skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to the issue of whether this particular patent is valid, nor whether UT-Battelle plans to enforce it or how vigorously (some patents invented by DOE contractors are licensed quite reasonably. I know this because I was an inventor on a few of them). If the patent turns out to be invalid one could file a protest with the Department of Energy.

Further, it looks like this contract will be re-bid in 2024 [0]. So if one felt strongly that UT-Battelle's behavior here was improper one could protest to DOE any extension of the contract to UT-Battelle. I rather doubt that a single bad patent would make much difference in DOE's decision, but you never know.

[0] https://primecontract.ornl.gov/
Yeah these are great insights in the macro-scale, but on the individual level automation can screw your life completely. Specially if you are older.

What you as a 50 y.o. trucker are going to do when Waymo takes your job instead? There is no way you can get the same 6 figure job somewhere outside the truck-driving business.
I would think that this kind of itemization would also help them in cases where they are trying to detect fraud.
Don't get me wrong - I'm very irreligious and find both cases weird personally but wondered if it was a bit gauche to criticise. An indigenous elder typically ties things to cultural traditions/thinking. If your example scenario added a quote from the priest, I'd expect them to make a religious reference and I'd think it silly personally but I'd ignore it in the context of the broader discussion. Anyway, here I am joining the critique.
In America, we'd call that an underpass, not a tunnel, as others are pointed out.

Actual tunnels in America are scary as shit to cycle through. The "sidewalk" is maybe 24 inches wide, and the cars are 6 inches from you. There is no shoulder to ride in.

Whereas bridges tend to have normal width sidewalks, like in his picture.
Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found
From Wikipedia:

Woke is an English adjective meaning "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination" that originated in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism, and has also been used as shorthand for American Left ideas involving identity politics and social justice, such as the notion of white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.

The phrase stay woke had emerged in AAVE by the 1930s, in some contexts referring to an awareness of the social and political issues affecting African Americans. The phrase was uttered in a recording by Lead Belly and later by Erykah Badu. Following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the phrase was popularised by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists seeking to raise awareness about police shootings of African Americans. After seeing use on Black Twitter, the term woke became an Internet meme and was increasingly used by white people, often to signal their support for BLM, which some commentators have criticised as cultural appropriation. Mainly associated with the millennial generation, the term spread internationally and was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017.

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Being woke means that serving watermelon and fried chicken and collard greens on Juneteenth is an insult. (looking at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis)

Being woke means understanding why "Circling the wagons" when around Native Americans would be a terrible insult.

Being woke means understanding calling something a "cakewalk" brings up slave-history in the south where African Americans were forced to walk around and whoever "won" got a cake.

Being woke means understanding the child's song "knick knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone" is referring to watching Irish die in the Famine, and would rather give a dog the cast-offs rather than the Irish.

Being woke means understanding "Hip hip hurray" is a deeply antisemitic slur regarding the Hep-Hep riots in 19c Germany where many thousands of recently-freed Jews were lynched.

Remembering and understanding these historically terrible sayings are bad to you and your fellow anti-woke people. Naturally, these sayings require a bit of maturity, intelligence, and understanding to see why these phrases are terrible - and not everyone practices in using those faculties on a regular basis. It all comes down to the same core beliefs: "my race/sex/demographic is superior, and theirs is subservient to mine."

There are other terms for being "anti-woke". They usually wore white pointy hats, burned crosses in "undesirables" yards, and arranged public executions via tree and rope.
weren't python 2 string essentially unencoded byte-strings?

In my uninformed opinion they should have simply added the u"..." and b"..." formats and forbid mixing them or using a u with a b operation and viceversa.

python 3 could have simply changed the default from b to u for untagged strings.
Not nearly on the level of the 4 Asian Tigers however
> The "effector" could be something else. Like a lathe or drill or camera or lightbulb or anything that does anything.

This is just an algebraic transformation on something specific to something generic that supplies +-energy and/or +- mass. Running a macro over someone elses idea shouldn't allow one to patent something.
I don't think that necessarily contradicts his point.

It may be the case that the long tail/niche market/counterculture market is also winner-take-all [1], so that non-mainstream content is much more available, yet almost no one actually producing such content can really make a living at it.

[1] Per the article, in the context of "solving a Long Tail problem": "And when I looked at products instead, I found the same distribution: 80% of sales came from 20% of the products."
If someone doesn’t like a forum’s moderation policies, they’re free to find a different forum. This has been true since BBSes. It’s been true since the days of newspapers. It’s been true since the days of people speechifying in taverns.
I agree. My wife never lived alone and her mom took care of her financially. She has no idea of the responsibilities of running a household, paying bills, etc. She thinks she should spend her money on fun stuff because that's all she's ever needed to do with it. She also wants a bigger house that we can't afford.

