skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, for many administrators, an attitude of "Anything but Microsoft" persists, certainly since Steve Ballmer's decades-old bonkers "Linux is a cancer" comment. Persuading these same admins that Microsoft can be a trustworthy Linux partner is a challenge that should not be underestimated.

This is exactly the reason why most folks using .NET on GNU/Linux are Microsoft shops saving costs on server licenses, and not UNIX shops, despite .NET team best efforts.
Yes not offering workers coffee could be considered exploitative in a hypothetical future, same as how not giving workers water and bathroom breaks and overtime pay is considered exploitative today while it was perfectly acceptable a few generations ago (and still is in plenty of cultures/jurisdictions).
In a Star Trek future, yes, refusing to allow a class of employee free use of the replicator would be considered exploitative. Why not?

But instead of worrying about some far-off Magic Wish-Fulfillment Future, we could be discussing how they're actually be exploited now.
I don't understand why so many people insist in revering others for what they've achieved.

If you need to revere anything, revere the achievement, not the man that did it.
Could you please stop posting tedious flamebait and ideological battle comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've also asked you to stop in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37182078.

You're probably already over the line at which we ban accounts for doing this, but I'm not going to ban you right now. We need you to fix this, though, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

(And no, we don't care what ideological side you're on. We care about not having tedious flamewars from any side.)
> of course it doesn't have that capability

Yes, of course not. Of course. There's no way, for example, that I could ask it if it knew what number I was thinking of, and, after I tell it the number and ask the same question, that it could express that it didn't know before and did know after. Absolutely impossible. Out of the question that it would have this capability. Clearly impossible given its architecture. No way that it could possibly do this task. Why, it would require advances in machine learning and quantum computers and understanding a theory of consciousness and perception at a level that we won't have for centuries. Maybe even a completely new design and training procedure to even begin to approach this insurmountable task.

And if it did demonstrate this ability, then clearly your assessment of its capabilities would be completely wrong and you would have to step back and reconsider how much its training data reflects its abilities.
Absolutely. This is the worst job market for tech workers in probably 20 years. Many employed in tech are hoping to keep their job, let alone bargain for higher wages and remote work.

Hard to imagine this effort having as much leverage if it were to happen after the election.
It was an EV event organized by executive power, Tesla wasn't invited because a major political donor to the presidential campaign, the UAW, didn't want Tesla there.

More details from the WSJ.

https://archive.md/856RL
You just can’t win with some folks and I honestly don’t think it’s worth the effort to try. You remain proprietary, they’ll complain. You open-source what you can with a reasonable enough license that protects you and allows you maintain a business atop your product, they’ll complain. You build it with zero venture backing and you’ll be begging for support and donations to keep building the product.

I appreciate that folks like y’all take the risk to build dope products and still do your part to open-source what you can. In an ideal world, everything would be open-source (by purist standards) with ultra-permissive licenses, but that’s, unfortunately, not the world we currently live in.
I can't help but wonder if devs feel this way because several full stack web frameworks default to using SQLite in their dev environment. That, and the name ("lite").

Of course that's not at all true, SQlite is an incredibly robust production-grade tool that is deployed to billions of devices, but it sure feels like that caused damage to the brand.

That said I think this is actually becoming less of an issue these days. Certainly feels like there has been a resurgence in SQLite appreciation and usage over the past few years.
Maybe it's not about birds if it's about nukes.
How do you get the source data (text) from a book?
To me it is the major roadblock for LLM-based commercial content consumption.
Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
Another police raid in Germany
Wow there really is nothing that people won't shoehorn AI into these days eh? What is the point of this? What is the net business benefit, other than "but, but it's got AI"?
> Kathy Zhang, a senior analytics manager with The Times and the guild's unit chair, said, "Management has really dragged its feet when it comes to bargaining," between the union formation and now.

Maybe tangential, but I would have guessed people managers were not eligible to be a member of the union. Does anyone know how eligibility is determined?
To be clear: Germany also heavily subsidized a lot of other large companies, especially in the automotive industry during the pandemic but the politicians involved were mostly smart enough to hide this behind grants with tailor-made requirements that only incidentally happened to perfectly match those companies and few else.
.. thus removing a significant portion of income from these so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries. No one has accused Germany of being a tax haven, for instance.
Set thy eyes on this excellent Font, for Inſtance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(typeface)#/media/Fi...

As can be moſt clearly ſeen, the Numerals are not of equale Height, but poſſeſs Deſcendants, like the 4, and Aſcendants, like the 6.

Shouldſt thou deſire to embelliſh thy Layout with ſuch a Rendition of Numerals, thou canst: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian...

This Feature requireth though that the Font ſo employed containéd the proper Variants of the numeral Glyphs. Many a diſtinguished Font do.

