skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> less people tried to create and switched to critique.

I'm not convinced of that — I suspect that in earlier times, there were just as few creators, but we didn't get exposed to all* the critiques. (for instance, if I were to make this argument I'd have to go back much earlier than 30 years, because 30 years ago people were already putting their S&M Barbies up on the web; we were already on the second generation of browsers:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/mosaic-netscape-0-9-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ )

However, under the hypothesis that fewer people try to create and switch to critique instead: that'd be their problem.

EDIT: * eg, the other day on Zhihu I saw someone asking "What is even the point of Joker 2?" Nowadays we can see criticism from 5 billion people without even scrolling down.
For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.
it's not just electronics cause positives-- corroded metal does too, anything that forms a semiconductor can get detected.
Nothing moves businesses to something faster, than saving cost and bigger profits. Renewables specially solar and batteries will soon price out most other forms of electricity/energy generation.

A tesla megapack 3.9Mw is now around $1 million so with a profit of $0.10/kw you can break even in around 7 years of daily charging and discharging then it's pure profit after that. Tesla megapack is a lot more expensive than the iron phosphate chem based systems that are coming out of China.
I recently had a similar moment of WTF for git in a JavaScript repo.

Much much smaller of course though. A raspberry pi had died and I was trying to recover some projects that had not been pushed to GitHub for a while.

Holy crap. A few small JavaScript projects with perhaps 20 or 30 code files, a few thousand lines of code for a couple of 10s of KBs of actual code at most had 10s of gigabytes of data in the .git/ folder. Insane.

In the end I killed the recovery of the entire home dir and had to manually select folders to avoid accidentally trying to recover a .git/ dir as it was taking forever on a poorly SD card that was already in a bad way and I did not want to finally kill it for good by trying to salvage countless gigabytes of trash for git.
> They invaded a country without a reason.

They had their reasons or at least rationalizations, though you don't see them and they might not make sense to you.

> They literally are the bad guy.

Maybe. I agree that the invasion was a very grave evil.
Even so, it doesn't mean that they're destined to lose, and we shouldn't think that way. Mongols were bad guys but won so much that they got tired of winning.

It's a very grave fallacy to believe that the Good Guys always prevail. And, besides, the Russians you ask would surely say, "Wait, you think those Banderite Ukrainians are the GOOD Guys?! And here I thought we were the Good Guys! Throughout its entire history, Russia has always fought and always conquered evil."

> Of course they say that, otherwise they would be in prison.

You can't seriously believe this. I'd invite you to hang out on the Russian internet (or Russian Telegram) for a different view. Have a look at what they write in their own language, when talking between themselves.
Even Microsoft used PDP10's back in the day.
Coming next year apparently. I won’t hold my breath.
Thank you, yes, the level of craziness of this all is so much beyond I could imagine 3 years ago.
But European businesses should utilise open source to more easily compete with big tech. Big tech is definitely using it to kill European businesses.

Yet they dont.

The problem is not big tech. Not open source. It's that the European tech economy crippled itself and cries wolf about it all day.
As a counterpoint the golden age of scifi (largely originating from the US) coincided with a golden age of the US. The largest thing in fantasy since Tolkien was probably D&D and that also coincided with a golden age for the US. The popularization of the next escapist medium (home video games) also coincided with an amazing decade for the US
Same toughs. It's irreplaceable when working with arbitrary sized integers. Even if it's used on 1-2% of websites, it's still a significant usage. Surely, it won't be used as commonly a regular floating point number.
The Seattle-Chicago train operates at an average speed of 50 mph, so 80 km/h.

Passenger trains between major cities in Europe are in the 200-280 km/h range.

The problem isn’t the big country, it’s the slow trains (that even get deprioritized after cargo, to add insult to the injury).
> When the Mesopotamians were listening to the Epic of Gilgamesh, they were reading about the world as they thought it is.

How do we know this?
There are libraries that can help with this, such as SpeechRecognition for python. If all you're looking for is short terms with minimal background noise, this should do it for you.
This makes me wonder, how do you reliably and securely encode steganographic content for distribution within a noisy medium?
It’s not just better than JavaScript, I would argue it’s probably the best general purpose modern OOP based language out there right now.

It was actually really fortunate in that for a long time it didn’t have a big community behind it and they just put a lot of very smart language designers on the team where they had ten years to try various approaches and learn from the mistakes of not only themselves but others without a lot of outside noise.

But there’s no other language I would prefer to write applications in. It’s just a really nice mix of ergonomic, expressive and powerful.
I don’t get it, whenever I read some American commenting on anything I roughly agree with, it invariably takes a sudden turn, devolving into an arbitrary accusation against the Left, Communism or Socialism.

