skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well i think it also highlights that the seeds of truly interesting ideas are often buried in or can be found in jokes/intentionally bad ideas... or, at least, nearly all my best ideas originated from joke ideas-- ones that were not even intended to be constructive, instructive, etc. ... just jokes-- trying to reflect some truth about the world in a way that cuts to the core of it.

can't say what the deep idea in this case is per se (haha (maybe the other commenter can shed light on that part)), but i guess if you have enough KPIs to be able to rotate them you have yourself a perpetual motion machine of the same nature as the one that some genius carried down from the mountain on stone tablets that we can sustain maximum velocity ad infinitum by splitting our work into two week chunks and calling them "sprints"... why haven't marathoners thought of this? (h/t Rich Hickey, the source of that amazing joke that i butcher here)

maybe consciousness itself is nothing more than the brain managing to optimize all of its KPIs at the same time.
The problem of capitalism is the instability of "the operation of markets".

Especially after 2000, there has been an extreme consolidation in almost all markets, so that they are controlled by quasi-monopolies and the operation of those markets resembles more and more every year with the economies of the former socialist countries.

The economies of the former socialist countries were pretty much identical with the end stage of evolution of the capitalist markets, when a true monopoly controls each market.

When the dominance of Russia has collapsed after 1990, for about a decade there was a huge hope of improvements that would lead to economies everywhere functioning according to the ideal "free markets" theories. However, to the dismay of those liberated from the Russian influences, the Western countries have evolved since then to resemble more and more the systems that they were formerly criticizing, not only in the monopolistic markets, but also in mass surveillance, whistleblower punishments, great discrepancies between what the politicians say and what they do, politically-controlled Supreme Courts of Justice and so on.
There’s loads of hacker spirit still alive in the homelab and home automation space just to give one example.

Having lots of fun tinkering with Proxmox, Wled, Shelly devices to manipulate electric rollers, and more. Couldn’t quite get Valetudo running on my robot vacuum (my model isn’t the easiest to hack) but the concept is so cool. Triggering automations With dirt cheap NFC tags or a cheap wireless numpad is so satisfying.

Building an *arr stack is another area where there’s tons of amazing creativity online and the hacker spirit still lives on.
JPEG XL is seeing strong industrial adoption where image quality matters: professional and prosumer image acquisition (as a replacement, with huge benefits, of traditional raw imaging in iPhone 16 Pro) and processing and storage reduction with Digital Negative, ProRAW and medical imaging with DICOM. Clinics with archiving and telemedicine needs benefit massively.
That's the main point. No one buys software, they buy solutions. Accounting is a good example. I use a SaaS solution, but it doesn't matter because I could also take all my invoices to an accountant, and the effect would be the same.
Also, mixing open licenses into business doesn't usually make sense.
I also think that mass source scraping for ML/AI training will make businesses less likely to participate in open source.
Hey, I worked with Jonathan on 1JS a while ago (on a team, Excel).

Just a note OMR (the office monorepo) is a different (and actually much larger) monorepo than 1JS (which is big on its own)

To be fair I suspect a lot of the bloat in both originates from the amount of home grown tooling.
Technics SL-1200/1210 mk2 had a similar dominance for maybe a couple of decades, I think
> They sell me by convincing me that everything just works, and when it doesn't they'll be there to fix it.

and they'd tell you to pay up 10x, or lose this stability in the future;

If it was an open source software, you will have the option to go to a competing vendor.
>The project is now in its third year and the team will produce the first preliminary findings before the end of the year. Charlier predicts the work will outlive his career.

Excited to see what will come from this study over the next years, this was my favorite place to see in Paris last year, and wasn't too hard to schedule the visit (I think I booked one or two days before). Some sections are closed, and I read the catacombs are not fully mapped. Wondering if they will find something or someone long thought to be lost down there.
Oh yeah, definitely, it's not just the codebase. Google is making sure alternate browser engines can't exist by making them much more complicated.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that, thanks!
Spark standalone cluster with Docker Compose
I think Factorio, Mindustry and Satisfactory is a "choose one" trio for any gamer to like. They share similar goals (factory building), but approaches are quite different.
I spent 10 years finding all the decks (Which "inspired" all the resources). BI started posting mktg slides so you can find more decks, but they aren't real.

