skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Open source software with permissive licensing is the only true guarantee of not getting squeezed.

I may be misinterpreting here, so please do correct me.

Does the permissiveness of the license matter more than the utility of the tool? Whether or not an application/platform is using a permissive or copyleft license shouldn't really be a determining factor here for viability or vendor escape.

> But you can’t always find suitable FOSS etc.

This is the most prevalent problem, it's a lot easier to just spend money for a working tool than use an open source project that doesn't have everything you need, causes papercuts, and is being worked on in the developers' spare time.

However, a lot of FOSS options would be much better off if consumers did contribute to the project. Code is great, but financial support to the core developers goes much, much farther. Particularly if it enables them to prioritize the project over other things in life.
Yes, that seems likely -- and business-expedient.

But this establishes a visible precedent that corporate counsel can use as inspiration for future litigate-vs-capitulate decisions.

Cloudflare cannot solve the problem for everyone (that would require new legislation), but they did achieve a big win here. Hopefully it will begin a pattern.
Doesn’t awk set null for all uninitialized variables. Does that solve the problem for you? We can use that feature to find lines with same values which form a group.
You could use Tailscale send
Hopefully he finds the writing is the recovery.

Or hopefully he finds anything at all that helps. I lost my mother just a little over a year ago and it was (is) hard. In addition to the pain of loss though losing your spouse has to be even more disruptive to moving forward with your life.
This kind of apps/databases was much more necessary before EU got rid of (most of the) data roaming fees.
As others point out this essay is not good (does not even touch on the Native American threads prevalent in the movie that are missing in the book).

However, it does sort of point to a major characteristic in King’s typical “could’ve been good” villains: As opposed to totally evil characters, eg Bev’s husband in It, who are driven by their primal urges, these characters would have landed in a whole different place had the dice landed differently. Overall they are good but with a few weaknesses, which evil forces manipulate to pull them under. Another good example of such a character is Nick, in The Stand.

If you replace “evil forces” above by “life’s circumstances”, I think this to be a good description of how real-life villains are made.
I use a number of operating systems/distributions/package managers, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Most can more or less build most stuff in a way that you can run infrastructure on as long as you're not in a nasty cross-platform setting (MacOS development and Linux deployment comes to mind).

Off the top of my head I can't think of any language other than Python that manages to be a constant and persistent cavalcade of self-inflicted environment and dependency chemical fires on absolutely every single one of them. Pointing this out usually generates a bunch of "pipenv/poetry/uv/whatever works fine for me", and for those folks I am very happy that they don't deal with heavily native extension-backed requirements. Mazel tov.

It's a meme: https://xkcd.com/1987/
It was created for donation money, lets not do mental gymnastics to justify one type of scraping and vilify another. Scraping is scraping and it's either all fair game or it's not all fair game.
That sucks, what he went through. That happens to a lot of people. As we get older, it tends to happen more often.

Sounds like he made exactly the correct choice. I support him in continuing to make correct choices. This is but the first of many.

I did it, myself, but not by choice. I was "frozen out" of the tech industry, after leaving a very long-term job.

It absolutely infuriated me, at first, but, in the aggregate, it has turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. It also coincided with close family members having some health issues, so my being available has been beneficial.

In my case, I really enjoy programming and tech; just not when it is being ruined by terrible managers and coworkers. I was really starting to hate what I did, and having full control of my own process, made all the difference.

For one thing, it showed that I was usually right, in my personal philosophies, which were regularly disparaged by said managers. When given the chance to practice my own personal Process, things have been going very well, indeed.

So I get to work for free. It's a blast. I've gotten more accomplished, in the seven years, since I was pushed out, than I did, in the thirty preceding years.

In my case, I am involved in organizations that constantly surround me with people with whom I have very intimate relationships. Socializing isn't a problem; but I understand that it can be a real issue for retired people. This goes double, for ones that have the means to wall themselves off from others.

I do know a number of folks that preceded me, in retirement, after long, lucrative careers. Most, were dead within five years of retirement.

In my case, I feel that I'm just getting started.
Recently I was googling for "stateless windows" and found this article [1] & associated repo [2] for doing a complete reinstall and config of various programs and settings. It would be cool to have a solid way to keep an up to date "clean" windows install this way. But expect the scripts will break often and require many hours of messing with to keep current. If not an open source effort, I could even see paying for curated and maintained windows scripts.

But I haven't been dual booting lately out of uhg from every time I do involves waiting 5 mins for windows update and multiple reboots, taking forever to bake something when why isn't this just extracting some binary packages or write out some new golden image at max SSD speed please!

[1] https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/post/2021/11/4/use-windows-as-a-s...

