skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument is that private equity will use open source, maximize profits from the Labour open source volunteers have done, and minimize costs wherever they can.

Then why isn't WordPress.com completely obliterating WP Engine in sales? Surely if the argument is that WP Engine is bad and cutting corners, and they have their own first party commercial offering, that first party offering is so good that nobody thinks twice about the private equity hosted version?
there are many such sites if you just google for them
I did read the post, yes. Why does everyone keep asking everyone that?
It’s kind of nuts, with one of those SS7 tickets you could easily use a bot to drain 1000s of bank accounts an hour based on the 2FA vulnerabilities.
What a wonderful story.

I spent a while playing with `iconv` commands to solve your mojibake, reinterpreting bytes in and out of Shift-JIS, but I didn't get it - i'd love it if anyone managed to figure out the exact encoding,
Who said anything about that, though?
Right now, we have two sets of laws, one at very small scales and one at macro scales. We don't yet have a theory to unify the two. Any and all experiments give data that can help with those and many other questions.
Just spent three days of debugging hell getting my app to shut down gracefully, so that it gracefully turns off all the things that it asynchronously turned on without performing use-after deletes). I can sympathise with that.
Knowledge transfer is a serious thing in important companies. Technology advances but it’s based on the same logical and mathematical principals. Techniques aren’t lost, they’re warehoused. I’ve rewritten advanced data structures that were purposed in the 1960’s, successfully applied in the 1990’s, and they’re still relevant and cutting edge today.
Are my downvoters here drafting posts that have greater than 5 revisions? Or?
but then why not keep going down the line, and say that the customers also doesnt care?
The color for the Wikimedia image looks way off on my computer. Is it possible that it's tagged with the wrong color profile?
Interesting. But why would you monitor CO2 outdoors? Even the NDIR ones just return "400" when they detect outdoor air and use it as calibration.

Though i believe you can turn off the auto calibration which is probably a good idea in busy city areas where I imagine outdoor CO2 is slightly higher than 400. And manually calibrate them with an actual known source.
I think you didn't understand my question and maybe I phrased it poorly. The problem is not whether we should trust any deep learning model (the answer is indeed no). But the question is how we can find out if a model is any good before investing our time into that model. Each bad reply we get has a price, because it wastes our time. So, how can we compare models objectively without having to try them out ourselves first?
The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S. [video]
sorry if this is a stupid question, but if you don't pay for the phone don't they repossess it or something?
That sounds like a speculation on a tangential benefit instead of the major consideration in locking phones. The carriers can blacklist any phone's IMEI at any point (in addition to the usual collections attempts, credit reporting etc) which achieves the same effect but better if a phone is stolen from them.
Alas, not for Linux. I've been using the unloved and mostly abandoned (and mostly awful) google perf tools on Linux. :-(
I like this idea of sanding your UI...

Just recently have done quite naturally the same thing... Expand the clickable surface area of a region
> It's a 20 minute long video

You mean 20 minutes short. There's enough in there to blow it up into a 45 minute documentary at least. You already spent more than 20 minutes commenting under this story.

> The information density can almost certainly be denser.

And what would be the point of that? There's a limited amount of information one can retain in a short span of time, and it's not like he repeats himself or has a verbose style.

I already go back and rewatch his videos later, taking new pieces of information from them.

Again, if you want the tldw, it's already in the comments here. If you want the details, go watch the video.

The video is being linked because the video itself is good. Wanting a summary that retains the same qualities is like wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
That's why (A)GPL is so handy, it discourages value-extraction.

As cwebber says: https://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/
This would be much more comprehensible if the author would include some dates.
Zola!

I'd use plain HTML+CSS, but Zola adds some nice tools (like markdown rendering). It lives in a single binary, so I don't mind it. Hosted on GitHub pages.

https://www.getzola.org/
That should be a metric... % clickable. Could look at app, page, component levels
Lol. Disagree, but can't argue with any of that.
>I think most of the executives and managers do - yes.

To quote someone else who's worked with Big Corp:

>>Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing management. Think of management the way you think of a lawn mower.You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about management.

>Even as you tried to shame me (ie “if you actually believe that, you’re so dumb you’d buy something ridiculous!”) because you recognize that shaming is an effective tactic.

I don't give a fuck what you think. I want to convince other people that you're wrong and we need better solutions for writing open source software because I enjoy doing it and I'd love to get paid for it. As far as I'm concerned you're a badly put together memetic lawnmower whose a danger to everyone around you - the end.
The more is better(bandwidth, VRAM size) except the price
The Saudis are handing over their own money rather than using US taxpayer money. That's a very different situation. Likewise, most of the maintenance and training is done by ex-military working as contractors.