SaaS typically has the best decks. I used to recommend looking at the Front decks. I have commentary on them. I would look a the LinkedIn s-b deck as there is a lot of commentary to get your thinking a bit more expansively.

List of decks (filter for saas): https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/resources/collections/startu...
You can search by slide type (I manually indexed 10k... to update but is a lot of work1): https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/resources/collections/pitch-...

Below: Haje made a list of 100 'teardowns' of blogs. They are available as the TC premium service shut down. I indexed them here in a table you can click on: https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/pitch-deck-reviews-from-tech...

The issue is most of the decks are sht. So you might get an idea of slides, but you will come back to your narrative aka making a good deck.

When I help do decks you do from scratch and the ball ache is figuring out your narrative, business model, what to share etc.

You will look at slides and they might hurt you by distracting you as you see slides and try together rather than thinking about your business...

I made some collections from HFs, mgmt consulting, M&A to help educate.

Happy to give some free feedback to the community if you have questions.
It is interesting that you did opt to add in the word "about".
IF ROCm stops supporting Radeon Pro VII, the first solution is to stay on the most recent ROCm that still supports them.

Second, "does not support anymore" does not necessarily mean that it stops working on the old HW, but it could mean that new features/extension aren't implemented for the old HW anymore, and we may not care about those.

Third, AMD does contribute and integrates changes with upstream LLVM. This open-source work could be used by third parties (with significant effort I assume) to continue support.
Yeah your comment deserves regulation.
> I also think that mass source scraping for ML/AI training will make businesses less likely to participate in open source.

I totally agree with this. And not just businesses, individuals too.
Visual Studio Code is not open source.

GitHub is not open source.
Also one American reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A
I hope one day people will realize that configuration languages can just be implemented by adding a "--run-total-sandboxed" to their favorite language i.e. a flag that disables while loops and recursion making the language non Turing complete and that runs the program in a sandbox without direct external access.

This would be far better than all random configuration languages out there and far more extensible.
the only way to actually prevent fingerprinting is to never connect. your ip, os, tls cryptographic protocols (or lack there of), screen resolution, mouse speed+movement, keystrokes+keyboard layout and much much more all can be used to fingerprint a user. even the reduction of all these points can be a fingerprint.

since most of those are unlikely to actually happen (yet) with the usual dragnet ad surveillance, just using hardened firefox (arkenfox/librewolf/mullvad browser) with a vpn or just tor browser is sufficient.
I subscribe to the concept of the "pyramid of tests" - lots of simpler unit tests, fewer integration tests, and very few end-to-end tests. I find that using LLMs to write unit tests is very useful. If I just wrote code which has good naming both for the classes, methods and variables, useful comments where necessary and if I already have other tests which the LLMs can use as examples for how I test things, I usually just need to read the created tests and sometimes add some test cases, just writing the "it should 'this and that'" part for cases which weren't covered.

An added bonus is that if the tests aren't what you expect, often it helps you understand that the code isn't as clear as it should be.
Hello to other UK readers having a little chuckle to themselves.
> There are zero apples.

"are" and "zero", meaning non-existence/non-"are"-ness, in the same sentence is seen as strange by many, yes, and that include me.
What’s the evidence for the claim “cholesterol by itself isn’t harmful?”
Don't forget all the people at Cloudflare who responded to a ping from me on a Saturday and looked into it.

We are going to make the change. This will improve our free accounts so it's a win for everyone. Thanks to OP for writing this up!
Oh yes, without getting too political, that's just what capitalism is about.

