skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is everyone in AI so open to stealing people's work

Because it is no more "stealing" than when a human learns from other people's work, and then makes a profit off of it.

> the companies owning it must play by the rules

Nobody has proven that they are breaking any rules.
or "just use syslog-ng"?
Not exactly sure - haven't been able to test myself. I'm holding off on upgrading from an Intel Mac to an M2 until that bug is closed.
Engineer builds custom bike with square wheels using discarded bicycle parts
This crappy quote is always used to justify bad design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism_(psychology...
You may be focusing on the negative aspect of it ( and possibly only one perspective, but I will wait for your response to confirm if that is the case ). As a potential tourist, opinion of others of a given locale will make a difference in deciding whether I will want to visit. In other words, it absolutely makes sense to not only hold, but even seek out opinion of other places. But, in line with what you said, we are not all wired the same way. Still, just because it does not make sense to you does not mean others don't see value in it.
Mitochondria didn't really become advantageous until free oxygen began to increase... so maybe the chloroplast and oxygenic photosynthesis were the more important developments in terms of the evolution of complex life?

Perhaps mitochondria were a key partner to chloroplasts, but I wonder which came first? Or maybe just the free-living chloroplasts were capable of raising oxygen levels, once they'd figured out how to prevent themselves from being oxidized by their own waste products.
> Australia is a continent

Or is it King of the Islands?

CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34
The parent is referring to this article [1], which features JUICE and two other satellites as characters observing humans on earth after the advent of immortality.

It's a great read. It's thoroughly and wonderfully human.

[1] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
Sure, if the company doing it is in the same jurisdiction banning it. But what if it's hosted in, say, Russia?
Matz is nice but that culture's definitely not coming back, anymore than the kind of fun and curiosity that _why brought to us. Maybe it's inevitable as communities grow and people taste success?

Regardless, it's probably better if we leave room for little jokes with each other.
How do you source the info?
You deserve that and much worse for still using Facebook in 2023.
> What stands out for me the most throughout the article, however, is the hostile environment and over-competitiveness "slowing down" the already painstakingly slow research itself (acknowledged by all parties):

We need monetary awards and recognition for sharing techniques. And we need better structures for credentialing people in the sciences. Students with theses which did not work, but which demonstrated good science, should still be awarded doctorates, and in a timely manner without having to exhaust themselves until nearly impossible tasks are accomplished. This is self-evident. I can only think of chauvinism as a reason to not do it this way. Chauvinism and glory hogging.
“It worked when I prompted it” or the challenges of building an LLM product
Isaac Starr and the Rise and Fall of the Ballistocardiograph
I'm sorry, did you mean

[1] "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

:^)
This is the sort of crowd-sourced investigative thinking like when Reddit "Got The Boston Bomber"[1]. Investigators aren't looking at patterns on granite countertops or splotches etc as primary evidence. They may well use that to confirm something but that's not the way the found the guy.

They will have found him because the photo was geotagged to his house, or he's on Discord - his personal credit card has probably paid for nitro or the account is linked to his personal phone for 2fa or something. Everyone on the internet goes full CSI but most of the ways people get caught are really mundane.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/1iv343/the_...
Sort of.

The syntax is different, but close.

SQL 2023: SELECT a.key

PostgreSQL 9.3: SELECT a->'key'

PostgreSQL 14: SELECT a['key']
Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave
That is or is very similar to Winkel tripel
I saw they had audiobooks, then stumbled around trying to just get a comprehensive list of what they had versus their weird “picks” from categories that don’t seem to exist.

Then I finally found something and saw that not only was it not included in my subscription, but the cost was higher than buying the hardcover on Amazon.
> is that the joy is frequently in the process itself

That's fine if you prefer that.

But other people prefer a different process (such as using AI), and that's totally OK.
Lol.. buy 'em a new laptop and a new desk. That'll keep them from leaving for a $30k/y pay hike. Right. Nice shortcut. Quality of life matters more. Better pay leads to better quality of life. But if the salaries are already competitive, I'd say investing in company culture is even more valuable than investing on better computers.
Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?
While a thread of 2k+ MRR is going, I thought it'd be cool to hear from folks who aren't quite at 2k yet.
You might want to investigate the book Flying Blind[0]. It's the true story of how the 737 MAX was cursed from the beginning and is a byproduct of Boeing's haven given up on its engineering culture since the McDonnel Douglas merger.

It's not a safe plane. It's a set of bad compromises which has cost the company more than designing a safe plane from the start.

