skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's still nowhere near a point where I use it. I got the basics of a "top-down" perspective with pheromone trails going somewhat recently. Now I'm trying to learn how to design more engaging game mechanics, but it's really challenging to know when I'm going in a good direction or just inventing convoluted ideas.

Thanks for the words of encouragement though, I appreciate it.
If you can't capture sufficient value, you're not going to be able to make a business around it. The problem isn't value creation, which the OSS model does do. The problem is value capture. That's why so many people go around saying "We need to pay X more". That's a sign that creation and capture have a gap.

You'll see that with traditional open-source. With companies that attempt to capture the value, your customers will always hate you unless you're careful.

Of course using the Elastic license family from the beginning is one way there. The Llama license family is another way. But perhaps my favourite observed thing has to be Kong's licensing: the base thing is Apache 2.0 but when you sign a contract with them, they'll give you access to the Enterprise plugins and you can edit their source. I loved working with them.

They seem to have done a good job with value capture. I think they're leaving a lot on the table, but there is significant path dependence on what they've done, so they don't have the option any more. But good job.
Yep, privacy.

Those of you who work writing javascript to fingerprint browsers and collect user behavior in exchange for a paycheck, you are the worst kind of person.

There are a lot of you on here and I expect to be "punished" for this view, but my view on this will never change.
I can't say this for certain, but my guess is that Trump's supreme court picks weren't really him looking at potential nominees and instead were done based on the advice of his cabinet. (I'm certain that's how it is for most presidents).

Trump will likely appoint a republican friendly cabinet, for sure, which means their goals and agendas will be centered around the party as much as they are for trump.

But that said, I just don't think Trump cares about the republican party. He cares about it in as much as it's a vehicle for him to maintain power.

Said another way, I don't think trump the person cares about the republican party. I think the trump admin does.

If he wins, the only way I really see him personally caring about the next presidency is if he decide to try and run for a 3rd term (like he's floated).
Reducing the Memory Footprint of 3D Gaussian Splatting
IIRC with Modi a big factor was that the previous prime minister was seen as effectively a spineless puppet, kind of like how Biden is seen by many. Modi came in promising to try literally anything rather than just sitting by and doing nothing unless ordered to by the political dynasty leading the party, and has largely delivered on that promise.

It has meant lots of controversial legislation being forced through, but to many that's better than just letting the issues simmer for decades. Especially since many of those issues had no uncontroversial solution.

Trump came in promising similar action, but in hindsight did absolutely nothing besides further divide the country. Unfortunately at the moment neither side seems to have a candidate that's actually willing to do something similar. Biden will continue to make excuses about not being able to do things, and Trump will continue to focus more on PR and dominating the news cycle than actual work.
how are a single project's upstream dev and downstream distro (with tens of thousands of those) correlated?

I actually think the fork is much healthier for upstream, to get into more distros.
I am not sure I understand backside in this instance and
the illustration in the article didn't entirely help.

In general, at least in older time, one side of the CPU has all
the nice pins on it, and the motherboard has a pincushion that the pins match nicely.
At the top of the CPU you put a HUGE heatsink on it and off you go.

In this configuration the power delivery must be via the pincushion,
through some of the pins.

Intuitively that sounds to me like the power is coming in the backside?
But given that it is a big deal I am missing something.

Is the power fed from the "top" of the cpu where the heatsink would sit?
> If netflix traffic is straining ISPs to the point of requiring hardware upgrades etc., I think it is fair for ISPs to ask them to pay some of that cost.

It is fair for ISPs to ask their customers to pay for required upgrades. Netflix's ISPs can ask Netflix. Netflix's customers' ISPs can ask Netflix's customers.
Turing Complete[0] is a fun game similar to this where you create your own computer from NAND gates, including your own assembly language.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
for what it's worth, I'm familiar with the folks running this and they're highly competent.
You can extend the blame to anything. Look at reddit or hn. They not only took over all these old tech forums and sites, but their very existence means users who would have been on those would be forums aren’t even available. Maybe even worse is how news orgs like nyt or cnn or fox news have stolen their customer base from local news orgs. Chances are if you don’t live in dc or ny your local news org is a shell of its former self and probably mostly republishes ap wire news, and local issues aren’t well understood by most anyone.
Those are fair points. I would argue that it's not the tech that's weak, but that the protection that powerful people get from institutions, local networks, status in their communities etc. often give them so much access to practical power that they essentially don't need anonymity - because these institutions protect them.