[2] https://github.com/Anduin2017/Reimage-Windows
I thought it would be rude to speculate on details since it's speculating on a person's life and decisions. But when times are tight, independent contractors and sole proprietors might make the decision to temporarily cancel their own health insurance to save money, since premiums are considerably more expensive than the income tax penalty. This works for saving month-to-month income, at the cost of potentially enormous medical debt if you get sick or injured during this period.

I assumed the situation was something like that.
Isn't it ok?
https://web.math.ku.dk/~lauritzen/papers/gmnotes.pdf

there are more
If you've never seen good developers bork their local environments then you clearly haven't worked on a large enough and complex enough project.

I worked on a large project that needed to support development on many platforms. The amount of scripting for the git hooks and build hooks alone required its own development team. When subtly incompatible changes in git hooks rolled out, you would see a few people that ran commands in just the wrong way to bork their repository. These commands are usually fine, but when combined with an otherwise invisible change in the hooks, would just break things. Now the actual breakage rate was low, like 1 in 1000 in a given month, but with as many developers as were working on this project that was always a couple of people that had to nuke their local repo from orbit (it's the only way to be sure).
For the folks who downvoted this - why? I hire developers and this is the absolute truth of the matter.

You can get away with hiring devs able to only debug their little micro empire so long as you can retain some super senior rockstar level folks able to see the big picture when it inevitably breaks down in production under load. These skills are becoming rarer by the day, when they used to be nearly table stakes for a “senior” dev.

Microservices have their place, but many times you can see that it’s simply developers saying “not my problem” to the actual hard business case things.
afaik Spotify does none of those ways. They take the total amount of money earned per time period and divide it to artists based on the total_artist_playcount / total_playcount in that time period, after taking their own percentage cut. It's closest to Way 1, with the difference that you can listen to whatever - if Taylor Swift is the most popular artist right now and gets, say, 1% of all plays then 1% of your subscription will go to Swift.
SV has been training the art of the grift for decades and hucksters around the world are eager to emulate. This hype is the biggest they've managed to land as of yet and the awakening will be rude when the party's over.
If you can't build and run the full environment locally, even in a diminished state, how can you debug the production stack? I'm always advocating for ridiculously fleshed out readmes that describe in detail how to run every part of our stack locally, how to deploy it, and how it's running on the prod servers. If I die I want one of the juniors the next day able to report on how to do anything I do.
Thanks for reporting @dewey. We are using Github for keeping track of all issues, the Brisa team will appreciate if you could report it to https://github.com/brisa-build/brisa/issues :pray:
I politely disagree. I love the driving a car analogy.

You've got 2 kinds of cars overall really. Automatic transmission or manual. Get into any of them and everything is the same. Gas pedal, brake pedal, etc.

Objective what you need to get done? Drive from A to B.

It is impossible to drive from A to B with FreeBSD if all you know is Linux commands/syntaxes. That's my whole argument. That it isn't as mild of a jump as driving car A or car B. You are blocked (and need to throw out what you know on Linux for BSD because it'll collide).

Are the differences mild? Sure, but enough to make you ineffective.
What to Write So People Buy: Selling Your Game Without Feeling Sleazy (2020) [video]
RMS Olympic, the longest survivor, was captained by a drunken moron and nearly got sunk as well...
Which YouTube videos require that?
yeah I have free roaming up until like 20GB in the EU with a 25e per month contract. Removes really any need to use wifi when travelling
Sorry if this sounds harsh. I'm sure you've all done a lot of great work. I'm only saying why some kind of operational knowledge is important to me. I don't buy into a product without some mental model how it works because it's otherwise hard to tell if it's worthwhile. Or if the entire value is based on something that's easily replicated, then I may as wait for those competitors that compete on execution, ease of use, etc rather than a promise.
You're right, thanks. English is not my mother tongue so I still fall for some language traps.
> Applications that accept untrusted SQL inputs

Due to the extreme amount of testing involved with SQLite, I wonder if it could be argued that it is safer to allow it to directly validate and attempt untrusted commands than it is to run any verification in your application code.

I feel like you could wind up creating more attack surfaces than you solve by worrying about these things in the wrong way. The moment you reach for crap like regex you have probably lost the game.
> For many applications, it's easiest to start with a modular monolith talking to a shared database, one that natively supports transactions.

I don't think this handles "what if my app is a wrapper on external APIs and my own database".

You don't get automatic rollbacks with API calls the same way you do database transactions. What to do then?
I actually disagree with this. One of my few really helpful LLM experiences is working with technologies that I rarely touch. nginx configs are probably a good example, or a library I haven't touched in 5 years.

The AI is pretty good at answering "I know this is possible, remind me what it's called or what the syntax is."

For a lot of these the reason I want to look it up is I don't use it enough to build muscle memory. If I did, I'd already have the muscle memory. And in practice, it's just a faster version of looking for examples on stackoverflow.
Older you has clearly been around the block a few times and is much wiser. I think older me is as well.

