skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's entirely natural.

Hobbyist developers develop software because it solves a need they have first, and they have fun doing that. If they don't have any fun or interest to do it, they lose motivation. Hobbyist developers are the primary users of the app they develop usually.

Commercial FOSS developers do have to take users into account and I think they do but they also have to seek profit.

I don't think there is another way unless government starts employing developers to develop FOSS software based on tax payers wishes.
Blacksmith is your buddy. Its free and just has better images for single-core operations. Unless you're Google, I can guarantee it's faster.
I don't think it's bringing up intellectual property is all that useful when talking about DRM.

DRM is a technological means to enforce private control independent of the (limited) legal monopoly from copyright.

It's legally enforced by the DMCA (in the US) and similar laws in other countries, which "criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself" (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...).

If copyright were to disappear tomorrow, there would still be DRM.
WOrth ponting out the UK is 3rd worldwide in VC tech investment. The US is the outlier, but if you think the UK is bad you haven't seen shit.
It's both - i.e. control is means to an end, which is setting up the rules so that we are forced to live on their terms, which mostly boils down to paying them for the stuff they want us to pay.

DRM is fundamentally an attempt to rewrite reality, or at least the computing aspects of it, in ways that are not possible to do with laws of physics in general. An idealized DRM setup establishes a faux reality, a virtual environment running on top of reality, in which bits have extra rules to it - codifying the weaker attempt of what IP regulations are doing to information in general, i.e. establishing a faux legal reality, in which bits carry colour, and with it restrictions and consequences.

The worst part is, the forces that push us to this direction are shielded in plausible deniability and good intentions, as DRM and cybersecurity are, in the limit, the same thing, so the unhindered capitalism control freaks get to hide behind fear of cyber criminals, while secretly using tools of protection against us.
Prusa recently released a CoreXY printer that should be comparable if not more robust and capable. It is also much more open: https://www.prusa3d.com/product/prusa-core-one/
> The system functions very well to take unproductive surplus and allocate it effectively.

How do you quantify this?
Nice charts, but M0100CUSM070NNBR is from 1948 to 1963 :)
modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
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Sadly the UK has a long history of underinvesting in cutting edge tech, from aerospace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_HOTOL further development of Concorde)

to transport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Passenger_Train https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracked_Hovercraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertravel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Birmingham,_United_King...)

to chip design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmos transputer, static RAM, VGA standard).

Interestingly, the 3 British designers who made up Flare Technology, had a big influence on console and computer designs in the 80s/90s:
They were responsible for the ZX Spectrum (partly), Konix Multisystem, Atari Falcon, ATW (and Blossom graphics card), Atari Jaguar, Super FX chip, Nuon
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> But the world is made up of normies

HN generally does though, and that's why I said it here.

> Maybe clear communication would work better?

It was clear.
This mirrors my experience with it as well. Autocomplete is just way too distracting for me, and I could end up writing the code faster myself without having to proofread every suggestion it throws at me. I ended up turning off autocomplete as well and instead use the copilot chat feature when I need it.
You can add too much liquor and it will still freeze nicely. Spiced rum was pretty good.
In case you're curious of the before/after, but don't have a clip handy, here's an example from a scene in the Sopranos where a character gets whacked (spoiler alert):

Video before being processed: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CMEPWPr_IvnLye6dxIsa3IsuQ1P...

Video after being processed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsMO0JxI-z6G9GU2jCQLyC3b7JX...
The modern monetary system is a big pyramid scheme so...
No writing but a lot of drawing and oral transmission .. spending a few hours on a sand drawing while reciting a story that changes little across generations is another kind of map (and features in a massive tome on historic maps).

No "boats" ala coracles or oak keel ships but (regionally) plenty of canoes .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Canoes isn't set on the Swan River.

Perth, of course, once had many lakes and swampy wetlands before all the market garden bore went in and drainage ditches.

> But has a story been passed down?

Many, all over. DM from up where I grew up touched up pretty old paintings and told stories: https://magabala.com.au/products/yorro-yorro

There were|are a lot of language areas each with stories of their own: https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high...
My deoderant is good enough for a F1 driver, why whouldnt my git client adhere to the same standards?
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Welcome to the jungle.

https://medium.com/@bitliner/why-gitlab-can-be-a-pain-ae1aa6...

I think it’s not only GitHub.

