skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad was a military analyst in the Balkans in the 90s. I am telling this story second-hand, but I'll try to get it correct. While in Albania, my dad shared a taxi with an older Albania gentleman. The man recounted his time working in the Albanian military in the 60s. His platoon had constructed a large number of bunkers, more than any other platoon. The dictator Enver Hoxha was slated to visit, to give them an award for building the most bunkers in the whole country. When Enver arrived, he walked around, and looked at a bunch of the bunkers they had constructed. He pointed at the bunkers. "Look! You have not used enough rebar! Obviously, you are trying to jeopardize the security of our nation, by neglecting to use enough rebar! You are traitors to Albania!" He swiftly sentenced the entire platoon of young men straight to 30 years in prison, which they approximately served. This man, after serving this time, had just gotten freed from jail. The taxi was transporting him from the halfway house.
They should at least clarify it. The reason they don’t I feel is simply for the hype and mystique.

There are ways that you could game the benchmark without adding it to the training set. By repetitively evaluating on the dataset itself it will regress into a validation set, not a test set, even in black box setting, as you can simply evaluating 100 checkpoints and pick the one that performs the best, rinse and repeat

I still believe o3 is the real deal, BUT this gimmick kind sour my appetite a bit, for that those who run the company
That is not in any way what personal computer meant.

We may as well follow Steve Martin and get small again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Na0M-Ixm8
You shouldn't ignore it, you should listen carefully, and you should ponder why an enemy state wants it to outrage you.
You might want to consider just open sourcing portions of your code that you believe could benefit from community involvement, and keep certain things proprietary. If that is an option you could have separate repos and publish the ones you want to share.

If that’s not an option, it may be that opening up the code doesn’t fit your business model
Suspicious sale of Melania Trump's NFT (2022)
> It's doing this at the instance level rather than the user level which is the problem

It’s always at the instance level. They own the machine.

The difference between federated networks and decentralized networks is that the main control is with node operators vs cryptographic key holders.

You’re looking for a decentralized solution, not a federated one.
I used to work somewhere that had a similar licensing model. I believe it was perpetual access to all updates (minor or major) released within 12mths of purchase, along with free support. Once your 12mths were up there were no further updates.

Last I heard, they were still successfully running a (small - 3 or 4 dev) business on this model.
Allport's Theory of Escalation
> “It’s absolutely preposterous that he would do this,” said Nic Carter, founding partner at the crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures who describes himself as an “avowed and explicit” Trump supporter. “They’re plumbing new depths of idiocy with the memecoin launch.”

Plumbing new depths of idiocy, says avowed and explicit supporter.

Still a supporter though, I guess?
Twitter wasn't ever really a new protocol in the same way as the others, as it was owned entirely by a private company.

Protocols are open standards that anyone can implement and use without needing permission from or reliance on a single entity. Twitter, by contrast, has always been a proprietary platform, entirely controlled by a private company, which fundamentally undermines the comparison.

Most of the challenges Twitter has comes from not actually being a protocol. If Twitter had been designed or evolved as a decentralized protocol, it would have avoided many of the issues it faces today.
Oracle has no interest in running afoul of the US government at all. Their internal culture in many ways views them like that of a quasi-government institute. So in thus case they probably are feeling responsible to actually be the ones enforcing the law.
Shooting the Quad M134 Minigun
With a random mid-range android phone?

Okay.
I needed the software for myself so I ended up developing it. Turns out a lot of other people wanted it too :)

I have been very clear with the community from the beginning that this is software that I develop first and foremost for myself - new features and bug fixes get prioritized largely according to this.

Additionally, support is not offered as part of the commercial use license and is largely community-driven. Nevertheless, I still spend many hours a week helping out both personal use and commercial use users.
That origami sleeve is sweet! I picked it up during my travels while watching an elderly patron perform the trick, but its great to see it in print.
As long as big tech keeps shoving AI down our throats, it only gets worse.
Depends on the size of the company. Perhaps you're simply not the target customer for that company, you self-select out of their customer pipeline which makes it easier for them to handle costs, as it is more expensive to maintain separate SaaS and one-time versions (essentially on-premise, which is often much more expensive and for enterprises who can afford them due to said hassle). However, some solo devs and smaller companies do exist that make only one-time purchase products, because they don't have much overhead.
Wow, this looks really cool. How does it handle Atheros WiFi cards? I have a ThinkPad X200 I’d love to throw this on for fun. Thanks for sharing!!
Tanks, unlike bunkers, can move. Fairly quickly, in fact.
Side project not a business. I have a tiny dictation app for Mac on the app store.

One time payment since it runs whisper locally. Autoupdates through the app store, and I have a lot of folks emailing me positive, negative and improvement feedback.

It is a lot of randomness. Some weeks are low and when it got a small mention in a popular article I saw a sudden inflow of traffic, downloads and purchases.

