skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You didn't grow up in the UK then

I didn’t, but I do have Indian heritage. I knew Sikhs existed and the basics of their customs, but I was unaware of e.g. Operation Blue Star [1] or the Khalistan independence/separatist movement [2].

Plenty of Americans and Canadians (and, I’d posit, Brits) meanwhile could probably recognise the headdress and little more.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement
> one that won’t sit back and let opportunities slip through its fingers

Maybe they should fix the economy to attract more AI companies and researchers instead, while they are at it they can fix the police force as well to give confidence to said companies and researchers.

The lack of data centers is not the reason I'm not researching AI at the moment, I can buy the hardware or rent a US data center, the reason is that the UK economy is dead, borrowing is insanely expensive and taxes are so high that most of the profits would go to the government, which would be fine if it would spend it on things that matter, but it's not doing that, it's just buying votes.
If the source code is publicly available, that is open source. What you mean is that it is not FOSS.
1. Build a strawman.
2. Beat the living hell out of the strawman.
3.”I’m sure this will trigger some people”.
4. Get a standing ovation from Elon Musk.
5. Lots of money from private capital.
Occasionally Misses Expectations (1.0)
The good old days you could ping of death those win9x lusers!
Could you please explain a little more. I can use such practice in my dev workflow.
Some say Teenage Engineering products are mostly PR to promote their design studio (which is contracted by e.g. Ikea). Because indeed, value for money is not there. Or the product itself is preposterous (like their voice recorder).
The trolling was epic. sigh
> Americans better get used to using a VPN if they want to breach their firewall

The domains aren’t blocked. The apps are just blocked from app stores and hosting prohibited by American providers.
Regarding 3: What are examples of gig economy work in Germany? I always thought this was things like Uber that pretty much do not exist in Germany. Sorry for being so out of touch, but I am curious.
It's unfortunate that POSSE is actively discouraged by platform algorithms. Posts with links get a fraction of the visibility.
> We need to ban flight of DJI drones

Is there any American drone company making better drones?
more? i think in the mindlessness of my work i'd beat any ant.
Morse Micro Unveils Its Next-Gen Wi-Fi HaLow SoC MM8108 and a RPi Dev Kit
Engaging with reality as directly as possible is important in business. Emotions are a part of reality, usually a signal about social dynamics.

At the higher levels of serious companies — by which I mean ones trying to win in the market, regardless of size - managers and executives regularly receive training about this.

I can’t say more because this is my alt, but: “executives are childish”, “executives are psychopaths”, etc. are very common, often incorrect narratives. If anything executives should be straightforward and simple.

To return to topic: something is going seriously sideways with Matt, and I wish him the best.
I see the logic there, though I think there's more to it. Like quality of work, and reward structures for hard work. Carrots work much better than sticks, with much lower risk of social unrest.

I think those on the broad right are also undervaluing the power of idle hands at this point in time: some small percentage curious people with free time are largely responsible for innovations in society that everyone benefits from, the rich most of all.

We still need at this point, new ideas with which to feed into the training data of the coming AI labor decimators.
The article talks about promoting engaging managers.

Is this not about management after all?
I think Wikipedia [1] explains it better than this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treewidth
Can't access the site. Did one of you get offended at the title and then give the server a tight hug?
You could consider a LLM as a very lossy compression artifact. Where they took terabytes of input data, and ended up with model under the 100 gigabytes. It is quite remarkable what such a model can do, even fabricating new output that was not in the input data.

However, in my naïvety, I wonder whether vastly simpler algorithms could be used to end up with similar results. Regular compression techniques work with speeds up to 700MB/s.
Cursor team has already stated here that they did not ask Snyk to perform a security audit. I wonder if Snyk's actions are equivalent to me coming to your house late at night and then trying to open any and all doors and windows. In the name of security research. Without an invitation from you.

How else am I to validate that your house is secure?
Look into Roon.
I have it off, it still uses 5GB of storage...
Then have a separate machine if you’re that paranoid. Funny how it doesn’t cause issue for the hundreds of thousands of other people in the world
This is an important point. A sad, dispiriting one, but relevant and insightful.
FFmpeg by Example
Ian Lesnet/Dangerous Prototypes have within the last few months released the v5 Bus Pirate. Looks like he and the Dangerous Prototypes team might have taken on different ventures, but Ian has come back to the Bus Pirate.

On a personal note, I think the v5 hardware is pretty good, worth having alongside a Tigard since they are all so cheap anyway.

Edit: Apparently there's now a v5 XL and a v6 based on the RP2350 been released too, seems to be revived
damn it! but nice research area
Fascinating read. Has almost nothing to do with history (only 2 or 3 stories) but a lot of men bashing.

