skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's completely generic then maybe, but how do you argue that the closed source Nvidia license or the dubious license for zfs can be linked to the GPL licensed kernel without being invitation of one of those licenses.

It's having a stable foundation of the kernel's API that others can code against. As it stands, the (compat) shim layer(s) have to constantly be tweaked for new kernels:

> Upcoming Linux 6.7 release will change a couple of interfaces. Adapt or die!

* https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15681

And "dubious license"? Really? Given the incorporation of CDDL code of DTrace into macOS and FreeBSD, and of OpenZFS into FreeBSD (and almost into macOS), it seems that license is quite flexible and usable, and that any limitations exist on the GPL side of the equation.

> To my knowledge the latter is a violation of GPL should it be the inverse and therefore an explicit exemption would need to be put in place for the shim in the GPL and that is the showstopper.

How is coding against an API a violation of the GPL? Neither Nvidia's, nor OpenZFS's, code is a derivation of any GPL: (Open)ZFS was created on a completely different operating system, and was incorporated into others (e.g., FreeBSD, macOS), so I'm not sure how anyone can argue with a straight face that OpenZFS is derived from GPL.

Similarly for Nvidia: how can it be derived from GPL Linux when it the same driver is available for other operating systems (and has been for decades: I was playing RtCW on FreeBSD in 2002):

* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

It's one of the reasons the whole DKMS infrastructure had to be created: since API stability does not exist you have to rebuild kernel modules for every kernel—even open source ones like OpenZFS, Lustre, BeeGFS, etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
Back when I was building an IDE with a custom text editor, I initially used embedded Neovim thinking I would get the entire vim feature set out of the box for free. Unfortunately this became a never ending source of bugs. I think the fundamental problem was that my application was structured like a game with a main loop in a single thread, and Neovim turned text editing into an async operation, where I would have a separate thread reading events from Neovim and then trying to safely update the global buffer.

Also, I was constantly fighting/reverse engineering Neovim to get the granular level of control over behavior that I needed for a seamless integration. It’s just a type of programming that’s extremely frustrating and not fun.

In the end I implemented custom vim emulation from scratch and surprisingly it wasn’t that hard to get the “20% of features that people actually use 80% of the time,” except it’s more like 5% and 95%, and in exchange I could own the whole stack instead of depending on a third party black box. Never been happier to delete a whole subsystem of code in my life.
"Cynically, I would say that they've messed up the implementation on purpose so they can put a bullet through the "Python in Excel" idea without actually doing anything useful."

Sounds exactly right. Embrace/extinguish. It's The Way.
Although I have questions about certain points, I appreciate the perspective. I wanted to give 5 bucks. There were options for 10, 20 and “any” which goes to a select box that starts at 25. Now I can’t give anything.
Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments
If you are hiding ads, chances are high you are violating TOS.
Not much choice with a GPU backed service. Way too expensive to not have at least a verified email filter in front of it, and Google is the simplest most "universal" plug and play OIDC provider.
Do you think there's more exascale supercomputers on Earth than are publicly acknowledged?
Although it may be against popular opinion, I believe making billions without a healthy stock of virtues is unlikely.
I keep getting surprised at how little the tech industry as a whole seems to care about documentation. Way too many authors just upload the new PDF to some website - of course overwriting the old one.

As an implementer I'm often more interested in the exact changes than in the current wording. My product is already supporting the old spec, what do I need to change to support the new one? A redlined version is more valuable than the full PDF. Bonus points if it actually comes with the reasoning behind it so I don't have to guess why some seemingly-arbitrary change was made.

My dream documentation is a simple Markdown file (or similar) stored in a git repository. It allows me to see the current version, the old version, the diff, and the commit messages can even store the reasoning.
No offense taken, and happy that xlwings was an inspiration for creating Row Zero! I don't really buy the security issues though for being the reason for switching from Excel to Row Zero. Yes, Excel has security issues, but so does the cloud, but at least the issues with Excel can be dealt with: disable VBA macros on a company level, run Excel on airgapped computers, etc. Promising that your cloud won't be hacked or is unintentionally leaking information is impossible, no matter how much auditing and certification you're going through.
The relatively recent addition of xlwings Server fixes pretty much all of the issues you encountered in your previous company: user don't need a local installation of Python, but the Office admin just pushes an Office.js add-in to them and their done. No sensitive credentials etc. are required to be stored on the end-users computer or spreadsheet either as you can take advantage of SSO and can manage user roles on Microsoft Entra ID (that companies are using already anyways).
> Europe's biggest problem: It is falling way behind America's powerhouse economy

That was the aim. EU had started to become a nail in the back of US so US is working on it.
it's not that it's not important, it's just not that engaging.

