skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it really depends on what the hobby is.

If you’re into an individual sport and you have private lessons, which are more common than you’d think, you’ll easily blow thousands of dollars per year just for half an hour or an hour per week. Almost anyone who is beyond a fairly recreational level in tennis, martial arts or fencing will be spending thousands per year.

On the other hand, 3.9k per year is a massive amount of money to spend on cheaper hobbies like hiking or painting.

It also depends a lot where you live, HN is very US centric and is full of people who are earning big money at tech companies there.
From the description, the app launches an OS controlled file picker. Once the human picks a file, the app is given a file handle with read/write permissions. Any file is fair game to be used within the app, but the application does not get to know anything about the file system.
Been a fan of Nardwuar since his CiTR days :-)
Is Megamass more or less sinister than Meta in this scenario
> It's an explicit option you must pass. It's often useful to be able to override isatty decisions when you want to embed terminal escapes in output to something like less. But for clear it's debatable.

In terms of UX it's just moving the burden to the user, who may not be aware of that problem or even the existence of `-c`. The default matters.

> I treat any amount of color as spamming when alternative options exist. Colours are useful for: syntax highlighting, additional information from ls. Not for telling you that a new line of text is available for you to read in your terminal.

I'm a bit more lenient but agree on broad points. The bare terminal is too bad for UX, which is why I'm generous about any attempt to improve UX (but not color spamming).

I'm more cautious about emojis than colors by the way, because they are inherently colored while you can't easily customize emojis themselves. They are much more annoying than mere colors.

> It also has many features that cargo-watch doesn't. If you wanted something cargo specific you could just write something specific to that in not very much code at all. The point is that the combination of jq and entr can do more than cargo-watch with less code.

I think you have been sidetracked then, as the very starting point was about cargo-watch being apparently too large. It's too large partly because of bloated dependencies but also because dependencies are composed instead of being inlined. Your point shifted from no dependencies (or no compositions as an extension) to minimal compositions, at least I feel so. If that's your true point I have no real objection.

> I hope you can agree that no number of millions of lines of code can fix JSON being trash. What would solve JSON being trash is if people stopped using it. But that's also not going to happen. So we are just going to have to deal with JSON being trash.

Absolutely agreed. JSON only survived because of the immense popularity of JS and good timing, and continues to thrive because of that initial momentum. It's not even hard to slightly amend JSON to make it much better... (I even designed a well-defined JSON superset many years ago!)
I love war stories!

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered." - Galileo

I always think about this. "Once I figured out the solution, it was easy!"
reminds me of Werner Herzog's classic rant on the stupidity of chickens..

"Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world."
The US doesn't have too much trouble manufacturing things like aircraft carriers and submarines and 5th-gen fighter jets and missiles, and indeed builds plenty of those, even exporting some. It does have trouble building an icebreaker, but it doesn't need those very often, so it can't keep any company interested in the business when it only wants one every ~30 years or whatever. It doesn't make sense to spend a ton of money just to build one ship, when they can just buy it from Finland.
The user can use a file picker to select individual files as well.
But then you have to make a different statement. The purpose of a large, publicly traded for-profit corporation is to maximize profit.

This is quite an important distinction because it implies we may want to limit the prevalence of those things and increase the prevalence of small businesses and privately-held medium businesses that can advance other societal goals.
Apparently there are 300k people in the world who decided they need to have their printer available to the whole internet. It does not make sense, at all, but here we are. I suspect a lot of printers are going to be vulnerable with no patches in sight, but... these should only be available via LAN. Which is still an issue, but less so than it seems.
I mean they're all mammals, just like us.

Intelligence is just one thing we can consider when deciding what's morally acceptable to kill and consume. Genetic proximity to humans clearly matters to many people as well: lots of people stick to seafood and/or poultry despite the fact that octopuses and some birds can be quite intelligent.

Sociability could be a third factor. Pigs are smarter than dogs, cows are smarter than horses, but we choose not to eat dogs and horses because they more readily comprehend and obey our commands, enabling us to connect with them on a basic social level.
This is a pretty extreme form of neutral stance. Yes, it's subjective. One man's day out is another man's salary. But it's not so utterly boundless that it's noteworthy to point out that most people probably consider thousands every year on a hobby to be an "expensive hobby".
Interesting project for anyone who want to start learning lean and contribute to a project.

The project as described in the article is to produce a graph (Poset) where each node is a law (say the commutativity equation for example) and each edge is either a proof of implication or a proof of a non-implication, since this graph is infinite the project limits the laws considered to up to 4 applications of the binary operator.

The main goal is not the proofs themselves but experimenting in doing math in a matter that's more similar to software engineering in the open source community.

