skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is a "validated problem"? Is it just something an LLM gleaned from online content, or did someone verify that the people having the problem would actually pay for a solution, and aren't just venting frustration online? Also, do the reports track when problems were identified and seek out whether solutions have been created since the complaints arose?
A rather large slice of the global populace was still farming in 1988. It’s that same carbon intensive industrial agriculture which enabled ever more urbanization.
Depends, in Eastern Europe "suing" does not happen often, in fact, it is quite rare, for both employers and employees. I see how people in the US are threatening to sue all the time, but that is not the case around here. It would take too much time and money and usually is not worth it.
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> Went with Kingston again because CORSAIR only sells quad-kits.

What?

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/c/memory/ddr5-ram

Plenty of two-stick kits there. Were you just trying to make up an excuse to pick Kingston over Corsair?
>Oh no, his Apple T-shirt is so bad he's wearing a Zegna shirt! It's a Sunday, my dudes.

Apple makes and sells mice as part of their business, my dude. Any t-shirts they make is just a secondary thing for the merchandise store.

Making their software and hardware good enough for them to use and "eating their own dog food" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food ) is important.
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"Be defence forces of (checks profile) one-of-the-five nation states" is not a standard of negotiation requirement I deem attainable for just about anyone that isn't one of the five or EU the union.
> Until people start thinking critically instead of emotionally, this science will keep delivering results for those who use it.

This is doubtless true, but I strongly dislike political articles that end with implicit appeals to moral evolution. There is no useful call to action, no suggestion of how said evolution could occur - and more importantly persist. It also individuates the response to collective phenomena.

'Pollution will worsen until people begin to take responsibility for their waste'.
'Literacy will decline until parents start to take their kids reading seriously'.
'The war will worsen until international institutions can find a way to work together'.

These appeals sound like they offer solutions, while failing to even offer useful explanations. The article above is wildly simplistic - missing significant important questions, let alone attempting to answer them. Here are a few.

'Why are such techniques more amenable to the right then the left?'
'Should and can the noble lie be employed in ethical demagoguery?'
'Can people be educated out of being easily manipulated, is there any research that demonstrates how, does this scale?'
'Do mass information campaigns help ameliorate misinformation?'
'If communications technology really is what facilitates authoritarian fear-mongering, can technology be used to prevent it? What are the trade offs?'
It’s not only the right that does that though.

Politically I am leaning very much to the left, yet these days I cannot visit Reddit without feeling like I’m getting manipulated by the constant scream of doom and gloom and all the bad things that will happen to me because of Trump’s win.

And how is the worst person in history.

That at the same time has dementia the past 5 years but also is the master mind behind the plan to destroy US.

That he is penniless and broke but yet part of the billionaire elite.

That is very easily manipulated by Putin flattery but at the same time is a paid Russian asset.

And just to be fair, things are as bad if not worse in r/conservative

Ps: Democrats you had 4 years after Jan 6 to make sure he never gets in power again, yet you fucked up royally. Stop screaming now, what happens is as much as your fault as his by allowing him to come to power again.
> Usually planes are turned around too fast to be waiting for them to fully reboot every time they fuel.

To be clear, this affected the Boeing 787, a plane usually focused on long-haul between medium sized cities. It is incredibly rare to see a long-haul flight turned-around immediately. Normally, they have max two flights per days, and for longer routes, just one route per day. There was plenty of time to reboot. I don't think anyone was ever in danger.

Also, I am starting to grow tired of "anything Boeing does is bad" on HN in the last 6-12 months. The Boeing 787 was a huge hit, both technically and commercially. (I would say the same for the Airbus A350.) I certainly never worked anything as important or cool in my career. The endless booing from the HN peanut gallery adds little new and/or useful information to the discussion. Yes, I expect to be downvoted for this last paragraph.
Do they though, or are they just powerless consumers with no real choice, besides the colour of the wrapping?
That applies to vegan militants as well. It is well researched now that low-carb puts T2 diabetes in remission, and calling it bro science won't invalidate it.
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I'd rather see FP addicts exit Python ecosystem. I had dubious pleasure of working with Python codebases written by FP enthusiasts. It was hell. Simple, well-understood problem domains were made way more complex by introduction of GraphQL and FP resulting in about a dozen levels of nesting for something that could have been a simple FastAPI app.
If you agree, here's a petition: https://publiccode.eu
> Unfortunately, I've noticed that non-SW engineers frequently turn their noses up at open-source solutions, and really the entire concept of open-source software, and seem to prefer proprietary solutions, the more expensive the better.

Well if you're dealing with projects worth 7 figures (or more), it absolutely makes sense to go for a commercial project with SLAs on support. Last thing you want is to hit some showstopper bug, holding up people who earn 4-digit daily compensation, and been told to "figure stuff out yourself".