You’re obsessed folks, calm down
> When the Mesopotamians were listening to the Epic of Gilgamesh, they were reading about the world as they thought it is.

When people tell their kids about Santa Claus is that because they believe he exists?

There are always credulous people, but even in highly religious communities you will find amazingly large numbers of people only there for the community and just going along with public displays of adherence to whatever the belief system is. “True believer” is a term for a good reason.
On the other hand, what bother me about factorio is its deterministic nature. Perhaps it would be more fun with more random elements like equipment failures etc.
> The Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings is a Catholic Christian morality tale set in the third age of our world. We are now in the year 2024 of the seventh age. It is our world and it is no more or less fiction than the Song of Roland is.

I wish more people would read what the authors meant their worlds to be because a lot of what's described as 'merely fiction' is nothing of the sort.
Stop Pretending to Do Domain-Driven Design
Reminds me a bit of the developers of Little Inferno, who went in another direction:

Kyle Gabler: You may have heard of the Yule Log TV program—the burning log you find on TV around the winter months or in hotel rooms. It started in 1967 by a TV station in New York, originally as a 17-second loop of a flaming log. And we thought: "Man, that's like a super boring game that some awful company will totally make for the Wii or smartphones."

And then we thought: "Wait, WE could be that awful company! But I wonder if we can start with an exceptionally underwhelming premise, but then actually make the game really really surprisingly good?" And Little Inferno is the result. We hope we've succeeded!

— <https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/interview/32517/little-i...>
I was looking for a list of free AI models and I searched for “open ai models”, which is when I first understood the terrible genius of the “OpenAI” name.
Beryllium OS, a Unix-like operating system for CircuitPython
It works, but just for _some_ solutions. For instance, there are multiple providers of support for PostgreSQL. And there are many companies offering support/consulting for WordPress.

IBM RedHat is the steward of RHEL, and Canonical is of Ubuntu, so if you want support from them there are no real other options, but they do work with multiple different ISVs.

If you want to stay 'independent' and have the most leverage you can take a linux which is not from a bigco, such as Debian.

I'm really worried about cloud-lock-in for bigger companies. My previous company switched large amounts of product to AWS, when I asked about how this was feasible after doing back-of-the-envelope calculations they said: well you should not consider list price, nobody is paying list price, we get discounts.

This reminded me of an ISP I worked for in 2006 that invested in large amounts of Solaris machines because they got big discounts instead of going for the much more obvious Linux route. Then after two years or so the new (Oracle at that time?? I'm not sure) sales rep paid a visit and they said, when they were not able to sell MORE new servers: OK screw the discounts, from now you're paying list price. So that got them stuck in a real bad place. I'm afraid the same might happen to companies who move to cloud providers as well.

And then I've not even touched on issues such as privacy, security, business continuity, and losing the skill to actually run your own hardware
Hopefully in the future we can all have a friendly vodka with each other (obviously Polish :) ..) but I suspect this will be a long time. Stay strong.
I faced my mortality and went the other way. I’ve already achieved more from an extremely difficult background than I ever could have imagined and it turns out when faced with my mortality, that was enough for me.

Everyone has different ways of unwinding and finding meaning, and productivity doesn’t need to be the sole measure of time well spent, at least for me anymore.
I think the fundamental concept is that organisations or movement etc can't lie without the organization starting to believe its own lies.

Members acts as if the fiction was real. They have to or are labeled traitors, non team players etc. Those who get it either play along or stay silent.
> Passenger trains between major cities in Europe are in the 200-300 km/h range.

I don't know which country exactly you mean, I live in central Europe (Slovenia) and no train goes over 200 km/h, most go 60-80 km/h.

Also, every time I'm at the train station in Ljubljana (Slovenia's capital), there's an announcement about the train from Budapest being ~40min late. And it's a way shittier looking train than the local commute ones going 60.
Postgresql has many companies offering support for example.
The recent political speeches at the economic clubs of Detroit and Chicago were a little deeper than Dick and Jane! Also 21 Nobel Prize economists found the content to be deep enough to disagree!
> I don't think GitHub, or any other git host, will have objections to using it once it's part of mainline git?

Fixing an existing repository requires a full repack, and for a repository as big as Chromium it still takes more than half a day (56000 seconds is 15h30), even if that's an improvement over the previous 3 days it's a lot of compute.

From my experience of previous attempts, trying to get Github to run a full repack with harsh settings is extremely difficult (possibly because their infrastructure relies on more loosely packed repositories), I tried to get that for $dayjob's primary repository whose initial checkout had gotten pretty large and got nowhere.

As of right now, said repository is ~9.5GB on disk on initial clone (full, not partial, excluding working copy). Locally running `repack -adf --window 250` brings it down to ~1.5GB, at the cost of a few hours of CPU.

