skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this obsession with distinguishing between open weight and open source foolish and counterproductive.

The model architecture and infrastructure are open source. That is what matters.

The fact that you get really good weights that result from millions of dollars of GPU time on extremely expensive-to-procure proprietary datasets is amazing, but even that shouldn't be a requirement to call this open source. That is literally just an output of the open source model trained on non-open source inputs.

I find it absurd that if I create a model architecture, publish my source code, and slap an open source license on it, I can call that open source…but the moment I publish some weights that are the result of running the program on some proprietary dataset, all of a sudden I can’t call it open source anymore.
> put it simply, this earnings release is as good as it will get for a while

They literally guided more growth for the next quarter and Nvidia is notorious for sandbagging this number.
It is of course odd but no sane employer will treat non-members worse than members, otherwise there would be a direct incentive to join the union.
I mean text editing context menus (right-click a text field -> Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste). Iced, or at least Halloy, doesn't have those at all.
Data holders often ban others from using their data and then create a competitor using it. See Netflix etc. So it is possible that capabilities go down instead of costs going up, simple because data holders would rather create their own service than sell their data.
Agree, though my conclusion is that Jeff Immelt (CEO from 2001 to 2017) is far more proximal to the 2015-2023 change cited than Welch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Immelt
Glad it made you laugh, but in my experience as a moderator, these types of efforts result in the complete opposite and only empower trolls.

Like this is 10000% going to happen:

someone makes an inflammatory tweet. Bunch of replies, back and forth. The original poster will get someone to say something absolutely horrible when taken out of context of the argument, hide all other replies except the horrible one and act like a victim (while continuing to post inflammatory rage bait).

Trolls spreading misinformation will use this to hide any criticism. Serial scammers will do the exact same thing.

Not one single thing about this will reduce inflammatory and combative behavior on the internet, let alone bluesky.
You don't need "perfect randomness". The claim was about "perfect randomness". You just need a non-zero probability for the outcomes in question. And you need independence between subsequent random events.
delusional to think it isn't
ITT people who have no context passing judgement on code they've never seen described by someone who doesn't know what they're describing.
Not for scanning barcodes; I've seen them in action, they're noticeably slower and the image processing seems more involved than whatever magic is in barcode scanners.
JetBrains wrote a really good article to showcase how you can analyze your GitHub stars with their data analysis tools: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2024/08/track-and-analyze-...
yeah I agree, and while everyone is suggesting tools which are really good but I designed mine to get rid of the flags and CLI interface. Good for tech people that keeps remembering flags, I'm not :(
Claude system prompts
Mostly useless.

They are hideously expensive, the specs are really not great, the keyboards and displays are meh, and the trackpads are obnoxiously bad.

They are for using in the field where damage is expected.

So you might want that if your programming is tuning car ECU during races, or you do your programming on a sailboat while crossing the Atlantic. Otherwise they’re just underpowered back-breakers.
Easier solution? Children can't enter into contracts, so when they use your website you don't have any terms and conditions with them. Example: that arbitration clause? Worthless.

Now if you show that kid porn, you aren't an adult website that had a user violate the terms and conditions, you are just a guy showing kids porn. This can be mitigated in the eyes of the judge by taking means to prevent children from accessing the site like validating a via a credit card or checking ID.

Really the same standard a physical adult bookstore would be held to.
It's funny how academic writing works. Authors rarely produce many unclear or ambiguous statements where the most likely interpretation undersells their work...
I think a more useful way to put it is:

State is a value in a system that may change over time.

I would like to add “… that can be accessed from more than one scope”, but that doesn’t quite match common usage of the term so might just cause confusion.

The distinction is useful, though, because values that change over time but only exist in one scope are easy to reason about and handle correctly, while ones shared across scopes can cause no end of problems if not well organized. Maybe we can use terms something like “trivial state” and “significant state”.

(And, yes, we’d also need to define “scope”. I think the intuitive/common meaning is enough to get the point across though.)
Thanks for sharing! If you want to try it out, it will be published to github.com/kaspermarstal/cellm in the coming weeks. Will reply to this thread when it is live.
Did Postgres used to be a BSD? Are they known for good documentation?
We could just as easily argue that Welch kept their turbine business afloat. Or, that someone else tanked it. Or that they were just beat out by competitive foreign markets! So we basically know nothing.
My work had software that disables any execution of nonwhitelisted binaries.
The gist of the article, which is roundly negative towards Meta and Mark Zuckerberg personally simply because he’s an easy target and they want to score some cheap points, is that they/he are actively causing harm by not releasing the data, training methods and everything else that goes into the creation and use of the models.

So, the choice is give up everything that gives you any advantage, and hence any incentive to develop anything in the first place, or you’re the bad guy.