If you as the author of a FOSS project that isn't a household name already for historical reasons (like, say, OpenSSL or cURL) and you want it being used by anyone else than hobbyists and universities, you won't get around establishing some sort of corporate infrastructure to sell support contracts.
Keep in mind that most countries subsidise fossil fuels so that energy and transportation remains cheap and drives the economy — or at least that's the logic I hear, idk if it actually works that way

By not doing that, you free up quite a bit of tax money. I can't imagine it's the whole 30% but it would bring it down. Emissions tax would be another way to fund this figure at the same time as having corporations find ways to reduce emissions
If you need psychological manipulation (ads) to "fix misinformation" then there is a good chance it isn't misinformation in the first place.
It is, though, because it kind of transfers most of the power in the relationship to the employer. Without it, I imagine they'd find some other way, or lobby the state away from at-will employment.
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It's interesting to compare Blender and Gimp on this axis. And to a certain degree Emacs and VS Code; or Gnome and KDE; or gcc and clang. It's easy for a certain sort of open source project to get so distracted by the point it is trying to prove that it forgets that it has to actually be good.
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If I could get one wish, it would be to ban "makes sense" from any engineering discussion ever. Facts do not "make sense" the world is not a "sense making" machine. We make sense of the world and of the facts. Something feeling intuitive, which is what people often mean when they claim something "makes sense", just means it slots into your existing experience.
> In the context of a boycott, using/promoting Nitter is at best neutral

I don't think that context was established, at least not in my comment, but I do agree with your second suggestion.
That's a very interesting question and I'm not really sure what the answer is in general but I can answer for myself.

I'm an EE. I can code. I think I'm pretty good at it. But there's a reason I didn't major in CS, I don't enjoy it all that much and I don't do it as a hobby either.

If you believe that those who contribute to FOSS is a small percentage, then I think for non-SW folks you're looking at a small percentage of a small percentage, which means sparingly few contributors which means sparingly few FOSS EDA tools.
Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs?
I don't want my content to be harvested by LLMs; They are removing attribution, among other things. Otherwise, I'd like to stick as close as possible to the open source licenses (say MIT). Is there such a license out there? If not, anyone working on such a thing?

So far what we have learned is that robots.txt doesn't work; major sites are using login-only access with 2FA to have any hope to keep their content away from LLMs. I imagine the licenses would be one thing, but actually implementing/enforcing them might be a whole other can of worms!
How about context encoding more generally ? Are there techniques to do that. I.E, during training, I want the string "Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum, sum ergo Deus est." to have embedded René Descartes as main author, year 1637 as date of writing and "Discours de la méthode" as global context of writing.

So that when trained again another part of the same book, the model can learn they were from same context.
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This statement actually comes from "you don't need a perfect solution to start selling" or something similiar.

Nonetheless, i do wish for a Star Trek like future and we can't reach it as long as we humans work normal jobs we can automate away.
>knocking the passwordless part

yes that's what I meant. The gain in convinence does not outweigh the disadvantage in security for me.
During my time at university, I nearly overheated my PC while running a genetic algorithm for Phased Array beam optimization. The code was poorly written and far from optimized, the results were underwhelming, but it turned out to be a valuable and amusing learning experience.

As an ham operator, I should use something similar to create a 2m phased array. It would be fun to see if the reality matches the simulations.
> Ps: Democrats you had 4 years after Jan 6 to make sure he never gets in power again, yet you fucked up royally. Stop screaming now, what happens is as much as your fault as his by allowing him to come to power again.

This. Four years and nothing to show for it. So stop screaming. One side is as responsible for the outcome as the other.
You could also run a limited demo of your desktop application in a browser, where people have to pay to get access to the full thing.
I don't think that mathematicians are actually in the best position to judge how math/logic might help in practical applications, because they are usually not interested in practical applications at all (at least for the last 70 years or so). Especially, they are also not interested in logic at all.

But logic is very relevant to "being logical/reasonable", and seeing how mathematicians apply logic in their proofs is very relevant, and a starting point for more complex applications. I see mathematics as the simplest kind of application of logic you can have if you use only your brain for thinking, and not also a computer.

"Being logical/reasonable" also contains a big chunk of intuition/experience, and that is where machine learning will make a big difference.
LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Visual Representation
You want to replace TCP becouse it is bad ? Then give better "connected" protocol over raw IP and other raw network topologies. Use it. Done.