The repository does have some of the attributes described in TFA, so I'm definitely looking forward to trying these changes out.
I think nobody has to prevent abuse because listeners will either turn off traffic alerts or switch to a different channel.

Besides that, FM broadcasting isn't a lawless place and is regulated by the government. Abuse will most likely lead to some kind of penalty, but I can't be bothered to read through the laws to confirm it :P
> invaded a country without a reason

Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly why. WW3 happened for no reason at all.
99.99% of what people?

Every time Elon does something particularly stupid with Twitter, Mastodon takes on another wave of new accounts. It seems to be doing fine.
And yet, isn't face-to-face going to be the only reliable way to outfox and do an end run around AI?
I was pleased to read such positive contagious excitement and someone who can still see the wonder of the American west. And excitement of trying new experiences.
Transmitters need only be re-certified if they are to be sold in quantity.

Once-off Broadcast Transmitters need only demonstrate that they meet the relevant standards.

Many of the existing LF and MF BC transmitters were effectively custom built to meet the requirements of their transmit license (for example, the radiation pattern of the antenna were often unique for each station).
i would have liked to see the source. how would the example look like when written in python for example? and how would it compare with non-wasm javascript?
> And of course there's the religious texts. They often have a heavy focus on abstract things like afterlife that are very much detached from our daily life

Really? Which ones?
The famous original is here:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV. I don't like living in a world where my TV can crash or be down for a software update (which have both happened to me). They're also ticking time-bombs - who knows when support will be dropped and the apps will slowly break as they gradually fall out of compatibility with the external APIs they depend on. What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovelessly constructed TV OSs that call out to servers and will cause mayhem when those servers are decommissioned?
"He made a theory that Russia is not the bad guy."

I did not see that. I did see the opinion, that they do not represent the ultimate evil, like the orcs do.

The russian soldiers also largely don't think they represent evil, they think they defend russia, that is the point being made - and if this already qualifies to you as saying they are not the bad guys, then I recommend reading a bit more carefully, as it is exactly this black and white thinking, that is in the realm of fantasy.
> Experimenting is useful, but know that Open Source is the underdog, and there are many people waiting for an opportunity to enthusiastically declare that it has failed.

almost the entire world and industry is literally running on open source.
You could have at least three types of linear mixers:

- One where some type of spoon goes back and forth. This would probably just be worse than a rotary mixer though.

- One where the entire "basin" oscillates back and forth like a seesaw, like the machines they have at the blood bank to make sure the blood mixes well with the anticoagulant in the bag(s).

- One where the basin is airtight and vibrated up and down vigorously. I could see this work quite well for dry-ish mixtures of different particles, like if you have flour and sugar together in a container and want them mixed.
I think it's much more productive to teach children

2x0 = 2x1 + 2x(-1) = 2-2 = 0

and

2xx0 = 2xx1 x 2xx(-1) = 2/2 = 1

Inverting the concept and having those patterns stem from a fundamental identity can wait until its not seen as the mathematical equivalent of "Because I said so".
And the answer is still no. Users / visitors don't care. We keep writing tools for ourselves and products, UIs, UXs, etc. *from the user's POV* aren't any better.

No one wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says, "I want to use an application build with React, has no tech debt, and has great commit msgs...".

I'm not suggesting the tech and stack don't matter. They do. But they are a means, not the ends. The sad fact is, the ends aren't - from the users' POV - noticeably better. More bloated? More buggy? Probably.
Was it? The were perfectly fine with ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed by Saddam's government during the revolt they instigated in 1991 because they didn't want to get involved or remove him from power at the time.

Even in 2003 that wasn't anywhere close to being the primary reason.

> We see it again and again.

That doesn't change those facts...

Are you saying that Saddam didn't commit the atrocities that he did because US government said he did?
Science fiction is something very different, and I believe you can construct an entire philosophy from the analysis of science fiction as an artform.

Whereas fantasy is escapist and constructs alternative worlds, most works of science fiction -- and especially the classical "hard" science fiction of the Golden Age -- present us with a potential human future. Many of these futures, like Clarke's satellites and today's cyberpunk dystopia, quickly came to be realized. Others, like the space elevator, seem like inevitable ideas that will be realized at some point in the future.

There's a lot that can be written about this, but it's definitely something different...
> Why do so few make the choice?

