skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How could you charge for a binary if people can just compile it on their own...?

You don't make a binary publicly available, then you put the binary behind a paywall.

Some examples:

- Ardour - Lets you pull down the source and compile locally for free, or you pay to use their compiled binaries. Author/creator of Ardour hangs around on HN, maybe they could share their experience if they see this.

- Radium - Another DAW like Ardour, does it the same way.

- Fritzing - Designer for PCBs, same approach, pay for the binaries if you'd like, but free to compile from source if you can

I'm sure there are many more examples out there, but these are the ones I thought about when I wrote my previous comment.
"Sex" for you is determined by genitals and chromosomes, right? Can you show me any instance where a transgender man believes he has a natural penis or XY chromosomes?
With extreme wealth, the next goal becomes immortality. Ellison and others are obsessed with living longer (or forever) and viewing all their ideas through this lens helps explain their investments in biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
It’s absurd that the C/C++ community is so hard-headed about Rust. Is the Linux kernel in fifty years still going to be written in the same language it is now?
I signed in just to upvote this. I've lost friends and relatives to this. I couldn't agree more that I fear this cancer more than any other- because it is so untreatable by the time it's caught. An inexpensive test would be incredibly helpful towards improving the survivability.
Imagine if any of these billionaires tried to solve real problems like that. Man what a world that would be...
Since it seems to be illegal to even reveal if one of these requests was received, it's also worrying that, by extension, it would be illegal to declare a data breach once the backdoor was inevitably exploited by another bad actor.

So, how would anybody know that a foreign government was spying on them? Nothing would stop them installing Pegasus on your phone and exfiltrating even your 'secure' data.

The stupid thing is that these laws always find a way to say that people in government are exempt from the provisions, and everybody except them is allowed to be spied on, but they are obviously going to be the first people to be targeted. Not some randomer hoarding CSAM.
UK governments have been pushing for this for years, usually invoking some recent terrorist event as justification.

I'm not suggesting you're wrong, but I don't think this is _just_ the UK being a US puppet, there is very much an appetite for it in the UK parliament too.
Is this thing called AI worthwhile?
This seems less like professional speaking and more like preemptive feelings management.

As a gen-x’er, I find myself having to navigate these waters often as directness is likened to being unnecessarily aggressive, rude, inappropriate, etc.

I would never speak like this and would quickly disabuse others using this style of speech. You’ll do more harm trying to be saccharine than just saying what you mean in an appropriate tone.
History would strongly disagree with this pet theory.
After reading this, I can't help but point out the misinformation about 5G coverage. At least in America, 5G coverage is at best around 50% of the country. I distrust the carrier claims and maps about their coverage because even in covered areas I'm not able to get advertised speeds.

It could be that mobile applications have hesitated to rollout features like 4K streaming video because most users don't have true 5G coverage. We might not see mobile data growing because we've failed in our 5G infrastructure goals. The political atmosphere might not support building out more 5G networks either.
> You can literally shove facts in someone's face, and they won't admit to being wrong or misunderstand, and instead continue to argue against some points whose premise isn't even true.

It's called a strawman fallacy, and like all fallacies, it's used because the user is either intellectually lazy and can't be bothered to come up with a proper argument, or there isn't a proper argument and the person they're using it against is right.
> Apple doesn’t need the UK business,

I think shareholders would disagree. Several billion in sales and all assets in the UK are not insignificant. On top if that would be the reaction of other governments to seeing a business successfully defy a government. ait could be them next.

>That’s pretty big leverage.

True and it shows how foolish governments are to allow such reliance on foreign suppliers.
The Onion just had a funny video where Lakewood Church conducted a nuclear test, firing a missile over Washington.

True to form, it was deadpan, and featured Joel Olsteen as a Kim Jung Un type leader.
China's fossil fuel demand may have passed its peak, IEA says
Apologies for the tangent, but may I ask what you use to write your blog? I love how clean it is.
How to safely connect cloud server to home GPU server
Original URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Meta-s-head-of-AI-Yann-LeCun-do...
That is not true. Apple claims this for PR purposes, but Marcan and Lina said on stream that the changes are not that big at all - Apple does not completely change their architecture ever. There may be bigger changes on the GPU side, but that does not affect the base upbringing (earlier Asahi versions did not have any GPU support at all, only software rendering) - also that would be work for Alyssa, not for Hector.
I completely understand the frustration and the conclusion you arrived at. The problem is echo chambers existed before the advent of online social media. Safe to say they have existed since nearly the dawn of human consciousness.

The difference is that once algorithms could be optimized for "engagement", a company simply can't resist amping up the dopamine hits. Because the ultimate goal of those networks is persistent, unrelenting attention. They are for-profit businesses whose primary income is ads (upwards of 98% of Facebook/Meta revenue.)

