skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you mean to say is that the latter is in your opinion unethical in spirit. You're just plain incorrect that it is likely to be "illegal", or more correctly stated, found to be a copyright infringement.

In all likelihood tools like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT will be found to copying works in fair use.

The primary argument in favor of fair use is the substantial amount of non-infringing uses for tools like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT (Sony v. Universal). This does not mean that tools like this are not capable of producing works that infringe just that the liability will be on the person choosing how to use the tool and choosing what to do with what the tool produces. By the time this goes to trial there will be entire industries built on significant non-infringing use of large language models that have nothing to do with the scope of the original copyrighted work and this will have a large impact on considerations of fair use!
what's incorrect about it

as far as i can tell it seems perfectly correct but admittedly my understanding of a* search is limited to messing with amit's visualizations of it
But it isn't some random word processor. It's Word. This might change with the growing use of Google Docs, but Word is basically a monoculture. It might be easier to handle the weirdos who use LaTeX, but there aren't enough of us.

There's also a chance that they mangle everybody's documents, and HR is just inflicting hours of toil on millions for no real reason at all.

Well structured Word files are based on forms and have well-labeled fields. That might help? I dunno. Maybe a Microsoft person or a Salesforce person can lift the curtain a smidge.
Those ads are also very likely to be relevant to HN users relative to typical internet ads.
Evil rent-seeking bullshit. Ugh.
With my VP Eng hat on, PagerDuty is a useful service

With my VP Operations hat on, I can't justify the pricing

Wearing both hats at the same time, I built the solution my company needed inside a weekend and allocated funds elsewhere
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ rather than the like-named crypto site. I found no way to sample current discussions i.e. read-only, from a web browser -- software installation seems required.
> What do you all use Wine for (and on which OS)?

I use Wine on Arch Linux, and pretty much use it to play games, and occasionally the HP PC Connectivity Kit for my HP48G+ calculator (this program was built for Windows 95. I wonder if it'd even work on modern Windows with a USB serial device that I have... but with Wine, I just symlink /dev/ttyUSB0 to COM1: and I'm good).

It has a very high success rate for me, being able to run almost every game I throw at it flawlessly, both old and new.
It's working just fine right now over at - https://chat.openai.com
You should sync up with this guy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490043
While HTML and other markup languages are great, I wonder if there is a way to use a word processor while creating the document - focusing only on content (spellcheck, etc.) and not on formatting or on syntax. Then, a context specific converter (that is specific to the type of content - a resume, a newsletter, a FAQ page, etc.) takes care of adding the formatting and publishing it.

As an example, recently, I had to create a bunch of FAQ pages, and I created a tool like [1]. While Pandoc can be used, I still need to worry about (at least basic) formatting the doc while typing it out in the word processor to make it look good in the HTML output.

[1] https://github.com/abhishekbasu/faq2html
Totally agree.

I feel the same when I open a good book and read without distraction for hours. It's like mental detox after social media full of short-form videos.

We'll see a wave where what's timeless and simple make a return — like text-only content.
Thanks, this is interesting. I work a bit closer to the "source" as in doing detection things on on-prem & cloud side, so not too well-versed on the data processing and management side.
I think that you deserved a bit of pushback on how you phrased that, but that nothing that you said beyond describing it as 'gatekeeping' was objectionable or even wrong, and that the rest of us should ease up, having seen that the job's been done.
Almost exclusively games, under Linux. This includes games that just came out - more and more they work out of the box thanks to dxvk and the wine-staging patches.
> "Pimps are not neccesarily [sic] traffickers"

Right, they just use force, fraud, and coercion as they recruit, transport, and provide their victims as prostitutes. Totally different...