In terms of condemning particular use cases (or deciding not to), I'm more trying to represent a particular argument that some people make about Tor (and lots of other technologies) - i.e. that the tech itself shouldn't carry explicit values/politics, those should all be down to the users. The argument is particularly strongly made by some privacy advocates as they see things like Tor becoming the foundations of a new Internet - and hence needing the broadest possible base of support. There's obviously a lot of good arguments against this philosophy, but I figured I should try to represent the different ways people think about Tor in as good faith as possible.

Obviously sometimes when people argue that they just have an issue with feminist values - sometimes it is definitely disingenuous. But I think there was a wider moment in the Tor community - in which a lot of people were concerned about the transition to a much more professional NGO, more strongly aligned with liberal, 'digital democracy' visions of US geopolitics, and away from a more chaotic and anarchic coalition. While I think there was a clear need for Tor to change and this was as much about its place amid wider changes in the landscape of digital rights, US tech, and hacker politics as anything else, it does give us a way (I think) of understanding the conflicts and choices that might emerge in Tor and other privacy enhancing infrastructures in the future.
> No one is paying increased costs because their neighbor is watching netflix, youtube, or browsing reddit

Increased bandwidth = Increased costs

Who do you think is paying?
Function signatures already solve that problem. We have all kinds of functions that take two numbers that mean different things (width/height, x/y, etc.). Branding seems like a solution looking for a problem. I just think it's too much overhead and confusion for too little gain.

In fact, a common pattern is to pass fully-qualified objects, e.g. `dimensions = {width: number, height: number}`, which makes mixing up variables even less likely since you have to explicitly specify them.
You seem to be conceding the point that they would be forced to invade the privacy of their US customers in addition to just foreign ones.
Maybe I like writing software that I don't bother to monetize but allows anyone who wants to come along and use it to eat to do so.

Don't give things away if you care about what happens to them afterwards. So many people completely misunderstand what open source is about.
If you can't tell what either humor or snark is, you should get off the internet, baby doll.
Thank you for the feedback! I am currently exploring how to monetize while doing right by my free users.

Some more advanced integration with Spotify (Liking songs, for example) requires approval by the Spotify team which can take up to 6 weeks. I can gate this and additional cool stuff behind payment. Right now I am considering $2, but frankly, I am new to this so I am not sure how to price it. Any additional thoughts are welcome.
I think that the developer can demand a withdrawal of their contribution, though I don't know what happens to the code that's already published under a FOSS license. Regardless, many projects including the Linux kernel require the developer to sign off their contributions under the terms of the 'developer certificate of origin' [1]. While the developer retains the copyright to the contribution under DCO, they acknowledge that it will be distributed in perpetuity under the original license. So, retracting the contribution may not be an option.

[1] https://developercertificate.org/
Dry-gulch and heeled made it all the way to the hard-boiled era, but not to my end of the XX.
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This feels too high level. They just sort of explain how they are durable via a log (e.g. RedPanda) and store things in mem.

It'd be more interesting if they talked about what log they used (Kinesis? Something on another DB?), what did they use for a locking service and how did they handle failure cases, etc.
The idea that you just mark your work as MIT/GPL/CC0 may have made open source more popular, but it also ruins lives when that thing you worked on for years and never made you anything makes a random drive-by asshole more than your annual salary.

[Citation Needed] (and a couple of questions)

1. How has this ruined someone's life? That mechanism isn't easy for me to see.

2. If the license allowed for it, why should any one see something wrong there?

3. Aren't you putting short shrift on the effort it takes to productize something?
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> Why I (A/L)GPL

https://web.archive.org/web/20120620103603/http://zedshaw.co...

> I want people to appreciate the work I’ve done and the value of what I’ve made.

> Not pass on by waving “sucker” as they drive their fancy cars.
Well, that's exactly what we need. Our servers are growing in numbers and it's a pain in the ass the log into each one of them via SSH and do stuff.
I think their congressional salary is probably not where most members of Congress are deriving their main income. I think the paychecks their 'other' employers are cutting are more lucrative.
I'd say this is because of the laws in China around what kids can watch rather than some nefarious plot.
The "everything is a database" took two forms.

First, apps had no filesystem available, only a database which they could use as a datastore. It was not a particularly powerful or fancy database, everything had to be done via the C++ API rather than a query language IIRC. But it simplified app development quite a bit and made the apps smaller and more robust.

Second, there was a set of common tables available to all apps that provided the basic PIM data, including addresses, calendar, todo, email and notes. This meant that third party apps could safely interoperate with this data alongside the builtin apps and extend functionality.
It also seems like a strange choice to use gossip when they have a shared log
The answer depends on where you would like to spend your time on. If you believe your customers will be yours because yourygreat at operating poatgress datbase - do it, if your value in something else, go with AWS RDs postgress.
Younwill save a ton of time in exchange of delegating database management to aws. Use this time to develop features your customera are looking for. If you would like to leave aws eventually it still be the same postgress that you can run anywhere you like
> I'll guarantee you that the Zen 5 core has way more than 280 people working on it.