There's no doubt in my mind that living independently is necessary for someone to grow up, and that too comfortable a life removes the desire to be independent.
MacBook Pro 13-inch with M2 Processor
I don't think it's condescending, I just think if you find yourself in a situation where you actually need to work with other people, it becomes impossible to view them as one-dimensional checklists. Maybe they don't like you or you don't like them, but you can no longer simplify each other so easily. And maybe in the end you think that wasn't worth it, but you still take something from the interaction.

For the record, I'm not telling you what to do or how you should feel about people. I've spent so many years in roles facing groups of people that, at times I love them and at other times I want to kill them. That's just how it goes. Hell is other people, said Sartre. Of course he also meant that being abandoned by them is hell, too.

I'm not trying to be opaque here. I'll say what I meant more plainly: If you have any humility or self-awareness, you will realize that nothing, absolutely nothing you are experiencing has not been experienced before. You are entirely unique, but your reactions to the world are not, and there's a great deal to be learned about how to be okay in the world which other people will be happy to show you if you don't deny your commonality with them.
Of course things are much more fractured than they used to be. The audience for Stranger Things or GoT is minuscule compared to something like "Must See TV" on NBC Thursdays in the past. I think you might be surprised at the number of people who haven't heard of Stranger Things and certainly haven't watched.

It's fair that Netflix doesn't really carry long tail content--never did carry the longest tail stuff and now that content owners want more money in general and there's a lot more competition for subscribers it doesn't make sense to pay for back catalog stuff that others own. YouTube and TikTok are better examples.

It seems obvious that there is a long tail. But neither Anderson or most anyone else claimed that being in the long tail was a path to riches. And while I'm not sure it's valid to write off Amazon, eBay, Alibaba, etc., it's probably fair to say that the long tail has mostly not been a pile of gold for the aggregators either. But it does exist.
Again, I'm not sure of that. They feel that it's the proper thing to do, so I'm not sure they view it as painful. I hate to say it, but it feels like a disparity of maturity. Some kids do their chores because they're responsible kids, take their responsibilities seriously, are proud of being responsible, and view kids who aren't similarly responsible as immature. Other kids hate their chores and do their chores in spite of their hate. Both kids are facing obligations, but their emotional reactions are different.
It also takes some mind reading to think I'm advocating for veganism just because I say meat production consumes more resources and that animal feed production competes with "lower value" plant based food production. The latter is undeniable. It's up to you if that means you want to reduce your meat consumption, and I personally don't.
Similar: I like https://jolokia.org, which exposes the JMX Attributes as RESTful calls. It can run as an Agent on any JVM, so any piece of Java software (even closed-source) can be monitored.

That being said, not a huge fan of using REST for this purpose as it's quite heavyweight compared to something like SNMP or the raw JMX protocol.
With a sticky fingerprint. I’ve built a system like this for managing trolls. You fingerprint the user and associate it with an IP. There are multiple mechanisms that can contribute to the fingerprint (cookie, user agent, supported media codecs, etc. See https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprints for an example implementation).

Then if another user registers with the same fingerprint we link the accounts together.

In our case the whole thing is also requiring human moderator input to actually keep the whole thing going though.
The water is the least of your problems with fracking. It costs a lot but you can import your water. You cannot however import your air.

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2022/03/08/natural-gas-fl...
They keep all the data posted since the early days of the internet, and are applying machine learning to it now (and will continue to into the future).
> I submitted the link because it was the first time I saw this "elephant in the room" clearly defined and identified

Really? Is there such a medical condition as "elephant blindness," because I can't see it.

It's unclear to me what the author thinks adulthood is, why we need it, why people aren't (or don't want to) be adults, whether we suffer some kind of societal adult deficit, etc.

This article's message is effectively "you kids get off my lawn - and stop being kids, too!"
The biggest impediment to growth is idle wealth. Wealth tied up in art is not doing anything and should be taxed arbitrarily high at inheritance. The same with slumlords' properties. Taxes on productive income can then be reduced by the same amount to encourage growth.
I’ve thought a lot about this as big tech has grown over the past twenty years. I don’t think it’s quite as bad as precious metals because tech does have utility. But the low marginal costs and rapid global distribution trend towards winner-take-all results.
Some people might be saving for a house. I would be that a significant portion of the people not growing up are spending money on vacations and "stuff".
Am I missing something? You had your full CV on your public homepage with your full name
Do you have an implementation of the cellx benchmark? [0] It'd be interesting to see how it will perform there.