Don't mess with another IP -> UDP -> something
"it’s easier for us to make the effort to understand than it is for someone to change how they speak"

Not just change how they speak, but learn entirely new concepts that do not exist in their language, and that they have no intuition for. I'm currently teaching German to somebody whose native language has no tenses, no cases, mostly no plurals, essentially no genders, different phonemes, and is written in a different script.

Having to not just learn these concepts, but be familiar enough with them to form an intuitive understanding and use them correctly in most instances, at a near-native level, is something that takes a decade or more for an adult. To be dismissive of somebody who makes that effort is pathetic.
I think that last sentence captures the whole reason we're having this discussion
> However, I also think we're lacking text focused environments for smaller scale programs, the equivalent of shell scripts or BASIC programs.

I actually think Emacs is the perfect environment for this. Not only that, but Emacs can go on an even smaller scale: keyboard macros. For example, I've performed keyboard macros to update data with a combination of Emacs HTTP request modes and org-mode. And this is all doable because of Emacs' text orientation.
This, and nobody asked, and it was irrelevant to the comment thread.
In Finland I believe you need very vindictive company. And even then any amount of money you can get out of it likely is not worth the work hours spend.
That's a long way in the past though, and one of the fascinating things about the Blender project is the way that they have been able to break with their legacy in a way that other projects seem incapable of. Modern Blender is a very different experience to the early iterations.
Hey ! It's really nice, is there a way we can contribute to add more radios ?
Yes, but Blender at that point was very primitive, both from a features and usability standpoint.
What really drove Blender forward in its earlier years were the open movie projects, both as a way of raising funds for development and as a way of putting the software through its paces to find spots that need improvement. Ton Roosendal has been a superbly skillful project leader in other ways too, like finding the right technical areas and features to focus on, putting the needs of the artists/users first, knowing when to set aside his own vision in favor of what the community wants and not undertaking major rewrites until there is enough momentum behind the project to see them through.
Maybe it's the first use of phased arrays for consumer satellite data terminals, but I believe phased arrays were mass-produced (and still are) for radar chips -- e.g. in automotive. Ran across this fascinating article on the history:

https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/20469-automotive-r...
I have been swinging around to the opinion that SQLite + files is perhaps the universal data format after all. Files give you efficient blob storage, and the SQLite database can in fact encode most types of constraints and structure.
Then it is you who are confused and lack the correct foundations for rational argument, a strawman is very different thing than contextualization, and in fact the latter is used by neoliberal professionals to relativize values making criticism impossible.
Once while visting another shop to buy some used equipment and tooling, I got into a long and fun yarn with the owner,
it was a vast shop and we were there alone
rumaging, and in comes a man, wanting a gear made "for his jeep" ,with the damaged one in hand,"can you do it" Earl listens and says "shure shure, leave it there by the door", we get back to our yarn, and after a bit the guy inerupts with "can you do it",Earl again "says sure sure leave it by the door", back to yarning, and the third time the guy interupts with "can you do it" Earl turns and says "Ive fucked up better jobs than this" and we wander off to rummage somewhere else.
Knowing the little bit I do about gear making, I class the skill to make gears as one of the great underrated skills.
And what almost nobody knows, is just how
complicated and expensive thd entire process becomes, when making critical gear sets for things like aircraft turbine engines, a small gear that you hold in your hand, costs as much as a car, not that anyone is going to let you hold one.
Love your article by the way. Not an expert but off the top of my head:

https://docs.datomic.com/operation/architecture.html

(However they cheat with dynamo lol)

There's also some listed here

https://davidgomes.com/separation-of-storage-and-compute-and...
>Not my emphasis, it's from the article.

It's the emphasis of your comment. The article never stated that her accomplishments (or the difficulties she experienced) were undercut by having a financial backer. You said that.

Speaking of which: again, how exactly is it undercut?
I don’t think I’ve ever talked with a recruiter who didn’t ask what my notice period was in the opening conversation. IT services sector has a standard notice period too, so I think most employers expect 2-4 weeks anyways for most people they’d hire.
Are we talking about the same thing? If I reboot manually then I don't get notifications until I enter my pin. But if my phone does the auto-reboot I do get notifs as usual.

This screen: https://i.imgur.com/jRS7Ffx.png

If there is a setting somewhere I can toggle so I get a "full" reboot, I would appreciate someone pointing it out to me.
There is also a centuries-old practice of lucid dreaming, known as "dream yoga", in certain lineages of Buddhism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_yoga

Looks like it can be done without an app ;-)
That's right, and imagine Putin giving up land - it's not going to happen. If Ukraine wants any of their own land back, they have to hold on to the Russian land.

Personally I think for the sake of survival they should consider giving up on the land they've lost but join NATO and have our nukes stationed there for their protection from further attacks.
They're still holding on to some Kursk.
And even if the software doesn’t cost you in failed projects it can cost you in other ways.