(Pray note that the -th Ending of Verbs is for Singular Third Perſon Form, not to be uſed with "thou". I do, thou dost, he doth.)
How wood you know?
The linked article doesn't claim to have insight into the inner workings of the Google Code team, or what Google's leadership hoped to accomplish with that product.

Rather, he is comparing the actual released products.

Specifically, he says that competitors to Github had no "taste", which he seems to be using as shorthand for "making a polished product and really focusing on developer/user experience."

You don't need to interview the folks who worked on Google Code to make that claim, any more than I need to interview Steven Spielberg before I comment on one of his movies.

(Based on my memories of Google Code, I'd say the linked article's observations about Google Code are also absolutely correct, although that's really beside the point)
Jumping on the bandwagon of other ideas... I wonder if it would be quicker to filter pit the internal headers when you write the request to the network (buffer)? ie something like `request_headers.filter(not_is_internal).for_each(...)`; that way you don't have to remove anything from the data structure at all, but does require you to break down a layer of abstraction for performance benefits.
Don’t do this.
> There is a general prohibition on EU member states granting state aid to companies

The EU hands out billions in direct aid to companies every year. Many times together with the country governments. So there's no such prohibition in practice. In the EU regions I am familiar with, at least 70% of companies live on getting subsidies from the EU mainly and income from actual customers as a secondary concern. And I'm not talking about agriculture, but every industry.

Few businesses will even start any economic activity before they've received at least a hundred thousand in subsidies and investment grants. Not loans, which is a different matter.

Just one example: https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/economic-...
At what point does the liability to ex post facto changes in law affect corporate willingness to do business in the EU?
I will note that http requests and internal requests are distinct.

The Zanzibar white paper from Google in 2019, for example lists top-line rpcs to Zanzibar at around 10m qps, but internal (in memory) cache hits at 200m qps and non cache internal fan-out at >20m qps. Zanzibar of course isn't http, but is a good public example of internal rpc fan-out.

Id expect cloutdflare similarly has some extremely high qps internal services.
Logistics (2012), the longest film ever made, is now available on YouTube [video]
Audio is a major use case.

Podcasts have grown in audience size dramatically, everyone has Spotify or whatever, and the iPod has long since been discontinued.
PulseView shouldn't be crashing a lot at all, honestly. Were you running the nightly or the 0.4.2 release? The 0.4.2 release is rather outdated, I'm working on making a new release soon to fix that.
We have a section here on comparison to Airtable: https://visualdb.com/spreadsheet/#airtable These points should apply to other tools similar to Airtable.
> Since they have the most recent, and also usually most extensive knowledge.

They've crammed it, yes. They need some extra time learn how to make use of that knowledge in day-to-day practice.
So is what you're arguing really that because its complex it shouldn't be done? So Netflix should never have been developed, because it wasn't needed and is very complex to run. You could already get videos at your local video store anyway.

And how are you deciding what is or is not needed. You're basically saying the company should never innovate or try anything new outside of their existing core business, and should minimize their chances for monetization in new verticals which basically no corporation would ever do. They're always looking for other sources of monetization since thats what investors want.
Absolute hogwash. The existence of people being exploited more does not mean that people being exploited less are not being exploited.

Like, yes, these workers are probably in better conditions than many global workers. But that doesn't mean the NYT isn't exploiting them.

Also, consider showing some solidarity -- these people are workers, and have more in common with other workers than they have different. Support their strike, and expect them to support yours. Or at the very least support them advocating for better working conditions and expect they will support you in improving your workplace.
I Am Herman Melville
Why AI Is So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris
There's pretty widespread agreement that the GPL doesn't "infect" beyond the same process, but there's no such understanding about AGPL. COSS companies are exploiting that ambiguity to say "AGPL infects everything, pay us or die, and if you disagree we may sue you and we may win". And 90% of lawyers say "don't take the chance; just pay them".

Microsoft was consistently and openly opposed to open source back in the day. Now we have startups that are simultaneously claiming to be open source while using FUD to advance an essentially non-commercial interpretation of open source. It's not the same situation.
Doesn't even need to be user guided. Use videos that have audio. You could have one AI that generates a transcript using the audio/video and another that watches the video on mute and tries to read the lips. Feedback would then be provided by the AI that had access to the audio.
Make YouTube Your Classroom
Since most of my content consumption happens on YouTube, especially for foreign languages, I made a Browser Extension that removed distractions and enables interactive chatting with content from the transcript.

This is Open Source, and I hope to improve it with the help of the community.

Currently targeting language learning and the LLM endpoint expects a user-provided OpenAI API key.
> Worst part for me is when I get to see a perfect picture that gets processed a blink later and can never be recovered.

