skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have. Most information-type websites (blogs, recipes, news) work fine. Many app-style websites (email, bug tracking, chat) don't work, or have very poor ux.

Guess which of these two categories I spend most of my time on...
I agree. Adding unit tests without a good reason comes at a cost.

Refactoring is harder, especially if it's not clear why a test is in place. I've seen many developers disable tests simply because they could not understand how, or why, to fix them.

I'm hopeful that LLMs can provide guidance in removing useless tests or simplifying things. In an ideal future they may even help in formulating requirements or design documentation.
The financial sector needs retail bag holders.
You might want to try Dyson sphere program next ( ◔ ‿ ◔ )
Now, you probably now that this is because 0 and 1 are the identity elements of the additive and multiplicative groups of real numbers, respectively. Probably wouldn't've helped you as kid though
Allen & Heath Xone 96 (or previous 92 model) mixers are very popular in the techno world.

Pioneer DJMs have dozens of FX combinations to aid with fast/fancy transitions, whereas techno/trance (and similar) genres that rely on long smooth blends like the extra EQ channel and filters.

I don't know any hip-hop DJs that use Xones?

The Xones are also analogue vs digital Pioneer mixers which also plays a part in audio quality, especially if the source is analogue (vinyl, rack modules, etc).

I'm happy with my Pioneer DJM-750mk2... but also happy to exchange a kidney for Xone:96 :-)
I can tell that a few years ago a couple of NRW libraries used a SuSE variant in kiosk mode, apparently not everyone found that great, as some of the ones I regularly visit now have Windows in kiosk mode, with the usual set of Office, Adobe and other packages.
> Nowadays we have digital high resolution screens and fast CPUs.

The problem is that even fast CPUs may have their limits.

A Macbook with M1 Pro spends up to a second decoding and rendering a HEIC image where a comparable JPG and PNG images are rendered instantly. And this is on an 11-year-old codec
Now, it's been a very long time since I see a mention of "Internet Explore 5". Kudos for highlighting the support for it but does it matter, who in the world are still using Internet Explorer 5?
Weird question. There is no 100% effective software, there is no way to measure effectiveness (what sells in enterprise is marketing and a good sales team, not "effectiveness") and it all depends on the budget.

If it fits your budget, and a commercial product has a good sales team (vs a cheaper opensource one with zero marketing), the commercial product is gonna get chosen even if it costs infinitely more. That's basically IBM and Oracle's play book.
Shameless plug: a FOSS project to provide failover for RR-DNS and it's being funded by NLnet https://codeberg.org/FedericoCeratto/rrdnsd
> Another elephant in the room is that many of the popular open source projects are funded by big tech.

People have to put food on their table and can't work for free. Someone has to pay for that work. Nobody will pay for it if he can't extract some benefits from doing so.
Because this is the color of the natural phenomenon that started the idea of ghosts, a pale white form floating in the dark in total silence seen out of the corner of the eye... a barn owl.

That lead us to a more interesting question, why barn owls are not black?
Usually, people use slide rule and handheld calculator in combination with paper and pencil. Combo of writing tool & computing tool. Merging them is a good idea.
I don't disagree but that's not my point.

The point is, there's little reason to go to the clones, you just lose the network effects, as X is still clearly "the" place to post stuff, and where your identity is the strongest. Which is important given in actuality it's not such a walled garden with authoritarian rule throwing people out like Twitter was. Only when everyone can have their say, you end up with something that ACTUALLY represents the "town square". Blue Sky might also be the town square, but more akin to one of a closed soviet military town.
Not in the UK. Still on 80Mbit VDSL here.
A game called Turing Complete. Not open source, though AFAIK
Come on, this is ridiculously pedantic. They used "major browser" to exclude WiP and hobby project to avoid pedants coming in and saying "uh Ladybird doesn't support looping gifs yet" or whatever. But I guess there's no pleasing the pedants.
Cloud is just someone else’s server.
'Fandom has toxified the world': Watchmen author Alan Moore
This article is from 2020. I think so far it has aged reasonably well.
But you might be interested in my more recent articles too. You can find those here: https://cloudinary.com/blog/author/jon_sneyers
It's flagged/dead, you gotta enable to show flagged/dead comments on your HN profile.
Xones are more like specialist precision tools that can be tweaked to a fine degree.

