skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IRC is the default chat mechanism for Debian, but younger people do not use IRC; in Brazil, they use Telegram instead.

This is I think one of the major reasons why a lot of older open source projects are absolutely starved for developers in their 20s and 30s. A lot of the mail based workflows or IRC based communication is just utterly foreign to any young person and also objectively atrocious in many ways. Having to rely on a chat service that doesn't let you see offline messages without setting up a proxy in 2024 is just not comprehensible to anyone used to modern services, for good reason.

It's very obvious that open source projects that embrace github, discord, social media are able to do much better and attract contributors much more effectively. Purism is nice and all but if most of your core maintainers are in their 50s and 60s which is a reality now for a lot of long lived projects with no replacement coming up you're looking at the whole thing dying in a generation.
> up to 22 megajoules, or roughly 5 billion megatons of TNT

Um, no. Somebody badly messed up a conversion there...
Great article that pretty well explains the situation with modern vs ancient life expectancy.
I see, I think that's a good approach to enable serving with stock nginx as well as for companies that are built on Nginx or a plain HTTP serving stack already.

For PMTiles the module is loadable directly as a Caddy plugin (https://docs.protomaps.com/deploy/server#caddyfile) which I prefer to nginx for security and bugs (and automatic SSL), and also enables serving PMTiles from disk or a remote storage bucket without a separate service running.
This is an incredible labor of love and historical record. The technical articles alone have a depth that goes further than the documentation for any living project that I know of. I can only imagine how much work has gone into this. He gives a talk on his disassembly work here, which deserves a wider audience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orP_0aQo-Pc
Personally I only think about Rome when I see an article mentioning men thinking about Rome.
Bought my first PC and ordered it with a brand new 'high speed' 1200 baud modem specifically so I could join CompuServe. It was my introduction to a new online world and I never regretted it.
There’s no alternative, other than recognizing that these dichotomies exist.

A brown bear in the wild doesn’t have any warning signs or set off any alarms, but it sure would if it was in a human-occupied building. Context is key! :)
"Quality nutrition" is any scientifically backed research results on good health.

Here is a resource that uses research to back up its claims: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/dietary-reference...

And it has a good tool to find and meet those results: https://multimedia.efsa.europa.eu/drvs/index.htm
As a corollary, if you try to be too clever with your data reduction strategy, you might walk yourself into a dead end / local maximum by making the job of off-the-shelf compression algorithms more difficult.
You also can’t run the code.
Last month I spent about 100 hours learning to MIG weld to create a giant mushroom art piece for a music festival. I had looked at Maker Pipe as an option, and it was very compelling. Slow and expensive shipping to Canada and the lack of discounting for large numbers of components pushed back. I would still love to try these, I just hope they manage to get distributors in markets outside the US.
There are so many stand-ups I've been in where my coworkers would say what they've been working on and none of it would apply to me or my work and vice versa. It was more for the manager to hear what's being worked on. I think status updates should just be async in your slack channel
Simply exchange files with WOOF (Web Offer One File)
Famous enough to be one of the thru-lines for season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire.
The speed of light, because it is so fast, is the most precise physical constant known
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299 792 458 m / s. Less than 7/1000ths away from 300,000,000 m / s.
I am not going to sweat this in the least.

So light travels only 0.3 m / nano second, or 11.802 inches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
The confusion and disorganization is hilarious
They used those original average measurements to design seats for passengers instead.
It is updated actually, gemini-1.5-pro-002 is this new model.
AI companies should not pick up naming models after astrological signs, after a while it will be hard to tell apart model reviews from horoscope.
Let's say you are hallucinating "two distinct meanings of fork". Unless you are referring to tableware, a fork is a fork, it's any distribution of a software, based on the software in question. The fact that most forks on GitHub serve only operational purpose, nobody actively maintains them and nobody normally uses them instead of the parent project, doesn't change what they are: a distributions for (potentially, and unless PR is accepted, actually) distinct software projects, based on a project they are forked from. You are just so used to the button and the process, you lost track of what the label on that button actually means, why it's called "a fork". And the answer is, well, because it's a fork. In no way it is different from starting a MariaDB project. As soon as you press that button, you are distributing your own software, based on that parent software. If the parent project disappears, or moves on, or never accepts your PR, which somebody really likes, other people can (and probably will) use your fork in a way that isn't any different than, well, any larger and "more obvious" fork.

So, essentially, winamp license means nothing. They already forfeited their right to deny you forking by posting it on GitHub.
> Before this new surge in activity, the firehose would produce around 24 GB/day of traffic.

