skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you read your own link? It cites the NCTE study clearly.

Yes, I did. The study wasn't commissioned by the NCTE, unlike what you claimed. It uses data from a survey by the NCTE. The people answering the survey have no reason to lie, and the NCTE had no reason to believe that its data would be used in this study years later. You're grasping at straws trying to make your initial claim make sense.
Preprocessing Markdown with GPP: Or how I started using Markdown like TeX (2012)
Not to mention upgradeability from a graphics perspective. If your phone is the processing unit , this would also mean software that's almost always up to date. I hate that I get hit with an update about half the time that I put the headset on.
US seems to be having more aircraft drama than usual lately, no?
Taxes on land and personal property in the US date back to colonial times. And tax policy often distinguishes between property utilized in different ways (eg. personal vs. business). I doubt you’d convince a judge that a tax that varies based on whether property is unused impinges on some fundamental right in a materially different way.
Yes, you absolutely have to abide by the GPL when you are using GPL-licensed code.

The text of the GPL does not require you to relicense your modifications under the circumstances you describe; however that is because of what the text of the GPL says, not because "[t]he text of the GPL doesn't matter."
This is basically just the internet version of… any retailer that isn’t vertically integrated? Do we honestly think that Barrel & Crate’s business model is that different?

Yeah, you have a weak moat, but if your niche isn’t big then even a weak moat may not be worth crossing
They have lotteries for the good stuff when they should have had auctions. Hence the opportunity for mischief
Did you read past the headline?
The thing is, the market always adapts.

Your “more productive” won’t actually feel that different. This tool is in that way just another abstraction.

Every tech advance has the same wave. Eventually the “more money” actually isn’t necessarily true because the competition has met or beat your thing.

Value keeps getting added to the market but the market also adapts to what is valuable relative to the rest of the market.
https://archive.is/aRbh9
As a middle / HS student in the rural US I got on my bus at 5:55 to start school at 7:30. When I wasn't in sports I would leave school at 2:30 on the bus and get home at 4:30 (we stopped at the elementary school to pick them up and take them home in the afternoons).

When I had sports I would usually get home from practice at around 6-630 at night. Ideal time management would mean I'd eat and do an hour or two of homework, but usually I'd stay up until ~2AM using dialup internet to MUD with friends. I was exhausted! Playing MUD did help lead me to my career though, so I suppose it wasn't all bad.
“ somehow the hard right is always in charge.”

lol what

Maybe you don’t like what the government is doing, and fair enough, but you seem to be conflating that with the other team.

I think we have a pretty centrist, self interested government, and the monolith does not like to change.
The main takeaway for me was that dark red writing on dark grey is absolutely unreadable! I tried but couldn't make out the red words at all.
According to a subsequent suit filed by the patentee's attorney, the patentee voluntarily withdrew the suit in the Eastern District of Texas after its lawyer and the lawyer's family were subjected to a targeted campaign of harassment and cyber attacks. [0] The patentee then re-filed the case in Mycroft's home state of Missouri. [1]

[0] Tumey L.L.P. et al v. Mycroft AI Inc. et al Case No. 4:21-cv-00113 (W.D. Mo.) Complaint https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/egpbkqlzqvq/...

[1] Id. at 13.
For sure but this would be a new one (law). The government telling you what to do with your property, else lose your liberty and go to jail.
This is effectively a rustdoc bug, the pattern is very much part of the body of the function, not the signature (and this split is explicitly represented in the compiler IRs, which rustdoc effectively undoes).

While it's not really how it works, the closest valid Rust that comes to mind is:

const foo: fn(u32) = |mut x| {};

What rustdoc should be doing is stripping binding modes (`ref` and/or `mut`), or even whole patterns - with more complex patterns, like `(a, mut b): (T, U)`, it can be beneficial to keep `(a, b)` as a way to label the two components, but the `mut` is superfluous for documentation.
Bad news, it was Dickson Despomier who said it to Vincent Raccionello, and they have hundreds of podcast episodes. You're best chance would be to email Dickson or Vincent to see if they remember the context.

