skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is too vague. It sounds like they're talking about the physical drive not working, but they're giving examples where you can't playback because you need to install the correct old software, plugins, etc... Which doesn't have anything to do with hard drives.

So what's actually wrong with hard drives for archival? Do they deteriorate? Do they "rot" like DVDs/blurays/etc have been known to do? Or is this just an ad for their archival service?
If they accepted contributions without a CLA, then no they can't make closed-source modifications (without some major surgery to get rid of the code not owned by them). If they wrote all the code in the first place, then that's hardly an "unfair advantage".

The only way to accept contributions and then make closed-source modifications is with a CLA; in which case it's the CLA, not the AGPL that you're really complaining about.

ETA: OK, so what if a company start out being AGPL, never accepts any contributions, and then when they become established, stop publishing new code as AGPL and takes everything proprietary? Isn't that just "open-washing", taking advantage of all the community good-will and hype around open source?

I don't think so; consider four possible scenarios:

1. They keep everything proprietary from the beginning.

1a. They become established, making decent money, serving some customer needs. Everything is still proprietary

1b. They fail. Good luck talking their VCs at that point into open-sourcing their code (or even getting it into any kind of shape that anyone could use). All their customers are stuck without any options but to stop using the software.

2. They start by making things AGPL.

2a. They become established, making decent money; eventually they take the product closed-source, doing one final release. Their customers continue to be served, but everything is now proprietary.

2b. They fail. The code is already AGPL, so nothing any of their owners or creditors can do to claw it back.
Large companies that have come to depend on their software can take their code and continue to use it and develop it on their own if they want. If there's enough of the right kind of people, a community can form around the releases and the project can live on in a pure open-source form.

2a is better than 1a, because at least there was a time when things were AGPL; the AGPL code can still be forked off and maintained if there's a big enough community.

2b is way better than 1b. In fact, 2b can hopefully make 2a more likely, since it's lower risk for people to build their infrastructure on a start-up.
This is insane! To be able to listen to a conversation to learn about any topic is amazing. Maybe it's just me because I listen to so many podcasts but this is Planet Money or The Indicator from NPR about anything.

Definitely one of the coolest things I have seen an LLM do.
Ah yes - perfect.
Left wing?

The NYT is corporate wing. There's no charitable way to look at their reporting on the current election cycle and make the claim that they've treated the candidates equally. Donald Trump hasn't uttered a consecutive set of coherent sentences where he starts with an idea and finishes with an actual conclusion that isn't "and it'll be better / worse than ever before" in at least 5 years.
That is his right. It is his company. You don't have the right to free speech on another man's property.

You have the right to be an antisemite. But just please not in my house, I may ask you to leave.
Whenever I observe pedestrians walking on the sidewalks, maybe 30/40% of them do so looking at their screens, walk the dog? Better check your feeds, waiting for the traffic light? Time to see what’s new. I don’t know if i’m just a cranky old man but I see people getting dumber by the minute, I’ve witnessed guys riding bicycles hands-free with the phone on their hands, driving mopeds with the phone on their left hand (mopeds have 2 brake levers on the handlebar, no brake pedals) it’s just that the pedestrians are the softer ones.
D is for documentation: https://images2.imgbox.com/26/dc/giFbE9qs_o.png
someone at the government apparently hates the cybertruck
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457329
Archive [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/LDTL8
> Every US launch site is next to a de facto or a de jure wildlife refuge.

Yes, this is difficult to avoid for various reasons, perhaps the most pertinent being that all the safest places to launch things from are along coastlines where it's easy to divert wayward rockets into the ocean and away from populated areas. Coastlines have plenty of water and thus plenty of wildlife. Launching from e.g. an inland desert is much more risky and the environmental impact isn't necessarily all that much better to boot.
Reminds me of a mash up of Datatables editor (https://editor.datatables.net/)
and phpMyAdmin.

With the nice addition of forms.

But I can see an all in one database/mini application tool making custom business applications where Lotus Notes and FileMaker used to be.
In EU in some countries because of extra taxes it's really expensive to buy a bigger car so 3+ kids can fit in. But those rich people who sit alone in huge luxury SUVs they still sit alone. They have the money while families usually don't.

I just hope this doesn't go in this wrong direction.
The current sigrok maintainer is trying to take part in this discussion (username abraxa), and is in general trying to reinvigorate the project.

However, one or more of you idiots keeps downvoting every single one of his comments, and they're all marked dead, and invisible.
It was introduced with Windows PowerShell 1.0[0]. A text editor would need to directly support managing the registry, but you can read/write/search/do terminally-stuff to the registry via PowerShell.

The term we're looking for is a PSProvider of which there are many. There's even a PSProvider for SharePoint Online[2].