I’m not sure how they think the world works. But I agree that we should be clear about our standards. So I’d suggest that those with these expectations adopt a new brand other than “open source”. Maybe “puritan approved”.
Beats me. I read about the PET a lot in computer magazines but they seemed rare on the ground compared to TRS-80s, Apple ][ and Atari. The only time I saw PETs in person was at a summer program at a high school in Milford, NH. That school also had a PDP-11 and maybe 20 or so VT-100 terminals plus 1 really awesome GiGi graphics terminal, with that who would mess around with the PET?

The one thing I liked about the PET was that it had a really cool set of graphic characters in the high bit character range.
Do you have any proof they are not commingling? Have they outright said it at any point? Because there's more than enough anecdotes out there (and in previous threads about it on HN) that show that 1st party products are not treated any differently.
Empirically, it works. Look at Vanguard as an example. There's obviously a privacy tradeoff, but a lot of people would rather avoid cheaters than maintain tight control of their computers. It would be great if anticheat could all be serverside, but I'd love to hear a proposal for how to prevent aimhacking with serverside anticheat alone.
> The two ways to measure a leader is how an organization performs with them at the helm and how well it performs when someone else replaces them.

We live in a world where CEOs get truly absurd pay packages. I don't think that it's unreasonable to expect Welch's successors to justify their own pay.
> Jorgensen said the extreme commute has saved her thousands of dollars -- most of that in rent. The average rent for an apartment in the city is roughly $3,747. It's less than half of that in Charlotte, where the average rent is a little more than $1,400.

> "I stay at my friend Jenni’s house. I pay her a little bit for rent so it works out both ways that’s one of the things that made it really affordable to do this back and forth, I don’t have to get a hotel every time," she said.

The average rent is less important if she's basically staying at a friend's house for free, but I guess if she can find a flight for $100, that's only $500 a week, or $2000 a month.
I am amazed at how quickly that issue gathered all those comments, all with more thumbs up than I've even seen for one of these GitHub dramas.
tbh as a Twilio user I sometimes wonder whether they abandoned Twilio itself (SMS/Calls)
This has been invented multiple times in JSON.

For a widely deployed example, take a look at how JSON-LD uses IRIs for keys and how the context object plays into that. The whole fediverse is built on top of it.
Didn't work for me but https://new.reddit.com did work. Nope, wasn't that--they just fixed reddit.
The way realized gains work is that if you sell at a loss, you don't get a tax deduction, but you can claim a loss against future gains in the next three years (if you ever have any). I'd imagine it would work the same: if you had $1000 worth of stock in January that went down to $750 in December, you'd have a $250 carry-forward "credit" for the next year, so if the stock went up to $1250 you could sell it with no tax implication. That's more or less how it works now, it just makes for some complicated tax forms, but aren't really a problem for the courts.
>Welchian capitalism

This is a good phrase to describe a certain kind of late-stage industrial corporate strategy.

I was at IBM when Sam Palmasano was doing the same thing at big blue. People thought he was a genius because of the short term business results. But in retrospect he was strip mining the company, selling the next two decades of revenue this quarter for pennies on the dollar.

I’ve seen shitty CFOs do the same thing at small and midsize tech startups. I used to say name a company that cost cut their way to IPO but nobody listened to me.
some endpoint protection services will block anything not signed by a trusted signature or that doesn't match an allow-list of known-good file hashes
A big thanks to phkaeser for this work.

If I am ever forced to use Wayland (yes forced), I could very well seem my self using Compositor.

Great work!
In terms of growth strategy, all Signal has to do is wait; bad press for the competitors arrives all the time. So it seems right that she's focused on funding more than user growth.
1. Regarding performance, I recently did a simple test. CockroachDB uses a considerable number of CPU instructions compared to YugabyteDB: https://dev.to/yugabyte/comparing-sql-engines-by-cpu-instruc...

Writing a database from scratch is not easy. YugabyteDB uses some PostgreSQL, Kudu, and RocksDB code that has been heavily optimized before. Those are good codebases, and only some parts need to be enhanced to make them distributed.

2. Their Go version of RocksDB, Peeble, seems less efficient. They did it for a good reason. They didn't have the C++ skills to enhance RocksDB itself.

3. The repo holds more than the database.

C: is the SQL layer, based on PostgreSQL

C++: the transactional distributed storage, heavily modified Kudu and RocksDB

Java: some regression tests, the managed service automation, sample applications

TS: the Graphical User Interface

Python: some tooling to build the releases, some support tools

The database itself is C and C++
I have some like this http://rec.mro.name/podcasts/zuendfunk/broadcasts.atom (and .rss, too) which plays the audio nicely e.g. in https://miniflux.app but I remember having trouble with iTunes on MacOS and the Apple podcast iOS app.

But his is mostly try-and-error and merely no specs. Apple doesn't talk about atom AFAIK.