So far Ive been ok paying the apple tax. Its a little hard going through the hoops to get it through the app store( I kinda understand why they do a lot of it ) but it provides a lot of free discovery and I spend 0 time on payments, refunds, disputes, handling a CDN to distribute binaries etc. Negative reviews without basis are the only thing that bother me, for some reason I seem to take it personally.
Probably, but you'd need to be more clear and specific about the intended scope. Maybe throw together some user stories.
Yeah, the Common Clause license is pretty close to what I want, I'm just concerned with the SaaS offering in one of the examples in the license:

"Let’s apply the example to Commons Clause licensed software. Commons Clause-licensed Redis Graph is a graph database module for BSD-licensed Redis. Can you create applications with Redis Graph and distribute and/or sell them? Yes. Can you redistribute Redis Graph along with your application? Yes. Can you offer that application as SaaS and charge for it? Yes. Can you take Redis Graph itself, call it ElastiGraph and offer it as SaaS and charge for it. No."

It could be that the application developed with Redis Graph is totally different to Redis Graph so SaaS offering is allowed. I will check this further, thanks for your suggestion.
Large corporations blackmailing countries seems to be becoming more common. There was probably some of it going on throughout history (oil companies?, pharma?) but recently we've seen AT&T, Pornhub, TikTok, Google, Meta and others threaten to or actually stop services in areas that try to regulate them. There has been no legal reaction to this so far, rather companies "voluntarily" leave. Might we see large corporations seized in the future for blackmail?
Not untrue, but also not the only thing going on.

The authoritarian movements of the 20th century wouldn't have been possible without mass media. But it wasn't the profit motive that was the prime culprit for this enablement.

Ideologues found they had a powerful tool at their disposal to channel people's grievances towards an enemy, and to bind a large group of people behind this ideology.

The inventors of the printing press and the radio didn't intend for it to be used this way.
Maybe they just didn't expect everyone to return
I see this in the USA too - electrical engineers fiddling with css to make buttons dance, published computer scientists working on trivial systems for massive data centers billing systems - the tech market does always seem inefficient, and yet, at some point the market is going to have more knowledge and expertise than it needs, especially if AI predictions play out. What happens then?
While it’s back in the US, it seems to be a separate version from the rest of the world. My account is European and I can no longer log in within the US without a VPN out of the country. My GFs account is American and she can login but has lost access to some accounts and the ability to watch livestreams which my version of the app still has. I wonder if the 13 hour “outage” was for a larger scale data migration for a separate US version
* Ableton Live?

* Photoshop?

* DaVinci Resolve?

* Table Plus?

* Excel?

* IntelliJ?
...and Lotus 1-2-3 mimiced visicalc and when I used visicalc (on an HP85a) it had a dark background with a greyish white foreground colour. ie dark mode by default.
Recently there's been another shift - processing power.

In the past you could do almost anything on a personal computer, it was generally about as fast as mainframe or high end workstation.

Training large AI models is currently impossible for most home users. They just do not have the processing power.
UK also had a lot of colonies that contributed to their growth.
You can’t claim this is unfair to China, when China requires foreign companies enter into joint ventures which give the Chinese partner majority voting share.

The US is simply reciprocating.
Many, especially in the indie hacker space, such as BoltAI, NomadList, etc . It works because the dev is a solo developer and does not necessarily need much money for expenses compared to a company hiring many employees, the money from all the solo dev's customers is likely enough to retire on.
If so, all the more reason to distrust and ban this product. They’ve clearly not been honest with the public.
Author could start with what this actually is. "An Electron App with Security through Obscurity principles" doesn't tell me much.
> we got the timeline where the Internet turned into Addictive Pay-per-view Disney

Call me a cynic, but I really think that was the inevitable outcome. It's just flawed human nature. Yes, there are outliers - good people who make and keep that vision to the best of their ability. But the overwhelming majority will always be there to drive it towards the dismal outcome you're witnessing now.
It's not just in the hardware sector, it's across the board.

My (American) wife moved to London years ago and was a manager in a prestigious London museum overseeing 60 people.

She has over 20 years experience in some of our top museums and her salary in 2023 was a paltry £30k.

We just moved to the US and within a couple of months she has a job in museums here but now paying 2.3x the salary (converted back to £) and only managing a team of 20 people.

Less stress, more resources for uniforms and initiatives and annual salary increases here way above inflation.

As a Londoner I feel quite aggrieved by the situation. It's one thing to increase your salary 50% as a lot of engineers do moving to the US. But to 230% increase your salary is just nuts.

Only London's financial sector pay was globally competitive - but now with Brexit's rules fully locked in even that sector is slowly losing its talent and customers to Europe and beyond.
> It kinda advertises the defender position.

