skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> What if FUTO isn’t trying to redefine the term but merely reminding everyone of the original definition as it was coined by the inventor of the term which focused exclusively on the freedom to view, modify, and distribute the software's source code - with no mention of the ability to commercially exploit the software without compensating the original author(s)

Christine Peterson who originally coined the term 'open source' to describe software licensing did so as a way to remove confusion surrounding the term 'free software':

'The introduction of the term "open source software" was a deliberate effort to make this field of endeavor more understandable to newcomers and to business, which was viewed as necessary to its spread to a broader community of users. The problem with the main earlier label, "free software," was not its political connotations, but that—to newcomers—its seeming focus on price is distracting. A term was needed that focuses on the key issue of source code and that does not immediately confuse those new to the concept. The first term that came along at the right time and fulfilled these requirements was rapidly adopted: open source.'

Source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...

The GNU GPL version 2 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html) which was in use at that time does allow for the commercial resale of the software:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#D...

When you state "with no mention of the ability to commercially exploit the software without compensating the original author(s)" then the opposite of what you are insinuating is also true--it was not mentioned because the ideas had already been stated and in practice in free software.
How does the hosted version compare to Deepnote?
It definitely happens if you’re writing in the same room with someone. I’ve done this with advisors or other students, not all the time but with enough regularity to make it relevant.
I wish that was a thing in California.
https://www.swiftlatex.com/ ?
Where is the fine-tuning source code + data and with what license? Afaict that's the proprietary part which is why it isn't in their github and hf doesn't link to it.

Hence my comment that I don't see how to do further fine-tuning that doesn't just wipe out what this does. They did a free binary release of fine-tuned weights afaict, which is problematic for building a production data pipeline that you re-fine-tune over time.
Yeah - I started getting food boxes with picked ingredients that I cook every week a few years ago ... to add to the "cup" situation there's also the tablespoons/teaspoons situation they like to go nuts on their smaller ones.

My favourite was seeing "half" a tablespoon of something.. not having a full derivative of measurement devices for this unit, thankfully with 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon that was merely 1.5 teaspoon.

And then they have eg "sprinkle", "dash" and "pinch". As in "add a dash of water". Grr, those are _not_ beginner friendly units. I've destroyed a dish by adding a "big pinch" of salt (my fingers probably much bigger than theirs).

I find measuring with grams and millilitres much easier.
Accessibility in both Notion and Confluence is absolutely abysmal. Any chance you have thought about this while working on Docmost so far?
This is a pretty important thing for companies to adopt this, with ADA in the US and the upcoming EAA within the EU. Also it'd be nice to have a product that actually did their homework where this is concerned for once :)
Let me know if you want me to give it a once-over. DIsclaimer: native screen reader user, blind person, developer, accessibility auditor and all that jazz.
> Also, stop giving examples from Escandinavia, nobody else functions (or legislates) like that. It has little to do with the money they have, and more to do with their culture and heritage. I'm aware of the irony of giving a Finland example myself.

I don't understand this part, what do you mean by that? As an immigrant in Scandinavia I saw many other immigrants eventually fall into this culture, so it's not something inherit in the people here but, as you say, part of the culture, and culture can be spread to other places. Learning about examples is the first step for others to perhaps look into it and give a chance for culture to spread.
I tried to "install LaTeX" on Mac. I installed latex2html with Brew, and passed it an example .tex. I got `Fatal (syswait): exec " ./images.tex" failed: Permission denied`

I tried to install `texlive` (at your recommendation) also through brew, and got the error `Could not symlink bin/afm2tfm.Target /usr/local/bin/afm2tfm already exists.`

Overleaf just works.
well the article above says that 95% of the universe is made of dark matter and dark energy, as did my Google search.
95% is a lot more than 19%
Great work!

Is the seed random? No matter how often I refresh it reaches a “dead” state after a few epochs only.
According to the article, employees were allowed to take a “generous” severance package if they did not want to relocate.
Here's an explanation by the FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...

The problem was the system, not the technology used to implement it.
Do you have a source for that? Where it sends through play services if network access is disabled? What does it send specifically?
This surprises me. On most platforms it’s just a package download and install. On Mac, it’s macTeX. On Linux, it’s whatever your distro calls texlive via the package manager. On windows it’s mikTeX. That’s not exactly complex or requiring any sort of latex expertise. Linux can be the one that requires the most thinking if they don’t have one package that pulls in all of what you need, but I can’t remember it being more than a couple minutes of effort last time I did it on Ubuntu or fedora.
The 72 hours is even more egregious to me. You're supposed to make one of the biggest life decisions you'll make (moving your family cross-country) in that time, with 0 advanced notice? Absurd
Do that and you'll lose your severance
I understood your point was that all participants including the token creators are scammers, and I didn't entertain you on it, shifting away from the semantics of that word as its an impossible standard for people that want to navigate that space

There is more nuance to it than that. The exchanges themselves will revoke a listing if it leaks in advance, turning the entire community against the founders for failing to get a listing and the door to that exchange being closed forever. The founders dont want it to leak that they paid or merely engaged a consultant, as a well done marketing campaign and “organic” results are what attracts people. The consultants therefore wont reveal who they worked with. and even if they did the founders will deny.