The old meme from 10 years ago about: “Linux being free if your time is free” is largely false for personal usage, but in the corporate environment somebody will have to provide support and with the open source software this is going to be you.

People selling B2B software know that so they will usually price things in a way that it is just a bit cheaper to pay them rather then support and retrain staff.
So they start work at 12?
If you are capable of reading German, I would highly recommend the book "Talking to Ignoramuses" (Mit Ignoranten Sprechen) by Peter Modler. [0]

He proposes that people are generally split between 2 modes of communication and that in order to talk to each other you have to learn how the other sides communicates.
It's an interesting proposition and his points are something you can observe when watching debates with Trump and other candidates.

He specifically doesn't offer a way to deal with the surge in far right, but he does make great observations in how Trump and others like him behave and steer conversations. Academics especially like to argue with facts and and often cannot understand why people aren't responsive to what they consider obvious, but at the same time fail to understand that a lot of people don't respond to this kind of communication. At least not initially.

[0] https://www.drmodler.de/buch/mit-ignoranten-sprechen/
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I'm saddened that Wikipedia has still not implemented an (AI) text to speech solution to read articles
The Ukrainians want their land and their people back. As long as they're willing to fight, I'll support them. The day they decide to give up and let the genocidal Russians sweep across their country, it'll be their decision.
> Imagine devices that don't have built-in obsolescence

There is no such thing as "planned obsolescence". The trade-off is price vs quality. You can buy or source a hammer that will last you a lifetime, but will cost 10x the standard rate of hammer ... most people opt for the $20 option vs the $200 option, knowing full well, the $20 option may not last as long.

>Boeing airplanes that need to be rebooted if their computers are up for too long, an Ariane 5 blowing up because using the old thing should be "good enough", Microsoft Windows on ATMs and vending devices that literally can't not have pop-ups.

Couple things here:

1) None of those are examples of 'planned obsolescence'.

2) You really do not want to have every software application built the same way you build software for NASA. It would make software development incredibly expensive and slow.

3) I think everyone agrees that Boeing has major quality problems when compared with Airbus. But again, not an example of 'planned obsolescence', and it is not necessary for Boeing to build software like NASA builds software for the space shuttle, in order to produce quality airplanes (with quality software).

>if businesses had their way, would the Internet be run on Novell,

Huh? The software business is fully private. Most companies are not running on Novell because other businesses 'had their way' and competed.
This is what Next.js does.
Hi Author here!

I think when I scribbled this thought, the idea was more on formats that MIGHT endure the test of time. Yes, copyright free matters a lot. But I'm very skeptical of say formats like WebP. Will it last for decades, I don't know!
fellow t1d + engineer + competitive rower (20 years ago...sigh) here.

props on shipping an incredible personal project! if you ever want to geek out about diabetes tech, DM me on X @kamens

scott hanselman would probably also love to chat about your project
Any licence that requires attribution should be enough in principle, eg CC BY 4.0, Apache 2.0.
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What a bunch of corporate newspeak. Their demand of 8% of gross revenue in annual license fees, or >$30M for 2024, shows how much this was only about profits and not about contributing to the WP community:

"It’s important to note that a significant part of Automattic’s revenue, including any licensing revenue, is channeled back into supporting the WordPress community, as Automattic is currently contributing 3,552 hours per week to the WordPress project. This comes out to something in the order of $20M annually in salaries."

And the post then goes from defending open source to how their actions made everyone's websites safer (which, they didn't) and how you should migrate your website to their hosting solution. Despicable.
> Imagine devices that don't have built-in obsolescence, or licensing that expires, [...]

We have that sort of- in open source by now. Basically the base implementation is free. But for more advanced extras you pay extra. Then the company providing the extras collapses and the extra becomes open source in one way or another.
> In other words, I say "SICP considered harmful" because thrusting it upon an eager newcomer as a trusted neutral guide to beginner coding (without offering any counterpoint) could set them back by a decade, filling their head with "functional object oriented programming" concepts that don't translate well to industry or CS.

I'd counter that by saying it would set them forward by a decade (compared to people who don't know these techniques). Knowing advanced techniques doesn't mean trying to shoehorn them into every run of the mill problem you encounter in the industry. But if you encounter a gnarly problem where some advanced techniques will help you out, you'll sure be glad you learnt them.
happy you found it to be useful. I also wanted to write an implementation for sometime. The only things I could find were ready-made packages (python/Golang...etc).

The part I'd also like to know about is error correction, if you have anything useful related to QR codes for that.
> I don’t agree that we know that it will be more expensive to cool.

This is not an agree or disagree situation. This is "I haven't googled it"
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