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/use-the-powershell-...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

[2] https://github.com/pnp/powershell/blob/96d00aa60379d8e3310f7...
Some of us like "interdiff" code review
Thanks for the link. Hate that a lot of their demands seem to be to leverage things they want over positions not covered by their guild.

Is that actually a common thing that I just didn't know? I'd not expect a union to impact interviewing practices for all entry-level jobs somewhere.
This is great, it's hard to believe sites can have RSS feeds but make it so difficult to find.

I suspect some sites are just running some framework than enables it and don't even realize they have one.

I have used this site in the past to find feeds:
https://www.rsssearchhub.com/

In the past I was looking for a feed for https://ra.co, but could not find it, though I had seen old posts referencing a RSS feed.

I ended up emailing them and, to my delight, they let me know they still have an unsupported RSS feed here:

https://ra.co/xml/rss_news.xml

Just for feedback, this tool doesn't find the feed, though it doesn't look like a standard URL to me.
I think the uncomfortable question for many here is, why should the SWE at Google get paid any more than the SWE at the NY Times?
Is there a mapping from, say, a geo location to a list of Umbra files which cover that location? I'd hate to download 42TB of data and then have to grep through it :-D
Listening to an AI generated discussion-based podcast on the topic of anticipating the scraping of deceased people's digital footprint to create an AI copy of your loved one makes the cells that make up my body want to give up on fighting entropy.
Routing libraries as well. In Clojure, the reitit library uses a prefix tree implementation when the route table is large enough for linear search to be non-optimal.[1] The Go ecosystem also has httprouter, which uses prefix trees under the hood.

[1] https://github.com/metosin/reitit/blob/master/doc/performanc...

[2] https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter#how-does-it-work
They don't explicitly say that in the blog post but I assume that the engineering team behind this code does not run any workload performance experiments themselves but they only run the local (micro)benchmarks.

Because of this I think there's no way for them to answer your question or to say "hey, this could very well be a vector since we could not find any statistically significant impact between a vector, hash-map and trie in this code path for given workload".

This is a common fallacy I've seen in too many places. In other words, investing non-trivial engineering effort into optimizing a code-path that resembles .000001% of your workload is a waste of resources.

And due to the Amdahl's law

> Optimizing operations that are already measured in microseconds may seem a little silly, but these small improvements add up.

this is not how things usually work out in the end. Making small improvements in insignificant code-paths will still remain insignificant in the overall runtime performance.
Amen to that. I only bought an Apple watch for the fall detection so that if I have a seizure it calls 911. Even got the LTE one so that I could use it when my phone is dead etc.

So imagine my surprise when I switched my handset to Android and my watch reported "no service". Keep in mind that this is marketed as a stand-alone product, that had its own data plan. But once I didn't have an iPhone activated, a soft switch in my watch (read: medical device) was flipped in order to disable it.

It was at that time that I sold every apple product in my possession, and bought a pixel watch. My pixel watch does everything better than my apple watch did, without exception.

Am I being irrational here, or is it wrong for a company to disable device B because you don't have device A anymore, when they're marketed as independent devices with independent data plans and eSIM etc?
What happens if you have an extensible app, say Microsoft Office, which enumerated it's own subkeys to discover 3rd party plugins?

What if an app provides COM services and needs to write that to a centralized location that is enumerated to discover available COM services?

What if your app happens to be a god-awful HP Print Center app with it's own print drivers and a Windows Service, where it needs to write to a central location that is enumerated for device drivers and Windows Services?
Yes, essentially you attached the audiogram in accessibility as others have referenced. It’s systemwide and works across many different types of AirPods not just the airpods pro 2.
It won't run on GrapheneOS, and I don't have any other Android phones. They hide behind "security," but I don't buy it. What risk is there?
Unfortunately I’m not in walking-table product development. But it’s shared internally, so maybe it’ll get back to the correct department?
> the reality is that taking two years off means that landing a job will be substantially harder than it would have been if you worked during that time

When I got back from driving Alaska->Argentina I was out of money, so I went back to Software Engineering.

I put the trip on my Resume and put "Learned Spanish, learned to think on my feet, negotiation skills and quickly adapting to new information".

I applied for three positions and every one asked me in detail about the trip and how they would love to do something similar. I was offered all three positions.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41457329
It all depends on how you can parallellize it.
If I'm at home, yes. But if I'm pulling up to the house I'm not on the WiFi. And the range on the remote is very iffy.
https://shop.fairphone.com/fairphone-5

Or, is some level of human suffering ok for you to have the luxury of using an iPhone?
That's good but what about the other way around?

I mean if I start writing a complex query in a DB client and then want to translate it to Jet.
I don't think we're friends, bot...
Low-latency high-throughput garbage collection [pdf]
Then the perception is wrong, but only because it's not even close to the reality. Regulatory work is not your typical bureaucratic process.