Many immature economies and sectors are like this. Crypto consultancy scams are not different enough for me to treat it differently.
You appear to have misread my comment.
A Structured Approach to Custom Properties
They’re paying severance to anyone that says no.
Thoughts after sitting with the new Figma Config 2024 updates for a few days
Often however remote cultures quickly can fall to least productive employees set the pace of the larger org
As a blind person I can confirm that the braille does not, in fact, say anything in particular. It'd be an amusing experiment to sneak in a couple easter eggs into this that spell out actual words ;)
This is nifty.

When I was in art school for graphic design, we were assigned a typography project to create a series of art pieces that used only "found typography", i.e. not fonts on your computer but, rather, type lifted from photographs of lettering in the wild.

As part of my designs, I incorporated Braille found in an elevator. The typography professor rejected this, leading to a 30 minute class discussion around whether or not Braille was a form of typography. In his opinion, it wasn't, and he failed me on the assignment. I still think I was right, and it's one of my favorite design pieces of my own to this day.
That is the math isnt i t?

Here is our set of equations for how the universe works.

Now let us observe this galaxy far away.
It does not do what it should according to our equations.
Our equations are accurate so how can this be?

Well they do work if we insert 95% of mystical stuff into the
the universe

Good that is solved then.
Maybe somebody has already written what you are looking for and you can just buy a license and deploy it. Learning front-end, database, dev-ops, payments, css in one month is not possible, maybe you can have a baseline of those skills in 3 years if you put in good effort.
I don't think using the verbatim git history as a change log is a good idea.

But if you insist on using the git history for change log, why not use an LLM? You could feed git history to chatgpt and get a nice user-friendly change log.
> Palaeontologists have described more than 20,000 species of trilobites, ranging in body length from less than two millimetres to more than 90 centimetres.

The trilobite.info site has lots of drawings of all the different trilobites that have been described: https://www.trilobites.info/
I had no idea this book had a company and that the company owned Redbox. Wasn’t their original products Christian themed inspirational novels about people coming back from the dead, with a different version for every demographic?
In the examples it would be nice to read what was the prompt to generate the image. (Or are the backgrounds choosen randomly?)

The price says

> 500 tokens/mo

> 100 normal relights/mo

How does it tranlate to the number of photos?
You mean "10-20g sugar" not "mg"
IMHO, if you don't spend one afternoon out of 365 in the year researching what to do with your money and you lose money as a result, you can't claim victim status. It's analogous to being out of shape because you never go to the gym. Good results take effort. It's not someone else's fault if you never put in the effort. And the effort needed to learn how to make sound financial decisions is actually a lot less than the effort of going to the gym every day.

To draw another analogy, let's say you don't max out the pretax contributions on your 401k even though you have the means to do so. There are tens of millions of people in this situation right now, losing thousands of dollars in potential retirement savings each year. Are these people victims too? What is the difference between them and people who view lottery tickets as an investment vehicle? In both cases it's a financial loss due to lack of research.

In any case, I suspect that most people who buy lottery tickets are doing it for the entertainment value (the thrill of gambling), in which case dropping $20 on a lottery ticket every week isn't much different than dropping $20 on the movies. It's hard to to call them victims from that standpoint as well.
Excellent point. Of course it will vary with different monitors.

I have a pair of LG 24UD58-B 4K 24" monitors mounted on monitor arms:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LPNKFK0/

One is above my ThinkPad P1 or X1 Extreme in landscape mode, the other to the left in portrait mode. I use all three displays.

I calibrated all three displays with an X-Rite (now Calibrite) Display Pro using DisplayCAL software.

For the two external monitors, the calibrator came up with these settings:

Brightness: 27
Contrast: 70
Gamma: Gamma 1

The specific RGB settings are slightly different between the two. One is:

Red: 56
Green: 43
Blue: 40

And the other:

Red: 39
Green: 42
Blue: 42

This settings make light modes very comfortable on both monitors, either during the day or at night with the room lights on. They are on a dimmer so I can adjust the lighting for comfort.

For photo editing or watching a video, I crank up the brightness on the landscape monitor to 85.

I do something similar on my phone, a Samsung S24 Ultra. I use light themes and turn the phone brightness way down so it matches these other displays - unless I'm out in the sun and then I turn it way up.

