skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no fluid bodies on the moon to cushion an incoming asteroid or comet - even if there was an initial gentle capture by the moons gravity, the object would either orbit indefinitely, be cast off, or meet a violent end, scattering atomized material across the surface in a wide debris field. This is why theres so much lunar dust coating the entire surface of the moon, and why that surface is so tremendously scarred. The ice is likely the result of countless violent collisions like this, and the ice crystals that manage to land in shaded craters accumulate while those exposed to the sun quickly sublime away.
More replies are on an identical submission from the previous day here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35546934
We can go the other way:

- Entirely remove intellectual property protection granted by copyright,

- Music is freely copiable. Not like we’re making much money with it anymore.

- Software is free by default. Use SAAS if you don’t want to give away your IP. Did you disclose your code? Too bad, ideas can’t be prevented from being copied.

- No more patent trolls. Find another way to fund drug research.

- AI can train on anything. We make a big leap forward.
So an employer must be allowed to use the employee and their product, even if that employee doesn't want their work to be used that way... this is selfish privilege assumed by the employer?
The owner of a body may not want it to be used the way the employer deems necessary. The artist may not want their art to be used for unethical ppurposes.
The producer of labor and art is taken (paid) or left (to die, penniless). But you're right: their employer is not entitled to the product of their employee's work.
Thanks for putting this so clearly.
No, you’re falling for the creator fallacy.

“How could something so complex have started here? There must be a wizard who made it on rigel 7”

But who made the wizard?

“…”

The problem is, if it could have been created elsewhere then it could have been created here. It’s a meaningless statement. It’s like saying “no she didn’t shoot him, she called a man from mexico and he flew over and pulled the trigger and then gave her the gun and flew back”, you’re just making something up and adding random extra complexity with no evidence.
A connection is unwarranted if AWS gets an abuse letter about it.
I didn't know that. Good idea!
The Modern Transactional Stack
The recommendations were great! I have read all except one. Which mean that it really knows what kind of book I read as well.
Can I ask if you use GPT api for this? or you used your own model.
I'm also interested in the model where it can summarize book, index it and be able to fetch it later.

Thank you!
Where do you host it? At the restaurant itself or at your own venue?
> I'd love to know what you record with and resolution settings to pick?

It's an _extremely_ simple setup. Actual recording is done with Mac's built-in screenshot tool: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721. It's recorded at an arbitrary window size I eyeballed the first time, that now I probably have to stick to forever (because if they're all the same size, I can reuse parts to avoid re-recording unnecessarily).

All of this is suboptimal (using 1080p would have helped, for starters, since lots of tools work better with standard resolutions) but it doesn't really matter, it just annoys me mildly one day a year and that's it.

IMO: if you're at the start, unless you have a super unique situation, I wouldn't look at automating videos or perfecting the recording setup at all - just ship something barely acceptable and see if it works, and then focus on pain points that actually turn out to be blockers later. Getting a core product into real people's hands and getting real feedback ASAP is more valuable than tweaking the video resolution or anything similar!
WebGPU and Rust Terminal Application
Show HN: Browser extension template: Clean architecture, React and shadcn/UI:)
I'm the author of the HLS Downloader extension (reached 180,000 weekly active users, 1.3k stars), and 180 forks).

Over the past few years, I've noticed many people forking my repository, so I thought creating a template for people interested in the same architecture would be helpful.

The template is still "in beta mode," so any feedback (or support) will be helpful.

Link: https://github.com/puemos/browser-extension-template
Good. I am actively working on the front lines of the Ukraine war in a humanitarian capacity.[1]

The danger posed to civilians and soldiers by stolen intelligence is real, and the cavalier sharing of such documents without regard to the consequences is, and should be, a serious crime punishable to the fullest extent of the law.

[1]https://ukraineaidinternational.org
Batteries don't like staying at 0% or 100%. They don't like extreme temperatures. And lastly, they don't like cycles.

I'm not entirely sure how the internal power routing works, but my understanding is that it's not adding cycles to your battery if you're using the power as it's being added, even if it's going through the battery.

You'll likely see more degradation from the wireless charging waste heat effecting the battery.
Oh dear. Less than a year.

This is what happens when businesses follow and chase short-term hype cycles and end up wasting time and money in the end. The return on investment of this acquired startup is exactly $0.

Facebook on the other hand with the Instagram acquisition gave returns into the tens of billions of dollars.
That's an assumption that has not been tested in modern times. At least in the past, an artist could sell their painting.

And even if the assumption proves to be true, the volume will decrease dramatically as people are no longer allowed to make a living to create their art.

And no, Patreon and its ilk is not a sufficient replacement, not for full time jobs. It mostly doesn't even replace a job for the (comparatively few) people on it today.