Because it is risky. The more esoteric the knowledge gets, the further it moves away from your core business, the more in-demand the skills are. As an example, maintaining your own metrics and timeseries storage. It takes quite a few skilled hands to do this in house and probably only feasible for larger companies anyway. Or you can simply hand this problem over to DataDog. While they are pricey, it is potentially pricier to build your own internal DataDog-like system, especially if you consider the opportunity cost of pulling your most skilled engineers to build it instead of building your product that your customers are paying for. Companies are perfectly willing to pay a premium to not worry about something, and that includes not worrying about your very skilled engineers leaving and then needing to scramble because no one else understands what has been built.
Distance is also a factor. I see train timings listed for Madrid to Berlin to be more than 24 hours.
Living With Our Machine Sidekicks (2024-02)
That would, I suspect, be the point. If your AI is trained on non-free content, the implication is that it would be impossible for it to be released with an open source licence. So don't do that, the argument goes: only use content that has been released with a sufficiently free licence that republishing it in your dataset is not a problem. And as a side effect, you have to show that there isn't any "misappropriated" content in your training set. That side effect is what gets some people excited here.

I don't agree with that position legally, but I do mechanically. The point of the GPL family (to pick one random type of licence) is that the end user should have the capability to modify the product to their own ends, and I don't think fine-tuning provides enough capability to qualify.
You Germans have slow internet speed? Why’s that?
It doesn't take very long for your confuguration-in-a-real-language DSL to need a configuration language of its own.

What now?
>What is the first noteworthy piece of fiction set in a fictional land?

Earliest I know of set in an entirely fictional land with no connection to the real world is Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, from 1884.
Definitely, seems like the wrong tool even, or not the right first one, surely you need some sort of big classifier for EEG patterns to words or thoughts/topics; then if used an LLM it would be 'clean up this nonsense into coherent sentences keeping the spirit of the ideas or topics that are mentioned'?
> I don't mean to give negative feedback

I would recommend then to be more specific. Did you had trouble installing it? Did it give you an error? Was there no output? Was the output wrong? Is it not working on your files, but working on example files? Is it solving a different problem than the one you have?
To be fair, Europe also kind of sucks at long distance trains. If you want to go the same distance as Seattle-Chicago in Europe by train (say Lisbon-Warszawa or Rome-Northern Sweden) you're often looking at 40-50 hours, mainly due to having to make 5-7 connections.
It is almost as bad as you say, except that I recently noticed several instances of competitors offering cheaper fiber than Telekom and surviving. Still, overall fiber buildout is low, like... I looked it up, reportedly 36% now.
Exactly. Even if you do C++ development using VSCode on Windows, likely you are still relying on MSVC compiler for the Intellisense (and of course compiling). And people who mainly write JavaScript/Java/Python/Go etc have never used Visual Studio for development and never will be. VSCode didn't replace VS, they replaced Notepad++/Sublime Text/Atom/Eclipse etc, plus Intellij based IDEs for some people.
> [...] and it pretty much just works.

I beg to differ. Last time I had to use PowerPoint (granted, that was ~3 years ago), math on the slides broke when you touched it with a client that wasn't of the same type as the one that initially put it there. So you would need to use either the web app or the desktop app to edit it, but you couldn't switch between them. Since we were working on the slides with multiple people you also never knew what you had to use if someone else wrote that part initially.
Be aware that this appears by default to swap character pairs with unicode ligatures, which is fine, but those characters aren't included in many web fonts.

It's better today (both for the above issue and also for usability) to disable the ligature substitution and let browser engines manage ligature replacement.
No, this is cathedral vs bazaar development
> it's like trying to teach advanced machine learning to someone with an IQ of 100. No matter how well-intentioned the advice or how clear the potential benefits, there's a fundamental mismatch between the cognitive requirements of the task and the available cognitive machinery.

couldn't the same be said about adhd? or looking at it from the other side by the author's terms wouldn't a sub-100-iq machine learning enthusiast be also entitled to special treatment so s/he can work with it? isn't it fair to say that adhd relates to non-adhd like sub-100-iq to plus-100-iq? again, just taking the author at face value.
The scroll wheel usually works for these as well.
I am from France and I would say the same thing they do.

The traditional left here has been and still is extremely detrimental to the country as a whole and has kept from their communist roots - that’s where most of the old guard has been formed - an extremely strong tendency towards control where they would rather destroy anything successful not coming from them than see it prosper. It’s even more sad in France because the main left wing party used to be dominated by its social democrat wing and be somewhat apt to govern but is now decimated and subservient to other more extreme parties which are completely disconnected from reality. Not that the right is any better. They are more and more fascist by the day.

We are on a trajectory to do the same mistakes Italy did.
>Thats why RedHat is a business. They're not selling Linux, they're selling the reliability, longevity, services, support etc.

>In truth the license doesn't matter.

It's funny to bring that up in the context of Red Hat who have started to circumvent the GPL by terminating their relationship with anyone who tries to actually make use of the rights granted by it. "The license doesn't matter" because they've found a loophole in it, but it clearly does matter in that they had to do so in the first place and weren't able to adhere to its spirit due to business concerns.

[1]: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...

[2]: https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-08-redhat-gets-around...