skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dell (now) owns Isilon (through purchasing EMC), and they do contribute back a lot:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system

You can search for "Sponsored by:" in commits for who did work:

* https://www.freshsource.org/commits.php
As another editor, I think they might be a vocal minority. :)
U.S. defaultism
College students are notoriously thrifty. At any given time they might have less than a hundred dollars in their bank account, so 29 dollars is a third of their net worth. By spending 29 dollars up front they lose a lot of their liquidity.

Yes, they study at a Sheetz and buy a $3 coffee each time, but I doubt they study every night, in fact I would suspect that those who do that only do it a few times a month before a big test or something.
This is what a community is. This can usually be maintained by local businessowners. Not so much by large megacorps who have no stake in the local community.

But, we are making local businessowners an endangered species. How? Ever-increasing regulation, so the only ones left with a budget willing navigate the federal, state, and local regulations - you guessed it, large megacorps.
I don't see many CVEs in coreutils. Maybe one or two, in several decades? I do on occasion use obscure flags (or at least ones that are obscure to me).

> This is tiring.

Hey, you're the one keeping the argument going...
I remember reading how in Tokyo you can find a lot of niche places even deep in city, with explanation given by small-time tailor (not some expensive main street kind of place) being given as that what he pays to rent the place is cheap enough.
Similar state, ended up with Netlify CMS (now the weirdly-named https://decapcms.org). Still just my repo and static page build process, but I get a basic GUI to make and edit pages.
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I always wondered what custom instructions other people use to make chatGPT respond excellently and charmingly.

So I made this marketplace where you can share and explore custom instructions.

I am very excited to see how this turns out to be.

Feedbacks would be very much appreciated.
Speculation here, but there seems to have been an overall increase in homelessness and less willingness by some communities to police the problem.

Anecdotally, when I moved about 10 years ago, it was uncommon to see homeless downtown. Then there was a transition period where they were allowed downtown in the evening but the police would clear them out in the early morning. Now, you can find them there at all times of the day.
Also I didn’t need to study every night in a month. There’s a handful of stretches where I need to grind but it’s was sporadic. Certainly not something I want to manage a monthly payment for.

Also, in a college students mind, your value comp is a Netflix subscription.

$1 a night (as suggested by sibling) or even $3 a night would have been an instant sell.
But it sounds like in Italy you entered the coffee shop to drink coffee and socialize - which fulfills the mission of a coffee shop.
However, I noticed that in post-pandemic Poland and the USA where i spend a lot of time, coffee shops are starting to become more like coworking spaces where the "laptop class" is demanding not only perpetual space but worst of all, silence, since they are busy working and concentrating. It is simply not what it used to be.
There is a kind of a concept I've been to recently: A work-friendly cafe. It was not a co-working space. It was not a cafe. It was something in between.

Pros:

- You don't need to worry about battery or your laptop being stolen. Plenty of charging ports and space is open and owner is looking after.

- It's relatively quiet as most people were working themselves. Most seemed to be students.

- You pay by day/half-day. You have the space for the fulltime the place is open plus free black coffee and water. You can order extra.
Hanging out at Tim's is like hanging out at Subway or Dairy Queen. Other than the quality comparison, or the just plain sad vibes comparison, Tim's is in the "quick service" restaurant business since private equity bought them out and they are not designed to have people stick around.
One Starbucks nearer to where I used to live transitioned to this mobile pickup model removing all the indoor seating. I have been there a couple of times since the remodel and it is just weird to walk into knowing it used to be a meeting place for people to talk and spend some time.

Now, if I go out to work, maybe once a week, I try to limit my time there to an hour or two tops. I also try to go to places that are likely to be more empty at the moment and not preventing any person from finding a seat if they walk in.
The FreeBSD foundation seems to have stepped up a gear lately. Good to see.
That’s an entirely baseless attack. Not really the type of discussion that’s appropriate for HN
Fentanyl is not a new invention, it’s been around for decades.
Good stuff - always wanted to write bash but not really write bash or learn it deeply. It's amazing world seeing these tools come out.