The firehose is all public data going into the network right?

Isn't that pretty tiny for a worldwide social network?

And the fact one country can cause a 10x surge in traffic also suggests its worldwide footprint must be tiny...
Thanks a lot, I didn't know about it! I also liked the fact that Btrfs is probably super well tested in the Linux kernel by now.

btrfs.openfreemap.com just a public Cloudflare bucket, no idea why it might be slow.
Sellers, sure but I don't understand why a buyer would NOT want to use an agent? You mention better prices, but I don't believe I'm in a unique environment where the seller covers all costs and agents work on commission.

>> The founders of Modern Realty realized that since buyer agents are paid for by commission, they will encourage you to buy immediately and high. Modern Realty allows you to transparently control your transaction.

I believe this could be a flawed premise. It's no secret agents are after the quick sale, but it is far easier to convince the seller to accept an offer 20 under than talk up the buyer.
Every volunteer group eventually starts to look alike.

This is as it was explained to me over a decade ago, and I don’t really need to change much since human nature doesn’t change very fast, and this holds for all the groups I’ve belonged to.

You get a lot of young adults who have more time than money. Their contributions are energetic but often short lived. They move away, their sense of self shifts away from the cause, their lives get too complicated, or they overdo it. It’s the people who pace themselves that avoid burnout. The trap is caring so much about a cause that they hurt themselves and have to step back. You get a smaller number of generally older regulars who keep the wheels on, and you have a few old timers who remember all the way back to the beginning. What has been tried. Who we have collaborated with or gotten donations from in the past.

So attract your volunteers, identify and groom some for small leadership roles. But make sure not to overload them, and encourage them to set healthy boundaries. It’s keeping them that kills many orgs. Though some only focus on retention and become an echo chamber of greybeards. I don’t believe Linux has that problem. Yet.
Severe unauthenticated RCE flaw in GNU/Linux systems awaiting full disclosure
What argument?

Ok, let's say it "should".

Now what?

Do you agree with state coercion forcing Apple to misdesign its products? If so, that's where you've lost me.
Is there a market for making folks' content libraries searchable? I imagine creators might be interested in what they have posted for a given topic in the past to ease writing time for new content.

Lots of folks have asked us to make search for podcasts/youtube-channels and we've tried it with the raw transcripts but it doesn't work too well.

Chunking it into semantic pieces to put in the search index by sentence splitting or other naive techniques isn't great and I have not seen a product which can do speaker recognition out of the box.

Speaker recognition for multi-speaker podcasts is probably the best chunking technique for those. However, I think you have the best one for this style of educational content.

Also, cool project!!!
I have no idea how AWS's retail prices compare to their infrastructure costs. I just used the numbers available to me and linked in GP.
The engineers at google are bad, they keep hiring via pure leetcode. Cant ship working products
24GB/day is very much a "we could host this on one server with a bit of read caching" scale.

Every year or so, you plop in one more 10TB SSD.
Difflogic should lead to very efficient hardware implementations of inference for a wide range of problems. But is it going to allow to generate the logical chains that elude current LLMs?

--- edit ---

After reading the paper more thoroughly, I find the way they implement differentiable logic clever. They use continuous relaxations of 16 logic operators, run them in parallel and apply a softmax to select the most useful operator. At inference time, everything is binarized.
I have a six letter Gmail email and get emailed tens of aadhar cards a year.
I use it and find it very helpful. Never tried cursor or copilot though
I feel like in a remote culture, stand-ups are kind of playing double duty. Both as a status reporting time and a team-vuuldinf socialization time.

I feel we should separate these two things into async slack status reports and them regularly maybe bi weekly 30 minute team building meetings where no work is being talked about.
I wouldn't say our clients are irrational, but I agree that buying a house can be stressful. The goal is to anticipate and address all of our clients' questions, including those they might not even know to ask. From our experience, this significantly reduces the frustration that typical homebuyers often feel during their purchase journey.

TLDR: Oftentimes the agent not being proactive is the cause of the buyer's behavior.
Thanks ! It consists of using more focus initiatives like yours and bdon's :)
> It is an identity though. That's why it's managed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

Sorry, I could be wrong, but I cannot agree here. It's an identity document ("ID"), something that documents an identity (so, a credential), not an identity itself.

Put simply: identity document ⊂ credential* ≠ identity.

I really don't like the term "ID" - specifically because it leads to this kind of confusion (and this leads to all sorts of problems), but it's too well established out there...

And I totally get the goal of Aadhaar (or most government-issued identity documents for that matter); my comment was unrelated to India (which is why I marked it as semi-offtopic) but solely regarding the language in the article.