[0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind...
I hope they have a plan to release DALL-E 3 sometime this year, MidJourney seems to be pulling ahead.
Hmm. It appears to be artificial. The Wikipedia entry says "an artificial open channel" and 'Visit To Places Of Historic Interest In The Aberdeen Area Of Hong Kong Island' from 1967 (at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23890119.pdf) says:

"It was up this valley that Sir George Staunton, the eminent sinologue and Third Commissioner in the Amherst Embassy to Peking in 1816，strolled from the Aberdeen anchorage the following year to visit the village 一 in so doing to give his name to Staunton Creek now, 150 years later, being reclaimed from the sea."

I would not call that a river.

On the other hand, while researching the above I found that Lantau Island, Hong Kong at 147.16 km2 (56.82 sq mi) has the Tung Chung River.

Lantau Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantau_Island

Tung Chung River - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Chung_River

That's smaller than Suðuroy, and smaller than the "small island" of Rinca, making it seemingly a small island with a river.
Years ago, I wrote a primitive portscanner that was deliberately slow to avoid upsetting anyone. It would store hosts and results for scanned ports in a database (it was my toy project for learning SQL) and make sure to only connect to any given host once in a predefined period. Fun times.
Ask HN: Example of your favorite CSV Schema Documentation?
I've been working on an interface that accepts csv, and have been struggling to find good examples of services that have solid definitions of acceptable schema (column names, types, Required/Optional/Constriants).

I'd also be interested in examples that have documented nested arrays, nested objects, or nested object arrays in csv.

I've been thinking about it alot since openAPI/GQL really do solve documentation, and can even autogen from views, but i haven't found something similar for CSV.
It seems to get siderailed very easily? If you start a debate and suddenly say "write a hello world program in C" it proceeds to write it instead of staying on topic.
Tbh, it makes complete sense.
Caveat: I work on Dart so I'm surely biased.

I've heard arguments like this from web advocates for many many years and I've never been able to fully wrap my head around them. Maybe I'm misreading you, but it sounds like you're saying two things at the same time:

1. The web won because it's so amazing for users and has all of these value virtues like standards, interoperability, etc.

2. The web is incredibly fragile and can easily be slain by some other more proprietary technology.

Are these not in conflict? Is the web so amazing and resilient that any competition is doomed to failure, so 2 shouldn't be a worry? Or is the web so flawed and lacking in user value that 2 should be considered a feature and not a bug?

I'm reminded of Gilmore's, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." If technology like Flutter or other "less-webby" things (or Java applets, or Flash, or Shockwave, or whatever) really are used hostile, then I expect users would simply route around them.

I can see that there may be a principle-agent problem in effect: End users would prefer apps built on open web standards, but app developers end up using non-web tech because of misaligned incentives. That's valid. But I generally try to remain optimistic that most developers do want to make things their users like.

There is maybe an argument that users will be happy to use non-web standards tech to their long term detrimeent because they don't know any better, but I personally ascribe zero value to that argument. It just reads to me as pure elitism.
This was shared with me recently, graphical version of similar-ish milestones:
https://www.livingcarbon.com/deep-time
Maybe something from https://www.pcengines.ch/ in Switzerland? Made in Taiwan for what that's worth, using AMD embedded CPUs.
Welcome to the age-old conversation which can well be analog'd as why would someone leave the front door of their house open if they didn't want you walking in? Or checking door knobs?
> You need a mechanism that searches and focuses the space of possible chemistry, that forces life into being.

That's exactly what the infinite monkeys on a typewriter are a metaphor for.

In literal terms, it's trillions of trillions of protein reactions happening along earth's coastlines.

> If you look at the timeline for the emergence of life, I don't think it's one that supports an infinite monkey type of mechanism. It was too fast.

If it literally was infinite monkeys, we'd expect life to emerge near-instantaneously.

The reality is, of course, that it's not "infinite monkeys" but "a whole f-ing lot of monkeys"--the question is whether it's enough monkeys to produce life in the timeline. There's a lot of research that's been done on this, and we have pretty good data. I'm not an expert in this field, but my outside impression from the research I read is that the open question at this point is actually not why it happened so fast, but why it didn't happen faster. If you're actually interested in the numerical justifications for the timeline, the research is pretty well documented, but given you've ex-nihilo declared that the timeline is too fast, I suspect you aren't actually curious, and are instead leading into an argument you want to make.
I care too. Is there a way to contact you?
If you haven't watched the TV series _The Bureau_, you should. That's the kind of plots they're using.
> Assuming the suspect really is guilty, I highly doubt this was how the suspect got caught

The claim isn’t that this is how he was caught, but that it was a breakthrough—an important turning point—in the investigation.

> If this is really the only evidence anyone has

Literally no one has claimed anything like that, only “this is a thing that helped point us in his direction”.
Good list. I would add the evolution of sexual reproduction, 1.2-2 bya. It seems to be a one-time leap and snowballed into the modern complexity of life.
Yeah agreed.