And I'll postulate that however many people AMD has working on a new CPU, Intel probably has at least 2X that many. Part of this is just due to the inertia at Intel, part of it is likely due to Keller being successful at streamlining the AMD design process while he had to give up on that at Intel due to that institutional inertia.

Would Intel be any more efficient if they were designing a RISC-V processor or would they still suffer from the same institutional inertia? I suspect the latter.
Manually. There's a dial to turn it on, from low to high. One option I considered was a IoT motor of some kind to turn the knob for me.
SOCOM allegedly uses :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3Harris_OA-1K_Sky_Warden

It looks like someone is abusing a small prop plane that's normally used for crop dustin and just duct taping some cheap weapons to it.

Because that's exactly what it is
Hey Guys, could you please help me choose between 2 ideas i am planning to build:

1.Prompt Engineering Evaluations for LLMs through playground .

2. Fine Tuning a foundational model.

Thanks.
> ... I am exhausted by the continuous flip-flopping of legislation depending on which party is in charge.

By design, Congress is unable to do anything. It's either one party (always the same party) being completely obstructionist, even other presidential appointments, or if a rotating villain who defects and stops any meaningful legislation.

Power has moved to the courts and to the states. Again, entirely by design. In the current term, there is an inocuous sounding case called Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo [1], which is expected to overturn a longstanding (~40 years) precedent called Chevron [2]. This would gut Federal agencies. Chevron set a precedent that in areas of ambiguity courts would give deference to Federal agencies. The argument for this is that Congress has to be explicit but Congress cannot possibly explicitly regulate, for example, salmon quotas and inspections. The goal here is deregulation for profit. That's it.

For the last 30+ years, every president issues an executive order on day 1 either banning or allowing recipients of foreign aid to provide counselling on abortion, depending on the party.

The real question here is why did this take 3 years into Biden's regime for the FCC to act? The FCC is an appointed position. This could've been done in 2021.

> Maybe it's always been this way though and I'm just getting old enough to be bothered by it?

No, it's now more obstructionist than it ever has been but it's always been more difficult to make changes than not. Previously there was more respect for institutional norms. For example, if the president nominated someone for a position, that person would always get a Senate hearing regardless of who controlled the Senate. There is no law that required that but people previously accepted the president had a mandate for appointments. Now? It's way more scorched earth.

[1]: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/loper-bright-ent...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....
See also https://nandgame.com
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Also gun laws. Any firearm enthusiast can tell you how inconsistent and incoherent various ATF rulings and determinations have been.
Seems like the perfect use case for timelock encryption: https://drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/
Any advice on getting the determinate installer and nix-darwin (via flakes) to be more seamless together? I have a decent setup, but the install/remove is clunkier than it needs to be because

1) on install, nix-darwin complains about the nix.conf that determinate sets up

2) on uninstall, determinate complains about nix-darwin being installed
I know it’s a small thing, but does it put that ~/snap dir in my home directory still?
You're right about Amazon (and would have been onto something about Google or even Apple), but I think you overstate FB.

They're in a quiet, desperate search for a new line of business to justify a trillion dollar valuation as ad tech revenue gets chipped away at by privacy regulation and eyeballs drawn to other networks. They even rebranded their whole identity around a moonshot idea for one.

Poaching little startups is something you might be able to see here and there but isn't something they can or do distract themselves with overall; not nearly to the degree or scale that Amazon does.

For Amazon, it's a top line business stragy. For Facebook, it's something a manager here or there might drive for a little attention.
"Celebrate" is not the right word. The government stop founding oncology patients, stop sending food to community kitchens, raise the poverty level to 60% among other things.
So nothing to celebrate, no merit on having budget surplus by starving your people.
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To some significant degree, want and hardship create motivation. If we (vaguely specified) aren't distracted by that, we start noticing hardship and want elsewhere, e.g in our cushy lives.

Life for our great-great-grandparents sucked much worse on absolute measures than for us. They didn't say "this sucks, let's die" and they also needed children to support them. Wealthier societies with a social safety net downplay the need for children in the family.

