skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that most of Jeff's pieces seem to be painted knock offs of other artist's photographic works, it seems to me that one could set up a cnc painting bot to copy nearly all of Jeff's work with minor variations at best and the Luxembourg court would have to consider that at least at legit as Jeff's own work.

Perhaps some cheeky person with ready access to such machines might flood the market with clone's of everything Jeff does and see how he feels about his own source of income being so easily taken away. Just a thought.
It wasn't clear in the article. Does this mean there's only one pilot on the plane, or that only one pilot has to be at the controls but with a second pilot on board?

It would have been nice if the article covered some numbers on different things. Such as how many times a pilot has had a medical emergency or some other issue that renders one of the two pilots incapacitated. Or what kinds of situations benefit from two pilots, or might even require two pilots, such as bad weather/winds, or decisions/actions in emergency situations, including technology failures.

I also wonder about what happens if the single pilot became incapacitated with all the security these days. Would there be the ability for the crew or someone else to gain entry to the cockpit to fly the plane? Or would they essentially replace a pilot first officer with a non-pilot role?
Given the now two interfaces, Unwrap() error and Unwrap() []error I really wish they had just done only the latter since the beginning. Continuing to have and support the prior feels like a mistake somewhat permanently baked into the language.

I know it is easy to armchair second guess but one of the very first things I tried when they added wrapping a couple versions ago was wrapping multiple errors. I am reasonably certain the majority of the pre-native library error wrapping packages supported multiple errors as well. The desire seems reasonably obvious.
Everything requires permits. EVERYTHING.
We solve that by going to war; the military is perfectly fine sticking a 19 year old with 20 hours of stick time behind the controls of a supply plane.

And when the war is over we have a glut of pilots.
That is a pretty wild claim. Mind backing it up?
You don't seem to quite understand the current cosmological models. You don't need special cases for every galaxy. Instead you 'just' need to add a weakly interacting particle with the right density (30% of critical). That particle needs to be 'slow enough', i.e. non-relativistic. After that it turns out that the evolution of the universe basically reproduces the vast array of observations.

* The right primordial abundance of different elements

* The amount of structure in the cosmic microwave background.

* The rotation speeds/velocity dispersions in large number of galaxies

* Large scale structure/The amount of clustering of galaxies.

* Gravitational lensing observations.

And much much more.

It is certainly true that there are individual cases that look challenging for Lambda CDM paradigm (CDM stands for Cold Dark Matter), but it is also true that anything that has to do with galaxy/star formation is immensely complicated as it involves a lot of physics at a variety of scales, so I do not think it there is a strong case against CDM. (there are currently some tensions with the Hubble constant measurements and some other cosmological parameters between different techniques, and it remains to to be seen whether those are systematic errors or point towards some modification in the theory).

Comment on the article itself. I think at some point I would be fine with dark matter being essentially a computing trick, i.e. if the behaviour of the universe is well reproduced when we add gravitationally interacting but not interacting otherwise matter. It would be up to theorists to see if somehow that can be written as some sort of extra-term in Einsten's Equations and show we don't really need an actual particle. I think there is a possibility of that, but personally I still think it's more likely there is a particle responsible for dark matter.
I'm working at a startup's engineering & product team as an engineer. I think it's not fundamentally different from how most software engineers work.

We work on:

- The why: business/leadership, and to some extent, product determines key goals (KPIs, OKRs etc.) and markets we are addressing. Us engineers are only informed parties here.

- The what: product, and to some extent, engineering determines which features to build or improve to attain these goals in a user-friendly and sustainable way. We create projects and design sketches, assign time constraints to them.

- The how: engineering, and to some extent, product ships these features in a maintainable, scalable, performant and supportable way without disrupting existing user experience.

A very large part of this work involves creative processes and logical reasoning about business, UX, software engineering problems. (Of course, that's why I love it :))

Only a tiny amount of this work is "writing boilerplate code" or copying code from Stackoverflow - which ChatGPT is presumed to automate.

Of course, more senior engineers are faster at writing boilerplate, but their speed mostly comes from 1) knowing the existing codebase 2) using the right tools & abstractions.

Moreover, most of the risk involved in the process is not the time taken to write boilerplate i.e. working on something for too long - but rather working on the wrong thing, or doing an implementation that's too slow or hard to maintain (change, test, fix, extend, reason about).

All in all, when I think about software engineering from this perspective, I don't see AI automating it away anytime soon.

I could, though imagine AI being your TDD coder companion. You write some unit or acceptance tests for a service module and the AI generates the code for it. You'd still need to thoroughly review and test the code though. This would work well for basic CRUD/boilerplate modules, but not for anything involving business logic.

Nevertheless, this would still remain just a small part of a software engineer's work, in my opinion. What do you think?
> Quite why the convention has persisted for so long is one of SW Engs little mysteries.