I would have expected what the title promised. We learned in history that the human society, is, since some a couple thousand years, a patriarchal one. We haven't evolved: Women are expected to make children and men to die in wars so the rich get richer.
I did walk past a fairly small glass building.....in London....every day on the way to work and it was wonderful in the winter. It was significantly warmer for about 15 metres and also brighter. I wished there could have been a place to drink coffee there and enjoy it for a few minutes.
It wasn't on any platform - the guy got fired for saying something at a conference, and the woman who sent the photo and tweet of him also got fired as she was a "developer evangelist" and her employer didn't think that would fit.
Rich Men Rule the World
> build your developer brand

Brands are bad. If you value brands, I recommend you read No Logo by Naomi Klein. It will (all right, may) help you adjust your value system. It certainly did for me.
I read it as an acquihire-of-sorts - https://www.notion.com/blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-...

Some people want to be founders, others want to solve a specific problem. There are definitely ideas I have that if I was offered a salary to solve them from a company I would take it rather than found to solve the problem.
> "no one can hack us"

Did Cursor made claims to this effect and invited public to hack them?

Or are you equating someone saying they "take security seriously" to "it's an open season, please attack our systems."?
You gotta auto hide dock no matter what side it goes or you’re giving up too much screen space. You know it’s there anyways, and it reappears immediately when you send your mouse to it. So the only thing it really tells you is what apps are running in the background, which honestly doesn’t justify taking up screen space on a laptop.

Plus, spotlight (or alternatives like Alfred/Raycast) are more convenient app launchers anyways. And switching apps is a bit better via cmd-tab, or better yet, raycast shortcuts or rcmd.
As long as assholes finds ways to ruin words for the rest of us, there will always be a new more sensitive / caring way to refer to traditionally oppressed people.

I know it sucks to keep up with things, but what sucks even works is not keeping up, and finding you and the neo nazis using the same language to mean different things. If you care, then you put the work in. That’s all anyone can do.
Aha, interesting, thanks! I had no idea; I'd always thought it was from "master copy" like in, say, a manuscript that is duplicated by hand. (Sure, the life of a mediaeval monk working in a scriptorium was pretty strictly regulated, but I doubt anyone saw them as slaves, exactly.)

Though that Ampex manual isn't all that convincing in this context, IMO. It's about the hardware level, all capacitors and oscillators and stuff, in "master" and "slave" amplifying circuits. That has pretty much nothing at all to do with "master tape" per se; it's more like "master" and "slave" hydraulic cylinders in the clutch or brake system of your car.

Your HN link feels like a much better argument here. (Though I admit I haven't followed any of the links in it yet; going just by the quoted bits in the comment.)
What happened to Gumroad help docs?
I was planning to use Gumroad to sell software license keys for a service I am developing. Recently I wanted to check some things and I found out that the help / documentation pages are missing. These used to be very complete, including a lot of information on how to setup products and services, questions about taxes, payments, etc. Now everything seems to be gone, and the documentation seems to be replaced by a "demo account" which includes some (very basic) demo products (https://gumroadhelp.gumroad.com/).

Re. software licenses, the only mention of them in the whole site is a brief line in the "Features" page (https://gumroad.com/features), which says: "Generate license keys. Selling software? We can create your license keys, so you can get back to beta". And that's it. Not very helpful.

Anyone knows what has happened? It doesn't make much sense to replace a lot of existing, useful documentation with a simple demo account.
A lot of people would rather DIY simply to not have nanny features.

This could be less about retaliation and more run of the mill profiteering.

With no long term future viable a short term solution might be to just unlock the drones and capture the rest of the market.

Which is what I think is happening here.
> Well, I wonder what he thinks non-performative social justice looks like.

It looks like the boring job of actually writing policy. Here in Australia, I've run into several people who work for the government helping to draft policy and things. Eg, one friend works for my state's government helping draft energy policy to fight climate change.

Its tedious and boring, and entirely thankless. But its incredibly important. Its well and good for protesters to send a clear message to the government that the people want change. Its another thing entirely to actually negotiate how those changes will happen on the ground.

How do you improve mental health services? How do you balance the needs of the economy today with the needs of future generations? Its difficult stuff.
I have almost (800 Mbps) that for 30 euros per month, but I'm not from the US. Pretty sure the first year it was 20€/month too.
> it's abundantly clear that he does not condone priggishness whether it's coming from the right or the left

He tacitly condones Musk, whose priggishness currently consists of smugly rehashing alt-right talking points.
Socializing with coworkers is valuable, and encouraging.

Professionalism is learned largely or even exclusively by socialization.
Do schools not teach about religion there? Sure not Khalistan (maybe in Geography or History it could be relevant), but about customs & beliefs beyond (or reason for) turbans, and certainly existence?
> I would have to refute the notion that wokeness is a mind virus.

So would anyone with even 4th grade critical thinking skills. Sadly the text is riddled with the kind of naive, unearned confidance that dominated Sillicon Valley in the early 2000s.