Ideally we should handle it as any other code, that is: do tests, handle multiple environments including the local environment, lint/build time error detection etc
He has a whole book on the subject! Great hardware hacker.
> Their acceptance of poor performers over the last 20+ years has been striking

How many PMs has the UK been though in that time? _Way_ more than the average Western country. We don't accept poor oerformers more than anywhere else, we kick them out of office - but the talent pipeline is abysmal so the next one is usually awful too.
I've heard this many times, but where is the proof? How would you apply it to the story of OP?
I imagine that the leader of the Singularity Institute (now Center for Applied Rationality) using the workshops as a recruitment ground for his personal psychedelic drug cult, and his followers then killing a bunch of innocent people, did not do any favors to their perception among the wider public [1].

(This is about the SF Bay Area subculture dubbed the rationalists, obviously not related to the philosophical moment of the same name, critiqued by Kant in the late 18th century)

[1] https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-zi...
That's quite the conservative talk-radio shopping list.

Illegal immigration is a metric of the EUs economic success and social stability compared with North Africa, Eastern European Accession States, and the war-torn middle east. If America shared land borders and direct migration routes with Islamic caliphates and the like, they'd know all about it.

Economic Conditions and Political Outcomes are pretty sane and tolerable for all but a select group of (surprise surprise) US backed agitators like Hungary. You have to remember that the EU is run as a society rather than an economy, and must be judged on this ethos. People are very fond of using the comparable GDPs of Bavaria and Mississippi in this conversation - forgetting to mention the life expectancy is 10 years less and infant mortality 400% higher on the US side.

Societal and Political trust is still quite high - despite much fearmongering, the far-right are not gaining the political capital necessary to instigate significant change outside of Hungary.

Homelessness rates are a factor of illegal migration - and are laughably low compared to the US on a per capita basis; ditto whatever warped contention you have regarding 'welfare austerity'. We just call it social security. During Covid and in the period afterwards it was hugely ramped up across Europe - and not in a giveaway budget with a check personally signed by an Oligarch.

Re 'free speech suppression' I'm really not sure what you're aiming at. The current cultural friction regarding things like gender-identification and pronoun usage are uniquely american exports. On basically all other counts other than venue-shopping defamation cases, it's a moot point for any normal person.

Finally re birth rates - they tend to go down in wealthy and advanced societies outside of select religious groupings (looking at you Salt Lake City) so I'm not sure what your point is there.
> KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.

That must be in Southern German, ya?
> I don't know, I view capitalism mostly as a way to allow people who have money to make more money without providing work or value from people who do work

Well, that's not how capitalists view it, quite the opposite. In a free market economy, which relies on voluntary interactions, the only way to make money is to generate value for others. Take me buying a loaf of bread: To me the bread has more value than the money I give to the baker, otherwise I would not agree to the interaction. To the baker OTOH the money has more value than the bread, otherwise he would not agree to the interaction. Free markets are a positive-sum game.
If you are only doing it for the money, your point is fair - but there are many of us for whom - beyond reasonable necessities - that is at best a secondary consideration.

Anybody who moves from engineering to finance doesn't have their heart in engineering - which is fine, but its not like they had no choice.

Agree though that London and parts of the South place extra pressures on people looking to build a life and home.
Yes, so an experimental flag will be required for use in production, which is a clear reason to not use them.
I can't think of a reason why it would improve productivity, can you think of anything?
> introduced a small patch

> introduced a patch

> the Git maintainer, suggested

> relatively simple and largely backwards compatible fix

> version two of my patch is currently in flight to additionally

And this is how interfaces become unusable, through thousand small "patches" created without any planning and oversight.
"When I was a kid, I was praying to a god for bicycle. But then I realized that god doesn't work this way, so I stole a bicycle and prayed to a god for forgiveness." (c)

Basically a heist too big and too fast to react. Now every impotent lawmaker in the world is afraid to call them what they are, because it will inflict on them wrath of both other IT corpos an of regular users, who will refuse to part with a toy they are now entitled to.
> The way I think about effectful computation and IO in Haskell is as a kind of enforced metaprogramming

If you think of effectful computation in Haskell to be a sort of metaprogramming, then indeed it will seem very complex, absurdly complex actually.

If you think of it as just the same as programming in any other language, except functions that do effects are tagged with a type that indicates that, then I think things will appear much simpler.

I prefer thinking of it as the latter, and it's been very effective (pun half intended) for me.
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It's actually Pretty Bloody Hard(tm) to store or move money/wealth safely and properly, not the least because most of us are all highwaymen when given the opportunity. Banks exist to try and bring some civility to that madness, with the cost being (ideally) a pittance skimmed from the top to keep their highwaymen tendencies at bay.

