skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note there were expensive and proprietary CASE tools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_software_engine...

in the 1990s which could often make the same edits a professional programmer would make when you edited a visual representation of the code because these were based on a Concrete Syntax Tree

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/02/16/abstract-vs-concret...

where comments, whitespace, item ordering and all the choices of how to write something are represented. I don't think you could bolt this on to Figma because Figma doesn't have the right representation to keep track of it all.

Graphical editors run into so many little problems like the width of something gets computed to be 13.3333333333px maybe there ought to be a hierarchical "snap to grid" that makes sure is is 13px or 13.3px or 13.33px in the output source code, stuff like that.

Also what exactly is the target? MUI is mentioned in another friend and that's salient to me because I am looking right now at the accessibility of an MUI app: a tool for building applications and theming one single widget set seems like a feasible goal, particularly if it can all be codesigned.
Do you know what a "confounding variable" is?
I've never heard of such a rule (am native), and your reasoning is fine but there are many common examples : cheval (horse), rival, estival (adjective, "in the summer "), travail (work, same rules for -ail words)...
> He never cared if people understood his work, which is a common theme with old school engineering.

Not in my experience.
The meme/troll issues were edgy teen style humor and not that funny, but the legitimate ones that tried to gently explain what rebase does and went completely ignored were funny because they felt surreal and hyperreal at the same time. Office-Space-esque comedy.
Oh I can answer this one. I've never liked chips but was still ~230lb before Ozempic. I tried various diets, but the willpower to maintain one was pretty overwhelming if anything else was going on in my life. I tried eating carrots to get full. And let me tell you, it feels very strange to eat half a pound of carrots, feel your stomach be full, almost painfully full, and still be just as hungry. Same with salads. I would still feel hungry, even though the stomach is full. Even though I liked the taste of the carrots or the salad. It felt like I hadn't actually eaten, and that I was still hungry for an actual meal. With Ozempic? I can just eat a salad, feel good about it, and feel satiated for hours. It just works?
> I ask myself what I would do with the untold billions of Bezos, Musk, etc.

The untold billions is in Amazon, SpaceX, Tesla factories & etc... To have access to those we need to dismantle the assets to swap them to the billions they're currently valued at. Then allocate them more efficiently than the pension funds who owns most of the stock in S&P500. These guys are not sitting on a big pile of gold in their basements, they are constantly trying to invest this capital to produce something. These warehouses aren't cheap, nor programmers making 250K/year in Seatle.
I am not sure your plan will work as intended :)

The housing market is mostly a supply side problem with bad laws and taxation put on top of it. A lot of emigrees came to USA and had affordable housing until recently. Sure, there are more people now, but the density is way lower than in other countries and we can build way higher than before.
Because that would negatively impact the economy and no political party has the chutzpah to pass a law that would make their benefactors mad at them.

"Of the people (with money), by the people (with money) for the people (with money)"
It seems that "plans" are required? Or is that just a quirk of the builder UI?
What problems have you encountered on Fedora that were caused by a distro upgrade? Asking this because I've been using Fedora for years across different machines and can't recall any breakages that were direct consequences of an upgrade, though I usually apply it a month or two after the release date, so maybe there are early kinks that get resolved by that time.
I don’t think regulation has much to do with their excellence at all - it’s largely ESPs competing to provide a better mailbox experience and using things like that and spf/dkim/dmarc conformance to reduce spam.
WordPress isn't going anywhere, even if it's via a fork. It's too large and has so many contributors. It may lose some market share over this, but there's a massive, vested interest in at least keeping the spirit and general code base of it alive. Matt bit off more than he can chew, but I wouldn't worry too much about it at the moment. I think it's very possible that during the discovery phase of the lawsuit that Matt is forced out entirely. Not many companies want a massive legal liability at the helm.
The idea with TLSNotary is that you can have several universities or central agencies running signing servers but you dont have to share the cleartext content of your archives with them to get it signed.

