skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Officers who are also PSF staff members are paid because they're staff members - officers who are not staff members aren't paid. Two of the current developers in residence are paid as PSF staff. One is paid as a contractor which I believe is because they don't live in the USA.

Thanks for the clarification.

>Having an infrastructure company sponsor that kind of thing makes a lot of sense, because their underlying costs are significantly less than if the PSF were to pay market prices for that bandwidth.

Absolutely. But if I worked at Fastly I would not be particularly happy about seeing that good will squandered to such an extent.

>The only direct PSF elections are for the board - different work groups have different governance structures, none of which involve elections as far as I know.

Yes, and this is a clear problem if you expect work groups to have any actual power or influence. Especially the one making decisions about banning people.

>$1.8m for a multi-day conference that supports 3,000+ attendees is pretty standard for North America.

So I hear. At that rate you'd be looking at about $600 US in admission per attendee to break even. I've certainly heard of conferences charging more than that (certainly for the ones that have tiered admission).

But I'm accustomed to fandom conventions (still multi-day with tens of thousands of attendees) that charge about a tenth of that and still manage to raise money for charity. Why is it that much more expensive to run an event for computer programmers?
Primarily it's protecting yourself from those weirdos by pre-empting them, though.
Is your wife looking to join a startup?

I think many parts of being a realtor are already automated by realtors. They are already trying to automate themselves.

They use scripts to get first clients and negotiate.
They use automated email campaigns to advertise their market and local expertise.
They use automatic mailers for algorithmically selected properties.
They use APIs & software services to determine similar property suggestions.

So these pieces are already automated by softwares that realtors use.

Our difference is we'll wrap everything up with a bow and just fully acknowledge that we are an automated solution.
Same. Its why we started this.
we leverage serverless and s3 based architecture for much lower costs. However, it's applies for any application, not just for serverless applications.
All of a sudden I'm imagining some kind of wintergreen-flavored device which you bite on and which takes dental xrays at home...
Makes sense, thanks for the confirmation! :)
Testing the uniqueness of a unified description of motion
Deforestation of the Easter Island didn't affect its population
If you want a free copy of the SHOUTcast server software, they illegally share that code in their repo ..
visual studio here too, having left Rider. thanks.
Ooh, what are these ASICs you're talking about? My understanding was that we'll see AMD/Nvidia gpus continue to be pushed and very competitive as well as have new system architectures like cerebras or grok. I haven't heard about new compute platforms framed as ASICs.
While "copyleft" is just a word like any other word, and subject to the same descriptivist drift as any other, in this case it is a specific word coined by a specific org, with a pretty specific definition. One that this license does not meet.
Not easily on all platforms...
> How do you know whether the person actually worked at $FAANG_COMPANY for 3 years?

In the United States of America, you call the company. In Germany, employees get a certificate.

If you get 100 applications for an opening, your HR tool can automatically send emails to declined candidates. You do track which ones you’ve rejected in the past and which ones you go forward with, right?

And on and on. It’s not hard.
Except it Google that morphed the Web into ChromeOS, with the help of EVERYONE that ships it alongside their applications, as they can't be bothered to learn cross-platform frameworks.

Many of them people that used to complain about Micro$oft and should know better.
This is why I guess I was never really interested in scientific experiments personally and decided to study mathematics. These assumptions don't seem justified to me. At least in mathematics you always state these assumptions or hypotheses very clearly, or make them into axioms.
Oh, I should have included the links that time I guess, I just don't want to appear overly self-promotional.

https://zahlman.github.io/politics/the-psf/2024/07/31/an-ope...

https://zahlman.github.io/dpo_archive/
But it has noticeable consequences when that person was the maintainer of e.g. texlive and KDE...
Google should just offer llama3 405b, maybe slightly fine tuned. Geminis are unusable.
Because it's the basis of the product. You swipe and move on. Professional interactions are and ought to be different.
I wish there was an expectation that we get source code for everything at 20 years instead of sometimes at 30 or 40.
That's not at all what copyleft means.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html
> not quite user-friendly

Yes, it does not seem like he makes a business or a product for a wide audience. It's more about exploring the unknown, teaching programming and being entertaining.

Although I adore such ambitious projects that seem insurmountable at the first glance.
Scientists Calculated How Much Exercise We Need to 'Offset' a Day of Sitting
Thank you, I had wondered if there was something like safename.
This license prohibits maintenance. If the official copy had a single bit that prevents it from compiling on your local machine, you cannot make that change. Only the "maintainers of the official repository" are permitted to do that.
Is there an issue with how the data is grouped? At 19.9, you have a 50% chance of living to 59.9. But less than a season later at 20.1, you now only have a 50% chance o living to 40.1. How can the former be right if the latter is right?