So the more attention you can drum up, and the longer you can maintain it, the faster the money printer can go brrrr.
From the name I was hoping this would be a list of services being offered at a loss as they burn VC money to get marketshare.
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Intel's leadership has been lobbying for this at a bipartisan level for almost half a decade now. This saga has been going on since 2018-19 and Pat Gelsinger is himself Republican leaning.
> If he wants to stand up for what he believes to be right, he shouldn't have a problem with the consequences of dealing with people who disagree with him, sometimes virulently.

This sounds like victim blaming. I suspect very few people who take a stand are truly prepared for years of abuse, even if they think they are. No one has perfect knowledge of the future.
Depends on the country you live in. There are countries that don't do them with similar health results as countries that do them.

There is a stereotype that Dutch doctors will prescribe paracetamol for anything because they are really defensive with medication and doctor visits and the result is generally the same as countries that do check ups.
"That's all of the countries", for the countries that have enough leverage to do this.

However in none of those countries but USA will you see in almost any published text or discussion thread a lot of people weeping that the competitors from China are too strong only because their government either subsidizes them or forces foreign companies to transfer IP, or they do not enforce the environmental regulations.

The contrast between these continuous complaints of the US citizens and what the US government really does, by subsidizing all significant private investments with tax breaks and by blackmailing foreign companies to give various advantages to US companies is funny.
Yes, officially since 1946.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes (look also for Nine and Fourteen Eyes on this page)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
I'm using it day to day for my personal projects and at work. The thing that always annoyed me about ... work ... is that I'll be working on like 5 things, with 4 of them being code reviewed at my code reviewer's leisure. So I always end up with a crazy stack of branches, and as "main" changes, the burden of keeping everything up to date becomes painful. jj makes this all very easy! "jj rebase -d main" to clean up one of my topic branches. No interrupt to whatever I'm working on (as git checks out the files to your working copy and you resolve conflicts for each step in "git rebase main"). Conflicts can be removed at your leisure.

Something I always regretted doing with my many-topic-branches-out-for-review approach was making changes that depend on two topic branches. With jj, it's easy, you just "jj new qrs xyz" and now you have a new change on top of those two topic branches. If you add something in this commit that you want in one of your topic branches, "jj squash --onto qrs some/change/to/qrs.go" and now that change is in there.

It works well with Github and a PR per change. You create a PR with "jj bookmark create whatever" and then "jj git push --allow-new" to make "whatever" a remote branch. As you update that commit, "jj git push" adjusts the remote state as necessary. "jj git fetch" automatically adds bookmarks for upstream branches (so you can "jj new coworker/their-change" to test and modify their thing locally).

Finally, it works well when you have persistent changes that you don't want to commit but you do want to keep around. For some reason, we check in dev configs, and each engineer needs to modify them to run stuff locally. I have a commit called 'private: local setup' and that forms the base for each new (local) commit I work on. To do a PR, I squash my changes into a commit based on main instead of that commit. jj will avoid pushing anything with the prefix 'private: ' so I don't have to worry about leaking my keys, even though they are checked in locally. I wouldn't recommend managing secrets like this, but ... I didn't make this decision and jj handles it fine.

Overall, a huge improvement to my workflow. There have been times when I have so much stuff in flight that I just give up for the day until a few PRs get resolved. That never happens anymore. I can kind of work on whatever I want and let the world move at its own speed. Updating my work to account for PR comments or PRs merged before mine now takes seconds and never goes wrong. Truly an amazing tool and I wish I discovered this years ago.
Doesn't need to be a binary choice (above/below threshold) - it can be a spectrum -- also known as progressive taxation.

Would this prevent people from working hard and being enterpreneurial? Not sure but I think not -- for 2 reasons:
(i) success at that level requires more than just desire for money, because it requires pushing hard when the going is tough, and unless you care about it you will give up. we have heard this before from others (Steve Jobs?)
(ii) a successfull entrepreneur will still make more money than an employee, so the financial incentive is still there, even with greater taxation.
They have NPUs for running tasks like figuring out what your app usage pattern is. The TOPS number is too low to be relevant enough to preserve because Apple prioritized other features in its chip design during the years leading up to the sudden emergence of AI on the RADAR at 11 Wall Street. It's not even close. m1..m5 would need like 20x-100x more TOPS to keep up with what's coming (from Apple, nVidia, Microsoft and others) which will set a new bar for what's needed to do "anything." As far as Apple laptops being "better then most windows laptops" [sic], again, all laptops and desktops as we currently know them are dead meat, whether they run macOS, Windows or ... LINUX. Will they continue to exist? Yes. Will everyone from your school child to Supreme Court justices carry them around? No.