Ironically, Factorio is all about productivity. Mine more resources, produce more items, expand more land and build more factory.
Smartphones broke Wintel, their ISA didn't need to be ARM as long as it was power-efficient.
Isn't it clearly a reference to the idiom "talking moonshine", making it a self-deprecating joke?
Yes, competition is what causes the margin compression.
> Twisting anti-outsourcing into xenophobia is quite frankly corporate doublespeak.

Are we talking about guest workers or about outsourcing to other countries? Both can be good and commendable, but they are separate topics of discussions.

> If you're following my argument I'm not taking issue with "foreign person" but "salary suppression" and "foreign credential"

The foreigners earn a lot more than at home, that's why they put up with silly H1B nonsense. So you are the one arguing in favour of salary suppression.

The positive effect of migration on the migrant is large, well-documented and robust. Effects on the host country mostly positive too, but I guess you can find some weak evidence for some salary suppression for some natives? From what I can tell, that effect either doesn't exist, or at most it's weak and not robust.

> A libertarian approach doesn't work here. Healthcare isn't a free market.

Huh? Who said that it is?

> In the best case, you often don't get to choose any doctor you want - you are limited to the pool of doctors that your insurance covers. And what your insurance covers is a function along the lines of (bare minimum required by the law) + (just enough extra to make the policy seem attractive).

Are we still talking about Singapore?

As I said, we have all kinds of de-facto medical practitioners around here in the form of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda etc. People already make the kinds of choices about their medical care you describe as the 'libertarian approach'. I know that many patients pay for these alternative options out of pocket, but there might also be some insurance coverage (I'm not completely sure).

(Similar, the US has eg chiropractors and homeopaths, too, I think? And people can visit them, too, and they decidedly do not offer medical care that is recognised as kosher by modern medicine.)

If you really wanted a safeguard, you would suppress these snake oil salesmen first. The law doesn't really do that in either country, and people haven't keeled over either, yet.

> In the worst case, if you show up to the emergency room unconscious or delirious or in critical condition, you aren't in a position to sign or make decision about anything. So anyone whose health will ever reach that stage better be comfortable with the lowest common denominator.

Before you ever even make it to the emergency room, some good Samaritan who just passes by might give you first aid. The lowest common denominator for random passersby usually doesn't include any credentials at all.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your paragraph?
>"you don't understand the scale of wikipedia" or some bs
Don't see many longwave radio antennas. Here's one in Hellissandur, Iceland. 300kW output power on 189kHz : https://imgur.com/gallery/ruv-189-khz-kVght0A
Yeah, but how exaxtly is that relevant here?
I mean, technically true, but from context we can infer they were referring to vscode, which is open source. Visual Studio Code is vscode + ms stuff, but at it's core the project is MIT, and has been recently forked by a lot of teams (cursor, void, that fruit scandal, etc).
having a unique fingerprint in a group (such as tor browser / resist fingerprint enabling browser) can be better than a individually semi random unique one
Level 1:

There's something or there's nothing

Level 2 if there's something:

There's one or more of this thing and it's not going to transform into same amount of something different.
"primecurious", who you are and what is the purpose of such statements? how would you know who is or isn't sponsoring my work?

But just to set it straight, GpuOwl received exactly $0 contributions or sponsoring from exactly nobody. It's a pleasure work from my side, and it's open sourced for the easy access of curious minds to the algorithms and techniques implemented. I did receive great help, in the form of source-code contributions, most importantly from George Woltman.
You can give your kid candies. What is the equivalent of this with groups?
They are not legal in the EU, but a loophole is being exploited to import them.

I'd appreciate EU citizens writing to their MEPs about this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/08/tesla-cyb...
Thank you. It makes sense to use OpenCL if you have AMD GPUs in mind.

I thought though that prospective HPC users have more Nvidia A100 and H100 in mind when buying hardware.
That would never work.