The growth in life expectancy from surviving early childhood makes sense, but the decline in life expectancy for crossing 20 feels too sharp.
We don’t have plan to open source at this time. Many observability solutions are closed source. Could you please describe why you would require this to be open source vs open source compatible?

We think Oodle combines the benefits of open source (compatibility, no lock-in) with the operational simplicity, reliability of commercial vendors. Some products might give a false illusion of no-lock in just because it's open source, it wouldn’t mean you don't have lock-ins. We believe what really matters is "Open Source Compatible" - i.e. how easy it is to get in? How easy is it to switch out? (to a de-facto open source standard like Prometheus/Grafana should you need to disconnect ties with the vendor). Security and compliance is the other big part - we are working on adding compliance like SOC2, CCPA etc.
Eh, the analogy is farrr from perfect. You're basically assuming you can reduce neurons to LTI systems. Which you obviously very much cannot.
What's your plan for selling? Are you going to have a lawyer handle the legal aspects instead?
I think everyone acknowledges shoplifting has gotten worse. What they don't agree on is the cause.

There's one camp who attributes it to demographics. This is a very hard sell, particularly to individuals who belong to those demographics, sometimes from birth. The issue is this camp is very dedicated to this idea, and they refuse to explore other explanations.

It's hard to argue with Eugenicists and the like. The correct response is to tell them they're wrong and move on. The problem here is that neo-nazi types sneak into the conversation and derail it completely.

It would be nice if we could talk about shop lifting without it dropping to blatant racism and identity politics. Unfortunately, I've never been a part of a conversation like that. When people are unreasonable you can't solve problems.
Thanks, that was a simple oversight on my part.
Looks great, hopefully one day I’ll be able to use your services! Has all the features I’d be looking for.

Out of curiosity, do you foresee regulatory trouble? Realtors are an extremely powerful lobby in the United States, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were one of the first to do some serious pushback against LLM-related automation under the guise of “protecting consumers”. You mention the recent National Realtors Association changes in your YC profile, which I did not know about (https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/17/business/nar-realtor-settleme..., TLDR antitrust settlement seeking to protect buyers in particular from predatory realty practices), but inspires both hope for the future and concern that the NAR is on active defense mode.

Specifically I guess I’m asking about your use of the word “traditional agent”, since on some level you two (or just the attorney partner?) seemingly would still be considered “agents” of some kind, given that you’re looking over offers by hand, and offering personalized support to users. Is there maybe a legal dance at play there already?

On a completely separate note, if you find the time/interest: will this ever scale to sellers’ realtors as well? If you unicorn-to-the-moon-super-scale as Mr. Graham is hoping for everyone in YC, what’s the endgame market look like? My laymen intuition says you’ll always need experts involved at certain points in the process to protect buyers from lemons and sellers from signing deceptive contracts - do you agree, or with the right regulations and AI could this all be as automatic as buying anything else online?
From my point of view it doesn't seem like really appreciate the Debian-style integrated self-contained OS model; what people want (these days) is more just a platform to run 3rd party applications. It is easy to see why some people see Debian more just getting in the way rather than being an asset.

Part of the problem might be that Debian is something for everyone, and has cast a very wide net in terms of packages. Especially not all packages are all that integrated to the whole, or follow Debian guidelines very closely. I don't know if it would help if Debian would tighten ship, raise the bar for packages and cull more aggressively some of the less maintained ones. Although on the flip side one of the big advantages of Debian is its vast package archives so its a balancing act.

Regarding the language aspect, that is the focus for much of the article, while I think local communities working in their native languages is definitely good thing ultimately I believe that any potential Debian contributor needs to be somewhat fluent in English. Debian is communal project after all and I imagine all the official discussions happen in English; its difficult to see someone being effective contributor if they can not communicate comfortably in community.
AI-Generated Malware Found in the Wild
Yeah and the point is that there is more embedded knowledge about surface tension here. For example if I put a small drop of water onto my desk, it does not spread out into a thin film of one water molecule thick. It remains a droplet due to surface tension.
If they can think strategically about the product, the market, and how to compete now and in the future.

Also if they think about the business model as enabled by our product and dynamics within the marketplace, versus viewing things from an adversarial perspective.
Once at work I tried to upload a file to our fileserver to share it with some coworkers and it failed. Other files uploaded fine. The file wasn't very large, didn't have any funny characters in the name, or anything that would conflict with a reserved name, or anything like that.

After some experimenting I was able to figure out that there was a particular byte sequence that simply could not be sent via the ethernet card in my computer. I changed ethernet cards and then I could send the file.

