skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are misunderstanding his rationale and message.

The message, the way I read it, isn't just that you don't know the random project, but you don't really care about it. He says to not just bring a brick, but to build a great school. The AUR example is relevant, because it is a problem you (he) cares about and continues to nurture, not just add a brick/PR and leave.

It's not gatekeepy because it doesn't say "don't contribute". It says "contribute to something you care about and want to succeed, where you will put in more effort than just a one-off, for the sake of the project and not for the sake of learning".

Most projects can find use for a junior developer contributing consistently if the dev will learn the project and domain. It's not gatekeeping.
What a wonderfully crafted piece. But a part of me can't refrain from saying it would have looked way more elegant and succinct in 3D Projective Geometric Algebra.

Most of the last sections (all intersections) feel like corner cases, when in PGA they are one and the same.
Also funny how there weren't widespread protests that entered the liberal zeitgeist during the war on ISIS. Just look up the civilian count.
There seems to be a big problem with the systems not having the capacity to complete the renewal process.

There was no checking for a while thus little need for resources needed for checking (there was still some because people still came into the system.) Now there's a big demand for renewal checking and it's working on a basis of dropping people if they don't complete it even if the problem is on the state's end. And, yes, it's completely unclear how many--because the red states want these failures, they're not keeping track.

It's the usual garbage of putting roadblocks in the way of benefits to keep down the amount paid out.
Why not Akamai?
Same way banks do. Documentation.
Did you read the last 2/3 of the article?
> They don't spend billions of dollars to get basic things like this wrong.

I'm not sure if you've ever worked in tech, but a good early takeaway is that billions of dollars does not necessarily buy billion-dollar code.
Jon Pretty a Statement
Some of my random ones with my old ideas:

awesome.market - catalog fun stuff for sale at retailers

comparison.zone - comparison shopping

nightlifenyc.com - NYC nightlife guide

noveldesign.com - design studio
This blog entry is highly disappointing. The Sigma blog post reads as if they reinvented the wheel with basic information that is not only widely known and understood but it also featured in books published decades ago.

The blog post authors would do well if they got up to speed on the basics of working with C++ projects. Books such as "Large scale C++ vol1" by John Lakos already cover this and much more.
Sorry for this non-hn reply, but "lol"
Another red flag is "I use Arch Linux, btw"
Yeah, it's an advert on one of the houses in They Live.
Or the headset can include two separate Bluetooth endpoints and an internal mixer. AFAIK this is what SteelSeries does in their headsets.
I got locked out my apple account the other day while trying to login to webmail - thankfully I was able to just unlock it again by reseting my password using my iphone. Kinda terrifying.
It's a US problem. First link of a quick search:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/apples-green-bub...
When is a title not a synopsis of the article?

Here's the rundown:

- I am wearing a hacktoberfest t-shirt.

- Some things are good, some are bad, including hacktoberfest.

- Trying to contribute to a project you know nothing about is bad.

- Unnecessarily belabored "build a school" homily with digression into importance of listening to parents and teachers.

- A weirdly a-contextual Viking comic that injects the word fuck for no reason.

- Something about Arch Linux.

- Wanting something not getting it... "infuriating!"

- Note to self: Contracting for the French gov. can be a good gig.

OK THANK YOU FOR THE INSIGHTS

All of this jibber-jabber can be reduced to a simple point:

Contributing comes down to being helpful.

If what you are doing is helpful then you are contributing.

—

What it is and what it ain't

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXE4saB6RU
Yeah, I would never do this. My work iPhone is on a whole separate Apple Id than my personal phone.

Never mix work and personal. It isn't worth it.
It's not quite accurate to say that "reproductive rights" is a euphemism for abortion access in the USA. If you go to rallies and listen, you'll hear a lot of talk about access to contraception also being at risk, based on our history.

Contraception was widely illegal in the USA starting in the 1870s into the 1930s. but even then, some states continued to prohibit the use of contraception. It wasn't until 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled that the government ruled that states could not prevent married couples from using contraception, as was the case in Connecticut at the time. It wasn't until 1972 that the Supreme Court did the same for unmarried couples.

That's only one year before Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion nationwide.

The people who remember what it was like before these things were legal are aging, but they often warn that the overturn of abortion access is a slippery slope. The goals of many political movements opposed to abortion don't stop there. Many would also like to ban contraception.

In that sense, "reproductive rights" are synonymous with abortion because that's what's still contentious. After enough time has passed for illegal abortion to become the norm, that's when the slope can start slipping towards contraceptives. Reproductive rights supporters know this, and are fighting not just for abortion, but for many other rights as well.

And that includes the right to have children. In modern days, that's most commonly seen in the fight for IVF, but it also includes the right against forced sterilization.

