skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Provide an accounting of all profits from the service offerings that have made
unauthorized use of our Client’s intellectual property;"

How is this determined?
I wonder if this is the reason Google killed the product? I.e., pressure from autocratic regimes so that they can control information better.
The minimum wage was meant to be a "universal basic wage", and it has been corroded to uselessness over time.

$7.25 an hour

What is different in modern times that would prevent the same from happening to UBI?
I suppose that's the same mindset that governs people who are fine with getting tickets driving in HOV lanes.
speak for yourself, travel outside of US to see how well its implemented by even 3rd world countries like India. payment in seconds basically means you can use it (or a derivative) at PoS. that basically mean for vast majority of people who pay of their balances monthly, no income from visa transaction fees which can be 3%+ for small/mid retailers.
Fresh CS grads are a net cost to startups for a while, probably months and maybe years. It doesn't matter how many tests they've passed. They don't have real-world skills, especially non-technical skills.

They would've been hired easily by over-funded startups in previous years, but a lot of the money is now being raised by "AI" companies that are a thin veneer over external APIs or FOSS projects, so the number of developers needed is lower.

The huge layoffs over the last few years have also made experienced staff available and less expensive.
> Eh, it's no longer allowed to voice discontent in public once Linus has spoken? What a bizarre thing to say.

I'm sorry you misunderstood me, because I said nothing about simply voicing one's discontent. I guess it needs to be stated explicitly:

Everyone, including Ted T'so, please feel free to voice your discontent.

My argument was only: When you do voice your discontent, please direct it to the right/responsible person (Linus) and not someone else. Or if it's easier for you: Don't shoot the messenger. Which I thought was clear when I said:

>> The person to whom he should address his complaints is the decider, the BDFL, Linus Torvalds, not anyone else.

> You come out here with some pretty big accusations based on basically nothing other than "he strongly disagrees".

I'm sorry, but recall you said:

>>> Just because it was discussed way back when doesn't mean everyone has to accept the resolution from that. People obviously think it wasn't addressed in a good way.

I only agreed with you about what I thought we both believed the problem to be: Ted, like some others, is frustrated by Rust being included in Linux, and is venting his frustration at the Rust for Linux maintainer, not Linus.

> So do your baseless accusations that border on character assassinations, or dismissing people's concerns as "bike shedding" that they're somehow no longer allowed to bring up.

To be very clear -- I didn't say these were examples of Ted's behavior, although I do think they are examples of bad behavior that have been directed at the Rust for Linux project. I thought was I clear in all my comments about what I believe the problem was re: Ted's behavior. I said Ted not taking his concerns directly to project leadership (Linus), and instead directing his ire at Wedson, was passive aggressive.

> It's not okay to guess at his motivations, dismiss his views outright, and things like that. One is (hopefully constructive) criticism.

Again -- I'm befuddled -- because I was responding to your own statement of the situation, quoted herein. If you read things differently now, 3 hours later, or you regret making that comment, because it was the first to guess at Ted's motivations, I'm fine to leave it here, but please refer to your own comment, before you start preaching to anyone else about good manners.
Thanks for the flag. We'll get that fixed!
Out of curiosity, I looked at WP Engine's website, and counted thirty uses of "WordPress" (before I stopped counting), as well as at least a few uses of "WooCommerce". I am only casually following this dispute, but WP Engine does seem to be using the branding. That said, "WordPress" may be descriptive (I'm not sure whether it is).

