skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They decided to loan out digital assets without any regard to the backed licenses available.

No, they loan out a digital copy, protected by DRM, of an asset that they physically own.

The idea that only the publisher could produce an e-book version of a paper book for public distribution protected by DRM, and that the e-book version needs to be licensed, is completely ludicrous.

If they only went after the emergency library then fine—I am curious, and the judge is too, how they would've computed monetary damages, but that was clearly a copyright violation. But shutting down CDL altogether would be a lot darker.

Fun fact, the only time I used the IA to borrow a book I ended up buying it. But it was out of print, so I bought it used and the publisher didn't see a dime. Based on this case I think they wouldn't have deserved it anyway.
It’s not a great situation. What we’re seeing is that the fed can’t raise rates to fight inflation without further eroding the balance sheet of big institutions holding large amounts of low yield bonds. So they’re kinda stuck. Hello stagflation.
I don't understand how residential housing isn't a big bubble. That has to have second order effects yet to be fully felt.

I guess maybe it could look like even more inflation? If inflation goes up enough and wages mostly keep up, housing could become relatively reasonably priced again.
> Pros:

I'd add to your list: No stress of driving in traffic. Imagine your ride home is pleasant personal time and exercise in the fresh air, not cars honking in a standstill in traffic. You feel better after riding.

I've had bike shops apologize for a $20 charge. :D They are thinking in a different context; I'm comparing that to my alternative, a car and its repair bills.

> significantly faster if parking is taken into account for most trips. The bike is faster for any < 10 km / 7 mi trip;

I don't think many people realize it: It's far more practical and efficient to ride. When you start doing it, driving (those distances) becomes frustrating and tedious, an odd choice given one that's faster, cheaper, and much better in all the other ways you listed.

At an easy pace, a bicycle goes ~16 km/hr (10 mi/hr). Especially in a dense city, think what's within 5-10 miles of you. Imagine very little traffic and then parking for free, without looking for a spot, within probably 20m of the door (depending on the city and bike parking rules).

> about €300/month in additional disposable income

And how about the cost of the bicycle? $250-600 for a good one, used or new. I own several for different purposes, guests, etc. That would be pretty expensive if it was a car.

And if it's stolen or damaged, buy another.

> Cons:

Also, not an option for those without the coordination to ride safely or durability to fall safely. Everyone falls. Elderly people can easily break bones.
It comes preinstalled on some phones.
That's the opposite of going down with the ship.
About a third of housing sales now go to investors. We really don’t know what their balance sheets look like - but presumably someone is lending them money. Some fraction of those loans will be variable interest rate.

Housing was returning 20% YoY - I wouldn’t be surprised to learn some investors are holding 10% mortgages which they may not be able to carry.
If Rust was C++ what you're saying makes a lot of sense, but it isn't.

Safe Rust is not something that's going to be a problem for a good developer. If they've actually understood what they were doing in C# or Go, for example they'll be fine. It's another semi-colon language, they can be spun up on this language with the Book, or a day's Pluralsight or whatever makes sense.

Yes, Rust makes more sense if that C# programmer also dabbled in F# or maybe the Go programmer took a semester of an ML in college ten years ago, because hey, this semi-colon language is sometimes an ML in a trench coat, but that's not crucial to being productive.

If your software ends up with non-trivial amounts of Unsafe Rust then yes, you will need somebody who knows what the fuck they're doing. But that'd be true if you needed unsafe C# (yes, that's a thing) and again, there's a lot less experience with unsafe C# on the market just like for Rust. And if you've got a problem for which Unsafe Rust was appropriate you'd need all the help you could get in these other languages.
What do you need for "real" threads functionality, beside shared memory? Shared mutexes? Fair; Rust somehow implements them, but I don't know how. Shared file descriptors, sockets, etc? They don't seem to exist, and if they did, I think sending (moving) them between threads in a message would do the trick.

