skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's well known that a non-profit sitting close to a for-profit just is often just a structural maneuver at this point. A case in point is the recent WordPress controversy.

I agree there. Which is why we have been separating Matrix and Element more and more - eg by setting up the Governing Board https://matrix.org/blog/2023/12/electing-our-first-governing... and removing as much of the historical interdependencies as possible. Just as Mozilla severed itself from Rust, or W3C is independent of browser vendors.

> So it has an ecosystem with a subset of its former participants. Some of those who are gone see it as closed. Probably not just me.

Probably, hence my enthusiasm in trying to set the record straight :|

> the repo was literally transferred, though?

No… it’s still there at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse. The Fdn archived it given they have no resources to maintain it.

> With all its issues?

The name & description of each issue (not comments) was copied over to avoid breaking the numbering system and relative links, with a link back to the issue on the old repo.

> As well as the trademark?

There is no Synapse trademark and never has been… The Matrix trademark continues to live with the Foundation, as you’d expect.

> I'm representing my perspective, and you're representing yours.

As is your right. My point is that yours is littered with factual bugs, but you have been presenting it on HN as accurate, which is frustratingly misleading.

> So the ideal FLOSS messaging platform is yet to come.

If you don’t like CLAs and/or you don’t like AGPL, there are full Matrix stacks which have nothing to do with Element which are pretty fantastic, imo. Or keep going with Zulip - kudos to Tim & co for improving their financial viability by ratelimiting push (https://blog.zulip.com/2023/12/15/new-plans-for-self-hosted-... - something we’ve never done) rather than selling copyleft exceptions.
Monkeys like to be microwaved; may be a similar effect.
I don’t have a vr device. Is it in normal mode?
So I have a close family member dying right now from cancer. Had stage 4 for almost 10 years, and then insurance started denying scans (which in medical terms, cost next to nothing) and delaying surgeries (which led to the state getting involved). These months-long delays on surgeries, coupled with lack of information about the tumor due to not having scans, led to them getting the wrong surgery for a tumor (it had grown too big, which they didn't find out until they went in). Now it's blowing up and inoperable, when they could have taken care of it with a simple laparoscopic procedure when it was <1cm. This is a gold private plan, too, and they had paid premiums for decades.

I'm absolutely disgusted in the US medical, insurance and legal systems after this. Nobody's going to jail for this. There's not even a fine. In fact, the system is working exactly as intended. Insurance just got sick of paying so they delayed everything so that this person would die and they could report higher earnings.

What's really upsetting is seeing doctors and nurses discussing stories like this in the wake of Luigi Mangione, and these conversations just getting deleted from places like reddit. We're allowed to talk about the death of a health insurance CEO (as long as we aren't happy about it) but when the conversation shifts to the people who died prematurely due to him and his company's practices, it gets censored. Absolutely disgraceful.

I don't believe in things like "deserve" (not after cancer anyway), but Brian Thompson should have got much worse than what he did.
Cool! I uploaded the video to YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB-y-tDlOSA

(It's licensed CC-BY so this should be allowed, and I like having videos like this on YouTube where I can easily watch them from anywhere and add them to my playlists.)
Because healthcare is often paid per "working relationship", so if you work for a company and are doing something on the side, you have to pay twice, and the second fee comes out of your pocket.
Humans are fully capable of protracted, triple-checked scrutiny if the incentives align just right. Given the same conditions, you cannot ever compel an AI to stop being wrong or consistently communicate what it doesn't understand.
Since when are lions considered an “infestation”?
Also just 1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587826
copyright refers to the act of copying the material at hand (including distribution, reproduction, performance) etc.

as an example: saying “i really like james holden’s inheritors album for the rough and dissonant sounds” isn’t covered by copyright.

if i reproduced it verbatim using my mouth, or created a derived work which is noticeably similar to the original, that’s a different question though.

in your example, a derivative work example could be akin to only quoting from the book for the audience and modifying a word of each quote.

“derived” works are always a grey area, especially around generative machine learning right now.
Glass reuse was everywhere before the modern disposable age. My first ever job was crating beer bottles for return to the brewery.

One problem is, the economic externalities are not priced into plastic.
Exactly. Put another way, tensorflow is not an AI. You can build an AI in tensorflow. You can also resize images in tensorflow (using the traditional algorithms, not AI). I am not an expert, but as I understand, it is common for vision models to require a fixed resolution input, and it is common for that resolution to be quite low due to resource constraints.
html email was the start of a slippery slope. i remember complaining about data consumption of non-text email BITD. that was when the state of the art for email servers was to dedup list email so that the server would save only one copy and just reference it for all recipients.
> Centralizing copyright ownership in a single entity grants that entity the ability to lock down the project at any time and defeat the copyleft

It also grants the ability to make the project more open. I once wanted to change a project I was part of to a more permissive public domain license. Leadership was in favour but ultimately rejected it due the impracticality of dealing with getting agreement from everyone who had ever contributed (there were no CLAs). So it remained with the old license.