EDIT: I for one will miss movies like "Everything Everwhere All At Once", which could not have been made as an "impulse" project.
I found this book in my local library when I was in college, it was a really fun read. I had recently finished the OS course which used PintOS[1] and wanted to learn more about the development process. Unfortunately my C is still fairly rudimentary, and at this point it's going to be a bit longer before I attempt to follow Linus's path.

1: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs140-spring20/pint...
A effective trick I learned about retaining engineers
Spoke with Mike at a couple of Railsconfs a few years ago (before I got into Elixir). Really great guy.
"Time-to-print" on receipt printers can be quite fast, but again, the thermal paper would have an obvious issue if used for thermal events ;)

(I love the POS acronym - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMgtywYSknk )
I did a few rounds with an AI on this topic, so excuse me if there are inaccuracies, but:

- According to a study conducted NASA, a 1 mm layer of polyethylene reduces solar and cosmic radiation by approximately 50%

- A 1mm, 1m^2 layer of polyethylene weighs approximately 0.92kg

Maybe the polyethylene would decay, but maybe it can also be remanufactured, harvesting the contaminates in the meanwhile?

That said, this all implies that working under a polyethylene sheet of 5mm would reduce exposure to about 33 mSv a year (assume 8hrs a day working on surface, 260 days/yr).

That said, Maybe robots can work on the surface instead?
“Companies owning it” is presumably not what the parent had in mind (or at least, not mainly). People should have access to locally-running AI just as megacorps do. And I don’t think it’s reasonable to require licensing for every little thing used to train those, much like we (hopefully) wouldn’t require people leaving the cinema to be memory-wiped to prevent them from stealing creative cues from the film they just watched, if memory wiping was a thing.

> why do y'all think "ai" is something with a mind of its own that just runs about and does things?

Because GPT-4 is already capable of doing this (very poorly) if incorporated into a larger system that provides it with REPLs, internet access, an initial goal, and some form of memory. GPT-5 will be more capable, and AI will only get better at this.
China’s AI strategy is likely “annex Taiwan”.

After that, they will decimate global gpu supply and they can use their newfound lead in compute to win the race.
You Exec started as a side project, ARR at $2.2m now — but decreasing
I don’t know if that is a good example.

I could say that “everything is relative”, but that’s an absolute statement so it’s contradictory. However, whole philosophies—coherent ones—have been built on this premise. Or at least I am aware of one.

You basically have to bootstrap it with a segmentation of “truth” into “absolute” and “relative”. But as you develop it you need the “absolute” part less and less, like scaffolding for a finished building.
What's the problem with traffic cameras? They seem fairer and more effective than discretionary police enforcement.
And they will deserve to. The point of copyright wasn't to bar anyone from using any work anywhere. It was to encourage artists to create art. Doing it by protecting the work they create was just a mechanism. The current mechanism of almost perpetual copyrights and just constant nagging over things which don't include a recognizable semblance of the original work is just insanity.
Creative workarounds like this is why I love hacker news. :)
As a former user of both (for work), I agree and would never use either for my own projects when I can easily set up a self-hosted cookieless matomo instance.

Otoh, my former compliance officer much preferred using MS's product since it explicitly states that it's GDPR and CCPA compliant, while regulator and court decisions against google analytics were piling up in one of the markets we served (EU).
https://getoban.pro/ would like to have a word... It's apparently making good money
That looks really cool.
Like we don’t need a (sample priced) license to listen to songs, AI should be able to use regular music subscriptions to listen to music and create new music.

This may eventually result in regular music subscriptions being priced closer to sample pricing.
I agree with you but this is likely just the opinion of us techies. Not sure if it generalizes to most people.
That's an echo-chamber, especially if the closed group is consistently aligned in their goals so that they're predisposed to want the same things from the research. The entities would have to be arranged so that they're asserting checks-and-balances on one another.
I'm building Pirsch Analytics [0], a privacy-friendly web analytics tool. I think it took the two of us ~1.5 years to get to $2000 MRR. Currently we're setting just above $4000 MRR.

It started as an experiment for my personal website and I was in the same position as you're right now. We were already working on a Notion like app to take notes, but didn't make any money and probably went into the wrong direction. As my prototype seemed to work quite well, we decided to turn it into a product.

My initial goal was to do server-side analytics without the downsides of parsing access logs, but of course we now also have a "regular" JS snippet integration.

You can learn more about our journey here [1] and on our blog [2]. Let me know if you have any questions!

[0] https://pirsch.io

[1] https://pirsch.io/about-us

[2] https://pirsch.io/blog
Several people have observed that in a world where LLMs are widely influential, original creative thought will become even more of a valued differentiator than it already is.
Author here! Happy to answer any questions the HN community might have about my experience with SvelteKit.
The only guy I knew who used commercial unixes at home back then, lived in Seattle and loved to play games.

Even got his girlfriend interested in them, which was unusual at the time.