Take note: That you downvote people you disagree with (even when they have nearly half a century of experience) means you are not someone I'm terribly interested in engaging with even if I don't care about the downvotes themselves.

PS: My first Apple laptop was a PowerBook 170, connected to a Radio Shack bag phone via (USA) standard RJ11 jack. My first Mac laptop running Linux was a 17" PowerBook G4 running Yellow Dog Linux (whose legacy is "yup"). I've been writing software for Apple systems since the late 1970s (as well as my big systems and embedded background) and I'm far younger than 60. Bye.
The Rust criticism is valid - the hidden "breaking changes" have been a hallmark of rust releases and anyone maintaining a serious codebase in rust needs to really be on top of testing and validating if they want to stay current - moreso than any other language in the same stable as rust.

You can't however claim the right and reason to refuse PRs and code changes under the moniker of maintenance while simultaneously claiming that the rust community is "actively hostile to a second rust compiler implementation" - you can't have it both ways.

The entire narrative is very indicative of the state of open source unfortunately - incredibly adept programmers getting chewed up by the externalities of maintaining code (and by extension an application). Sometimes it's unappreciative users asking for handouts and sometimes it's other developers (or an organization's development resources) causing contention for a project's trajectory.

I think the entirety of it can be summed up as: forking is there for a reason.
On OLEDs, high levels of ambient light hitting the monitor tends to wash out blacks, making them appear dark gray, thereby subverting one of the most clear-cut advantages of OLED.
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the people with the highest compensation packages are by definition the least replaceable
Removing impl Drop is like removing a function from your C API (or removing any other trait impl): something library authors have to worry about to maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of their library. A surprising amount of Rust's complexity exists specifically because the language developers take this concern seriously, and try to make things easier for library devs. For example, people complain a lot about the orphan rules but they ensure adding a trait impl is never a breaking change.
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More and more I'm convinced that buying my Honda Accord 11 years ago was one of my better life decisions so as not to have to deal with the BS that is the modern automobile. I do wish it had CarPlay, but the phone mount is a good trade-off if it means I get a reliable car with physical controls.
IP blocking if you really can't live without tracking your users unnecessarily

If you're aware of any such website which has been investigated under GDPR I'd be happy to know
> Then you get the belt out and teach the kids how to behave.

This in fact teaches kids to not behave. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3447048/
The author addressed that in the article.
> When US can't compete, they have to blackmail/steal/sanction to rescue their failed corporations

Obsolete framing. This would be happening even if Intel were competitive. We’re shifting into a nationalist (possibly kleptocratic) economic footing. Previously, we were friendshoring. This administration doesn’t discriminate between friend and foe.
It's not in my interest to discuss the actions of the intelligence system in the US/UK, so I wont. I'm inclined never to address the subject again, to be honest.

Tulsi Gabbard's hearing may be a tiny bit illuminating. The DOGE wrecking ball might lead to a new Church-committe-style hearing, there's already hearings in the house on the "censorship-industrial complex" but they're too naive at the moment. DOGE still think the "DEI" funding of USAID has something to do with being leftwing (rather than, say, the funding counter-government movements).

Meh. In many ways, it's all too late now. "How should the intelligence services conduct themselves?" has never been a question open to democratic debate, nor one any mass media outlet would dream of posing. Today, esp. it isnt one we citizens should raise -- leave it to whomever is able to roll the dice "at the top".
But if the info is info the user of your code needs in order to interface correctly, the point that you can't document everything is moot. You already have to document this in the documentation anyways.
His dementia kicking in...
Whole world is put on fire by old men who want to live forever!
No, this is straight up how China built what it has. And stealing technology from established players in Europe and the UK was how the US came to ascendancy in the late 1800's. Before that we were just a backwater.

Go back far enough and everyone will have done this with their nascent industries.
Have you never been in a committee meeting?

The "E" in CEO is to listen to a room full of noncommittal, hedging, sycophantic people and then chart a course based on their weak signals.

Arguably the CEO needs all of the talent of a dart thrower; but they're the one that takes the stand, or fall, of the decisions made.

I agree they're replaceable. I don't agree that they're not needed. :)
It wasn’t the Reuters newsroom that worked on this contract, but a special investigative corporate subsidiary called Thomson Reuters Special Services. While the contract purports to develop defenses against sophisticated phishing attacks from adversaries, research documents from the project show that the contractors developed their own massive social media infrastructure using bots and fake personas.

“Our team has demonstrated the creation and management of a multi-virtual-persona social media interaction system,” one document notes. “Our dialog management framework was integrated with a set of services that managed synthetic social media accounts.”

