skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also what makes China so special is ability to iterate on new complex products. Say small drones. Everyone involved is in close proximity and you can prototype in rapid cycle due to low lead times. If you can get various parts in hours or days instead of weeks, well you can do lot more.
> Why reinvent the wheel when you can just make the wheel faster.

What process makes a wheel faster that does not imply some degree of invention?
Compressed RAF (Fujifilm, 24MP) ~20 MB

DNG (24MP) ~90 MB

It cost about 4 times more to store RAW files in DNG format.
Launching BSSG – My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator
He has at most 3 to 6 months to get this sorted. After that a recession is all but guaranteed. His voters may not own stocks, but the people who own stocks are responsible for a huge part of consumer spending, and when they cut on spending, it is Trump voters who lose their jobs. As Cruz said, he has a very narrow window to not be wiped out at the midterms. I don't think anyone who voted Trump signed up for a recession.
We do not want manufacturing jobs, they suck. America has an amazing thing going on where we can trade 1s and 0s in exchange for physical goods. We have an infinite renewable resource which costs nearly nothing to reproduce infinitely. We have a defacto monopoly on technology and digital services.

I understand the national security reasons for having a domestic commercial manufacturing base. However, there is ZERO economic reasons to bring back manufacturing jobs.
Since it's a coding error, let's run git blame and see what comes out.

Being on the receiving end is never fun. For my case, after I was reinstated, I left shortly after. It was never the same with my colleagues.
To finish my thought: right now the market reaction is extreme, but it's fake in the sense that if tariffs were lifted tomorrow, the market would most likely go back to its former glory. In 3-4 years, once both domestic and foreign infrastructure has been built, it may not. If supposed massive investments are actually being made in US infrastructure, and that tariffs force companies to bite the bullet and stop producing abroad with cheap labor, what will happen when these incentives vanish? Will they go back to cheap labor? People will always prefer a 1k iPhone to a 2k iPhone. Especially if purchasing power has halved in the mean time. I'm expecting an extreme rubber band effect either way.
Is there something wrong with the practice of abstinence, or marital fidelity?

I mean, sex inevitably causes babies: it’s an incontrovertible but inconvenient truth for the modern urban human species. But we were designed that way, yes?
I maintain a huge number of git mirror of git repositories and i have some overview of activity there. Many open source projects have stopped activity and/or do not make any new releases. Like syslinux, which seems to be in a similar situation as unzip. And some projects like Quagga went completely awol and don't even have a functional git remote.

So unzip is not really that special, its a mode general problem with waning interest.
Even a freeway is redeemable: worlds largest wildlife crossing takes shape in LA
More knobs would be nice, yes. Still nothing stops you using a customized file browser, browser, archiver etc that doesn't set the xattrs at all.
Is it though? Amazon knows my entire 22 year purchase history and could probably write down a broadly accurate history of my weight, disposable income, mental health, and how busy I was.

And yet it seems that entirely random ads would have a better chance of catching my interest than whatever super smart master mind strategy they are doing after spending thousands of years on that problem.
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Based on the account name, bio, and internal evidence you should assume this is Don Hopkins. His Wikipedia entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hopkins includes:

> He inspired Richard Stallman, who described him as a "very imaginative fellow", to use the term copyleft. ... He ported the SimCity computer game to several versions of Unix and developed a multi player version of SimCity for X11, did much of the core programming of The Sims, ... He is also known for having written a chapter "The X-Windows Disaster" on X Window System in the book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook.

I hope this experience helps you realize that jumping immediately to contempt can easily backfire.
The difference between copying and innovating is often just velocity.
They are all crying for the audience, the losers.

But see how even WSB idiots could see this coming and they are making a lot of money on shorts. And the premiums are sky high, meaning the big players are shorting like crazy. Easiest money to be made in decades for the Wall Street sharks.
“Free software” does not imply copyleft, not even to the FSF. The MIT license is a free software license even by their definition.
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Thanks. I find coolify very useful.
Also, with oil going down, it will be quite hard for Russia economically...
Because for most open source packages there are thousands of contributors and all have to agree?
For perfectly spherical land...