Come to think of it, I remember one day some government goons took him away, right around that big nuclear scare. And no one has heard from him ever since.

Hmm.
Are these documents actually leaked...?

It seems lots of journalists have them, and none of the public.

And none of the journalists will just publish the actual complete documents.
It would go back to the best reason: for the joy of creating. The field would be reduced to those who enjoy making art for the sake of making art. It would also do wonders for filtering out the amount of crap that people produce. We would all have a much more rich and varied diet of art to appreciate.
New Bitcoin Financial Attack
I talked to a kid about research he hadn’t seen before and I wasn’t impressed by the language or the content.

TBF, he was a kid and he didn’t know why I was talking about. But I think it’s ok to generalize to all humans.
Oh sure, this is all wild speculation. It's fun though.
Wait, does this mean that Linux what programmed on MINIX?
Can you define a hairy version of a function that misleads at every point? Ie

Take a well known function: sin(x). Call it G

Now make a function H that makes hairy version of functions. H takes a function f, a slope m, and a probability p.

H returns a version of the function where every value is the close to f(x), and p percent of the points have a derivative of m. The remaining points have the job of undoing the derivative of m and jumping back to f(x).

If you are dealing with real numbers then things can get very hairy without ever deviating from f(x). You could turn p up to 99.999999% and m to a crazy slope.

(I am not a mathematician, I don’t know if these musings are misguided)

My point is that if you had a hairy function, you wouldn’t be able to use gradient decent on it, because a derivative takes the slope at a point, and these slopes are misleading. However, you could use a numerical derivative, that plots the slope between a point and another point separated by a non zero distance D. The hairiness would not be detected.
It can vary company-by-company, but many contractors are their own little company and use the tool they need; a $250 battery is nothing if they need to keep working.

They also may not even bother warrantying a dead battery or tool unless it is painlessly easy (literally give it back to Home Depot when there to get something else), since the time spent isn't worth it.
He was stabbed in San Francisco. Everyone and their mother complained about the crime and homeless problems there and blamed the "progressive policies" for his death. Musk too chimed in obviously...

Turns out the main suspect is another tech guy who probably did that. Not a homeless criminal and not fault of these "progressive policies". Crickets, no one walks back all the terrible things they said.
Yes. That’s exactly how it works. Here is a brilliant one admitting to JUST that: https://youtu.be/8rHTff55fq4 (at the end)
Well the good news is, from everything I’ve seen in this leak, the info has been harmless.

Lamest “leak” of all time tbh.
Almost looks like one of those 'leaked to the media, but please let us review any article before you publish it' type leaks...
He pushes the pseudoscience of Ayurvedic "medicine" and gets rich off of it.

More to the point, though, it's a matter of keeping the place clean: Pick up the small pieces of trash before the trash-spreaders think they're in good company and this place really becomes a dump.
Impact sites of larger asteroids are also great targets for mining operations. For example there's some speculation about the gigantic impact crater on the far side of the moon containing a gigantic metal lump below the surface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole%E2%80%93Aitken_basi...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nasa-moon-mass-crater-met...
Why shouldn't people be able to earn a living with their originality and skill? Sounds like envy to me.
It's an API for ensuring work gets done in a specified order.

Like opening the jar before sticking a knife into the peanut butter.
A full AI video codec redesign could yield some powerful benefits (especially on the generative side), but there are solid gains even on the existing codecs.

Shot or scene based detection can be used to place your I, P, and B frames in better locations for example.

For those that don't know, an I frame is a keyframe, a still image. P and B frame are predictions off of other frames (such as a keyframe). Frames within the same shot or scene are likely to be similar to one another, so having awareness of that contextual information can help you place for example a keyframe at precisely the start of that shot or scene, and predict everything in that shot or scene off of that.
HK (pre~2020) had and Singapore has rule of law.
You act as if some percentage less than 100% of Ruby users have extensive experience with JS as well...

OK, maybe it's only, say, 96% of Ruby users, or 100% of Rails users at least
Nope, I haven't and I also didn't mention or suggest any actual arms race. My point is that any policy regarding AI (or any policy for that matter) is going to be hard to enforce when including potential (economically) "rogue" states, just that.

Now, if you have any information about AI and China, enlighten me. The more one knows the better.

PS/edit: I need more information about your last ghost edit. China (and others) would say otherwise about IP laws. If anything I would at least say that innovation can be either cut or assured through IP laws depending on the domain/technology, but it is difficult to conclude that absolutely for all cases.
It always seems the people with strange noises in the background, or audible phone alerts, or making comments to their pets, or chiming in when someone else is talking, are usually a boss.
Horse doors stable bolted?
I'm pretty sure Linus used Doom to stress-test the memory-management, not Quake. I have had a quote in my stash for ages:

I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few
months. I just love debugging ;-) -- Linus Torvalds
Oh, goody, can't wait for Nestle to buy up the land and sell it for 100x profit.
I'm pitching it to the data science department of the company I work for (huge insurance company in my Country) next week.

