skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure if you get into the details, the answer will be "It depends...", which is obviously true, but also self serving for a consultant.

To figure out which is true for your company, they would come in, spend a few months studying you workplace. This would include several interviews with leaders and SMEs that the leaders hand select.

Given this study process, it wont be surprising that the consultants end echoing back the opinions of leadership.

I been through many consultant assisted re-orgs. Somehow, the leaders who brought them in always end up with promotions and more control. On one hand, yes, this usually gets oversold to the rank and file with promises of efficiency. On the other hand, the consultants are doing what they are paid for: finding a way to get their stakeholders what they want, when the stakeholders dont have a roadmap to get it.
I used to hate makefiles, but really I just hated the way C/C++ make it a manual task to decide what to compile, as opposed to something like Python modules.

Now I love Make, for non-C work.
> almost like Apple is maliciously complying by overcomplicating the procedure

Sorry, which of a 9-volt battery, alcohol wipes, safety glasses or sand (and a container for it) screams inaccessible? (And everything there is technically optional. I doubt most Treo 650 users drained the battery before touching it, or bothered with a suction cup.)

Removing the back glass takes special tools, but I'll take that over having to replace my phone every time it gets wet.
Ever watched someone pour salt on a slug or an earthworm? What do you think it's going to do to single celled creatures?
kernel (and linus) lost a decade long war against this.

and nobody cared. read about the "tainted kernel" compromise. without it android, modems, anything with a linux firmware, would be truly open source.

alas, the modem manufacturers won then.
That makes no sense. How many Clearview devs post to HN and say what they're doing? So much work happens away from the public eye.
Alternatively, could their business model be understanding it and naking the wrong choice anyway? They've been e-begging of this lengthy ordeal something fierce the whole time, and now that they've lost seem to have straightaway launched into setting the whole thing up again. Putting their archive materials in perpetual danger seems to generate perpetual sympathy after making themselves the far and away leader in their sector. Reminds of what a lot of other sites have been doing.
busybox make is quite restricted, which is why I write for it.
Sort of, in Northern California there was a lot of office space.

In San Diego most of the land zoned for office space is owned by the Jacob brothers (although not directly connected to Qualcomm anymore). Imagine if Google and Apple had to rent their campuses from Oracle.
What makes the 4 to 5 NAT different than the current 4 to 6 NAT and DNS?
that, and removing the commercial trackers from this ftc.gov webpage...

googletagmanager.com googleapis.com fontawesome.com addtoany.com

sigh
Thanks, that's a fun video.
>On a more serious note, why would there be (more) microjitter?

This was audiophile bull for the sake of entertainment, if not clear enough. There wouldn't be any more or less jitter with or without RT.

It is the same samples, and these samples are not played by Linux, but by the DAC, which has its own clock.

>Isn't the defaut reaction to jitter to automatically increase buffer size as stated above?

I suspect you mean buffer underruns. A non-toy audio system will continue to try its best to deliver the requested latency, even when these have already happened.

In the same manner an orchestra won't stop just because a performer played the wrong note, or was off by half a second.
You're not wrong, but their value is that they do this for other companies as well and they have staff that have experience and competence in the subject matter. So, in their attempt to support the executive, they find out that they're heading in the wrong direction, they must advice them accordingly and help them come up with a strategy back-pedal.

In other words, if they have new information, they will share that information to see if their clients will have a change of mind. If the new information (or lack of one) won't change minds, then they will submit their advise in support of what they were hired to do to begin with.

These consulting firms, on their own, have had an enormous impact in shaping entire economies and countries. They are not mere props, supporting the ego of an executive. A lot of times, it is the entire board that hires them, or their report by the CEO is presented to the board, not one person. if the outcome is undesirable, they will lose credibility the next time they're used at that company.
I get a flu and COVID vaccine once a year and essentially never get anything worse than a cold.