edit: I did not address the investment component of the parent comment, as that was added after my comment was posted
Lots of finance people from an earlier era ended up there from the movie Wall Street which is hilarious since it was not intended as something glorifying the sector
Watchdog sheds light on FAFSA fiasco, from a birthday bug to call center failure
Large variety of technical failures detailed in the GAO report
But, of course, this wouldn't be shell if that didn't have footguns more; namely, it breaks if ran in an empty directory (giving a literal "got: *"), and excludes the arbitrary set of files whose name begins with ".".
I've run Kodi for a while, raspberry pis and fire sticks mostly. Right now the best setup I have is on old Chromeboxes running libreelec or retroelec if I want gaming. It's pretty great. Chromebox G1 is like max $50 or less. They are way faster than any non X86 based hardware I've tried. The only downside is the lack of HDMI-CEC so I have to use either my phone, a gaming controller or some sort of Bluetooth remote to control it. I have installed Bliss OS on some Chromeboxes and it works well but haven't tried running Kodi on top of it. Might work well if I need access to any specific apps.
Yeah. But if you chop one up and dissolve it in olive oil before cooking anything else, then it's just umami
Fair point. I'd be interested to learn where those distinctions are drawn, legally speaking?
Out of curiosity, how did you notice this?
It’s going to get really spicy in here if the EFF stands up for a private equity company, but this is pretty clearly an important open source issue.
tools/mpy_ld.py: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/tools...

tools/mpy-tool.py lists opcodes: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/blob/master/tools...

Can the same be done with .pyc files; what are the advantages of MicroPython native modules?

Why does it need wasm2c?
My take is that greenfish comes of as sort of cocky and defensive, which is off putting. Not meant as a personal attack because I have no clue who these guys are, but the responses just don’t make me want to try out the service even though conceptually I like the idea of flipping this dusty ass industry on its ear.
I think a serial shoplifter or thief is worse. It is a bigger problem for me personally, and impacts far more people. Therefore I think it deserves harsher penalties.
I don't have a view into many large tech companies but I imagine some level of tech debt exists in all of them. Are you suggesting that hiring fresh grads to resolve tech debt is unwise given the complexity of doing so?
Hey! I drink instant coffee too. And I drink it room temperature. I'm not usually wanting to spend time with the coffee ritual, though I do enjoy it. So scooping some freeze dried coffee powder and having it ready to drink right away is nice.

My favorite brand is Mt Hagen. I tried Starbucks instant and found it really gross - way too sour.
Feels like a lot of people who should know have been saying biotech for a while, but I’m unclear what big breaks are even being worked on. Not that targeted cancer therapies isn’t super cool and worthwhile work, but it does feel a successful result still basically fits the existing industry shape; it’s not the kind of thing that would be spawning entire new industries the way computers and the internet did.
Peruvian anchovy, the anchoveta, had and still has aprofound impact on peruvian economy.

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

By the way of Wikipedia:

"The anchoveta has been characterized as "the most heavily exploited fish in world history"

https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/183775/102904317
gen_random_uuid() produces a v4 UUID.

Taking the first 5 bytes of a v6 UUID (time) and last 5 (node) would be a bad random day.
I know we're not going to get a response, but I'm really curious to hear what the explanation for the allegations covered by WP Engine's Cease and Desist sent to Automattic just yesterday, before this one:

https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-De...

There's two sides to every story but sincerely, something seems... very wrong.
I was hunting for what Windows libraries used a particular new API and saw it in my scrolling!

You can see all the panic and error strings, and some internal package paths if you run strings over it. Win32k looks like it got split pretty hard into a couple of sub libraries in recent versions though (win32k, win32kbase, win32kbase_rs etc)
At least some of it comes from "hype" too. The author of Dspy (the writer) (https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy) should know this, given that Dspy is nothing more than fancy prompts optimizing prompts to be fancier according to prompt chains described in papers (i.e. Chain of thought, Tree of thought, etc). Textgrad (https://github.com/zou-group/textgrad) is an even worse example of this, as it makes people think that it's not just a prompt optimizing another prompt

Dspy has 17k stars, meanwhile PyReft (https://github.com/stanfordnlp/pyreft) isn't even at 1200 yet and it has Christopher Manning (head of AI at stanford) working on it (see their paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03592). Sometimes what the world deems "impactful" in the short-medium term is wrong. Think long term. PyReft is likely the beginning of an explosion in demand for ultra parameter efficient techniques, while Dspy will likely fade into obscurity over time.