"Reproductive rights" is a movement that doesn't say "we want to kill babies", but rather that "the government has no business whatsoever in individual reproductive decisions or health." It's not just about abortion.
I lived in California (both SF and LA) for 20 years and haven't heard "y'all" once. I've started hearing "folks" rarely in 2010s when my liberal coworkers wanted to stress how are they compassionate with the "poor folks" only, i.e. nobody used it as a general collective noun (also heard it used to refer to relatives as "my folks" before that). Your experience in elementary school could be different, children generally don't speak the same way adults do.
I find this attitude bizarre. Just earlier today I used python debugging to quickly figure out why an error was occurring. Being able to see the state of the variables without having to print each helped solve it instantly.
We have been a non-profit since Mastodon gGmbH has been founded and our biggest issue is our lack of funding to hire more people full-time, not politics or admin overhead. We do not expect this to change anytime soon.
My apple support experiences have been very good. I don't know that at all.
Ah. I see. And then the kernel needs to bend over backwards to cover up the security holes and design flaws. :(
Any examples other than Scientific Linux?
Staying humble about working hard and what comes from it is probably still meaningful to share
This is great. There should be more and better tools for SVGs. Thank you for making this.
Why do I need to sign in via Google? I don't want to use my Google Id
I have no specific knowledge, but it seems similar to issues we had before iommus. E.g. maybe the device accesses physical memory without memory protection and/or virtual address mapping, so the kernel needs to do that in its behalf.
In US, green bubble social peer-pressure does force many teens to buy iPhones.
Class actions just make lawyers rich.

A real way to hit these kinds of companies selling defective products is to coordinate simultaneous small claims courts cases around the world.
Our operating structure is still the Germany-based Mastodon gGmbH. The new US non-profit is here to facilitate fundraising in the US and promote Mastodon there (plus maybe one day pay developers directly, if we hire in the US).
Knowing the difference between coaching and mentoring one key key
So to extrapolate, you're fine with your grandma being scammed via a new avenue because she's already being scammed in other ways?
i've seen what could only appear to be encrypted (read: not human but only machine readable) and fragmented payloads. consecutive packets are sized right up to the apparently negotiated MTU. and it very much appears to be encapsulated extraneous data, meaning completely unrelated to ICMP types 8 and 0.

the most curious part is that the 'connected' server/s replying to my clients are addressed only from Apple's IANA-assigned IPv4 netblock (and presumably from their IPv6 assignments as well).

i would need to set up a new capture as i don't have one documented. but i'm capturing actual packets off the wire, not simply logging.
LinkedIn may be trying to initiate some of these connections
I thought you were exaggerating but lol, dude is thoroughly insane. Weird fall from grace for Lunduke.
I’m not a fan of the talking parrot argument, especially when you’re pointing it at models of scale.

The only thing separating a talking parrot and humans is our accuracy in shaping our words to the context in which they’re spoken.

Sure it’s easy to liken a low resource model to a talking parrot, the output seems no better than selective repetition of training data. But is that really so different from a baby whose first words are mimics from the environment around them?

I would argue that as we learn language we implicitly develop the neural circuitry to continue to improve our lexical outputs, this circuitry being concepts like foresight, reasoning, emotion, logic, etc and that while we can take explicit action to teach these ideas, they naturally develop in isolation as well.

I don’t think language models, especially at scale, are much different. They would seem to similarly acquire implicit circuitry like we do as they are exposed to more data. As I see it, the main difference in what exactly that circuitry accomplishes and looks like in final output has more to do with the limited styles of data we can provide and the limitations of fine tuning we can apply on top.

Humans would seem to share a lot in common with talking parrots, we just have a lot more capable hardware to select what we repeat.
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> despite the first example happening in 2006

Apple Macintosh started on Motorola processors. Then they moved to PowerPC processors. Then they moved to Intel processors. And now they've moved to ARM processors. It's happened 4 times in the same product line.

https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/through-the-ages-apple-...
> The good thing is that, after 5 years of
> construction, a beautiful new mall stan… just kidding!
>
> This is Canada. The place where construction
> has to stop because you’re not allowed to uproot
> a tree on your own property. Or a vindictive neighbour
> holds up your project in Committee of Adjustments, until
> you build them a new deck as a bribe. Or construction
> is blocked by a surprise Heritage Listing on your
> building. I could keep going!

