skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the UI is an engineering problem at least as important as anything else mentioned in the article.

Indeed.

> I'm not sure what a good solution would look like

What is interesting is that on the business reporting side (which is in any case deeply enmeshed with the accounting system side) there is a defacto standard (xbrl and its various specifications [1]) which via web technologies (iXBRL [2]) provides a path towards generic web UI patterns.

[1] https://www.xbrl.org/int/gl/2016-12-01/gl-framework-2017-PWD...

[2] https://www.xbrl.org/the-standard/what/ixbrl/
I’d propose some kind of certification for SaaSes, maybe including a digitally signed seal on the website and a registry, validating that the site doesn’t use dark patterns. Or maybe something like that exists?
> Another trick is based on the fact that the link count of a directory is 2 + the number of subdirectories.

For anyone who doesn't know why this is, it's because when you create a directory it has 2 hard links to it which are

dirname
dirname/.

When you add a new subdirectory it adds one more link which is

dirname/subdir/..

So each subdirectory adds one more to the original 2.
Follow https://en.osm.town/@osm_tech to get the information at the source.
Ideally, one should make illegal state unrepresentable. The problem with a string is there is no guarantee it represents a money amount.
In comparison to Windows, Ubuntu is slower to put in ads.
> has been shown to generate chunks of sufficient size and specificity

Only when given chinks of copyrighted code as input. I don't think anyone has demonstrated big chunks of copyrighted code in the output when copyrighted code isn't present in the query/context.

In fact, I suspect microsoft specifically filters the output for that.
> There would genuinely be more maintenance required for the PostgreSQL server/daemon than the application itself. It just makes no sense.

I think this is the key point the original post was missing. When you’re working on a project with a DB, you should factor in the cost/overhead of the DB as well. Postgres is a wonderful DB. But it is also big and requires work to keep it running. For many projects, the extra overhead is well worth it.

(And if you’re using a “cloud” DB, the overhead is still there, but you’re explicitly paying for the privilege of making it someone else’s problem. )

But for smaller projects, or ones with less DB requirements, something small like SQLite is much more appropriate. And it nearly removes the DB overhead from the maintenance equation.
Interesting.

I guess that including those lines would have been problematic in terms of book length/page count?
> “10^6” in the corner, and are marked “ten million dollars.”

Being a factor of ten off when writing out such a common SI prefix as Mega is a bit impressive.
I find that "intelligence" was a shaky concept to begin with, but LLMs have completely thrown the idea in the trash. When someone says "LLMs are not intelligent", I treat that as a bit of a signal that I shouldn't pay much attention to their other points, because if you haven't realized that you don't have a good definition for intelligence, what else haven't you realized?
> I can't imagine being a developer of windows.

Lucky bastard. I'm forced to and it's hell.
> I can't wrap my head around why people got so comfortable with allowing companies to charge their credit cards whenever they want, how much they want and how long they want.. Yes it's convenient

It sounds like you do understand it.
OP here. By "full compliance is low", I meant that people will still come into the office sometimes but not at the frequency mandated by management. For example, management says 3 days/week and people come in 1 day/week, or only for particular meetings etc.
> The Elizabeth Line is closer to the model explained here, running a fast long distance service, a metro service and then back to fast long distance

It only has 5 stops with generous distance between them in London/Zone 1, which is equivalent to Parisian RERs. Not really what I would call metro service.
You can reflect on your early experience with SQLite while simultaneously reflecting on why Postgres is a great database. If it wasn't that way, we'd all be running SQLite for our web services, but we're not.

All technologies, and especially databases, are best applied with thoughtful consideration of the context. I didn't get the sense the author was suggesting their SQLite use case would actually be better served by Postgres. Just the same as a use case best served by Postgres is not suitable for SQLite.
> Are you implying that these three pillars will be able to produce anywhere near the current amount of content we produce?

Yes, and better quality content too as it doesn't need to be compromised as much to allow for commercial exploitation in the current model.

But these are also not the only ways to fund content. Patronage in particular does not need to be restricted to singular rich patrons but can be extended to any group of people that decide to come together to make something exist. This does already happen to some extend (e.g. Kickstarter) but is actually hobbled by copyright where the norm is that the creator retains all rights while individual contributors to the funding are restricted in how they are allowed to share the creation they helped realize.

> How in the world where digital copies are effectively free to copy and infinitum would a creator reap any benefits from that network effect?

By having fans willing to pay him to create new content.
> Simon Shindler contributed significantly to the aesthetic of Figure 7, but could not be named an author for obvious reasons.

What are these "obvious reasons"?
Because I was responding to a specific racist claim that certain African immigrants had a much higher impact on the housing problems in Barcelona than the increase in tourism, supposedly backed by numbers, but in fact empty lies.
And the government website doesn't use it [1].