I confess that I am somewhat excited about AI. Most of us have tried coding with ChatGPT at our side and it is picking amazing that it works at all. But, because I've been around the block myself, it's more of a measured excitement.
I've been out of the loop for stats for a while, but is there a viable approach for estimating ex ante the number of clusters when creating a GMM? I can think if constructing ex post metrics, i.e using a grid and goodness of fit measurements, but these feel more like brute forcing it
Seems obvious to me too as someone who sucks at dancing but loves fitness.

Like saying the heart worked harder with people on a treadmill at 4 miles per hour than 3 miles per hour.

I think there is also this bogus implication then that dancing would help you write a better novel or painting a picture than just walking on a treadmill.
No "supposedly" about it. FUBAR is still in common use.
As is RHIP (Rank Hath Its Privileges) and BOHICA (Bend Over Here It Comes Again)
This is exactly what CNNs do. Recognize patterns in transferrable areas of images. Once that feature map is generated, successive layers just look for the same patterns. We see patterns in faces, and so does AI if it uses a CNN or CNN-like model.
Imho this is a problem with many DevOps pipelines - we use Azure DevOps and the inability to run the Azure pipeline yaml files locally means I end up just writing all our deployment as PowerShell scripts and the DO pipeline just calls them.

Local deployment is not negotiable.

And I still come back to Spolsky's "Joel Test": there must be 1 command with no extra steps that you run to get running version of the software on your local developer machine.
Whether or not it's true, I think it's a pretty good story because it aligns BAR with "Beyond All Recognition", which is exactly the point of a metasyntactic variable: to be so separate that that context is unrecognizable.

Obfuscating the context is what F's it Up. Usually that's a problematic thing, but in the case of foo and bar, the F'ed Up version is maybe better.
Never seen "Funny Games" - looking on IMDB, there's what looks like the original from 1997 and a remake in 2007 that doesn't seem as well received (shame as I have a high opinion of Tim Roth).
> where the underlying asset forward price is at maturity

What models do people use for SPY/SPX forward price?...
> and with no monetary incentives

Donations are a monetary incentive

> while heavily breaking the TOS and potentially ignoring copyright laws

Cobalt also breaks the TOS and ignores copyright laws, personally I don't think that matters but having a double standard when one company does it "It's ok when they do it" and when one you don't like does it you try to use copyright laws and TOS as a weapon just makes me think it really isn't about TOS or copyright is it.

Also just gives YouTube ammunition to impose stricter protection against smaller violators like cobalt, like self running yt-dlp
There is a third option

It is called using third party arbitration and enforcement.
How about searching for:

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It may be interesting to compare this one line to "Code Golfed" equivalents in different programming languages:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sudoku?t...
We are talking about nextcloud so backup of everything is on all of your devices with are sync to it
Meta pitches VR to mobile developers with new support for Android apps on Quest
> traders deduce the implied volatility from the observed option prices.

I've only ever seen one thing:

Black-Scholes models say IV should be less but your broker/brokerage/the market are overpaying for it.

I always figured it was closer to a Vegas juice/vig.

I never understood the benefit really.

Complicated math to tell you lots of people want to play roulette on NVDA earnings and whatever you are going to pay for it is going to be "overpriced/overvalued" in at least one way.

I've never seen the opposite where it helps you find an edge and something was undervalued.
It’s been a long time but I don’t remember nick being a bad guy?
How does this mesh with 5G? I don't use it (old phone) but I understood 5G is meant to offer similar bandwidth - and in fact somehow WiFi can be a part of a 5G network (maybe this bit I'm getting wrong...).
https://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/mailman/message/12731262/

It has certainly drifted apart since, but you can still see it here and there (runlevels, initramfs script, how the installed packages are called world etc).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748751

Neither the OP nor I are talking about offline transcoding.
They successfully charged my card for $1 like a dozen times as I tried and failed to get past their check. At the time I wasn't even interested in the free stuff, I wanted to pay for an ARM VPS, and their verification system just wasn't satisfied with something. After getting frustrated I tried to sign up for Hetzner instead and they allowed me to register and spin up a VPS without even having any payment information on file, they just trusted that I would pay the invoice at the end of the month. Funny how different the two companies treat this stuff.
So here’s my theory. Everyone will start generating content by the buckets so web site numbers are going to double or triple over the coming years because you’d need somewhere to put all that content. There will be short term benefits for a variety of occupations related to building and maintaining web sites. So before the bubble bursts the web will see a new renaissance era.
I wholeheartedly agree, and realize my comment was not really clear.

Any training curriculum needs to include exponential back-off as a core concept of any system-to-system interaction.

