skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nonsense. Most of the software in question was written to support the administration. There is no existing closed source nor open source software as such, only software ordered by public sector and delivered by private sector under a license that guarantees vendor lock-in. Which, obviously, is insane policy and must go.

The software is updated to contemporary standards and rewritten as people come and go about every 10-20 years. Mandating it to be open source makes it simpler for new vendor to take over in those 10 years. And it might provide other benefits such as some degree of code reuse.

As for the foundational software, there usually is a regional partner of Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat, Microsoft and so on who re-sells the licenses and provides part of the support.
> Customers are paramount, owners are less important, workers are what make the business move.

No, no one is more important or less important than anyone else. Every role has to be played order for anyone to benefit. Someone has to bear the risk and pay the upfront costs; someone has to do the operational work in order to deliver value to the market and someone has to be willing to pay for the resulting product in order to generate net positive value for all participants. If any one of these items is missing, the entire initiative fails.

So the participants negotiate arrangements that mutually incentivize each other to pay their parts satisfactorily. Whether those arrangements meet the speculative standards of uninvolved strangers' dogmatic ideologies is not and should not be relevant.
Not only it doesn't benefit anyone but the majority of blog posts on topics are garbage and contain many mistakes. (Google search results are useless because of blogs by beginners)

I'd be careful to write blog posts willy nilly. It turns the entire industry into shit.
Because if someone didn't blog about something, they are assumed to not know it in today's world.

LinkedIn is the worst offender, I deleted it because of constant endless corporate horseshit. |crypto| ai| enterprenours| who won't shut up making the more qualified people feel invisible.
On one hand, this is a beta product, so perhaps understandable that they're not supporting all platforms out of the gate.

On the other hand, if you're serious about getting your application tested, people running open source browsers and operating systems are going to provide the most thorough testing and detailed problem reports.
That's another use for the Cybertruck - to haul your Tesla humanoid robot to the service center for its recalls! :)
If you want your mom to be able to call 911, buy her an iPhone!
I think there's a lot to gain by locally indexing the pages you've already visited. I am constantly opening the same reference pages.

Google / Chrome won't do it because every time you search they push ads. I wish Firefox would have tried since Mozilla (historically) wasn't an ad company. Build features your competitor won't.
There is a large difference between "Israel participates in online propaganda" and "Hacker News conversation about spyware shies away from discussing the country it originated from".
Android is a commercial modern platform, where developing MUST BE HARD to discourage most and makes the few who can rule the others, meaning the big ones. Windows is similar but being much older and born without the iron under control underneath it's much less, *nix systems tend to be open.

You are not crazy and the pain you feel is the pain of commercial IT. Not strictly need to commerce of course, but that's the modern common practice. The cure is FLOSS, mandatory, from the start.
TBH, I mostly find this to be a (very valid) story about why Ubuntu is problematic. Most of my team around me uses Ubuntu and periodically has to wrestle with some issue, and have to wipe and reinstall every year or so.

This Fedora installation is 5 years old now. I have done a distro upgrade at least every year. It has worked extremely stabley and predictably all the way though, including the Fedora transition from X to Wayland.
Even if it's not the best today the question is for tomorrow.

With proper funding you can hope open-source will become better and hopefully if more actors join the cost might even become lower.

Of-course you can continue to enrich the likes of Microsoft today because they are "better" but even not considering the cost with the current trends in Microsoft (and others) products you might still end-up with something worse and another expensive bill to pay to try to leave ...
No, it is clear that cheating was involved in getting the Chimps to a score of 1, and thus I refuse to give them that score. (the Chimps didn't cheat, but there was still cheating)
Extremely tough to just change everyone's income. How about the prices of commodities in each country in the world?

Perhaps possible, but coupled with other extreme changes made for "fair" treatmenet.
I'm curious about the automation process. Can Abun be integrated with existing cms, or is it a standalone tool?
There's other domains where you don't really need much input data to theoretically allow for complex deductions.

The best example is probably maths. A sufficiently intelligent AI could probably create every proof that will ever exist with just a small amount of input data. Similar deductions could be possible in physics, economics, computer science etc.
We are missing the point here. The GP was claiming that delete meant something other than adding a mark to an item that you want to eventually be removed from the system. It doesn’t.
I like this open source and privacy friendly app.
https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-sudoku
Miniselect: Practical Linear Time Median Algorithms
Gallons are larger than litres, so in Canada you'll never find anything sold by the gallon. However, pounds are smaller than kilograms, so produce at the grocery store is commonly advertised with per-pound price, with the per-kilogram in small print.
Privacy and a vastly better navigation experience is what makes me prefer Apple Maps for turn by turn nav. For finding local businesses Google Maps is better
No.