I like it - it's a convention that has clear context once it's initially understood. It saves the argmuent of "is it an index, counter, loop iterator, <something else>" - it's the i/j/k'th loop's index.
I don't know the official reason, but this seems very obvious to me. Because there frequently are paywalled articles that are of value to the HN audience.
You can create new money, legally.

Imagine the whole world has 1,000,000 dollars right now. This is made up of all cash.

You have 100,000 of those dollars. You decide to buy a car for $10,000 from a friend. You go look at the car, like it, and agree to buy it. You sign the necessary paperwork and you tell your friend that you will bring him the 10,000 cash tomorrow. You drive home.

You just created 10,000 out of thin air. The world right now has 1,010,000 of money. It is made up of all that cash, and the debt you owe your friend. The debt you owe your friend is an asset. If it was drawn up more formally, it can be used to buy things, similarly to how the greenbacks in your pocket buy thing.

Now you might be thinking that this money does not exist because of the offsetting liability. You are right that in a ledger it nets out to zero. However, “money” is not the net balance. Money is the cash, and unpaid loans side of the ledger.

Every dollar that exists was “loaned out” into existence by the government, banks, companies, and people. It will be destroyed the moment it gets paid back.

Don’t confuse money with net balances or with pieces of paper with green ink on them. Those are the things that we colloquially think of as money. But when you dig to really understand money, you eventually get to the fact that it’s all stacks of debt.
> It irks me that folks don’t think HTML/CSS/JavaScript are good enough as-is

I'm one of those folks. Allow me to explain.

I compare using HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript (or something that transpiles to JS/WASM) to making GUIs in Qt (C++) or with help of QML. I find the HTML/CSS/JS hopelessly complex compared to the Qt with-and-without QML.

Sting based binding of CSS to HTML classes/ids is super error prone. CSS is not really "connected" to the HTML as would be the case in style my QUI with Qt.

Also the widgets (dropdown, etc.) I get in HTML are often underpowered underfeatured, so I have to use widget libraries on top, or roll my own.
It's called "Defence in depth".

There could be an unintentional or flawed kernel change. Someone could use the code on a different OS with a different behaving or buggy kernel.
Really nice! In case anyone was wondering, this is for capturing and decoding the raw VHS RF signal from special test points on your VHS recorder. Some hardware hacking is required: https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/Hardware-Install...

By the way, great Japanese docudrama about the making of VHS with Toshiyuki Nishida and Ken Watanabe: https://rarefilmm.com/2020/05/hi-wa-mata-noboru-2002/
That is merely a detail of how the typing module has decided to set up convenient aliases. Treated by the language (and likely compilers) as different types.
And when Cogent is my provider Google services would not work. But is it for all countries?

I ask because providers in the EU have some other laws as USA for example. Or is this peering globally the same ?
Fond memories of the LNX-BBC.

Whose former domain, I hasten to add, now concerns other types of soft wares and is NSFW.
The Enjoyment of Mathematics: Selections from Mathematics for the Amateur (1970)
Journal your ideas meticulously. Everyday, just get a README.md on GitHub in a private or public repository and journal ideas.

You don't need advanced tools to journal or write. But the practice of writing is organised thinking and you should try think of things that you're good at. You'll improve your thinking.

I do this everyday and I'm up to 700 ideas and 25 startup ideas. They're linked on my profile.
I was doing 2x 2-3 mile walks throughout the day, but switched to and prefer a single walk now, seems to reset me better. Route is same for while, but varies once I get bored after some weeks or months of seeing same thing.
> I don't know anybody in real life who accesses their money via a phone.

I don't know anybody that doesn't. And that includes 80+ year olds... mobile gear is how people interact with the internet around here and the internet is how people interact with their banks.
I wonder if this could be used to better decode tapes with some degradation and artefacting.
"ink a dink is bad?"
You can’t just jump into a 737 from your CFI hours on a 172; you still do need a type rating.

The required hours are a problem; the solution is not to go to one pilot but to go back to three, so the third pilot can build actual flight hours in type without issue.
The comment you replied to does not suggest that modern physics is unprovable... no simple experiment to prove something does not mean no experiment at all.

The other, related point is that modern physics' frontier is in the quantum world and thus way outside layman's intuition, common sense, or reasoning. Even experts are struggling.
For sure, but while they do not want I DO WANT. With IPv4 they have a valid excuse: we do not have enough address, with IPv6 they have no valid excuse.
An extreme example of affording to countersignal were the "smarter" british cavalry regiments, which purposefully set their mess dues significantly higher than the pay, thus keeping out the riffraff.
Kind of ironic that we are putting ourselves out of work.
Reminds me of the story of the fisherman and businessman.

https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the...
Copyright in the U.S. is immediate upon creation of a work.