What else am I missing?
You're acting like something ended in 2008. A bubble popped, yes.

Ever seen Lawrence Welk?
Yes - 2008 was like stepping on a land mine, and right now it feels like we’re staring at multiple rocket launchers pointed right at us.

Someone said they remember 2007-8 vividly and it felt precarious. I don’t, but from what Hollywood tells me, this person must be Michael Burry. Now we have a bunch of money that has been printed, which has done nothing to improve the economy and just caused a lot of wealth disparity and inflation. The Fed trying to get that under control is one of 2 concrete reasons for SVB. It has probably caused issues at many banks (they’re bag holding) with the only difference being their depositors are less reactive. What’s the solution? Print more money. Add to that geopolitical conflict between the US - which (let’s be real) doesn’t really stand for anything anymore other than the value of a dollar - and BRICS - which doesn’t stand for anything other than devaluation of the dollar. Putin once said the US economy is based on housing prices and he’s more or less right. It’s all tech and finance - which is either exploitative or can be done anywhere. BRICS has most of the resources and most of the production capability. A globalized world is more efficient and better, but debts need to be paid.
Zodiac vibes
You're just misunderstanding what he's asking for.
I think it's more like 2000 when there was a significant over-investment in tech, then Greenspan increased interest rates quickly and all the companies had to adapt to non-free money.

I think the housing market will correct (crash) and tech jobs will be harder to come by for junior folks and people who aren't that great at it. Not a great time to job hop. It won't be horrible like 2008 but it won't be great. Should be over by the 2024 election.
West vs. the rest: Global public opinion one year into Russia’s war on Ukraine
OK sure, any time someone says on the internet that something is sophisticated someone will say it's straightforward. So I guess it's a continuum. The thing you describe is more sophisticated than what they would have to do if they had access to the final layer.
Done! Well, the first suggestion you made anyway :-)

https://github.com/andyk/recursive_llm/blob/main/run_recursi...

def recursively_prompt_llm(prompt, n=1):
if prompt.startswith("You are a recursive function"):
prompt = openai.Completion.create(
model="text-davinci-003",
prompt=prompt,
temperature=0,
max_tokens=2048,
)["choices"][0]["text"].strip()
print(f"response #{n}: {prompt}\n")
recursively_prompt_llm(prompt, n + 1)

recursively_prompt_llm(sys.stdin.readline())
that seems to be only one sample of the kinds of things that showed up. My guess is that it was someone probing whether ChatGPT produces text that is in line with the party line, which would be a prerequisite for deploying it in the PRC.
Would be neat if it wrapped around to BCE for future years.
Anywhere where we can follow updates on this?
I wonder how much bot written replies I read here. Sure it might be all storm in a glass of water (that's what I read in pretty much every top level quote). But we also know that big biz protects it's status quo and they have used bots before.

Familiar with the "dead internet theory"?

Also why do we like HN? Because here I can interact with some thought leaders: this would be exactly the place I'd point my bots at :)

Sorry for the paranoia spread. Take it with a grain of salt.
in input a url as it requested and all it did was show me the video in embedded form. no summarization or anything. id rather just watch it on youtube
"Provincial public health and labour welfare officials last week set up a command centre to search for the cylinder and handle any fallout from the incident."

I felt like the writer really wanted to use that word there.
Classical radio has changed. For one thing, you can get a lot of the stations via streaming, anywhere. If your local station is monotonous, try some other. I like WFMT out of Chicago.

And radio is a good way to get exposed to a lot of stuff without having to study anything.

If you live near a college, check out the faculty recitals, or the advanced students. They will often try things that you won't hear anywhere else, and the live atmosphere is its own thing. Often for free.
To tackle this, I always needed to write a little script for my TypeScript projects that were all being published as ESM:

https://github.com/virtualstate/promise/blob/main/scripts/co...

https://github.com/virtualstate/focus/blob/main/scripts/corr...

https://github.com/virtualstate/navigation/blob/main/scripts...