I grew up then, every kid on a computer was smarter than the entire world put together. If only things were run by engineers all the problems would be fixed. We werent racist, or sexist, as long as you used Latex for your work, and Vim for your coding and looked down on humanities you belonged.

Only problem is, engineers did end up running everything. FB replaced traditional media, and what it achieved rather than the mass of uninformed working class, the mildly educated propagandised working class and perpetrating owner class. Well you ended up with heaps of misinformation, 2 genocides (one in africa and another in asia), 2 stable countries brought to the brink of civil war with brexit and trumpism, an arab spring that led to a decade of unstable countries from Lybia to Afghanistan. And the same safeguards that have been built for traditional media are now being built for FB, just 2 decades late and with way less regulatory teeth than the goverment fines imposed to early yellow newspapers.

Uber and wework were another engineer led proyects. Transport and Offices all gonna be cheap, available and with that magic Sillicon valley sauce, where people at google use a slide to go to work. But now wework is a documentary of failure and hubris and Uber is on a long term bet for self driving cars to try and abate its unionising workers who are recreating the old taxi system without the medallions or insurance.

Tesla and Airbnb were gonna change our lives. But one is a plastic badly built car with no lidar because its owner made a bad bet a decade ago, and the other is being demonised in every city for aggravating the housing crisis while remaining less safe and more expensive than most hotels.

Engineers like PG run the show and we are recreting 100 years of guardrails, while they become billionaires over our inability to stop them and punish them. They then buy newspapers, social media platforms and think tanks and destroy words made up by marginalised communities to use as insults. Then useful idiots like PG read the insult, and not the original word and write lengthy essays with nothing interesting to say because they are attacking a strawman created by a republican think tank because some billionaire cant say the n word anymore.
> Yawn.

Wrong forum perhaps? Or wrong story? But you clicked the story. Read it. And then even bothered to comment on it. You are putting a lot of effort into something that does not interest you.
This! I am writing a lot of technical articles but mostly they don't have that much impact. It's more advertising myself if someone wants to hire me. I get kudos from friends and colleagues, but never reach a "wide reach". Still it's fun and helps me learning stuff.
> If you start telling lies about me online and try to incite a mob to threaten or harm me and the people who do opt to socialize with me (despite or maybe even because of my opinions),

Both of these things are already well-litigated limits on speech. I.e. - it's already illegal.

> or organize mobs for PR damage to pressure my boss into taking away my livelihood, that is something quite beyond exercising your right to choose your associations.

Either your views are so taboo that most of society doesn't want anything to do with you if you express them, or they're mainstream enough that only some people don't want to associate with you. If it's the former, then yes, you might struggle to find a sympathetic employer and that warrants some introspection. If it's the latter, then you're hardly at risk of having your livelihood taken away.

The alternative is that I should be forced to employ someone who fundamentally disagrees with my right to exist (and perhaps owns lots of guns).
You're not really missing anything so much as adding a misguided assumption of competence to NPM.

Npm doesn't really do namespaces. There's just no ownership to prove as most packages are published like "call-home" with no namespace required. This gives exciting opportunities for you to register cal-home to trap users who miss type, or caII-home to innocuously add to your own or open source projects or whatever. Fun isn't it?

In this case the call home package is namespaced, but the real attack is the packages like "cursor-always-local" which has no namespace. Which can sometimes (?) take precedence over a private package with the same name.

It's not a pretty picture, you were better off missing it really.
Seems like an aqcui-hire from Notion is the answer here: https://www.notion.com/blog/welcoming-campsites-founders-to-...
I find it belittling when they dismiss the power of individual agency.

Posters on this site and elsewhere often assume anti-victimhood messages imply the speaker is a member a privileged class. They assume the speaker's identity based on the ideology they perceive. At the same time they're claiming a moral high ground and chiding their perceived opponent's lack of empathy.

The Baron Von Munchausen, pull yourself up by the bootstraps is especially relevant if you lack privilege. Yet, the would be saviors will assume that I'm not sufficiently aware of my own condition when I mention it. Where's the empathy in that? What could be less empathetic than incorrectly presuming someone's identity and telling them what is the highest social good for their actual identity? Empathy for the individual is dismissed in lieu of talking points about categorical identity.
I have a blog, mostly in case I need to switch jobs, having unique research helps, but also in hopes someone continues one of my stupid sidequests :)
If they could get to a 5.2 Weissman compression score it would probably make a substantial difference.
w.org infra was said to be owned by the foundation for the community.

Automattic's lawyer told the community the same thing.

Volunteers built in to WordPress core dependence on W.Org infra on that understanding. there are over 1500 hardcoded references to W.org infra.