I have young school-aged kids, and kids are cesspools of filth and pestilence.
Why? You could just hardwire the control. Simulating a finger adds nothing.

This might be interesting for musical instruments with more tactile feedback, like hand drums or violins. But an electronic control surface like that only exists because human musicians aren’t already robots.
Actual quality nearshoring engineers are ~2/3rds the cost when you factor in the added complexities of direct employment or pay an agency to do that for you.

Still a good deal, but not quite as obviously a good deal.
The wappd service is primarily used to configure and coordinate the operations of wireless interfaces and access points using Hotspot 2.0 and related technologies. The structure of the application is a bit complex but it’s essentially composed of this network service, a set of local services which interact with the wireless interfaces on the device, and communication channels between the various components, using Unix domain sockets.

On the bright side, it doesn't sound like this is in baseband firmware but instead in a "value add" service that isn't 100% necessary to the functioning of the WNIC itself.

This reminds me of how some devices come with driver packages that include not just the actual driver software that's usually tiny and unobtrusive, but several orders of magnitude larger bloatware for features that 99% of users don't need nor want. Printers and GPUs are particularly guilty of this.
Yeah, validation, but not rubber-stamping. The validation may or may not succeed.
I feel like I'm missing something here.

Honestly, if you can't update the firmware you're in the same situation... knowing that you have a critical vulnerability and unable to fix it.

Enforcing trusted operations is definitely more work than they are going to do (if it's even possible to "do this right").

In a semi-ideal world, I would look for a vendor that permits only certain ops from a flashed image and hope that their crappy "restriction enforcing" code is also riddled with vulnerabilites so it's really just "follow the rules please".
Fair enough, but having worked inside a lot of tech companies I think I also have a pretty good sense of why tech companies don’t monetarily contribute more: no incentive to do so and because OSS is often chosen specifically to avoid costs.

Hard to see why those things will stop being true.
https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1037507/

Under CPU section.
Of course it’s possible:

All of those reasons you listed are choices that people make — not laws of nature.
The SaaS I am now working for is a react app + some fancy intelligence.

We are not front-end people, so the app is built with the expectation that people will be doing their filtering, searching and using the intelligence we provide, but in their home turf (excel).

Our app also lets users "track" certain events, and we do not use push notifications, rather we respect our user's attention and email them a short summary, and link to a csv that they can use!
You can do tensor parallelism 8 ways (8 KV heads). You can also do pipeline parallelism (there is 126 layers). Either way would work. A million tokens is possible just very slow.

Also, 405b has 8 KV heads of 128 size (hidden_size/num_attention_heads) times 126 layers [0] times 2 (K and V) times 2 bytes (bf16) is 504k per token. At FP8 it's 252k.

[0] https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B/blob/m...
If it takes 3 days to fold a load of washing, it's still quicker than it takes me now. For commercial use it wouldn't work, but for consumers speed is not an issue.
It might seem like the Olympics when it's all put together like that, but it's really just one thing at a time, and none of them required any kind of real effort. They were just choices. When it was time to buy a new laptop, I picked the one that had my interests. When it was time to upgrade my OS, I chose the one that respected me. When my cell phone contract was due to be renewed, I said, "no thank you," and bought a VoIP base station instead. I understood how my car, and reportage of my driving habits, were connected to the outside world and I severed that connection by pulling a simple fuse.

If people only did one change per year, even that would be enough to change the winds pushing our mass surveillance.
The main difference being that Verizon sold me the phone and supported it on their network until they didn't. So yes, the Treo 650 still turns on and can be used without voice or data service, but claiming that Verizon is no more preventing me from using it than McDonald's or H&R Block in this case seems disingenuous.
It’s very hard to get semiconductor factories to work. In almost all cases, it’s better to let the professionals at TSMC to do the fab than to rely on newbies to the foundry industry.
Yes, there was a “rebound” effect where isolation during COVID reduced herd immunity to other respiratory viruses. When people were brought back into close contact, the result was a “speed run” through three years of viruses in the space of one year. It’s a bit more complex than that but you get the gist.
unless you run osx on a Linux kernel, it will always be so.

not a personal attack on you, but it blows my mind how clueless the current generation of developers become after the docker phase.
Killing other people because you’re a bad person makes you a worse person.