This same script was replicated to near every repository I have worked on, including making its way into a few different production services where Node.js + ESM was used for deployment

Eventually I had turned into a utility module that could be used wider, which starts to lean into import map generation

https://github.com/virtualstate/impack#usage

You can see it being used here as a function, but can be used as a cli tool too:

https://github.com/virtualstate/listen/blob/033bf8effcbde5c8...
pretty narrow to view ebikes solely as a means to avoid exercise. The list of benefits is long and proven. Regardless, suggesting someone simply dredge up a used bicycle and strap their child to it after a bit of maintenance is unrealistic
Perhaps gpt has some form of loosy logic and loosy axioms? Not as good as a humans in many cases… but still present.
It may also end up with the judge explicitly allowing CDL and slapping them on the wrist for uncontrolled lending. That would be like winning the lottery but it's not impossible.
How can this be decentralized with no ICO?
What is “nihilistic” about it? Why do you think investors invest in a company? Why do you think founders create companies? Most tech companies don’t desire to be “lifestyle companies” where they just want to make enough of a profit to support themselves. Most are looking for an “exit” which is statistically going to be an acquisition.

For instance, out of all the companies that YC has invested in, less than a dozen have gone public.

And once you either accept outside funding, you are immediately at the mercy of the investors whose only goal is to make a profit.

And honestly what Drucker thinks is irrelevant. What’s relevant is what the owners of the companies want - either public or private companies.

What do you think the pension funds and mutual funds want when they own stock in a company? What do you want from your retirement accounts?
I was wondering about this same question today. The reason was a PBS documentary[1] and Jeff Bezos' advice to not make big purchases[2] (which is a stunning stance for the CEO of an online shopping company). I don't know enough to know whether these folks know what they're talking about - I don't think anyone does. Maybe it's a wait and watch game since this is a complex system with millions of variables.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw

[2] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/world/story/dont-buy-tv-...
Commercial real estate feels like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff and not falling because he hasn't looked down yet.
Well, a company doesn't exist to just be profitable. But to maximize profits (mostly).

So it's certainly possible that cutting costs - even when profitable - can increase short-term and long-term profitability.
Every crisis introduces a new type of failure that was not expected. The 2008 came with the realization that the housing market was not as bullet proof as people thought.

This one is no different. It's possible we recover from it very quickly, but it's also possible that the bank run that we saw earlier this month introduce a new type of failures that no one thought was possible. I'm of a curious nature, so I really wonder what's coming.
There are ways to fix it, but none of them are politically palatable - for a couple of generations now, homeowners have come to believe their house is an investment. If you propose any action that will reduce the value of their "investment", you will be voted out at the earliest opportunity.
Unfortunately, I can't see a way this gets fixed under the current political systems in the West, so it will eventually be fixed one of the more old-fashioned ways.
Proof of stake involves lockup of capital, wasting the time value of money (despite it earning a small yield), and also taking on the risk of being slashed.
I like the idea behind this because large AI seems to be highly constrained by co-located computation and the costs associated with it (GPUs and energy).

There are many delivery and cost advantages to running a massive LLM in a distributed P2P fashion.

Weirdly enough, I see this as a real "web 3" opportunity. Corporations running large LLMs could run their models on a decentralized network and pay participants for their contributed computing capacity.

AI most significant headwinds are cost and the pace at which GPU capacity is being built. This seems like a good model to tackle both issues.
Illegal short-term rentals in city’s sights after Old Montreal fire
This is like saying humans aren’t made up of atoms but humans are made up of cells.
https://www.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Hypothesis%20Contrar...
>I applaud twitch for providing more cash flow to all of us, via capital gains and/or dividends.

