skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alabama won't see another candidate if the US went by popular vote ...
All it has is a bunch of fluff about wanting non-humans to have rights, which I vehemently disagree with.
I love me an INI. By far, IMO, the best human readable config syntax. Sure it's got some gotchas, like all old formats (CSV) there's no spec. But if I have the choice I'd go INI. It's simple and leaves the choices up to the program that's reading the file, because everything is a string.

To me there's no difference in this articles argument that with INI people would have to remember about the idiosyncrasies of the python implementation related to comments, and people having to know and learn the correct syntax of TOML. I'd say remembering when and where you can comment is easier too.

Either way it's personal preference. I do occasionally like to reread this though (because I'm boring): https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...
Please tell me and perhaps others what delightful happenstance led you to conclude that you are the definitive arbiter of what this thread (and I assume all others?) is for.
> Typically I'm working on code that I wrote, or I've been studying it enough that I've gotten to the point that I'm refactoring and editing it

That doesn't explain it. You can't know for any "foo" whether all the content, including comments, has "foo" as a subword for any non-trivial amount of text because you're not a computer.

> so you have to do another step?

No, you reduce many steps having to specify word-based selection every time with a cognitive overhead ("If there are other words") with a single default.

> I can pick word selection or not dynamically

So can I, and I don't need to do precision jumping in the middle of a combined text field to do that, but that's a different benefit

> It isn't clear to me what your approach is, "incrementalism"

when instead of counting 5 lines and selecting them you press a selection key the amount of times is needed to select what you need

> I can select the body of a function

and as I've pointed out, that's a different workflow. You've added a "in this semantic block" requirement and mistakenly compare it to the original incremental one

> just another way of doing it, not fewer steps.

it is fewer steps, I've pointed out which steps are not needed, and then there is another condition complicating your simple explanation when it's not a certainty that you actually want to replace everything within a block.
But again, within semantic blocks there are different tradeoffs
It starts out as a typical programmer rant these days about AI assistants and LLM fine tuning and then goes on to complain how sadly, they don't work for this game yet. So he's forced to play it manually. How old fashioned.

I find that pretty amusing.
It is clear when looking at the history of policing in America, whenever you let the police be “tough on crime”, they abuse their power and particularly against certain minority groups.

America is unable to figure out its systematic prejudices, therefore cannot adopt “tough on crime” policies (like Singapore’s)
You are mentioning that an experiment with nextcloud has failed? I cannot find any evidence regarding that, even more I see it highly used among governments and municipalities in the EU.
We need to start by doing something about Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers.

It is the main contributor to this mess because (a) they allow long-lived first party cookies and (b) they carelessly add every random API without any thought about the privacy implications.
No human has run faster than a cheetah nor flown like an eagle.

What is your point that elevates the value of human life above that of other animals?
James Cameron says the reality of AGI is 'scarier' than the fiction of it
Yeah that's what happens in a normal alarm clock. The OP thinks the design of this one is broken, hence my comment.

But some other commenters seem to have a good theory that it's a failure in a component
I think the amount of useful websites that work without JS are on a steady decline. No one wants to invest into a 0.1% share, so if it works it's likely out of chance. Even newspapers have a bunch of popups that expect JS to be closed, so you have to hope uBlock is already configured to remove it for you.
Chromium wrapper with bonus tracking and AI bullshit.
Here's to hoping things like Patreon and GitHub Sponsors make it more common. These platforms could truly change the way things are done in the software world. Given enough sponsors, I could quit my job and focus on free software every day.
Most of the content I enjoy is produced to make money. Without a financial incentive, content creators will just ignore the platform.
What will content creators gain from this platform? Nothing. So it will never succeed.
Google docs certainly haven't changed much the last 5-10 years. I wonder if that's an intentional choice, or if it is because those that built it and understand how it works are long gone to work on other things.
When I travel in Germany I use a Deutsche Telekom pay as you go SIM in a 5G hotspot, and generally get about 200Mbit throughtput, which is far higher than you can expect any place you're staying to provide. It's €7 a day (or €100 a month) but it's worth it to avoid the terrible internet.
Certainly being in an org which has close ties to entities like GitHub helps, but any team in any org with that number of developers can justify the cost of bringing in a highly specialized consultant to solve an almost niche problem like this.
> Mobile coverage is getting better but still non existent outside of cities.

According to the Bundesnetzagentur over 90% [1] of Germany has 5G coverage (and almost all of the rest has 4G [2]).

[1] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...

[2] https://gigabitgrundbuch.bund.de/GIGA/DE/MobilfunkMonitoring...
It’s not strictly about height, that is only one of the factors. Modern cars usually have pedestrian safety systems that the cybertruck does not have by design.
> I agree that keeping pets is probably immoral.