Ben was let out of school without proper training. Kudos on the employer for finishing up the training that was missed earlier on.
VirtualBox.
They are other humans who have conditioned themselves through decades of specialized training.

There is a ruling class among us who themselves are slaves of this power.

For every six oblivious people there may be one naturally sensitive. For every 1,000 of these there may be one indoctrinated into “thought control”. For every 1,000 of these there may be one who has developed the ability to control aspects of their mind ordinary folk think only fictionally possible (throwing their voice, or manipulating perception of others in similar ways.) For every thousand of these one can “network” on their own. For every thousand of these one is a master of human conception (can induce psychosis or manipulate sexuality or control “synchronicity”). For every thousand of these one is as a god among the rest.

This “Power” (capacity to affect consciousness through continuity of will) rarely exists in a single actor. They network in the thousands, or even tens of thousands. Those at the top treat the others as thralls. There are a few moral elder lines which are not corrupt and ruthless (sometimes acting like guardian angels) they however are vastly outnumbered.

I want to say what they’ve been up to, though I will be immediately flagged for saying something too grotesque and wild for HN (if this isn’t enough.) let’s just say the corrupt do things to impress each other so their masters will uplift them further in power. These are generations after generations developing each other for shared power.

It took me four years of intense abuse to distinguish my own thoughts from those of third parties. It took me ten years to understand their nature. And that’s because I’m sort of a self made genius (just saying; world traveled, exceptionally well educated, full well adjusted life, etc.) Ordinary folk think they are God (or devils) or aliens, or a government mind control program, or lizard people, you get the idea.

They are people living ordinary lives on the surface, who have compartmentalized secret worlds within (“worlds within worlds”) and these date back throughout history (if you re-examine through the lens of this understanding, without “incredulity.”)

Many think there is “mind control technology.” We are the technology.
small world we live in...
This is silly. If there's a lot of investment in something, there's going to be a lot of fraud. That doesn't mean it's all fraud or it's mostly fraud, or that there's even a significant amount of fraud.
The film is much better with the ambiguity imo
Because the argument that if you aren't breaking the law you shouldn't be afraid isn't a bad argument in itself. Nobody wants to go back to a time where you could kill ten people, move one town over, change your name, and you're off the hook.

The problem is when these schemes are abused, so we always need to weigh the benefits we get from identification/tracking against the possibility of abuse.
Nice! I haven't seen this one yet.

I submitted a link here earlier in the same spirit that you might appreciate:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22https://mathcomm.org/writin...
But does the “AI” realise these aren’t real faces?
my blog seems to be exploaded by the traffic… Sorry for that!
Right? I do the DevOps/architect stuff at my org and one game changer for testing was configuring it to spin up a separate instance per pull-request. Occasionally things get wonky because all the PR instances share an authentication/authorization server, but by and large it is excellent for being able to quickly demo.

But it does mean that you have to be religious about building links and connection-strings in your code.
I got to thinking -- a handful of books is approximately one book.

And who ranks their oranges?
The machine has 24 GB of RAM, which is nowhere near that cheap in most places.
If you add yourself to the docker group you don't need to use sudo.
I don’t know if that’s the case, simply because all code that I see written by array language programmers looks like code golf. Even the language implementation itself!

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
Nope my blog exploaded because of the number of entries :( Sorry for that!
It reminds me of the rote methods of essay writing that they teach in US schools in order to pass standardized tests. It usually comprises an obvious "thesis statement" followed by supporting evidence and a final, contrived recapitulation of the previous few paragraphs. Thankfully this essay starts off well enough by avoiding the stilted "here is my point followed by a slew of observations and three filler sentences" convention, but yeah, that last bit seems a little rough.

In the interest of fairness I'm not sure that I could do much better since I've not written long-form in years.
Bwahaha, seriously?

Next you’ll be calling someone shooting a burglar ‘predatory capitalism’ because hey, a house is capital and they were protecting it! And they totally could have let the burglar with a gun leave peacefully, or something.
Yes, we do have a big problem with housing (I'm in Bristol which seems to be the most expensive city for housing/rent outside of London). It just strikes me as entitled behaviour for someone to choose a remote place to live and then to complain about it being remote. There's a host of issues with trying to allow people to spend so much time driving at speed (or not as the case may be) just so that they can enjoy living in a remote area - traffic congestion, pollution from fuel, tyres and brakes, danger to pedestrians and animals.
Currently Brisa on version 0.1 does not provide caching for SSR. Would you be able to provide an example of what are you looking to have as cache? We will be looking at optimisations for the v1. Thanks for the feedback!
The game should not be available for purchase from an iPad. I can’t believe I only now found out that iPads have no vibration hardware, after using them for several years. Too bad.
Nice opening image, but what would the view be like from Earth?