This dramatically changes what is possible with signing because previously to get ArchiveTeam's signature of approval, they would have to see the content themselves to archive it. With TLSNotary they can sign without needing to see the content/access the cookies/etc.
Also, current peer review is a gateway to tenure, recognition, prestige, funding, influence... When you factor in that intellectuals are also, err, human, you get yourself a nice recipe for disaster.

How many papers are actually replicable? How many are the result of citation cartels or outright fraud?

I remember Shriram Krishnamurthi talking about artifact evaluation in papers [1]. I think that's a great initiative that should be adopted by all fields of science.

--

1: https://artifact-eval.org/
Yes, the infamous C/C++... what a trick...
FTA:

> "Winamp Collaborative License (WCL) Version 1.0.1," you may not "distribute modified versions of the software" in source or binary, and "only the maintainers of the official repository are allowed to distribute the software and its modifications." Anyone may contribute, in other words, but only to Winamp's benefit.

They were basically grifters. It wasn't just a dump for preservation sake (which would be fine as a historical artifact), they wanted to benefit. Parasitic. What was the community benefitting? They could volunteer for free to benefit a for-profit company when there are already open-source clones that do the same thing? (XMMS and it's various descendents for starters).
Genders in French words is a fine example of a cryptography-grade random generator.
Spoke from memory, Klingon was rejected it seems, Cirth/Tengwar is a 2023 proposal, fresh and again. https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/#:~:text=160,(Tengwar)

Anyways, I stand corrected on this.
Epic Systems, the purveyor of medical records management software.
> My wife ran a billing system that was a Motorola based AS/400

The as/400 has always been based on an IBM CPU, but it did use Motorola cpu's in the IO cards.
Super cool the Watch can be so beneficial to someone like yourself with actual important use cases, unlike most of us (read: me) where it's mostly gravy.

RE not carrying a phone, I think what mostly makes them something people need to detox from is notifications and social media fomo. Take those away and it's just a pocket computer.

For that reason I've leaned heavily into Focus modes and limiting notifications and have left most social media. Those have really helped a lot with being present.
> The movement is stagnating because its leadership can't compromise

If you want compromises, join the so-called "open-source" community, full of proprietary blobs. Thanks to Stallman, we have an example of true freedom and a compass showing where to move for it.
The thing is, the vast majority of graphics libraries from 1992 the IP owner no longer cares about, and the code usually has nearly zero commercial value.

I wish more were brave enough to just publish it with an open license, and then if the owner complains you take it down and rewrite.

Any damages for distributing 30 year old source code are hopefully in the single-digit-dollars range anyway.
I have a significant library with Amazon -- does this have any support for Kindle books? The Android-based ones let you run a Kindle app, which, while not ideal, at least lets me access the library.

I've considered doing a sweep to download all of my kindle books and de-DRM them so that I have an archive, but this is a tortuous process if your library has over a thousand titles, as mine does.
I have a private plugin with puppeteer support for stuff like this, currently charging clients money to use it to fund the open source development. The clients are people who are already legally allowed to evade CAPTCHAS (e.g. governments, NGOs doing research, lawyers collecting evidence, etc.)

Unfortunatley I cant open source the CAPTCHA solving stuff myself, because it opens me up to liability, but if someone wants to contribute a plugin to the ecosystem I cant stop them ;).
"tombeau" literally means "tomb", but the term also sometimes means "piece written as a memorial", like Ravel's piano suite "Le Tombeau de Couperin". And yes, Hofstadter explicitly links "ton beau" with "tombeau" (he doesn't explicitly mention the "memorial" meaning, though when he mentions the literal "tombeau de Marot" he is talking specifically about the epitaph on it) and also with "tome beau", the great book of Marot's life and work.

I'd find it a cleverer bit of wordplay if "le ton beau de ..." itself didn't feel clumsy. Surely it would always be "le beau ton de ..."?
There's no reason you still can't!
What's missing here is what value the writer is bringing to the table.

