skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salesforce v2 is a pretty bull case for Palantir! This bias people have against against application platforms requiring a consultant ecosystem and per-customer installations is just not accurate - in software, as in the rest of the world, there are some areas where it's the right model to get things done efficiently. Walmart can't use an off-the-shelf CRM platform any more than US Steel could use an off-the-shelf furnace.
Good lord. I don't know how exactly it's constructed but I'm guessing a house made like that is either going to require extensive annual maintenance, or start rotting/crumbling in 15-20 years.
Leadership and Power in Open Source: Reflections on the WordPress Crisis
Artemis moon suit designed by Axiom Space and Prada revealed in Milan
It is if you link it into your address space. If your code wants to be non-GPL then it needs to have some kind of barrier between it and the GPL code that it uses. For Linux, that would be the kernel syscall abi. But normally it's the process boundary. For example, if your program spawns the GNU gperf command, then its GPL license doesn't apply to your program. Furthermore, the generated code that the gperf command prints to stdout, is not encumbered by the GPL. In other words, the output of a GPL licensed program belongs to you. But if you were to copy gperf's .c files into your codebase and use their perfect hash table algorithm, then your software would become GPL encumbered, but only if you distribute. They will sue you and spare no quarter if you don't give your users the same freedoms that they gave you. Even if the gperf dev team doesn't do it, then some other org representing someone who contributed a bug fix once will. You can't hide and there is no time to survive, because GitHub can be easily monitored using tools like BigQuery.
Diving into the Mind of Geoffrey Hinton
You're really not helping the argument here that LLMs aren't just stealing code.
Legally allowed to evade CAPTCHAs? LOL.

What world do we live in where evading a captcha is an illegal offense?
I don't think it will pass, but I think subsequent versions will be slimmer and less mock-prone. In 10 years people will look back at the first version the way people look back at the first bulky cell phones.
The vast majority of codebases that spam factories are misusing the pattern and simply add more boilerplate and abstraction bloat for something that is easily expressible in true idiomatic C# itself.

You see it everywhere where someone handrolls a "ServiceResolver" or "DtoMapper" that wrap what DI or ORM already handle on your behalf, simply because it is consistent with ancient badly written code that originates from practices that came from heavier Java and before that C++ codebases.
Don't a bunch of web protocols use big endian?
I feel like this is only happening because financial projections were discovered to be impossible to meet with the current power generation and the trends for building new power were insufficient.
If you are linking against GPL code then yes it's true. If you are linking against LGPL code then it's fine. Note that running software on Linux doesn't mean you are linking to Linux. However, if you distribute Linux, then yes, you must supply the Linux source code on request.

The "technosphere" is generally fairly compliant on these things. There is no disaster. But this is also why most commercial companies avoid GPL libraries.
I was about to post a link to the same URL but archived using singleFile, which looks like the original at amazon. I didn‘t because I realized that I have absolutely no idea what additional information would be hidden in the file. In the worst case any component sent by Amazon and archived into the file may contain PII, even if I am “logged out“.

I‘m not saying that singleFile is bad in any way, I‘m using it a lot on multiple devices, but I‘m not sure whether sharing archives is a good idea™.
Show HN: Citizen – A Node.js web app framework for fans of classic app servers
Citizen is a web application framework I started building years ago when I was first learning Node. I've added features and improved stability/performance continuously and finally decided it was worthy of 1.0 status.

I think it might appeal to devs like me (old guys) who came up on app servers like ColdFusion, .NET, PHP, etc. and prefer the server do the heavy lifting. It doesn't dictate anything about your front end, and instead tries to be as flexible as possible in providing whatever output the client might need, whether it's a single fully-rendered HTML view, partials, JSON, or plain text.

Only 2 direct dependencies for terminal commands (commander) and file watching (chokidar). Built-in functionality includes zero-configuration server-side routing, session management, key/value store (cache rendered views, controller actions, objects, and static files), simple directives for managing cookies, sessions, redirects, and caches, and more.

It's been in continuous use on at least one site that receives hundreds of thousands of page views per month, running months at a time without the process crashing. Fairly stable.

Appreciate any comments/feedback/contributions.
Yes, I don't dry my hair. I live in a hot climate.
There were times when going to an office wearing a T-shirt felt crazy, like going to an office while wearing a bikini, or wearing a clown attire, would be now. It changed maybe in late 1990s.

Things like these change very slowly, then suddenly, once the views of the perceived majority around most people change enough that the people start to see the new state as proper and confirmant, a new norm.
Pre ADHD meds, maybe 2.

After ADHD meds, especially on interesting stuff, i can do 12 easily.
Or any ham test in the united states (note: learning Morse code is worth doing anyway)
It is 100% guaranteed that, at some point in the (geologically) near future, humanity will need to leave Earth permanently, or move the planet or something to that effect if we really want to.