Most of the time there's a minute or two where the first slide is up but everyone is still getting settled. The less engaging info can be on that first slide and when the talk starts you can skip ahead to the second slide without discussing that first one.
Useless then, because it's not analogous
>England ... ended up as a vassal state of the USA

I think is a bit unfair. The state is the UK and we cooperate with the US but are not especially told what to do by them. I note with Ukraine the UK were the first to supply anti tank weapons, long range missiles, allow strikes on Russian territory with their weapons and so on and the US tagged along after.
Inflation is a thing though. My money is worth a lot less in the US than it is in Europe. Rents are higher. Restaurants are more expensive. Food and produce in the supermarkets are more expensive. And so on.

The US has created a lot of inflation through its defense budget, things like the inflation reduction act (which added a trillion $ or so to the economy, which is ironic), etc. And people commonly take loans to buy cars, houses, etc. Which all adds to inflation. It creates a lot of money but not a lot of wealth or well being.

Which is why despite being so rich, poverty levels are substantial in the US, medical care is expensive/unaffordable, and illness is a potential bankrupting event for a lot of people. Life expectancy is low and dropping (relative to other countries). Literacy and education levels are at an all time low and obesity is a national decease associate with a class of people that don't have good access to quality produce or health care.
I'll give you nice-guy points for turning it down - that's a very principled position to take when that much money is sitting in front of you and all you have to do is say "yes"

I think your intuition on #2 is right - pro-rata across the board or even if the amounts are small enough, offering to do it as a "series B bonus" line item in payroll is not out of the question. 10% seems on the high side but sub 5% it's probably do-able.

I agree with a lot of what you've written - I understand if you want to stay anonymous but would love to talk to you about this more if you are open to it!
Paper straws are some of the worst "greenwashing" I've ever seen. I most frequently encounter them for McDonalds drinks, where the cup and lid are solid plastic, but the straw whose weight (in plastic) would have been maybe 2-3% of the whole assembly has been replaced with something that invariably goes soggy before the drink is finished. Meanwhile at the grocery store I see boxes of... straws. As in, actual straw, the original material. Haven't encountered those in actual use yet, though.
> I don't buy it: As long as whatever they built brought in more money than the property taxes, there's more money to be had from building than from not building.

The lower the property tax - the lower "money brought in" needs to be for building to happen.
Current LLMs are not aware of the letters in text. It's too expensive computationally to assign a token to each letter. They operate at the level of tokens, which tend to be word-level: each morph-em-e is broke-n down in-to seg-ment-s and assign-ed an int-e-ger.

The result is that LLMs are quite oblivious to spelling and such. There are some exceptions working at the letter level, but mostly, yeah. This applies to ChatGPT etc.
In these cases, I sometimes wonder if it's my own ears that have distortion at high volume. Would need to try with/without earplugs to verify.
It resonates. As an intern I had to add OTEL to a Python project and I had to spend a lot of time in the docs to understand the concepts and implementation. Also, the Python impl has a lot of global state that makes it hard to use properly imo.
Google AI Gemini parrots China's propaganda
Yes. It‘s striking what kind of benefits a large domestic market automatically brings to startups. If the EU really wants to get closer to the US and China, they really need to make the single market become true.
Not going to happen in the foreseeable future, though.
Man, that list went on a LOT longer than I expected it to. I’m on a mobile device, so no scroll bar - I kept thinking that I must be nearing the end of the List of Horrible Things and being wrong. Also learned the term “redlining”.

I know the answer is “they’re big and integrated into the financial system”, but still, how are they still in business?!?
This is not good, but the doom is over exaggerated. Especially compared to another countries (cough US) Germany has a functioning policy system. Reforms are very possible, population is not polarised.
They certainly have to perform their own metallurgical analysis and certify the parts. Like, WTF?

This is just hillbilly mom-and-pop bullshit.
How many countries has NATO invaded?

- Bosnia (92-95, air and naval campaign)

- Kosovo (99, air campaign)

- Afghanistan (ISAF, technically post-invasion, 03-14)

- Libya (11, air campaign)

If Russia is worried about NATO aggression, that doesn't seem to be supported by facts.
Macrophages are cells that take care of stuff like eating splinters that you can't get out.

What if there was something we could eat that basically super-powered our macrophages to to it for us? They already eat the microplastics but they just sit inside them.[1] Digesting them might be poisonous I guess ...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
It'd be more correct to say that the Nazis were big on Swedish topics such as eugenics. Sweden was world leading in eugenics 'research' for decades before the Nazi party was founded, and the State Institute for Eugenics Research wasn't closed down until 1958.
I think they mean things like asynchronous updates of backend data that occasionally sync out of band. Most apps I’ve seen will make requests and not act “optimistically” on them, rather wait for the round trip to complete before continuing.