I also know that the folks writing better samplers/optimizers for LLMs get almost no love/credit relative to the outsized impact they have on the field. A new sampler potentially improves EVERY LLM EVER! Folks like Clara Meister or the authors of the min_p paper preprint have had far larger impacts on the field than their citation counts might suggest, based on the fact that typiciality or min_p sampling is now considered generally superior to top_p/top_k (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, et al still use top_p/top_k) and min_p/typicality are implemented by every open source LLM inference engine (i.e. huggingface, vllm, sglang, etc)
>I used to volunteer...

Admirable. And difficult I presume.
In almost any profession, your word is all you have. Welsh on someone, and no one will trust you anymore.
People might find it necessary to complain about work when their work is physically unsafe, or they are being harassed or exploited, or they are not being fairly compensated for their work, or they are being discriminated against, or many other reasons. Complaining about work is so necessary that in the US, it’s a form of protected speech.
I have some very broad categories as you mentioned, but since I take and screensnap countless pictures, I could really use: 1. OCR that goes into and tags every file, and 2. Image categorization.

Various services do one or the other (I dropped Evernote and don't use Google) but it would be nice on my private system. I use Apple picture tools mostly for amusement. They are extremely limited at categorizing.

I have been around computers long enough to know that any software which isn't open source will go away long before my data goes away, or will be M&A'ed into something more expensive with a subscription. So I don't venture far from basic tools, even though there may be some wonderful $1595.00 app out there.

I even lost the script that grabs the first line of a PDF with an inscrutable arxiv file name and renames the file.

I'm afraid that as an old-timer, I might become like young people who have no idea of a file system, and rely on search. Search could be a lot better with my two requests above. And FOSS, please, so tools don't vanish or get priced into the stratosphere.
maybe someone will finally highlight how ridiculous the gridlock is on the b44-sbs route, particularly through south williamsburg. I regularly see convoys of 4-5 buses arriving at the same time because the traffic through that neighborhood is so bad that the buses eventually catch up to each other and I regularly have to wait 30+ minutes for it on either end of the route.
Nice catch, thanks :-).

I was thinking of the benefit statically typed languages offer and not the difference between them and dynamically typed ones.
He still parades that around as his magnum opus in his latest blog post:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five-most-produc...

Yeah, I think it's fair to judge him by it.
Very nice!

Curious that you describe the OSM Bright style as "abandoned by their upstream project". I see edits 4 months old (https://github.com/openmaptiles/osm-bright-gl-style), but I only looked superficially. Is it really abandoned?
Sure. But the beer cost me $7. The home might cost a little more.
Or: systems that tolerate bad actors contribute to a society that tolerates bad actors, and therefore increases the number of bad actors.
I do agree that perspective is more accurate; Chrome was always going to be huge with a combination of Google's development effort and advertising. However Mozilla's leadership have done an unimpressive job. They took a large amount of money from Google, decided that their vision of how the internet should work was identical to Google's, then converged Firefox to being an inferior Chrome clone. Brave does a better job of articulating a different vision of the web than Firefox and it is a Chrome fork; the situation is a bit ridiculous [0, 1]. And Brave's crypto scheme, while maybe it'll work and maybe it won't, is a radical re-imagination of how the web could be commercialised. So there is clearly room to imagine an internet other than the one Google wants where everyone has Google Ads.

So yes, Google was going to win the fight Mozilla picked, but Mozilla picked a losing strategy.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/compare/chrom...

[1] https://brave.com/compare/chrome-vs-brave/
A link to yesterday's conversation after WP Engine sent their cease-and-desist letter to Automattic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631912
Not everyone links their level of wealth to their self esteem. Different strokes for different folks.
Umm … https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Did the TV B Gone manifest itself from nothing and present that manifestation on my asshole roommate's personal pocket computer with zero action on their part?