You don't understand the broken window fallacy.

Further, that stuff isn't actually surplus. Russia had way more "surplus" than we do, but the Ukraine war showed just how quickly that equipment gets used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Fact is that this pager attack is something like the second or third largest terrorist attack in modern history by number of casualties.

Everything else here is trying to eliminate all nuance and create a bunch of whataboutism to defend terrorism.
To quote:

>> I would rather kill myself than talk to an AI to “reduce loneliness.”

Is a dramatic hyperbole. So therefore, if this is the first thing a person thinks in reaction to seeing an article about chatting with an AI companion, then I would suspect there's a bit more going on.

Again "killing oneself" is never the answer.
Yep. Direnv inserts itself into your prompt function.
Or literally any phone in EU.
One I've experienced on GitHub and Jira is dragging to select text on a dialog, if you release outside the dialog the mouse up event dismisses the pop up which is probably a side effect of being able to click outside the dialog to dismiss it.
I'd say to be wary of sharing links to full textbooks unless you are really sure it's posted by the copyright owner. The authors could be best friends with the webmaster and allowed them to post it on their website, but the problem is with the publisher who may not have given consent.
Matt Mullenweg, author of this post, is CEO of Automattic, a for profit company with valuation in the billions. Largely raised from private capital
Physiological adaptation through super-compensation for better sporting result
> It is rare when a management team says, "this is enough money" and that is sad.

It's not just rare, it's important to know that in many arrangements it's simply impossible. Once any company takes outside equity financing, every quarter is only looked at in terms of growth, and anything a company says should always be viewed in terms of "will this allow us to grow revenue." I'm not saying it makes all companies "evil", and there are a good deal of "do good" things that happen to coincide with growing revenue. But you can bet that if any principal requires going against growing revenue, it will be jettisoned in short order.

The only way to avoid this is to not take outside funding, and even then there is no guarantee what happens when the business is sold (and when a business is sold, the acquires are nearly always going to look at ROI solely from monetary returns).
Personally, most the features Wpengine offered wasn't very useful for my team and we just went to rent servers on Hetzner for the sake of simplicity. Same goes for Cpanel too. We just used google drive + mysqldump to synchronize the database and rsync to synchronize the files. However, we manage the site ourselves with a team of 4 dedicated software engineers so I don't know if this approach would work for customers who just want a site that they will edit themselves.
sadly, no pics. The FM Towns was kinda cool looking
Well you can use some jailbreak prompts but with cloud models it's a cat and mouse game as they constantly fix known jailbreaks. With local models this isn't a problem of course. But I prefer getting a fine-tune model so I don't have to cascade prompts.

Not all uncensored models are great. Some return very sparse data or don't return the end tags sometimes so they keep hallucinating and never finish.

If you import grimjim's model, make sure you use the complete modelfile from vanilla lama3.1, not just an empty modelfile. Because he doesn't provide one. This really helps setting the correct parameters so the above doesn't happen so much.

But I have seen it happen with some official ollama models like wizard-vicuna and dolphin-llama. They come with modelfiles so they should be correct.
> This isn't in and of itself a "bad" thing, it is what business does

Yes it is. If you're hollowing out your value prop you better be returning at least some, if not a majority, of that value back to your users in the form of price drops or increased service levels. We have all been Stockholm Syndrome'd into believing otherwise as our favorite products and services institutionalize themselves into nothingness.

Ownership and management are mere stakeholders in the business, equal with (and no more) than customers and employees.
WP Engine does backups differently… and rather than force you to copy and deploy complex histories to prod, which wastes time, they just snapshot the server nightly. You can roll back as needed.

The way they let you copy the DB between staging and prod, honestly it’s faster and better for their users the way they do it vs. default WordPress. My 2 cents.
Frontsecure.js library is now available on NPM Enhance your front end security
FrontSecure is a JavaScript library to enhance the security of your web application's frontend by preventing access to DevTools, disabling text selection, blocking copy-paste, and more. It ensures a higher level of protection from common browser-based vulnerabilities and actions.
> even if I'm not certain that's what the article intended.

I have the impression that was exactly the intention of the article:

> In the coming years, we’ll see more and more people making software like someone building a table in their backyard or garage, they’ll enjoy the process and add their own personal touch.
> If you love coding the way we do it now, keep at it! enjoy every moment, improve yourself, learn new things, keep coding!
>So you've reversed your " opinion " and tacitly admitted it's more than a a minor inconvenience then?

