skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In its early days, the FSF used to send out tapes with “GNU” and charged (considerable, if fair) fees for media and labour, because FTP access was difficult to come by outside academic circles. The webpage can’t be that old (the web itself being younger), but still dates from the times when it might have made sense to buy a consumer Linux distro in a store, as a bunch of CDs in a box (I still have mine somewhere).

In the world of pervasive broadband and cheap hosting, I don’t think this business model could work—everybody you release your stuff to will just upload it to a public site. Red Hat will terminate the support contract in that case, which to me feels like a legal exploit I’m kind of conflicted about.
It's hard to take the article seriously, when it claims pictures of 737s breaking from same points as evidence of substandard components. There will be always weakest points in the fuselage, which give away first when you crash the plane. I think the Turkish airlines in particular stayed intact surprisingly well, considering how it was stalled and fell like a rock.
IBM Sued for Giving Chip Secrets to Intel, Rapidus
The article is talking about his private fortune. The fortune of the royal family/the monarchy/the crown is of course much larger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate
Pretty sure this is equivalent to solving the Halting Problem, which is... difficult, to say the least. But why should the OS try to stop you from making logic errors? Test your state machines. Test every transition you're interested in. In practice, it's not that big of an issue, and programs hang for more mundane reasons.
They've already got red light cameras all over Illinois, so I wouldn't be surprised
Nintendo's War with 1Fichier Is Not Over – But Could Be for $0.00
Pretty sad that Ukrainian and Russian human lives probably didn’t enter any of that equation as having any value.

It’s likely extremely negative value when properly integrated into future potential outcome. For example the “badwill” it will generate from relatives and decedents of all the dead.

I doubt fueling war is ever a good strategy in the long run.
Internet-scale BGP is a nightmare, and it's a miracle that it works so well. But what makes BGP so nightmarish in a private enterprise network? As a software engineer who pivoted to infrastructure, I find that BGP is a lot better than the series of proprietary link-level SLAs that it replaced.
>How much of a setback would disaster be?

SpaceX has followed a tech startup-like model of iterative development AKA "move fast, break things", in which many rockets go boom and (as saberdancer said) every boom is studied to reduce the odds of the next one go boom. Basically an edit-compile-debug loop writ large. This is why SpaceX's official countdown schedule states "excitement guaranteed" at T-0:00.

>Would SpaceX keep going, or would failure leave room for competitors to take over? (If there are competitors? I don't even know tbqh.)

As saberdancer said, there is no serious competitor. Rocket Lab has achieved ~~reusability~~ recovery of small rockets and has a good launch record, but a) has not yet figured out how to get them to land other than on the ocean and b) can't launch them weekly/daily like SpaceX. Bezos's Blue Origin actually landed rockets before SpaceX, but only suborbitally. ULA (US) and Arianespace (Europe), the two large commercial-payload providers pre-SpaceX, aren't at the point of test launches of any reusable rockets.

The above is all before Starship, which if it works will give SpaceX a) a fully reusable launch vehicle (existing SpaceX rockets' upper stages aren't reusable), and b) the ability to launch gigantic payloads. The combination of the two will further massively cut launch cost. I've read that even if Starship is fully expended, it will still be the same $2700/kg that existing SpaceX rockets cost, with that aforementioned gigantic payload capacity.
FWIW I opened a new tab and uploaded a different PDF, then proceeded to ask it about the previous PDF.

It swears it has never heard of it or anything about the previous PDF (rather, it suggests you go search the web).

So, at least it doesn't seem to leak your upload to other users. But I wonder what it does with the info.
Thank you for a textbook example for denial by retreating into definitions yoga

It’s not only textbook ‘confidently wrong’ (which is easy when you have strong opinions in a rapidly moving field) it also is a great counterpoint to ‘but LLMs hallucinate” because humans do that all the time too as seen here.

Spoiler:

- GPT4 can be given arbitrarily large long term memory via tools/plugins, vector stores, etc. It matters not whether that’s a feature of the model or an external tool made available to it, the result is the same.

- It’s completely unbounded by what it was trained on because it can be given tools to access any data, from google to specialized databases. It matters not if it has that feature in the model or it was made available to it as an external tool

- It can absolutely prioritize and plan, you literally just have to ask it and loop on itself. You missed LangChain and ChatGPT plug-ins to only name a few prioritization frameworks.

- There is absolutely no evidence that it cannot be creative and plenty evidence to the contrary. To deny this one has to create a definition of creativity that excludes AI. With access to an almost infinite supply of cultural information, it can expose you to novel ideas reframed given the right set of tools and temperature.