If he’s doing that, we should stop him as a danger to others - no different than any other criminal.
Good for apple. I hope consumers pressure them to be open about more things
Like distributing photocopies of a book in braille
I know Firebase is awesome for plenty of reasons. And I’m not disparaging anyone who works hard on it. There’s a ton of great software behind the product.

Unfortunately it’s at the root of almost all of my career’s worst bugs and mistakes (not necessarily caused by me), and it seems like a bit of train wreck in the wrong hands. I’ve had to rescue several clients from it, and have migrated three pretty huge applications off of it now.

I’m not sure what it is exactly. People really abuse the hell out of it.
I've got the same on a stock M1 MBP. At some point in the past I've disabled SIP - probably when I was playing around with FUSE.

Did all the Betas - never had any problem. However, after installing the RC/final version of Sequoia, I suddenly had a popup after bootup about an updated extension from "Apple Inc." and to please allow the updated version.

In Settings --> Privacy I was able to "Allow" the extension, however, this also requires a reboot. And after the reboot, the same popup appeared again.

I've put in a ticket - FB15087179.

Apple replied and said to first, toggle Activation Lock/Find My and wait 5+ minutes in-between. (Either off - wait 5mins - on, or on - wait 5mins - off.) Then boot into the bootloader and turn SIP on, then back off again.

However, when trying to turn SIP on, I get the same error as OP:

SDErrorDomain error 104.

I've found another user on Twitter with the same issue: https://x.com/davidhsherman13/status/1833264669793923151

After reporting my findings in the Apple Feedback thing, I've yet to get further instructions to try.
Interesting perspective. I suppose it's possible they could be doing this on purpose just to get more attention/money... but I don't know if they're really that smart.

If that were their real intentions, then I think people will call this no different than a typical for-profit tech corporation trying to artificially inflate their worth.
Is there any news releases or other information about that program, such as their goals, how much of the feed is merged upstream, etc?
support from red hat is not a good thing :nervouslaughteremoji
https://archive.ph/A1c9B
As an Open Source maintainer, I have always considered it something to do when I want to. If it becomes a burden or a chore, then I stop doing it, regardless of demands from users.

I have no expectations of the users, and I expect the same from them.
From CDNs to Front End Clouds
I think we agree. I was only responding to the "Who's 'they'?" bit.
I think it’s pretty easy:

Refer to any manager or executive at a tech company who uses open source to generate profits but doesn’t contribute as a “deadbeat” — so their choice becomes a source of social embarrassment.
I use Firefox with Sidebery for vertical (specifically, tree style) tabs, plus a userChrome.css to hide the native horizontal tabs. Firefox has mobile apps, and the Android app supports (some) browser extensions.

It works, it's boring, and it doesn't try to shove gimmicky features in my face.
Is this supported by DD?
if i understood that page, debug shell is... "exec" with a nicer .bashprofile and injected text editor binary???
That part was kind of interesting to me. I have both "real relationships", and "work relationships", but they are not at all mutually exclusive categories.

For me, the more the two categories overlap, the happier I am. I like working with people who I deeply enjoy and trust. People I can laugh with and be honest with.

Afterall, the reality of a 40 hour week is that I spend as much time with these people as my wife and family. Life is too short for me to spend 40 hours without real connection.
*poor Americans are falling behind on their credit card debt

I really truly hate that anyone in the country has credit card debit.
Ok, so overnight all programmers stop calling themselves Engineers. [1] What problem does that solve? I fix bugs all day, but I don't call myself a Software Doctor.