Endless review cycles, approvals, re-approvals, wordsmithing, legal, compliance, risk, re-re-re approvals. It really does take a lot of time.
I know a lot of console fanatics like that and they all like to keep games on disc, shunning digital. The new ps doesn't seem to have an optical drive so I'm really not sure who they're aiming this at.
I've used both and I prefer the htmx approach. React/NextJS are what over-complicate things - particularly when it comes to server vs client side rendering and hydration, state management, passing props, caching, static site generation, slow and fragile development environment etc etc etc.

I recently rewrote a site that was built in NextJS into Go+Echo+Templ+HTMX+AlpineJS, keeping just the Google Maps and Facebook components (but only injected as necessary, rather than needing a whole App wrapped around them)

The result was about 50% of the size of code that is much easier to reason about and test, better performance, simpler and smaller (size and resource) deployment - essentially better in every way.
I gather from your disdainful tone that you think you've just schooled me on something really fundamental, but the point you're trying to make is unclear to me. If you're asserting that VAT and the taxes paid on corporate profits are in reality one and the same, then no, that's wholly incorrect.
My issue with this is it's never good to get hit by a car. It's putting a band aid on a symptom rather than fixing the source of the problem.

Fixing it though would require government money redesigning infrastructure, new rules makes it where you can push off the costs to car companies.
People should learn a thing: data are not tied to the physical media hosting them, like words on paper, and the sole way to preserve data is migrating them from a physical support to another regularly, also converting their formats sometimes, because things changes and an old format could end up unreadable in the future.

We can't preserve bits like books.
I think the nanny state charge is appropriate when people engage in dangerous behavior (like riding a motorcycle without a helmet) where almost all the risk of the potential harm is taken on by the user.

With large cars its the opposite. The people who drive large cars take on no risk, while everyone else is subjected to their negative externalities.
Nice thanks! I'm happy to pay for a good font but the page view restrictions and all have always bothered me. Not a fan of the idea that they might end up extorting large sums out of you down the line if your site becomes popular or if you want to to build an app with the font to keep your branding consistent.
What's wrong with taxing dangerously oversized/overweight/unsafe trucks out of existence?
That's what you get when the Congress is too divided to pass laws, while the Supreme Court keeps telling the executive branch to stop inventing new interpretations of existing laws. If nobody is capable of setting national priorities, regulators just keep doing whatever they are doing.
> If you didn't work for two years, the cost was "less than a used tesla" and two years opportunity cost of missed wages

Absolutely, if having more money is the goal, then what I did (and continue to do) is stupid.

I decided a very long time ago that having more money is not the goal of my life. My goal is to have enough money to live the life I want to live that makes me and my family happy.

It turns out I don't actually have to work all that much to make that happen.
I’m not sure “hear scientific papers as narrated audio” best describes what this is. From the link:

> Illuminate generates audio with two AI-generated voices in conversation, discussing the key points of select papers.
I'm surprised there's no initiative around reducing blinds spots caused by A pillars. I try to be a carefully driver, but I am still caught off guard by pedestrians, cyclists, or entire vehicles hidden behind the a pillar.
>pizza, bread, crisps, shortbread, cookies

Crazy delicious.
Its basically geeks trying to get their wet dream come true (pun intended, I may have been one of them), and then realizing that its hardly what they dreamed about, just a mediocre experience (or excellent for some for half an hour, which makes it still overpriced crap nobody cares about after initial wow period).

I keep hearing about 'its just behind the corner, just lighter / better resolution / just resolve XYZ problem' literally from 90s (VFX1 for example), but the 'almost there' mantra never changed, just the details. When Apple's solution has fallen hard on the market, it was pretty clear how far from success we are and Apple adjusted plans accordingly.

I gave up on the topic for good, actually grew up some time ago and found out real life out there, with some effort offers massively more than any such goggles will ever offer in my lifetime. Most (rather successful and smart) women I ever talked to about this express immediate disgust with this, it downgrades men to weird boys in their eyes. I still see young me dreaming about alternate realities, but when you want powerful experience now or in near future use psychedelics (responsibly).

There is no good enough content, nobody wants to invest into this too much due to all above, there is no 360 porn to speak of to break barrier like it used to with previous digital revolutions. Human's senses are much harder to fool well than few geeks thought it would.
Sometimes it looks like the computationalists are trying to sneak back into the room while no-one is looking.

There does seem to be quite a lot of independent ad-hoc efforts making custom notations for C-O-T. I feel like we're in a period similar to just after the first programming languages and compilers were invented but regular expressions were yet to come. In a way that's quite exciting, its another little Cambrian explosion.