After a lot of searching I eventually found a few discussions of this, and an errata list for the chipset in my ethernet card that said that a particular revision of the chipset had an error in the checksum implementation that would compute an incorrect checksum for a particular bit pattern.
Stable V8 Bindings for Rust
It can certainly be argued that NATO expansion was bad policy, intrinsically antagonistic, and basically in the wrong spirit of the way the world should have re-organized itself post-1989. That's actually my gut feeling as well.

But it doesn't rise to level of casus belli or even a rational reason for Russia to feel directly (tangibly) threatened. And it's definitely not the "reason" Putin started the war.

And you're leaving out other stuff, such as the fact that Yeltsin greenlighted the earliest round of new admissions (PL, CZ, HU), and that Gorbachev himself downplayed the significance of the expansion issue during negotiations to which you are referring -- as he made clear in that famous RBTH interview:

"The topic of 'NATO expansion' was not discussed at all, and it wasn't brought up in those years. I say this with full responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country raised the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist in 1991. Western leaders didn't bring it up either."

And that while it was a constant source of tension and grumbling -- the NATO issue never seemed to matter all that much to Russia until the Rose and Orange revolutions in 2003/2004. That's what really started to make Putin's back arch -- not any paramount concerns about NATO expansion itself.

As far as "antagonistic" is concerned, I think there's a much stronger case to be made in regard to the intentional decision by US policy makers not to provide extensive economic aid (a "Marshall Plan") to its former adversary, its insistence on shock reforms, and so on. But this is another topic. And it's not as if Russia didn' also "behave in an antagonistic/untrustworthy/threatening manner" against its would-be benefactor during its hour of need.[0][1]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
Got what I use now, IBM Plex Mono. Nice!
Redirecting an asteroid with a nuclear bomb should work
> Docs are flatly wrong

This +999; I couldn't believe how inconsistent and wrong the docs were. Not only that, but once I got something successfully integrated, it worked for a few weeks then the API was changed, so I was back to square one. I gave it a half-hearted try to fix it but ultimately said 'never again'! Their offering would have to be overwhelmingly better than Anthropic and OpenAI for me to consider using Gemini again.
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We are building a marketplace for this. Feel free to shoot me an email and set up meetings vvnh2018@gmail.com
Show HN: GitHub Repo Visualizer Using D3
I built this as part of my quest to properly learn data visualization. The code is the easy part!

Some lessons learned:

- personal verification of the the general truth that pie charts are tough! and the returns are not great for the effort due to people's difficulties perceiving angles
- may not use "vanilla" d3 with no React. was difficult to adapt for mobile
- the GitHub API provides fairly standardized responses so building dynamic charts wasn't too bad. But when working with streaming data (say Kafka) I can see this getting interesting... schema registry should help but creating a view into the data with a lookback would be interesting with d3, done it with altair before.
Could not be more excited about this. Hetzner is slowly turning into a viable cloud alt.
I like async standups on slack. Everyone just post what you are doing today, and if anyone has any questions they can follow up.
How to use Disk Jockey for emulation on macOS
You are going with assumption that llms will remain same forever. There are attempts everywhere to make them smaller, efficient and more focused.

Would you have called « transferring mails online « in the 90s is hype-chasing because our postal system was working great? Probably not a great analogy but you get the point
Everyone uses the same formatter & options (which really should have no options, but that ins't the reality for most languages). The formatter rules - move on.
PC modder removes annoying PSN account requirement for God of War Ragnarök
10 tips for reducing and then preventing tech debt
And then there's a "parking lot attendant" ready to kill useful/interesting discussions "in the interest of everyone's time".
> Which licence would take precedence here?

Whichever one runs up the attorney's bill the highest.
Car software patches are over 20% of recalls, study finds
Am I living on another planet?

You think AI isn't having an impact? Except for one narrow thing you happen to be looking at.

https://tech.co/news/companies-replace-workers-with-ai

People are completely out of touch with how many simple/mid jobs with rote tasks are still out there and susceptible to moving to AI.

Yeah, senior programmers are safe, so what. That is a <1% of total jobs.
Depends on the beach. Brasil has more than others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdHHUGwFoJE
They may share a name, but they both work in very different ways.
I have worked with people with marketing/sales background and people managers who have engineering degrees but mediocre engineering skills.

My conclusion is I should avoid working with them again. One typical problem with them is that it is difficult to build trust. They have no sense of how long implementation would take and they don't trust your estimate. They think you are lazy. They tend to over simplify things, and command others on a very high level like a king (like "grow the economy"), leaving you to figure out all the details and also take the blame if you can't do everything in 2 days. They hate engineers, because everyone else is a cheerleader, only the engineers are nay sayers.