Watching the foxes and squirrels that live near humans has suggested to me that domestication is two-way. The animals want what we have: spare food, shelter. Some of them are brave and willing enough to interact with us, some aren’t. Over time, more of them become brave and willing enough to interact.

Anyone that considers a cat their pet will observe that cats are mainly in it for themselves. They (try to) go out when they want, they’ll make it clear when they’re not in the mood for attention. They spend hours each day ignoring us whilst making use of the shelter we provide. They’ve been known to leave their humans and return to their familiar territories when their humans move house.

I don’t think pet “ownership” is inherently immoral, but some people’s implementations of it, and the terminology, probably are.
Exactly how I feel with redstone contraptions in Minecraft. Already have OSS projects to my name, and my way to "play" is to refactor them endlessly. In a game I'm looking for a different type of fun for once.
One fun loophole to get the tax credit is through a lease. A lot of leasing companies pass the full credit on as a straight deduction on the capitalized cost, and you can stack that with other incentives. Lucid had some really ridiculous deal going that was supposedly leasing the >$100k sticker Air GT for $849/mo : https://www.autoblog.com/news/2024-lucid-air-available-from-...

I looked into that and there was exactly one vehicle available and it was something like $7500 due at signing to get that $849/mo payment, IIRC on a 36-mo term, so really it’s more like ~$1058/mo, which makes more sense.

Still a lot of discounts on EVs if you know where to look. Definitely lease; these will depreciate like bricks after the batteries get used up and are down below 70% capacity. I’m not sure how financing companies are doing the math but their expected values at the end of lease terms feel wildly optimistic. My guess is some degree of mfg incentives to push EVs combined with models that took too much pandemic pricing into account for used vehicles. If you can get a good money factor on the lease, go for it.
FYI, it requires _3/4_ of state legislatures plus the two thirds in both houses of Congress. Otherwise agree with your comment.
> This to me implies that EVs have peaked

That might be true, if the #2 selling car, and the #1 selling car were not also EVs.

The Model Y is currently the second best selling vehicle of all kinds, and it very likely is about to overtake the F-150 as the most-selling vehicle, the first time the F-150 has been dethroned in 46 straight years.

The sales numbers are saying we have not reached peak EV.
Any headline with a question...
Of course it depends on what you want to do and what you are used to.

Technically, regardless of the rest of the product design there are high quality potentiometers available both as linear faders or rotary knobs. I guess dirt is more likely to get into a linear fader and make it scratchy - especially in a club environment.
I've made no such conclusion, you do as you wish.

The title indicates that this isn't a thread for the discussion of that small number of single minded zealots who have captured the US Court system in a thoroughly undemocratic manner .. but by all means discuss that further.
What! This is absolutely not true. My open source work was not sponsored by anyone. And IMC is not my employer. But really, how did you get this idea?
You can't remove salt from food after you add it. You also can't argue with taste.
It's more of a symbiotic relationship. The open source community depends on commercial support. Essentially all of the bigger projects indeed get a lot of their contributions from the companies that use, build, and depend on these projects. It's how the software world can collaborate with their competitors on the things they don't compete directly on.

This isn't charity, they are literally using more OSS software than they produce their own software. By several orders of magnitude in most cases. Companies like Google have many millions of lines of code in proprietary in house code. But they depend on an even larger amount of code in OSS form.

E.g. Android and Chrome OS are based on Linux. Those products are built on many thousands of open source packages. And of course Google is contributing to lots of them and created a few themselves. Chrome is open source because webkit was open source because Apple forked KHTML from the KDE project.

Open source without commercial companies contributing would be much more of a fringe thing.

VC funded OSS companies are a bit more challenging. These companies are perpetually confused about their licensing and need to keep things proprietary and open at the same time. These projects get a lot of attention because of the VC money but technically they only represent a tiny fraction of the OSS community.
> Olivetti had commuter buses in Ivrea and Milan well before Google buses were invented

Italy has both megalopoleis and very sparse small centres. Ivrea is in the northern part of its region (north of Turin); if you consider that the southern half is said to not really have a main city but seven towns of equal beauty and worth (the even lesser ones not really minor), you get the idea of the sub-region as a very sparse megalopolis embedding its countryside.

When enterprises chose to move at least part of their activity from their town of origin to the central area (of Turin) for logistic convenience, it became sensible to organize systems facilitating the movement of your workers, that easily gravitated around the original town.

Edit: as you wrote elsewhere, «[there is a] city to have a job in but then you'd go home [when possible] if you could».
I would have never read your title. The whole reason I clicked was because of the mystery element.
Linting, refactoring and testing all have obvious benifits for anyone who has done any small to medium sized project and has had to rewrite and debug some amount of code, even if they don't know the concepts by name. Even version contolling is ubiquitous in almost any entry-level programming job, even if it wasn't before.