Which can be a point. What do you do if you're a foot soldier and such a bunker is on your way? First, you stop. Maybe your platoon tries to find a way around it, maybe you call reinforcements (direct fire) to take it out, maybe you set up a heavy machine gun to suppress it while you cross it. But all of this takes time, which is one of the main purposes of such defensive structures - to slow the enemy down. Interestingly, such a bunker will partially work in this role even if it's unoccupied, since making sure it is in fact empty will still take time. Now consider that there's almost a million of such bunkers slowing you down. You also have to consider the era, today they'd be an easier target than in the 1970s.
What is the general view on Enver Hoxha by today's Albanian population?
Open source didn't compete on quality for price. I could pay 2k plus 40 hours of my time for a Voron or buy something that just works. I think Prusa only put out their CoreXY offering after they realized Bambu was eating their lunch. The Apple model works because people want to print rather than tinker.
Not surprising - this is as I fully expected. Got down-voted to oblivion when I suggested the formal story would change in a month - as it now has. It will likely change even more in a couple of months when more details come to light.

We already saw how all this played out with Nordstream reporting - with American media fully blaming Russia and hysterical American HN readers calling for a nuclear response against Moscow. All for a NATO sabotage operation carrying out the threat promised on TV by President Biden. Fully detailed by Seymour Hersh.
I disagree. These devices can easily burn down people's homes if given bad G-code. Then they would be sued into the dirt for a security whole a mile wide. Looking at the changes this is about liability.
I think the parent is describing a "bring your own library" approach where a set of known to the author algorithms will be used for those calculations and the only thing the host language will be used for is the parse/convert.

It does remove a lot of the ambiguity of "I wonder what this stdlib's quirks are in their date calculations" but it also seems like a non-trivial amount of effort to port every time.
with apologies to Leon, I think I first saw it from Martin (he gives full credit to the sources), so I'll post to link here for completeness:

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
> Pretty much every stereotype you may have heard about them is wrong

I went there about ten years ago, walking across the border on a small road from Macedonia. The Macedonia border office was small but tidy. Then there was a 100m no man's land, then a Welcome to Albania sign that was full of bullet holes, and a table of Albanian border guards drinking and playing cards. Super friendly guys.

We walked about 5km into the local town, passing tons of these bunkers. Nearly every single car and truck that passed us was a Mercedes, except for the police cars which were tiny battered Fiats.

Can confirm the people we met were incredibly friendly, and the place felt very welcoming and nothing happened to make me feel unsafe.

However, I have heard some crazy stories from another friend who travelled there more extensively that make me think, while it's a relatively safe country as a tourist, it won't be uneventful if you stay there a while, especially if you get off the normal tourist track.

Given that most of the stereotypes I'd heard about Albania up to that point were "bunkers, lawlessness, and Mercedes but lovely people", I'd say that it absolutely did live up to these. However, a lot can change in a decade so maybe it's different now. Or maybe we just went to different parts of the country.
Well, let's look at what was happening in Albania.

Since forever: Ruled by ottoman empire

...along comes the 20th century...

1912: We declare independence!

1914: Let's pick a king...

1925: Let's pick a new king...

1939: I guess the Italians are king now...

1944: Communism, we're all kings!

1946: Hoxha is the king of kings
Let us cannibalize your app because it's so successful at doing X that we can't compete with you. It's a bizarre ultimatum for the owners of the app.
The law didn't require the new owner to be in America. Anywhere other than Iran, North Korea, China, or Russia would have been allowed.
I mean, it’s not a foregone conclusion that you’ll do better than otherwise. You could buy when prices are high and sell when prices are low. There is an ongoing calculus also about how long you need to live in a house before you end up saving money; it’s something like, if you sell your house within 5 years buying, assuming prices are equal, you’ll loose money bc of various purchase costs.

I pay less for my mortgage than I did for my apartment, probably approximately 85%. That was last in 2016; in general, I understand that locally rent prices have gone up since then. Of course my mortgage hasn’t, but let’s set that aside. Also, my house is much better than my apartments were, so.

Anyway, the issue is that you have to live somewhere, rent vs mortgage. That’s the difference to consider.
Bitcask is great, it's such an elegant idea. I've built a few different toy implementations in different languages and learned something new each time. YMMV based on how many deps you do or don't want to use, how complete you want to go, but it's a totally doable small-ish project.
1. No -- the project boards and issue tracker were visible to the whole company, which was helpful for being able to show people what we were doing and where their requests were scheduled. Our points of contact within departments we supported worked particularly closely with my team to co-manage the projects.

2. Most of the ICs didn't have an engineering background, and came from a more traditional data analyst background. When I arrived, the only thing actually version controlled in Git was LookML that wasn't actually used. Many learned Git and GitHub for the first time there.
Right, but the onus of responsibility being on the end user publishing the song or creative work in violation of copyright, not the text editor, word processor, musical notation software, etc, correct?