> "a large majority of people in the industry go in by choice"

Cool, can you share your stats that a "large proportion" of people go in by choice?
The only incentive should be recidivism rate.
Scheduling, Groups, Escalation. Yea you could probably do something with IFTTT but I'd rather just pay a little bit and not deal with the hastle.
You should sync up with this guy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34487948
The fact that you think waste is awesome is disgusting... these arent stolen machines
I see many posts on HN about how to design a good UX. Are these posts made for the wrong audience?
WTF with high school questions?
You're right, gatekeeping was the wrong choice of word. I apologize for this mistake.
I think that is because it still unclear if executives actually failed in their responsibilities to shareholders and the bottom line.

I think you can make a strong argument that they failed some sort of responsibility to the employee expectations by over hiring, but that is different.

Are boards and shareholders even dissatisfied with executives right now?
Of PG advice/tips/guidance, "Do things that don't scale" I think is still a great starting point and a piece of advice that is a bit less abstract.

When you start from that, only the ideas that most people would never consider float to the top.

It's worked for me and my business.
Yes. To connect this with my point. The prisons will end up with a fancy IT mail system. The jail will be able to provide digital mail for a fee, while not providing physical safety for the inmates. Priorities are wrong.
As do Little Brother and Homeland. They're set in a post-terror-attack San Francisco. Nice easy reads if you are interested in tech and want to indulge in some Big Brother paranoia. As he writes, this kind of stuff is _actually happening_ right now in the world, even if the names and places don't match.
yeah i have a vpn to my home. i don't have a static ip to my home but i run a script on my mikrotik router to update the A record for the subdomain at cloudns.net that i use for vpn.
There are a bunch of biohacker spaces around, and they’ll often run classes - small scale lab work isn’t actually that restrictive, cost or resource wise.

Also, The Odin - https://www.the-odin.com/ - sells DIY kits and classes (and is just generally one of my favorite groups of weirdos)
Their moat is the same as Jira's. Despite being expensive, and easily replaced by a bevy of alternatives, management are familiar with the name and purchase it.
It's not about people cheating the system. It's about predicting what will happen under a given system of incentives.
Can you provide the evidence you mention at the end of your comment?
That's a great plan! I'll say that self-hosting may be _the_ number one thing I'm most passionate about due to concerns similar to yours (privacy, ownership, and so on). I've self-hosted many of my own services for a very long time and so I have my own experiences to share as well.

I'll say right off the bat that I don't see any red flags with your proposed plan. The following bullet points are primarily meant to offer some additional options or mental nudges to help you brainstorm - like I said, there's nothing abjectly wrong with your architecture, so this list may just offer more ideas:

- I've self-hosted a few email servers (and still do) and I think punting on that (or just doing the backup plan) is probably the right approach - you can DIY it today, but it's a part-time job. If you ever do decide to take ownership of your email, bringing your own domain to Fastmail or Proton Mail has also worked well for me. Today I host one domain on Linode and one on Ramnode. As with most things email, there are tons of nuances with doing it yourself - I had to get both my email servers' public addresses placed on an allowlist with their respective providers.

- I self-host most of my services on my own hardware in my homelab. I eschew the big, expensive, loud, power-hungry hardware in favor of smaller, cheaper, and swappable hardware, and the strategy has worked out really well. I primarily use ODroid hardware (they offer both ARM and x86-64 hardware). You mentioned a floating/non-public address as a constraint, so you could still do this with tailscale/headscale/something similar and gain the benefit of cloaking your services inside a private network (and using some public/free cloud instance as a low-power VPN endpoint). I don't think DigitalOcean/Linode are bad choices, but I very much like owning the hardware layer as well.

- I've been self-hosting before Nextcloud existed and used its progenitor (ownCloud) and developed a harsh distate for the huge, sprawling complexity of the system (it was hungry for resources, broke on upgrades constantly, etc.). That story may be better now, but I've sinced move on to hosting very targeted, smaller services. For example, instead of Nextcloud's file syncing, I run syncthing everywhere, and instead of Nextcloud's calendaring, I run radicale. Nextcloud will probably be fine, but I've been happier with running a smaller collection of services that do one thing well (syncthing in particular is an exceptional piece of software)

I could really ramble on but I'll just include a list of the stuff I host if you have any questions about it. I blog[1] about some of these, too: Transmission, Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett, Vaultwarden, espial, glusterfs, kodi, photoprism, atuin, Jellyfin, Vault, tiny tiny rss, calibre, homeassistant, mpd, apache zeppelin, and minio. Outside my lab hardware I run a few instances of nixos-simple-mailserver, mastodon, and goatcounter (used to run plausible). I also run a remove ZFS server that I mirror snapshots to as my remote backup solution.