Just built a CLI a couple days ago with golang and it was an incredible experience where these things have come.

Things - acute product dev tools. Tools to create peculiar or not soo common tools.
I love the theme!

One question, do the donations pay for the costs?
Bash is for automation, not building services. It's used heavily in sys admin and devops tasks

The reason to learn it is that it can make your dev experience better. Make falls into this category as well. Both are great ways to combine multiple tools together.

That being said, I'm using more Dagger for this purpose these days, which provides you SDKs for your fav langs.
Let's assume that Tesla is going all in on Robo taxies (I think a reasonable move given their core automotive business is not sound from a shareholder perspective). Then the problem they're facing is less technological than regulatory. If you were to assume that their self-driving is perfect, which it's not, they're meaningfully behind Waymo in an important way. Waymo have put the work in to establish themselves with regulators, gone slow in the roll out, responded to pressure and criticism and built trust. Musk seems to imagine that he can just put a 2 tonne death trap on the street and go "Tada!" and people will just accept it. They won't.

The core problem is they'll need to go through years of hurdles to get regulatory approval, building up through the same steps that Waymo are going through. It's not a technological problem, it's a regulatory and political problem.
>Finding a public space to sit down and write this article was a struggle.

Is it a third place if you perform work there?

Seems to me that the "second place" has increasingly leaked into both the first and third places, making the distinction blurry.
I mean the reality clearly is that while most people claim to long for a “third place” what they really mean is “Place where they can scroll on their phone while alone and pay nothing.”

Once you realize that, it’s obvious why “commercial third places” are dying.

People don’t want what they claim they want.
David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he's been teasing on his All In podcast
Delivering gene therapies into brain cells is a non-trivial task. Also, there's alternatives to cutting the original sequence out; you can also dampen the transcribed RNA with downstream therapies.
I think it's more that a lot of Starbucks expansion in Europe happened when they already started switching gears to standard less compatible with providing a "Third Space".
Is there something that this project does that the opensource gitlab doesn't?
That doesn't explain why they all have to line up in time. If each individual boom or bust was spread over time, it would disappear in the noise.
In retail that usually makes it turn into a fourth place - the store front this replaces the third place.
The lack of fellowship between citizens is both a result and a cause of the decline of "third places", and is part of a large decline in civic life among Americans.

People don't know or like the other citizens in their towns and cities; the cultural and class-education divides are enormous. They also lack the temerity to use law enforcement to clean up (trash-, dirt-, and behavior-wise) public spaces to reserve them for those seeking socializing without disruption, or to use the legal system to push back on car-centric design, or to use their money on creative aesthetics to make it nicer to be in public spaces.
I don't understand. Why not just use Emacs with evil-mode?
>I saw someone once set up an entire desktop that they hauled in in a giant duffel bag

Was it Aubrey Plaza? https://youtu.be/EKEeHREK2nQ
That’s not how it works.

People who start companies don’t find any satisfaction making 500k tc. They want 1 billion tc.

I was making a good ton of money working at a unicorn that IPOd but then it’s like okay that’s boring. I came in a few rounds before IPO what must the founder feel like (they’re billionaires lol) What would it be like to have 100 million or more, maybe a billion?

Worst case scenario I get a job and pull in 500k tc plus
The Cap Principle for LLM Serving
> grep '@dell.com>'

A better search may be 'Sponsored by:.*[Dell|EMC|Isilon]' or some such.

Some Dell folks may be committers and be pushing things with their @freebsd.org address.
These legally operate as groups of homeschooled children where I live, and there actually is only one kind of "school". Yes, I'm considering that. One thing I definitely don't want is an "institution" that feels like it's entitled to do or require children to do whatever it wants, even if it has generally enlightened opinions and methods. If my child can't come at all for half a year, that's what will happen.
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Sometimes, universities just disseminate this information to their students, too.