Pioneers have many options to quickly bail out of a train wreck mix!
If I understand this correctly, you are proposing to deconstruct (a priori unstructured) documents into structured data, no?

I think you need to have a demo use case in your app so people can better understand what this is about.

I tried to make an invoice document type. So far I got simple header data and line items and I created a method to add up line items to a total. It would be nice if methods could be triggered to run automatically. I can place buttons to run methods, but can I run a method at document update or field update?

Also I to speed up creation of methods you should have simple aggregation function like summing all items of a list (given a field name to sum over).
But that last statement has more to do with the word "left" than with "zero".
You're leaving out a big reason, those countries have a much more traditional "collectivism" and has a cultural phenomenon called saving face.

Those bring down a lot of said drug problem... Externally.
Germany, GP's situation smells like their policies.
Bell Labs did the same with Unix, but Unix was still not open source. This is why we run GNU/Linux today, not Unix™.
Something seems wrong im this article.
The side-by-side comparison shows 4 formats:

· Original PNG image (2.6 MB)
· Name "high_fidelity.png", but in fact 298.840 bytes and format: JPEG
· JPEG XL (default settings, 53 KB): indistinguishable from the original
· Name "high_fidelity.png.jxl.png", but in fact 3.801.830 bytes and format: PNG
· WebP (53 KB): some mild but noticeable color banding along with blurry text
· Name "high_fidelity_webp.png", but in fact 289.605 bytes and format PNG
· JPEG (53 KB): strong color banding, halos around the text, small text hard to read
· Name "jpeg_high_fidelity.jpg", but in fact 52.911 bytes and format JPEG

The comparison does not make any sense,
everything is just wrong. Also when encoding the large original PNG image to AVIF, it has only 20.341 Bytes with no visual change, see: http://intercity-vpn.de/files/2024-10-27/upload/
The thing I like about games is a clear objective that once achieved you have "finished".
The thing I don't like about software is that no software is (or will ever be?) finished.
DeFi - Decentralised Finance
Paraphrasing meat of the article:

- When you have multiple files in the repo which have the same trailing 16 characters in the repo path, git may wrongly calculate deltas, mixing up between those files. In here they had multiple CHANGELOG.md files mixed up.

- So if those files are big and change often, you end up with massive deltas and inflated repo size.

- There's a new git option (in Microsoft git fork for now) and config to use full file path to calculate those deltas, which fixes the issue when pushing, and locally repacking the repo.

```

git repack -adf --path-walk

git config --global pack.usePathWalk true

```

- According to a screenshot, Chromium repacked in this way shrinks from 100GB to 22GB.

- However AFAIU until GitHub enables it by default, GitHub clones from such repos will still be inflated.
There's still life on the Fediverse? I figured everyone had migrated to Nostr by now. Except perhaps the people running their little fiefdoms getting their dopamine hits every time they de-federate another server.

The whole ecosystem makes Meta and Twitter look like bastions of free speech by comparison.

It was a worthwhile experiment, but one whose outcome was "we have to do this at the protocol level if we actually want it to work."
What's nuts is how fast you can square such a number on a GPU!

A number of 136M bits (136 Mega bits), using a 7'500'000-points FFT, can be squared and mod-reduced (modular reduction) in less than 1ms (one milli-second) on consumer-priced (less than $500) GPUs.
Nice explanation, except IBM has been one of the largest Linux contributors since forever, they saw it as a means to reduce Aix development costs.

Linux only took off during the dotcom days as IBM, Oracle and Compaq started adopting it into commercial workloads, back in 2000.