Information is inherently more valuable when no one knows it. Just like a ponzi scheme, they need to forever collect more invasive information to reap the same benefit over time.
IMHO, Factorio is aesthetically beautiful.
wrong
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
> Few realise that JPEG was designed for flickery low resolution analogue CRTs and slow CPUs.

To my knowledge, JPEG was initially considerably slow to decode with contemporary CPUs. For example a Usenet post in 1992 [1] stated that decoding "big" images like 800x600 takes 1--2 seconds, which was considered fast at that time. JPEG itself was eventually used as a basis of MPEG-1 video codec, so it couldn't be too slow but I'm not aware of other concrete performance concerns.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.compression/c/oabAk3UibhU/m...
Okay. The equivalent at the single voter level is if a voter is undecided between Candidate A and Candidate B. After much contemplation this voter decides she's 50.5% in favour of B and 49.5% in favour of A, so heads to the polls to cast 100% of her single vote for B.
This clearly has nothing to do with running down the preorder list which has now been exhausted and had a less than 10% claim rate.

Those numbers are going to crater hard in the coming months
Theoretically the advantage of outsourcing to a business instead of running it inhouse is that you can put it out to tender, picking the most competent of the entire industry, whereas your inhouse team is what it is.

In practice, Microsoft isn't going anywhere. You're just paying for an external inhouse.
License does matter. Without OSS, computing as we know it doesn't exist. A better analogy would be if roads and utility cables were built as open source, everyone used them for free, then they were acquired by giant companies who charge for their use.
Dilution sucks.You need to min, and/or bootstrap. It's prob more popular a notion now (since 20-21 funding cohorts for VCs are flarked- I think it is the 2022 cohort that fund commits are 40^ than normal 60- so VCs aren't spending like it's...1999).

I have made free excel sheets to explain dilution, cap tables, conv note, SAFE, etc.

I invented something called the future fundraise model. The idea is to set your exit goal and work backwards so you can plan your raise plan (and dilution) till then - so you know how much you need to raise in this round to get to s-a and raise x with y traction and so on.

The idea is to create a framework to think about what you are doing if you go down the VC path (and ow to deliver).

There are things to consider- first, if you C level= earn less. When hiring staff less likely to ask fro more than CEO...
Staff go in a bucket which VCs negotiate as it affects the px (make a hiring plan)
Nothing wrong with starting at 1 for induction, but yes, having an additive monoid is nice (still get a multiplicative monoid with N*)
Open source and big tech are orthogonal concepts.

Open source is about licensing, big tech is about scale.
enjoy patronising dont you? not well done
I have an idea, offer a bounty so that if someone design a system able to resists all attacks for a week then the designer is assigned 10 million euros. I am just thinking about such a great project.
Yes, this is the same for controls in a car. Whoever thought a touch display was the way to go? Our old car had twisty-nobs that you could feel direction already on the grip. No need to look on the symbols what they adjusted. Our "modern" car has still twisty-nobs (we made extra sure of that) but you can't feel the direction because they are perfectly round with a tiny tiny nob for direction. Why do I get the impression development goes backwards?
Writes and Write-Nots
There are three major browser engines. Chrome derivatives cannot be counted as a separate browser (yet, or ever? remains to be seen)
If we take this logic, we should get rid of JavaScript support entirely and only support WASM, which would be a direction, but it would ignore how developers are using the platform.

It is now becoming rare when I see any serious project that still uses JavaScript, everyone I know is using TypeScript and I don't recall any job posts not requiring TypeScript. What are the standards bodies doing? They are still implementing hacks upon JavaScript instead of seeing the writing on the wall.

Maintaining JS engines is difficult because of the old stuff that few developers actually use, it would make a lot more sense to start deprecating those features and adding the new ones developers actually want.

I started using alternatives to NodeJS because I don't feel like I should subject myself to a compilation step if I don't have to.
Honey, I done shrunked them kids
Yep. Path-walk is currently pending review here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/pull.1813.git.1728396723.gitgitg...