We should be beyond ready by the time that comes. It's not an immediate or daily human need, but it IS a human need.
This is insane and wrong. The Supreme Court is explicitly not supposed to represent the will of the people. You’re advocating nothing less than a type of coup.

And against my best judgement, I’ll add that in it was roe v wade itself that was essentially judges creating law (shoehorning abortion rights into a right to privacy is a stretch).
Yes if you get salary then there aren’t options to play game like this. High net worth people don’t get paid salary for this reason
A few years ago it still had the three options (monthly, annual billed monthly and annual prepaid) but didn't -- at least on the first page, though it did when you confirmed your transaction -- have the specific notice about an early termination fee. It still seemed like something where any rational person would ask themselves "what sort of idiot would pay 33% more for `monthly' when there's this no downside annual paid monthly thing? Got em!", but I guess there was some argument for being bamboozled.

But it is the way it is now for at least three+ years. People are still thinking they're beating the system.

Does it try to ensnare users trying to save some money now? Sure, it does. It offers some revenue planning for Adobe in return for a discount. The FTC is basically arguing that there shouldn't be such a discount.
The nice thing about this is that most companies already have everything in place to do it, because California has had this rule for a few years. So all they have to do is remove the "not in California" filter.
Not only philosophical, it can come out in the code too. I've written a number of testing packages over the years, and it's a rare testing platform that can assert that some sort of test failure assertion "correctly" fails without some sort of major hoop jumping, usually having to run that test in an isolated OS process and parse the output of that process.

This isn't a complaint; it's too marginal and weird a test case to complain about, and the separate OS process is always there as a fallback solution.
Colleagues: If the code works, it’s good!

Me: Hmmm.

Managers, a week later: We’re starting everyone on a 50% on-call rotation because there’s so many bugs that the business is on fire.

Anyway, now I get upset and ask them to define “works”, which… they haven’t been able to do yet.
This feels like you’re judging others for not being fortunate enough to live in the same place you do. It’s a bit narcissistic of a viewpoint imho.
I had a kindle that died. Amazon support was top notch
Why do you feel like Huginn is on its last leg?
It's been in my list of things to play with for years now, but I never got around to it...
My editor uses a different color for comma and period.
"at full volume"
20 years ago it was considered a 'doss year' (waste/screw-around etc.), and the general perception was that it was for those that require a little more time in the oven developmentally before proceeding to the next stage. I was a child then so I don't know if that was true, but certainly the majority of people who took it were not academically inclined.
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting point of view. My only comment is related to this:

> Instead of stopping there, due to infinite growth requirements, we move past the optimal state to excessive automation.

Stopping at the optimal state is only possible if you know what the optimal point is in advance (or maybe if you know that there are not local optimal points that are not global).

If you are familiar with deep learning algorithms, they are based on optimization via gradient descent. You are taking steps of a fixed size in the direction that you think is optimal, and by doing so, you are always going to move past the optimal point. The good thing is that the algorithm has a way of evaluating if that is the case, and then moving back in the next step. That moving back is similar to what you are proposing when you say:

> Optimal automation is intimately related to degrowth.
I'm basically a shill for my one decent blog post from a while back. :D

https://taeric.github.io/CodeAsData.html

The key for me really is in the signature for "eval." In python, as an example, eval takes in a string. So, to work with the expression, it has to fully parse it with all of the danger that takes in. For lisp, eval takes in a form. Still dangerous to evaluate random code, mind. But you can walk the code without evaluating it.
That "medical professional" has literally 90 seconds to review your case and say yes/no. They've never met you. They don't know your doctor. All they have are some notes on the case, a billing code, and a quota to reach every day. They get bonuses based on how much money they save the insurance company.

All of that cost savings makes US healthcare cost double what it does anywhere else in the world.
Well when you account for the time spent travelling, the time spent socializing and shmoozing, the boxed lunch hour, etc, that adds up to a whole lot of wasted time on top of what could have easily been a 45 min zoom meeting, or an email. Its fun I guess if you get all your social outlet from your coworkers, but if you get it from anywhere else it probably feels like you just got drafted when you get sent to meet the distributed team in person.
> needs an inordinate amount of field support engineers

Hey now, they're forward-deployed engineers. Nothing like Oracle or SAP consultants.
My biggest problem with the Forma is that, even when completely turned off, the battery dies and refuses to charge for days on end. One day, the device says it is charged to 100%; the following day, it dies without an apparent reason. I’ve calibrated the battery many times, but the issue remains. I agree that if it didn’t happen, the device would be excellent.
If "every functional jurisdiction in the world" agrees then you don't need to go to a court in Moldova and then try to have the foreign ruling enforced in the US because you could have just gone directly to the courts in the US, right?