I do understand that the future physical world looks worse than the present one. But hey the survivors are the ones who rule. You can make the choice to take a weakness mindset out of the gene pool and that's fine, there are too many people already.
Best part

>I was once working with a customer who was producing on-board software for a missile. In my analysis of the code, I pointed out that they had a number of problems with storage leaks. Imagine my surprise when the customers chief software engineer said "Of course it leaks". He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. They added this much additional memory to the hardware to "support" the leaks. Since the missile will explode when it hits its target or at the end of its flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention.
Thank you. First principles FTW!
Consolidation of capital into monopolies is a tale as old as the exchange of goods and services for currency.we just lived through a brief period where the Internet didn't follow those rules so rigidly. Those days are done.
this sounds mostly like how MS implemented synchronous availability groups in sql server
For anyone who cares about the stack:

1) Node Express Server
2) Using Firebase RTDB to store swap state
3) CloudFlare Tunnel to a web-server I had laying around

index.js is 141 lines, including the HTML for the homepage.
So you inspired me to take a look again, and it is indeed because I'm running `brew update` on my Nix-Darwin activations. It gets invoked in this script, which I call upon the advice of the KDE Mac tap maintainers: https://invent.kde.org/packaging/homebrew-kde/-/blob/master/...

The other problem is that each brew invocation is slow, and I have to invoke it twice before I can even call that script, due to some quirks of how my Homebrew prefix is set up.

Idk, maybe I'll just... not. I'm not currently actually using any KDE apps on Mac.
Another poster said $20 was about market rate, so the example does not demonstrate that people will pay whatever you ask.
>> Marc Lore, Diapers’ founder, has not forgiven Amazon. He later went on to lead the e-commerce division of Walmart,

Compare Walmart retail to Amazon retail. Who has more revenue? Im going to tell you that it isnt amazon.

AWS and its 30 percent margins are the only thing propping amazon up vs Walmart.

Walmart drove every small retailer out of business. They gutted America an then when there was no money they left communities with NO retail. Walmart moving out of areas creates massive food deserts in relatively urban areas.

How ruthless is amazon, not as ruthless as Walmart.
True, I guess I wouldn't call it invading privacy, that's sounds a bit overwrought to me. Then banks invade my privacy, the DMV invades my privacy, etc. There's always tradeoffs, I respect people's concern about them, and I wish there was a gentler to say it.
Looks like there was a discussion back then on the github issues, https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/1066

EDIT: Had a chance to look through it now, looks like they addressed all the concerns back by 2015

i.e.

1. Replacing the custom crypto code with more standard libraries (looks like they settled on NACL/libsodium's implementations).

2. Switched to AES-GCM and then later ChaChaPoly

3. Fixed up the tor protocol issues too.

Probably more but there's a lot going on.
I’m a pretty big critic of what FAANG has become. The mix of them and lobbying makes Wall St. and lobbying look like a ballet.

Outside of a few islands like FAIR, parts of MSFT (MSR still rules, and dev tooling and Azure, there’s stuff), and whatever Jeff Dean is currently doing with a blank check, I look to younger companies for technical excellence: TailScale, Anduril, a few names like that on the bigger end, but also buf and flox and Greplin and Linear and so much great seed and even pre-seed stuff.

But I’m starting to doubt the utility of calling out this or that crime of the Cartel: privatizing the Labs was a bad idea.

We have to roll the model back.
The stated reasons are ridiculous, it's tax incentives. They are getting a quarter of a billion dollars overall from TN. This is what happens in a race to the bottom. Hopefully TX officials were smart enough to add long term clawbacks to the incentive package they gave Oracle.
Have you travelled between the UK and Ireland? You most definitely do not need a passport and do not need "equivalent ID". You can travel (by boat) with a student card, driving license, photographic travel pass (ie over-60s pass, young person rail pass), or photographic id from your work.

The check is very much "don't stop walking but hold your ID-looking thing in your hand so a nonchalant man can glance at it". You would attract very little attention with someone else's UK or Irish driving license, a bit more if you decided to test the waters with a weird form of ID.

Children can travel with a birth certificate (no photo).

You need more than this to get on an aeroplane, but that also applies to domestic flights in the UK.

If you get the boat and show eg. a Romanian student card, they might ask you where your passport is, somewhat reasonably since you would have needed it to travel to the UK or to Ireland. They would accept an ID card probably and might let you in with legit looking non-government ID.

That's the sea border. You can cross the land border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland without any form of ID at all, government-issued, photographic or otherwise. Lots of people do it every day by car or bus and it would not remotely occur to them to take ID with them.

So the Romanian student would have no problem travelling between London and Dublin without showing anything since they could get a boat Glasgow- Belfast and then get a bus to Dublin.

If this was your best example of governments lying and changing the rules, it's not a very good one (and is also kind of offensive to Irish and British people).