The collaborative aspect of the project is to write a proof for each kind of edge (implication and not_implications) between the 4694 considered nodes.

There's also the advantage that a GitHub CI running lean will be setup to automatically check if the pull requests adding theses edges are right or wrong without the need for a human to do the checking of the proofs in their head.

partial visualization of the (WIP) graph: https://github.com/teorth/equational_theories/blob/0e67dad3b...

outline of the project: https://teorth.github.io/equational_theories/blueprint/

github repo: https://github.com/teorth/equational_theories
Inversely, Do you think the state should be able to criminalize selling or owning farmed Rhino horn?

Do you think think states should be able to ban the sale of meat or specific types of farmed meat?
Yes. The longer that a shipyard goes with fewer and fewer contracts the more likely it is to go out of business.

And it's far harder to get a ship built at a yard that is out of business than one that isn't.
He's paying $95 per shirt, $13 for a undershirt, $10 per underwear.
There are few things more depressing than having to deal with companies like Accenture, EY, KPMG etc. It's a world of FUD, upsell, more consultants, nothing getting done, lots of slides, new "junior senior Global Consultant for Microservices" type stuff. They are literally a cancer on innovation and just getting things done.

They destroy the ethos of a company through deliberate intransigence.
So, Florida mortgage-related financial gambling is about to explode again? That only took 16 years...

>> Using Florida as a case study,
we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are entering and filling the gap. These new insurers service the riskiest areas, are less diversified, hold less capital, and 20 percent of them become insolvent. We trace their growth to a lax insurance regulatory environment.

>> We find that these new insurers would not meet [government-sponsored enterprise] eligibility thresholds if subjected to traditional rating agencies’ methodologies. We then examine the implications of these dynamics for mortgage markets. We show that lenders respond to the decline in insurance quality by selling a large portion of exposed loans to the GSEs.

As a former resident, this is comically on-brand for Florida (and granted, some other regulatory-captured states): allow business to do as it will, ignoring systemic problems, and then when the risk dice finally come up snake eyes exclaim "No one could have possibly seen this coming!"
Excellent points! I considered how to work in those cheap "Hail Mary" kind of commits. In then right situation those can be effective but it can also be incredibly risky. This is coming from someone with "Revert Revert Revert..." commits with my name tagged on them hahaha!
China's newest nuclear submarine sank in dock, US officials confirm
Nice, the CBRS spectrum and municipal auctions were a big success in opening up new markets

I like this narrower approach the FCC is taking
> But another part comes from the fact that drive.file access is not enough for some apps, and iA Writer falls into that category.

How so? (I agree that the readonly category doesn’t work for iA, but drive.file should be fine IMO.)

> Amazon doesn't make developers jump through their ridiculous hoops to access the S3 API.

With S3, you only get access to your app’s data, not everything user has. If that’s what you want drive.file or drive.appfolder permissions are what you need: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/api-specific-...
It probably is, but you can do that workflow with DuckDB too. It's just really flexible since it can all be done in SQL. Check out the DuckDB postgres connection (https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/postgres.html)

To import from a Salesforce Bulk Export CSV (for example) into a postgres table is a few lines of SQL

```
INSERT INTO pgdb.accounts (
id,
created_at,
updated_at
)
SELECT
"Id",
"CreatedDate"::TIMESTAMP,
"UpdatedDate"::TIMESTAMP
FROM read_csv('/path/to/file.csv')
WHERE
"Id" NOT IN (SELECT id FROM pgdb.accounts)
```

The path can be in a cloud storage provider as well, which is really nice. You can do updates which join from the postgres db or the other CSV files (or a MySQL database) as well. The data transforms (casting to timestamp, uuid, etc.) have been super handy along with all the other SQL niceties that you get
Evilsocket is a known hacker. They made for example Bettercap (Pwnagotchi), Opensnitch, and a myriad of other tools. They don't need fame.
Lateral movement and privilege escalation are total wins, tho.
To be blunt: how do you know it's not an exfiltration app that will suck down your entire Drive and upload it to their sponsor's ML training engine?

Text editors are great, but hand-installed editors[1] running on the local filesystem of a developer-maintained personal device are a very different threat model than an app available to everyone in the Play Store.