Racket is interesting, I'm into Ocaml, but create those feeds via https://codeberg.org/mro/internet-radio-recorder/src/branch/...
That's quite a simplification.

Labor day didn't become a holiday until after the May Day vs Labor Day debate started. It started as a concept in 1882 but it was not yet celebrated in any significant capacity and most unions pushed to change the day to May day after the Haymarket massacre in 1886. The first state to make it a holiday (Oregon) didn't do so until a year after the debate was already ongoing and it wouldn't become a federal holiday until 1894.

Specifically the federal government pushed for Labor day over May day and chose to commemorate the one and not the other with a federal holiday because of fears that memorialising the Haymarket massacre would further empower the labor movement which was at its peak in the US at the time.

And then in the 1950s the US government would then try to further overwrite May Day with "Loyalty Day" in a McCarthyian attempt to limit May Day's celebration.
Erlang and Elixir have a pretty good interop with Python through Erlport. It's not a deep language-level integration (as in, inheriting modules from Python classes or something like that), but it implements a binary message format Erlang nodes use to communicate and offers an API for IPC with Python on top of that. It's not for all use cases, but I had great success deploying a fleet of Raspberries for home automation using nothing but Ansible, Elixir, and Python. Elixir would handle distribution and manage messaging between nodes and local Python processes, while Python scripts would control peripherals. I stopped developing it since I moved to a smaller place, but I firmly believe Elixir+Python is a great solution for anything distributed that would benefit from the Python ecosystem.
When I was at Microsoft I already knew the answer but asked around - just to be sure - and the reason is…. *drumroll* …It bypasses NTFS ACLs (because it works by indexing the raw MFT)

Microsoft sells Windows as secure/securable OS: filesystem permissions must be enforced (of course, FS ACLs are a huge part of the reason why Windows’ files-on-disk UX isn’t the best).

Yes, Microsoft could still buy it and then redistribute it as a power-toy strictly for single-user computers, but why would they do that? There’s no secret-sauce in Everything.exe - a summer intern could recreate it in a couple of weeks. Oh, and don’t forget the support costs from people who didn’t read the README and installed it on a multiuser machine and can now see the very non-Elizabethan-era file names inside innocent little Timmy’s My Documents\Homework\English\Shakespeare\ directory.
That doesn’t track. Any store with barcode scanning can account for drawer shortages. Employees have known they will be disciplined and fired for being short on cash for decades, even if an accident. Second, an employee’s overhead cost is bigger than the small amounts they might try to steal. Saving hundreds a day is the goal of implementing these machines.
Public K-12 education is free in the United States. Any thoughts on why the outcomes aren't "staggeringly good?"
Getac and Dell are active there, particularly for law enforcement. There's a good youtube channel[1] that compares them all from time to time.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@Bobjohnson
I might be wrong, but i do not think NeXTStep had dockapps, i think the idea comes from older WMs which allowed X11 windows to be "swallowed" inside panels and Window Maker provided the same functionality in a NeXTStep-ish way (dockapps are just small windows nested inside a frame box around them).

Actually at some point in recent years i used NeXTStep and having being using Window Maker for many years by that point, i felt a bit of an uncanny valley effect: what i was looking at the screen felt very familiar but still somewhat "wrong" and a ton of what i was used to didn't work (or worked in a different way) :-P. It made me realize what the people around the mid-2000s who tried various Aqua-like themes on GNOME 2, etc and said that it looks off/wrong were feeling like :-P.

EDIT: also i think Window Maker is not the only window manager that supports/uses dockapps. I think FVWM and Afterstep can also use the same dockapps.
It’s for any job where care is not expected or possible, not just the military.

They’re everywhere in mines and factories, they’re used by first responders, they’re routine for race teams, field techs, surveyors, …
not everyone works on ai or ai adjacent products, or even tech on this site
I wish somone could do this with contenporary GNOME. It's a be a good fit.
They don't get a pass, but I wouldn't discount them. Even when they do things imperfectly, they still ship and know how to do things in quantity.
Nice that the Economist picks this up. In addition to the article, which is 100% correct, Meta sucks the air out of the room with PyTorch, which stifles other true open source efforts. Instagram has way too much influence on Python, where a couple of companies have wrestled away control over the org from dozens of independent developers and push their pet projects of questionable quality.

All of this needs to stop.
Hi paul

Anyway, consider

"hidden by quoted user"
> as well as my garden are completely GMO free.

Goes without saying. It’s rare to find GMO vegetables even commercially (only zucchini and potatoes even could be), let alone in a garden.