Visual Studio Code isn't in the same ballpark as Visual Studio. It was already an Azure project, as the Monaco editor, and it was a way to kill Atom.

ARM is only successful on mobile devices and Apple hardware.

If you mean ARM on server, the most successful company, Ampere, is largely owned by Oracle, and there are some ongoing discussions about a full acquisition.
analogy: A similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.
Yet what "sells" about VSCode is the closed-source features, not the open source core. Everybody uses VScode today because of collaboration features and Copilot integration. VSCodium is very niche.
I think the actual historical genetic makeup of the UK is considerably more complex than you are implying:

https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/settlers
> I wish I could be one of these fearless and supremely knowledgeable people!

There's no trick to it (or there's a massive trick to it), you just refuse to let a mystery go until you know what's happening, mostly because figuring things out is fun.

In the process, you gain a large amount of knowledge.
Another option is myrepos:

https://myrepos.branchable.com/
It would exist as I knew it until 2000's, and hence why I see a parallel where current non-copyleft adoption has taken us back to.
> JPEG XL has been coming soon for as long as I can remember.

You must not have a very long memory. The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) published a call for proposals for what would become JPEG-XL in 2018. That's not so long ago.

Are you sure you're not thinking about JPEG-2000?
So if Adobe open-sources all of their software tomorrow, that would not impact their business?

> In truth the license doesn't matter.

Come on. What matters is the way the business extracts value from you, and the license is part of that. Especially when the software you produce is so great that nobody needs to be called, because it just works.
It's S-Q-L-ite, like we pronounce kryptonite.
Zero is pretty easy to understand if you add a layer of indirection: nothingness is hard to imagine, but add a container around it, and that's just an empty container. Zero is the empty glass.
Everything is information if you try hard enough. That's not really an argument.
> Open source without commercial companies contributing would be much more of a fringe thing.

My conjecture is that open source is polished enough for most customers to use when there are commercial interests implied. Linux on the server is a resounding success, Linux desktop not so much.
Low-Hanging Fruit for RAG Search
Oh, is that David Revoy graphics I see there? Why yes, it is! Mobilizon looks just like what my daughter was looking for, thanks!

I love these different projects that aren't going the beaten path of the advertising industry. Life gets a bit harder in a way but also less distractions.
It's dependent on your choice of definition. Most include it.
True in most contexts, but not in the context of state-level legislative language where it would usually refer to that state’s official role of that name. Most equivalent US legislation to what we’re discussing here would occur at the state level, since incorporation in the US is generally handled by the states. (The US federal government does track companies in various ways, of course, but the publicly accessible company registers come from the states.)
It will certainly not work without growth-hacking strategy.
There was nothing strange about zero for our distant ancestors.

There are only two things that have been understood much later about zero, that it is a quantity that in many circumstances should be treated in the same way as any other numbers and that it requires a special symbol in order to implement a positional system for writing numbers.

The concept of zero itself had already been known many thousands of years before the invention of the positional system for writing numbers.

All the recorded ancient languages were able to answer to the question "How many sheep do you see there?" not only with words meaning "one", "two", "three", "four", "few", "many" and so on, but also with a word meaning "none". Similarly for the answers to a question like "How much barley do you have?".

Nevertheless, the concept of the quantity "zero" must have been understood later than the concepts of "one", "two", "many" and of negation, because in most languages the words similar in meaning to "none", "nobody", "nothing", "null" are derived from negation words together with words meaning "one" or denoting small or indefinite quantities.

Because the first few numbers, especially 0, 1 and 2 have many distinctive properties in comparison with bigger numbers, not only 0 was initially perceived as being in a class somewhat separate from other numbers, but usually also 1 and 2 and sometimes also 3 or even 4.

In many old languages the grammatical behavior of the first few numbers can be different between themselves and also quite different from that of the bigger numbers, which behave more or less in the same way, consistent with the expectation that the big numbers have been added later to the language and at a time when they were perceived as a uniform category.
Can I get a straw poll on people who still use a dedicated alarm clock?