If an entity unilaterally changes the license, you can still fork it at the time the change was made and continue from there.

Now, I’m not defending Contributor License Agreements. I also dislike them and the hurdles they cause to contribution. Plus, the situation you described of the project becoming more locked down instead of less is likely more common, and forks can be a pain for everyone. Still, wanted to share the other side.
Ads can be a matter of quality and relevance, just like search. I'm happy to read ads relevant to my interests in an appropriate context.

Unfortunately, this is a clear clash of "line goes up" versus "corporate integrity".

In the print media days, there was somewhat of a code of conduct-- publishers generally didn't want to run outright fraudulent or misleading ads because it damaged the image of the publication itself.

I'm not sure that Google has proven itself capable of rising to the same standards.
If I read "America" as the western hemisphere, then this comment makes sense. If I read it as "USA" I doubt your attribution a little.

Undoubtedly you get a lot of it.
This is one of the most dystopian and depressing things I've ever read. Quit your dreams and be productive for the Economy, peasant.
And when it didn't happen he wrote "Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Resurrection_of_the_A... .

> In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warned American programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign competition. By the middle of the decade Microsoft had released Windows 95, which marked a groundbreaking new direction for the operating system, the internet was beginning to rise as a serious consumer marketplace, and the Java software platform had made its first public release. Due to such large changes in the state of the software industry, Yourdon reversed some of his original predictions.
Alternatively, perhaps Trump has secured himself the use of a billionaires money? Personally I wonder who the puppet is in this situation.
I assume the worst offender in this is youtube. It’s awful because ads ALWAYS load immediately, but the actual media i want to watch always lags or is buffering.

When i’m on mobile data advertisements are always super clear and in super high resolution, but i often get pushed low-res versions of the media.

I really hope some better company comes and dismantles YouTube as a business.

Edit: i’m using plain YouTube on plain iOS, so it’s all on google/YouTube.
I was actually thinking about your product when venting my frustrations elsewhere in the thread. Your site was mentioning elsewhere that you had a working shoebox-sized device which, "due to its size", was "only targeted at hospitals".

Man, you have no idea. I'd gladly buy a shoebox-sized thing. No finger pricking and no test strips to buy is the king. It could be 4U rackmount thing for all I care, as long as it was noninvasive and accurate.
> second field stretching

If you want the second column to stretch, then the `fr` part is assigned to the second column. Mixing `fr` and `auto` doesn't really make sense. You can do it like this. https://codepen.io/tomtheisen/pen/emOeqPy

grid-template-columns: 10em 1fr;
That's a popular architecture, but I personally wouldn't run part of the application stack (HAProxy) on my network firewall, and would instead opt to move it to the media server.

Suppose you have the media server in its own VLAN/Subnet, chances are good that the firewall is instrumental in enforcing that security boundary. If any part of the layer-7 attack surface is running on the firewall... you probably get the idea.
Natural gas is clean, apart from CO2. And if the glass is reused, you don't need so many factories.
People's revealed preferences are very clear, however much they deny it.
wanna share this similar one too: https://qishaoxuan.github.io/css_tricks/flexbox/
Decades ago, I would show up for work on Monday morning with my suitcase in the trunk of my car cause I knew that as soon as I walked in the door I would be told I'd be flying out somewhere that morning.

I'll never forget the day I was driving down the road--less than half a mile from my apartment--and making a left turn when, for a couple of seconds, I couldn't remember what town I was in.
According to Claude, that's about $1M/yr of electricity, assuming 24x7 usage.

I assume the real saving is on the cost of the machine in the first place, and again relying on my AI buddy Claude:

Let me break down the costs of both Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines:

NIL Machine Cost:

Basic NIL systems: $1-3 million
Advanced NIL systems (like those from Canon/Molecular Imprints): $10-15 million

EUV Machine Cost:

Current ASML EUV systems (like the NXE:3400C): Approximately $150-200 million per unit
Latest generation ASML EUV systems (NXE:3600D): Over $300 million per unit
Installation and support infrastructure can add $30-50 million

**

So, looks like $200M+ saving going with NIL vs EUV.
You're both making scale errors.

The amount of plastic produced, shipped, and dumped is simply staggering. You can ship 99.9 pct of it to SE Asia and still have enough to pollute all the beaches and snorkelling areas at alarming levels.
They could trivially allow the network to be used for anything, but also have a rule about behavior in the cabin to not disturb any other passengers. They’d be imposing restrictions only on physical actions you take during the term of the contract between the two of you, and while you are in the location that contract specifies. The ticket is the contract. And they can say, “Don’t talk with your voice to anyone not on the plane.” Or however they’d like to word it.