I also turn up the brightness near max to look at photos or watch videos. Because of this, YouTube is the one app where I use a dark theme. This works well with the increased brightness.
I assume the thinking was that they had to lock them out (?!?) while they decide, so it has to be a short window.
The military has a long history of using war games for training, going all the way back to Kriegspiel [1]. At least one history book [2], has been written about the topic. However it is rare that these military training games make it outside of their domain and become available to the general public. A rare exception may be the games designed by Volko Ruhnke [3], who designed games for training the CIA (though these may not be war games per se, but rather games about complex geopolitical situations). Mr. Rhunke's experience led him to become a highly successful commercial game designer.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel

[2]. The Art of Wargaming: A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists by Peter P. Perla (Author), R. Dawn Sollars (Illustrator)

[3]. https://spyscape.com/article/meet-the-cia-spy-who-creates-wa...
One of the main reasons I won't switch to iOS.
The big hurdle now becomes that all collaborators now need to know emacs;-)

But good to know! Although I am curious as to how clicking on TeX leading to scrolling the PDF to the corresponding location in the PDF would work (and vice-versa). Also for collaboration (some of my collaborators are not in the same continent) I'm assuming you need to host an emacs server; where might one typically do this? Any cloud compute provider, e.g., Linode?
I might be going against the current here, but why Markdown?

Hardly anyone outside tech knows how to write using Markdown, and a rich text editor with good shortcuts will cater to both non-tech and tech audience.

All in all, I agree that writing in LaTex can be painful. I've wasted too many hours after having fallen into LaTex rabbit holes trying to fix obscure errors and weird rendering.
Patagonia is just a tax haven now that the founder passed right?
Yep. The speed issue they are pulling is an area that doesn't have any objective standards. So I ran a JIRA query to see how I stacked up against the other person who was my level on the team. We completed almost the same number of points over the course of this year...
Plain text password?
This is gross. What’s the corporate motivation to not just call it what it is - a layoff?
It requires choices and knowing what to install and if things don’t work, troubleshooting the install can be difficult. For a first time task of “install latex”, it’s not the easiest. Especially for newer users. I e done it half a dozen times and I’m still not quite sure if I’ve done it right on my Mac (right away).
This is happening today with LLMs. "You need how much RAM to run that!?"
I watched the video but I wasn't fully sure what the scam was. Where it became unclear to me was where it transitioned from a chat to an app.

The app mentioned in his video (MetaTrader 5) is still up - and seems actually legit... at least I think?

So is the scam that they send links to fake versions of the app? How'd the reviews look legit then? Or is there some sort of scam they run on the app where they actually have control of your account?

EDIT: nevermind, I found this[1] post that explains it - the app connects to brokers and is not one itself. So they basically just make a fake brokerage and convince you to use it. So John Oliver's explanation was a bit lacking on that part, and misleading/incorrect about MetaTrader 5 itself.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1b4070o/...
reliability has been the number one trait that always makes me want to work with them again on a project or whatever. don't even care if they were more aggressive or cynical or whatever trait. if they're often (as in always) right about things, I can shrug off everything else.
That's because even the ACM link is an abbreviation of the actual paper.

Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671

(Pages 68-75 build up the full details of the bound, which looks something like Õ(mκ⁻²α⁻²ϵ⁻¹). There are enough details over the preceding dozens of pages that I can't tell at a glance exactly what all the variables stand for.)

Technically this captures any logarithmic factors, such as exp(O(log^(7/8) m log log m)) as presented on page 75).
Salt is the worst because a pinch of kosher salt is wildly different from a pinch of granulated salt.

That said, one key part of cooking is knowing when the measurements matter. Most herbs and spices will flavor a dish exactly the same if you add a teaspoon or a tablespoon.

Those measurements matter the most when there's a chemical reaction that's strongly influenced by the ratios. For example, having enough emulsifier in a cheese sauce.
>> Who was that? Where can we read this supposed original definition?

Christine Peterson published an account that states that 'open source' was based on helping people to better understand 'free software':

'The introduction of the term "open source software" was a deliberate effort to make this field of endeavor more understandable to newcomers and to business, which was viewed as necessary to its spread to a broader community of users. The problem with the main earlier label, "free software," was not its political connotations, but that—to newcomers—its seeming focus on price is distracting. A term was needed that focuses on the key issue of source code and that does not immediately confuse those new to the concept. The first term that came along at the right time and fulfilled these requirements was rapidly adopted: open source.'

Source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
I prefer to run LaTeX locally, but when I need to write something with more people I use Overleaf, as it allow to edit collaboratively. They are not excluding as you can use Git to push and pull changes.
So, much like stablecoins then.
But they are very carefully not breaking anyone. If you have an entrust cert it will keep working, you can even renew it with them.
Why publish a protocol or grant proposal?
Despite indefinite delay, NASA insists Boeing Starliner crew not "stranded"
I’d take the severance. Happily. I don’t want to live in such metros.
I had a bunch of these books as a kid. I don’t remember any overtly Christian themes, just what was essentially a modernized version of Aesop’s fables.