The issue is that they're trying to sue the wrong party -- the provider instead of the customer -- which US law rightfully discourages, which is why they're trying to cheat through some convoluted cross-border jurisdictional shenanigans.
I'm aware that this post might violate rules regarding politics; however, I take the double speak of the ads of Harris being represented both as pro Israel and pro Palestine depending on the target audience, similar to the microtargeting that happened with Cambridge analytica.

If you're interested in a similar topic, in the past I have posted how musk's super America PAC betrays the trust of the people that sign there misusing their data [1]. I've also posted [2] a python script that does scraping of super America's PAC that spams the form with fake data, it only works for Georgia and Arizona, feel free to add phone prefixes (and addresses, if you want) of the other swing states

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-tru...

[2] https://github.com/amarcheschi/SPAMerica-PAC
Kroger Asked About Surge Pricing and Facial Recognition at Grocery Stores
> GitHub doesn't provide nearly enough tools for moderation though

Which in itself would summon the vitriol of the super-trolls. "Moderation is censorship" is the most absolutely ridiculous mantra to gain traction in the last decade.
they could but they don't.

and salaries are stagnant. why would they pay extra? at least they're obligated to provide insurance, even if it's terrible and impenetrable
This should be not done by FTC but by congress: the same way CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

I doubt this will stay or it will be enforceable without the actual law.

But maybe this a way how certain companies what to drag this down…
*echosmellocation
That's not a backup, that's just another secret. If I can't record the secret onto paper that I can put in a safe deposit box at a bank (or several), then it ain't backed up.
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> That might be a factor for some people but it seems like american society doesn't value natural light.

This seems puzzling to me.

Large windows are a staple of every luxury new build. Floor to ceiling windows are a status symbol.
Tech and gaming communities are the most toxic ones ever
I don't know, but I always tended to get sick after flying. I started wearing a mask while flying during COVID and it's the one place I still do it. Not scientific but I feel like I have gotten sick after flying less frequently since then. It could even just be the effect of making myself breathe humid air in what's normally an extremely dry environment.
then the culpability of this "genocide" lies with Hamas.

And that is a perfectly reasonable argument to make. There are lots of valid arguments for why Israel isn't committing genocide on the Palestinians. Irrelevant population graphs that don't cover the timespan in question are absolutely not one of them.
I'm glad at least one person in this thread mentioned Fireworks. I found it much more intuitive than Gimp and Inkscape.
FWIW I am a website/webapp owner and use zero third party cookies or services, not even first party tracking (apart from analyzing web server logs from time to time).

Still, the GDPR obviously had some "bugs" which let companies get away with basically showing you "we're tracking you, click OK". Which is a waste of time for the companies and users and doesn't improve users' privacy in any way. So, it was a faulty law that caused damages
This press release is a big change in branding and ethos for Mistral. What was originally a vibey, insurgent contender that put out magnet links is now a PR-crafting team that has to fight to pitch their utility to the public.
The company broke a copyleft license though.
This. I cannot believe people are telling me to just open everything. It's nuts. Imagine if someone found your personal code and just decided to open it without your permission or knowledge!
I used to wonder how people watch movies on their iPhone then realized many people sit so far from their living room TV screen that if they held up their iPhone it would be the same apparent size.

By contrast, you can readily set the apparent screen size in the AVP to 40+ degree angle:

× 1.2 (corresponding to 40-degree viewing angle)

THX recommends that the "best seat-to-screen distance" is one where the view angle approximates 40 degrees,[26] (the actual angle is 40.04 degrees). Their recommendation was originally presented at the 2006 CES show, and was stated as being the theoretical maximum horizontal view angle, based on average human vision. In the opinion of THX, the location where the display is viewed at a 40-degree view angle provides the most "immersive cinematic experience", all else being equal. For consumer application of their recommendations, THX recommends ... multiplying the diagonal measurement by about 1.2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_HDTV_viewing_distance
I remember reading GEB and being shocked that he never mentions Lisp. He _does_ wade into CompSci topics, but it's something half-hearted about how compilers are programs that read and generate programs. This really should've been integrated into a revised edition of the book.
https://archive.is/duzFR
as in no JS on the server at all with the client still providing a UI-library-like experience
Given the license, I suppose so. It'd only be for a tinkerer who loved WinAnp but wanted to fix some nitpick in the player. Can't do much more than that.