Sure we can pretend there is a universally accepted definition for AGI and even pretend it’s the one you have chosen - but it’s like arguing with a Taifoon on whether it’s a Hurricane. In terms of outcomes - all the same.
To be fair, I think a lot of the time a company's initial product is developed/sold in a way that is unsustainable for profitability, in order to attract users/customers/etc. Think "growth hacking", etc. By the time such a company is bought, it's already at the point where they need to start focusing on long-term profitability anyway, which means cutting costs and actually finding a plan to make money. This always needs to happen eventually, and typically being bought (or IPO'ing, etc) is an impetus for this change.
If they are going to hold volunteers responsible for their work, they should pay them. If I'm planting trees on earth day, and someone hands me a dollar, am I now paid, and now responsible if the tree falls on someone.
graphviz on a dot file to PNG, and then slap that bad boy in the README. Boom. Done.
Then it wasn't lawfully gained at the time? Can you prove in court the laws at the time forbed that gain? If so take it from them with interest and punitive damages.
Hey killjoy, your reply reads a lot like the conservative father of a love-smitten youngster.
Actually, i can enjoy it without taking responsibility and you literally can't stop me
100% this! One of the worst projects to reason about I have ever worked on (and I have worked on a lot of trash) was when a colleague insisted on implementing a state machine in a system that tracked voucher (offer) redemptions. State machines do have their place but coordinating business logic with one is a bad idea IMHO

This same colleague had implemented a similar FSM (flying spaghetti monster as known by the team) in an FX (foreign exchange) platform at a previous company. Which after a job change I got the pleasure of experiencing, nobody in the team knew how it worked and everyone was petrified of making changes
A good way to think is that all code is a state machine, and you want to pick the right abstractions for that state to suit your task. Sometime the status field is enough. Sometimes you need something more complex. And developers are forcefed state machines. It is called JIRA, when it won't let you close the ticket and you need to hunt down someone who is an admin to fix it :-)...
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International law is not the same thing as the EU dictating laws that they want to apply internationally.

It think it's totally reasonable to say that you didn't vote for any EU legislators, couldn't even if you wanted to, and they have as much right to tell you what to do as the Kremlin does - zero.

If your own elected representatives want to enter into an enforcement or reciprocity agreement with the EU on this matter, that's fine, but until then extra-territorial regulation of technology is a pretty clear moral overreach.
I could use that book
The parent I was replying to was explicitly mentioning the wealth of the royal family, not just the king.
Certainly it's not a perfect system, but I think a lot of these questions could be addressed.

Party affiliation could be determined by the percentage of the popular vote a party receives in the presidential election (or there could be a separate question on the ballot for what party you want to appoint judges on your behalf). So party affiliation or independent status wouldn't matter, just who an individual votes for. That wouldn't be perfect, for example I generally vote for one of the major parties even though they don't actually represent my views that well; however, it would still provide at least some balance of power that is currently lacking.

I'd envision third parties being handled in the same way that countries with proportionate representation do. As I understand it, a party gets a proportion of the seats equal to it's votes and small parties can band together so that collectively they have enough votes to get a seat.
You realise you're allowed to use more than one state machine right ?
Yeah the banh mi roll is a modification on the french roll with the exact same goal that you want for a philly cheesesteak I bet.
No, but it makes it fairly likely that they were exposed to the fundamentals, like a lack of a degree makes it likely they weren't. "Well, actually, not EVERY CS major knows their fundamentals!" is not nearly as strong of an argument as people seem to think.
> I know where you are going

You probably don't.

> human technology is energy intensive, wasteful

I agree.

> and won't save us

In that case we better lay down in the sun and die peacefully. Because human technology is the only thing which can save us. What else there is?
E2E rocket travel is absolutely not realistic and will never happen in the next century or so.

Also it will not be 30 minutes from actual city to actual city and it will not be a first class price ticket (10-20k) for that, but actually more like x10 times higher. And that IF Elon's fantasy Starship price of 2mil/launch happens. If actual launch price will be 20 mil, then this theoretical E2E ticket will be x100 times more expensive than fist class ticket.

And that not even mentioning several dozen independently blocker issues to this zany idea. How come people still repeat it on the tech site?
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(French): https://www.twitch.tv/hugolisoir

Though I bet that if youtube is blocked at your workplace, so is twitch.
Sure, but it's still not really a democracy if the people judging or representing you don't reflect you.
There's a graph here: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/physgeoglabmanual1/chapter/la...
look at all these libraries that i package with my distributed software:

https://github.com/Capsize-Games/aihandler/blob/master/setup...

On top of that, there are dependencies for each of those libraries.

i don't know the names of any of the people that wrote any of that code and I don't intend to dig into it.
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Meanwhile, archive.org might get killed off by a lawsuit.
The problem isn’t what they store, but what they produce. a « database of songs » is a problem only if gives you access to the copyrighted content. Wikipedia contains the key characteristics of millions of songs (aka their names and author) and yet nobody complains about it.

