skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artificial Intelligence is causing us to revisit the difference between free as in beer and free as in speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre).

It is putting a new spin on some traditional Open Source Lessons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#L...).

People share and reuse snippets of unattributed snippets of MIT-licensed and GPL-licensed code on the internet all the time, StackOverflow, etc.

StackOverflow is profiting from that activity indirectly by facilitating it. They profit passively through ad revenue, and actively through the Teams subscription offering.

But nobody seem too upset about that.

How is an AI which facilitates the same code sharing fundamentally any different? Because it’s scraping it itself, rather than humans contributing it?

Seems like a tenuous argument at best.
This series from Strong Towns does a good job of explaining the idea (with case studies). The gist is that the specific pattern of infrastructure design we've been using since WWII (car-dependent sprawl) isn't financially sustainable without relying on future growth. We got away with it for a while due to the rapid growth seen in the 2nd half of the 20th century, but as growth has slowed, we're finding ourselves falling behind.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-pon...
I have been using this https://tagpacker.com
I was able to import from my old delicio.us account years ago
TagPacker extension is nice
I’ve come to see cannabis in the way that it buries anxiety, and this buried anxiety then goes sour. Festers.

There’s also a sense that something about cannabis turns people’s imagination against themselves. Long-term use. At first it seems to free up the imagination and enhance the sense of meaningful experiences and emotion. Then that slowly turns to fog and people tend towards these little micro-jumps to conclusions, conclusions which are trite and shallow. I speak from experience btw. (My own!) I found the world to be stupid. People were stupid. It was just my lack of imagination and impeded generation of solutions to life, which I imagined to apply to everything but me. It’s funny and super lame and quite sad imo.

Seen it happen time and time again.
I was previously at a place in my life where I compulsively did endurance exercise (including 3 marathons) to keep myself fatigued and numb my feelings. It was not too different to how some people smoke weed or drink, except that everyone in my life thought it was great and healthy. I spent a long time not making some very hard but positive life choices, and now my stomach lining is shot from pounding NSAIDs to keep exercising through joint pain.
If Google US can access the data, that means the US government by extension can also. This is exactly what GDPR doesn’t want happening. More details in this open letter by Max Schrems “ the Court has clearly held that US surveillance laws and practices violate Article 7, 8 and 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights” https://noyb.eu/en/open-letter-future-eu-us-data-transfers
If you live in rural America, Starlink is the only option for somewhat modern broadband internet. When I bought my house (not-even-that-rural Oregon), there was no landline internet available of any kind. I do have copper phone line, so I guess dial up might have technically been an option. The only real option was Hughesnet with its horrible latency and absurdly tiny data caps. Shortly before I got Starlink (late 2021), Centurylink "modernized" their infrastructure, bringing fiber to the node and enabling blazing fast speeds of 10Mbs (originally 20, but they quickly cut it in half). Brand new infrastructure offering 10Mbs. The idea that terrestrial networks are going to do better for anyone more rural than the "small city" level is laughable.
It's a serious problem that we're getting rid of the CBD in products.

CBD is a natural antipsychotic.

There's some very promising research on it alone as a treatment for schizophrenia even: https://academic.oup.com/schizbullopen/article/3/1/sgab053/6...

And a large body of research on how it reduces the potential psychotic side effects of THC.

But go into a dispensary and ask for a 1:1 or even a 1:2 THC:CBD product, and they will look at you like you have two heads.

The plant naturally contains an antagonistic for the psychotic effects, we're selecting to eliminate that antagonistic from the products, and then have a surprised Pikachu face when an increasing number of users have psychotic effects.

It's almost impossible to get cannabis products with a nice mix of CBD alongside THC unless explicitly asking for it and possibly needing to hit up multiple dispensaries to find it. That's really not ideal.

And all too often ratio products dilute the THC per volume according to the ratio, which further discourages recreational users from selecting for the ratio products. If the THC only product has 10mg per serving, the 1:1 and 1:2 should also have 10mg THC per serving, with an additional 10 or 20mg CBD alongside it. Not 5mg or 3.3mg THC.

This is a merchandising issue.
Yes “we care about privacy. But we also want a back door to all encrypted communications”.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/05/11/eu-plans-to-requi...
Search Google and Yandex for "2020 election fraud." The results are VERY different. The Zach Vorhies leak shows that Google regularly does blatant censorship for political purposes.[1]

[1]https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/08/19/google-whistleblow...
It was people working for marketing related to gender- and race-based programming that Netflix also mostly dropped in the past year when it decided to shift from targeting niche audiences to going for the pure-blockbuster play (i.e., from Babysitters Club to Squid Game).
There’s a simple solution to prevent conflicts like the one in Ukraine: expand NATO membership

I agree, but it is too late to do any good for Ukraine now. We need to industrially produce an end to the conflict, or give it over to Russia.
If I understand this correctly, the issue isn't Google Analytics specifically, but "because it transfers users’ data to the USA, which is a country without an adequate level of data protection".

