which is easier than having multiple companies from different countries handling payment in foreign currencies.

Living in Europe, it is easy for us to pay USD-centric services in dollars instead of EUR. But I remember it being almost impossible at the companies I worked at, when I was in Latin America.
Presumably they could convert that local currency to Indian rupees directly without ever needing to go through USD, avoiding regulatory hurdles.
Its not about missing out. When all your coworkers switch to the new shiny thing which is not accessible, the reality of the situation is that you are now no longer a useful coworker, at least when it comes to that particular activity. True, you can try to find another corner of the tech activities world to regain usefulness, but the truth is, if enough shiny tech is established, at one point you are no longer able to cooperate with the rest of the bunch. No pity or sympathy talk necessary. Its just reality. If accessibility is ignored long enough, the digital divide gets bigger, thats just a fact. Talking about sympathy and all that jazz is really missing the harsh reality of the matter.
None.

Youtubers tend to fall into a few buckets.

1. Watch me build Minecraft in five minutes (all game devlogs, etc).

2. Watch me read an article and talk about it for 30 minutes (t3.gg, primeagen, etc).

3. Watch me build my dream game, part three (last uploaded three years ago).

4. Watch my shorts with fast jump cuts, large text and no substance.
> since Reddit blocks VPNs now

Holy shit when did that happen?
In the long term it is about as relevant as IBM creating the modern "PC".
I'm sure the chatbot will make a great scientific breakthrough any day now.
OpenTofu literally _uses_ HCL, with a couple of minor adjustments...
>FWIW your comment feels valid enough up until your final sentence, you just didn't need to attack "the newer generations".

Why not? He's exactly right, in my experience. It's definitely been my experience that the newer generations (of Americans) are much more likely to casually use swear words, usually the f-word, in regular conversation, even at work. I hear it all the time with my American colleagues. When I was their age, no one talked like that at work, or really in general except maybe in private with their closest friends.

Another big difference is mass media: when I was their age, American TV did not allow swear words. But in the last 10-20 years, it's completely changed, and it's pretty common to hear the f-word on regular TV. So of course the "newer generations" are going to reflect this in their casual speaking.
If you want a game. Try https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/

You'll get used to the commands and using the man pages. It's not really focused on bash coding.
Apple OpenELM Instruct Models
There is a very real band which one could call ESPgarden where it is not worth setting up LoRa or similar because the Wi-Fi can just about make it, but not quite to be reliable. I've found success with Wi-Fi extenders which aren't very good, but are just good enough to be able to be able to let some of my garden reach the network.
> Tesla FSD is already being used for on a billion miles per year. Search for "Cumulative miles driven with FSD" [...] Usage will continue to grow as it gets better. And it got a lot better over the last months.

There is a big, hell a gigantic, difference between that and robotaxi. You need the car to be able to handle from start to finish, the entire trip, not parts of it, not even just 99% of it.

Also, the car cannot stop or be unable to deal with some situation and require help. If owners randomly have to go help their car miles away because the "taxi" got into a unknown situation, they're quickly going to get out of that deal.

And then you have all the regulatory and insurance issues. Is Tesla or the owner insuring the commercial part ? Are they required to get commercial license ? What happens if the car hit and kill someone during a robotaxi trip, who is responsable ?
Google's AI for YouTube videos is pretty awesome. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about it.
Google wants employees to move faster
By observation only if you're not logged in I guess
Bad trip-haver here.

As a youth I was a moderate enthusiast for psychedelics (back when the goal was good clean fun, ie not spiritual enlightenment, cure for depression or modern mindfulness dingaling) but trust me, friends - you do not want an event like this in your life. Not even once.

I am glad there’s some pushback against the current wave of blithe and frankly under-researched psychedelics-as-panacea crowd.
What if a king was excommunicated by the Pope? Isn't that kind of similar to "losing the divine right to rule"?
> A company like GOOG can't justify using a product like Razorpay that is directly competing with internal platforms.

This does seem silly, though, even though it's probably already obvious to say. If they want to build something, and why not, build an integrating service over the top of that one and the internal ones, and figure out how to select the one to use based on the currency/location/etc.
I don't know much about Merced, but the reasons that Bakersfield gets shit on have nothing to do with high speed rail and more to do with its reputation for meth, crime, and generally being a shithole to live in or even pass through. I suppose one might find this “ironic”, for very interesting definitions of “ironic”.
Less and less my phone. I want the small apps which I develop for myself to have all the access without any restrictions. It's getting worse and worse and I wish they'd allow me to whitelist my apps somehow so that they get the same access as system apps do. And if this would mean that I can't use Google Wallet, then at least all the permissions which don't affect apps like Google Wallet.

> Malicious Android apps, no matter where they’re sourced from, commonly try to trick users into granting them access to the Accessibility and Notification Listener APIs because of their power.