[1]: https://blog.tjll.net/posts/
https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany
Berberine is a natural over the counter alternative that is equally as effective to lower your blood sugar. (Studies and research available online that shows this same finding, I am not making this up).

I tried Metformin before switching to Berberine (I am not a diabetic), did it because I kept reading about longevity benefits. Problem was that since I was not a diabetic, it was hard to find a dose that did not lower my blood sugar too much and didn't make me dizzy and since I failed, it was easier to switch to Berberine.

If your goal is to improve your blood sugar then I suggest looking into improving insulin sensitivity via fasting, exercise, improved sleep, lowered stress and if you are up for it, switching to a whole food plant based diet (low carb high in vegetables to start and then open it up) this is the approach that I have seen work for others in my family.

Last but not least, get a CGM, fantastic. I use the freestyle libre 3.
It is certainly not unheard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Haha! They said they don't know what iCloud account is was registered under. Everything in Apple's world flows from the iCloud, so even with the receipt, the first thing they'll ask is to login and confirm the account is on your iCloud account.

I hate being held hostage to a corporation. Anti-theft mechanisms propagated from a corporation should be understood to generally benefit the corporation first (monopoly on resale market) and the user second (limited protection from petty theft).

I know I'm charmed to live in a place where petty crime is relatively low, but these sorts of "lock it to my Apple account" anti-theft tools feel awfully similar to the use of martial law. It's very helpful in limited circumstances but should never be the default state of our lives.
Where are you located? Just for interest's sake as I don't often chat with users of Starlink
From a very low base maybe
Show HN: HighwayChicken and InterstellarChicken Source Released
If you need to animate objects moving along a network, you might find this useful.

HighwayChicken demo video: https://youtu.be/8cCmt9XIgyg

HighwayChicken Win32 executable: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uRQ-EXwhdrDqHsK1pqpi9A7z4cEHfNz4 (standalone, no support files necessary)

HighwayChicken Win32 executable zipped: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rKvh9-ZHEYEo9fOkGWz2NpFtkNIDgKI3

HighwayChicken source code: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FA3OwY7YydXgR_Bp8fd2948JI_UoRiET (Delphi 6)

InterstellarChicken demo video: https://youtu.be/ZophovckhjA

InterstellarChicken Win32 executable: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S9p8z_PM0v9UNlFpwmJw8sEdsCOnkHN0 (standalone, no support files necessary)

InterstellarChicken Win32 executable zipped: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RVe6u_IBe8qZi0KSaAsuDjNDdU4Smj3Z

InterstellarChicken source code: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14UWTiQCWH5wDt2TYyNaB_yzo3FGiDJyN (HighwayChicken with modified graphics)
> While Reddit… ads looking like posts, HN has remained high signal to noise ratio.

I have no sympathy for people complaining about ads on Reddit when they give you an alternative - you can pay a subscription to have them removed.
As an American it may just be attitudes. The last two administrations didn’t do much to Google, Democrat or Republican.

But the idea of big tech being a wonder that unequivocally makes life better and doesn’t need oversight seems to be falling apart. Both for good (privacy) and bad (‘kill section 230!’) reasons.
I find there is something aesthetically and professionally pleasing about the plain old term "colleagues".
Walling off the new biggest Bethesda games from Sony platforms is literally one of the first things Microsoft did after the acquisition.
Poll: Are startup founders a minority on HN?
I assumed a lot of people on HN are either a startup founder, a indie hacker trying to sell a product, or aspiring to become one of these things.