Let's look at the trade:

"I’m looking for a technical cofounder who is ready to commit in the next 2-3 months and work in-person in San Francisco. I’m looking for them to do Product, Design, and Engineering."

This requires a lead level engineer, say $200k to $500k/year salary in SF. Given that this is a 2~3 month engagement, we'd double that for contractor rate and pro rata. I'd estimate this is $100k to $250k of time.

"I’m committed to healthtech and have a few ideas, but willing to work on other ideas in healthtech."

Great, this is worth about $0.

This doesn't seem like a fair trade.

What's worse is that "Rob Balian" is a CTO with product manager background. Instead of looking for a co-founder to complement his skillset, he's duplicating the skill set.
Well yes, it is a Mediterranean wind!
Recon Royale is an exciting competitive platform where participants submit subdomains for a specified target domain. Players accumulate points based on the accuracy of their submissions, striving to achieve the prestigious title of Recon Royale Champion.
Yeah, IConfigurationService implies separation of concern. Code using it doesn't have to care where the configuration came from, just that it is there. Someone separately can write the concrete ConfigurationFileService:IConfigurationService that reads/parses files.

IConfigurationFileService implies abstraction of file system-based configuration. Are we planning that there's going to be a different way to read configuration files in the future, and what exactly is that? If no one can articulate it, it just seems like architecture astronautism and: YAGNI.

IConfigurationService makes writing unit tests for anything that uses it way easier, too. There can be a simple TestConfigurationService:IConfigurationService that just implements everything as settable, and in your test code you can provide exactly the properties you need (and nothing more), and easily have 100 variations of configs to ensure your code is working. Without the headache of dealing with actual files separate from your test code, or worse, shared with other test code.

I've actually written multiple long-lived pieces of software this way, and more than once ended up implementing stuff like environment variable-based configuration, REST API-sourced configuration, and even aggregations that combine multiple sources, eg:

new AggregateConfig(new ServerConfig("https://whatever"), new EnvironmentConfig(), new FileConfig("/some/path.config"));

All that code that used IConfigurationService is completely untouched and unaware of any of this, letting whoever is doing this as part of changing deployment (or whatever) be productive quickly with very little knowledge of the rest of the (possibly massive) app.
I had a customer complain once about how great Akamai WAF was, because it never had false positives. (My company's WAF solution had many)

Is that actually desirable? This article articulates my exact gut feeling.
Rollup shades can help with that.
Training uses other operations for normalizing, etc.
How Flood barriers are set up in Netherlands [video]
could you give a concrete example of what you mean by this?
AutoCAD automation?
I think he meant your palm hits the screen, which does happen to me sometimes.

The right hand large stretch with the thumb into the top left area - the pad below your thumb on your palm can make contact with the screen.
'Smart' insulin prevents diabetic highs – and deadly lows
Early Amazon was pro-customer in a way that I think most people have forgotten. Maybe that was always the strategy? They were losing money for years, and maybe that was investing in the company, or maybe it was allowing really large losses to keep customers happy, planning all along to eventually clamp down when people were addicted. And here we are.

Their return rate is still pretty terrible, IIRC. I bet they are trying to cut that down. I still see a lot (and I mean a LOT) of obvious Amazon returns in the line at the UPS store, and some of them are quite egregious (I stood behind a lady for 5 solid minutes a couple weeks ago and she was pulling return after return out of a big bag). Maybe Amazon will start firing those customers.
I really doubt this is apples to apples comparison... More like apples to orchid.. 4 year timeframe likely includes all steps of planning, and then probably also building new datacentre from ground up. Including any ground works and permits.

19 days is likely not that special time if you have everything lined up and enough people working 24/19... And I think lot of planning time was not included in that 19 days.
There is confusion between capital gains tax and estate tax (and estate planning devices like trust law). And that matters.