So this could also apply to any company that sends PII to the USA?
Does that not contradict the Zig principle of no hidden allocations?
Why is this one drug so special that it cannot possibly cause madness? I don't understand the downs either
This brought https://github.com/Shopify/comma to mind
Yah, you can't install AWS-unsupported extensions in RDS, but you can extend the type system and operators. You also have access to stored procedures with plsql/plv8/plperl so it doesn't end up being that bad in the end.
Cookies needed to properly provide user authentication, i.e. user session identification, are counted as "technical necessary" cookies and do not need a cookie banner. You only need to ask for cookie consent, if you track visitors with third-party services.
And, to counter your unique visitors claim: you don't need cookies, or any third party service, for that. Everything can be done locally without disrespecting user privacy.
I've also seen more interest only loans lately.
> but I don't think anyone is entitled to live in any specific place (especially when they don't currently live there).

I cannot parse this statement.

The first claim is people are not entitled to live in any specific place.

Then it is clarified that people who currently live in a place are more entitled to live there than people who do not currently live in a place.

The former statement would imply that if you force someone off of the land they are occupying, then you can now occupy that land. The latter statement contradicts this sentiment. Which is it?
> in fact, i’d love to see a constitutional amendment explicitly separating corporate interests from governmental ones

I don't think you comprehend the scope of what you're suggesting.

I work for a school district and I'm currently migrating our system from using one commercial bus routing service to another... using Windows, SQL Server, Teams, etc. from Microsoft... using a laptop, dock, three monitors, keyboard, and mouse from HP... and today the elevator was broken so we called a repair company to come fix it... oh, and some company makes the school buses, and the networked phone on my desk, and the printer around the corner, and all of the paper in it... the fluorescent bulbs above me don't grow on trees...

you can't just expect governments, even at the national level, to roll their own everything without interfacing with corporations in any way—this is a hopelessly naïve view of the world. I am just as uncomfortable as you are with data being shared with corporations, but you're going to have to figure out a more realistic set of political goals than what you've outlined here.
Colab by design is made to be interactive. They even introduced CAPTCHA to make sure you don't train long models and go do something else.
Assuming the recommendations are links, I highly recommend Raindrop.io for managing URLs/Bookmarks. The free version has the majority of useful features, is cross-platform and web based.

An even simpler option is Standard Notes. Standard Notes has a tagging system and multiple editor types. I use it for any type of content I want to search, tag or refer to later. Although it is robust, it isn't geared specifically for bookmark management, so the experience is a little more involved. I use it for recipes, writing, bookmarks, task management and a bunch of other stuff.
Raindrop.io at scale did not work well for me it was a lot more upkeep and the load times were a bit much. Also, the main pain point for me was the browser extension would constantly crash and not populate my tags or folders.
> In Targets case, it should have probably returned 400 Bad Client, since what the client tried to access wasn’t a REST endpoint.

The trouble with that approach is it puts the onus on the Server to response accordingly. In the case of a Client misconfiguration you might point the Client at a valid HTTP Server, just not the one you anticipated.

I agree with nerdponx that they were miss using 404. Instead they should have used a different HTTP Response Status Code to indicate something was removed from the system. Perhaps 410 Gone or 417 Expectation Failed.
> We do, after they commit crimes.

I would be surprised if most gun violence is first time offenders that don't repeat because their gun was taken away. I would guess they keep getting illegal guns and continue living that life and putting everyone around them at risk.

> What legal means are you suggesting to take guns away from people before they commit crimes?

More prison time, perhaps, but not without prison reform of some kind, which is another problem. However, removing people from society for long enough time should make everyone else think twice.

Granted, first time offenders who go insane is a different problem. My point is there are other bigger problems, and the fact those are not solved by gun control suggests it won't solve it for these other edge cases.
Sure. Block access to 450 millions people because it is inconvenient to respect their privacy.
The art market is indeed ridiculous. From stupidly overpriced works to stupidly under appreciated artists, it is genuinely a mess. Is it worse than other arts, music, acting, writing? I feel it is.
The user has no idea about the provenance of the code they receive, so they can't know it they are infringing or not. If that is the case, then suggesting that users should merely choose to not infringe is equivalent to suggesting that users should not use Copilot at all.
Ask HN: How do you write and store your digital journal?
Markdown, LaTex, G Docs? Simply as txt files? I'm currently writing in LaTex in one massive document, but I'm sure some of you smart lot have found a better way about it.
Couldn’t the same thing be said about most things we do on our phones these days?