[0]: https://codesandbox.io/s/oby-bench-cellx-s6kusj?file=/lib.js
Ok I think I get what you're saying.

To be clear, my definition "ignoring" a warning is just blindly clicking, not deciding to proceed after careful thought.

As for the Great Cannon and/or Quantum Insert, since packets can be routed in strange ways due to the speed of light making some routes you would not expect the quickest, I'd stand by my assertion that clicking through a warning to achieve integrity after examining it and seeing it is from Github, a place it is common to stand up a website then add a custom domain name, is reasonably secure especially on a technical discussion site like HN.
I strongly encourage people to look into the methods used to locate wreckage under in the ocean, it's a fascinating problem that often uses cutting edge equipment and software to help. Autonomous underwater vehicles are used to map the sea floor, human analysis augmented by software lets you know where to narrow your search. Also, the human interaction in areas not far from the coast is interesting because local divers will often find wreckage and sell what they find from it which can be used to locate wreckage (or be misdirected when divers purposefully give incorrect information so their site isn't found, since they're usually breaking laws).
If city has good public transport system then it also has pretty good walkability as people have to have a way to get to public transport stops/stations.
I have a really hard time understanding what future world this article (and other detractors) is arguing for and why that world is made better by taking their arguments seriously.

On the practical level I agree with the part advising caution to those that might end up embedding an identifiably licensed snippet in their codebase via copilot. I also agree that copilot users plagiarizing significant chunks of GPL code for profit is immoral. This needs to be prevented.

I also share the frustration stemming from big companies leveraging their disproportional access to data and resources for profit given that the greatest value of these models is precisely the open source code it is trained on.

Ultimately though, what I care about is the potential for building better tools. LLMs potentially offer paths towards genuinely new forms of human-machine interaction, and I don’t want that exploration to be suffocated by legalism.
Very nice print job, wow.
> Considering all the requirements, it is quite narrow.

This is clearly not narrow. Think of the last system you designed - any system. Would you be able to fully describe it in 7 bullet points? Or would those bullet points have to be exceptionally open-ended, such that they would capture your system and many, many others?
A Brief Explainer on Container Runtime Components
> The issue this warning is calling out is that someone who controls the certificate could modify the data

No, the issue the warning is calling out is that the server your browser is communicating with can't prove that it's yamanote.style.

There's no way to determine whether this is misconfiguration or fraud (though you can apply logic and usually come to the conclusion that it's misconfiguration in this case).

Example attack:

1. I host a fraudulent site on GitHub Pages, so it gets served up with the *.github.com cert.

2. I intercept your request to yamanote.style (let's say you're on my network [let's say I'm China]) and send you my GitHub pages content, signed by GitHub with their *.github.com cert.

This would look just like what's happening to yamanote.style right now, except that I would be controlling the content of yamanote.style.
It may be as a safety measure, it's much less likely to misuse the setter if it's divided into two different functions. If it's just one function you need to constantly ask yourself "wait, am I setting a function or not?", unless you always want to write `$a(() => value)`, which would be pretty ugly.
This is why I think that the patent examination process should include a challenge-period, where anybody can suggest solutions to the problem posed in the patent-application.
A maturity switch flips off in your head when you get your own apartment.

You're not wasting money, you're spending it on learning how to become an adult. Plus you'll be more open to moving to different cities, which is much much easier as a young adult than it is as an older person with obligations
China's tech giants lost their swagger and may never get it back
I just asked GPT-3 a few times who you are and here are its answers:

> BoppreH is an AI that helps me with my songwriting.

> I'm sorry, I don't know who that is.

> I'm sorry, I don't understand your question.

> BoppreH is an artificial intelligence bot that helps people with their daily tasks.

I have a feeling that I'll have better chances just googling you than asking GPT-3.
I think the linked poster is talking about irrational stressors, not ones you can talk yourself out of.

Worries that stem from irrational sources sometimes can't be quelled with rational thought processes. We're more beholden to primordial stress responses than we'd like to admit, triggered by things which make no sense on paper. Social anxiety is a good example. Worrying about deadlines you know you're on track for. Etc.

It makes sense that (some) irrational stresses can be quelled by sheer force of will. We have some conscious control over our stress responses, or at least can retrain the way our brains follow up to that stress response. It doesn't work for everything, but it's a good tool to have in one's mental wellbeing toolbox.
Thanks for not being rude, Gordon!
When does a distinct life begin? When the umbilical cord is cut.
It is really just a matter of scale. At big companies it is easier to see the value of having people on these problems, so the teams have a clear reason to exist.