GP is partially incorrect; you can bring a suit regarding an unregistered work. In such cases, however, you cannot claim statutory damages, but are limited to claiming actual damages (actual money lost or actual profit from the infringer). If the work is registered within the alotted time, you can claim statutory damages and attorney's fees.

You can register within 1 month of learning of the infringement to protect your ability to claim statutory damages and attorney's fees.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/412
As someone who moved to an English-speaking country as an adult, I noticed the temptation to reach a "local maximum" in language learning and stop making progress. This can happen when you feel like you have reached a point where you can get by with your current level of proficiency, but it can actually limit your ability to fully express yourself in the language. The only way to overcome this challenge is to make a deliberate effort to continue learning and improving. I agree with the author of the blog post and appreciate their message.

One thing I also noticed is that the general tendency to be welcoming and non-offensive makes it very hard to get corrections and feedback from people you are talking to. That is very much the opposite approach than what happens in my country of birth (also a Slavic country, as the OP) where people will almost always correct you. I now realise that receiving corrections and feedback, even if it is sometimes delivered harshly, is an important part of language learning.
> spam and fraud over it is rampant nowadays

My mobil phone number has existed since the beginning of time. It is listed in the public phone book. It was on my private web site for a long time. I've never not handed it over to any sign-up that needed a phone number.

I cannot remeber receiving any spam and/or fraud SMS, ever.

Maybe I'm just lucky, or the report of huge amounts of spam/fraud SMS is elsewhere, but not in Germany.
I thought the multi billion dollar companies software was crap so I did it better.
If you are familiar with TBC or Time Base Corrector, you can think of this program as an offline non linear time base corrector with a LOT of options. Also because it takes the VHS data as early after tape capture as possible, a lot of components in the VHS player are bypassed and implemented by superior software.
Did you have a look at Elm? Even more easy to structure maintainable apps.
Crypto is programmable money. However, if you use non-stable coins then you open yourself up to exchange rate risk, especially given how volatile the price can be. Stable coins are an attempt to create programmable dollars, essentially.
Once more corporate greed and bad capitalism show their true faces, reduce cost by having only 1 pilot. And there are people who find this stupid proposal acceptable and have delusions that air ticket prices will fall if there is only 1 pilot :-)
No wonder our society/civilization is going downhill :-(
Which Country Has the Longest Copyright Term? – Plagiarism Today
Absolutely. While a tape player may drop out and struggle to recover, this software stands a much better chance of deciphering.
Easier said than done.

I'm a professor in an AI field, and I can tell you that neither myself nor the colleagues I regularly have scientific discussions with could imagine ten years ago that something like ChatGPT would be possible in 2022. I suppose there might be a minority who called it, but recent advances in deep learning absolutely whooshed past the predictions of the overwhelming majority of people in the field.
Can private earth observing satellites change orbits for full mission retasking? I would have assumed they only have enough fuel for maintaining orbit and station keeping and their coverage areas are pretty much static from the point they are inserted into their operational orbit.
If the Dutch are a nargo state the US should elect some drug dealers because they seem to be supportive of bicycle lanes.
As a matter of fact, most software is produced in house tailor made for companies.
Since AI is rising, this will make this software less costly, hence the demand for custom made software should increase, since this makes money for the company.
So if you are doing something very simple in terms of AI capabilities, you might be in trouble, but otherwise you will simply be asked to do more work in the same time.
In any case, the profession will change drastically in the near future, hence you should be alert and willing to learn.
The risks you're mentionning are true, but I don't see how it has anything to do with cash.
It's also your government emitting the bills and coins, and controlling its value.

If you would speak about doing transactions in gold, or having a farm to trade animals in case of collapse of the bank system, like some survivalists do, I would understand more.
The benefits of an internal knowledge base for a company
I read a blog post by Scott Aaronson saying they can watermark by using a cryptographically biased random number generator when selecting which token to output from the stream. I didn't entirely follow how that helps but a little bias per token adds up pretty quickly.
key slogan: Authenticate what is being meant, not what is being said.
> The format being dead in the water on the web without support from Apple/Safari, which was never forthcoming?

Never stopped Google from pushing its own codecs. Often without even a stable version of the spec for years. And often threatening third party ecosystem with "implement this or else".
Where does "infinite amount of additional parameters" come from? It's just one parameter - something's (we call dark matter) is either there or it isn't.

> I fail to see how dark matter could ever be falsified

I don't think science cares. Frankly if you could back up your opinion with some actual reasoned argument, it would be a better post.
Similar Hardware but Different by Design
Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus
It’s fairly common in Poland when building a house or renovating an apartment.
This is Hacker News, a social network for people who fetishize Ayn Rand, after all.
That explains screen(1), if you want a login shell you would add this to your ~/.screenrc

defshell -/usr/local/bin/tcsh

Notice the dash :)
GPT3 and Future PhD admission requirements in 2025
Minimum requirements for the PhD degree:

1) At least two or three years' experience working with GPT3 and co.