Somebody hit to our vehicle (owned by a government institution) and tried to ran away into their university, but failed. We had to call the police (since that's a government institution vehicle), and university security guards came and told the driver "if something like this happens again, just try harder to enter university premises, we can help you".

We politely told the guards that this is a government owned van, and we need to call the police, anyway. They frowned very visibly to this fact.

The driver was also very sad about not being able to outrun us.

This was not in US.
You're right, this feature hasn't been released yet. See https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/2648 if you want to follow the work in progress.
Doesn't seem like much of a third place, more of a run of the mill shopping mall.
Aliens got it first. Shows their grasp of Solar System politics.
> Why doesn’t Amber have equivalent issues? Such as depending on a specific version of bash, or specific executables to be installed.

Because it's easy (for most cases) to write backwards-compatible or portable shell scripts and, since Amber is compiled, it can simply generate backwards-compatible code.

> That would cut against the idea that bash can target more devices than Python, which runs natively on all platforms.

The point is that Bash is more ubiquitously available, which is important if you write something like an install script.
It's not that misleading, though, true, both provide various interactive development environments, with Smalltalk versions very much GUI tool based (with tools like the System Browser).

Typically when one starts a Lisp development system, it will always start some kind of visible REPL. Either it runs it in a Terminal (most UNIX Lisps have a terminal REPL), runs it as a tool in its own GUI-based IDE (MCL, CCL, Allegro CL, LispWorks, Corman Lisp, ..., Symbolics Genera, CL + McCLIM) or runs the REPL frontend in a connected IDE (-> SLIME + GNU Emacs is a prominent IDE for CL, earlier this was done using subprocesses called "inferior Lisps" like in ILISP+GNU Emacs).

The conversational REPL interface (typing expressions, evaluating the expression and getting a response) is widely used.

Smalltalk has the "Workspace" or a Playground (-> Pharo) as similar tools.
I remember this article was extremely eye opening for me as a recent grad in 2013 Boston.

I think it's hard for people to understand today how much less the ideas like lean startups, Paul Graham essays, customer validation, etc had penetrated software engineering mindset in early 2010's, at least outside of SFBA.
Reading this article and comments it seems that cheating is just as common in the Tour de France as the Regeneron.
> MAMA BEAR—short for its lengthy full title, Mechanics of Additively Manufactured Architectures Bayesian Experimental Autonomous Researcher

Good job.
The entire human race uses phrases like "this fall" and has since time immemorial. The only myopia is that American publications specifically are supposed to take place in some kind of universalizing cultural vacuum equally applicable to the whole world.
Nice write up, thanks.

Unrelated, but as someone who came along into this world after Carson's Tonight Show, I had no idea that that moment from The Shining was a play on that. Today's lucky 10,000.
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I think it’s a mixture of corporate decisions and economic forces. For one thing, commercial real estate has skyrocketed even moreso than residential. If you’re a franchisee and your lease has shot through the roof but you can’t raise food prices then you’re going to demand corporate switch to cheaper ingredients and processes.
I'm pretty well convinced at this point that specifying an encoding for a system language's string type is probably too constraining--and like you point out, often commits the sin of requiring unnecessary processing.

Your CSV example here is a pretty good one: you either need heuristics or some kind of OOB data to "know" if you've got an encoding that can possibly represent a CSV file. If you've got that, you can always at least convert to a compatible encoding, e.g. UTF-8. If you don't, you can either bail or cross your fingers and hope that it'll work out (this is perfectly reasonable in many cases). Regardless, if you want to give programmers all of these options with zero cost you need a fully functional encoding-agnostic byte string type.

I do think you've done the legwork to improve the situation though? It would be cool if Rust incorporated bstr into std; I think that would give library authors (and maybe std authors) confidence in working on a lower level interface that didn't guarantee/require valid UTF-8.