Won’t incremental advancement cover this eventually? (i.e. no major breakthrough required, just patience).
Did this simple solution prevent a war between two NATO members (Greece and Turkey) in past?
> i’d love to see a constitutional amendment explicitly separating corporate interests from governmental ones

How is that possible, since corporations are, by definition, creations of government through law?
Ive never even considered something like this before, but its genius!

The offline caching sounds awesome.

Thanks for sharing
But that would undermine Russia’s security to invade neighbouring countries, install kleptocrats and subjugate the population! You can’t just have a unified bloc of prosperous, (mostly) democratic countries right there; how scandalous! /s
Do you or anyone else have thoughts on if Zotero would be too much for someone who doesn't need to write papers or cite documents? A large component of my day-to-day work is doing a lot of research and managing it for the duration of the project.
At present, there is no legal basis for a company covered by the GDPR to send personal data to the US or a US-owned company. The US needs to repeal the CLOUD Act, and maybe one or two other things, in order to make this situation work again.
I don't know if I would actually recommend this, but it works:

$ touch foo::bar
$ chmod +x foo::bar
$ ./foo::bar && echo $?

It's an empty file so it does nothing, but most shells' lexers should be smart enough to not try and lex '::'.

Edit: Forgot to mention, this also works with bash functions and aliases. I'm not sure if POSIX sh will allow it. You can also do things like this (again, not sure I'd recommend it):

$ alias +x='chmod +x'
Advice for academic refugees
Quite a few subsystems on Android, but that is about it.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/hwasan
An excellent article when it comes to throwing a dry fact into the face.

An even greater commentary been provided by this tweet: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1539623100144295936

How did America pump out liberty ships faster than even China can build ships today during the WW2?

US military production was a byproduct of its great civilian heavy industry. US tanks, ships, airplanes, bomber, guns were mostly made by factories repurposed from making civilian goods. So when the demand for them waned, so did the raw military potential. This was in contract to USSR, where civilian manufacturing was a byproduct of weapon production.

American military planners knew that all well during the late cold war, and its pursuit of "smart weapons" was an attempt to substitute quality for quantity, and capitalise on American leadership in electronics. This paid out extremely well. Even first generation smart munitions were many times more efficient.

After the Cold War, US peacetime military planning started to stagnate, and finally disappeared due to obsession with "special operations" during the War on Terror, and military procurement becoming a business like operation. By only allowing expensive toys winning procurement competitions, the military pigeonholed itself into extremely uncompetitive purchasing position.

While USA has no rivals in arms exports for things like fighter jets, nearly no brand new weapon systems developed after year 2000 are bought by US allies. As you see even now, most bought US hardware today is still from the Cold War era, which is a proof of the above. Look at the super expensive titanium M777 howitzer: they wanted to restart its production recently, but... surprise! They have to buy its titanium from Russia. F35's titanium bulkheads are now turning into a similar issue.

US electronics is no longer an edge for its military industry, and more likely a liability. What however the West can deny China, and Russia are high grade machine tools, and other implements for the heavy industry: modern Chinese steel industry was built by Dutch, car industry by Germans and Italians, materials by Japan, electronics assembly by Taiwanese, and heavy machinery by Koreans.
It very much isn't. Most well crafted Rails apps try to minimize IOs inside web requests by deferring any long IO into background job, and trying to optimize SQL queries.

At best you may find apps that are 50% IOs. That may seems like a lot, but since you can only execute one fiber (or thread) at a time (because there is a GVL), that means two concurrent requests per process.

So in such scenario there isn't a lot of benefit in making fibers your main execution primitive (each request get one fiber). You'll save a handful of MB of RAM, but loose thread preemption, meaning your latency will frequently be impacted.

Doesn't mean fibers are useless though. You can still have a mix of forking and threads, and then use fibers inside your request cycle to query resources concurrently.

But fiber based servers are not really well suited for hosting Rails apps. They're much more suited for extremely IO heavy tasks, like proxies or bridge. e.g you subscribe to Redis and forward events into a websocket, that sort of things.
Thanks! Yes, I did mention WUFFS before the edit, but then figured I could make it a bit more detailed. WUFFS is great.

The SafeDocs program and approach looks incredible. Installing tools like this at border gateways for SMTP servers, or as a front line defense before vulnerable AV engine parsers (as Pure is intended to be used), could make such a massive dent against malware and zero days.
I am from Russia (though moved to Turkiye once war began) and I do have several friends working at Yandex on different positions including some quite high in management. So I well aware about their reasoning behind keeping working at Yandex.

Basically even today after war has began and tens of thousands were killed on both sides some of people working there still hold the illusion that they could continue to live in their bubble and continue to innovate in Russia like nothing happen. So no, they are not some poor IT company opressed by the government. Every employee who wanted to immigrate was able to move abroad.