This has happened to me way too many times. I take a picture, it looks great, then shortly after it gets processed so badly it's all blurred up with no return because of some forced long exposure low light compensation feature that cannot be disabled.
Whats wrong with it? It seems to be very high resolution, continuous, and accurate whenever I've compared it.
I am very excited for this project.
These are interesting release notes… does anyone know what actually released with version 5?
Thanks for raising those points. To maximize security we are prioritizing on-prem version.
https://archive.ph/9Xkbj
I wasn’t being sarcastic, NY Times is publicly traded too and is fully capable of the model where annual share grants are equal to the base salary, as opposed to a tiny sprinkle you’re supposed to be grateful for in leu of none at all.

Their tech team isn't that big, their $8bn marketcap could handle the share grants.

I had been critical of how wages haven't kept up with expenses for 30 years, while enamored by big tech compensation packages. In my analysis, big tech compensation packages are only reaching parity with the model of what wages would look like if they kept up with expenses, in which case I still shouldn't be impressed or worry about a comparison to what other fields are making. If value can be rationalized, and collective bargaining can extract it, then do that, I’m into it now since we’re close.
One of their key demands is to continue to allow remote work: https://www.axios.com/2023/10/30/nyt-tech-workers-walk-out
It's not left vs. right, it's establishment vs. anti-establishment. New York Times was a major cheerleader for the illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and uncritically repeated falsehoods from George W. Bush, who is not exactly a leftist hero.
Congrats to visualdb on launch.

If you are looking for free open source version try

https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

It's fairly simple to setup. Please refer to our readme/docs

Disclaimer: founder here.
In fact I'd wager that one of the reasons for the urgency on the workers' part is to lock up contracts before the election in order to prevent mass layoffs right after.
That sounds dangerous, and deserving of a name & shame.

Or a YouTube video with a pack of microwave popcorn that spontaneously pops and burns and smokes.
Thanks for the pointer. The file comment says:

// This is a block Bloom filter (from Putze et al.'s "Cache-, Hash- and Space-Efficient Bloom Filters") with some twists:
// 1. Each block is a split Bloom filter - see Section 2.1 of Broder and Mitzenmacher's
// "Network Applications of Bloom Filters: A Survey".
// 2. The number of bits set per Add() is contant in order to take advantage of SIMD instructions.

Mentioned papers:

https://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccmcgeoch/cs34/papers/cacheeffic...

https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/CS222/bloomsurvey.pdf
Garmin fenix , instinct . Many Gshocks are thicker . Only apple has 1 day battery. Are you desiring a smart Skagen ?
Many media companies do not have particularly good pay, nor interesting work, for their developers. I spoke with someone who worked as a dev at Bloomberg, and he described his job as "hooking up javascript listeners all day".
Might as well dive into the deep end of the metaverse
I remember during the screenwriters guild strikes in the Movie and TV industry, many writers were advocating _not_ to boycott movies/TV. Mainly in order to show that the people still wanted to watch the media that these people were writing for and creating, so that the strike held more legitimacy: we are needed to produce more content for your business.

I suppose sometimes it makes sense to boycott, but not all the time.
Apple and Ireland maintain that is no record of "a deal", yet Apple paid 1% of what the law says they owed. The only beneficiary of that favourable situation is Apple.

Let's be honest, if this happened in any "less reputable" jurisdiction, Apple would definitely be under FCPA scrutiny.

> Tax Abatements are a long, well understood practice

Yeah, the kind of "tax abatement" that is available only to a select few.
We don't have to get philosophical about it, this is what the Fine Article says:

> Most of you kids probably don’t remember a time where there weren’t millions of open source projects around, but the phrase was only coined in 1998.

100% and unambiguously true.
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that people will notice when the New York Times website stops working.
> After using hg which doesn't have the concept of an index, I realize I don't miss it and the user experience is better without it. Seriously, even thinking about it is unnecessary mental overhead

... for some people. I know a substantial audience who believe $(git add -a) is The Way, and good for them, but if one has ever had the need to cherry-pick a commit, or even roll back a change, having surgical commits is The True Way. JetBrains tools now even offer a fantastic checkbox-in-the-sidebar way of staging individual hunks in a way that only git-gui used to offer me

I just had a look at $(hg add --help) and $(hg commit --help) from 6.8.1 and neither seem to even suggest that one may not want to commit the whole file. I'm glad that makes Mecurialistas happy
Maybe the title is for an IC role, as for a "customer success manager."
On the other hand I have recently seen George W. Bush being described as a progressive because he wouldn't say who he's voting for. Left/right determination seems to be made purely on loyalty to a single individual in today's US politics. So if that's where we're at, NYT is liberal because it won't endorse Trump. That's fine, but let's just say that.