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-failure-of-the-land-val...
It did, but on enterprise level. S/MIME uses the CA hierarchical trust model, which is centrally managed and much more compatible with how internal enterprise structures are built. In a large enterprise you would have IT managing your AD/CS and therefore also managing the issuing, revocation and so on of employee certificates. But for the public this model of management isn't really practical.
>There is a deeply-ingrained view that the market is optimally efficient (for what?) and any attempt to regulate or direct it will result in inefficiency at best, and deep structural problems at worst.

No the view is that there are some necessary forms of regulatory intervention, some that are harmful, and a grey area where it depends on your priorities (are you optimising for economic growth, or are you optimising for, say, environmental protection at the cost of growth; both are valid.)

Only a tiny fringe of weirdo anarcho-capitalists think there should be zero government intervention in the economy. Treating any free market liberal as having equivalent views is a ridiculous straw man.

>This belief is totally free-standing, built on rhetoric alone, and obviously wrong (you literally cannot make a free market, it's not a coherent concept).

God talk about the irony. You haven't made a single logical argument in your whole post. Your post is pure ideology. Making bare assertions like "you literally cannot make a free market" or "policies inspired by this are uniformly disastrous" isn't an argument. It is unsubstantiated rubbish.

>Policies inspired by this thinking are uniformly disastrous

People that say this sort of thing have no idea how horrible life was when everything in society was heavily regulated. Do you have any idea how inefficient goods delivery across the US was before trucking was deregulated? Sadly it didn't get done at the state level to the same extent. The result is that it is now cheaper in many cases to have things delivered from outside your state even though it is further away.

>and we've finally begun buckling under the weight of the wealth gap it created.

Nothing is buckling. A "wealth gap" doesn't matter. What matter is absolute levels of wealth. It sounds like you would rather everyone be equally impoverished than for some to be rich and others to be extremely rich.

The average person today - even the average poor person today - is extraordinarily rich by historical standards. That is entirely because of free markets. This is economic history 101.
It's a bit of both, but the point holds. Pre-Musk Twitter and Reddit are large datasources and they leaned hard-left, mostly because of censorship.
Traditional Nikon NEF is pretty simple. It's just a tiff. Lossy compression is just gamma-encoding with a LUT (stored in the file). I think most traditional raws are principally similar. More complex compression schemes like ticoraw are fairly recent.

What's complex is the metadata. All the cameras have different AF, WB and exposure systems.
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Cameras absolutely could emit DNG instead, but that would require more development friction: coordination (with Adobe), potentially a language barrier, and potentially making it harder to do experimental features.

Why no simply provide documentation of the camera-specific format that is used?

EDIT: This should have been an answer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584261
No, I need advertising to know what companies to avoid. The more annoying the ad, the more will I spend time and effort to avoid the product and boycott the business. Which is quite easy actually, since most online adverts are for obvious scams anyways.
happy to. So, there is a large community playing the Shadowrun Pen & Paper on Discord. All via chat, but you need a way to roll x amount of dice, mostly d6. https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/comments/10i5ikg/anarchy_...

With the style of the app, that would fit very well into it.
Interesting thought experiment and at the same time a terrible real world experiment.
> is more in alignment with the global population

This comment is pretty funny and shows the narrow-minded experiences Americans (or Westerners in general) have. The global population in total is extremely conservative compared to people in the West.
This.

When people this committed to crazy are shown [more] evidence, they just double down.
Is there a CRYPTO equivalent of this?
Not at the filesystem level, but Android does something that feels like that: an app can write files in its own space, and when you delete the app, it deletes its files.

Except when the app writes files outside of its own space, which is meant for stuff that should stay (like pictures).

Of course, some apps store the pictures in their private space, and you lose the pictures when you remove the app. And some apps write crap in the shared space. But that seems like a fundamental limitation (even if it was done at the filesystem): how do you make sure that the apps/software you use is doing it right?
I once bought a cinnamon spread but the ingredients didn’t explicitly say cinnamon, it just included “natural flavour”.

I asked the company to confirm if cinnamon was one of the “natural flavouring” and they refused to confirm!
I'm not sure it's a serious caveat if the "hint" or "control" is in the manual.
You’re on a startup forum complaining that vc backed startups don’t have a business model when the business model is the same as it has been for almost 15 years - be a unicorn in your space.
> but because liberal politics is more aligned with facts and science

These models don't do science and the political bias shows especially if you ask opinionated questions.
> The point is incapacitating the government to the point where privatization starts to looks like a viable alternative.