I think the reason we don’t see this much is because you have to model your entire app on this (with multiple layers of data state and primitive types that represent sync-able states) and most apps aren’t written with that much forethought.
Using AI to decode dog vocalization
For some reason the ChatGPT app on OS X also requires Apple silicon. Not sure why since it's just talking to an API.
Tangentially related: The seats on Shinkansen trains can be rotated to adapt to the needs of the passengers.
I really think the question is why wouldn't you block those ads using something like ublock origin or adguard (admittly you will lose using the app which is better for some people) but you solve your greatest point of pain.
Sure, but to be fair, strong cohesive worldbuilding was never the goal with Foundation. It was a gedankenexperiment to take an impossible but scientifically plausible sounding technology (psychohistory) and find lots of ways to break it and/or explain it.

If you were actually looking for Asimov at his most "Lord of the Rings" I'd actually suggest probably "The Gods Themselves". There the worldbuilding was far more central and important to the narrative.
Onsite only it appears?
Well you just deliberately moved the goalposts. I said billionaires are not saints. You said they have “virtues” by which I assume you mean intelligence and work ethic. Character traits that are typically not included in the definition of a saint.
Think about it this way. If you mentally torture an employee for 30+ years, and lead them to suicide, how are you not culpable?
Sleep deprivation disrupts memory
I don't think so. Reinforcement learning is about teaching by pairing correct actions with rewards, like giving a dog a treat for doing a trick.

Dynamic programming is a recursive algorithm that caches partial results (from the bottom up).

Apples and oranges
Smart mid-infrared metasurface microspectrometer gas sensing system
asprintf is a pretty cool one. https://frippery.org/make/2024.html details some of the make changes.
Apple: we're the gatekeepers, you get exposure until we've figured out this AI thing.
On pro-rata basis most of these secondary liquidity events as apart of raises are not "retirement" level of liquidity - it's just "safety net" level of liquidity. So I think they would probably not be considered "sizable".
It’s used in some movies also, but the idea predates movies by millennia :)
Do you think work experience itself has any benefit to young people?
There are numerous alloys that work perfectly fine for containing liquid sodium.
> Citation? In the mifepristone case just yesterday, SCOTUS reminded us of the need for "standing" — albeit while practically drawing a road map for other plaintiffs to try again.

Some “human rights” group in the U.S. would just have to find a random Bangladeshi person (including a non-citizen) to claim some family member was killed in some supposedly “illegal” execution of drug dealers.

> Question: Under your reasoning, are Judge Kacsmaryk's nationwide injunctions, e.g., in the mifepristone case, similarly "stupid and arrogant," even though they're technically permissible under the All-Writs Act [which needs major revision IMHO]?

No because he’s a judge of the same legal entity being enjoined. Unlike the national borders, the federal districts are mostly just lines in an org chart.
Good point. Whenever I think about how much I'm poisoning myself with plastics or breathing exhaust or whatever I remind myself what I did last Friday night and it's like ... yeah this pales in comparison.
Good. All restrictive gun laws are an infringement on our natural rights.
Why are so many books listed as "Borrow Unavailable" at the Internet Archive?
Until age ~40 my sleep cycles were chaotic and stressful around the clock, and the morning was very stressful and sometimes (racing to work in morning traffic barely 30 minutes awake) probably dangerous. I would abuse snooze alarms. I would misplace things (keys, etc) by putting them down at night and confidently making a mental note to remember. Then on the other side after sleep a complete blank and a bomb-level search under stress to find them.

It didn't change until I developed a serious yearning for quality time in the morning. 'Quality' is any span where you do not have to be conscious of the passage of time (yet). First 5am and now 4:30am, the span from awakening 4:30 until 7:00 when work begins for example, was enough to impose a clean 24 hour cycle of habit.

The next hurdle was that I sleep with a loud fan which helps mask environmental noise and helps me to sleep. But at 4:30am it means that the cell phone alarm would have to be very loud and I'd typically awaken apartment neighbors through thin walls who sleep in silence. I'd hear them moving around and know that I had probably awakened them.

My solution was a programmable digital clock relay. At 4:30am it turns off the fan, and my mind is conditioned to awaken instantly while the fan is spinning down. Sometimes I even hear the 'click' of the relay. Then I get up quickly, because the cell phone is just out of reach and set 4:32am and I know it will be penetrating and shrill in the silence. Getting up to turn it off breaks my first level of snooze-abuse syndrome. I now (correctly) associate snooze abuse with stress and unpleasant outcomes, call it 'maturity' if you like.

So now I can awaken with time to spare in 'silence' and my neighbors can stay asleep.
How is this going to affect Google's indexing of the site? They hit the front page and follow links, right? They don't try random perturbations of the URLs and see if they resolve to something else? Or do they?
- Products that significantly benefit from vertical integration like Tesla and iPhone

- Apple throwing around their 800lb gorilla weight to have better user privacy and bankroll TSMC’s latest process node

- Apple being able to afford gigantic SoC dies in iPhone, compared to android where manufacturers nickel and dime on the SoC and users get flaming pieces of shit clocked to high heaven
Vehicles over 25 years old are approved, no emissions requirement.