That's only the math if the layoffs have zero "impact" on the product.
Sonic Pi: Make Music Through Code
Seems like your method is going to be under-represented in the training data and hence prone to error accumulating. Chain of thought works (better, at least) specifically because the model has seen examples of CoT in its data
We have a gigantic housing bubble and banks are holding the bag.
I figure this is the biggest question but if you can jailbreak it you might betting yourself in hot water assuming mainland only access..
yeah, I feel likes its a huge amount of work to address issues that only appear in 2-10% of games. Also, re-sale value or 'authenticity' might be impacted, although I feel like this type of machine I'd keep forever.
Or more like transferring ships while the ship goes down :)
it's less important than you probably think: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=35240914
If all 50 US states came up with the same thing, it's probably hard to do significantly better.

Many states have some method of limiting increases, which helps you budget for the future costs, as long as the rules don't change. Some states, I think Nevada is one, have a program where you can pay an actuarial estimate and be set for the rest of your life as long as you don't move. Many states have programs where you can defer property tax payments until you move or die. Many also have programs specifically to low income seniors and people with disabilities.
I’m naive about HPC, but it’s always surprised me a bit that HPC software seems to be a fairly distinct ecosystem. I’m not doubting it’s for good reasons, but why is a special package manager needed for this domain?
You would also be angry if they wrote "we fired our 400 worst employees because we decided they're not worth their salaries" which also happens to be exactly true.

Up there with anti-whiteboard-interview screeds, the critique-the-tone-of-a-layoff-post comment is a mainstay of the hacker news comment thread: as tiresome as it is uninteresting.
Precautionary demand for money isn't inflationary - it has a low velocity i.e. just sits, in it's precautionary state. [1 for an example during Covid lockdowns in AU].

The identity is MV=PY where M is money, V is velocity, P is the price level and Y is real income. [2]. A precautionary demand has a lower V.

While a rise in narrow money may be expected, there may be a fall in in broader money, typically much larger than M1, driven by a reduction in sought exposure to non bank financial companies.

[1] https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2021/mar/cash-d...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_money
System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Pointer

There are options for pointer size, outline colour and fill colour. Go nuts.
Somehow it’s more demeaning when tech companies self-censor themselves. Case in point - Midjourney.
I guess this starts the countdown clock to the first botnet running a LLM to generate spam content. Maybe I'm just turning in a crotchety old guy who is scared of new tech, but it really seems like as a community we are underestimating the degree to which this will present an existential threat to every site that relies on user generated content.
They probably went after the 'core function' along with the 'emergency library' as a negotiating tactic, to achieve a satisfactory settlement which would shut down the EL quickly and permanently. Perhaps unfortunately, the IA refused to make that deal, so the whole thing is going to court, with somewhat unpredictable results.
In this case it's the site doing that, not the actual beach ball cursor implementation on the operating system.

The animation on the website is "wobbling"
I don't think adding a nice controller and cool games to play would be prohibitedly expensive. But it is an investment and someone needs to take the risk. It's entirely possible that they spend all this money creating this thing and no one uses and just watch films the whole trip.

You're probably better off getting a switch or a steam deck. It has the added benefit that you can finish your game afterwards, after the flight.
...presuming they know they want to ... maybe :)
This still isn't technically dynamic allocation since it always takes a top-k (constant k) tokens from the sequence, so more like dynamic routing, which was explored in Mixture-of-Expert models but only in Feed-Forward blocks and with a different routing scheme.
Chances of someone not having a screen with them on a plane these days are slim. I'd rather they used whatever budget they have for this into better in-flight internet speeds with lower prices. Then there's almost zero need for screens behind seats as everyone can just use whatever they prefer to consume whatever media they normally would.
And a lot of power (probably same or more than the device itself). Some space on the board too. While I think it would be nice to include on the board, it is for sure the better option to not include it and let people use an adapter for their use case.
I'm a jazz musician. Like Gioia said, if it gets any worse than classical, it becomes jazz. But things to seem to have changed since the start of the pandemic. Maybe having everything turned upside down has caused some shifts in listening tastes, and audience demographics. Attendance is good at my jazz performances. A local chamber music ensemble sells out all of its performances.