I saw a comment saying otherwise so I thought I'd do a poll...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34505219
I am a startup founder building a business that has or will get venture funding
I am starting a business as an Indie Hacker or CEO, but I am not seeking venture funding
I am thinking of doing a startup or new business in the future
I am not a startup founder and have no intention of starting a business
Ah a fellow person of culture :D

Maybe you will enjoy my "bash-toolkit" repo: https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit which I've dubbed my "Swiss Army Toolkit" of functions-as-cmd-line-tools and useful-to-me patterns.

Which reminds me, I've collected more and should update the repo!
If I’ve read correctly [1], Safari on macOS 13 (released after the mentioned article) supports the standardized Web Push APIs.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
Has everyone else been using a different tool than me? ChatGPT is interesting, but is laughably bad at any non-trivial instruction.

It's fantastic at generating content that on first glance looks remarkably right, but always fails fine inspection.

All I've seen from LLMs is much better demos of the types of funny things markov chains were generating two decades ago (anyone remember the various academic paper generators?). However I have yet to see anything that stands out as really remarkable.

My read is that people want to see incredible progress towards strong AI, and LLMs do a great job of letting people feel like they're seeing that if they want to.

I suspect in 5 years we'll largely have forgotten about LLMs and in 10 they'll come back into popularity because techniques will become more efficient and computing power will increase enough that people can train them on their home PCs... but they'll still just be a fun novelty.
>The article is about prison mail. It has nothing to do with police officers and does not mention the "government monopoly on violence."

No. The article is about jail mail. While "prison" and "jail" are often used interchangeably, they are not (at least in the US) the same thing.

Jails are for folks being detained before trial (i.e., they are innocent as they haven't been proven/pled guilty) or incarcerated for minor crimes (with a sentence of less than 1-2 years).

Prisons are for people who have been convicted of serious crimes (with sentences longer than a year or two).

That's not to say that those in prison should be exploited/abused, but this policy change affects those who haven't even been convicted of a crime.

As a rule, I'm usually disgusted by the US "justice" system. I'm even more disgusted now.
Okay, the bets are placed. Let's come back to this conversation in a year.
What kind of business only allows one page resumes? I look at resumes all the time and I think the only time I ever saw a one page resume was for an internship.
If you care about it, get Applecare. Apple literally sells their own insurance against theft, because ultimately it's something that will happen regardless of the software or hardware.

You can disincentivize thievery up to a certain point, but you can't use it as an excuse to cross lines you wouldn't have otherwise. That's just capitalizing on the innate paranoia common in luxury customers, and largely illustrates my point that this is a racket.
I grew up in a town with a lot of feedlots, and I still don’t notice the smell when I visit. I definitely think your brain will block out background smells you grow up with.
I wonder if that’s how people were able to live in medieval towns without sewers.
> Latest wargame

A sincere question; what is "latest wargame?"

Does "latest wargame" compute the political equivalent of an extinction level bolide impact when a US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier gets destroyed, leaving propulsion reactors and nuclear warheads on the bottom of the Pacific, not to mention a few thousand men? I'm thinking you and I have different concepts of the stakes involved here. I believe the Western establishment will need far more at stake than a couple (more) years of supply chain troubles before it will put its capital military assets in the way of the Chinese military.

I suppose we'll find out. China will assert itself at some point and Taiwan is #1 on that bucket list.
So PG has been automated?
You are completely right, and I appreciate how you didn't let a single poor word choice dominate your entire judgement of my post. You also delivered a novel thought based on the entirety of responses, rather than impulse writing out of emotion. Respect.
Neurons don't do a substantial amount of self-organizing without hormone gradients and other external factors to cause them to organize. It's unfortunately inherently difficult to generalize the function and organization of neurons since there are not only hundreds, or more, distinct classes, but each class has thousands of inputs and outputs to the local and distant network that almost all have an important impact on their function, and the generation of this network of inputs and outputs and what factors affect their operation, is highly dependent on the exact subclass of neuron in question.