So does Gadgetbridge. I've had devices where Android wouldn't allow me to give it access to the Notification Listener resulting in me not being able to forward the messages to my Mi Band. In the end this was solvable by using ADB, but this is not ok.
I worked at a “serverless” shop and ran into people who would actually edit code in the AWS console. They’d then copy-paste into their local editor before committing to git (usually. Stuff sometimes got overwritten!) It was baffling that no time was spent on local environments.
Silent airplanes could soon be taking off thanks to new aviation tech
Quantum computers take major step forward thanks to simplified laser beam trick
Isn't that the point? Even release versions are LTS, odd release versions are pre-LTS.
Late response: thank you. Saved me some time thinking further on this.
> ChatGPT wouldn't exist

I don't think thats actually the case. OpenAI were ahead, but they weren't engineering in isolation. The building blocks were out there, but openai managed to put them together first.
A particular model of calculator expresses a certain ratio in terms of pi. Presented in the modern omg!mysteries! way, but to their credit does take a stab at analysis. Hadn't heard the term 'mediant' before, so that was actually kind of enlightening.

The interesting bit in more concentrated form
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediant_(mathematics)
This is what I'm focusing on. I would say nuttX looks great if one is coming from the BSDs. I really want a development platform that is this documented.
The argument is that open source is based on "contempt for property."

Yet most open source projects use a license based on copyright, and copyright is generally considered part of "intellectual property" as it draws from property ownership as its model.

Without strong copyright, there is no effective GPL.

I therefore do not see any connection between open source and contempt for property. Certainly less contempt than I see from capitalist corporations which use open source components in proprietary products and in violation of the license terms.

As for your "kind of by definition can't be open source", I'll kindly direct you to a counter-example at https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html which includes both "SQLite Is Public Domain" and "SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation."

You'll find very few people who argue or believe that SQLite is not open source.
>When we say should be, this assumes some kind of intention, no?

I don't think so. It's a company, not a person. Meta doesn't have intentions, just incentives. And if the incentives of a company are aligned with publishing open science and open software that's as good as it gets.

I don't require for profit businesses to do good things because they love world peace or are altruistic. Meta making its money from its consumer facing products that nobody is forced to use and having the models out in the open is exactly how it should be.
Maybe read more than just the opening anecdote?
Free and Powerful Next 14 FullStack SaaS Boilerplate
I would like to share ANOTHER SaaS Boilerplate, but this one uses next 14 in fullstack mode, everything in next, with servers actions and prisma:

Next.js 14: Utilize the power of Next.js to build server-side rendered React applications that are optimized for performance and SEO, providing a seamless user experience across all devices. Backend and frontend are in the same project, making it easier to manage and deploy your application.

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React: Build dynamic and responsive user interfaces with React, the leading JavaScript library for creating reusable and easily maintainable components.

Tailwind CSS: Streamline the design and styling of your application with Tailwind CSS, a utility-first framework that enables you to quickly customize your application's appearance without sacrificing code readability.

Prisma: Prisma is one of the best current ORMs to manage databases

Clerk: Powerful authentication manager allowing you to add social providers and manage organizations, permissions and roles What you avoid doing by using this boilerplate

Stripe: Stripe is the best payment gateway to manage subscriptions and payments

Integrated modules
Landing Page

Full Internationalization support (Frontent componenets and Dynamic Data) This is good!

Responsive

DarkTheme

Dashboards for Admins and Super Admin

Kpis Module

Notifications Module

Organization Switcher (Clerk)

Organization Profile (Clerk)

User Profile (Clerk)

Ticket Support Module

Settings Module for Super Admins

Marketing Module

Stripe Invoices and memberships Module

Imagekit Integration for Media Storage

Internal components to help you create cruds quickly

User management

Organization management

Subscriptions management

Subscriptions, plans management and user capabilities This is good!

Membership plan capabilities support

User Onboarding

Affiliate System with Affiliate Panel and Payments with comissions This is good!

SEO friendly (SSR by Next 14)

Vercel Analytic integration
We are talking about mapping and music. Not parking sensors
I have one! ESPHome is awesome but I'm trying to steer away from Wifi IoT - a big reason is that I like the idea of self-healing meshes that can work entirely offline, without having to deal with a lot of configuration.

Espressif seems to have a few devices with ZigBee capabilities, think there will be a way of building our own ZigBee device in the future?
I wasn't responding to the article; I was responding to the claim that Google's results are bad because of all the SEO. It's a claim I've heard from Google apologists including some people I know at Google. I think it's nonsense both for the reasons I stated and for the reasons enumerated in the article.
Over 70% use Windows. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
Anarchy is an "-archy": it's about the structure of governance, not about laws.
I'm not familiar with ocaml, but the LEA thing can reasonably be fixed by a better compiler, no? Is there no LLVM backend for ocaml?
> Physical knobs are safer in many ways, last much much more, I don't need to lose contact with whats happening in front of the car to manage these, just muscle memory.

None of which some up on a spreadsheet in the manufacturer's accounting department.

Similarly: open concept offices with hot desking lowers the amount of rent (per employee) that shows up on an expense report, but the productivity drop of open offices does not.
I agree with the sentiment, but: how do you navigate? Especially to unknown places?
UK, a country with a long naval tradition, destroyed over 25 Russian warships using Ukrainians in Ukraine.