No?

Then we're done here.
Apple Developer Docs Archive
Mine worked great. Had Chromecasts in every room and a few Google Home minis. Anyone in the house could just say "Hey Google, play [WhatEverTheFuckTheyWant] from [AnyStreamingServiceIHave] on [TheTVOfTheirChoice]" it really was great, but for some reason it stopped working most of the time about 18 months and has continually degraded.
There's private energy developers building multi-GW of utility scale battery storage in Texas at the moment.
Even though I don't write any Rust, I still think Rust on Linux is important. I rather learn and deal with Rust than with C/C++, and I too, hope it succeeds.
Yes this is the crux and the fun of my discovery! I was surprised how using sips to rotate the image resulted in a lower size than using sips or ImageMagick to directly compress the image.

I’d encourage you to download the image from the link in the article and try yourself if you have a Mac and then compare them with GIMP because it’s very possible I didn’t do a perfect job with that.
Who said anything about morality? Do you usually favor people who are habitually unfair to you? He has a few companies that he needs to lead, and being cut out of portions of federal rebates because they want to curry favor with unions directly harms his efforts.

That’s probably the main reason, but it’s just got to be especially grating when that decision is couched in patriotic language, and your company is making cars that are much more “Made in America” than any of your competitors.
I agree. The complaint here isn’t about WP, it’s about the full trademark being used without the repeated asterisk being used to call out that it’s a name owned by a different entity and used with permission / under fair use.
No, we have better systems now
I agree with your assumption that there’s the same number of people who want a real OS as there ever was.

However, I believe there are more active distros and related highly-technical projects today than ever. So everyone has to share fewer contributors, except of course whatever the few hot/popular projects are (the latter is nothing new).

I do worry though. Major academic institutions are having to put freshmen in remedial computer classes to teach them what files, folders, and devices are.

The average persons is getting farther and farther away from an actual PC and deeper into the “app” world. Everything is moving to “the cloud”. Even software development is being pushed to virtual desktops/thin clients (look at GitHub workspaces [or whatever it’s called] as an example). The extremely large majority of software development today is web/cloud based. There are more and more of the non-technical buying “computers” that are really just glorified tablets.

At some point, likely not/hopefully not in our lifetimes, it could become unprofitable for manufacturers to build PCs or only a few remain and the costs become prohibitively expensive to anyone but for-profit companies/corps.

Hopefully that’s a pessimistic outlook.
It's not a Universal Basic Income if it's not Universal.

It's been a while since I watched the series admittedly. IIRC it's honor, influence, and prestige that motivates the people working for the federation.
I think that we’re definitely seeing some world-changing things happening in the vaccine world with mRNA vaccines. Covid accelerated development, but there was a lot of movement before that already.
It's no myth. The bank will keep the money in many cases by claiming you were negligent. You have no recourse.
SSN is not an Identity Document, and the collection of Biometrics: https://rethinkaadhaar.in/faqs/ssn

A DL number can change over time, as your license gets renewed - an Aadhaar is by design meant to remain with you through your lifetime.
> So if there's hundreds of millions of dollars in profit from messing with AI results, expect a similar amount to be spent trying to defeat every single countermeasure you will imagine. It's how it always works.

Unfortunately that’s not how it has worked in machine learning security.

Generally speaking (and this is very general and overly broad), it has always been easier to attack than defend (financially and effort wise).

Defenders end up spending a lot more than attackers for robust defences, I.e. not just filtering out phrases.

And, right now, there are probably way more attackers.

Caveat — been out of the MLSec game for a bit. Not up with SotA. But we’re clearly still not there yet.
Celebrating Popcorn
I think you are missing my point. Actually, ever since the pandemic, I prefer WFH/remote work. I mean, I actually did like working in an office for reasons, but there's no doubt about it: I am an introvert.