Little throwaways like this are brushstrokes in a much bigger picture.
I’m curious, would you be willing to share the gist of the legal notice(s)? Even just broad strokes categorization of what they claim, perhaps…

- unauthorized access related to the lockouts and support requests you already described

- unauthorized activity related to something else you didn’t mention (even if unfounded)

- some other unrelated but specific violation of TOS or other cited rules (even if unfounded)

- zero additional information, perhaps reiterating some previous finding (even if unfounded)

I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, but I agree with another commenter that it sounds like something is missing from your story. Details like these might help us understand how your experience fits the pattern of accounts in the article.
Being a non-native and a person who frankly doesn't need this, just passing strings that are to be evaluated seems like the worst case scenario for readability and maintainability.
I don’t think the article is terrible, but it does lean on that analogy a little bit too much IMO. It is worth inspecting where schools and programs differ.

If you could clone a school essentially for free, and also a poorly constructed school was not at risk of killing a bunch of kids, I guess we’d be much less skeptical of amateurs building schools.

I do think people write programs best when they are the primary audience, so the idea of just, like, going around with the explicit intent of finding open source projects to contribute to seems a bit misguided. But the stakes are not very high. If nothing else I imagine most open source projects must be able to ignore non-useful contributions, right?
example: apply typo-fix PRs as commits by the maintainer, so that only those who are genuine will submit those.
There is a difference between a hierarchy of control, and a hierarchy of capabilities. Think of a student driver and instructor scenario. The student driver is in direct control of the car, while the instructor has more experience and is a better driver than the student. The instructor can mentor the student and provide safeguards so that the student does not kill themselves while obtaining knowledge. It's accepting these sorts of hierarchies in humanity that allow us to make better decisions, and listen to experts, while not giving up control over our own actions.
Grosse Pointe Blank reference? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50G3ScEKP6Y

Ironically his former home got turned to a, well not a mall, but a convenience store.
Just tested my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Read 1600 MB/s, write 1017 MB/s.

Sequential, 512 MB test size, 65536 test count.
A reused password that was breached somewhere else.
Like it or not this is the way forward and you might as well get used to it.
The Beginning of the End for Terraform?
Cirrhosis kills, so the data is pretty 'fair', unless you're claiming there are piles of unnamed, uncertified dead people who died of cirrhosis during prohibition but were not autopsied. The data showing cirrhosis decreased is counting cirrhosis deaths as reported by hospitals getting indigent bodies. Several hospitals went from handling thousands of indigent cirrhosis deaths to handling a few hundred. You can't hide dead people easily.

Where is your pile of bodies?
Yup. Only a small fraction of drugs ever make it to human testing. The winners have to pay for all the losers and then some (consider: You can play a game where you bet $1 and have a 1 in 10 chance of getting $10. Completely fair, but if you play long enough you're guaranteed to go bankrupt.)

There's also the time factor. Suppose you spend $100M to develop and sell a drug that brings in a total of $150M over it's on-patent lifetime. You *lost* money.
Yes, that’s where I’m these days. I don’t even think of venturing outside of Postgres these days, except for say things like Redis etc. where there are mature and established options for specific use cases.
Insurance, not fixing service. They'd collect enough data on signing the policy to be able to independently verify your ownership of the account, and in case the account gets locked in the future, you'll get an insurance payout to help you cope with the damage. Not that different from order kinds of property insurance.
> It is just a statement of the obvious. Price tends to trump every other consideration, unless the difference is pretty big.

But, huge swaths of the public regularly pay much more than the minimum required to have better:

• Cars

• Clothing

• Restaurants

• Theater seats

These are just the first few that come to mind.

Now, is the difference between high- and low-end clothing "pretty big"? I guess it depends on what you mean, but both will fundamentally cover your body.

For airlines, people just want to get from point A to point B, and nothing else really matters at the end of the day. Even on higher end airlines, flying is unlikely to be a truly pleasant experience, unless maybe you pay almost an order of magnitude more for first class or something. People just want to get it over with.

I mean, I think we're saying the same thing here. But whereas I feel you're framing this as a "bug" in how consumers operate, I think they're behaving quite logically. People will pay more for things they actually care about. When they don't care, they choose the cheapest option.
Well this part of the article could be one reason why:

>Even more disturbing, however, is Balaji’s tight connection with Tan, the Y Combinator CEO who has publicly aligned himself with the Network State for years. “I legit believe [Y Combinator] is a prototype model for what @balajis talks about when he says the Network State,” wrote Tan in August 2022, shortly before he was named CEO.
I have an older version of this LG 42.5" 4k monitor[0]. This version has 60W USB-C PD along with being an a/v input. It's good for office-type use. Not great if you want a wide color gamut or deep blacks. I find that I don't use the full height, but there's really nothing in-between this and 21:9 monitors. I also have a 34" 21:9 but find it a bit short. Next time I might go with a 32" 16:9 with VA pixels (or IPS Black from LG/Dell).