If you want to call them a protection racket akin to the mafia... you're probably right.

Of course, banks these days are much more than that and there's plenty to rightfully crucify them for. But even still, there's a reason being called a third-rate bank clerk is an insult among the highest order.
I mostly agree but propose another amendment: this is human nature under late-stage capitalism. Capitalism is pretty great in the beginning / middle, and can go on for a very long time in such a way that the interests of corporations, consumers, labor, and governments are all basically aligned. Late-stage is a very different game in all respects though.

One risk we are facing now is that when most of the people alive have only seen the perversions of unregulated and unapologetic late-stage capitalism, they will think this is what it always has to look like. The impulse to switch to a polar opposite or burn everything down is ill advised but becomes hard to ignore.
Without government force to back it up, who would care?
> Human suffering, animal suffering, morality, and so on are basically irrelevant.

Not "irrevelent" but most often deliberately part of a strategy:

In economics, an externality or external cost is an indirect cost or benefit to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Did you read your own link past the first paragraph?

> GALLO
SAW MANY CASUALTIES BROUGHT INTO THE SQUARE AND DID
NOT DOUBT THAT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN BEIJING WERE
KILLED BY THE ARMY ON JUNE 3 AND 4.

Yes, a Chilean diplomat was seen as neutral, but was then debriefed by the Americans two weeks later.
> The most critical part of the install was nailing the alignment and reflow of not just one, but BOTH ball-grid-arrays for welding over a single rework profile.

Oof. For someone who describes themselves as a software engineer, this is an extremely nice piece of work.
I was also worried about my wrong perception of hybrids being too complex. I recommend people to check on how e-CVT transmissions work, they are quite amazing and simple.

I also have now an hybrid Corolla (the station wagon version the US does not get. Because we all now Station wagons are the superior form of car.)
> a) Audio Hijack

Ah yes, I paid for that even without thinking and forgot about it even though I use it rather often.
"FAANG improved average lives" is by no means a safe assumption. It needs to be very carefully demonstrated for each individual company, with consideration of the worsenings as well. The forgotten sixth, Microsoft, is probably easier to make a case for.
Yes, and if everything is properly configured that is great.
Where is falls apart is when your site host/admin slaps Cloudflare protection on the domain and forgets to properly exclude the RSS pages, then programs can't fetch the feed without resorting to anti-bot evasion tech scraping, and are left with rendered HTML instead of the actual feed and have to deal with that.

Niche? It happens far more than you think.
> They lack a network effect that makes them grow.
Isn't lack of fast growth a good thing? I swear, I left every social network in the two years after my mom joined.

At some point of a network popularity, it feels like there is an influx of people who want to talk to you but lack reading comprehension to read your answers.
Or maybe it's specifically that every "become popular fast" algorithm tries to repeatedly throw you to them.

Curating a corner of web for yourself takes time and effort, and if a social network popularity outpaces you, then you just can't do that.
Is this him? https://thetraitors.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_McNeill
Then they are very few and far between. Generally the absolute limit is £90k. I've never seen any role for more than 90K unless it was a company in London and those are typically hybrid and not remote.
He'll probably be choosing at least two more as well.
It's thought that most European colonies actually stymied growth in their home countries.
The problem is that people think property is a risk free way of making money - even if they borrow heavily to invest. Maybe what we need is a property price crash.
I changed phones, and tried to log back into my Fediverse/Mastadon accounts. The app asks me which servers I'm on—I can't find the accounts in my password manager, can't figure out which servers they were, and the ones I thought I was on maybe don't exist anymore? Or were accessible in one but not another app.

So I managed to log into one of the 3 accounts I'm sure that I have still. And I'm a software nerd who makes "educated" decisions all the time around this stuff.

Protocol People really care about that, and you know what? It becomes their network effect. But it is a self-selecting network. The nature or design of what effects and attracts the network is the same mechanism for limiting its size.

TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat all focus on things that other people really care about—namely video creation, photo curation and ephemeral small network cohesion. and those focuses attract other userbases.