As much as AI has trouble with hands and we can assume that it’s AI because we know what to look for, those hands are not outside the realm of human deformities and/or photography tricks. Pair that with the absolute PR nightmare possible in calling a real human fake just because they don’t fit the expected norms and it’s totally reasonable for judges to accept it as a real photo.
Why are you focused on the countertop pattern? Are you assuming the match wasn't made by a human?
I'll admit, I do not know Elixir very well. As long as it's checked at compile-time or checked across an entire application at startup/import/init, I think it serves the purpose well. The problems I want to avoid is discovery at (production) runtime the shape of data doesn't match what my functions expected.
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
The difference should be that users pay Spotify for a subscription.

Raise the prices if they need to, but don't try and have a subscription + "whatever ad bucks we can make" model.
This is exactly what happens when you replace engineers with bean counters.
No it isn't. 'Not enough art' is basically the exact opposite of the problem we're facing right now. Do you honestly believe that there's not enough music on Spotify? That a two hundred year catalogue isn't enough and you'd rather it be two hundred thousand years?
I can't find the article anymore (and I've looked for it several times in the past) but someone was making the point that open source was essentially an economic phenomenon. Insofar as distribution costs went to zero with the advent of mass-access to the internet then it was inevitable that people would start sharing software. Obviously this takes nothing away from all those early contributors, but it is food for thought.

Mind you while Linux was taking off the BSDs were apparently busy in lawsuits. So, while the zeroing of distribution costs should've benefited them, it seems Linux was at the right place at the right time, minus the baggage.
If you post top secret documents to a discord server, that's a leak. That's a leak even if everyone else on the server is cleared for top secret or even if no-one other than you is on the discord server.
> I understand we aren't a closed system.

Just because you can parrot the phrase doesn't mean you understand it. Your statement " everything in the universe degrades or rusts or tends towards decreasing complexity", which simply isn't true for a local subsystem such as the earth, demonstrating that you do not understand what it means for Earth to not be a closed system.

> But that still doesn't explain to me where the complexity came from.

It comes from energy from the sun forcing trillions of trillions of proteins together at random all along the earth's coastlines. The proteins, forced together, are more complex than the previous molecules. Most of them are unstable, but even a one-in-a-billion chance of forming a stable protein is almost guaranteed to happen when there are trillions of trillions of reactions occurring.
How hypnosis can alter the brain's perception of pain
Yes, I have some minimal knowledge about this cult - please disregard the first link. This was just lazy phone googling for some reference. The second link however is solid.

The stance of large parts of the EA/rationalist/Bay Area scene towards abuse is still very troubling. This rabbit hole goes substantially deep.

Here are some more random links:

https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassmen...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-s...

https://twitter.com/RuffleJax/status/1009140252085243906

I will not link Aella's polls or opinions about child abuse but they'd fit here too
I've seen documents that are claimed to be part of the leak on reddit. Hard to be certain, of course.

And for what it's worth, they were about role-playing games, which limits their impact even if they are bona fide :)
We also make sure to pay market salaries and give raises. This isn't about NOT giving those things. It's in addition to.

Out motto as a software development company is "Engineers First" which is why we make sure they have every piece of equipment they could want and the best workspaces they could have.
I have never seen so much paranoia and conspiratorial thinking from Hacker news than with this story unfolding. Many comments saying "it can't be this easy and dumb, can it?" Ask any government worker who works in classified spaces, and the answer is overwhelmingly yes.
>you didn't invent the most popular programming in the world.

This is such a weird ad hominin (especially from a two-week-old account).

Regardless, the absolute, overwhelming popularity of jquery pre-ES6 goes to show that practically every developer was of the opinion that JS's weak stdlib was a bug, and the community did their best to patch it. ES7+ is leagues better for it, but it still has room for improvement.
It's pretty easy to advocate for another Vietnam/Afghanistan when you don't have any skin in the game, and you have the means to go out into the country and bury your head in the sand.
Unlock doesn't work?
There is a bit of a political history between the symbolists and connectivist that complicates that, basically the Symbolic camp is looking for universal quantifers while the connectivist were researching existential or statistical quantifers.

The connectivists left the 'AI' folks and established the ML field in the 90s.

Sometimes those political rifts arise in discussions about what is possible.

Thinking of ML under the PAC learning lens will show you why AGI isn't possible through just ML

But the Symbolists direction is also blocked by fundamental limits of math and CS with Gödel's work being one example.

LLMs are AI id your definition is closer to the general understanding of the word, but you have to agree on a definition to reach agreement between two parties.

