skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless plug: my earlier project StaticPerl, statically linked Perl 5.10 for i386 Linux and FreeBSD: https://github.com/pts/staticperl

Differences:

* Actually Portable Perl runs on more operating systems, StaticPerl runs on Linux i386 (requiring i686 or newer processor), Linux amd64 and FreeBSD with Linux emulation.

* Actually Portable Perl has more of the standard Perl modules and C extensions bundled. StaticPerl contains only a few modules, simplified, with documentation and non-Linux support removed. StaticPerl is unlikely to work with existing Perl scripts with many use calls, but it is useful to write new Perl scripts from scratch, and these scripts will work with both StaticPerl and regular Perl.

* Actually Portable Perl executable programs are larger (5 MB minimum, StaticPerl is ~1 MB) because they are compiled for amd64 rather than i386, and they contain more Perl and C code.

* The first time an Actually Portable Perl executable program is run, it modifies a few bytes at the beginning of the program file (except on Windows). Thus these programs don't work on read-only filesystems unless they have been run on a read-write filesystem first. StaticPerl doesn't have this limitation.
I own it and played it once. We had to read the manual for two hours before starting, won and since then it hasn't been played. I don't think that will change anytime soon since nobody seems to like it.
> Who can trust union leadership at this point? Leadership betrayed the rail workers.

I can't find detailed statistics in a quick search (and am uninterested in spending more time), but it appears that overall the majority of rail union workers voted to approve the contract, and IIRC 8 out of 12 unions voted to ratify. [0]

>> the Senate has taken it upon itself to require 60 votes to pass most legislation

> Of course the Democrats always need an excuse to avoid doing things while they have power.

I suppose Biden should have just broken out his Green Lantern power ring and willed ten or so recalcitrant Senate Republicans to support more pro-labor legislation in defiance of wealthy business-PAC donors and the MAGA base, which has never primaried a Republican officeholder who strayed from the party line by exercising independent judgment — oh, wait ....

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/21/rail-unio...
Nice to see Cosmopolitan libc starting to be used more widely!
i have an idea for that, but i think things like GPT will thwart it. machine learning is great, but it's not connected to human understanding. that is what librarians did was take non-human information and bridge it with a shortcut to human understanding on a broad basis. software can manage the information really well, but no one has designed a thing that bridges genuine human "knowing" with machine "knowing".
What you're describing is basically copyright, which is exactly what artists are demanding: the legal protection to which they are entitled to.

Edit: Silicon Valley exceptionalism seems to preclude some thought leaders in the field to remember the full definition of copyright: it's an artist's exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work.

A number of additional provisions, like fair use, are meant to balance artists' rights against public interest. Private commercial interest is not meant to be covered by fair use.

No one is disputing that everyone, including companies in the private sector, is entitled to using artists' images for AI research. But things like e.g. using AI-generated images for promotional purposes are not research, and not covered by fair use. You want to use the images for that, great -- ask for permission, and pay royalties. Don't mooch.
Youthful idealism, access to cutting edge ideas and kit, stepping stone to a highly paid GCHQ contracting jobs … ?

Other possibilities: Perhaps the headline pay is low but there’s a ton of special allowances and other benefits that make the whole package competitive. Perhaps, like academics, there’s some gifted people who are a much better personality fit for the civil service rather than FANG culture?
And so.. how's the content?
Do you mind sharing Which python wrapped cpp implementation you might have done the benchmark comparison on ?
Micro transactions to turn my lights on and off?

Not thanks.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
There's also a huge difference from just seeing a shuttle take off on TV vs in real life from relatively close... Can't even imagine being in it.
Why a lengthy blogpost instead of "don't override the user agent's settings regarding size and font"?
The quality of nanite heavily depends on your model. You can use photogrammetry scans or CAD exports directly, and nanite will make sure they'll look good. But if you just use existing videogame or fanmade assets (like here), the quality obviously suffers.
Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode
Agreed. The workers provided value for him. He decided to take it all
Usually to counter negative voted posts that aren't actually negative, just some people not agreeing with the content, but factually accurate.
Rarely when I believe that a post was very well written and I couldn't have said it better.
It's about tracking a plane which ALREADY has its location tracked by a transponder and published publicly. Like every other non-military plane in the world. Nothing is unusual there, except that this data is posted to Twitter.

A plane is not an individual.
The GCHQ Christmas Challenge 2022
Oppressing own people, bad. Oppressing other people as long as it's to protect US interests, good. Getting other governments to oppress their own people as long as it's to protect US interests, good.

Got it.
I thought I hated ads and that the personal recommendations were creepy. Then Instagram ads crossed the uncanny valley by showing me stuff I actually want to buy. (What a concept!)