In simple terms, this DARPA contract involved the development and deployment of technology to create and manage fake social media accounts at scale.

https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1890091297060385124
So you mean the insurance companies that needed to raise rates were right? Who would have thunk.
>However this “thought police” and “arrested for posting memes” comment that often gets pointed on here is itself a nonsense meme.

>What actually happened was people were arrested for instigating riots. This is no different to what happened in the US regarding the Capital Hill riots — people who helped organise it online were arrested too.

According to: https://news.sky.com/story/jordan-parlour-facebook-user-jail...

One of the "instigators" was sent to prison for tweeting "every man and his dog should smash [the] f** out of Britannia hotel (in Leeds)". While I agree such tweet might be illegal under US law (it plausibly meets the "imminent lawless action" standard), it's a stretch to equate that to "organise [the Capital Hill riots] online" (whatever that means). A tweet by a nobody who got 6 likes isn't "organising". It's shitposting.
> With just a bit of prep from these notes I'm pretty convinced that it's possible to directly take e.g. Algebraic Topology, Differential Geometry, Category Theory, or Algebra during the first semester

Why is it important/useful to take advanced classes so early on?
Either they're doing medicine, or they're building medical equipment.

The former case is unlikely, since, unlike writing software (but like many forms of actual engineering), there are actually formally defined standards for what you have to know before you're allowed to practice medicine. If they are doing medicine, then the word "engineer" is being abused. Medicine is not engineering. Programming isn't engineering either. Programming isn't even much like engineering.

In the latter case, they are of course acting as engineers and the name makes sense. It's not clear what the software counterpart to, say, an artificial heart would be, though, so software engineers in that sense can't exist. I suppose there are software counterparts to medical tools, like stethoscopes and X-ray machines. We usually call the people who design them "electrical engineers" or "computer engineers".

Oh, and other things I might have considered for the analogy were things like "If a philosopher writes software, does that make it software philosophy?" I picked medicine as a random vaguely technically credential.
> When US can't compete, they have to blackmail/steal/sanction to rescue their failed corporations.

Name a country where this doesn't occur. The US is not the only country in the world by a long shot that doesn't take measures to protect their failing corporations or export products.

> The same stealing accusation they level at China.

Well they've leveled the accusation against China and nothing changed. So what should the United States do? Continue to let it happen or do something about it? Unfortunately global fair/free trade requires all participants to participate in good faith. If the second largest economy is going to actively undermine that system it just won't work.
That's actually pretty fast. It took 10 years for Java[1] and 5 years for JavaFX[2] to fix some trivial but rather severe text rendering bugs. Most of that time was getting enough courage to fix them myself. :-)

Reporting text rendering bugs is frustratingly difficult!

[1] https://github.com/jgneff/openjdk-freetype

[2] https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/issues/229
> People will look on Rust community after this and say "Remember that time when _they_ where threatening kernel devs with social media drama?". It's not right but that's the perception that will last.

Happened with actix, happened with serde, and now being threatened by kernel contributors. The perception seems at least somewhat based in reality.
> Ted hates the new MiB/KiB system of base-2 units, and for whatever reasons like the previous more ambiguous system of confusingly mixed base-10/base-2 units of MB/Mb/mb/KB/Kb/kb

Here's my best argument for the binary prefixes: Say you have a cryptographic cipher algorithm that processes 1 byte per clock cycle. Your CPU is 4 GHz. At what rate can your algorithm process data? It's 4 GB/s, not 4 GiB/s.

This stuff happens in telecom all the time. You have DSL and coaxial network connections quantified in bits per second per hertz. If you have megahertz of bandwidth at your disposal, then you have megabits per second of data transfer - not mebibits per second.

Another one: You buy a 16 GB (real GB) flash drive. You have 16 GiB of RAM. Oops, you can't dump your RAM to flash to hibernate, because 16 GiB > 16 GB so it won't fit.

Clarity is important. The lack of clarity is how hundreds of years ago, every town had their own definition of a pound and a yard, and trade was filled with deception. Or even look at today with the multiple definitions of a ton, and also a US gallon versus a UK gallon. I stand by the fact that overloading kilo- to mean 1024 is the original sin.
> I ended up burning out, primarily due to the very large fraction of entitled users.

I stopped reading after this sentence. The God complex is simply too much for me to digest. TL;DR: "I am a programming God; they are newbie peons who refused to bow at my altar of greatness." On other posts about this person, I read multiple comments from people that could be summarised as: "This person is an (amazeballs) amazing programmer, but also a total drama queen." I say, with respect, "You will be missed. Thank you for your contributions." <sigh of relief>