Personally, I’d hate to be next to someone on a call on a plane, and I’d hate to be on a call while next to someone on a plane. This is personal preference. It is no better or worse than your personal preference to sit next to someone while they take a call or to take a call while sitting next to someone.

Perhaps we’ll see an evolution of plane seating to allow for quiet zones, similar to how some trains have quiet cars.
Isn't the entire landfill really a huge TODO anyway?

"We'll let some magic future AI figure this out. Meanwhile, we'll put dirt on it"
LLM’s have replaced Stack Overflow for me. Occasionally I can use them to write a simple bash script for me or some bit of terraform that I don’t feel like looking up. Useful but not exactly life changing.

What I would consider a game changer would be generating USEFUL unit and integration tests. Ideally that used the existing fixtures and utilities already in place. I’ve yet to see that happen even with code the LLM had just generated.
I think the fundamentals of material capitalism taken to its current extent do not leave room for ecology.

This article about PET recycling probably won't do much to improve the 6-8% recycling rate for plastic waste primarily because there is no economic incentive to do so.

In fact, market economies are actively avoiding PET plastics for health reasons, so this effort is double dubious IMO.

I don't mean to inject cynicism to downplay their achievements, but I think it's as crucial for ecology that we be honest about the limitations of our existing efforts within the market capitalist/individual materialist paradigm.
I'd do that but a smartphone is unfortunately a great pocket camera. The sweet spot for me would be something like a modern version of the Nokia N95 — great camera, unrestricted OS that lets me write apps in Python or whatever, and terrible web browsing experience.
If you like, or want to use Darktable/Ansel - check out Harry Durgin on YouTube.

He does a fantastic job of explaining how to use Darktable (and photo manipulation software in general) to get the best out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngiFhMSngeFwUGtsXA-17w
A curated list of WireGuard tools, projects, and resources
As far as I understand, Tailscale won't even let you initiate a connection (or give you WireGuard keys for a node) unless there's an ACL rule that allows it.
Yeah, to me his description of how programmers think didn't really jive with either senior or junior. I think with senior developers when they look at a code review, they're busy, so they're looking for really obvious smells. If there's no obvious smells and it's easy to understand what the code is intending to do, they usually let it pass. Most of the time if one of my PR's get's rejected it's something along the line of "I don't know why, but doing X seems sketch" or "I need more comments to understand the intended flow" or "The variable/function names aren't great"
Maybe your coworker searched for backpack zipper?
It's a useful small tool for low cost Ethernet bridges but a sub $200 ubiquiti 802.11ac point to point bridge is not a high powered radio, electrically they max out at something like 200 milliwatts, the rest of the eirp comes from the gain of the antenna.
A one-off solution like this is really the only type of solution we have in the face of a massive ad tech industry that largely piggybacks on top of, and inserts itself into, foundational network and web protocols.

Fixing the problem itself would likely require legislation and regulation to get ad tech companies (or the companies that use the ad tech) to pay attention to the data use.
Google gave people that but ~nobody used it (it was called Google Contributor). Many similar stories over the years. People overwhelmingly choose ad-supported services over paid ones. Even when "MBAs" don't add extra ads on top or whatever other objection you have, it's all been tried before and failed every time.
> for which no real good syntax exists for doing that

Up to you, but several editors have established syntax which any code-trained model will likely have seen plenty of examples

vim (set foldmethod=marker and then {{{ begin\n }}} end\n ) https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_28.html#28.6>

JetBrains <editor-fold desc=""></editor-fold> https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/working-with-source-code...

Visual Studio (#pragma region) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/preprocessor/region-en... (et al, each language has its own)
I can guarantee that even top of the line noise cancelling headphones do not obscure a conversation happening next to me. The only way to drown out enough noise is to raise the volume to an uncomfortable-to-me level.

If you are lucky enough that you can be in comfort and noise-isolated from earbuds or headphones, I envy you.
+1

While I don't think this approach meets OP's requirements (they seem to be looking for something a little more turn-key), I hope other readers of this thread will fall down this rabbit hole.

I'm now in my 5th year of tracking every penny in and out of my life with hledger[0], with a mostly manual approach. Some benefits:

- as noted by a spreadsheet user, it adds friction to spending money, which has curbed frivolous/ unplanned expenses for me (and double entry accounting makes it impossible for money to "disappear")

- if you subscribe to Files over Apps[1] hledger and its ilk (beancounter, gnu cash) are hands down your most mature, stable options

- I've learned a great deal about accounting and how money works in general

- the reports I can generate from my ledger give me a decent starting point at tax time

Happy accounting!