It more or less replaces the --full-name-hash option (again a very good cover letter that explains the differences and pros/cons of each very well!)
You are getting your history reversed.

Java is a product of the JVM, which was the innovation, not the reverse. A successful language moving post-success to a new byte code format would be as far as I know unprecedented.

The idea that JavaScript is an interpreted language is also fairly shaky. It’s JIT compiled as soon as it arrives to your browser. Honestly, a modern JS engine is not different from any other VM.

The question as you rightfully pointed really is what do you send to the browser and under it lies the fundamental question of what is a browser actually. Is it a way to browse hypertext content or a standardised execution environment?
Various similar services have existed then stopped working after a single-digit number of years when the owner of the domain stopped paying or maintaining.

Currently working equivalents

lvh.me

anything.lvh.me

fbi.com

anything.fbi.com

anything-that-isnt-a-numeric-ip.traefik.me

127.0.0.1.nip.io
127.0.0.1.sslip.io
127-0-0-1.backname.io

Since the point is to have multiple names available you can also use 127.0.0.2.nip.io etc (if your webserver is listening on 0.0.0.0)

There are a few services that will point a subdomain name at an ip of your choice

localhost.ipq.co
localhost.fdns.uk

Someone has already created localhost1.ipq.co localhost2.ipq.co etc
I occasionally do these calls.If you want to do charity shizzle, do as I tell "business with a smile". Too many initiatives just don't go anywhere without cash, so you need to more apply effective altruism so you live long enough to add value. It like the airbag coming down and putting it on yourself first.
I shouldn't joke about "open ai"
>I don't pick say accounting software based on price. Or access to the source code. I base it on effectiveness.

So you would pick a software costing 1 million over a software that is 90% as effective but costs 1 thousand?
> It’s a bit surprising they wouldn’t ship them on launch to encourage adoption.

Because Apple is all in in HEIC/HEIV. The "high efficiency" codecs that require up to a second on an M1 Pro to render an image. A comparable image in PNG renders instantly
Remember when there were many, many articles from MSM against OF? And then it got sold to some other people and, suddenly, no more attacks. Only stupid shock stories on how much money some woman is making on OF. What a coincidence.
Don't confuse "giving software away for free because people have been conditioned to expect software that costs nothing" with "open source". And I have no idea why ARM is on that list: sure, they broke the Intel monoculture, but they certainly aren't free or open in any sense of the word.
The repo is probably hosted on the west coast, meaning it has to cross the Atlantic whenever you clone it from Europe?
Tesla has approval for no turn signal stalks on their other model in the EU.

I don't know why. It's the reason they don't indicate when leaving a roundabout.
Alibaba and AliExpress are banned in india.
Fonts are the low hanging fruit. More sophisticated servers run a whole battery of hardware fingerprinting tests. It runs deep.

If the device has been powered on for a certain period of time (usually a few minutes), the voltage normalizes and you get a unique clock skew signature based on the defects of the silicon, for each enumerable device that may be available from various JS API calls, or potential zero days, adds another data point for uniqueness.

Passive listenings of local network traffic headers will provide a local network topology of metadata of local proximity devices that can often be cross referenced (since cable modems often collect this info as well as other embedded devices).

Its a strategy called building a bridge. You start from the device which has an associated profile, that profile only need to be unique and may only start off as an identifier (nothing else) and the endpoint and you meet somewhere in the middle, backfilling information as you go. No personal info needed upfront.

CSS previous visited link decorators is another avenue for fingerprinting. It violates same-domain policy, but there was a PoF back in 2021 where you could generate picture squares identical to a captcha asking for specific picture or puzzle that was generated to be tied to the CSS decorator (thus submitting your browser history beacons to that site in its entirety). Think it was varun.ch?
To add to that:
After you eat all the apples, the following statements are true:
- there are no apples left
- there are 0 apples
- there are 0 oranges

The following statement does not apply though:
- there are no oranges left
… as this implies that there have been oranges available at some time before.
How is software an utility?