> Because of course, the standard party line is, "use strings and strings are always UTF-8, why use anything else?" That question is I think where the OP lives, and getting more folks to think in a nuanced way about this topic is probably a good thing. :-)

100% agree. Honestly, re-reading OP it's clear I got really hung up on the bullet points in the middle ("Do you know how to render it" etc.), but it is really about UTF-8 in programming language string types. And hey, empirically it worked haha :)
> Choosing FreeBSD as the base of ThinOS was a strategic decision driven by several key factors:

> License Advantages: FreeBSD’s BSD license offers customization flexibility without the obligation to disclose proprietary enhancements. This aspect is crucial for Dell, allowing the company to tailor the OS to its specific security and performance needs while maintaining proprietary control over its software.

Ok... I see where this is going...

> Engineering Efficiency: Dell’s engineering team benefits from FreeBSD’s stable kernel source code. It simplifies integrating and maintaining customized code, reducing the effort and resources required to keep ThinOS up to date.

Nice one.

> Security Enhancements: The stability of the FreeBSD kernel, coupled with the permissive BSD license, which allows vendors to keep proprietary modifications under wraps, significantly bolsters ThinOS’s security posture and creates a robust platform less susceptible to attacks than a CopyLeft-based system with GPL components.

Are they really defending security through obscurity (closed-source blobs) and at the same time attacking GPL in the same paragraph?
One more person misinterpreting? Cool.

I am getting tired of being misinterpreted, not of the argument itself because the argument ended several comments ago and the person focused on being a little rebel ("who gets the determine the right questions" is his favorite pet peeve apparently).

There is no argument currently, just people trying really hard to miss the point that was stated very clearly.
Yeah, its more of an ideal vs reality thing ....
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan%E2%80%9...
What, what kind of campaign is this?

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-fails-rival-un-bid-nucl...
I just had a sandwich at Tim's the other day. It was freshly made with fresh ingredients. I was pleasantly surprised. In the middle, Tim's had food quality issues, but if the last experience is any indication, they have recovered nicely from it.
Yea, but its use only exploded exactly 2 decades ago, when deaths attributed to it doubled from 4 years prior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl_crisis
This one ain't a jobs program; Boeing has already taken significant losses and continues to do so. The Commercial Cargo and Crew missions were unusual in being fixed cost contracts; they're already almost $2B in the hole. https://spacenews.com/boeing-records-more-losses-from-starli...

They're well and truly fucked here.
Yup, which is probably one of the reasons why those third places get undone
Amber doesn't have equivalent issues because bash and the utilities it uses like bc and sed are incredibly stable. I've found nontrivial shell scripts I wrote decades ago that still run entirely unchanged.
AI gets attention clicks, I think.
I'd definitely call 1 (the FTS version) RAG. It's how Bing and Google Gemini and ChatGPT Browse work - they don't have a full vector index of the Web to work with (at least as far as I know), they use the model's best guess at an appropriate FTS query instead.
Is not it still trendy to run around with a throwaway cup? Basically you are nothing if you cannot afford overpriced coffee.

A bit like an iPhone.

Maybe my country side, non city lifestyle is talking here. I drink coffee at home and at work. Not in between.
While I'm not an expert in things Japan, from what I've seen the way they zone cities is far more mixed than the US/Canada model which leads to different property pricing behavior. In addition older buildings value can drop far more quickly there than here.
From my experience with attending four schools in two countries - it is often the quality and the personality of the teacher that influences what I was learning, not so much the curriculum. I see very little chance for radical thought being taught at German schools, unless 70%+ of school teachers get replaced.
Datpiff, I've noticed most Starbucks bias towards takeout orders these days. I do think that their indoor seating serves as the "top of the marketing" funnel, to get people to develop a brand preference. Without the 3rd place seating, it feels like green Dunkin Doughnuts.