Privatization is almost always going to be the worst option. If the true cost to deliver a good or service to the people is $X, the government can do the job for $X. A private company will also need $X to provide the service, but they must charge the public well above $X so that they can stuff their own pockets with money. A government's work is providing services, not generating profits for shareholders.
The same approach as the sanctions against Russia can be used against Elon Musk.
When I was an undergrad EE student a decade ago, I had to tangle a lot with complex maths in my Signals & Systems, and Electricity and Magnetism classes. Stuff like Fourier transforms, hairy integrals, partial differential equations etc.

Math packages of the time like Mathematica and MATLAB helped me immensely, once you could get the problem accurately described in the correct form, they could walk through the steps and solve systems of equations, integrate tricky functions, even though AI was nowhere to be found back then.

I feel like ChatGPT is doing something similar when doing maths with its chain of thoughts method, and while its method might be somewhat more generic, I'm not sure it's strictly superior.
> secret inference-time additions to prompts

Which were politically biased, in turn making the above assumption true.
I believe their plan is to make Swift good enough to use in high-performance low-level scenarios.
Some of their recent work has been to reduce implicit copies
I have to agree, this is amazingly boring to read, would have been better if you did not.
Your analogy is perfect. Training an LLM on math olympiad problems and then expecting it to secure enterprise software is like teaching someone chess and handing them a wrench
> Is there some benefit here for Trump voters?

They get to punish woke science. That's about how much thought they put it into. There's no 5-dimensional chess at play.
When a whistleblower against a hugely powerful, rich, and politically connected company commits suicide, especially when his own parents believe and are trying to prove that it wasn't suicide, calling it "using someone's suicide as a conspiracy theory" is really hiding at least half the story.
> Should an "unbiased" model not create vikings of every color?

Weren't you just arguing facts?

> Why offend any side?

Facts shouldn't offend anyone.
The cause really was not the disease and even loss of life from it. It was actual real world disruptions shutting down normal operations. Lockdowns, quarantines and so on. Goods stopped moving. So it is obvious that trade would slow down and thus profits would be hit, directly leading to stock prices correcting.
Is good that we see BSD software thriving.
None of them seemed at all surprised though, and a bunch of them responded positively. The group didn’t act like the chat was just for setting up a meeting.
Reminds me the "Sandwich that tastes like sandwich with chicken".
I just hope the baby is fine!
Legally yes. But in the political sense Free Software favors virality, whereas Open Source does not.

And again I apologize for viewing it through that lens when discussing the legal aspects, not the political aspects.
Or diy zip lock bags of baking soda to drop into chimney fires
Yeah really, Truss really is the most salient yardstick, with the complication that any analogous action in the mechanisms of american politics feels slightly unfathomable. And I was shocked enough at Truss' ouster.

It's all so divisive, but it frustrates me to no end that likely the biggest end that people trying to defend this, without any admission this is a crisis of confidence waiting to happen if it's not already there.

The amount of political capital immolated for the sake of this course of action is flatly embarrassing.
It doesn't really matter what they want or how long they think it's going to take to get it, the damage is already done.
"It allows AI to understand its physical environment and also to self-improve over time, without a human having to tell it exactly what to do."
You gonna give them all a defined benefit pension scheme too because otherwise, how will they save for retirement?
Russia has unquestionably developed since the 90s, too. Unemployment in 1998 peaked at 13%, and the country was literally falling apart.

Now, only the parts outside the tier 1 cities are falling apart.
I find it funny calling Arch “less stable”, because I’m inclined to find it more stable, for my purposes, skills and attitudes.

I’ve administered at least one each of: Ubuntu server (set up by another; the rest were by me), Ubuntu desktop at least ten years ago, Arch desktop, Arch server.

The Arch machines get very occasional breakages, generally either very obvious, or signposted well. I did have real trouble once, but that was connected with cutting corners while updating a laptop that had been switched off for two years. (I’ve updated by more than a year at least two other times, with no problems beyond having to update the keyring package manually before doing the rest. The specific corners I cut this one time led to the post-upgrade hooks not running, and I simply forgot to trigger them manually in order to redo the initcpio image, because I was in a hurry. Due to boot process changes, maybe it was zstd stuff, can’t remember, it wouldn’t boot until I fixed it via booting from a USB drive and chrooting into it and running the hooks.)