Frankly whether software people call themselves engineers or not matters to pretty much no-one (except actual engineers who have stamps and liabilities.)

Creating a bunch of requirements and liability won't suddenly result in more programmers getting certified and taking on liability. It'll just mean they stop using that title. I'm not sure that achieves anything useful. We'd still have the exact same software coming from the exact same people.

[1] for the record I think 'software engineer' is a daft title anyway, and I don't use it. I don't have an engineering degree. On the other hand I have a science degree and I don't go around calling myself a data scientist either.
This website reminded me of another that explored my old campus (turns out this site links to it! The author apparently knew this other group).

(Check out the link about the Reservoir Tunnels, very neat).

https://uem.minimanga.com/occupied/mcgill/
The personal saving rate has dropped a bit.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
At JustDo we make our source code available for transparency and collaboration, we use a source-available license that ensures fair compensation for our work. This model allows us to maintain the benefits of open development while avoiding the pitfalls of unrestricted open-source licensing, ensuring we can sustainably develop and support our software.

I developed this license https://justdo.com/source-available-license , if someone wants to adopt it for their project, I'd love to provide its Latex form, just DM me. (With enough demand, I might Open Source the Source available license ;) )."
Sorry. I'm touchy about the cursed meme I helped create and also flinching at the idea that anything I wrote might get attributed to Colin. Definitely don't mean to jump down your throat.
Why Qualcomm’s Approach to Intel for Taking Over Semiconductor Industry
Answer: Read this post:
https://speadinfo.com/qualcomms-approach-to-intel-implicatio...
You hate it but companies love it because people having easier access to spending makes them better consumers I guess?
Really cool! Thanks for sharing. Is there a reason rpi 5 is needed versus older versions of rpi (which I have plenty)?
I think you've misunderstood - there are no robots in my proposal. You use this sensor as a key, then touch it with your finger, and it can detect force and directionality. Put together a grid of these sensors and you've got an instrument with really expressive potential.
> It's important to recognize that donations and corruption are indistinguishable, and company finances tend to be set up to avoid corruption.

Other than the humor in this sentence, I'm not sure why it would be limited to donations. They can hire devs to work on FOSS.

> People at companies have very little personal agency when it comes to spending money. Spending has to be approved, justified, and some value has to be received.

Approved by... people.
> Honestly this was our first bounty ever awarded and we could have been more thoughtful

That’s corporate speak for “no, we won’t pay the researcher any more money.”
Removing a battery attached with previous type of adhesive is torture - the elastic tab frequently tears off, and I ended up a few times having to bend the old battery a lot, to get it out (very unsafe, it starts heating).

So, to me, this is a huge progress. Plus, don’t you normally have 9v battery and some connectors for it already?
Yeah, source available is the way to go.

I'm not here to make Bezos' yacht ten feet longer.
> WFH only is low quality experience for me. No close bonding. Just zoom calls. Hybrid/Flex is the way to go I think. No need to be in the office 100%, but show up if you can.

I think Hybrid/Flex is the way to go, rather than pure WFH, because of the social connections, BUT it's also utterly pointless with distributed teams.

I'm on a distributed team. I have to fucking go into the office to fucking zoom from there. Plus it's a hoteling setup, so it's even hard to know who's around and my workspace is always a little off.
It's a tool like any other. Wear a helmet.
That's fine, it just means that devs without stamps can't sign off on anything actually important. In real engineering, there is a difference between an Engineer and a Professional Engineer. The latter has a stamp.

I realize that this is the nearly the opposite of our current environment. It is a lot more regulation, a lot more professional standards... but it worked for civil and structural, and those standards were written in blood.

Maybe what I am asking for is a PE for SWE, those people have stamps, and it would be really hard to get a SW PE. Anything deemed critical (like security), by regulation, would require a SW PE stamp. [0]

Software did in-fact eat the world. Why shouldn't it have any legal/professional liability like civil and structural engineering?