[0] https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-43un700-b-4k-uhd-led-monit...
Yeah, really the intent was not to advocate for death penalty - but rather highlight that there are tools to fight these things, and getting tangled in endless root cause analysis isn’t needed to utilize them.
Just an example I had recently, my friend replaced his iPhone 8 because after two years of it functioning perfectly fine, apps started crashing/closing out of nowhere. Not to mention he constantly complained about apps being slow.

His Apple maps frequently pointed to slightly wrong places (like 50 meters off) when given coordinates shared by messaging apps. Sometimes closing the maps app and reclicking the link fixed the position. It got to a point that he started sharing destination coordinates with me so I could open Google Maps on my phone so we could navigate confidently.

Also he complained that Canva and Instagram apps were slow or broken for some operations on the phone. For example trying to share a longer video in reels resulted in app crashing. But those are not Apple apps so I'm not even counting all these third party issues. But it was like death by a thousand cuts.

Since replacing his iPhone for a newer model, everything was fixed. For now.
Intuition is just a starting point — and one that changes with experience gained. Two students can start to learn piano either “intuitively” or mathematically and both end up at the same level of skill 30 years later. There isn’t some linear path of progression based off where you start — that’s what’s amazing about the human brain, it’s incredibly parallel and mesh based.
The video you linked is from 2015, almost a decade after the time period I referenced in my comment.
Hope is part of every strategy that doesn't have infinite cost.
You can, but many people do not do this.
Indeed, I personally find Rust to be very nice for rapid prototyping, incremental recompilation is usually a second or two even in my giant projects (mold helps on the linking step but that's less of a rust thing anyway), and I'm very curious how cranelift will change things in the future, it would be nice to hot swap function implementations on the fly at least.
I bought many things at this offshoot of p-mall. It was there long before Pacific Mall, but gradually became its undersized sibling. There was a kitchen supply store there that had great stuff at good prices. I still have many of those purchases and use them often.

It had the advantage of being a lot quieter than Pacific Mall, although parking was equally impossible. I'd usually walk through P-mall for fun, and then use this place to actually shop.
It's not really open source if it just sends the URLs to a closed source third party web service, is it?
Yes. I should have been more precise and described it as a secondary definition (which has become the primary definition in recent years).
SVGs are just so powerful. Last week there was a problem with a parallax transparent image with a filter: drop-shadow looking awful on mac safari and ios. Solution was to create an outline of the image in an SVG and use an svg filter with feGaussianBlur for a drop shadow. I feel like I'm only scratching the surface on what's possible with them. I've been using svgomg for my optimizations, but this looks to have quite a bit more useful features.
Apparently people who grew up in East Germany have this but worse. Their "home culture" (TV shows, snacks made by the state snack factories) got "demolished" when East Germany got absorbed into Germany...
NVDA customers are willing to pay to much for AI chips so they get the money back and more from the pumped up NVDA stock price . This is inflationary and we are still stuck with high interest rates because of those schmucks!
Combo of existing drugs. They're looking at a test of whether a particular cocktail works, the drugs themselves were tested long ago.
Why even bother linking to a comment that was thoroughly debunked at the time? Making a claim about power consumption (ie. a measured quantity) while using a number that represents TDP (a value assigned by the marketing department with no objective connection to reality) may have been an honest mistake for the original poster, but is quite dishonest on your part.
The lock in is intentional, security theater touted as a feature in the shitty, ambiguous spec. Unfortunately, the folks who contribute to the spec are more concerned about threatening projects that have the audacity to use common sense instead: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407 (and https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406)
and those are rad and I wish them a lot of success. There could definitely be another org who operates in the nonprofit space. People want to be "on Mastodon" but people in orgs that can really showcase the potential of the Fedi generally have little interest or technical bandwidth to operate heavy and fragile rails/postgres apps.
>(Side note

you imagined a scenario in which a company was not maximizing profitability of their drug production and development and asked what would be the problem with that, I provided an example problem that might exist if that were the case and your response is ok let's make a different starting assumption?

My assumption though is if we switched focus we could make 135%.

>Increase pay to match, making the profit 105% of expenses,

at some point in this imagined scenario it ends up profit of 99% of expenses, which it seems from your previous example is not ok. The company with higher profit margins has more room to maneuver, can offer better perks to employees, can offer higher salaries, assuming only some of the employee pool is self-interested that still means you have less ability to get them one way or another.

Assuming also at the top level that wages are not a percentage but rather negotiated, oh well rich pig pharmaceuticals said they would pay 195 per year, that's 40 more than you're offering - can you match? At some point not being as rich as the other players starts to affect your game.
You can probably use ChatGPT to generate SVGs from a description of what you want. Like stable diffusion for simple vector graphics. Maybe even animations.

Haven’t yet done it myself and can’t verify right now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it worked well to brainstorm a favicon or some other symbol.
Most folks do not do this. Although they should be.