Most people who have made a website with CSS before would at best change the font size, the line spacing and the font face and tweak it to a point that feels easily readable and call it a day. Introducing variable widths between the characters of the font, digraphs and so on feels like more like exercising artisanship that only the experts would see value in rather than solving a technical problem.

Perhaps advanced web design/typesetting is the main application of this and it has a chance of inducing a better subconscious effect on the viewer. Sort of how magazines and books were designed back in the day I suppose.
For those like me with a Jurassic Park-level understanding of fossils, apparently the prospects of obtaining DNA from amber-preserved insects are not good: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/1688388/pdf/9...
Big tech relies on open source and, often enough, vice versa
> With videos it seems you have to hope that the video player has an option to loop

<video playsinline muted loop> should be nearly as reliable as a GIF in that regard.

The one exception that I've found is that some devices will prevent videos from autoplaying if the user has their battery-saver on, leading to some frustrating bug reports.
> The regular IT environment in the European Parliament is managed by whole teams of professionals, it comes with training, and is supported by Microsoft partners and ultimately by Microsoft itself. There are also large amounts of computing power available to make things work well.

> An Open Source experiment meanwhile is typically operated by an enthusiastic hobbyist with borrowed equipment. Rolled out without training and without professional support, by someone who likely did this for the first time, it’s no wonder things often don’t work out well.

> After the experiment, the faction was disappointed and concluded that Nextcloud was no good. And that was also their lived experience. “Let’s not do that again!”

This is a rhetorical trick known as implication or insinuation. By presenting information indirectly, the author prompts readers to make a connection themselves without explicitly stating it.

The author implies that the European Parliament's failed experiment with Nextcloud was due to a lack of professional resources and expertise, suggesting it was handled similarly to typical open-source projects led by hobbyists without proper support. However, he doesn’t provide any factual evidence that the Parliament’s Nextcloud experiment actually lacked professional resources, training, or adequate equipment. Instead, he hints at this by describing common issues with open-source setups, leaving readers to assume the experiment suffered from similar shortcomings.

I would have appreciated some facts, or even sources for his claims, but there are none. And I couldn't find any information about the Nextcloud deployment having failed.
Yes, a LOT of people.

There is a lot of this in EvE Online and it's a valid and welcome play style. Unfortunately, everybody will tell you its opsec if you ask for details.

If you want more information about EvE Online's extremely deep and intricate economy (Essentially everything is built by players who mine ore to make components who resell to integrators that have associated distributors and clients and so forth) you can check Oz on youtube who makes market and market analysis content ( https://www.youtube.com/@OZeve )

Very closely related, EvE Online now has an official MS Excel plugin from Microsoft with full API integration with EvE Online. This game is an effective way to become an expert using MS Excel and its full, powerful integrations:
Oz' Quick Guide:
https://youtu.be/eAogNNeDZuo

EvE Online also has a convention where our EvE Ted Talks are presented to one another (like defcon) called Fanfest. Here's 51 minutes:
Fanfest 2023 "Market Spreadsheet Masterclass"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ql6IU1eZpM

If you have an idea, or want to see if you can do this, the free-to-play account can for zero dollars if you already have an MS Excel license or are able to integrate your own solution. The limitation is you will start with zero capital, knowledge, intuition, and F2P accounts can't make nearly as many orders as a fully skilled character.
I cite that essay always when "but this should be open source" comes up in a corporate context...

https://gwern.net/complement
> It can’t be that you want your org to run without numbers. And it can’t be that you eschew quantitative goals forever!

Can't it? Amazon may be an exception, but most of the time running without numbers or quantitative goals seems to work better than having them.
You can't do (or it is much more involved) to do cuts with rotary knobs. So they serve only the DJ who does slow mixes, while with faders you can do both.
The point of going to big businesses for software services and support is that most customers don’t have needs that are large enough to justify the full-time staff needed for top-notch support. So companies that provide services amortise this over many customers and can employ n dozen full-time staff for a particular subsystem when the average customer might only need them a few times a year. So the tradeoff makes sense – even with a big profit margin, the customers still save money compared with DIY.

This logic doesn’t really hold when it comes to large governments. Their needs are large enough that they can justify employing specialists. At that point, the profit margin the service business is capturing is just inefficiency. Internal services should be more common in large governments.
I think it's perfectionism and impostor syndrome.

When I play games, I never play competitive or intense games, I see it as a therapeutic activity.

I play relaxing single player games like Stardew Valley or Tiny Glade. Cultivate some crops, feed my chicken, pat my cat. No real end goal other than to just relax. I urge anyone to try, especially in co-op with with a friend or partner. It really is therapeutic.
Achievable, I suppose. But 10yo CSS is a big-enough PITA that, if the machine can learn to do it, it should.
The Jeep wave, but less bend in the elbow
If you're interested in the topic, it's a pervasive and not-fully-solved problem even in well-intentioned research, where special care is needed in order to avoid accidentally re-identifying individuals in anonymized data simply because they are too unique.