As for your "side quest off a side quest" observation, I think that is a matter of perspective, about what personally motivates you, and about how work is organized in society. I find that working at a small company makes it easier to have a feeling of focus and purpose -- everybody is focused on one thing. But, I find that working at a large (profitable, well run) company makes it easier to feel like you can actually move the needle and have the resources do large things (and yes, this includes a connection between something like a 'build tools' team and being able to ship a quality product more quickly).

It is easy to miss that every race car needs a pit crew, every pit crew needs equipment and parts, getting parts requires suppliers, parts need to be built, tested, etc., all those people need to eat, all that food needs to be grown, and so on. Organizing all of that "work" into small single-purpose companies, that buy each others' stuff, is one way to go. Another way to go is to organize it into larger companies with sub-teams/groups/departments. So a company's larger mission might be "win races" but, if it is large enough, smaller support efforts in support of the larger goal can make a lot of sense.
Five of the six bridges carry railway lines.

I think the design is more likely because the tracks are very close to a station, so they're spaced widely to allow for the platforms.
They also noted it's unusual. They have obviously conducted a thorough autopsy and collected samples etc, so this argumenent that by having a legal dispute you cannot have a funeral seems odd to me, a layperson. Many many people have disputed a cause of death in Spain without a body being held this long.

But I'll hold off on anything specific since I haven't followed the case closely, I just have a gut feeling he'd be more likely to make some kind of zip gun or shiv and end up dead during a prison escape than simply kill himself.

(I also doubt he'd hang himself, since unlike hanging in the 1800s in America, where you drop from height, "hanging" in a jail is a slow painful death, and I don't think based on what I've read that is how John would have wanted to end his life even if he did decide to commit suicide)
Looks interesting...

One critique is "light/tiny/lightweight" whenever I read about software being "light" I cringe and get an eye-twitch(ok not really). But adding "light" or claiming your product is "light" means usually nothing other than its new.

Sure it might start out as small/lightweight but usually this is because the software is new.

Once you start adding in corner-cases (the ones you haven't even thought about) some iterations of bug fixes (hey we all human programmers in the end), mix in a good dose of pull-request from helpful contributors (User:'Your library looks great, if you accept this PR it will fit my needs perfectly.') and finally bring it up to par with a competitor of two (over time of course !).

Your now light software is no longer light !

What is the answer ? To be honest I don't have one, but to say knucckle down and be sure to say no often enough and have a laser focus on the exact problem your software is solving. Of course it seldom the case in real life with real software :)

Anywhoo ! Congrats on actually releasing something :)
To save a click, GWS is Gangwahlschalter or gear selector switch.
So it's indeed not "without victims", is it? Bonus points for reading comprehension and "coherent" comparison between automating physical and cognitive labor.

Devaluing all human intelligence (which is what the endgoal of all those advanced models is) is not "moving forward" in my book.
It reads a bit like a text from people who were predicting rain everyday for last 10 years, and now when it finally rained they say "you see, we were right all this time".

Unless this people catalogue their specific predictions over time, and list their success rate, these articles will continue being adverts rather than demonstration what their doing is science as opposed to astrology.
I think the biggest offender of configuration language are the unintuitively multi-tiering of same settings but for different scope with varied ordering of precedence.

I am looking at you, Postfix `main.conf` and ISC Bind9 `named.conf`.

Damn near unauditable by machine code.
Partly this is doable because although RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) specifies a max URL length of 2048 bytes, all the major browsers will process URLs which are much longer, with Safari allowing URL strings up to 2GB in size![1]

In 2021 probably one of the bigger blockers of giant URLs is CDNs, which impose various limits on URL size. e.g. Cloudflare limits URLs to 16kb.

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/b23d...
I can’t seem to find a link, but I know there is a fog-prone Interstate zone in eastern Tennessee (probably I-81, might be I-40) with variable speed limit signs not terribly different from those on UK smart motorways.

Hungary has an elegant, low-tech solution. Broad white stripes are painted ~100 m apart on the shoulder of the road. Fixed signs indicate the allowed speed - if you can see three, it’s 130, two is 110, one is 80 (or something like that - it’s been a few years).
Show HN: Glossary page template with a built-in editor
This started out as a static HTML file, being used by some developers at my current employer to document "domain terminology" relevant to products we're building.

Soon it became too much work to update the items in the HTML manually, so I added a JavaScript-based editor. It relies on a tiny Node.js server to write changes back to the HTML file.

Not as user-friendly as a "normal" web-based application, but it does mean we can keep the HTML file under version control and follow our normal development process for making/tracking changes.