Crowd is always dumber and more inert than a small team of highly motivated and filtered (by market, luck etc) individuals.
It might be more because of what the baseline (both physical and mental) has become, though.
I just love how I am in a constant funnel trying to move me to a Microsoft account, and get to find new ad-funnel content on my task bar and get to figure out how to turn it off and hope it sticks more than a couple of days over and over again. And preventing playing this game requires disabling security updates and getting pwned.

Decades of experience and deep knowledge doesn’t keep me out of wrestling with the machine like this. What is it like for someone who devotes a lot less of their attention span and learning to computers?
But humans would not get involved in one on one hand to hand combat with a chimp. We would avoid combat, or use tools (likely a gun)
Sorting fractions by numerical value is a good example. Previously I've heard that there are some standard collation schemes for some human languages that resist radix sort, but when I asked about which ones in specific I didn't hear back :(
Should GitHub be liable for any damages caused by this issue, like some think Crowdsec should be for what happened last week?

Morally seems even worse, Crowdsec did it by accident, GitHub knows about it for years now.
Needs "2021" in the headline
I can see bearing a grudge for 50 years over that one, though.
Huge if true.

One nit on the article: It talks about antimicrobial resistance in viruses. Do we have antimicrobials for viruses?
There's also typescript-to-zod that makes it possible to generate the zod schemas from your types.
One time I needed to call 911 and was greeted with the recorded message, "Dear Nine One One customer, your call is important to us." Customer?

Like others in the thread, I'm skeptical of plugging new tech into that network.
Aha, as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41059412 it's the overlapping that matters.

Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlée
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063373
Donald does not speak for all of America, nor is he the president

He says whatever he thinks will make his ratings go up. So the people and media just need to frame what he sees in the way we want to shape his opinion
I've sometimes used Apple Maps on a desktop browser, with the URL https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection/map?path=anything (hold ctrl while scrolling to zoom)

I'm quite glad there's now official support.
You wouldn't be able to afford it.
Do you have to hire new devs for this? Sounds generic enough you can farm it out to any Shopify or WordPress/Woocommerce agency and probably get better results.

Ecommerce has a lot of intricacies, from the checkout flow to cross-site inventory management to CRM to product returns to transactional emails to order management to security and payments and PCI compliance, etc. It's a well established pattern that there are readymade providers and best practices for, but if you have no experience as a web dev and are working with a bunch of juniors who also have no experience... you might create a lot of footguns along the way.
>No, because that falls under the fallacy that every market is a perfect market, where none is.

No, it doesn't. We live in a stochastic world, not a deterministic one, and nothing perfectly fits any speculative model. There are always outliers and edge cases, and that's fine -- the world doesn't need to perfectly adhere to any model in order for the model to be more accurate than not in the general case.

And the proposition that business profits are largely aligned with consumer interests in the general case, even despite outliers to the contrary, is very obviously true.
Is your kid impacted when .top is blocked on a corporate network?
I haven't tried Nix on a server, but it has tempted me for the reasons you've described above. I frankly don't recall many of the configuration steps I made ages ago, and having a single configuration to handle the ports and services seems like it could be a great benefit. I'll need to try it out someday, but as you mentioned, I'm not in the habit of reinstalling servers unless I really have to haha.
Uh, Covid inflation came from food & energy [3] profiteering and a lessor extent the loss of labor participants [1].

Tyson Foods didn't grow their margin by 4% by paying their suppliers more, you grow your margin by charging more in excess of what you pay your suppliers [2].

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2023/beyond-bls/what-caused-the...

[2]: https://companiesmarketcap.com/tyson-foods/operating-margin/

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/drivers-sue-us-shal...
Again: I keep track of mercenary spyware pretty closely. Almost all major stories in this area end up on the front page within hours or days of them breaking, especially if they have significant new information in them. I am not an expert on any topic that touches Israel but this is the one I watch and I see no reason to believe there is suppression of this topic. If someone is acting to try to keep this away from the site, then they are evidently fairly ineffective at it.
I was a bit baffled the first time I was introduced to Simulink Coder. I get the value proposition: simulate your model so that you have confidence it's doing the right thing, and then essentially just run that model as code instead of implementing it yourself and possibly introducing mistakes. What I didn't understand, as a software guy, not an engineering guy, was why on earth you'd want a graphical programming language to do that. Surely it would be easier to just write your model in a traditional text-based language. Hell, the same company even makes their own language (MATLAB) that would be perfect for the task.