Here's a start:

https://www.microbe.tv/
That’s a sloppy headline.

Most people would think of AI artwork as artwork generated by a human selecting an AI instrument and giving it some direction or otherwise operating it. In such a case, the human would be indeed granted copyright for the work, provided they took due credit for it.

They simply argued that the AI itself isn’t something that could hold a copyright for work that was supposedly made without human involvement, as the claimant was purporting here. He was trying to stake some cheap historical legacy, presumably, and got shot down because we’re obviously not there yet.

We may see a day when the line of agency surrounding AI gets blurrier, but we’re still a long long way from it.
Who would bother repackaging and modifying some trivial shell utilities from the 70s.

Copyleft fanatics feel a lot like libertarians thinking they need to bring a utility belt full of weapons for their trip to the supermarket.
It seems like the Copyright Office's claim is a bit broader than that:

> The Copyright Office says that its own guidelines specify human authorship as a requirement for protection and that “the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work.”

I suppose the question is what degree of human involvement (specifying/refining prompts) would potentially qualify as a human 'creating' the work, if any. I don't think there's any case law on this yet.
"Lutzerath ... after Robert Habeck, the country’s energy minister, allowed a utility firm to mine for lignite ... In their panic to keep the lights on, policymakers across Europe and Asia are reopening coal mines ..."

The first statement is not correct and the continuation is misleading. It was not an individual descision of minister Habeck (Green party) to allow the demolition of Lützerath, but of the German federal parliament with its majority of Labour (SPD), Greens and Liberals (FDP) in the context of its Coal-fired Power Generation Termination Act ("Kohleverstromungsbeendigungsgesetz"). The previous version of the law from August 2020, enacted by a colation of the Conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Labour (SPD), provided for the demolition of five more villages and some little settlements. This was later, in March 2021, altered into its present form by a so-called guiding decision of the government (a coalition of Conservatives and Liberals) of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state in which Lüzerath is located, on which the modified federal law from December 2022 was based.

The Green Party of minister Harbeck was clearly the political force that had pushed hardest for a phase-out of coal as quickly and as extensively as possible. Of course, there are critics who believe that what has been achieved was not enough. Be that as it may, less would probably have been achieved without the participation of the Greens. For this reason it is dubious journalism to single him out.

An it is also not only very low quality journalism, but deliberate misinformation not to mention that Lützerath represents the end of coal mining in the region and instead putting it into the context of an alleged reopening of coal mines.
Just abolish copyright. I'm not joking.

There are many ways to earn money from films, music, art, books, etc., without needing copyright.

The only reason D is released under the Boost License is because public domain has no legal standing in many countries. The Boost License is the most permissive one in wide use that we could find.
It had a photo showing the clothing with the name on, but maybe, though it didn't smell that way to me.
I don't think the governor is wrong at all. I think the DEI is being misused to actively turn down deserving candidates.
> On the other hand, the Proposition M vacancy tax is explicitly intended to “disincentivize prolonged vacancies”

Disincentivizing (hopefully not an actual word) is not compulsion.

> the plaintiffs argue violates the Ellis Act which says that homeowners have the right not to be in the business of being a landlord

This may be true; my legal knowledge is limited to being overzealously pre-law so I'm not an expert in CA law. That said, this sounds like a stupid law corrupted by landlords to duck housing rental regulations... OK checked Wikipedia and that's confirmed. Anyway I don't dispute this claim, just the Takings Clause argument, which again is very very bad.
Why are people so confident about this tech? We've had years of underwhelming AI products--why is the hype for this so different? Is it because it's the most recent?
A rich town where everyone just afford compliance with everything all the time isn't very illustrative. I bet nobody there drives cars on bald tires or pays their babysitter off the books either.