Probably, there's a lot more people who want to create and watch short videos than there are people who want to nerd out over what their 1/10,000 servers' community rules and protocol settings are.
Well no, its not. Specifically in relation to Asylum Seekers contravening the EU Dublin Regulation and tearing up their passports on an intra-EU flight so they can claim Asylum and the associated social welfare in Ireland rather than France or Germany due to our much higher rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Regulation

Basically economic migrants - predominately young men from the middle east - disguising themselves as Refugees and taking social supports away from the families fleeing warzones.
I have no grand opinion about Trump. He is as good as any other politician, though he might be marginally better from the prior that he is not a career politician and from the posterior conditioned by the fact that the bi-partisan establishment and the corporate media hate him. These are too strong a signal to ignore.

What irks me is the cheap virtue signalling by the laptop class which has been told to hate him since 2016. They had no opinion of the man - who is a literal Hitler and who was 70 years old in 2016 - before that. I despise such fakery.
Testing Is Orthogonal to Correctness
>the public repeating the benchmarks themselves

The public has no access to this benchmark.

In fact, everyone thought it was all locked up in a vault at Epoch AI HQ, but looks like Sam Altman has a copy on his bedside table.
I'd largely agree that most of the components are there, however one thing I think that's very important but is perhaps missed with the focus on the PC is the phone.

Most people's primary, if not only, computing device is their phone - which at the same time is probably the most restricted device.

And if you wanted to build your own and connect to the mobile network - it's considerably harder than doing the same for a traditional personal computer.
What you are describing is the reason why we have antitrust laws.

Creating an ecosystem where you web apps "encourage" users to use your browser is the antithesis of an open marketplace.
Not sure what kind of users you're dealing with, but your typical iphone user can absolutely not do that
I think it’s everyone, debugging GH actions is absolute hell, and it gets terrifying when the action interacts with the world (e.g. creating and deploying packages to a registry).
Been there before, and wrote about the experience - https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/yes-actually-means-no-th...

US vs UK investors are night and day. UK investors only want to see profitability to protect their cautious capital
> The reason Apple Pay actually took longer than Google's solutions is because Apple (presumably) co-developed the payment networks' tokenization solution,

Google Wallet launched with NFC-based mobile payments in 2011. Apple Pay launched in 2014. Neither solution is fully rolled out yet.

Apple's "co-development" was all pre-launch, but not sure how much of this was Apple helping vs. Apple demanding. During this time, Apple demanded secrecy so that only select bank employees would know what was being developed/that it was being made for Apple.

There's an article about what was going down back then: https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/...

Slow uptake afterwards is a matter of not only every issuer needing to integrate, but also every payment terminal/network needing to be upgraded. Apple in turn likely held back release in a region until enough banks and payment processors had done the legwork.

These services are still rolling out - Google Pay added two more countries last week! Apple Pay came to Egypt last year. Samsung Pay came to Germany in 2020, Denmark, Finland and Norway in 2022 and Saudi Arabia in 2024. Doing anything with the financial sector anywhere is a bloody pain.
Great summary.

I'm using a combination of FreshRSS (self-hosted) and Readrops (for Android).

I feel like #1 is handled by this combination. But, I wonder what convergent means here for you?

I don't notice any performance issues. But, this feels like a simple task for a bunch of RSS feeds. Did you notice performance issues with other readers?

There is something very interesting about what you call "automagical discovery." To me this is the biggest hole in my RSS experience. I want something that gives me magical discovery within the feeds I have based on my reading experiences. I subscribe to a lot of feeds because of one article, and then don't care about 90% of the other articles, but there are 10% that I do really want to read, but don't have the focus to find them. Is that what you mean by automagical?

Why do you want #4?

Filtering by keywords seems interesting.

FreshRSS has a bunch of analytics that comes with the server. I never really use it, but it is interesting. I would be happy to share what I can see based on my limited usage over a few months if this would serve your purposes. I would be interested in understanding what you mean by that.

The one thing I wish I had in my current setup is a way to take notes in a centralized way. When I'm on Android, I suppose I can copy and use a share intent. And, on a browser, I could install an extension to do that. But, it feels like that is an interesting opportunity for someone. I wish FreshRSS could layer a JavaScript app on posts, for example, and then I could build whatever I want. It has an extension API, but strangely documented.

Thanks!
The top tier is, essentially, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok. These are used by literally billions of people; with the exception of China, virtually everyone on earth is exposed to them fairly directly.

(Also Telegram and WhatsApp are a borderline case; they have the users, and they have social-network-like features, but most of the users are likely not _using_ the social-network-like features; they just use them as messaging apps).

The second tier is things like Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Quora; these are in the 300-600 million user range, so they're big, but you don't have the same sort of universal exposure.
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