In the world outside of petty dictatorships, though, left/right determination is made on the basis of alignment with various policies and philosophies -- so increasingly, people within the US are losing credibility when it comes to any conversation about left/right politics.
Is it possible not to use a PostgreSQL database? For example would it run with SQLite? The goal is to improve developer experience.
I blocked his account and all was nice and peaceful, and much less blood pressure.
I think the author did a great job communicating that some parts of software are fully open, and a few other pieces of code / repost are not.

I like this way better than software with complicated licensing schemes, where you can only use certain packages on Wednesdays.
A US Army recipe for Knickerbocker Bean Soup. Serves 100.

https://quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/publications/recipes/se...
> NYT is among the top 50 most visited websites in the world

Not according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

or https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

or https://www.semrush.com/trending-websites/global/all

> gets upwards of 700M visitors a year.

archive.org the last one on Semrush list, gets 255.99M a month. At 59M a month, NYT is nowhere near the top 50.

"LooLoo Kids" YouTube channel, making nursery rhymes and children's songs, based in Romania has more viewers and subscribers than NYT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub...
Thank you for your reasoned response.

I still like the idea that I think you originally had, whereby apps could only write to their own specific area, thus containing all their configuration. I think that would solve 99% of all complaints about the registry.

Right now, they can write to anywhere your user has access to.
Well here's a challenge for you, we can easily put your viewpoint to the test:

Go on the NYT website right now and find me a single article currently on the front page that's negative about leftist policies or politicians, or a single article that's positive about rightist policies or politicians.

I bet you can't find any.

Repeat this experiment, any minute, any hour, any day, any year, for the last 10 years, and you will get the same exact results.
There's all sorts of anecdotal evidence that google searches have gotten steadily worse, and google has stopped supporting parts of its search "API" that mitigated this. So they've been the market leader but haven't continued to improve search in any noticeable way.

Sure, other search engines can theoretically compete, but it is an enormous mountain to get enough data to be competitive... and just being "as good" is not enough to get people to switch. So without regulation, google is going to exploit a captive market.
It's not a loss. It is a deliberate termination of the economic relationship by the EU. It would have been a loss if Russia terminated the economic relationship from their side.
But the "fvar" table [1], as part of the OpenType specification, has not.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/f...
I am thinking of the millions of hours of tv news. Presenters are almost always going to be the same position in frame and may already have high quality transcripts.
Interactive Dating App in a Format Similar to Cards Against Humanity
Hi all, I want to know if there is something like this out there and if it's possible to be achieved. With or without AI.
That's fair. I guess I should have said "unregulated lobbying". Lobbying can be beneficial provided it is transparent, which it is not in the US.
Yep, the Mac was the same way. Plenty of apps would dereference null pointers and just keep going. You'd reboot every day or two to clear out the corruption.
I agree that it _should_ imply expertise, but it doesn't in practice. It bugs me because start using it as a status thing: "how to think like a senior developer", "listen to me because I'm a senior deveveloper". The title hasn't earned its credentials and it keeps getting used to fake credentials. Instead we should talk about good developers vs. bad ones.

Heck, I know someone who got the title of "senior" on their first job out of a bootcamp. They were credible in the sense that they had worked at other companies before and had a grown-up and dependable demeanor. But they weren't someone I would want to take coding advice from.
I think it's a major part. My friend tried to send me baseball tickets the other day, but the MLB app won't run on iOS 15 anymore.
Old books are on Gutenberg, archive.org etc.

Physical ones, I scan. Cutting the spine is easiest. But today you can also just take pics with your phone.

Many retailers also sell EPUB. Which is just HTML.

Obviously, that’s all for private consumption only. (Unless you’re OpenAI I guess. :-P)
I hear you. Back when I was in Investment Banking, I was guilty of replacing hyphens with en dashes in all sorts of labels to make them line up properly in a table... It wasn't perfect, but it was a decent improvement

Generally, numbers were right-aligned in cells, so the % at the end was consistent (when present) and the plus/minus before the numbers didn't make a difference because of the alignment. But labels on the left like in some P&L or Cash Flow statement were always annoying
I tried C++. Maybe there is something there even for Rust developers
That's not what really Apple did in Europe to pay little taxes.

The scheme was essentially like this:

- Apple Ireland bought iphones for 200$ or so (talking about pre X numbers, now they're likely slightly higher)

- Apple Ireland sold iPhones to Apple Italy for 599€s

- Apple Italy sold iPhones for 599€s + vat (thus avoiding to pay any corporate taxes in Italy while making billions)

- Apple Ireland had a special agreement with Irish tax so they paid like sub 1% corporate taxes on the 400€s of profit

This way not only Apple wasn't paying any tax in the countries they were doing business with, but also paying extremely low taxes in Ireland.

On top of that, which isn't illegal per se, it happened allegedly on top of preferential treatments (but I'm not much informed on the details here).