In places where money doesn't grow on trees harder decisions have to be made. Situations like "do I hire a real electrician to install my heat pump and get forced to bring my panel up to current code at great expense or do I hire someone to just install the heat pump on a cash basis or do I replace my existing system like for like" become more common.

I agree code is stupid simple if you're building cookie cutter stuff. It can get very, very, annoying when you're dealing with systems that have N generations of changes and/or are trying to be minimally invasive. Would you rather take a hole saw to the main beam of someone's house or have a sink drain that's a hair too flat for a portion of it's run?
Honestly, after seeing the message in the NPM logs I kind of figured he’d have a job soon.
I cannot believe single-pilot commercial flights are being pushed. Just recently there was an impressive analysis featured on HN about MH370 and how the most likely cause was a pilot on a suicide mission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34506004

The next depraved pilot going on a suicide mission is suddenly more real.
> Dogs for example, have much more sensitive smell than we do, but doesn't seem to influence what they eat much.

I'm not sure. Raw potato? Not interesting to a dog. Boiled plain potatoes? They'd eat them if hungry but meh. Fried, salty potatoes? They love them as much as humans do. I think dogs distinguish those primarily by smell. Similarly, while a whole raw apple or carrot won't interest my dogs, they are into them if they're sliced up (presumably from the release of the scent).
>and why are we so confident that this time we’re right?

I don't have to be confident that the current scientific consensus is entirely correct to believe that it's virtually guaranteed to be more correct than whatever alternative I'd come up with in some area I completely lack expertise.
Why not ditch the buses and just start everyone around the same time? In Australia, all levels are starting around 8:45am (3-18yo). There's a bit of flexibility in that a school yard is monitored a bit earlier, or the first session is free play ("Investigation") which allows children to be dropped off sequentially if parents are handling that. Ends up being a window of about 8:35-8:55 so my school run can get two both schools in time.

There is affordable and easy to book out of school hours care for anything earlier or later.

Outside of formal lessons, I'd fill gaps with investigative play, extracurricular at-school sport, or casual activities to line up various year levels.
> And each time, we fail to learn the lessons of what made those places get more expensive as more people wanted to move there

I don't understand what you're saying. Most people want to have bought California property 30-40 years ago. "Don't do that or you'll retire in an inflation adjusted $5MM home!" is a strange pitch to get people to do what you want.

To say nothing of the fact that all the other interests (city planners, developers, etc.) also want that outcome.
They should just make a law to decrease taxes on primary house by 75%, on secondary houses by 50%, then augment the taxation by 400%.

I understand having a vacation/family home (not in crowded cities however), but having more than one and leaving it empty just to raise the price of similar unit feel really scammy to me.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

Doesn’t seem like the 20% fed funds rate in 1980 did much.

Obviously low rates didn’t cushion the city -> suburb housing crunch during COVID, but COVID isn’t the only time housing prices have gone up. They seem only to go up.

Land prices track exactly to the productivity of the region. Productivity, as a general rule, goes up due to technology, more people yielding more specialization, more natural resources being discovered etc.

Wherever a tech company puts a new office sees skyrocketing local economic productivity and accordingly sees skyrocketing rent prices. That’s not because Mother Earth is charging more per square foot of space, it’s because landowners are.
> companies like Apple and Google to have the 15-20 years required to build empires on top of the work of open source developers

Well, apple built on top of FreeBSD instead - which already existed and worked great. And Microsoft - the most important competitor 20 years ago - just happily built their own competing implementation of … well, everything.

The moat wasn’t effective long before Google and cloud services took over. The lack of forsight around needing gpl3 was just a nail in the coffin.
Do they use nail guns?
You have to police illegal content even if it’s just links. That’s why torrent sites get shut down constantly.

Curating and sharing links is the same as hosting. And I’m quite happy to be on a platform which doesn’t share or host this content.
He only said "I don't want to choose between two kinds of evil. I will not comment on this in more detail, since there are people close to me on both sides of the border who may suffer because of this."