So hard to see in what sense it's "official".

[1] https://www.gov.uk/passport-fees
> The only system that does not suffer from this issue is the NHS (e.g. UK) where the incentive is lacking.

Why not mentionning France? It's pretty awesome in that regard
None of the things mentioned in the article appear to have any significant impact on the resource usage and or embeddability if they were implemented, so it's totally fair to draw comparisons here.

If want to have more of an apples-to-apples comparison you could swap out Postgres for DuckDB (which aims to follow Postgres in SQL dialect), and all of the mentioned points should still hold.
NeWS became yesterday's news in the window system wars
I use virtual card and lock the card as soon as I’m done. The company will send a few nag notices then cancel for me.
Yes, I didn't clarify that I would want an option to pay for subscriptions by invoice, not to get rid of automated recurring payments. Let's be honest - the only reason companies won't do that is because it's not in their interest, similar to the right to repair.
The CBO of established by Congress to be subject matter experts. It is the peer to the OMB in the executive branch. If Congress wanted an expert branch to study study technical topics I’m sure they could establish something similar.
They do

They’re just not as obvious as on Windows

https://youtu.be/T9uGNidrTyM?si=AYQeo6vrHrmIN9mi

Ironically these features are so little known that third-party apps have been developed to add (already existing) features
hadn't heard of this project before, but their github does include instructions on how to claim it even in a network-less dedicated docker container if you're truly paranoid.

https://github.com/fluencelabs/dev-rewards/blob/main/MANUAL_...
> Ultimately anything can only give you feelings.

Hand-wavy dismissals are not a discussion argument. I don't accept this as a rebuttal.

> You feel like being excellent should give you money, fame and ladies.

And that's called "tearing down a straw man". Why are you arguing in such a bad faith?

The only thing most of us who finally smartened up about the labor market is this: profit must correspond with reward.

You and others seem to conflate this pragmatic view with the suggestion that we do sloppy work. No, we do our work just fine and we do it well, reliably, and on schedule. What we do NOT do is to go above and beyond.

But you and others seem to get triggered on other topics (mostly about human excellence and "we as a society must all help") that have almost nothing to do with the discussed topic and give your takes not on it, but on these other things.

Finally, profit being an "extrinsic goal" is a needless philosophization and does not advance any discussion.
The basic problem is GPL tries to use copyright as a way to drive a “fair sharing and resharing” approach to code. AI generated code sold for profit violates the spirit of this approach, but not the letter of the law behind copyright. Fundamentally copyright has limitations and exceptions for good reason and is probably not the best legal method to enforce this sharing idea, but other methods would be complicated and expensive (eg writing and enforcing contracts). On the contrary, it would probably be better for open source if it was decided that ai generated code cannot be copyrighted and therefore any ai generated code would be in the public domain automatically.
This is a thing of beauty. Might try and make a little game with my teen kid.
Because (a) I felt like it, (b) it would be more difficult to make raw syscalls in Rust, and (c) I use[1] flexible array members to minimize allocations, whereas Rust support for those quite bad[2]. It doesn't even look possible to allocate one with size known at runtime.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/201984/dut/src/branch/master/main.c#L16...

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/exotic-sizes.html#dynamica...
I'm all for not trying to be a crazy Avant Garde brutalist weirdo with your buildings, but these guys seem to be fixated on an architectural style that screams "pax americana" and is really rooted in a culture of imperial grandeur.

I want people to go back to beautiful medieval village architecture. That is much more organic and unpretentious than the "classical" stuff they're trying to shill here.
Suspend all knowledge of copyright law as it exists today for a moment and approach this hypothetical on first principles: a lot of GPL copyleft data is used in the making of an AI tool, that when asked for it, can itself recreate code similar to what was input... also, the creator of that AI tool will reap in all the profits without giving a single penny or even recognition of the value it guzzled from GPL data it was trained on to creators of original copyleft data. Is this fair? What do your scruples tell you?

No, of course not. We should probably revisit copyright law, given that it was written at a time when no-one foresaw modern AI tools, its capabilities, and its effects on creators and societies.
i definitely agree, and Id LOVE a snappy editor, but I struggle to trade thay off with everything else other editors provide
Window snapping already existed just only through the keyboard

Different mapping of feature != the feature doesn’t exist
Same comment, different conclusion. Being international, it will be difficult to enforce those laws when the business and client are in different countries. Even if different countries implement similar laws, they will invariably be just that: similar. Altruistic small businesses will have difficulty with compliance because it is an additional burden they must handle. Then there is malicious compliance. Too many businesses are willing to distort the intent of the law if they can find some sort of loophole.
Great! I am way more likely to try out software when it's available as a regular package that I already know how to manage.
Or “they” could enter your house at 2 am, drug you and hit you with a $5 wrench until they get access to your files :)
Lithium ion batteries a growing source of PFAS pollution, study finds
I experience this recently. I had to go cancel my Tivo subscription when I ended my cable service and the website didn't have the button it was supposed to have to let me cancel it. Support was obtuse and unhelpful all around, simply replying with a link to the documentation saying to click the button that didn't exist.