I did a little digging, and it turns out I had it backwards. It's not that Simulink invented a new graphical programming language to do this stuff. Control systems engineers have been studying and documenting systems using Simulink-style block diagrams since at least the 1960s. Simulink just took something that used to be a paper and chalkboard modeling tool and made it executable on a computer.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uiTxJ7ASezLY7sl6DSRMo0qmn9f...
The State of Chinese AI
Around 4 years ago I compared lots of different median algorithms and the article turned out to be much longer than I anticipated :)

https://danlark.org/2020/11/11/miniselect-practical-and-gene...
How is Chrome on Linux different than Chrome on Windows or macOS?
It's hard to make money when you target developers, not in the VC world where you expect 100x returns.

There's many small shops that make good pay tools (Quokka in JS land is an example), but it only pays the bills for a handful of devs working on it full time.

It cannot scale to the many many millions VCs want to see.
It’s a myth that printing money causes inflation. Raising prices causes inflation.
Show HN: Turbo Registry – Rust Docker Registry for AI Cuts Cold Starts by 90%
Hey folks.

I’m Paul, the CEO of Mystic (YC W21). Today, we're launching our Turbo Registry, a new type of Docker registry built in Rust.
It's designed specifically for AI/ML inference deployments, which typically have larger container sizes. Traditional Docker registries suffer from slow download times, which can be a significant bottleneck in AI inference workflows when going from 0->1. Our new registry has high bandwidth parallel downloading when connected with our new containerd adapter. This adapter changes the way images are mounted and downloaded and interfaces with a new V3 API specification we have introduced in our registry. We will be open-sourcing this later this year but will keep it closed-source as we develop it further for the moment.

With Turbo Registry, we achieved:

• 5GB Docker images loading in 10.23 seconds (down from 82.21 seconds)

• 10GB Docker images loading in 14.75 seconds (down from 147 seconds)

• 20GB Docker images loading in 23.72 seconds (down from 270.47 seconds)

You can use the registry today behind our serverless endpoints.

Information about the roadmap and current limitations can be found in the documentation. Check out our documentation here to get started with Turbo Registry and experience the speed boost in your AI projects. We’re looking forward to your feedback and contributions!
Finally. Now start supporting third party booking sites and I may actually start considering Southwest as a serious option. Lining up at the gate by number like a schoolchild and praying that I can scramble fast enough to avoid a middle seat was fine when I was 19 and wanted the cheapest possible fare. Now, not a chance. Which sucks because they do have a very good network in the US.
Do you take a course for every programming language you encounter?

I needed to edit a Ruby script the other day for a client, though I'm not at all a Ruby developer. ChatGPT was super helpful.

If I'm understanding correctly, your model here would instead be to enroll in a Ruby course, right? I think we must value our time very differently :)
Yep. You can get both from observations of the orbiting object.
This reminds me of that old funny viral video:

"democracy is government... by the people...of the people...for the people... but the people are retar*d"

Like everything, the best things probably require balance, and the devil is in the details. IMHO it has merit, but with caveats.

I would not want to have the same shares as a normal worker if I have personal risks (like a work security responsible, or CEO). For better or worse, CEOs have experience in guiding companies, and almost no employees have that.

OTOH even a small worker representation might do wonders, increase engagement, better law compliance and the like.

the options are not just 0% and 100% to workers, there could be different requirements depending on the size of the company.

Small companies could be required to have a bigger worker representation, because the impacts of the single worker is much higher.

The weight of the workers' shares in money could be different than its weight in the decisions of the company, too.

Maybe the workers just get a vote for X% on the board, regardless of actual shares.
Revolut receives UK banking licence after 3 year wait
There is also the effect of sharply concentrated power in a few hands. Antitrust shouldn’t let individual tech powers get too strong.

To keep the analogy going, mankind introduced a few invasive species to the island.
Another nice one is O(1) weighted sampling (after O(n) preprocessing).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method
> rather cermonial on a stretch of land

Tell that to the Ukrainians living in Lviv and Kiev and countless other cities where Russian missiles rain down daily.

The Russians even destroy childrens cancer hospitals...

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-bombing-hospi...
That's not as relevant as you'd think - the "customers" of teachers are, arguably, taxpayers and not children. Alternatively it's parents, or perhaps politicians who set the budget.

Focusing on children is the more pro-social preference, but children who attend schools famously don't have jobs in functioning societies.

More importantly, the teaching system is basically un-incentivized by incentives - teachers in the US (focusing just on the US for a sec) are incredibly underpaid, and basically rely on masters-degree teachers putting in effort completely disproportionate to the pay. Everyone accepts this state of affairs specifically because we're all ignoring market incentives in favor of the good of society (i.e. the quality of childrens' education).

So, let's suppose we judge teachers based on how well they appease politicians and parents who support their funding: they pass all students, regardless of how poorly they do on tests and how badly the children need to just repeat the year. This is a terrible outcome, and yet you're implicitly endorsing it.
What's broken with it? Seems to be working fine here.