I was born 1990±2, but I have always been an old soul. I've been waking up to BBC Radio 4 since I was a teenager.

My current one used to belong to my dad, it's a Sony dream machine with FM/AM, circa 2002.
The problem is probably that the repo is not hosted in Europe.
I understand. I found it mind blowing and unbelievable too at first. I can recommend this book:

Naked, Short and Greedy: Wall Street's Failure to Deliver (2020)

Susanne Trimbath

It's full of examples and evidence from someone who has worked at the SEC.
It has been done before, for eg the original RNNoise was trained on proprietary data, later there was crowd-sourced effort to record new data and have it under libre licenses.

https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise/
I'm highly skeptical simply because such video apps requires very low latency video streaming, only available with accompanying cloud infrastructure.

And like others have pointed out, I don't think it's productive for the fediverse to go after this market.
Idea's can't exist? Legalism will tend towards might equals right? Dubious at best.

>I would protect the elephants because I like them. No use bringing rights into it.

Rights are rarely needed to protect x from y when y likes x..
> high_fidelity.png.jxl.png

means the original was

- loss-converted to JXL, measured as 53k

- then losslessly converted to PNG to be displayed on the website
Germany.

Deutsche Telekom is the former monopoly that was half-privatized around 1995 or something. The state still owns quite a large stake of it.

They milk their ancient copper crap for everything they can while keeping prices high.

They are refusing useful backbone interconnects to monopolize access to their customers (Actually they are not allowed to refuse. They just offer interconnections only in their data centers in the middle of nowhere, where you need to rent their (outrageously priced) rackspace and fibres because there is nothing else. They are refusing for decades to do anything useful at the big exchanges like DECIX).

And if there should ever be a small competitor that on their own tries to lay fibre somewhere, they quickly lay their own fibre into the open ditches (they are allowed to do that) and offer just enough rebates for their former copper customers to switch to their fibre that the competitor cannot recoup the invest and goes bankrupt. Since that dance is now known to everyone, even the announcement of Telekom laying their own fibres kills the competitors' projects there. So after a competitor's announcement of fibre rollout, Telekom does the same, project dead, no fibre rollout at all.

Oh, and since it is a partially-state-owned former monopoly/ministry, the state and competition authorities turn a blind eye to all that, when not actively promoting them...

Then there is the problem of "5G reception" vs. "5G reception with usable bandwidth". A lot of overbooking goes on, many cells don't have sufficient capacity allocated, so there are reports of 4G actually being faster in many places.

And also, yes, you can get 5G in a lot of actually populated areas. But you certainly will pay through the nose for that, usually you get a low-GB amount of traffic included, so maybe a tenth of the Microsoft monorepo in question. The rest is pay-10Eur-per-GB or something.
It’s funny because I don’t enjoy Factorio for the same reason you do - it quickly feels like work - but I never get the feeling I could be doing something more productive instead. I just think the core gameplay loop of Factorio is tedious and that it’s specifically designed for people who don’t mind that.

The gameplay is fun at first. You have a ressource and something you want to produce. You look at the ratio of things, what the layout you will have to put in place, how fast things will have to move. You painfully build that. It works. You feel good. Then you realise it will just be more of the same ad infinity with the first time you do train design and liquids the sole inkling of novelty. It’s all fairly simple conceptually so it gets tedious and boring quite fast (at least to me). I think part of the issue is also that I tend to play it wrong by calculating and planning - literally work for which the in game tooling is not optimal - while I think I would have more fun just winging it and fixing things as they happen.

What I mean is I think it’s not a game for everyone but I can see why it’s catnip for its intended audience.
I get the idea the current era a lot of democratic systems are getting quite the workout. Adding extra tiers and firebreaks -it turns out- is not always a bad idea. Not commenting on how well they might be implemented.
J.M. Greer recently wrote a post that elegantly makes the same argument. It's the best essay I've read this year, and I think about it quite a lot, actually. He's right about Tolkien, too.