FTFY, I know it's easy to mix up the two when trying to generate engagement.
Making things open is a means, not an end, _in general_. The end is what we do with these things. What you call "competition" I would call "monopoly". A healthy, non-monopolic (or such) state of AI would be open by itself.
> Did literally no one from the government look at their own pages?

Usually too many departments / sub-domains / third-party vendors to track and manage.
Probably around when they started selling their data to AI companies. Blocking, or at least aggressively rate-limiting datacenter IP address ranges is a no-brainer at that point, they will want to make it as difficult as possible to scrape their data without paying them.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-16/reddit-is...
> What exactly do you dislike about him

Everything. Guy's a prick.

Specifically, he's a huge narcissist surrounding himself with yes men to stroke his ego. Not a good environment for push back (resulting in obvious failures like the Cybertruck, Twitter-to-X rebranding, 'FSD is ready!', The Boring Company, etc.)

> why is punishing Elon by boycotting Tesla worth slowing the transition to sustainable transportation?

Even if we take the Elon factor out of the equation and just decide not to buy a Tesla for any other reason, it isn't 'slowing the transition to sustainable transportation' because I can buy a (much of the time) cheaper, better build quality, modern electric car from Rivian, Hyundai, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi, BYD, Volvo, Ford, Lucid, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Fiat, GMC, Honda, Jaguar, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Porsche, Ram, etc.
That is definitely a factor. ZIRP from 2008-2015 and 2020-2022 will do some damage to exports.
> If Meta starts being all open and generous about their core assets

Didn't React come from them? PyTorch?
What I love most about ESPHome is the strong and engaged community.

For our open-source hardware air quality monitors [1], a member of the community developed a sophisticated ESPHome integration [2]. His integration comes with all features that we have in our default open-source firmware. Sometimes he was even quicker implementing new features than we did! So in a way, this helped and motivated us to make our own software version better (kind of open source competition).

So a big thank-you from my side to such a great community!

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/

[2] https://github.com/MallocArray/airgradient_esphome
It's the left-to-right ordering that's the problem. I'm fairly sure there's no way to order things left-to-right in this layout without inevitably having to skip around haphazardly.

In a magazine-style layout, wouldn't you read the columns top-to-bottom first, then left-to-right? You can accomplish that already in CSS with either 'columns' or vertical flexbox.

Another issue with this 'masonry' layout is the ragged edge at the bottom. In a magazine that would presumably be justified -- again something you can do with columns or flex.

On the web, I guess there's a hidden assumption that you'll have endless scrolling content, so it doesn't matter what the bottom of the page looks like? If so, that's not necessarily something that should be encouraged.
Works fine for me on PIA and Tor. Not logged in. Maybe they just blocked your server because someone used it for scraping?
Perception of when old age starts has increased over time, shows study
Been running both nomad and k8s in prod for the last few years. Nomad has been stable and reliable to the point of replacing k8s in some projects because of how easy it is to work with and onboard developers.
FWIW the Pixel 8, the newest device offering Advanced Memory Protection, sells for less than $600 brand new right now. You can tune memory tagging & hardened memory allocation on a per-app basis. It's a game changer
In the example they have

> const urlstring = "this is not a URL";

> const not_a_url = URL.canParse(urlstring) && new URL(urlstring);

Why would you need the latter part of the condition? Couldn't it just be this?

> const isValidURL = URL.canParse(urlstring);
Something Pink
https://something.pink/

Really going for the "home" in homepage.
Howdy sir! Great memory and fun times :)

Dataset was something from CAIDA, like this: https://www.caida.org/catalog/datasets/ipv4_prefix_probing_d...

IIRC we used the LGL algorithm (https://lgl.sourceforge.net/) while pinning any nodes we could get geolocations for, giving a nice hybrid geo/topo layout

I don't remember exactly how we got the geolocations, but often network routers have 3-letter airport codes in their DNS names, so maybe that? We may also have had a lookup table in el googz somewhere

Definitely a project whose time should again come! ;)
To be fair back ~8 or so years ago VW did have e-Golfs in dealer showrooms but the actual dealerships seemed really reluctant to sell them - my wife asked about one at the back of a showroom and basically had the salesman spend his time explaining why not to buy it even though it was rather more expensive than the car she ended up buying.

Things have totally changed though VW-group dealerships now really push electric cars and its the ICE cars that are stuck in the back.
Maybe not fundamental, but something similar to that, yes. I think that when coupled with economics (i.e., basically, price) there's nothing that can surpass carbon-based energy.

Carbon-based energy is basically condensed and stored solar power, i.e. some of the cheapest things there can be, taking into consideration that the "condensed and stored" part happens by default, the only money that we spend is in trying to get to those condensed and stored" resources and to transport them (oil wells, digging coal-mines etc)
Gosh, so the moment you use an if-statement, or an aggregate function (like sum or average), or weighting coefficients to mark some inputs as more significant than others, it's "AI" already? And I naïvely thought it was just, well, "computing". You could do "AI" on a 8086, ffs.
Yes it’s MMS. Something I learned during the process of making it was that sending a pic wasn’t technically SMS… guess I forgot. Haven’t worked with SMS/MMS since.
To me the description looks more like a kind of lingering dissociation that, in my experience, very large doses of 5-HT2a-psychedelics can cause.