Is the problem capital gains tax as some people claim or is it elsewhere?

In the process described, capital gains tax is not even postponed (and that write up does not provide for Peter's major expenses during life). That write up works (when it does) because of bypassing estate tax.

The need for realizing capital gains is eliminated through trust, estate planning and other estate tax law (seems to me). The whole of the procedure is in that side of the equation. Not in capital gains tax law.

So the question: Does this all call for a change in capital gains tax law or changes in estate planning (trusts) and estate tax law?

When you use margin loan or pledged assets lines of credit, you are postponing. Which you can potentially kick all the way into estate tax (which your estate may pay if it's large enough). That write up is different still and describes working around even that estate tax. And then the question does matter of which law you are asking to change. (Besides the traditional method of making a law, any random law, thereby solving all problems for eternity - or at least gaining some voter satisfaction.)
'Quantum Memory' Proves Exponentially Powerful
I use one of those banks that allows me to generate sub-accounts easily, each of which has an account number for e-checks and Debit card number. So I can use that for subscriptions, either fund it once, or fund it regularly via automated transfers from my main balance, or you can set it up to just automatically pull from your main account. Then when you're done with it, you can close that sub-account. It's worked very well for these sorts of subscriptions.

Specifically, I'm using Qube, but at this point I'm looking to move away from them and do not at all recommend them.
I lived outside of the US for five years and claimed the FEIE. That’s about $120k deduction each year. Obviously comes with its own complications and I didn’t do it just for the deduction.
That's definitely not the article title (Arctic Animals List with Pictures & Facts: Discover Amazing Animals that Live in the Arctic & Sub-Arctic)
To disrupt any kind of x86 dominance ARM Motherboard manufacturers will first need to get their UEFI and ACPI support working first, otherwise their boards are nothing more than one-purpose toys running only a specific build of a system.
Same here; except I'll recline after dinner on long-haul flights, because that's the point virtually everyone does, especially when the lights are dimmed. I would never recline on <4 hour flights, and am irked by those who do.

(I wonder if it simply driven by an individualistic vs. collectivist mindset?)
> The FBI doesn’t simply count reported crimes. Instead, it offers estimates by extrapolating data from police departments that report only partial-year data. The Bureau also makes estimates for cities that report no data.

It seems like this is quite a problem. How can you expect any sort of accurate numbers if you are just guessing what the numbers are?
Human brain changes after reading this comment
You might want to check out this guy's stuff:

https://qrper.com/2024/10/helene-aftermath-update-power-to-t...
It doesn't mean that discussing it must result in a cancellation of a person though.
> It would be great to have a feature where my closed eyes are replaced with open eyes looking at the camera

There's already a feature that does this called HR
Yep, at least one plan is required. See https://floss.fund/funding-manifest/#schema
The "Vallée blanche" you mentioned is not very far from "Val d'Arly" or "Val Thorens" in the Alps. Both words "val" and "vallée", and also "vallon", come from the Latin "vallis".
See the Littré dictionary https://www.littre.org/definition/val for examples over the last millennium.

By the way "Le dormeur du val" (The sleeper of the small valley) is one of Rimbaud's most famous poems, often learned at school.
I just switched at work as well.
Describing this as "comically awful" seems strange. In terms of building a good open source project, they did a bad job. However they did a good job making the source available. Also given all the dependencies they may have (whether intentionally or not) followed the best path to make sure that the source would be useful. They ended up looking bad and exposing themselves to legal trouble, but I'm not sure this was awful, and they might even have known exactly what they were doing.
DIY Perks has a build log on such an optics-based system: https://youtu.be/2AecAXinars
Nvidia Outperforms GPT-4o with Open Source Model
They quietly released a Llama-based model which outperforms GPT-4o (and all other models except o-1) according to lmarena.
Unpopular opinion: preservationism shouldn't care about licensing and legal nonsense.