Puzzlingly, Google/YouTube should know way more about me than Meta, but most of the ads I get from them suck.
Stochastic Terrorism – A game of rhetorical asymmetry
yea, I considered it but I had even less luck with more unpopular stacks, maybe Clojure is the sweetspot
> But as the alternatives get better, they would ideally migrate away to some solution that a) gives them more autonomy, b) let's all people contact them

The EU has already set up their own Mastodon Server [1] to do a) and maybe b)

[1] https://social.network.europa.eu/
That's how I learnt that stuff, another reason I love it.
Why does he need to be there in person?
I'd like a version of Tokyo that is hyper detailed and functioning transit system/lines.

Spend a week preparing for a trip on how to navigate the city before actually going.
This is why no one has scaled the peak of Everest or stood on the South Pole. It's also why we still do bloodletting and watch our friends and relatives die from common diseases and infections.

I for one want to soar to the heavens and experience it first hand, not vicariously through staring at a screen full of numbers. Exploration is a human experience, not just a way to get grant money to invest for retirement.
Investors and marketwatch is very interested in this data. Because it can be used to build cases on mergers, bankruptcy, management changes and so forth.

If the private jet of a Shell manager is seen to fly to a Phillipine island a few times in a month, and the private jet of a manager of a Phillipine drilling company then flies to Amsterdam, it's likely that Shell is going to buy, build or anything over there.
The biggest hurdle I think is still the GIL. Does anyone know if any progress is being made there?

https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock
I don't think legal questions related to free speech and Twitter moderation questions related to free speech need to have the same answers. I'm happy with the legal framework we have in the US.

The question I'm trying to answer: Suppose a large group of hecklers attend a public lecture. They disrupt the lecture and prevent the audience from hearing the speaker's message. Is there a sense that they are interrupting the lecturer's exercise of free speech? Or alternatively, is it the case that anyone who scolds them is interfering with the hecklers' right of free speech? (Does the scold also have a right to free speech? How deep does this rabbit hole go?) I think it's possible to thread this needle by defining the thing we want as "transmission of information", and the thing we don't want as "intimidation".

You could argue that boos are also transmission of information. I saw a short clip of the boo thing and it didn't seem like they were loud or numerous enough to overwhelm what was spoken into the microphone. So based on my current operationalization, those boos basically qualify as protected speech.

If audience members preplanned a large disruption which made it impossible to hear anything Elon said, that would be anti-free-speech according to my current operationalization. It intimidates and prevents information transmission.

I still have to think about the case where they spontaneously disrupt the event, unintentionally making it impossible for him to speak. It seems analogous to the case where people are killed because they're in a big crowd where everyone is squeezed into a tiny space.
People who are not techies and have a clue about Stable Diffusion and DALL-E being trained on copyrighted images without their permission or attribution / credit knew this? This was absolutely unsurprising [0] [1].

Stability AI knew they would be sued to the ground if they trained their AI generating music equivalent called 'Dance Diffusion' model on thousands of musicians without their permission and used public domain music instead.

So of course they think it is fine to do it to artists copyrighted images without their permission or attribution, as many AI grifters continue to drive everything digital to zero. That also includes Copilot being trained on AGPL code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33902341

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005559
IMO, Paywalled articles should be banned. On the other hand, is there a service that charges per read?
It's bad in this dimension for being a popular "eurogame". All it has to avoid it is a few hidden points from development cards. But most of the non-eurogames are far worse in this regard (e.g. in monopoly, this is far more common), and Catan would never have gotten away with it today. It's from 1995 after all.
> The way things work now is fine, Linux works fine

Linux is being developed by salaried developers from multi-million dollar companies, almost exclusively.
China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started
A bit strange that one of the showcased websites is awful on mobile.
Reminds me of Mike Acton’s talk on data-oriented programming, where he talked about writing functions to take arrays of things instead of single things, stating: Where there’s one, there’s many
I would argue that the although the military like to paint themselves as guardians of democracy they don’t exactly have a great track record.

The 1980 coup banned all political parties, all trade unions and the Kurdish language. They then “democratised” the country by only allowing parties that were junta approved, two of which were established directly by the junta themselves, to participate in elections.

This is not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people arrested, hundreds of thousands denied passports, tens of thousands killed either directly, in custody or through capital punishment.

Turkiye today does not have a “failed system” because there are no coups they have a system which is recovering from coups.

I’m not an Islamist, I don’t support Erdogan. A large number of Turks don’t.

But the paternalist idea that Turks are unable to govern themselves without violent takeovers and reprisals for the crime of voting for politicians they agree with is not good for the country and is not democratic.