I don't think "two kinds of evil" is meant to imply that both sides are equally bad. Just that there are no good options for him. After all, when we say "the lesser of two evils" we don't (usually) mean evil in the literal sense. We mean that we are being forced to pick the least-bad of two bad options.
> Most people don't think you should be able to buy up a precious thing and squander it.

What does it mean to "squander" and who decides? I'm pretty familiar as a renter and property owner with tenants rights in SF. If I were to buy a duplex in the city I would never ever ever rent out the extra unit. I'd lie about tenancy, ask a friend to pretend to rent it, or pay this proposed tax rather than rent it out. I'd recommend the same to everyone.

Tenants are a liability for landlords in SF. You cannot end a tenancy, not with any amount of notice. That's a big deal and a huge policy mistake. Really messes up incentives. Let's say you and your partner have a duplex with two 2B/2BA units. You eventually decide to have kids and your parents are retiring. You want them to move into that unit so they can be close by to retire and babysit now and again. You could evict, but it's going to be costly and time consuming especially if the tenants are protected. Lawyers are going to tell you to buy the tenants out. Tenant buyouts in the city are usually mid five figures and they end up restricting some of your uses of the property in the future. It will take months (maybe more than a year) and may end up creeping up towards six figures. You would've been better off never renting it out in the first place.

Most landlords are individuals that own a few units [1]. Maybe a couple decided to buy a second home instead of investing in the S&P500. That's a lot more common than you'd expect. These are the folks navigating renters protections. Large companies don't have issues with them. They hire professionals to follow the rules. Or they build newer buildings so those protections don't apply to them.

And really this is the bleak reality of heavy handed, top down market manipulations: They're not going to hurt the big guys. You're not going to get even with some multinational real estate syndicate somewhere. You're mostly going to transfer wealth between varying shades of middle class. And really largely, you're transferring it from folks that saved for a downpayment and risked a 30 year mortgage and financially put their ducks in a row and those that spent years and years renting while knowing full well they were getting an affordable monthly payment in exchange for not building equity.

My point in saying all this is that usually if you look at a market and see folks "squandering," you probably don't understand the market. There are probably competing incentives that cause that market to be inefficient.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national...
Truly without snark, what is it about y that makes it easier and dy/dx harder?

I wonder if y is easier to fake? You can study the coding problems, there are whole books on that strategy. It seems like that would artificially increase your y, though it's probably a good indicator.

To estimate dy/dx, I like to ask about how people learned new things. Have they managed to become experts on something like build systems or testing pipelines even though it was well outside their experience? Perhaps I am biased by the fact that I learned a bunch of languages in school that are almost exactly the languages I don't use. Almost all of it was learned on the job.
They have to pay you out before rehiring if that is part of your agreement or your society has made laws that pay you a certain minimum
I got my first remote job in 2011. Whatever is going on right now has very little to do with what works, and what doesn't.
There is a pricing page in the menu
Before 2010, urban planners complained that CEOs tended to relocate offices from the urban core and out to whatever suburb on the edge of the metro gave them a short commute, while screwing over the rest of the workers who then had to commute either from the city or from other far-flung suburbs, few of which had transit connections to that suburb, even if they had transit into the city. Interesting to see it change to CEOs wanting offices in urban cores.
The worker's power over corporations is a willingness to say "no" and walk away.

A person I know related that his employer said they were going to cut his salary. He said "do that and I quit". The cuts were rescinded.
Agreed, but I think it goes beyond tunnel vision and sunk costs. He clearly likes helping developers! He is a good-hearted person who will feel bad screwing over a bunch of people who depend upon him. The main thing that's getting him to shift is that now he has a spouse and a child who depend upon him much more directly, and so he's even less willing to disappoint them.
Tethered, base station tracked, and no top strap so all the weight is on your face... Maybe it pays off but I'm not so sure.
Are the Bentonville schools bad? I was there last year and it felt like Schaumburg or Rosemont, IL. It had all the trappings of a white collar suburb.
How would you feel if the government would tax you for being unemployed?
I'm very much in your camp. Recognizing the personal sovereignty of what we currently call "AI" is pretty silly. How do we know the wants of said AI? Can it advocate for itself? The answers are pretty clearly "No, this AI has no wants or feelings".