No I didn't. I heard about some noise a long time ago and it did not sound like a devastating development. I am merely putting forward a conditional argument: If the noise is a problem, then the problem will likely affect other satellites which are already being built. In any case I expect the problem to be solved.

>Yes. It is. At least so far as the radio telescope community and this Starlink issue is concerned. He made promises and didn't keep them.

I was not aware of these promises. Without context I cannot say whether he had a legitimate reason to not implement that proposed solution. Can you at least admit there might be a technical reason for it to not be done?

>he promised[...]

He does tend to promise more than he delivers but nobody has delivered better satellite internet, EVs, or autonomous driving to the public. Your gripes are extremely uncharitable.

Again I must point out that Elon's habit of overhyping things was well-tolerated by all for years, until he revealed views slightly to the right of the most extreme leftists and questioned their pet issues. Then the media and all liberals acted like he's the devil. I have a coworker who has been affected by this propaganda campaign. He is extremely environmentally conscious, yet refuses to buy anything from an Elon company. He will not buy a Tesla despite the fact they are practically the best and most proven EVs on the market. Instead he bought a Leaf or something, which is objectively worse than a Tesla. This mentality is totally irrational and I would say un-American. But this bad attitude is common, unfortunately.
> You shouldn't be with people that are embarrassed to be with you

There is some truth to that.

But there is also truth in "you should really try to avoid doing things that make people not want to be around you".
My childhood is full of stressful memories of all these shapes falling, I can’t fit them into place fast enough, they begin to pile up, the Nutcracker music starts playing faster, soon I realize its hopeless, I hear a crashing sound and the screen blanks out.

Some would even call it traumatic.
It's a useful fiction, but the map is not the territory. This sounds blithe but ... it is as close as you will get to the truth.

I only got the bachelors' version of physics, though I did take some grad classes, so here is what I will tell you:

The human mind learns from experience and it thinks of things in terms of the past experiences it has had. We are big assemblages which exist in a narrow range of temperatures (think in terms of Kelvin). Our experience is classical, in the Newtonian sense: we move at not a particularly notable fraction of c, we are too warm to note the strangenesses which happen below, say, twenty or four or a thousandth of a Kelvin (superfluids and BECs are out), we are too cold to have a great internal experience of plasma, leaving us to be creatures of solid and liquid, with a sort of inferred understanding of gas. We are too large to feel the quantum realm, in the sense that the uncertainty principle is not obvious to us from what we have felt.

So, we must make do with abstractions, with fictions, with approximations. Conscious that we are the epitome of the six blind men trying to understand the elephant through touch alone, we try to break our understanding, to search for flaws in our inferences. Yet this does not grant us true experience when we run across, say, the electron. We try to think of it like a billiard ball, but we can say that a billiard ball is this wide, yet we are fairly sure at this time that the electron has no radius, no diameter, that it might as well be a geometric point. Every time we try to measure, we can only establish a smaller and smaller upper bound for the confounded thing's radius. That's not like our lives at all!

The reality of this electron is that if we get it going fast enough, it stops getting much faster no matter how hard we smack it. That's not like our reality. If we try to pin down where it is, the more we do it, the harder it is to figure out how fast and in what direction it moves. And as we work to ascertain the velocity (and therefore momentum), we lose sense of this bit of weirdness' position.

You eventually have to develop an understanding based not on experience at all.

Perhaps this was unique to me, but the first time I understood integration in calculus, I had a brief moment of dizziness as I apprehended this new thing. You know how you are working a math problem and you have a good idea of what the answer is already, a sense of what the magnitude and direction might be? I had ground my way through vector and tensor calculus, and had been working a problem in gravitation and relativity class when I sensed what the resulting tensor would look like, the shape of it, in the sense that I would know if my figures were way off. I nearly fell off the chair, my head spun so.

If you care to, you can do this for a particle.
Oh right, I've never seen polythene resealable ones here in Australia. (The floppier 'freezer bags' are I think, but they're less useful for archiving.)

I think it's mainly PVC that's to be avoided for archiving, and office supply shops are full of the stuff (document sleeves, etc.).

An archivist once told me that if you burn a bit of plastic and it doesn't give off any smoke then it's likely polypropylene or similar, and so good to use. That's never felt like a particularly robust test though (but I'm not a chemist).
The Sacklers have not been stripped of the fraudulent earnings that they have previously taken from the company.

> The Sacklers strip-mined Purdue to avoid billions in settlement

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/going-straight-to-top-ar...
Funding Israel’s conflicts is not a fundamental part of our way of life. The ability to load a huge defenceless cargo ship full of billions of dollars worth of goods and send it anywhere in the world is. The ability to choose how we govern ourselves is. The fact that it’s a reasonable expectation that we will have most of the fundamental needs of life provided to us no matter what is. None of that is backwards, all of it very obviously depends on our defence capability, and regardless of what you think about the quality of western democracies, we have the most democratic and stable societies that have ever existed in the history of our species, as well as the highest quality of life.