Edit

“Dictatorship by majority” as you describe it is the definition of a democracy. The majority dictate the policy of the country. Unless my definition is wrong.

Edit 2

Claiming coups “were a feature of their democratic system” is an oxymoron and something I’m almost shocked to hear in a non satirical sense.

Until you can convince me that locusts are a feature for crops you won’t convince me that coups can be a feature of democracy.
Epic was working on a new UT which has been in early release. It's quite fun but I believe development stopped some time ago.
Interesting approach, but is drawing fan art illegal?

I would think that generating those images is okay by Disney, the same as if I painted them. The moment Disney would object is when I start selling them on merch, at which point it is irrelevant how they were created.

Am I mistaken?
Uhh.... Humans are the only creatures that can categorise stuff by moral labels.

Lots of species are perfectly capable of doing evil things.
Now apply the same logic to libs of tiktok. she set off qanon extremists to threaten Boston Children’s hospital. but Elon encourages re-instated her account and regularly engages with her
I don't see the point. There is a copyright (and in that regard most of these images are fine) and then there is trademark which they might violate.

Regardless, the human generating and publishing these images is obviously responsible to ensure they are not violating any IP property. So they might get sued by Disney. I don't get why the AI companies would be effected in any way. Disney is not suing Blender if I render an image of Mickey Mouse with it.

Though I am sure that artists might find an likely ally in Disney against the "AI"'s when they tell them about their idea of making art-styles copyright-able Being able to monopolize art styles would be indeed a dream come true for those huge corporations.
If you like being surprised by games once in a decade, you should play it.
Not saying more for fear of spoilers :)
+100 for alpinejs.

Alpinejs is indeed the successor to Jquery.

React forces you to think like how its designers view the world.

While alpinejs does not really interfere with your workflow. That's a huge sell for team like mine where we are working with legacy projects and devs of various levels of XP. We can get a jnr dev up and running in a week flat.
>you could still pull parts from other cars and repair and continue to use the car after the manufacturer stops creating replacements.

Same can be said about software. People create aftermarket parts just the same as they create third party server implementations.
Copyright (in the US) also includes fair use provisions of which education and research is a fair use of copyrighted work for which no permission from the artist is needed
The game almost certainly had compatibility promises, eg 'runs on MacOS# with X MB RAM'. It should still do that.

The fault would be whoever designed it so a single player (or local multiplayer) game wouldn't run on said system in perpetuity.

Mind you, some time in the future an AI will be able to watch Let's Play-style footage and generate the game for you.
It is best to suppress activists. China has done a great job in HK. Elon should look to how they have been doing it.
Unfortunately Fauci is getting lots of death threats thanks to right-wing media spewing lies about him. One guy is already sentenced to 3 years in prison for it, I wonder how many more crazies will do stupid things because of Elon's tweet and end up in prison just like this guy: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/man-who-made-threats-agai...
Everything basically: Generating HTML, serving AJAX requests, communicating with other services, processing files, running DB queries etc etc. It even has a (questionable) feature embedding LuaScript using Lua::Inline and, hence, allows our clients to write little Lua scripts against our Perl API. Our application continuously runs over 20 years already and its user base kept growing ever since.

When I arrived I tried to move as much of the front end logic to JS but the backend remained in Perl as most business logic still lives there (and not in the DB). These days we try to implement new features in separate JS or TypeScript services and SPAs that, however, communicate with our REST API that is implemented in Perl/Mojolicious. This way we can hire cheaper JS devs (that never learned Perl) and people can still enjoy React and modern frameworks if they so wish. The most talented ones I try to sucker into little refactoring projects in Perl. Most JS developers that tried got fluent in Perl 5 only after a couple of weeks.

In the future we will try to move more business logic of the "Kernel" into the DB system since Postgres grew much more powerful compared to the time back when the application was invented. I believe this will be our only hope to actually shrink our Perl 5 code base eventually.
> Like I've already stated, if you want to participate in Bitcoin but mining is out of range, go offer services and/or products for Bitcoin and earn it (I've done it happily, and have paid others for their services using it, too). Nobody owes you Bitcoin.

"If you want to vote in a nation where only landowners vote, go offer services and/or products and earn land."
Nothing noble really, just a personal dream. Lots of people have faced certain death for less. Going out on one's own terms, to fulfill a dream, is probably the best way to go.
The copyright to what exactly though? Imagine you're an artist that draws abstract paintings of trees. If an AI uses those, the results it produces will be generic abstract trees in your style. And since I doubt that you can copyright trees, you would have to copyright your specific style. But is that possible?
Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in.

As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.
Requests are routed reverse proxy (Caddy) -> Vite (SSR) -> Python (Pyramid).

SSR calls your backend APIs and renders templates.