Pvdoom, I completely agree. But it's VERY tough to ignore the real operating costs of keeping the space available. (I'm saying this as a former small business owner)

There are ways to fix these things, but it would be an unpopular opinion. Similar to the experience of exabrial's comment.
What do we know about satellite weapon systems?
... I had the 'pleasure' of driving American cars and if there's one thing they don't have it's good suspension. Though maybe they finally stopped using leaf springs for newer models.
Thanks. Yeah I was drawing up off memory & an old screenshot from January.

Her bill listed
222.84 in generation services.
188.86 in fuel factor at 0.0413900 per kWh.
176.04 transmission services
101.02 distribution services

Some taxes etc and a final charge of 1359.78. I'm remembering now that they did overcharge her & we talked about that w the power company getting a credit for the next bill. My mistake on that. But yeah for the last several months her bill has consistently been extremely high, 900 this past month, 1100 a prior month.

Her kWH usage is 4562 per month & I'm really not sure how she gets to that, she literally drives between 1 & 2 hours to work and back every day depending on location so she's only home in the evenings.
You could do the same with a touch tone phone, too.
Same, it's crazy how easy of a W paying for Kagi is. For a lot of the privacy focused "Google alternatives" you're typically getting privacy in exchange for worse results but on Kagi it's the opposite. They have the !g bang like DuckDuckGo but unlike DDG I've never reached for it. I learned really quick that if Kagi had bad results that Google had even worse ones.
My sister is in SF, and even though she nominally makes a little more than I do, I end up having much more disposable income, and can afford a lot more things, which is ... weird feeling
> But I suppose maybe some of their less sensitive changes, if upstreamed, relieves them of having to own them.

General best practice is to (a) upstream as much as you can, and (b) keep as close to -HEAD (the development branch) as possible. Some discussion on this at the Vendor Conference from a few months ago:

* https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar...

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugwS7L7NMXzSalaF4l_7...

Basically: if it's not part of your secret sauce, upstream it.
> I'm sure they're mostly diligent in buying drinks every hour or so

I really doubt it. Even the people who are conscious of this and think of themselves as "one of the good ones" probably don't do this even if they intend to. Is someone who sits in a place for 5-6 hours really going to purchase 6 coffees or lattes at $6+ each? That's a lot of money, but also that's a lot of coffee to drink in a day, and tons of calories if they're the fancier kind of drinks.

I have no doubt that some people do, but I bet it's fewer than many would believe. And places like Starbucks are likely working based off hard data rather than just guesses or feelings.
I'd be interested in seeing if giving them one or a few days free shifted their response much.

I've always liked working in a third space more than home, but there are also a lot of factors that go in to the places I pick and those evolve over time.

In my current life stage I generally spend at least $10/d in one, though it used to be a lot less when I was in college. In any case, I'd still balk at allocating $300 or even $100 for a space I hadn't hung out in for long enough to figure out how I feel about all of the various factors that matter.
There is no free lunch in software - the tradeoff is binary serialization and/or data copying over simple function calls. The same goes for GC - for efficient GC, it has to come with quite involved state which has additional cost of spawning. At this point, might use bump allocator, or an arena. Either way, Gen0 (it's a generational GC) in .NET acts like one, STW pauses can be sub-millisecond and are pretty much non-issue, given that you don't even need to allocate that often compared to many other high-level languages.
Tesla is a stock company. Their main product is their stock.
ChatGPT 4o is running Python in a sandbox
"I have an object composed of unknown materials, jumbled together in an unknown way, with unknown density. I'm going to hold it next to a light and heat source. How bright would it be?"

That sounds like a difficult problem.
Yeah. Just the last iteration in a long list of hype terms. Big data. Cloud ready. AI. Whatever ...
For Firefox I recommend installing an extension "search engine helper" and follow the steps in their help menu. This will add a modified google in your firefox settings. You just need to select that as the default before using it.
Atlas cafe in San Francisco printed out WiFi logins good for 90 minutes.

Perfect.