Luckily, I'd been experimenting with privacy.com at the time I signed up, which lets you general card numbers for use with specific services and that's what I used for my Tivo subscription...so I was able to just go cancel that number.
Video games would actually be better of if the profit incentive was removed. Modern high-budget video games have become indistinguishable from slot machines that are optimized by literal psychologists to get you to waste as much of your money (and time) as possible without providing any meaningful experience. I'd rather see much fewer games created if what remains are games focused on having artistic and/or educational value rather than investment opportunities for wall street.
Sure. I can also reflect on my early experience with a Ferrari Enzo while I simultaneously reflect on how much I love my horse, but it should be clear that that's just irrelevant musing, rather than a direct comparison.

> I didn't get the sense the author was suggesting their SQLite use case would actually be better served by Postgres.

I got exactly that sense, from "I tried SQLite, it lacked these things. Postgres really is the best database".
It’s not “these days”

there was a famous scene 25 years ago in Friends where one of them wanted to “quit the gym”

These models have always existed.
> I can't wrap my head around why people got so comfortable with allowing companies to charge their credit cards whenever they want, how much they want and how long they want

You’re not alone. There is a race to the bottom on exploiting these deficiencies on careless/unknowing/impulsive customers. But there’s a growing number of opposite people like you and me who are avoiding subscribing because we anticipate the dark patterns, and that’s lost business. By the time the marketing departments will wake up to the reality that people avoid subscriptions even if they want the product, they’ll be faced with an insurmountable reputational barrier for entire cohorts of users they will be desperate to convert.

Tangentially, this is related to a beef I have with Apple. Their IAP system as middleman for purchases (but especially subscriptions) is worth a lot and cheap to maintain. I already trust them much more than a random SaaS (might even sign up for NYT if I’m confident I can cancel with a click later). In other words, they’re providing huge value, BUT they refuse to compete on fair terms. Their obsession with the 30% tax have pushed the market to do business outside of their App Store (which reduces their market share and fragments the UX), and even created massive badwill to the point of upsetting toothful regulators. They could have avoided all the tantrums and fighting, made a shitton of money in the long run, increased their market share, if only they hadn’t been stuck in the last decade first-mover monopolistic mindset.

EDIT: The more I think about, the more I realize how good Apple's (and maybe Google/Android to a lesser extend) position is. They're sitting on low-fraud rate one-click payment access with biometric verification, with a verified customer region, prefilled info, etc. They're a merchant's dream, and yet they're scaring everyone away with their short-sighted greediness and erratic rules of engagement. On the open market, an MOR (Merchant of Record) like Paddle lies at around $1 + 4%. Apple could easily add another 5% on top and people would pay for it, happily. But no, they insist on clinging to the past.
China's clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024
This is the kind of thing that's actually necessary for sending humans to Mars. But a couple of levels higher - we need an autonomous factory to build other autonomous factories, that can be packed into a launch vehicle (or assembled in space). Until we have auto-factories on Earth, Mars is but a pipe-dream.
I like this. It really helps illustrate that how long it takes to get to Mars can vary hugely depending on when you leave Earth.

My kids learned in school (during the 5 minutes of the year they spent talking about the solar system) that Venus is closer to Earth than Mars, but I had to use a diagram like this to explain that that's only sometimes true

kind of limiting that you can only go back and forward in time one month though. I would love a slider, a play button
It makes me think that the enshittification of an OS, particularly Windows, comes down to corporations not willing to settle for a steady stream of revenue, but wanting to pump profits at the expense of the platform itself.

Microsoft both is and isnt a good steward of Windows. It's stable for programs written years ago, yet its interaction to the users are an insult to your intelligence.

I see similarities in Android. Every year it gets worse, but still not as shameless as microsoft. And mac, well I think Apple dances to its own tune and doesn't really care if the users like it or not, and they know they have loyal users who are just fine with that. God knows they'll never get real "Cut" support in Finder.
Humans are actually born with blurry vision as the eye takes time to develop, so human learning starts with low resolution images. There is a theory that this is not really a limitation but a benefit in developing our visual processing systems. People in poorer countries that get cataracts removed when they are a bit older and should at that point hardware-wise have perfect vision do still seem to have some lifelong deficits.