[1] And even then they tend strongly to be boosted by a large community of (usually) open source developers attesting to it, usually by inclusion in something like a "Linux Distro" which carries a strong promise of well-audited software. Emacs and VSCode and whatnot skate on reputation, basically, but the community tends to frown on "here: download my new binary tool for all your editting needs!".
Yes, but that's not unique to Maven because virtually all software repositories have such policies. If that's about the required amount of "moderation" you claim, I don't see how Maven can even be considered better than others.
From the article:

> WordPress’s GPL code

Which, is a FSF license. What change are you advocating for in this situation?
The famous last word of humanity before skynet wakes up
(most joking, but only mostly)
Wow. This is unbelievable. I'm wondering about creating only a PWA or building Android + iOS apps and this article made me decide with going PWA-only, I'm not going to deal with this. The competition in the official app stores is so big that it is not really worth it anyway
Most people don’t drive luxury vehicles either. Can we use that data point to conclude that most people have a “revealed preference” for not driving very nice cars?

Of course not. Calling that a “revealed preference” is an abuse of terminology. A revealed preference means both options were equally easy to choose. Ad companies know people don’t like ads which is why they make it difficult to avoid them. In fact if people liked ads then injecting more ads into content should increase user retention.
Maybe the problem isn't with American unions, it's with American corruption.

In other words maybe there's just less corruption in Finland.
Yes I would, anyone spending this kind of money regularly is a rube. Most of the shit you mentioned are up front one time costs with a minimal maintenance requirement. Anyone who is paying several grand to upkeep this stuff is an idiot and deserves to be parted with their money.
For strictly developer tools, or for those used to older OS desktops or simplistic widgets, it's really hard to beat Tk. It's been around so long that if you've dealt with it before, it might feel dated, but it's also easy to figure out exactly what it does. I got my start using Tkinter with the O'Reilly Programming Python book (the more expanded book from Learning Python), using Python 2.x (probably 2.4 based on the 2008 or so timeframe I bought it). While at that point I had used C#.Net with their GUI builder, as well as Java's AWT and Swing, and Tkinter felt so much more natural when writing a GUI through code.
> The 90 euro Converse sneakers and the 30 euro Mywears have a similar CPW of 0.87 euros and 0.70 €, respectively. Their effective cost is roughly the same, which means that walking around in the cheap Mywears is roughly as expensive as walking around in Converses. In this case, money buys quality, at least when measured by durability.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the author spending a lot of money on clothes and replacing their clothes at a high velocity. If buying stuff makes you happy, buy stuff. I've certainly spent a lot of money on board games I don't play enough. Tracking the cost per use seems like a good way to control the habit.

But this paragraph makes it seem as if the author can't make themselves actually admit that's the reason, and need to find an excuse for it. No, sorry, cheap sneakers do not wear out after 43 uses or expensive ones after 104 uses. At that point I'd persinally be classifying them as indistinguishable from new. Like, at best the author got bored of them after that many uses.
In practice, these inspections are insufficient, and the liability problem remains (which can vastly exceed the value of the ship).

The problem is that there is too much to check, too many incentives and reasons to break the rules, and too few consequences for people who do.
I thought about it too. and also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AnoR498RHI
Sam Bullshit Altman
Upward social mobility for rural women have increased as because of social media they manage to move to cities, find work, employment and a partner.

The same is true for men of rural areas who are left to perish and become hopeless.

You'll die faster from hopelessness than any lifestyle choice.
Because the SEC regulates private companies.

https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/capital-raisi...
Well aren't you a precious little princess. I have none of that. It's very unlikely my early 2000s car will ever be attacked in this manner. I am going to maintain that car as long as possible. Enjoy your ticking time bomb.
We can, but we just won't invest the funds, meanwhile Russia and China will dominate as the ice melts. This is a lack of will and not lack of ability, I hate it when people act like the USA is a POS in blog articles.
I'm (or was) a hobbyist programmer on Android. I have a handful of free apps but Google has made it so onerous to actually get things in the store these days. I've given up; it may be worth the time of a big software studio to handle all the busywork they make you do these days, but it certainly isn't for a hobbyist. Yes, I know Apple is supposed to be even worse, but Android was supposed to be the reasonable platform in regard to this nonsense.
If you go down this path of creating rules that say people should pay to use open source, you’ll discover there are already laws in place sufficient to manage this situation. If a project uses these laws, then you’ll complain the project isn’t open source.

If you prefer the capricious nature of the politics of social shaming instead of the rules based system of laws and courts, I guess that is being consistent even if the actual process is very inconsistent and unpredictable.

If not, then it’s not clear to me how you’re taking a philosophical stance about open source if you’re demanding payment. Those ideas don’t work together.
The deeper you get debugging, the more you have to reverse engineer, modify, even outright hack the target. Awesome war story, I know how good that must have felt.
The Nine Circles of Dependency Hell
Shape the Future of AI: Llama Users, We Need Your Feedback at Meta!
I work in the team at Meta building Llama models. We are looking to better understand how we can improve Llama models. We want to understand your challenges to build open source AI tools that help you the most. Your input is informing our roadmap and how we support the community to help accelerate adoption.