They do a lot of prototyping from CSV/parquet sources in Python and R.

I've waited to show them Livebook because Elixir syntax is somewhat alien to many, but now that the Livebook team has integrated ML models and dataframes (Explorer through polar.rs) as smart cells, I think they have a killer feature in their hands, much like Liveview was for Phoenix framework.

Let's see how it goes, I'm fairly optimistic about it.
Is there any plans for making Livebook embeddable in regular JS apps?
Show HN: NPM Time Machine
Hey y'all!

I'd like to share a small utility I wrote to help with upgrading outdated JS projects:

https://github.com/exlee/npm_time_machine

Backstory:

Some time ago I was tasked with upgrading multi-module nodejs project. It was quite complex in structure, very much alive and in development except for its libraries that weren't updated in years.

Long story short A LOT had changed throughout the years including testing libraries, toolkits, transpilers and more. Whatever approach I took, the result was a big ball of unmergeable diff^Wmud.

When discussing options with colleagues someone jokingly suggested we should've build time machine instead. NPM Registry graciously provides exact release date for prior versions so building one actually was within realm of possibilities ;-)

Since I couldn't find utility that'd allow me to pin package.json "in-time" I wrote my own. It worked nicely and fulfilled its purpose but as it was contracted work I left it behind. Problem stuck with me, though, so with "Rewrite Everything in Rust" spirit I decided to recreate it and share it.

Resolving JS dependency hell is something.. different, but that approach worked for me, so maybe it'll help someone else too.
But if we are to create GAAP for AI, there is a lesson to be learned from the evolution of GAAP itself. The systems of accounting that we take for granted today and use to hold companies accountable were originally developed by medieval merchants for their own use. They were not imposed from without, but were adopted because they allowed merchants to track and manage their own trading ventures. They are universally used by businesses today for the same reason.
I think the content of this post is pretty bad and a lot of it is bullshit. But I disagree with your logic here.

You should not flag a post based off of character you should flag a post based off of the content.

Deepaks reputation should not preclude his article from getting posted here if the post is genuinely good.

Let's focus on the statement he is making himself rather then judging the person behind the statement.

Either way, like I said I think the whole discussion on arbitrary definitions of random words is bs, but that is besides the point I am making here.
Should I be surprised that a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, in the intelligence wing, had access to these sort of documents? Or is this expected? Was this part of a larger organizational failure, or just one man's betrayal?
Honestly at this point it's not about who is right, it's about who has the bigger legal team. So yes, I think Disney can sue and possibly win. Copyright system has not made sense in a while now.
Composition is not sequential in a pure, lazy language with a graph reduction runtime like Haskell.
Setting the actual product aside for a moment, I must commend this as one of the most outstanding demonstrations I have encountered on Hacker News in recent memory. The seamless user experience, which required no login, provided clear and concise information about its functionality, and operated flawlessly upon first interaction, is truly impressive.

People should hold this up as the gold standard of presenting their product to a wide range of people here.
Worse, if someone does knock on your door, it's a safe bet you're about to be scammed.
Flown on a 737 Max many times and honestly never thought about it twice since it was re-instated. All airplanes should undergo the level of scrutiny this one does.

It's probably a form survivor bias: https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/survivorship-bias especially when news media is involved since they amplify sensationalism in hopes to generate ad revenue.

Glad to see it's under intense scrutiny and problems are being identified, addressed, and fixed, just sad not all planes get this much attention. It's not like every other manufacturer is perfect and nails it every time with riveting success.
S3, S4, R6, and reference classes. To be fair they are situational and not one size fits all. The stricter ones are mainly used in biostats where significant metadata makes more sense in OO. S3 is nice and easy, primarily just a list with dispatches. Everything else is less so.
There are two "they"s involved in the conversation but generally when using someone else's stuff the more apt question is "why should I have an expectation I can use their stuff however I want without limit".

For the "they" of your provider, who is held accountable for allowing abusive traffic, the goal is to provide you outbound connectivity but to do that they also need to ensure they don't get de-peered or their network ranges blocked for hosting abusive traffic. Even for things which don't transit a 4th party there is negative incentive to let your customers abuse each other just because the addresses are reachable. This almost always results in automated systems with limited incentive for good uses of port scanning to be allowed.

For the "they" of the end system is (most likely) they didn't make the entire system available to you, just some select services for use in a certain way (e.g. loading their website). Doing that does not provide them an obligation to continuously allow all traffic received at the address to be processed and it's very likely they'll just block you entirely as another layer of defense.
Then instead of the linnux and lynux pronunciation confusion we'd have freaks and free-ax.
If it's derivative and transformative, is it actually a copyright violation?
Remember NFTs ripping off the work of others? Same crowd.