Example from SvelteKit page.ts here:

https://github.com/tradingstrategy-ai/frontend/blob/master/s...

Some remarks

- page.ts is routed by Vite for every HTTP request for SSR and then it will fetch() data over backend API

- If rendered in the client, fetch() hits directly the backend API

- Both cases the template is rendered using the same logic (Svelte HTML templating, CSS, JS)

- You are going to need a template language any cases, like Django's one. Alternative way to think this is that SvelteKit is just a super powerful template engine.
I upvote all the ones around the ones I want to downvote.
I love the Mastodon API because it lets me write fun bots without having to go through too much toil.
I quite like the font, and it renders perfectly on my Linux machine.

The center column is a bit narrow but that's a minor, easily fixed problem.

You should file a bug report.
If LTSpice :

1. was OpenSource

2. would *please* switch to modern conventions for Load/Save/Cut/Paste/Undo/Redo/Exit keyboard shortcuts

3. would have a larger, *online*, library of standard parts instead of having to download every missing ones every time from random obscure places on the internet

4. had a setting for switching off showing the names of *all* the new components on the circuit

5. had a vaguely sane way to keep all the .asy and .sym files used by a .asc in the same directory

6. had a central repo of example circuits / standard circuits

7. had an API to its spice engine

It'd be the perfect tool.

But in the meantime, and in spite of its old age, it's still light-years ahead of the web-based thing from 2022
Sure but believing someone should be prosecuted is different from facilitating stalking them.

Suppressing all dissent of the left and right because any single nut follows a particular cause would stop any cause from being discussed. Also Fauci did fund gain of function research and it’s reasonable to want to investigate that but that’s besides the point.
But the premise is just bad law. Disney does, in fact, hold a copyright on the Mickey Mouse character (at least until the end of 2023) [1]. It doesn't matter where the art comes from. Anyone making copies of something with Mickey Mouse in it -- whether drawn by a Disney artist, or drawn by someone else, or "drawn" by an AI -- is violating their copyright (at least for another year).

On the other hand, nobody owns a copyright on a specific style. If I go study how to make art in the style of my favorite artist, that artist has no standing to sue me for making art in their style. So why would they have standing to sue for art generated by an AI which is capable of making art in their style?

[1] https://fishstewip.com/mickey-mouse-copyright-expires-at-the...
Would be nice if games for which time-limited licenses were being sold told you upfront so you could choose.

Not sure how you're supposed to know a game has been designed to be remotely deactivated?
Or a very small fraction of a volcano.
Challenging to navigate. These demonstrations are technically copyright infringement if done for financial gain (selling a T-shirt with Mickey Mouse icon). The same would be true if you were to draw by hand Mickey Mouse with a gun and sold it on a T-shirt. The only exception would be if it is a clear derivative, or satire, or parody, or personal use of course.

The challenging part is that these artists are protesting the use of 'style' in AI synthesized media. That is, an artist's style is being targeted (or, even, multiple artist's styles are combined in a prompt to create a new AI-original work). This is not protected by copyright—if you draw a new scene in another artist's style, it would be perhaps unethical, but legally derivative work.

If the artists who are challenging these AI systems do get there way, and they are able to legally copy-protect their "style" (like a certain way of brush strokes), this would inevitably backfire against them. To give an example: any artist whose work now too closely resembles the "style" of Studio Ghibli might be liable to copyright infringement, where before the work would be clearly derivative, or just influenced by another work, as is the case with most art over time.
This was the reason I stopped buying any epic stuff. When they went Xbox instead of PC for gears of war, and then never came back, I wrote them off.
>The last Libreboot release, version 20220710, was released on 10 July in 2022. This new release, Libreboot 20221214, is released today on December 14th, 2022. This is intended to be a testing release.

This paragraph goes from YMD to DMY to MDY... I don't see why hyphenating the date from the release version wasn't good enough.
Anything that weakens copyright is something that should be supported. Copyright has expanded well beyond its original goals to in fact be a harm to those goals

Copyright (in the US) was NOT in fact created to protect creators, it was to encourage creation and advance science. Today copyright is being used to curb and monopolize creation and prevent advancement (case in point this very story)
Luddites hopping on the bandwagon for reasons unclear to themselves.

EDIT: Would Andy Warhol be sued by Campbell or Brillo?
This is how Nintendo does online gaming currently.
I think at that time it was reasoned that it was fake because they could have shot down Erdogan's plane he was on. They didn't and ended up executed. Occam's razor begs the question - why wouldn't they do it unless it wasn't a genuine attempt?
> Isn't Epic also mayorly Chinese owned?

By Chinese you mean Tencent? Tencent is south-african owned.