Those AI produce original content. The means by which they produce it shouldn’t be relevant.
Honestly, seems fairly low considering how much tourist economic value the royalty generates for Britain, which is something like £23 billion pounds a year in (total) spending alone. If the monarchy and associated “living history” traditions ceased to exist, I’d imagine that the UK would get a significantly less amount of tourism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_Kingdo...
It will wreck it from both sides: marketer get paid less, and the new marketing word soup will be drivel. If your marketing can be done by AI that isn't AGI then it will just suck. Subtly suck. Sort of a uncanny hill (looks good to the boss, but silently bores the audiences). Might be good for SEO though, to get some cost effective pseudo-advertising via. Google organic search.
There is a spectrum of perspectives on this topic. The "free software" maximalist side would argue that there are two ideas, free "as in beer" and free "as in freedom"... and they will typically say that anything that isn't free "as in freedom" does not conform to their view of what is in the spirit of open source. Then there's the other side of the perspective which argues that open source is being strip-mined by hyperscalers and that new licenses with very specific classes of restrictions aimed at protecting the developers are needed. That latter group typically would argue that the OSI is realistically controlled by the hyperscalers and hence it's all quite nuanced. It's a classic political debate with extremes on all sides and the rest of us having to survive somewhere in the middle
I don't particularly like Kubernetes at all, and while I like Kafka it's definitely overkill for the kind of system discussed in the article. But I gotta say, 87%? What the hell? I had >98% uptime with the first Kafka tooling I ever built, and that was 3 nodes, shared machines with the ZKs, producers/consumers split across three cities, and processing 10x the traffic they're talking about; maintained by just me on medium-range Hetzner boxes.

It feels like there's something deeper hiding here, more along the lines of "our developers really don't / can't care about how the software is operating in production."
In a download situation, is a US site providing data to someone in the EU, or is the person requesting data from someone in the US? ;-)
I'd argue not that much actually _riding_ on this, it might just blow up on the launchpad or it might go up in the air. Either way they will try again in a few months.

So the difference between success (defined by musk as getting far away enough from the launchpad not to damage it) and failure (rud on pad) is a few months on the development timeline and money to rebuild the (quite complicated) tower.

Will be fun to watch either way, unless its a scrub.

If they have, like, 3 consecutive launchpad explosions over the next few years, then maybe we'd start talking about the whole project being in trouble.

If it actually does the whole flightpath then that will be pretty amazing.

The other question, why is this important: Its the biggest, most re-usable most ambitious rocket ever made. The 33 engines, apart from being numerous, are of a design more ambitious/challenging than any other rocket engine we've ever seen.

(edit: engine adjectives)
Isn't gravity just a fundamental force? Could it be matter reacting to gravity? Light is energy but gravity is not energy and has no mass so how can it create something out of nothing? How is hawking radiation even possible unless something else was involved?
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Not feasible to do license changes on larger projects.
Hold up, is anyone hosting anything other than non-nsfw content on imgur?
Let's estimate that it's current input limit is 20 or so paragraphs, and that it's capable of zero-shot learning as observed by many of the experimenters on the system.

For every 20 paragraph thesis about the world around us, how often do you think someone meaningfully innovates and changes meaningfully our understanding of the world around us, and it's fundamentals?

Consider, like, classical logic. It's pretty much done. You have the universal gate sets, and any novel functions are just going to be an mxn-mux. Most other such general concepts are essentially figured out and have had their applications recorded, explained, demonstrated.

Sure, biographical information and history changes on a whim, but no one is requesting artificial clairvoyant intelligence.

I suppose you could have the model pontificate and assess the truth of its own argumentation (ask it to generate outer-product concepts, ask it to reassess assumptions in current models) but it will quickly learn its own language that will be mutually unintelligible with the corpus of current human knowledge it has been trained on.

Why does the underlying model need to change on a whim, in your opinion?... on what whim?
Aren't judges supposed to apply the rule of law regardless of political affiliation? Isn't the law meant to be blind to such things?

The fact that it does in fact matter (in some cases a lot!) in practice is a bit a bigger problem than the judges' age.
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I think the issue most of the time is that you only start with two states, and you can avoid complexity by not implementing a FSM.

But suddenly requirements change, and you have 4 or 5 new states that could go back and forth. The original approach ends up being way more complex than implementing a FSM in the first place; or even, than implementing the FSM when you add a third state.
Agree about cheese wiz being gross, but American cheese is fine too. I do like provolone + marinara sauce ("pizza steak"), though.