Now those volunteers find out it's "Matt's personal website" and he can do what he likes with it. Including banning volunteers who's livelihoods depend on it for nothing more than reacting to a post with a disproving emojji.
Tldr for erlang users?
The rise and fall of the English sentence (2017)
As a general principle, if you are hurt by _words_ then the problem is you and not the other person.

Those prigs exist but they're just emotionally immature and adopt a victim-cause as a means to express their frustration. If somebody is looking for a fight, if you give him a gun he's going to use it.

If you want to kill it forever, you should probably teach emotional intelligence in high school.
I've read some of it and it's actually compelling reading but it bogs down pretty quick in spin, for example wpe claims they invested hundreds of millions "to serve the community". But the community they are referencing is their own customers. They did not invest millions in core maintenance to my knowledge.

I'm more interested in the colloquial understanding than the legalese. The dev community will probably have a more relevant opinion than the judge imho. As I see it, WP core is free and the "public utility" you mention. But the infrastructure running the plugins has very little precedent it seems, and that's the important part. That's what Matt's pissed about. I don't think there is a good analogy in the Linux ecosystem or anywhere else as to such a massive undertaking as WP that is simultaneously non profit and for profit. And that's where I think it's kind of foolhardy to go head to head with the guy who's managed to staple it all together while they're still standing on it.

The thing he withdrew is their plugin repo access which is not a public service afaik. I can see why Matt is going crazy running servers for hundreds of millions of downloads and people treat it like he's legally obligated to do that. It's an ambitious enterprise and people should be sensitive to the fact that they probably work extremely hard keeping that going.
Tesla tops Audi in global auto sales
there is nothing "almost" about it, #4A525A is ~35 on a 100 lightness scale away from black, "almost" would be 5% or something
> Do schools not teach about religion there?

Can’t speak for Canada. But my American curriculum didn’t cover the Sikhs. The exposure came from family and at community cultural festivals—it was superficial. Most Americans wouldn’t have even that.
GreptimeDB: Unified Storage for Logs, Metrics, and Traces with OpenTelemetry
I think you're right, but it's a non optimal way to reduce headcount.

What are managers doing if they're only measure for who stays is "who is willing to drive or train to work?"

That's not management imho.
Carob-Based Functional Beverages: Nutritional Value and Health Properties
Yeap, Tim is some serious maker/tinkerer/creator. Besides the very good hardware things he makes, there are also some other software stuff: https://mitxela.com/other/
I live in London and work for a French company. I’m travelling to Brussels and Paris fairly regularly. Many of my colleagues do the same. It’s a 2 hour high speed train. Far better than flying.

Europe is a large place, but my experience in Western Europe is that people absolutely travel by inter-city train between countries when the journey time is 3 hours. More than that and flying starts to be favoured.

Driving isn’t really an option for these journeys because the trains are so much faster than cars. A 2 hour train journey would take 4+ hours by car.
Also located in Germany, Cologne area. I can't confirm this. Maybe it's a regional thing?
I like to think of it as curating a stable microbiome. :p

Tangentially, I am surprised and dismayed that the coronavirus epidemic did not lead to the standard installation of foot-openable public bathroom doors.
Recoil state management library archived
I'm sad about this - I really liked this library!
People wanted it, but it was very hard to do safely. While ZFS now can do it safely, many other storage solutions cannot.

Those corruption issues I mentioned, where the RAID controller has no idea what to do, affect far more than just reshaping. They affect traditional RAID arrays when disks die and when patrol scrubs are done. I have not tested MD RAID on edge cases lately, but the last time I did, I found MD RAID ignored corruption whenever possible. It would not detect corruption in normal operation because it assumed all data blocks are good unless SMART said otherwise. Thus, it would randomly serve bad data from corrupted mirror members and always serve bad data from RAID 5/6 members whenever the data blocks were corrupted. This was particularly tragic on RAID 6, where MD RAID is hypothetically able to detect and correct the corruption if it tried. Doing that would come with such a huge performance overhead that it is clear why it was not done.

Getting back to reshaping, while I did not explicitly test it, I would expect that unless a disk is missing or disappears during a reshape, MD RAID would ignore any corruption that can be detected using parity and assume all data blocks are good just like it does in normal operation. It does not make sense for MD RAID to look for corruption during a reshape operation, since not only would it be slower, but even if it finds corruption, it has no clue how to correct the corruption unless RAID 6 is used, there are no missing/failed members and the affected stripe does not have any read errors from SMART detecting a bad sector that would effectively make it as if there was a missing disk.

You could do your own tests. You should find that ZFS handles edge cases where the wrong thing is in a spot where something important should be gracefully while MD RAID does not. MD RAID is a reimplementation of a technology from the 1960s. If 1960s storage technology handled these edge cases well, Sun Microsystems would not have made ZFS to get away from older technologies.
Our team was refactoring the codebase to follow ML pipeline best practices, but not enough attention had been paid to problem/task formulation, label quality etc.
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