*) Note: "credential" is a wider term: all identity documents are a form of credential but not every credential is an identity document. I originally put "=" between ID and credential, but edited it later for clarity.
> fugit means literally "runs away/escapes"

Reminds me of Atalanta Fugiens (1617), a book on alchemy considered an early example of multimedia.

> It is the first alchemical Gesamtkunstwerk that comprises music, images, poetry, and prose together in one piece.

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

The title refers to Atalanta, who agrees to marry anyone who beats her in a footrace. Swift-footed Atalanta won every time, until Hippomenes cheats by throwing at her golden apples he got from Aphrodite.
What do you mena you can't post comments? I see this jsut fine.
What concrete numbers would persuade you one way or another? You are probably not going to “just” answer that question, which should illuminate for you why the only place your brand of skepticism gets air time is among people who have made up their minds about everything. Even though I think you are being sincere, the thing you are advocating for is co-opted by people who are not.
Excited to use Airbyte builder with AI Assist!
I expect this thread is long dead but paying the money to get through covid was a Good Thing.

The issue is interesting in that afaik, covid caused a massive “pause” in the private economy - the government kept paying its workers as usual, and workers kept paying their rent and so on, but a huge chunk of the economy is discretionary - such as going out to the pub, or shopping for clothes or buying yachts.

And so the government did its best to keep pub workers furloughed and shop workers furloughed, and keep the supply chains turning over.

Which basically meant that the people with most discretion in spending (the rich) stopped spending but the money they would have spent was spent instead by the government- thus the government spent the money the rich would have and then the rich did not spend it.

This transfer of wealth from government to rich does need to be handled
Show HN: A way to stay in touch with people
As I’ve gotten older, busier, and moved away from my friends and family, it’s been harder to keep up with relationships and form new ones. I found that a lot of conversations naturally started by sharing something that was relevant to us - a meme, instagram clip, or article.

The idea is simple: you create a list of your friends, coworkers, or any contact and keep track of their interests, notes, and past interactions. The website uses your contacts' interests to generate tailored recommendations on how to reach out to them. These aren't meant to replace real interaction — just to give you that little nudge or idea to help you start a conversation over text or phone.

Some future things to come: I’m currently working on improving recommendations and reminders. I’m thinking of something along the lines of emails that’ll remind you to reach out to someone you haven’t in a while.

Note: you can try it out without logging in but you’ll need to create an account if you want to save any info.
As far as I know, the ID was reflective of the user ID format for the PDP-10's it ran on.
What percentage of Debian Developers are Canonical employees? 40%? 60%?
Just curious: why doesn't this person have an Aadhaar number? Is it because he doesn't want one for ideological reasons, or is there some class of people for whom getting one is difficult or impossible?
The typical way of copying a project for your own personal use on GitHub involves publishing that copy on GitHub. So, it is a real fork—maybe not a well maintained one, or one that the author is particularly excited about, though!
This is the thing that frustrates me so much about this sort of discussion:

Just because something is legal, it doesn't mean it is ethical.

We keep dismissing ethics as any consideration from business conduct.

It is legal to ignore any and all environmental costs that have not yet been made illegal, so are corporations duty bound to ignore any obvious deleterious consequences as long as there is money to make today? Something feels very wrong about this approach.
With all the celebrity leaks, hundreds of them (remember the fappening?), I don’t believe the encryption is the problem. It’s usually social engineering or cracking a password that leads to these leaks.
Sales - just pick up the phone and dial

UI/Ux design

Visual design

Marketing
I hear the arguments but struggle to buy them: while this makes doctoring images much simpler and quicker, someone could have prepared any such image in advance anyway (or layers they can quickly add on top of real-time images with only some lightning fixes — for real time experience, this could also be only a couple of minutes).

How about we instead start with a survey of what source of data people really trust for news? Social media is known to reaffirm someone's beliefs (citation missing), but does it really change one's opinion?
Not familiar with this, but in general sup-chat isn't an IRC client!
Solid waste, yes?
This one is good, however, for me there's always a weird problem - I choose a font I like on some site, install it, then set it in my IDE (MSVS or VSCode @Win7/10/11) and it is... I wouldn't say like sh*t, or even looks very much different, but for some reason just not as good as it was in the browser. I wonder what am I doing wrong?
>> Realtors are paid on commission which means that they want to transact high and immediately

This is either naive or disingenuous. Do the math; realtors want to close fast but don't really care about the price the way the buyers and sellers do. The commission difference on a significant gap is not worth losing the deal.
If the plurality are bad at their job, maybe the role itself needs at the very least a hard look.