[0]: https://hledger.org/index.html

[1]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app
The fact that people are upset about the Healthcare CEOs death but not about the hundreds if not thousands of people he killed over the course of his career through denied claims/treatment says a lot about America.
I meant to say hosted service there, I.e. running a wireguard server to negotiate the VPN connections.

The main reason I haven't jumped into hosting wireguard rather than using Tailscale is mainly because I reach for Tailscale to avoid exposing my home server to the public internet.
Control is important during both global decoupling and potential geopolitical conflict (Taiwan).
>> I understand his family have already seen it and it has caused him to not stand in another election.

So you think it's OK to end a political career via website while remaining anonymous?

You're playing big boy games with kid tactics.
I’m not driving and just walk or ride my bike to the next print shop (150m) or the further one (300m). I’m blessed to live in an affordable, living suburb.

There’s many Uber (and competitors) cars parked in my neighborhood but I don’t see them often in the road. They probably roam around more pricy neighborhoods for work.
> imo products are getting worse, but that decline started before GPT

Yes, and it's not going to change until the motivations and methodologies that drive the corporation change. All these LLMs are just reinforcing their MBA mentality, which is to try to do more with less, which just ends up being more enshittification.

The money people only care about one thing, and one thing only. I say that the only real qualification for being a manager is to be willing to prioritize money over people. I've had exactly one good manager in my career, because he knew his role and respected that I knew and was passionate about mine while respecting his.

A main problem with all these huge software companies is that they are too busy chasing new features while letting long-existing bugs remain the bane of the users' experience. There's no "lets fix the current issues before we embark on new projects" mentality. I literally encountered this exact mentality in a dumb little marketing company 25yo. Different time, very small company, same dumbasses running the show.

When large software tries to be adapted beyond its initial design specs, it will eventually collapse under its own weight. At some point, a fundamental redesign must occur to prevent change grinding to a halt.
That does not address the comment you are replying to, which I presume means you also know that Trump’s calls for peace on January 6 are fact.

More than 1500 people were charged for the Jan 6 riot. Trump has indicated there will be exceptions.
There’s not much of a “journey” though … because both mile and knot are just arbitrary assigned measurements.

——-

mile = 1,000 paces (as defined by Romans)

knot = how many logs would pass by in 30 seconds.

There’s no mathematical reason why their value is what it is.

Unlike π and e that do.
Noreen Riols, who trained prospective agents for Secret Service dies
The article does discuss a lot of mixed concepts. I would prefer one process polling new jobs/state and one process handling http connections/websockets. Hence no flooding the database and completely scalable from the client side. The database process pushes everything downstream via some queue while the other process/server handles those and sends them to respective clients
This behavior is clearly intended to confuse the user, with the effect of making inattentive users think that they aren't on Bing.

On mobile, you never see the Bing header due to the auto scrolling behavior.

If any other company tried to pull this, I imagine that they would be blocklisted by Google.
Yes, the self alone is shouting in the void and appalled and confused at what it hears back. Expand the boundary to encompass enough, loose momentum and be still, and healing happens.

Mindfulness is a tool and a habit that should be embodied in everything.

I recently wrote in a document (filled with too much ego, since it's called "starting points toward a cybernetic theory of karma"):

> I suspect, subjectively we each get the world we need - but you only see when reaching the point of total stillness, so that your energy points outwards from the ordinary. Then your world view shifts, and making sense of how it works with the conceptual tools you have... Truth is a pathless land.
This discussion is about junior professionals, not zero experience programmers. If a junior professional programmer is still starting at the top of files instead of at the entry points to the program or the points of interest, then they had a very poor education.
This can often occur when parts of the application are out of their control. For example, geographical apps are hard to recreate locally on the scale of Google or Apple Maps. It's vastly easier and sometimes cheaper to use their API. But if China has any disputes on how it's represented in the geo data, the software becomes a liability.
Plenty Unlimited Inc.

https://www.plenty.ag/

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/see-jane-farm

https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/163578-61
And for whatever it's worth, Tailscale is written in a language that makes buffer overflow and memory corruption vulnerabilities extremely unlikely.
(2002) and it's fucking $90
If this is exactly the same model then what's the point of encrypting it?
Buffered streaming is quite different than a two way call. The latency on traditional airplane WiFi would make video calls more like a two way radio with “Over!” pauses in between.
People in more communally oriented societies pay for things they "don't have to" pay for because there's a social obligation.
As someone who switched from Iphone to Android, Adguard is very poor compared to uBlock, and it was in fact one major reason (of several) why I switched. But now that Google is killing adblockers, I might just stop browsing the internet entirely.