I will be the first to fight for true AI to have right as a person, but these generative tools are just that: Generative tools. They have no continuance of memory, they have no sentience or sapience. We should be approaching the topic far more carefully than we are, to be on the lookout for those things, but the evidence points strongly in the opposite direction right now.
Value (1) illustrates the absurdity of the patent system. Innovation, the thing the patent system ostensibly protects, is put at risk by..patents. And so the value of a patent for inventors is to protect their innovation from...patents.
How is that not the case with the system in place here ? Any 18yo could "unlock" a minor's phone with their ID...
My complaint? Well, back when I had to use it (between jobs now), I found the app (Mac M1-base laptop) to be slow and painful to use. But using Teams via a website? Way faster, which I found odd because I think both are web based (I think the "app" just contains its own instance of Chrome).
U.S. Copyright Office Tells Judge That Only Natural and Corporate Persons Can Own Copyrights
Fresh, non battle tested code is more likely to be broken in subtle ways.
That looks good. Congrats.

The smallest preset cluster looks to be two nodes. I thought 3 is minimum for consensus reasons?
It's 415M, not 45M and it's technically not FAANG companies - it was Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe.

If anything Facebook is responsible for the vast increase in tech comp over the last 12 years.
All kinds of industries have regulations. You can't go into the medical devices industry and get super pissed at the FDA when they tell you you can't sell your stuff without their approval. You could argue "hey it's my property and I'll sell it if I want to", but that won't work and for good reason.

Becoming a landlord is going into business, and there are regulations and risk. Sometimes you go bust. That's life. If you picked up a property that's somehow unrentable in SF you should sell tickets, I'm sure a lot of people would love to see what kind of insane hellhole you couldn't get someone to rent for even $1 to avoid the tax.
The reason for that rule on airplanes is due to hypoxia, not quite the same as the food scenario.
This is really nice - the simplicity of the interface and ability to read papers without sacrificing the readability of math equations is awesome. Congrats on publishing it. Do you mind sharing how you convert from pdf to html (if at all)? I'm building a tool for reading, curating, and visualizing personal knowledge [1]. Apps like yours and others mentioned in this thread are nice ways to discover papers and address blind spots during literature reviews.

[1] https://www.knowledgegarden.io
It works well enough for me to not worry about dual booting. Windows tends to claim some of the GPU memory - about 1.5GB on my 3090. If I do anything performance sensitive I’ll still do it in the cloud - but it has made my gaming/flight simulator PC massively more useful.

You can also set up a network so your WSL2 installation shows up on your network as another host. Which is nice. Docker and docker with CUDA are a breeze too. Overall, I’m pretty happy with WSL2, but realize there are some performance drawbacks - so if my machine wasn’t massively overspec’d, I’d be much more concerned.
Reads like a Trump era article. Took a whole article, stuffed full of hyperbole and fear and exaggeration, to simply state that the law allows lawmakers to make laws that the Supreme Court doesn't like.

Not sure the legal structure in Israel, but all the pedantic whining by the tech people seems a bit trite. It was Bibi who reinvented and ignited the tech industry in the early 2000's, and the only thanks he gets in this article is a thorough ESG beating because tech brings in too much income tax, is unequal, and isn't diverse enough for these lazy writers.

The more interesting question is WHY is Bibi doing this?

Is he being persecuted, legally? Is he guilty? Is this a legit protection against a rogue judiciary?

This could happen in America. After all, the federal government is a coequal with the judiciary. The government doesn't have to listen to the courts. Technically.