(Though some states are stopping it)
You can try some rapid prototyping with microbit and this library below that has ble hid support

https://bsiever.github.io/microbit-pxt-blehid/
Isn't this just a mixup in terminology and the meaning of "likelihood"? It seems from the article that odds of survival approximately double in the cited data.

EDIT: I run into this same mixup in other contexts. Gompertz's law on mortality is often described as "the likelihood of mortality" or "the mortality rate" doubling every eight years, both of which are impossible once likelihood and/or rate are above 0.5. But odds can keep doubling indefinitely.
" Because it presumes the only reason people are voting "right-wing" is because they are reading "doomsday news". Versus, you know, disagreeing with the way the "left wing" have been running things. " This sounds very Us. also another OP clearly refers to us stuff.

You don't get to tell people what they can complain about.
Are you sure that applies to commodities with extremely high capital costs like mining and refining ore?

It sort of makes sense to me with SpaceX. They’re presumably buying fairly boutique parts that likely already require custom manufacturing, so someone is spending capital either way. I can see how it might make sense for them to build a custom manufacturing line instead of paying someone else.

That seems odd for commodities like titanium, though. Even if Boeing were to do it themselves, that oversight process is already a subset of the mining and refining process. They’re going to have to build out their QA lab either way.
Your dream will evaporate when the newcomers self organize and disenfranchise you. This foolishness and lack of critical thinking will be ultimately resolved by nature itself.
The much-needed reinvention of the voice assistant is almost here
PDF to Images
Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone
There's a right way to cancel a restaurant reservation – and a wrong way
Hey. Webdev here ;-)

It's the other way around: after every optimization we have more "budget" to spend. More code, more bloat that we can get away with.
Precis:

Mortality went from 0.13% to 0.2% for newborn black babies with a black doctor presiding (no effect found based on skin colour of obstetrician), in a longitudinal study in Florida.

This was erroneously declared as black babies having double the chance of living if they had a black doctor.

By my maths the actual increase is 0.07% (99.87/99.8).

The conclusion drawn was that white doctors provide [far far] worse care to black babies.
As someone who is not in the simulation and graphic space, what does this library bring that current libraries do not?
I use https://miniflux.app as my feed aggregator and it has a nice feature where you can toggle "Fetch original content" on a per feed basis. This will web-scrape the content automatically in the background and it'll show up in your feed reading apps just like if they'd have a full feed.
> Aren't people targetting bash or basic bourne shell features intead of posix?

I know many banks still have AIX systems with shells like ksh89, ksh93, etc. as the default shell. So if a shell script is written to work with a POSIX shell (instead of a particular shell), it has a better chance of running on such systems.

Also, on Debian, the default non-interactive shell is dash [1]. This is the Debian Almquist Shell (dash). It is a POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash. So again, if we write system scripts for Debian and want it to run on Debian without any hassle, it makes sense to write the system scripts to conform to POSIX shell. Although shellcheck cannot perform full POSIX compliance check at this time, it is still a pretty good tool that can help with checking compliance with dash in particular.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/stable/dash
This is not a bad idea. The lysosomes in cells use some fairly intense chemicals to hydrolyse biopolymers, and macrophages produce oxidants like hypochlorite. But then, inflammation is a risk factor for cancer, perhaps because of side effects of those oxidants.
"exposure [of user data]"
Given that Google has to pay tens of billions of dollars to Apple for 'exposure', this seems like great deal for OpenAI.
Amazon has turned into WalMart. Literally all of your choices for a product are a variation of the same cheap crap with different brand names. I would love to have a midling priced item of better quality. Not available.

The retailers job used to be offering the best value to their customers by filtering out the crap that was too cheap or overpriced.
No, the government isn't "on a largely ideologically driven understanding of climate change prevention". The shutdown of the nuclear reactors was decided by the previous government in 2011 and never reconsidered.
Yes, as part of the war against Ukraine, Russia cut their gas deliveries to Germany. We managed to find other suppliers, but at least short term, sport market priced for gas went high up. This has by now settled down to about pre-war prices. In parallel, the ramp up of renewables was accelerated. In Q1 2024, 60% of the electricity was renewable.
That was a chatgpt "generated" answer.

It generated engagement (yours, up votes), so it seems to work. Engagement is what a smell business needs.
> It's not like anyone is confused about what "bear arms" means.

Did you intentionally avoid the actual term whose meaning there is legitimate argument over? It's "well-regulated militia", and there absolutely is wildly different opinions over what that means.