Your feedback will be invaluable in shaping our product roadmap and potentially guiding the content of these community support initiatives, including possibly exploring hosting workshops focused on common Llama use cases and challenges.

Here's what we'd love to understand:

If you're using any models:

1. Most important considerations for LLM selection?

2. What models are you using in production? If not Llama, why not?

If you're using Llama:

3. Use case description for Llama?

4. Llama Performance: Strengths? Weaknesses? Improvement areas?

5. Feature requests?

6. Deployment challenges with Llama?

7. AI stack: RAG, fine-tuning, agentic flows?

8. Data types you're working with?

9. Model fine-tuning challenges?

10. Gaps in developer tools?
I logged in after reading this to provide the answer to the question after reading. “Nerd”. It’s glorious, I wish I could maintain the same level of consistency as this guy did in collecting this data.
??

The author never suggested "the USA is a POS" - they gave a very nuanced breakdown of the factors at play.
Is there an active effort to get temporal tables into Postgres at the moment?
Maybe it's something like the French saying Le Mal du Pays

"Le Mal du Pays is usually translated as 'homesickness,' or 'melancholy. ' If you put a finer point on it, it's more like 'a groundless sadness called forth in a person's heart by a pastoral landscape"
This sounds like the user has to navigate to the file from the app’s file picker each time they want to open the file, instead of being able to open the file from the Files app. This would also mean that the app can’t maintain a “recent files” list (or bookmarks) for the user to be able to quickly reopen a previously opened file, because that wouldn’t be going through the file picker.
So then the app can't have Recent Files functionality.

Or open the last file the user was editing as it may have been edited elsewhere.

Seems pretty unworkable for a text editor.
Nice project of yours! I am a data science student but I never looked into Computer Vision. Until a few days ago, when I started watching a series of short courses on a YouTube channel called First Principles of Computer Vision [0]. I found it fascinating and the math behind is truly beautiful, concise and efficient.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@firstprinciplesofcomputerv3258
strongly recommend to check-out any playlist. Best courses I have had since a long time.
I worry that single percentage might be hiding some complexities like a subcategory of cars with a much lower recovery rate, or having the term "recovered" encompassing "as scrap".
Thanks, was looking for something like this. With all the hardware I'm sure is sitting idle under HN users, we could make a big contribution for ~free.
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”

— Conan O'Brien
Update: after a little back-and-forth, where they asked me to provide a photo of myself holding my passport, and me asking them to tell me which unusual activity happened or what projects they need more info on (I have zero active Droplets, I had a few Droplets before). They permanently blocked my account and wrote me the following:

> Based on the information provided to us at this time, we are unable to proceed further with account recovery steps.

> If new information becomes available or circumstances change, we can review this request further.
A day ago Louis Rossman posted on Youtube: Mazda requires $100+ subscription for remote start after filing DMCA takedown of open source program"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n0AI5aemUY

"I never hear the ancaps and the hardcore libertarians in my comments section... complain about Section 1201 of the DMCA. I wish I did more often."
I've always heard people say nationalism is a good thing and globalism is the solution, yet they never have an answer to what do you do when China controls every supply chain and then decides to bulldoze Taiwan and we then go to war with them? All the market advantages and globalism in the world goes out the window and you can't do much more than capitulate to a bully.
you need a store where the cost to use it in parallel is so low that companies are willing to take the chance.

One of those costs imposters and bad players using the alternative store.

I would settle for apps proving the files for sideloading on their website, and the vast majority wont even do that.
In my opinion TRISO fuel is bad because it has very low burn-up and is difficult to re-process.

These things together mean it has quite low utilization of enriched uranium.
This might be thinly-veiled shade tossed at "Earth 2", ostensibly a metaverse company that sells real estate in a non-existent game for fake money (i mean cryptocurrency).
That's the goal of Nvidia's "Earth 2" plans, which the article mentions very briefly.
Sounds like how Temu is killing dollar stores and mom and pop e-commerce stores here in the states
2000 tapes at 6 hours each, 12,000 hours. You can record them for about a gig an hour, so it ought to fit in 12 terabytes.

Doing one tape a night, it'll take 6 years of calendar time. 3 years if you buy a dedicated computer to do it, at two tapes a day.

The good news is that's calendar time, not your time, which is pressing "record" on your computer and "play" on the VHS machine.
> And before anyone says this is the price of an “open” OS—well, we don’t have this problem on Windows.5

Cue drum roll...