I don't think it will be a panacea though. In my observations of failures of reasoning in LLMs, a lot of the problem isn't that they fail to follow logical steps but that they fail to notice the presence of implied premises completely. Chain of Thought is good for spotting the wrong reasoning, but not for spotting that the problem is not the one that it appears at first glance.
Does something similar exist for LLM/GPT?

Edit to add: I'm mostly interested in this aspect:

"The target audience of this tutorial includes [those] who are interested in [...] applying these models to solve other problems."
Personally, probably not.

I actually quite often wish I could access a condensed version of a few podcasts in text form. Sometimes there's little nuggets of information dropped by hosts or guests that don't make it onto any other medium.

When I do intentionally listen to podcasts (i.e. as opposed to having to, because that's the only available form of some content), I do so because I enjoy the style of the conversation itself.
It is kind of funny in way. :-)

"Oh no, education and better infrastructure such as mass transit and a power grid, the horror!"
Legislate a problem into existence, then blame automakers for the problem and legislate some more.
Remember when they banned popup headlights because they were unsafe?

Government agencies used to be able to do their jobs, but ever since the Reagan era, that has diminished. And as a result, since 2010 pedestrian deaths (and deaths for vehicle occupants) has actually increased, after falling for decades. If you want to do dangerous stuff, like riding a motorcycle, free climbing, etc, you should be able to. But when you're doing stuff where the risk is entirely placed on someone else, that's literally the point of regulation.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
> She is appointed by the parliament, similar to how kings in the past were appointed by a council of lords.

Do you ... not know what a parliament is?
Underrated Intellij Featurs
In modern times, the lord and master is older generations (or soon to be old generations) that vote for greater and greater benefits and lower taxes for themselves.
A: Are there any "real" M-Discs for purchase anymore? (I.e. not just rebranded regular dye-discs.)
Are they alleging launching the rocket will contaminate the water supply? Or that they do not have a permit to do what the launch will result in?

Is there a discussion about what the actual harms are?
So long, plastic coyotes: AI keeps geese off Charles River docks
I think another benefit of dropping cash acceptance not mentioned in the article is general risk of holding cash. For example, armed robbery could simply ask for whatever is in the registrar and walk away with the cash. For bigger venues (e.g. a stadium food stand), accepting large volumes of cash could be a liability & require more personnel for depositing the cash safely.
At this point, this is seems more like a question of "how soon", not if.
New DeepSeek-v2.5 model tops OSS coding leaderboards
DeepSeek just released this week their new DeepSeek-V2.5 model, which is a "combination" of their DeepSeek-V2-0628 and DeepSeek-Coder-V2-0724 models according to their release tweet. [0]

They claim to surpass GPT-4-Turbo, Claude 3 Opus, and the previous DeepSeek-Coder-V2 model in coding, scripting, and math tasks on their official website [1] and it's fully open sourced [2] with a 128k context window.

It still doesn't show on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena coding leaderboard, which is common with new models, but livebench [3] has it ranked 7th for their coding benchmark, which is the highest ranking for any open source model (not counting mistral-large-2407 as fully open sourced since weights not public), beating meta-llama-3.1-405b-instruct-turbo.

Since this model's strength is coding, I've also made it available for free to anyone who wants to try it as a coding copilot in VS Code [4] (Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder at Double and this is my extension).

Hope others find this as exciting as I do, it's great to see open source models continue to improve!

[0] - https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1832026579180163260

[1] - https://www.deepseek.com/

[2] - https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2.5

[3] - https://livebench.ai/

[4] - https://double.bot/
I'm sure the tech guild would be happy for the writers' union to win contract raises too. I don't know why you think they wouldn't be.
BM condensed, where does that land on the Bristol stool scale? Sorry I couldn't resist.

I am actually curious about this though, the Berkeley Mono font I found with a search does look quite nice. What's the deal with v2?
I buy plenty of things that aren't advertised to me. From the services of folks to do things I don't want to do, to the constructions of things that I don't know how to build, to simple things like medicines that keep me from being dead.

I also buy some times that are advertised to me, but they are _far_ smaller in value than the things from the previous group.
Just look at the image: https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167493371973255170/pho...

You can see lamp posts and fenceposts. Fenceposts are literally < 2" thick! So the resolution must be on the order of 2cm.
The NYT is as Left Wing as the journalistic profession is Ant-Establishment: Not in the slightest but they themselves constantly claim to be.
Just a note: Truthiness means a feeling of truthfulness, even if not actually true. I'd argue that LLMs do care about that, but I suspect you meant 'truthfulness'.
I mean, in so many words that's precisely what I am complaining about. Their attempt to solve it is to make it appear more human. What's wrong with an error message? Or in this specific example - why bother at all? Why even stop the conversation? It's ridiculous.