For my own health, if I ever start a company again, I'd only work with good technical people and only serve the tech market (even that means missing on other profitable opportunities).
The weird thing is some do publish the price of 1U/1 Amp along with half-racks and full racks, and nothing in between - not even a formula to estimate costs if one doesn't nearly fall into one of those buckets. The 1U pricing suggests that some do care about 1U collocation, while simultaneously limiting price information to quote requests for a 2U or an 800W 1U. It's strange.
Nothing of importance is happening in the code base.

What's important are blockers like inability to implement something, missing permissions, awaiting external communication, freshly detected requirements that need a decision, absences etc pp
This sounds like a perfect application for EROFS[1]. While it comes from an embedded systems background, it has seen some usage in container use cases and is moving towards a general "mountable tar" application. It would also avoid the tedium you have to go through in shrink_btrfs.py because you can just generate the image out of a tree.

I wanted to give repackaging the btrfs image a shot but the download was pretty slow - I assume your server is getting HN-hugged a bit so I didn't want to make it worse and stopped the download.

[1] https://erofs.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/index.html
i think it's unusable if you are trying to use via GCP. Using via ai studio is a decent experience
Book Review: The Heart of Innovation
People do take other drugs for the rest of their lives, as commenters point out, and which I didn't address in my initial comment above:

Those drugs often treat problems that can't otherwise be treated, such as diabetes. Weight loss has other treatments, though we now know it's often not as simple and easy as many thought (often it's not just 'eat less'). Certainly there will be a substantial net benefit for many people.

On the other side, the dosing requirement matches the current trend in business, which is rent capture. When does the patent run out?
Very much excited to read your book. I'd remember conversations on old Scala forums that often talked about how their code bases made it impossible to enter invalid states through strong typing. Excited to see those ideas become mainstream Java concepts.
CAR and NAR are going to have a field day with this one.
First -- congratulations on your launch!

I'm curious about b). If you are sending a licensed agent to the property, wouldn't the typical buyer want the benefit of their knowledge?

Personally, not a huge fan of the cartel. On the other hand, I have worked with agents who have saved me tons of time & money by spotting problems before inspection. If the agent is going to be present, it seems logical to have them contribute their knowledge.
Yes, if every deal went according to plan, you could just use half an hour of attorney time.

For our value add compared to the regular realtor when things go wrong. Our thesis is that because 65% of home buyers use the first realtor they meet, most individuals are getting this "uncooperative paper-pusher who keeps dropping the ball". We can outcompete this average realtor on the quality front.

Our end-game plan is to own our own MLS.
The ludicrous 6% fee is whats going to drive adoption by end users and in turn by brokers.

Move that fee to 1% for buyer agent and you have a massive market.
Currently the model is that compression is done by the package uploaders, but I don't see a reason why uploaded files couldn't be (re)compressed on the server. Again, there would be vastly fewer compression events than decompression (after download) events. Aside from that, it's better if the standards allowed for multiple compression formats. Any effort to start using a new one for existing files in a different format, could then be phased in (prioritizing the packages where the biggest savings are possible).
I didn't say it doesn't happen.
Sounds vaguely similar to a late 90’s pc/playstation game I recall playing, although that also had capture points and the ability to build defense structures along the predetermined paths.

Edit - this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Cop:_LAPD
In this example everything is happening on U.S. servers, with U.S. employees, on U.S. soil. How is that "operating in" Iran or France?

If someone physically flew over from Iran and talked to me in-person instead of over the internet would you make the same argument? That I'm "operating in Iran" and should be subject to Iranian law because I'm talking to an Iranian citizen? What if it was via a letter? How about a phone call?
Actually, obesity is (also) a disease and treating it improves all kinds of outcomes even without other interventions.
> which according to you just doesn't happen

It doesn't, at least not on the scale to warrant these responses. Often these are implemented as sweeping policies, affecting stores with virtually no shop lifting.

My suburban Walmart in Texas locks up everything. I can guarantee we have extraordinarily small crime. But when the stores in Dallas do it, we do it too.

I also highly, highly doubt that shop lifting has gotten particularly worse in the past 20 years. Every single crime is down, and by a lot. I think this was/is an overreaction.
Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"?
Concepts aren't automatically relevant to each other just because you write or link some text...

This has to be shown in some way... Usually done on HN via some number of arguments with some logical structure.
On Wikipedia, they would write that it "came from modern-day Belgium", which sounds like a time travel scenario to me.

You'll also see infoboxes overflowing with anachronistic place names, sometimes attempting to clarify the archaic ones. They're not supposed to be there.
Show HN: Text-Only Group Chats
Live as of a few minutes ago is sup-chat: a site for text-only, public group chats

Think something like IRC or old-school AOL without the hassle

Codebase will be shared soon as well! Backend written in Go with HTML templates on the frontend.