The bad faith interpretation is that this was an attempt to make use of previous goodwill to get some free labor to at the very least fix some bugs for them, or at most add in requested features to try to get it back on the map.
Afaik china now builds 30+ reactors with additional 10+ approved.
And completion time for many projects tends to be closer to 5 years
Also vogtle was foak build, it's natural to be over time and budget. Still unit 4 was 30% cheaper than unit 3. The more you build the cheaper it gets
I understand the semantic difference but wouldn't you be able to say add a "backup" Yubikey and lock it in a safe?
Imagine you are on an archeologic excavation and you find a roman chariot. Would you call this an ancient Honda Civic?
They don't know. Nobody does until the bill is processed. There are a thousand factors that might affect your coverage. This is the nightmare I'm living through right now. Even if you have the code and doctor and patient the help desk at the insurance company can't say for sure if they will cover it or not. That comes down to the discretion of the claims adjuster. You won't know if something is going to cost $100 or $10,000 until after it is done.
I’ve had one for years even though I did wonder about if it was truly better for my health. But the reason I like it is I just like to stand every hour or so for maybe 5, 15 or 20 minutes. This seems to just feel better which is a good enough reason for me to continue using one.
Leaving this here for people interested in what the software actually is.

https://www.palantir.com/docs/
Your story just says what my comment does though. They ignored each other the rest of the time.

Nobody is saying you tune out the entirety of the world the second you sit down. But there is an awful amount of people acting like the environment around you on a plane is worth paying attention to the entire time
> I don't get why people still spread the lie that you have to tinker with Linux.

It doesn't feel charitable to call people sharing their experience "spreading the lie". You're all over this thread talking to people that way. If you're trying to make the case that desktop Linux no longer has this characteristic, this isn't the way to go about it.
For the lazy: because we have A/C, people didn't feel the need to maintain them, so they lost popularity.
I am running a kindle voyage (2014). It is the perfect size for male jeans pocket carry, PPI is above 300 and battery works.

Most important! The yoga cover is great for laying on either side, so I can toss and turn in bed and keep reading. Literally no e-reader I have seen since has a symmetrical stand-cover that can be used sideways both ways.

As for Kobo, I just looked the other day and saw they have some great prices for e-readers that have similar features, plus they advertise being completely repairable! And you're not in the Amazon ecosystem. My only gripe years ago was the don't rendering on side loaded books wasn't as good as Amazon, and that Calibre couldn't De-DRM Kobo books as well as Amazon. I think the game has changed a bit, though, and I haven't tested anything in a while.

If Kobo books are crackable, my next e-reader will likely take me away from Amazon. I want that USB-C in my life.
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Did you ever investigate if true componentization (like React Server Components, maybe coupled with Storybook etc.) could fill that niche instead?

A MUI theme isn't by itself sufficient, since it really only modifies variables like shared design tokens would.

But it's rare that bespoke components would be 1:1 equivalent with the existing functionality/behaviors of a UI lib (unless that was a design constraint from the get-go, i.e. designers were only allowed to use existing functionality in that lib).

At our work, all components started out with MUI, but would often be extended with custom code based on the designers' needs. I could see no real way to sync that part of it with Figma (which would often just have basic wireframes and prototypes, maybe linked together in screens, hover states, etc., but not really implemented as interactive code).

It's kinda missing a storybook-like layer that can actually use and display different states, inputs, outputs, etc.
There's this emerging notion of "Fair Source" that attempts to meet halfway between open participation and business interests. I think as far as defending against copycat risk, that's somewhat reasonable.

Many in the OSS community have made it clear that there's a distinction between "yes do whatever you want with it, including running a local instance and/or charging people for it while using the original name" and "we're transparent but want to reserve some intellectual property rights."

We'll see if most consumers of said software agree with the vocal proponents of OSS purity. I think the story of BUSL and similar licenses has yet to fully play out.
You know a startup is floundering when they have to invent new email lists to "accidentally" subscribe you to despite telling them in the past you want to be unsubscribed from everything.
…I know literature, like all art, is open to interpretation, but I am immensely curious as to how you came away from The Mayor of Casterbridge with joy, of all things.
In most cases especially for important code paths I agree.

There is a case where I think it is justifiable to not write a single test: Startups. Specifically pre-seed & seed round funded I think are allowed to skip the majority of tests - however critical paths, especially those that are important to customers (i.e. transactions) must be tested.

By the time you have built out that mvp and have a few customers then you should transition to writing more tests. And as the number of engineers, scope, or complexity grows you need to add tests.
Yes, it's true. There's a reason GPL is called copyleft.

> Lest everyone using any flavour of Linux is liable to the same problem?

The kernel is GPL. applications running on it in usermode are not constrained by the license.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#PortProgramToGP...
"Editors of the [Wikipedia] page appear to be non-experts in the field and biased against me personally for unknown reasons... It is unfortunate that Wikipedia cannot be trusted as a reliable source of information."

No, you cannot be trusted over the USGS (US Geological Survey). This is an important thing to understand when editing Wikipedia. It's not enough to be an expert in the field (other editors have no idea what your experience is). Peer-reviewed, published data from an official source is always going to be more trusted than data in a blog post.