But being an introvert didn't fix anything else. I had to constantly cycle through masks, got harassed by random strangers when going to the store, had my medical appointments delayed for several months, people I knew were dying, there were shortages of basically everything, and the news cycle was full of panic and anger. And the pre-existing problems with the Internet somehow got even worse.
I go a step further. I don't use milk for anything except coffee, so I bought a bag of lactose free skim milk powder and keep it in the freezer. I throw a teaspoon or two of that into a cup, mix in some tap water, stir it until the powder is dissolved and I have a little milk, then throw in either brewed coffee or some coffee crystals and hot water, depending on what I have on hand.

Milk powder is tastier than milk and keeps better in the freezer.
DozerDB: extends Neo4j Community with features such as multi-db. https://dozerdb.org

Memgraph:
https://memgraph.com/memgraph-for-neo4j-developers

Apache AGE
https://age.apache.org/

And much more….
Where did you read about EFF involvement?
Publishing a blog on Wordpress.com is scorched earth nuclear and a tweet is fine? Why shouldn’t this get some actual publicity? What’s defamatory about it? Your response seems to be a better example of mudslinging than OP. At least OP pointed out some data to back their argument.
Thanks for offering the service! The intensity of map tile pricing is always a little baffling to me. For example, with mapbox this month we (got linked to on The Verge and) exceeded the free tier on the 22nd. Two days later and we have a $40 bill and counting, with a week left in the month. We're a free, open source project and can't handle dynamic pricing like this.

My only feedback on your tiles is the lack of POIs. Mostly just bus stops and an occasional supermarket in my area. But I see from the github that this is on the roadmap.
From the excerpts, I find the former far more humanizing and interesting. The second quote could describe the situation of just about any criminal or felon in the US. The former made me imagine a talented and interesting person I would like to have at a dinner party.

I agree the story has an angle, but so does every story. I much prefer some clear but colorful statements like this to the more typical twisting and omission of facts
Thanks - this one is new to me. Checking it out.
I think unpopular to mention here but John Ioannidis did a really weird turn in his career and published some atrociously non-rigorous Covid research that falls squarely in the cross-hairs of "why...research findings are false".
"Torvalds said that it is not necessary to understand Rust to let it into a subsystem; after all, he said, nobody understands the memory-management subsystem, but everybody is able to work with it."

Chuckled a bit at this line, anyone have context on how true this is?
Cold brew concentrate is easy as well and don't have to dissolve powder.
Thank you for your support! I have indeed put a lot of thought into it, and it's something I use often myself. The crashing with large data volumes is a known issue that many have feedbacked on. I have plans to optimize it, but I'm not overflowing with good ideas. If anyone could offer some suggestions, I would be immensely grateful!
I think a big part of that comes down to regulation when it comes to biotech, which, frankly, I think is a good thing. After all, skimping on software (usually) won’t kill anyone, but imagine how much worse things could have been with something like Theranos absent regulation.¹

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1. For those rushing to point out that regulation didn’t stop Theranos, it might not have kept the fraud from starting, but it did keep it from continuing.
A 10th circle of hell even Dante could have never envisioned.
> tons of funding and institutional resources go into STEM research with no real reason or motivation or material for this research.

I do believe that there exists an insane amount of (STEM) questions where there exist very good reasons to do research on - much, much more than is currently done.

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And by the way:

> This is what happens when Silicon Valley execs, trying to make their employees more replaceable, call for more STEM education

More STEM education does not make the employees more replaceable. The reason why the Silicon Valley execs call for more STEM education is rather that

- they want to save money training the employees,

- they want to save money doing research (let rather the taxpayer pay for the research).
There's good instant coffee these days. Both Sightglass and Ritual Roasters instant coffees are excellent. They're great to have on hand when you're staying at a hotel that only had a Keurig in the room.
What is the value in relying on distro authors to publish rust compiler versions, when the bespoke release channel for rustc is kept much more up to date?
This is one of the the worst corporate shakedowns I've ever had to pretend to care about.