Another classic example of this is behavioral uniqueness. Maybe 10 people got coffee and a donut at the corner store at 8 AM, but how many of them also went to work at ABC Corp that day and also got a pepperoni roll at the pizzeria for dinner at night? Probably just one person did that.
I order the keys in the same direction because I like order.

If you want to find a particular key fast, I doubt having them order helps.
I wonder what the response would've been if I had left the WAT source code out and just claimed, "this WASM binary was built with a compiler", and not specified the language.
If JSON would allow comments (and trailing commas would be nice as well), then I think it would be a strong contender for a config format as well.
Did someone really downvote my opinion? That’s just, like, pretty demotivating.
PoWaBu was a dead end anyway — now I'm much more interested in the overlap between 鮑羅廷 (MMG) and PMWL (1923-1925?); they would've had at least two languages in common.

Thanks for MSN; I wonder why he hasn't been publishing with Springer, where he'd be easier to find?
IDK about 'open source', but 'libre software' is what fueled tons of propietary software from the 80's
until today. Without that software tons of propietary software (even console games) woudn't even exist.

I remind you all Emacs powered some German airline's ATC in the early 90's, and it used to be used under Amazon for tons of stuff thanks to its easy widget UI to achieve tasks with very little Elisp.
Oooooh, is this why I see so many Teslas not using their turn signals? How did that even get regulatory approval (though I guess not in the EU)?
I think the author is not learned in the technology economics.

IBM to save it's business had to merge with Red hat almost 50% 50% in 2018.

Microsoft it's security and cloud offering had to, open source it's .net framework, aquire GitHub, ditch Visual Studio fot Visual Studio Code,

ARM is eating the world, it over hauled the x86_x64 architecture, and became the Defacto architecture.

We can go on and on and on and on,that the Open Source business model, became necessary to survive in tech, not just to exist.

If you don't open it, they will eat you up.
Thw problem is big tech can offer free as in beer hosted services.

You can use Google docs for free so it takes some dedication to self host that and pay for the server.

Now if big tech charged for everything things would be more like the old days where you might use small tech, such as a local hosting provider that does open source installs.
I actually have a Taula 2 and a Xone 92 at home. I prefer the Taula 2, due to the simplicity and the fact that it has an isolator. The Xone 92 has a four band IQ and a filter, which I like a lot, but I have the impression that all the bells and whistles take a toll on the quality. At least in a home listening setup.

Anyways, it’s not the knobs that make the sound…
I didn't say that your comment was an egregious violation of the guideline - had it been, I'd have reported it instead.

I reminded you that the guideline exists because it's good advice in this case, and had you edited your comment to get rid of the snark (as the guidelines suggest), you could have had a chance of persuading instead of alienating its audience. Too bad.
(FWIW, the "natural numbers" in fact does not include 0: if you include 0 you get the "whole numbers". I otherwise agree with you that 0 isn't at all strange.)
Both.

Analogy: we need safer road design and better enforcement of antisocial driving behavior and stricter penalties for hurting people with your vehicle or putting them at risk of harm.
I don’t think it’s a digital will. I think it’s an advisory layer which is completely incompetent and will always try to lead decisions toward proprietary software solutions because they “job hop” between the public and private sectors. I do not mean this as corruption or shady, but simply that they have powerful roles because they have a lot of private sector jobs behind them. Business leaders who employ thousands of people, and the decisions makers and advisors in their vicinity are always going to have a big role in political decisions. Coupled with many of the FFOS advocates and NGOs being far too “all or nothing” in their approach, where what you would need to be successful is not to swap everything at once but to take small incremental steps so that you can build clear successes. It simply leads to a landscape where the political layer makes bad decisions despite a decade long will and commitment to advance both EU tech and Open Source solutions.
We can’t escape physics, but we can address physics. Car batteries are usually temperature controlled, they are cooled when fast charging etc.

Especially with modern battery tech, you should easily get 200,000km out of the battery before it drops to below 80% of its original capacity
> those branches that only change CHANGELOG.md and CHANGELOG.json, we were fetching 125GB of extra git data?! HOW THO??

Unrecognized 100x programmer somewhere lol
How an Indian startup hacked the world
HPC under Inria. Giving how young Guix is, lots of companies rely on it.

>Tens or hundreds

You never wrote a single line or Scheme or Common Lisp and it shows.

No one writes thousands of nested lines down. They modularize it into functions because Lisp was basically made literally for that.

Get some Emacs modules and code, such as Mastodon.el. Look at the source code. Far easier to understand than any C or C++ codebase, not to
mention Rust.
ARM is not open source.
Or if the power goes out. Where I live, there are at least several outages per year.