But I was also pretty young so maybe I just missed that part.
I stopped tracking how many books I'd sold once my POD publisher was sending me monthly order reports that numbered in the ten. Not tens. Just ten.
> But you say your burn rate is $500k/mth. Which suggests that there is a further $455k/mth being burnt on whatever. I just don't see how you'll ever become cash-flow positive.

$455k/month is allocated to salaries, software's, and office expenses.

> Based on your numbers, I'm guessing you have about 40k customers

Every month, we acquire approximately 3,500 new customers. Our retention of existing customers is low due to the nature of our marketplace, which has low-frequency usage.

Edit/Fix: 3,500/Month -- not week, sorry :-(
That’s what I remember. Someone got me “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul” (I was 8 or 9). It had a section called “Tough Stuff” and it had stories of abusive parents and family. I think my parents blindly let me read it because of the “Cristian Themed” association.
which is fine if you have another job lined up imho
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> Since September 2022, Patagonia has donated more than $71 million in earnings to numerous charitable and political causes, The New York Times reported earlier this year.

https://archive.is/kut8Y

Rough math at 100k / employee / year is 18 million cost over 2 years.

Edit: Patagonia plans to donate 1% of proceeds under the "1% for the Planet" pledge: https://www.patagonia.com/one-percent-for-the-planet.html
> shifting away from the semantics of that word as its an impossible standard for people that want to navigate that space

It's not about semantics, it's about the facts of what you're describing:

> The founders dont want it to leak that they paid or merely engaged a consultant, as a well done marketing campaign and “organic” results are what attracts people.

This is fraud. It's probably fraud in the legal sense, but it's absolutely fraud in the ethical sense.

"Organic" results attract people to a crypto project not just as some kind of personal preference, they attract people because a truly organic result is evidence of a project that isn't going to just be a money sink. Faking results in order to attract people is fraud (ask Elizabeth Holmes) and individuals who can persuade themselves that it's not will tend to be dishonest.

You can't distinguish between the scammers and the "legit" consultants because you exist in a world where dishonesty is the norm. They're all behaving dishonestly, it's just difficult to tell which ones are out to get you.
I just remembered there's a bit of a saying here when someone is told to go very far away (or to go f*k themself), "lo mandaron a la Patagonia" ("he was told to go to the Patagonia").
You got books from the library to figure it out. Better than google slop these days?
You didn't answer my question. Give examples.
ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup
Can't you use the command palette to switch views? With enough muscle memory, this is always faster than the mouse, in my experience.
They have 3 days to decide but 3 months to make the move. Not as bad as it sounds at first..
The co-founders are closely connected to the VC funds, and they are individuals with strong networks and an exceptional ability to raise money.
Permafrost, and prob with geological evidence it's been similar or colder climate in that region in past 50k years.
Agreed, especially given the other info:

- The severance package is apparently very generous

- The relocation package is just $4K, not at all generous

- They’re giving ppl just 3 days to accept the relocation option, too little time for most people to decide on a major life move

Sounds like what they really want to do is a layoff, which is fine (especially if the severance package is strong), and a normal part of businesses. But they didn’t have the guts to just do it, and instead are doing a thinly veiled layoff that makes it seem like the employee’s choice.
Not to diss on this keyboard but does this even matter on the standard Android OS (not a custom ROM) (and do we even know this about iOS)? Every single thing you do or don't do is tracked and sent anyway.
What's the difference between "Tesla's charging standard" and NACS? The Tesla website calls their Supercharger NACS: https://www.tesla.com/NACS
How important could this be to companies really, if they are using Confluence and Notion, which are already doing this poorly.
Unbelievable. Such hostile management tactics feel like a layoff strategy in disguise. Relocation grants are all very well but those could easily be swallowed up by a renter having to break their lease conditions.
Most of these people would have been better served by a plug in hybrid. It’s tough for apartment dwellers to find chargers and the time needed to charge them.
Pensions have extra counterparty risk.

I've also heard things that sound like they tend to have sharp eligibility cutoffs or amount calculations. There aren't issues with a 401k if I keep changing employers every few years. And you can't play stupid games with taking lots of overtime for your final year to boost retirement benefits beyond what they "should" be.
It was the North Face founder that passed.
It's true. I remember when profitability was the goal for companies. It's disheartening to see how much dependence there is on VC funding these days, rather than striving for self-sufficiency through revenue generation.
I had general anaesthesia for a surgery, and I can remember the falling asleep was only very slightly uncomfortable. so I think it can be done - once I'm under, just cut out something important and throw everything in the furnace.