> https://www.ecosophia.net/the-three-stigmata-of-j-r-r-tolkie...

> . . . It’s occurred to me more than once recently that one of the most distinctive things about the Western cultures of the last century or so is the way it’s become so obsessed with wholly imaginary worlds, as different as possible from the one we actually inhabit. That’s a very odd habit, when you stop and think about it.
I love Alan's work but he is also kind of an idiot on many issues

He rails against the interactions of fans and large conglomerates but he was happy to cash checks anytime his work went up for sale

Remember his big publicity stunt of declining his name to appear on the Watchmen movie credits? Yet he had no issue taking the payday from DC that started it all

I've read everything he has written including his novels...but, shut up Alan
What do you mean "regulate"? You make to make laws against it?
> Nice or not, pretending that double precision floats and arbitrary precision integers can be stacked as a tower is foolish. There are floats that can't be represented as integers, and integers which can't be represented as floats.

The numeric tower in Scheme describes general number types with above of in the tower graphic (in the Wikipedia article) meaning subtype of. double precision floats and arbitrary precision integers are representations of numbers. Both would also be Real numbers.
I think the kind of people on the Fediverse are much more likely to recognize that this kind of short form content is bad for you, so I'm not sure this will be too popular.
> The post extensively links citations/sources.

Even if there were some usage of “Open Source” prior to the OSI, the OSI announcement and consequent media storm completely obliterated any prior meaning the term might have had.

> OSI isn't the boss of me

What reason can you have to use the term “Open Source” today to mean something other than what OSI defines, other than to weaselly mislead?
PNG is lossless so they are using it to display compression artifacts of formats that may not have had wider browser support.
The European Union doesn't like when a file get too big and powerful. It needs to be broken apart in order to give smaller files a chance of success.
As a Web Typography fan and practitioner of good typographic web standards the answer is no. You’re right.
This stuff is cruft. Displays are fundamentally different from paper, and it is OK that we don’t transfer every typographic standard 1-to-1.
Though it's easy to see why linear potentiometers make sense if you want to adjust multiple at the same time.

However in these modern days with motor driven potentiometers, I guess it is less of a big deal.
That's the point. It wouldn't exist. It's not possible without research and OSS. You can't write off the entire foundation of CS before a date. Well you can, but it's ignoring history.
The article mentions Derick Stolee who dig the digging and shipped the necessary changes. If you're interested in git internals, shrinking git clone sizes locally and in CI etc, Derrick wrote some amazing blogs on GitHub blog:

https://github.blog/author/dstolee/

See also his website:

https://stolee.dev/

Kudos to Derrick, I learnt so much from those!
What's the matter with calling it out like it is, "fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement."
What does labor-saving technology do to workers?
The SYSAUX tablespace unexpectedly grew, primarily due to the SYS.SCHEDULER$_JOB_OUTPUT table, which consumed 14 GB. The V$SYSAUX_OCCUPANTS view was utilized to identify space usage issues, revealing excessive data generated from the DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE command in a loop. After performing purge and truncate operations, log records generated with DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE ceased; however, a log record related to the Automatic Segment Advisor task showed that insufficient privileges (ORA-01031) occurred daily. Granting explicit CREATE TABLE permission resolved the issue, ensuring the proper functionality of the Automatic Segment Advisor.
> The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

It is funny how SV is copying TikTok, while, at the same time, pushing hard to ban it.

Youtube already has TikTok copy (scroll to next video) from some time.
This is just one of many aspects of fingerprinting. Canvas is only a single element.

Each fingerprint component can be used to correlate other components, including TLS channel options which generally last the entire session the website is open for, or there's a network header that remains unchanged between NAT.

Given tens of thousands of potentially fingerprintable elements, you only need 5 relatively unique elements between people for a 1 in 1million, each point thereafter exponentially increases that uniqueness.