Mapping neural outputs of some small network to some operation is easy since all you're concerned with is the output, not the actual operation and organization of the network. Scientists could get macaques to play Pong using electrodes (like what Musk demonstrated with Neuralink) since, iirc, the 80s. This is also the exact reason that neural nets tell us nothing about the actual function of the brain.
Transfr, a leader in the virtual reality educational and training industry, is currently seeking a full-time SRE who will assist in building out visibility and alerting as well as automation, internal tooling, and anything else that will boost operational toughness.

This role can be 100% remote or work from our office in NYC. Salary + benefits + stock options $120-$140K.
I'm physically incapable of just closing open tabs. I must be spending good few weeks every year just closing tabs, if I'd add up the time spending it. Everything is so interesting, everything spikes interest in something else, which adds more tabs, it is taking me about an hour to close 40-50, and when I have less than 20 tabs open on my browser, - I feel a sense of pride and achievement.

I have to constantly limit myself, to constantly stand on my own neck to not get sweeped up by something interesting, the behavior of someone struggling with addiction comes to mind. And there's no legal Adderall in my country. It's hell.
> incentivizing prisons to actually rehabilitate

Parenting is hard. Parenting someone who is already an adult is harder still. Beyond incentives, they might not have the resources to rehabilitate the prisoners.
The bankruptcy court should have compelled the former owner to sell the laptops instead of scrapping them. The proceeds would go to creditors.

I’m sure there are plenty of court precedents around bankrupt businesses trashing assets out of spite rather than selling them.
Re: dynamic dns, I've just started self-hosting some services and piping them through cloudflare, and I use the docker container oznu/cloudflare-ddns to handle IP changes.

Bonus is that I can restrict incoming traffic on the router to cloudflare ip ranges, and use cloudflare tools to restrict traffic.

I suppose you could accomplish the same with a VPS but this is all free.
I am truly torn on this. If Chrome were controlled by an independent company, I would 100% agree. Shame on Apple for dictating the use of the Safari engine on iOS!

But Chrome is not controlled by an independent company. It's controlled by the largest company in the search, video, and advertising markets, and has repeatedly abused that power to degrade functionality for non-Chromium browsers, all while extending Chrome in non-standard non-secure ways.

And this:

> In addition, Apple has been underfunding Safari for the past decade leading to missing critical functionality and a buggy experience for Web App developers thus ensuring that Native Apps, another Apple revenue source, are the only viable solution.

That just seems like nonsense. The Safari team seems to be well-funded, they just have different ideas from Google about what PWAs should be allowed to do. This caused Google to fork the webkit project, and is why things like push notifications are not supported today. It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.
This looks cool!

I would, however, say that while I'm in the general target audience, I won't do crowdfunded hardware. If it isn't actually being produced, I won't buy it. The road between prototype and production is a long one for hardware.

(Still waiting for a very cool bit of hardware, 3+ years later - suspecting that project is just *dead*)
I would argue LaTeX is the wrong tool for a resume. A resume, like a poster or graphical magazine article, is all about visual presentation and layout. This requires pixel-perfect control over where things are, and somewhat detailed ways to coordinate positions of things. All of these are things LaTeX is bad at[1].

For visual presentation, I would suggest desktop publishing software are the right tool for the job. I personally like Scribus because it's open soucre. Something like this is trivial with desktop publishing and would be really time consuming with LaTeX: https://i.xkqr.org/screenshot_2023-01-24T19:21:25.png

[1]: The strength of LaTeX is in consistently typesetting long texts well – it's nearly unbeatable in that area.
Let's do a poll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507665

I'm curious how many people are starting or want to start a business here. I always assumed the percentage was pretty high.
Satellite connectivity for mobile devices. I think it's all still pretty immature, but the potential for both good and bad is incredible.

https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2023/01/12/some-and...