Most of the negatives you’ve listed here are a result of other countries defence force inadequacies.
I think it'd be clearer to say they did fundamental research as part of nuclear weapons research. The goal of the facility is to perform testing that can help to validate the continued functioning and yield of the nuclear weapon stockpile without actually setting off a nuke. Since a hydrogen bomb achieves fusion ignition, being able to perform ignition at the facility is kind of part of the goal.
which is why it was a crying shame the Texas Supercollider got canceled. It would have done more useful science than ISS
What's maybe more disturbing is the CEO of one privately backed company (Automattic) can use a privileged community position to malign another community member (WPEngine). As a passive observer of Wordpress it feels like a very icky conflict of interest. Especially when you throw in the oooh "spooky boogieman private equity" fearmongering language.
www.greenarraychips.com
Okay, you ring your bell.
Emacs Has No Learning Curve [pdf]
More than that, he's made quite a lot of his fortune by shilling pseudoscience to benefit his fossil fuel lobbying clients. I don't see why or how serious people would take this career con artist at his word.
We’ve avoided that situation with kustomize. Common resources go into a ‘bases’ directory, and if two clusters have identical resources, then they both have their own directories and reference all the base resources from there.

In practice, there are always slight differences between cluster config between test and prod (using different S3 buckets, for example) so this is needed anyway.
Darebeets – Tasty Fitness Food
No, but now I do.
Great project, lovely design and super cool that it's also open source hardware.

We at AirGradient open sourced our monitors around 2 years ago and this has been the best decision for our company.
That’s just my read and extrapolation, welcome to the internet.
After trying out a few Nerd Font variants I found this one. V1 looks correct, the second version supposedly fixes some bugs but looks worse. https://github.com/xtevenx/ComicMonoNF
I'm not sure building furnace is a good metaphor for crafting good software.

The nature of software is that every piece of it can be mass produced (copied and distributed) once the first piece is finished. All the 'artisan' effort goes into making that first copy.
It is just like Darebee, but with food.
GRPC and Thrift can't express ADTs (enums with data) easily, but OpenAPI can. That's worth a lot in my book.

Another advantage of OpenAPI is that you can write your specifications using Rust types (as we do at Oxide with Dropshot: https://docs.rs/dropshot)

edit: Apparently protobuf 3 does have oneof: https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/#oneof. They look like they solve the problem but I can't vouch for it, and they appear to have some edge cases ("only the last member seen is used in the parsed message"). Thrift doesn't appear to, still.

And I do think being able to write the spec using Rust types is really nice -- you still get an OpenAPI document as an artifact, and (for external users) you get wide client compatibility.
> An engineer's job isn't to build something perfect or beautiful, it's to build something that's just good enough for its intended use case.

Why? Who is responsible for making it look good? fast? resilient? The architect? In software development the engineer can be the architect, the decorator, the user. AI will unleash the age of artisan software - which already exists, so many great free software developers came before us but now it will spread like a "plague". It has the potential to disrupt SaaS as we know it today.
Somehow that seems less fun. Take a thing that was already designed to image data pits on a CD, and use it for exactly that, but in the wrong way. Might as well just plug a CD player into a PC and write some code to generate a bitmap image of the CD from the data it contained.
We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres or the Eiffel Tower with this mentality.

I love Paris and Parisians (especially Parisiennes ;). I hate the pyramid.
Because the market is stupid. Worse is better, planned obsolescence, clickbait, fast fashion; the free market is full of failures. It's not good enough for a competitor to Google's search engine to be 30% better, it needs to be 10x better in order to compete.
Funded by... Harvard Business School? I wonder what their motivations might be hmmmm???? Wouldn't that be funny if some of their coconspirators are AI companies???
A decent game that isn't worth a price of admission that is $0? Am I missing something?
Show HN: PDF to MD by LLMs – Extract Text/Tables/Image Descriptives by GPT4o
I've developed a Python API service that uses GPT-4o for OCR on PDFs. It features parallel processing and batch handling for improved performance. Not only does it convert PDF to markdown, but it also describes the images within the PDF using captions like `[Image: This picture shows 4 people waving]`.

In testing with NASA's Apollo 17 flight documents, it successfully converted complex, multi-oriented pages into well-structured Markdown.

The project is open-source and available on GitHub. Feedback is welcome.