Any time you find yourself saying "It's not the field that's fundamentally broken, it's that (almost) every individual in it just happens to suck (at it)," you need to take a step back and realize that that's the same problem.

If you have to be exceptionally skilled at something to do it in a way that's net positive, and that field doesn't reasonable filter for the exceptionally competent, then the field is setting individuals up for failure, and needs to be restructured.

And if most people in the role suck at it, you by definition have to be exceptionally skilled to succeed. Even if from the outside it looks like the people just tend to suck and the field is easy.
The Lost Taglines
This is an interesting idea! Could you put some examples of the recommendations the system generates on the home page?
Even if WordPress could suppress nominative use, do they really want a world where everyone selling wordpress-based services and products avoids saying "WordPress" like it was the name of The Dark Lord Himself? Maybe it's time for some malicious compliance by way of a hard fork that strips the word "WordPress" everywhere except where legally required.

Even if Mullenweg somehow had 100% of the facts and law on his side, he's still an embarrassment to both the company and the foundation.
With no atmosphere, laser links might be better; like Starlink is working on for inter-satellite comms.
> I think the decision is up to the company doing the contracting.

The sum of all websites contracting CF can be more damaging to me as an individual than it is to the companies doing the contracting. So I should definitely have a say on how they operate.

> If my apartment key doesn't work, I don't contact Schlage, I contact the rental company.

Yeah, except with your analogy it's Schlage that's breaking or fixing your keys, not the rental company. You don't know why or now. Some days it takes more effort than others to open your door. Your option is of course to move apartments, but you can't boycott Schlage, if the landlord decides to use them.

> Why do you expect cloudflare to tell you why you can't access a business that doesn't want your traffic?

Because for example if it's based on my native language or religious preferences it would be literally illegal in real life.

> Someone shouldn't be providing a service that people want for their sites? There can't be a business that helps people who don't want your traffic to actually reject your traffic?

Yeah, they should not be able to do so without someone overseeing that they aren't blocking accessibility-oriented browsers or discriminating based on non-technical factors that just happen to correlate in some other way.

> It seems to me that you've been deemed as "not worth the hassle" and that sucks for you.

I hope you get to enjoy kafkaesque technical obstacles thrown at you for no fault of your own, and I hope that sucks for you.
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Meanwhile back in reality: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/j...
It's not necessarily, but interpersonal bad behavior reflects on your self, professional bad behavior reflects on your institution.

The stakes are also higher. Yes, love is more important than money, but having a job at all is definitely lower on Maslow's hierarchy than finding a romantic partnership.
Any time I get the urge to complain about my kids Roblox usage I remember this ^ and bite my tongue :-)
For years, there was a Commodore 64 in COSI (the science museum) in Columbus, OH, connected to CompuServe. I was fascinated with that thing as a kid -- it was this window into a parallel world that I didn't really understand, but immediately understood in a sort of a Snow Crash way. Looking back, it's quaint, but such a harbinger of the future!
Wow this is one of the best Google Maps clones I've seen so far. Is there a plan to translate the UI into other languages than French? I would be willing to help out, if there is a Weblate interface or something similar.
CompuServe was the first system I called when I got a modem, back in 1987. I remember being amazed by their multi-user CB chat. Eventually, I found some local BBSes and stopped calling...
One of the earlier examples of enshittification, before the process had been smoothed out and best practices established.
It shouldn't be the developer's burden to ensure that the reviewer is operating above the reading level of a toddler. I am sorry that your boss apparently cannot, but that's not justification for all industries to operate that way. The purpose of a camera app is to take photographs. A user who downloads a camera app probably wants to use it to take photographs. This is something a child can understand. If I have to hold the reviewer's hand and explain what a camera is, I severely question whether that reviewer is qualified to be doing that job.
Advanced Voice is rolling out in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week
CodeGuardian is an intelligent agent designed to automate the generation of production-grade unit tests for your Python code. It not only creates and runs these tests but also monitors them in real-time, providing you with comprehensive summaries of your code health. With CodeGuardian, you can enhance code reliability, maintainability, and accelerate your development workflow.
They have to drop the price because the model is bad. People will pay almost any cost for a model that is much better than the rest. How this company carries on the facade of competence is laughable. All the money on the planet, and they still cannot win on their core "competency".
If you want to see the power of monopoly in action, look at the enterprise market and how Intel is able to hold market shares despite their inferior products. Some corporates still blindly buy Intel.
Scientists clarify the neuronal basis of the mathematical concept of 'zero'