Some hypotheses: Volume levels. (Mostly) lack of lyrics makes it more conducive to serving as background music, perhaps for working from home. The people who attend my jazz gigs are too young to have grown up during the jazz era.

Maybe it's a blip, but if so, it's a welcome blip.
IIRC classic Mac OS also puts the cursor top left at startup.

I have to admit "where the mouse cursor is at startup" is a very minor niggle for myself, as I rarely restart / shut down computers and the password field for the last user is usually selected and will take typing by default anyway (or after Ctrl-Alt-Del on Windows, if you're old school and turn that on). After sleep modes it could be anywhere, so you're going to be reorientating yourself anyway...
Yes! The compiler is like "hey this won't work because of x, did you want to try y?" and they actually work.
Perhaps you’re overstating the importance of those sites.
Somehow I’ve started to become one of the older people in the room at work, I don’t know how that happened so suddenly :p
Really?

My memory of early Your Sinclair covermount cassettes is definitely that they were stuck on with a strip of tape that usually stripped off some of the cassette label when it was torn off. The tapes weren't even in boxes - gluing them to the cover would have been a recipe for gumming up the reels.
No, each time is different. We just had the biggest and longest bull run in history. The economy moves in cycles. The longer the prosperity move the steeper the correction. Something like this is long overdue.
Yes, also Safari. However I have also read it sends lots of telemetry and user info. No?
> OK so I have windowmaker running on nixos but some windows such as Firefox can't be dragged by the titlebar, only resized. What do??

This is an issue with how said applications seem to expect the window manager to handle some stuff as they do things that normally is up to the window manager, but Window Maker doesn't.

Right now there isn't much you can do aside from having these applications let Window Maker do the window management itself instead of doing it themselves. Some of them, like Firefox, have an option for that (right click somewhere in the Firefox toolbar and select "Customize toolbar" and then from the bottom left corner click "Title bar").

Some applications do not have such an option (e.g. Steam), so for them you need to force it: middle click in the empty space between windows, locate the window you want to have a titlebar for and right click on it while keeping the right button down (the menu disappears if you move it). From the menu select "Attributes" and using the choice box at the top of the window that appears select "Advanced options". Finally check the "Ignore decoration changes" checkbox and press Save. Then restart the application and it should have a titlebar by Window Maker.

Sadly for the latter it'll be on top of whatever titlebar the program has, but IMO it beans not working at all - and as a bonus you have all the additional window management commands available that pretty much no "i'll make my own title bars" program provides, like shading.

> other questions: sometimes right-click for context menu requires a click and hold, other times it doesn't. configurable?

It isn't a matter of configuration (AFAIK anyway), they are different menu types:

"popup" menus appear only while the mouse button is down (note that it doesn't matter what button you click, e.g. choice boxes show popup menus with the left mouse button).

"application" menus can stay on screen. You can also show them like in popup menus by pushing down the mouse button and dragging the mouse and they'll disappear if you release the button, but normally stay on screen until they are hidden to show another menu (you can keep them on screen by clicking and dragging the title - in that case an X button appears so you can close them later). There is one exception to this and is if you try show the same menu twice, the second instance will disappear as if it was a popup menu when you release the mouse button (e.g. if you middle click to show the windows menu and then keep it on screen by dragging it a bit to make it permanent and then middle click again somewhere else to show the windows menu again, a second instance of the menu will appear that will disappear once you release the button).

You can distinguish the latter from the former by the fact that the latter have a title.
Yes, because interest rates clearly need to go a lot higher to get inflation under control around the world, yet banks are already starting to fail from the stress of it at these low rates, and the central banks' bailout mechanism is itself inflationary.

Although, strictly speaking the answer should be no, this is not the start of a new financial crisis, it is a continuation of the 2008 crisis.