2) Generating at least five scientific papers per month that can pass the "written by human" test of IEEE, Nature and Elsevier.

I wish I had access to GPT3 when i wrote my master thesis :))))
Yep. Amtrak runs the longest passenger train in the world in the Auto Train, traveling the Virginia to Orlando route. It's usually about 45 cars long, while a UP freight train can be 100 cars or more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjmkVy6UbY4

I agree that the freight companies need to invest in their tracks and right-of-way if they want to ship more. They need to double-track, electrify, and upgrade bridges & tunnels to handle double-stack container cars. India's dedicated freight corridors are a good example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGJJLwJK0PU
NOTE: WiFi Interfaces Can't Be Detected Without Root on Debian.[0]

[0] https://github.com/lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot/issues/27...
We’ve Archived the Gorilla Toolkit, a Set of Go HTTP Libraries and Tools
What most people do not get is, that modern frameworks long have allowed for a mixed approach. One can easily render templates server side in a backend non-JS framework and merely use some VueJS or whatever for a really interactive component on one of those rendered templates. Can even have a noscript block. It will be easy to understand code, work without people having to trust JS code, except for those few interactive parts. No harm done. Instead people go all in and think that it will be better to have everything in JS as an SPA.

This SPA unnecessarily approach eats up so much time, it is not rare for things to take weeks instead of days compared to simply rendering templates on the server side in a better language than JS.

It should be a simple thing to understand: Use the right tool for the job. Not JS for everything, just because of hype. But I guess part of the issue is the mentality of some frontend people to only learn JS, so they are incapable to going for the mixed approach.
Reducing convenience - replace as many possible flights between city pairs with as few giant jumbos as possible. Instead of many many flights between LAX and CHI just have a few A380s in cattleclass.

Saves a bit on fuel and a bunch on other costs. But people would be unhappy about it.
I miss the old days where your books collection would have already vanished before you exit the building. I'm showing my age.
This is how it's done in the third world. They do this in Turkiey a lot. First they build, then they pay a fine. Sometimes they have to knock down the entire building, or take 3-4 floors off, if they don't' offer to pay a fine big enough to the taste of the judge. Really, almost everywhere in the Balkans/Trayka/Middle-East runs this way.

Of course, real estate is the only profitable industry in Turkiye, environment, safety regulations, and human rights be damned.
Ukrainian strike hits Russian barracks in occupied Melitopol
Modern autopilots can taxi, takeoff, and with a supporting airport, even autoland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
This might be a nice property in some cases.

However, the massive speculation and pollution caused by crypto make the overall balance look strongly negative to me.
> which only increases with safety requirements

Yes, safety requirements which include the double buffer of two trained and experienced human pilots being in physical command of the plane double checking themselves and the software/hardware
> What is the purpose of “stable” coins? If you want a thing that is worth a dollar, why not just use dollars?

Random exchanges can‘t print dollars, but they can print stablecoins to prop up other crypto prices.
Thank you for some data on the topic. Seems it doesn't include non-US salaries, so fair to say the conclusion is that most FAANG engineers don't earn 280k USD/year.
Thanks. I never knew that. I always assumed from movies that it was a quick and easy (hence painless) way to go.
Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it's the right definition of AI.

I always thought of the current systems of static machine learning models.
I think this is stupid and not true.
Did you try Qt and QML for creating a GUI? It's soo much easier on the brain its not even funny.
Worth also reporting the IMEI as stolen here: https://www.imei.info/news/report-imei-number-lost-or-stolen...

If they do bypass the activation lock and resell it, anyone buying a second hand device or parts can check it and the seller reported to local law enforcement for selling stolen goods.
Show HN: A collection of Wordle type games
Reminds me of this - predating AI

https://axbom.com/keystroke-dynamics/

As early as 1860, experienced telegraph operators realized they could actually recognize each individual by everyone's unique tapping rhythm. To the trained ear, the soft tip-tap of every operator could be as recognizable as the spoken voice of a family member.
If you break down any transaction, it has three components. First, there is the agreement to trade some goods and services for some price. At this moment two debts are created. One is to deliver the money. The other is to deliver the goods and services. The 2nd and 3rd component is the delivery of the money and the delivery of the goods and services.

If you for a candy bar in cash all three happen at the same time. When you buy something and pay later, or pay up front and get something later, it’s easier to see the different components. When you buy stocks via a broker, it’s even more apparent.
I mean I think we can all read between the lines with why he’s interested in it.
You can pull the SSD in most cases. Intel hardware depreciates really quickly so it might have no economic value after a few years. You can buy the like on eBay for cheap.
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E