6-10 years ago Yandex can certainly shut down their news service without being seized. Back in 2008-2012 one of Yandex co-founders and ex-CTO Ilya Segalovich was often visitor of street protests almost until his death in 2013 and this did not caused company to be seized.
Course areas with a good 5g signal won't need starlink.
I think it's a bit more than that. It makes your mind wander in different directions, in a way that lends itself to things like writing original jokes or coming up with a different angle on problems or ideas that can be solved with more 'out of the box' solutions. It does something to the associative memory in which it makes associations which you wouldn't normally assert (Which is where I think a lot of people who don't enjoy it end up paranoid - a healthy dose of critical thought and reasoning going into these experiences may be helpful, along with keeping the dose relatively low).

That said since it does have a thought-scattering thing going for it that if you don't bother to try and focus on getting those scattered thoughts on to something which records them, it's kind of a waste of time if we're talking about using it for purely utilitarian reasons.
Lowest-cost scenario: No capacity to fight a large-scale war; no need to fight a large-scale war.

Lower-middle-cost scenario: Capacity to fight a large-scale war; no need to fight a large-scale war.

Upper-middle-cost scenario: Capacity to fight a large-scale war; a need to fight a large-scale war.

Highest-cost scenario: No capacity to fight a large-scale war; a need to fight a large-scale war.

(It'd be nice if NATO memberships were magical anti-war talismans. The reality is far more complex.)
> Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia. Like many, he seemed wounded by the experience. This is his first private-sector job.

> I have to give him respect: he left willingly. He had a plum position, and he was years away from tenure review. It’s hard to walk away from a place like that after a lifetime of striving. But he was unhappy, and he’d grown disenchanted with his research agenda, and didn’t enjoy the labor itself anymore, and it was degrading his ability to enjoy his private life; so he quit. Not everyone is brave enough to do that.

> When I was talking to him about onboarding and getting acquainted, I realized I was speaking to a more-accomplished version of my past self. There are certain pernicious behavioral patterns and outlooks that are instilled in a graduate student. Over the coming weeks I’ll do my best to shepherd my coworker into the private sector and help him overcome what’s been done to him; but today I had only a half hour, and was constrained by professional norms, and could only touch on the surface
Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act (S. 4356)
If it can't then Wikipedia is doomed; its entire licensing status rests on the notion that editors grant such a license as part of their clickwrap ToS.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 certificate app for Czech Republic citizen's uses Google Analytics. We are not the same. Good job Italy!
> I'd be proud of it, if they were a good person, took care of themselves

I honestly don't know how anyone (good person or not) can properly take care of themselves on a Taco Bell hourly salary.
If we enforced a law that said no product can be sold at a loss, we would get rid of almost every single startup and many recently IPOd former unicorns,
not op but, I consider the journaling I do to be complementary to the mediation i do. mediation trains the regulation and journaling gives the vocabulary and memory for the present experience
The irony being that lint exists since 1979, and already using a static analyser would be a bing improvement in some source bases.
There's probably a large overlap between software people and people who subscribe to Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmUoZh3Hq4
I can't recall if it's a regular (like Who's hiring/looking to be hired) but I've definitely seen 'seeking co-founder' type posts here.

I think if it were me I'd be subtler about it though, mention you're looking for help in a Show HN - or not even that but give contact info and get talking to anyone that shows an interest.

Also, do you definitely need/want a co-founder, vs. worried about early hires? I suppose perhaps you mean you feel you need help so early that it needs to be a massive equity zero salary type deal (making employment close to impossible and also widely illegal).

I'm a young non-founder though, don't listen to me.
There are definitely enough talented writers, it’s just that the Hollywood system is notorious for gatekeeping good writers, and thats if the writer had the perseverance and material support to even finish a spec script.

It’s a pool with a lot of constraints on it, many of which are artificial.
I wouldn't call that stability. You might. I have the luxury of never caring about problems like that. Most people can probably achieve it now that IE is officially super-dead or whatever.
It’s only a good thing if nobody develops these capabilities unilaterally.
There are tons of commercial uses for these models. I've been experimenting with an app targeted toward language learners [1]. We use large language models to:

- Generate vocabulary - e.g. for biking: handlebars, pedals, shifters, etc

- Generate translation exercises for given topic a learner wants to learn about - e.g. I raised the seat on my bike

- Generate questions for the user - e.g. What are the different types of biking?

- Provide more fluent ways to say things - I went on my bike to the store -> I rode my bike to the store

- Provide explanations of the difference in meaning between two words

And we have fine tuned smaller models to do other thing like grammar correction, exercise grading, and embedded search.

These models are going to completely change the field of education in my opinion.

1) https://squidgies.app - be kind it's still a bit alpha
Neutron stars are a thing, but that's way more than 4 neutrons.