(I've had better steaks in Philly suburbs and NJ than in the city itself, too.)
aren't there already completely fictional pop-stars whose songs make a profit. (in japan i believe)

using AI to generate such hits is only the next step. cheap to produce and the rest is marketing
I was responsible for creating a piece of shareware called 'RADBench' that part-eliminated the need for the second external disk drive, instead copying the essential utilities onto a re-usable RAM disk that survived reboot. It was a bit like having a hard drive, but without actually having to buy one!
I always see others complain about Makefile syntax, especially the whitespace, but that is, to me, one of the smallest problems with make. For myself, the top problems are:

- No tracking of changes to build rules. The build rule of a target should be one of its dependencies.

- No protection from dirty builds. Your sources root is also your output root, and make does not help you keep it clean.

- No options for extending the build to use alternate up-to-date checks (e.g. not mtimes), caches, execution mechanisms, etc.

These all have workarounds, but they require the developer to manually include the workarounds in every build rule.
this appears to be a(n incorrect!) gpt comment
>As a US based developer, would I have the option to ban people in the EU from using my software? It's the only way I would be able to keep distributing.

?!?!?!?!??! No, just tell the EU to go fuck itself. If like me you're in the US they don't have any jurisdiction! It's not our problem. How the hell did the entire concept of sovereignty apparently evaporate on HN? The EU is absolutely no different than China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea in this regard. They can pass whatever domestic laws they want. They can also setup a Great Firewall and block off countries they don't like. But if you don't live there and you have no operating presence there then it doesn't matter if their people come and access our sites and services, anymore than if they flew over to the US and access it from here. It is Not Our Problem. Software is protected by the First Amendment. I don't respect blasphemy laws or any of that other crap either.

>edit 3: ok that last bit is over the top. i understand i have to follow international law... my American-ism is kicking in.

That's not "Americanism" nor over the top in the slightest bit. There is no such thing as "international law" in any way that's the same as domestic law. Countries can agree upon treaties, which they then translate into domestic laws for their own citizens same as any other law. But there is no World Government, and what the EU passes matters only to the extent you wish to have a physical presence in EU jurisdiction or the US agrees to the same thing and passes domestic law to that effect. Big Tech players and such obviously fall into the first bucket, at their scale and for what they offer physical presence is vital, which naturally puts them in the jurisdiction of wherever they are up to the limit of being willing to leave.

For those of us who are just single devs putting out software, free or commercial, if someone from the EU wants to go after us for liability they'd have to do so in US court under US law.
Did anyone else get an emergency alert test at 4:45am EDT?
Seems like an explanation is due.
We differ very much on what the EU should/shouldn't do. You can already work for a company in one country and live in another. It might take a bit of effort on the employee's side, but that's it. Standardization of income taxes is a death knell for politics, and a sure-fire way to make the EU fail.

International banking is already settled, pensioning too. Insurance isn't needed. You can insure yourself in your new country.

> make it simple for one company to operate and hire in the whole Union

Oh, I see. You're only in it for the money.
> which is not the purpose or goal of the union

That depends who you ask.

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

"Ever-closer union", the development of a common security and defence policy, and the introduction of a common currency all look quite federalist to me.
This was my thought too, I hear most people get a bit jumpy when they see two state machines, like its too many moving parts.
> If I'm planting trees on earth day, and someone hands me a dollar, am I now paid, and now responsible if the tree falls on someone.

Afaik I can't just plant trees anywhere I want and might be liable for damage I do while planting trees or if I plant it unsafely so it falls on someone.

Can someone correct me on that? It came up at least one other time in this thread already.
Certainly, this is very normal. It makes sense to have a high rate of tax on extremely high earners!

But in the US the top tax rate kicks in at $539,901 (for a single person! Higher for married). In Ireland it kicks in at the princely sum of €70,044. We tax people on decent but not incredibly high incomes as though they're on Ferrari money. You might think "well that's Europe for you" but in Germany the highest rate of tax kicks in at €277,826 per year.

And for your taxes you get:

ridiculously expensive childcare (€1000 per month per kid - compared to nothing or a couple hundred a month per kid in other EU countries)

a collapsing HSE (wait times for pediatricians can be a year+ public, and I had to spend hours on the phone to find a private one who'd see my 3 year old in under a month)

(almost all) religious schools that still ask for a "voluntary" contribution

mediocre public transport

US-style car-dependent single use sprawl

horrible cycling infra

incompetent and agonizingly slow public bureaucracies (_especially_ immigration but tbf immigration is horrible most places)

and very high costs of living.

On the bright side, it's one of the better-shielded places from climate breakdown. The weather here is amazing. I grew up in a hot place and never want to be over 40C again.
What about the case of a major corporation releasing an OSS package.
I'm interested (as a current obsidian, raindrop and rewind.ai user), but I don't see your email.
For youtube-exclusive sources, you can usually switch out the domain to that of an Invidious instance. Eg: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-1wcilQ58hI

List of instances: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
> Because human technology is the only thing which can save us.

We do technology, and we obviously can't.

> What else there is?

Plants.