The belief that AGI is close is speculative and there are many problems, some which are firmly thought to be unsolvable with current computers.

AGI is pseudo-science today without massive advances. But unfortunately as there isn't a consensus on what intelligence is those discussions are difficult also.

Overloaded terms make it very difficult to have discussions on what is possible.
A good summary of the available options :) I simply don't know at this point.
There were printers that used seectric balls and also printers that used daisy-wheels. Early dot-matrix printers had large dots and only so-so precision for placing them so they were not "letter quality" if you see an old dot-matrix labled "NLQ" that's "near letter quality" and was accomplished by using overlapping dot-strikes to significantly improve the quality.

You could still tell it was printed on a dot-matrix though; I had one that was 360x180dpi and from a distance it looked fine, but up-close you could tell it was dot-matrix. The ability to print multiple fonts without stopping for far cheaper than a laser printer was nice though.
I'd think somewhere like Nepal that is up in the mountains.
> But quality of life and crime rates are not the same thing.

True. But if you say "shoplifting is not a crime anymore" and then citizens say "I am not going to report my car getting broken into because what's the use?" - then yes, crime rate statistics on these drops like a stone, but did we really improve anything here?
If that's your main issue with the language then Zig is probably awesome. Makes me want to try it in a simple tool.
What nobody talks about is that the average temperature of lunar soil is below the freezing point of water and never gets above the freezing point over day-night cycles.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/19906/constant-lun...

If you buried a chunk of ice under a few meters of soil it might sublimate but if there were appropriate geological trapping structures for the vapor, underground ice could be stable on the moon and could be produced by drilling into it.

Such ice could not be detected by remote sensing the way people have detected signs of water on the moon so far.

Now it's just speculation, you'd need some mechanism for the ice to get there, I'm not so sure if any ice would remain if a comet hit the moon and some of it got buried by a landslide. I think how the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

was made by an iron meteorite but very little of the material was left at the site.
Hardly. We fired one guy when he made a list of $75,000 of stuff.

We encourage people to take time off and force them to at the end of the year if they have not taken a minimum of two weeks off. We don't want anyone to burn out.

Sorry about the typos. I did write the up and didn't proofread it.
Perhaps it was meant to be pronounced like Free Ox, since an ox looks a bit like a gnu (wildebeest)
discover weekly is also my favorite, and i was having the same problem with it hopping around. to avoid needing to search for it, you can save it to your library to make it easily findable next to your other playlists. it’ll still auto-update weekly.
Probably not, both because the PSP can be part of the SIL bringup which you statically link anyway, and because plenty of business customers want a Secure Enclave and the legal world is having a hard time getting paperwork to suggest it's both secure and open at the same time.
Just started using it again. And I'm happy. This is one of the things I missed dearly before moving from Android late last year.
More than a million people have top secret clearance in the US[1]. It's very difficult to ensure security in that context.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/classified-infor...
as a computer scientist and programming languages nerd, I think R is a much better language than Python (comparing the two only because Python is leading in the data science field)

I also believe that the tools available are superior, RStudio is very good IMO.

I wonder why R has such a bad reputation.
Do you mind sharing what UI / component framework you use? It looks great!
No, and you can't remove the PSP without rearchitecturing the processor.

However, they could release a PSP firmware that just loads the x86 cores with your chosen BIOS and then halts. Businesses that want their systems to have management backdoors[0] can use the PSP firmware that implements that functionality, while users that care about Free boot chains can use the minimized firmware.

[0] Is it a backdoor if the owner put it there deliberately to be able to detect regular OS-level viruses?
Video of the SRB leak just prior to the Challenger disaster was quite useful after the fact.
> it's such an obvious net positive for humanity

I think that's nowhere near obvious. But we will see. At this point, everyone is just guessing.
Where is the discrimination here?
If I understand your question it is:

Is it possible to write zig modules which would be liked to the bigger project otherwise written in C, C++ & c?

And moreover, to produce C "blobs" from zig sources which would be then part of the bigger project written in other languages?

I'd also like to know the answer to both!
I do think it’s kind of odd that we, as a country, have decided people are not mentally mature enough to use alcohol or tobacco and yet we’re apparently willing to just hand these junior adults stacks and stacks of sensitive intelligence information. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be held responsible for his actions but I do think part of the blame is also on the system that allowed him access.

Anyone who has been in their early 20s knows the false sense of invincibility that comes with finally being an adult. The simple fact that he did this (and apparently just to impress a chat room of teenagers? yikes!) tells me he lacked the emotional maturity to understand what was being asked/expected of him. And since the leak doesn’t appear to be malicious or “whistleblower” in nature it seems he totally and completely failed to understand the consequences of his actions.
AI Will Replace Outsourced Software Development