[0] In this case, full stack, actually means full freaking stack = SWPE
Sorry I want to apologize, I made an error in my initial statement and meant Erlang _External_ Term Format instead of Erlang Term Format.

Does this change anything w.r.t your response?
Damnnn, sweet! I'm very excited to hear that!!

I've been checking out some of the huge amount of output that you and Jason from Softology have made with MNCA, so awesome to see, top work!!

I also cloned the vulkan-mnca repo from your github and it compiled and ran without any issues on my thankfully very-recently completely-updated Gentoo. I'm over the moon about that!! I've been meaning to try to wrap my head around what vulkan is like to work with and this looks like a perfect example for the kinds of things I'd want to play with! Utterly choice to connect with you, thankyou HN for being so choice! (especialy dang!)
You aren't familiar with the mechanics involved.

Selling preferred stock doesn't "give up all the actual ownership of the business". The norm is literally the opposite: Preferred shares don't come with voting rights. Common shares do.

What preferred shares give investors is their investment back first in the event of liquidation. If an investor gives you a million dollars for 1% of your company, and you turn around and sell it for a million dollars, then the investor gets their million dollars back and you get nothing. Obviously. But if you sell the company for two million dollars, then the investor gets their million back and you get a million for yourself.

That's called a liquidation preference. Under standard deal terms investors get 1x. Nothing else to it.

So your fantasy of founding a company and giving yourself preferred shares makes no sense because a) no investor will put money in without seniority rights to recoup the investment if you fail, and b) preferred shares don't mean anything if you don't have investors.
Only mentioned it abut two weeks ago [1] it would be great if Qualcomm buy it as whole and not certain parts. And two months [2] ago about Intel being attractive as an acquisition target.

Qualcomm currently has close to zero Server revenue. And they have already failed twice to enter that market. Intel on the other hand has plenty of expertise and network. Potential synergy with GPU for a top to bottom mobile to datacenter GPU design. There isn't a single GPU vendor who does that currently. Qualcomm also has the expertise in both Digital and Analog custom chip design which is extremely useful for telling the Intel Fabs what they need to work and deliver on.

Qualcomm is probably the top 5 most hated company on HN. This skewed most opinions, but they were also the number 1 spot on spending R&D to revenue ratio in the tech sector for many years.

I would have been 100% supportive of the move if Steve Mollenkopf was still the CEO or at least Chairman of Qualcomm. But I guess he will now be very busy at Boeing. Not so sure about current CEO Cristiano Amon if he could lead the new Qualcomm + Intel.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41467574

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144020
Convert Google Maps Saved Places to Organic Maps
If you think companies care about embarrassment I have a nice house in Bhopal to sell you.
1. Chrome's security team has a very good reputation.

2. I don't know how accurate it is in 2024, but there are comparisons like https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht... out there.
Data schemas and questions asked about data are just as much a company's IP as the data itself. It frustrates me that startups suddenly draw a line here for their own convenience when tuning generative AI. If I (as an employee) publicly posted all our database schemas and report descriptions, I would obviously be violating IP laws. Yet vendors think this "metadata" is fine to use and potentially leak across users.
It's no different than beating the casino. Play to win.
These are just people that cancelled, no shenanigans. Dropbox doesn't let you add huge amounts, if there's 1TB there is was almost always legitimate data.
What the hell happened to Devin AI?
why do you think they couldn't capitalize more on the hype?
Thank you for linking to this – before noticing the date, I was initially disappointed to see the gifs were merely canonical examples and assumed the project was new/minor or abandoned.

As caretakers of the most comprehensive world database, Google is in a unique position to enrich the global commons. Projects like these are a universal humanitarian gift. It's unfortunate that such benevolent endeavours exist in the shadow of the irresponsible and widespread degradation of search result quality (with unknown second-order effects on public consciousness) and the panoptical Adsense surveillance super vortex.