But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about ensuring the GMO vendors haven’t ever touched the seed. How are you ensuring provenance as to avoid the trust issues?
Neural and Non-Neural AI, Reasoning, Transformers, and LSTMs [video]
And why, exactly, would the other players not be able to simply do the same? Since all the important parts of the tech are widely understood and largely published?
It actually is a lot for the average worker. If you're in the US and you've been paying full Social Security, and on top of that you have two million in the bank and you've paid off your mortgage, you can easily plan for a $120,000/year income. Just picking a state at random, that would be nearly twice the median household income in North Carolina, and you wouldn't be paying a mortgage or rent. You wouldn't be rich, but you'd be living quite well.
On the contrary, and I do agree that software engineers take the abstraction too far when they don’t know better, I don’t hold the code produced by people who aren’t software engineers by profession in particularly high esteem either.

You’re looking at two extremes: the codebase that is spread out too much with too much abstraction, and the codebase with zero abstraction that is basically a means to an end. In both cases they are difficult to work with.

I’ve certainly dealt with enough python, JS and PHP scripts that are basically written with the mindset of ‘fuck this, just give me what I want’, whereas people working in the code day to day need the abstractions to facilitate collaboration and resilience.
Reddit Down for Users
Yes it's custom-built by Signal. I thought it was enabled by default — I don't remember ever turning it on — but it might not be. Here is how to do it:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

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> Where can I find the backup file?

> Your backup folder is listed under Signal Settings profile_avatar.png > Chats > Chat backups > Backup folder. Use the files app or plug your phone into a computer to go to the folder.

> For older versions of Signal, the backup file signal-year-month-date-time.backup can be found at /Internal Storage/Signal/Backups or /sdcard/Signal/Backups
If the only thing stopping them from decrypting your messages is instructions to their own employees to not allow it to be done, that is not a defense against providing access to law enforcement. They can just change those instructions at any time without anybody knowing. Just like they can just change the server software to allow it.
I'm not necessarily asking about how to automate negativity away. I'm honestly not clear that you want to eliminate all negativity. Indeed, I am generally wary of policies that kick out members. It can help some things, sure; but not having a path to good is a problem for members, too. Similarly, not allowing any bad behavior is the "purity spiral" that has killed a fair number of communities, too. You don't want it to flare out in such a way that it causes trouble, though.

I'm also curious on the tight knit community. I recognize some names here, sure. I think I would be stretching definitions to say I was part of this community, though? Specifically, I'm guessing there is, at most, a hand full that would ever recognize my username?
>Ignores Jack's big quality push via six sigma

in my experience with six sigma (back at Sun Microsystems) and its various incarnations later it is among the worst things which can happen (though the company has to already be in significant rot to let such parasite in), last nail into the coffin so to say, it is the moment when totally clueless, this time by-design, management - all those six sigma certified belts - overtake the product development and kill whatever last reason and sense that was still there. And that is what article describes happened with GE and Boeing when they got overtaken by such a management. Anyway, the point of the article seems to be not the details of how Jack and his spawn ruined those companies, the point is the climate change related effects of that.
The Asteroid-in-Spring Hypothesis
UCSF is San Francisco's largest employer, UPMC is Pittsburgh's largest employer, UMMC for Baltimore, ... They are a complex web of entities, inexorably linked to the government in each community. A plurality of middle to upper income people work for the hospital-educational-state system, and a plurality of middle to upper income people living there use its services. It gets a mix of funding from governments and private payers, but for some of those people, their income is from UPMC.

They might not be monopolies, they might not be nationalized, but functionally, they are like really effective monopolized community corporations.

Think about it from the other side: define nationalized corporation. What would make it last a long time? What would make it provide services effectively and competitive against imported goods and services? You get something that looks like university hospital systems, state university education systems, the real estate lobby, etc.

Nationalization in some reductionist sense doesn't work in the US for these industries because of the open market we live in - you can, after all, drive to another place for medicine and educations, and many people do. But the levers that are used to incentivize people to choose their local semi-private provider, and the way the communities are themselves employed / derive income from the provider, is holistically nationalization.
https://archive.ph/UL1CG
Anecdotal Instagram evidence on the situation in Berlin:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxJGJs7s-lE/

In Finland, stuff seems to be more on Telegram than on dark web as well
Healthcare serial killer or coincidence? (2022) [pdf]
Right, my position is that being a revolutionary or a renegade is not a right, doesn't have to be safe, it doesn't have to be easy and if someone chooses to do it they should assume the associated risks with it as they are bound to collect the rewards.

The French government has a certain ruleset and powers and an agenda, if He is going to take on the French government its fine by me its just that the hazard associated with that is expected. I don't have a beef it this, unless there's a spying for Russia stuff. Then I would be like "lock down this hack, take away his fortune to pay for the damages" but I still wouldn't advocate for blocking Telegram.
OP should have said that change in state = time.

Anyone who has worked on secure consensus has had the same thought. You can't derive time from pure math. You must observe some state change.

It's a useful concept, but strictly speaking it's not true. If this universe was completely devoid of matter, time would still pass. "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"