It's not entirely known how much early learning in low resolution makes a difference in humans, and obviously that could also relate more to our specific neurobiology than a general truth about learning in connectionist systems. But I found it to be an interesting idea that maybe certain outcomes with ANNs could be influenced a lot by training paradigms s.t. not all shortcomings could be addressed with only updates to the core architecture.
Mr Reda appears to be a politician whose expertise is in attaining lucrative positions:

https://okfn.de/en/vorstand/

Felix was elected to the board of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany in 2020. Felix is an expert in copyright law and has been Director of Developer Policy at GitHub since March 2024. He previously headed the “control ©” project at the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte. From 2014 to 2019, Felix was a Member of the European Parliament within the Greens/EFA group. Felix is an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a member of the Advisory Board of D64 - Center for Digital Progress.
the further away you are in your commute in the RER A the worse it is. the segments handled by SNCF (beyond nanterre) are a real pain where they left me stranded when they broke down and they do that more often than you would like. bus, uber, etc no longer work at that moment because well all the passengers flock to them and they don't have the capacity.
I happened so often that ended moving to the center of paris just to avoid it.
Not that this was necessarily better in terms of capabilities, but TextMate had a very pleasing Unix-style extension model where there was no mandated language and extension commands used scripts/executables written in any language. There was even a nice graphical editor for fine-tuning exactly what input they would be given and how their output would be acted upon.

TextMate was very much "Mac OS X UI sensibilities combined with Unix power", whereas ST pretty much has its own self-contained philosophy that's then brought to Mac/Windows/Linux in a slick way.
Concrete is an extremely flexible building material, you don't just have to pour box forms. Brutalists just lack imagination.
I'm not aware of any such on/off switch or indicator. You could check whether you can turn off Workspace Labs. If you can't turn it off then you haven't joined:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/13447104?hl=en#labs-o...

I'm not sure whether there are any other beta programs that require these permissions.
He works for GitHub and has probably never written anything in his life:

https://okfn.de/en/vorstand/
It's super rewarding to do, but you do need actual training and often there are big waiting lists.
Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Sure, scraping it is by itself legal. But making a derivative worR from it and selling it?
I don't have much context, but the identification of the AHR receptor for the CXCL seems like the exciting part.

From what I understand, it is easy enough to design an antibody once you know the right receptor to target
> A Weibo post expands on this, one section translating roughly to the following: "the 100% self-developed 'Xiaomi Pengpai Intelligent Manufacturing Platform' is the brain of the factory, injecting soul into the factory, allowing the entire factory to have self-perception, self-decision-making, and self-execution capabilities, and can independently diagnose equipment problems, improve process flows, and realize full-scenario digital management from raw material procurement to delivery, becoming a true smart factory that can evolve by itself."

I'm going to need a lot more detail before I can believe this. It's too much fluff to be taken at face value.
Its a great site. Really enjoyed playing with that.

Now back to work.. :(
Depends. The original Falcon 1 funding mostly came from Musk and a few friends.

Then for the Falcon 9, they got the COTS contract for resupply of the station. Or rather they got a contract that would pay money if they were successful in executing. This funding was mostly for the Dragon Space craft, but it also funded Falcon 9. But that was a much smaller number then Ariane 6.

Then SpaceX got Commercial Crew, for 2.6 billion $. That mostly funded Crew Dragon space craft. But it also required human rating of Falcon 9. So those 2.6 billion $ were not assigned X amount for Dragon, Y for Falcon 9. SpaceX was just required to launch people to ISS and bring them back with NASA overview. During this time SpaceX finished the Block 5 version, and that was human rated.

Beyond that SpaceX did most of the development on the re-usability of Falcon 9 on their own money. They used costumer missions to do a lot of the testing. But importantly, SpaceX never got any money from NASA to develop re-usability.

Same goes for Falcon Heavy. SpaceX sold Falcon Heavy to DoD but they didn't get any development contract for the rocket itself. Falcon Heavy was fully developed by SpaceX on their own money.

SpaceX did miss out on a major DoD development funding when they bid Starship and DoD did want it. Other companies like BlueOrigin and ULA got a huge amount of money.

Both Raptor and Starship were mostly on SpaceX as well. A very early version of Raptor, when it was very different from what is now, once got a DoD research contract. Only when there was a competition for Human Moon Lander System, and Starship got selected, was government spending any money on Starship. And HLS is milestone based, so that will help SpaceX a little to pay for Starship. But a lot of that money will go into the customized version of Starship for use as a moon lander.

Starlink is basically fully funded by SpaceX. There never was any development money.

So in totality, SpaceX doesn't really get much development money for rockets or engine. They get money for spacecraft (Dragon 1, Crew Dragon, Cargo Dragon), and they just have to make sure they have a rocket that they can launch on. They could also just buy somebody else rocket, but of course that's not what SpaceX wants to do.

For all this stuff, Starship, Starlink and so on, they did raise like 10 billion $. That the majority of their major developments.
My condolences. Well, I don't have it perfect either. I have to deal with z/OS and that sphere of decision making.
Clearly that is not what Russia needs.