Now Ubuntu… within a distro release it’s no trouble, except that you’re more likely to need to add external package sources, which will cause trouble later. I feel like Ubuntu release upgrades have caused a lot more pain than Arch ever did. Partly that may be due to differences in the sorts of packages that are installed on the machines, and partly it may be due to having used third-party repositories and/or PPAs, but there were reasons why those things had to be added, whether because software or OS were too old or too new, and none of them would have been needed under Arch (maybe a few AUR packages, but ones where there would have been no trouble). You could say that I saw more trouble from Ubuntu because I was using it wrong, but… it wouldn’t have been suitable without so “using it wrong”.
I'm surprised to hear that. In my experience, most people tend towards the other end (believing themselves to be connoisseurs, etc.) rather than 'just give me the house red'.
Just wait until we ramp up the t shirt manufacturing. Dozens of dollars will flow. DOZENS!
Who made opensource.org the king?
I imagine it will kind of work, with some weird traps, much like the ancient version of bash bundled, or the buggy bsd grep bundled or the weird mktemp bundled etc

Mac OS userland is slowly rotting away because they're terrified of GPL. It's strange, as installing a modern version of rsync seems like it would be specifically allowed by GPL without "infecting" any other parts of the OS
You can not at the same time count non-voters entirely as opponents and then discount the fact that half of them lean more conservative than progressive.
It seems you're all missing the point here: it's not about storing useless data, it's about destroying the environment in the process. I understand you all want to keep everything, just in case, because it's cheap and you don't see the externalities. But there are externalities, and they are big.
Software engineering laws
Because most users of the raw format are photographers and they don't care about it?
> Hate to break it to you, but gender is not an immutable/normative property defined forever at birth, it's a mutable/descriptive property evaluated in context.

The entire point of the OC was that this is an opinionated debate.
Is he the one who came up with this tariffs idea?
Right, and GP suggested a better way to accomplish that would be to take a train from Geneva to Zurich, and then fly from Zurich to SFO.

I've actually done that exact route once, and the train experience was much nicer, and took about the same amount of overall time.
They should just have updated to the recent version of rsync. Their GPL fears are overblown
I'm not sure I can believe narcissists do things for the good of others. They lack for the capacity to even consider others, let alone make plans and decisions, putting the interests of others above their own.

> Hell, considering he’s not a career politician it’s probably generally more likely he’s doing it for those reasons than most in his position.

that's some prescription strength copium you're passing around there... where'd you get it?
> All your proposing is a world where first comer world by default have a stranglehold on the market. It's a dystopia.

How so? Suppose I'm looking to buy a camera in a world without advertising. I'd still want to look up product reviews and find out information about good deals from different manufacturers before buying one. Some people may visit a camera store and see what they have in stock, and talk to the sales assistants. Someone else might ask their friends - who may also be in the photography community. In any case, I don't need advertisements at all. Why would you assume I'd only buy a camera from an old, established company? I don't think I've even seen a single advertisement for a camera for years. It didn't seem to stop me from shopping around and buying one a few months ago.

Likewise if I want a packet of chips at the supermarket, I look down the aisle and decide what to buy based on price, brand familiarity, flavour and packaging. How would a ban on advertising change anything?
Considering current politics: not in the US, at least not for the foreseeable future.

Europe remains to be seen, but also unlikely short term as we're also slapping lots of tariffs on chinese EVs to protect local industries
> dehumanization and hate

Whereas dehumanization and hate mean everything that makes people uncomfortable
The OSI post concludes that "an open source user or developer cannot safely include public domain source code in a project". Has SQLite done something that makes it an exception to this?

I will concede that the exhortation against use for evil in the license text is probably not legally binding.
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No, it was just a snarky garbage comment. You could make the same comment about literally everything the government does comparing it to petty busybody HOA "government", in this case conflating an enumerated power of the US Congress (regulating commerce) with whatever bored HOA rulemaker who wants to fine you for garbage bins or your paint color or whatever other petty nonsense.