A text prediction tool isn’t a person, the data it is trained on is irrelevant to the copyright infringement perpetrated by the end user. They should perform due diligence to prevent liability.
To be frank, this is nothing new. There were already desk shortages at four Amazon buildings in downtown Seattle pre-Covid.
> and that's why every company is moving towards SaaS...

This is a bold and not necessarily true statement. It really comes down to your target market. A SaaS is a much less disputed cost when it's targeting businesses but you're much more likely to encounter resistance to a subscription when you're targeting individual consumers.

There is plenty of highly successful mainstream modern day software that offers a perpetual license for one time fee. (DAWs come to mind: Bitwig, Reaper, Logic X, Studio One, Cubase, etc.).

Personally, I think a good compromise is the annual subscription with a fallback perpetual license, a.k.a. the Jetbrains model. I've never had an issue with paying a reoccurring subscription fee, but I take great issue with the proposition that the moment I stop paying I lose all access to the software - it's too close to rent seeking.
The political approach in the article might help a bit in forcing some design changes across the hardware and software industries:

> "We need comprehensive privacy legislation in the United States that enshrines individual privacy as a fundamental right. We need Right to Repair legislation that puts control of our devices back into our hands—and also DRM reform, especially repealing Section 1201 of the DMCA so we can control the goods we own and historians can preserve our cultural heritage without the need for piracy."

Laws alone won't be enough - there's a need for new design approaches for production devices and systems. For each of the above:

-Expanding high-speed internet to all regions of the country is a positive, but privacy is limited because metadata is visible, and if we assume all nations are tapping into the trunk of the internet and collecting everything that transits their systems, this means strong encryption should be the concept around which all communication systems are built, so that at least the content of the messages can't be read.

-Right-to-Repair should extend to device design goals in which maintenance and replacement of components is intended and user alterations and upgrades aren't actively blocked. Batteries should be relatively easy to replace, etc.

-For cultural history preservation, allow archivists to bypass DRM and store offline backups of materials. Also make it easy to become an archivist and build communities of archivists.
Your understanding of the law is incorrect when you say "the executive branch MUST enforce it". Administrations of all political stripes have decided not to enforce parts of particular laws. And this is precisely because "enforcement" means you need to use limited resources to prosecute someone for breaking the law, and the executive branch has always had wide latitude deciding who they prosecute. If Congress decides the president is not faithfully enforcing the laws, their option is impeachment. Well, we all saw how that went the last few times...

The thing that is shocking to me about the current TikTok situation is that while Trump may be free to say "I won't enforce this law", he can't write any sort of executive order overturning the law, and I think it's pretty disgusting the media isn't pushing back against this more (except for Kara Swisher, who made this exact point) and saying this isn't possible.

The law is explicit that any company (like Apple, Google or Oracle) that provides services for TikTok would be in violation of the law and subject to large penalties. Nothing Trump says as president can change that without Congress acting. So it is simply baffling to me that these major companies would be willing to put themselves in serious legal jeopardy with just what amounts to a pinky promise and a wink from Trump.
It's because units up to hours are of a fixed size, but days in most places are only 24h for ~363/365 days of the year, with some being 23h and some being 25h.

(This is ignoring leap seconds, since the trend is to smear those rather than surface them to userspace.)
Proofs without words: the example of the Ramanujan continued fraction (2019)
Why would Apple or Google want to take the risk? They are not TikTok, they don't stand to lose hundreds of billions of dollars of value.
That’s one of the crappiest quotes I’ve ever heard no offence, it just sounds self congratulatory and forced as if they hoped for it to be quoted.
Is there a Chrome extension that auto-translates bullshit?

E.g. "temporary measure" -> "permanent policy"

This would be "I'm an extravert and prefer being in an office full of people so I want you all forced back in there"
> Instead, a lot of extremely smart people in the UK would rather get the 'safe' job at Google, or McKinsey than the 'this will never work but can you imagine how cool it would be if it did' job at a startup.

This isn't just an EU thing, for what it's worth. The US is the outlier.
CPU interposers in the OG Xbox community isn't uncommon. You can drop in a retail PII with double the clock speed but it requires an interposer.
They ban American companies from distributing or maintaining the application, not specific content. More of a "criminal conspiracy" type of behavior rather than something that would relate to wikileaks or whoever. Can as well argue what is being banned is the data-collection side of the operation since it's the part that depends on using the app. Those companies still have the freedom to publicly state whatever the CCP has to say.

The law indeed needed to be carefully written to "skirt" any first amendment violations, and SCOTUS unanimously agreed it had done so successfully.
I haven't read enough to know whether any information was permanently lost, or if it's more the physical artifacts. It would be a damn shame if there were artifacts that hadn't been digitized.