What I have noticed is that the satellite view for Sydney is over 3 years old.
No, it's not meaningless.

Businesses are activities undertaken by people but they are also legal entities which have no need to abide by ethical or moral standards, shielding the underlying people from liabilities incurred by such entity. People can't do that.

Citizens need to abide to cultural norms, societal expectations, etc.

Of course everything resolves back to people, in a reductive sense, but those entities (citizens, and businesses) don't have the same standards: morally, ethically, nor legally. Neither do they share the same needs, businesses can by eventuality support the needs of citizens to sell stuff but their only motive is profit-motive, not what's best for citizens.

Business-first is a prerogative of how the USA approaches regulations, it's left first to businesses to regulate themselves until issues mount up to the point where regulations are needed, at that point the businesses have had time to amass power and fight against those. Even in the cases where regulation would be beneficial to society, even in cases where the current regulations which are business-friendly are damaging to society (US's healthcare is a clear example).

It's only meaningless if you don't want to see what it means, citizens needs are considered below the needs of businesses as entities, it's a cultural trait of the USA to let businesses roam more-or-less freely (again, with the exception of some industries) until they cause enough damage to generate popular calls for them to be restrained, at that point is not clear if the government will be able to reign in them. Businesses in the USA have much more power than the people, they make policies, they donate enormous amounts to political campaigns, etc. Citizens can't play in the same field.

There are many cases from the past decades: the global financial meltdown of 2008, the dysfunctional healthcare system, the opioid crisis fueled by a single pharma company, the nosedive of Boeing, etc.

You can attack my point in many ways but not by saying "it's meaningless", businesses interests are, in many cases, not citizens' interests. A very clear example: if a business could they would not hire any Americans, simply because the workforce is expensive, shipping this labour outside of American borders would be great for any business' bottomline, it would not help at all society as a whole. They would do that even if it meant killing their own businesses, since there wouldn't be consumers to buy their products, it wouldn't matter until the issue was extreme enough to require them to actually create a consumer market by employing people in the country.
> The US cultural bias is showing here, as it's assumed that profit is above all else

I asked my Greek teacher what they biggest change she experienced moving to the US was, and she said that in Greece, her community prioritized happiness above all else, but everyone she met in the US prioritized making money.

I also asked her what the financial crisis was like in Greece, and she said that you couldn’t find an empty seat at a taverna in her village on the weekends. They barely had any money, and few around her were employed, but they had certain priorities.

Meanwhile in the US, I had a teacher condescendingly tell me that the Greeks were lazy (ignorant of the history that led to 2008). It can be hard to see through certain cultural biases. Particularly when the primary goals are so different.
most of that? name one
The spelling of +Canada is very much on purpose (no space). I am very much aware Canada is metric and bilingual.

Due to the proximity of US (tooling/documentation), lots of the trades still operate in non-metric (or some unholy combo). Most folks would be a lot more familiar of PSI when it comes to tyre pressure (compared to bars), etc. I don't know if L/100km is the standard unit to measure fuel consumption (efficiency).
Looks great, it's free, and the shuffle button does wonders to inspire. Bookmarked and will use it for sure.
Obviously by how well they teach, but if we give them a stake in their teaching performance, their teaching should improve even more…
Great article, no comments. I know the angry/dissatisfied people tend to give lots of feedback, but I really enjoyed your article and playing around with it.
> The only consistent explanation I've seen that it is about 'easy'. The other languages have tools to make them easy, easy IDE's, the languages 'solve' one 'thing' and using them for that 'one thing' is easier to than building your own in LISP.

I have thought something similar, perhaps with a bit more emphasis on network effects and initial luck of popularity, but the same idea. Then about a week ago, I was one of the lucky 10,000[0] that learned about The Lisp Curse[1]. It's as old as the hills, but I hadn't come across anything like it before. I think it better explains the reason "the best languages don't get adopted" than the above.

The TL;DR is with unconstrained coding power comes dispersion. This dilutes solutions across equally optimal candidates instead of consolidation on a single (arbitrary) optimal solution.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/

[1] http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
But at the same time, it's good enough and has been good enough for many years. It's like how I'm sure EcmaScript 2024 contains cool new stuff, but if node only supported ES6, I would have no trouble writing ES6.
A podcast about type theory and other programming language design topics? Oh well auto subscribe :)
I laughed at first, because:

- whites without a college degree benefit most from anti-poverty programs

- and ACA

Among the 65-and-older group, who receive social security, non-whites represent 1/3, then 1/4, then 1/5 as you ascend by decade.

It’s possible non-college whites, as a bloc, don’t know this. Put another way, if UBI redistributes those programs, they might gain some awareness of their best interests. Or, UBI could be phrased in a way that convinces them it hurts the right people instead of them.