Because what is the point if something is distributed in a restrictive license, can't be preserved and then gets lost to time? Also, licensing is to avoid distribution, modification or outright copying by competitors; preservation is completely orthogonal to those concerns. It is to avoid losing a piece of craft to the sands of time. There is no reason laws should have power over anything in perpetuity.

As seen in other spaces, pirates ignoring the "law" will provide the greatest service to humanity.
Coal in China is declining.

"In the first half of this year, China permitted only 10% of the new coal plants as the same period last year."

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/china-likely-to-have-lo...
Market cap of Qualcomm is 2x of Intel market cap(~200B vs ~100B). Current Intel stock price is the same as 1997. In 1 year intel stock price lost more than 50%.
So the first business has no competition... but also no defensibility?

The second business should be able to be much bigger AND easier, but you aren't focussing all your efforts on it because you're splitting your time with the first, non-defensible business?

It's good to be optimistic, but balance that with realism. It's easy to build a billion dollar business on paper, much harder in reality.
Sometimes I spend multiple days debugging and end up only changing one line as a fix
Let's face it, a lot of people will take issue with _anything_ you'd say, for just about anything you choose as example and for different sets of "a lot of people". So while you are right, I cannot take it as an argument for either way. It's just the human nature and by extension the nature of democracy. It's also human to have sometimes leaders looking like acting irrationally, although they are very rational following their own goals which not always overlap with their voters and even less with their non-voting citizens. The only thing I don't approve in your text is blaming the others for not delivering something according to my taste. Like, if I'm not in the EU, there should be zero expectation that the EU does something I like.
This was and is part of their goal, yes.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Beijing-asks-Ten...

"Beijing asks Tencent to lower WeChat's mobile payment market share"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zennonkapron/2022/11/09/chinas-...

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/china-may-impos...

"China is planning to introduce a new mobile payment regulation aimed at reducing the market share of Tencent Holdings' WeChat app, similar to efforts made by the National Payments Corporation of India to curb Google Pay and Phone's growing dominance in the market"

China's methods are more authoritarian than are viable in the west. But the general premise of a competitive market being better for society than dominance by a small number of firms is supported well by history
> If you wrap everything in Rc<RefCell> or Arc<Mutex> ... performance profile better than tracing GC

I seriously doubt it. Naively incrementing Ref counters is extremely expensive. Tracing GCs in modern languages are very advanced. The least you could do is try to elide some of the ref increments - but you can't do that in Rust. Also boxing every object is very unpleasant. If you're gonna do that, use a language with reference semantics, like Java or C#

> significant chunks of the runtime are still in C/C++

Means absolutely nothing about the safety of the languages themselves. Just because C# has a runtime written in C++ does not mean that you can now magically compile and run use after frees or whatever.
IIRC the trick with Adobe is to cancel on the web site, and when it says "but, but, how about this great upgrade?" you say yes, and then you can cancel your 'new' plan during its introductory period.

Maybe they closed that loophole, but it did used to work not that long ago.
It's not about you. It's about another "type" of human. One that wants more. Maybe you don't (good for you, probably you are happier!). But the problem is you will need to "fight" against the other "type". What do you (personally) do then to prevent the other "type" grabbing more? Whatever other people like you tried during history (hundreds of years ago) seems not to have worked (the grabbing types are still grabbing in all culture I have sufficient knowledge of to comment on).
This isn’t an “unofficial release,” it’s a news article about the official release. I appreciate that you make posts about related posts, but this is not a dupe, nor are most of the ones labeled by you and others on this site and across the internet. It’s simply that, a related post.
Why, when it was already solved by the market!? /s
> or to stand for people's rights to have sexual relations with fourteen-year-olds?

Who are you talking about? This is completely misleading and not what Stallman was saying.
In Europe they make a best guess based on IP location, and if logged in using the account address or previous delivery address.

Then the price may change at the checkout if you put in a different/unexpected delivery address.